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-4 Sunday, Oct 13, '69 DETROIT FREE PP.ES3 Boti Teams Try Rookie Quarterbacks NFL ears. Lions Battle ive in Stay Al put Errol Mann close enough to kick a field goal that beat Philadelphia with two minutes left. So he isn't entirely a maiden. Bobby Williams, an ex-Cardinal, will replace Barney at cornerback. A weekend off may be just what Barney needs.

I'p to the point where he was hurt, he'd played the only two poor games of his career back-to-bark. Gary Collins burned him twice for touchdowns at Cleveland and Carroll Dale of Green Bay took him for two more scores and 167 yards las- Sunday, Somehow, the Lions are a seven-point favorite. With a. 2-2 record, the Lions are nowhere near as desperate as the Bears. However, hairline cracks are starting to appear.

Injuries are catching up to the Detroit club. Quarterback Bill Munson broke a bone in the back of his hand and may be out anywhere from four to eiht weeks, depending on how quickly his body produces calcium to heal the fracture. Right guard Bob Kowalkowski is gone for the season and cornerback Lem Barney won't play against the Bears because of a muscle pull in one leg. REPLACEVG Munson is the greatest athlete ever to come out of the Yankee last time the Chicago club was in town. The Lions won 42-0 and Dooley kept running different quarterbacks into the game.

Actually, Concannon hasn't been so bad this side of the other team's 20 yard line. He's completed 60 percent of his passes and the Bears' offense has outgained the Lions over four weekends of fun and games in the National Football League. There is a 69 yard difference, 1074-1005. But Detroit has scored 82 points to Chicago's 41. THE BEARS have been shutout by both Minnesota and Green Bay, whose defensive units are equally as good as Detroit's.

Conference, tall angular-faced greg Landry of the University of Massachusetts. Physically and mentally he is a splendid prospect. His arm is strong. His intellect, is crisp. His attitude is properly authoritarian.

He is probably a year or two away from full brilliance. Like any young man with minimal experience, he occasionally grows confused by what the enemy is getting ready to do on defense. He will also telegraph a play. HE WAS BEATEN twice in regular seasons games in 1968. But he took the Lions on a drive late in an exhibition with the Eagles at Raleigh that BY WELLS TWOMBLT Even though the professional footbaU.

clubs have exhausted only one-third of their regular season schedule, there are several teams that find themselves already tottering dizzily on the rim of oblivion the Chicago Bears and De troit Lions, for instance. Fortunately, they are matched against each other Sunday at Tiger Stadium and, unless there is a tie score, one of them will come away a trifle less distressed. Kickoff is 1:20 p.m. and a crowd of 52,000 is anticipated. The Lions are undeniably in better condition than the Eears, who have scored only five touchdowns all year, a performance that has resulted In four straight defeats in as many starts.

They are right back where they were this time last season, when they weren't really sure who their quarterback was. ALL MEEK long, Chicago's head coach Jim Dooley has been working Virgil Carter and Bob Douglass, the latter a left-handed rookie, extra hard with the idea of starting one of them against the Lions. He's also been insisting that Jack Concannon, who threw for four of the Bears touchdowns and ran for the other, would take the week end off. If things get grim, all three may participate. It happened that way the Browns Roll over Steelers uffy Is 'Going To the Rose BowV ''4 CLEVELAND (UPD Erich Continued from First Sport Barnes ran 65 yards with one o'a' tf rj i i iwi to his old reliable power I and the Spartans literally ran over the Wolverines, gaining 355 yards from interception and Walt Sumner sprinted 40 yards with another stolen pass for the second-half touchdowns that sparked the Cleveland Browns to a 45-31 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday night.

Barnes' long run came at 6 :39 of the ithind period and Sumner's sprint, the first of six touchdowns scored in the fourth period, was scored with 12:52 to go and came on the second pass thrown in ithe National Football League by formet Notre Dame All-America, Terry Hanratiy. myself after that first fumble." Highsmith said. "That really got me going. It was all my fault. I was trying to adjust the ball and look at the tacklers at the same time and just lost control of it." The victory, coming as it did after the one-sided beatings by Notre Dame and Ohio State, gave the Spartan players a big lift.

