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As Is Section I rm oorlt odcay FINANCIAL PAGE 7 strait 3T0 ress SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1959 Ifo Cra Fom Figure Foot ha Tennessee 14 Louisiana Slt 13 Michigan 20 Illinois 15 Wisconsin 24 Northwestern 19 Michigan State 15 Purdue 0 Dartai M9 lira 2 Me BOl on JL IMSU Ruins TIES UP BIG TEN Purdi ue TTW IlliniFind Out Hov It Feels, 20-15 Wolverines Rally After Trailinu, 9-0 isconsm wopes, is-u j.Tl Skins Look's Passing, 5 Fumbles Do Trick 24-19 'Cats, PURDUE IS 111 1M H-33 -37 50 First downs Rushing yardaoe Passing yardage field goal 'isconins tumbles lost Yards penalized ILL. 11 15? 0 HI 1 1 $1 MSU 177 mi S-u 7-37 4 a o-lS Aft V- I P-- -r- MICH. First down Rushin9 vardai 10J Passing yardage Passes Ml Passes intercepted by Punts 1-31 Fumbles lost 1 Yards penalized 23 Illinois Michigan By HAL MIDDLES WORTH Free Press Staff Writer booted a 26-ya rd which started scoring. First downs Rushing yardage Big- and ll9 EVAXSTON, 111 Michigan State 4 WIS 11 17 77 $-11 3 1 JO D-J4 -1 MW 17 IB 70 $-13 1 to 4 40 17 i Passes intercepted Punt 7Z20 beats fast and fancy At least did for Wisconsin' Fumbles lost MSU Ballman 2S pass from Look (kick failed 1 MSU Corgiat 43 pass from Look (kick failed). MSU FG Brandstatter 23.

ILL Wood 3 yard field goal. ILL Counts 37 run (run tailed). MICH Rio 11 pass from Noskin (run failed) iirai penalizes Saturday as the bruising Badg--j ers rocked the football world' Northwestern RON BURTON, who received an ovation when he left the game in the last three minutes with a leg injury, was the big gun for the Wildcats. jby upsetting Northwestern, 24-; Nu-Taiiey i plunge (Stock kick). 19, to end the Wildcats bid for, wis-Hoiiwartn fg 76.

WIS Sterner 14 pass from Hackbart MICH Harper 7 run fHaroer fciclc). MICH Julian 1 run (Harper kick). ILL Brown 1 run (pass failed). BY LYAI.L SMITH Free Press Sports Editor (HolTwarth kick). I The Wisconsin triumph, witnessed by a Dvche Stadium NU Burton run (kick failed).

WIS Schoonever 14 pass from barf (Holiwartti kick). WIS Hart 3 run (Holzwarth kick). NU Eickhoff 2 run (pass failed). 111. CHAMPAIGN, fsS remrrt rrnwd nf KK 282 frnst.i RY BOB PILLE Free Press Staff Writer EAST LANSING Purdue, the spoiler of so many Michi-i gan State dreams, now knows how it is to awaken in the chil! dawn with nothing left.

If it wasn't exactly the shoe on the other foot it was at least the extra thumbs on the other hand. Losing only one fumble four previous Bis: Ten srames The pint-sized halfback ripped off one touchdown run of 69 yards and set up an-; other with a 47-yard sprint. Little Bob Eickoff. who ral-: lied the Wildcats in the second i half, plunged across after Bur-: ton's second dash while John Talley sneaked for Northwest-i ern's initial touchdown early in the game. decade of deep frustration bitten fans threw the Big Tenj for Michigan finally came to: Rose Bowl race into a deadlock! an end here in the horseshoe between the two with all others stadium of the Illini.

eliminated Saturday. The Wolverines have been in the ADGERS and Wildcats vading the Illinois corn country have identical recordSi in; every other year since 1949 in conferenC(, and 6-i tor the1 western had a wide margin in the ground-gaining statistics but simply made too many mistakes. The Wildcats lost the ball Soecial Transmission to tfie Free Press UPSET! Michigan's Stan Noskin 27 was upended at Illinois Saturday after a five-yard gain, but the Wolverines had the last laugh as did Michigan State, Wisconsin and Tennessee. All four pulled major upsets in the biggest form reversal of the season. Michigan clipped Illinois, 20-15: Michigan State bumped Purdue, 15-0; Tennessee ended No.

1 ranked Iuisiana State's string, 14-13, and Wisconsin clipped preiously unbeaten Northwestern, 24-19, to throw the Big Ten picture out of To make it a perfect day for Michigan" fans, Detroit beat Dayton, 33-14, and Wayne State whipped Thiel, 28-15. a desperate attempt to snap a season with two games to go. four times on fumbles and three jinx which kept them from vic-j If tney end up that wayf times on interteptions. Altogether. Burton rambled this season, the Boilermakers for 169 yards only 10 below let five get awav Saturdav in 7 RnP P.nu-1 trirv uill rrr.

