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CFL Football: Calgary at Toronto QD 8 p.m. Hockey: Detroit at Philadelphia Sunday, Oct. 28, 1979 OUTDOORS COLLEGE SCORES INSIDE OF SPORTS DETROIT FREE PRESS HORSE RACING 6 SECONDS LEFT. CARTER TD CATCH TOPS INDIANA Whew! UM grabs a sorueaker. LJ 27 By MICK McCABE Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR The University of Michigan went to its Sparkplug Anthony (A.C.) Carter at precisely the right moment Saturday and pulled out a thrilling 27-21 victory over Indiana.

With the score tied and only six seconds left to play, reserve quarterback John Wangler took the snap from center 1 1 On the next play, Wangler hit Ralph Clayton with a nine-yard gain with only 25 seconds remaining. After an incomple-tion, Wangler threw a pass to fullback Lawrence Reid, who headed for the sidelines after getting the first down and flipped the ball out of bounds with only six seconds left. It was no fumble, Reid just tossed the ball out of bounds to stop the clock. Indiana coach Lee Corso was livid, but Schembechler said it was perfectly legal. "HE FUMBLED the ball backwards so it was legal," explained Schembechler.

"If he wouldn't have done that it would have cost us our last time out. He saw he couldn't get to the sidelines, so he fumbled it out. If they would have fallen on it, it would have been their ball." That gave U-M the ball at midfield. Before the Wolverines could get off another play an Indiana lineman jumped offside and that set up U-M's game-winning play to Carter. Of course, the Wolverines should not have been in the position of having to march nearly 80 yards with less than a minute to play.

This same Indiana (5-3 overall) team had lost only once in the Big Ten, but it was a 47-6 drubbing by Ohio State. And the Hoosiers showed up here missing four starters. See U-M, Page6F "It was a great play by Carter," Schembechler sad. "I don't know of another man on our team who could have done that. As I saw him catch the ball, I thought he was going to stumble inside the 10.

"Our only hope was to go inside, hoping we could get him between the free safety. Wangler did a great job of throwing it. You know we were going to get protection. The escape by Carter, getting away from those guys, was the play. I din't ever recall us winning on a long play." WANGLER, WHO entered the game in the second quarter after B.J.

Dickey injured his shoulder, began the drive by hitting Butch Woolfolk for a seven-yard pass play. On third down Woolfolk picked up two yards to set up a fourth-down and one-yard to go situation. Schembechler went for the first down and Woolfolk picked it up. "My thinking was that we could have lost the game with that play and lost the Big Ten, too," Schembechler said. "It could have been the biggest blunder of all time here.

But I want to and win this thing. We're going to pull every stop to win the game." Had U-M not picked up the first down, Indiana would have had the ball at about U-M's 31, in decent shape for a game-winning field goal. on Indiana's 45-yard line, dropped back and threw the ball 20 yards to Carter. Carter caught the ball in the middle of the field, eluded a pair of would-be tacklers at the 20, and outran one final defender to go into the end zone as time expired. Carter was mobbed in the end zone and nearly crushed by his U-M teammates as another sellout crowd of 104,832 went absolutely berserk.

The touchdown capped a 78-yard drive that began with only 51 seconds on the clock after Indiana had tied the game with 55 seconds left, refusing to try a two-point conversion to take the lead. "I DIDN'T THINK I had a chance to score," said Carter, the 5-foot-ll, 155-pound freshman wide receiver. "A guy made contact with me right away. Then a guy grabbed my left leg and I kind of lifted it up. "The (second) guy almost got me down on the two.

But the game would have been over. After that everybody crowded around me and I couldn't breath." After the touchdown it was U-M coach Bo Schembechler who was doing some heavy breathing as his team came away with the victory to keep the lOth-ranked Wolverines undefeated (5-0) in the Big Ten and 7-1 overall. Jim Hawkins rf, -N" life 4- 11 a im mm AP Photo by JOE KENNEDY Bo blew chance to suit up Schlichter in maize, blue COLUMBUS Prediction: Ohio State 21, Michigan 14. Don't say I didn't warn you. With all due respect to Michigan's devastating defense, the Wolverines might as well resign themselves right now to the fact that they will be spending New Year's Day somewhere other than in sunny Pasadena.

Take my word for it, in three weeks this year's excursion to the Rose Bowl is going to unequivocally belong to Ohio State. I guarantee it. The reason- is a 19-year-old, fuzzy-cheeked Buckeye sophomore quarterback named Art Schlichter. Michigan most certainly does not have anyone who can match the hard-running, rifle-armed Schlichter a fact which, I assure you, will become painfully apparent at Michigan Stadium Nov. 17 when the unbeaten Buckeyes battle Bo's boys for the Big Ten title.

