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SECTION Inside This Section Lyall Smith Pge 4 Home Modernization Pfge 14 Want Ads Pages 8-13 ant Ac Dort; -SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26. (0 ObM, TO) rrvn Badgers Kick Out Ferguson Bulls for 4 TDs OSU Clinches Bis Ten Title Goph ers Sevenlli Try Does li, 23-21 WIS. MINN. OSU MICHIGAN S' 1 100 7-ie 10-17 2 1 1-48 -J 1 14 2 SO i I-2 irst downs ultima yardase Passim yarda9 Passes Passes Intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Penalties Ohio State Michigan irst OOWtH 77 11 Vusttins vardai 4 Passing yardaa 112 185 Passes 4-25 Passes intercepted 1 1 Punts -3 tumbles test Yards penalfied is Wisconsin 7 13 1-23 Minnesota 71 1-21 MtNN-Hatf nass from Stephens (Loeertler kick). WIS-Richter 0 pass from Milter (Bakken OSU-Fersuson 14 run (Van Raaphorst kick).

OSU-Fersuson 1 run (Van Raaphorst kick). MICH-Raimey kickoff return (pass failed). OSU Warfield run (Van Raaphors kick). MICH McLenna 1 run (oass failed). OSU Ferguson 1 run (Van Raaphorst kick).

OSU Klein 10 pass from Sparmi (Van Raaphorst kick). MICH Ward 1 run (Ward run). OSU Ferguson run (Van Raaphorst kick). OSU-Tidmore 19 pass from Soarma (Tidmore pass from Soarma). kick).

I WIS-Nettles pass interception (Bakken i kick). MINN Jones 22 run (Stephens run). 1 WIS Richter 21 pass from Miller (oass; failed). Wis-FG Bakken 31. MINN Fischer 4 pass from Steohens (nass failed).

BY JERRY 1 JSKA wt. i Vr-rltllrv-? lv 7 'v- -f MINNEAPOLIS UP Bakken's 31-yard field goal after five failures and two touchdown passes by Ron Miller to Pat Richter shattered Minnesota's i Ten football title bid, 23-21, in a thrilling conference finale Saturday. Ohio State captured the! BY BOB PILLFi Free Press Staff Writer ANN ARBOR Close the gates of mercy! Ohio State, its image before, the world carried by a portly man pacing the sidelines in a short-sleeve shirt in the 50-degree chill, did just It was 50 20, and it would have been worse if the. Buckeyes hadn't run out of time. WOODY HAYES, the Buckeye coach whose warmth comes from within, certainly willed it so.

He had Ohio regulars on the field to the very final moments as Michigan was buried under one of the worst landslides in Wolverine history. crown by lambasting Michigan, 50-20, an hour earlier. Ohio State wound up with a 6-0 league record and Minnesota jLAjSk iJL: armmfai-mmto I f'W W1 Z.1 mmm rfn fajMftL4rf with 6-1. The defending co-champion Gophers knew what they had to do and they moved ahead, T5-14, late in the third quar- I ter. Free Press Photos by DICK TRIPP for Michigan are John Houtman (57), John Walker (54), Paul Kaeder (35) and Dave Glinka (24).

Ferguson scored four touchdowns in Ohio's 50-20 romp. rates between a pair of U-M defenders. But een when hemmed in by four Wolverines (right), the Buckeye bomber remains upright. Fighting the hopeless battle SHADES OF NAGUKSKI! It's Ohio State's fabulous Fergy like a tank on the loose ajtainst Slichi-gan. Boh Ferguson (4fi) shifts into high (Wt) as he SO ENDS A W1ISLESS SEASON mendous passing.

He complet- i 34-7 MSU Takes ItE Iowa Rolls On Irish Mistakes Hawkeyes Run Up 42-21 Triumph asy on t- Only three times has MicM-i can yielded more points tn nri football afternoon. I There was that 55-24 affair at Northwestern in 1958, and I there were counts of 58 and 56 rolled up by Cornell back in the 1890s when the now-effete East made up the college football that amounted to anything. Woody approached the most 'Ohio points of this ancient i series when the score reached 35-12 with almost 10 minutes remaining. ed 19 of 37 tosses for 297 yards and hit Richter with scoring! tosses of 0 and 21 yards. After six field-goat fall-" nres, one on a had pass from renter, Wisconsin finally cored a three-pointer on Bakken's decisive hoot, with 3:57 left.

