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Page 8B Bryan College Station Eagle Sunday September 13 1987 Notre Dame shocks No 9 Michigan 26 7 MIDWEST ROUNDUP was a miserable start but this will surprise you: I believe have a good football Schembech ler said Braxton Banks scored on a 1 yard dive freshman Ricky Watters on an 18 yard run and Ted Gradel kicked field goals of 44 and 38 yards as the 16th ranked Irish silenced a partisan crowd of 106098 sixth largest ever in giant Michigan Stadium was a gratifying Holz said not surprised with how well we played because I really felt that defensively we were going to play awfully awfully well gotten better teams making turnovers that should have made a difference in the Holtz said get rid of those mistakes too good of a coach not It was the first time Schembechler had lost a home opener since taking 1 over the Wolverines in 1969 break 1 ing a 17 0 1 string His only other opening defeat was at Wisconsin 21 Demetrius Brown starting his first game after the graduation of All American quarterback Jim Har baugh tossed a 12 yard TD pass to Greg McMurtry for only score Brown finished with 4 completions in 15 attempts for 54 yards and three interceptions each of which led to Irish scores Michael Taylor came on Insalaco then kicked a 42 yard field goal to make it 17 0 with 2:39 left in the third quarter Ohio St 24 Virginia 3 COLUMBUS Ohio William White in tercepted three passes and returned one for a touchdown as No 5 Ohio State forced eight turnovers in a 24 3 victory over West Virginia Ohio State opening its 96th football nutes 18 seconds of play as West Virginia cepted once West Virginia meeting Ohio State for the first time In 84 years dropped to 1 1 or the game West Virginia quarter backs Major Harris and Mike Timko com pleted 6 of 22 passes with six intercep tions In addition the Mountaineers lost fumbles the first two times they touched Linebacker Chris Spielman had two in terceptions for Ohio State and Greg Rogan had one west John Talley fumbled the opening kickoff leading to a 47 yard field goal by Buckeye placekicker Matt rantz AB Brown of West Virginia then fum bled on the first play from scrimmage af ter the ensuing kickoff and three plays later Jaymes Bryant scored on a 7 yard run extra point kick made it 10 0 Two possessions later Ohio State By The Associated Press ANN ARBOR Mich Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz can hardly wait for the next chapter of the Terry Andrysiak story had a lot of qualms about Andrysiak up until about 13 days Holtz said Saturday after the senior quarterback led the Irish to a 26 7 victory over ninth ranked Michigan found out that we we 14 in 1981 ren on tne same page we weren even in the same book But I feel coirifortable with him Andrysiak completed 1 1 of 15 pas ses for 137 yards including an 11 yard touchdown toss to All American flanker Tim Brown and 16th ranked Notre Dame turned four of seven Michigan turnovers into scores story of the game was tur Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler said recall a Michigan team doing that for In fact it was the most turnovers since the Wolverines gave the ball to Minnesota seven times in 1960 was so untypical of LOUISVILLE Ky Halfback Alan McKinney rushed for 147 yards and one touchdown and the Cincinnati defense forced five turnovers as the Bearcats de feated Louisville 25 0 Both teams are now 1 1 The turning point in the game came early in the second half when Louisville fullback Rodney Knighton fumbled a pitch from quarterback Jay Gruden on the Cincinnati 1 yard line and the Bear cats recovered Cincinnati took over on its 5 and drove to the Louisville 25 before stalling Phil made it 17 0 on a 23 yard pass from quar terback Tom Tupa to wide receiver Everett Ross West only points came on a 27 yard field goal by Charlie Baumann early in the third quarter Wisconsin 28 Hawaii 7 MADISON Wis tailback Mar vin Artley rushed for 120 yards and two touchdowns as Wisconsin defeated Hawaii 28 7 in Don debut as the Badgers' football coach Artley ran one yard for the go ahead touchdown capping