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DETROIT FREE PRESS fl-C Sunday. Oct. 5, '69 Blames Too Many Turnovers for Runaway Jy Teant Has Looked in Years -Bo Wont "That was the worst performance by one of my teams in years and I haven't had a punt blocked in six years. I didn't know what one looked like," Bo said, the steam rising. "I doubt they even had a punt rush one," Schembechler said.

"That was the most ridiculous thing I've seen." THE PLAY CAME at the start of the fourth quarter. Michigan rallied for two third-period touchdowns to cut Missouri's margin to 24-17, but the Tigers stopped the Wolverines at the Michigan 34 and Mark Werner went back to punt. He only went 12 yards back and defensive end Mike Bennett blew right by the blockers and knocked the punt down. It was killed on the Wolverine 12 and four plays later Henry Brown kicked a 24-yard field goal to break it open. But the Wolverines had plenty of other problems three fumbles and an interception in the critical second quarter when the Gator Bowl champion Tigers ran up 24 points.

"You fumble the ball and it's strictly careless," Schembechler said, "and a blocked punt is a sin." The U-M coach also faulted the blocking for breaking down and called the second quarters "a nightmare." SEVERAL TIMES the Wolverines jumped offside to help out Missouri and it was caused when the Tigrs used Michigan's own motion-type plays. "That shouldn't have bothered us," Schembechler said, "That's what we use." But Missouri coach Dan Devine pointed out it was the first time anyone had used it against Michigan this season. Schembechler called the blocked punt the key play "because it gave them a field goal and forced us to gamble and that was it." BY JACK BERRY Sree Press Shorts Writer ANN ARBOR Bo Schembechler held his cool very well, better than his University of Michigan Wolverines held onto the football Saturday. But he still was mad. "What a difference a week makes," said Schembechler after absorbing his first defeat in three starts at U-M.

Michigan clobbered Washington, 45-7, last week. This time the Wolverines were on the short end of a 40-17 count to Missouri. "You can't turn the ball over time and again, time and again, and win football games," Schembechler said. Fumbles Give It to Mizzou, 40-17 No one asked if Bo would take back some of those football decals he'd awarded for proficiency the last two weeks. "There was nothing wrong with our effort; our execution was terrible," he said.

"Missouri's an excellent team but not 40-17. I didn't expect them to score 40 points and I didn't expect them to hold us to 17." SCHEMBECHLER went to second string quarterback Jim Betts, a junior from Cleveland, with eight minutes left "because he looked good in practice and deserved a chance." Schembechler said he didn't know if anything is wrong with star running back Glenn Doughty who injured his left ankle in the horrendous second quarter. It appeared he sprained It although he was used some after that heavily taped. He didn't have the same quickness. Neither did the rest of the team.

UV i r-V t- I 'vW' Wis Xr fiJ i "TrS -v "I -1 4 l''v4 scored on his second shot into the line. Defensive end Butch Car-penter grabbed a McBride fumble to stop Missouri's next drive and Moorhead quickly ate up the 36 yards for a touchdown. He passed to John Gabler for 15 yards, carried once himself for seven and finally sent Craw over on a fourth-down play from the one. That left the Wolverines trailing only 24-17 as the third quarter ended. But Missouri's Bennett blocked Mark Werner's punt and the Tigers took over on Michigan's 12.

Henry Brown kicked his second field goal, from 24 yards, and Moore made quick work of the next drive, galloping 62 yards for a touchdown that made it 34-17 with just over eight minutes to play. Schembechler sent in his second-string backfield but it could fare no better than the No. 1 unit. Missouri's No. 2 quarterback Chuck Roper finished the day's scoring with an eight-yard touchdown pass to Steve Kenemore with only 47 seconds to play.

MSU-ND Statistics MSU NO Fint downs 15 Rushing yardq 13S 125 Passim Virdq 171 24 Return yardtq 3 47 Passes f-25-2 M-13-2 Punts 7-3S 3-21. Fumbles lost 0 1 Yards penalized 75 45 Notra Dame 7 14 14 7-42 Michigan Stall 0 14 7 7 -2 ND Ban 10 past from Thalsmann (Hempel kick). MSU Love 4 run (Boyce kick). ND Ban 1 run (Hempel kick). MSU-Highsmith 5 run (Boyce kick).

