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McF.nrnp calk fnr intprritr ffstitrrf lineups being JiMjdOGo SPORTS iSn? 3 ..,..4 2C0 Basketball, 11C 0 Outdoors jl2C The Sunday TENNESSEAN hLll plepdM day goss.Vamd's I Prep football bowl 1 Scoreboard, i K. 1 SUNDAY, Nov. 1,1987 way mm Robert Johnson Staff safety Derek Baker. Commodores whip Rutgers; streak ended LARRY WOODY Sports Writer On a splendid autumn afternoon perfectly designed for football, Van-derbilt finally played some. The Commodores turned in their most impressive performance of the season if not seasons to upset bowl-minded Rutgers 27-13 and snap a six-game losing streak.

The victory was made all the more savory by the fact that it came before an appreciative homecoming crowd of 35,347 Black Gold-draped faithful, as well as a national televison audience. "I've never been prouder of a football team," said Vandy coach Watson Brown, whose squad had smarted from growing criticism as its downhill slide grew worse week after week. "People didn't think we could beat anybody," said Brown. "And today we beat them good. It was good solid football, no trickery, just good solid football." "Everybody was down on us," said senior receiver Carl Parker.

the press, the fans. About all we had left was each other." "How big is this win?" said quarterback Eric Jones. "After you've lost six in a row, it's magnified 1,000 times. That's how big it is." The victory leaves the Commodores 2-6 on the season, doubling last season's win output, with Kentucky up next Rutgers was sent back to New Brunswick, N.J. with a 5-3 mark and a sizable puncture in its bowl hopes.

Rutgers had never before played Vanderbilt and entered the game as something of an unknown quantity. But Brown was quick to stress that the Scarlet Knights had defeated such op- I Turn to page 7C, Column 1 "I mm Vanderbilt receiver Carl Parker, left, turns defender, being charged with interference of Rutgers' Ternie ssee takes powder at BC, 20-18 Henton throwing for 166. "I think we were just sick of losing and had something to prove," said Bill Romanowski, Boston College's star linebacker. By contrast, Tennessee seemed uninspired JOHN BIBB Sports Editor Sunday Ayem Brown pens own 'book for future I don't know how all this is going to end, but it's becoming more and more apparent Watson Brown has shredded that dog-eared book read by every Vanderbilt football coach for the past 40 years. i It's the copy entitled "How to Rebuild the Commodore Football Author unknown.

Now, before Hedy Weinberg and the ACLU have a toy, lets make it clear Brown shouldn't be accused of banning books. What he is doing is writing a new one, entitled "Let's Try It My Way." It's painful labor for the second-year Vandy skipper. He built his reputation on crazy-looking, exciting, pass-oriented offenses. This year's squad lacks much of that flair. But nothing leaks the plot of Brown's rebuilding story more dramatically than the chapter headed Squad in Absentia.

HATS THE group Brown watches every day, licking his chops as he keeps close tab on the 27 young football players who are serving their redshirt apprenticeships. yMore than once, in recent weeks, as Brown patched and glued lineups together, there's been the temptation to call up some of redshirts to support the varsity as the losses mounted. But, that's not in Brown's book. He knows any successful college pro- gram these dayfe is no stronger than its redshirt squad. Furthermorel from the day he answered the call to come home to Vanderbilt, where he once experienced a rebuilding fizzle! while playing quarterback, Brown Has insisted on buUd-' ing on a sound defensive foundation.

Yesterday Brwn and his Commodores peeked a page or two ahead, and wrote a happy paragraph in the book. Make no njistake, it was Van-dy's defense thatjcrumpled a solid Rutgers team. Previously, Vanderbilt players had been; giving up enough yardage to match their ACT scores, That changed yesterday, and the tale of the Vanderbiltupset may be pin- pointed on Rutgeb' third-down fail ures. Three timei just once in the fi nal half, was Rutgers successful on third-down yardage. WHAT THIS did, of course, was eliminate those long, 1 5 or 20 play drives that wear out the Commodore defensive platoon and bring on fourth-period routk such have oc-; cured two or three times this fall To those Vandy (followers who have' voiced recent disappointment in un- 1 characteristic Brown offensive align ments, his strategy! should be abundantly clear.

Running from the Wish-! bone, Vandy strives for ball control, again giving the defenders a rest Occasionally, though, Brown still finds time to order offensive sur- prises. Yesterday, for example, he caught the Rutgers defenders off balance when he threw in a few I-Forma-tion plays. And, with it all, there's the daunting threat of Brown's history as a pass-happy coach. The are apt to throw the ball on your one-yard line or theirs. Vanderbilt's 2-6 record isn't grabbing a lot of headline attention, and like I say, I don't know how all this ends.

