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1 SECTION Sports InThis Section The Inside of Sports Page 8 Outdoors with Opre Page 10 Amusements Pages 11-15 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1972 U- tup 0 0 0 MPth SV lb PI i -vt Battle. 10-0 But It SL to 1Mb Last U-M Game For OV Duffy? fifth-ranked Wolverines, had to settle for their fourth loss after a lone opening-game win over Illinois. For the past three seasons, MSU coach Duffy Daugherty had something figured out that would give U-M fits. twice he changed offenses just before the big game and once he used Michigan's plays against them. Duffy had a pretty good idea this time, too good, honest football.

But in the end, the Spartans just couldn't rid themselves of the penalty-fumble syndrome which has plagued them all year. A 24-yard touchdown run by quarterback Mark Niesen was called back bya clip, apparently called on tight end Billy Jne Du-Pree, and the Spartans' David E. Brown was cracked squarely by U-M safety Dave Brown and fumbled the football into the end zone on MSU's only other real scoring threat. So the Wolverines, playing their nigged, careful ground game, settled for a 22-yard field goal by Mjke Lantry and a 58-yard touchdown run by sophomore Gil Chapman on the end-around play midway in the fourth quarter. And they settled for the victory.

Nuts to those oddsmakers who expected U-M to run over MSU by anywhere from to 17 points. "To hell with those guys who make spots," Schembechler said. "They don't know anything about Michigan-Michigan State football." Please turn to Page til), Col. 8 BY CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sporis Writer ANN ARBOR It was just what you might have expected from these Michigan and Michigan State footballers on alovely October afternoon. An emotional, brutal, all-consuming game of football.

But there was a little wist to the old head-bashing this year. This time it was Michigan, Instead of Michigan State, that came up with the surprises. Nothing that will ruin the image the Wolverines have developed over the last few years, mind you. Just enough to win the ball game. The Wolverines uncovered two plays for the first time this season a fake punt and the old end-around and each time proceeded to put points on the board as the Wolverines squelched MSU, 10-0, for their fifth win without a defeat this season.

And, it was the customary crowd of fans on hand at Michigan Stadium Saturday to see the Wolverines notch thei'r first shutout over the arch-rival Spartans since 1947 Biesie Munn's first game as head coach at MSU. "That what it's all about," raved Michigan coach Bo Schembechler. "I enjoyed watching it mvself although I WASN'T ALWAYS SURE WE WERE GONNA WIN IT.IP "Any time Michigan beats Michigan State, it's the best game Michigan can possibly have." THE SPARTANS, in spile of their obvious emotionaruplifting for the game against the ANN ARBOR Duffy's last game against Michigan? Probably so. ft is sad to say, but Michigan State's 1(1-0 loss in the big stadium Saturday was likely the last time we'll ever see Duffy Daughterty coaching against his old foes from Michigan and how is that for ending an era? I hate even writing these words because not only do I happen to like this man and like him very much, I just can't imagine a Michigan State football team without this cheery, graying elf storming up and down the sidelines shouting at the officials, imploring his players to keep digging and well, I just don't like it. It is sad for so many reasons.

It is sad because people have been burying Duffy for a long time a long, long time and how much of this is one man expected to take? It is sad because he has spread so much joy and given everyone so much excitement in his more than 25 years at Michigan State. It is sad simply because whoever likes to see anyone reach the point in life where he is told he is no longer wanted in his job? To me, Duffy Daugherty IS Michigan State and always has been since I've been writing sports around here. Rut the evidence and the facts are starting tn mount up in staggering proportions against him. Michigan State just doesn't win anymore. The Spartans haven't been a factor since well, since Buhba Smith, George Webster, Gene Washington, Clint Jones and that gang of Ail-Americans played for Duffy.

That was a long time ago. That was seven years ago. It is sad to recite Michigan State's record since then because it sounds like the litany of the lost: 3-7, 5-5, 4-6, 4-6, 6-5 and now 1-4. This may be acceptable at Dartmouth or Pittsburgh or even AP Photo Chapman of sealed U-M's Gary VanElst (70), swift Gil a 58-yard touchdown run that Slipping away from MSU's Michigan races to complete 10-0 victory. TENACE SWATS 2 HOMERS A (jrQ -Up on Reds.

places like Iowa and Indiana. But not at Michigan State, where excellence on the football field gave this school its great national image. Duffy's Friend Must Decide Where does a coach reach the end of the line? When does someone decide when to make a change? That's a tough question and a question that puts Burt Smith, the new athletic director, squarely on the spot. Remember, Burt used to be Duffy's assistant and like the Duff, he is a gentleman in every sense of the word. They also happen to be close friends.

