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Michigan State Spartans faced the Michigan Wolverines for a Saturday afternoon game on October 12, 1968.
After two straight undefeated seasons in the Big Ten in 1965 and 66, the Spartans finished the 1967 season with a 3-7 record under Coach Duffy Doherty.
The Wolverines finished 1967 with a 4-6 record under Coach Bump Elliott.
1968 would be his final season before the arrival of Bo Schembechler.
This audio recording is from the Ann Arbor Radio broadcast featuring announcer Tom Hemingway.
The Spartans of Michigan State versus the Wolverines of Michigan.
Hello everybody, this is Tom Hemingway.
And today again we have the spectacle of spectacle.
The annual Michigan State-Michigan football game before over 101,000 fans here at Bright Sunfield Michigan Stadium this afternoon.
Well, they say football is a game of emotion.
And never is it more emotional than in a Michigan State-Michigan football game.
Michigan trying to defeat the Michigan State Spartans in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1955.
The Michigan State by winning today could tie the longest winning streak in this series of four straights.
For the 21st straight time, the game is a sellout.
And since 1948, more than 1,900,000 people have watched this game in either Michigan Stadium or Spartan Stadium in East Lansing.
As far as every turn of the field, they've had the flip of the coin between the captains.
John Johnson of Michigan and Al Brenner of Michigan State Michigan won the toss, elected to the C.
While Michigan State has been with the win here in this first quarter and will defend the Southern end zone.
And will have the win with about seven miles an hour to their back.
A game built as a battle between the Spartan quarterback Bill Caracchus, who specializes in both the running and the passing game.
The surprise of the Spartans this year in the rushing attack.
Only a sophomore, but already has picked up 268 yards and 57 carries.
Michigan State also known for their fine defense through the years, and this year is no exception as they are keyed by Rich Saul,
one of identical twin brothers on the Michigan State team.
And you'll be hearing a lot from him this afternoon.
And of course, the captain of the Spartans, Al Brenner, who is one of the last of the two-way players in collegiate football today,
playing both split-end on offense and safety on defense.
Let's run down the starting lineups now for Michigan State, and we'll put them on defense since that's the way they'll open the game.
At the end for the Spartans will be sophomore Wilt Martin, 6'3", 220 pounder.
He is from Selfridge Air Force Base where his father is stationed.
At the other end is Ken Little, who was injured in the Wisconsin game but is expected to see action in this contest and perhaps start.
He's 6'2", 220, a junior from Youngstown, Ohio.
If he does not start, it'll probably be sophomore Gary Nowak at the other end, 6'5", 230 pounder from St. Clair Shores.
The tackles for Michigan State on defense, Rick Benedict, a junior, 6'2", 225 from East Lansing, and Charles Bailey, a senior, 6'2", 30 from Dayton, Ohio,
and all him, one of the top defensive linemen in the Big Ten. The middle guard is Jack Zindell, a junior, 5'11", 190 from East Lansing,
moved ahead of Bill Dawson, who broke a foot in early scrimmage session, but Zindell also has been hampered by injuries in his career, but Zindell will be starting him.
The linebackers we already mentioned, Richard Sahl, 6'2", 218 pounder, a junior from Butler, Pennsylvania.
He leads the team and tackles with 35 this year and also has three interceptions to his credit.
The other linebacker will be Don Law, a junior, 5'11", 227 pounder from Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
In the secondary for the Spartans, the cornerbacks will be Frank Waters, 5'10", a senior, 185 from Hillsdale,
who was shifted from a flankerback to the defensive secondary by Coach Duffy Doherty, and senior Ken Hepp, 5'8", 170 from Birmingham, Michigan.
As we already mentioned, the safety man is Al Brenner, 6'1", 194 pound senior from Niles.
He had a 95-yard punt return last year against Illinois for a Big Ten record, and the overback is Jay Breslin, a sophomore, 6'3", 185 from East Lansing.
Now the Michigan Wolverines on offense will have a tight end Jim Mendy, 6'3", 215 junior from Solon, Ohio.
At the split end will be Jerry Henslin, junior, 6'2", 210 from North Hill. He'll alternate with Bill Holt at the split end.
The tackle down offense will be Dan Beardorf and Tom Hintzger, the guards, Dick Saldaraza and Stan Broadmauk.
In the center will be Dave Jensen. The quarterback is Dennis Brown.
The running backs, Ron Johnson and Garvey Craw.
And at flanker, John Gaferer, after being injured in the Duke game, setting out last week's game against Navy, should be back in action this afternoon.
Kicking off for Michigan State will be Gary Boyce, a sophomore from St. John's, Michigan.
Set in the deep spot is George Huey at the 5-yard line. He has Johnson and Lance Shuffler up ahead of him at the 10.
A gorgeous afternoon for football.
Jampack Michigan Stadium awaits the opening kickoff and here comes Boyce, here comes the football, we're on the way. Right down the field, Huey at the 12.
Comes to the 15, to the 20, right to the 25, to the 30, to the 45, to the 40, to the 45, to the 50, and he's knocked down at Michigan State,
territory at the 48-yard line by the kicker, Gary Boyce.
From Michigan, George Huey as he did last week against Navy, electrifying the crowd with a long run back of 39 yards and the opening kickoff in Michigan has a first and 20-goal for Spartan, 49-yard line.
They flank Gabriel wide to the left.
They set the eye behind Brown of Grau and Johnson and split off of it now.
As Brown turns and gives off to Garvey Craw and he finds a hole over the middle and he's down to about 5 yards with a Spartan, 44-yard line.
Right underneath the foul, the right-shirted number 61, Charles Bailey, 230-pound senior from Dayton, Ohio and Don Law.
They say his knee touched down at the 45-yard line, a gain of 4, second down and 6 yards to go.
Again, Gabler is flanked to the left.
Implin is tight on the right side.
They split the setbacks once again as the handoff is given to Ron Johnson and he doesn't find too much room over the left side of his own offensive line
as he has maybe a couple of the 43-yard line where he was hit by Don Law once again.
Right side linebacker.
Here's a change on the Spartan's defensive unit now.
Number 66 Mike Hogan checks in there and number 65 goes out.
Jack Zindel, that's the middle guard position.
Back-hopping has replaced Dick Calderazzo at left guard for the Wolverines, carrying a play in.
It's third and four.
They're going to run a play motion to the right side and down keeps him.
He's over the 40-yard line to the 39, very close to the first down.
He may be just in this spot.
Making the tackle.
Was Don Law for the third straight time and let's see if they're going to bring the James in.
They are.
He had to go to the 39-yard line.
The ball is rusting, apparently, just shy of the 39, whether there's any part of it over, of course,
is the determining factor and it is just about three inches side.
They're looking at the side linebacker.
And the Michigan State Spartans are making a couple more defensive changes.
They're coming in with a couple of big defensemen up on that line as Michigan is going to go for it.
Fourth down and inches to go for the first down.
And here we are, just about a minute and a half into the ball game.
They've already got a big crucial play staring at the plate.
John Cole and Mike Young with a big defenseman on the line checking in for Michigan State.
Brown looks down the line of streaming as the referee marks the ball for play.
Brown has him lined up in the eye.
They break off of it, however, as the handoff is given to Johnson.
He's got the first down as he's down inside the 39-yard line before he was hit.
By Al Brenner, who came up from his safety man position to make the tackle on Ron Johnson.
The ball is just in inside the 39.
First and ten to go for Michigan State.
We've got the dog on the field.
A little early in this ball game.
It's a different dog, however, than the one that gained about 280 yards against Nadey last week.
First and ten to go.
Gabler's blank to the left.
Brown hands off to Johnson.
He finds a slight hole with one side.
He's going to open it at the front of the 20-yard line.
He may go.
Ten, two, ten, five, six, down.
Thank you, guys.
The ball is turned off by his teammates at the end zone as he found a hole over the left side.
Bob Pinkster, Darby Craw, Dick Saldarazzo made some key blocks up there in front of Johnson.
Frank Waters was the only man with a chance to get Johnson, and Johnson simply swarmed away from him at the 15-yard line and went in for the touchdown.
Touchdown, four-and-five, Johnson.
Johnson's fifth touchdown of the season.
And now, Jim Gillian will try to make it seven-and-a-nothing.
The kick is up.
It's in.
And with 15-0-4 remaining in the first quarter, Michigan leads seven-to-nothing.
That was a block of 49 yards in five plays.
With Ron Johnson staring it in from 38-and-a-half yards out for the touchdown.
Brown staying on the ground the entire series.
And need I tell you that the Michigan Wolverines are fired up right now.
Frank Titus with kickoff for Michigan.
Don Heisman is deep along with Tommy Logg.
It's a short kick caught by a lineman and falls on it up at the 32-yard line, number 64, Mike Young.
It was a line-drive kick right down the middle of the field.
Young caught right in his midsection and fell to the ground immediately, not risking a fumble.
So the Spartans have it first and tend to go from their own 32-yard line.
Eddie McCloud is the center.
The guards are Ron Solon, Don Fair.
He tackles Dave Van Elst, Ted Wysinski.
He ends Frank Forman and Al Brenner.
Bill Ferocco is the quarterback.
He touches wide to Tommy Logg and the fly goes down.
Logg steps back in at his own 35-yard line and is knocked down to 37.
Thank you to the
Spartans and Charlie Wiedemeier as the flyers.
Michigan's defense runs down this way.
The ends are Phil Seymour and Cecil Pryor.
The tackles Dan Clarkson, Tom Goss.
The middle guard is Henry Hill.
The linebackers Tom Stincek and Ed Moore.
The cornerbacks Brian Healy and George Healy.
And the safety men are Tom Curtis and Bob Wich.
The walkoff is against Michigan State.
It's a five-yard penalty for illegal motion on the part of the Spartans.
And that moves the ball back to the 22-yard line.
Make it to the 27-yard line.
First down and 15 to go.
The Spartans line up in the eye.
They have a slot back to the right as Brenner is flipped to the right.
They're going to run it out of the eye.
Toronto back to pass.
He hits Wiedemeyer at the 31-yard line and he's knocked out of bounds immediately.
By number 91 Phil Seymour.
An offensive left end and Brian Healy the left cornerback.
Knocked out of bounds at the 31-yard line.
It will be second down and 11 yards to go.
The Spartans in all white this afternoon with the green helmets and the green numerals.
This time Wiedemeyer flanks wide to the left.
Brenner is flipped to the right about five yards in motion to the right.
Goes Wilinski to pitch out, comes to love and love is right about the right of city.
A fine defensive play by once again Phil Seymour.
He was assisted by Tom Goss.
So Phil Seymour, 6'4 junior from Oakley, Michigan, has come up with a couple of key defensive plays in a row for the Wolverines.
The Spartans now face for the third and 10th situation as they move the ball on that play only a yard to the 32-yard line.
Tammy Love checks out of there.
As the Spartans on third and 10, the drop over left to Toronto.
Heads off to Wilinski and Wilinski finds a big hole over the left side and he's up to about the 45-yard line of Michigan State.
He tackles Jerry Hartman for Michigan and that will be enough for the first down.
Gordon Baudel goes out of there and Love comes back in.
Baudel checked in there for love and they had actually three ends in the game for Michigan State on that play.
Baudel was setting the slot to the left.
First and 10 to go from the Spartans, 45-yard line.
Wiedemeyer this time is setting the slot to the right.
In motion to the right goes Wilinski and the pitch out to Love and he's going to try to power through to the right side.
He comes back into Michigan territory for the 45-yard line.
He's nailed by Tom Goss.
Curtis got a hand on him back at about the 50 and Goss rode him to the turf at the Michigan 46-yard line where it's second down and a yard to go.
So far both teams sticking pretty much to the ground although there has been one pass thrown up by Piraco.
There's movement on the line.
Everybody gets back on site however before the snap.
Piraco hands off to Wilinski.
He fumbles, falls on himself as there's a pileup down at the Michigan 41-yard line.
Wilinski was hit by Goss and Henry Hill fumbled the ball.
But luckily enough it stayed right under him as he fell on it at the 41-yard line.
That's enough for the first down.
First and 10 to go for the Spartans.
Michigan leads 7-0 early in this first quarter.
Over 100 and 1,000 fans here at Michigan Stadium this afternoon.
Wiedemeyer setting the slot to the left.
In motion to the left goes Wilinski this time to pick up and love and he's going to try to power through to the left side.
And he's hit just about the line and still is by a host of Michigan faculty.
