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SECTION Inside Tliis Section The Baseball Story Page 4 Michigan Wildlife Page 6 Home Modernization Page 8 Home Improvement ports JL -SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1962 NEBRASKA, STANFORD PULL UPSETS tJ-M uniied in Oroemer oart'ans JL Detroit gxtt Muskers Knock Off Wolverines 25-13 swiftly stripped Michigan clean. No horde of locusts could have been more efficient as they husked the Wolverines of prestige, victory and any resemblance to a team that will go any place this year in the Big 10. An unbelieving gathering of 70,287 sat glumly stunned in brilliant sunlight as the lightly-regarded Cornhuskers, directed by a lanky field boss named Dennis Claridge, ripped them apart, 25-13. As if one Dennis wasn't enough of a menace, the Huskers had another one named Dennis Stuewe. Plus an imported Toledoan named Bill (Thunder) Thorton BY LYALL SMITH Free Press Sports Editor ANN ARBOR An itinerant band of Cornhuskers paid their first visit to Michigan in 45 years Saturday looking for; work.

They found a fertile field, ready for shuckin. And man, how they shucked it! They 'drifted in off the Nebraska plains, clad in the humble garb of a soft touch, an opening-day breather on a Wolverine schedule that has few soft spots. They wore that disguise for only one quarter. Then they ripped it off and bwfeHf v-V J8fc yi 1 1 i-itr fr who wasn't expected to play, but did and how. They scored first, held a 7-6 halftime margin, broke it open with two third-period touchdowns and then traded scores in the final 15 minutes with the out-classed Wolverines who It's 16-13 seem destined to have one of their poorest seasons.

WITH CLARIDGE, a 6-3. 208-pound junior, making like calpin a one-man gang, they rushed For MS BY BOB PILLE Free Press Staff Writer PALO ALTO, Calif. Michigan State came over the mountains to play Stanford and made the mistake of touring with light luggage. Somwhere among the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas, the Spartans left their football reputation. Nobody got the word to Stanford that this was one of the mighty Big Ten's best teams, one of the nation's finest around in efficient style to amass 331 yards, 222 on the ground through the seamy Michigan defense.

Claridge personally accounted for 131 yards of that total while his other Dennis racked up 60 in just three tries. Michigan had to be with 253 yards and it wasn't nearly enough to spoil the homecoming of Bob De-vaney. The new Nebraska coach is a native of these parts with a coaching background at Alpena and Michigan State. Coach Bump Elliott tried four quarterbacks. When they passed well, the ends and halfbacks dropped the bail.

When receivers were open, the quarterbacks Dave Glinka. Bob Chandler, Frosty Evashev-ski and Bob Timberlake missed 'em. ONLY EIGHT passes clicked in 21 tries. The Huskers flipped 15 and clicked on seven. While they had powered past hapless South Dakota a week i Win if ulnar iM'nf inn 1 AP Photo Nebraska's Bill (Thunder) Thornton is on top of the world as he flies over Michigan line for a third-quarter TD.

3RD-PERIOD T.D. DOES IT if we must be precise. They beat Michigan State, 16-13, in a manner rude, upsetting, convincing, and quite disrespectful of the play-calling of Duffy Daugherty by way of shuttling halfbacks. The Indians spotted the Spartans an early touchdown, then turned on them and defied anybody to do anything about it. Nobody did, though the opportunities were there.

Between George Saimes' Notre Darne Beats Back Sooner 13-7 U-D BLOWS LEAD Xavier Dumps Titans, 24-20 BY JACK BERRY Free Press Staff Writer CINCINNATI Defense isn't the University of Detroit's strong point this season. The Titans scored on the third play of the game Saturday night and scored again before the first period ended for a 14-0 lead but just didn't have the defense to go with it and lost, 24-20, to underdog Xavier University. The Musketeers jabbed through the Titan line almost at will fcnd had little difficulty with U-D's pass defense in winning their first game in the seven-game series'. And it didn't help when George Walkosky, who scored end and zone from the kicked the extra vs. Army Saiiirilav seven point.

Xoxt first-period touchdown and his Purduc vs. Xoxt Salurilav scoring slant in the fourth, there was too much time. THE HOUR was there for the ill-mannered and two- touchdown underdog Indians to STATISTICS NOTRE DAME OKLA. First downs 17 14 Rushing yardage 202 184 Passing yardage 78 2t Passes it 4-10 Passes intercepted 1 2 Punts Fumbles lost i Yards penalized 40 30 Notre Dame 4 0 7 013 Oklahoma 7 07 ND RutkowsKi 7 (Rutkowski kick). OKLA Lea 1 run (Jarwin kick).

