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In This Section College Football Scores Page 6 The Inside of Sports Page 8 Outdoors with Opre Page 9 Uclroil ifrcc 33 SECTION Sports SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1977 U-M Clii us Badeer reals. il A riHTTK TTft With arra ge How Top 20 Fared How the Top 20 teams in the Associated Press major college football poll fared this weekend: 1 Michigan (6-0) crushed Wisconsin, 56-0. 2 Texas (5-0) edged Arkansas, 13-9. 3 Colorado (5-0-1) knotted by Kansas, 17-17. 4 Alabama(5-l)topped Tennessee, 24-10.

5 Ohio State (5-1) breezed past Iowa, 27-6. 6 Southern Cal (5-1) coasted past Oregon, 33-15. 7 Oklahoma (5-1) trimmed Missouri, 21-17. 8 Arkansas (4-1 nipped by Texas, 1 3-9. 9 Nebraska (4-2) upended by Iowa State, 24-21.

10 Penn State (5-1) downed Syracuse, 31-21. 11 Notre Dame (4-1) blitzed Army, 24-0. 12 Kentucky (5-1) cruised past LSU, 33-13. 13 Texas A (4-1) clipped Baylor, 38-31. 14 Wisconsin (5-1) overwhelmed by Michigan, 56-0.

15 Texas Tech (5-1) routed Rice, 42-7. 16 Louisiana State (3-2) fell to Kentucky, 33-13. 17 Pittsburgh (4-1-1) over Navy, 34-17. 18 Florida (2-1-1) does not play. 19 Houston (3-2) surprised by SMU, 37-23.

20 California (5-1) stomped on Oregon State, 41-17. 81 yards on the opening" drive of the game. Statistics may lie in some cases but not this time. The Wolverines outgained Wisconsin, 419-41 on the ground, 546-126 in total yardage, and had a 25-8 advantage in first downs. "We played a great football team today," said Wisconsin coach John Jardine, who had wondered in recent weeks why his Badgers had gone relatively unnoticed in spite of the unbeaten record.

"They embarrassed us. We got beat by a hell of a team." What's more, the Wolverines did it at less than full strength. Please turn to Page 4D, Column 7 BY CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR No more can they say over at the University of Wisconsin that nobody takes them seriously. The Badgers got all the attention, the respect and the recognition they've been clamoring for all season. From the No.

1 -ranked University of Michigan, of all things. In retrospect, it might be said now that the Wolverines overreacted. Playing as though it was the Rose Bowl gameor maybe the Super Bowl, the Wolverines booted Wisconsin out of first place in the Big Ten football race with an unmerciful 56-0 victory before 104,892 fans at Michigan Stadium on yet another (that's five in a row) dreary, drizzly Saturday afternoon. It was the Badgers' first loss after five straight victories in their best start in 56 years. They even had the best record in the Big Ten ahead of Michigan and Ohio State until they carried their quest for glory one step too far.

"We played this one as a big game and it turned out that way," said U-M coach Bo Schembechler. "Before the game, we were so loud in here (the dressing room) you could hardly hear yourself talk," said linebacker Ron Simpkins. "We respected them. They were 5-0 and leading the Big Ten. They had a shot at the Big Ten championship." "We wanted to go out, take it to 'em and show what kind of a football team we are," said quarterback Rick Leach.

"Fortunately, everything clicked." IT CLICKED SO WELL, the Wolverines are now 6-0 for the season, back on top of the Big Ten with a 3-0 record of their own, and once again zeroing in on the season-ending showdown with Ohio State. With the help of Leach, who enjoyed his most effective passing day of the season, and reserve tailback Roosevelt Smith, who filled in for Harlan Huckleby with a 156-yard performance, the Wolverines produced probably their most impressive offensive display of the season. And for the third straight week, they Wolverines looked like anything but the old dull-and-boring ground huggers they are supposed to be. Leach completed 10 of 16 passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns (to tight ends Qoug Marsh and Gene Johnson) before additional passes became unnecessary. Leach also scored once on a two-yard run; Smith scored twice; fullback Russell Davis got over the goal line on a 37-yard run; and freshman tailback Stan Edwards scored his first TD at U-M, as did frosh quarterback B.J.

Dickey. The Badgers didn't cross midfield until the closing minutes of the game and were really never in contention after Leach took U- vr OK, Jo, Let's Come m' Back Dou-n lo Earth ANN ARBOR Pass, pass, pass. Is that all Bo can do? How dull. How boring. How unimaginative.

Anybody can fling a football through the air. It takes no great skill to grab it by the laces and let fly. Even Milt Plum used to make his living out of throwing the ball around. Doesn't my man know that you can't win in the Big Ten by passing the ball? Run the ball, Bo. Up the middle.

Off tackles. Around the ends. AU my teaching, all my training, hasn't meant a thing. My man is just too subborn. Pass, pass, pass.

