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Baseball: World Series Sunday, Oct 15, 1978 SPORTS PEOPLE FOOTBALL SCORES HORSE RACING DETROIT FREE PRESS OUTDOORS turns the tables, ends 9year droughts Michigan Man on the run Ed Kozloff, man behind the International Marathon, runs a lot himself. Page 5 mm LJ MS 24-15 a relatively easy conference schedule from here on out Purdue beats Ohio St. Pace 7F U-M, which was going after win No. 600 in its long history, put on its only offensive showing in the third quarter and By TOM HENDERSON Free Press Soom writer ANN ARBOR Michigan State played nearly flawless football Saturday afternoon, rolling to 248 yards on the ground and another 248 in the air to stun the heavily favored and fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines, 24-15. briefly in the fourth.

But after closing to within nine points to give the crowd a thrill, its magic ran out. THE WOLVERINES put on a 70-yard drive for a TD to begin the second half, and a 90-yard drive which finished early in the fourth quarter. Leach hit Harlan Huckleby for a two-point conversion to make it 24-15, and the fired up Wolverines stopped MSU cold on its next series. There were 13 minutes to play, U-M had the ball on its own 35, and the crowd of 105,132 sensesd one of the great comebacks of all time. It was illusory.

U-M only seemed to have stopped the Eddie Smith, State's golden-armed quarterback, befuddled the U-M secondary with 20 completions in 36 tries, and when he wasn't passing, his runners were chewing up a defense that had come into the game top ranked in the Big Ten. It was the first win for MSU in this intrastate rivalry since 1 969, and the only thing deceptive about it was the final score. The game ended with MSU driving and with a first down at the U-M 10, but even a TD then wouldn't have given an accurate indication of how state controlled this game. MSU WON BY NINE points, but it was hardly that close. Except for a too-little, too-late surge by Michigan In the second half, the Spartans were in total command.

MSU. which had 28 first downs, led by 17-0 at the half thanks to three interceptins on horribly thrown balls by Rick Leach and 24-7 after three quarters as they handed Michigan coach Bo Schembechler his most decisive loss since Missouri whipped his troops, 40-17, in '69. Seven of those catches were by excellent tight end Mark Brammer, and five more were by Kirk Gibson, the Tigers' farmhand. "This is the first time in 10 years that our defense let us down," said Schembechler, forgetting a Bose Bowl game or two. "I guess you gotta expect that in 10 years.

"They got a bundle of yards. What was it? A thousand? I've never stood on a sideline and seen the ball move up and down the field the way it did today." IT WAS VT 1 ,000, but it might as well have been. It was 496 and that's the most given up by a Michigan team since Ohio Sute rolled to 512 way back in 1961. In fact, 307 of State's yerds came in the first half. "Of all the other games we played, the only one that mattered was this one," said MSU coach Darryl Rogers, whose team raised its overall record to 2-3 and its Big Ten mark to 1-1.

"It's a tremendous win for us this is by far the biggest Michigan State win I've had. "What pleased me more than anything else was the effort on the part of the kids. This has opened up the opportunity for us to win the Big Ten." Indeed it has. State doesn't play Ohio State this year and has XCA llPuscas Spartans cold. Michigan had 12 men on the field instead of 1 1, and the ensuing 15-yard penalty gave MSU a first down and broke the Wolverines' momentum.

Though the Spartans were only able to kill a minute of the clock on the gift, it set the tone for the finish. The Wolverines, who made a habit of rallying In the second See MSU, Page 7F Spartans got the winning feeling early By CHARLIE VINCENT Free Preis Sporti Writer ANN ARBOR Jim Hinesly might have sensed it before anyone. There was something different about Saturday. The atmosphere in the Michigan State lockerroom in the minutes before the Spartans stepped out to face arch rival Michigan before 105,132 fans was not the same as usual, "I really had that feeling It's Rose Bowl syndrome again passes puzzle U-M little Eddie Smith came down the road from East Lansing Saturday firing his ieather bullets Just as they do in wild western football and so you know it had to happen one more time to the University of Michigan. Nothing punctures the Wolverines quite so certainly and disastrously as the forward pass.

do not like to admit it and in fact they will insist it is nof so, but the evidence is there, haunting evidence from the sports history books. It does them in whenever and wherever, no matter whether they are throwing, or someone like Eddie Smith, the slick, mustachioed slinger from Michigan State, is doing the firing. So it is the Rose Bowl litany all over again for Bo Schembechler, except that now we see and hear it in midseason, landing sourly upon him without even a trace of the sweetest flower in the air. knows what it is with Michigan where the forward pass is concerned? It is true the Wolverines were prone to the thrown ball in years long before Schembechler. But their ignorance or weakness in that vital element of the modern game persists with him, even though he is one of the giants of his trade.

Michigan State achieved one of the grandest upsets in recent football history by doing in the Wolverines, 24-1 5, in the Michigan bowl before an amazed throng of 105,132, few of whom realistically could have expected the Spartans to survive for long against the usual Michigan avalanche. This is no great Michigan Sute team far from it. It is in fact, rather orcUnary, having been beaten by Purdue, thrashed by Southern Cal and dumped by Notre Dame in its first four games. MSU plays icestern football Yet, while they are shy of experience in vital areas, the Spartans have great talent in one particular area the passing game and a knowing, coach named Darryl Rogers. Rogers came to them, remember.

