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I I DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1988 13D U-M Summary How they scored Brown feeling more at ease in hero's role U-M wraps up Big Ten title, 34-31 f. i vVt vV i r'tt :1 if vQ lit 2d 4th Final 10 10 0 14 -34 0 0 14 17 -31 Ohio Statt First quarter Mkhtgeit Gillette 22-vard field goal. Drive: 74 verdi, 12 plan Key play: Boles' 18-yard run on draw play. Time left: Wolverinn 3, Buckevw 0. Mkhlsait McMurtry 57-yard patt from Brown (Gillette kick).

Drive: 72 yards, four plays. Key play: Boles' seven-yard run on thlrd-and-two. Time left: 106. Wolverines 10, Buckeyes a Second quarter Michigan: Hoard 18-yard run (Gillette kick). Drive: 17 yards, three plays.

Key play: Arnold recovered Snow fumble at Ohio Slate 17. Time left: 635. Wolvertnes 17, Buckeyes 0. Michigan: Gillette 56-yard field goal. Drive: 41 yards, six plays.

Key plav: Kolesar 28-yard pass nfrom Brown. Time left: Wolverines 20, Buckeyes 0. 'third quarter 4 Ohio Stat Snow four-yard run (O'Morrow kick). Drive: 70 yards, seven plays. Key plav: Snow 36-vard run.

Time left: 12:06. Wolverines 20, Buckeyes 7. ii Ohio Slate: Matlock 11-yard run (O'Morrow kick). Drive: 66 yards, eight plays. Key play: Trey's 18-yard pass to Edwards.

Time left: 231. I Wotverines 20, Buckeyes 14. Fourth quarter Ohio State: Olive 14-yard pass from Frey (O'Morrow kick). Drive: 90 yerds, eight plays. Key r-Dlav: Prey's 27-yard pass to Olive.

Time left: 1156. Buckeyes 21, Wolverines 2a Ohio State: O'Morrow 21-yard field goal, Drive: 18 yards, six plays. Key play: Matlock's 12-v yard run. Time left: 830. Buckeyes 24, Wolverines 20.

Michigan: Hoard elghl-yard run (Gillette kick). Drive: 76 yards, 10 plays. Key play: Brown's 18-yard pass lo Boles on thlrd-end-flve, Time left: 4:20. Wolverines 27, Buckeyes 24. Ohio Stale: Matlock 16-vard run (O'Mrvmw kick).

Drive: 92 yards, six plavs. Kev dIhv! Frev't 20-yard pass to Snow. Time left: 202. Buckeyes 31, wonwrmes 27. Michigan: Kolesar 41-yard pass from Brown kick).

Drive: 41 yards, two plavs. Key play: Kolesar's 59-yard klckoff return. Time left: 137. Wonwtws 34, Buckeyes 31. 90,176.

Team statistics A DAYMON J. HARTLEYDetrott Free Press Ohio State's Pat Thomas drags down Leroy Hoard, who gained 158 yards and scored two touchdowns for Michigan. In the end, John Kolesar was the Wolverines' saving grace BY STEVE KORNACKI Free Press Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio Demetrius. Brown, an uneasy hero last week against Illinois, was more relaxed during and after Michigan's 34-31 comeback win over Ohio State Saturday. Brown completed 11 of 17 passes for a career-best 223 yards, with touchdowns of 57 yards to Greg McMurtry and 41 to John Kolesar.

"I think Demetrius saw more of the field today than he ever saw before," Wolverines offensive co-ordinator Gary Moeller said. "After the game, I told him, 'I think you matured as a quarterback and I'm proud of He looked so sharp in the pocket and avoided pressure. Demetrius did it all." Last year, Brown threw a school-record 16 interceptions. But he hasn't been picked off since Ohio State last November, throwing 78 straight passes without an interception. "I think this makes up for last year," said Brown, who has started the last two games since Michael Taylor suffered a broken right collarbone.

Taylor isn't likely to return for the Rose Bowl game, but Brown proved he can handle the job. U-M has scored on 18 of 29 drives since he took over on the second offensive play against Minnesota. The Wolverines have just one turnover a fumble lost by Tony Boles Saturday in that time. TURNAROUND: Ohio State had no points and 116 yards in the first half, but scored 31 points and gained 353 yards in the second. "I can't believe that happened to us," U-M defensive tackle Mark Messner said.

