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Inside TItis Section The Inside of Sports Page 6 Michigan Wildlife Page 7 Racing Results Page 8 Want Ads Pages 9-20 Detroit jfixtVttss SECTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1965 Spartans Moil, 49 wan 7 WW WW WW I 1 1 i U-M Explodes, '50-14 It's First Hurdles tate Big Ten Cats on wav Victory ose Bowl To Gabler Clicks From Start BY JACK SAYLOS Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Michigan flipped back the pages of ita BY BOB PILLE Free Press Sports Writer EAST LANSING First-in-the-nation Michigan State teased Northwestern for a few moments and then hammered the Wildcats, 49-7, Saturday. The undefeated Spartans yielded a touchdown to the Wildcats in the first six minutes and trailed them until almost five minutes were gone in the second quarter. But that was just to keepthings briefly interesting for the Cats and their small, brave band of followers in the football calendar here Saturday to win its first Big Ten victory of the season. And how the Wolverines won it! They grabbed the Wisconsin Badgers by the tail and turned i crowd of 74,215. I ffx I them every way but loose, scor After that lone early touchdown, which Northwestern fumbled forward into the end zone, the Wildcats were merely ing a 50-14 run-away before Rose Bowl At-a-Glance 907 victory-hungry fans in Michigan Stadium.

I 11 And the only thing new, Pussy- This was a Michigan team out II cat, was Spartan touchdown fol- of the past. ig, lowing Spartan touchdown. FULLBACK Bob Apisa Like the Rose Bowl champs of '64? No, more like the Mad Magicians of 1947 for not since, those glory days has a Wolverine team so thoroughly throttled iislammed for three, Clinton an opponent. FOLK WEEKS of frustration in mm imiiwiKii iitmhi tn" irn-mmnirnnninMKHMii Michigan State has a Rose Bowl trip all but locked up if it can win or even tie for the Big Ten title. Minnesota and Ohio State are the biggest threats to MSU'e travel hopes.

Both are a game behind State, but either the Gophers or the Buckeyes would have to win the title outright to make the trip. MSU WOULD go in case of a tie since the teams that have been to Pasa- Fre Press Photo by VINCE WITEK and bitter defeats were taken out on Wisconsin. The Volverines have been like a smoldering time Zippity-do-da by 3ISU's Clint Jones (26) for first touchdown leaves Wildcats sprawling in his wake bomb all season. The fuse reach ed th end against the Badgers I Impounded for one, Steve Juday li passed to Jones for another and II! substitute quarterback Jimmy lijRaye darted 45 yards for the last II This seventh successive MSU triumph of the autumn was ill coupled with Minnesota's 11-10 loss at Ohio State to leave the If Spartans all alone in first place II in the Big Ten. II! It also left the Spartans prac-p tically in the Rose Bowl, a hope-Hi ful event noted by the flashing II of a large rose and then those unmentionable word3 of "Rose Bowl" by the MSU student card if! section as the fourth period be- ose Bowl, Go-Go' MSU Cry and boom! Michigan scored on its first offensive play and seldom let up thereafter.

It was 35-0 at halftime and that is shades of the pace set by Fielding H. Yost's point a-minute teams. If they had technical knock 5 3 3 2 2 MICHIGAN STATE Ohio State Minnesota Purdue Northwestern outs in football, the game would gan. have been called at the half. Wisconsin was never in it.

The 1 I I count reached 50-0 before the Duffy Daugherty didn't even notice. The coach was too busy running up and down the bench trying to figure how to get everybody into the game. For Duffy, this victory half- Badgers scored on an 83-yard kickoff return by Dick Schu-mitsch late in the third quarter. jokingly, "is cover kickoffs well. "But as long as we kick off a lot of times we'll get practice on it," he said, brightening.

Northwestern averaged 23.3 yards on eight kickoff returns. "THIS WAS our best offensive performance of the season. They jammed us up pretty well in the middle at the start so we used a flanker set, which is new for us," Duffy said, "and that and some quick flips to Clinton Jones loosened them up. Then Turn to Page 3C, Column "I have never seen such backs who operate with such devastating authority and there are many of them Apisa, Jones, Lee. Our boys were tackling hard and hitting good out there but good is not good enough against this club.

"If I was prejudiced about State's No. 1 ranking before the game, I'm convinced now. Duffy has done a great job and is one of the top men in the country," Agase said. Ah, but there's a flaw in the Spartan armor. "One thing we don't do well," intoned Daugherty, half- crowd (near-sellout, Duffy isn't feeling the fever yet on the outside.

"They shocked us with that first touchdown and it probably was a good thing for us in retrospect. I didn't think so at the time, of course," he said, laughing. ACROSS THE WAY, North-western's Alex Agase saluted the Spartans with the strongest praise they've had yet and it builds each week. "This Michigan State team is one of the finest teams I have ever seen, bar none. nouncer, in the pre-game announcements, showed he isn't victim of the fever.