In Vnrth. Two Wisconsin touchdowns the entire yardage of Wiscon- Spartan Stadium. They lost in 1951 again since Wisconsin 1953, wasi and a. field goal resulted from sin's bigger but slower backs. The bobbles spoiled the Boil-such lapses and the Wildcats! ermaker attack, set up the first once inm.

there more recentlv 2-2 STALEMATE missed a sure touchdown in the; NORTHWESTERN jumped Spartan touchdown in a 15-0 closing minutes on another 7-0 lead and later; MSU vitory, and finished all Chances of a deadlock at the finish are slim, however. still a fourth time in 1957.1 Most of the time they were fa-! vored to win. The result al-j ways was the same a dreary ride back home to Ann Arbor on the short end of the Purdue's Rose Bowl visions. had a 13-10 margin. with Illinois now holding the fumble, key to the championship.

Defensive back Larry Wood, FOR EXTRA insult the proud Battle Auiuiwesiern must piay com ihai A I no creau recovered a Wisconsin iu.iiuie i dpfpnsp that hadn't ings the Illini and Michigan State on away from Wisconsin, however. to set up the Wildcats' first-1 been violated bv an aerial BIT iHf.i heaaea nome in. the road. Wisconsin gets its A team which hits as hard! quarter touchdown which came touchdown this fall wa ridHieri Our Pistons Gum Up in Overtime Baylor's 40 Lift Lakers, 113-111 style this time as they over- crack at Illinois on home soil, as the Badgers creates its own came a half time deficit to then finishes at Minnesota. i breaks.

twice. Dean Look connected to Garv on a one-yara snea oy iancj following his key 22-yard pass! to Elbert Kimbrough. I Tie Leafs to sweep aside the mini and make coach Bump Elliott's "home-j THE RECORD crowd saw coming" a snappy 20-15 sue-, one of the season's most thrill-cess before 45,573 startled and ing performances as the Wild-chilly customers. jcats. No.

2 team in the nation, It was their second Bis Ten suffered their first setback. Holzwarth cut the margin to 7-3 with a 26-yard field goal early in the second period after Bob Altman intercepted one of Talley's passes. The Badgers soon went ahead for the first time. Dale Hackbart, the man on the spot in the Wisconsin back-field, engineered the victory. The husky senior quarterback, who hadn't thrown a touchdown pass all season, hurled a pair of them, each good for 14 yards.

Ron i and Allen Schoonover caught the TD BY BOB LATSHAW Special to the Free Press TORONTO Alex Delvecchio's second-period power-play goal gave the Red Wings a 2-2 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night and put the Detroiters in sole possession of second place, one point ahead of the idle i Boston Bruins. ine isaagers, wnose only loss this year was to Purdue in a rainstorm, came from behind twice in the first half and stood off two goal-line thrusts after triumph of the year, and when it came, it made a heroic figure out of Gerry Smith, a stocky senior out of Pershinr High in Detroit. A MENTAL LAPSE by Bur- the intermission. He went to Michigan as a new wrinkle in the ai.aif, ii 1 1a i iuilu ton and a When the chips were down, Elgin Baylor was in the right spot to cash in. A driving layup by Baylor with nine seconds left in an overtime period enabled the Minneapolis Lakers to snap a five-game losing streak at the expense of the Detroit Pistons, 113-111.

Outweighed pounds to the nearly 15 man, North- three yards for another Baagerj touchdown and Karl Holzworthi Turn to Page 2 Column 5 Football Scores Detroit carried the play until Delvecchio's goal, outshooting the Leafs, 28 -19. in the first two periods. Then the Wings settled back and played defensive hockey while Toronto moved on the offense. fullback. He didn't make the1 grade.

He was shifted to center last year, and the going was( tough as he played in only three games. He" stuck in there Ballman from 28 yards out and to Jim Corgiat from 48 yards away for both Spartan touchdowns in the first half. Art Brandstatter, wide on both conversion kicks, bootpd a 23-yard field goal in the third quarter. After that. Michigan State, which tends to fumble as often as Purdue doesn't, set about matching Boilermaker bobbles.

By then it was too late for Purdue. STATE'S DEFENSE, allegedly no match for the mors touted enemy defenders, allowed the Boilermakers outside their own 40 only twics in the first half. Both times Purdue "'as jolted into fumbles. Fred Ar-banas covered one on th Boiler 43, and Tony Kumiega grabbed the other on the Spartan 40. Arbanas also piled onto a Boiler bobble on the Purdup 25 after Bob Bercich barreled Into Willie Jones and shook the ball loose.

