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tho scoreboard Complete sports rundown. Page 4. DETROIT FREE PRESS Today's tcbvislcn highlights: 1:00 p.m. NFL football: Pittsburgh at Cleveland 4:00 p.m. Lions football: Detroit at Kansas City QD 7:30 p.m.

Red Wing hockey: Detroit at NY Rangers 9:00 NFL football: San at Dallas Sunday, Oct. 28, 1930 COLLEGE SCORES 6 1 INSIDE OF SPORTS 8 HORSE RACING 10 p.m. Diego OUTDOORS 12 1 kjiiMsll Monte' way: Charlie 11 Vincent Class and dignity 7 "The image I've tried to develop over 20 years in the National Football League and the image I ve tried to develop in my team is an image oj class and dignity. Monte Clark By CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer KANSAS CITY It's not easy to maintain your class and dignity when you get a tooth knocked out on Friday night and still have to play the tuba Saturday afternoon. But Monte Clark found a way.

It's not easy to walk away with class and dignity when you find you can't work with a tit An general manager like Joe Thomas. But Clark did it. I It's not easy to face the boos and the smart remarks with class and dignity when you've got a 2-14 team on your hands. Clark had to force himself, but he pulled it off. Maybe it's an old-fashioned idea, but it's Monte Clark through and through.

That's why he went quietly to tight end David Hill before the start of the season and asked him to refrain from doing his end zone Muddy's record confirms doubts of his early skeptics WEST LAFAYETTE It began the moment he was named. It wasn't a whisper subtle and discreet, the type you hear at a cocktail party when someone discovers two of the women are wearing identical dresses. This, from the beginning, was almost a scream, one that seemed to echo across the state of Michigan, asking over and over again the same question: "What do you think of Muddy Waters?" It was a question that, by its intonation and insinuation, did not require an answer. Wrinkled brows and shaking heads always accompanied the question. Tsk, tsk, tsk "What do you think of Muddy Waters?" There was no need for subtlety.

The people asking the question did not want an answer, they were merely seeking reinforcement of their own position. Muddy Waters is too old, they felt. Muddy Waters doesn't know about coaching at the Big Ten level. Muddy Waters is the wrong choice to coach the Michigan State Spartans. Seven weeks ago those were only theories, unsubstantiated by fact.

Today? Today they, indeed, appear to bear the ring of truth. Talent goes to waste Michigan State, in seven tries, has beaten only Western Michigan for its worst start since the winless (0-9) season of 1917. With Ohio State, Northwestern, Minnesota and Iowa remaining on their schedule, the Spartans still have opportunities to salvage something of this season. The question, though, is: Has Waters extracted maximum performance from the people he has at his disposal? The answer, at this point, is: No. A new administration is al 5f i hi- i CXI fit dance after scoring a touchdown.

That's why he's not totally enraptured with the team's "Another One Bites the Dust" theme song. No sense in rubbing anybody the wrong KAMUDA pree press pnoio dv alan ka Bay in Milwaukee earlier this year Press Photo by ALAN Monte Clark sends Bubba Baker into the Lions' game against Gceen See MONTE CLARK, Page 8H uni oiverines mam Das 0" Wangler, Carter riddle Illinois defense. 45-14 By MICK McCABE Free Press Sports Writer mm ways quick to lay its troubles at the feet of the recently departed, in this case Darryl Rogers. Rogers made himself an easy target, losing a lot of friends with his hasty departure to Arizona State last winter. He did not, however, leave MSU as talent-impoverished as the Waters' administration would like us to believe.

This year's squad includes 10 three-year lettermen Mick ANN ARBOR One of these weeks somebody is going to figure out that you just can't cover Anthony Carter with one defend er. It took Illinois nearly all of the first half Muddy Waters Saturday to discover that fact. But by then It was too late, and the University of Michigan was well on its way to a 45-14 victory over the Illini. Carter, Michigan's sophomore wide re ceiver, caught five John Wangler passes Saturday for 121 yards and a touchdown to spark the Wolverines (5-2) to their fourth straight Big Ten victory. Michigan passed for a total of only 169 yards but rolled up 376 yards on the ground.

