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N.D. OFFENSE STUMBLES UV 20-13 LOSS Irish ississippi Rebels? Upsets 'were significant. But, not as significant as the outcome. Before facing Purdue at West Lafayette, next Saturday, the Irish must rebuild their offense. The line must fire out quicker.

Quarterback Rusty Lisch has to improve. Defensively, the veteran secondary, which gave up 194 yards to Ole Miss, must tighten up. By JOHN BANSCH Assistant Sports Editor Jackson, Miss. Bang the gong on Notre Dame's football team. Once considered a strong challenger for the national championship, the Irish stumbled, bumbled and finally fell, 20-13, to Mississippi Saturday on a stifling, oppressive afternoon.

With the temperature near 90 and the humidity almost as high, Notre Dame's performance was almost as unbearable as the weather to the Irish faithful. The 14-point underdog Rebels pulled out the victory in the final three and a half minutes. They were partly responsible. So was Notre Dame. James Storey's juggling, reaching catch of a wobbly 10-yard Tim Ellis pass with 3:28 remaining put Ole Miss ahead, 17-13.

Nearly two minutes later, Hoppy Langley drilled a 27-yard field goal to seal the verdict which leveled the losers' record at 1-1. HERE IN THE FINAL bastion of the Old South, the strands of Dixie played long into the night and thousands of Confederate flags were waved in celebration of one of the Rebels' greatest victories. Until the final minutes, it appeared Notre Dame might pull this one out, even though it didn't really play that well. Dave Reeve's 45- and 28-yard field goals first lifted the Irish into a 10-10 fourth-period deadlock, then shoved them NOTRE DAME needed just one play to nail the lid on its defeat. Jerome Heavens fumbled at the Irish 14 on a screen pass and it was recovered by Ole Miss.

"Three plays netted a yard, so Langley kicked his second field goal for the final points. It was the same situation in the first half as Ole Miss grabbed a 10-7 intermission lead a bomb, a Storey TD reception and a Langley field goal. The three-pointer was a 29-yarder with 5:54 remaining in the first quarter, Storey's scoring catch came 32 seconds prior to the break. It was a 10-yard play, with the big back hauling in the football at the 8 and going the final yards unmolested. Lefty Bobby Garner was the thrower.

The bomb was a 51-yard Garner to Roy Coleman maneuver the latter catching the ball with Luther Bradley hanging on his back at the Irish 22. It was three plays later Storey scored. NOTRE DAME'S sputtering offense generated seven first half points on Heavens' 2-yard run with 2:44 remaining before intermission. The Irish needed eight plays to go 26 yards for the lone TD after Jim Browner intercepted a Garner pass. In the final 30 minutes, Notre Dame netted just 88 yards 48 by the air and 40 on the ground.

In addition, the Irish turned the ball over twice on interceptions, once on a fumble and had a Joe Restic punt blocked. The losers made just four first downs in the second half all in the final period, and, three of those came in the push from the Ole Miss 45 which resulted in Reeve's second field goal for the short-lived 13-10 lead. Irish Coach Dan Devine wouldn't blame the heat for the loss. While many of the record crowd of 48,200 remained in the stands cheering the Rebels, a somber Devine said, "The heat was the same on both sides of the field. I think it affected our players somewhat, but that's part of playing an 11-game schedule.

We didn't come in here overconfident. I don't think we played poorly. We weren't as physically strong as I thought we would be." Notre Dame lost two defensive players with injuries Willie Fry (hand) and tackle Mike Calhoun. Those mishaps on top with. 4: 53 remaining as the men of Dan Devine struggled from behind.

But, it didn't take Ellis long to change the tune. A THIRD-STRING quarterback because he can throw well but can't run the option, Ellis needed just five plays to put the Rebels in the end zone. After missing on his first pass from the Ole Miss 20, Ellis drilled a 10-yarder to Curtis Weathere. Next came the most damaging play of the day for the Irish. Ellis flipped a pass over the middle to L.Q.

Smith at the Ole Miss 35. He cut to his left, headed up field, cut once more to his left as Irish defenders closed in, reached midfield in a hurry, then cut right, left and right before being hauled down at the N.D. 23. On the next play, Storey ripped through the left side of the Rebels' line for 13 yards. Now, it was time for the clincher.