He said: "Purdue won the toss And down in the dark Spartan dressing room under the north stands, head coach Duffy Daugherty studied the game statistics, that MSU outgained Northwestern, 322-7, on the ground and 193-79 passing, 46-86 for the combination, and the information that Ohio State edged Minnesota, leaving MSU the only unbeaten team in the Big Ten. Writers waited as Daugherty studied. Then he looked up and said, grinning: "That was a surprisingly big BY JACK BERRT Fre Pres Sports Writer EAST LANSING Rose Bowl Fever? Michigan State? You bet! The band played "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" and King of the Road" for the hopefully bowl-bound Spartans Saturday after their 49-7 pasting of Northwestern. The student flip card section pictured a rose, then the words "Rose Bowl" and had the whole stadium chanting "Rose Bowl, Go-Go" in the fourth quarter. THE PUBLIC address an way through his 12th season.

THE BADGERS added their sis was his 70th tying him with other touchdown on a five-yard Charley Bachman for the most I football games won unaer one run by John Boyajian in the fourth quarter, with the TJ-M si; i coach at Michigan State, And, as a milestone event, it was properly impressive. dena most recently are eliminated. Minnesota went in 1961, Ohio State in 1957. MSU's latest trip was in 1955. The Spartans' chances appear especially rosy to finish unbeaten, since only games against Iowa and Indiana remain.

Purdue and Northwestern have an outside chance, if either can win Its remaining games and Michigan State loses its final two. That could create a tie. Purdue has never been to the Rose Bowl. Northwestern went in 1949. The Spartans rolled up 461 yards while allowing North western 79, only seven of these nn the eround.

line-up well-populated by subs. They were strictly consolation awards. From the first play it was Michigan all the way. The Wolverines punched holes in the enemy defense until it looked more like Swiss cheese than the Wisconsin variety. Michigan piled up an awesome 513 yards in total offense in addition to sauashina" th nn i AFTER THEIR touchdown Hed.

Leafs Wings9 4-3 FIB III thrust, the Wildcats weren't al- lowed another first down until the first play of the fourth quar- iter, when the Spartan regulars II were resting with a 42-7 score. The Wildcats, who rely on rushing to move the ball, were hurting. Halfbacks Woody Campbell and Ron Rector didn't show except for Rector's punting, and fullback Bob McKelvey was. Sawehuk Sparkles In Goal Ohio State Outduels Minnesota banged out of the game in the third period. But even with perfect health.

the Wildcats couldn't have kept Michigan State from kicking sand in their faces in this one. TORONTO Bob Pulford COLUMBUS, O. (AP) Bob Funk booted an 18-yard scored one goal and set up two others as the Toronto Maple Leafs built an early three-goal Badgers defensively with four pass interceptions and three fumble recoveries. WALLY GABLER scored two touchdowns and passed for another. Jack Clancy scored a pair.

Rick Sygar scored one, passed for another and booted six extra points, while Dave Fisher and Ernie Sharpe added single touchdowns to the rout. Gabler put U-M on the scoreboard one minute and 37 seconds after the opening kick-off. He used only one play and not even the legendary Wolverine, Bill (One Play) Putich could have done it in less. Gabler hit Clancy on a 52-yard scoring pass to start it. Michigan's defense kept Wisconsin pinned in its own end and gave the offense field posi- Turn to page 8C, Column 4 field goal with only 1:17 left Saturday, giving Ohio State an 11-10 victory over Minnesota in Duffy took no chances, shuttling guards Norm Jenkins and Fred Convertini in and out of the game carrying plays to Juday.

And the Spartans cUcked in a manner that made him a superb thinker. They bounced back from lead and checked a Detroit comeback for a 4-3 National Hockey League victory over the a Bie Ten struggle before 84,359 It was the fifth largest crowd in Ohio history. Red Wings Saturday night. The Leafs, squaring their rec Northwestern's touchdown and The Buckeyes, keeping their a 7-0 deficit to crack 57 yards ord at 2-2. broke to a 3-0 lead slim hopes for a conference on Frank Mahovlich's first to a touchdown in 12 plays.

Jones did some handy run' championship alive with their period goal and two scores in third victory tour siarcs. the first eight minutes of the ning and pass-catching, and drove 89 yard3 on the passing session. I Apisa whacked the final yardjmiddle of Don Unverferth to set up Funk's fifth three-pointer of the Pulford netted the second goal and fed Orland Kurtenbach for the third while Toronto was short-handed. with center Boris Dimitroff in front of him all the way into the end zone. WITH zyx minutes left in the first quarter, State went for the season.

