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6E DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY, NOV. 26. 1978 Woody explodes at writer: 'I have no respect for you By TOM HENDERSON frat Press Sporlt Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio It was a typical Woody Hayes show, although it didn't start that way. The 65-year-old curmudgeon let the press wait for more than an hour Saturday after his team's 14-3 loss to arch-rival Michigan. When Woody finally entered the room, he was quiet, calm and reasonable for a grand total of 10 minutes before he blew his stack, orally assaulting a sports writer while standing threateningly over him, and then left in a huff.

all began with a simple question from columnist David Israel of the Chicago Tribune: "Did you realize your team hasn't scored a touchdown in the last three games against Michigan?" course Woody knew it he had made his players well aware that they hadn't crossed U-M's goal line two years running in an attempt to keep it from happening again. that?" Woody asked, not sure anyone had had the nerve to ask it. "Are you aware that your team hasn't scored a touchdown in the three games against Michigan?" With that, Hayes was on his feet, moving menacingly toward Israel. "I'm aware of that and you'd have to a spokeman appeared. "He's talking to prospects," said the aide.

"He NEEDS to talk to prospects!" hooted one writer. Finally, more than an hour after the end of the game, Hayes made his entrance. He had showered. His hair was neatly combed. His demeanor belled the anger waiting to burst out.

"We weren't quite good enough to win," he whispered. "In the first half, we played on about even terms the defense held in there all day. We had bad field position in the second half and just couldn't get out of it." The Ohio press, pussycats to a man, asked soft, mushy questions. Too bad your players slipped out there, coach. "Yes, It was." Gonna get a new surface next year? "Why, I think so.

That will be up to the council." Why go with Rod Gerald (who replaced freshman Art Schlichter at quarterback for two series with Ohio State backed up near its own goal line)? "I put Gerald in there figuring he could run us out of there. Rod's a better runner, that's why I went with him They put on a good, hard pass rush. That's why we put Rod in there. If they flush him out of the pocket, he usually gets the first down." What did you think of Michigan? "They played a good defensive ball game." THINGS THEN began to warm up. How are you feeling right now, someone asked.

"Happy as a lark," he said, beginning to bellow. What do you think of Rick Leach for the Heisman? Hayes reacted as if he were asked if he'd like to retire to Michigan. "I'm not going to answer. I knew it was coming and I'm not going to answer. I may be a little biased." He made it clear he didn't like Leach.

Why should he? The kid from Flint has beat his team three years running. Then came the question from Israel, who later said that Hayes' exit was simply a "smokescreen." "He wanted to get out of the press conference," said Israel. "He never answers the tough questions. Why can't his offense score against Michigan?" As for Hayes personally, Israel said: "He is rude but I find him amusing. After all, he's a football coach." Israel said he met Devine after Michigan handed Notre Dame its second loss this season.

"He said we've had our differences," said Israel. "He shook my hand. We talked for a long time and everything is fine." "feflii. uny-ani Woody Hayes be the guy to mention it," he seethed. "You're the guy who cut up Pan Devine so badly three years ago.

You almost cost him his job. I have no respect for you and I want you to know it. "I've never seen such a vicious attack as you made on Devine and all I can say is I'm so glad he's had the success he's had since then. You almost cost him his job, you know that?" Hayes was screaming now, livid with rage no longer pent-up. "You're not the kind of guy I ever want to spend any time with.

And I won't." With that, Woody stormed from the room, his trooper body guard following behind. AND TO THINK that things started out so smoothly, too, if a bit late. It is usual in the Big Ten to wait 20 minutes to get in to interview players and coaches. It was 35 minutes before Hayes allowed his doors to be opened. By that time, the players had showered and left by another exit.

Fifteen more minutes passed with no sign of Hayes. Finally Photo AP Michigan quarterback Rick Leach guns on the run from Ohio State tackle Gary Dulin (60). Leach's arm, play-calling are U-M's ticket to Roses "WE JUST WEREN'T quite good enough today," admitted Ohio State's glum coach, Woody Hayes. "In the first half we played on about even terms. But we didn't get in there for the touchdown and that decided it." He was referring to a second-quarter drive that was stopped when Jerry Meter stripped Schlichter at the U-M 31.

