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collsfia football gegoil IK DCTROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY. OCT. 13, 1987 1 0D How they scored hich bowl? I makes that clear 1st 2d 3d 4m Final 0 10 0 10 7 -37 Iowa Michigan Charlie Uinccnt sphere came dropping out of the steel-grey sky, right on target. "I saw it all the way," McMurtry said, "and I knew I either had to catch it or try to tip it to Kolesar. I went up for it and someone else grabbed it, too.

I figured it was someone from Iowa so I just took it away from him." Later, he found out it was Kolesar who was wrestling him for the ball. "Oh," McMurtry said, "maybe he let me have it." There would be no decisive field goal this afternoon. Iowa would not, could not, come back from that Hail Mary pass. An hour after Saturday's game, Schembechler was standing alone, nursing a soft drink. He had just shooed away the last of the reporters, when a man, who had been standing patiently at the back of the crowd, stepped to Schembechler's side and introduced himself.

"Hi, coach, I'm Reggie Barnes with the Liberty Bowl and I just wanted to stop in and say hello and let you know we'll stay in touch with you." Schembechler was polite. He smiled. He shook the man's hand. But both knew Bo Schembechler has never dreamed of taking a team to the Liberty Bowl. their notes to Michigan and the rest began concentrating on Iowa.

ON THE sidelines, Bo Schembechler, in pain with kidney stones that will send him to the hospital for a day-long stay Monday, popped a painkiller into his mouth. Then he launched the attack that would build up a 30-10 half time lead, climaxed by a prayerful 50-yard pass that Greg McMurtry coaxed into his arms in the Iowa end zone. The Hawkeyes had just closed to within 13 points on Houghtlin's 46-yard field goal with four seconds left in the half, and hoping to surprise the Wolverines, they tried an onside kick. But Derrick Walker recovered for Michigan at midfield and that's when Schembechler decided the issue for the afternoon. "It was," he said later, "a shot in the dark.

But we had three good kids going down there with a chance to get it and we just told Demetrius (Brown) to bring the ball down in the end zone and we'd see who rebounds it. JOHN KOLESAR was the first Wolverine to arrive in the end zone. McMurtry was a step behind him. And Chris Calloway was another step behind. And as they looked around, the spiraling First quarter Michigan: Brown one-yard run (kick blockedl.

Time: 7:35. Drive: 48 vards. 11 Plays. Key piavs: U-M convened three third-down piavs. Wolverines 4, Hawkeves 0.

Second quarter Michigan: Gillette 42-yard field goal. Time: Drive: Six yards, tour plays Key play: 15-vaid ounl by Adams lo Iowa 31. Wolverines 9, Hawkeyes 0. Michigan: Kolesar 35-yard pass from Brown (Gillette kickl. Time: 11:59.

Drive: 46 yards, three plays. Wolverines 14, Hawkeyes 0. Iowa: Clark six-yard pass from Harllieb (Houghtlin kick). Time: 9:08 Drive: 82 yards, six piavs. Key plav: Cook 55-yard pass from Hartlieb Wolverines la, Hawkeyes 7.

Michigan: McMurlry 12-yard pass from Brown (Gillette kick). Time: 2:32. Drive: 75 yards, 13 plays. Key piavs: McMurtry 19-yard pass from Brown to 26, three-yard run on third down by Bunch to 13. Wolverines 23, Hawkeves 7.

Iowa: Houghtlin 46-vard field goal. Time: 0 04. Drive: 46 yards, seven piavs. Key plav: Walkins 13-yard pass from Houghtlin to 28 on lourin-and-three. Wolverines 23, Hawkeyes 10.

Michigan: McMurtry 50-yard pass from Brown (Gillette kick). Time: 0:00. Drive: 50 yards, one olav Key plav: Onside kick recovery by Walker. Wolverines 30, Hawkeves 10. Third quarter No scoring.

Fourth quarter Michigan: Morris three-yard run (Gillette kick), lime: 0:58. Drive: 59 yards, II Plays. Key play: 16-vard reverse by Kolesar. Wolverines 37, Hawkeves 10. Attendance: 105,406.

