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i wi ir i i SECTION Detroit 4frce3)55 Sports InThis Section The Inside of Sports Page6 Outdoors with Opre Page 8 Travel Pages 11-14 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1972 It's si Laugher! 0 "WIS fi KOU1 oiverime a Goobers WWHPjiJ JL Ohio Slate, Purdue Keep in Step -Page 4C 4 Brown and six extra points by Mike Lantry as the Wolverines ran up their highest score of the year. Even though Minnesota mistakes left Michigan with only drives of 45, 39, 34 and 56 yards for a 28-0 first half lead, U-M coach Bo Schembechler was impressed with the Wolverines. "I don't want to take anything away from Minnesota," Schembechler noted. "We were a pretty good team in the first half. I think we'd have scored every time we had the oall in the first half except for that penalty." THAT WAS an illegal procedure call when tackle Jim Coode got overanxious the fourth time the Wolverines had the ball midway in the second quarter, with a 21-0 lead already visible on the scoreboard through the afternoon-long fog and mist.

Please turn to Page 4C, Col. 5 By CURT SYLVESTER Frt Prtss Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Give those Gophers credit, they tried. They tried their snazzy no-huddle offense, the one that upset Iowa so badly a week ago but that didn't work. They tried a huddle offense and that didn't work. They tried their running game with fullback John King, the No.

2 rusher in the Big Jen and that didn't work. So, they tried their passing game and that was a miserable failure. IN FACT, THE only thing the Gophers did right Saturday was to find Michigan Stadium and by the time Michigan was finished with them, that looked like a mistake, too. The Wolverines, running with all the grace and delicacy of a live jackhammef, overpowered Minnesota, 42-0, for the edification of a Homecoming crowd of 84,190 fans and an old, beat up water jar known as the Little Brown Jug. It was the seventh win without a slipup this season for the fifth-ranked Wolverines while the Gophers, rebuilding under first year coach Cal Stoll, saw their record slip to 1-6.

The win kept the Wolverines tied with Purdue and Ohio State atop the Big Ten with matching 4-0 records and with four games left in the season, including Purdue and Ohio State in the last two on the schedule. The Michigan defense, already the toughest in the country in points allowed this season, blasted the Gophers into five turnovers of football making the job easy for quarterback Dennis Franklin and his crew. Or, maybe it was just that Franklin made it look easy, A ith one of his best days of the THE SOPHOMORE quarterback completed five of eight passes for 94 yards, rambled 58 yards on options and scored sixth and last Michigan touchdown. In the scoring summaries, however, Franklin had to take a back seat to junior fullback Ed Shuttlesworth, who bounced over the goal line four times, twice on one-yard runs and twice on four-yarders. All that left in the scoring department was a 68-yard touchdown run with an interception by safetyman Dave i it Winn.

Mich. First down 17 Rushes-yards 57-20 3 5 4 764 Passing yards 3' I Return yards 3 Passe, J-Jl-4 Punts 6-37 5 5 Fumbies-tost 3-1 0-06 Penalties-yardi 5-37 6-60 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 Michi9an 14 14 14 0-4J MICH Shuttlesworth 1 run (Lantry kick). MICH-Shuttlesworth 4 run (Lantry kick). MICH-Shuttlesworth 4 run (Lantry kick) MICH Shuttlesworth 1 run (Lantry kick). MICH Brown Interception return (Lantry kick).

MICH Franklin 1 run (Lantry kick). A 44,190. Tough from in close is U-M fullback Ed Shuttlesworth as he crunches over left guard for a four-yard TD in the first quarter Saturday his second of four touchdowns against Minnesota. The others were on runs of one, U-M'sTD 'Shuttle9 four and one yards. UPI Photo .1 Pistons Fire Lloyd Spartans Miss Kick --Tie, 6-6 fx Winning at U-M: It's a Big Bore coach and scout, was named head coach last Nov.

1 after Bill van Breda Kolff suddenly resigned after compiling a 6-4 record. Under Lloyd, the Pistons staggered during the rest of the season, winning only 20 games against 50 losses. 1 He led the team to a 7-1 exhibition record this fall, the best in the team's record, but the Pistons haven't been able to get untracked since the regular season began. Scott becomes the 10th head coach of the Pistons since they came to Detroit in 1957. PORTLAND Earl Lloyd was released Saturday night as coach of the Detroit Pistons and replaced by Ray Scott, a former assistant who was named the team's assistant coach and scout before the season began.

General manager Ed Coil flew here after the Pistons' 130-118 loss at Houston Friday night the fifth setback in seven starts and after meeting with Lloyd and Scott announced the change. "Something had to be done," Coil said. "Things have not been going the way they should for us." Lloyd, himself a one-time Piston player, assistant Earl Lloyd 8-3 Blues Trounce Wings. BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer IOWA CITY, la. They brought in the verdict on the Michigan State offense Saturday: Guilty! Guilty on every count.