"We're going to the Rose Bowl," said Highsmith sounding very serious about life. "We're going to go all the way." He also liked beating Michigan. "IT MEANS you can live around here, he said. "It means you can live here and not hear all the Michigan stuff for a whole year; "It is," he added, "a nice feeling." Bill Triplett, the quarterback who engineered this upset, knew of the talk on the campus that the Spartans just didn't have it this year. "Yeah, I heard the he said.

"You can't do anything about it. You've just 'got to take it and keep doing the best you can." DAUGHERTY called this one "a typical Michigan-Michigan State game." A reporter said: "You mean because you won?" "No, no," said Duffy, so that nobody got the wrong impression." I mean it was a hard hitting affair." He did a nice job of concealing the trace of a smile on the corner of his lips. He was asked how it felt to beat Schembechler in his first year at Michigan. "HE'S A FINE coach," said Daugherty. "He's intense and he's doing a wonderful job over there.

But don't forget, Bump (Elliott) was a fine coach, too. He did a great jub last year eight and two isn't too bad a record." "But it's nice to win this one. It's always our No. 1 game. It means supremacy in your own state." That, of course, helps out in the recruiting talks.

As for spending New Year's in Pasadena, Daugherty concluded by saying, "That's Hanratty came back to throw jit jp. All) AP Photo I a 15-yard TD pass to Earl Gros and another 15-yard pass to Roy Jefferson. With so many of his backs out with injuries Tommy Love, Eric Allen and, earlier, Earl Anderson Daugher-ty decided he didn't have enough players to fill the full house of the veer. SO HE went with just one "ace" halfback Don High-smith. "He was our game plan," quipped Daugherty.

"We, ah, decided, er, to give him the ball quite a bit." Quite a bit, indeed. HighsAiith set a MSU record for Big Ten games by carrying the ball 30 times. He picked up 1-13 yards and for a while there looked like the Mel Farr of his class. Highsmith scored twice and it was a nice thing for the kid since he also fumbled twice and his two bobbles set up ten of Michigan's points. Hi3 41-yard toss to Bob set up a 10-yard touchdown pass from Kent Nix to Jefferson with two (minutes left.

However, the interceptions by Sumner and Bairnes, a 48-yard touchdown pass to Bill Nelsen to Gary Collins and a touchdown run by Reeoe Morrison had enabled the Browns to put the game out of reach. Collins1 48-yard caitch was his second touchodwn of the game and hia sixth of the season. on his back for a first down against Southern AIRBORNE GAIN: Notre Dame's Bill Barz appears to be getting a ride from his teammates as he rolls 'I REALLY got mad at The victory left the BrownH with a 4-1 record and gave them undisputed possession of first place in the Century Divi sion. pretty far away: Tm just concerned about those 350 miles to Iowa. "But, we're back In the running." Statistics Sooners Hang On ans Steelers 70 137 183 225 33-H-4 4 62 jolt 12 First downs Rushing yardaga Passinq yardaga Return yardaga Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Plttsburqh Browni 144 13 212 M-12-4 0 42 21-31 21 43 R- ikiiipn a JaW eai lU-M, MSU 14 348 7 7 UM 19 174 144 23 13-350 First downs Rushing yardaae Passing yardaqe Return yardaga Cleveland 1-4-0 Punts 4-43 Fnmhiet lost 1 3 CLEV-Colllns 4 pass from Nelson (Cocfc roft kick).

PITT Hoak 4 run (Minos kirk) Yards penalized (0 39 Michigan 0 3 7 12 Michigan State 0 14 7 0-U Continued from First Sport CLEV-Kelly 1 run (Cockroft kick). PITT-Minqo 38 FG. CLEV-B a 55 Interception runbacH and Anderson, and the two superstars lived up to their advance publicity. Owens wound up with 112 rushing yards in 28 carries in addition to his four touchdowns. He also completed a pass for 16 yards.