First and ailing was Ed Moore.
George Huey came up along with Cecil Pryor.
All of them knocking love down just as he got it over the 40-yard line.
So there was a pick up of actually one yard on the play.
Second down, 9 to go.
Eddie McCloud comes over the ball at center for the Spartans.
Slot to the right this time as Wiedemeyer is in it.
Brenner way up to the right.
Bronco's going to go back to pass.
Pires it, makes it.
No, he's going to run it with a bound.
He's down for about three to the 37-yard line.
Henry Hale dragging into the turf as Bronco pumped once, didn't let it go, found his man covered, and held onto it himself to the 37-yard line.
Here goes Brenner out of there and Gordon Bowdell checks in for him.
At the split end he's 6-2 a junior, 2-0-4 from Allen Park.
It's third down and seven to go at the Michigan 37-yard line.
Another big third down play for Michigan State.
They paid off on it the last time on a third and ten.
Bowdell comes wide to the left.
Wiedemeyer setting the slot to the left.
High formation behind Claraco.
A handball by the reverse play to the flag of I-25.
He's in the open, the 30, the 25, the 20, the 15, the 10, the 5.
He's knocked out of bounds.
Let's see if he made it into the end zone.
Now he was knocked out, evidently, after he dead-poured into the end zone, just over the flag.
So it is a touchdown for Michigan State.
Wiedemeyer was hit right at about the one-yard line by George Huey and just stayed on his feet long enough to get inside that red corner pylon marking the goal line down there at the corner.
So it's seven to six.
Gary Boyce will try to tie it up.
He's a left-footed kicker from St. John's.
Wiedemeyer is holding.
There's the kick.
It's over.
No goal.
Off to the left.
So the Spartans fail on the extra point attempt and the score holds.
Michigan 7, Michigan State 6, and Dave McKay looks like they've got a scoring afternoon so far in progress.
That we do, Tom. I had a brief conversation last night with Tony Mason at the press party that they have each week here at Michigan.
And he told me that if Michigan could maintain some points, which they have not done in the last two or three Michigan State meetings, that they'd be in the ballgame all the way.
And certainly they're exemplary in the ballgame.
And State coming right back.
We're in for a real winner here today.
That drive of the Spartans covered 68 yards and eight plays.
With Wiedemeyer going 37 yards with a touchdown.
Mason went 38 and a half for the Michigan touchdown.
Here's Boyce on the kickoff now.
It's a sailor.
Goes back into the end zone and really lets it go.
And it rolls out for an automatic cutback and they'll take it out to the 20.
First and 10 for the Wolverines.
This has been a fabulous series.
Certainly it has gained national status as one of the top collegiate games year after year across the country.
This is the 61st meeting of these two clubs, Michigan.
O's in all-time series lead of 46 to 19.
There's been five ties.
First and 10 to go.
As down the line of spinach and the option for a roll-down, he cuts back here at the 20 and he's up through the 24-yard line for a gain of four.
Only on to end this was Frank Waters.
Left cornerback.
Son of the Hillsdale, Coach Muddy Waters.
Played a lot of flanker back for the Sparks but shifted to defense this year by Doherty.
Second down, six yards to go for the Wolverines.
Gaber is flanked wide to the left.
Jerry Imselin is split right in.
Down turns, gives off on the counterplay to Ron Johnson and Johnson gets back to the 25-yard line and that's about it.
He gets piled up there by the entire right side of the Michigan State defensive line.
Check it as they get off the bottom of the pile.
Wilt Martin, big defensive end from Selfridge Air Force Base, the last off the pile.
Here's Mike Hogan checking into the Michigan State lineup.
Going out of there is Jack Zindel.
Martin and Nowak now are the defensive ends, third and four to go for the Wolverines.
Brown fakes the pass, gives off on the draw play to Charlie Carr and Carr is filled to the first down as he's stacked up at the 26 by Charles Haley.
Defensive right tackle for Michigan State, whom they consider perhaps their top defensive lineman.
He's got Omega 4 down and four yards to go and Michigan is forced into a punting situation.
They send Charlie Riedemeyer back as the lone deep man.
As Mark Warner gets his pun away, it's a high one, not too far up.
Fair catch called for and then the Spartans let it bounce and it rolls down to the Michigan State 35-yard line where it dies.
And Michigan State will put it in play at that point at the Spartan 35, a pun of 39 yards for Mark Warner, no run back by Michigan State.
We've got seven and a half minutes to go in the first quarter, Michigan leading 7-6.
Ron Johnson scoring on a 38-and-a-half yard run early in the ball game.
Charlie Riedemeyer coming right back for the Spartans with a 37-yard touchdown scamper.
The difference being a missed extra point right now by Gary Boyce.
Al Brenner splits wide to the right. Riedemeyer setting a slot to the right.
The eye formation behind Bill Farakos, senior, 5'11 from Irwin, Pennsylvania.
The handoff is given to the second man through, tailback Tommy Log.
And Tommy Log is up to about the 40-yard line and runs right into Bill Seymour, along with Tom Goss, defensive left end and tackle respectively.
Spartans come into this game with a perfect 3-0 mark. Michigan with a 2-1 record.
The Spartans have already seen action in the Big Ten this year.
They walked all over Wisconsin last week 39-0. Michigan misses their first Big Ten game of the season.
A lot back to the right is Riedemeyer. In motion to the right goes Berlinski.
The handoff right up to the middle goes Tommy Log on the fullback.
Dive right over his own center, Eddie McCloud. And he has perhaps one or two to the 41-yard line.
Cecil Pryor and Dan Parks make the tackle.
So it's 3rd down and 4 yards to go. So far the Spartans have excelled on 3rd down plays.
They were 3rd and 10 deep in their own territory on the first series of plays.
They made it on another 3rd down. They went all the way for the touchdown.
On the option play for office, wide drop to the right. He's going to shoot himself.
He's going to find the hole over the right side and he's up to the 49-yard line.
It's another first down for Michigan State.
The tackle made by Tom Goss, senior, 225 pounder for Knoxville, Tennessee.
And the Spartans have their fourth touchdown of the afternoon and their 75th yard on the ground.
Farakko has gone to the air only once. He has completed that one toss.
Brown has yet to throw his first pass.
First and 10 to go, the I-formation. This time Wiedemeyer flanked wide to the left.
Brenner split right. Farakko turns and gives off to Tommy Log.
Slides around the left side and he is bowled over at the 46-yard line of Michigan by Tom Stinsey.
Senior linebacker from Stephen, Ohio and the right cornerback, George Huey, the other senior.
Flint Central.
Big 10 leader in punt returns last year and he got Michigan off to a great start in this game
as he ran the opening kickoff back 39 yards to put it in Michigan State territory where the Wolverines went in.
Wiedemeyer flanked to the right. Brenner split left.
Second down, 5 to go. Back to fast for Farakko. He's going to be hit for a lot.
Coming through there to Spillett was Ed Moore, the stop for linebacker on the right side from Youngstown, Ohio.
Farakko faked the draw play to his fullback, Borlinsky.
Kept the ball but nobody touched Mr. Moore and it's a loss back to the Spartan 48-yard line
where it is third down and a long 10. So here's another big third down play.
Five minutes to go in the quarter. Michigan leading 7 to 6.
Wiedemeyer coming right in. He's going to be hit. Henry Hill, top four middle guard.
They're running a slot out of the left this time as Wiedemeyer is set in it.
Wasn't buying at that time and he ran an injured Spartan player. It appears to be the center, Eddie McClell.
That's the same play they ran for the touchdown but this time Henry Hill said no, I'm not buying it.
So we have a timeout on the field on the Spartan Michigan State with a score Michigan 7, Michigan State 6.
Also caught a quick glance down on the field time. It looks as if Henry Hill got banged up on that play on that tackle.
He may have twisted his knee a little bit. He's out there nursing it right now a little bit.
I think the Michigan trainer is going to come out and have a look right now.
Two great, great defensive plays there from Michigan. Nobody touched Ed Moore.
He just breezed right by his blocker and dumped the quarterback.
And that time Henry Hill just poured it on and that nice reverse play.
Michigan State really pulled it off the first time with a score.
But as you said he would not have it that time. Kept his eye right on his own area out there on the left side and pulled the man down.
Dave I think it's interesting to note also that both Henry Hill and Ed Moore, the men that you just talked about, are both sophomores.
And both are likely to be around here for a couple years. Hopefully making those same types of tackles.
Eddie McLeod has been assisted from the field and coming in to take his place is Tom Beard, a sophomore, 6'6", 250 pounder from Battle Creek, Michigan.
The Spartans will be forced to punt for the first time this afternoon.
Michael Berlinski dropping back to the front. He hails from Quentasic, Michigan.
High pass from center, he pulls it down and gets rid of the ball.
It's a wobbly kick hitting at the Michigan 25 yard line and it goes out of bounds.
That's the 25 of Michigan.
Gordon Bordell with first down on the play for the Spartans to watch it go out.
Michigan will put it in play first and 10 from its own 25, a 30 yard punt that time for Dick Berlinski.
Four and a half minutes to go in this first quarter, Michigan holding a 7 to 6 lead.
Both teams scoring the first time they had their hands on the football this afternoon.
Over the ball at center comes Dave Denson for Michigan.
He's a senior from Zaneo, Ohio.
He's put this up back so wide pitch out to Johnson around the right side of goal. 25 holding on to his jersey right up around the net.
All-Grain Wisconsin.
Was big number 82, Gary Nowak.
By Nowak.
Johnson got by Nowak but Nowak who is 6'5 and 230 and has a reach of about the length of Bill Russell,
reached out and just nailed Johnson right at the neck by his jersey and pulled him down at the 29 yard line.
Make it second down and 8 yards to go.
Johnson's jersey is torn and his shoulder pad is flapping on the right side.
Back to pass for the first time.
Goes far and far.
It's a quick pass.
40, 45, 40, 45.
He's got down a lot.
The 32 yard line of Michigan State by Frank Watery.
And wound on a beautiful fake up the middle of his fullback, Jarvie Craw.
Faded back.
And hip tight end Jim Mandich at the 50 yard line and Mandich moved it down inside to Spartan 33 first and 10 to go for Michigan.
First pass of the afternoon for Dennis Brown.
Gable.
Blank to the left.
Craw and Johnson and there's movement on the line and contact made as the flags go down.
So let's see who made the first move.
The officials for today's ballgame are referee Eugene Calhoun, the umpire is Frank Stochio,
the headlinesman John Olsen, the field judge Robert Dangenhart, and the back judge is Donald Wedge.
The penalty is against the University of Michigan for illegal procedure and moves it five yards back to the 38 yard line.
That'll make it first down to 15 to go as Dennis Brown barks up the signals, looks down the line of scrimmage.
Going back to pass.
Fires it right over the middle.
It's overthrown and tended for Jim Mandich down at the 25 yard line.
Mandich was hit by Jay Breslin.
They're over back for the Spartans.
Breslin, Jack Zindale are both sons of former Michigan State players.
Second down and 15 yards to go.
Brown is now one out of two in the passing department.
Brown in the option, rolling to the left.
He's going to keep the ball this time.
Cuts back in, a hurdle one man at the 35 yard line and he's pulled down at about the 32.
Brown the ball, we're here.
He was tackled by Bailey.
Hitting him over there was Charles Bailey.
Here comes Jerry Inzlin back in and split in for Michigan and Bill Harris goes out of there.
Brown moved that ball right back to the original line of scrimmage just over the 33 yard line.
So it's third down and 10 yards to go.
Time continuing to run out here in this first quarter, three and a half to go.
Michigan holding on to a narrow one point lead, seven to six here.
Gable this time is flanked wide to the right.
Inzlin split off five yards to the left as Brown is rolling back to pass.
Fires it, intended for Gable in the end zone.
Cut down, but a flying is down, wait a minute, a flying is down.
Let's see who it's against.
Pushing off Michigan State, the touchdown will count.
Three yard pass play from Dennis Brown to John Gabler and that ball was thrown perfectly
as Brown just lofted it up in the air and let Gabler run under it in the end zone.
Frank Waters was back with Jay Breslin to defend on the play and I believe Waters was the boy
guilty of the pass interference on the part of Michigan State.
But it didn't make any difference as Gabler gobbled it up and Michigan now leads 13 to six
and Tim Killiam will be trying to make it 14.
Here's the kick, it's partially blocked and doesn't get over the crossbar.
