Football's Week

But GEORGIA TECH, Tennessee's next opponent, had a fright before it pulled ahead of Clemson 13-12. The Tigers, muscling up to the home team with unexpected vigor, had Tech 6-0 early in the third quarter as Quarterback Jimmy Addison tormented them with his quick, accurate passes and darting runs. Then Lenny Snow got going. He scored on an eight-yard run, and Bunky Henry kicked the extra point. Snow zigzagged 40 yards for another touchdown in the last period, and Georgia Tech held on to win. It was enough to get Frank Howard's goat. "Ain't it hell to play the kind of game we played and get beat?" he asked bitterly. "And I can't say the best team won."

Vanderbilt somehow turned tough for FLORIDA, but Steve Spurrier's two scoring passes and a stubborn goal-line defense was good for a 13-0 Gator victory. LSU, with injured Nelson Stokley prowling the sidelines like a wounded tiger, had its hands full with Miami. But little sophomore Fred Haynes, 5 feet 9 and 165 pounds, who ran the ball 21 times for 51 yards, and a fierce late pass defense saved the Tigers. They won 10-8. KENTUCKY beat uninspired Auburn 17-7, MISSISSIPPI STATE thumped Richmond 20-0, but GEORGIA had a time with South Carolina. Quarterback Kirby Moore's six-yard roll-out with five minutes to play caught the Gamecocks 7-0.

Duke's Tom Harp figured the only way to stop Virginia's Bob Davis was to keep the ball away from him—which is what the Blue Devils did. Fullback Jay Calabrese scored twice, and Duke won 27-8. NORTH CAROLINA STATE finally won one, over Wake Forest 15-12, and VIRGINIA TECH rallied to tie WEST VIRGINIA 13-13.

THE MIDWEST

1. NOTRE DAME (2-0)
2. MICHIGAN STATE (3-0)
3. NEBRASKA (3-0)

Michigan State should have had a breeze against Illinois. Losers of their first two games, the Mini had also lost their good power halfback, Cyril Pinder, out for the season with a knee operation. So Coach Pete Elliott decided to improvise. He went to wider formations with more passing and put a man in motion to draw out the State linebackers. Coach Duffy Daugherty countered with a 4-4-2-1 "prevent" defense, and Bubba Smith and his aggressive friends held Illinois to 17 yards rushing. Illinois' defense, however, was almost as good. It stopped Clinton Jones and Bob Apisa but resourceful Michigan State found other ways to win. Dwight Lee scored from 10 yards out, 220-pound Guard Pat Gallinagh, after taking a lateral from End Phil Hoag—who had picked off a fumble in midair—rumbled 40 yards for another score, Jimmy Raye ran three yards and sophomore AI Brenner returned a punt 95 yards. The Spartans won 26-10, but Daugherty was unhappy. "They forced us into mistakes," he complained.

Northwestern had a few little twitches ready for NOTRE DAME, too, like a zone defense against long passes, man-to-man on short ones and boxing defensive ends instead of blitzing linebackers. But none of these stopped sophomores Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour. Hanratty completed 14 of 22 passes for 202 yards, Seymour caught nine, and Nick Eddy's 56-yard run got the Irish off to a 35-7 victory. "Better than last year," was Alex Agase's appraisal.

It was a hard week for the Big Ten. WASHINGTON, beaten by Air Force a week earlier, lit into Ohio State from the start and never let up until they had upset the Bucks 38-22. Don Moore, a stumpy halfback, and Fullback Jeff Jordan, who scored three times, led a 413-yard ground parade and even Woody Hayes was impressed. "That Moore," he said wistfully, "he's got a low wheelbase. We had quite a few hits at him but couldn't bring him down."

North Carolina found a Michigan weakness at the tackles and exploited it for all it was worth to win 21-7. Quarterback Danny Talbott—when he was not passing for 80 yards—led the assault and a tight pass defense clamped down hard on Michigan's Dick Vidmer and Jack Clancy, his favorite receiver. Minnesota got it, too; from KANSAS, of all teams, 16-14. In a conference game, WISCONSIN edged Iowa 7-0.

Only PURDUE had it easy, against SMU. So easy that Coach Jack Mollenkopf even took the heat off Bob Griese and experimented with halfback passes. Jim Finley threw one to Jim Beirne for a touchdown and sophomore Fullback Perry Williams scored four times on short plunges as Purdue coasted home 35-23.