Guilty of losing five fumbles. Guilty of missing a crucial extra point. Guilty of frittering away all but one of the scoring opportunities its defense worked so hard to set The sentence was a 6-6 deadlock with the Iowa Hawkeyes on the water-soaked Astro-Turf at Kinnick Stadium. It certainly wasn't a well-played game, but the 46,852 Homecoming fans sat in the rain until bitter end. They- saw things like Michigan State fumbling twice on one play Iowa losing two fumbles and two pass interceptions a blocked field goal and on and on and on.

It could have been called a comedy of errors if it had not been so serious. If the Spartans still had a faint flicker of hope of going to me Rose Bowl when they came here, it was gone when they left. MICHIGAN STATE'S offense has floundered aH season. But it appeared to have righted itself last week, beating Wisconsin, 31-0. Saturday, the Spartans were once again the unsure offensive team they had been earlier.

Their only touchdown came on their second possession, when George Mihaiu, substituting for the injured Mark Niesen, rolled into the end zone from the four, ending an 82-yard drive. But Marv Roberts missed the extra point. It1 didn't seem all that important midway through the first period. But it was. "The snap was a little high," Roberts' holder, Dan Werner, said after the game.

"I had trouble handling it, but I don't know just period and added three more in the final period, to smash Detroit's 3-2 lead at the end of the opening period. In was the Blues first win at home this season and lifted them out of seventh place in the NHL West. St. Louis had its attack ignited when defenseman Steve Durbano was ejected from the game following a fight with Detroit's Nick Libett at the 7:33 mark of the second period. REFEREE Bruce Hood handed both players misconducts after trading punches at center ice and added a game misconduct for Durbano when the St.

Louis player refused to go to the penalty box. Less than five minutes later, Red Wing defenseman Gary Bergman went off for hooking and the Blues converted the power-play opportunity into a goal and tied the score at 3-3. St. Louis began its barage Please turn to Page SC, Col. 1 Special to the Free Press ST.

LOUIS The Detroit Red Wings continued to play in streaks here Saturday night. After putting together six straight victories to start the season, the Red Wings blew a 3-2 first-period lead and dropped their second consecutive contest, losing to the St. Louis Blues, 8-2. Making their final stop on a two-game road trip, the Wings headed back home with their 6-2-0 record to face the unbeaten Montreal Canadiens in a sellout game at Olympia Sunday night. And they'll be going home drained physically.

THE BLUES put the test to the supposedly well-conditioned Red Wings right from the outset and, although they were called for a total of 13 penalties in the process, the Blues were successful. While St. Louis Arena's noisy organ pounded away all night, the Blues exploded for three goals late In the second Here's how the top 20 college football teams in the Associated Press ratings fared 1 Southern California shutout Oregon, 18-0 Page 2C. 2 Alabama smothered Southern Methodist, 48-1 1 Page 2C. 3 Nebraska beat Oklahoma 34-0 Page 2C.

4 Ohio State edged Wisconsin, 28-20 Page 4C. 5 Michigan routed Minnesota, 42-0 Page 1C. 6 Louisiana State idle. 7 Colorado upset by Missouri, 20-17 Page 2C. 8 Oklahoma blitzed Kansas 52-0 Page 2C.

9 UCLA defeated Washington 35-20 Page 2C. 10 Texas fried Rice, 45-9 Page 4C. 11 Penn St. whipped West Virginia, 28-19 Page 4C. 12 Auburn defeated Florida 27-14 Page 2C.

13 Notre Dame beat Texas Christian, 51-0 Page 4C. 14 Tennessee routed Hawaii, 34-2 Page 2C. 15 Iowa State romped over Kansas, 34-8 Page 2C. 16 Arizona St. lost to Air Force, 39-31 Page 2C.

17 Florida St. was defeated by Auburn, 27-14 Page 2C. 18 tie West Virginia lost to Penn St. 28-19 Page 4C. Southern Methodist upset by Texas Tech, 17-3 Page 2C.

Arkansas walloped N. Texas 42-16 Page 4C. ANN ARBOR With exactly two minutes and 16 seconds left in the third quarter of Saturday's game, the crowd started filing out of Michigan Stadium. The time of day was 3:20 p.m. This had to be the earliest walkout in the history of football at the University of Michigan.

