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Dclroil ihec l)rcoo SfXTION i lb In "I his Sec (ion Racing Results Pays 6 The Inside of Spoils P.ge Outdoors nith Oprc Page 11 9k SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1973 NO. WOLVERINES FROLIC IN RAIN Contest! im 'Hump 71 et Error Denny Stands Tall Terrible Defeat Helm A 's i. BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sporti Writer EAST LANSING They should allow pleas of "nolo contendere" in college football. The Michigan State Spartans, disorganized, disillusioned and disappointing, offered no contest at all as No. 4-ranked Michigan sliced them to bits and left them for dead before a dren crowd of 78,263 in Spartan Stadium Saturday afternoon.

When the driving rainstorm that obliterated a big part of the game finally cleared, the Wolverines had their third straight shutout, 31-0, and their biggest win over MSU since the 5,0 whitewashing on Biggie Munn's debut in 1917. The methodical Wolverines scored by 'cry offensive means available: A 53-yard punt return by Dave Brown a field goal Mike I.antry, a 53-yard run by Gil Chapman, a two-yard run by Kd Shultlesworth and even on a pass, a six-yard toss from Dennis Franklin to Paul Seal. Lantry converted after each of the touchdowns. MICHIGAN WAS clearly superior. The elements offered the Wolverines more resistance than did the Spartans.

Michigan State's offense, unpredictable at best through the first four games, was totally helpless against U-M and lost the t-11 six times on fumbles. And even the detense, alter pertorming gallantly in the lace nf overwhelming odds against UCLA and Notre Dame, was standing around and looking thoroughly whipped by the time the clock finally took them out of their misery and sent them to the steamy silence of their dressing room. The Spartans crossed midNeld just twire against the stingy Wolverine defense and both times lost the ball on the play. Quarterback Charlie Baggett fumbled it away at the U-M 45 in the first quarter, and split end Mike Jones lost a fumble at the Michigan 18 in the fourth period after taking a 47-yard pass from Baggett. Not once did Michigan State run an offensive play in Michigan territory.

THE WOLVERINES, the nation's No. 2 team against scoring, allowed only seven first downs and four of those came alter Michigan had done all its svoring, when little mattered except finding shelter from the soaking rain. Michigan didn't have nearly thn trouble MSU did hanging onto the ball, losing just one fumble and one interception. But those two turnovers were the only things that stopped the Wolverines all day. Franklin, who missed last week's 21-0 win over Oregon because nf fl broken finder on his left hand, played the first three quarters and part of the fourth.

His statistics weren't impressive (seven carries for seven yards and two completions in six tries for 21 yards) but he did everything Bo Schembechler asked of him. "My quarterback playing with one hand on a day like today dri a helluva job," the U-M coach grinned afterward. "We decided Friday morning to go with him." Please turn to Page IE, Col. 1 9 7 Win. Mets' pitchers impress A's Williams Page 12E From UPI and AP OAKLAND A brilliant pitching effort by Jon Matlack was wasted Saturday when second baseman Felix Millan booted a routine ground ball to give the Oakland A's the only two runs they needed to beat the New York Mets, 2-1, in the opening game of the World Series.

The A's champions of the fit, 1 JT ft 1 EAST LANSING Nobody knovs what sort of roach Denny Stolz is pood, bad or indifferent. We may not know for a long time. In fact, the way the football program is set up at Michigan State, we may never know. He has a four-year contract, but even that may not be enough to restore even a semblance of the greatness that this school once knew. But in the wake of this disaster against Michigan, every MSU grad and every MSU fan should know that this is a man running this football team, a man in every sense of the word.

He knew what Saturday meant to him. He knew what it cnuld mean to him. He has lived around here lor a long time. He understands the complete importance of the Michigan-Michigan State game, the emotions that are generated by this rivalry, the intensity of the competition and, sometimes, the bitterness that is left in the aftermath of the game. This was a terrible moment for Denny Slolz the worst of his life, certainly the worst of his coaching career.

