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In This Section flcircii rcc tcss section Sports on Television Page 3 The Inside of Sports Page 6 fJ Outdoors with Opre Page 8 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1975 LJ LEACH HURLS 83-YARD TD PASS Purdue, How Top 20 Fared Here's how the Top Twenty teams In the Associated Press poll fared this weekend: 1 Ohio State (9-0-0) demolished Illinois, 40-J. 2 Oklahoma (8-1-0) was stunned by Kansas, 23-S. 3 Nebraska (9-0-0) shut out Kansas 12-0. 4 Texas A-M (8-fl-0) blitzed SMU, 38-3. 5 Alabama (7-1-0) at Louisiana State, night.

6 Michigan (7-0-2) bombed Purdue, 28-0. 7 Texas (7-1-0) vs. Baylor, Incomplete. 8 Penn St. (8-2-0) lost to North Carolina 13-14.

9 So. California (7-1-0) vs. Stanford, incomplete. 10 Arizona State (8-0-0) vs. Wyoming, night.

11 Florida (7-2-0) was upset by Goorgla, 10-7. 12 Notre Dame (6-2-0) smashed Georgia Tech, 24-S. 13 San Diego St. (8-0-0) vs. Arizona, night.

14 Colorado (6-2-0) vs. Oklahoma incomplete. 15 Arizona (6-1-0) at San Diego night. 16 Maryland (6-2-1) nipped Cincinnati, 21-19. 17 Miami, O.

(8-1-0) dumped Western Michigan, 44-21. 18 California (5-3-0) vs. Washington, incomplete. 19 Missouri (5-3-0) at Iowa Slate, incomplete. 20 Pitt (6-3-0) was suprised by West Viriginia, 17-14.

With fourth-and-three, quarterback Mark Vitali piled into the right side of the line where he was met by middle guard Tim Davis, who sopped him inches short of the first down. Led by tackle Greg Morton, who had three tackles for losses, and linebacker Calvin O'Neal, who was in on 14 tackles, the Wolverines contained the Boilermakers whenever they approached touchdown territory. And the rest of the afternoon the Wolverines enjoyed their own offensive game 283 yards rushing, 218 passing and a total offense of 501 yards. They got down to business the second time with the ball, BY CURT SYLVESTER fm Prm Sport Wrlttr ANN ARBOR Another attempt to besmirch the good name of Michigan football came to a sorry ending Saturday, as the Wolverines persisted in rousting Purdue, 28-0, at Michigan Stadium. And who did they have to thank, for this one but their child prodigy quarterback, Rick Leach.

In his finest day since graduating from Flint Southwestern last June, Leach broke big plays around the frustrated Boilermakers left and right, through the air and on the ground. He ran for 68 yards and a TD, threw a U-M record TD pass of 83 yards to Jim Smith, completed six of nine passes Please turn to Page 4E, Column 1 Kansas Sinus Oklahoma, 23-3 Sec Page 4E 7 i I ft 4 102,415 U-M Croud Monument lo Canliam for an astounding (especially by Michigan standards) 218 yards and finally rested with 286 yards total offense, the fifth best in U-M history. "It's amazing he's an 18-year-old kid," coach Bo Schembechler reminded. "This was his best performance. The things he did, the key plays he made, the way he ran the ball I thought it was his best game." Of course, Leach got the customary help from the ever-Teaay Smith and tailback Gordon Bell, who scored twice, including a picturesque 10-yard run through the thick of the Purdue defense.

"This game was very important to us," said Schembechler. "We needed a great effort and I feel we got it." THAT'S NOT ALL the Wolverines got as they entertained another huge crowd of 102,415 fans on an almost summer-like day. The U-M victory, combined with Ohio State's Win. at Illinois and Iowa's upset of Wisconsin, made the Big Ten's two-team race a reality instead of a probability. But what did you expect? There is now not even the mathematical possibility of anyone catching or passing Ohio State and Michigan with their still unblemished 6-0 conference records with only two games left to play.

