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SECTION Detroit ifrec Stress Sports InThis Section The Inside of Sports rage 6 Racing Results Page 7 Outdoors nith Opre rage 8 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1972 ITS A 4-TEAM BIG 10 RACE NOW'! 9 1942 rm mrm I BY CHARLIE VINCENT tnt Prtu Sportj Wrlltr EAST LANSING That sly little elf, Duffy Daugherty, coaxed another great game out of his Spartans Saturday and in the process, pulled Michigan State right back into the thick of a suddenly exciting Big Ten football race. The Spartans, upsetting a conference leader for the second week in a row since coach Duffy announced his resipnation thumped Woody Hayes and the Ohio, State Buckeyes, 19-12, and dumped them out of first place in the Rig Trn race. The Rucks, tumbling to their first defeat of the season, fell into a second place tie with Purdue, both 5-1 in the conference, as Michigan jumped atop the heap with a perfect fi-n. But there, hot on the heels of the leaders, are Duffy and his amazin' Spartans 4-1-1 after back-to-back upsets of Purdue and Ohio State. Mark Niesen's six-yard sprint midway through the third quarter.

Ohio State's deepest penetration after Intermission was the Spartan 43 midway through the final period and, by the time that series ended, the Buckeyes found themselves in a fourth-and-41 situation on their own 26. As Hayes was to admit later: "We Inst to a superior team. What more can you say?" The Buckeyes, accustomed to error-free football, were forced into five fumbles and two interceptions and the Spartans turned those mistakes into 16 points. Krijt, "Who was just promoted from the junior varsity, put Michigan State ahead when he capped the first drive of the game with his 24-yarder His 40-yard field goal came with 6:03 left In the first period, after Paul Hayncr had Please turn to Page 4E, Col. 1 "Goodby, both goal posts were felled by Spartan fans, and Duffy got one more free ride off the field on the shoulders of ecstatic MSU fans.

Duffy has had bigger wins than this win over Ohio Slate, but not recently. Junior Dirk Krijt, a native of The Netherlands who never saw a football until he enrolled at Michigan State in September, kept the Spartans in the game in the first half, kicking field goals of 24, 22 and 31 yards. The. Buckeyes, who came into the game with a perfect 7-0 mark and ranked among the top five colleges in the nation in both wire service polls, managed to stay even with Krijt for the first 30 minutes, thanks to a 44-yard fied goal by Blair Conway, a 20-yard touchdown pass from Greg Hare to Ted Powell and a safety. Rut the Michigan State defense never let the Ruckeyes within sight of the goal line in the second half and the Spartans got the winning touchdown on quarterback Just Put It Over That Thing' --Krijt Dirk Krijt OH, IT WAS like old times at Spartan Stadium Saturday.

The Michigan State band swung into the Spartan Fight Song over and over, fans waved handkerchiefs and chanted: MSU's IS civ Coach: Hmv About Duffy? i 4 1 VI Ae Photo field goals against the Buckeyes, tying a Big Ten record. This one was a 24-yarder. Soccer-style kicker Dirk Krijt, a junior from The Netherlands, played in his first game for MSU Saturday and he booted four FAST LANSING Maybe Burt Smith ought to cancel all of those airplane reservations. Maybe he should just stay at home for the rest of the fall and start stacking firewood. Maybe the co.ich he is looking for is living right here in East Lansing.

Maybe the man he needs Is Duffy Daugherty. Now wouldn't (hat be something, sports fans? It's happened before, you know. It happened In baseball. About 10 or 12 years ago, rank I.ane fired Joe Gordon as manager of the Cleveland Indians and then the next day, when he introduced his new manager to the press, he called the man out of a private room and installed none other than Gordon himself. You don't think that didn't leave everyone just a little stunned.

Of course that isn't about to happen around here, but it seems sad that it took something like Daughcrty's resignation the public admission that he wasn't getting ti job done to bring this Michigan Stale football tram together. You might say that Duffy should have quit before the opener against Illinois and then his Spartans could have gone to the Rose Bowl. That's-a little too cynical. But it is amazing the way this whole thing has turned around here in the past two weeks. A week ago, you could say Michigan State rose to an emotional peak to beat Purdue.

You could say the players did it for Duffy. Or even that Duffy did it for himself. The whole psychological edge was on their side. But how does that explain Saturday's powerful performance against Ohio State? No matter how you look at it, the Spartans just kicked the hell out of the Bucks. Blocking.

Tackling. Running. Kicking. There was no comparison between the two teams. He's Keeping His Players Loose You have to wonder why they didn't do this earlier, against Georgia Tech, for instance.

Or Notre Dame. Or, most certainly, against Iowa. The people close to the Michigan State football team said before Saturday's game that they never saw Daugherty more relaxed than he has been for the past week. He has been laughing and joking with everyone around him and enjoying himself and enjoying his life. lie told his players that as long as they continued to work hard, he would make their practices fun for them.

