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SECTION Joe Falls Page 2 Inside of Sports Page 4 Race Results Page 6 Financial News Page 8-11 Financial. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1965- A Pass 25-21 Inside This Section Sports Insh took the' Boilermakers 67 yards in four frantic plays to win it. Cool? This lad must live in an igloo. He broke four Purdue records, in. what he himself described as his team's "springboard game," the idea being if the Boilermakers 10-point underdogs could (handle the Fighting Irish they should be able to handle anything in the Western Conference.

Griese was just great; AFTER IVAN'S field goal put Notre Dame into a 21-18 lead with 5:20 to go, the young man needed just two minutes to regain the lead. He started from his own 33. Griese hit halfback Jim Notre Dame striving mightily to hold onto its No. 1 rating and then collapsing in the final minutes. IT WASN'T the "Golden Giri" that blinded the Irish, either.

It was the golden arm of Bob Griese. and, Bump, mark the name well, because this is the kid Michi-. gan will have to stop if it hopes to retain ttie Big Ten crown. Griese, 20-year-old junior from Evansville, threw touchdown passes of 28, 14 and 12 yards to put Purdue in front. And then, after the Irish squeezed ahead on Ken' Ivan's field goal from the 14 with just 5:20 to go the-ball hitting the crossbar and plopping across Griese BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Writer WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.

The luck of the Irish? Yep, Notre Dame had it Saturday but it didn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Purdue shook off the effects of a flukish field goal and rallied in the final five minutes to stun the Fighting Irish, 25-21, in an explosive ending that drained the emotions from the crowd of 61,921 the largest ever to see a football game in the state of Indiana. It took something out of Ara Parseghian, too, for this was last season's Southern Cal game all over again, with Finley for a 32-yard strike along the sidelines, putting the ball on the Notre Dame 35. He fired over the middle to right end Jim Beirne for 13 yards and a first down on the 22.

He hit Beirne again with a toss to the 3. TKen, as if it were only practice, he handed the ball to left half Gordon Teter, who crashed through right tackle for the score. Just 3:20 remained and the place went wild with the roar of the fans shaking the Golden Dome 90 miles to the north. Purdue has pulled many an upset through the years. Turn to Page 6D, Column 1 MS By Q' 11.

JL Spartans Wallop Penn St. It 's Wolverines Over Cal, 10-7 BY JACK BERRY Frc Prtss Sports Writtr ANN ARBOR Butter-fingered Michigan tossed the ball away twice in the dying minutes Saturday and nearly let its home opener and dreams of a national championship slip away. Looking anything but mighty and certainly not like the defending Big Ten and Rose Bowl champion, Michigan barely beat California, 10-7. Michigan fumbled five times 55 vY' iff 9 Is for victory and "The Victors," but plays by Bump Elliott's V-Squad, Vidmer and Volk, had left the U-M coach with a v-roooom feeling in his tummy until "Chief" Johnson came to the rescue. The stuttering Michigan offense seemed finally ready to salt away the pesky Golden Bears, who scraped away considerable tarnish in this formance.

DICK VIDMER, the stylish sophomore passed Michigan inside the Cal 20 before tossing away a wild pitch-out. XXM Pigskin hangs tantalizingly in air above California players, but 'Indian Sign 9 Puts Free Press Photo bv VINCE WITEK when it came down, a Wolverine got it Hex on Cal BY BOB PILLE Free Press Sports Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Duffy Daugherty, who usually returns to his native Pennsylvania and leaves them laughing, wasn't so funny Saturday. This time Duffy brought along his Michigan State football team and left the home folks in a state of shock. THE SPARTAN legions pounded over Penn State, 23-0, in a steamroller job that started early and never let UP- The Nittany Lions were never In the game as the Spartans ran over them with Bob Apisa and Clinton Jones, passed over them with Steve Juday and kicked at them with barefoot Dick Ken-ney.

Apisa slashed through them for a 35-yard touchdown run, Juday added a four-yard touchdown thrust to his passing and Kenney kicked three field-goals. And when the Lions tried to do anything of their own on offense they encountered Bubba Smith, Bob Viney and some other '3ISU defenders, and everything added op to a very unpleasant afternoon. It was the first time that Duffy had brought a team back here since he up and left Barn-esboro some 30 years ago or college and then coaching. If he stays away another 30 years with teams like this Michigan State gang, it won't be long enough. Some local folk here, 65 miles across the mountains from Duffy's Barnesboro, talked of Jenn Mate as potentially the best team in the East The Nittany Lions mieht still be that, with Army.

