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DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER OCTOBER 5,1980 Copyright, 1M0 Des Moines Register and Tribum Company fcijQ.arffel.I Records fall as Cyclones move to 4-0 Photo by FRANK S. FOLWELL Wife. let Arizona of? the Siook Boos rain down after Crutchfield, Quinn lead blitz on Colorado State 'good defense' wasted Statistics Iowa 20 St-IM Arizona 7 38-120 0 First downs Rushes-yard Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumtoles-losl Panailles-yards 6-14-0 20-35-0' IO-3 7-M 2-0 4-2-1 10-71 7-77 Flot downs fiuthes-vardl Pasting yards Return yards Pauas Punts Fumoias-losl Panaitias-vards SCORING i a 5- A J. 1 Arliona DW A safety (blocked punt roiled out of end lone). FG Weber 37 I FG Roby 36 SCOKINO II 1 CaMrada Statt lawa Slata ISU CrutcnfiaW 4 run (Glffords kick) Quinn 3 run (Giftords kick) ISU Cruichiiaid 33 run (Glffords kick) BU Jonnson 76 pass from Qukm (Glffords kick) ISU Crutchfield 4 run (Giffords kick) ISU FG Giffords 3 ISU FG Giffords ISU Worsham 4 run (Glffords kick) ISU GiMs II run (Giffords kick) ISU Roacn 3 run (Glffords kick) ISU Payna run (Glffords kick) for was just three-yard TD, but Tom Roach earns pat from Jack Seabrooke, hug from Dwayne Crutchfield By BUCK Tt'RNBULL Sunday RaaHtar Stall Wrttar AMES, IA.

Pardon me, bul before we get into this, please pass me a pocket calculator, an Iowa State recrd book and an extra cigar. I have a feeling I'm going to be here a while and that you'll be reading about more old records broken than you ever thought possible in one football game. Iowa State rolled up its biggest score in 66 years Saturday and matched its third highest total in history with a 69-0 rout of outclassed and outmanned Colorado State. A standing-room crowd of 49.S68 pOured into Iowa State Stadium on an ideal football afternoon not knowing quite what to expect from Donnie Duncan's youthful Cyclones and what they saw no one expected. The team's fourth straight victory was extremely impressive as well as being shockingly easy.

If there had been the Little League equivalent of baseball's 10-nin rule, everybody would have been on the way home at halftime, when Iowa State was cruising along with a 48-0 lead. By that time the human tank who goes by the name of Dwayne Crutch-field already had 136 yards and three touchdowns in 21 carries. He did not play in the second half and neither did many of the other Cyclone regulars. "It's difficult for me to imagine any back in America playing better than Dwayne did in that first half," exclaimed Duncan. "He could have had 250 yards if we'd wanted to leave him in there." By RON MALY Sunday Register Staff writer IOWA CITY, IA.

No runs, no hits.i a ton of errors. Well, if they're going to play, football games in Kinnick Stadium-that finish in baseball-type scores, why not use baseball language? Anyway, you'll have a difficult time trying to convince the who watched Araona stumble, past mistake-prone Iowa, 5-3, that it. was very good football Saturday. In fact, at times it was awfuL football. It was a game that might, have set the college sport back 35-years or more.

No attempt will be made here to find excuses for a Hawkeye team that suddenly is seeing a season that began, so promising deteriorate into the type, of terrible frustration that has been the rule rather than the exception for the last 20 years. Fans who thought they had said' goodbye to sitting through boring-' autumn afternoons discovered in this one that the formula hasn't been, thrown away. Again, Iowa had a defense good enough to win most games, but showed up with an offense that should have paid its way into the stadium. As a result, the crowd booed the', Hawks during and after a game that: saw the record fall to 1-3. It's never pleasant to watch colleger kids get booed by grown men and" women, but it's probably silly to reason that the boo birds don't have' the right to vent their emotions.

They were shocked with what happened Saturday, and they'rej shocked with the goings-on since Iowa's 16-7 victory over Indiana in the opener. But they've got plenty of Hayden Fry and his players are' having a hard time figuring out what's happened to them, too. "It was like being at a funeral two, consecutive weekends," said Fry; "We're disheartened and we're disap-j pointed." Better make that three straight weekends for funerals. The 57-0 drubbing at Nebraska Sept. 20 wasn't much fun, either.