The Blue then ran out the rest of the half, going on a drive to the goal line before being halted. When they were halted, it was their own doing, no Ohio State's. Leach hit tight end Gene Johnson with a third-and-one pass from the 14. Johnson took it in and was about to cross the line for a 14-3 lead when safety man Vince Skillings popped the ball from his arms and recovered it in the end zone. Bo defended his the pass though it turned out that Leach called it himself on a checkoff at the line of scrimmage.

"Leach called it," said Bo of the Bart Starr-type pass on third and short. "Even if it came down to fourth down, we would have had our optins open. It was a hell of a call." But it failed, which should have given the Bucks a lift. It could have been the end of the Wolverines. But it turned out to be meaningless the Wolverines got that score back in the third quarter on Leach's third-and-goal pass from the 11 to Smith, which capped an absolutely effortless, 69-yard, 13-play drive.

Ail of which resulted in another win for Schembechler, which boosted him to 5-4-1 in these wars against his former mentor. THE GAME WAS settle for good early in the fourth quarter with Blue up, 14-3. Punter Gregg Wiliner, who struggled much of day, ending up with just a 35-yard average, launched a beauty that was killed on the Ohio one. The Buckeyes never got out of the shadows of their goal posts the rest of the way, despite turning frantically to Rod Gerald for a couple of series in an attempt to get some offense. Gerald, last year's starting quarterback but mainly a flanker this year, couldnft move the Bucks, either, and finally Schlichter returned to the game.

He managed one desperation first-down completion to Gerald Ohio State's only first down of the half but it was way too feeble, way too late. So too was the Bucks' fake field goal deep in their own end with time running out. U-M smothered the play, as it had smothered most everything the Bucks tried all day. Smith led U-M in rushing, with 67 yards in 1 0 attempts, and Davis chipped in with 48 in 13. Rod Springs led the Bucks with 67 yards in 12 tries and Ric Volley had 60, most of them in the first half when Ohio State showed occasional signs of offense.

Leach's two TD passes gave him 47 for his career. THE GAME started slowly, the way these tussles usually do. U-M hammered at Ohio State the first quarter, and the Buckeyes hammered back, going out in front on a 29-yard field goal by freshman Bob Atha with 1:13 to play in the stanza. Just when everyone was beginning to think it would be another three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust-day, Leach went on the offensive. Immediately, following Atha's three-pointer, Leach tossed three straight passes of 26 yards to tight end Doug Marsh, of 14 to Woolfolk and then 30 to flanker Rodney Feaster for the score.

Seventy yards, four plays, 59 seconds. "We wanted to give them the illusion it was going to be a typical Ohio State-Michigan game," said Bo, whose game plan called for a balanced attack. "I thought we could run and pass on them," said Bo, whose team came in as a touchdown favorite. He was right. His team passed for 166 yards and rushed for 198, getting 1 2 first downs on the ground and eight through the air.

The 16th-rated Buckeyes, on the other hand, tried vainly all day to hammer at Michigan on the ground. They managed 168 yards that way, but never when they needed it. And only one of their first downs was by air. U-M, from Page 1E Stadium crowd of 88,358, an all-time record crowd by 108 over the crowd that saw U-M win here in 1976, 22-0. The reason the Blue won so handily it was as lopsided a 14-3 game as you could imagine was its crushing defense.

"The defense was just tremendous," said Bo. "Because of all the Injuries we had, this was the greatest game we've ever won. "He (Leach again) is the best football player in the United States of America. If he doesn't win the Heisman Award, I will be very much surprised. He is the greatest football player I have ever been associated with." The Wolverines kept shuffling in backs not because of choice but because they kept getting wracked up by the hardhitting Buckeyes.

Harlan Huckleby was fighting off the effects of flu and did not play. His backup man, Butch Woolfolk, missed much of the game; Woolfolk's backup, Roosevelt Smith, went out with a knee injury; fullback Russell Davis and his backup, Lawrence Reid, also left the game at various times pain. Yet none of it Leach's hamstring, the injuries in the backfield could have stopped the sixth-ranked Wolverines. They made it look easy. Purdue 20, Indiana 7 Indiana 0 7 0 0- 7 Purdue 0 13 7 0-20 Pur McCall 1 run (Sovereen kick) Pur FG Sovereen 20 Ind Frlede 4 pass from Clifford (Freud kick) Pur FG Sovereen 31 Pur Jone 2 run (Sovereen kick) Pur IU Michigan 14, Ohio St.