The Wolverines are now 7-0-2 overall. The Boilermakers brought their usual contingent of capable football players and they enjoyed more than the usual success in moving the football into the Wolverine defense. Scott Dierking ran for 92 yards, Mike Pruitt added 73 and the Boilermakers had a respectable 173 yards rushing and 288 total offense. BUT THE ONLY time they really threatened to spoil U-M's second shutout of the season was midway in the second quarter after moving from their own 26 to the Wolverines' eight. Sub QB Lifts MSU Past Indiana 14-6 kf i -it A- It 4-1 BY CHARLIE VINCENT.

Fit Prm Sports Writtr BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Michigan State University began preparing for 1976 Saturday, discarding senior quarterback Charlie Baggett at halftime en route to a 14-6 win over the Indiana I loosiers. In his place was substituted Marshall Lawson, an Infrequently used sophomore who effectively reduced the Spartans' offensive blunders in the second half and passed six yards to freshman receiver Kirk Gibson for MSU's second touchdown of the afternoon. The Spartans, plainly going nowhere this season, gave the ball away five of the seven times they had it in the first half, yet miracously led 7-6 at intermission. AP Ptxrto Conlon Uell (5) sitlestcps Purdue tackier on tvay firt U-M touclnlown CASS TECU A BRIDESMAID AGAIN outhwestern Wins PSL Title, 22-8 ANN ARBOR Canham Is going to have to start hanging around for these games.

No kidding, Don. You don't know what you're missing. It's so curious about the U-M athletic director he has masterminded the most successful operation the sport of inter-colligiate football has ever known and yet when payday comes around each Saturday in the autumn he can't stand the pressure of it and has to get away by himself. Where he goes Is never quite clear. Sometimes it's back to his office.

Sometimes it is off to his cottage. Sometimes he just drives around and catches the game on the radio. But he has to get out of the stadium because by Saturday he has reached his own personal pressure point. His own breaking point. That's too bad because he is not fully able to enjoy what he has created, and what he has created should serve as a guide to every athletic institution in the land.

Much has been written about Canham's genius as a merchandiser. None of it is exaggerated. He has done what no man in this sport has ever done. He is pulling in more people at a greater rate than any man in history and where it will end nobody knows. Can you believe this: 4 1 Michigan pulled 102,415 fans for Saturday's game against Purdue, a team which came into Ann Arbor with a 2-6 record.

2 By virtue of this smashing turnout, Michigan topped Its own personal record of 36.1,363 fans set in 1949. The Wolverines have now pulled 5S3.60J for the season. That puts the Michigan average at an incredible 97,267 another record. 3 With 104,000 on tap for the Ohio State finale, Michigan will finish at an astounding 687,000 for the season. 4 And, if you count in their bowl appearance coming up the Rose, Orange, Cotton or Sugar they will become the first team to ever play to one million spectators in a single season.

These are truly amazing figures, and I think we may tend to take them for granted. I mean, you see a 100,000 crowd out her and you tend to shrug it off because you've seen it before. lie's Up to $80,000 a Year But now they're starting to string them together in such startling sequence that the whole thing ought to be put in some perspective. Take Bo Schembechler, for Instance. He has grown In personal gain along with the entire Michigan program so that he is finally earning money commensurate with his ability.

He is now up to a year, counting his salary and TV show, and if this sounds like a lot of dough, all you have to do is consider he started out at $21,000 a year and stayed in that bracket for a long time. The curious thing is that money still isn't all that Important to this man, or else he might be listening to some of those million-dollar pro offers as John McKay recently did. If anybody is worth $80,000 a year it is this man. He has given Canham the product to sell. That's something which should never be overlooked, and what an injustice when Bo wasn't given a single mention in that Sports Illustrated article at the start of this season detailing Canham's success at Michigan.

Bo's record is as amazing as these record crowds. With the 28-0 victory over Purdue, he now stands at 64-7-3 in his seven years at Michigan. His teams haven't lost at home since 19. That's 41 in a row without a defeat. In his last five Big Ten games in Michigan Stadium, Bo has outscored the opposition, 252-7.