It was partially blocked at the line of spinach and sailed underneath the crossbar so the score
holds, Michigan 13, Michigan State six.
That series of plays covered 74 yards and five plays, Brown to Gabler for 33 yards and
a touchdown with 3.20 to go in the first quarter.
We noticed that John Gabler was injured on that touchdown reception in the end zone.
He's over here talking to the team position right below us.
Well he was suffering from a neck injury as you know in the Duke game.
Let's hope that he's going to return to that.
Here's the kickoff, comes down to Highsmith, comes right back up the field to the 25 to
the 30 yard line and he's hit up a 31 yard line and knocked down.
Titus who kicked off is down the stop along with George Hewitt and Bill Federico.
Eric Federico, I'm sorry.
They say his knee touchdown at the 29 yard line of Michigan State.
So Spartans will put it in play from that point, first and 10 to go.
Michigan leading 13 to six.
Dennis Brown with two beautiful passes on that last drive after he had stayed on the
ground most of the first quarter.
There's a wide pitch out to Wiedemeyer.
He's going to throw a pass long and then Dennis McGrann over it and it's simply
broken up down there by Jerry Hartman and Tom Curtis at the Michigan 34 yard line.
That was the flanker pass.
As you know, Charlie Wiedemeyer is a former quarterback.
He was a two year understudy for Michigan State but moved this year to a flanker back.
And Wiedemeyer took the wide pitch out from Bill Ferracco, went way back to his 20 yard
line and fired the pass.
It was a long pass and perfectly thrown but great defensive work by Jerry Hartman and
Tom Curtis broke it up.
Second down, 10 yards to go.
Ferracco is going to go back to pass this time.
Fires it in and it is incomplete as Ryan Healy almost had himself an interception.
As that ball hit him on the shoulder at the Spartan 35 went high into the air.
The intended receiver, Frank Foreman, couldn't get it either as it bounced away from him
out of bounds.
So it is third down and 10 yards to go.
That stops the clock with 3.03 remaining in this first quarter.
Gordon Baudel checks into the lineup.
Tommy Love goes out of there.
So again, we're going to have a situation of three ends in Spartan lineup and Baudel
no doubt will line up as the slot back to the left and he does.
Along with Charlie Wiedemeyer as Ferracco is back to pass on 13th.
Runs out of the pocket.
He's going to run with it for a 30 and gets away from one man and goes out of bounds
with a 35 yard line.
Gil Seymour had a shot at him back there.
Couldn't get him.
Tom Stincy finally ran it out of bounds up back to 35 yard line but it will be short
of the first down.
So Michigan State will be forced to punt.
Ferracco couldn't find anybody open as they sent four men down that time but Michigan's
defensive secondary really put a blanket on the receivers.
Back to punt is Dick Wolinski once again comes up to the 25 to get it away.
A high spiral.
Fair catch called for by George Hooey.
He grabs it at the Michigan 29 yard line.
Don Fair, the defense to the offensive left guard, is down there looking right in the
eyes.
So Michigan will put it in play first and 10 from its own 29.
Let's quickly pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the University of Michigan Broadcasting Service.
Tom Hemingway, Dave McKay and Ed Burrows back at Michigan Stadium.
First and 10 for the Wolverines.
They lead 13 to 6 on a draw.
It's given off to Ron Johnson over the left side of his own line up to a 33 yard line
where he runs into Charles Bailey.
Here comes Jack Harpring back into the Michigan line up.
That left guard, Dick Calderazo, will come out of there.
Al Brenner comes into the Michigan State line up and Jack Zindale goes out of there.
Brenner gets a little breather as he plays both split end and safety for Michigan State.
Second down, 6 yards to go on the option.
Brown touches back to Jackson.
He's open at the 40, the 45, the 50, cuts back at the first 45 and he's knocked down
at the 40.
A beautiful block by Darby Craw on the left corner back.
Frank Waters cleared the way for Johnson before Bailey and Brenner finally could knock him
down at the Spartan 40 yard line.
Ron Johnson pouring it on again on that one.
Johnson, who so far this season, has picked up 374 yards coming into this game and that's
good enough for 11th of the nation.
And once again, the big man out in front of him, Darby Craw.
Go down the big block, first to go for Michigan at the Spartan 40.
Brown sliding off to the left this time, gets a good block from Johnson.
He takes the pass, goes with it himself to the 39, the 36 yard line where he is upended.
I can't help, he seems to be shaken up on that play.
Heft is going out of there and Harold Phillips is coming in for him.
It's at the 36 yard line of State, second down and six yards to go.
Heft missed his sophomore season because of an knee injury.
So Harold Phillips, a sophomore from Detroit, has checked in at that right corner back position,
second and sixth for Michigan.
Motion's right, pitch back to Johnson, he's going to throw the pass, fires it, it is intercepted.
At the 35, the 40, the 45, the 50, 45, 40, 45, off that amount is Jay Breslin.
Don't make that Frank Waters.
Frank Waters intercepted that half back pass thrown by Ron Johnson and Ron Johnson finally
got back there himself to knock him out of bounds.
A big interception by Frank Waters at the Michigan 30 and he ran it all the way back.
The Michigan State 30 and he ran it all the way back to the Michigan 30.
So the Spartans get light with just a minute and a half to go in this first quarter and
they have it first and 10.
At the Michigan 30 yard line, Brenner is flipped to the right.
Morocco moves him up to the line of scrimmage, works out of the eye, gives off to Connie Love.
The second man to find the big hole over the middle is down inside the 20 yard line to the 17.
Ed Moore is the softball linebacker for Michigan.
On the right side, made the stop and Michigan State now seemingly coming to life here on
that big interception by Frank Waters have driven deep into Michigan territory.
First and 10, that's the Michigan 17 yard line.
Morocco again from the eye and again he gives it to Love and this time Love is stacked up
by the left side of the Michigan defense led by N. Phil Seymour.
Love that time gained perhaps only a yard as they market at the 16 yard line some first quarter scores.
Western Michigan leads Kent State 7 to nothing.
The ball resting just inside the 16 yard line make it second down and nine to go.
Harvard leads Columbia 7 to nothing after the first quarter.
This time they keep Wiedemeyer in tight as on the option,
Franco is going to keep it himself and he is hooked by Tom Curtis at the line of scrimmage.
Phil Seymour also broke through there to have him in but there was no gain on the play.
So make it third down and still nine to go.
Less than 30 seconds to go.
it goes back to pass and he's hooked on it.
Clemson leads Auburn 3 to nothing after the first quarter.
Back to the 24 yard line.
Selling through there for Michigan was Henry Hill, the sophomore middle guard and Tom Goss, the senior tackle.
A big play for the Wolverines as they knock Morocco back to the 24 yard line.
So that will make it fourth in 18. Let's see if we're going to get a field goal attempt coming up here now.
Gary Boyce has two out of three so far in field goal.
And Charlie Wiedemeyer is kneeling back at the 30 yard line.
The time has expired in this first quarter.
So we'll have to wait for the second quarter to begin before we get the field goal attempt.
All set to go now here in the second quarter as Michigan leading Michigan State 13 to 6.
Gary Boyce ostensibly will be trying a 41 yard field goal.
But Michigan not going to be caught napping. They can recall not too long ago that the Spartans
tried a field goal, apparently tried a field goal and flew off of that field goal formation into the end zone for the first touchdown of the day.
And teams have ways of remembering that along with coaches.
Charlie Wiedemeyer is kneeling at the 31 yard line.
Gary Boyce, a left footed kicker from St. John's, would be attempting a 41 yarder.
The ball is placed down. It is up in the air. It is no good. Off to the right.
So the Wolverines defense has risen to the occasion to stop the Spartans after an interception and run back by Frank Waters that has given them great position.
On that half back option, I watched Michigan work out a couple of times this week and they've been throwing that play with Johnson throwing downfield to the split end.
And that time, Waters just laid back and waited for it. He knew it was coming.
Thurston 10 to go for Michigan. Brown gives off to Johnson. Over the right side he goes. He's tripped up at the line of scrimmage, falls forward for perhaps three.
Al Brenner, the safety man, came in to get a hand on him. Back at the 20. He finally fell forward where Jay Breslin got to him.
They mark it at the 23 yard line so they get second down and seven yards to go.
One of the things about Johnson, you can hit him once, twice, perhaps three times, but he's very, very hard to knock down.
Second out, seven yards to go. They send Krohn motion to the right. Play action. Off to Johnson and the pitch out.
He gives wide to the right side and rustles out of bounds at the 28 yard line.
By again, safety man Al Brenner and Rich Saul Weinebacher. We mentioned Saul leads the team and tackles at 35.
He and Ron Saul are identical twins. Rich is 218 and Ron is 235.
Both these lads were teammates of Terry Henretti back in high school in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Third down and three yards to go. Jerry Imselin is split to the right.
A hand off to Johnson and Johnson fights his way up close to the first down at the 30 yard line.
Jerry Nowak got a hand on him and it is enough for the first down as he fell over the 30.
Also getting to his feet slowly after the tackle was Al Brenner.
Here's a first period score and here's the big one of the Big Ten today.
Ohio State nothing per do nothing after one quarter of action.
First down and ten yards to go now.
As Brown again gives off to Johnson, right up over the middle he goes and falls forward to the 35 yard line.
Stringing out behind him there was rubberback Jay Breslin and Wilt Martin,
defensive left hand who made the first contact with Johnson.
Here comes Jim Betts into the lineup for Michigan and John Gabler goes out at flanker,
very happy to report that Gaber was not seriously injured on that touchdown and he has been back in there.
Second down and six yards to go as Betts comes wide to the left.
Betts is a sophomore from Cleveland. Saw a lot of action last week.
A good take by Brown, he's back to pass, he's got to straddle around, he's going to be hit for a loss.
Way back to the 24 yard line, Wilt Martin and Bill Dawson.
A pair of sophomores that time shot through that line to knock Brown back to the 24 yard line where it's third and 17.
Bill Dawson has been bothered by injuries, he broke a foot in an early scrimmage but is back in there now.
In motion to the right, those Johnson as Brown keeps it and slides up over the 25 to the 27, 28 yard line.
He runs right into the arms of Mike Hogan.
Another sophomore from Dayton, Ohio, both teams lined up well sprinkled with sophomores on defense today.
That'll make it fourth down and 13 to go and Michigan will be forced to give up the football.
Michigan leading 13 to 6.
Just over 12 minutes to go in this first half as Charlie Wiedemeyer goes back as the single safety.
Standing in his own 25, Mark Warner will kick it from the Michigan 20.
Gets it away, another high one.
Wobbly however and is angling for the sidelines and goes out at the Michigan State 41-42 yard line.
Not too long of a kick that time by Warner.
We might mention Ron Johnson who had his jersey torn on a tackle.
Now has got it taped up a little bit around the shoulders and he looks, it's almost like he has a two-tone jersey out there.
White on top and blue in the middle.
First and 10 to go for Michigan State.
They're running it from their own 42 yard line.
In motion to the right goes Berlinski.
Back to pass goes Morocco.
Fires it on the left side, it's cut by Wiedemeyer.
It's a 15 to go, 45 falls down and is hit immediately by George Huey.
Wiedemeyer tried to cut to the outside after gathering in that pass.
Wiedemeyer not a big boy, 5'7", 175 from Kaluoa, Hawaii.
He's a senior and he's the brother of Herman Wiedemeyer who you may remember a few years ago as a Major League pitcher.
First and 10 to go for the Spartans inside the Michigan 45 yard line.
Morocco gives off to Tommy Love and Love hurtles his way over his own right side where he is backed up by Tom Stincy at the Michigan 43 yard line.
Morocco has gone to the air four times this afternoon, has hit on two.
The Spartans have picked up 89 yards on the ground in this first half of play.
Michigan on the other hand has picked up 105, both teams riding it out here.
This time they move it in motion to the left or on the reverse and give it up to Wiedemeyer.
Wiedemeyer cuts back in at the 40s inside the 35 yard line where he runs into Phil Seymour.
That's that same play that's going to Wiedemeyer free with the only Michigan State touchdown of the afternoon.
It's going to be very close to the first down and they're going to have to measure.
As they do, let's check out a couple of other scores here.
Boston College leads Villanova 14 to nothing after one period of play.
The FBI over Wake Forest 7 to nothing after one period.
It is enough for the first down says the referee.
Mr. Eugene Calhoun inside the Michigan 35.
So first he's going to go for the Spartans, their seventh first down of this afternoon.
