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caster SPORTS Des Moines, Iowa, Friday Morning, November 7, 1980 CoovrtoM ItN Dw Motml Wwltttf and TrMHW CompOh J)c leg 1 fcacl) AP Photo MAURY WHITE Roach ready to run, but will cameraman be ready for Roach? 1, I the skid that threatens to turn this season into a losing one, after a 5-0 start seemingly assured them of a winning campaign. Roach is starting for the Cyclones because the regular, senior Jack Seabrooke, had his Iowa State football career ended a week ago at Colorado when he was felled with a knee injury. "It's kind of a bad way to get a start," said Roach, who was twice an all-state player at Rock Rapids on teams that won state championships. "You don't like to see a guy get hurt, whether it's a player on your team or the other team." 4 t. a if 1 4 fWu -tp -v- 1 7, rz' IOWA CITY, IA.

A funny thing happened to Andre Tippett when he decided to go out for football as a freshman at Barringer High School In Newark, N.J. He was terrible. They told him to get lost. And that was from the junior varsity. What position had he tried and been so bad at that the coaches didn't even want him hanging around, apparently for fear that whatever it was he lacked might be contagious and infect the rest of the squad? "Defensive end," admits Tippett.

That's funny, because the disappointed youngster who was temporarily turned off regarding the game now plays that position with distinction for Iowa's football team. Oh, it's true that there have been a few other changes, like filling out to 6 feet 4 inches and 228 pounds so as not to be built quite so much along the lines of a pencil and working to develop both speed and quickness. "He's got the quickest feet I've I ever seen lor a man 1 that size and runs a 4.6 40. I think his karate training helDS." said Coach 9) anori TIPfITT if St i 4 1 11 By GENE RAFFENSPERGER Soortt Editor AMES, IA. The date is Oct.

4. It's the second half of Iowa State's football game with Colorado State, a game that would end in a 69-0 victory for the Cyclones. One of the camera operators shooting film for Iowa State's annual Football Highlights movie looks at his film magazine and sees enough footage remains for what would be about two more plays. He decides to shoot the two plays, then reload. The cameraman focuses on the action as the ball goes to Tom Roach of Rock Rapids, a junior who is a "4 1, reserve fullback.

Roach heads around his right end and starts down the sideline. He cuts toward the middle of the field, eluding Colorado State tacklers but colliding with a teammate, knocking the player to the ground. But Roach stays on his feet, and, cutting back and forth, works his way to what eventually is an 80-yard run from Iowa State's 14-yard line to the Colorado State six. No one is sure just how many actual yards the run consumed but because of the back and forth pattern it is many more than 80. One thing is clear, the run has consumed so much time the camera operator has run out of film and misses the end of it ROACH, WHO will start at fullback for the Cyclones Saturday against Missouri, chuckled at the memory of the play this week.

"Boy, was I tired," he said. "I never ever ran one like that." Coach Donnie Duncan and the rest of the Iowa State team would like to get just one more like that from Roach Saturday, or at least cut it up in eight segments of 10 yards each. After three straight losses the Cyclones are looking for a way to halt 1 i ii JO, 1 A Qeveland seal Randy Smith of the Cleveland Cavaliers had this idea Wednesday night that he should drive the middle and perform in front of Golden State center Clifford Ray. Smith went up Ray went up and the bouncing ball, well, Smith forgot his lines and wound up balancing it on his head in an act that would have made a few performers at Marineland of the Pacific proud. But the Cavaliers' bark wasn't impressive, as Golden State went on to claim a 106-98 National Basketball Association victory.

Sandon savors UNI Prep grid playoffs force rare Sioux Gity twin No one is sure how many actual yards Roach's run consumed but because of the back and forth pattern it is many more than 80. "I always wanted to get the job by earning it by my play." AFTER HE replaced Seabrooke in the Colorado game, Roach's main contribution to the Iowa State offense was to pass block for quarterback John Quinn, and act as a pass receiver himself, catching three passes for 37 yards. "Tom did a good job," Duncan said. "When you move a guy to the first team sometimes he gets a different gleam in his eye and has a little more zip. I think he has that.