In the aftermath of their stunning upset of Ohio State in 1975. Woody Hayes was so steadied over that defeat he blew the whistle on Spartan recruiting practices, and before you knew it, everyone had been fired, and Darryl Rogers was hired. He came to them out of California and San Jose State, where they figure that as long as a football has air in it, it should fly. Passing is a big factor in western football thinking, and so Rogers plays the passing game, determinedly, expertly. It was the one and only chance he had to beat Michigan Saturday, and he played it for all its worth, and now his reward is his biggest victory, anywhere, at any time.

Rogers brought Eddie Smith out throwing from the opening whistle and he kept him throwing. Eddie sent his darts into the Wolverine defense right on target time after time, throwing surely and confidently in whatever situation confronted him. It is the way they play the game out west. He stunned Michigan and he kept the Wolverines befuddled and with a wide assortment of nass Top 2D teams How the Top 20 teams In the Aaodtted Pres major cotage footbal pol tared 1 OKLAHOMA (10) beat Kanaas, 17-U 2 SOUTHERN CAL (4-0) v. Arizona state, mgnt 3 ARKANSAS (44) did not play PENN STATE (6-0) did not play OA- 'j I IrV '-v if -vi: YJ sfxsf -'i "4 1 i vX', ff -'X -l I'f XHHM-men 1 1 "Mf UICHKJAN (4-1) lost to Michigan State, 24-15 TEXAS ASM (44)) vs.

Houston, nigni 7 ALABAMA (S-1) beat Florida, Z3-1Z I NEBRASKA (5-1) beat Kansas Stile. 48-M during the week," the Spartans' 254-pound senior offensive tackle smiled after Michigan State defeated U-M for the first time since 1969, 24-15. "But for awhile I questioned If everybody felt we could win. This morning, though, I really felt it. I felt if we did OK on our first possession we'd be all right.

And when we took the ball and moved It right down the field I really felt it." Most in the crowd the largest to ever see a Michigan-Michigan State game did not share Hinesly's premonition. Even when the Spartans took a 3-0 lead, then built it to 10-0, Wolverine loyalists were not worried. After all, Michigan had come from behind to beat Notre Dame and just a week ago came from behind to overhaul Arizona in the fourth quarter. BUT WHEN FULLBACK Lonnie Middleton dived into the end zone for MSU's second touchdown and Morten Anderson's conversion made it 17-0, some in the crowd began to share Hinesly's feeling that something, indeed, was in the wind. "At halftime we knew we had the pressure on them," See SIDEBAR, Page 7F PITTSBURGH (4-1) lost to Notre uame, zs-17 10 MARYLAND (6-0) beat Syracuse, 11 LOUISIANA STATE (4-0) vs.

beorgia, nigra 12 TEXAS (S-1) vs. Norm Texas 5t, ntgnt 13 COLORADO (S-1) lost to okianoma state, 24-20 14 UCLA (4-1) vs. wasmngton state, night 15 FLORIDA STATE (4-2) tost to Mississippi state, 54-2 IS OHK) STATE (2-2-1) tost to Purdue, zr-is 17 HOUSTON (3-1) vs. iexas asm, rttgm schemes, some to the s'delines, some short over the line, then deep down the mida'e or crossing from one side to the other. 18 STANFORD (3-2) vs nasningion, vtcompiet Well, what was Michii an to do? The New Year's Dav IS MISSOURI 4-2) beat lowa staie, zo-ij AP Photo the way to their first win over U-M in nine years.

State's defense kept Leach tied up as he completed only five of 1 passes and threw three interceptions. miseries which have visit 1 Michigan so often crept upon the Wolverines again. MSU defenders Bernard Hay (93) and Mel Land (47) sack U-M quarterback Rick Leach for a four-yard loss in the Spartans' 24-1 5 upset win Saturday in Ann Arbor. On 20 IOWA STATE (4-2) Jt is not just that Mir aigan so often seems to lack a lost to Missouri, ZB-13 passing offense of its ow The real failure in Schembech ler scheme of thr gs is I of pass defense. Most often the Wolverines seem to feeble answer to anyone who can pass; Rogers seems to sense that he used it, and it worked magnificently for him.

Reggie: Yankees aren't -chintzy9 Schembechler panicked. It's the only answer that seems to make sense in evaluating his response to Eddie Smith and the Michigan State passing game. What Schembechler did was try to olav the Michiean State game, to answer Spartan passes with the oassine of Team votes little-used pair full Series shares Ricky Leach. It brought disaster. Leach's Heisman odds soar Leach's passing ability always has been susoecL but what he delivered against the Spartans was probable ruin for his own chances at the Heisman Trophy.