Morocco turns, gives off to his fullback, Brilinski, and he spins his way down to the 30 yard line of Michigan.
The Barks got a hand on him along with Cecil Pryor and Tom Goss.
Out there leading the interference that time was tight end Frank Foreman.
An awful lot of inside reverses used by Michigan State, Tom.
They're trying to set up the trap block in the backfield on some of Michigan's young eager linemen, their Dan Parks, Ed Moore, Henry Hill.
They're trying to cut them down on that maneuver.
Second out and six yards to go over the ball at center goes Tom Beard for Michigan State, replacing the injured Eddie McCloud.
The pitch out goes to Tommy Love.
He juggled it but holds on to it and moves down to the 25 yard line.
And George Urie, the right cornerback, comes up to make the stop.
Love didn't have good control of that football.
He had it bouncing up and down in his hands, but luckily enough he got control before he was hit by Huey or it could have been disastrous.
Al Brenner comes into the ball game replacing Gordon Baudel at the split end.
Brenner getting a little breather there.
The ball resting at the 26 yard line.
Third down and two yards to go for the Spartans.
Everybody inside as the handoff is given to Love.
He piles his way up over the line and he is going to be very close to the first down as he dives over the 25 yard line into a mass of humanity.
Michigan Tom Goss in on the bottom of the pile.
And let's see as they place it down.
It looks from here as though he may be just inches short.
And that's it, just inches short.
Fourth down.
A half a length of the football to go for the first down at the Michigan 25 yard line.
As the Michigan fans now say, hold him, hold him, hold him.
And the Michigan State fans counter with go, go, go.
Now Eddie McCloud is back into the ball game at center for Michigan State and Morocco puts his head down on the quarterback dive and slides off the right side and I believe he has the first down.
He has.
Morocco simply slid off the right side of the center of McCloud and moved it to the needed half yard for the first down.
But first and 10 to go at the Michigan 24 yard line.
First period score, Princeton 21, Dartmouth 7.
Under nine minutes to go in this first half down, Michigan leading 13 to 6 but the Spartans are moving as the handoff is given to Tommy Love and Love is close to the 21 yard line on the dive off the right side.
Sam Gorse, first to hit him with the shoulder to knock him off stride and Phil Seymour fell on him at the 21 yard line.
Second down and seven yards to go.
You can't see a seat vacant here at Michigan Stadium this afternoon.
And what a gorgeous day it has turned out.
70 degrees, very little wind.
Second down, seven yards to go.
Everybody tight in the backfield.
The wide pitch out goes to Love, starts around the right side, is skipped up at the 20 and falls forward to the 17 yard line.
John Gorse, again, first to get an arm out even.
Tom Curtis came up to hit Love at the 17 where they mark it.
Third down.
And he's got about three yards to go for the first down and here comes sophomore Henry Hill back into the line up for Michigan.
Jerry Miklos comes out of there at middle guard.
Third down, big three.
Morocco splits his sub bags, gives off to Dick Walensky and he has stopped at the 15 yard line.
He will be shy of the first down as he tried it off his own right side.
Ran into Phil Seymour and again Tom Gorse who is seeing a lot of action in that tackle department today for Michigan.
Tom, whenever you see a close yardage situation and a big pile of Michigan defenders, you can bet that Tom Gorse is on the bottom.
He is absolutely outstanding football player for the University of Michigan.
Michigan State now is called for a timeout so we have a timeout on the field.
We'll destroy Michigan 13, Michigan State 6.
Happy on the bird's-eye view, 9-7, Princeton 21.
Now I'm rather surprised that Michigan State hasn't put the ball in the air just a little bit more here in the second period.
Things have been a little stingy on the ground and they've been up against it on third down plays a couple of times but they seem to want to maintain sure possession of the ball.
Of course they have great respect for Michigan's defensive backfield which none better as a ball-hawking outfit in the Big Ten and they proved that last year.
But it's got to give one of these times now in a Wiedemann situation.
He'll probably throw again right down now a 15 yard line.
Probably the first play or if they can make this first down it might be a quick one to go in the end zone.
They're known to do that type of thing.
I can't help but believe that this may be just setting up that all-important big play when they do have to have it.
Perhaps drop back and hit that pass.
The ball resting squarely at the Michigan 15 yard line, fourth down a yard to go for the Spartans.
Morocco turns and gives off the love and love, has a hole over the right side.
He has hit it for 14 yard line and boy this is going to be close.
Jerry Hartman and Tom Stincy came up there to suffer him at the 14 yard line and boy this is going to be close.
They've got to bring the change in from across the field.
Hartman simply put his shoulder down to try to stop him right in his tracks after Stincy had wrapped an arm around him.
He's going to be either shy or over by just about a half a length of the football and that's exactly it.
He is picked up a first down by just about a half a football.
Tom, Gordon Bodell just checked into the lineup for Michigan State after checking with Doherty over there in the sideline so you could watch out for this one.
He's in his foot end replacing Al Brenner.
He doesn't tend to go. Bill Farakko leads him up to the line of scrimmage.
Splits his setbacks, waits for the snap, a fumble!
And it looks as though Michigan State is on it.
I believe Farakko recovered his own fumble along with the right offensive guard Ron Saul.
Saul came up with a football actually.
And he actually spotted right up the line of scrimmage.
So it is second down and ten yards to go.
Still at the Michigan 14 yard line in possession of Michigan State.
They trail the Wolverines 13 to 6 with six and a half minutes to go in the second quarter.
Farakko again splits his setbacks.
The pitch out to Tommy Loach, running wide around the left side, cuts back at the corner, he's facing off but he's not going anywhere.
Cecil Pryor, the first Jamaalian man. He wasn't going to be shelfed aside and you know who, Tom Doherty, right up there to assist him.
Now we have another timeout indicated by Michigan State.
Let's check it to see however if it's going to be the full duration since the trainers have not come onto the field.
I don't believe it is. It's not going to be a full minute timeout.
Dave?
Tom Cecil Pryor that time on the right side just would not be denied.
They usually spring out of play until somebody catches up from the inside defenses, usually Goss as you mentioned.
But that time Pryor didn't wait. He went right after the ball carrier and chased him down.
It was almost like a rabbit being chased down. He just stayed right after him for about five or six seconds and eventually got the tackle.
Tom Stinsick, the acting captain on defense for Michigan, has checked over the sidelines and now goes back into the huddle, defense level for Michigan.
As we're just about set to go again, Michigan State with the football, third down now and 16 yards to go.
With the ball resting just inside the 20 of Michigan, 6.06 showing on the clock.
Time remaining in this first half. Here come the Spartans.
Way out to the right this time they send two men, Gordon Baudel and Al Brunner.
They have Wiedemar set up a slot to the right. The pitch out goes to Berlinski and he hits right at the 20 yard line.
Bill Seymour making the stop as they sent everybody but Duffy Doherty out to the right side that time.
And apparently on a pass play but they tried to cross him up and pitch it back to Berlinski.
And Seymour just wasn't buying it Dave.
Now that time Seymour wasn't even blocked, he simply ran by them. He jumped across the line of scrimmage so quickly that they couldn't set up for him at all.
Gary Boyce now will be attempting a field goal from the 27 yard line, which would be a 37 yarder.
He just missed a 41 yard.
No good. Get off the line. And again the Michigan defense are nailed at lifting this ball.
Once again the Michigan defense equal to the task as they held the Spartans and for the second time Gary Boyce misfired on a field goal attempt.
So it's first and 10 to go for Michigan. Jim Betts in at flanker wide to the right. The handoff is given to Johnson.
He's going to be hit right at the line of scrimmage and maybe a yard loss.
Bill Dawson, big middle guard from Tucson, Arizona, 235.63 made the stop on Johnson.
Dawson, like the other middle guard, Jack Zendale, an excellent wrestler.
Jack Harper in at left guard now for Michigan. Dick Calderazzo comes out of there.
Jim Betts flanks wide to the left.
In motion to the right goes Craw on the option play. Brown keeps himself and he is hit right at the line of scrimmage for no game.
A scrimmage of the 19 yard line and that's where Brown got back to and that was all as Gary Nowak came around to spelling Nowak, one of the many sophomores on this Michigan State team.
He was all state both in football and basketball at St. Clair Shores.
So it's third down and 11 to go as Jerry Implin splits wide to the right and Jim Betts comes out wide to the left as the flanker.
Brown has gone to the air only four times. He's hit on two.
He's rolling out this time. He wants to throw. He does. A long one and pennant for Betts.
It is incomplete at the Michigan State 30.
Betts was covered by Ken Heff and Frank Waters and Betts, although he does possess great speed.
Just couldn't quite catch up to that football. Brown let him just about a step too far.
Brown a little bit dissatisfied with himself as he comes over to the sideline, but he threw that football a long, long ways.
And it would have had to have been a perfect play all the way around for him to connect.
The Spartans had great coverage on Betts. So it's fourth and 11 and Mark Warner will be punting from his own 10 yard line as Wiedemeyer drops back.
Here's the punter, a better one this time. It's a high sailor. Wiedemeyer catches it at his own 32, back to the 35.
And is hit on a beautiful tackle by Jim Bandit and a flag goes down at the 36 yard line.
The flag is down. Let's check it.
Apparently a clipping penalty coming up here against Michigan State, which seems to be the case.
As Wiedemeyer fielded that ball, he tried to swing wide to the right, but Jim Bandit was just standing there like the colossus of roads.
And Wiedemeyer ran right into it. And Bandit is no fellow that you're going to run over. That 2-15, 47 yard punt that time by Mark Warner and the 15 yard clipping penalty now moves it back to the Spartan 24 yard line, where they have it first and 10.
With just under four minutes to go in this first half.
And now let's see if the Spartans do open up a little bit and go to the air. They've only thrown four passes, completed two.
Colaco takes the snap, wide pitch out to Don Heismith. He's in at the running back. Wide around the left side he goes.
Comes up over the 30 yard line to about the 32. Heismith in for Tommy Lowe now.
Heismith has great speed and also a great blocker.
Tom Stincy got over to make the stop along with Henry Hill at the 32 yard line.
That'll make it second down and about two yards to go. Heismith incidentally has Gail Serres as his idol, he says.
It's not a bad fellow to pattern yourself after.
Heismith from New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He's lined up now behind Reggie Cavender who's in there at the fullback and again the ball is given to Heismith and he fights his way up to about the 34 yard line, close to the first down.
Right into the middle of that Michigan defensive line, Cecil Pryor, Phil Seymour.
All coming in to make the stop on it and it is enough for the first down for the Spartans.
At their own 34 yard line, that's the tenth first down of the day for Michigan State.
They have gained 124 yards unofficially on the ground so far this afternoon, Michigan.
At the same time, 104 on the ground.
Less than three minutes to go now in the first half as the wide pitch out again to Heismith cuts back in at the 35 and is hit right there.
First into getting Tom Goss around the ankles.
Stensig came in to fall on him at the 35 yard line.
So make it a game of one, second down and nine yards to go.
Gordon Baudel comes into the Spartan lineup.
Let's see who goes out of there.
Al Brenner.
Tom Seymour and Cecil Pryor are forcing just about every wide play by Michigan State inside where Goss and the other tackle and the other side can handle it.
They're doing a great job.
Two-twenty showing on the clock.
Second down and nine yards to go.
On the option play, Falaco scrambling around, fires it right over the middle to pick up Wiedemeyer at the 42 of Michigan State for the 45 to the 47-48 yard line.
Hit by Tom Curtis.
And that's another first down for the Spartans.
Falaco set the play action to the left that time.
And then after everybody had vacated, Falaco simply dropped back and hit Wiedemeyer right over the middle of the line.
And Michigan State has it, first and 10th, the ball resting squarely between the 47 and 48 yard line in possession of Michigan State in the Spartan territory.
Less than two minutes to go.
This time wide pitch out to Highsmith.
Around the left side he goes and he is hit on a beautiful tackle back at the 46 yard line by sophomore Ed Moore.
Baudel goes out of there now and Brenner comes back in at split end.
Brenner the captain from the Spartans.
And he will become the second leading pass receiver in Michigan State history this year with five more receptions.
He hasn't caught any so far.
A minute and 20 to go.
Second out and 12 yards to go.
Back to pass goes Falaco.
Getting the time, scrambling around, fires it.
It's in.
Recepted by Healy at the 45 of Michigan.
Trying to swing right and he's knocked down at the 48.
Ryan Healy to stand up to the Ohio Junior.
