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Wolverines cut Purdue down to size I nig Ten ootbaii standings Conference All Games Pts OP Pts OP 163 85 185 U-M win clears Rose Bowl picture By TOM HENDERSON 1 Free Press Sports Writer i ANN ARBOR Michigan's easy, 24-6 win over Purdue; 0 369 0 348 1 321 1200 102 286 83 247 64 252 103 156 85 145 173 173 170 146 242 7 9 7 7 5 4 4 2 1 0 200 6 6 6 5 4 3 2 2 0 0 Michigan State Michigan Ohio State Purdue Minnesota Indiana Wisconsin Iowa Illinois Northwestern 0 221 216 270 267 249 317 2175 0 118 2103 And on the following series, the Wolverines applied an early coup de grace, knocking Herrmann into the turf and out of the game with a concussion and a pinched neck. With 5 minutes to play in the first quarter, Purdue was 10 points down, without a quarterback and without a prayer in the world of upsetting the Wolverines. And so, for the ninth time in 10 years, the Big Ten title and the accompanying trip to the Rose Bowl will be decided in the season finale between U-M and arch-enemy Ohio State, next week in Columbus. The Big Ten's Rose Bowl representative will face fifth-ranked Southern Cal, who earned itself the Pac 10 title and its 22d trip to Pasadena Saturday with a 17-10 victory over archrival UCLA. The loser of next week's showdown In Columbus will be given the consolation prize of a guarateed meeting with Clemson in the Gator Bowl on Dec.

29, according to Big Ten See U-M, Page 8E By TOM HENDERSON Free Presi Sporli Writer ANN ARBOR The Michigan Wolverines cleared away one more hurdle in the quest for another trip to the Rose Bowl Saturday afternoon as they knocked the Boilermakers' star quarterback out of the game, pushed their vaunted defense all over the field and cruised to a shockingly easy 24-6 win. I The game had received a huge buildup after all, with a win, Purdue would have about locked up first place and a vacation in Pasadena but it was over within minutes of the opening kickoff as Purdue's dream of a trip to the Rose Bowl and its first outright Big Ten title since 1 929 came to a sudden, bitter end. ON ITS FIRST possession, U-M breezed 68 yards for a touchdown and a 7-0 lead; on its next, the Blue took advantage of an interception off Mark Herrmann, Purdue's excellent sophomore quarterback, to boot a field goal and up its Jead to 10-0. 92 182 62 223 71 329 aaiuraay ata a lot to clear up a cloudy Rose Bowl picture, i U-M can lock up a tie for the title and a meeting with fifth--ranked Southern Cal in Pasadena on New Year's Day with a 440 010 1 92 win in Columbus over Ohio State next weekend. USC, 9-1 overall and b-l in their conference, took the Pac-10 title and the Rose Bowl bid with a 17-10 win over UCLA Saturday.

If the Bucks, who squeaked by Indiana, 21-18, Saturday. xi i i i SATURDAY'S RESULTS Michigan 24, Purdue 6. Michigan State 52, Northwestern 3. Ohio State 21, Indiana 18. Minnesota 24, Illinois 6.

Iowa 38, Wisconsin 24. win ine uiggie next weexena, mey win go west Wltn a 7-1 conference mark. Michigan State, which buried Northwestern Saturday, 52-3, and is home against lowly Iowa next weekend, can still tie for the title but is ineligible for a bowl bid. If U-M and the Buckeyes should tie next Saturday, it would set up the three-way tie for the lead and the Wolverines would get the Pasadena trip. If Iowa should somehow tie the Spartans next week, and Ohio State and U-M tie, then there would be a four-way tie for the title.

In that event, Purdue, with the best head-to-head record against the other three, would get the Rose Bowl bid. Even the Boilermakers see the futility in that they accepted a bid Saturday to play in the Peach Bowl Dec. 25. And as for the loser of next week's Ohio State-Michigan tussle? It will be on to the Gator Bowl to play Clemson under the lights Dec. 29 in Jacksonville, Fla.

