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Big 10 Add League Games Schedules time that 8 conference games have been slated for a Big Ten member on an over-all basis, Minnesota played eight confer- ence games in 1957 when no limit was imposed, Reed said the NCAA at its next convention will consider CHICAGO (AP) Big Ten athletic directors Wednesday adopted conference football schedules for 1981 and 1982 calling for each member to play eight league games within an over-all 10-game slate. In schedules already drafted through 1980, the conference program calls for a minimum of seven conference games in a 10-game season. Commissioner Bill Reed said the move 11 years hence was not aimed at a full round-robin conference schedule. "Basically, the feeling for the change was that an extra conference game was as attractive as almost any non-conference game," Reed said. Although this will be the first LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN ham.

Standing, Red Mackey the tentative agenda is the on Rose Bowl games. (UPI of Purdue. Among items on controversial no-repeat rule Telephoto) MEETING OF THE MINDS Big Ten Conference athletic directors opened their winter meeting in Chicago Wednesday. Seated, from left are Illinois' Gene Vance, conference commissioner Bill Reed and Michigan's Don Can- Saturday Rival Falls, 82-71 an 11-game over all season, but the Big Ten would not necessarily follow in adopting an extra game to still permit, three extra nonconference games in the 1981-82 league framework. He said that within the 1981-82 setup some Big Ten schools, mainly Northwestern and Indiana, may play a ninth conference, game.

Future commit-m are such that those schools could play that many conference contests. The Big Ten in 1958 voted to formulate a full round-robin football schedule developing between 1965 and 1969, but in 1962 voted to drop this progression toward round-robin competition. MAY DISCUSS RULE The hot item on the agenda of winter meetings, reconsideration of the controversial Rose Bowl no-repeat rule, may come up this afternoon in a joint meeting of the athletic directors and faculty representatives. The joint session also will consider a double round-robin schedule for basketball which would be contained in a 26-game over-all card. However, Reed said that because of present schedule commitments this could not become effective before the 1972-73 season.

Presently, the conference plays a 14-game league pro-. gram within a 24-game schedule. Athletic Directors put over to the March meeting a recommendation by football coaches that traveling squads be increased from 44 to 50 players. The conference eligibility committee certified three athletes for an extra year of competition as hardship cases due to injuries. They were Phil Seymour, star football end, and trackman Phil Pyatt, both of Michigan, and split-end Gordon Bowdell of Michigan State.

Too Much State as U-ML 73 68 to oses Dec. 11,1969 with 18 points. Vander Woude was right behind with 17. Dixon had only three. MEANS ENCOURAGED "We were encouraged about our performance at Detroit," Means, a former Michigan State player and assistant coach for one year at State under the late John Benington, commented this morning.

"We have better balanced scoring than last year, and we are playing better defense, too." Last year forward-center Gene Ford dominated the scoring for Western, hitting 620 points for a 25.8 average. He had graduated. Another bright spot against Detroit was the play of Vander Woude. The former Grand Rapids junior missed all last, year because of illness. He scored 17 points Wednesday "Michigan shouldn't get time outs, they should get pit stops," he quipped.

"We were getting cold on the bench from the breeze with the way they (U-M players) were running back and forth." PLAYED WELL "They've played real well and I'm proud of them," Orr said. "I'm looking forward to Jan. 3. That's when our Big Ten season opens (at Northwestern)," he said. Duke led virtually the entire first half, but U-M slowly narrowed what had been a seven-point deficit to go to the locker room tied 32-32 at halftime.

By BOB HOERNER State Journal Sports Editor For one of the few times this season, Michigan State's basketball team will not be at a great height disadvantage Saturday when the Spartans play at Western Michigan. Coach Sonny Means' Broncos also lack front-line height. Western's height problem showed Wednesday night when it lost at 82-71 decision to the University of Detroit at Detroit Detroit grabbed 50 rebounds to Western's 35 to win its first game in three starts. The loss dropped the Broncos to 1-2. Western's starting front line will have 6-4 Leroy Dixon and 6-5 Bill VanderWoude at the forwards and 6-7 Earl Jenkins at the pivot.