"It was like we weren't even there, like we were playing 10 men against 13. 1 don't know what they did differently. I don't know what we did differently." Defensive tackle Brent White said: "We had more trouble controlling their draw in the second half. Carlos Snow (170 yards) is a hell of a back. They have to be a good team in order to come back like that on us." Wolverines coach Bo Schem- "He ran like a man possessed," said his coach, Bo Schembechler.

And following a first-down incompletion, there he was again, in the Buckeyes' end zone, leaping between two defenders, reaching for that wobbly spiral from quarterback Demetrius Brown knew he would catch it, because he had dropped one earlier in the game, and he never drops two in a And U-M OSU First downs 24 24 Rushing 16 12 Passing 7 11 Penalty 1 1 3d-down efficiency 41.7 36.4 Total yards 499 469 Total plays 68 73 Avg. gain per play 7.3 6.4 Rushing yards 276 277 Rushing plays 51 44 Avg. gain per play 5.4 6.3 Passing yards 223 192 Passes attempted 17 29 Passes completed 11 14 Pet. completed 64.7 48.3 Interceptions thrown 0 1 Avg. gain per play 13.1 6.6 Puntsaverage 335.3 5334 Had blocked 0 0 Return yards 1H MS Punt returnsyards 111 00 Klckoff returnsyards 4102 6115 Penaltiesyards 650 442 Fumbleslost 31 21 FG madeattempts 42 11 Time of possession 28 Trojans not looking past Irish individual statistics Michigan RUSHING Art Yds Avg Lng TD Hoard 23 158 6.9 30 2 Boies 19 103 5.4 18 0 Bunch 4 20 5.0 9 0 Kolesar 1 9 9.0 9 0 Brown 4 -14 1 0 PASSING Brown Alt Cmp Vds TD kit 17 11 223 2 0 RECEIVING Hoard AAcMurtry Kolesar Boles No.

4 3 3 1 Yds Lng TD 17 15 0 93 57 1 95 41 1 18 IB 0 PUNTING Gillette No. Yds Avg Lng BLK 3 106 35.3 37 0 PUNT RET. Kolesar No. Yds Avg Lng TD 1 11 11.0 11 0 KICKOFF RET. No.

Yds Lng TD WOLVERINES, from Page ID ticed him from the press box, head down and pacing on the Cameron put in a call to the field. "Get up!" Cameron shouted. "Get up! Don't worry, you'll get another chance." Yeah, sure. But Kolesar believed. He took the.

kickoff 59 yards, and caught a 41-yard touchdown pass on the second play of the drive. Kolesar covered the entire 100 yards himself. "Kolesar is a game-breaking guy," U-M coach Bo Schembechler said. "He made two big plays to win it. That was wild.

Believe me, it was wild." Flanker Chris Calloway was wide-, open underneath on a shorter route, but Brown elected to go for broke after he was pressured out of the pocket. "I tried to put a lot of zest on the throw," Brown said. "It fluttered a little. I almost had a heart attack until I saw he had it." Kolesar, a 6-footer who jumped center at Westlake (Ohio) High, went up between defensive backs Zack Du-, mas and David Brown to make the catch in the end zone. "That was my second resolve," said Kolesar, noting the kickoff blunder and dropped touchdown he made up for.

Last year, he also dropped a scoring pass against Ohio State in a 23-20 loss. Somewhat lost in the moment was Brown, who completed 1 1 of 17 passes for 223 yards and two touchdowns. The rushing efforts of Leroy Hoard (158 yards) and Tony Boles (103) also were key. Greg Frey completed 14 of 29 for 192 yards in leading the Buckeyes' comeback. Carlos Snow carried 25 times for a career-best 170 yards.

-The game was a tale of two halves. The Buckeyes scored the first four times they had the ball in the second half, moving ahead on a 14-yard touchdown pass from Frey to Bobby Olive, and pushing the lead to 24-20 on a 21-; yard field goal by Pat O'Morrow. Ohio State didn't move into U-M territory until its first drive of the second half. The Buckeyes drove 70 yards in seven plays on the first possession after halftime, scoring on a four-yard run by Snow. Matlock scored an 11-yard touchdown, his first of the season, on Ohio State's next drive, turning a blowout into a competitive game.

