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Shocks Pleasing To Scott rcspins I i 9 fit i (From First Sports Page) now. I will take every bit of the blame and do the talking. I hate losing with a passion." Ross, moments later, took the entire Maryland team some only half dressed out on a practice field behind the Terp dressing room. They were dismissed after a speech, not what appeared to be a possible post-game practice. Ross' frustration was born of Maryland's inability to capitalize on opportunities, twice settling for field goals when the Terps appeared to be headed for touchdowns and twice missing makeable field goals.

way. 1 thought I had a pretty good day." The game began disastrously. At least momentarily. On the second play, Vandy's Woods was blasted into the air by a blitzing linebacker and fumbled the ball. Maryland's Ted Chapman recovered at the Vandy 20, but four plays later the Terps were forced to call on Jess Atkinson for a 42-yard field goal his first of two In the first half.

But, Vandy promptly marched 80 yards in eight plays on the very next, series, Page hitting Scott for 13, 16 and 23 yards the final one a touchdown toss on a blitz. Scott took the pass over his should der and barely got into the end zone. He duplicated the same play, and un-der the same blitzing circumstances on Page, in the second period for the Commodores' two touchdowns here yesterday. Maryland was not easy pickings' and there was general agreement that the Terps were better than Kansas, State, the opening game victim. Maryland quarterback John Reich hit 21 of 35 passes for 281 yards and the only Terp touchdown, but sacked six times.by a Vandy defense that's better on the field than on pa- per.

jr 1 1 byfkX'- I ill 7 i iJU JWMMutUnr1l1MmPrir 1 1 i i But, the final straw was a pass which bounced off the hands of senior tight end Ron Fazio at the Vanderbilt goalline, on a fourth-and-three situation from the Commodore 7-yard line, with 14 minutes to play and Maryland trailing just 20-14. "It's another indication that our luck has changed since last year," said Maclntyre, laughing. After an exchange of series with the deflated Terps, Vandy put together a '65-yard march that not only carried Anderson within a chip shot of the game-icing field goal, but ate up all but 2:28 of the clock. Key play in the drive was a 20-yard pass from Page to reserve Louie Stephenson, that took place on a third-and-18 situation at the Maryland 43. (From First Sports Page) crazy with difference coverages.

This time they didn't double very often and our line, which is big and strong as everything, just gave us all time to run and route and get open. We did a lot of things to them." Page, who had a big 316-yard day, said Maryland was in trouble when they set up single coverage for his big target, Scott "He Is the best receiver in the Southeastern Conference," said Page, "When you see him one-on-one, just get the ball to him. He'll go." "We throw to a lot of guys. Nine today. We're blessed with good receivers.

But he gets open a lot and you need to get it to him," said Page. Offensive coordinator Lynn Amedee was a little more technical. "Last week we didn't use him in motion so much. This week we did, resulting in one-on-one situations which killed 'em," Amedee said, smiling. Page was simply super and one of his key throws, a 20-yarder to reserve back Louie Stephenson, on the final Vandy scoring drive of the day was the result of his new experience and patience.

It came on a third-and-18 situation and put the ball within range of kicker Ricky Anderson, who later kicked the game-icing fourth period field goal, at the Maryland 23. "Everyone was covered on the play and I satin the pocket for a long time. Then I rolled out, just looking for anyone and there was Louie. It was the key play in the game," said Page. Another key play was a pass that wasn't completed just a couple of downs later at the Maryland 9-yard line.

Page threw into coverage and only a super effort by his own receiver, Joe Kelly, knocked it away from being an interceptioa "I was a pass defender," said Kelly. "I saw the ball and knew I had to get there." Two plays later Anderson's field goal sewed up the vital win. Vanderbilfs offensive line was just too much for the bigger Maryland de- Staff Photo by Frank Empson Vandy's Ricky Anderson boots 31 -yard field goal from the grasp of holder Mark Wracher during the third quarter of the Commodore's 23-1 4 win at Maryland. The touchdown was a 17-yard toss to running back Alvin Blount in the -second quarter after 51-yard pass to redshirt freshman Ziz Abdur-Ra'off. which at first appeared a sure inte? ception by Vandy safety -Manuel.

