Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 51

Friday, Oct. 20, 1961 51 We're Football illionaire It's Golden Weekend with MSU U-D. Lions DETROIT FREE PRESS at Ann Arbor (1:30 p.m.) in an important Big Ten game before 65,000 customers. At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, more than 50,000 fans will return to Tiger Stadium to watch the Detroit Lions (3-2) battle their arch rivals, the Baltimore Colts, who come in with a 2-3 mark.

Ticket sales for these four games will approximate $1,000,000. Incidental expenses including travel, concessions and other items will add at least another $500,000. (3-1) will kick off the big weekend at 8:15 Friday night at Tiger Stadium in the first meeting between the local university and the Naval Academy. More than 40,000 fans are expected to watch the Titans try to ride the passes of diminutive Jerry Gross to a victory over the favored Middies. A sellout throng of 76,000 will converge on East Lansing at 1:30 Saturday when the BY LYALL SMITH Fre Press Sports Editor A million-doilar weekend and then some.

That's the forecast for Detroit and nearby football hotspots Ann Arbor and East Lansing as six college powers with combined won-lost records of 16-3 pair off in three clashes, highlighted by the battle of undefeated Michigan State and Notre Dame. The University of Detroit (3-0) and Navy unbeaten Spartans, the nation's top-rated college team, take on the resurgent Irish of Notre Dame, who are rebounding from a disastrous 2-8 record last year. Michigan State has a six-game winning streak. Notre Dame, which has won four straight, will try to become the first team to score a touchdown against the Spartans in 1961. Michigan, loser only to Michigan State, and Purdue, stung only by Notre Dame, will tangle 3 FOR STASIUK I ILyall Smith U-DGets Boot Out Of This Navy Kicker Can't 'Fudge UM Puts It Up to Glinka Purdue Game Time to Click MSU's Fontes: Destiny Darling v.

Wings Bomb Boston, 7-3 BY JACK BERRY Vic Stasiuk likes coach Sid Abel's new lines just fine and so do the rest of the Red Wings. ED (ROCKY) RYAN, captain of the nation's No. V2 collegiate team (AP rates it first, UPI second) won't play Saturday when Michigan State finds out if Notre Dame's resurgence is for real. His banged-up shoulder a memento of last week's victory over Michigan is in a cast and everybody's telling him: "Tough luck, Rocky, we'll sure miss you out there in the big game It's the kind of thing that could make a fellow kick at the grass in frustration, moan and mutter and feel Stasiuk scored three goals Thursday night, all in the third period, in leading the Red Wings to a 7-3 walloping of BY JOE FALLS Dave Glinka, the Michigan quarterback, is not on the spot. But he's getting awfully close to it.

The young man will play his 13th game of intercollegiate football Saturday when the the winless Boston Bruins at Olympia. Wolverines take on Purdue in Only 8,036 fans saw the explosion. It was the smallest turnout since Christmas night 10 years ago. Those who did come saw Stasiuk assist on two of the Wings' first three goals and then score the big amphitheater in Ann Arbor. The followers of Michigan are still wondering when he is go sorry for himself and thats just what Ryan would do except that the player who is taking over his duties won't let him.

"Fate has intervened and it's for the best," insists Wayne Fontes. "The die has been cast. I have been chosen. We obviously need a man of destiny to throw back the Irish. I am that man To the uninitiated, such words not only sound flamboyant and pontifical, but carry a slug of a pair 62 seconds apart in the first two minutes of the final BY JACK BERRY There was a brief bit of frenzy and flurry around the University of Detroit Memorial Building Thursday afternoon.

The subject was goal posts. Jim Miller, coach of the Titans, was asked whether the goal posts at Tiger Stadium would remain on the goal lire as they do for pro games. "Wow!" exclaimed Miller who has been rather busy this week, "I hadn't even thought of that." And then the first thought was of Navy's Greg Mather, who beat Rose Bowl champion Washington, 15-14, last year with a last-minute 42-yard field goal. MATHER STILL is with the Navy team that meets the unbeaten Titans Friday at 8:15 p.m. in Tiger Stadium.

He has already kicked three field goals this season in four games and made good on all 13 extra-point attempts. period. ing to break loose and have one big day which could Wayne Fontes stamp him as a Glinka topflight quarterback. So far Glinka hasn't had it. Perhaps his best game was his first game.

