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OS whew! 109 Woody Throws Tantrum Before 104,016 SECTION Detroit ifrce Vttss BY CURT SYLVESTER Frtt Sporti Writtr ANN ARBOR It wasn't Woody Hayes ball-game but it was Woody who told the story best. There he was, the reigning monarch of Ohio State football storming on the field screaming at the officials scattering the yard markers suffering in total frustration. For the second time in three years, the dreaded enemy the University of Michigan had ruined his whole season in a single ball-game. The Wolverines, unbeaten and third-ranked in the nation, left their mistakes behind them utes and seven seconds left to play. That TD, plus a second-quarter field goal by Dana Coin was all the Wolverines could muster against the rugged OSU defense but thank to the equally impressive Michigan defense, it was just enough.

"WE'RE TICKLED," said Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler to a throng of reporters. "We're really pleased. It has been a great season for us. "People start to take shots at you and sometimes they can get to you, but they didn't get us in the first 11 games. I'll tell you, 11-0 isn't bad." Very few of those 11 victories have been spread among so many game heroes as this last one, against the bitter foes from Ohio State.

There was Taylor, who forced himself to forget about two first-half fumbles and kept going for the winning run. Please turn to Page 7D, Col. 1 upset the Wolverines pulled here two years ago but what greater reward can a Michigan team have a perfect season, a Big Ten Title, a Rose Bowl coming up and Woody seething on the sidelines. The victory was the 11th without a loss for the season, marking the first time since 1948 that a Michigan team has completed its schedule without a loss. And for Ohio State, hoping to spoil all that Michigan had worked for in one fatal afternoon, fell for the third straight time and finished the season with a 6-4 record and a heartbreaking loss.

It was a 21-yard run by senior tailback Billy Taylor, with a devastating block by fullback Fritz Seyferth, that gave Michigan its only touchdown of the afternoon, with just two min Sports Sunday, November 21, 1971 J2 Hayes and the Buckeyes, 10-7, before a record crowd of 104,016 wet and shivering fans in Michigan Stadium. IT MAY NOT rank with that earth-shaking 7 ft 'JTTT yTT Oh, My Woody Was Mad! ll ILjrtY Mis "This Is the Bifjfjest One," U-M players nhout after t'irtory Story Page 7D. BY JACK SAYLOR Fret Prtsi Sportt Writer ANN ARBOR Woody Hayes was the perfect subject for magazine cover Saturday Mad Magazine. Wayne Woodrow was mad oh, my, was he mad! Hayes' Buckeyes had been beaten by Michigan and the Ohio Stale coach was livid over a pass interception by the Wolverines' Tom Darden on which W. W.

felt the rights of his receiver had been infringed upon. It seems Mr. Hayes said so much about the play at the time that he didn't feel like rehashing it after the game. Writers fought their way across the field to the Ohio State clubhouse, fending off the better part of 104,016 claustrophobic fans along the way to camp on Woody's doormat. It was not, as it developed, a welcome mat.

WOODY LET the gentlemen of the press cool their heels outside for 35 minutes, while he presumably cooled his own inside. The writers stood, buffeted about by the outpouring crowd and their ears hammering rrom repeated choruses of "Goodby, Woody, We're Glad to See You Go." The only man admitted to the Ohio dressing room from this milling mob was Gov. John Gilligan of Ohio, proving Woody UPI Photos Woody Hayes screamed at an official, got xucknl Miih a 15-yanl penalty, then ripped tlie cover (arrow) from a sideline marker Please turn to Page 7D, Col. 5 J.BJJilll..l)l..l.l)i,..iM,),lWlili.tn. ii 1 i ef Most Frantic Came in Series N-'Weslern Knocks Off MSU, 28-7 BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free Prese Sports Writer EVANSTON, 111, Isn't this where we came in? Michigan State's Wishbone offense, sputtering and wheezing just like its I-formation predecessor, ran out of gas Saturday afternoon and the Northwestern Wildcats rewarded 30,012 hardy fans who showed up at Dyche Stadium with a 28-7 upset win.

When Rozelle Suspended Alex: 'You've Really Done It Noiv' Eighth in a scries on the life and times Alex Karros Pistons Skin Buffalo, 106-95 (Story on Page 3D) Top 10 Teams Leap Into Bowls Seven of the country's Top 10 teams went bowling at 6 p.m. Saturday after racking up college football victories. That was the hour and day set by the National Collegiate athletic Association for bowl bids to be offered. Moving into the glittering post-season extravaganzas were, in order of their ranking: Nebraska (1). Oklahoma (2) Alabaim (4), Auburn (5).

Penn State (H3. Georgia (8) and Colorado (10). The University of Michigan (3) already has a Rose BowJ date. The Bowl matchups: ROSE BOWL (Jan. 1) -Michigan (11-0) vs.