Young. He took it over Young's head at the Vandy 17. The Muslim speedster from nearby Baltimore also caught a 55-yarder from Reich when Vandy corner Thahn Anderson tripped, but was" nailed from behind by Young and it failed to produce a score. That's the. series which ended with Fazio drop- ping the sure touchdown pass.

And that's the reason Maryland's Ross took his team behind the "woodshed" and Maclntyre headed home to Nashville with growing mo- mentum. The pass put the ball on Maryland's 23. Then Vandy tailback Carl Woods ran for 12 yards and the fans started leaving the stands before Anderson kicked four plays later. Anderson's angle was bad when the Commodore came to fourth down at the four-yard line. But for some reason, the Terps accepted a five-yard delay penalty on Vandy and gave Anderson a clean shot at the field goal of 26 yards the final nail in the Maryland coffin.

"I don't know why they took the penalty. They could have refused and it would have been tougher," said Anderson. "But I was confident either fenders. Seldom were the Terps able to even pressure Page. And when they tried tricks, they were burned.

"I had a pretty good game and so did everyone else in the offensive linbe," said junior guard Will Wolford. "We made some mistakes, but when we had to control the football, like at the end, we did. "I'm disappointed that we couldn't score on that last long drive, but the win is great," the Louisville, giant said. Tackle Rob Monaco, who plays the same side of the line, said virtuallsy the same thing, but added a little warning. "Hey, this is just the beginning.

Some folks better be taking notice," he said, laughing. It was a big defensive day, too, for the Commodores. Vandy's bend-but-don't-break defense did Just that, but with a new twist. The Commodores had six sacks of the Maryland quarterback, a couple by reserve linebacker William Thomas and a pair by Manuel Young on blitz situations. "We even had one by John Windham, our end, when only two men rushed," said Vandy defensive chief Kurt Van Valkenburgh.

"I thought we improved all week in practice," said senior linebacker Steve McCoy. "I like the fact that we're keeping people from scoring offensive touchdowns, but I don't like then) eating up the clock. "Even though we're a bend-but-don't-break defense, I'd like to get the ball into our offense's hands a little more often," the Dallas', Texas, defender said. "It wasn't a good feeling to run out on the field on the third play of the game, after the fumble, and start playing on our own 20-yard line. But once we threw them back five yards in three plays and forced them to kick a field goal, I figured we were going to be able to handle these guys," he said.

Guardi's high, short kickoff and fumbled the ball, giving possession to Utah at the Tennessee 24. But after yielding one first the Vol defenders squeezed out the threat as Carl Zander supplied a big hit on running back Tony Cospy and a blitzing Benton smacked Stevens just as he was unloading a pass, forcing the incompletion. Guardi's 27-yard field goal attempt was tipped by Tommy Sims and slid off to the right, leaving the score 27-14. The Utes pulled to within six points thanks to a long, grinding march that covered 80 yards and required an even six minutes. Stevens put the ball in the end zone with a 7-yard flip to James Hardy with just 1:39 left Utah's ensuing onside kick was grabbed by Ed Conley after it had bounded just 7 yards, giving the Vols possession.

Jones was able to squeeze out one first down as the clock finally ran out on Utah. Ail Uiit.l' 1 (From First Sports Page) Utes eased 64 yards on seven plays to cut the deficit to 14-7 with 2:35 remaining on Stevens' option keeper around the unguarded left side. Stevens was impressive on that drive as he nailed a key 25-yard strike to Danny Huey on a third-and-16 play. Stevens followed that with a 31-yard strike down the middle to a wide-open James Hardy. Three plays later, he scored on the keeper.