THE GOPHERS made a dra matic bid to pull out the vie DETROIT countered on an un Free Press Photo by JIMMY TAFOYA two-point conversion and the lead, but Dick Kenney's fake tory, moving 63 yards to Ohio's eight -yard line in the waning moments. assisted eoal by defenseman Backfiring Badger pass has U-M's Rich Volk (49 and Jeff Hoyne (88) reaching. Volk nabbed it Wildcats, jBrian Watson and cut the defi kick didn't fool the WISC'N MICH. 17? )5j 17-30 7ll5 0 4 4-32 3-36 3 2 30 0 0 7 7-14 1 21 IS 0-50 First downs Rushing yardaae Passing yardage Passes Passes Intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Wisconsin Michigan and his one-shoe-on-one-shoe-off cit to 3-2 on Paul Henderson's tally early in the final period running didn't elude them. With only 14 seconds to go, Deryl Ramey's field goal attempt from the 15-yard line was But Red Kelly, assisted by About all the misfire accom TD' 1 ante Why more wide and the Bucks had their Pulford and Jim Pappin, put the Leafs two goals up again less plished was to make a momentary hero out of Dean Dickie, than a minute after Henderson Turn to Page SO, Column 4 connected.

triumph. It was a seesaw struggle all the way as the teams, meeting for the first time hi 15 Turn to Page 2C, Column 4 Doug Barkley pulled the Red MICH-Clancy 52 pass from Gabler (Sy. ger kick). MICH Gabler 1 run (Syger kick). MICH Svgar 2 run (Sygar kick).

MICH Fisher 12 run (Sygar kick). MICH Gabler run (Sygar kick). MICH Safety Burt tackled in end rone. MICH Clancy 24 pass from Sygar (Sygar kick). MICH Sharpe 1 run (kick failed).

WIS Schumitsch 83 kickoff return (Kaye kick). WIS Boyajian 4 run (Kaye kick). Attendance: 44.907. N'WEST'N MICH ST. advantage of everything that came to us.

"This was a long time coming. "It was nice to see someone else giving the ball away for a chance," he added, pointine Wings within range with 11:49 to paly but Terry Sawehuk, the Leafs goaltender, checked the Detroiters the rest of the way. 7 27 7 7 1 9-1S 10-10 1 1 -S 2-44 1 1 10 53 First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Northwestern Michigan Stat MINNESOTA OSU Mahovlich fired his second goal of the season at 13 :09 of the 21 13 end-zone pass the ball slipped off the fingers of the 6-foot-2 Parkhill, who feel and pounded his fists Into the turf. Frustration amidst a big victory. THE 60 POINTS were the most scored by Michigan for coach Bump Elliott the biggest score stale the 196S team blanked Washington, 53-0.

And Elliott -was ratified. "We finally managed to put together ererytheag In one package," be said. We took ooenine period, with former heralded members of the team. They are the shock troops who scrimmage all week, but rarely get in a varsity game. THEIR BIG chance came in the fourth quarter Saturday with Michigan leading, 50-7.

Hollis, who has bided time for three seasons behind the Timberlakes, Evashevskis, Gablere and Vidmen, directed the U-M reserves to the Wisconsin 26. But then, on a fourth -down, BY JACK SAYLOR Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR A pair of Michigan seniors will remember Saturday's victory over Wisconsin and the memories will be bittersweet. The 50-14 final score was lovety, but oh, how they'll remember the touchdown they DIDN'T score. The senior are quarterback Pete HolMi from Detroit Redford and end Tom Park-hill of Ada, O. They axe reserves Oie un- to Wisconsin's seven losses on 1 1 rf ftt fumbles and interceptions." JV Elliott thought Wally Gab- LONDON, Ont.

141 Jim- ler's TD pass to Jack Clancy ny Greaves whipped in two 7 0-7 i 15 11 7-49 Red Wing Eddie Joyal and 12 1 14-25 1 1 17 i-n Marcel Pronovost drawing First downs Rushing yardas Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Ohio State Minnesota 7 128 10-21 2 0 31 I on the first offensive play set goals Saturday ana gave iouen assists. NW Gates (fumblo recovery la end zone) (Dickie kick). MSU Apisa 1 nm (ran felled). MSU Jones 4 run (Apisa run). MSU Apisa 2 run (Kennay kick).

mcii Amu i run (Kennay kick). the pattern. oio Pulford converted passes from Pappin and defenseman Allan Stanley at 4:42 of the MINN Hankinson 1 run (Ramey kick) ham a 2-1 victory over west Bromwich Albion and moved the Spurs only one point behind pacesetting Leeds United in the English soccer race. MSU Jones 11 pass from Juday (Kcnnoy OHIO Adderley 25 pass from Unverferth "From then on, things seemed to go just right for us. Turn to Page SC, Column 7 (Pontes run).

MMN-FG Ramey 32. OHIO FG Funk 1. Attendance: 04,357. MSU Lea 1 run (Kenney kick). MSU Raye 44 run (Kenney kick).

Attendances 74415. Torn to Pag 8-C, Oolumm.