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SECTION In This Section Football Scores liye 5 77 Inside of Sports I'tie 6 Outdoors uiili Opre Pugc 35c I roil ifrcc Vxc Sports SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1976 1ST LOSS FOR 2I)-liAMvED OSU issouri Upsets Buckeyes, 22-21 How Top 20 Fared re's how the Top 20 teams in the Associated Press college tooihall ratings fared this weekend. 1 Michigan 1-0-41 sank Navy, 70-14. 2 Ohio Slate (2-1-0) was stunned by Missouri, 22-21. Pitt (3-0-0) breezed past Temple," 21-7.

4 Oklahoma (J-O-fl) whipped Florida 5 UCLA (2-IMI) vs. Air Force, night. 6 Nebraska (2-0-1 creamed Texas Christian, 64-IU. 7 Georgia (3-0-0) defeated Soulii Carolina, 20-12. 8 Maryland (3-0-0) ran over Syracuse, 42-28.

Texas (2-1-0) upset by Houston, 21-10. 10 Kansas did not play. 11 Penn Stale (1-2-0) was shinned by Iowa, 7-6. 12 Arkansas (2-1-0) was upended by Tulsa, 9-3. 13 Alabama (2-1-0) trounced Vanderbilt, 42-14.

14 Illinois (2-1-0) was tripped up by Baylor, 34-IS. 15 LSU (2-0-1) whipped Rice, 31-0. 16 North Carolina (4-0-0) edged Army, 34-32. 17 Mississippi (2-1-0) annihilated Southern 28-0. 18 Boston College (2-0-0) bombed Tulane, 27-3.

19 Southern Cal (2-1-0) downed Purdue, 31-13. 20 Texas Tech (1-0-0) vs. New Mexico, night. C'OLL'MBl'S. Ohio (AP) Substitute quarterback Pete jjoods, a junior making his first college football start, ran flVross the deciding two points with It) seconds to play Saturday, i-oviding unranked Missouri with a 22-21 upset of second-rWiked Ohio Stale.

'Woods, starting in place of injured Steve Pisarkiewicz, failed nhis first try for the two points when he overthrew a pass. "However. Ohio State was called for defensive holding and Woods made good on his second try. 'The Tigers, bouncing back irom a 31-6 loss to Illinois last Woods either passed or ran eight of Missouri's IS plays in its third touchdown drive as Ohio Stadium's third-largest crowd of 87,9.16 sat stunned. Brown, a 200-pound senior, set up the closing score with a I -yard run to the Ohio State nine-yard line.

Two plays later, Woods found ewis in the left corner of the end zone. He led his split end perfectly, lofting the ball over the outstretched arms of Ohio State cornerback Joe Allegro. Lewis juggled the ball as he left the end one, hut an official signaled it was a touchdown. On the first try for the decisive two extra points. Woods was pressured by Buckeye defensive end Bob Brudzinski and overthrew Brown.

However. Woods got his second chance on the Ohio State holding penalty. The defending Big Ten champions appeared headed for an- week, ended the Buckeyes' 25-game home winning streak and handed Ohio State its first loss in three starts this college football season. Woods, facing a third-and-goal at the two, lofted a perfect lead pass to Leo lewis in the corner of the end zone for the third touchdown with 10 seconds to play. Missouri's dramatic rally overshadowed a three-touchdown performance by Pete Johnson, Ohio State's 239-pound fullback.

Johnson's touchdowns all came from two yards. Woods, a 210-pounder, had been involved in just 10 plays in Missouri's 1-1 start before the upset of the early 1976 season. Woods passed 31 yards to Joe Stewart to pull Missouri even, 7-7. early in the second quarter. He led the Tigers on a 47-yard drive early in the third period, a march that was climaxed by Brown's four yard scoring run.

