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World Series of Golf Sunday, Sept. 30, 1979 SPORTS PEOPLE 2 INSIDE OF SPORTS HORSE RACING 1 OUTDOORS DETROIT FREE PRESS L-J 27-3 Power-packed Irish 'unmask' Spartans, "It was like asking a sixth grader to come in and write your story," Rogers told a reporter. No phase of the Spartans' game escaped devastation. They gained just 134 yards; gave up 315. Three quarterbacks, Bert Vaughn and Bryan Clark, who both left the game with back injuries, and walk-on Bob Stachowicz, completed just six passes among them for a grand total of only nine yards.

Michigan State's specialty teams allowed punt returns of 51 and 28 yards. Once the Spartans had only 10 men on the field for a punt and compounded their problem by forcing punter Ray Stachowicz to field the bouncing snap off the turf, resulting in a six-yard kick to contrast with his other eight for 51, 48, 54, 48, bewildered the Spartans, 27-3, ending their 10-game winning streak in the process. And by the time it was over, the game was an embarrassment for Michigan State and Rogers was not afraid to say so. "They just kicked our butts all day," he said, showing no trace of his usual humor. "It's the first physical ballgame we've been in all year, and we didn't hold up well at all.

"All you can report is what you saw. And what you saw was not very good effort we never expected the game to turn out the way it did .1 would have thought we were a better ball club, but we didn't show it." FROM THE BEGINNING, Notre Dame swarmed over the Spartans. The Irish manhandled MSU's offensive line, muscled the Spartans' backs and pushed Michigan State's defense around as if it were child's play. By CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer SOUTH BEND Coach Darryl Rogers said it early last week: The Michigan State Spartans are not one of the best six or seven teams in the nation. Loyal and long-suffering Spartan believers didn't want to accept that.

Just a ruse for the press, they guessed. Just a bluff to lull Notre Dame's monsters into complacency the age-old trick of crying "wolf" when there really was no wolf at the door. But Saturday afternoon, before a chanting, singing, hell-bent-for-a-bowl-somewhere capacity crowd in sweltering Notre Dame Stadium the Irish exposed MSU as the pretenders Rogers said they were. Notre Dame battered, bruised and 40, 49, 96 and 67 yards still good enough for a 46.3-yard average. THE PROBLEM of the Spartan defense was simple enough.

They knew who had the ball and where he was, but they never could quite figure a way to get to him. Vegas Ferguson, who by the time he finishes this season will be the leading ground gainer in Notre Dame history, carried 28 times for 169 yards, including third-quarter touchdown runs of 24 and 48 yards, breaking open what had been a 13-3 game at half time. Even that intermission score, though, was deceiving. The game was never that close. Twice Michigan State stopped Notre Dame drives at its one-See MSU, Page 4E 1 Top 20 teams How the Top 20 teams in the Associated Press major college tootball poll tared in Saturday's games (this year's records in parentheses): Jim Hawkins 4 ff tt kJh 1 SOUTHERN CAL (4-0) beat LSU 17-12.

2 ALABAMA (3-0) beat Vanderbilt, 66-3. 3 OKLAHOMA (3-0) beat Rice, 63-21. 4 TEXAS (2-0) beat Missouri, 21-0. 5 MISSOURI (3-1) lost to Texas, 21-0. NEBRASKA (3-0) beat Penn 42-17.

7 MICHIGAN STATE (3-1) lost to Notre Dame, 27-3. HOUSTON (3-0) beat West Texas 49-10. WASHINGTON (4-0) beat Fresno 49-14. 10 PURDUE (3-1) beat Oregon, 13-7. 11 MICHIGAN (3-1) beat California, 14-10.

12 FLORIDA STATE (4-0) beat Virginia Tech, 17-10. 13 ARKANSAS (3-0) beat Tulsa, 33-8. 14 OHIO STATE (4-0) beat UCLA. 17-13. 15 NOTRE DAME (2-1) beat Michigan 27-3.

16 NO. CAROLINA ST. (4-0) beat Wake Forest, 17-14. 17 UCLA (2-2) lost to Ohio 17-13. It PENN STATE (1-2) lost to Nebraska, 42-17.

19 SO. METHODIST. (3-1) lost to Tulane, 24-17. 20 LOUISIANA STATE (2-1) lost to USC 17-12. -1! Slippery Rock game the whole point was fun Sixty times every hour, according to Phineas T.

Barnum, another sucker is born. Which, in the jaundiced opinion of some observers around town, would explain why a guess-timated 61,143 showed up at mammoth Michigan Stadium Saturday afternoon, even though their beloved Wolverines weren't within two thousand miles of Ann Arbor. But maybe those allegedly fleeced fans weren't such gullible dupes after all. Maybe they actually wanted to spend a sunny, fall afternoon watching a relatively meaningless football game between small college stalwart Ship-pensburg and inexplicably popular Slippery Rock State. Maybe they actually set out Saturday to ignore the score for a change and have a little fun.