Ellis rolled right, lofted a wobbly pass over the outstretched hands of Irish end Ross Browner and Storey reached back for the football at the 2-yard line. He juggled it, then pulled it into his body as he stepped into the end zone. Section 2 The Indianapolis Star Financial SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1977 Dime 0 7 0 413 Mist 3 7 0 10-20 Miss FG Langley 29 NO Heavens 2 run (Reave kick) Miss Storey 10 pass from Garner (Langley kick) ND FG Reave 44 ND FG Reave 28 Miss Slorev 10 pass from Ellis (Langlev kick) Miss FG Langley 27 A 46.200 Damt Miss First Downs 19 17 Rushes-Yards 40-147 53-157 Passing yards 127 194 Return yards .84 93 Passes 11-25-2 11-20-2 Punts 5-31 3-26 Fumbles-lost 6-3 4-3 Penalties-yards 6-65 4 S4 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Notre Dame: Heavens 16-70; Eurictc 651; Oraini 4-21; Ferguson 10-15; Liscti 4-minus 10. Olt Miss: Perry 9-45; Garner 12-39; Richards 11-39; Storey B-22; Williams 6-20; Price 2-8; Gordon 2-7; Gordon 2-7; 1 1 is 1-minus Coates 1-minus Lear 1-minus 12. RECEIVING Notre Dame: McAfee 6-59; Wavmer 2-22; Heavens 2-16; Dickerson 1-20.

Ole Miss: Coleman 1- 51; Smitn 1-48; Weathers 4-31; Fabris 2-29; Storey 2- 19; Kimbrough 1-15. PASSING Notre Dame: List! 11-25-2, 127 yards. Ole Miss: Garner 7-13-2. 119; Ellis 3-4-0, 68; Lear 1-2-4, Coleman 0-1-0, 0. MUCH OF THE CREDIT must go to Arnett, who came back from a poor effort against Wisconsin to pass for 148 yards on ll-of-18 flinging.

He also was a master in running the option with Burnett and Enis. His favorite receiver was Calvin, who hauled in seven passes for 141 yards including a magnificent reception from quarterback Bret DeVault good for 46 yards when Arnett was nursing leg cramps. Calvin also ran under a 52-yard fling from Arnett in the first quarter. Enis and fullback Tony D'Orazio bolstered the running attack with 64 and 62 yards, respectively. See I.U., Page 3 Rally 4I1I-PERWD SVUGE TRIPS LSV, 24-21 Indiana Forgets Wounds ate unn it, i i fit r.s- TvV a i football today." said happy Hoosier head man Lee Corso.

"We really wanted to win and showed some outstanding football ability in the clutch. I think that when they stopped us at the goal line, they might have gone to sleep a little bit because they thought they were going to win. "I figured what the hell, we'd just keep on smokin' and maybe get lucky. We haven't had much luck lately maybe God evened things up." There was certainly nothing lucky, however, about the way the Hoosiers moved the football. Their 476 yards total offense was the highest Crimson total since 1969 and 10th best in the team's history.

mmMm i I 4W -1 i 'J Ohio Bombed Is mr errinann By MAX STULTZ Star Sportswriter West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue freshman quarterback Mark Herrmann crushed Ohio University's Bobcats Saturday afternoon under a football that weighed only 13 ounces. ROAD ENDS Indiana linebacker Joe Norman (39) moves in to (35) hauls down Louisiana State quarterback Steve Saturday's college Ensminger (5) while Hoosier defender Dave Stewart Wirephoto) By BILL BENNER Star Sportswriter Bloomington, Ind. Indiana's Walking (as in Wounded) Hoosiers bandaged their respect and threw a sling around a victory Saturday. Minus a half-dozen preseason starters and a host of other second-line personnel, the Hoosiers stormed from behind with two fourth-quarter touchdowns to surprise Louisiana State, 24-21, and send the Tigers back to Cajun Country still searching for their first victory outside Louisiana since 1973.

Thwarted four times deep in LSU territory by its own failings and a tough Tiger defense, Indiana finally put it together in the final 15 minutes with a mix-em-up offense that had LSU guessing and a slim Memorial Stadium turnout of 30,067 roaring. HAVING HAD THEIR previous thrust stopped inches short of the goal line, the Hoosiers scored both times they touched the football in the concluding chapter on picture-book drives of 88 and 70 yards. The final and decisive strike came with just 2:33 left in the contest when Ric Enis, shifted to tailback for this encounter, took a pitch from quarterback 'Scott Arnett, cut inside and breezed 11 yards for the touchdown. Kicker David Freud's third placement to go along with a 22-yard field goal in the first quarter ended the scoring. Thus the Hoosiers evened their young season count at 1-1 and relegated last week's bitter loss to Wisconsin to bad memory status.