Syracuse and Navy already beaten, too. iut Michigan State left them with a long way to go. THE SPARTANS, though able enough to win last week and impressive this week, will start showing how good they really are next week when they walk into a four-game stretch that throws them against Illinois, Michigan, Ohio State and Purdue in succession. They had no problems against Penn State, scoring the first four times they had the ball for a 20-0 halftime lead. Along the way, Kenney was kicking his way into the record book with his field goals of 24, 29 and 36 yards.

It was the first time a Michigan State player had ever booted three field goals in a game, and in this there was a nice touch of self-betterment. A week ago, when the junior from Hawaii kicked two field goals against UCLA, it was the first time that had been accomplished in one game. Kenney's total of fiv is already a season record for the Spartans, and the school career mark on a two-year count of eight. Kenney slammed his toes into the first field goal, the 24-yard-er, with less than six minutes gone. A LION FUMBLE bounced right to George Webster to give Turn to Page 3D, Column 8 PENH ST.

MSU First downs It is Rushing yardage 19 Passing yarda9 1J 10 Passes 10-13 Passes intercepted 1 Punts 1 30 Fumbles lost 1 i Yards penalized XT Penn State Michigan Statt 17 J-U MSU FO 24 Kenney. MSU Juday 4 run (Kenney kick). MSU-Aoisa 15 run (Kenney kick). MSU FG Kenney. MSU-FG 34 Kenney.

Attendance 44.100, for the second straight week, lost three of the bobbles and had two passes swiped. THE TWO BIGGEST fumbles came with hardly two minutes play, the first when sopho- 1 1 1 TTj inure 4ua.11erua1.-11 jjick miner, instead of swallowing the ball a sweep, pitched it back and no one was there at the Cal The Wolverine forced Cal to punt but then defensive back Rick Volk, who called for a fair catch, missed the ball. It caromed off his chest, bounced back like a shot off the helmet of an on-rushing California lineman and Cal recovered at the Michigan 30. The bigger than expected crowd of 81,417 including bandsmen had perfect football weather but the football was far from perfect. The day was saved for heavily favored U-M when soph Paul Johnson, of Bay City, stole the ball from Cal quarterback Dan Berry at the Michigan 12 with 40 seconds to play.

Michigan was supposed to walk over California, a school that hadn't beaten a Big Ten team since 1952, and has had six straight losing seasons and only one winning year in the last 10. But the Golden Bears, while not flashy, weren't a bad team and Michigan gave them every opportunity to stay in the game with the five fumbles and two interceptions. Still, the Wolverines had enough for their second victory this season, eight straight over two years. MICHIGAN could have made things easy for itself in the first half but had to settle for a 27-yard field goal by Dick Sygar at 10:47 of the first quarter and Vidmer's keeper touchdown from the one-yard line at 2:15 of the second quarter. California got across midfield only once in the half and that was only to the Wolverine 45.

Sygar's field goal was st up when Frank Nunley Inter-Turn to Page 3D, Column 5 VIDMER (27) xx California UM calif, First down 17 14 Rushing yardage 123 1S3 Passing yardage 103 4S Passes 11-1 4 4-11 Passes Intercepted 1 I Punts 4-41 t-n Fumbles lost 2 1 Yards penalized 45 57 Michigan 3 7 California 07 o-i MICH-FG Svsar 17. MICH-Vidmer 1 run (Svgar kick). CALIF Parks 16 pass from Berry (Sin clair kick. Sandy Sets Strikeout Record Free Press Wire Services Sandy is dandy, but Willie's a dilly so the San Francisco Giants retained their one-game lead in the torrid National League pennant race Saturday, Willie May's 50th home run of the season propelled the Giants to a 7-5 victory over the Milwaukee Braves to offset Sandy Koufax's record strikeout performance in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 2-0 shutout of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Mays' homer was the biggest of the Giants' 13 hits, a 425-foot swat to centerfield in the fourth inning to give the Giants the cushion they needed. IT WAS THE 503rd career homer for Wondrous Willie, leaving him only eight short of Mel Ott's all-time National League record. Desoite the base-hit barrage, the Giants used five ptichers in nailing down the win, with Bob Bolin getting his 13th victory. Koufax wiped away one of Bob Feller's most treasured strikeout records in his whitewashing of the Cards on a five-hitter for his 24th victory. Koufax whiffed 12 for a season major league record of 356.