Anderson gained 123 yards in 26 tries and scored three touchdowns. Gncy Rolls, 21-14 MICH FG Klllian 29. MSU Highsmith 2 run (Boyce kick). MSU Trinlett la run (Bovce kick). MSU Safety (Doughty downed ball In end MSU-Hlghsmlth 4 run (Bovce kick).

MirHnniiahtv 7 run (TitaS kick). MICH Safety (Miller stepped out of end zone). ty, blowing one opportunity, then State drove to the Wolverine two yard line with time running out in the half as Bruce Kulesza dropped Trip-lett's low pass in the end zone on fourth down, leaving MSU with a 16-3 halftime edge. THE BIG crowd, topped here only by the 80,011 who MICHIGAN RUSHING Att. Gain Loss.

CINCINNATI (UPD End 50 NORMAN, Okla. OH Oklahoma jumped to a 28-9 lead in the second quarter, then withstood a furious Colorado rally to escape with a 42-30 Big Eight Conference football victory Saturday. A near-capacity crowd of 60,450 saw Colorado battle back to trail only 35-30 when Bob Anderson circled right end and raced 17 yards to score with 2:37 to play. The Buffs tried an onside kick, hoping to regain possession and have a shot at the winning touchdown. The ball bounced crazily through Oklahoma's receiving unit until the Sooners' Lonnie Johnson fell on it at the 3 only a split second ahead of the onrush-ing Buffs.

OKLAHOMA then marched the 69 yards in nine piays, Steve Owens scoring his fourth touchdown of the day from one yard out on the last play of the game. 25 With nine seconds remain- Jim O'Brien caught two touch Net 57 12 18 89 Moorhead Craw Gabler 10 12 20 103 i 4 24 ing, Oklahoma was at the 18 down passes and kicked three Kick Hits Crossbar Irish Tie Continued from First Sport to wrap up a 74-yard parade. But Southern California bounced back with a 75-yard drive ending in an 18-yard touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Jerry Jones to end Terry Dekraai. THEN, THE breaks took command. Defensive back Mike Hudson of Southern California intercepted a Joe Thcismann pass and returned 27 yards to the Irish 15.

This set up the second Trojan score on a 14-yard pass from Jones to end Sam Dickerson. Notre Dunn, trailing by seven points, promptly drove to the Trojan three yard line, but Theisniann lost 15 yards attempting to pass to kill the attack. Then (the Irish got their break. Massive 274-pound tackle Mike McCoy blocked a Southern Cal kick and end Walt Patulski recovered for the Irish on the Trojan seven. On the fourth play, Denny Allen slanted over from the one yard line and after Hem-pel's kick, it was a 14-14 tie.

Doughty 0 2 14 Int. 0 extra points as he led the Uni Yds. TO PASSING Att. Comp. 35 13 and Owens needed seven yards to reach the 100-yard versitv of- Cincinnati to a 21-14 144 Moorhead TD victory over Wichita State Uni versity Saturday afternoon.

Mandlch Gabler last 20 minutes but still the Wolverines could score only on sweet charity. Highsmith bobbled at the MSU 23 early in the fourth quarter and Frank Gusich recovered to set up Doughty's seven yard touchdown run, cutting the deficit to 23-10. THEREAFTER, Moorhead ran himself and MSU ragged, but couldn't beat either the Spartans or the clock. The Wolverine quarterback ran 60 plays one shy of Denny Brown's school record, but Michigan's last drive from its own 13 died six inches short of the end zone. With 52 seconds left, Spartan punter Pat Miller stepped out of the end zone for an Intentional safety to give U-M its last two points.

It was a bad day all around for Michigan fans they didn't even get their $30 rented cow to East Lansing. Somebody at MSU thought it was a lot of bull. RECEIVING Number Yards 9 11B 2 17 1 17 1 12 MICHIGAN STATE RUSHING Hankwitz Harris ltukiivm kiliw. CLEV Sumner 40 interception unback (Cockroft kick). CLEV-Collins 48 pass from Nelson (Cock.

roft kick). PITT Gros 15 pass from Hanratty (Mingo kick). PITT Jefferson 10 pass from Nix (Mingo kick). CLEV-Morrison 1 run (Cockroft kick). PITT Jefferson 15 pass from HanratW (Minqo kick).

