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This Is Section AMUSEMENTS PAGE 7 TRAVEL PAGE 9 Sports Today Sgtrott Mttt fflrcgg SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1957 Purdue Stuns MSU, 20-13 that 1953 season. So, the Spartans should have been forewarned. But they certainly were not forearmed. Except for a time in the second quarter when they had a one-touchdown lead and an exciting period in the. final stanza when Jim Ninowski's passes brought them to life, the Spartans never had a chance.

Favored by a four-touchdown margin, State was out charged, outrushed and eventually outscored before 64,950 BY HAL MIDDLESWORTH Tree Prei Staff Writer EAST LANSING The king of college football came tumbling down offthe throne Saturday. Michigan State, No. 1 in the nation and already dreaming of a Rose Bowl trip after three straight victories, was completely outplayed and soundly upset, 20 to 13, by a young Purdue team which had been unable to win in three starts. It marked the second straight year that the Spartans saw their reign abruptly ended after only one week. Following four straight victories in 1956 they were voted No.

1, but immediately fell victim to Illinois by another 20-13 count. Last year they never recovered. HISTORY ALSO REPEATED for the Boilermaker who four years ago snapped a Michigan State winning streak of 28 straight with Purdue's initial triumph of fans the biggest crowd ever to see a game here. The hapless Spartans were harried into countless mistakes by the frenzied Boilermakers and were especially butterfingered. TEN TIMES they fumbled and five times they losl the ball, largely on jarring tackles.

It was a marked contrast to State's three victories over Indiana. California and Michigan in which the Spartans never once lost the ball on miscues. U-M Sputters-Then Roars, 34-14 WITH 34x13 HOLE Rips 'Cats On3TDsin Illinois Digs Last Period Gopher Grave Rprs, 3rd-String Back, Lights Fuse CHAMPAIGN, 111. UH The slithering running of halfback Bob Mitchell, hospitalized earlier in the week with a temperature, touched off an Illinois homecoming explosion Saturday that blew apart Minnesota, the nation's ranking team, 34 to 13. MHH.

iz3 9-13 2 441 VW EST. 9 too S-12 4 All three of Purdue's touchdowns followed MSU bobbles and the last two came after the Spartans had gambled for short yardage on fourth down near midfield. Purdue employed eight and nine-man lines to effectively -halt State's vaunted running power except in the case of Walt Kowalezyk, who was used sparingly In the early stages but wound up with a 72-yard total for 15 earries. Ninowski. whose passes were a key factor in State's three triumphs, didn't complete a pass in the first half, which was a 7-7 deadlock.

However, the senior quarter-bfck dramatically hurled ths Spartans to their second touchdown in the fourth period covering 71 yards in four plays and connecting with Sam Wililams for the final 30. KOWALCZYK accounted for the other Spartan tally by running back a punt 33 yards to the 10 and completing the distance in three line plunges. Purdue's heroes were a couple of fuzzy-faced youngsters getting their first starts in collegiate football Ross Fichtner. an 18-ycar-nld sophomore quarterhack from and Boh lartis, 19, a first-year fullback from Parma, O. Fichtner, replacing the Injured Bob Spoo, directed the Boilermakers brilliantly and threw a 43-yard pass to end Tom Franckhauser which set up a tie-breaking touchdown in the third quarter.

1 ARUS, alternating with veteran Mel Dillard, ripped the Spartan defenses for 68 yards on 17 thrusts and scored the Boilermakers' first touchdown after a fumble on State's 19-yard line. Dillard counted on a short plunge following Fichtner key pass to Franckhauser and the First down Rushing ardas Passint yardace Passes Pisih intercepted Futnhles Inst. Yards penalized Northwestern MirhUan And while the Gophers were While 69,619 fans cheered the trying to contend with Mit- -14 I 14 1 1 -34 two-touchdown underdog Illini chell's slipperiness, a 205-pound Mr- plnnte) Northwestern: Touchdowns Reiver (21. run tluinn ft, 1 nnversion MrKeiver 2. lii-hiean: Touchdowns and millions of others watched junior fullback from Chicago, on the national TV hookup, Jack Delveaux, riddled them.