He had a tory for them every day. Sometimes Duffy spoke In an Italian dialect. Sometimes it was an English accent. Sometimes it was Jewish. The result is that everyone relaxed and on this second Saturday in November the Spartans finally played the sort of game everyone has expected of them all season long.

It won't save the season. That's been lost. What it docs is enable Duffy to truly leave with his head high. He handled the 1 announcement of his resignation in magnificent style and proved that he was a real man. Now he has proven something else which, in this business of Intercollegiate football, is considered just as Important.

He proved he can still bring a team to the peak. Or, to put it more directly, that he still can coach. That's 1 very nice. Even if it's a little late, It's nice. thev carried Duffy off the field after the came and it was a BY CHARLIE VINCENT Frt Prtu $pert Wrlttr EAST LANSING Dirk Krijt had a Dutch Treat for Woody Hayes Saturday.

The 6-foot-3, 170-pound exchange student from Bergen, The Netherlands, kicked the Buckeyes right out of a share of the Big Ten lead in his first game as a varsity football player. "It's like a dream to have a first game like this," Krijt said in the Michigan State dressing room after his four field goals a new school record helped the Spartans to a 19-12 upset over the previously undefeated Buckeyes. "I had never seen football until I came here in September," the Dutch boy said. "I was going to play soccer, but I changed to football because it was a challenge. I asked for a tryout and they hired me right away." OBVIOUSLY, although Dirk says he understands football rules now, he doesn't understand "hired" is not the proper term for an amateur athlete to use.

"All the people didn't bother me a bit. but it is really a good feeling, after I've kicked to hear all of them cheering yelling, 'go green, go white'." Krijt, who said he asked MSU coach J)uffy Daughterty to promote him to the varsity, still has a very simple outlook on the game of ball. "I knew Ohio State had a good offensive and defensive football team. But I have noth- ing to do about offense or defense. I just kick the ball.

"I just know I have to kick the ball over that thing whatcha call it? I just put it over that thing," he grinned. HE GRINNED again when he was asked about his second field goal, which hit both the upright and crossbar before bouncing over. "I like that," he admitted. "I like the sound, you know: 'Pow. like that when it hit." And he admits he has had a thought or two about profes- sional ball already.

"Oh, yes sure," he smiled. "It would be a nice way to help me pay my way through school and it would make me independent from my parents, you know." Ah yes, America the land of opportunity. Hot Celts KO Pistons SpKlal ta th fr Prtit BOSTON The Boston Celtics, down by 13 points in the third period, stormed back Saturday night to edge the Detroit Pistons, 121-118, for their 13m victory in 14 games this season. A flurry of nine straight points, six of them by Don Nelson, lifted the Celtics in front midway in the final period and they fought off a desperate Detroit comeback. The Pistons, who subsequently dropped behind by as many as seven points, retali U-M ALONE ATOP BIG TEN blverines Rip Iowa, 31-0 WWIIf UipilHiMWWiWiHiiimwuiiyiWUiii Jil -PI!) IJ HU WWPUWW A J.

ALL GAMES CONFERENCE PF PA PF PA MICHIGAN 6 0 fl 142 11 II 0 0 247 37 Ohio State 5 1 0 158 72 7 I 0 222 104 Purdue 5 1 0 148 45 5 4 0 197 119 MICHIGAN ST. 4 1 1 102 40 4 4 1 124 140 Illinois 2 4 0 108 134 2 7 0 150 255 Minnesota 2 4 0 123 167 2 7 0 157 288 Indiana 2 4 0 108 155 4 5 0 139 188 Wisconsin 2 4 0 70 147 4 5 0 139 188 Iowa 1 5 1 54 153 2 6 1 80 178 Northwestern 1 8 0 91 180 2 7 0 118 339 RUT BY THEN they had pretty well deflated the young (primarily freshmen and sophomores) Hawks and they were on the way. "We wanted to win this one, that's for sure." said U-M coach Bo Schembechler. "We've got our two toughest games coming up. "We wanted to run the football and eliminate the mistakes we made last week.

We found that when we've started fast, we've won fairly handily but we haven't played consistently throughout. We played fairly consistently today. In the fourth quarter we get nut by 31 then we might its well take 'em (the starters) The Wolverines picked up just' about where they left off before they committed all th-vie mistakes against Indiana. THORNBLADH, subbing for injured Ed Shuttlesworth at fullback, gained 98 yards and scored U-M's first touchdown and tailback Chuck Heater went for 63 on the way to a 251-yard rushing day. Franklin gained 37 yards using his legs and another 107 with his arm, completing six of 11 passes, including a 15-yarder to tight end Paul Seal and a 37-yard "bomb" to split end Gil Chapman for touchdowns.

Moreover, he scored himself on a one-yard, fourth down sprint around right end early in the third quarter. "I'm happy," said the sophomore quarterback, although his unending composure concealed the emotion he spoke of. "We didn't make a lot of mistakes. We needed to put it together before, going into our last two games. "I guess I Just wasn't completely mentally prepared as I should have been last Please turn to Page 4E, Col.