I think we'll get everything Tommy has against Coming off the bench in the late season is nothing new for Roach. In his freshman year, playing under Coach Earle Bruce, now the boss at Ohio State, Roach didn't play until the seventh game of the season. Then he started the final three games and was the starter in the Hall of Fame Bowl. Last season Roach carried the ball only six times, gaining 41 yards and scoring one touchdown. So Saturday will be his first start IOWA STATE Pleose turn to Page 3S I 4 -X.

4 i i rf fa irs 4tf if I Steve Sandon 63 percent completion rate yardage broke Bill Raun's record of 1,818, set in 1969. His 16 touchdown passes tied Bill Salmon's 1975 mark and his 142 completions are six short of Phil Schooley's 1968 record. Propelled by Sandon's arm, UNI ranks fourth in scoring, averaging 31 points per game, and No. 5 in total offense with a 400-yard average. "The season has gone exactly the way I'd hoped," Sandon said.

"We have one of the best offenses in the country and I've been among the top three passers most of the season." THIS YEAR, Sandon not only is Start tf yar off lift. In Outer litw. For Ion of comfort and low weight. With fkiibk and toWttw wrappod poddod 111 ho lit way. H'l Doitor.

trhrtHin of THE LEATHER SHOE NEW LOCATION Across from Wards Merle Hoy Moll Ph. 276-158 1 ft 1 1 ttr: 'in i Hayden Fry. "Andre has great ability, calls our defensive signals and is a little mean." Since Big Ten football, of the type the Hawkeyes must play Saturday at Purdue, is not a patty-cake affair, coaches are partial to fellows able to generate ferocity. And Tippett has lone that in catching quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage 14 limes for a minus 101 yards. Since Purdue features Mark Herrmann, one of the greatest papers in collegiate history, it would be neat if Tippett and the other dc tensive end, Brad Webb, could give the Heismann trophy candidate some "sack" time.

If we could get to him, it would hei i) our cause," agrees Andre. THE HAWREYE junior was born in bam, but moved north when alt old. He grew up in what he describes as a rugged neighborhood, the kind where it would have been dandy having an older brother when the kids got to shoving. Trouble was, Andre was the oldest of five sons. That has worked out nicely for the other four.

As a seventh grader, on the way to regular school, Tippet! walked past a school that taught a brand of karate called Nina Ryu. "I decided to give it a try," he recalls. Tuition was something like $40 per month until he got his brown belt, then it dropped to $20. He started competing in tournaments usually finished and now has a second-degree black belt, which is three degrees short of the top award. "I'm sure it helps me in football, both in quickness and mental toughnesj," Tippett said.

"I still work out with a guy during the off-season. In addition to giving me confidence, the sport has improved my self-control." Speakinf of confidence, that was a missing commodity as a freshman when Tipjiett went home and told his mother hi'i been cut from the jayvees. "I was crying told her I never wanted any more to do with football," he recalls. "So I went out for wrestling, tlwn track. Then she talked me into trying football again as a sophomore, and I got to play on a state championship team." It doesn't 'urt to listen to Mom from time to time.

TIPPETT WOUND up with 11 letters in the three sports, being elected captain in each, but was not a star of equal, magnitude in the classroom. A lot of colleges were interested in hinr. as a Junior until checking grades Bernie Wyatt, of Iowa's staff, was one who retained interest and suggested a yar at Ellsworth "Community College in Iowa Falls to get grades in shape. Andre signed on there, sight unseen. "After one day out here, I was so homesick I was rtidy to chuck it," he confesses.

Fortunately, he didn't. Tippett first saw tne Iowa campus in 1978, dropping over to watch the Wisconsin game. No one noticed him in Kinnick Stadium then, but that situation has changed. One of specialties is a mighty leap at, oir near, the line of scrimmage to knock a pass out of the sky before it has fairly started on its way. Some Hawkeyc fans have connected this habit with his name for a lilting mini-cieer that goes: Hooray, On Dray, Everybody Tippett.

"I haven't beard it, but I like it," says On Dray. "It's nice. It's a trick coach taught me, jumping like that if the quarterback has his shoulders squared and I can't get him." It's a good enough trl i-k to warrant a treat, Halloween or ot ierwise. By BOB DYER ItMhftr Stiff Writ CEDAR FALLS, IA. Ninth-rated Northern Iowa's Saturday showdown with top-ranked Eastern Illinois is a crucial game for two reasons.