ND Zie9lor 29 pass from Thelimann (Hempel kick). ND Thelsmann 7 run (Hempel kick). MSU-Allen 4 run (Boyce kick). ND Oatewood 21 pass from Thelsmann (Hempel kick). ND Ban 1 run (Hempel kick).

MSU Bowdell 35 pass from Trlplett (Boyce kick). A-SM7S. MICHIOAN STAT I Free Press Photo by MIKE McCLURE Mike Hankwitz of Michigan makes a diving catch as Missouri's Butch Davis (40) conies up late RUSHINO Irish Couldn't See Losing 2 in a Roiv We Were Ready to Play' Par seghian Continued from First Sports receivers didn't help with reliables such as Jim Mandich and Paul Staroba suddenly getting slippery-fingered. Moore, like Doughty, a sophomore sensation, finished the day with 117 yards and one touchdown. The Wolverines succeeded In keeping him from the breakaway run until the fourth; quarter when he went 62 yards on a halfback draw to salt away the win.

Quarterback McMillan, the herogof a Jan. 1 victory over Alabama In the Gator Bowl, connected on seven of 12 passes for 120 yards and was in command of his troops throughout, hitting fleet Mel Gray and Jon Staggers on big pass plays. THE ONLY time Michigan was in control of the game was in the first quarter. The Tigers were backed against their own 20-yard line for most of the period, as the Wolverines came up with three scoring threats. All they could produce, however, was a 40-yard field goal by Tim Killian after Mandich dropped a pass on the Missouri 10.

Another Killian attempt from the same distance hit the left goal post. Moorhead moved the team effectively from the Missouri 47 to the eight-yard line on his next opportunity. But he was hit there, fumbled and Missouri recovered. The game was never the same after that. Defensive wolf man Tom Darden stopped Missouri momentarily with a back breaking, living interception at the Michigan 18-yard line but Doughty fumbled on the first play and the Tigers moved in for a game-tying field goal by Henry Brown.

Safety Dennis Poppe intercepted a Moorhead pass and returned it 18 yards to set up the Tigers' first touchdown, a two-yard plunge by fullback Ron McBride set up by a Michigan offside penalty. Missouri got a Michigan punt just 49 yards from the goal line moments later and Moore cracked off 30 yards to set up Stagger's one-yard touchdown run. The Tigers added one more touchdown before the half, marching 66 yards before McBride went over from the one for his second touchdown, making it Missouri 24-3 at the half. TWO BIG PLAYS by de-fensemen brought the Wolverines temporary revltalization In the third quarter. Defensive halfback Barry Pierson fielded a Missouri punt and ran it back 48 yards setting up Michigan just 10 yards from a TD.

A Missouri offside on the U-M the ball on the two and Garvie Craw TO 0 1 1 1 Yds. -2 10 31 74 10 Art. 12 3 I It 4 M-Gam I 4 10 4 10 Trlplett Allen Hi9hsmitti Smith Love Totals 43 125 FASSINO Att. Comp. Int.

25 2 RECtlVINO Yds. 171 Trlplett Parseghdan had his Irish up for this ing, one. TD 0 1 No. 5 Gain 17 44 44 Yds. 32 27 71 Foreman Kulesta Bowdel Totals NOTRE DAMI RUSHINO "WE THREW the ball and made them back off," added end Tom Gatewood, the 6-foat-2 sophomore who accounted for half of Theismann's 20 cmpletions.

"Everybody said we couldn't pass. I think we caught the Michigan State defense reading the newspapers." The Irish had their Barz open In the first half, with fullback Bill Barz grabbing six passes before Theismann turned his attention to Gatewood. It made the running room cozy, too, as halfback Denny Allan piled up 102 yards. His 29 carries tied the Notre Dame record Creighton Miller set in 1943. "Michigan State is always strong against the run," Parseghian said, "but we felt after we established our passing we'd be BY JACK SAYLOR Free Press Sports Writer SOUTH BEND There is an old Chinese proverb: "No makee same mistakes twice and no losee two games in a row." Obviously, there must be some Chinese ancestry in Ara Parseghian's Armenian-Presbyterian background.