Jenkins paced the Broncos against the Titans 1 lob xioerner TO The Wolverines surged back at the start of the second half, flying to an 11-point lead in the first six minutes primarily on the fine outside shooting of substitute guard Rick Blood-worth. But Michigan hit a cold spell, getting just five points in the next five minutes. Duke playmaker Dick DeVenzio, a 5-foot-10 junior guard, set up several plays with his fine ball-handling and let Denton keep hooking in baskets. DeVenzio, who finished with 15 points, got six of the last eight Duke points as the Blue Devils held out to win. Teammate Rick Katherman tallied 16 points while for Michigan, who have lost last four games.

three' of their MAINTAIN LEAD Jean Ratelle scored a pair of power-play goals for the Rangers, who maintained their four-point lead over Montreal in the East Division. Boston dropped to third, six points off the pace. Bobby Orr scored for the Bruins while they were short-handed in the second period, but Ron Stewart retaliated less than four minutes later while New York was killing a penalty and this proved to be the decisive goal for the Rangers. Montreal, trailing 3-2 after two periods, scored four times Surging North Stars Feast on NHL East Here's First All-Bible 'IV Duke Zone By LARRY PALADINO ANN ARBOR (AP) Michigan has lost three of its first five games but hustle and teamwork have turned the Wolverines into a much tougher team than most experts had predicted. The Wolverines, who upset previously eighth-ranked Marquette Monday 86-78, found Duke's zone defense tough to penetrate and fell 73-68 to the Blue Devils Wednesday night.

PUT UP FIGHT But Michigan put up a good battle, leading by 11 points early in the second half before 6-foot-10 junior Randy Denton took charge. He put Duke ahead 58-57 with 6:17 left with his oft-used hook shot and the Blue Devils stayed on top the rest of the way. Denton was high scorer for both teams, pumping in 27 points. U-M ace Rudy Tomjan-ovich, who had a 28-point average at gametime, and Richard "Bird" Carter both had 20 for the Wolverines. "Everybody thought they (most opponents) would romp over us this year," said U-M coach Johnny Orr.

"Nobody's done that." Michigan beat the University of Detroit 85-75 in the season opener, then fell by one point to Notre Dame 87-86, and by six to Davidson 91-85. Notre Dame is rated 10th and Davidson fourth by the Associated Press. TOP CONDITION One of the reasons the Wolverines have done so well under the circumstances is their superb physical condition. Monday Marquette coach Al McGuire said, "Michigan is in great condition." Wednesday Duke coach Bucky Waters added to that praise. i Climbs Tomjanovich Fifth In Career Scoring At Michigan ANN ARBOR (AP) Rudy Tomjanovich, Michigan's 6-foot 7 basketball scoring ace, passed the level of his three-year career when he scored 20 points in U-M's 73-68 loss to Duke Wednesday night.

The rangy forward from Hamtramck now has 1,218 points, putting him fifth on the all-time Wolverine list. Cazzie Russell, now playing with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, tops the list with 2,164 points. Behind him are the late Bill Buntin, John Tidwell and Dennis Stewart. SECTION 3 Tall night to give Western four in double-figures. TRAIL BY POINT Western was down only by a point, 40-39, at halftime against Detroit and finally pulled even at 69-69.

With just more than a minute to play, Detroit led by three, 74-71. Detroit closed out by scoring the final eight points of the game. Spartan coach Gus Ganakas, who replaced Means on the MSU staff when Sonny took the Western job, is not sure of his starting lineup. "Although our players are taking final examinations this week and it doesn't help our practices, we are trying several different combinations," Gus said after Wednesday's drill. Ganakas has indicated at least two lineup changes.

SOPH MOVES IN Sophomore Ron Gutkowski is expected to take over one of the forward spots, probably replacing Bob Gale, and Rudy Benjamin, who has hit only three of 25 shots in the opening two games, probably will not start at guard. Ganakas is not sure who will take Benjamin's starting assignment. Senior Lloyd Ward is almost sure to start at one guard post with Paul Dean, Tim Bograkos and sophomore Pat Miller all candidates for the other position. The Spartan coach has also been toying with the idea of moving outstanding sophomore Ralph Simpson to the back-court. If he does this, Miller is a possible starter at a forward along with Gutkowski and pivot Jim Gibbons.

