MICHIGAN STATE t a t e n e w s UNIVERSITY Sunday, November 14, 1965 East Lansing, Michigan WINBYWIN STANDINGS W L MSU13 UCLA 3 MICH. ST. 7 0 Ohio State 5 1 MSU 23 Penn St. 0 Minnesota 4 2 MSU 22 Illinois 12 Purdue 4 2 MSU 24 Michigan 7 Wisconsin 3 3 MSU 32 Ohio State 7 Illinois 3 3 MSU 14 Purdue 10 N ’western 2 4 jbmk -1 m m *mt m MSU 49 N’western 7 Michigan 2 4 MSU 35 Iow a 0 Indiana 1 5 Indiana 13 Io w a 0 7 MSU 27 A-2 Sunday, November 14, 1965 BIG TEN CHAMPIONS Unbeaten ! First Outright r all afternoon by an agj!gravated knee injury, ran for 47 yards and fumbled once. Indiana Throws Scare, This sloppy ball handling was partially due to the cold 39-degrcc weather. , , The Spartans ground out 194 yards rushing to Indiana s 65. Quarterback Frank Stavroff completed 14 of 27 attempted passes But State Rallies,27-13 for 173 yards. End Bill Malinchak haunted Slate’ s defensive lacks all after­ By RICK PI AN IN noon, catching five passes for 89 yards and one TD. Malinchak State News Staff W riter hauled in a beautiful 46-yard pass late in the second quarter and caught a 10-yard touchdown pass on the next play, with only 46 The Spartan football team claimed its seconds remaining. first undisputed Big Ten championship’here This cut State's early lead to 1 0 -7 and sparked Indiana to go ahead in the third quarter. Saturday with a dramatic 27-13 victory over Big end Bob Couch, 6-5. leaped high in the air to snag five a fired-up Indiana squad. passes for 54 yards. State’ s defensive back I ton Japinga, only Some 75,2 80 fans watched as State closed 5-8, had trouble keeping *'up’ ’ with Couch. "Our secondary had the most trouble it’ s had this year,*’ said out its conference season with a perfect 7-0 Head Coach Duffy Daugherty following the game. ’’ Stavroff’ s record. This assures the Spartans of a trip throws to those fine receivers made it tough for us. ^ "H e was a lot tougher on us than Hot) Griesc was at Purdue, to the Rose Bowl. he continued. "It’ s been seldom that we’ ve been beaten on the long throw. The Hoosiers were making excellent receptions." The Spartans trailed the upset-minded Hoosiers, 13-10 , at the The Spartans took an early 3-0 lead in the first quarter after start of the fourth quarter, but quarterback Steve Judatypitched blowing a touchdown opportunity. two touchdown passes to end Gene Washington and Dick Kenney State’ s defensive end Bob Viney hit Stavroff. who fumbled the booted a 27-yard field goal to shun defeat. , ball to tackle Buddy Owens on the Indiana seven-yard line. Washington caught three touchdown passes in the g*ne and However, State failed to move the ball and had to settle for a earned 112 yards. Juday’ s three touchdown passes and Washing­ 2 1-yard field goal by Kenney. ton’ s three TD receptions were both MSU single-game records The game was interrupted in the first quarter by a small black in the Big Ten. RECORD SETTER Gene dog that dashed onto the field and kept players, referees, newsmen Juday hit on 11 of 22 passes for 150 yards. He has thrown eight Washington shows his and team managers chasing after it for five minutes. TDs this season. » .. pass-catching form which The dog displayed excellent broken -field running and it took Key interceptions by defensive backs Jess Phillips and Charlie led to another Spartan four tacklers to bring it down along the side lines. Thornhill saved State from possible disaster and set up t^o Spai- mark as he caught three The Spartans struck again at the 3:27 mark of the second quar­ tan touchdowns. touchdown passes in the ter on Judhy’ s first touchdown pass to Washington, a 21-yard Left halfback Dwight Lee, top rusher of the afternoon, ripped victorious home finale Indiana's line for 103 yards. He was used extensively throughout play. Slate moved the hall 63 yards in eight plays and Kenney Saturday. kicked the extra point to give State a 10-0 lead. the afternoon. Stavroff picked State’ s defense apart with passes to Couch and Right halfback Clinton Jones could only manage 32 yar,is rush­ Photo by Larry Fritzlan ing and fumbled twice. Fullback Bob Apisa, who was pothered Malinchak late in the quarter. Indiana moved 79 yards in seven “ plays, climaxed by Stavroff’ s touchdown pass to Malinchak in the endzone. OFFICIAL W ORD WAY Dave Kornowa booted theextra point and Indiana only trailed 10-7 at