Wolverine fullback Stanley Edwards ran for Densmore, Bernard Hay, Mike Marshall, John McCormick, Bruce Reeves, Andy Schramm, Steve Smith, Ray Stachowicz, Rod Strata and Bert Vaughn. Add to them seven more two-year lettermen and you have 17 veterans of Michigan State's Big Ten co-champions of two years ago. Crying "inexperience" will not suffice as an alibi for the Spartans' slow start, nor will it explain away losses to Illinois and Wisconsin, teams MSU alumni have, through the years, become accustomed to dismissing as uncompetitive. Michigan State has become a team dependent not upon sound football but upon the Transcontinental Pass, laterals after long completions and every old trick in the book, save the Statue of Liberty play. But trickery seldom wins games.

It is a device used by the ill-prepared to momentarily put the opposition on the defensive and to give the fans something to talk about over dinner. 152 yards on 18 carries, and Larry Ricks added 97 yards in 10 attempts. See U-M, Page 7H The Wolverine players dedicate Saturday's rout to U-M coaches Gary Mocller and Lloyd Carr, who were fired by Illinois last year. The story is on Page 9H. Free Press Photo bv ALAN KAMUDA Anthony Carter, who caught five passes for 121 yards Saturday, snags a John Wangler aerial.

top 20 teams Herrmann eclipses MSU, 36-25 Houk in line for Bosox job? Spartans lack basics Why, though, in seven weeks has no one taught Thomas Morris how to field punts and kickoffs; why has no one spoken to Stachowicz about punting the football out-of-bounds inside the opposition's 10, rather than fattening his nation-leading average by merely booming punts through the end zone? In all his years at Hillsdale and Saginaw Valley College, Muddy Waters never had the luxury of a large staff of assistants. He has, one supposes, exploited that luxury this fall by turning a large amount of the actual coaching over to his subordinates. Therein, perhaps, lies the problem. Waters, people close to the school will tell you, Is coach in title only. But he was the man hired to bring his alma mater back to prominence, an old Spartan come home to lead MSU to what it believes is its rightful place atop the Big Ten.

And its record is 1-6. What do you think of Muddy Waters? Associated Press BOSTON The Boston Red Sox are "virtually certain" to name Ralph Houk as their new manager Monday, according to an unnamed source in the Detroit Tigers organization quoted in the Boston Globe, where Houk last managed. Sox owner-general manager Haywood Sullivan would not comment, but has said he'll name his choice at a news conference Monday. Houk, 61 spent five years trying to rebuild the Tigers before retiring in 1978. The team kept Houk on the payroll as a consultant, however, a Detroit source reported he did "little consulting" and got the bug to return to baseball.

Houk could not be reached for comment. In Detroit, Tiger general manager Jim Campbell said he knew nothing of the report and said he had not talked to Sullivan for three weeks. Sullivan admitted Houk was on his list of candidates after he fired manager Don Zimmer. That list also included Ted Williams, Ken Harrelson, Frank Robertson, Bob Lemon, Pat Corrales, Dick Howser and Joe Morgan of Boston's Pawtucket farm club In the International League. How the top 20 teams In the Associated Press college football poll fared Saturday (records In parentheses): 1 Alabama (7-0-0) beat S.

Mississippi, 2 Texas (5-1-0) lost to SMU, 20-6'. 3 UCLA (6-0-0) beat California, 32-9. 4 Notre Dame (5-0-0) at Arizona, incomplete. 5 Georgia (7-0-0) beat Kentucky, 27-0. 6 Florida State (7-1-0) b6at Memphis 24-3.