IT WAS THE OPENER for Charlie McClendon's Southeastern conference squad; which entered the contest a 10-point favorite. And the points looked good as the contest moved toward itsjifinish, particularly after LSU stopped the Hoosiers just shy of the alumni stripe late in the third period. But the I. U. defense answered the much-needed call and the offense said thank you by putting the winning points on the board coming from behind for the second time on the warm, 80-degree afternoon.

RARELY RUNNING the same play twice in succession, the Hoosiers marched 82 yards in 10 plays with Arnett's 19-yard pass to tight end Dave Harengody cutting the deficit to 21-17 after Freud did his soccer-style thing. A little more than seven minutes remained to be played. The defense, the unit crippled most by the succession of injuries, then shut off LSU in three plays and Keith Calvin's fair catch at the 30 gave Indiana its final shot. Darrick Burnett, who alternated with Enis at tailback, capped a 132-yard rushing performance by going inside and outside down the field. He gained 41 of the yards in the final march before taking a breather and giving way to Enis.

Facing a third-and-3 at the LSU 11, Arnett made his pitch for the points to Enis. LSU was able to take the ensuing kickoff and move to the Indiana 46 before being forced to relinquish possession on downs and Arnett ran out the last 16 seconds by falling on the ball. "WE'VE HAD SOME adversity this year, but we sure' played some good State, Big Ten Scores Anderson 12, Taylor 7. DePauw 31, Wooster 0. Franklin 25, Evansville 22.

Hanover 49, Earlham 7. Hillsdale 20, Butler 7. Hope 20, Wabash 18. Illinois 11, Missouri 7. Indiana 24, Louisiana State 21.

Indiana Central 36, Rose-Hulman 0. Indiana State 14, Southern Illinois 9. Iowa 12, Iowa State 10. Michigan 21, Duke 9. Mississippi 20, Notre Dame 13.

Ohio State 38, Minnesota 7. Purdue 44, Ohio University 7. Valparaiso 42, Denison 0. Villanova 38, Ball State 16. Washington State 23, Michigan State Wisconsin 14, Northern Illinois 3.

21. Jolmcock Tops Rutherford In Tuelish' Finish At MIS Big Ten Standings Conf. All Games 1 1 of pa 1 1 pf pa Orio State 100 3B 7 7004g7 Michigan 1 0 0 37 9 2 0 0 50 IB Wisconsin 1 0 0 30 14 2 0 0 44 17 Iowa 1 0 0 24 0 2 OS36 10 Michigan St. 1 0 0 19 14 1 1 0 40 3 7 Purd'je 0 1 0 14 19 1 1 0 58 76 Indiana 0 1 0 14 30 1 1 0 38 51 Illinois 0 1 0 9 37 1 1 0 .0 44 Minnesota 0 157 7 38 1 1 0 17 45 Northwestern 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 24 and off the field to unload 12 kicks and kickoffs. Most of those boots came back to haunt the visitors as Purdue scored on its first two possessions, gave up Ohio's only six-pointer when fullback Kevin Babcock crashed over from the 18, then retaliated with 17 second-quarter points making it a 27-7 halftime rout.

HERRMANN, WHO owned 237 aerial yards at the break (compared to Ohio's total output of 109) generally ignited the drives from upstairs then came down for short touchdown yardage. 1 Fullback John Skibinski registered twice on 1-yard bursts and junior tailback Bennie Leverett joined the party on a 3-yard dash. Early in the fourth quarter, Herrmann flipped his third TD pass in the Boilermakers' 1-1 season by nailing Young with the 51-yarder which ran the count to 37-7. See PURDUE, Page 3 5 i Making his Ross-Ade Stadium debut after exploding like a meteorite on the collegiate horizon last week at Michigan State, the 6-5 gunner sparked a 44-7 victory that thoroughly delighted most in the turnout of 49,354. Hitting 23 of 36 shots for 339 yards including a six-point bomb of 31 to rhinie tight end Dave Young, Herrmann and colleagues completedly dominated the action to rack up a total offense of 545.

SO, THE BOILERS did run the ball -43 times for 180 to be specific but they came to throw, and that Herrmann did without wasting a second. On the first scrimmage play, Herrmann hit flanker Reggie Arnold for 8 and from that point the Mid-American Conference foes were back on their heels all day. The Bobcats didn't break every time they bent forcing Purdue to tally thrice on field goals of 36. 33 and 40 yards by Scott Sovereen. But with a few key defenders on the injury list and quarterback Andy Vetter unable to sur vive the opening period due to aggravat- ing an already-ailing shoulder they had about two chances for an upset slim and none.