The drive was set up when linebacker Chris Garlich intercepted a Rod Gerald pass. I Please turn to Page 5E, Column 4 ave of TDs! fl II in a flow la Slay A wah Until U-H vs. OSU 11 -M Scntt 70-14 ies iavy, '8 BY CURT SYLVESTER Freo Press Sporti Writer ANN ARBOR Without i doubt, it was one of the most distasteful operations that will confront the University of Michigan football team this fall. Maybe that's why it took them so long to get at it. But the Wolverines finally got over their first-half lethargy Saturday and they didn't rest again until they had completely exceeded the bounds of good taste with a 70-14 victory ovw Navy before 101,040 fans in Michigan Stadium.

If anything, the No, 1-rated Michigan team was oo good so good it was embarrassing as they took the football over a ad over and over the unfortunate Middies' goal line delivering tile: worst defeat in Navy history. It was the Wolverines' third victory of the season and, incidentally, was also the most points a IJ-M team has posted sine; ihe University of Chicago was victimized, 85-0, hack in 18U9. Well aware of the "running up the score" charges that was bound to hear, U-M coach Bo Schembiyhler started subtri-tuting midway in the third quarter, when the score reached Michigan used 53 players in all, holding back only those needed to field a team in Monday's game, but it made no difference who was playing the result was always a touchdown. IN ALL, THE WOLVERINES scored 12 times nine touch downs, two safeties and one field goal a 51-yarder by Bobby Wood matching the longest ever kicked at U-M. Fullback Rob Lytle, wingback Jim Smith, tight end Ger Johnson, fullback Kevin King and freshman tailback Lawrence Reid scored a touchdown apiece.

Sophomore quarterback Rick Leach had one of his best passing days ever, rallying the Wolverines from a 14-14 tie late in the first half with eight completions for 179 yards and tu-o touchdowns in 12 attempts throwing the football. Leach also scored twice on running plays. Linebacker Calvin O'Neal scored the other U-M touchdown on a 29-yard interception run after defensive end Dom Tedesco had put a charge on Navy quarterback John Kurowski. About the only names missing on the list of scorers wer those of sophomore tailback Harlan Huckleby and fullback Russell Davis. Huckleby suffered a slight shoulder separation in lb second quarter after gaining 79 yards in 11 carries and Davis sat out the game with a pulled leg muscle.

Huckleby was back on the bench in the second half, but the Wolverines didn't neM him. Michigan completely dominated the Navy team who? only victory in three games this season is a 21-3 win over Connecticut once Leach got things rolling. The first downs were 29-9, the rushing yardage was Please turn to Page 4E, Column ,1 ANN ARBOR 1 And now. folks, the big test: Wake Forest. Can Michig in scoic every time it touches the hall? Can th" Wolverines score without leaving the dressing room? Will the State Police step in and stop Tune in next week for the answers to these burning qiies-Minns.

That is. if Wake forest shows uo. You never know, the Deacons might just contact the Mai.f land Blue flue and stay home in Winston-Salem. 1 mean, who wants to play in a place where they're trying to average 100,000 spectators and 100,000 points a genie? Don Canham is thinking of putting up a second press box in Michigan He might do better to install four more 'scoreboards. Can vou believe what happened Saturday Michigan 70, I Navy 14?" That's the most points the Wolverines have scored since they massacred Chicago.

K.V0, in 19119. It was also the most points ever yielded by a Navy team in football or basketball. All of this is very nice if you happen to be a U-M Ian but it "presents a very real problem for future games. How do they keep everyone awake when the Wake oivs's. Jadianas, Northwesterns and the other giants of the college football world come into Michigan Stadium The attention span of the students will he severely tested.

Even the math majors will have a tough time keeping up. Ualch U) Talc His Cap Off 'so, in trying to be a Good Joe as always and give my boy' Bo as much assistance as possible, we offer, at no increase the following tips on How To Stay Awake Until Nov. 20 in Columbus. "You may use these aids in passing your time in the next months: I. Study the roof on Crisler Arena.

