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BRING ON THOSE ILLINI Boy 51 over the place the rest of the way in their most impressive showing of the season. 1 This was no pushover Gopher team that the Wolverines defeated. SPARKED BY the flashy sophomore, Paul Giel, they came out even in the statistical battle but couldn't match the 'devas- In High Gear STATISTICS tating agility of the Wolverines who now have won 17 Big Ten decisions for Coach Ben Oosterbaan as compared with two setbacks and as many ties. Minnesota led in first downs, 20 to 16. They also led in passing yardage, 249 to 203, but trailed in rushing where -Michigan held a 224 to 145 edge.

This was a Michigan team that had just one idea whenever it had possession of the football. That was to wind up in the Gopher end zone. It was accomplished eight times as they tied their previous high score of 54 points under Oosterbaan'a tutelage. Leading the rampage were Lowell Perry and Wes Bradford who hit pay dirt five times. All but one of those touchdowns were from long range as the two fleet-footed stars twinkle-toed their way through the Gopher secondary.

tX J-'' I I IT I "1 I 1 I I BY LYALL SMITH Free Prew Sparta Editor ANN ARBOR They'll never find the cork of the Little Brown Jug. It was blown plumb out of sight as Michigan erupted in an explosion of touchdowns two in each period to romp over Minnesota, 54 to 27, before 86,200 customers who were handed enough football thrills to last them all year. The Wolverines pulled no stops in their touchdown rampage as they skyrocketed to their third straight Big Tn triumph of the season and in so doing scored more points of! the Golden Gophers than any other team in Western Conference history. It was a packed session of lightning-like touchdowns which never gave the customers a chance to relax. THEY CAME right up out of their seats on the opening kickoff when Ron Engel, of the Gophers, sprinted 94 yards to start the scoring spree and set a pace which was slowed only a little the rest of the way.

It took the alerted Wolverines exactly 49 seconds to tie the score after that Gopher jab rocked them back on their homecoming heels. They went ahead, 14 to 7, in the opening period, saw Minnesota knot it again in the first play of the second quarter, pulled away to a 28-20 lead at halftime and then romped all Michigan Minnesota First' Downs 16 20 Rushing Yardage 224 125 Passing Yardage 203 249 Passes Attempted 9 33 Passes Completed 8 16 Passes Intercepted 6 0 Punting Average 34 40.5 Fumbles Lost 3 2 Yards Penalized 50 20 MICHIGAN 14 14 14 1254 MINNESOTA 7 13 7 027 HERE IS A RECAP of the high-voltaged romp: 1 Engel took the opening kickoff on his own six and sped 94 yards to score and when Gene Cappelletti made his first of three conversions, the Gophers led, 7 to 0, after 17 seconds of play. 2 On the second play from scrimmage after taking the return kickoff, Bradford took a handoff from a T-forma- Turn to Page 2, Column 1 MICHIGAN: Touchdowns Bradford (2), Putich, Perry (3), Pickard, Stanford. Conversions Rescorla 6. MINNESOTA Touchdowns Engel, Lindgren, Swanson Conversions Cappelletti 4.

i 85 PERRY ft' 1 free Press Photos by Vince Witek Jugful of Joy A POTENT football option brewed by Michigan's Wolverines exploded Saturday right in the face of Minnesota's Gophers. And the blast, a thing of joy to U-M, wrecked any hope the Gophers had of reclaiming the Little Brown Jug, symbol of M-Minnesota football rivalry. That's brewmaster Benny Oosterbaan standing in the background. it 4. THE DETROIT FREE PRESS MICHIGAN I tf" 1 JV CLASSIFIED ffiifniTMifriraitiiWlfrrif iiiimmm' uniiirniiiriitri'ii-ifuviiiiiriiiirn fiiiiiiWiaMifcriiwOThi wnd-nwMWKiMii Free Press Photo by Tony Spina LOWELL PERRY, U-M END, JUST ABOUT REACHES THE END OF A 75-YARD TD JAUNT WITH WOLVERINES' CHEE RLEADERS ROMPING ALONG THE SIDELINES WITH HIM SECTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1951 Kin Pitt Svartans' in 53-26 Wig WHOLESALE TOUCHDOWNS am! Panthers Lead at Paul Dekker, Michigan State College end, was on the road to a good gain in the first half of Cheaper by the Dozen Saturday's game with the University of Pittsburgh.