Purdue's defensive unit surrendered a late first quarter TD shortly after Herrmann threw the day's lone interception, but had Ohioan Steve Green racing on Iff 5 i ii 4 thfr-r help on the first half play of grid test at Bloomington. (AP completed but 74 laps, and although' Dallenbach still was running while Rutherford had a dead engine, he still was placed third since the race officially ended when Gordon took the flag. From the drop of the green flag, which didn't come until 5 p.m. following the completion of the IROC event, Danny Ongais in the Interscope Racing VPJ V-8, which is a modification of the Cosworth in a Parnelli chassis, was by far the fastest car on the track. For the first 10 laps, Ongais, who started on the pole, was averaging 193.580 mph, with the average dropping only when Larry Cannon spun in turn 3 on the 19th circuit.

Al took the lead on lap 20 during the ensuing pitting action, the Ongais picked it up from laps 21 to 55. It looked in the bag, with the black No. 25 pulling away at will until an uncooperatmg clutch brought an end to his victory bid. Team member Al picked up the torch at' this point and carried the Vel's-Parnelli Jones colors forward until smoke began coming out of the rear. He was black flagged twice, pitted twice and was on the way back out the second time when his car suddenly swerved to the left toward the pit wall.

A BROKEN HALF shaft ended his effort with 72 laps credited, enough to garner fourth place. With much soul searching by John-cock's crew over whether to put up the boost (increase the turbocharger manifold pressure), it was decided to go for it with Gordie experiencing the almost heart stopping finish. "Mine did," Johncock said, referring to the engine sneezing as he exited turn 2 on the last lap. There was consideration of running just the IROC event and holding the 150-miler today, the fear being it would run into darkness, but with the 5 o'clock start the USACers successfully beat the lengthening shadows to the checker. Point Standings 1.

Tom Sneva 3,965 2. A.J. Fovt 2,840 3. Johnny Rutherford 2440 4. Al Unser 2,790 5.

Gordon 2.530 6. Wally Dallenbach 2,515 7. Mario Andrew 1,400 8. Tom Blgelow 1,370 9. Pancho Carter 1,210 10.

Mike Mosley 1,030 "I RAN OUT OF fuel coming out of the second turn," Johncock said, "and didn't know if I was going to make it all the way around. But I kept the engine running and shut it off just as I crossed the line. "I didn't know where Rutherford was. He disappeared from my view even though I was slowing down going down the back stretch. "I took the checkered flag and coasted around and there was Rutherford's car.

The "fueless" finish led car owner Pat Patrick to comment, "I think it's ridiculous to have a race like this and have four cars run out of fuel at the finish." The others out of fuel were Tom Sneva and Mike Mosley. Patrick has been a vocal advocate of giving the four-cylinder engines more fuel to make them competitive with the V-8s. FINISHING BEHIND Rutherford was Wally Dallenbach, teammate to Johncock. Both he and Rutherford INDEX IXohraska Upsets Page 2 .11 Unser Wins mOC Raee, Page 8 By GEORGE MOORE Star Sportswriter Brooklyn, Mich. Into Victory Lane on the back of a wrecker was the finishing touch to the rain-delayed Michigan Grand Prix at the Michigan International Speedway yesterday.

Gordon Johncock, driving the STP Wildcat-Drake-Goossen-Sparks of the Patrick Racing Team, won the 150-mile national championship race with a dead engine out of that never made it back to pit row. JOHNCOCK HAD consumed all 65 gallons allotted for the 150, as did second place Johnny Huthenord who also finished in the middle of the third turn just a few feet away from Johncock's red No. 20. Gordie's finish of 175.250 miles an hour average was the culmination of a blazing duel which got down to the moment of truth in the last 15 laps. On lap No.

60, Johncock running sec-end behind Al Unser led Ruthbrford's First National McLaren Cosworth by 22 seconds, with the two. flying through cars in slower traffic. Rutherford closed in on lap 66 and took over second two circuits later, just as Unser's American Racing's VPJ V-8 i began to smoke. Al pitted on lap No. 70.

Gordie got past Rutherford going into the third turn at the same time and the battle was on for the final four laps. SPOUTS ''4 'el Big Fish 14 Bob Collins 2 Harness Highlights 17 tines Shots 14 Robin Miller 8 Shootin' Stars 8 Speaking Of Cars 13 Scoreboard 18 GONE AGAIN Purdue University freshman quarterback sensation Mark Herrmann of Carmel gets ready to fire again as "Ohio University's Steve Doe (63) rushes in to try and stop the play. Herrmann was good on 23 36 passes for a whopping 339 yards in Saturday's clashr-(Star Photo by Jerry Clark).