Team statistics ANN ARBOR Where's the field goal? I'm waiting for the field goal. Isn't that the way Michigan's games against Iowa always end? I remember standing in the rain in the late afternoon darkness in Iowa City two years ago, when Rob Houghtlin's 29-yard field goal eluded Paul Jokisch's outstretched fingertips and sailed over the crossbar with five seconds remaining, for a 12-10 Iowa win. I remember standing in the sunshine of Michigan Stadium last fall, when Mike Gillette kicked a 34-yard field goal on the final play of the game to give Michigan a 20-17 win. I thought they always played these games down to the final seconds. But there they were Saturday afternoon the stands already almost half-empty and on the final play of the 37-10 blowout, Michigan's backup quarterback Michael Taylor ran around end to run out the clock.

There was no indecisi veness this time, no last-minute heroics with held breath and crossed fingers and nervous perspiration tickling their armpits and running down the insides of their uniforms. This time, the University of Michigan decided it early. There was reason to. PERHAPS it was to prove something to themselves after last Saturday's seven-turnover, 17-11 loss to Michigan State. Perhaps it was to prove something to the man in the baseball cap, sunglasses and headphone on the sidelines.

Perhaps it was to prove something to all those scouts up in the press box. They came from the Rose Bowl and the Wolverines wanted to believe they were here to see them. But they came from other places, too, from the Hall of Fame Bowl and the Liberty Bowl and all the other bowls that teams go to when they've lost three or four games. The Wolverines wanted to believe those scouts came to see Iowa. In truth, they probably came to see both.

Both had lost twice and both are potential drawing cards for these bowls. But the game was not very old before the more prestigious of the bowl scouts began confining Brown rewards Bo's faith with win Iowa U-M First downs 13 19 Rushing 2 9 Passing 11 9 Penally 0 1 3d-down efficiency 21 4 62.5 Total vards 349 352 Tolal plays 63 68 Avg. gain per plav 5.5 5.2 Rushing yards -13 162 Rushing plays 43 49 Avg. gam per plav 3.3 Passing yards 362 190 Passes attempted 43 19 Passes completed 27 14 Pet. completed 62.8 73.7 Interceptions thrown 1 0 Avg.

gain per plav 13.4 13.6 Puntsaverage 532 540.2 Had blocked 0 0 Return yards 78 83 Punt returnsvards 20 322 Kickoff returnsvards 578 261 Penalliesvards 442 216 Fumbleslost 31 11 FG made'allempts 21 11 Time of possession 25:44 34:16 Individual statistics Iowa RUSHING Art Yds Avg Lng TO Harllieb 7 -25 14 0 Slewarl 5 14 2.8 7 0 Hudson 4 6 1.5 5 0 Harmon 2 -2 1 0 Poholsky 1 -3 0 0 Bass 1 -3 -30 0 0 PASSING All Cmp Yds TD Int Hartlieb 43 27 362 1 1 George Puscas ANN ARBOR Forevermore, Demetrius Brown must remain grateful, thankful. This was a day that changed his image, his career, maybe his life. It happens that way sometimes. One man's faith, one grand hour, and the world looks different. Brown, the Michigan quarterback, knows what we don't know.

He knows, despite everything he has heard, that his coach is calm, cool, patient and understanding, and for that, he can be thankful. These are not attributes generally credited to Bo Schembechler, the U-M football coach. But maybe Bo is misunderstood outside of his camp. How else can you explain what Schembechler did with Brown here Saturday? He sent him out, firing passes -7 ro(" 'v WKt it vs' i i 'fCf v. r.

RECEIVING No. Yds Lng TD Early 6 58 16 0 Walkins 6 82 18 0 Hudson 2 31 22 0 Harmon 5 17 6 0 Goodman 1 8 8 0 Maneri 2 25 21 0 C.Clark 16 6 1 Cook 3 105 55 0 Flagg 1 30 30 0 PUNTING No. Yds Avg Lng Adams 5 160 32.0 39 PUNT RET. No. Yds Lng TD Marciano 2 0 2 0 KICKOFF RET.

No! Yds Lng TD Stewart 2 40 22 0 Marciano 3 38 18 0 Solo Ast Sckvds Total 0 00 TACKLES Early Burl Burke Houghtlin Sislrunk Brown Puk Quasi Sloops Hanks Wirlh Thomas Haight Foster Jonnson Schuster Keppy Cook Ridley Beard Reilly Molt 00 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 O'O 00 00 MARY SCHKOEDERDeiroit Free Press all but 21 yards of the total coming in the first half, when he blew Iowa out of the game. SCHEMBECHLER conceded that the change in Brown's passing from one week to the next was rather astounding, but not totally unexpected. "I never kid-glove anybody," Schembechler said. "The quarterback has to be tough. But he (Brown) can look at me and I can look at him, and he knows I've got confidence in him." Actually, a bit more was involved in Brown's turnaround.