GUARD AS PREP The 6-5 Simpson was a guard all through high school, but was moved to the front-line this year because of his height. Gibbons and Gutkowski are both 6-6. Miller is 6-3. The game at Western Saturday night will be the first of eight straight on the road for the Spartans. Next week they play at Butler University in Indianapolis and then swing out to Salt Lake City for a two-g a tournament.

Between Christmas and New Year's they will be at Portland, for the Far West tourney. State opens its Big Ten schedule on Jan. 3 at Indiana. The next "home" game is against Northwestern on Jan. 10.

WESTERN MICH DETROIT vwoude Dixon Jenkins Volkert Hull Clark 8 1-3 17 Moore 1 1-1 3 Funnell 7 4-4 18 Peake-6 5-5 17 Jackson 6 2-5 14 Russell 1 0-0 2 DeSilva Caluchia Klassen 19 13-18 71 Totals 9 7-12 25 2 1-3 5 6 0-1 12 7 3-5 17 3 3-5 9 4 0-18 1 0-0 2 2 0-0 4 34 14-27 82 40 3171 Totals Western Mich. Detroit 3 43 Fouled out western, Jenkins. uarK. Total fouls Detroit 14. Western 21.

A 2.887 Maxwell Club Selects Reid And Gabriel PHILADELPHIA (AP) All-America tackle Mike Reid of Penn State has been named the Maxwell Club choice as the No. 1 college football player of 1969, it was announced Wednesday. In addition to disclosing its choice for college football player of the year, the Maxwell Club also disclosed it had selected Roman Gabriel, quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams as the outstanding pro of 1969. Reid and Gabriel will be honored by the club at its annual dinner here Jan. 19.

Reid, a native of Altoona, is a 6-foot-3 lineman described by his coach, Joe Pa-terno, as the best defensive tackle in the country. Tl oriflv Tfnm tSUWd J. Kill 1 1 ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) Ben Becker, an Albany high school principal, was named Wednesday to head the American boxing team that will compete against a Soviet team in Russia on Feb. 5 at the 11 Olympic weights.

Michigan Trying to Catch Up ANN ARBOR (AP) Michigan's football team has had three weeks to bask in the glory of its 24-12 upset of Ohio State, but now it has some catching up to do if it expects to bask in some more glory with a Rose Bowl victory. The Wolverines opened a four-day, full-equipment practice schedule Wednesday at Michigan Stadium. FLEX MUSCLES "We're just trying to get back what we lost during that layoff," said coach Bo Schem-bechler. "I really don't know how much we've lost," he added. "This is the first bowl game I've ever been in.

But I know this: Every player gained about five pounds during the past couple weeks and we're going to have to work that off." Michigan faces Southern California in the Rose Bowl Jan. The Wolverines leave for Pasadena Dec. 18 and will finish their workouts there. They only have four practice days at Ann Arbor due to a rule limiting full dress workouts to 16 before the bowl. EXAMS UPCOMING Final exams begin Monday so no practices can be held from then until after U-M arrives in California.

Wednesday the team worked considerably on its passing game, something that Schem-bechler relied on only sporadically during the season. Basically, he's a "three yards and a cloud of dust" type coach who utilizes a strong running game-. Saturday's final practice is expected to be the toughest of the four and it's possible there will be a By United Press International Wren Blair couldn't be happier about being wrong. Asked recently how long it would be before the expansion West Division reached parity with the East in the National Hockey League, the general manager-coach of the Minnesota North Stars replied: "Three or four years." Since their boss uttered that statement, the Stars have played five consecutive East Division foes and now owns a five-game unbeaten string. Their latest coup came Wednesday night when they set a club scoring record by blasting the Chicago Black Hawks, 8-5.