Not only did his team get mauled by Michigan, 31-0, it looked terrible in losing. The Spartans looked utterly pathetic. The MSU people might like to blame the atrocious weather, hut Michigan wasn't dropping the ball the way State was; the Wolverines weren't stumbling and fumbling all over the place. In what could have been a very big moment for him all his team had to do was give a decent performance had to stand there along the sidelines and take all (he humiliation and all the embarrassment of watching his team put on such a pitiful performance. Yet, Denny Stolz offered no excuses, no alibis.

He stood thrre and faced the press and answered every question that was asked of him and he answered them openly and as honestly as any man could, even though deep down the man was dying. You could sec the anguish in his face, the hurt in his eyes and hear the dejection in his voice. 6This Was a Family Defeat He came into this small room and he looked like a man on the verge of utter exhaustion. He leaned back against the wall and grabbed at a lock on one of the lockers. Then he began pacing back and forth back and forth back and forth.

He held his MSU hat in his hand. He tried to straighten it out, to make it look neat, as if that would help in some way. He finally put the hat on his head. He said: "There are losses in football and there are losses. But this one was a total loss.

This was a loss for everyone the players, the coaches, the school. This was a family defeat." Stolz was shaking his herd, as if still trying to figure out what had happened. "I really felt we were ready," he said. "You could feel it all during the week. The feeling kept growing and growing.

And then we went out there and did that. We just laid the ball down for them. "I can't understand it. We assumed they would fumble and they had to assume we would fumble. Only we kept losing the ball while they didn't." It is never pleasant to see a man in this situation, wishing the world would go away hut knowing ne has to tace it straignt on.

Stolz never got angry in the interview, never lost his composure. So many coaches lose their poise in a moment like this and vent their frustration at the writers. Not Denny. He faced the excruciating moment and handled himself magnificently. "We'll be back," he said.

That was the first thing he said, lie said it before anyone even asked a question. He was that decent about it. In these moments, nobody ever likes to ask the first question, so Stolz made his comment and that eased the tension. "The thing is," he said, "we lost a football game before we had a chance to win it. We turned it over to them and kept turning it over.

They just took it from there. I sure wasn't proud of our execution." American League, scored both their unearned runs with two out in the third inning against Matlack, who allowed only three hits all of them in that inning before he was relieved after sixth inning. Pitcher Ken Holtzman, who didn't have an official at-bat all season, doubled and scored Oakland's first run. Holtzman, a 21-game winner during the regular season, pitched only five innings but earned the victory with shutout relief from Okalnd bullpen ace Rol-lie Fingers and a 1 Knowlcs. With onp out in the third, Dick Green walked.

With Holz-mnn trying to bunt, a pitch got away from New York catcher Jerry Grote and Green tried for second. Grote recovered ouickly and threw the runner out. THAT LOOKED like the end nf Oakland's rally with the pitcher at bat but it turned out to be only the beginning. Deprived of his bat all season long by the American League's designated hitter rule that provided a permanent replacement batter for the season, Holtzman took advantage of his first oTficial swing all year to double into the leftfield corner. Holtzman had come to the plate only once all year near the end of the season and had drawn a walk in that at-bat.

Campaneris, the next batter, then hit a grounder a couple of steps to Millan's right near second base. He got in position to field it, bent down, and let the ball roll right between his legs as Holtzman scored on the play. "It went through my legs," said Millan. "I just missed the ball. It was an easy out.