an 88 yard drive in the second quarter and then tacked on a 9 yard scoring run in the final period for the Badgers Wisconsin's defense did the rest shut ting out the Rainbow Warriors 1 1 after Hawaii took an early 7 0 lead Wisconsin led 13 7 at the half and went 79 yards on a gamble filled 17 play drive in the third quarter The Badgers gambled on a fourth and one at their own 31 as quarterback Bud Keyes sneaked for a first down Artley broke loose for a 25 yard run and Wiscon sin moved to the Rainbow Warrior 3 But after a fourth down offside penalty on Hawaii Morton pulled his field goal team out of the game and sophomore tailback red Owens ran In for a 1 yard touch down Wisconsin took a 13 7 halftime lead by turning two Rainbow Warrior turnovers into second quarter scores Minnesota 24 Iowa 7 Darrell Thompson who led the Big Ten in rushing last year as a freshman quashed any thought of a sophomore jinx by rushing for 156 yards and three touchdowns and carrying Min nesota to a 24 7 season opening non conference victory over Northern Iowa Quarterback Alan Holt successfully directed Minnesota's option offense in place of Rickey oggie who was sus pended for the first two games for accepting a loan from an assistant coach and not being up front with NCAA investi gators when asked about the violation While whocarried the ball 99 timaft In 91X mmrara eAArad am 6Jlm first two possessions Northern sosson took a 10 0 lead in the first 2 mi Iaihm 4 nilTAft iKeAAAnO nieu ae UUast Panthers quarterback Mike Smith who the ball twice and was Inter est year tea uivtsion i aa in passing etfi a viwiivy iiiicnf ior omy naiT yarcs midway in the fourth quarter and Backup Kevin Willard passed for 112 tounn quaner in' i 1 yard dive threw another interception and lost yards and led UNI on a fourth another fumhle touchdown drive that ended ii anomer rumoie Boyds djve I not here to say the quarter backs played Schembechler Cincinnati 25 Louisville 0 said These quarterbacks are better than they looked Both are fine Sooners 56 12 lliil Barna rocks Penn St Sam Houston St falls 52 48 conference victory Saturday over Larsson SOUTH ROUNDUP NO 1 EAST ROUNDUP TEXAS COLLEGES race by UNC Maine 31 Massachusetts 14 AMHERST Mass Mike Buck passed for 347 yards and two touchdowns Satur day enroute to a 31 14 Yankee Confer ence upset of Massachusetts the first time ever that the Black Bears have won in football at Amherst The victory for Maine 1 14 1 at Amherst gave first year coach Tim Mur phy a 2 0 mark on the eeason It was Massachusetts' opener Holy Cross 34 Army 24 WEST POINT NY Senior fullback Tom Kelleher ran for three touchdowns and junior quarterback Jeff Wiley threw for two more scores as defending Colo nial League champion Holy Cross with He lofted a 65 yard scoring bomb to Darren lutie to break a 7 7 tie in the third quarter and the Eagles went on to a 28 7 victory over Temple Rhode Island 26 Delaware 13 KINGSTON Rl Rhode Island quar terback Paul Ghilani tossed three touch down passes to tight end Brian orster as the Rams beat Delaware 26 13 in Yankee Conference play Rhode Island is 1 1 while it was Dela ware's opener Sophomore safety Mark Rinehart scored for MSU on a 94 yard kickoff return and a 23 yard interception re turn He also had an apparent 74 yard touchdown on a fumble return nulli William Mary 27 Navy 12 ANNAPOLIS Md William Mary scored the first time it got the ball on a 12 yard run by fullback Larry Black and spurted to a 27 0 lead in the second quar ter on the way to a 27 12 victory over Navy The loss spoiled the debut of new Navy Coach Elliot Uzelac and the wishbone attack he installed when he arrived at the academy last winter The Midshipmen got a first down the first time they got the ball but get another one until late in the first half when they drove 80 yards for a touch down Boston College 28 Temple 7 NEWTON The pass Mike Pow er nearly didn't throw sparked Boston College to its longest winning streak in 45 years NTSU is 1 1 for the year and 1 0 in SLC play while Southwest Texas fell to 0 2 and 0 1 Lamar 39 Illinois 35 DE KALB III Burton Murchison 1 yard