As a pea-green To the injured Ryan and the rest of the Spartans, He added his third one at the 15:10 mark. THE 32-YEAR-OLD Stasiuk was moved from left wing of the second line to right 'wing on the third line in one of Abel's line shifts to find some more scoring power. It worked. Eddie Litzenberger also got into the act, scoring his fourth goal in as many games just two minutes and three seconds before the final buz-er. Bill Gadsby, Alex Delvecchio and Leo LaBine collected the other Red Wing goals.

It was quite a night for the Detroit chapter of the "Bruin Alumni Association," with Stasiuk picking up five points and LaBine also scoring. Both came sophomore last fall, he hit five of 11 passes and threw for two touchdowns in Michigan's 21-0 victory over Oregon. they are a tonic. For Fontes, a senior workhorse who has worn many football harnesses, is the team's pep-pill. "Nobody and I mean nobody, can pick us up like Wayne," says Jim Corgiat, another defensive muscle in State's alignment.

"He's had more than his share of tough luck and knows how it feels to be low." Get the Cameras on Me, Man Vic Stasiuk to the Wings from Boston last January. EX-RED WING Jerry Top-pazzini collected two of the Bruin goals with Cliff Pennington getting the other; LaBine and Stasiuk wrapped up Detroit's first victory in four starts with a. three-goal outburst spanning two minutes and 15 seconds. Stasiuk sent LaBine in from the Bruin blue line with -Turn to Page US. Column 1 SINCE THEN Glinka has made the scoreboard blinka very seldom.

He has thrown only three other TD passes GETS HIS KICKS Navy end Greg Mather ranked second to Joe Bellino in scoring last year and, with Bellino gone, Mather is on top this year and without a touchdown. Mather, a 6-1, 212-pound Californian, will be kicking against University of Detroit Friday night. none this year and only one in his last eight games. Of course, the second-guess- Turn to Page 52. Column 1 But the concern was shortlived.

Tiger Stadium personnel revealed that they have constructed regulation college goal posts, and these will be on the end lines so any field goals Mather kicks will have to travel the extra 10 yards. U-D can breathe a little easier on that one and reflect on eight other things that make OPEN FRIDAY 4 SATURDAY TO 9 P.M. except Shelby 5:45 POOR PISTONS! Tiger Stadium likable the eight big light towers. COMPARED TO playing in their own park, it will seem like it's an afternoon game. The lights aren't good at U-D and there aren't enough of them.

Bad Knee Puts Howell On Bench That's the main reason that halfbacks have such a difficult time fielding punts and kick- offs at U-D. BY BOB LATSHAW Coach Dick McGuire got his I thmk it will be a scoring Detroit Pistons down to the game, Miller said Thursday. regulation 12 players Thursday and then discovered that he may have only 11 ready for the "We've shown explosiveness.l "But if we're going to beat Navy, we'll have to out-hustle them, and you know that these service schools go all out all the time since everyone they season opener in Boston Satur day night. "THE GUY'S GREAT," echoes Capt. Ryan.

"Not only a great all-round guy but a great all-around football player." It was Fontes who flopped on Bennie McRae's fumble early last Saturday and recovered it for State to send the Spartans on their way to victory. I He took a little while getting up and Ryan, who had helped shake McRae loose from the ball, trotted over. "You okay?" he queried. "Great," grinned Fontes. "I just want to be sure that those national TV cameras are picking me up in my moment of deserved glory." That was one reason why State's defensive platoon trotted off with wide grins.

All early-game tensions had been snapped by the 5-11, 180-pounder from Canton, Ohio. From then on, the Spartans were loose and the Wolverines taut Fontes has been a jack of all trades for coach Duffy Daugherty the last three years. He was expected to follow his brother Leonard to Ohio State. They had formed a quarterback-end combination for Canton Mc- Kinley and Leonard listened to the blandishments of coach Woody Hayes. Injuries Held lliitt Back WAYNE DECIDED ON STATE.

Daugherty made him a ball-carrying halfback as a sophomore. But a pre- season injury put him out for the season. In 1959, with sophomore eligibility retained, he was shifted to defensive duties but despite a testy ankle he was moved to offensive end for the final three games. He alternated between the same two positions last season and this year is strictly defense. With Ryan sidelined, he moves in as roving linebacker and defensive signal-caller against the Irish who have been gobbling yardage in huge bites.