7 North Carolina (7-0-0) beat East Carolina, 31-0. 8 Southern Cal (5-0-1) did not play. 9 Nebraska (6-1-0) beat Colorado, 45-7. 10 Ohio State (6-1-0) beat Wisconsin, 21-0. 11 Baylor (7-0-0) beat TCU, 21-6.

12 Pittsburgh (6-1-0) beat Tennessee, 30-6. 13 Penn State (6-1-0) beat West Virginia, 20-15. 14 South Carolina (6-1-0) did not play. 15 Arkansas (4-2-0) lost to Houston, 24-17. 16 Missouri (6-1-0) beat Kansas 13-3.

17 Oklahoma (4-2-0) beat Iowa 42-7. 18 Washington (5-2-0) lost to Navy, 24-10. 19 Brlgham Young (5-1-0) at Hawaii, incomplete. 20 8. Mississippi (6-1-0) lost to Alabama, 42-7.

Jim Hawkins is on vacation. Ralph Houk By CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Mark Herrmann became the most prolific passer in the history of the NCAA Saturday afternoon but he needed a lot of help from Rick Anderson to guide Purdue to a wild 36-25 win over Michigan State. Anderson salvaged five stalled Purdue drives with field goals of 37, 45, 36, 25 and 28 yards, and therein lay the difference as the Boilermakers overtook MSU in the final 12 minutes to up their Big Ten record to 4-0. The Spartans, off to their worst start since 1917, are now 0-4 in the conference and 1-6 overall.

Herrmann, completing 24 of 46 passes for 340 yards, became the all-time NCAA passing yardage leader, bypassing Washington State's Jack Thompson, who threw for 7,747 yards. Herrmann, with four regular season games ahead of him, has 8,087 yards. But on this long and strange afternoon, punctuated with periodical snow flurries, Michigan State quarterback John Leister threw even more often than the fabled Herrmann. He did not, however, throw with as much effectiveness. LEISTER COMPLETED just 18 of 54 attempts and had five picked off three of them in the crucial fourth quarter.

He also lost one fumble. "John is pretty disgusted with himself," Spartan coach Muddy Waters said afterwards. "He knows and we know that he could have passed a little better in there but he did a remarkable job for a sophomore. See MSU, Page11H Wings power past Rangers, 4-2 Alabama, 0SU win; Toxas upsot: Top-ranked Alabama ripped previously undefeated Southern Mississippi, 42-7, but No. 2 Texas wasn't so lucky.

Southern Methodist upset the Longhorns, 20-6. Page 6H. Tenth-ranked Ohio State found Wisconsin stubborn, but quarterback Art Schlichter and company finally wore the Badgers down for a 21-0 Big Ten victory. Page 7H. Central Michigan, after two straight losses, rebounded to win its homecoming game, 17-0, in the Mid-American Conference.

Page 6H. Wayne State University traveled to Midland for a Great Lakes Conference game against Northwood and came away a 24-10 loser. Page 6H. Adrian, the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association leader, polished off Olivet, 28-0, for its eighth straight victory. Page 9H.

t. It was not a perfect game by any means for the Wings, who still have trouble leaving their end of the rink with the puck and fail to click at key moments. But Jimmy Rutherford turned in his second straight sharp game in goal, handling 27 shots. Wayne Thomas took on 22 for New York. See RED WINGS, Page 10H The Pistons' NBA record 21-game losing streak ended in Houston Saturday night.

Detroit got its first victory of the season, 112-109, halting a skid which began last season. Page 3H. By BILL McGRAW Free Press Sports Writer The Red Wings scored all their goals on power plays Saturday night for a 4-2 win over the troubled New York Rangers, who have dropped from the Stanley Cup finals to the bottom of the Patrick Division in less than two years. Vaclav Nedomansky scored his first two goals of the season, Errol Thompson got his fourth and Dale McCourt his fifth for the Wings, who won their second straight after five losses in a row. Anders Hedberg and Ron Greschner each scored his second goal of the season for the Rangers, whose record fell to 2-6..