run with six minutes left capped a fourth quarter comeback by Lamar in a 39 35 victory over Northern Illinois in nonconference football The victory spoiled NIU'shome opener before 22184 home fans Lamar improved its record to although NlU rolled up a total of 484 yards to 343 for the Cardinals Tarleton St 16 Howard Payne 6 men a yara i pass tram Lewis to Keith Willis with 4:58 left Montana winning drive took only 63 seconds and covered 67 NORMAN Okla (AP) Two records were established in top ranked 28 0 victory over North Carolina on Saturday One pleased Sooner Coach Barry Switzer very much but the other brought a frown to his face Quarterback Jamelle Holieway raced for 170 yards and four touch downs in the victory Both were per sonal highs for the junior quarterback from Carson Calif Switzer praised Holieway per formance but he was not happy ab out a school record 19 penalties assessed the Sooners for 125 lost yards way too he said had all kinds of penalties facemask procedure holding so there is not one thing to work on part of football but our penalties are The Tar Heels held the Sooners a to scoreless tie in the first quarter but Holieway directed wish bone offense to a 2 1 point outburst in the second quarter wore them Switzer said think they got tired especial ly in the second quarter North Caro lina is a good football team but we played well in the second quarter played well at quarter back carried the football well and he can play Overall Switzer said he pleased with the Sooner effort did not play to our full poten tial We were a little ragged espe cially in the fourth North Carolina Coach Dick Crum was asked if Oklahoma which im proved to 2 0 looked like a No 1 team know I played many No 1 teams They certainly executed their offense very well They have a good arsenal and a lot of Crum said Holieway scored on runs of 3 4 and 1 yards before the half and tacked on another 1 yard touchdown run in the third quarter as Oklahoma went on top 28 0 He averaged almost 7 yards on 25 carries Oklahoma finished with 462 yards total offense 405 on the ground ullback Lydell Carr gained 95 yards on 14 carries for the Sooners North Carolina had 203 yards total offense Maye hit on 1 6 of 35 passes for 168 yards He had one pass inter cepted LSU passes by Titans By The Associated Press STATE COLLEGE Pa? Tail back Bobby Humphrey ran 73 yards for the first touchdown and set up another score with a 57 yard halfback pass to pace No 19 Alaba ma to a 24 1 3 college football victory over No 1 1 Penn State snapping the defending national 13 game winning streak Humphrey who rushed 36 times for 220 yards put Alabama ahead 6 0 with his first period touchdown run After a 46 yard field goal by Philip Doyle made it 9 0 Humphrey faked a run and threw to Clay Whitehurst who carried the ball to the Nittany Lion 2 yard line before being shoved out of bounds David Smith scored from the one to cap the 89 yard 10 play drive that gave Alabama a 17 0 lead Penn State 1 1 cut it to 17 7 with 1 1 3 left in the first half on a 2 1 yard pass from second string quarterback Tom Bill to Ray Roundtree ending a yaiu uiivc Alabama 2 0 under first year Coach Bill Curry boosted its advan tage to 24 7 by going 58 yards in nine plays in the fourth quarter Hum phrey ran seven times for 45 yards in the drive which ended with Bo 10 yard scoring run Matt Knizner's 60 yard pass to Roundtree accounted for the other Penn State score with 6:05 to play Pittsburgh 34 Carolina St 0 PITTSBURGH Craig Heyward ran for two short range touch downs in the first five minutes of play fol lowing North Carolina State turnovers as I8th ranked Pittsburgh routed the Wolf pack 34 0 Pitt improves to 2 Oand avenges a 14 14 tie with NC State last season North Carolina State a 32 14 upset los er to East Carolina in its opener fell to 0 2 Pitt is nationally ranked for the first time in four years Colgate 31 Bucknell 28 HAMILTON After missing three extra point attempts freshman Rory Crump kicked a 26 yard field goal with 1:27 left to give Colgate a 31 28 come from behind victory over Bucknell in Col onial League action The