Then he ran into one Henry Ford, of Pitt, and became the victim of a Half 20-19 "driving" tackle. Note the precarious Tennessee Tech was "blanked 68 to 0. Oklahoma chilled Colorade, 55 to 14. Princeton pranced It's hold Dekker has on the Then MSC Explodes with 5 Touchdowns typical of the grip the Spartans had the came at that early stage 1 "Jk -a 2: on STATISTICS when the Panthers were matching the nation's No. 2 football Along with the dollar bill, the touchdown no longer is worth what it used to be.

All the inflation these days isn't in the football. More and more is going into the scores. For instance, who could be more disillusioned than the players at Colby College. They scored 42 points, yet lost. Bowdoin scored 60 points against them.

power touchdown for down. After a halftime tongue MSC 17 JOI ao 14 I 31 .1 125 riTT 2 Bl 4t 27 3 3 1 86 Firf downs KuithinK yardace PaHsinc yardiiKft l'asws attempted Passes completed Passe Intereeoted Puntinic averace Fumble lost Yards penalized Pittsburgh Michigan State Munn, the Spartans tucked Jus! the ball under their arms 6 26 20 6 and pulled away to their 13 SO 1 63 lopsided victory. past Cornell, 53 to 15. Cincinnati indulged in a 53-18 romp over Texas" Western. Ohio State splurged at Iowa's expense, 47 to 21.

Franklin Marshall mauled Swarth-more, 53 to 13. NOT ALL the high-scoring games were lopsided. Ohio U. just squeezed by Kent State, 28 to 27. Georgia escaped in a wild affair with Boston College, 35 to 28.

Syracuse gained a 33-20 edge over Fordham. Other touchdown parades saw Bucknell march over Lafayette, 40 to 21; Trinity trounce Middlebury, 42 to 19, and New rfampshire slam its Vermont neighbors, 54 to 6. By the way, just to show that defense does count for something in modern day football, third-ranking Georgia Tech fell back on a safety to beat Vanderbilt, 8 to 7. TOUCHDOWNS came in even one-dozen lots in both major games in Michigan. The Wolverines and Spartans matched scoring sprees by almost identical scores.

Michigan took Minnesota, 54 to 27 while State battered Pittsburgh, 53 to 26. Games in which 60 or more points were scored were amazingly frequent. Tennessee's touch downs were the most decisive, for Pittsburgh: Touchdowns Cimarolli, Reynolds. Warriner, Chess. Conversions Bianda 2.

Mich Iran State: Touchdowns Panln, Dorow, McAnliffe 2. Ellis, Bolden, Dekker, Benson. Conversions Lekenta, K. Carey 4. BY TOMMY DEVINE- Frre Press Staff Writer EAST LANSING The dynamite of one of football's greatest offensive combinations finally exploded.

The resulting gridiron fireworks carried Michigan State to a dazzling 53-26 victory ever the University of Pittsburgh. A homecoming crowd of 42,163 fans watched as the Spartans rolled to their sixth straight victory of the campaign and their 12th in a row over a span of two years. THE TRIUMPH kept Michigan State among the handful of the A 1 4 J-'rne I'ress Photo by James Tafoya I' Reports Bribe partans Eject FOOTBALL'S BEST FRIEND Toledo Wins; But Who Won the Fight? BOWLING GREEN, O. TV-Fans and players slugged it out in a seven-minute brawl at the end of a football game in which Toledo beat Bowling Green 12 to 6. Flying fists accounted for about 20 black-eyes, a number of cut ND Grid Scout Young Cites Rule Violation, Then Gives Boot to Irish's Druie Nation's major teams with perfect records.

Keeping in character as the "comeback kids," Coach Clarence (Biggie) Munn's outfit had to roar from behind for the fourth straight ATOP GRID POLL Vols, Spartans Roll Together Gridder Dies in Montana College Game BILLINGS, Mont. (U.R) Montana School of Mines' starting center, William Salonen, of Butte, was killed, apparently instantly, in defensive action against Eastern Montana College in a game that was called off at the half because of the fatality. EAST LANSING Athletic Director Ralph Young, of State, stuck his foot right into the middle of what may then Tallies i Pair of TDs GREENWICH, Conn. (JP) The Danbury High school football team defeated Greenwich, 12 to 7, shortly after the Danbury coach asked for a police investigation of attempts to bribe his two star halfbacks. Dave, Saul, one of the players who reported he had been approached by a would-be briber, scored both Danbury touchdowns.