He made no mistakes and neither did his team, thus the Irish still have not lost two games in a row in the era of Ara. 1 "We didn't want the stigma of losing two in a row," said Parseghdan, his dark face beaming. Heavens to Knute Rockne, that would worse than tarnish on the Golden Dome. SO THE NOTRE DAME coach told his quarterback, Joe Theism ann, to put last week's loss behind him and come out throw able to run better." "THE BIGGEST thing was that our defense didn't contain," Daugherty observed. "We did show flashes of mounting a good attack.

But we were playing catch-up ball most of the time. "When we came back near the end of the half to tie it, 14-14, I thought we were in good shape," Duffy added. "But Notre Dame came back with a great drive after our kickoff put them deep. They went the length of the field and I believe their score In such a short time to go ahead was the turning point of the game." The Irish drive was almost as long as the Spartans' dreary train ride back to East Lansing. "We were ready to play," he said.

"We weren't going to lay down and quit just because we lost one game. "This game was very meaningful to us we don't have a conference championship to play for and high national ranking is very important to us. "Theismann had a tremendous day," Par-seghian continued. "I talked to him during the week and told him to forget about Purdue everybody has a bad day." "I kept missing people by Inches last week," explained the polite 20-year-old Junior. "Most people have played us to run, I'm not as good a passer as Terry (Han-ratty), but I felt they had the type of defense we could throw on." -t- Att.

Yds. TO Gain Zleglor 11 5 ft Ban 10 14 1 4 Theismann 10 51 1 24 Allan 2t 102 Huff 1 1 Totals 41 225 1 14 PASSING Att. Comp. Int. Yds.

TD Theismann 33 20 2 24 1 RECEIVING No. Yds. TO GLatn Poskon 1 11 0 11 Gatewood 10 155 1 35 Zieglar 2 51 1 2t Allan "1 "5 "i 20 'J Penn State Survives in Close Call Princeton Turns Fumbles to TDs NEW YORK (UPD Princeton paralayed two Columbia fumbles into a pair of touchdowns and Ellis Moore capped a 58-yard nine-play drive with a one-yard dive for the other score Saturday as the Tigers opened Ivy League play with a 21-7 victory over the Lions. M-Mizzou Statistics Princeton's first TD came after Tiger defender Jim Nixon forced a fumble and Tom Hutchinson recovered on the Columbia 24. Two plays later, Scott MacBean hit flanker Pete Hauck with a 24-yard touchdown pass and Arnie Holtberg kicked the first of the three conversions.

A fumbled punt with 35 seconds remaining in the game set up a 10-yard MacBean to Mark Biros scoring strike far the Tigers' final touchdown. Penn 23, Broicn 2 MICH. 15 12 13 t-27-1 7-M 4 72 H--40 -17 MISS. 13 110 124 2 14 First downs Ruihinq yardage Fusing yardage Return yards 9e Passes Punts Fumole-" Yards pcqaliied Missouri MICHIGAN ND Gets Its Irish Up, 42-28 Continued from First Snorts only three receptions shy of Seymour's school record. Theismann passed the Irish to State's seven late in the third period and slid into the end cone himself on a keeper to make it 24-14, and the teams matched touchdown in the last two minutes of the quarter.

Bill Triplet's 46-yard pass to Gordon Bowdell set up a four-yard TD run by Eric Allen, but the Irish cams right back. They spurted 83 yards in five plays and re-opened the two-touchdown margin as Theismann found Gatewood in the end zone with a 23-yard toss. ANY HOPES the Spartans entertained of staging a comeback were squashed emphatically at the start of the fourth quarter. Irish linebacker Bob Olson blitzed Triplett for a 19-yard loss to his own three and State kicked out at its 36. On a fourth-down play at the 30, i a n's pans was intercepted by Clifton Hardy, but Interference was ruled and Notre Dame got It at the one, Barz barreled in for his third touchdown and Scott Hempel's sixth conversion made it 42-21.

State scored again midway in the finale on Triplett' 35-yard strike to Bowdell, but it was merely a consolation prize. Now all Duffy has to do is get the Spartans ready for their Big Ten opener at Ohio State next Saturday and isn't that some consolation MICH Pl Killian w. run (Brown kick). MO-Staoqers 1 run (Brown kick). MO-Mc8rid 1 run Jbijwr kick).