But Burt's obligation is to the school first and Duffy second and Duffy understands this situation. It's just that he has been around so long, he has been such a fixture in our state, that who wants to be the one to ultimately drop the blacie? Whatever they're paying Burt Smith, it's not going to be enough in the months ahead. Let's not kid about it, Daugherty had to win Saturday's game against Michigan to take the pressure off himself. You don't lose on successive weekends to Georgia Tech, USC and Notre Dame and then come up against Michigan and lose again and expect the Michigan State backers to like it, This is the big one. Not Notre Dame.

Not Ohio State. Not even the Rose Bowl. Beat Michigan that's what it has always been about and that's what it is about now. This one was extra sad because Michigan State might have won it. The Spartans put the ball into the end zone twice enough to win but neither time resulted in a touchdown.

And then saddest of all poor Duffy had to stand there in the middle of his dressing room after the game and try to explain to the reporters how well he thought his team had TFyrsr nzrTz: 1 P. ft I ti Ik" p.I Ut 1 I BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sports Writer CINCINNATI His parents named him Fury. But his grandfather called him "Steamboat" and the nickname stuck. He's a major league catcher living in a burg so tiny you'll never find it on the map. Yet his own neighbors in Lucasville, Ohio, don't know he's alive.

But nobody in history ever did what Gene Tenace did Saturday. Not even Babe Ruth. Oyershadowed in his own backyard by Cincinnati's celebrated Johnny Bench, hitting only seventh in the Oakland order because of his lack of power, Tenace slammed a pair of home runs in his first two World Series at-bats Saturday to personally push the underdog A's past theRe ds, 3-2, It was a first in World Series chronology a player hitting HRs his first two times up in baseball's annual autumn spectacular. And it was a first for Tenace hitting two homers in a single game of any kind. And suddenly the Reds, who fully expeclPd to wrap this thing up in four straight, didn't seem quite so cocky, quite so arrogant.

THE A'S EMPLOYED that same combination that was so successful in ending the Tigers' season on Thursday' Tenace swinging the bat and Vida Blue blazing his fastball past batters in the late innings. Blue, finally resigned to residing in the bullpen after a talk with Dick Williams Saturday morning, stopped the Reds for the final 2 1-3 innings to register another save. But while Blue and Williams still apparently haven't patched up their differences completely, the Oakland manager had nothing but praise for Tenace, who displaced Dave Duncan behind the plate earlier in the year. And A's owner Charlie Finlcy in the middle of the celebration as always promised tn tear up Tenace's current contract and give the 26-year-old catcher a substantial raise, retroactive to the start of the season. In two days of batting practice at Riverfront Stadium, Tenace hit a grand total of one ball over the fence.

In 1S2 games behind the plate for the A's this year, he reached the seats exactly five times. George Kendrick, Reggie Jackson's replacement in center-field, was waiting on first-base with a walk when Tenace stepped to the plate in the second inning Saturday to face Gary Nolan presumably to make the final out. Before he left, the Oakland A's were two runs in front. CINCINNATI GOT one run back against Ken Holtzman in the bottom of the inning but even that had to be a hit disappointing after they had loaded the bases with nobody out. i Singles by Bench and Tony AP Photo his second homer Ih hand from his matrs A's (Jfnc Tenacc gels folIving DIONNi; EDWARDS BEAT FLYERS Pistons Sag Late, Lose win Again, 5-0 Red Wings played while outside, in the tunnel leading from the stadium, the Michigan Marching Band was parading by singing as loud as it could: "California here we come right back where we started from." Anyone who didn't see the hurt in Duffy's face just wasn't paying attention.

The man was dying. But let me say this for him: He stood there as long as anyone had any questions for him. And he answered them as politely and intelligently as the circumstances would permit. Duffy said his team played well enough to win. True.

He said his team was the victim of some tough breads. True. He said his team was probably the best team in the country with a 1-4 record. Maybe. But it all got down to one unavoidable fact: Michigan State didn't put a single point on the board and no coach in the history of this game has ever devised away of winning without scoring.

The Spartans, if you can believe it, didn't complete a single pass. Not a one. What kind of football is that, especially in this age when all these fans can turn on their TV sets on Sunday. and even Monday nights. and see the ball flying alt over the place? It Was Dull Footlmll Daugherty might be forgiven for losing.

He might be forgiven for failing to mount an attack which couldn't produce a single point. 1 He might even be forgiven but probably not for losing for the third straight year to Michigan. But the one thing that had to stick in everyone's craw was that this was a very dull football game. That's the one thing that is unforgivable. Maybe the wild finish rjf the baseball season around here rubbed some of the luster off this game.

Maybe people were still thinking in terms of what happened to the Tigers. Maybe the game just caught everyone by surprise. But except for a few moments a very few moments the 103,735 just sat and watched passively as the two teams struggled so futilely up and down the field. You can put part of the blame maybe most of it on Bo Schembechler. Bo played it close again.

He refused to open up. When he did, his team exploded. The difference is that it is hard to criticize Bo because he won the game, and that's really all that counts. Bo thought it was a great-great game. He asked the press afterwards: "Is there anybody here who didn't think that was a helluva game?" Nobody said anything.