ND-Ahcrn run (kick failed). MSU vs. X. Carolina SPARKLING SPAHNIE Warren Spahn, Milwaukee's ageless southpaw, became the winningest Iefthanded pitcher In baseball history Saturday by beating Pittsburgh, 7-3, for his S27th victory. (Story on page SF).

3Text Saturday By NORMAN ROWLAND NORMAN, Okla. (1 Notre Dame beat off a pair of late Oklahoma challenges here Saturday and defeated the Sooners 13-7 in a nationally televised football game. The Sooners drove to a first down on the Notre Dame three-yard line late in the fourth quarter but the Fighting Irish yielded only two yards before quarterback Monte Deere's fourth-down pitchout was wild. Notre Dame recovered on the 12. But the Irish gave the Sooners another chance a minute later when quarterback Daryle Lamonica fumbled and end John Flynn recovered on the Notre Dame 30.

Lamonica redeemed himself quickly, picking off Nor- The Irish gave Oklahoma a leson in ball control after receiving the second half kickoff, using 11 minutes and 35 seconds to go 89 yards. Fullback Bill Ahern scored the clincher from the nine-yard line. Rutkowski's kick was wide to give Oklahoma hope. But the Sooners had seen their last scoring when Paul Lea plunged one yard seconds before the first quarter ended to cap a 58-yard drive. THE OPENING victory was Notre Dame's fifth over Oklahoma in six meetings.

Oklahoma opened last week, defeating Syracuse. Lamonica completed five of five passes for 26 yards and added 37 yards running. dominate, and dominate it they did. Going ahead midway in AGUIRRE DOES IT, 3-2 the second quarter, Stanford upped the edge to 16-7 in a bit more than four minutes of the second half. afro in an early opener, 53-0, this was supposed to have been' some sort of mirage.

Michigan knows better now. They also know that they made too many mistakes to deserve anything better than what they received and that was a solid and humiliating defeat. They drove hard at the start. But when an early drive fizzled on the Nebraska 11, they lost their momentum. It never came back.

Late in the opening period, they had two feet to go for a new series on the Husker 32. DAVE RAIMEY, spotty this day with only 59 yards to show for 17 tries, couldn't get those two feet. The Huskers took over. In eight plays they were on top when Stuewe went around end on an 11-yard scoring sprint. He accounted for 73 yards on the march that Included 80 in its entirety, including a 15-yard penalty.

Michigan bounced back quick man Smith's first down pass at the 15. NOTRE DAME DROVE for touchdowns after receiving the opening and second half kickoffs. Halfback Ed Rutkowski capped the 60-yard opening drive with a burst into the After that, the Indians jarred Tigers Shade A's, Gain Fourth Place the Spartans into a fumble harassed them into field goa! failures at the Stanford 15 and the four, and threw back a fourth-down running attempt at the 10. the first touchdown on a 73-yard pass play from Jerry Gross, and senior fuUback Vic Battani were unable to play the second half. Walkosky went out with a concussion and Battani with an injured hip.

Xavier fullback Ed Smith scored the winner with less than six minutes to go in the game after U-D had rallied in the third quarter. Smith', taking a handoff from quarterback Walt Bryniarski on a draw play, broke through the right side almost untouched and raced 29 yards for the touchdown. The Titans looked like they might run away in the first quarter. Gross hit Waikosky at the Xavier 48 and Walkosky outmaneuvered Don Stupica at the 20 for the opening touchdown with only one minute and 50 seconds gone. BY JOE FALLS To paraphrase Charley Dickens, it was the best of times and the worst of times this Tale of Two Seasons for In a game that was to end almost even in statistics, it took MSU only a fraction more than 11 minutes to grab at the year's only important rule change and get a touchdown.