"What we really did," Schembechler said, "was tell him to make sure and check the underneath coverage (for short passing opportunities) before throwing upfield." Unlike last week against MSU, when Brown fired too short or too long for his own receivers and repeatedly into the hands of Spartans defenders, Brown took a second look at the Iowa defense. "We didn't change many things," he said. "Just me. I tried to play more heads-up and realize that I can't have what's not out there." He said he might have been too anxious, too trusting that his strength alone against MSU would lay the ball on U-M receivers. "Today, I wasn't throwing the ball into tight coverage," he said.

HE THREW a couple of dandies a 35-yard rocket that hit flanker John Kolesar darting from the left sideline in front of the goal posts, and then a 50-yard bomb that all but locked up the game for U-M in the final second of the first half. The latter was a dart that traveled 65 yards in the air and landed in the arms of Greg McMurtry in the end zone, stretching U-M's lead to 30-10. "I thought we'd just run out the last two seconds of the half," Brown said, "but Bo said, "So we called a trips formation play (it had Kolesar, McMurtry and Chris Calloway, all fleet receivers, lined up on the left side of the field). "They (Iowa) had defenders back there, but McMurtry just went up and got the ball in the end zone." It was that strong arm of Brown that first caught the eye of U-M scouts. Last week, there was a question whether his cannon might destroy his own team.

Now, the question is gone. "He's a very capable guy," Schembechler said. "You see the strength in his arm. I'm very happy for him. Aren't you happy for him?" Indeed.

T.J. Osman (top) and Allen Bishop sack Iowa quarterback Chuck Hartlieb. U-M handcuffs Iowa, 37-10 against Iowa. Imagine that. He had him throwing as if well, as if he trusted him, as if the kid wasn't a symbol of something bad about to happen.

WITH BROWN throwing as few could believe on target, long and short Michigan rolled to a 37-10 victory over an Iowa team that was supposed to give the Wolverines all kinds of trouble. The Hawkeyes didn't because Brown, in one of the great Saturday-to-Saturday transformations you'll see on a gridiron, was rather awesome. He completed 11 of 13 passes for three touchdowns in the first half and ran for one in the first half, and all in all, looked like a wizened master of his trade. This is the same Brown, a junior from Miami Beach, who just a week ago sat down to dinner and was afraid to pass the butter, lest some interloper grab it. Hours earlier, he had set a U-M record with seven interceptions against Michigan State in one of the most horrid passing performances ever seen on a major-college gridiron.

Michigan lost, 17-11, in a game that badly damaged its season, and there was no doubting why. Brown seemed to mistake the green shirts of MSU for his own. IT'S NOT unheard of for players giving such a performance to disappear from the field forever. When next seen, they might be sweeping the stadium, or washing socks and jocks in the team laundry. It never came to that for Brown because Schembechler never considered it.

"We didn't have any great psychology sessions," Schembechler said. "Not at all. He's an amazingly resilient kid. "I just asked him one thing last week if he'd ever been booed." The coach expected and so did Brown that the young quarterback would be booed when he reappeared in Michigan's giant bowl to face Iowa. But Brown heard only one reference to his horror against Michigan State.

"I heard some lady remark, hope he doesn't throw any he said. Brown never really came close to an interception as he took apart an Iowa pass defense that had been rated No. 1 in college football. In five previous games, the Hawk-eyes had given up an average of 99.3 yard to passers. Brown hitthemfor 190 Michigan RUSHING Aft Yds Avg Lng TO Brown 5 30 6.0 24 1 Taylor 1 6 6.0 6 0 Horn 1 2 2.0 2 0 Morris 27 52 1.9 7 1 Bunch 13 52 4.0 12 0 Kolesar 1 16 16.0 16 0 Wbb 1 4 4.0 4 0 PASSING Alt Cmp Yds TO Int Brown 19 14 190 3 0 RECEIVING No! Yds Lng TD McMurlry 4 95 50 2 Kolesar 3 60 35 1 Morris 2 7 5 0 Webb 1 110 J.Brown 2 16 9 0 Bunch 1 2 2 0 Walker I 9 9 0 PUNTING No.

