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i'l i KU1 I I i is it in An Oi t. 4. 7f! A i I ,1 0 1 '0 6 rTi -Li. Cy Oil ViLO BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Editor EAST LANSING Ara Parseghian liked the final score, and that's about all. he liked about Notre Dame's 29-0 r.bfnp over Michigan State Saturday.

The head coach of the Irish didn't like, the air in Spartan Stadium and he didn't like the turf. The clouds were oxay. was Notre Dame's first game synthetic surface and Ara's Armenian eyes, were hardly smiling after it-was over. He won big but lost his best runner in the process, while several of his players had trouble making jfaround the smooth, hard surface. one of our guys even got "hurt in practice," Parseghian fumed afterward.

"He had to go back to the dressing room and get all taped up we couldn't use him until the second half." That was Larry Parker, a second-istiring halfback on the Irish. onto the synthetic surface, Parseghian brought his team to Michigan a day early and for two days they worked out in the big Michigan Stadium. "Our players seemed to adjust to it, but you've still got to prove to me you've got less chance of getting hurt on it," Parseghian said. And as for the wind, well, Ara said it was coming out of the south-southwest (he must have majored in meteorology) and he said it was swirling so much that it was impossible to tell which direction it was blowing. He contends it cost the Irish a touchdown.

THAT WOULD be the first time the Irish had the ball and quarterback Joe Theismann was intercepted for, the only time of the day. Theismann then threw into the arms of MSU defensive back Brad Van Pelt on the 12. "The wind caused that one," said Par because, as he told his players in the locker room after the game: "Boys, you've done something no Notre Dame team in history has ever done shut out Purdue and Michigan State on consecutive weekends." Last week it was Notre Dame 48, Purdue 0. "Listen," Parseghian told the press," "anytime you can put two shutouts together in modern college football, you're defense is out there doing something. "I'm pleased that we beat both jinxes beating Purdue for the first time in four years and winning here for the first time since 1949." The Irish are now 3-0 and, as for going to a bowl game, Parseghian thinks his lads can play just a little better than .500 ball from now on and they can play in one of the post-season games.

"I think if we finished 7-3, I believe the university would consider going to a bowl," he said, and he kept a straight face when he said it. He did not elabo seghian. "It was blowing so hard it made the ball act like a knuckleball. Considering the conditions, Ithought Theismann did an outstanding job." Theismann hit 12 of 17 passes for 147 yards, and he ran for another 113 yards on 13 tries and Parseghian kept his No. 1 boy in all the way even though the game was locked up.

Was Ara up to his old tricks of trying to impress the pollsters? "Oh, no," he said, "It was nothing like that. The polls had nothing to do with it. I just wanted us to generate something after going so long without a score when I kept Joe in there. "I was just trying to eliminate any major mistakes which may have given Michigan State a chance to come back." Parseghian, however, accepted the final touchdown with 15 seconds to play 2nd 29-0 always looks better than 22-0 when you're trying to make a national name for yourself. PARSEGHIAN liked winning this one The big loss was Dennis the team's leading runner.

He went out with a badly sprained ankle when Notre Dame scored its second touchdown early in the second quarter and, in truth, the Irish were not quite as dangerous the rest of the day. "I'VE GOT to challenge the statement that this kind of turf cuts down on injuries," Parseghian said. "It may be good, to play when you've got inclement weather or if there's eight inches of snow on the ground, but I have to question this propaganda that it's safer than grass." "We got two or three ankle injuries on it today and I saw Bo Schembech-ler over at Michigan and he says he's got a. lot of injuries and Duffy's got them here so by no stretch of the imagination am I convinced this is the thing to play on." Notre Dame plays on the old-fashioned stuff grass and since this was the first time the Irish stepped rate on how the Irish might lose three times this season. THE NOTRE DAME battery of Theismann and split end Tom Gatewood.

(who caught nine passes for 177 yards) backed up their boss by saying they didn't like the Tartan Turf either. "You can get quick starts but it also makes you stop quicker and that tires you out," said Gatewood. Gatewood gave credit to the Michigan State pass defenders, saying the Spartan secondary was the toughest he has run against this season. "They take away the deep pass from you," said Gatewood. As for the wind, Gatewood said the only problem was that "it blew the sound of the audibles all over the stadium and I didn't know what play Joe was calling sometimes." Theismann said the artificial grass "just takes something away from the game." And then he added with a smile: "Anyway, it's easier falling on grass." borhead Silences Birds 'at U- t- it i 4 i i "A lot of it has been he said quietly, looking down at his gold Michigan blazer.