I'm sorry I was over talking to Duffy. Then again, maybe I'm not. Rn would have gotten mad at me again. "Sorrv. ii wsn't rn'ic't fun.

It was the dullest Michigan-Mi '-y ii Sl.uc PK" I've ncr i-vn. Perez, plus a free pass to Denis Menke, gave the Redi the beginning of a big inning. But Cesar Geronimo popped to the shortstop and it took Dave Concepcion's infield grounder to get Bench home. The Reds did tie the scor in the fourth when Bench walked, went to third on Perez single and crossed the plate while Menke was forcing Perez at second base. But the top half of the fifth brought Tenace back to the plate and this time he pulled Please turn to Page 6D, Col.

I BY HOWARD ERICKSON Free Pres Sport! Writer played like this before and I think he'll have a lot more games like this one before he's Drafted, traded, claimed on waivers and done, sold. Roy Edwards has seen it all. But things might be changing for the 35-year-old goaltender. He might have regained the touch that can give him a place to stay for keeps. Edwards was nearly done almost two years ago done in would be more appropriate.

That's when he suffered a skull fracture and some believed his hockey career to be finished. KANSAS CITY (AP) Nate Archibald's 38 points and 14 assists sparked the Kansas City Omaha Kings to a National Basketball Association victory over the Detroit Pjstons in the Kings' first game at. their new Kansas City home. Bob Lanier, the Pistons' leading scorer with 31 points, tossed In four baskets in the first quarter as the Pistons jumped off to a 26-33 lead. But Please turn to Page 3D, Col.

3 FIRST PERIOD: 1 Detroit, Dionnt i (Libett. Johnston) la.U. Penalties-Kelly, Phil. LaJeunesse, Det. Flett, Phil.

SECOND PERIOD: 2 Detroit, Dlonne 3 (Redmond, G. Bergman) 3:41. PenaltiesKelly, Phil. Flett, Phil. Stackhouse.

Det. Libett, Det. MacLeish, Phil. G. Berqman, Det.

(14:20. THIRD PERIOD: 3 Detroit, Roche-fort 1 (Karlander) 0:35. 4 Detroit, Fontaine 1 (Berenson) 3:54. 5-Detroit, Libett 1 (G. Bergman, Dionne) 14:25.

Penalties Saleski, Phil. Johnston, Det. (minor, maior Dorn-hoefer, Phil, (maior Delvecchio, Det. (maior Clarke, Phil, (maior Fontaine, Det. Schullz, Phii: (double minor G.

Bergman, Det. Scholti, Phil, (minor, maior, misconduct, T. Bergman, Det. (maior Shots on 901: Detroit 13 1 14 45 Philadelphia 7 5-21 Goaltenders: Edwards, Detroit; Taylor, Philadelphia. KC-Omaha Detroit 2-2 4-t 0-0 EVEN EDWARDS thought he was through.

After a couple months of fighting severe headaches, he called an end to his goaltend-ing and went home to Hamilton, Ontario. After that? Not much. Pittsburgh claimed him on waivers from the Red Wings with whom he played four seasons before his injury. And. two days before the start of this season, he was brougtit back to Detroit in a cash deal with the Penguins.

"I'm not in A-I condition yet, said Edwards while unlacing his bulky goalie pads. "That was the first full game I've played since last season. I'll be better than this, though. I just have to keep working." Plfase turn to Pae Col. 3 Edwards shutout the Philadelphia Flyers, 5-0, at OJympia Saturday night to give the Red Wings their third straight victory without a loss so far during the short JVJHL season.

He'll get another shot in trying to find a team to play for Sunday night when the Red Wings close out their four-game home stand against the Los Angeles Kings. Edwards will be coach Johnny Wilson's choice in that one. "When be joined the team he told us he wanted to play and he sure proved it tonight," said Wilson after the Red Wings skated, checked and fought the Flyers to death. "He was steady all the way and made some big snvs," added Wilson. "But he's Bin Davit Ford Foster Lanier Lanli Reds Rated 7-5 Oyer A's Today- STATELINE, Nev.

(UPI) Harrah's Tahoe racebook Saturday listed Cincinnati as 7-5 favorites to beat the Oakland Athletics in the second game of the World Series on Sunday, despite the Reds' loss in the first game on thHr Ivme field. 4 4 7 4 4 0-d Archbld 15 1-11 Green 3 3-4 0 Guokas 0 0-0 14 Kimbll I 0-0 31 Koiis 0 71 1 Lacer 1-2 2 Menqlt 0-0 14 Rallll 3 00 101 Rilev 2 0-0 113VnAsdlll 7 2 22 24 2- 23 78 35 17- i Nrwofld Pnwft iTnlall 37 J7-31 Totals 4 I Detroit KC-Omaha Fouled out None. Toial fouls Detroit 24. KC-Omana 2. Technical foul Oetroil.

Rowe. A- 5 3'5. Lanirr 12 7S .11.