He passed six times in the first half, and three of his think Gullett deserved a full share?" The newsman shook his head no. "He got a full share," Jackson said, revealing what, until the formal announcement is made, is private business. Gullett, a $2.7 million acquisition, hurt his arm in the spring, appeared in only eight games and 44.2 Innings. "How about Messersmith?" Jackson asked, referring to the sore-armed righthander purchased from the Atlanta Braves in December. Messersmith appeared in only six games a 22.1 innings.

"He got a full share," Jackson added, not waiting for an answer. "These guys were Injured In battle. That's the difference. Do you think Tburman Munson cares whether he gets $35,000 or He's got an airplane." throws were intercepted by Michigan State. The second of 'em was the springboard to a 10-0 Michigan lead, and the third shut off the Wolverines and forced them to leave the field at the half trailing by a threatening 17-0.

wnat Micnigan managed in the second half sueeested even more strongly that the Wolverines had chosen unwisely in the early going to counter MSU passing with passing of its own. The Michigan plan always is for heavy ground pounding, controlling the ball against the enemy. They are superb at that, and against an MSU defense NEW YORK (AP) Andy Messersmith and Don Gullett, a pair of gold-plated pitchers who hurled a total of 14 games and 66 innings between them this year, have been voted full shares by the New York Yankees in the slicing of the World Sereis pie. Reggie Jackson, the club's player representative, made the disclosure Saturday in attacking charges that the American League champions were "selfish" and "chintzy" in distributing post-season prize money. This could amount to $35,000 for each member of the winning team, 25,000 for each of the losers.

"I mention this Just to refute the stuff they've been saying Game 5 highlights Some memorable moments from past fifth games in World Series history: Oct. 1 3, 1 906 Frank Isbell hits four doubles, leading the Chicago White Sox to an 8-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Oct 13, 1915 Harry Hooper of the Boston Red Sox becomes the first man in Series history to hit two home runs In a single game in a 5-4 victory over Philadelphia that clinches the world championship. Oct. 11, 1920 Cleveland second baseman Bill Wambsganns turns in the only unassisted triple play in World Series history and Jim Bagby hits the first Series home run by a pitcher in the Indians' 8-1 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Oct. 9, 1951 Gil McDougald becomes the first rookis to hit a World Series grand slam, helping the New York Yankees to a 13-1 victory over the New York Giants. Oct. 8. 1956 Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitches the first no-hitter in Series history, a perfect game to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0.

that is suspect against the run, the Wolverines turned too about this club," the Yankees' outfielder said. "This Is the seventh World Series team I've been on. I've never seen a more generous distribution of the shares." A furor has been raised over reports that the Yankees wanted to give only half-shares to Billy Martin, the manager who was temporarily relieved of bis duties July 25, and his replacement, Bob Lemon. LEMON, A MILD-MANNERED Hall of Fame pitcher, brought the team from 1 0 '2 games back of the Boston Red Sox to the American League East championship and past the Kansas City Royals for the AL pennant. Jackson said the Yankees did not take a final vote on the managerial share, leaving the matter in the hands of commissioner Bowie Kuhn under the intricate rule 45 in the players' agreement.

This specifies that the commissioner can act in the case of personnel joining a team after June 1, but it does not mandate any action by him. Kuhn has advised he will study the report. He could pass the buck back to the players, a move which would suit Jackson. "Personally, I don't think it's the commissioner's business Just as I don't feel it Is the business of the newspapers to make snide remarks about what we do with our money in secret meetings," Jackson said. He indicated that he personally and others felt that a division of the managerial spoils was fair and proper.

"If I Joined the team in late June, batted over .444, lilt 30 home runs and knocked in 100 runs, I don't think I would deserve a full share," he said. "It's not how much you contribute. It's a matter of whether you were in the battle, even if you were sweating it out on the bench." JACKSON TURNED to a newsman and asked: "Do you late to their own style of play. They had been suckered into a game they do not play well and so fell double victims a victim of their own shortcomings on the attack, and victim of their own inability to ufend against the pass. It was one of the finer games in a sometimes bitter rivalry between the state schools.

Spartans followers and players alike swarmed over the Michigan turf in unrestrained joy and celebration, mobbing their players and eaxh other. Navy 31, Duke 8 ANNAPOLIS (AP) Navy's No. 1-ranked defense throttled Duke and quarterback Bob Leszczynski teamed with split end Phil McConkey for two touchdowns Saturday as the Middies remained unbeaten in five games, 31-8. The Middies capitalized on errors by Duke (3-2) to lead 14-0 at halfime, and scored the first two times they had the ball in the third quarter to go up 28-8 before 24,431 fans. The Middie defense began the game No.

1 in the nation statistically and held Duke to 1 22 yards. Duke did not complete a pass in the first half. Navy intercepted four passes and recovered two fumbles overall. Lesczcynskl completed 1 0 of 1 2 passes for 1 28 yards. Four went to McConkey for 94.

Tailback Steve Callahan had 98 yards on 21 carries. It has been a long, tough time for them in the shadows of the football giants, but now they deserve whatever they can make of this moment. As for Michigan, it just might be that others In the midwest now will take notice of how and why Michigan keeps losing to teams that can really throw the football. Woe is Bo..