win evens Colgate's record at 1 1 while Bucknell is 0 1 Auburn 49 Kansas 0 AUBURN Ala Quarterback Jeff Bur ger passed for 185 yards and two touch downs as fourth ranked Auburn bui It up a 28 0 lead in the first quarter on the way to a 49 0 rout of the Kansas Jayhawks Auburn of the Southeastern Confer ence won its second game in two starts while Kansas of the Big Eight picked up where it left off last year when it was outscored 118 0 in its final two games Burger guided the Tigers to touch downs on their first three possessions reddy Weygand returned a punt 69 yards forthe fourth touchdown of the first quar ter and Reggie Ware scored from the 6 to make it 35 0 with less than a minute gone in the second quarter The Auburn defense shut down the Kansas running game limiting the Jayhawks to 31 yards on 16 rushes and didn't give up a first down until the clos ing moments of the first half Kentucky 41 Utah St 0 LEXINGTON Ky Mark Higgs and Dee Smith scored two touchdowns apiece in the first half to spark Kentucky to a 35 0 lead and the Wildcats went on to a 41 0 season opening victory over Utah Higgs who finished with 158yards on 11 carries raced 85 yards off right tackle to give Kentucky a 7 0 lead with 11 :44 left in the first quarter He scored from 13 yards out with 6:19 remaining in the half to in crease the margin to 28 0 Smith a sophomore wideout scored on a 6 yard run around left end with 5:51 left in the first quarter for a 14 0 advan tage He broke a 64 yard punt return with 14:40 to go in the half for a 21 0 lead for the Southeastern Conference team lorida 52 Tulsa 0 GAINESVILLE la reshman Emmitt Smith ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns as lorida rebounded from a poor season opening performance and buried Tulsa 52 0 before a rain soaked crowd of 72172 at lorida ield The Gators coming off a 31 4 loss to Miami broke the game open in the second quarter when Smith scored on a 66 yard run and the lorida defense held pass oriented offense to just one first down Smith one of the nation's top recruits after rushing for 8804 yards and 106 touchdowns at PensacolaEscambia High School also scored on a 1 yard run dur ing the 21 point second quarter He posted the first 100 yard game of his college career on 10 carries Clemson 22 Virginia Tech 10 BLACKSBURG Va Wesley Mcad den rushed for 226 yards and two touch downs as 10th ranked Clemson beat Vir ginia Tech 22 10 The 200 pound sophomore tailback carried 21 times and scored on runs of 89 and 44 yards in the second half to defeat Hokie Coach rank Beamer in his first game at Virginia Tech before an announced crowd of 42000 in rain drenched Lane Stadium Virginia Tech's only touchdown came on a 92 yard kickoff return by freshman flanker Jon Jeffries with 10:05 left in the game Throughout the game Virginia Tech re peatedly failed to capitalize on good field position and quarterback Erik Chapman threw two interceptions and lost a fumble at the Clemson 22 yard line In the third quarter Tennessee 38 Mississippi St 10 STARKVILLE Miss Redshirt fresh man tailback Reggie Cobb scored three touchdowns and Tennessee quarterback Jeff rancis exploited the green Missis sippi State secondary as the 14th ranked Vols scored a 38 10 victory in a South and 1 vard in the ooen Ina oerlod and1 added a 3 yard TD burst In the second quarter Quarterback James Jackson fired a 36ard scoring strike to freshman tailback Rodney Hampton for the other score Tate equaled the Geoftjia school re cord with a 9 yard scoring run 7:25 into the third period when he got his fourth TD Tate a senior from Indianapolis also had a four touchdown game last season In matching the record held by several others AP photo OU quarterback Jamelle Holieway gets loose from NC linebacker Antonio Goss for a big gainer yards in 151ossto Anderson scored on a 39 yard punt Long ucach state finished 13 of 22 for 336 yards His other scoring pas ses were 75 yards to Grace and 49 yards to Jerrod Watson Sherwin also scored on a 4 yard run stood the potent Army wishbone and Rosteda 34 24 victory over the Cadets at lichie Stadium in the season opener for both