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BEASLEY HUGS ONE FROM PAT TO HIS CHEST and speeds 63 yards for Auburn's first TD THAT'S TIDE'S MUSSO UP THERE IN THE AIR Bamas nifty runner looks for Gator territory 'Bama Tide Dr. Pat Operates Nicely More On As Vols Go Down, 36-23 THE YARDSTICK Auburn (36) Tennessee (23) 19 First Downs 19 164 Yrds Rushing 29t 268 Yards Passing 92 432 Total Offense 390 31 Passes Attempted 22 17 Passes Completed 9 4 Passes Intercepted By 2 6 Fumbles Lost 2 5 31 Punting Avg. 5-38 38 Yards Penalized 70 Sunday, September 27, 1970 None of them bigger than a 22-yard quarterback draw late in the fourth quarter that got Auburn off the brink and made Tennessee's task an impossible one. Auburn, before the game, felt the pfece to beat Tennessee was throwing just in front of the deep secondary. The bomb, it, was thought, would not work.

Both did, and it was a 62-yard bomb from Sullivan to Beasley that got Auburn up off tlie deck and on its way to victory after some early mistakes had given the Vols a 10-0 lead. And it was-those connections and a couple of additional bombs into the soft belly of Vols' deep secondary that kept the on the move when-Auburn needed badly. In the front trenches, the Vols were tough as in the past; and Auburn's ground game with the exception of that key draw by Sullivan was more a diversion than anything else. Fullback Wallace Clark managed "just 43 yards on 13 trips, Harry Unger got 15 on four, arid Tommy Lowry had 15 on si parpipc Tnrv rnnnina hnpt Micky Zofko didn make By GEORGE SMITH Star Sports Editor BIRMINGHAM Officially, the plaving surface at Legion Field is called Poly-Turf. Here Saturday afternoon, a hot, sweltering September one, Auburn's newest football machine used it as an operating table to cut out Tennessee's heart in a 36-23 operation that may have shattered the Volunteers' dreams of a second straight Southeastern Conference title.

And the Tigers from the Loveliest Villiage did it In the best Ben Casey manner, getting in trouble early, rallying, and then letting the viewers in the concrete banks hang on until the last fadeout before making it official. But where do you start in handing out recognition for the team that got the job done in shoving Auburn's record to 2-0 for the season and more important, 1-0 in the tough SEC? Certainly young Pat Sullivan, the chief surgeon, has to stand at the top. Auhurn's junior quarterback, just perhaps, may have exacted his ounce of vengeance one year from the day he debuted as a losing SMITH quarterback against these same Volunteers. That one was up at Knox-ville and Pat, a sophomore in his first SEC game, threw five interceptions in one of only two losses during '69. Saturday he threw two, but most of the afternoon he spent delicately carving a questionable Tennessee offense into tiny bits much to the delight of 65.000 playing customers.

When Sullivan was finally Dulled late in the fourth period he had hit true on 17 ot passes for 268 yard's and 31 one touchdown and there was another one, a 37-yard bomb to split receiver Terry Beasley. And along the way Pat also ran with the football, frna it cAVn timpQ fnr 70 1C (Thr Amttstmt 8tai 5 I Tigers, Tide On Page 5-C BRESLER I I yards. In A Romp Over Gators By WAYNE HESTER Star Sports Writer TUSCALOOSA Florida brought its air force to Denny Stadium Saturday afternoon. It hardly got off the ground. Alabama had an air force of its own, and some tank-like runners to go with it.

Alabama's air force was Neb Hayden and Scott Hunter and Griff Langston and David Bailey. On the ground it was Johnny Musso, 'Buddy Seay, Dave Brungard and some unheralded second teamers. All added together, it was a 46 to 15 victory for A I a-bama's Crimson Tide which resembled Crimson Tide's of the early 1960s. For John Reaves, Florida's junior quarterback and the HESTER Southeastern Conference passing leader, it was a day of humiliation. For Carlos Alvarez, speedy wide receiver, it.

was worse than that. Reaves put the football tne air 44 times and completed 24, but 11 of his completions were to blocking backs after "Bama's offensive line applied pressure. Alvarez was on the receiving end of three for 37 yards, about seven passes and 70 yards beloV an average Alvarez performance. Hayden, coming on early a bi uised-shouldered Hunter, rifled 13 passes and landed seven for 96 yards. Iiur.ter, after recovery, was seven for eight and 104 yards.