-M i Beard Takes Golf Lead At Las Vegas LAS VEGAS (UPD Frank Beard, pro golf's leading money winner this year, zoomed into the lead in the third round of the 72-hole, $100, 000 Sahara Invitational Satur day by firing a flashy six-under-par 65 for a 54-hole total of 206, seven under. A stroke back of him at 207 was Jack Nicklaus, who had a third round 70. In at 208 were Dave Hill and Bob Menne, who also shot 70s. Net TD Att. Gain Loss rushing mark for an unprecedented 13th straight regular-season game.

A play was sent In from the bench, and Owens wheeled 17 yards around left end to pass the century mark again. The game was billed as an Individual duel between Owens 142 1 Triplett Hiqhsmith 129 18 30 13 14 I 134 5 42 0 34 0 0 1 Smith 1 0 0 0 42 34 -1 4 1 Foreman Piro saw the 1966 classic with Notre Dame, sensed new life for the Wolverines, who went into the game ranked 13th nationally. But the wind went out of the sails in the third period when State marched 60 yards to a touchdown, staying on the Tartan turf all the way. Highsmith carried seven times in the nine plays it took and burst through the middle from the 4 yard line for the TD that made it 23-2. The MSU offense took the rest of the sunny afternoon off as Michigan dominated the PASSING Att.

Comp. TD Int. Yds. 0 Triplett 4 1 0 RECEIVING Number Yards 1 7 TD 8 Kough TCU Too Much For Texas FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPD Marty Whelan's 134 yards rushing, Steve Judy's passing and a swarming defense propelled Texas Christian to a 16-6 Southwest Conference victory over Texas AM Saturday.

Whelan didn't get any of Bo: 'We Just Played Poorly Frank Beard Jack Nicklaus Dave Hill Bob Manna Doug Sanders Don January Tony Jacklin Steva Raid Kermlt Zarley Chi Chi Rodriquel Ted Haves Jr. Paul Moran Richard Crawford USC NO First downs IS 11 Rushing yardaq 103 10 Passinq vardaqa 1U II Return yardaga 49 31 Passes 17-35-0 11-19-t Punts 10-38 10-33 Fumbles lost 2 0 Yards penalized 37 45 Southern California 0 0 7 714 Notre Dame 0 0 7 7-14 K-State Romps MANHATTAN, Kan. (UFI) Kansas State unleashed a withering second-half attack Saturday and buried Iowa State, 34-7, in a rainy Big Eight conference football game. Nebraska Wins LINCOLN, Neb. on Nebraska turned defeat into victory with a touchdown in the last 82 seconds of play Saturday, nipping Kansas, 21-17, in a see-saw Big Eight game.

Missouri Rallies COLUMBIA, Mo. (UPD Quarterback Terry McMillan passed for one touchdown and ran for another to spark a 22-point second quarter that carried fifth-ranked Missouri to a mud-caked 31-21 Big Eight victory over Oklahoma State Saturday in a driving rain, BG 7, Kent 0 KENT, O. (UPD Bowling Green limited Don Nottingham to 50 yards Saturday and beat Kent State university, 7-0, in a Mid -American Conference game. Tulsa Boivs, 38-20 TULSA (UPD Quarterback Bill Cappleman tossed three touchdown passes Saturday afternoon as he led the Florida State Seminoles to a 38-20 victory over Tulsa. OSU Beats Minnesota Continued from First Sport down that gave Ohio State a 20 0 halftime lead.