"i 2. Build boats inside of Boone's Farm bottles. Wait for Bo to take his cap off and see how bald he is this week. '4. Watch the male cheerleaders and wonder why in hell anyone would do such a thing.

5. Stand on your head, until the block on the 50-yard line becomes the Wisconsin W. 6. Watch the doctors run on the field with everyone else because they don't dare walk. 7.

Stand in the last row of the student's section and try to pick out the hoys from the girls. S. Wait for the Slippery Rock score. 9. Leave early, drive to Fscanaba, open the window and listen to Hob I'fer broadcast the fourth quarter.

10. Say a small prayer (in silence) that Nov. 20 isn't for two more months yet. In succeeding weeks, Michigan has scored 40, 51 and 70 points, and if Jimmy The Greek doesn't make the Wolverine' IlKI-poini favorites over Wake Forest, he ha? lost his touch. (Oops: Ohio Stale 21, Michigan 14).

This is really ridiculous. Michigan is behind by a 14-12 score and then runs off 50 points in a row. Everybody but Millie Schembechler got in cm the fun. As was said, quarterbacks played whom nobody even knew on the team. The Wolverines scored nine touchdowns, nine extra points, two safeties and a field goal.

Every way but on an inside-i he-park homer. In three games now, the Wolverines have scored Ifil points on 21 touchdowns, 20 extra points, three field goals and three safeties. (Oops: Ohio State 12. Michigan Id). Middies Earned Their 8250,000 "''Not since Hurry Up Yost have the points come up quicker around here.

And "if P.o and his boys want to shoot for the record, Mr. Yost scored 644 points back there in i902 an average of 64.4 a game. What's that? The men of Michigan expect to get 644 next Saturday. Excuse me. Ridiculous? It is a little silly, when you've gol what amounts a pro team playing what amounts to a high school team, which is just about the way it was against the mismatched iVJiddics.

It was so devastating that Bob Wood, the Michigan kicker, ewen boomed a 51-yard field goal for three points. Rvery one of Wood's kickoffs for two weeks now has gone right th'-ough Ihe end zone and you wonder why Er.rol Mann kjeks such popups when this kid can drill them so far. Wood vs. Skladany alone ought to be worth the price of ajlinission on Nov. 20.

(Oops: Ohio Slate II), Michigan 10). All Ihe Middies gol for their troubles was a paycheck of $850,000, most of which will go for gaue and bandages this week. Wolverines did most of the damage without Harlan lluckleby, who went out early with a bum shoulder. And you wonder if my boy Bo ran up Ihe score, the answer ig yes once. That's when he was well ahead and was throwing liing on first down.

Let's not hear that he was playing third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh and eighth-stringers. When it was a runaway, he was still going for more, more, more to run up the sfore. You can only wonder what Mr. Ford told Bo when he came trf '-dinner last week. Yeah.

1 "iin in. As 1 see it, the only prohl' '-fore No'. 20 is for Bo to keep Rick Leach away from Soiiln. Ihey've been hugging after all the scores that some people might think they're hockey players. Or, with only 101,040 on hand for this one the season's low Free Press Photo by CRAIG PORTER U-M's Jerry Meter leaps high (o block punt by sivc end Tom Tedesco trails.

The ball rolled out of Navy's Stryker Jones in second quarter as defen- the end zone for Michigan's second safety. NC STATE IN TIIKRK Defenseless MSU Ties, 31-31 Rogers to hurl any challenges at next week's opponent Notre Dame. "I'm sure this has got to help Eddie," he conceded afterward. "But I've never seen Notre Dame play, so can't say anything about what might or might not happen next weekend." Rogers shied away from anv direct criticism of his defense, which gave up 434 yards total offense .122 of it on the ground. "I didn't like it," he conceded.

"But I'll say this, it got better. We've played three football games now and we really haven't stopped anybody he added before stopping in mid-sentence. "Oh, we're getting But the truth of the mailer is that the Spartans' defense, long its pride and joy, has simply found itself outmanned each of the first three weeks of the season, and as a result, Please turn to Page 2E, Col. 3 BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free press Sports Writer RALEIGH. N.C.