That's all he's got on his mind these days. Alas. Maybe he's looking for a pro job. Or maybe it's just his German strain starting to show, like he thinks he's the head coach of the Luftwaffe. I just don't know what's gotten into him.

There he was, flinging it around right from the start against Wisconsin and look what happened. It quickly became no contest at all. People were leaving after the third quarter. That's got to hurt the hot dog sales. I'm afraid what might happen is that Bo will beat the Fat Man on Nov.

1 9, then put it to Southern Cat in the Rose Bowl and finish it off against the Oakland Raiders in the Super Bowl. Then where are we? What'll we have left to write about? Don Canham has to talk to this man. We can't have Bo making a mockery of the game by putting some pizazz into his attack. The next thing you know, he'll be spitting on Canham's carpet -M of), WiM'oiiMii 0 RECEIVING Wise, Charles 4-24, Braker 1-29. Mich, G.

Johnson 3-52, Clayton 3-45, R.Smith 2-22. Mich 25 71-419 Wise 8 30-41 85 127 112 0 First Downs Rushes-yards Passino Yards Return Yards Passes Punls FumDIes-lost Penalties-yards 0- 0 2156 Wisconsin Michigan 9-26-2 10-17-1 9-41 2-51 4-3 3-1 1-3 2-22 Mich Marsh 7 pass from Leach (Willner kick) Mich Leach 2 run (Willner kick) Mich R.Smith 2 run (Willner kick) Mich G.Johnson 22 pass from Leach (Willner kick) Mich R.Davis 37 run (Labun kick) Mich Smith 2 run (Labun kick) Mich Edwards 3 run (Labun kick) Mich Dickey 2 run (Labun kick) A 104,892 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Wise, Malfhews 5-27, Beuscher 6-21. Mich, R.Smith 25-157, R.Davis 19-105, King 8-26, Leach 6-32, Edwards 5-23, Dickey 3-65. PASSING Wise, Kalasmiki 2-9-1-41, Green 3-9-0-16, Dudley 4-8-1-28. Mich, Leach 10-16-1-127, Dickey 0-1-0-0.

Free Press Photo by CRAIG PORTER Doug Marsh snares U-M scoring pass as Wisconsin defender Scolt Erdniann misses GULLETT GOES FOR CLINCHER TODAY LA Yanks Go 2-Up on BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES Ice down the champagne. Start collecting confetti for that ticker-tape parade. The only question now is where the New York Yankees will clinch the baseball championship of the world: Here, Sunday afternoon, or back home in New York early next week. The best team money could buy slapped a "Sold" sign on the title Saturday afternoon, all tut eliminating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-2. Ron Guidry, the gutty little lefthander who wbn big ball-games for the Yankees all year while Catfish Hunter and Don Gullett made the big Game 4 NEW YORK LOS ANGELES dbrhbi ab bi and breaking curfew.

I mean, these have been very peaceful afternoons in Ann Arbor. When a man works all week long in a place like Detroit, he deserves a chance to go some place on the weekends where he can sit down and relax and enjoy the autumn air. What Will the Man Do Next? These have been very restful afternoons these past nine years. Now, you never know what Bo's going to do. He passes on first down.

He passes on second down. He passes on third down. It's very nerve-wracking. I didn't get a chance to nap more than a half-hour in the 56-0 rout of the Badgers. My back hurts a little from sitting on the edge of my seat.

You gotta cut it out, Bo. The excitement is too much. The statistics will show the Wolverines ran 419 yards on the ground cofnpared to only 127 through the air. But don't let that fool you. When Bo had to have it at the start he had Rick Leach flinging it around like a Frisbee.

The kid tried four passes the very first time the Wolverines had the ball. He usually tries four in the month of October. He came right back and tried three more the next time the Wolverines were in possession. Result: Michigan 14, Wisconsin 0. The rout was on and the rest was easy.

Leach tried seven more passes in the second quarter and then, while the poor Badgers were looking skyward, the Wolverines started up that old ground game of theirs and it became a sorry spectacle. The pass will do that to you. It makes people nervous to see six points go up so easily. Wisconsin was so shaken that the Badgers never got out of their own end until the final two minutes. By then, they would have needed a neutron bomb to get even.

Speaking of Wisconsin: Who were the Badgers playing when they ran up those five straight victories Tampa Bay? This was the most inept performance by a Big Ten team in Ann Arbor in many a year. The Badgers couldn't run, they couldn't pass and they couldn't tackle. It should be so easy the next time our guys play for first place. The Badgers were a non-team. They gained 41 yards running and 85 yards passing.