Puscas IM Ji.rtfe A II All's well with world oswe Jbxpi MSU shares lead, 52-3 By CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer EVANSTON, 111. Michigan State, flashing the form that's made it one of the most potent offensive teams to come along in recent memory, vaulted into a share of the Big Ten lead with Michigan and Ohio State Saturday by humiliating Northwestern, 52-3. But the overwhelming victory caused only a disinterested yawn in this picturesque college town north of Chicago. Seeing the Wildcats lose by seven touchdowns is nothing new around here. The decisiveness of the victory, though, was calculated to get the attention of the people who vote in the Associated Press' Top 20 balloting and to once again forewarn the rest of the Big Ten that there will be another school to be reckoned with when they start talking about Rose Bowl representatives next fall.

MSU is not eligible UPI Photo Michigan's Curtis Greer zeros in on Purdue quarterback Mark Herrmann in the first quarter of U-M's 24-6 victory. Greer sacked the Boilermakers' star passer and knocked him out of the game with a pinched nerve. it's for Roses ANN ARBOR So one more time it comes down to Bo vs. Woody, Michigan and Ohio State, for all the roses. It is our annual autumnal treat, as much a part of the calendar now as Thanksgiving Day.

A generation of football fans is reaching maturity never having known anything other than the Wolverines and Buckeyes coming to the season's end matched for the Big Ten championship and entry to the Rose Bowl. And so it will be in Columbus next Saturday. It never really figured to be ny other way this fall, despite momentary lapses by U-M and OSU and the tentative rise of upstart Purdue. the moment of truth came for Purdue here Saturday, the Boilermakers were exposed as unworthy if riot unworthy, then unable by a Michigan team in its most powerful, dominant and impressive hour. If you need an early prediction, Michigan will do it to Ohio State next Saturday.

Make your reservations, order yOur Rose Bowl tickets now. The Wolverines reached maturity at the critical stage of their season and simply overwhelmed and destroyed a Purdue team that had come to Ann Arbor with impressive statistical ratings and heralded players who would threaten anyone. Michigan did it all in merely 10 minutes of magnificent football. The Wo'lverines hammered and pummeled Purdue, drove to the bench the Boilermakers' quarterbacking ace, Mark Herrmann, and won far more comfortably than 24-6 would suggest. Purdue kneiv something but From start to finish, It was all Michigan and this against a team that rated with the best on offense and defense.

Bo Schembechler could have turned his playbook over to Purdue's Jim Young, and it would not have mattered. For that matter, Jim Young probably has one. He was Bo's assistant, the man who took charge of the Michigan team when Schembechler was felled by a heart attack in Rose Bowl eight years ago. So he knows Bo and Michigan, the things they like to do and always do, better than anyone. The great beauty of Michigan's manhandling of Purdue on this day was that the Wolverines could concede such knowledge to a rival, and still do their thing so well they could not be stopped.

Actually, Michigan has changed somewhat. Schembechler admitted that. The Wolverines have changed in their approach to playing a team that can pass. "The one thing we're doing now is attacking on pass defense instead of laying back," Schembechler said. It was largely the failure of the Wolverines to attack on pass defense that produced the only mar on their record, the 24-15 loss to Michigan State in mid-October.

They knocked Mark Herrmann, regarded among some as the best quarterback in the Big Ten, out of the game after only 10 minutes of play. Tackle Curtis Greer nailed him as Herrmann passed, and the luckless Boilermaker suffered a pinched nerve in his neck, and a concussion. "I don't know that it changed things without Herrmann being in there for Purdue," said Schembechler. The suggestion is that it mattered not a bit. For the time he was in the game, Herrmann was at the mercy of the pounding Michigan defense.

Before he left, Michigan already had boomed to a 10-0 lead. Rick Leach was superb in his final appearance in four years of play on the carpet of the Michigan Bowl. Leach? 'He was sensational9 Schembechler was lavish in his praise of his quarterback. He seldom is, but he owed Leach that much. "He was sensational with his scrambling and running on the option play," the coach said.

"It's unfortunate we're not mm N. Farming ton stuns CMU rips Western in finale this year because of recruiting violations. Just 14,157 fans bothered to show up for the winless Wildcats' last game of the season and most of those had wandered off into the late autumn sunshine long before the final gun sounded, leaving Northwestern with a 0-10-1 record to show for its first season under coach Rick How the Top 20 teams In the Associated Press major college football poll fared: Rice; Trenton is upset fense shocked defending state Class A football champion and top-rated Birmingham Brother Rice, 26-7, Saturday in a semifinal playoff game before more than 7,000 fans at By MICK McCABE Free Press Sports Writer Second-ranked North Farmington's explosive running attack and determined de- By BRIAN BRAGG Free Press Sports Writer KALAMAZOO Central Michigan choked off Western Michigan's offense in the second hSaturday and erupted for three touchdowns in the last seven minutes of play for a 35-14 win that gave the Chippewas their best-ever Mid-American conference prep football playoffs Birmingham Groves. It was the second upset of the day In Class A. Earlier; Saturday, No.3-ranked Trenton was knocked out of the playoffs by Traverse City, 7-6 (story on Page 5E).