The fans love it. They don't care if the games are one-sided. They love to see Michigan win, win, win. That's why they keep coming out and why so many of them streamed into the stadium on this second Saturday in November. They came from all over and over-loaded the ticket booths.

They sat in the aisles, stood in the exit ways, clambered onto the roof of the press box and all but spilled over onto the field. They came to wakh this Michigan team perform and the Wolverines didn't let them down. They put on their most diversified offensive show of the season etting 283 yards on the Rround and another 218 in the air for a total of 501 yards from scrimmage. Kiclwff Coverage Something Else The Wolverines were scoring on picture plays fro mall over the field and you may be sure that the passing total of 218 yards will not go unnoticed in Columbus. At the moment, the Wolverines look as versatile as they have ever been.

And the finale against Ohio State should be "another great windtip. In fact, the bookmakers will probably tall it even. 1 The crowd went home buzzing about Rick Leach's record passs play of 83 yards to Jim Smith as well as the dazzling running of Gordon Bell and the inside work of Rob Lytle. But this one, as always had the Schembechler staemp on It. Here is a man who preaches perfection and he all but attained It in one important phase of the game kickoff coverage.

Now that doesn't sound very exciting kickoff coverage but every coach who ever lived will tell you of its importance and no team in memory ever performed this chore better than Michigan did against Purdue. The Wolverines kicked off five times. Here's what Purdue did with the ball: 1 Return three yards to the 11. 2 Downed it in end zone. 3 Return six yards to the 11.

4 Downed it in end zone. 5 Return four yards to the seven. This may seem like a minor Item but' It is the result of good coaching, hard work and he proper personnel three more reasons why the fans keep turning out in, larger and larger numbers. Don Canham is going to have to start hanging around. He's going to have to think of a way to double-deck the stadium.

Or else risk i riot out here one Saturday. scored three times for a 14-0 lead. Cass caught up to Marshall just before halftime, when Dennis Moss picked off Mike's errant pass on the Cass 38 and returned it to the seven. Mike Cunningham sprinted 10 yards, after a penalty, for the touchdown that narrowed the Cass gap to 14-8 at intermission. THE PLAY of the game came early in the fourth period.

After a drive stalled. Marshall went back to punt from his own 30. The snap was bad, the ball Please turn to Page 2E, Col. 4 flanker Derrick McCrimmon on a scoring aerial on the first play after Tony Varner recovered a fumble on the Cass 36-yard line. The Technicians barely had taken a breath when linebacker Ray Cabarris blocked a Cass punt, which rolled out of the end zone for a safety.

Reggie Woods returned the free kick 22 yards to the Cass 45. Marshall hit Woods for 22 yards. Then after a 10-yard burst by Henry Capers, Mike spotted Henry Jefferson in the end zone for 10-yard touch-odwn pass. Only 5'i minutes had gone by, and Southwestern had BY MORRIS MOORAWN1CK Fraa Prtti Special Writtr Quarterback Mike Marshall threw two touchdown passes, set up a third and intercepted a pass as Southwestern throt-ted Cass Tech once again, 22-8, to take the Public School League football championship at Wayne State University Stadium Saturday morning. The victory was the eighth in a row for the Prospectors, the state's No.

6 rated Class A team, and earned them at least one more game this season. Southwestern will meet either Brother Rice or Livonia Franklin, depending upon games this weekend, at Wis-ner Stadium in Pontiac next Saturday in the semifinals of the first annual state tournament. Cass Tech, whose only previous loss this season was a 16-6 setback to Southwestern in its second game, had not yielded a point since the second quarter of that defeat. BUT AR SNAIL, who exploded for a 95-yard return on the opening kickoff to put Cass on the defensive in that struggle, was back at his old tricks again. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound quarterback connected with Indiana cornerback Walter Booth intercepted a Baggett covered a Baggett fumble at the Indiana 21 to snuff out the first two MSU drives.