Personally I prefer the latter rationale. The truth is, it turned out to be a terribly boring football game. I mean, aside from their fathers and mothers and girl friends, who really cares that the Shippensburg Red Raiders creamed the Slippery Rock Rockets, 45-14? Shippensburg scored early and often and almost at will, shutting Slippery Rock out until the final quarter, much to the disappointment of the fans, nearly all of whom came prepared to cheer specifically and solely for The Rock they have for so long revered, if only in jest, from afar. But so what if the game was one-sided and a slaughter? Isn't that precisely what Michigan does to Iowa and Northwestern and Wisconsin week after week after week? Frankly, I wonder about those cynics, especially one Detroit TV commentator whose initials are A.A., who got so thoroughly upset because Michigan's enterprising athletic director Don Canham dreamed up this scheme to fulfill a committment to hundreds of high school bands around the state and make a few bucks at the same time. Added up mostly to fun Believe me, nobody got rich Saturday afternoon.

And aside from the Women's Athletic Department which helped peddle the tickets and undeniably needs the money, the university didn't make a dime. Nobody as yet knows how many tickets were actually sold, but a good guess puts the number at about 40,000. A $5 apiece, that adds up a total revenue of $200,000. But wait a minute. The 200 high school bands that sold AP Photo Ohio State, Purdue both win Page 5E Notre Dame's Vagas Ferguson springs toward the goal line in the second quarter, but MSU stopped him inches short.

ichigan heats West Coast jinx Struggles past California, 14-10, despite 'consistent' 0-for-5 kicking most of the tickets were allowed to keep $1 for each ticket they sold, in order to bolster their own coffers. Thenthereweretheexpenses.lt costs approximately $24,000 simply to stage a game, any game, at Michigan Stadium. Officials have to be hired, policemen have to be paid, and of course a large number of ushers and ticket takers have to be employed. In addition, Canham allowed both schools to bring their entire 70-man squads to Ann Arbor instead of limiting them to the standard 40-man traveling units. Michigan promised to pick up the tab for ilillllHISI By MICK McCABE Free Press Sports Writer BERKELEY, Calif University of Michigan coach Bo Schembechler said his football team will have to rely on its defense to pull it through some games this season, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

While its defense was playing its usual reliable game, the U-M kicking game practically handed California a touchdown and a field goal and missed five field goals of its own here Saturday. But in the end the U-M defense did what it had to do to preserve a hard-fought 14-10 victory over previously unbeaten California before a crowd of 57,000 fans as the 11th-ranked Wolverines ran their record to 3-1. A week ago Schembechler kiddingly said he was going to line his kicking team "up against a wall and shoot 'em" after they missed a pair of field goals and permitted Kansas to return a punt for a touchdown. After Saturday's performance he may not be kidding. Don Canham SCHEMBECHLER was even more upset at line judge John Jones, who nullified a first-quarter Michigan touchdown and hit the Wolverines with a pair of five-yard penalties in the fourth quarter.

Schembechler ended up getting a 15-yard penalty called against himself for protesting too vigorously. "We overcame a lot of obstacles today. Our kicking game was our second biggest obstacle," Schembechler said, referring to the officials, all of whom represent the PAC 10, as the first obstacle "Consistent," is the word Schembechler jokingly used to describe his kicking game. "If you're looking for consistency that's our kicking game." The first obstacle of the day came when B.J. Dickey, who started U-M's first three games, was ill and Schembechler had to start John Wangler at quarterback.

"Dickey came down sick and was not able to play," Schembechler said. "I don't know what's wrong with him. He was light-headed and his legs were weak. There was no way he could play today." Dickey wasn't missed much as Wangler completed nine of 21 passes for 210 yards. That changed U-M option attack somewhat.

The Wolverines couldn't move the ball on their first two posessions, having to punt after three downs. On their second punt, California sent everybody but governor Jerry The Tigers' "Senor Smoke," bullpen ace Aurelio Lopez, got burned by the Boston Red Sox Saturday afternoon. For the story, turn to Page 3E. The Expos won in the bottom of the ninth, the Pirates lost in the 13th. For more on the me UPI Photo Brown to rush Bryan Virgil, who had his punt "own to rusn uryan virgu, wno naa nis pum i Butch WooIfoIk took a pitchout from quarterback John Wangler and gained four yards Natwnal League East race, see Page 3E.

fw stoppeJ jn hjs trgcks by Californja.s Dary, Skaugstad. those expenses, which when everything is added up, will come to about $20,000 per team. Since Saturday's game was originally scheduled for Shippensburg, Canham also purchased all 7,600 seats at Shippenburg's Seth Grove field guaranteeing the school a sellout. That cost about $7,500. Finally, when all of the receipts are in and all of the bills are paid, Canham, the Ogre, plans to divide any remaining money among the Michigan Women's Athletic Scholarship Fund, the high school bands that participated, and, last but not least, Slippery Rock and Shippensburg themselves.