teams The Crusaders who rol led up 369 yards on offense outscored Army 27 3 in the first half exposing cracks in the young defense Syracuse 20 Rutgers 3 PISCATAWAY NJ Syracuse quar terback Don McPherson threw a touch down pass and set school marks for career completions and attempts as the Orangemen defeated Rutgers 20 3 spoil ing the Scarlet home opener McPherson hit his first five passes and capped an opening 76 yard march by the Orangemen by connecting with wide re ceiver Tommy Kane on a 20 yard pass in the left corner of the end zone Tim Vesling kicked field goals of 24 and 45 yards and reserve tailback Michael Owens added a 22 yard TD run in the fourth quarter as Syracuse improved its record to 2 0 McPherson who hit 14 of 21 passes for 131 yards now has completed 259 of 500 passes at Syracuse breaking the mark of 9ml dfl9 oat Ku TaH klArfu 1QOO IIVIM IJUL hing back Harold Green rushed for a career high 104 yards as South Carolina defeated Western Carolina 31 6 Two of Ellis' TD passes came in the final 4:04 of the first half as the Gamecocks grabbed a 21 0 halftime lead at rain drenched Williams Brice Stadium where one day earlier Pope John Paul II spoke during his hour visit to the state's capital Carolina is 2 0 and Carolina 0 2 the two point conversion Prairie View 13 Texas St 20 Stephen Austin 13 SW Texas St 3 Nacogdoches victor Pegram DENTON Reserve quarterback Scott touchdown luVln' to lead North Texas Stale to a 20 3 victory Richard Graves' 42 yard field aoal over Southwest Texas State in Southland attempt for Stephen Austin with 10 Conference football play seconds to go in the game went wide second longest in Seminole history be hind Larry 97 yard run against Vir ginia Tech in 1976 rushing total fell short of Greg school record of 322 set in 1961 against Western Carolina Smith also ran for 205 yards as a freshman in last sea An American Bowl Carolina 31 Carolina 6 COLUMBIA SC Sophomore Todd Ellis threw three touchdowns and run By The Associated Press BATON ROUGE La Deter mined to stop Louisiana run ning game ullerton State left the door open for a Tiger aerial attack LSU Coach Mike Archer said The sixth ranked Tigers responded with a 56 12 victory Saturday night that featured a passing assault of 353 yards and five touchdown passes Sophomore Tom Hodson com pleted 1 1 of 13 passes for 230 yards and three touchdowns before he left the game in the third quarter Wide receiver Wendell Davis favorite target also left late in the third quarter after catching eight passes for 151 yards and a touchdown dared us to run the foot ball and they were determined to take away the running Archer said a result our passing game worked extremely well just executed well Hodson said offensive line did a great job of protecting me and the wide receivers did a great job of get ting Titan Coach Gene Murphy said his team improved on offense but fensively realistic never seen anyone like LSU We tried to control them We were pretty successful but we get the sixes and sevens on the board instead of those ullerton State was limited to four first half field goals of 49 42 4 1 and 32 yards by junior Stan Lambert After Hodson sat down sopho more Mickey Hendry passed for another touchdown reshman Saul Graves in his first collegiate appear ance threw a 7 1 yard scoring pass to sophomore wide receiver Slip Wat kins who caught the first pass of his career The Tigers also scored on a pair of 1 yard runs by fullback Victor Jones and a 6 yard run by tailback Harvey Williams Titan quarterback Ronnie Barber gave the Tiger defense problems in the first half with his mobility hitting 14 of 20 completions for 109 yards before halftime He ended the night with 18 of 30 for 1 18 yards as LSU shut him down in the second half The Tigers who used six running backs were paced by 38 yards on five carries and Guidry who rushed three times for 31 yards ullerton top rusher was Tracey Pierce who picked up 39 yards on 10 carries LSU which opened the season with a 17 3 win over Texas improved its record to 2 0 ullerton State which lost 44 0 to Hawaii in its opener dropped to 0 2 Duke 