STREAK HITS 14 The New York Rangers stretched their unbeaten skein to 14 games by beating the Boston Bruins, 5-2, and in other league action Wednesday night the Montreal Canadiens snapped a two-game losing streak by overhauling the To-, ronto Maple Leafs, 6-3; the St. Louis Blues gained a 3-3 tie against the Oakland Seals and the Pittsburgh Penguins blanked the Los Angeles Kings, 2-0. Bill Goldsworthy scored two goals within an 11-second span of the third period for Minnesota to break a 5-5 tie and Claude LaRose countered 2:06 later to establish a team mark for the fastest three goals. Their splurge has carried them into second place in the West, five points behind St. Louis.

Eric Nesterenko scored two goals for the Black Hawks, Bloodworm popped in 12 and Rodney Ford added 11. Tomjanovich's first basket of the night gave the 6-foot-7 senior 1,200 career points, putting him in an elite group with four others who have scored as much. DUKE Ktrman Blckman Denton Evans DeVnzio Saunders Posen MICHIGAN 7 2-3 16Tomvich 6 8-10 20 2 12 0-1 4 Carter 8 4-5 3-3 27 Ford 0-2 2 Fife 4 3-4 II 2 0-1 4 0 04 6 0-0 12 0 1-2 1 0 0-0 0 0 0-0 0 H-22 a 32 4173 32 3448 lan 13. 1 5 5-5 15 Henry 3 3-4 1 Bldwrm 0 0-0 0 Framan Haywrd Hart 30 13-18 73 Totals Totals Duke Michigan Total fouls Duke 14, Fouled out None. Attendance 8.643.

in the final session to turn back the Maple Leafs. Yvan Cour-noyer tied the socre at 5:26 of the period and Jacques Le-maure followed less than two minutes later with the winner. Seree Savard had two goals for the Canadiens and Claude Provost notched his 250th career goal into an empty net with six seconds remaining. Red Berenson scored two goals for the Bfues the third period to give them their tie against Oakland and Jean Pronovost tallied the only two Pittsburgh goals in the final period at Los Angeles. Penguin goalie Les Binkley turned aside 20 shots in registering his second shutout of the season.

1958 and has a 92-88 won-lost record in the majors. He was used primarily in relief last year and is expected to join Twins' ace reliever Ron Perranoski, a southpaw, in the Minnesota bullpen. Uhlaender, 29, is a speedy, lefthanded hitter who lost his center field job to Cesar Tovar last season. He batted .273 with eight homers and 62 runs batted in with the Western division champs last year. He had his best season the previous year when he batted .283.

The 25-year-old Nettles is a promising power hitter but appeared in only 96 games as a rookie with the Twins last season. He batted .222 with seven homers and 26 RBIs. Brown AFL's Coach of Year NEW YORK (AP) Venerable Paul Brown, whose precocious Cincinnati Bengals became giant killers while still in the cradle, has been named the American Football League's Coach of the Year. The 61-year-old sultan of the old Cleveland Browns dynasty, who came out of retirement last year to father Cincinnati's AFL expansion club, beat out Oakland's John Madden, Kansas City's Hank Stram and Boston's Clive Rush in the an- "USl CaCh Year PU conducted by The Associated i-ress. Brown, marking his 35th year as a coach with stunning victories over Oakland and Kansas City, the league's juggernauts, received 12 votes, to nine for runnerup Madden, first-year pilot of the powerful Raiders.

Twins, Indians Make Four-f or-Two Trade I receive some interesting mail at tines. Here's a letter I thought you might enjoy. It's from the Chris-tus Gardens in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The football season ends this month, and it's time to pick All-American, All-Conference, and all-everything else football teams. Here's a new one.

The first All-Bible football team has just been announced. It's made up entirely of characters from Biblical history, all selected because their physical and mental qualities, as well as their character traits, qualify them in much the same way gridiron heroes of today qualify for All-American or All-Conference honors. Goliath, for instance, was selected for the position of right tackle. "He was 10M feet tall and the champion of the Philistine Army," explained officials of the Gardens. "Anybody that size could be an asset both on offense and defense." Team Not a Joke The selection of the All-Bible team, they hasten to add, is not a joke.