It's too bad it happened now." Millan's shortstop partner, Bud Harrelson, called it a AP Photo i i mM on soirirv Spartan Stadium liirf is 3ISUqiiartrrlack Charlie Ituggctt, ilroppnl or one-) aril loss Bulls Rally To Whip Pistons Bruins Jump All Over the Bo 's Only Mistake: He Missed Score Please turn to Page 12E, Col. 1 Wi 9-4 NEW YORK OAKLAND ab bl ah hi mgs iWGarrett 3b 5 0 0 0 Campnris ss 4 1 Millan 2b 4 0 1 0 Rudi II .3011 (Mays cl .4010 Bsndo 3b 3010 Clones It. 4 12 0 RJackson cf 3 0 0 0 Mlhter lb 4 0 2 1 Tenara Ih 1 Grote 4 0 040 JAlou rf 3 0 0 0 BY HOWARD ERICKSON Free Press Sports Writer Hann rt .2 0 0 0 Davalillo cf 0 0 0 0 Kranpool pn 1 0 0 0 Fosse 3 0 0 0 Harrelson ss 2 0 0 0 DGrpen 2b .2 0 0 0 HOdqes nh 0 0 0 fl MnltTman 111ft Don't underestimate this guy Ted Garvin, No sir, not one hit TMartim pr 0 0 0 0 Mansual nh 1000 "II. U.atlarl 0 ft ft Cmn 1 tt Even though the Red Wines were destroyed, 9-4, by the lo Knowiej oco BY CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer EAST LANSING It was only half an hour after Michigan had completed its 31-0 dismantling of Michigan State, and the anguish was still on Spartan coach Denny Stolz's face when he stepped into tin Wolverine locker room. "Bad day," said U-M coach Bo Schembechler, offering sympathy in the steamy locker room.

"Not for you!" answered Stolz, doing his best to manage a grin at the lowest point in his first year as Spartan coach. Both comments are now eligible for the Understatement of the Year Award. omcuraw Mil Boston Bruins at Olympia Saturday night, Garvin found some- istwb ph oooo thing good to say about his team. jB.MUCh? And that's pretty surprising considering' that just two 32 1 7 1 days before-after the Wings had lost their season opener in oZlk Kooox-1 New York Frederick Allen Garvin was ripping his players -Miinn, Mays. DP-pakiand 12.

Special to the Free Press CHICAGO Maybe the Detroit Pistons should play all their games on their slippery home court in the Motor City. They hit the road Saturday night for the second time in the young season and again wound up a loser this time to the Chicago Bulls who roared hack from a poor start to bag a 101-94 victory. The Pistons, who had run and clicked so well the night before on their home floor which brought complaints from the Atlanta Hawks, began the same way against the Bulls. BUT AFTER Detroit dominated the first period, 29-16, it was Chicago the rest of the way as the Bulls squared their season's record at 2-2. Detroit now is 1-2, With Chct Walker pacing the comeback, by scoring 14 of his 18 points in the second period, Please turn to Page 3E, Col.

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Matlack (L.0-1) Now how can a 9-4 loss to Boston change his tune? "I know the score was bad," MCfcraw IP ER BB SO .6.3 2 0 2 3 .2.10.01.1 5 4.1.1.3.2 ..3 1-3 3 0.0 1 3 2-3 0.0 0.0 0 Holliman (W.1-0) Finqers nrn.Mr.. M.M II nftWId said Garvin after the shellack- PB-Fosse. 2:1. U-M 11 60-229 21 87 6- 2-1 7- 44 41 S-35 10 7 0 0 MSU 7 37-40 102 67 6-0 8 31 6 3-17 14 31 0 0 ing bv the Bruins. "But I 4 (Sheppard) 2 Boston, Espositn 4 Save-Knowles (1).

(hnimVi't nnr tpam kpnt working (Hodse, Vadnais) 5:30. 3 Boston, Hodqe thOUgnt OUT team Kepi VvOiMiij, 2 (VadnaiS( 0rr, penalties-Orr, rieht UD Until the final bUZ- Bos. OSl), T. Bersmann, Del. G.

Berqman, Del. Bailv, Del. I First downs Rushes vrds Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penalties-yrds Michigan Michigan State 'A Long Way to Go' Somebody asked if there could possibly be anything he could like about a game like this. "I liked it," said Denny, "up to the kickotl." Everyone in the room laughed. It was the only laugh.

But it showed that the man, even in this moment ot despair, could manage to keep a sense of humor. "We'll just have to regroup," Stolz said. "This has happened before. It has happened in history and it's happened in football. You just have to pull yourself together.

"We'll start back at Sunday morning, just like always. We've got a lot of work to do and a long way to go. We've got young players who need a lot of coaching and we'll give it to them." or Michigan, this was an important moment for Bo Schem-bechler and his team, especially for Bo. All he has heard for the past four years is that, he probably took his first MSU game lightly and came up here and got whipped. Bo never takes any game lightly, even a game of cards with his kids, and this proved again what winning means to him.