The championship game between North Farmington and Traverse City will be at 1 p.m. next Saturday in the Pontiac season. Though CMU did all It could in its season finale, post-ing its seventh straight triumph and an 8-1 conference slate, the squad from Mt. Pleasant nonetheless wound up in second place in the MAC behind Ball State, which won 1 PENN STATE (10-0) did not play 2 NEBRASKA (9-2) lost to Missouri, 35-31 3 ALABAMA (9-1) did not play 4 OKLAHOMA (10-1) beat Oklahoma State, 62-7 5 SOUTHERN CAL (9-1) beat UCLA. 17-10 6 HOUSTON (8-1) did not play 7 MICHIGAN (9-1) beat Purdue, 24-6 8 GEORGIA (8-1-1) tied by Auburn, 22-22 9 TEXAS (7-2) beat Texas Christian, 41-0 10 NOTRE DAME (8-2) beat Georgia Tech, 38-21 11 MARYLAND (9-2) lost to Clemson, 28-24 12 CLEMSON (9-1) beat Maryland, 28-24 13 ARKANSAS (7-2) beat Texas 26-7 14 UCLA (8-3) lost to Southern Cal, 17-10 15 PURDUE (7-2-1) lost to Michigan, 24-6 16 MICHIGAN STATE (7-3) beat Northwestern, 52-3 17 LOUISIANA STATE (6-3) lost to Miss.

State, 16-14 18 PITTSBURGH (8-2) beat Army, 35-17 19 OHIO STATE (7-2-1) beat Indiana, 21-18 20 GEORGIA TECH (7-3) lost to Notre Dame, 38-21 ALL IN ALL, the game lived up to its advance billing: A one-sided farce that allowed MSU quarterback Eddie Smith and flanker Kirk Gibson to set a handful of Big Ten records while the Spartans were raising their scoring average to 41.0 for seven conference games. Michigan State, ranked 16th by the Associated Press last week, was in command from the outset, marching 73 yards on its first possession to score on a one-yard pass from Smith to Gibson. After that, the Wildcats never seemed to know where MSU was going to strike next. Bruce Reeves scored on a one-yard run, Andy Schramm scored on runs of one and two yards, Steve Smith scored from the 12, Leroy McGee scored from the nine, Gibson recovered a Reeves' fumble in the end zone for another touchdown, and Morten An- See MSU, Page 9E Class A SATURDAY'S SEMIFINAL RESULTS Traverse City 7, Trenton 6. North Farmlngton 26, Birmingham Brother Rice 7.

Class SATURDAY'S SEMIFINAL RESULTS Grand Rapids Catholic Central 26, Saginaw MacArthur 7. Warren Woods 29, Holt 12. Class SATURDAY'S SEMIFINAL RESULTS Bad Axe 22, Ishpeming 7. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern 20, Memphis 14. Class SATURDAY'S SEMIFINAL RESULTS Detroit DePorres 30, Battle Creek St.

Philip 0. Crystal Falls Forest Park 22, Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart 0. its finale at Northern Illinois. THE CHIPPEWAS learned the bad news some 90 minutes after leaving the Waldo Stadium turf, but that only slightly dimmed the luster of THE RAIDERS of coach Ron Holland turned Saturday's victory into a track meet as North Farmington, winning its 11th consecutive game, continually broke off long gainers to help snap Brother Rice's 24-game winning streak.

The Raiders' defense held Rice's great receiver, Marty Martinez, without a catch See RICE, Page 4E their come-from-behind win. over the Broncos. A fine tandem of freshman running backs from Flint fullback Willie Todd and tall-back Reggie Mitchell See CMU, Page 8E Hot goalie burns Wings, 3-1 going to see him again in our stadium. Or even the likes of him, for who knows how long. -It was Leach's offensive show on Michigan's first turn with the ball which quickly suggested the Wolverines would have all their needed to finish Purdue.