31 Northwestern 16 DURHAM NC Sophomore tailback Roger Boone rushed for 112 yards and a touchdown and Steve Slayden passed for more than 200 yards for the 12th time in his career as Duke claimed a31 16 victory over Northwestern Stanley Monk added a pair of short touchdown runs and placekicker Doug Peterson ran his string of consecutive field goals to 10 with a 37 vard kick in the second quarter as the Blue Devils 2 0 remained unbeaten under first year coach Steve Spurrier Slayden completed 18 of 35 passes for 269 yards one touchdown and four in terceptions It was the second highest passing yardage total In Slayden's career falling yards shy of his career best set In 1984 against North Carolina lorida St 44 Carolina 3 GREENVI LLE NC Reserve running back Sammie Smith rushed for 244 yards the second highest total in school his tory to lead No 8 lorida State to a 44 3 victory over East Carolina Smith a sophomore who sat out last season opener against Texas haAoi 1AA nf a ftnrflined knee rushed for 166 yards in the seednd quarter His running attack moved to a 28 7 halttime yard pass from Sherwin to Joel Grace aQMard Arnrina run in the oer Od was the lead as Tate scored on runs of 2fi wards second longest in Seminole history be and 1 yard In the opening period rounn aown play that gavethe split end Kelvin Kelley on a 4 yard Dvocais a iirsi ana goai ai me yara wucnoown pass ana nix Keney again tor uornc wnilA Virlnr Llanrv conra1 ah tha fwnnAint rnnuareinn By The Associated Press BOZEMAN Mont Kellv ZM I 1 zl I eastern Conference opener In the televised SEC game of the the game an 8 yarder to split end Pat week Tennessee 3 0 ended a three Bergman with 41 seconds left lifted game losing streak against State and Montana State tn a 48 nnn picked up its eighth straight victory over 3lae 10 a 32 4non two seasons State fell to 1 1 conference victory Saturday over Cobb scored on runs of 23 and 9 wards Qam Umictan Ctot and added athird touchdown on a 39 yard Sam Houston which trailed 45 35 fled by a controversial inadvertent re pass reception from rancis Cobb 42 wmen traueo whictu yard gainer on a screen pass set up a entering the final period went ahead 1CI5? 'msue fourth quarter Vol touchdown 48 45 on a 29 yard scoring run by The Bobcats also got field goals of Georgia 41 Oregon State 7 senior quarterback Reggie Lewis and 29 27 and 21 yards from Anders 9 than Av I L3TSSOI1 ATHENS Ga Georgia tailback Lars Tate rushed for 132 yards and a school record tying four touchdowns to power the 20th ranked Bulldogs to a41 7 victory vvvi vioyun uioiu 1 Georgia 2 0 mixing up its passing and yards six plays It included a 35 nainime yara nass from Sherwin tn Inel I irare lege to a 26 13 victory over Trinity Quarterback Dean Gilbert completed 10 of 15 passes for 133 yards and another touchdown as Austin evened Its record to 1 1 Jeff Coleman added a 44 yard scor ing run Duke Johnston had a 1 yard touchdown for Trinity 0 1 Angelo St 14 Texas Southern 7 HOUSTON Junior Bell rusher! for ms or Sam Houston State now and quarterback Mickey Russell i paaovw iur urw lOUGnaown oaiUraaV Lewis also threw a 34 yard scoring night as Angelo State edged Texas BROWNWOOD Safety Craig Han pass to Middleton or the day Southern 14 7 cock's 75 yard run on an intercepted pass lwic cnmnleted 17 nf 78 naccec rr Angelo State used field goals of 29 and Tarleton State to a 16 6 victory over lewis completed 1 ot 28 passes ior 43 yards from Russell Goshhorn to build a Howard Payne 290 yards 6 0 halftime lead They made it 14 0 In the Tarleton kicker Mike Myers scored Tailback Luther Turner scored for third period when Goshhorn hooked up nld goals to round out their i witn spilt end Kelvin Kelley on a 4 vard uuwaio a luaroiiu Euoi 41 UIC yaiu jinc yards while Victor Henry scored on Sherwin who passed for only 17 retu and BillV a AnriarcAn cnArari IO mm return Austin Col 26 Trinity 13 SHERMAN Running back Wayne Coleman ran for 103 yards including a 75 yard touchdown to lead Austin Col JIWNKgl "MV 'U a mil SOUTH ROUNDUP NO 1 EAST ROUNDUP TEXAS COLLEGES.

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