He came up with the first interception for him this afternoon.
As Don Baird made the stop on him.
So Michigan has it with just over a minute to go at their own 48 first and dead.
Let's see if Dennis Brown now puts the ball in the air.
He's thrown only five times in this first half.
Jim Betts with the flanker to the left.
High formation behind Brown.
Brown rolling off to the left.
He's going to throw it.
He fires it and it's intercepted.
At the 45 and knocked down at the 50 is Kent Hepp.
So the team's trade interception.
Brown overthrew Betts.
At the 45 the ball went right into the hands of Kent Hepp.
So Michigan State takes over.
And now let's pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the University of Michigan Broadcasting Service.
WUOM, the University of Michigan station in Ann Arbor.
Back here at Michigan Stadium, Tom Hemingway, Dave McKay and Ed Burrows.
Where with just 57 seconds left in this first half, Michigan leading Michigan State 13 to 6.
The Wolverines, Brian Healy, came up with an interception to give the Wolverines a first and 10 to go from their own 48.
And then on the very next play, Kent Hepp, a senior from Birmingham,
picked off a Dennis Brown aerial and gave the Spartans the ball right back.
So Michigan State now has it just over their own 49 yard line, first and 10.
Here's another score.
First period, California nothing, Army nothing.
Don't forget at halftime the battle of the bands, Michigan State and Michigan.
Always one of the most colorful musical presentations of the year.
Here's a new first period score, Army nothing, California nothing.
In there at a defensive end now for Michigan is Jim Willehyde.
They're replacing Cecil Pryor who seems to have a bit of either equipment trouble or perhaps shoulder problem.
We have a note here about John Gaber who will pass along to you in just a minute.
Here's Foraco on the first and 10, back to pass, rolling off to the left.
He's going to have to run with the ball, comes back to the 50 to the 45 at Michigan.
A wide knockdown at the 41 yard line by Phil Seymour and Tom Goss.
As Foraco was trapped and got back to the line of scrimmage,
then broke free for an additional nine yards, make a second and one.
Michigan State lining up without the huddle.
With just 30 seconds to go and Foraco fires it out of bounds to stop the clock.
Over shot Frank Foreman.
John Gaber will be out for the rest of the game because of bruised ribs.
That's the report from the Michigan dressing room.
So John Gaber has suffered his second injury of the year,
knocked out of the Duke game because of a neck injury and now he is disabled because of bruised ribs.
So evidently we're going to be seeing sophomore Jim Betts for the remainder of this contest at the flanker back
because Paul Strobo, the sophomore from Flint, suffered a shoulder injury last week.
Third and one to go. Back to pass goes Foraco.
Scrabbling around is going to be head for a goal.
Tom Goss knocks Phil Tennessee senior playing one of his greatest days.
And that Michigan defensive line came through there like a rocket to knock Foraco down.
Cecil Pryor is back in the lineup so he's okay.
This could be the last play.
As Foraco fires to Foreman, 45, and he is knocked out of bounds.
The clock still shows three seconds to go.
So Michigan State will be able to get off another play perhaps.
Foreman gathered in his first pass as Michigan just went ahead and let the tie in and grabbed it.
Now wait a minute, the clock shows three seconds to go.
That was short, that's right, that was short of the first down so the ball does go over to Michigan.
I'm sorry.
Going to get Michigan State five downs here.
So Michigan will have time to run one more play.
As Foreman was short of the first down.
There it'll get her straight here.
Three seconds now, this should be the final play of the half.
Michigan leading 13 to 6.
Dennis Brown going back to pass, fires it, it's complete to Mandage at the 50s,
swam around, being on his feet at the 45, to the 40.
Turtle drum hand and it's finally dropped and that will be the final play of the game as Jim Mandage
just rolling away from Foraco's half down to play out of bounds.
Well as the team blew the field to start half drive Michigan 13, Michigan State 6.
Right now we're awaiting the second half kickoff.
As here comes Frank Titus and here comes the boot.
A line drive kick, hitting on the Spartan 5 and picked up there by Highsmith for the 10 to the 15.
20, 25, hurdles one man, 30 and he's up for the 32 yard line.
In that first half Michigan picked up seven first downs as compared to 11 for Michigan State.
On the ground Michigan with 105 yards, the Spartan 124.
Michigan gained 90 yards through the air.
The Spartan's 35 for a total of 195 yards for Michigan in 159 for State.
Michigan attempted seven passes completed three, had one interception.
Michigan State tried eight, completed four and they had two intercepted.
First and 10 to go for the Spartans.
They're running from their own 33.
Foraco gives off to the first man through full back Dick Perlinski and he's right up over the middle of the line,
the 35 yard line to about the 36, tripped up by Henry Hill, the middle guard.
Passing along some other scores here that we have at our first opportunity.
Second down now six yards to go.
Michigan leading 13 to six as the handoff this time is given to Tommy Love and he submarines up close to the 40 yard line.
Again right over the middle of his own line, Tom Goss getting a hand down.
Dan Parks.
Ball resting just shy of the 40 yard line.
Make it third down and two yards to go and a big play for the Spartans.
Over the wall at center comes Eddie McCloud, the senior from Fairborn, Ohio.
In motion to the left goes Perlinski, wide pitch off the lower.
On the left side he goes, cuts back in at the 42, the 42, 43 yard line and looks from here, but he has the first down.
Tackle made by George Huey for Michigan, limping off the field now is Tommy Love and Don Heisman comes in to take his place.
And there's an injured Michigan man, George Huey, who made that tackle, Barry Pearson, a junior from St. Ignace coming in for Michigan.
The officials have called for a time out to measure for the first down and it is just enough for a first down for Michigan State.
George Huey has lifted off the field and Barry Pearson has gone in for it.
So it's first and 10 to go for the Spartans at their own 42 yard line.
Don Heisman, a junior from New Brunswick, New Jersey, has replaced Tommy Love at the tailback position for Michigan State.
Center of the slot to the right is Wiedemeyer and most to the right goes Perlinski.
The handoff is given to Heisman, finds a big hole over the left side of the trap and he's inside the 50, down to the Michigan 48 yard line before Barry Pearson made the stop.
Downed up to Doherty and the Spartans coming right at Barry Pearson. He just got into the ball game with George Huey coming out with a slight head injury, a little busy coming off the field.
And they ran that ball right straight at Pearson but he was equal to the challenge and brought down the runner.
David just a half yard shy of the first down as the ball is inside the 49 of Michigan.
As the handoff again is given to Heisman, he's hit up a line of scrimmage for the looks as though he's got enough for the first down as he fell down to the 47 yard line as he was hit by Tom Goss.
And let's see, are we going to have to have another measurement? We are. They're going to bring the chains in once again.
Let's quickly pause 10 seconds for station identification. This is the University of Michigan broadcasting service.
To UOM, the University of Michigan station in handoff.
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Spartans tend to go over the Michigan 48 yard line. The handoff is given to Heisman.
Inside the Michigan 30 yard line by Barry Pearson.
Heisman exploded over the left side of his own line.
And Jerry Hartman is now limping off the field. He has been hampered by ankle injuries throughout this season.
Going in to take his place is Bob Wedge.
And now Michigan is going to have to call for a timeout to get him in there. And we've got a timeout on the field with a score. Michigan 13, Michigan State 6.
Now let's see if we have time to run down some of these scores that we have.
The big one at Columbus, Ohio on Columbus Day.
The Spartans seem to favor the Buckeyes. Between Purdue and Ohio State, there is no score after one half of action. Purdue nothing, Ohio State nothing.
There is no score between California and Army after the first half. Boston College leads Villanova 21 to nothing after the first half.
Syracuse on top of Pittsburgh 24 to 17 after one half.
Princeton 21, Dartmouth 7 after a half.
Western Michigan 14, Kent State nothing after a half.
Missouri leads Colorado 7 to nothing after one quarter.
Alabama 7, Vanderbilt nothing after a quarter.
North Carolina 17, Maryland 14 after a half.
VPI 7, Wake Forest nothing after one half.
John McCoy has replaced Dan Parks, that right side defensive tackle for Michigan now as the handoff is given to Highsmith and he hurdles his way over the middle of the line close to the 25 yard line.
Highsmith looking more like a high hurdler than a tailback right now as a flag down in that last play.
Apparently a personal foul penalty coming up against Michigan State. That was the preliminary signal that we got.
Here comes Jerry Mickles back in at middle guard for Michigan.
Henry Hill comes out of there and it's a 15 yard walk off against the Spartans moving it back to the Michigan 41.
Gale is limping a little bit also. This has been a bruising, tough, hard fought football game as they always are between the Spartans and the Wolverines.
Make it first down and 22 yards to go from Michigan 41.
Michigan leading 13 to 6.
Berlinski and Highsmith lined up in the eye as Berlinski goes in motion to handoff to Highsmith and right up the middle he goes and another trap down to the 33 yard line where he was hit by Ed Moore.
Right side linebacker a sophomore from Youngstown, Ohio.
Here comes Gordon Baudel into the Michigan State lineup. Al Brenner going out of there at split end.
That time they had Berlinski in motion to the right. They pulled the left side linebacker from Michigan away with him and opened up the middle for the trap and they sprung Highsmith loose.
Third down 13 yards to go. A game of nine in the last play.
Back to pass goes Falaco. Jerry Mickles, middle guard, senior from Chicago, Illinois and Tom Gough.
Welcome to that Michigan State line to nail Falaco back at the 42 yard line of Michigan.
Tom Gough, pick himself up off the ground. He looks as if he's at least 98 years of age. He's about 16 the way he races around out there.
His nickname is Goose for his distinctive walk.
In there to do the funding now is Dick Berlinski coming up to the 50 as he gets it away.
A high putt that will hit on the five and go in. Let's see. A flag goes down. It went into the end zone.
But let's check it out as a flag was thrown.
And they're going to bring it out to the 20 to put it in play. There was not control of that football as there has to be to down it.
You can't simply touch a football on a putt and expect it to be grounded at that point.
And that's what happened that time as the Spartans did get a hand on it about the half yard line, but it bounced into the end zone and there was no control.
So they will bring it up to the 21st and 10 to go. There is 1041 showing on the clock in this third quarter. Michigan holding a 13 to 6 lead.
Jim Betts now playing flankerback as John Gabler is out with a rib injury.
Dennis Brown sliding down the right side. He's going to run with the ball and he is hit and dropped back with the 20 by Gary Noah, a sophomore, defensive left end from St. Clair Shores.
Here's a first period big-time score. Indiana 7, Iowa nothing.
Downlaw assisted on that tackle. Here comes Jack Harpring into the lineup at left guard for Dick Calderazzo. Harpring, a sophomore.
Very personal lineman. Played about any interior lineman position.
Second out, a loss of one in the last play. Make it second and 11 as Brown hands off to Johnson and he is hit on a bruising tackle right at the line of scrimmage by Bill Dawson.
Oh to Johnson. Unlimbered tackle on Johnson. Right at the line of scrimmage. No game. Third down and still 11.
Iowa State leads Kansas State 7 to nothing after one quarter.
Here's a big third down and 11 now as they flank Pets to the right.
As back to pass, a little swing pass off to Johnson at the 20. Hip-on one man but is knocked off his feet at the 25-yard line.
Kenny Hepp made the tackle on Johnson as he simply dove for his knees and blocked him out of bounds at the 25 before Johnson could turn upfield any farther.
Hepp, who was shaken up early in the ballgame, back in that defensive secondary for Michigan State.
So Michigan now will be forced to give up the football. Fourth down and still five yards to go.
Mark Warner will be doing the punting again for Michigan.
And this time they're dropping Frank Waters back as the single deep man and he feels the pun at the 38. Back to the 40 and is snowed under by four Michigan tacklers at the 40-yard line of Michigan State.
As they unpiled, Dan Deardor, Bob Pengsa, and Ron Johnson all off the pile.
27-yard punt for Warner, run back of two. Resting right at the 40-yard line of Michigan State.
Hurston 10 to go for the Spartans. Eddie McCloud over the ball at center. Baird and Saul at the guards. Van Elst and Wycinski the tackles and the handoff is given to Don Highsmith.
And again, he hurdles over the right side of his own line and picks up about four to the 44-yard line. Dan Parks in on the stop for Michigan.
And Henry Hill who is back in at middle guard. A pair of sophomores.
Michigan now with three sophomores in that defensive lineup. Hill, Parks, and Moore.
Second down and six yards to go.