It's obvious, though, Brown isn't using a ghost writer. It's his story, every single word. Illinois 27, Minnesota 17 Indiana St. 24, So. IH.

15 Colorado 42, Iowa St 10 Kent St. 17, Toledo 13 Miami (O.) 17, a Green 7 Michigan 29, N'westem 6 Purdue 49, Wisconsin 14 Southwest Arkansas 38, Rice 14 SW. Texas 27, Lamar 19 Texas 41, Texas Tech 27 Texas 32, La. Tech 3 TCU 35, Houston 7 1 'Tulsa 26, Louisville 22 Texas St. at S.F.

Austin, Far West B. Young 24, Air Force 13 Montana 55, Montana Si 7 40, Idaho St 19 Calif. 20, Oregon 6 So. Cal 42. Wash St 7 Arizona 23, Stanford 13 S.

Jose St. 24, Utah St. 1 Washington 28, Ore. St 1 Idaho 41, Weber St 38 Wywtiing20.Colo.St15 and lethargic. see slipped to 5-2-1 and watched any hope of a major bowl bid go blowing in the wind.

Given the sorry nature of their first-half offensive performance and a disheartening portion of the third period, the Vols should've been banned in Boston. UT turned the ball over three times in its first four possessions to dig an early hole and then suffered through 7'2 minutes of non-stop agony as the Eagles tacked on two third-quarter touchdowns to make it 20-3. Reserve quarterback Sterling Henton sparked a comeback that accounted for the i- DAVID CLIMER 7 Sports Writer CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. Forget about the Boston Tea Party. This was the Boston UT Party.

Boston College submerged Tennessee in a horrendous first half and finally dunked the Vols for good in a 20-18 decision yesterday. The upset of the 1 3th-ranked Vols was viewed by a sold-out crowd of 32,000 at windswept Alumni Stadium in this picturesque, affluent Boston suburb. The host Eagles moved to 5-4 while Tennes-' nal margin. Despite a reputation as a throwing team, BC did most of its damage on the ground as Jim Bell returned from a two-week injury hiatus and ran for 177 yards on a leg-wearying 39 carries. In all, the Eagles gained 430 yards with 343 of those coming on the ground.

Quarterback threw only 15 times, completing five for 87 yards. He attempted just one pass in the second half. Meanwhile, Tennessee managed only 277 total yards with Reggie Cobb rushing for 85 and "Evidently, our head wasn't in the game," said UT wide receiver Anthony Miller. "Maybe we figured we'd blow 'em (I Instead, it was Tennessee that biew away in the 30 mph wind. Randy Sanders, subbing for I Turn Blocked punt rallies Southern past TSU to PAGE 6C, Column 1 the air, threw a pair of interceptions to swing the momentum.

Southern's offense converted one interception into a touchdown drive and then, with 3:50 to play; came the blocked punt which gave Southern the break they needed. Both teams came in struggling, but the spotty crowd estimated at 16,000 was still surprisingly small for two of Division I-AA's biggest draws. But a scoreless first half showed why the crowd stayed home on this Halloween night Offensively, there were no tricks or treats in the opening two periods. Southern reached the TSU 18 and missed a field goal. TSU reached the Southern 33 and never tried a field I Turn to PAGE 5C, Column 2 1 IV OVC title dream dims for MTSU TOM WOOD Sports Writer MURFREESBORO The third time was a charm for Youngstown State placekicker John Dowling, who once again came through in the clutch for the Penguins.

Dowling, having already missed attempts of 37 and 30 yards, nailed the game-winner, a pressure-packed, 27-yard field goal with two seconds left in the game. It gave Youngstown a 17-16 victory over Middle Tennessee State yesterday, disappointing a Halloween homecoming crowd at Floyd Stadium of 13,400 as well as Blue Raiders Coach Boots Donnelly. "What we're doing is giving games away. God only knows we're giving games away," said Donnelly, whose team led 13-0 midway through the fourth quarter. "When you're giving games away like we are, it causes you to wonder sometimes." For Dowling, it was a familiar situation.

Earlier this year, he kicked a winning field goal with four seconds left against Bowling Green. "I was glad I got a third chance to make up for those first two misses," said Dowling 'I was pretty determined to make it." The last-second Youngstown rally thwarted MTSLFs own comeback bid and evf icd the Ohio Valley Conference race, leaving four teams tied at 24. Youngstown improved to 5-3 while MTSU feU to 4-4. Youngstown quarterback Trenton Lykes, who became the OVCs all-time passing leader with 16 completions for 1 78 yards, threw a pair of late fourth-quarter touchdowns to put the Penguins ahead 14-13. Lykes directed Youngstown on two four-play, 55-yard scoring drives, capped by TD passes of 1 4 yards to Jerry Mapes and 8 yards to Maury Bi- TED POWER Sports Writer BATON ROUGE La.

