Sport: Toppling Favorites

After an agonizing 20-19 defeat by Notre Dame last year, Michigan State's new Coach "Duffy" Daugherty went to the opponents' dressing room and faced Notre Dame's new Coach Terry Brennan. "Next year," said Daugherty, "we'll beat your brains out."

Next year came last week for Duffy Daugherty's Spartans. The 50,000-seat stadium at East Lansing, Mich, had been sold out since spring. Daugherty, 40, the onetime Syracuse lineman who succeeded M.S.U. Head Coach "Biggie" Munn last year, had obviously put together a powerful team. Michigan State had lost only one game, a one-touchdown defeat by...

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