Michigan State's wide-open, exciting and unpredictaable offense was only an even match for its wide-open, exciting and unpredictable defense Saturday night. The Ed Smith-orchestrated offense put points on the Carter Stadium scoreboard hut the slow-reacting Spartan defense allowed North Carolina Slate to match that total as both defenses were left beaten and limp in the stifling Carolina humidity. The stalemate was enough to end NC State's three-game losing streak under first-year coach Bo Rein, and it was enough to generate almost boundless optimism in the future of Smith, who was making his first start as a Spartan. BUT IT WAS far from enough to cause MSU coach Darryl i tf jr't'. s.

Yanks Win Clinch AL East 1 Wasp NEW YORK DETROIT bi ab bi 4 110 Wnkwski 3b Rivers cl Murray cf RWhile II Munson Plniella rf 2 0 0 0 3 113 4 111 Chemblls lb 5 3 3 1 4 0 11 5 0 2 0 3 12 0 5 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 0 4 12 0 4 2 2 3 3 111 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 wever id Slaub rl Horlon dh Oolivie II Lane II MSIanley ct Freehan Scrivener ss Wagner ss JThmsn ph Manuel 2b Glynn Laxton GNellles 3b 5 0 II Velei flh 3 110 Randoloh 3 1 I 1 Stanley ss 4 0 12 DAIxandr 0 0 0 0 Tidrow 0 0 0 0 by Boston, 1-0, mathematically eliminating the Orioles from the race. Steinbrenner and general manager Gabe Paul accompanied the Yanks to Detroit this weekend to celebrate the team's most successful season since 19R4. It was perhaps, ironic that the Yankees' first victory celebration in a dozen years should include Billy Martin, who once managed the Tigers, and occur in Detroit, after New York had beaten the Tigers, now managed by Ralph Houk. As they say, it's a small world. ROOKIE lefthander Ed Glvnn lasted less than an inning just 17 minutes, or 25 the time the Yanks had finally pitches, to be precise.

But by finished batting for the first time, they had sent 10 men to the plate and scored six runs. Mickey Rivers hit Glynn's first pitch to leftfield for a single, setting the trend for what was to come. When Roy White followed with a base hit to right, Rivers missed second base. Cut he nevertheless had time to scramble hack, touch the bag, and continue on to Please turn to Page 2E, Col. 3 HY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sports Writar Pass the champagne.

The playoff-bound New York Yankees celebrated their Eastern Division championship a trifle early Saturday, at Ihe expense of the Tigers. Ignoring the fart that Saturday afternoon's 10-fi triumph over the fifth-place Detroiters merely assured Ihe Yankees a tie for half the American League pennant, club owner George Steinbrenner threw a gala party for the team at a classy downtown restaurant. About five hours later, it all became official when second-place Haliimore was defeated Total 31 10 12 10 Tolal 38 13 New York 420 010 001-10 Detroit 000 123 WO- 4 Slaub, ChambliS5. DP New York 1. LOB New York 9, Detroit 2B Chamb-llss, Horlon.

3B Waoner. HH Munson (16), Scrivener (2), Chambliss (17). SB-R. White, Randolph. SF Munson, 11 IP EH BB SO 5 1- 7 5 4 2 1 3 2-3 i 1 I 0 5 Dtlxandr (W.13-9) Tidrow Glynn (L.0-3) Laxton AP Photo Sophomore running back Harlan Huckleby sits oft sidelines nursing a left-shoulder injury that put him out of action in second quarter against Navy.

2-3 5 6 6 1 0 1-3 5 4 4 5 7 (10) HBP by laxton -w; maybe Canham should wonder if Bo and his boys are killing Ihe attendance. (Oops: Ohio Stale 1 1, Michigan 11). Save Tidrow (Pinieila), by PB Munson. D. Alexander (Ogiivie) 2:38 A 12.814..