Back-up quarterback Robert Zeigler rolled into the end zone from 2 yards out late in the fourth quarter last night to boost host Southern past Tennessee State, 14-7. Zeigler's game-winning score came four plays after Southern's Douglas Craft blocked a TSU punt to set the Jaguars' up at the Big Blue 16. The loss dropped TSU to 3-4-1, while Southern moved to 5-3. TSU appeared to have control of the game with a 7-0 lead midway through the third quarter as the Big Blue defense had slowed the Southern running attack. But TSU quarterback Stacy Grear, who had one of his busiest nights in Dickerson signs 'fat contract Story page 8C Senators make pitch for baseball Story page 9C COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCORES Youngstown linebacker Paul Soltis wraps up MTSU fullback Wade Johnson in Murfreesboro.

The Penguins prevailed 17-16. UT-Martln28Jack. St. 17 Lambuth 27, Camp'ville 7 Appy. St.

at East Marshall at Ark. St. at Memphis East Army 17, Temple 7 Harvard 14, Brown 9 Conn. 34, Villanova 23 Bucknell 20, Cornell 6 Yale 17, Dartmouth 7 Maine 59, Delaware 56 Colgate 35, Lafayette 14 Holy Cross 54, Mass. 10 Princeton 17, Penn 7 Mike DuBose Staff Collier in the first quarter, followed by a pair 27- and 41-yard field goals from Joe Lisle in the second half.

Like Dowling, Lisle also had two missed field goals. After Lykes' passes put the Penguins ahead, MTSU briefly retook the lead at 16-14. MTSU drove to the Youngstown 4-yard line before Lisle kicked a 21-yard field goal with 1:54 remaining. "I was hoping mine would stand up," said Lisle, a Nashville sophomore. "But it didn't Sometimes they come back to haunt you." As it turned out it was too much time for the Penguins to play with.

Youngstown got the kickoff on its own 30 and took just six plays to drive the ball down to the MTSU 1 0 to set up Dowling's winning field goal. Penguins backup tailback Lorenzo Davis, who finished the day with 21 carries for 1 58 yards, gained 34 yards on thp fiyrt drive. Top 20 1. Oklahoma 71, Kansas 10 2. Nebraska 42, Missouri 7,.

3. Carolina 3 4. FloridaSt.73,Tutane 14 5. LSU42.0leMiss13 6. 7.

UCLA 31, Arizona St. 23 8. Syracuse 24, Pitt 10 9. Notre Dame 56, Navy 13 11. Iowa 29, Indiana 21 13.

Boston C. 20, Tennessee 18 14. Clemson 31, W.Forest 17 15. Mich. St.

(20) 13, Ohio St. 7 16. Miss. St. vs.

Alabama, 17. Okla. St. 56, Kansas St. 7 18.

Perm St. 25, W.Va. 21 19. S. Carolina 48, N.C.

St. 0.1 SEC Vandy 27, Rutgers 13 Kentucky 14, VPI 7 Ohio Valley Southern 14, TSU 7 Youngstown 17, MTSU 16 E. Kentucky 50, APSU 7 Cincinnati 38, Term. Tech 17 Murray 53, Morehead 15 State 20. Sewan 13 1 bent.

Lykes now has passed for 5,641 yards in his career to top the old record of ex-Morehead State star Phil Simms, now with the New York Giants. It didn't go a long way in impressing Lykes, however. "Maybe I'll think about it after the season but right now the only record I'm interested in is the won-lost record," said Lykes. Donnelly and Youngstown Coach Jim Tressel agreed Lykes was the difference in the outcome. "I doubt if he'll lead the Giants to the Super Bowl but he's leading us to anything we might achieve," said Tressel.

"It was more Lykes' throwing than it was our lack of defense," said Donnelly. "He's an awful good quarterback." MTSU had gone ahead 13-0 ona 13-yard scamper by quarterback Marvin South B. Citadel 38, W.Carolina 24 Duke 48, Georgia Tech 14 Furman 58, Davidson 3 Ga. Sou. 23, W.Kentucky 20 N.

Carolina 27, Maryland 14 So. Miss. 17, Jackson St. 7 Wm. Mary 17, VMI 6 Alcorn 17, Fla.

14 Midwest C. Mich. 30, E. Mich. 27.