"I just haven't been doing the job." There are some, including coach Bo Schembechler, who might not agree with Moorhead about doing the job. A man can't win garhes alone, they say. It takes blocking, ball-carrying and pass-catching and the Wolverines' offense has not been consistent in any of those categories. MOORHEAD GOT one of his few injuries Saturday, being clobbered and momentarily stunned when he dived to the one-yard line in the second quarter. But he came back later and didn't hesitate to run the same play the play which won the game in the fourth quarter.

And, if that isn't doing the job what is? NOTES 'N' QUOTES: The question had to come up. Ohio State trampled Texas 56-13, Michigan squeaked by, 14-10. What the comparison? "It makes no difference to me," said Schembechler. "They can compare all they want to. Let me give you an example.

Last year Ohio State beat Michigan State and Michigan State beat the tar out of us. But on the last game of the season, we beat Ohio State." "Michigan's defense and Ohio State's are both very good," was all Aggie coach Gene Stallings had to say. Michigan fullback Fritz Seyferth, who carried the ball four times for two net yards last season, finished with 64 yards in 12 carries. "I never had any doubts we'd win the game," said Seyferth, the workhorse in the winning drive. "I was just hoping that one mistake wouldn't stop the drive." Schembechler was asked if he planed to change his offense for next Saturday's game with Purdue.

"You telling me you don't like my plays?" he snapped, then grinned and continued, "they worked last year." BY CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer ANN A 0 1 1 isn't often a college quarterback gets booed. And when it happens, it isn't a very pleasant experience. 1 Jt happened to Michigan quarterback Don Moorhead Saturday, but that wasn't what was bothering him. It wasn't the booing that made him dress faster than anybody else on the winning Michigan team and duck out of the dressing room ahead of his teammates. XfTER ALL, he had silenced the boo-birds Mie.did it by directing the fourth-quarter touchdown drive and racing into the end zone for the winning touchdown in the 14-10 Victory over Texas I heard 'em," he grinned, as he stbod outside the stadium walls almost unnoticed.

"Let 'em boo. They booed Bo two weeks ago, too, but they don't know what's going" on down there." It was something heavier than that on Moorhead's mind. "Don't get me wrong," he said quickly. happy with our 3-0 record. It's better than we were last year at this time.

But I'm disappointed the offense hasn't moved well. "I'm the quarterback and the leader and I eel bad about it." THE WOLVERINES have had a tough time winning all three games because they have not a scoring punch. Two touchdowns per game, plus three field goals, has been the extent of the season's scoring. "We just haven't been able to move the explained Moorhead. "In the second half against Washington, we moved it; but today, we couldn't get going.

It was always something a fumble or an interception or something. "And I haven't been able to come up with the big play. It would help if I could come out on third down and, if the receivers were covered, scramble for a first down. That gives the whole team a lift. Fre Press Photo by DICK TRIPP Wolverine back Bill Taylor (42) crashes over from the one-yard line to score first U-M TD Who'll Play QB For Spartans Now U-M Scores Late, Wins Over Aggies Continued from First Sport one way knock 'em out of Schembechler said.

"And that's what they did." The Wolverines took the ball on their own 38 yard line and Seyferth set the machine in motion with a 10-yard gain over right tackle. Spartans Routed by Irish, 29-0 Continued from First Sport a the Spartans might surprise the South Bend behemoths. But State's drive stalled on its 47 and the hopes of most of the 76,103 fans began to wilt in the cold, overcast afternoon. Beginning at its 21, Notre Dame electing to stay on the ground all the way rammed the ball down State's throat 13 times for 79 yards, highlighted by Bob Minnix's 33-yard dash from the Irish 40 to MSU's 27. It took the Irish three attempts from the -y a line, but they finally crashed the Spartan, wall for the touchdown by fullback Bill Barz.

Scott Hempel's conversion made it 7-0 and the Irish were off and running toward their 20th win in 26 games with MSU, beginning in 1897. ERIC "The Flea" Allen, the Spartan flankerback, tqpk the ensuing kickoff from Spartan 11 to the Irish 47 for a 42-yard return. However, State's offense began to sputter. Three plays after Allen's sprint, State had to punt as it did 10 times" during the game and Theismann, with a one touchdown lead, exerted less caution and more precision by completing two 17-yard passes to Gate-wood, then keeping for a 37-yard dash and a three-yard lurch to State's 12. Four plays later, speedster Bob Minnix swept right end for the TD.