U-M's lead was 20-14 at that point. What did coach John Cooper do at halftime, recruit a new team? "The only thing I tried to do was get them fired up," Cooper said. "Michigan probably let up a little bit." The Wolverines led, 20-0, at the half, scoring on two of the most dra-. matic plays of the season. Brown completed a 57-yard touchdown pass into the wind to Greg McMurtry in the first quarter.

McMurtry split the zone coverage of. Mark Pelini and Vince Clark, catching the ball near the goal line. It was the longest U-M completion since Brown and McMurtry hooked up for a 62-yard touchdown last year at Minnesota. Mike Gillette moved into second place on the Big Ten's career field goal (56) and scoring (303) lists, kicking 22- and 56-yarders in the first half. Gillette broke his own school record (53 yards against Iowa in 1986) with his 56-yarder on the final play of the half.

He missed a 37-yarder in the first quarter, breaking his string of 11 straight. His 51-yarder in the second half hit the crossbar. Hoard broke three tackles on his 18-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. He had run for an apparent 13-yard touchdown on the prior play, only to have it called back on an illegal-procedure call. WOODY VS.

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We couldn't stop them because they were good." MESSNER RECORD: Messner made three tackles for losses despite playing on an injured ankle. He sat out Tuesday's practice. Messner broke the single-season U-M record of 23 tackles for losses held by Curtis Greer (1979) and Mike Hammerstein (1985), now totalling 25 for minus-99 yards. Interception Record: The wolverines have thrown two interceptions and could break the school record for fewest thrown (four in 1972) set in Dennis Franklin's first year as quarterback. They have 112 straight passes without an interception.

A Season Sans Zigcy: No Big Ten coach was fired during the season, and none is leaning over the cliff entering the offseason. The last year without a pink slip in the conference was 1984. ROLLER-COASTER RIDE: The Buckeyes beat Syracuse, 26-9, in week one. Then Ohio State lost its second game to Pittsburgh, 42-10. Then it beat Louisiana State, 36-33, the following week.

Stomach feeling queasy yet? The game after that upset, Illinois beat the Buckeyes, 31-12. It was pretty much all downhill after that. NOTEBOOK: U-M had its highest point total since a 58-6 win over OSU in 1946. The Wolverines have won five of their last seven at Ohio Stadium. John Cooper is the first Ohio State coach since Woody Hayes (1951) to lose his first game against U-M.

He continues to be haunted by season-ending games. Cooper was 0-2-1 against arch-rival Arizona while at Arizona State. OSU gave up a school-record 283 points this season. The Wolverines hold a '34-33-3 edge over the Buckeyes in their last 70 meetings. keep the crowd around and compound the traffic jam around the stadium as twilight draped itself over Pasadena.

For those who are neutral and are counting, the head-to-head meeting between Peete and Aikman did little to resolve the Heisman issue. Aikman threw more often, for a better percentage, and for more touchdowns, but his team still lost. Peete who might deserve the Purple Heart more than the Heisman completed 16 of 28 for 189 yards and a touchdown; Aikman completed a school record 32 of 48 for 317 yards and two touchdowns and had one intercepted. But if coaches' comments count for anything and as often as not, they don't Peete may have eliminated Aikman as a viable Heisman candidate. "If that wasn't a Heisman Trophy effort," USC coach Larry Smith said of Peete's performance, "I don't know what is.

I think that's one of the greatest efforts I've ever seen." And, surprisingly perhaps, UCLA's Terry Donahue didn't disagree. "I'm very pleased with the way Troy Aikman played, but when we lose, Troy Aikman loses." The Trojans came into the game the stingiest team in the nation against the run, allowing just 67.6 rushing yards a game. And UCLA managed just 73 on the ground, eventually all but abandoning the effort. So this morning, USC has one objective behind it and another Notre Dame ahead. Michigan? In the aftermath of Saturday's win, in the euphoria and the sweat and the joy of the USC locker room, the name was not even mentioned.