That hardly sounds like an outrageous display of unmitigated greed to me. And, in case you're interested, Al Ackerman, Canham intends to stage a similar production again next season. The Rock vs. a home team? At the moment, Canham is considering several options. One is to invite a couple of predominately black colleges with national reputations, such as Grambling, to participate next fall.

Another is to match Slippery Rock against one of Michigan's small colleges, such as Ferris State or Wayne State. A third alternative would to bring Shippensburg, the victors, back to face another foe in sort of an "Elimination Bowl." One of the principal complaints against Saturday's Band Day spectacular, was the fact that Canham snubbed all of the small colleges in Michigan and invited a couple a foreigners from Pennsylvania. But, let's face it friends, Alma and Olivet simply can not match the illogical but nevertheless widespread popular appeal of Slippery Rock. And Canham was afraid that a game featuring two such Michigan schools would be a financial disaster. "That's like saying, we should drop Notre Dame from our schedule and start playing Wayne State every year, so we keep the money in the state," he grumbled.

Saturday's encounter didn't come close to breaking the all-time small college attendance record of 76,653. In fact, at least a third of the audience was made up of high school band members and Boy Scouts who got in for free. And the Michigan student body never did get too turned on by the thought of actually seeing the team whose scores they have cheered for years. They stayed away in droves although many of them did show up outside the stadium before the game long enough to buy status-symbol, souvi-ner Slippery Rock caps for a buck. The game? Who cares about the game? Even in the wake of a humiliating defeat, the mystique of Slippery Rock lives on.

Saturday afternoon, that was all that mattered. Long season? Spartans9 top 2 QBs hurt II SOUTH BEND Michigan State lost more than I "i 1 II 1 were left only with Clark, whos I tktvw I football game Saturday. It lost more than the 10- I amounted to merely one play. And the Monday I game winning streak it built for nearly a year, more I tv went down, Rogers had available TV HUIt I tnat ranking among the year's top collegiate iZ-r Rofirfffl chowicz, who had no quarterback exj TV will be late than its ranking among the year's top collegiate Kf George were left only with Clark, whose amounted to merely one play. And then went down, Rogers had available who had no quarterback experience when Clark powers and its perfect record.

Tl Puscas only Bob Stachowicz, experience at all. THE RESULT WAS Michigan State, which thought it had flash and dash in its offense, managed only one first down in the entire second half against Notre Dame, and couldn't wait to get out of this town. Actually, injuries to MSU's quarterbacks only obscured the fact that the Irish already were beating the devil out of the Spartans and would have continued to do so even if Vaughn and Clark remained available. Rogers was keenly disappointed by the overpowering of his team. "What you saw was not a good effort," he said.

"There was no way for us to conceive the game would come out like this." On the attack or defending, Notre Dame's linemen tore apart the Spartan lines, spurring an Irish running attack that had been dormant in the sea- See PUSCAS, Page 4E NEW YORK (AP) ABC-TV will delay the telecast of Monday night's New England at Green Bay football game because President Carter will address the nation on the subject of Soviet troops in Cuba at 9 p.m. The network plans to join the game in progress. There was no advance word on the length of Carter's speech. The NFL does not plan to change the 9 p.m. kick-off, but will review the situation Monday.

The splintered Spartans might have lost their entire season as they crumbled and collapsed before Notre Dame, 27-3. The punishing Irish kayoed MSU's top two quarterbacks, and it's a question now whether either will be strong enough within a week to carry Michigan State into the crucial stage of the season beginning with Michigan in East Lansing next Saturday. If neither is, the Spartans can forget their dream of a Big Ten championship and a bowl trip. Disaster fell upon that that quickly. BERT VAUGHN, the.

Spartans' rangy No. 1 quarterback, was driven into the ground on a Notre Dame pass rush and was taken to a hospital for X-rays of his lumbar (lower back) area. "The X-rays showed no fracture," said coach Darryl Rogers, "but we have no way of knowing the status of Vaughn. He got it in the back and it knocked him silly. We don't know how well he's going to be next week and whether he will be to Play." Bryan Clark, the Spartans' No.

2 quarterback, was blind-sided in a later Notre Dame pass rush and though he did not go to a hospital for observation, it was clear the sophomore son of Lion coach Monte Clark is going to be hurting for a while, too. "We tried to put him back in the game once," said Rogers, "but he couldn't raise his arm to throw and couldn't even get enough voice to call the signals." When Vaughn went out in the midst of terror the Irish were spreading on the gridiron, the Spartans iri ri in ii r- i -in.