The truth is, even at his tender age, Schlichter, who was on the sidelines as Schembechler's guest for the Michigan-Ohio State clash two years ago, may just be the best all-around signal caller in the country. He certainly is the best passer ever to throw a ball on behalf of Ohio State. And to think he could be throwing the football for Michigan instead of Ohio State these days, if only Schem-bechler and his staff hadn't turned Schlichter off with their anti-Ohio remarks while they were recruiting him. Schlichter (it's pronounced Slee-stir) put on quite a show Saturday afternoon, running and passing the Buckeyes to a ridiculously easy 42-0 romp over the hopelessly overmatched Spartans of Michigan State. Buckeyes supposed to be 4 th Scouts from the Cotton Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and Gator Bowl and the Liberty Bowl were on hand for Saturday's slaughter, but they were wasting their time.

Contrary to pre-season expectations, Michigan State most definitely is not a bowl-caliber football team. And the Buckeyes have a date with the awesome Trojans of Southern Cal. All that remains is the inevitable annihilation of Illinois and Iowa in the next two weeks, and then that showdown in Ann Arbor. And the Buckeyes owe it all to Schlichter. He has unquestionably been the big difference in their ballclub this season.

Ohio State, as you may recall, was not supposed to have much a team in this, their first season in 29 without Wayne Woodrow Hayes at the helm. Most experts predicted they'd be no better than fourth behind powerhouses Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue. But the offensive line, which was supposedly weak, suddenly began blocking with gusto. The defensive line, which was supposedly weaker, began tackling with abandon. And the dissension, which was rampant in the Ohio State locker room last autumn, disappeared.

Ironically, the cause of that grousing and grumbling a year ago was none other than this season's hero, Arthur Schlichter himself. More than a few of the elder Buckeyes were admittedly perturbed last fall when Hayes moved incumbent quarterback Rod Gerald, who had guided Ohio State to back-to-back Big Ten titles, to wide receiver and handed the job to the rookie Schlichter. "We had nothing against Art," recalled tailback Calvin Murray, "but the coaches shouldn't have done that. They told us Rod was going to start at quarterback. "It affected us mentally.

The guys got kind of scared. If they could do that to Rod, they could do it any one of us. We lost faith in the coaches." Many of the players also lacked confidence in Schli-chter's ability especially when the enemy intercepted 21 of his inexperienced passes. Passing converted them Earle Bruce, who replaced the legendary Hayes after Woody was unceremoniously sacked for slugging an opposing player, detected some lingering resentment during practice last spring. But he, too, stuck with Schlichter.

And the sturdy, smooth-throwing, 6-foot-2, 200-pound sophomore now has everybody on his side. Unfortunately, one person who has not been present to see Schlichter's sensational performance this season has been the man who convinced him to come to Ohio State, Woody Hayes. Hayes, who keeps an office in the ROTC building on the Ohio State campus and is busy writing a book when he isn't traveling around the country delivering speeches, has purposely stayed away from Ohio Stadium. He knows his presence would cause a tremendous commotion and he doesn't want to do anything to undermine the authority of the folksy coach who succeeded him. In fact, he has steadfastly refused to say anything about football, the Ohio State team, or last December's Gator Bowl.

However, if Michigan athletic director Don Canham has his way, Woody will get to see his beloved Buckeyes, and his pet passer, Schlichter, play this season after all. Canham plans to personally invite Woody to be his guest at the Michigan-Ohio State encounter in Ann Arbor Nov. 17. It is a move that will not set well with some of the Michigan alumni, who feel such an invitation would be tantamount to condoning the punch Hayes hurled at Clem-son's Charlie Bauman in last December's Gator Bowl game. But that doesn't worry Canham.

"If he wants to come, he certainly will be more than welcome," declared the Michigan AD. Carter should run for president! There goes Anthony Carter (above), and there goes the ball game. The U-M receiver races into the end zone with the winning touchdown on the last play of the Wolverines' 27-21 victory over Indiana. The 45-yard bomb from quarterback John Wangler broke the hearts of the Hoosiers, who hoped a tie with U-M would give them a shot at the Rose Bowl. Indiana's Rodney Walden (left) lowers his head in front of the Hoosiers' bench.

MSU falls victim to a 42-0 disaster By CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio State put the final, finishing touches the coup de grace on Michigan State's disastrous October, dealing the Spartans their first shutout since opening day 1975, 42-0, before 87,747 ecstatic scarlet-and-gray fans Saturday. October was to be the month the Big Ten separated the men from the boys, the real contenders from the pretenders. And the record speaks for itself: Canadiens" burst clips Wings, 3-2 MONTREAL (UPI) Guy Lafleur and Reggie Houle Top 20 teams How the Top 20 teams in the Associated Press major college football poll fared in Saturday's games (this year's records in parentheses): scored in a 51-second span in the second period Saturday night to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. Lafleur's power-play goal, his 10th goal of the season, came at 2:58 of the middle period and gave Montreal a 1-1 tie. Lafleur now has 365 goals and needs only one to tie Jacques Lemaire, who is now playing in Switzerland, as the fifth-highest goal scorer in Canadiens' history.