halftime. Indiana took the second-half kickoff on its own 10-yard line and marched 77 yards in 13 plays for a touchdown. Pocket Pasadena Passport Stavroff mixed his passing and running attack and carried the ball himself the final yardforthe score. State’s defensive tackle By LA R R Y M O G G Don Weather spoon blocked the State New« S p o r ts E d ito r extra point kick and Indiana held Rambunctious and ambitious Michigan a 13-10 lead. State, spoon-fed by Rose Bowl hopes for Fumbles by Apisa and Jones more than a month, picked up their stalled two Spartan drives. The passports to Pasadena, Saturday. Hoosiers took Jones’ fumble on Following their fourth quarter success their own 46 and Stavroff im­ formula to the hilt, the unbeaten Spar- mediately hit on a 14-yard pass tani*tattoed Indiaqj with 17 points in the play. final period to stalk off with their first Two plays later, however, Jess undisputed BigTen football championship Phillips picked off a Stavroff since entering the conference in 1953. pass on State’ s 35 which ended Coach Duffy Daugherty, a fuss-budget the threat. when It came to Rose Bowl talk the past Juday hit Washington with a few weeks, clutched an armful of red 43-yard touchdown pass at the roses as he hurried toward the Spartan 1:27 mark of the final quarter. Stadium dressing room after the gam e., End Jim Proebstle delivered a Somebody had thrust them into his arms. key block to spring Washington And for the firrt time this fall he wel­ loose. comed their sight. State missed another scoring As far beck as the Michigan game, chance late in the quarter when Duffy had been confronted with rose- it failed to take the ball in from hungry football mania. On Sunday mor­ Indiana’ s seven-yard line in two ning after the Michigan win, a dozen red plays. Kenney kicked a 27-yard roses were left on the Daugherty front- field goal on fourth down, making porch. Daugherty never Indicated what the score 20-13. he did with ttyn , but it’ s a safe bet Everybody Loves A Winner Thornhill intercepted Stav- be didn't put ihem in the deep freeze roff’ s pass on the Spartan 48 “ It’ s been a very difficult week trying for safekeeping. "especit lly today when we were down in during the next set of downs and Every place Duffy went after that, the foum quarter. I was very proud and to keep our kids from being distracted raced back to the Hoosier 11 . rose talk was sure to go. pleased .^ith the way they came back in by the Rose Bowl talk,” Duffy went on. With only seconds remaining Week after week, the ruffled-haired this gacie to win the championship.” “ First, the coeds working at the train­ in the game, Juday tossedtohigh- Irishman pleaded his ease, "W e can’ t ‘ T’ m pretty sure many people thought ing table wore straw hats all week which leaping Washington, who caught go to the Rose Bowl until we have won a Duffy-coached team could never win said ‘ Rose Bowl Bound,’ then the State the ball barely in bounds for the Big Ten and the athletic directors a championship," he said. News comes out with an article saying the final touchdown. Kenney kick­ vote us in." Then a photographer shoved some that a Rose Bowl agent had already ed the extra point just before the State cinched the Rose Bowl berth artificia; roses in Duffy’ s hands and been selected for the trip.” whistle sounded. “ Even so, our kids sure showed their Saturday, and a beaming Daugherty stood asked hi.n to sniff them. Next Saturday, the top ranked stuff in the fourth quarter today.” his ground In the locker room as mem­ "W eV? not in officially yet are we?" Spartans face Notre Dame at Whooping and hollering were at a bers of the press engulfed him. He he questioned as he posed for the pic­ South Bend. The Irish have lost minimum with the Spartan players.They couldn't hide his patented Irish grin. ture. " f use to think that the Dear Lord only one game this fall and that had obtained what they wanted and that "Sometimes this season, I thought our handed qjit noses instead of roses as far was a narrow setback to Purdue. team would never make it,” he said, as we w«re concerned.’’ was all there was to it. % Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan A*3 Spartans Nail Down 9th Triumph WWW SOMETHING SPECIAL--This end zone catch sealed the Spartans’ win over Indiana and gave Gene Washington another MSU record.