1 BY CURT SYLVESTER Prt PrtH Sporlt WrlUr IOWA CJT.Y Forget those fumbling, bumbling Michigan Wolverines who nearly lost a football game a week ago. They're' the Big Ten' football leaders now andP incidentally, they are no longer fumbling and bumbling. Michigan fell back into its old familiar rut Saturday fullback Bob Thornbladh smashing the line, tailback Chuck Heater breaking big gainers, sophomore quarterback Chuck Heater hreaking big gainers, sophomore quarterback Dennis Franklin looking not at all like a sophomore. EVERYTHING clicked especially the scoreboard as the Wolverines rolled into the Big Ten lead with a 31-0 victory over vastjy. improved-hut-stiU-far-to-go Iowa Hawkeycs before a Dad's Day crowd of 43,176.

The win left fourth-ranked U-M with a 9 0 record overall, a fi-0 mark in the Big Ten and thanks to Michigan State's 19-12 win over Ohio State alone at the top of the conference. And if they had raised any doubts of their own ability in that dlscnmbobulated 21-7 win over Indiana a week earlier, they erased them on this sullen afternoon In the midlands Just in time to meet Purdue and Ohio State in the two race-deciding games of the season. The Wolverines played errorless football until they had their 31-point lead in the fourth quarter. Then, with the second string running out the clock, they finally gave the ball up twiceon an interception and a tumble. spontaneous show of affection.

No coach ever deserved it more not for putting it into the irascible Woody Hayes, but for all the grand moments Duffy has brought to people around here. How very sad it would have been if his team fell apart in these final few games. Duffy said afterwards that it pleased him that his players had held together in this time of trial. He said It should make it easier for the new coach and that much Is true. The new man, whoever he is, won't be taking over a shambles.

MSU has a long way to go to get back into the heights, but the situation now doesn't seem as hopeless as it did after the debacle in Iowa. Sparlans Just Took Over Seldom has anyone dominated an Ohio State team the way the Spartans did in this game certainly not an unbeaten Ohio State team. Even though they could score only one touchdown and then the defense had to turn over the ball on the Ohio Slate six the Spartan offense proved it could move the ball. And the defense proved, if it needed proving, that it could shut down one of the best running games in the country. The game was what the game of football should be about.

It was fun and It was exciting and so help me, Bo, It was even something special to see one player kick four field goals. Even Daugherty quipped: "Now you can't call that boring." You could conclude from this game that if Michigan State, with its stuttering offense, coulrl roll up 334 yards on the ground against Ohio State, then Michigan, with its awesome ground Please turn to Tage 4E, Col. 1 Here's how the top 20 teams In the Associated Press ratings fared Saturday: 1 Southern California (9-0) 2 Alubama (9-0) whipped LSU, 35-2lPage 2E. 3 Nebraska (7-1-1) tied Iowa State, 23-23 Page 2E. 4 Michigan (9-0) routed lnWa, Sl-0 This page.

5 Ohio St. (7-1) upset by MSU, 19-12 This page. 6 Louisiana St. (7-1) lost to alabnma, S5-21-Page 2E. 7 Oklahoma (7-1) nudged Missouri, 17-6 Page 2e.

8 UCLA (8-2) surprised by Washington, 30-21-Page 2E. 9 Texa (7-1) booted Baylor, 17-3-Page 10-Penn St. (8-1) beat N. Carolina 37-22-Page 2E. 11 Auburn (7-1) 12 Notre Dame (7-1) trimmed Air Force, 21-7 Page 4E.

13 Tennessee (5-2) 14 MIsourl (5-4) defeated by Oklahoma, 17-6 Page 2E. 15 Texas Tech (7-2) upended by TCU, 31-7-Page 2E. 16 Colorado (7-3) stomped Kansas, 33-8 Page 2E. 17 Iowa State (5-2-1) tied Nebraska, 23-23-Page 2E. 18 NOrth Carolina (7-1) toppled Virginia, 23-3 Page 2E.

19 Arizona St. (7-2) ripped N. Mexico, 60-7 Page 2E. 20 (Tie) Stanford (5-4) upset by Wash. 27-13-Page Yale (5-2) downed by Penn, 38-20 Page 2E.

ated with baskets by Dave Blng and Bob Lanier to pull within a point of a tie with 20 seconds to go. Lanier was fouled on his shot, but missed in his bid to tie the score and John Havli-cek then sewed it up for tha Celtics with two foul shots. THE PISTONS had led most of the way, taking a nine-point edge in the second period, when Willie Norwood hit on 15 of his 18 points. Then with Lanier, Bing'and Alabama Rolls Over LSU -Page 2E Iowa Slalc Tics Nebraska -Page 2E Please turn to Page 7E, Col. 5 JL 0t fffl rffH 0r iwfili nrlli Vlft i 11 art itih 1ti tt niriarfli t0k.