UT stretched its lead to 17-7 as Robinson hooked up with Jones on a 31-yard pass to move the ball past mid-field. Later, with time ticking down, Reveiz made the field goal that left the Vols up by 10 points at the half. By intermission, Jones had rushed for 103 yards on 11 carries, assuring himself of his ninth 100-yard effort in the last 11 games, spanning two seasons. He also caught three passes for 54 yards to personally account for 157 of Tennessee's 215 total yards at the half. Reveiz tacked on a 48-yard field goal on the first possession of the second half to make it 20-7.

Jones' 14-yard run was the key gain of the short drive. Wilson scored his second touchdown of the evening with 4:20 left In the third quarter, covering 7 yards behind crushing blocks from fullback Jim Miller and tight end John Cook. Reveiz conversion upped the UT margin to 27-7. Again, though, the Utes didn't quit Stevens moved his team crisply down-field, covering 70 yards in nine plays. He got the touchdown on an 8-yard option keeper to the right Things almost got tighter immediately.

Wesley Pryor misjudged Andre Utah 0 7 0 14-11 TentwtMt 1 10 10 0-2 Twin. Jontt IS pt from Robinwn (Reveii kick) Tena Wilson 11 run (Reveiz kick) Stivent 2 run (Guerdi kick) Tenn. FG Reveii 21 Tenn. FG Reveii 41 Tenn Wilson 7 run (Reveii kick) Stevens I run (Guardi kick) U-Hardv 7 Pan from Stevens (Guardi kick) if 7 4r UT 19 First downs 22 45-282 Rushes-yards S6-2J3 5. Passing yard 147 Return yards 03 107 57 9-19-0 Passes 0-20-0 Punts -37 Fumbles-lost 1-0 4-41 2-1 4-30 34:50 Penalties-yards 3-1S Time of Possession 25:10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Ulah, Cospy IS-87, E.

Johnson 1-43, E. Lewis 5-33. Tennessee, Jones 24-197, Robinson 10-34, Howard 6-27. PASSING-Ulah, Stevens 9-20-1-147. Tennessee, Robinson 1-19-1-107.

RECEIVING Utah, Hardy 4-52, Huey 3-M, Woodward 1-1, E. Johnson 1-4. Tennessee, Jones 4-57, McGee 2-18, Howard I-It, Swanson 1-10, Cllnkscale 1-4. 4 Staff photo by Frank Empson Vanderbilt senior.quqrterback Kurt Page looks downfield for a to provide protection. Page threw two touchdowns in the Compassing target against Maryland, while Keith Edwards moves up modores' 23-1 4 win.

LSU Grounds Out Win Johnson, TSU Roll By Alabama Over Wichita State 47-7 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Run With the third-string backfield in, lowing a bad snap on a punt attempt But wasted little time getting back in the game. On the first play of the next possession, quarterback Micheal Miller found Larry Addison alone behind the TSU secondary for a 71-yard scoring pass to ie the game. The Tiger offense sputtered until early in the second quarter, when Biggies put together a 8-play, 53-yard drive capped by Johnson's 2-yard scoring dive. TSU made it 21-7 with wo minutes left in the half, when Johnson raced around left end from the 6 to cap a 4-play, 57-yard drive highlighted by a 30-yard pass from No.2 quarterback Gilbert Renfroe to Qulnton Johnson.

struck quickly again on the opening drive of the third quarter as Miller found Addison deep for a 74-yard TD bomb to make it 21-14. But Biggies, completing a pair of passes to Quinton Johnson, brought TSU right back down the field and hit Barry Collins for an 18-yard scoring pass to give the Tigers a 14-point cushion again. After the Tiger defense, which performed well for three quarters except for the two long bombs, held on four plays, Biggies got the Tigers rollig again. This time he took the team 54 yards with short passes to the flats before finding Marlon Johnson under the goal post from the 4-yard line. only sustained touchdown drive on the night came after the Bulldogs blocked a Carlos Jones field goal attempt on the first play of the fourth quarter.