Three plays left State three Turn to Page 3, Column 2 and plugged away. This day he I i hSSKt SNAPS I HI ltr A IV reached the heigths. i inis was the second over-NORM ULLMAX sent the time struggle between the VVings ahead at 2:18 of the! teams in two days, and Baylor iirsi period wun nis iourm played every minute. After be goal oi the season, a sharp 5-ing held to a single field goal It's End of the Lin ft iooier mai was in rne cage jby Bailey Howell in the first before Johnny Bower could quarter, Baylor went to work move. HE SCORED 12 in the second GERRY "Little Smitty," they call him stepped up! front and center to intercept three Illinois passes, all of them 1 in the last half.

He set up the touchdown which gave the Wolverines the lead for the first time in the, game only three minutes after the third-period kickoff. Then Gerry came back late in the final quarter to stop or No. 1 LSU, 14-13 quarter, 10 in the third and 12 more, including eight straight at one stretch in the fourth period when the Lakers moved back into contention after trail ing by eight points, 93-85. Alii TENN 1 1-4 2 7-33 1 30 But. ex-teammate Johnny Wilson, jerhaps taking the lead from all the former Wings with Boston, evened it at 10:42 with his fifth of the campaign.

Gary Aldcorn was in the box for charging and Marcel Pro-novost joined him for pulling down Billy Harris midway in the period. It took only five seconds for Wilson to score. BERT OLMSTEAD beat Terry Sawchuk 64 seconds before the first period ended for LSU 1 270 44 S-14 2 4-40 2 40 413 0-14 First downs Rushing yardaqe Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Louisiana State Tennessee KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Fired-up Tennessee toppled Louisiana State's defending national champions, 14-13, Saturday when the previously unbeaten Tigers disdained a possible tie and lost the gamble for victory in the last quarter. Trailing, 14-7, midway in the last quarter, the nation's No.

1 team scored a touchdown after recovering Bill the mini's comeback attempt twice more by grabbing off enemy aerials. He was the key figure in the Wolverine triumph as his interceptions turned the game completely around and put a new luster on the season for the winners. IN THE first half Michigan 14 Hawks Catch Canadiens told he collected 40 points. Gene Shue, who topped the Pistons with 28 points, apparently salted away the game with 1:53 left in regulation time when he collected a free throw and then a field goal to put Detroit in front, 103-99. But Baylor picked up a field goal, and after stopping the Pistons drive, Ed Fleming hit on a jump shot to tie the score at 103 with 19 seconds left.

LSU Cannon 24 run (Harris kick). TENN Cartwright 59 pass interception (Letner kick). TENN Sollee 14 run (Letner kick). LSU Matherne 2 run (run (ailed). STATE Alma 33, Albion 14.

Central Mich. 26, Esn. III. 0. Detroit 33.

Dayton 14. Ferris 29, Ind. Central 7. Findlay 20. Adrian 2.

Hillsdale 48, Kalamazoo 7. V. III. 34, Esn. Michigan 0.

Northern Mich. 51, Univ. 0. Wayne State 28. Thiel 15.

Wsn. Michigan 7, Kent State 0. BIG TEN Iowa 33, Minnesota 0. Michigan 20, Illinois 15. Michigan State 15, Purdue 0.

Indiana 0, Ohio State 0. Wisconsin 24, Northwestern 19. MIDWEST Arkansas 14, Rice 10. Akron 28, Denison 14. Augustana 14, Millikin 12.

Akron 28, Dennison 14. Baldwin Wallace 12, Heidelberg 0. F.eloit 22, Knnv 20. Benedict 18, Allen 8. Butler 21, Depauw 3.

Buena Vista 14, Simpson 0. Bowling Green 23. S. Illinois 14. Carroll 44.

Elmhurst 0. Carthage 20, Fattesville 14. Cape. Giradeau 42, Warrens-hurg 7. Capital 27, Oberlin 20.

Central St. 35, Lincoln 20. Cent. Okla. St.

26, SE Oklahoma 13. Coe 34, Carleton 25. Cornell (Iowa) 34, Monmouth 8. Colorado 27, Kansas 14. Colorado Coll.

47, Adams St. 8. Drake 7, Wash. St. Louis 0.

Franklin 19, Hanover IS. Geneva 14, Indiana Tohrs. 6. Georgia 21, Florida 10. Turn to Page 6, Column 1 was its own worst enemy, Major's fumble on his own fumbling: away the football a z-1 Jead.