"The booing shattered a great defensive effort, and I feel sorry for IOWA Please turn to Page 3L $1 to iK nto ELL ffo my Garvey's three hits gave him 199 for the season, the most in the National League. HOUSTON LOS ANGELES abrhbl abrhM Morgan 2b 3 0 0 0 Lopes 2b 4 0 0 0 LaCorle 0 0 0 0 Perconte 2b 0 0 0 0 Cabell 3b 4 0 2 0 Monday rf 4 0 0 0 Ju.Crui If 4 110 Hatcher rf 0 0 0 0 Cedeno cf 4 0 10 Baker If 4 0 0 0 A Howe lb 4 0 2 1 R.Law If 0 0 0 0 Bergman pr 0 0 0 0 Garvey lb 4 2 3 1 Woods rf 4000 Cev3b 3000 Landestoy ss 3 0 0 0 Guerrero cf 3 0 10 Ashbv 2 0 10 Ferguson 3 0 10 Puhl ph 1 0 0 0 D.Thomas ss 3 0 11 Reynolds ss 0 0 0 0 Reuss 3 0 0 0 Ryan 10 0 0 Leonard Ph 1 0 0 Should the Dodgers defeat Houston a yrird straight game today, they would conclude the regular season in a tie and force a playoff game here for the championship on Monday. Garvey's homer to lead off the fourth inning broke a 1-1 tie. In the second, he led off with a bloop single and scored the Dodgers' first run on a two-out single by Derrel Thomas. The Astros tied the score in the fourth when Jose Cruz singled, stole second and came home on Art Howe's two-out single to center.

Reuss (18-6) matched his career high in victories with his eighth win in his last 10 decisions. The Los Angeles left-hander walked one and struck out a season-high seven. Nolan Ryan (11-10) took the loss, his eighth in nine career decisions against Los Angeles. Ryan has not defeated the Dodgers since 1968 when he was with the New York Mets. He did not walk a batter and struck out out a little bit.

He started me with a curve and then came the fastball. I was sure it was gone when I hit it," Garvey added. The score was tied 1-1 at the time and left-hander Jerry Reuss shut out the Astros the rest of the way, scattering seven hits. Asked about the two straight Dodger victories and their effect on Houston, Garvey said, "I'd be concerned. They have a one-game lead but we have momentum.

"Yes, I'd be concerned." Dodgers center fielder Pedro Guerrero made a key catch in the ninth to retire Jose Cruz even though he had trouble with the lighting. "It wasn't so much the sun, but it was the smog and the white shirts of all the fans," said Guerrero. Guerrero misplayed a hit to center in the fourth inning that brought in the lone Astros run. Garvey had three hits overall for Garvey lifts Dodgers, 2-1 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (AP) -Los Angeles first baseman Steve Garvey had not hit a home run against Houston all season until his blast in the fourth inning lifted his club to a 2-1 triumph and sent the National League West into the final day of the regular season Sunday with the Dodgers trailing the Astros by one game.

"Pressure is what the game of baseball is all about," said Garvey after the Dodgers edged the Astros by a single run for the second straight game. Houston came to Los Angeles needing one victory in three games to clinch the division but now must win Sunday to prevent a one-game playoff Monday. Putols 0 0 0 0 Tatals 31 1 7 1 Totals Houston 000 100 11 1 2 000 1 am 2 LOB Las Anaalss 010 100 Cabell. DP Los Anoeies 3. Houston 5, Los Angeles 5.

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Before the game Duncan saw ne told Crutchfield he'd like to see him bust loose for a 200-yard game, but "that was to motivate him," said Donnie, "and I thought we might need something like that from him." Instead, Colorado State's heralded passer, Steve Fairchild, spent a good share of the afternoon on his back IOWA STATE W. Houston 97 69 Pet. G.B. .571 S65 1 Los Angeles 91 70 HOUSTON (1) Away (I) Oct. at Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES (I) Maine (1) Oct 5 vs. Houston. nine, giving him 200 for the season. the Dodgers. "I think Nolan Ryan got bis fastball REGISTER HOTO Commings now a saviour Mr.