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pWtnse). Conversions Van Pelt 3. Noskin. back Tom Haller, a junior from team deluged the Gophers, 21 Lockport, Ilk, harassed them to 0, by halftime, and main- with passes. tained the pressure to hand Delveaux scored twice in the them their first defeat in four irst quarter.

He ran back a starts. punt 30 yards midway in the period to fuse an 83-vard touchdown drive in 12 plays. IN GAINING Its second tri- iHaller's jump pass of 10 yards umph in four games, Illinois ito Bob set up Del- Iveaux's eventual one-yard scor- ing blast BY TOMMY DEVTNE Free Press Staff Writer ANN ARBOR A forgotten kid came off the bench to ignite a spark in a slumbering University of Michigan football team Saturday. With unheralded Jim Byers petting his first real chance in two seasons in a Wolverine uniform, Michigan snapped out of its lethargy in the fourth period to score three times and defeat hapless Northwestern, 34 to 14. A crowd of 70,884 fans watched a strange game played by two puzzling teams.

bush of last year when it year Mit-Bill i trimmed Michigan State, then FOUR MINUTES later, the nation's No. 1 team, 20 to phell recovered halfback bumped as they tackled Purdue halfback T.en Wilson. in i tVl. win- Martin's fumble on the Gopher1 id, in one ot the season Dig- THE SPARTANS were knocking heads Saturday- their own. Jim Ninowski (41) and Art Johnson (30) 18 yards on the next play.

Then 'Delveaux drilled over from the At the outset of the second- ChlDS Call Run wM gest surprises. Mitchell, a 180-pound senior from Hot Springs, who won All-Big Ten honors as a sophomore and was hobbled with injuries in 1956, time and again split the big Minnesota defenses with his eel-like runs. Central YPSILANTI (if) touchdow smash ended a 53 Titans Take the Long Way In Beating Xavier, 30-20 yard Illini thrust in nine plays.tMi("hi&an College Saturday ioi feated Eastern Michigan, 27 to THIS WAS A contest in hich Michigan started with a burst of speed and appeared as I I II IL I VII 1.1. i .1 11 1 track Ftrvt down Rushing yardae FMfltag 'ardare Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost rrmur. in-; 3 2-11 I in in a ciuss cuuiiLiy Turn to Page t.

Column (meet. MS IS 11R I7 10-17 I 5- 32 i 6 13 arterback A moment later, qi oftroit xayif.r the victory. It was the Titans' 13 14 il Hit lucan stale state third against one defeat, and it Jerry Ui-arrls: yaras Pucdue: Touchdowns Casper passed Jurus tl. i 1. rr i v.

plnnce) Dl Dillard plunte Mikes nauiiacK ieuv wicjei, uicii(34 ruB) Conversions Fletcher First downs Yards rusklnr Passing arriace asses Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost I Yards penalized MirhiEan converted for a 7-0 lead. Meyer, State: Touchdowns Rit-nlnnee) Williams (30. inowski I Conversion walczik (1. 127 ISI SI. 12 3 -24 3 13 30 20 271 15 11 3-27 23 3 put the Titans in good position for a midseason push through the really tough stages of their campaign.

Xavier's defeat was its third against three victories. scored all three Xavier touch-; kaVser Detroit Yavier downs, the two others on one-yard smashes. coming Boilermakers' kayo punch was supplied by Kenny Mikes when he dashed 34 yards on a trap play. Detroit: Touchdowns Maher end runt; Korpak (11-yard run. left tackle): Dalilkemper (14-varri pass): Russell (66-vard run.

left tackle i. Conversions Matter. Korpak 2. Field coal Pasruzzi (21 Tarda). Xavler: Touchdowns T.

Merer 3 ill. pass: 1. flutter: 1, plunge). Conversions Casper 2. Detroit had the benefit of many breaks, but could take advantage of few.