A triumph not only will allow UNI to share the Mid-Continent Confer ence title with Eastern Illinois at 3-1, but the victor in all probability will earn a berth in the Division II national playoffs. Few are more aware of the game's importance than UNI quarterback Steve Sandon. Few would cherish a victory more than the junior from East Des Moines. "Ever since I started playing football, I have wanted to take part in a game like this," Sandon said. "A lot of college players were on winning teams in high school, but I've never been on a team that had a chance to win a conference championship and go to the playoffs.

This game will tell and I've been waiting a long time for it" Sandon's performance this season is a big reason UNI, 6-2 overall, is in such a position. He is ranked second nationally in Division II passing efficiency, completing 142 of 226 aerials for 1,861 yards and 16 touchdowns. With three games remaining, he has broken one single-season passing record, tied another and is just short of breaking another. Sandon's RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Come play Tht Spoc Invaders, Galoxian, pool or watch TV. SERVING SANDWICHES 11 AM TO 6 PM i AA fBfaaMfMBafafMfB NoVvitL 245-9041 IIUU success confident in his own ability, but has the same confidence in UNI's reconstructed offense.

That was not the case a year ago. The 6-foot 3-inch, 200-pounder completed only 79 of 168 attempts for 797 yards in 1979 in 11 starts. This year, he is hitting 63 percent of his throws, but last season he made good on only 47 percent of his attempts. "I've been taught a lot better this season," is Sandon's candid assessment. The UNI coaching staff underwent several changes during the offseason and Dan Dorazio was hired off the University of Washington staff and named offensive coordinator.

"Last year, it was sweep Kelly (Ellis) left, sweep Kelly right, then face a third and long and an obvious pass," Sandon said. Ellis, an all-American candidate at tailback, was to have become more of a receiving threat this year, but he was injured in the season opener and is being redshirted. His absence makes UNI's success even more amazing. While the new offense has played a major role in Sandon's blossoming, the natural maturation process a NORTHERN 1QW A Pleose turn to Page 3S Diesels Front Wheel Drives Formal Roof 4 drs SuDcompacts rij2sc7 pontics 4tk I Xh Mwiys SSnwriM Pvkbi 212-0461 We've Them! Imports WKW 1 Tht RtasMfi Iowa Ntwt Sarvtc SIOUX CITY, IA. Football fans here should get their fill of the game Saturday about five straight hours scheduled for Roberts Stadium starting at 11:30 a.m.

The marathon is necessary because a high school playoff game has been assigned to Sioux City, causing a conflict with a game matching Morningside College and the University of Mexico Nuevo Leon from Monterrey. Morningside officials faced the choice of moving their game to another site in Sioux City or switching it to a night game at Roberts Stadium. Don Protexter, Morningside athletic director, said a night game might present cold-weather problems and moving the game to another field in Sioux City presented the risk of head-to-head competition with a local high school, something Morningside did not want So Morningside will start its game at 11:30 a.m. At about 3 p.m. East Sioux City and Newton will meet in the high school game.

"It should be a good day to sell Iowa Music Box 1 play IOWA FIGHT SONG Swiss Movement tU onlirj tU JI post ml ton Gifts I Liathir Gatdt lit So. Clinton St Iowa City, Iowa 92240 319337-2375 seat cushions," quipped Protexter, who admitted he had to find something to joke about in order to keep from crying. "East playing the same day as we are is bound to hurt our gate," Protexter said. "East is located only about a mile from us and the people in the Morningside area are East fans. They say the entertainment dollar only goes so far so I don't know how many will go to both games." The Nuevo Leon team won the Mexican national football championship last season and has split in four other games with college teams in the United States this season.

The game in Sioux City was an outgrowth of a game last year in which Morningside and Wisconsin-' Whitewater went to Mexico City to play football. The 70-member party from Monterrey will arrive here about 6 p.m. today via chartered airliner. Morningside will host a reception for the Mexican team this evening at the Morningside -Commons and a dinner for both teams at the same place Saturday night. HARDWOODS for CRAFTSMEN HARDWOODS-IMPORTED DOMESTIC VENEERS and PLYWOODS All Woods on Display Come By and Browse Daily 9-5; Sat.

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