Alex Delvecchio deadlocked it at 12:12 of the middle stanza when he rammed Gordie Howe's rebound over Bower on a power play. pass in the flat and raced 59 yards for a touchdown to touch off the upset. Cotton Letner kicked the first of two extra points, which ultimately proved the margin of victory. The fans "were hardly back in their seats before fullback Earl Gros fumbled and Tennessee's Ken Sadler recovered on the Tigers' 29. The Vols scored in four plays with fullback Neyle Sollee exploding off tackle 14 yards for the touchdown.

Cannon, a brilliant player in defeat; raced 26 yards for LSU's first touchdown. SOPHOMORE tailback Glen Glass directed Tennessee to its game-winning TD in four plays. The key maneuver was a 20-yard pass to end Don Leake on LSU's 14. Sollee with a tremendous burst off tackle -raced over for the score. LSU failed twice on field goal attempts.

The first from the 32-yard line in the first period was short; the second from the Vol 12 was wide. two-yard line. Durel Mat-herne plunged over for the touchdown. Coach Paul Dietzel's crew decided to go for broke and lost. After calling time out, the Pistons worked the ball in and Howell rimmed the basket on Howe put the puck in the net Turn to Page 2, Column Free Press Wire Services MONTREAL Elmer (Moose) Vasko broke the Chicago Black Hawks' five-game losing streak with a third-period goal Saturday for a 2-2 tis with the Montreal Canadiens.

It was only the fourth point for the Hawks in 12 games this season they've won only once and tied two against nine defeats. Bernie Geoffrion and Doug Harvey scored for Mori' treal for a 2 0 lead before Stan Mikita hit for the Hawks. FIRST PERIOD: 1 Montreal, Geoffrion (Beliveau, Bonin) 12:33. Penalties Hy Beliveau SECOND PERIOD: 2 Montreal, Harvey fMnore. M.

Richard) 12:04. 3 Chicago. time after time. Two of the miscues set up a 36-yard field goal and a touchdown which put the Wolverine on the debit side of a 9-0 count before the game was nine minutes old. This was the same frustra- Turn to Page S.

Column 8 Open and Shut LEAMINGTON, Ont. Ber- at, the 10-minute mark, but it was disallowed when rookie referee Vern Buffey ruled that he had whistled play dead moments before. MINNEAPOLIS DETROIT The alert Vols', turned a pass interception and an LSU fumble into touchdowns in( the third period to score their game winning touchdowns. It was the first time in 10 games LSU's goal line had been crossed. An overflow homecoming crowd of 47,000 howled themselves hoarse as the Vols pulled off their second major upset of the season.

IN ITS opening game, Tennessee edged Auburn, 3-0, to snap Auburn's unbeaten string at 24 games. Jim Cartwright plucked quarterback Warren Rabb's 1 Baylor 8-1 1 40 I Ellis 0 0-0 0 1 1-1 Alcorn Cable Conlin Des Howell Kenville Lloyd McGuire McMillon Noble Shue 1 0-2 2 7 2-4 1 5 2-2 12 7 9-12 23 1 1-2 3 2 0-1 4 1 1-2 3 1 1-1 3 4 2-2 14 12 4-S 28 ALL-AMERICAN Billy Cannon, who had won for LSU last week with a dramatic 89-yard run, smacked at right tackle but was stopped one-yard short of the goal on his try for the winning two points. Tennessee's upset triumph snapped the country's longest major college winning streak at 19 games. I Flemins 3 1-1 7 FIRST PERIOD: l-Deroit, Ullman (Delvecchio, Cullen) Garmakr 2 0-0 Wilson (Hampson, Olmstead) 0:42. 3 i Hawkins 4 3-3 11 Toronto, Olmstead (Pulford, Stewart) Hundley 4 1-10 14 18:54.

Penalties Olmstead Ald-I Krebs I 2-4 4 corn Halovich McKenziei Leonard 0 2-2 2 Larusso 1 1-2 3 i Smith 4 5-5 13 SECOND PERIOD: 4 Detroit, Del-! Hamilton 0 0-0 0 vecchio (Howe, Ullman) 12:12. Penalties -McNeill Stewart Totals 40 33-43 113 nie Roch scored the first and last goals Saturday night to fire the Junior Red Wings to Mikita (Hull) 16:58. Penalties Hull Hull M. Richard (19:151. THIRD PERIOD: 4-Chicaqn, Vaskn (Murphy) 11:12, Penalties-Pilots Mikita McDonald SI.

Laurent Totals 44 23-34 111 a 6-2 victory over winlees Leamington in an OHA Junior THIRD PERIOD: Kelly No scoring. Penalty Minneaoolis DETROIT 18 20 21 30 32 32 25 21 10-113 8-111 hockey game..

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