Houle pushed Montreal in front, 2-1, when he tipped in a drive from the blue line off the AP Photo by DIANE HIRES EX-TIGER WAS HERO IN '68 Mickey Lolich retires Michigan 21, MSU 7. Wisconsin 38, MSU 29. Purdue 14, MSU 7. Ohio State 42, MSU 0. Thoroughly whipped, and discouraged by five consecutive defeats, which began at Notre Dame Sept.

29, coach Darryl Rogers' Spartans were completely outclassed by the Buckeyes, who have now won eight in a row under first-year head coach Earle Bruce. "It was as good a whipping as we've had," Rogers said afterwards, elaborating on the perfectly obvious. "Ohio State just got after us in every way possible. They ran, they passed, they used the big play and they scored on long drives. They're a good football team and that's what good football teams do.

"They certainly deserve to be ranked in the top ten." The Buckeyes finished with 29 first downs and 531 yards total offense. Michigan State had eight first downs, 113 total yards and never drove across midfield. FROM THE very first kickoff, the Buckeyes asserted themselves, intimidating the outmanned Spartans who once-upon-a-time fancied themselves in a league with Ohio State. The Buckeyes allowed See MSU, Page 8F 1 ALABAMA (7-0) beat Virginia Tech, 31-7. 2 NEBRASKA (7-0) beat Colorado, 38-10.

3 SOUTHERN CAL (7-0-1) beat California, 24-14. 4 ARKANSAS (6-1) lost to Houston, 13-10. 4 OHIO STATE (8-0) beat Michigan 42-0. 6 HOUSTON (7-0) beat Arkansas, 13-10. 7 OKLAHOMA (6-1) beat Iowa 38-9.

5 FLORIDA 8TATE (7-0) beat Louisiana 24-19. 9 TEXAS (5-1) beat SMU, 30-6. 10 MICHIGAN (7-1) beat Indiana, 27-21. 11 BRIQHAM YOUNG (7-0) beat New Mexico, 59-7. 12 PITTSBURGH (6-1) beat Navy, 24-7.

13 AUBURN (5-2) lost to Wake Forrest, 42-38. 14 NOTRE DAME (5-2) beat South Carolina, 18-17. 15 NORTH CAROLINA (5-1-1) tied East Carolina, 24-24. 16 PURDUE (6-2) beat Northwestern, 20-16. 17 NAVY (6-1) lost to Pittsburgh, 24-7.

11 WAKE FOREST (7-1) beat Auburn, 42-38. 19 TENNESSEE (4-2) did not play. 20 WASHINGTON (5-2) beat UCLA, 34-14. stick of Larry Robinson past Detroit goalie Jim Rutherford. Pierre Mondou's backhand shot on a rebound at 7: 1 7 gave the Canadiens a 3-1 lead.

Detroit narrowed the margin to 3-2 after Dale McCourt beat Canadiens' netminder Dennis Herron with a rebound only 15 seconds into the final period. Dttrott 1 1-2 Montrtil 0 3 0-3 1st 1, Detroit, Woods 1 (Hogaboam), Penalties Hamel, Del, Mon, Manovlich, Del, 4 47; Savard, Mon, Gainev, Mon, Risebrougn, Mon, 19:29. 2d-2, Montreal, Lafleur 10 (Robinson, Larouche), 2:58. 3, Montreal, Houle 2 (Robinson, Gainev), 3:49. 4, Montreal, Mondou I (Langway, Houle), 7:17.

Penalties Hamel, Del, Bolduc, Del, 5:26: Tremblav, Mon, 16:35. 3d Detroit, McCourt 3 (Follgno, Thompson), :15. Penalties Shutl, Mon, Polonlch, Det, 6:36. SHOTS-Detroll 9-10-726. Montreal 5-14-7-26.

GOAUES-Detroit, Rutherford. Montreal, Herron. If By JOE LAPOINTE Free Press Sports Writer Eleven years ago this month, on a sunny Thursday afternoon in Missouri, Mickey Lolich won his third game of a seven-game World Series by beating the St. Louis Cardinals to make the Detroit Tigers the champions of baseball. Detroiters, some in mini-skirts and Nehru jackets, swarmed the downtown streets for a celebration that lasted until the next morning.

They'd expected 31-game winner Denny Mc-Lain to be the key Detroit pitcher in the Series but it was the hefty Lolich who capped a team comeback by pitching with only two days rest to beat St. Louis in the final game. McLain who'd once said he wouldn't trade one Bob Gibson for a dozen Mickey Loliches managed the other victory for the Tigers to give the Motor City its most recent sports championship. Sport magazine gave Lolich a sports car as the most valuable player in the Series. After the celebrations See LOLICH, Page3F Hot Bucks top Pistons 2F Mickey Lolich Retires from the Padres i M.rm.a t-a i.