That gave Wisconsin a 23-15 lead. ILLINOIS 13 104 13-24 1 MSU 14 2 107 5-11 1 4 a 4 IS First down Bushtn9 vardaq Passing Passes Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Illinois Michigan Stat 7 13-34 IOWA ND 21 103 ltl 134 174 1S-24 12-32 5 4 4-34. 43 7 S5 7 1411 14. 7 42 First downs Rushins vardan Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Notre Dame Iowa MSU Ballman 1 run (kick failed). MSU Lewis 54 run (Proebsfie pass to Lewis).

MSU Lewis S7 pass-run from Smith (Brandstatter kick). ILL McGann 12 run (Plankenhorn kick), MSU-Ballman run (kick failed). MSU Sanders 2 pass-run from Smith (Brandstatter kick). point conversion after the quickest 14 points of his life. GARY BALLMAN also scored twice for the Spartans.

He was one of 22 seniors playing their final game for State, and you might say he had ft ball, man. He went three yards for the first touchdown, then broke away on a 58 yard trap play for the other. He wound up as the game's leading: ground gainer with 95 yards in in tries. Smith closed with 95 yards tn 10 tries. the Tllini made a game of it for the first 27 minutes.

They trailed by only a 6-0 count. BUT THEN Michigan State, led by little Sherman Lewis, scored 28 points in the final 33 minutes and Pete littered the ground with half-smoked butts. Lewis, who weighs ss much the MSU waterboy 157 pounds, broke the game open with two touchdowns in the final three minutes of the first half. He burst through tackle for a. 51-yard run and took B5" JOE FALLS Free Press Staff Writer EAST LANSING Michigan State couldn't beat the spot Saturday.

It was 33 points. Nor could the Spartans beat the weather. It was beautiful. But otherwise they won everything else including the halftime run to the tunnel as they handed Illinois its ninth straight defeat. 34-7.

to complete the worst season in Tllini history. No. Bump, it wasn't any better for brother Pete. The. younger Elliott chain-smoked cigarets along the sideline a Minnesota charged back with 72-yard scoring drive in six plays, capped by Sandy Stephens' four-yard touchdown pass to reserve halfback Al Fischer.

Stephens tried a two-point conversion pass which failed. That cost a 23-23 tie. which ptill would not have brought the Gophers a title share with Ohio State. BARKEN missed five field- Smith finished the MSU scoring with a pretty 29-yard pass to end Lonnie Sanders. THE VICfORr gave MSU a 7-2 record for its finest mark since 1957.

But, of course, the ones they'll remember up here are those two losses to Minnesota and Purdue. Still, Duffy Daugherty may be voted man-of-the-year by the Society for the. Prevention of Cruelty to Coaches. The Duff could have poured It on Illini. but didn't.

When things were tight, he ordered his boys to speed up with RUT THOSE weren't enough. He wanted still another touchdown for Boh Ferguson, his A 11-Am erica fullback, and he got it with 4:46 remaining. That made" it 42-12 and four touchdowns for Ferguson. Even that wasn't enough. Hayes, who has said he.

would rather have his players pass in the classroom than on the football field, turned loose quarterback Joe Sparma to throw a 70-yard bomb. That set up a last Ohio State touchdown with six seconds IOWA Perkins 43 run (Sivkowny kick). lOWA-Siykowny 2 run (kick blocked). IOWA Siykowny I run (Whisler pass from Szykowny). IOWA Harris 45 pas from Szykowny (Szykowny kick).

ND-Sefcik It run (Perkowski kick). lOWA-Williamt 101 kickoff return (Szy-kowny kick). IOWA Williams 1 run (Szykowny kickt. ND Dabiero 42 pass interception (Perkowski kick). NO Budka 2 run (Perkowski kick).

a 57-yard pass from Tele for his two scores. He also caught Dick Proebstle's pass for the two- LINE-UP TAKES SHAPE goal tries two Jutting the goal posts while a sixth try was balked by a poor center snap. But his 31-yard kick in the fourth period was the clincher. Miller's passing blitz let Wisconsin tie a Big Ten record for most passes by a team in one game, 41, set by Iowa against Wisconsin in 1959. Richter.

six-foot-five, 230- YGEORGE BROWN IOW A CITY (UPI) Iowa's Hawkeyes, who beat themselves with miscues most of the season, turned into a gang of bandits Saturday to trounce Notre Dame, 42-21, It's Howard By a Hair In Pin Meet LSI, Colorado, Arkansas, UCLA Join Bowl Parade go-go style of attack that dazzled the visitors. But. otherwise, Daugherty kept his senses. He let George Saimes carry the ball only three times and let quarterback Don Stewart play on offense for the first time this season. It was little wonder that Elliott walked off with his arm around Daugherty.