Stanford (8-3). ORANGE BOWL (Jan. Vf-Nebraska (10-0) vs. Alabama (10). SUGAR BOWL (Jan.

I) Oklahoma (9-0) vs. Auburn (9-0). COTTON BOWL (Jan. I)-Texas (7-2) or Arkansas (8-2-1 vs. Penn State (10-0).

GATOR BOWL (Dec. 31) -North Carolina (9-2) vs. Georgia (9-1). BLUEBONNET BOWL (Dec. 31) Colorado (9-2) vs.

Houston (8-2). PEACH BOWL (Dec. 30) -Georgia ech (K-4) vs. Mississippi (8-2). TANGERINE BOWL (Dec.

28) Toledo (11-H) vs. Richmond (5-5). LIBERTY BOWL (Dec. 20) Tennessee (7-2) vs. opponent to be named.

SUN BOWL (Dec. 18)-Ioa St. (7-3) vs. LSU (7-3). Bealen Win irs Bv Kiiiiis, 3-1 (Story on Page 3D) The victory vaulted Northwestern into second place in the final Big Ten standings.

Michigan State, which saw a four-game winning streak come to a screeching halt, finished the season with a 6-5 record in a two-way deadlock for third place with Ohio State. Northwestern fullback Randy Anderson scored the first three touchdowns on runs of 2, 1 and 1 yards as the Wildcats raced to a 21-0 halftime bulge. Linebacker Jack Derning got the last TD, returning a pass interception 16 yards late in the final period. Eric Allen, Michigan State's little record-breaker, scored the Spartans' only touchdown and gained 112 yards on 29 carries, even though he was playing with both his right shoulder and ribs encased in yards of tape. SPARTAN COACH Duffy Daugherty, who had led MSU to 11 straight wins over Northwestern before losing, 23-20, a year ago, was at a loss to explain the Spartans' sudden lethargy.

"We just didn't execute either on offense or defense," he ANN ARBOR Our boy Bo Schembechler's ingrained German stubborness almost did him in Saturday. Almost. But in the end the very end he bent just enough and Michigan pulled out a 10-7 victory over Ohio State in probably the most emotional game played in the big stadium since well, what year was it that Ron Kramer got kicked out of the game and the Michigan followers pelted the Ohio State team with a barrage of snowballs? Or was it the year Bump Elliott's first as coach when Woody Hayes blew his top over losing and began throwing chairs, kicking the down markers around and tossing his baseball cap all over the place? No matter. For absolute frenzy, this one topped them all. Hayes was a raging madman at the end of this one.

Scarlet and Gray? He turned Scarlet and Purple. The Ohio State coach, who has been known for some rather volatile sideline behavior, lost complete control of bimself and had to be restrained by his own players and coaches. Maybe he had good reason. It'll be interesting to find out what the films show on Tom Darden's interception. Did he climb all over the Ohio receiver's back? Did he interfere? As sure as God made Little Brown Buckeyes, Hayes will have a word or two about the play after he looks at it in his screening room.

Or is that "screaming" room. It'll all be academic, however, because it's not likely they'll change the call. It would be difficult to get the 22 players out on the field again, not to mention the 104,016 spectators in the stands. Woody Had Half a Team It'll stand forever in the books as a three-point victory for Michigan possibly the toughest three-point victory this school has ever attained. It should have been no contest.

Woody came here with half a team. He came in with a defense and Tom Campana. That was all. But it was almost enough to turn it all around and pull off one of the most shocking upsets in the history of this long and heated rivalry. Michigan made mistakes, many mistakes.

The Wolverines were favored by 14 points and hoped to run it up on Woody for past favors bestowed on them in Columbus. But they just didn't look like a team of great power. Not like the No. 3 team in the land. And certainly not like the No.

2 and No. 1 team, either. Bo kept playing it straight. Straight ahead. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

He kept trying to ram the ball down the Ohio State throats. Shuttlesworth up the middle Taylor off tackle Doughty over the guards. It was dull, drab football for 55 minutes not what you'd expect from a team which had displayed the awesome power the Wolverines had in some of their earlier games. The big crowd watched silently, restlessly. Murmurs began in the press box.

"Come on, Bo open it up. Come on, Bo, get it going." It was an amazing performance on the part of the Michigan coach. He kept calling the fullback smash. Stubborn? Yes. He'll always be stubborn.

But and this is what it was ultimately all about he also displayed great confidence in his team. He felt that somehow, some way, his players would summon Please turn to Page 9D, Col. 1 conceded. "We were on the ceiving end all day long. There's no rhyme or reason why we were flat, but we obviously were." "If you had asked me last night, I would have said we were going to have a good game," he said, shaking his head.