He got his team ready for a peak performance, after two sloppy weeks, and the Wolverines performed superbly under the treacherous conditions. Now they should go unbeaten until the Ohio State game. This we proves the talent is there, that Michigan has the power to handle almost any team or any situation which may arise. Denny Franklin came back and played well and both the otfense and defense played together. And that 31-0 figure up on the board shouldn't hurt Michigan's national ranking.

The only sad thing is that this game once the most exciting moment of the year around here lias lost much of its luster and appeal. Michigan has simply been too good for State. And where there is no challenge, no game is very exciting. Boucha, Dot. (misconduct Savard, Bos.

MICH-Brown 53 run (Lantry kick). mil vi Lantry 15 MICH Chapman 43 run (Lantry kick). MICH Seal 6 pass Irom Frankli Kim (Lantry kick). MICH-Shutllesworth 1 run (Lantry kick). SECOND PERIOD: 4 Boston, Cashman Hodqe 3 (Slmms, Cashman) 0:10.

6 Detroit, Charron 1 (Boucha, Berensnn) 9:04. 7 Detroit, MeMor 1 (Berenson. Boucha) 9:22. (Boston, Slmms 1 (Mar-cotte) 10:38. 9-Boston, Cashman 5 (Hodqe, Esposito) 12:15.

10-Detroit, Charron 2 (Berenson) 18:27. Penalties Mellor, Det. Vadnais, Bos, Simms, Bos. F'or the Spartans it was, indeed, a bad day. They've learned to live with their mistakes this season, but will find it hard to accept nine fumbles even in a contest played in- a torrential rain.

For the Wolverines, now 5-0 for the season, it was quite the opposite. It was a 117-yard day for Gil Chapman. It was a triumphant return of quarterback Dennis Franklin. It was a healing of the offensive line even without three of the blocking regulars. THE WORST mistake of the day belonged to coach Schem-bechlor.

"I put. 24-0 on the board for the teajn this morning," he CHICAGO DEJROIT Adams 4 00 zer. THE WINGS did put in a full night's work against the highflying Beantown team but they had to in order to keep the Boston score from reaching double figures. "As long as they keep working," Garvin went on, "we'll turn things around. "We have to get our defense straightened around first.

They have to stay together instead of splitting up nil the time. "But I din't feel as bad rka'ic turn to r.e HE. Col. 3 A's Now To Win Series LAS VEGAS (UPI) -After winning Saturday's first game 2-1, the Oakland A's are 11-5 favorites to win the World Series over the New York Mets, according to oddsnnaker Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder. Snyder also made the A's fi-5 favorites in Sunday's second game, in which Vida Blue will face Met pitcher Jerry I Awtrey 21 Garrett Love 4 Porter I Blnq 8 S-l Davis 1 3-4 0 2 7 3 7 Ford 2 0-0 II 1- 2 12 00 2- 4 0-0 4-6 6-6 2 Ray THIRD PERIOD: 11 Boston, Esposito 5 (Orr, Hodqe) 1:27.

12 Boston, Leduc 1 (Sims) 5:07. 13 Detroit, Ftorek 1 (Charron, Boucha) 14:14. Penalties: Savard Oddlilson Shots: Boston, 38; Detroit, 22. Goalies: Gilbert, Boston; Edwards, Grant, Detroit. A 15,035.

said with a grin, "I almost hit it on the nose." But nobody could have foreseen the Spartants' nine fumbles, six of which were recovered by the Wolverines. "On a day like this, some-Tlease turn to Page 4E, Col. 1 Kelso 1 Lanier 1Q Lanti 1 Menqelt 1 Nash 0 Norwood 3 Trapp 0 2 4 22 Sloan 0 12 3 Val Lier 6 2 2 4 Walker 6 2-2 2 Weiss 0 4-4 10 00 0 Totals 3S 24-32 94 Totals 0 21-29 101 DETROIT Chicaao 29 15 10 30- 94 I 16 27 30 101.