It was so much different that the 55-7 pasting Illinois took at Wisconsin last week. remaining. EVEN THAT wasn't enough. Just -for fun. the Buckeyes passed for the two-point conversion.

That got them an even 50 points and made the difference an easily-calculated 30. That also got the idea across to Bump if he hadn't already been suspicious. and calvage a winning season CHICAGO if) George How for rookie coach Jerry Burns. Iowa, beaten in its last four outings primarily on mistakes, intercepted five Notre Dame passes and pounced on six Irish ard, a 112-pound bowler from Detroit took the lead in the $48,000 World Invitational tour 'fumbles to run up the second The handshaking ceremony second-ranked Ohio State, which wound up unbeaten but once-tied with 50-20 triumph over Michigan and another Big Ten title. Minnesota, also unbeaten in the Big Ten hefore Saturday, lost it all.

the title and a possible Rose Bowl trip, In the setback by Wisconsin on Jim Bakken's 31 -yard field goal. The Rose Bowl host will be UCLA, which beat Southern Cal, 10-7, to nail down the Big Five title. By the Associated Press Ohio State, Arkansas, Colorado, UCLA, Penn State and possibly Missouri and Rice drapped up or closed in postseason bowl appointments Saturday. The hopes of Minnesota and Maryland were dashed in de jlargest point total Iowa ha sj at midfield was more brief than nament Saturday after winning three of four games from previous leader Ray Bluth of ever enjoyed against the Irish. Hayes anticipated.

He attempted to hang on, HALFBACK Joe Williams1 Dut Bump jerked his hand free St. Louis. pound end, gathered in six passes for 142 yards. This tied a conference season-record total of 36, set by Illinois' Rex Smith in 1952. Richter's two touchdown snags gave him seven for the conference season, also matching a Big Ten record set by Northwestern's Collier in 1952.

MINNESOTA went ahead on Us first play as Stephens hit end Tom Hall on a scoring pass covering 80 yards. The lead was short-lived as Miller connected with Richter on a 40-yard touchdown flip still in the first quarter to tie the game at 7-7. Jim Nettles' 60-yard touchdown scamper with an inter and continued to walk toward capped, a five-touchdown first ha-lf for the Hawkeyes with a 104-yard kickoff return after the tunnel and the shelter of his Michigan dressing room. Aiwtit ifi Leiiiy in me' second quarter. IS DOUBTFUL, that the After 12 matches in the round-robin finals Howard had 240-43 Petersen points, while Bluth had 240-29.

Bluth had led since the third round, bowled Wednesday. Howard had a lead of 1450 of a point with four more rounds to bowl. The tournament will end Sunday night. The men's champion THIS WAS a season Pete will never forget. He became the first Illinois coach in 72 years to fail to win a game.

He also owns the longest streak in Illinois history 10 in a row, counting a loss from last year. But let's say this for the. man: He was clapping his hands and shouting encouragement to his players even in the final minutes of this mismatch. Actually, Illinois gave it quite, a try. The mini scored wl Liuae-Up two coacnes were exchanging the fraternal Sigma Chi hand- will receive $7,500, the women's champ $4,000.

ception of a Stephens pass in the third quarter put Wisconsin ahead, 14-7. Then came the see-saw finish. shake both learned in their student days. Woody didn't lose his aplomb at Elliott's Jack aw-that's-all-right conversation. He strolled over to the 35-yard line where his well-drilled players were waiting to carry him off the field.

did. THE JUBILANT Buckeyes, in their nicely trained a Turn to Page 3, Column I on quarterback Dave Mc feat third-ranked Minnesota lesing to Wisconsin, 23-21, and Maryland bowing to two-touchdown underdog Virginia, 2816. ARKANSAS accepted an invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl, probably against Ala- bama, the nation's No. 1 team, after routing Texas Tech, 28-0. The Porkers thus tied Cotton Bowl-bound Texas for the Southwest Conference title Tjulsiana State and Colorado set up a meeting in the Orange Bowl the Bengals in a 62-0 humiliation of Tulane, and Big Eight champion Colo- -rado Id a 34-0 romp over Io State.