October' delivers ill, East flag to Yanks Tech, then celebrated with a Lowenbrau or two afterward. "We didn't even have to punt, did Commings said. "That other team was awful." The man who went directly from a high school job at nearby Massillon, Ohio, to Iowa, his alma mater, swallowed his pride last spring. He went back to being a high school coach after finding that selling insurance wasn't his bag. "When I was in the insurance Commings recalled, "I sold a big group policy to, an outfit in Iowa City.

I put in about six hours of work on it, and made $1,400. That's a pretty good hourly rate "Know what? I'd have traded that $1,400 far a win on the football field." COMMINGS WAS leaning back in his chair in the coaches' office at GlenOak High, a school with an enrollment of about 2,500. He put a fresh supply of Copenhagen snuff into his mouth (some things never change that was his favorite brand of snuff at Iowa, too) and talked freely about his experiences as Hawkeye coach and the frustrations that followed when he tried to get another football job. But the word "hate" is not in Commings' vocabulary. He is a good family man, a good citizen.

He's been fighting the odds all his life. At a mere 173 pounds, he was gutty enough to become a starter for Forest Evashevski's Iowa squads in the 1950s. And all he ever wanted to do as a COMMINGS Please turn to Page 5D By RON MALY Sunday Register Stiff Wrttar CANTON, OHIO Friday night, not Saturday afternoon, is when it all happens for Bob Commings now. His players are neither as big nor as talented as they once were. The crowds aren't as large.

Neither are the paychecks. But Commings, at 47, is back doing the thing he thinks he was put on this earth to do. The guy who was the head coach at Iowa from 1974-78 is coaching football again. There is, however, a difference. He no longer calls the shots in places like Kinnick Stadium, Michigan Stadium or the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Instead, he does business in a stadium that sits next to a cemetery in this pleasant steel mill city with a rich football tradition. It's home to the GlenOak High School Eagles. There are no boos, no shouts of "Fire him!" here. Indeed, the GlenOak school administrators, parents and players think of him as a football savior. They hope he stays as their coach forever.

Commings Eagles ripped West Tech of Cleveland, 54-12, the other night to run their record to 3-2. That's one more victory than GlenOak had all of last year. It's also one more than Commings' last Iowa team had two seasons ago The day before the West Tech game, Commings never one to mince words said, "The team we're playing is very bad. If we don't win, Til resign here and apply for a bartender's job at Joe's Place." Well, Joe's Place will have to wait Commings cleared his bench in the easy victory over West Saturday's crowd set a club season record of 2,591,538. The Yankees need 29,089 in today's regular-season finale to break the American League mark set by the 1948 Cleveland Indians.

It was the fourth division title in five years for the Yankees, who saw a 9 -game lead in mid-July dwindle to one-half game by late August. They then pulled away by winning 21 of 28 in September and their first three in October. The Yankees will begin the best-of-five American League playoffs Wednesday in Kansas City against the Royals, the team they defeated for the A.L. pennant in 1976, 1977 and 1978. Bobby Brown started the first game's uprising with a one-out single.

Willie Randolph also singled, moving Brown to third and Bobby Murcer's sacrifice fly brought him in with the tying run. Oscar Gamble kept the inning alive with a walk before Jackson walloped a 1-0 pitch from rookie Roger Weaver (3-4) into the upper-right-field stands, an estimated 75-80 feet above the 353-foot sign. The blast made a winner of Rudy May (15-5), who scattered six hits in seven innings. NEW YORK, N.Y (AP) Reggie Jackson crashed his third home run in as many games this month, a tie-breaking three-run shot in the fifth inning, to popel the New York Yankees to the American League East Division title with a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers in the opener of Saturday's doubleheader. Jackson's 41st homer of the season and 410th of his career capped a four-run rally that wiped out a 2-1 Detroit lead and eliminated the second-place Baltimore Orioles, who played a twi-night doubleheader against Cleveland.

The Tigers won the nightcap, 7-6, as Lynn Jones drove in four runs with a single in the third inning and a bases-loaded triple in the eighth. Nicknamed "Mr. October," Jackson leads the league in homers by one over Milwaukee's Ben Oglivie and was the only Yankee regular to play the second game, managing one hit in three trips with a ran-batted-in triple In the first inning. The crowd of 55,410 was the largest since the renovated Yankee Stadium opened five years ago. The Yankees became the first major league team to show an Increase in attendance for eight consecutive years, and Bob Commings at home again.