When it was over, junior tailback Musso's credentials stpeked up higher than' anyone's. The 195-pounder from Birmingham churned out 139 yards on the ground in 21 trips with the football, and on one Alabama series reeled off five straight carries from t.he.Jide 33-yard line for 11, -lb, 17, 17 and a final six for a touchdown. Alabama's defense proved it jis growing up. Florida's 1 UMJiug, jaiuctgc una a tviBKOpr 11 Whpn Tprrv ...0. Rowell, Alec jPittmani.

Barmy Gilbert andFsoilpthers- weren't chasing Reaves out of the pocket, they were hauling down Gator rushers near tiie line of And it was an alert secondary of Lanny Norris, Tommy Wade, Ken Emerson and Steve Hig- 1 giuuuuidiii wiiiun niaiiagcu iu finable team Alvarez most of Iheafternoon and" still keep 1 Keaes' pitching honest. Alab.a,ma got- twp the air (See Alabama en Page 4C) i i enough to be listed. But Tennessee's ground game, even if it didn't win, was an awesome thing. Curt Watson, a 25-pound fullback someone claimed, couldn't carry Tommy Duranie's (Florida) chin strip, mauled Auburn's defenses for 142 yards on 29 carries. Tailback Don McLeary got 119 on 25.

And that says if Vol. quarterback Bobby Scott could throw, this one may have been different. Scott, however, had some troubles, hitting on just eight of 22 for 92 yards. And four of those wound up in Auburn's hands, one of them a 52-yard return by All-America candidate Larry Willingham that sprung the Tigers to a 21-10 lead late in the second period. Bob Neyland, a man who first built a football dynasty at Tennessee on other team's mistakes, must have bien peering pver the rim of Legion Field there early.

Auburn was making mistakes and the old man, if he were watching, had to- te chuckling. Zofko couldn't find the handle on the Very first play from scrimmage and the Vols got the football at the Tiger 26 when Kevte Milam hugged it to his chest. It took the Vols seven plays to cash it in and then it took yet another Tiger miscue to get it across this one a pass interference call against soph Johnny (See Auburn on Page 8C) Penn By LOUDON KELLY BOULt)ER, Colo. (AP)-Fir-ed-up Colorado ambushed Penn EJdie Crowiler hi' ii HAS THIS ONE AT THE THREE and Auburn got a TD on the iiext play Colorado Wilis, 41-13 State Is Upset period on a 3-yard pass from Bob Parsons to Greg Edmonds. i tH 1 -v i I 1 State's fourth-ranked Nittany Lions Saturday, 41-13, in a national televised football game and smashed tie longest major collegiate football winning streak in the nation.

Penn State came out to the mountain country with a 23-0 game victory string and hadn't been defeated in 31 games. But the aroused Buffaloes a Penn State pass on the firt play of the game and 90 seconds later went in for a touchdowp. The opportunistic-Buffaloes never let up' and the baffled Lions were unable to make a contest of it after early in the second period when they cut the big eight team's lead to Colorado led 20-7 at the then Cliff Branch, speedy' Colorado safety, caught a Penn State kickoff on his 3--yard line and dashed 97 yards and another score. Right after this dazzling run, Penn State struck back to hammer" 71 Harris to Colorado's two. Bui bri the fourth down," quarterback Mike Cooper was hurled back to" his' five on a keeper play.

Colorado turned two interceptions and two recovered Penn State, fumbles- into scores as the Buffaloes' kept the favored Lions off balance. Colorado- held a 34-7 lead before Penn State scored its second touchdown in the final in the! yardstick Alatxmt Flood! 19 inl Downs '-1 Vard Rushing JOO Vrd PaMlno Mi Totil Ottenw II Passes Attempted 14 Passes Completed I Passes Intercepted tft ift Fumbles Lost t-31 Puntii Avfl. it i Yards Penalized (15 41. 23 27t 44 1 1 -7-M 4 Joe Palerno BEASLEY BATTLES FOR THIS ONE Fo get the job done this time i.