Wiedemeyer seven to slot to the left and the handoff again is given to Highsmith. He spins away from two tacklers and moves it close to the 50-yard line.
Holding onto his ankles was Cecil Pryor as the ball resting just shy of the 50-yard line.
Third down and less than a foot to go for the first down.
George Huey back into the Michigan lineup now. That's good news for Michigan fans.
Third down, less than a yard. Verrocco is going to dive forward himself as he's over the 50 and apparently has the first down.
He ran into Henry Hill. Verrocco got enough for the first down and that is the 50th first down of the day for Michigan State.
Michigan State sticking pretty much to the ground.
176 yards on the ground as opposed to 35 through the air.
Hirst and 10 to go for the Spartans. Wiedemeyer in the slot to the left.
Bowdell is the split left end and on the reverse it's given off to Wiedemeyer.
Around the right side he goes down to the 45-yard line. Runs into Phil Seymour and Brian Healy as they spot the ball shy at the 45 in Michigan territory.
Make it second down and six yards to go. The Michigan defensive line now reading Seymour Gostensig, Hill, Moore, Parks and Pryor.
On the second down and six play. The handoff is given to Heisman. A big hole over the left side. He's down to the 40, the 35-yard line.
As Bob Wedge made the stop on him from his right safety position and it's enough for another first down, number 16 for the Spartans.
John Baird and Eddie McCloud are doing a tremendous job up front for the Spartans, opening up that hole for Heisman who has replaced Tommy Love who limped off the field early in this half.
First and ten to go. Time running with Weston Souther Minis to go in the third quarter. Michigan State trailing seven to six. Heisman again with the football and over the right side he goes this time.
Down to the 31-yard line. Tom Gost, Tom Stensig both on the tackle. Nothing fancy, nothing devilish about this at all. It's straight power running by Don Heisman and some great blocking on the part of the Spartans.
Michigan has called for a timeout. There's a timeout on the field with the score Michigan 13, Michigan State six.
Tom, I think the fact that Michigan State is playing a grind-em-out type of ballgame, they haven't gone for the bomb as at this point. I think they're just that one occasion they did early in the first quarter.
I think they're pretty well, give the commentary on the Michigan passing attack. Doherty knows that Michigan can score in the air. He wants to hold onto that football for the duration of the ballgame if he possibly could and give Michigan just as little an opportunity to score as they can.
State has made about, oh, I think what, four first hours is just a matter of an inch or two out there and that's been actually the difference in Michigan getting the ball and having an opportunity to score and they're not. You've got to look at that as the game continues.
If they can keep this ground game moving as they have been so grudgingly that it's going to hurt Michigan because one quick four by State and they're right back in the ballgame and in the lead.
The ball is rest 31 yard line of Michigan in possession of the Spartans. Second down and six to go and the clock shows six and a half minutes remaining in the third quarter. Michigan leading 13 to six, but the Spartans again are driving.
High formation behind Falaco as he gives off to Highsmith, cuts back in, finds a hole and serves a 25 and is close to a 25 and here's a fumble. Let's see it picks up in midair by George Ruhi and a stop immediately and Michigan takes over.
Highsmith fumble, the ball came right up to Ruhi in midair and he fell immediately and Michigan has stopped the drive at the low 19. John Highsmith that time made a great run up the middle and he was dragging a couple of Michigan tacklers and as he fell to the ground the ball squirted up in the air and Ruhi was standing there and he was just surrounded quickly.
He never had a chance to return, he was just flat footed and a real break for Michigan. Well let's see if the Michigan offense now, buoyed up by that fumble recovery by their defensive courts.
Fake handoff by Brown, quick pass up to Mandic at the 25, he spins away from one man and knocks out of bounds at the 30.
J Breslin and Charles Bailey came over to make the stop on tight end Jim Mandich.
First down for Michigan, they're eighth of the afternoon but first for the second half. Brown has gone to the air nine times, has hit on five.
And a major share of that receiving has been on the part of Jim Mandich.
And John Gaber of course catching the one pass for a touchdown.
But I believe, the other four have gone to Mandich.
45 to the 40, 45 to the 50, 45 to the 40, 45, here we go, 25 yard ball. Jack Hartman put on a beautiful block along with Jim Bants and finally Frank Water has got back to make the stop on Johnson.
And every time he turns it loose, you run out of adductor. He put one man into the hole back at about the 35 yard line, he offered him an ankle, a hip, a shoulder.
And when the defensive man went to grab for all three of them, none of them were there.
First in ten to go for Michigan at the Spartan 27 yard line.
Down, quick spot pass, intended for split end Jerry Imsland at the 25 yard line, thrown a little hard, Imsland couldn't hang on to it.
First quarter score, Notre Dame seven, Northwestern nothing.
The Wildcats were the most ambitious and rugged schedule, I believe, in the annals of football in the first five games.
Playing Miami or Florida, Southern Cal, Purdue, Northwestern.
Here's the handoff given to Johnson, right to the 25 yard line, but that's all he's going to get.
A fine tackle put on by Rich Saul.
Linebacker on the left side, and Johnson never was able to pick up any kind of steam on that one.
The law resting at the 25 yard line.
Third down, eight to go.
Brown has now thrown ten times, completed five for 106 yards.
Brown takes on the bootleg, rolling off to the right, goes back to the left, Johnson is all by himself, but he was overthrown by Brown.
Oh, Rod Johnson had strung out from his tailback position as Brown started the motion all to the right.
Suddenly reversed himself, threw back to the left, and Brown simply tossed it over his head.
Tim Killian is coming to the ball game now for Michigan, and apparently will be attempting a field goal from the 32 yard line.
Killian, a big strong sophomore from Lincoln Park, six-four, 220.
Don Moritz, South Haven sophomore, kneeling at the 32.
Here's the kick, it's a high one in that direction.
So good, they say, off to the left.
Killian had the height, but not the range.
So does Spartans hold on defense.
After an electrifying run by Rod Johnson, and driven the ball deep into Michigan State territory, the Spartans rose up to stop the Wolverines' goal.
We've got 4.58 to go in this third quarter of Michigan, still leading 13 to 6.
Michigan has not won against State since 1955 here in Ann Arbor.
The Spartans put it in play, first and 10 to go, and the handoff is given to the high-fifth, but he has stopped dead at his side.
Henry Hill, submarineing in there for his middle guard position.
I left the ball carrier, he was up by Hill and got it.
They did give him about a half-yard gain on it, so we'll call it second and nine, as the ball resting just over the 20-yard line of Michigan State.
Don Highsmith has certainly put on quite a show since coming in here in this second half, replacing Tommy Love.
Back to pass goes Marocco, getting the time, fires it, it is complete to Baldell at the 30-yard line.
He's hit immediately, and down at the 32.
Gordon Baldell, the Allen Park, Jr., was hit by Tom Curtis after he gathered in that Bill Marocco pass at the 32-yard line.
That's enough for another first down.
Now that is Marocco's ninth pass of the day, and his fifth completion.
Henry Hill comes out of there, and Miklos goes in at middle guard.
Tom, a great toss by Marocco that time.
He was just about to be surrounded by Goss and Park, and he threw the needle upfield.
He did a fine job.
Baldell has gone out of there, and Brenner back in and split in.
Wiedemeyer's blank wide to the left, Brenner's split to the right.
Marocco hands off to Highsmith, and he is hit at the 32-yard line.
It spins through with a 34.
Ed Moore dragged him down.
Highsmith has that high, pumping knee action that you see on so many great runners.
As we mentioned earlier, and I think it bears repeating,
Gale Sayers has been his idol for some time, and he seems to patter himself after Sayers.
Of course, as if anybody could come close to the Mr. Sayers.
Brenner out, Baldell back in and split in.
He's off to the right.
Wiedemeyer to the left.
Marocco bootlegging the ball off to the left.
Looking downfield, he's going to run to the ball, back to the 40-yard line.
Hit there by two Michigan tacklers, Tom Goss and George Huey.
The ball resting right at the 40-yard line, third down, and a yard to go for the first down.
Less than three minutes to go in this third quarter.
Marocco now in a big third down play.
Sends in motion, Malinsky to the left, pitch out back to Highsmith, turns the corner at the 40.
He's up over the 42 to the 43, and it looks like he's got the first down.
It's 18 for the Spartans today.
Here comes Pryor out of there, and Jim Willeit back in at defensive right end.
Pryor getting a breather, talking with Denny Fitzgerald down on the field.
Fitzgerald on the phones up at the press box right now.
Michigan State now has called for a timeout.
So there is a timeout on the field with a score of Michigan 13, Michigan State 6.
Now we've got to visit just a little bit about Tom Goss.
Here's a senior coming into his own this season.
He's definitely, from this performance out here this afternoon, taken over the defensive leadership,
which Michigan has needed so badly.
They're really an organized outfit out there today on defense.
And you know, the number of tackles that he has made in this ball game is outstanding by the fact that Michigan State has not run at him.
Most of his tackles are made 35 or 40 yards across field on sweep plays,
and he's got to avoid about nine guys taking a shot at him on the way across.
He's an excellent football player, big and agile, and he just never lets up, no matter what the occasion is.
He's been in there pressing for aggro on several occasions,
just missing an opportunity to drop the Spartan quarterback on passing situations.
At the end of the half, Georgia Tech having Tennessee 10.
At the end of three quarters, Columbia, even though they're number 14.
At the end of the half, Temple 14, but now 16.
Spartans are putting the play close to 10, quickly some scores.
Tennessee leads Georgia Tech 10-0 after the first half.
Albert leads Columbia 14-7 after three quarters.
Air Force leads Navy 7-6 after the first quarter.
The ball is resting squarely at the Michigan State 43-yard line.
Postons end the goal for the Spartan.
The clock's showing only 2-24 remaining in this third quarter.
Weidemeyer is setting the slot to the right as Baldel is split off to the right.
Handoff is given to Highsmith.
He fights his way down inside the 45-yard line to about 46.
Highsmith doing the Yeoman ball-carrying duties now for Ducky Doherty.
Spartan runs into Bob Wedge on that play, and Ed Moore.
He's just shy of the 47-yard line, still in Michigan State territory.
But again, on the last play of three.
Make a second down and seven yards to go.
In motion to the left goes Berlinski.
Wide touch-out to Highsmith, fighting his way back inside.
Over the 50 he goes.
Down about the Michigan 48-yard line.
That's going to be enough for another first down.
Highsmith that time is following Ron Saul.
Over his own left side, Tom Dixie made the stop.
And let's see, we have an injured player on the field.
It's Michigan State Spartan, so Michigan State has called for another timeout.
So there is a timeout on the field with a score of Michigan 13, Michigan State 6.
We were mentioning earlier time what a bruising ballgame this is, and Michigan felt the blow to Hartman
as he went out with an ankle injury here early in the second half.
He's had that ankle problem all year long, and he is a fine defensive back.
And certainly he works together with his teammates back there as an excellent secondary unit for Michigan.
And when he's out, they really miss him because those guys communicate,
and they've walked an awful lot of footballs together.
And you can bet that he'll be trying to get back into that lineup just as quickly as he can.
Woo!
First period score, Cornell nothing, Penn nothing.
Out of ease.
The injured Spartan player, Don Highsmith, has left the field under his own power.
And Earl Anderson, a sophomore, has checked in for him.
He is the third tailback now running for Duffy Doherty today, and he's just back from an injury himself.
In motion to the right, Joe Kowalinski, pitch up to Anderson, finds a hole, back in at the 40,
down to the 36, to the 35-yard line.
Dan Parks went over to make the stop, but it's a push down for Michigan State.
Well, regardless of who Duffy Doherty puts in that tailback position,
he's coming on out there looking like Doak Walker.
And that time, sophomore Earl Anderson from Tipton, Georgia, a scat back at 5'9", 198.
Stumpy left, tore around that right side, got a good block from Kowalinski,
and gave Michigan State a first down at the Michigan 35.
Again, the kid goes to Anderson, and he finds a hole over the right side,
and he's inside the 30-yard line.
And he got some good blocks from Ron Soll and Craig Lysinski before Phil Seymour could make the tackle for Michigan.
He had moved it to the 28, second down, and three.
Wide to the left goes Gordon Baudel.
Kowalinski and Anderson behind as the right mid-jump goes to Anderson,
and he has bottled up, thrown to the first down at the 28-yard line.
He's got the power sweep around the left side, but Breyer, Seymour, and Stuncy all met him head on.
They mark it at the 27, make it third down, and two.