The Irish for 237 yards and passed for 82 as Theismann completed five of seven. The Spartans could muster only 66 yards on the ground and 19 in the air as Rasmussen completed only-two of nine attempts. These latter statistics are more indicative of Notre Dame's alert secondary and rushing defensive line than Rasmussen's throwing ability. The Irish scored the last touchdown of the first half with 8:37 left by going 64 yards in seven quick plays. THEISMANN tossed a 39-yard pass to Gatewood that took Notre Dame from its own 36 to the a a 25.

Then the 6-foot, 170-pound Heisman trophy candidate relied on the steady running of Barz, Ed Gulyas and Minnix to charge to the Spartan two, from where Barz got his second TD of the day. On the conversion, Theismann, holding for 1, bobbled the ball, retrieved it, and ran around right end for two points that put Notre Dame up Parseghian, apparently with one eye on the Tartan Turf, and another on the national' polls, left Theismann in until less than two minutes to go in the fourth period, when he was relieved by sophomore Pat-, Steenberge. Notre Dame capped the scoring with 16 seconds to go. culminating a 15-play, 62-yard Sophomore Larry Park-er, the second-string halfback, busted in from the four-yard line. Spartan-Irish Statistics But the redheaded southpaw encourtered all sorts of trouble against the Irish.

BY JOE FALLS Free Presi Sports Editor EAST LANSING And now, with that big bully, Wayne Woodrow Hayes, coming to town for the next game, what does Duffy Daugherty do? That is, who does he go with at quarterback? Among the things that got scrambled in Michigan State's 29-0 loss to Notre Dame Saturday was the No. 1 quarterback spot on the Spartans and now that didn't take long, did it? IT SEEMED as if young Mike Rasmussen had a lock on the job, especially with his three touchdown passes against Washington state a week ago. Archie Leads Ole Miss Past Alabama, 48-23 No Foul Play In Crash-FBI SEYFERTH kept it going with a 16-yard run around right end and a -y a gain off left tackle. Moments later, he blasted four yards for a first down and by now the Wolverines were on the Texas 23, where the going got tougher. Seyferth gained ll of those final 23 yards and Moorhead had nine, including.

the rollout around the left end for the six-yard touchdown run into the corner. Seyferth finished the game as Michigan's top ground-gainer with 64 yards, Moorhead had 44. It was Moorhead's most trying day in two years as the Michigan quarterback, as he completed only three of IS passes. But his i dropped at least four more that should have been caught. James completed ll of 24 passes for 123 yards and had one intercepted.

His hard-running backs, Doug Neil and Burks, finished with 99 and 70 yards rushing, respectively. M-Texas Statistics players knew the planes were Mrs. Ho'lis Bruce, mother of Mike Bruce, 21, a Wichita State tackle who survived the crash, said she once told a group of players she would like to travel with the team. "We can't let you do that, Mrs. Bruce," she said one player joked, "if you saw the airplanes we fly, you wouldn't us go." The planes built in the late 1940s and early 1950s were owned by the Jack Richard Aviation Co.

of Oklahoma City and leasted to Wichita State University. Among those killed in the crash were head football coach Ben Wilson, athletic director A. C. Katzenmeyer a former University of Michigan golf coach and state legislator Raymond E. King and their wives.

He slickered them on his first passing attempt with a surprise toss on third down for a 17-yard gain, but after that he had trouble finding his targets in the 1 1 i winds of Spartan Stadium. He finished 2-for-10, for only 19 yards, and was replaced by George Mihaiu, the 19-year-old sophomore from River Rouge, in the middle of the second half. MIHAIU gave the Spartans their only real spark of the day, but he did it with his option running and not his passing. He was no better than 2-for-9 for 11 yards, but he kept the Notre Dame defenders off balance with his tricky rollouts which netted 47 yards in seven tries. In the quiet of the MSU dressing room, Daugherty indicated that Rasmussen was still No.

1. He said he pulled him for Mihaiu because he thought Notre Dame might be vulnerable to the option play. THOSE CLOSE to this team, though, felt he pulled Rasmussen simply because he wasn't getting the job done. Duffy 1 a it safe and said: "We'll use both of them in the future." In Daughterty's opnion, the final score was 22-0 instead of 29-0. He was ready to dis-count Notre Dame's final tally with 15 seconds to go "because our defense just got tired." "We did a good job of holding them off after it got to 22-0 and you can't blame that last one on them," said Duffy.

"We were beaten by a very fine football team. They did everything well good blocking, solid defense and versatile offense. "THEIR quarterback (Joe Theismann) did a good job of passing in very adverse conditions. The wind was really gusty out here. "The key was completing only four passes for 30 yards.