The Titans, wasteful and occasionally unwise, clearly dominated the first half, yet, at the intermission, it was Xavier in front, 14 to 10. DETROIT TRAILED for only 90 seconds. On the second play after the kickoff, Maher, former All-State speedster from U. of D. High, took off around left end and zipped 60 yards.

He converted to tie the score. BY GEORGE PCSCAS Halfbacks Billy Russell and Bruce Maher showed their flashing heels at opportune moments Saturday as they An interceDtion at the 24 It was tough sledding for the Spartans from the start. The first period ended trith-out a score when Sophomore out a score when sophomore goal line after a 7S-yard drive. In the second, play of the following period, Mikes punted to Kowalczyk on Purdue's 43 and the Spartan bulldozer raced Turn to Page 3. Column 6 Both Xavier touchdowns in talked the Titans, but early in the first half were made with the second neriod thev came galloped on long touchdown ded help.

The first came hack tn takf the eaci to 7. when Detroit's Al Korpak fum- short punt set them up at bled a fair-catch punt and Xavier 30. Then an inter-Bushell recovered on the Titan 33. Turn to Pace fl, Column 5 runs to Jut tne university or Detroit to a 30-20 football triumph over Xavier University in U. of D.

Stadium. A homecoming; crowd of 14,891 was treated to a wide-open offensive display which was not settled until the final six Then the fleet Russell broke away from startled Musketeers and scampered 66 yards to the clinching touchdown. though it might literally run the winless Wildcats right out -of the stadium. Then as rapidly as the Wolverines took on the garb of a title contender which had been prepared for them in the preseason forecasts, they lapsed into the doldrums. Michigan squandered a 14-point half time lead as they turned into a lackadaisical unit in the third period and allowed to roar from behind and tie the score.

Then Byers, who missed a season of play in 1955 because of scholastic difficulties and since has been consigned to an obscure role as a third stringer, suddenly gained a star's stature. He literally lifted the Wolverines by their bootstraps and sent them winging to their third victory of the season and their first in Big Ten play. BYERS WAS IN the lineup only by happenstance. Big lohn Herrnstein, the Wolverines' first-string fullback, sat out the contest because of an injured instep. Gene Sisnyak.

who has been No. 2 at the spot, had tailed to live up to expectations. So it was take-a-chance with and see what happens. You won't find Byers name among the Michigan scorers. Yet, if it wasn't for the husky youngster from Evansville, whose father is a high school coach, the Wolverines might have been engulfed in the tidal wave of upsets which took Michigan State and Minnesota out of the ranks of the unbeaten and turned the Big Ten race into a real scramble.

Byers was the game's top ground-gainer with 98 yards in 15 attempts. That statistic in itself isn't too important, WHAT IS IMPORTANT is that Byers picked up most of his yardage in the clutch situation when the Wolverines were floundering and desperately needed a leader to show them the way. The 200-pound fullback filled the role ideally. It was on Michigan's drive for its third and tie-breaking Turn to 3, Column 1 ONLY A MINUTE before, Xavier, which led three times in the game, was making a serious threat to wipe out the Titans' 23-20 lead and produce an upset. A fumble set up the Musketeers at the Detroit 41.

They pushed just inches shy of a first down. Then Titan tackle Dick White belted Tom Riley for a three-yard loss, giving Detroit the ball. The one play bj White put Xavier in a desperate position. The next one killed the Musketeers. Russell got the ball, slanted over left tackle to reach the sideline, then skipped tacklers as though skipping rope as he danced along the white stripe clear to the end zone.

The dazzling run by the tiny halfback was similar to a 60-yard sprint made by Maher, speedy young sophomore halfback, to give Detroit its opening score in the first period. Maher's dash, however, went around the end, and he had the benefit of strong blocking to clear his path. DETROIT REJOICED with A LEAPING CATCH by Michigan's Brad Myers (17) brought the Wolverines a first-half gain against Northwestern. Stan Noskin, Michigan sophomore quarterback, found Myers in the open for this successful gain. TITAN'S START ROLLING goalward with Al Korpak picking up a short gain before being pushed out of bounds by an Xavier defender..