Big ten CONFERENCE PF PA OVERALL PF PA Mtetiioan Mich. SI. Hinols Indiana Iowa Purdue Ohio St. N'weslern Wisconsin Minnesota 0 1 273 94 1 I in 76 2 1 177 140 3 0 257 142 I 3 213 141 5 0 76 221 5 1 157 199 5 1 137 234 1 339 153 1 242 143 1 235 229 1 362 225 3 313 205 0 124 303 1 229 283 1 192 350 7 0 72 241 1 6 2 120 183 2 0 1M 314 7 2 195 245 'clinched conference tme SATURDAY'S RESULTS Hinols 14, Northwestern 9 Indiana 52, Purdue 7 Iowa 31, Minnesota 22 Michigan 34, Ohio State 31 Michigan Stale 36, Wisconsin 0 cats quarterback Greg Bradshaw, working from the lllinl 24, hit tight end Bob Grlswold with a fourth-down pass near the goal line, but the ball popped loose and Brownlow grabbed It. Illinois Improved to 6-4-1 overall, and officials of the All American Bowl extended an Invitation to the lllinl to play Florida Dec.

29 at Birmingham, At. Illinois finished 5-2-1 in the Big Ten. Northwestern closed at 2-8-1. 2-5-1. a MITCH ALBOM, from Page ID In other words, the perfect game for John Kolesar.

fUl is an Ohio kid. Did you know that? Grew up in Westlake, a couple hours north of this campus. As a boy, he visited the big, gray Ohio stadium fli "The Horseshoe" they call it and he loved it and he fantasized about playing here. After all, an Ohio kid plays for Ohio State with a few exceptions. John Kolesar was an exception.

His father had gone to Michigan. So much for Ohio State. "A Buckeye by birth, but maize and blue in my blood," Kolesar sang with a huge smile, all teeth showing, in the U-M locker room afterwards. His hair was still wet from the shower. His tie was knotted around his neck.

But there was a Rose Bowl pin on his lapel, and down the bench, a teammate was pretending to put a championship ring on a make-believe Michigan State player (the Spartans would have tied for the Big Ten championship had U-M lost Saturday), then he pulled it away and squealed, "Oooh! Sorry! We'll take that! Haha!" "It's a fairy tale," Kolesar admitted of Saturday's final minutes, "this game, my senior year, last series, unbelievable. This tops everything." Which, as we said, is saying something because there are big-play guys and there are big-play guys, and then there is John Kolesar. This is the kid who, as a freshman, caught the 77-yard touchdown pass from Jim Har-baugh to beat Ohio State. The kid who, as a junior, caught the winning touchdown with 50 seconds to go (another leap over a defender) to beat Alabama in the Hall of Fame Bowl. He is bombs-away on kickoff returns, bombs-away on punt returns, bombs-away on reverses, post patterns and end-zone leaps.

Big play? Kolesar ought to have "Highlight Film" stitched on the back of his jersey. ut Saturday. Well. How can you top this? How many yards did John Kolesar account for on Michigan's final drive? Try 100 yards. One end of the field to the other.

"Earlier in the game, a kick bounced off my body and out of bounds. I couldn't believe it. Then I dropped a touchdown pass in the end zone. So, I had some resolve to take care of," he said. And here is how he did it: The Buckeyes had marched through a suddenly inept Michigan defense for the fifth consecutive time, they had scored touchdown to go ahead, 31-27, with just over two minutes left in the game.

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Graham 5 38 7.6 21 0 Hicks 2 12 6.0 12 0 Frey 4 4 1.0 6 0 i PASSING Alt Cmp Yds TD kit Frey 29 14 192 1 1 i RECEIVING No. Yds Lng TD Hicks 4 37 11 0 1 EHis 4 51 17 0 Qllve 3 59 27 II 1 16 18 0 1 Snow 1 22 22 0 i. Graham 1 5 5 0 "PUNTING No. Yds Avg Lng Bowman 5 167 33.4 45 KICKOFF RET. No Yds Lng TD Snow 4 60 17 0 Bryant 2 55 29 0 "TACKLES Solo Ast Sckyds Total 'Craig 2 10 00 12 Thomas 2 8 00 10 I J.

Sullivan 0 9 00 9 Demas 2 6 00 8 Peel 3 5 00 1 somehow, he came down with it, Touchdown. One hundred yards. In 25 seconds. And that's counting hang time. In the stands, his father, Bill, was so excited he began to kiss everybody around him.

On the field, the U-M players mobbed Kolesar, grateful for one more crack at winning this thing. True, it would take a Marc Spencer interception with 29 seconds left to truly ice the game. And the excellent running of Leroy Hoard and Tony Boles provided the majority of U-M's offense. But big plays win big games. And without Kolesar's kickoff and catch, the Buckeyes would have already been celebrating.