It's a dramatic, contemporary way in which the Gardens hopes to help acquaint young people of today with the people of the Bible. The hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world who have viewed the Gardens' three dimensional presentation of scenes from the life of Christ during the past decade have included many Sunday school classes and groups of young people actively engaged in Bible study. "We think that selection of an All-Bible football team is one more way in which we may help young people learn about the characters in the Bible, by personifying their qualities of leadership, wisdom, courage and strength of character, as well as physical strength, and in some cases cunning and shrewdness," officials of Christus Gardens said. "Nowhere are all these human qualities better illustrated than in the pages of the Old Testament and the New Testament," they pointed out. Those named to the team, with the reasons for their selection, are the following: Solomon Calls Signals Quarterback: Solomon.

This was a close race with David because of the latter's ability to throw (as illustrated when he slew Goliath with a sling shot), but it was felt that nowhere could there be one better qualified to call signals than the man gener-allv recognized as the wisest in history. Left halfback: David. It was felt that the leadership ability of David, his strength and courage as a warrior qualified him for a backfield position, from which he could also throw passes when called upon to do so. Right halfback: Judas. Ability to fool the opposition is important on a football team, and Judas was as two-faced as anybody around.

Fullback: John the Baptist, an agressive personality who moved through frequently hostile surroundings to preach the coming of Jesus, had many of the qualities that a good fullback should possess. Right Guard: Moses. On offense, a guard often pulls out of the line and leads interference, and Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, even parting the waters of the Red Sea on the way. Think what a blocker he would make. Right tackle: Goliath, whose qualities have already been dis-cussed.

Right end: Paul, who covered a great deal of territory as the greatest missionary in the New Testament, would make an excellent end, because of his ability to get downfield. Left guard: Jonathan, a strapping warrior who fought valiantly in the battles against the Philistines, would have made a good left guard, because of his physical ability as well as team spirit When his father, Saul, tried to put him to death, his loyal troops prevented it by threatening to mutiny. Samson at Tackle MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL (AP) The Minnesota Twins announced today a major four-for-two player trade, involving pitchers Dean Chance of the Twins and Luis Tiant of the Cleveland Indians. Tiant and Stan Williams, another right-hander, go to the Twins in exchange for Chance, outfielder Ted Uhlaender, in-fielder-outfielder Graig Nettles and a player to be named later.

Both Tiant and Chance had off-years in 1969, but rank among the top right-handers in the American league. Chance, 28, was bothered by a sore shoulder in 1969, pitching only 77 innings. He had a 5-4 record and a 2.97 earned run average. He had a 20-14 record and a 2.73 ERA in 1967, his first year with the Twins. He came up to the majors in 1961 with the California Angels and was the Cy Young award winner in 1964 when he posted a 20-9 record and an ERA of 1.65.

Tiant, 29, broke in with the Indians in 1964. His best year was in 1968 when he had a 21-9 won-loss record and led the league with a 1.60 ERA. Tiant slumped to a 9-20 mark last year and had a 3.71 ERA. He has a 75-64 career record in the majors, while Chance is 115-100. Williams, 33, came up with the Los Angeles Dodgers in TT'l-l TT Killer No.L WASHINGTON (AP) Harmon Killebrew, the Minnesota Twins' slugger who led the major leagues with 49 home runs and 140 RBI last season, Wednesday was named the AL Player of the Year by the Washington baseball writers.

Left tackle: Samson, considered the strongest man in history. His final act of pushing down the pillars in the tem ple attests to his ability to blast open a hole for the ball earner. Left end: Anak, not so well known as the rest of the team, rtotrAkolocc rrinl ont Viic- toll clihira cUnU him naa llcvciuitio a oiiu iito laii otaiui 0111U114 luauJ uuu as a pass receiver. Center: -Peter. His name itself attests to his strength and Jesus himself said that "on this rock" would he build his church.

Most of these same characters could play defense as well as offense, but a candidate for a defensive linebacker might be Joseph, who achieved some distinction by interpreting the dreams of Pharoah of Egypt. He would undoubtedly have the ability to interpret each play before it took place. ZEROING IN Earl Ingarfield, No. 7, of Oakland prepares to drive the puck past St. Louis' goalie Ernie Wakely in first period of NHL game Wednesday night at Oakland.

Ingarfield scored twice, but so did Red Berenson of St. Louts in a 3-3 deadlock. (UPI Telephoto).