H. J. Aguirre. i an extreme Henry John was Vermont Goes All Out, 82-6 Kicking teams now are allowed to down punts inside the enemy 10-yard line, and Dewey ly with the next kickoff and Lincoln promptly did that with "L-th Glinka calling shots. iaju ijuuiui a isuipl uic ail- rushed 61 yards in nine tries.

frtrri thrpp TROY, N.Y. The University of Vermont put on a strong ground attack Saturday to swamp Rensselaer Polytechnic, 82-6, for the Engineers' 20th straight defeat. Halfback Frank Amato scored three of the Vermont touchdowns. Kicking back out. the In- Pav Penally scored the dians' Gary Craig squibbed one touchdown on a fourth-down only 16, yards in the face of PlaJ orT yards out-Matt Snorton's rush, and MSU He tned to Pass- jumped high had the ball on the Stanford to fllP couldn't find a re-29.

ceiver, came down, eluded three tacklers and ran it in. Trailing FROM THERE, State got 76' Glinka decided to go for a the ball across on eight run- two-point conversion. His pass-ning plays, leavened by a 15- was missed, yard penalty against Stanford. The penalty came when Lin- THAT LEFT the Wolverines coin went after four yards on trailing by one point at half-fourth down from the Indian time. It got worse in a hurry.

23 and didn't appear to get it. Apparently stalled at mid- I ssi s1:" "sr t-iii ii mn i LATE in the period, Gross connected from 10 yards out with Tom Bolz. Gross kicked both extra points. Xavier found out about the U-D defense after that. And U-D found out about strong-legged George Potts.

Xavier, helped by two major penalties and an offside, drove 68 yards to score early in the second period on Bryniarski's Turn to Page 2-F, Column 1 extremist. He was the best pitcher in the American League, and the worst hitter, but when it all came to an end for him Saturday, lo, there were the Tigers in fourth place, within one victory of picking up 600 bucks apiece in baby sitting money for the trip to Japan. AGUIRRE closed out his season by pitching the Tigers to a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City A's. He allowed only one earned run so he finished with a glittering ERA of 2.21 by far the best in the league. But zip, zip, zip he struck out three straight times, to make it 46 whiffs in 75 tries, and wound up with a batting average of .027.

The big thing, as they say, is that Aguirre won the game, and he won it by a half-inch. He won it because Hank Bauer, the Kansas City man-ager-of-the-moment, chose to play 5-foot-ll Billy Consolo at shortstop instead of the 5-11 Wayne Causey. Henry, how could you? YOU SEE, Bubba Morton Turn to Page 6F, Column 6 Turn to Page 3F, Column 4 Stanford's C. B. Simons was whistled for piling onto Bowling Tips Start Monday Having bowling problems? Then you can't afford to miss Monday's FREE PRESS when the first of Don Carter and Marion Ladewig's Bowling Tips will appear.

The two world bowling champions will give you tips on swing, stance, footwork and timing in daily illustrated stories. EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FREE PRESS. U-D XAVIER First downs 14 17 Rushing V3 230 Passing 204 84 Passes 13-23 4-S Intercepted 1 1 Punts 3.43.1 Lincoln after he was down, and the call put the Spartans on the nine. First, downs Rushing yardage It took Saimes four shots, yardage the last going two yards over Passes intercepted Ed Budde and Charley Brown. Fumbles lost Georza Azar's conversion made Yard penalized MICH.

170 83 a-21 a S-3 1 2i NEB. 17 J22 119 H5 0 5-27 2 45 Fumbles lost 1 2 Yards penalized 74 S2 Detroit 14 0 i 0-20 1 Xavier 0 10 7 7-24 DET Walkosky 73 pass from Gross i (Gross kick). DET Bolz 10 pass from Gross CGrossi if a 1 Nebraska 7 12 It a quick 7-U. Michigan 0 i 0 7 -25 7-1J Stanford grasped at Opportu- NEB Steuwe 11 run (Bassico kick). SPARTAN STOPPED Dewey Lincoln went nowhere on this play for Michigan State as he was stopped by Stanford's Frank Patitucci (82).

The ex-IIamtramck flash wasn't alone in his futile efforts as Stanford rocked the. Spartans, 16-13. i i mitn-uitfiKa run ipdss Td I lea I nity On the next-to-last play NEB-Thomton one run (kick failed). NEB Claridge run (pass failed). Tin in Tnir Pnliimn 1 MICH Rindfuss 4 run (Timberlake kick).

Alirn IO rage 6t, column NEB-Thornon run (run failed). KICK I. XAVIER-Pofts FG SO. XAVIER Dt Fazio 1 plunse (Potts kick) DET Gross 5 run (kick wide). XAVIER-Smith 24 run (Potts kick).

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