I don't know if they were covering our receivers that well or if our passers weren't spotting them. "You have to be able to move the ball both in the air and on the ground to beat a team like Notre Dame. Our offense did not have any con-t i i y. When we did have good field position, we botched it up with mistakes." JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-Archie Manning pitched three touchdown passes and scored two others, and Vernon Studderd raced 100 yards untouched on a kickoff return Saturday night as seventh-ranked Mississippi belted No.

17 Alabama, 48-23, in a nationally televised college football game. The Crimson Tide, helped by a 37-yard pass interference penalty, whittled the lead from 26-3 to 26-17 in the third quarter when quarterback Neb Hayden and Johnny Musso combined for a 10-yard touchdown pass. But Manning, leading contender for the Heisman Trophy, quickly rallied the Rebels again, throwing an eight-yard touchdown pass to Studderd, then scoring on al4-yard run. Unburn Tops Kentucky LEXINGTON, Wallace Clark's touchdown on a 84-yard kickoff-return and his 167 yards rushing 6parked Auburn 'to 24 second-half points Saturday and the llth-ranked Tigers came from behind to defeat Kentucky, 33-15, and spoil the Wildcats' homecoming. Clark's dramatic return which gave Auburn the lead at 16-15, came with 9:53 left in the third quarter after Kentucky's Bobby Jones had kicked his third field goal of the game, a school record 46-yarder.

Ga. Tech Posts No. 4 ATLANTA (AP) Brilliant running by Brent Cunningham and the poise of veteran quarterback Jack Williams sparked Georgia Tech to a 28-7 victory over Clemson Saturday. IV. Carolina Rallies "NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Nineteenth ranked North Carolina scored a touchdown and a field goal in the fourth quarter here Saturday night to come from behind and defeat Vanderbilt, 10-7, in a non-conference football game. Georgia Falls, 7-6 JACKSON, Miss. Quarterback Joe Reed passed and ran for 26 yards in a short 32-yard second period touchdown drive Saturday as Mississippi State stunned Georgia 7-6, giving the Maroons two straight Southeastern Conference victories for the first time since 1963. Free Presi Wirt Services SILVER PLUME, Colo. -A federal disaster crew searched Saturday for the cause of a power loss that forced the crash of a 20-year-old airplane on a Colorado mountainside, killing 29 persons.

Among the victims were 13 members of the Wichita State University football team. The FBI denied reports that it was investigating possible sabotage or any relation to four bombings in Wichita Friday, the day the plane and the players took their, final trip, across the Rocky Mountains. "There is absolutely no evidence, no that we should investigate the possibility of sabotage," said John F. Morley, assistant special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office. Eleven survivors, two listed in critical condition, were in two Denver hospitals.

In Wichita, messages of sympathy and offers to help poured onto the Wichita State campus. Individuals and companies in the area supplied private planes to carry relatives of the dead and injured to Colorado, and there were offers of money and blood donations for the injured. THE PLANE that crashed, a twin-engine Martin 404, was one of two chartered aircraft carrying the football team, athletic officials and ethers to Logan, Utah, for a game with Utah State Saturday. The game was canceled. The second plane-a smaller Martin 202 arrived safely at Logan.

The 33 players aboard that plane returned home by commercial airliner Saturday. Apparently, some of the Love That Casanova! BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) Tailback Tommy Casanova ran for two touchdowns and Andy Hamilton added two more as Louisiana. State defeated Baylor, 31-10, Saturday night. Vols Shell Army, 48-3 KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

Tennessee bombed Army from the air and ripped big holes in its line Saturday for a 48-3 victory in an intersectional football game. S. Carolina 24, VP1 7 COLUMBIA, S.C.-(AP) Reserve quarterback Jackie Young led South Carolina to a 24-7 football victory over Virginia Tech Saturday night. Gators Limp In, 146 GAINESVILLE, Fla.dJPD Florida's rejuv. enated defense, sparked by sophomore John Clifford's three pass interceptions, saved the heavily favored Gators and hard-earned 14-6 victory over winless North Carolina State Saturday.

The usually potent Florida aerial offense was sluggish. Razorbacks Romp, 42-14 FORT WORTH, raising Bill Burnett, who has scored more touchdowns than any other player in Southwest Conference history, ran for four more Saturday night, sending 11-ranked Arkansas to a 42-14 thrashing of demoralized Texas Christian. Doughty MoerhMd Teylor Henry Seyferth Toteli MICHIGAN RUSHING Net AH. Ydi. Loil Yds.

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