A good score from the East, Tim now leads Cornell, 7-0 after the half.
Henry Hill in his middle guard for Michigan.
Only 12 seconds remaining in this third quarter.
Could be the final play of the third quarter.
Handoff given to Anderson, bulls his way over the right side, and he is over the 25, down to the 23.
It's another first down for Michigan State.
Getting off the bottom of the pile, Phil Seymour, with the clock showing 2-1,
and that's the end of the third quarter with a score of Michigan 13, Michigan State 6.
The University of Michigan marching band playing the victor.
The Michigan State marching band playing the Spartan fight song.
Both cheering sections alive now and on their feet as they are looking forward to a fourth quarter
that should take its place with one of the best in Michigan State Michigan history.
Now I notice when the ball is being exchanged, it's off down here to the north end of the field.
Both teams just about walk down to their new positions.
I'll tell you, the Michigan defense and the Spartan offense, they were the third grade of action.
Here we go, first and 10 for the Spartans at the Michigan 22-yard line,
and quarterback Bill Farocco asks the crowd to calm it down a bit,
as his players unable to hear the signals.
Michigan so far in this game has gone to the ground 25 times in rushing and 11 into the air.
Michigan State 63 plays on the ground and nine through the air,
so you can see the difference in ball control, 2-1 in favor of Michigan State.
Thanks to our Demon statistician Bill Swisher for that little bit of information.
As in motion to the right goes Berlinski, and up the middle goes Anderson,
but he is hit by Tom Goss at the 20-yard line, and Cecil Pryor.
Also Tom Stincy, as Anderson moved it to the 20.
Michigan State so far has lost two tailbacks, Tommy Love and Don Highsmith.
Because of injuries, Anderson is the third tailback employed today by Duffy Daugherty.
Second down, eight yards to go.
Gordon Bodell, split off wide to the right.
Charlie Wiedemeyer in the slot to the right, motion goes to the right,
wide pitch out to Anderson, and he is hit for a long.
Bill Seymour broke through there from his defensive end position to nail Anderson back at the 20.
Well, they mark it shy of the 20.
So he lost about a half yard on the play.
Make it third down and still a little over eight to go.
Michigan leading 13 to 6.
There has been no scoring in this second half.
As both teams scored the first time, they had their hands in the football,
but since that time the defense has taken over.
Morocco straight back to pass.
Fires one, it's caught, down to the Michigan, seven lead to the five.
Al Brenner coming up with a big reception.
He was hit immediately by Stincy Kenhuy at the Michigan.
Six yard line they mark it.
First and goal to go for the Spartans.
And Michigan State with a chance to take over the lead for the first time this afternoon.
Here comes Ed Moore out of there.
At a tackle.
Dick McCoy checked in for him.
First and goal for the Spartans for the Michigan six.
Morocco hands off to Anderson. He's inside the five, down about the two.
Cecil Pryor and Tom Stincy, both piling along with Henry Hill.
Let's see where they mark it. At the three, second down and goal to go.
Anderson that time carried the ball like a loaf of bread out there.
And that will give coaches fits as he was hanging it out there.
That's kind of an easy game.
Morocco turns again, gives to Anderson and he's in there.
Quick down, Michigan State.
Earl Anderson, third straight tailback from Houston, Georgia.
Holding his way about the three yard down into the end zone.
And now it's 13 to 12 in favor of Michigan.
Let's see if the Spartans go for the one or the two point conversion.
This is what gives coaches nightmares.
Charlie Wiedemeyer is kneeling and Gary Boyce will be attempting the extra point.
I don't think anybody's sitting here at the stadium. They're all on their feet.
And the officials now motioning for the Michigan State fan to get back a little bit
as they were kind of encroaching onto the end zone.
Gary Boyce will try to put it through and tie this ball game up.
The snap, the ball's down, the kick, it's a fake.
And Wiedemeyer is rolling back the path. He fires it. It's complete!
The two point conversion to tight end Frank Warham. And Michigan State has gone on top 14 to 15.
The Spartans with a great bit of deception.
Charlie Wiedemeyer kneeling at the 10, spun off of it, went back to the 20
and he alluded a Michigan tackler and fired that ball right where it had to be
to Frank Foreman, the tight end from Louisville, Kentucky.
And the Spartans have gone on top 14 to 13.
But we still got 12.48 to go.
That last drive covered 80 yards in 16 plays with Anderson taking it in from 3 yards out.
Gary Boyce will kick off for Michigan State.
George Huey standing in his own 5.
Here he comes, low kick.
Hits on the 15 picked up by Huey for 10, the 15, the 20.
And is hit at the 24 yard line.
What a good driving tackle by Frank Waters.
And let's see the last man up, pick number 97.
Martin.
Michigan will put it in play.
First and 10 to go, we'll get a station break here at our first opportunity.
First and 10 for Michigan.
In motion to the right goes Johnson.
Wow, keeps it and he's up over the 25 and that's it.
Now quickly let's pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the University of Michigan Broadcasting Service.
Town Hemingway, Dave McKay and Ed Burroughs back here at Michigan Stadium where the Wolverines have a second and eight to go.
They trail 14 to 13 for the first time in the ball game.
A flag goes down and it's going to be against Michigan as the pass is thrown up the other end and it's incomplete.
Flankerback Jim Betts just moved a second too quickly from his right side that time as either he couldn't hear Brown's count or he jumped off just a minute second, but that was enough and an illegal procedure penalty against Michigan.
Here comes Bill Harrison to the lineup for the Wolverines and Jerry Imsland comes out of split and let's see what the Spartans want to do with the penalty.
They evidently are going to decline it.
Of course there was no gain on that last play with the incomplete forward pass and the Spartans say no, we'll take the down and that makes it third and eight.
Reiner goes out of there now as another defensive lineman checks in there for Michigan State.
Betts flanks to the left. Harris, split right.
Bates to Johnson. Brown is chased back there and he finally gets one of it to Crawl, but he's going to be hit for a loss back at the 18 yard line.
Tremendous pursuit on the part of the Spartans that time.
Charles Bailey had Brown right around the ankles as he got rid of the ball.
Mike Hogan and Jay Breslin stayed however right with Crawl as he caught the ball and hit him immediately.
So it moves it back to the 18 yard line and it'll be fourth down 16 to go and Michigan will be forced to punt.
Watch Michigan State will put a punt rush on this time the likes you've never seen.
Warner has to come up to the 10, he just gets rid of it.
It's off the side angling for the sidelines and no it's going to stay in as it finally rolls dead on the Michigan State 42 yard line.
So the Spartans now with the lead and the football and 11, 16 to go.
That was a 32 yard punt by Warner.
The Spartans have it at their own 42.
VPI leads Wake Forest 7-0 after three quarters.
Auburn has taken the lead now over Clemson 14-3.
After three quarters, first and 10 to go for Michigan State, they have Wiedemeyer sending a slot to the right.
And the handoff is given to Highsmith who's back into the ball game for Michigan State.
And Don Highsmith has a couple up to the 44 yard line where he is hit by Henry Hill and Tom Stincy.
So Highsmith, we're happy to report is okay and back in there for Michigan State.
But what a job Earl Anderson did in coming in to replace him.
The clock shows just under 11 minutes to go.
Western Michigan leads Kent State 14-0 after three quarters.
Morocco on the reverse to Wiedemeyer comes back to the 45 yard line but is hit on a great tackle by Bill Seymour.
Right at the 45 yard line as that time Seymour didn't move over.
He held his position from the defensive left end and let Wiedemeyer run right to him.
Make it third down and seven to go.
And the big one down in the southwest today, Oklahoma leads Texas 7-3 after one quarter.
Dartmouth leads Princeton 27-7 after three quarters.
Big third down and seven yards here.
State would like to hold on that football.
A fumble by Farakho but he's back to pick it up himself way back in the 37-38 yard line.
And although the Spartans recovered the fumble, it means they do have to give up the football.
Michigan did not have it in good field position the last series of plays.
And now a lot will rest on the putting ability of Dick Berlinski if he can boom it out of there,
the Wolverines backed up again.
Berlinski will be putting from around his own 30.
Michigan dropped three men back.
Hooey in the deep spot.
Beautiful punt by Berlinski.
A wonderful punt and it goes all the way into the end zone.
So Bill bring it out to the 20.
Berlinski never had a chance as that ball sailed over his head.
62-yard punt from the line of scrimmage by Dick Berlinski.
And he doesn't have a lot of wind behind him.
It was seven miles an hour from the south at the start of the game and it doesn't look like it's picked up too much.
Now the name Dick Berlinski has been an echo in Michigan-Michigan state games for three years.
He's always done an excellent job against the Wolverines.
He's had a surgery in the spring but bounced back from it.
And remember it's his blocking that's bringing these tailbacks, Highsmith Anderson, loose.
First and ten to go, Brown White pitch out to Johnson, cuts back at the line of scrimmage
and is hit by Frank Waters right at the 21-yard line.
Assisting on the tackle was Wilt Martin.
On the last three or four occasions that Dennis Brown has thrown the ball, he has overthrown his receiver
or thrown it right on by him and he's going to have to calm down and thread the needle
if Michigan is going to sustain a drive.
They're not going to be able to do it all the way on the ground.
That's obvious right now.
Johnson gained only a yard, second down and nine yards to go.
Brown on the boonleg back to pass, fires it, it is caught at the 32-yard line
and knocked out of bounds immediately.
Here's put on Jerry Imselin, knocking him out with Frank Waters.
It's a first down for Michigan for Brown.
That is seven out of 14 for him this afternoon.
They mark it at the 32.
Kyle DeRazzo comes back in at left guard for Michigan.
Up ring goes out.
First and ten to go for the Wilburines at their own 32-yard line.
The clock showing 8.41 to go in the ballgame.
Michigan trailing 14 to 13.
Metz flank wide to the left.
John and Johnson are split behind Brown as Brown takes to Johnson.
Back to pass he goes, fires it over the middle, it's caught up at the 45 of Michigan.
Knocked down immediately at the 46.
Let's check it at the tight end, Jim Mandich.
And he was tackled by Al Gwinnard.
At the 47 of Michigan, Bill Harris goes in, Jerry Imselin comes out.
Another first down for Michigan.
They're 11th of the afternoon.
Brown is 8 out of 15.
And the crowd starts to roar, go, go.
As Brown again on a fake, back to pass he goes, gets a good block, stays on his feet, gets away from two men,
finally fires it up, field it in.
And he's here.
The stadium is in pandemonium. 8.05 to go, Michigan back on top, 19 to 14.
Jim Mandich catching that pass from Dennis Brown at the Spartan 35,
and he's simply out in like the rest of the Michigan State defensive secondary into the end zone.
Now let's see what Michigan's going to go for.
It looks like they're going for the two-point conversion.
As Brown sliding off to the right.
Wait, finally throws it.
POP!
It's good for two points, and I think again this time Darby Craw works himself loose.
It is Darby Craw catching that ball just as he went out of the end zone for a two-point conversion.
It's a delirious Michigan team as they come off the sideline, and they lead 21 to 14.
Holy catch what he is.
Did I say something about Dennis Brown threading the needle?
There were two batters that had to be drawn, exact, and he threaded the needle right at about the 20-yard line to Mandich
and again in the end zone to Darby Craw.
That drive covered 80 yards in four plays.
Mandich scoring on a 53-yard pass play from Dennis Brown.
Here comes the kickoff now.
Frank Titus booms it up in the air and puts it at the 12.
Picked up by Highsmith at the 15, the 20, the 25, and he's knocked down at the Michigan State 32-33 yard line.
George Huey in on the stop.
And now Michigan State.
Oh, listen to this score.
Ohio State 13-per-do-nothing after three quarters.
That could knock the Big Ten into a cocked hat here early in the season.
Bill Faracco now has to go to the sideline to talk to Duffy Doherty, so Michigan State is called for a timeout.
So there's a timeout on the field with a score of Michigan 21, Michigan State 14.
Well, time exactly eight minutes remaining in this ballgame, and that is certainly a lot of time because both scores here came so quickly.
That's a Purdue score being announced 13-to-nothing.
What period is that?
That's a third quarter score, Dave.
Michigan State 13-per-do-nothing in the third period, Mark.
But there's a lot of time in this ballgame, and you can bet that State will be trying to maybe grind out another one here and get back into the ballgame down 21-14.
They've not shown much in the airways.
What did you say, Tom, before there were nine passes attempted?