Feller set the mark of 348 in 1946. It also was the 19th time this season and 80th in his brilliant career that Sandy has set down 10 or more men on strikes in a game. LOUIS LOS ANGELES abrh bl ab 01 Javier 2b 4 0 10 Wills ss Flooe cf 3 0 10 Gilliam 3b Brock If 2 0 0 0 Kennedy 3b Boyer 3b 4 0 10 W.Davis cf Groat ss 4 0 10 Fairly rf White lb 3 0 0 0 Johnson If Uecker 3 0 10 Lefebvre 2b Shannon rf 3 0 0 0 Parkw lb Briles 2 0 0 0 Ros'boro Gaqliano ph 1 0 0 (Koufax 4 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 110 4 0 2 0 3 0 11 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 Totals 0 5 0 Totals 2 2 2 AAA AAA AAA A 3T. vw Los Angeles 000 001 Olx-2 None. DP St.

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MILWAUKEE SAN FRANCISCO hi abrhbl riin If 1 1 0 Schofield ss 5 0 1 0 Jones cf Aaron rf Torre Mat'ews 3b Oliver lb Gonder Boiling 2b Wotd'ard ss Dillard ph 5 0 2 0 L'br'ls'n If 3 112 5 110 M.aiou IT a 4 0 0 0 Mays cf 3 12 2 a i Ucrnwv lh 4 0 1 0 1110 Hart 3b 4 12 0 3 0 0 0 J.Alou rf 4 2 3 0 4 0 11 Haller 4 13 1 A A nauAnn't 9h OlOl 10 10 Lanier 2b 10 0 0 1 A A A Chaui 1 0 0 I nunrh'd oh 1 1 1 1 Bolin 3 0 0 0 Menke on Totals 34 7 13 7 Milwaukee. 011 San Francisco 041 200 OOx 7 1 LOB-Milwaukee 8, San Francisco 6. OB-Boliing. HR Mays (50), Mathews (32), Blanchard 0'jp-Dvegp BB s0 Johnson 15-10 1 2-3 Lemaster 11-3 Sadowskl Olivo 2 Shaw 2 BcT.r7w;;iM".:" pa Murakami 0 Linrv HBP By Sadowskl, Gabrlelson Shaw. A 30,713.

WP- to on 21. more than saw any home game last year. It's the tipsy alumnus with an empty flask the bewildered dog on the field in the fourth quarter and the locked Oldsmobile with the motor running. But mostly happiness is Paul Johnson, an 18-year-old sophomore who became the man of the hour in his first varsity home game. Johnson, a full-blooded Chippewa Indian, put the "Indian sign" on California Saturday, pulling the Wolverines' chestnuts from the fire to preserve their shaky 10-7 victory.

4 at Dick Vidmer's pass BY JACK SAYLOR Free-Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Happiness is a perfect autumn afternoon when the scoreboard shows the home team winning. It's also 14,500 high school musicians responding to William D. Revelli's baton. And it's 750 sousaphones and 600 euphoniums blending in the El Capitan March, along with 2,500 clarinets and trumpets. HAPPINESS is also Fritz Crisler counting a house of 81.417 fans nearly 10,000 fiT defender leaps helplessly recovery as the crowd thought.

"I stole the ball," said Johnson, with all the poise of a senior. "I didn't anticipate the play I was just doing what they told me to do on defense." Elliott, meanwhile, was delighted with Johnson's game- saver, but wasn't the most happy fella about his team's, performance. "We were spotty," he said. "We couldn't sustain a drive. There's a great deal of work Turn to Page 5 CLANCY (24) i xx 71 -J X.

Frs Frest Photos by DICK TRIPP yard gain Then Rich Volk flubbed a fair catch on a Cal punt. Suddenly the Bears were on the TJ-M 11 and an upset was in the offing. Cal quarterback Dan Berry hit the line, but it was the-230-pound Johnson who came steaming out with the ball. The Bay City lad jumped up and down while the crowd roared. It was like a Rose Bowl victory all over again and that's what happiness was.

In the steamy Michigan locker room, Johnson, now not the least excited, calmly admitted theft-not a fumble yiSS 1 Oft of Jack Clancy for a 20 its way to waiting arms.

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