Louisiana State's date is definite, although it cannot accept formally until Dec. 2 Colorado was the Orange Bowl's selection its commitment with the Big i eight after Kansas' 10-7 up- U-D's Allen MOVING into third place with 237-09 points was defending champion Don Carter of St. Louis, three-time winner of the tourney. In the Howard-Bluth match. Gann'! 13-yard run in the third quarter and also drove to the MSU 11 and seven.

But the visitors fumbled eight times, losing the ball five times, and just couldn't come back after Lewis' two big plays late in the first George won the first game, 221 pins to 178; took the second, 240-180; lost the third, 257-189, and bounced back to win the fourth game. It will go into the record books as a 100-yard run, however, because of the modern practice of limiting yardage to actual playing-field length. The gave Iowa, preseason choice as the nation's So. 1 team, a 5-4 record in Burns' first season. Notre Dame also is 5-4 for the season with Duke still on the schedule.

The game, witnessed by fans, actually was over at the half as Iowa turned three interceptions and three fumbles into a 35-7 lead. The Hawkeyes were ahead, 42-7. until Notre Dame acored twice in the last 55 seconds. THE EXPECTED passing duel between Iowa quarterback Matt Szykowny and Notre Dame's Frank Budka never materialized. Szykowny turned in a standout performance by pitching one touchdown pass, a 45-yard-er, to halfback Sammie Harris, and scoring twd himself, on one and two-yard plunges.

The first Iowa score cam" -on -a 43 yard run by tuU- Tum tn Page 4. Cohinsa 7 With invitations, conditional acceptances, and reports whipping from one football area to another, here's the way the major bowl line-up looks: January 1 Rose Bowl-Ohio State (8-0-1) vs. UCLA (7-3). Sugar Bowl Alabama (9-0) vs. Arkansas (8-2).

Cotton Bowl Texas (9-1) vs. Mississippi (8-1). Orange Bowl Louisiana State (9-1) vs. Colorado (8-1). December 3d Gator Bowl Georgia Tech (6-3) vs.

opponent to be selected (Penn State, Kansas, Maryland possibilities). National Trophy Bowl Auburn (6-3) Invited. Sun Bowl Wichita (8-2) vs. Villanova (7-2). December 16 Bluebonnet Bowl Rice (6-3) to be invited if it beats Baylor next Saturday; Penn State, Missouri, Kansas, Utah State, Duke possible opponents.

Liberty BowJ Syracuse (7-3) definite; Duke, Missouri, Utah State. Kansas possible opponents. December 9 Gotham Bowl Kansas and Penn State invited. In Hospital Special to the Free-Press CINCINNATI Halfback BUly Allen of the University of Detroit was admitted to Christ Hospital here Saturday after suffering a head injury during U-Ds 19-13 defeat by the. University of Cincinnati.

231-202. In the women's division, Marion Ladewig of Grand Rap ids, the defending champion, and former Detroiter Marge Hospital aides said be was in fair condition. half. A SMALL crowd of 35,989 saw State play ball -control football at the beginning. The Spartans kept pos- 1 Tuns to Page 2, Column 8 Ferguson 'Best' ST.

LOUIS (UPI) I The Sporting News Satur-I day named Bob Ferguson, A U-D spokesman said Allen had returned to the bench after being hurt on a first-period play and, after sitting briefly. set loss to Missouri. i-s ALABAMA, idle this week i announced Saturday that its team had voted to accept a Sugar Bowl bid Rose Bowl i overtures to the contrary is if one is forthcoming. With the unbeaten, top- Is ranked Crimson Tide staying near home, the Rose Bowl visiting team likely Mill be Merrick, were only about one point apart as they moved far ihead of the other 14 women. MISS MERRICK climbed to 167-3T.

points, one point and -ive pins behind Mrs. Ladewig. She won all six of her afternoon Tames, defeating Janet Harman 3f Lo3 Angeles and Laverne Turn to Pace 5. Column 6 fell ever unconscious. The spokesman said the injury was apparently a concussion, similar to one Allen had in an earlier game.

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