Yeah, Michigan State now has tried 10 and completed six for 59 yards.
They have not gone to the air very much in the second half.
They have thrown only two times in the second half.
Only in one occasion did they throw deep in the entire ballgame.
That was knocked down very well by Hartman.
So here we go, first and 10 for Michigan State from their own 33-yard line, and with Ohio State leading Purdue 13-to-nothing after three quarters, this could be the start of something that nobody really looked forward to, Dave, a big 10.
The officials now call both teams up to the line of scrimmage and are conferring with both squads.
And now the referee marks the ball in play, and here we go.
The Spartans now try to come back again.
Tom Hocko sends Berlinski wide to the left, pitches back to Tommy Love, who's back in the ballgame, and he shoots his way over to 35, close to the 38-yard line.
Ed Moore in on the stop for Michigan, and Tom Goss.
And Tom Goss isn't going to go dancing tonight, I'll tell you that.
He has played one superb ballgame.
He's going to be lucky if he has enough energy to goose step.
Second down and five yards to go as Tommy Love is back into the ballgame and takes the wide pitch out, starts around the right side, he's going to throw the ball, Longwood, and almost intercepted, as Bryant Healy had the ball in his hands at the Michigan 35-yard line but couldn't hold on to it.
Michigan State coming up with a halfback pass that time as Tommy Love is back into the lineup.
And he fired that ball all the way down to the Michigan 35 intended for Al Brenner, but it was thrown wide of Brenner and right into Healy's hands.
So make it third and five.
Brenner is checking out of there and Baudel comes in for him.
Air Force continues to lead Navy 7-0 after one half.
The Army has taken a 3-0 lead over California after three quarters.
Third down, five yards to go, a big play for the Spartans.
In the option, sliding down is Falaco, pitches back to Love, he's got the first down and he's over the 45-yard line up to about the 48 hit by Tom Curtis.
And that will be enough for the first down.
The Spartans in first downs today have 23 compared to Michigan's 12.
But Michigan leads in the ball game 21-14.
Down the punishing ground game that Michigan State has been playing, you've got to give an awful lot of credit to their front line.
They've been doing a tremendous amount of work out there and doing it very well.
First and 10 to go for Michigan State.
On the option this time to the left, the pitch back to Love.
Around the left side he goes with the 50, the 45, out of bounds at the 40-yard line, run out over there by Tom Curtis.
At the 40-yard line and that will be enough for another first down.
What do the Spartans have on the ground so far Bill?
200 and 88 yards.
John Heismith has come in a tailback now replacing Tommy Love for the Spartans.
Henry Hills checked out and Jerry Mickles in the middle guard.
Clock shows 6.49 to go.
The option to the right this time, Morocco keeps the ball and gets back to the line of scrimmage and that's all.
Hit by Jerry Mickles, Ed Moore, and Phil Seymour.
Halftime score, Indiana 21, Iowa 21.
Those Hawkeyes have an explosive offense out there at Iowa City.
The main trouble has been defense.
Next week Dave McKay and I will be in Bloomington, Indiana to take a look at the Hoosiers of Indiana University.
Second down, 10 yards to go, no game on that last play.
Clock running with just over 6 minutes to go.
In motion to the left this time, Berlinski.
Back to fast, goes for Morocco.
He fires it over the middle of the Wiedemar, catches it and he's...
No! He couldn't hold on to it.
Hit by Phil Seymour as he caught that ball and then the force of Seymour's tackle jarred the ball loose.
And it was ruled as an incomplete forward pass.
They bring it back to the 43rd down and 10.
Notre Dame leads Northwestern only 7-0 after one half.
Boy, the Wildcats.
The old story of sink or swim for them this year.
Minnesota leads Illinois 14-3 after a half.
Third down and 10.
Morocco dropping straight back to pass.
Getting the time, loops one downfield.
It's intercepted!
And tackled immediately at the 15-yard line.
There's a very happy Tom Curtis.
Frank Foreman and Gordon Baudel made the tackle immediately on Curtis who picked up that interception.
He had seven last year to tie a big ten mark and he fired that ball 80 yards into the air after he caught it.
So Michigan now at their own 16.
And they have one object and one object only right now and that is to hold on to the football and try to eat up the clock.
Dennis Brown calling for quiet.
Takes the snap.
Rolls off to the right.
He's going to keep the ball back to the 15, to the 20.
A beautiful block at the 25, the 30, the 45.
And he's knocked that about.
Oh, did Harvey Crowe put a block on the left corner back of Michigan State.
And Dennis Brown is knocked that about at the 42-yard line of Michigan.
A final score, Harvard 21, Columbia 14.
First and ten to go for Michigan.
Dennis Brown moving up to the line of scrimmage.
Turns and gives off to Garvey Crowe, the first man through and Crowe is up to the 47-yard line.
Oh, when you're passing out accolades after today's game, don't forget Garvey Crowe.
Gary Nowak made the tackle on that last play.
Crowe has unlevered some blistering blocks here this afternoon.
Plus coming up with some big ball-carrying duties.
Five-twenty to go in the game.
Michigan with a seven-point lead and they have the football second and six.
A handoff to Johnson, finds Rueb over the left side.
He's inside the 50, down to the Spartan 45.
Rich Saul in on the tackle.
And they spot it just over the 45 of Michigan State.
First down and ten to go for Michigan.
They have 14 now.
Up to the line of scrimmage come the Wolverines.
Over the ball at center goes Dave Jensen.
The clock running with less than five to go.
Brown again gives off to Crowe and he fights his way for a couple.
Down to the 42-43-yard line.
Richard Benedict from East Lansing made the tackle on Crowe.
Here comes Calderazo back into the Michigan lineup.
Hartbrink going out on left guard.
And now, right now, so much weight lays in the hands of the Michigan offensive line.
Broadmax, Beardorf, Denson, Calderazo, Pengso.
These guys control the game.
A handoff to Johnson, finds Slyte Daylight over the left side.
And he's inside the 40-to-about-to-38-yard line.
Stacked up by the right side of the Michigan State line.
Again, Rich Saul coming over there along with Don Law and Ken Little.
They mark it.
Just shy of the 38-yard line.
Third down, five yards to go.
And the clock shows less than four minutes to go.
Third down and five as Brown snaps out the signals.
Rolling off to the right.
He's going to keep the ball to the 40-to-35-to-30.
That's enough for a first down.
Right out of bounds by Frank Waters.
As Dennis Brown, again, taking up a tremendous block from Claw on the right side.
Shot down the sideline to the 29-yard line of Michigan State,
where it is first and 10 to go for Michigan.
On a key third down play.
Brown keeping it himself, sweeping around the right side.
Here come the Wolverines, first and 10.
Clock shows 3.35 to go.
Brown takes the snap, hands off to Johnson, cuts back in over the middle of his own line,
and he's down to about the 25-yard line.
Rick Benedict coming off the pile.
Charles Bailey, as Brown followed his center, Dave Denson, to the 25.
No score, Mississippi and Georgia, after one quarter of play.
Second down, six yards to go.
Clock running with three minutes to go.
Harris put to the right.
Betts flank to the left.
Handoff is given to Claw, and he's stopped at the line of scrimmage for no gain by Rich Saul,
the linebacker from the left side, who just simply brushed off all the blocking on the part of Michigan
and wrapped his arms around Claw right at the line of scrimmage, no gain on it, making third down and six.
Here's another big third down play.
Right now you've got to watch Dennis Brown and his favorite receiver, Jim Mandich, on this clutch play.
He may try to pump it right over the middle to Mandich to pick up the first down.
You may recall they didn't show the Mandich too much in that Navy game.
They dribble short ends off.
The crowd coming to its feet now on a third and sixth situation.
Brown gives off the call.
Three, four, five, six, seven, ten, four.
Pop-down Michigan!
They're mounting Garvey Cross.
They are killing Garvey Cross.
He broke over the middle on a cross.
He was hit by two to three box players in the fifth game and the tenth.
They put one out into the five and he simply pulled him right into the end zone.
And we just got through talking about Garvey Cross, the junior from box player New Jersey.
And on a big third down play, he simply rips off 25 yards for the touchdown.
Michigan leads 27 to 14.
Now Jim Killian will be attempting the extra points.
It is good.
And as the team come back up the field to score Michigan 28, Michigan State 14.
It's going to be a delicious little ball.
That drive of Michigan covers 85 yards in nine plays with Fogg taking it in from 25 yards out.
And the Michigan crowd, which has not seen a Wolverine victory over Michigan State here in Ann Arbor since 1955, are on their feet.
There's the kickoff. Field it at the five, back to the ten, to the 15, to the 20, to the 25.
Straight up the field to the 30 comes Tommy Long.
But he is hit by Frank Titus who kicked off for Michigan.
And Eric Federico to the Spartans now in a desperation situation.
28 to 14 with just 2.05 to go. Half the ball, first and ten. Just over, now on 30.
Don Heisman has gone out of there.
And Tommy Long comes in at the tailback.
And we may now see Bill Ferocca going to the air.
Although he has thrown only 13, he's just about got to put it in the air now.
He scrambles around. Now he's going to run with the ball to the 30, to the 35.
And it's knocked down at the 39 yard line.
On a bruising, necktie tackle by Bill Seymour.
The clock running with less than two minutes to go.
And Michigan State has only one timeout left.
That's important to remember as they have had to take a couple because of injuries here in the second half.
A minute and a half to go as Al Brighter comes in and Gordon Bodeaux checks out.
And here's Al Bracco, the senior quarterback from Erwin, Pennsylvania, who has played a magnificent game here this afternoon.
Back to pass he goes. Fires a looping, and a second by Seymour at the 47 to state.
And that puts the icing on the cake.
Dick Krulinski, the intended receiver, made the tackle immediately, but there is a flag on that last play.
So let's hold off here now.
Lipping is Tom Goss as he comes back upfield.
Now wait a minute, it could be against Michigan, which would nullify that pass interception.
A personal foul penalty against Michigan, roughing the passer, will nullify the interception,
and will give Michigan State a first down at the Michigan 46.
Tom Goss limping off the field now.
His place has been taken by Ed Woolley.
The ball resting, just shy of the Michigan 45.
A minute and 18 seconds to go, Michigan leading 28 to 14.
Morocco.
Back to pass. No, it is Bill Triplett in a quarterback now,
scrambling around, going to run with the football to the 40s and the 35s,
and is dropped at the 33-yard line by Ed Moore and Phil Seymour.
Bill Triplett, a sophomore from Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Running with that football, the Michigan State now has called for a timeout to stop the clock,
so there's a timeout on the field, and a score of Michigan 28, Michigan State 14.
Triplett is known for his running ability, and Duffy Doherty hoping that he would be able,
perhaps, to be kept on the long by to find running room and weaken in the end zone itself.
If not, they were leading in this ball game by 30 points.
Phil would not gamble on Michigan State.
He's got Tom Goss and Henry Hill right back in there,
his first string defense here with about just over a minute to play in the ball game.
You never know what's going to happen.
You play it right down to the wire in this type of a ball game.
I can tell you one thing, not very much of this 102,000-odd crowd have left.
There we go, first and 10th for the Spartan.
Triplett running around in the backfield.
He doubles the ball, and let's see who's got it.
It's back at the 43, Michigan has recovered.
Well, it was either Jim Willeit or Ed Moore on that football.
I don't know who will be given credit, but Michigan has taken over the football
with less than a minute to go.
They lead 28 to 14, and Michigan now, I believe, is coming in with their second unit.
Don Moorehead, Warren Sipp, Jim Betts, and Lance Shuffler in the backfield for Michigan.
As Bob Elliott handing things over to his second unit, as on a straight ahead dive player
goes Dan Moorehead, Don Moorehead, I'm sorry, to the 45-yard line, 46.
The clock shows 40 seconds to go.
Second and five to go.
And now the Michigan crowd coming to its feet and starting to applaud as again,
Moorehead just holds onto Moorehead and slides up to the 50.
Let's quickly pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the University of Michigan Broadcasting Service.
The crowd starts to call off the time here with five seconds to go.
Four, three, two, one, that's the ballgame.
And the University of Michigan has come up with a 28 to 14 victory over
Arch-Riddle Michigan State.
And the Michigan team leading the field, surrounded by delirious fans here who have
swarmed out of the stadium as they go to the far tunnel on the other side.
And it is a happy, happy Wolverine crew and Coach Bob Elliott who shakes hands
with Duffy Daugherty at midfield and walks off.