"I never reafly got to play in an Ohio State game here," said Kolesar, who was injured when the Wolverines were here in 1986. "To do it in my senior year was really special and who would have believed this? 34-31? Usually Michigan-Ohio State games are 9-3 or 14-10." Times change. And then again, maybe they don't. Michigan wins the Big Ten title outright, it goes to the Rose Bowl with no asterisks, while Ohio State goes home for the holidays. Yet somehow, thanks to the inspired Buckeyes' second half and Kolesar's last-second heroics, the sanctity of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry is preserved.

Good. It would be, well, almost unseemly for this game to be less than dramatic. Tradition, whenever possible, should be honored. And it was honored Saturday. By a kid who grew up in Ohio and played in Michigan and helped win the game with the most memorable 100 yards we have seen in a long time.

And in the final glorious moment, he was thinking of "Practice, I really was," he said, smiling again. "I know it sounds weird. But that was what was on my mind. I was so glad we had done it in practice." Sure. You know what practice makes.

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We weren't even down when they got the first points on that field goal." The first three times the Bruins threatened, they settled for field goals by Alfredo Velasco. The first three times the Trojans threatened, they got what they came after: Touchdowns. Emanuel, who missed six weeks of the season his right ankle was injured in a 23-7 win over Oklahoma in September, scored the first touchdown on a four-yard run; Peete passed 29 yards to split end Erik Affholter for the second; and then Peete sneaked over from one yard out and, with 3:25 left in the half, the Trojans led, 21-9. UCLA spent the rest of the afternoon nipping at USC's heels, a harmless but relentless puppy. The Bruins pulled to within 21-16 by halftime, on a 10-yard pass to Reggie Moore from Troy Aikman, who is locked in a Heisman Trophy battle with Peete and Oklahoma State running back Barry Sanders.

And after USC widened that to 31-16 with a three-yard touchdown run by Emanuel and a 21-yard field goal by Quin Rodriguez, Aikman made the final score appear respectable by hitting flanker Brendan McCracken with a 26-yard touchdown pass just 1:51 before the final gun. But those brief rallies only served to Boilermakers Boilermakers freshman quarterback Brian Fox had three passes intercepted. Two were picked off in the second quarter by Brian Dewitz. Iowa 31, MlnnMOta 22: Mike Saunders ran lor 123 yards and three one-yard touchdowns, Including the go-ahead score with 2:05 left In the third quarter, sending visiting Iowa Into the Peach Bowl with a victory In the Big Ten finale. Iowa (6-3-3, 4-1-3) formally accepted the Invitation to the Dec.

31 bowl at Atlanta. The Hawkeyes, who will face North Carolina State, will be making a post-season appearance for the eighth straight year. Minnesota (2-7-2, 0-6-2) suffered Its fifth winless Big Ten season in 89 years of conference play. The Gophers were 0-9 In 1983, 0-6 In 1920, 0-2 in 1908 and 0-1-1 In 1907. Illinois 14, NorthwMlarn 9: Illinois linebacker Darrick Brownlow recovered a Northwestern fumble near the goal line In the closing seconds, preserving a Big Ten victory for the All American Bowl-bound lllinl Host Illinois scored two first-quarter touchdowns, but Its offense slumped and Northwestern rallied with three goals by Ira Adler, then tried unsuccessfully tor a game-winning touchdown.

WHd- Hoosiers pound Free Press Wire Reports West Lafayette, ind. Junior Anthony Thompson broke Indiana's career rushing record Saturday, running 25 times for 167 yards and three touchdowns, as the Hoosiers crushed error-plagued Purdue, 52-7, in their season-ending Big Ten game. It was Indiana's highest point total against Purdue and its biggest margin of victory in the series that began in 1891. The Hoosiers (5-3 Big Ten, 7-3-1) received a bid to face South Carolina in the Liberty Bowl Dec. 28 at Memphis, Tenn.

Purdue finished 3-5, 4-7. Thompson raised his career total to 3,366 yards, breaking the Indiana record of 3,257 set by Mike Harkrader in 1976-80. Thompson also increased his school career scoring record to 246 points and his season rushing record to 1,546 yards. Indiana turned five of six Purdue 'turnovers in the half into points..