Berry Tramel

Tulsa World Sports Columnist

For two good reasons, Rick Leach took off scrambling late in the second quarter of the 1975-season Orange Bowl.

One, he was good at it. Leach was a superb athlete. He was a four-year starting quarterback at Michigan, then played 10 Major League Baseball seasons, with 1,719 at-bats.

Second, self-preservation. The Wolverines were having a devil of a time blocking the Oklahoma defense that night in Miami. Running for Leach’s life seemed to be the Michigan gameplan, and it even paid off a couple of times, with scrambles of 16 and 12 yards.

But not on this particular play. OU cornerback Jerry Anderson honed in on Leach and hit him with a very 1975 play.

Anderson, maybe the hardest hitter in Sooner football history, played rough. Rough for 1975, wh

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