Or how about this for a statistic: Of the 158 plays from scrimmage, 125 were started in Wisconsin territory. That meant they never used half the field all afternoon. Maybe it was an experiment. Maybe Canham is thinking of renting out the other half for a flea circus. Or to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

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All the Yanks need do now is win once more either Sunday afternoon when Don Gullett goes against L.A.'s Don Sutton, or next Tuesday or Wednesday night in New York and George Steinbrenner's millions will be money well spent. The Yankees weren't supposed to be able to win in Dodger Stadium, where the Total New York 030 00 1 000-4 Los Angeles 00200000 02 DP Los 2. LOB New York 1 os Angeles 4 2B Jackson, Chamblisi, Rhoden, Cey. HR Lopes (I), Jackson (I). SB Lopes.

Guidrv. ERBB SO 2 3 7 3 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 IP Guidry (W.1-0) 9 1 Rhoden 7 Garman I A 55,995. proximity of the outfield fences further enhances Los Angeles' formidable power. But they've won two in a row in the Dodgers' own ballpark, and Yankees' manager Billy Martin isn't at all anxious to force the Dodgers to return to New York next week. "I don't want to be mean to our New York fans," said Martin, "but I want to go back to New York a winner.

I'd rather celebrate all they way home rather than worry about a sixth or seventh game. "We can be tough in this ball park, believe me. And we'll be up for tomorrow's game just like it was the first game of the World Series. We haven't won it yet but we're in an awfully good position." On the other hand, Dodgers' manager Tom Lasorda was making plans Saturday to return to New York. It was cither that Please turn to Page 3D, Column 3 AP Photo Teammates led by Reggie Jackson (44) surround infield Saturday after stifling LA with a four-hitter to pitcher Ron Guidry as he walks off the Dodger Stadium give New York a commanding lead in the World Series.

SU Lucky to Get 'Dumb 13-13 as a computer. Bo finally got it all wired together. The Wolverines lost only one fumble, they had only one pass intercepted and they committed only two penalties. That's almost perfect football compared to what went on in the first five weeks. We can look for some more 56-0 games, what with powers like Minnesota and Iowa and Northwestern and Purdue coming up.

Harlan Huckleby sat this one out with a pulled leg muscle. Bo's a cutie. He kept that one quiet all week long. But who says he's suppressing the news? Our man wouldn't do such a thing. The big tailback wasn't missed.

Not in the least. Bo just fused a few more wires to his computer and it spilled out a young man named Roosevelt Smith. Smith looked like another Walter Payton. He carried the ball 25 times and gained 157 yards. Huckleby for the Heisman? How about Smith for the Smithsonian? So, our boys remain No.

1 in the national rankings. This 56-0 count will look awesome in New Smyrna Beach and Walla Walla and Bogalusa. That's the way you stay up there run up the points. Bo knows this, too. Why do you think he kept Leach in there when it was 35-0 in the final quarter? But our man has io settle down.

He's got to get back to basics. Up the middle. Off tackle. Around the ends. That passing is strictly B.

Daring and brilliant. That made it 13-12 and Rogers went with Hans Nielsen's reliable toe to get the tie. "HEY," ROGERS SAID, "nobody hates a tie any worse than I do, but by that time we had lost six players and two of them Kirk Gibson and Leroy McGee are instrumental in our two-point play. "How we got the touchdown was unbelievable, anyway. We're fortunate as heck we got the dumb tie.

The circumstances just dictated we'd better take the tie." Lee Corso, Indiana's colorful coach, declined to comment on Rogers' decision to go for the tie. But he had plenty to say about Malinosky's touchdown. "That fumble went right up in the air and, so help me God, the Please turn to Page CD, Column 1 regained his composure Freud kicked the 40-yard field goal, the longest of his career. And those three points enabled the Hoosiers to break MSU's five-game winning streak over them. "We made a mental mistake," Rogers said, proving once again his mastery of the understatement.

"Nobody should have called a timeout in a situation like that. I went straight up off the sidelines, just like everybody else, when it was called. But I don't want to dwell on it and I don't want to say who was responsible, and we have to live with it." The ill-timed timeout was just one of the day's ironies. Indiana thoroughly dominated every offensive statistic: 30 first downs to 14; 279 yards rushing to 196; 233 yards passing to 84; 19 completions to MSU's six. And in the end with 1:57 left in the game the Hoosiers had victory grabbed away from them when Spartans' tackle John Malinosky recovered a fumble by running back Steve Smith in the end zone.

BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Michigan State pulled the Bone-head Play of the Year Saturday. And because of it, the Spartans had to settle for a 13-13 tie with Indiana on this dark, dreary, drizzly afternoon before 36,892 Homecoming Hoosiers. THE SPARTANS, who once again got maximum mileage out of their kicking game, were nursing a 3-0 lead as the final seconds of the first half ticked away. Facing a fourth-and-six from MSU's 23, Indiana called in field goal specialist David Freud.

But time was running out and the Hoosiers were out of timeouts 5 seconds, 4 seconds, 3 2 and then an amazing thing happened. Michigan State called time out. When play resumed and Spartans' coach Darryl Rogers.