'Aware of all of Leach's tricks, Purdue still could do nothing to contain him. He broke one 24-yard run, produced hmA lineup ROSE BOWL (Jan. 1 at Pasadena, Big Ten champion vs. Southern Cal 1). two more first downs, then pitched an 11-yard touchdown pass to Ralph Clayton.

COTTON BOWL (Jan. 1 at Dallas): Notre Dame (8-2) vs. Southwest Conference When Purdue got the ball again, Herrmann was sacked, champion (probably Houston). SUGAR BOWL (Jan. 1 at New Orleans): Penn State (10-0) vs.

Alabama or then shortly was driven into the ground by Greer as he passed again. It was the end of his day and the end for Purdue- Would it have been different, if Herrmann had not been Injured? Georgia. ORANGE BOWL (Jan. 1 at Miami): Nebraska (9-2) vs. Oklahoma (10-1).

GARDEN STATE BOWL (Dec. 16 at New Rutherford, Rutgers (9-1) vs. team to be determined. HALL OF FAME GAME (Dec. 20 at Birmingham, Iowa State (8-3) va.

Texas (6-3). HOLIDAY BOWL (Dec. 22 at San Diego): Brlgbam Young (7-3) va. Navy (7-J). Who can say? What seemed true was that Michigan was By JOE LAPOINTE Free Press Sports Writer Jimmy Rutherford was the second best of two good goalies Saturday afternoon when the Buffalo Sabres beat the Red Wings, 3-1, at Olympia.

Therefore, Jimmy Rutherford will be the Wings' starting goalie Sunday night when the'Wings play the Flyers in Philadelphia (7 p.m., Channel 50 in the Detroit area). "Jimmy's played well and hopefully Jimmy will play well Sunday," said Wings' coach Bobby Kromm following his team's second consecutive defeat. He will give Rutherford his second start in a row because first-string goalie Rogie Vachon hasn't been winning lately. "Rogie's had a hard time," Kromm said. "Hopefully, he will find himself." Vachon, obtained last summer as an expensive free agent from Los Angeles, has a 4.15 goals-against average in 12 Pistons lose to Suns 3E games.

Rutherford, last year's first-string goalie, has a 2.75 average in his six games. The Detroit fans haven't been happy with Vachon playing ahead of Rutherford. On occasion, Vachon has given up what could be called bad goals. But at other times, it has seemed as if the Wings don't give him the same support they give Rutherford. Vachon was in the net last Wednesday night when the Wings' 3-1 lead became a 5-3 loss to the Atlanta Flames.

"I DON'T WANT to cause waves," said Rutherford Saturday. "But I do like to play. If I play more, I'll be happy." He stopped all but two of the 21 shots the Sabres fired at him the last Buffalo goal went into an empty net but Rutherford wasn't as impressive as Don Edwards, whom Buffalo coach Marcel Pronovost calls "the best goalie in the league." Edwards stopped 38 of 39 shots as the Sabres extended their unbeaten streak to seven games. "I've got a good hockey club," said Pronovost of a 6-5-6 team that has replaced free skating with tight, positional play. "They're getting better and better and better." See RED WINGS, Page 2E prepared to handle anyone on this day.

"We had a very good first half and got on top of em, said. Schembechler. "This is a heckava good Purdue team, LIBERTY BOWL (Dec. 23 at Memphis, LSU (6-3) vs. Missouri (7-4).

GATOR BOWL (Dec. 29 at Jacksonville, Clemson (9-1) vs. loser of Michigan-Ohio State game. SUN BOWL (Dec 23 at Tempe, Maryland (9-2) vs. Texas (7-2).

but our defense played exceptionally well, and for the first half, we blocked very well." The Wolverines were a team ready for the best a team they needed to beat could offer, and they delivered their own best. It is the one true measure of champions. TANGERINE BOWL (Dec. 23 at Orlando, Pittsburgh (8-2) vs. North Carolina State (7-3).

PEACH BOWL (Dec. 25 at Atlanta): Purdue (7-2-1) vs. team to be determined. FIESTA BOWL (Dec. 25 at Tempe, Arkansas (7-2) va.

UCLA (8-J). BLUEBONNET BOWL (Dec. 31 at Houston): Teams to be determined. From their locker room at game's end could be heard a rousing chorus and champions of the west." They are headed that way. i.