Then Tommy Hannon fum-b 1 a punt and Donnie Thomas recovered for the Hoosiehs -at the Indiana 48. Baggett finally got the Spartans on the scoreboard on the fourth play of the second period, lunging In from three yards away to cap a 51-yard drive. Fittingly, that march began when MSU defensive back Ken Jones recovered a fumble by Indiana's Ric Em's. And, not surprisingly, the Spartans almost lost their chance to score when tailback Rich Baes fumbled at the Indiana three, but Gibson was there to fall on it for MSU and on the next play Baggett scored. Hans Nielsen kicked the point after and that was really all the Spartans needed.

BUT WHEN a Baggett screen pass was intercepted and returned 30-yards for a touchdown by Tom Buck, and a Baggett-to-Levi Jackson handoff was fumbled and recovered by Indiana's Willie Wilson, the Spartan coaching staff had seen enough. "Charlie was just having an average day," Stolz said after-wards, "and we decided to make a switch at half. I don't know what we'll do at quarterback the rest of the season; we'll just have to wait and see how it goes." Only some super defense, which limited the Hoosiers' to 160 yards total offense, kept the Spartans from being vie- Please turn to Page 4E, Col. 5 MSU Indiana I WAS KIM) OF LOST OUT TI1ERK" EspoNets 2 Goals in Ranger Debut frl4 f'f A ftV X'' "'V IT accept it. I was shocked and I'm sure Ratelle, Park and Vadnais were, too.

But there's no bitterness." However, he suggested the NHL consider a trade clause in contracts protecting veteran players. "I think there should be a rule protecting veterans from trades where after you've been with a team for five or seven years you have some say on trades," he said. "But right now, my goal is to help New York make the playoffs. I never considered turning down the trade. I might have if I could afford to quit, but I can't." IN VANCOUVER, Ratelle said: "I knew they (the Rangers) wanted younger players and were looking for economic cuts, but it's hard to see why they'd trade two guys like me and Brad.

I'm 35, but I was working well, playing well. I'll play in Vancouver but then I've got to sit down and think it over." "AFter all those other trades (earlier New York traded away three veterans) I thought they might leave us alone." said Park. "I thought they might let us try to prove ourselves and not bother us until we succeeded of failed. I'm just in shock." In New York, Ranger general manager Emile Francis, who engineered the trade, said: "General Motors and Ford continue to come out with new models and that's what we have set to do. It is time for us to put out a new model.

It left the Rangers with only seven players remaining from the 21-man roster that completed the 1973-74 season. Boston's Harry Sinden said: "It was the toughest decision I've ever had to make in hockey however, we felt in the best interest of the Boston Bruins' hockey club foi now and the future that this must be done. Pit Prtii Wirt Itrvlcti OAKLAND Phil Esposito said his first performance in a New York Rangers' uniform wasn't very good but If that's the case, he's going to have a difficult time convincing National Hockey League followers. Esposito, hockey's most prolific scorer, was sent from the Boston Bruins to the Rangers along with Carol Vadnais Friday in a blockbuster exchange for veterans Brad Park and Jean Ratelle and minor leaguer Joe Zanussi. A few hours later, Esposito scored two goals and had an assist when he skated with his new Ranger teammates in a losing 7-5 effort against the California Golden Seals.

In Vancouver Saturday night, the three new Boston players made their Bruins debut against the Canucks to complete the scenario. ON HIS INITIAL performance in a Ranger uniform, Esposito said: "It was not a very good start. 1 was nervous in my first game in a new uniform. Coming to a new team is a little difficult once the season has started. I was kind of lost out there, but some of the other players helped me.

It's a different style that they play in New York." Shortly after the trade was announced earlier in the day, Esposito, five-time winner of the NHL scoring title and holder of the season scoring record of 76 goals and 152 points in 78 games, was downcast. 1 "I was crushed," he said when he learned he had been sent packing for the second time in bis career. But after hitting the ice Friday night, he was philosophical. "Trades re part of the game," he laid. "You have to T-H 0 Indiini W5U-Bfla run (Nlnlttn Klckl.

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