Boring? Well, we tried the word "dull" a couplif of weeks ago but nobody around here would accept it. So how about "boring?" Does that fit better, Bo? When the third quarter ended, a writer from the Minneapolis Tribune came by and said: "Do you realize we still have another whole quarter to go? It seems like I've been here my whole life. In fact, it seems like I was born here." Isn't that beautiful? Here they had the annual battle for the Little Brown Jug, a confrontation that used to light up the skies end make the grounds tremble, and people were walking out and others were making sarcastic remarks. It wasn't the best of days foggy and wet with a light drizzle falling. The game was a complete mismatch.

Michigan-vs. Minnesota? It seemed more like a Tuesday afternoon workout at Ferry Field. What we have here now is a quandary. Everyone, including myself, moaned and groaned In the days when the Michigan, football team couldn't get out of its own way. Now all the Wolverines do is win and it's still not very exciting.

I know exactly what's going to happen when all the U-M fans including Bo Schembechler read this column. They're going to say: "What does he want from us? We're winning, aren't we? Isn't that what this game is all about?" This is true. Winning precedes everything else. But they're still playing pretty drab football out here and let them try to deny that. Big 10 Is Near Bottom Now they can also add: "Would it be better if we lost a few?" Nope and that's where the quandary comes in.

Schembechler is doing what he was brought in to do put Michigan back on. the football map but he's putting a lot of people to sleep in the process. You can blame much of it on the quality of football In the Big Ten. The old conference Is at an all-time low. Right now there are only two teams in the conference Michigan and Ohio State and it's getting so that the entire Big Ten season boils down to the final game between these two schools.

Take the Minnesota team which absorbed the 42-0 pasting on Saturday. It had to be the worst Minnesota team to come into Ann Arbor in a long time. There was a time, even when the Gophers were down, when they were- so physical you never knew what to expect from them, and you knew you had played a football game when the afternoon was over. This time they looked like a team out of the MIAA, and let's rot have any nasty letters from the Albions, Adrians, Hopes and Olivets. The Gophers weren't remotely close to matching Michigan in manpower.

It's that way on most Saturdays around here. It would be easy to say, then, that It is not Michigan's fault that these games are so boring. Can Bo and his boys help it if the other teams are so Inept? Again, this is true but that's not the entire answer either. The Michigan team Is just unexciting the way it performs. Schembechler is a percentage player.

He plays the percentages right down the line. You certainly can't argue with the Pleast turn to Page 4C, Col. 7 Tiger of the Year? It's Brinkman i why, I don know if I grabbed a wet spot or what. But It delayed me in getting the ball down and I know (it threw Roberts timing off because he starts toward the ball when he hears it hit my hand." The Spartans had almost an endless number of opportunities to make up for that lapse and widen their lead, though. Frank Timmons recovered an Iowa fumble at the Hawk-eye ,16 on the second play of the second half, but the Spartans could gain just eight yards in four tries and Iowa took over at its own eight.

JUST MINUTES later, the Spartans took over after an Iowa punt at the Hawkeye 39 but two plays later, Niesen back in the game after suffering the tarly leg injur', fumbled the ball away at the 21, Iowa later stopped the Spar- highest ever recorded by a shortstop. Brinkman joins Bill Freehan and Don Wert as the only non-pitchers ever to win the award, which first went to Wert in 1965. DENNY McLAIN won it three times in 1966, '68 and '69 while Tom Tim-merman and Lolich each won once. Al Kaline, who's late season sprint was a major factor in the Tigers' stretch surge, finished second in this year's balloting with three votes. Woodie Fryman and Lolich each received two votes' while Freehan and Aurelio Rodriguez polled one apiece, Brinkman, who was sidelined before the start of the second game of the American League playoffs with a slipped disc, underwent surgery at Ford Hospital and was released last Friday.

Jan. 16, and expects to be fully recovered by the time spring training starts a month later. IN SPITE of his anemic average, Brinkman finished second only to Mickey Stanley in sacrifice flies and if statistics were kept on clutch hits, he would have easily led the club. In the field, all he did was set four major league, records to firmly entrench himself as the steadiest glove the Tigers have ever employed at short. During the course of the season, Brinkman established new major league marks for the most consecutive games played (72), and the most consecutive chances accepted (331) without an error.

He finished the year with just seven mistakes also a big league record and his fielding percentage of .990 is tja Although he batted only .203, he played in every single game and nobody else on the entire team could make that same claim this season. That should tell you what kind of year Eddie Brinkman had. That should tell you how much he meant to the Tigers. Sunday, the ekinny shortstop was named "Tiger of the Year" by the Detroit Baseball Writers and by the second largest majority since they began handing out their "most valuable" award eight years ago too. Only Mickey Lolich, a unanimous choice last fall after he had won 25 games, ever received more support.

Brinkman, currently home in Cincinnati recuperating, from back surgery, received 22 of the 31 ballots cast. He'll be honored at the annual writer' dinner Eddie Brinkman Please turn to Page 4C, Col. 7.