3 MIchiMn 7 0 7 0-14 OhioStitt 1 0 0 0-3 OSU FG Atha 29 Mich Feasler 30 pass from Leach (Winner kick) Mich Smith 11 pass from Leach (Winner kick) Mich OSU Flrstdowns 21 11 Rushes-yards 58-198 51-168 Passing yards 166 48 Return yards 12 29 Passes 11-22-0 5-10-1 Punts 7-35 4-43 Fumbtes-lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-yards 3-14 5-35 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Michigan, R. Smith 10-47, R. Davis 13-48, Woolfolk 15-41, Leach 10-23. Ohio Stale, Springs 12-63, Volley 12-60, Schlichter 21-32. PASSING Michigan, Leach 11-21-0, 166.

Dickey 0-1-0, 0. Ohio Slate, Schlichter, 4-9-1, 44, Gerald, 1-1-0, 5. RECEIVING Michigan, Marsh 2-39, Clayton 2-28, R. Smith 2-20, Feaster 1-30. Ohio Stale, Springs 2-10, Gerald 1-25, Moore 1-1.

Michigan State 42, Iowa 7 Iowa 0 0 7 0-7 MichisanSt 21 14 0 7-42 MSU Gibson 54 pass from E.Smilh (Andersen kick) MSU S.Smith 1 run (Andersen kick) MSU S.Smith 8 run (Andersen kick) MSU Byrd 10 pass from E.Smilh (Andersen kick) MSU Byrd 1 pass from E.Smilh (Andersen kick) Iowa Lazar 10 pass from Green (Schilling kick) MSU Hughes 11 run (Andersen kick) A 57,007 Iowa MSU Flrstdowns 15 20 Rushes-yards 52-90 38-321 Passing yards 108 144 Return yards 144 125 Passes 10-30-0 12-30-0 Punls 12-31 3-36 Fumbles-lost 3-1 7-3 Pnlties-vds 6-69 5-52 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Iowa, Burke 10-37, Turner 15-29, Lazar 9-25. Michigan SI, S. Smith 14-131, Reeves 5-61, Middleton 6-47. PASSING Iowa, Green 10-29-0, 108. Michigan St, E.

Smith, 12-30-0, 144. RECEIVING Iowa, Swift 3-49, Frailer, 3-30. Michigan St, Byrd 5-53, Middleton 3- 10. 21 47-273 135 8 9-19-0 7-36 1-1 4-30 15 27-115 1B9 24 20-46-2 7-33 2-2 4-35 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penallies-yards INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Indiana, Harkrader 9-53, Johnson 5-36, Burnett 7-22. Purdue, Au-gustyniak 23-135, Jones 26-103, Macon 8-21.

PASSING Indiana, Clifford 18-42-2, 153; Arnetl 2-4-0, 36. Purdue, Herrmann 9-18-0, 135. RECEIVING Indiana, Frlede 7-119, Johnson 4-22, Bowers 3-17. Purdue, M. Harris 4-71, Pope 2-28, Burrell 2-26.

USC 27, Notre Dame 25 Notre Dame '3 0 3 19-25 Southern Cat 6 11 7 3-27 USC Williams 30 pass from McDonald (kick failed) ND FG UniS 47 USC Garcia 35 pass from McDonald (Hunter pass from McDonald) USC FG Jordan 39 ND FG Unis 26 USC While 1 run (Jordan kick) ND Haines 57 pass from Montana (pass failed) ND Buchanan 1 run (Unls kick) ND Holohan 2 pass from Montana (pass failed) USC FG Jordan 37 A 84,256 N.D. USC Wisconsin 48, Minnesota 10 MADISON, Wis. (AP) Mike Kalasmiki passed for 1 73 yards and three touchdowns and Ira Matthews scored on a 31-yard run and on a 64-yard punt return Saturday, propelling Wisconsin to a 48-10 Big Ten Conference victory over Minnesota. Matthews also caught a Kalasmiki pass for a touchdown play covering 34 yards. Fullback Tom Stauss caught a nine-yard touchdown pass from Kalasmiki and raced 73 yards for another TD in Wisconsin's three-touchdown fourth quarter as the Badgers 5-4-2 overall and 3-4-2 in the Big Ten finished their second winning season since 1963.

