Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 Oct 1966, p. 29

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In 3-3 Tie at Wisconsin Tubbs Likes to Bang People ... and He Did By LARRY DENNIS Sports Editor A position switch made by Alex Agase almost two years ago probably salvaged Northwestern's 3-3 football tie at Wisconsin Saturday. Bob Tubbs was a sophomore offensive halfback with an injured knee when Wildcat head coach Agase asked him to try out the next spring for a defensive end position where manpower was in short supply. "We needed ends, and he and John McCambridge came through," was the way Agase explained it. "He's been great ever since we made that move." Tubbs, now a 6-1, 218-pound senior, ran with the ball a lot as a halfback and fullback at North Chicago High School, where he picked up all-conference and allChicago area honors. But defense gets his vote since he changed over. "I love it now," he said after the Wisconsin battle. "I wouldn't trade for anything in the world. You get to hit people here." Hitting people was what Tubbs was doing Saturday. Four times, for example, he threw Badger ballcarriers for losses totaling 19 yards. He was one of the kingpins in a Wildcat defense which performed with astounding effectiveness for a unit which has been shattered by injuries this year. A Lot of Checkers "We've been playing an awful lot of checkers with our defense," Agase admitted after the game. For this one, he and his staff made the right moves. Wisconsin netted just 74 rushing yards on a mucky field and in a chill wind which kept both offenses from getting untracked. Northwestern got solid efforts from all its defenders. The particular standouts up front, besides Tubbs, were linebackers John Cornell and Al Koranda and middle guard Justin Ramp. Cornell, a sophomore and a semirookie at his position, was in on 11 tackles. Koranda, who has been in and out of the spot all season, was in on 17, nine of them solo, and he threw runners for losses three times. Ramp was playing his first game at middle guard in place of Walt Geister, who was switched to tackle to favor an ailing ankle. Justin, a 215-pound senior, responded with 10 tackles, four of which slammed Badgers backwards a total of 16 yards. "Ramp played a beautiful game," Agase enthused afterward. Never was Northwestern's defense better than midway through the faintest of smiles. "Our defense played one of the finest games I've seen in a long time," Agase said. "They played inspired ball. They denied them. When they made them go for the field goal, I was proud of them. I thought they'd go in for a touchdown." Perhaps more important than any of the up-front defenders Saturday was halfback Phil Clark. Wisconsin picked up 103 yards passing, but it was no fault of Phil's. He limited Tom McCauley, the Badger's ace receiver, to just two receptions, and he knocked down six other passes during the afternoon. He's All-Big Ten "If you don't put Clark on your all-Big Ten team, you might as well not pick one," Agase growled to BOB TUBBS attending writers in the locker He likes it here . room. Northwestern, now 1-3-1 for the season and still winless in the Big Ten, needed all the help it could get from the defense. Fullback Bob McKelvey and halfbacks Woody Campbell, Chico Kurzawski, and Larry Gates rushed for 145 yards, but three days of rain had left Camp Randall Stadium no place for a sustained march. "The times we had holes, we couldn't get to them," Campbell explained. The Wildcats did have a chance to win late in the contest when a fourth-down fumble on a punt try gave them the ball on Wisconsin's 27 and they punched it to the 11. But Emmerich's field goal try from the 17 squibbed a bit wide to the left with two minutes remaining. Northwestern tried only nine passes, completing just two, and JUSTIN RAMP Denny Boothe handled the quarterA smashing debut. . . back chores for starter Bill Melzer after the first quarter. the final quarter. The Wildcats "Melzer (from Clintonville, Wis.) were protecting a 3-0 lead gained was maybe a little too keyed up for on Dick Emmerich's 33-yard field this game in front of his home-state goal late in the first half when fans," Agase said. "He wasn't Wisconsin took advantage of a key nearly as relaxed for this game as screen pass and of a Northwestern he was last week and will be in the penalty and bolted to a first down future." on the three-yard line. Although the statistics don't show He Taught a Lesson it, Northwestern was the dominant "We knew what their tendencies team in a dull punting contest were," said Tubbs. "A drive off marred by 12 fumbles, nine of them tackle and a drive sweep. And by Wisconsin. But it was just no day for touchdowns. that's what they did." Some time ago, Agase had joked Tubbs, a social studies major who is aiming for a teaching career that "a tie is better than kissing if the pros don't beckon first, your brother." Saturday, he didn't think it was, promptly outlined an object lesson at all. in antisocial behavior. He helped stack up Wisconsin fullback Wayne Todd at the 2. Ramsey and Coyne next nailed Picture, Page 30 Todd for a half-yard loss. Then halfback Bob Fenske tried Tubbs' end again. Bob submarined through RESIDENTIAL LOT to hit him, got help from Koranda, WANTED Ramp, and Bruce Gunstra, a twoway performer, and jammed the W i l l pay cash for De Luxe v a c a n t ! play for no gain. lot suitable for building home in I That's when Tom Schinke came one of the following suburbs: in to boot the field goal from the 9 Northfield, Glencoe, Winnetka, which tied everything up. W i l m e t t e or Highland Park. 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Muddy Boots Wisconsin 11 74 103 10-22 0 10-40.7 50 0 0 - 3 0 3 - 3 Statistics Northwestern 8 First downs 145 Rushing yardage U Passing yardage 2-9 Passes 0 Passes intercepted by 11-37.3 Punts 35 Yards penalized Northwestern Wisconsin JOE JACOBS CHEVROLET 435 Green Bay Rd. AL 1-5400 How They Scored SECOND QUARTER NU - Emmerich, field goad, 33 FOURTH QUARTER WU - Schinke, field goal, 1» 3-0 (1:40) 3-3 (8:22) October 20, 1966 29

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