marched 47 yards with the scrambling Miller rolling into the end zone from the TSU 4 to make it 35-21. Renfroe led TSU on one last scoring drive, a 68-yard march capped by a 15-yard toss to Herman Hunter. -Akron 42 Western Ky. 7 AKRON, Ohio Steve Rafac played havoc with the Western Ken By TED POWER Marlon Johnson ran for two touchdowns and also caught a scoring pass as Tennessee State downed Alabama 42-21 last night at Hale Stadium. A crowd of close to 13,000 watched the Tigers offense come to life slowly consistently moving the ball on the Division II Bulldogs from Hunts-ville, Ala The victory jumped the Tigers to 3-3 on the season, while Alabama slipped to 0-1-1.

Alabama stubbornly refused fo give up, despite falling behind 21-7 at halftime. Two long touchdown passes helped the Bulldogs keep the game close. TSU quarterback Kenneth Biggies, who threw three touchdown passes, found Frank Pillow in the corner of the end zone to give TSU an early 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter. Th scoring pass capped a 6-play i tha started on the 28 fol- tucky offense here last night while the Akron offense, under the guidance of Vernon Stewart, rolled to a convincing 42-7 vicotry. Rafac had five quarterback sacks as the Zips' defense held the Hill-toppers to a minus 50 yards rushing while giving up 195 yards passing.

Meanwhile, Stewart was hitting Cedri Jones on a 3-yard scoring pass and finished his night's work with a 20-yard scoring toss to Greg Dennlson. But the Zips weren't through, reserve quareterback Steve Stams capped the scoring with a 24-yard pass to Larry Small. Western scored in the first quarter pn a 3-yard pass play from Scott Travis to Cedri Jones. WKU-Cedrl Jones 3 pass from Scot) Travis, Jack McKenjie kick. AK Ron Tevlor 16 pass Irom Vernon Stewart, Rust Klaus kick.

AK-Mike Clark 1 run Klaus kick. AK Greg Oennmlson 20 pass from Stewart, Klaus kick. AK-Clark 7 run Klaus kick, 2 qt. AK Dan Hampton 2 run Klaus kick, 3rd, AK Larry Small 24 past Irom Sieve Slams, Klaus kick.l LSU scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns, one on a 4-yard run by freshman Sam Martin and one on a 7-yard burst by Garland Jean Bastiste; Wichita State got a consolation touchdown with just over 5 minutes left in the game when backup quarterback Tyrone Mitchell hit tight end Roy Christian with a 9-yard touchdown pass following the recovery of an LSU fumble. LSU is now 1-0-1 on the season.

Wichita State Is winless: in three games. Wichita State's only other scoring threat came midway through the first quarter when Sergio Lopez-Chaverb missed a 44-yard field goal Wichita State's Eric Denson, whp last year became the school's first rusher, was held to Just 26 yards on 12 carries Saturday night Starting quarterback Brian McDonald was 7-17-1 for 75 yards for Wichita State. ning backs Dalton Hilliard and Garry James led a crushing ground attack for Louisiana State University last night that buried Wichita State 47-7. Hilliard had 166 yards on 17 carries and James had 122 on 21 carries: Hilliard left the game 3 minutes into the second half, and James sat down about 3 minutes later. James scored three touchdowns, and Hilliard got one.

James' touchdowns came on runs of 1 yard, 15 yards and 1 yard. Hilliard's came on a 2-yard run that capped a 23-point second-quarter explosion and put the game on ice by halftime. Hilliard moved into the No. 4 spot In the LSU list of career rushers with 1,887 yards after this second game of his junior season. He moved 20 yards ahead of Billy Cannon and is now 298 yards behind Brad Davis on the all-time list Juan Betanzos kicked a pair of field goals for LSU, one of 27 yards and one of 39 yards.

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