MICH-Craw 1 run (Titas ckj. MICH Craw 1 run (Tills kick). MO FG Brown 24. MO-Moore 42 run k', (kck MO-Kenemora I Pss from Roper (kick failed). MmM MICHIGAN I' I I "l'- i (a.

t-C Ur i a -v 'a MANHATTAN, ranked Penn State used sophomore Lydell Mitchell's 58-yard touchdown gallop in the second quarter as springboard to whip flred-up but mistake-plagued Kansas State, 17-14, Saturday, stretching the Nittany Lions' winning streak to 14 games. A record K-State crowd of 35,000 watched the lflth ranked Wildcats blow five scoring opportunities before Penn State's Mitchell, a ff-10, 190-pound speedster, broke off tackle on a scissors play with 6:39 left in the first half. Chuck Burkhart, Lion quarterback, went to the air to break open the game in the third quarter, driving the Lions 60 yards in nine plays for a TD after Mike Reitz's 33-yard field goal gave Penn State a 10-0 edge. Penn State 7 II -17 Kansas State I 0 14 14 PSU Mitchell 51 run (Reiti kick). PSU FG Reiti 33.

PSU-Harris 3 run (Reiti kick). KSU-Herron I run (pass failed). KSU-Creed 43 pass from Dickey (Yarnell pess from Dickey). Texas Tech Falls STILLWATER, Okla. U) Oklahoma State capitalized on a major break early in the fourth quarter to surprise Texas Tech Saturday 17-10 in non-conference football.

W. Texas Wins WICHITA, Kan. West Texas State ruined a comeback bid by Wichita State Saturday as Olan Thorn -eson ran for a score with 1 :18 left in the game to give West Texas a 24-14 victory over the Shockers. A Wichita drive late In the game was stopped on the West Texas 87-yard line. Husninu, ATT.

bain 22 14 Less 4 15 17 17 Net 71 -22 I 3 2 11 Douohty Moorehead Gabler Craw Taylor Betts Henry Totals 1 1.1 AU V) 'aV Comp. Inf. Yds. PASSING a 31 I College a 28-24 victory over winless but sutbborn Tulane. Catone, who had tallied all three Eagle touchdowns in an opening game victory over Navy last week, broke over tackle and ran away from the Green Wave defense on his scoring romp after halfback Fred Willis had registered the first three Eagle touchdowns.

WEST POINT, N.Y. (UPI) Texas split end Ross Brupbacher took a short pass from Rocky Self and outma-neuvered two Army defenders for a 27-yard touchdown play midway through the final period Saturday that clinched a 20-13 victory for the Aggies. had taken a 13-10 lead into the fourth quarter on Self's one-yard plunge and Mike Bellar's field goals of 24 and 22 yards. After Dave Elmen-dorf intercepted an Army pass on the Cadet 37, Self scrambled for 11 yards on the second play, then two plays later found Brupbacher in the clear in the right flat. Moorehead Setts Totals PHILADELPHIA (UPD Sophomore Phil Procacci, called on when Pennsylvania lost its two top flight passers by early injuries, shook off first-game shivers Saturday to run 69 yards for one touchdown and pass for two others to rally the Quakers to a 23-2 victory over Brownr Procacci, from Hollywood, a backup quarterback as a freshman and tutored In training camp as a defensive back, literally shouldered Penn's woes when outstanding passer G-ernie Zbrzeznj suffered a complete shoulder separation on Penn's third running plav of the game.

Mike Hockok, who replaced Zbrzeznj, came up with a shoulder separation in the second quarter, and that passed the load to Procacci, playing In his first varsity game. BOSTON (UPI) Halfback Jim Catone raced 68 yards to score with just over two minutes remaining Saturday and give unbeaten Boston Yards 7 22 35 20 IS .27 It RECEIVING Number 1 1 io MISSOURI Henkowlti Craw Staroba Mandich Gabler Totals Net 117 32 I RUSHlWv Att. Gains 1 123 if it Lou IS 21 Moore A cbrtdo Staggers McKee Mauser McMillan Tatati 11 54 331 PASSING Att. Comp. tnt.

Yds. 12 7 1 120 1 2 4 A SPECTACULAR one-handed frrab of touchdown. The play covered 11 yards, this pass by Notre Dame back Bill MSU' Tom Kutschinskl chases vainly Barz stung Michigan State for an early after Ban. McMillan Steoger Roper Totals 1 124 15 A.