The other, Ray Kelly, was a leading ground gainer for his team. Coach Edward J. Crotty said the whole team was extremely nervous at the start of the game, "but settled down and played well Crotty reported to Danbury police this noon that a stranger approached Kelly on Main Street in that city Friday after the team's practice session and of develop into one of the 1951 football season most heated con troversies. Young, the roly-poly boss of Spartan athletics, spied Johnny Druze, of the Notre Dame coaching staff, in the press box an Convincing decisions, narrow decisions and no decision at all marked the play of the Nation's 10 top-ranking football teams Saturday. Suchv highly ranked powers as Tennessee and Michigan State, rated No.

1 and 2, unleashed scoring avalanches to strengthen their positions. Across the Nation, here's how the powers, in the order of their ratings, fared Saturday: faces and a lot of scorched tempers before coaches and officials ended the melee. Both dressing rooms looked like slaughter houses after the brawl. President Ralph W. McDonald of Bowling Green blamed the fracas on Toledo players.

Toledo coach Don Greenwood said Bowling Green started it. IN 1934 THE two schools broke off football relations after a similar brawl. It took 14 years 1948 for tempers to cool enough to resume football play between the schools. hour before game time, Big 10 Football week. Off tr an easy 13-0 lead, just as they were a week ago against Penn State, the.

Spartans then lapsed into their old nonchalant and careless ways. Before they could recover Pitt vaulted into a 20-19 lead at halftime. Being behind is a tonic which turns this Spartan team into a gridiron powerhouse. It happened again against hapless Pitt as Michigan State struck for three quick touchdowns in the third quarter and then added two more in the final period. THE POINT total was Michigan State's highest in two seasons.

It is an aggregate which the Spartans have topped only five times in the 43 encounters they played Young conferred with Druze and charged the Irish with violating their scouting agreement with Michigan State by being on hand for the Pitt game. "NOTRE DAME scouted Mich Pet. PF PA Michigan 3 0 0 1.000 108 41 Illinois 2 0 0 1.000 35 10 Wisconsin 2 1 1 .625 8 27 Pnrdue 1 1 0 .500 41 61 Northwestern 1 1 0 .500 21 48 Ohio State 111 .500 63 59 Indiana 1 2 0 .333 46 64 Minnesota 0 2 0 .000 34 75 Iowa 0 3 0 .000 51 102 igan State in its games with Mich igan, Ohio State and Penn State," THE ACCIDENT, which occurred in the first period, was not the result of a particularly rough play. The game was delayed 10 minutes until an ambulance could arrive from the hospital. Salonen was carried off the field and play was resumed for another period everyone apparently thinking it was just another football injur'.

But Salonen was dead on arrival at St. Vincent's. An unidentified coach said he could not find any pulse when Salonen was on the field. Young insisted. 68 Tennessee Tech 0 53 Pittsburgh 26 8 Vanderbilt 7 21 Indiana 0 Louisiana State 28 Texas Christian 26 21 Texas 21 53 Cornell 15 35 Oregon State 11 11 Rice 6 1 Tennessee 2 Michigan State 3 Georgia Tech 4 Illinois 5 Maryland Southern Calif.

7 -Baylor 8 Princeton 9 California 1 0 Texas Incomplete game fered him a 50 bill if he would promise to "take ft easy" against Buchnell Clouts Lafayette, 40-21 EASTON, Pa. (U.R) Bucknell University ran its unbeaten, united streak to 10 games by defeating Lafayette, 40 to 21, before a Founder's Day crowd of 5,000. Greenwich. during Munn's five-season regime. "Under Big Ten rules, to which Notre Dame subscribes, that is the maximum.

A fourth scouting excursion is illegal." After citing that, Young "in- Turn to Pag 5 Column SATURDAY'S RESULTS MICHIGAN 54, Minnesota 27. Illinois 21, Indiana 0. Wisconsin 41. Northwestern 0 Ohio State 47. Iowa 2L Kelly told the man to "go jump In the lake" and then reported to tht Crotty said.

This was an allout offensive Turn to Page 4, Column 1 I.