Yds Avg Lng 6LK Robbins 5 201 40.2 55 0 PUNT RET. No. Yds Avg Lng TD Kolesar 3 22 7.3 14 0 KICKOFF RET. No! Yds Lng TD Kolesar 2 61 39 0 TACKLES Solo Ast Sckyds Total Mitchell 1100 2 Bishop 6 119 7 Mallorv 5 0 00 5 Arnold 2 1 O'O 3 Campbell 4 100 5 Abrams 3 0 00 3 Hassel 2 0 00 2 Willingham 2 0 00 2 Massner 1100 2 Simpson 6 3 00 9 Manuel 2 115 3 Williams 1 2 00 3 Coooer 5 3 0,0 8 Osman 3 1 222 4 Herrmann 4 0 18 4 Holland 2 0 00 2 Bostic 0 1 00 1 INTERCEPT. No.

Yds Lng TD Arnold 10 0 0 WOLVERINES, from Page 1D from his seven-interception disaster against Michigan State. They are in it because a beaten and battered defense played better than anyone expected them to. And they are back in the race because of something called pride, an intangible the players say they've learned over the years at U-M. "This turned our season all the way around," offensive tackle Tom Dohring said. "We did not feel good about last week.

This should keep us in contention." Defensive back Allen Bishop said: "This game is an expression of what this team is capable of when we play good defense. We had our backs to the wall, but everybody reacted positively." Brown, the soft-spoken sophomore from Miami, completed 14 of 19 passes for 190 yards. He threw three touchdown passes two to McMurtry and one to flanker John Kolesar and started the scoring with a one-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. All this against a defense that led the nation against the pass, yielding just 99 yards a game. "This was good for the team," Brown said.

"This is a good feeling. We got a win under our belts. We were tough today and did what we had to do." BROWN may have been the toughest player on the field. For the third time this season, he faced a national television audience, a large crowd end zone." It mattered little that Iowa controlled the ball for much of the third quarter, holding Michigan without a first down. The damage had been done and Michigan's defense made enough big plays to keep the Hawks from scoring.

Brown showed no aftershocks from last week's disaster, completing 11 of 1 3 passes for 1 69 yards in the first half. At one point he completed five consecutive passes on third-down situations as Michigan took a 16-0 lead early in the second quarter. Following Brown's first-quarter touchdown, Gillette broke the school career-field goal record (32) he shared with Ali Haji-Sheikh. His 42-yarder on the first play of the second quarter gave U-M a 9-0 lead and helped him forget his extra-point attempt that was blocked in the first quarter by Iowa's Merton Hanks. That snapped Gillette's streak of 66 consecutive extra points, second-longest in school history.

After Brown's 35-yard touchdown strike put U-M up 16-0, Iowa drove 82 yards in just six plays and quarterback Chuck Hartlieb finished it with a six-yard pass to tight end Craig Clark in the back of the end zone. But Michigan held onto the ball for 6:31 and regained its 16-point lead when Brown hit McMurtry from 13 yards out. Tailback Jamie Morris, held to 62 yards in 27 carries, scored from three yards out in the fourth quarter to end the scoring. (105,406) and a top-ranked defense (first in the Big Ten). The results of the other two games were not pretty.

They were losses to Notre Dame and Michigan State and 1 4 turnovers. "We weren't doubting ourselves, but there was some questions as to what was happening," defensive end John Herrmann said. What was the difference? Simple, the offense turned the ball over just once. And it was a play that appeared to be a turning point for the Hawkeyes. But in the end it proved to be the final nail in the Hawkeyes' coffin.

Here's what happened. WITH THE Wolverines ahead, 23-7, in the second quarter, Brown ran 24 yards to the Iowa 26, but fumbled. Lineman Myron Keppy recovered and, seven plays later, Rob Houghtlin kicked a 46-yard field goal that cut the lead to 23-10. Iowa needed just two touchdowns to take the lead, but coach Hayden Fry wasn't satisfied. He wanted to attempt a last-second Hail Mary play, but Michigan's Derrick Walker recovered Houghtlin's onside kick at the 50.

The Wolverines lined up deep threats Chris Calloway, McMurtry and Kolesar on the left side and McMurtry outfought Kolesar for the ball that Brown threw about 65 yards into the end zone. "That was a shot in the dark," Schembechler said. "We had three good kids going down there with a chance to get it, and we just told Demetrius to bring the ball down in the Michigan 7 Notre 26 44 Washington St. IB 49 Long Beach SI 0 49 Wisconsin 0 11 Michigan Slalel7 37 Iowa 10 Hoosiers sell out Indiana's homecoming game against Michigan next Saturday is a sellout. All tickets have also been taken for the Hoosiers' home game against Purdue on Nov.

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