Minnesota wound up 5-6, including 4-4 in the conference. Massachusetts 27, Boston College 0 AMHERST, Mass. (AP) Senior Dennis Dent rushed for 206 yards and two touchdowns to become the first ground-gainer in Massachusetts history Saturday in leading the Minutemen to a 27-0 victory over Boston College. 23 30 57-257 281 22 17-29-1 5-33 2-1 8-86 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-losl Penalties-yards 35-53 358 23 20-41-1 5-45 2-1 4-40 LEADERS INDIVIDUAL RUSHING Noire Dame, Ferguson 11-32, Heavens 8-23. Southern Cal, White 37-205, Cain 11-53, Ford 6-34.

PASSING Notre Dame, Montana 20-41-1-358. Southern Cal, McDonald 17-29-1-281. RECEIVING Notre Dame, Haines -179, Masztak 4-82, Ferguson 3-39, Holohan 2-48. Southern Cal, Sweeney 5-105, White 4-37, Williams 3-60. AP Photo Michigan middle guard Mike Trgovac snags a handful of OSU quarterback Art Schlichter's jersey in the first quarter.

2 seconds left, Roses-bound USC field goal nips Irish, 27-25 was looking for during the with 3:01 left to get the Irish within five points. Notre Dame got the ball back on its 43-yard line after a Southern Cal punt, then Montana marched the Irish to the Southern Cal two-yard line, where he hit Holohan to put his team ahead for the first time. THE ROSE Bowl-bound Trojans raised their record to 10-1 while the Irish, who will play in the Cotton Bowl, are 8-3. Haines, the man Montana in the third quarter was the Trojans' only second-half score until Jordan's dramatic field goal. MONTANA completed 20 of his 41 passes for 358 yards, including 17 of 26 for 286 yards in the second half.

He fired a 57-yard touchdown bomb to Kris Haines early in the fourth quarter to begin Notre Dame's comeback and marched his team 98 yards to set up a one-yard scoring run by Pete Buchanan vision audience and a crowd of 84,256 in the Coliseum, may have been one of the cooler heads around at the end. "I really wasn't thinking about anything at all," he said of his dramatic kick. "I was saying to myself, 'Keep your head down, keep your head "I really wanted Jto kick it through after I had missed those first two. And I really Wanted to beat Notre Dame." MCDONALD said the USC huddle in the final seconds was unified by determination. "No way were we going to quit.

We knew we were going to score," said McDonald. "We said to ourselves that this team does not panic." Devine was asked about a controversial call on the final drive in which the officials allowed Southern Cal to retain possession by calling an incomplete pass on a play that might have been called a fumble by McDonald. "If the official made a mistake on that call, I'll work to roared back following the ensuing kickoff. McDonald hit 17 of 29 passes for 281 yards and two touchdowns and White rushed for 205 yards and a score on 37 carries. McDonald threw a 30-yard scoring pass to Kevin Williams late in the first quarter, hit Dan Garcia on a 35-yard touchdown strike in the second period and Jordan kicked a 39-yard field goal as Southern Cal built a 17-3 half time lead.

A one-yard dive by White see that he'll never work another game. He caused my kids bitter disappointment," Devine said, then added: "If I'm wrong, then just forget it." TRAILING, 24-6, entering the final period, Notre Dame scored two of their three touchdowns on passes by quarterback Joe Montana. He hit Pete Holohan with a two-yard scoring throw with 46 seconds left to apparently climax a furious comeback by the Irish. But the Trojans lier in the game, made the deciding kick. "IT'S THE greatest game I've ever seen," said the Trojans' jubilant coach, John Robinson.

"But then," he added, "maybe every USC-Notre Dame game is." "That was one of the most remarkable comebacks in the history of the game," Devine said. Jordan, the USC senior on the spot before a national tele second-half surge, finished with nine catches for 179 yards. On what turned out to be a crucial play, however, Notre Dame's two-point conversion try following its last touchdown, Haines could not work his way free and Montana threw incomplete. White, in addition to his running chores, caught four passes for 37 yards. His 205 yards rushing against the Irish gave him 1,608 for the season-.