Mike Phipps

THE BACK: Mike Phipps, the latest—and perhaps the greatest—of Purdue's line of passers (Dale Samuels, Len Dawson, Bob Griese), threw for a two-point conversion—his 13th straight completion—to beat Stanford 36-35.

UP THE IRISH!Sirs:Dan Jenkins' article on the Notre Dame-Purdue game (Leroy on the Loose, Oct. 7) is at best irrelevant and pointless and at worst tasteless and disgusting.

Those were the instructions on the Ohio State blackboard, and the Buckeyes followed them perfectly as they locked up Leroy Keyes, held shocked Purdue scoreless and avenged Woody Hayes