Allen agreed. "Without blockers in front of me, I can't do a thing," he said quietly. "I think we just qut a little too early. We had a chance to finish second but now and he let his voice trail off. The Wildcats had asserted themselves from the very beginning Saturday.

They took Please turn to Page 9D, Col. 4 I was going into business with, that they were gangsters and hoodlums. I said fine, put that on paper and sign it and I'll take it over to them and we'll see if they're hoodlums. He said, oh, no, he didn't know for sure. I got hot.

I said, "Well you should shut your mouth about things like that if you don't know for sure. You better shut up because I'm going to give you a lawsuit over here real fast." I told him I was only making $12,000 with the Lions and I would just as soon make $13,000 working behind a bar. I told him I'd been on my own since I was 13 years old and 1 didn't need him telling me what to do. So he says I'm warning you right now not to go into the bar business and I said, well, fine, I'm going to anyway because I need the money. AT THE TIME there was this dumb phony police commissioner I thought I'd never forget his name George Edwards, that's him who was trying to make a name for himself.

Every time he needed some attention they would go to Greektown and nab six )r seven DP Greeks from a coffee shop and tell the people how they were cleaning up the town. So they tried to make a big issue out of the fact that I hung around Greektown. Well, I happen to be Greek and I like Greek food and the best around was at the Grecian Gardens, and I went there a lot. The people who owned it at the time were supposedly from the underworld, Gus Coli-casides and Tony Corrado, and I knew them to say hello to. I got called into the Lions' office again and Andy told me I can't go to Greektown anymore, and I told him I'd go any time I felt like it.

SO THEN EDWARDS and his vice guy, Vincent Piersante, called me in to police headquarters, and they want to tell me the history of the Mafia and I interrupt and ask "Have I done anything wrong?" and they said no, and I told them 1 was leaving, if Please turn to Page 2D, Col. 4 BY ALEX KARRAS In the fall of 1961, 1 think it was, I got very interested in going into the bar business with a guy named Jimmy Butsicaris and his brother John. Jimmy's place used to cater to athletes, politicians, newspapermen and people like that and I would go there because it was a place where you could relax and not be bugged by everyone. The building was going to be torn down in a few months and Jimmy and John and I were making plans to become partners and buy a building a couple blocks away, renovate it, and make it into the new Lindell A.C. Bar.

I don't care what bar you name, almost any bar anywhere, you'll find people who bet. All my life, as a kid, a teenager and a man, I've known people who bet, and that doesn't make me one bit unusual because I think almost anybody can say the same. Jimmy would bet. Every once in a while he would bet on a football game and it happened almost as part of a conversation that I joined and made a bet, too. Four or five times I'd come up with a $50 bill to bet on one of the games.

I don't even recall the games, all 1 know is I only won once, and that was the extent of it. I NEVER REALLY thought anything of it that it would be harmful to anyone, especially myself or my family or the National Football League. I never thought of it that way, and if I had, I never would have done it. It was an innocent, unthinking dealing, with no intention of degrading anybody or anything. So I think my suspension from football for the 1963 season didn't really stem from that.

I'm sure it didn't stent from that. It stemmed from a situation the Lions got me into, in that fall of 1961 when I was called into the office of Andy Anderson, the Lions' general manager at the time. He said he didn't want me to go into the bar business, and I asked why not, since he was president of Goebel Brewing Co. for such a long time. HE SAID he happened to know the people FINAL STANDINGS Conference All Games How Top Ten Fared Saturday 1 Nebraska (10-0) idle.

2 Oklahoma (9-0) idle. 3 Michigan (11-0) beat Ohio 10-7. 4 Alabama (10-0) idle. 5 Auburn (9-0) idle. 6 Penn St.

(10-0) beat Pittsburgh, 55-18. 7 Notre Dame (8-2) lost to LSU, 28-8. 8 Georgia (9-1) idle. 9 Arizona St. (9-1) beat San Joss State, 49-6.

in Colorado (9-2) beat Air force, 53-17. PF PA PF PA MICHIGAN 8 0 0 269 70 11 0 0 409 70 Northwestern 3 0 192 127 7 4 0 211 183 MICHIGAN ST. 5 3 0 192 131 5 0 225 169 Illinois 5 3 0 149 131 5 6 0 163 238 Ohio State 5 3 0 175 97 6 4 0 224 120 Wisconsin 3 5 0 161 200 4 1 240 258 Minnesota 3 5 0 147 192 4 7 0 212 278 Purdue 3 5 0 168 182 3 7 0 210 228 Indiana 2 6 0 126 235 .3 8 0 152 260 Iowa 1 8 II 88 302 1 10 0 121 378.