The loss of a captain like Ryan from a game like one with rejuvenated Notre Dame could put a damper on any fire. But not with Fontes around with a can of gas. "A real break for the team to get me in there at key spot," he insists as he chats with the injured Ryan. "But frankly, Rocky, I really didn't figure on 1 hitting you quite so hard the other day that they had 1 to get yon out of there "Stop," grunted Ryan. "It hurts when I laugh Alter asking waivers on rookie Dan Doyle, McGuire got play is pointing for them." the gloomy re port from team physician Dr.

The Middies lost their opener, 20-10, to Penn State which was supposed to be the best team in the East. Then they went down to there's a smart new shade ihaVs making a mark in our young men's Charter Club Shops Miami two weeks later and Raymond Forsyth that the Pistons' brilliant forward. Bailey Howell, may miss the opener, Howell injur-' ed his knee calmed the Hurricanes, 17-6. In the intervening week, Miami 1 had beaten Penn State. Navy also has defeated Wil liam and Mary, 44-6, and Cor it's Howell pulled ligaments nell.

31-7. and tendons in the final exhibition of the season Wednesday THIS WAS supposed to be a rebuilding year for Navy, but night. "Although the injury isn't as it must be a crash program They point to some 20 sopho severe as we thought," Dr. Forsyth said, "there is a question of Howell's playing against the Celtics. It is a painful injury.

mores out of the first 34 play ers. Actually, they're not sopho but should respond quickly to treatment." THERE IS an outside chance mores in the sense of other schools, since nearly every one had a year in prep school or at some other college. Whatever the make-up. the Middies are favored by seven to 12 points. will be able to play in spots Saturday night.

Chances are good that he will A soft, warm shade that comes out top notch in hand-woven herringbones of imported Scotch tweed. Witness this natural shoulder vested suit. We think so much of it that we've matched it with a natural shoulder fly-front topcoat in the same fabric. And to top it off, there's a crush sport hat that's also In the same' shade, same fabric. Sizes 35-46 in regulars, shorts, longs, extra longs.

(he suit 53.50 the coat 69.50 the hat S.35 be ready for the club'a home opener against the Los Angeles Lakers here next Wednesday. BRING ON THE NEXT 'UNBEATEN' Only the Best for Spartans Doyle, a 6-8 forward from little Belmont Abbey, might get a second chance to make the club if Howell's injury persists. He could be removed from the jj waiver list and Howell put on the injured reserve list for a minimum of five games. THE DEPARTURE of Doyle I ii leaves the Pistons with five guards, five forwards and two centers. There are two rookies.

Johnny Egan and Ray Scott, on the roster. Although the Pistons had a SMcial to tht Fim Pre EAST LANSING Little wonder why they're calling them the "Duffy Demons." Michigan State is doing it the hard way. When they take on Notre Dame Saturday, the Spartans will be playing the fourth unbeaten, untied team they have met this season. FIRST IT was Wisconsin. The Badgers got an early start and knocked off Utah in their opener the week before.

Then it was Stanford. The Indiana came out of the west with victories over Tulane and Oregon State. And then It was Michigan, the victor valiant over UCLA and Army. All fell before the pounding power of State. Now it's Notre Dame's turn, and the Irish own triumphs over Oklahoma, Purdue and Southern California.

"IT'S A TOUGH go, and I told the kids that they'd have to knuckle down this week," said Duffy Daugherty, the Spartan coach. Daugherty, trying to keep his team at the peak it attained against Michigan, has been busy making line-up shifts for the Notre Dame game. The latest change is at center, where tackle Dave Behrman is being groomed to take over for Dave Mand-ers, who is bothered by a neck sprain. Behrman worked at center last year but hasn't put in any time at the pivot post thus far this fall. Daugherty also is working Turn to Page, 56, Column 3 mediocre 4-5 record in the exhi bition season, McGuire was highly pleased by his squad's play.

"We used virtually every player in numerous combinations to see what they could do," McGuire said. "We should be faster and have more scoring SHELBY STATE GRAND RIVER GREENFIELD WONDERLAND CENTER 8 NORTHLAND CENTER WOODWARD AT MONTCALM ACK 4 MOROSS EASTLAND CENTER WESTBORN CENTER LINCOLN PARK punch this season..