Minnesota linebacker Rich Crawford scooped up Rusnak's fumble in the third period and raced 51 yards to the Ohio State 21, setting up Carter's six-yard touchdown run, THE BUCKEYES, stopping the Gophers on the 13 after Hagen's third fumble, iced the game with Leo Hayden's seven-yard touchdown run. Rex Kern, shaken up in the second period, returned to quarterback the Bucks on the march with his nimble ballhandling. Ray Gillian completed the Buckeye scoring witn a one- 9.72-45-hJO a-4-70-2O7 71-47-70-208 44- 72-70208 45- 71-73 20 48-73-68-209 70-4 9-70-209 70- 48-71-209 48-70-72210 69- 48-73-210 66-71-73-210 71- 70-69-210 70- 72-48-210 69- 7249-210 71- 71-48210 70- 71-69-210 70-71-70-211 72- 70-49-211 74-70-47211 72-68-71211 48-72-71-211 ND Ban i run (Hempel kick). G.rie;ione USC-DeKraal II pass from Jones (Ayala JJIJj fnltm 1 Peter Townsend USC Dickerson 14 pass from Jones (Ayala Homero Blancas kick). Jim Colbert Dale Douglass Fred Marti ND Allan 1 run (Hempel kick), A-5W5.

TCU's points, but he set the tempo of the game when he carried the ball the first five plays of the pame for 36 yards and his running set up Judy's one-yard plunge for TCU's first score, Judy's 10-yard flip to Linzy Cole for another in the second quarter and Busty Underwood's 44 -yard field goal in the third. It was one of Whelan's few bad moments that paved the way for the Aggies' only points, a 15-yard fourth quarter pass from Rocky Self to Ross Brupbacher after Whelan's sliced a nine-yard punt off the side of his foot at the TCU 89. Until then, Whelah had averaged 47.1 yards on six kicks and generally had been yard plunge in the final period. OHIO ST. MINN GOLF CARS For Golf Couriet, Estatt end Commercial Transportation New and Used Over 200 to Cheese From Electric or Gasoline from $195.00 Seme beautiful Some good Some fair Free Delivery Within SO Miles First downs Rushinq yardaga Passing yardaaa Return yardaga Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized 24 25 288 139 141 304 33 73 1-17-0 24-47-1 5-32 4-34 1 5 IB 12 14-: 0 7 0 a nuisance to the Aggies.

He also had a big hand in helping TCU control the ball the final 7:56 of the game after a recovered fumble had given them possession Just 30 seconds following 34 Bo knew that MSU moved the ball on the ground and expected a rushing game, but when he was told the Spartans moved it for 348 yards, he shook his head. "That's terrible you can't win a football game that way, not unless you're scoring 30 or 40 points." And Michigan didn't. Why didn't the Wolverines pass sooner? Why did they wait until the obvious third down and long yardage? "The wind (gusting to 30 miles an hour) was bad it really swirled. That wasn't a passing field. That wasn't the difficulty anyway, the way we were catching the ball." Schembechler was surprised by split end Frank Foreman's runs from slotback four times for 36 yards "but we expected them to do something with the other guy (Eric Allen) out of there (ankle injury)- We figured they'd go to two tight ends and a split end." But Schembechler said that wasn't the difference in game, either.

"Michigan Stat? played very well and we just didn't play well," he said. Continued from First Sport catching a Spartan punt at the one and backing into the end zone. "You can always tell a sophomore," Bo said and added: "But you can't tell him much. They're just kids." rn had his problems, too, with the officials for the second straight week. The former scourge of Mid-American Conference officials pulled an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the Purdue game for going on the field and arguing on a call the officials did boot.

This time he was hit with 15 yards when he vociferously objected to a clipping call on a play which had given U-M a first down near midfield at the start of the second half. V-M trailed then, 16-3. "It was a perfect block," Bo said. "He just missed the call." So instead of first down at midfield, U-M was third and 23 at its own nine and had to punt. SCHEMRECHLER went into the locker room at the half feeling "13 points isn't too far down," and then he was surprised when MSU chose to kick off in the second half instead of receive.

14 0 Ohio Stata Minnesota osu-otis I run (kick failed). osu-otis i run lienna pa si Tram Kern). aBaaUlMBxu GETTHE HOLIDAY INN HABIT Ji pANDGO! rrjoaansHBD OSU-Rusnak 25 pass to Jankowskl (kick failed). MINN-Carter 4 run (Nyqren kick). tRedWinzS OSU Hayden 7 run (S.

white kick). OSU Gillian 1 run (S. White kick). Attendance 53,014 cHockgytgF DETROIT vs ST. LOUIS SUNDAY 7 P.M.

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