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Business Pages 18-24 Microcomputers move into the home Page 18 SuixlayNewsJournal Wilmington, Oct. 23, 1977 ens smother Middle Tennessee 60-7 rl points By TOM TOMASHEK The victory won't soothe all the hurts of an ready long and painful football season, but Dela-' ware enjoyed a 60-7 laugher yesterday at a time when it so desperately needed both triumph and relief. The laugh was on first-time foe Middle Tennessee, a team which itself has had little to smile about in what is now a 1-6 campaign. The Blue Raiders' only victory came against Eastern Ken- tucky, a team which defeated Delaware in its sea- son opener. The visitors from Murfreesboro, might have come to play, but they forgot to play in the second period.

Delaware scored 39 points in that 15-minute segment, next to a 54-point one-quarter spree in 1915 against William Mary when the Blue Hens won 93-0, a school scoring mark. It wasn't the first second-quarter lapse for Middle Tennessee, however. The Raiders have been out-scored 105-3 this season during the stanza. So much for Middle Tennessee's first visit to Delaware Stadium and so much for handicapping by comparative scores. By virtue of the teams' games with Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee should have been a 26-point favorite, but after a 7-0 first-quarter lead, the Blue Raiders were unable to either convert or contain.

slant over the Blue Hens' right side. But 514 Delaware yards and nine Delaware touchdowns later, Delaware walked off with a 3-3-; 1 record. Raymond admitted that a loss would have been devastating to the remainder of the Blue Hen season, but no one pursued what the bottom line would have been. The big play had been so conspicuously absent in previous Delaware games this season, but not on this brilliant autumn afternoon. The Blue Hens tied the score on a 60-yard drive that took nine plays, but struck next on a pass play from Komlo to Brian Adam that covered 51 yards.

See BLUE HENS Sports 12 "You look at the score and say 'sure, but they're not a bad football team," said coach Tubby Raymond, keeping his enthusiasm on a short tether. "Another day and another set of circumstances. "Komlo (quarterback Jeff) hits a couple big ones and they get a couple bad breaks Certainly after the Blue Raiders had driven 81 yards in 20 plays, the 16,497 fans might have been pondering the worst. Delaware knew it had to stop Middle Tennessee's 225-pound fullback Mike Moore to stop the opponent, but he carried eight times effectively and caught one 13-yard pass to spark the drive that he culminated on a two-yard flgyis laugher tickles Tubby Hal Bodley Sports Editor yW tlk lllil AS v-, i V-V r- rv 7. a.

The tailgaters seemed in no big rush to close up their bottles and baskets and trunks and head for the perches up the concrete mountain that is Delaware Stadium. The Blue Hens get wiped out by Villanova 33-16 and limp home with a 2-3-1 record and the paying customers have a difficult time getting excited about somebody called Middle Tennessee. So, many in the crowd of 16,479 decided to soak up the sunshine and their toddies a little longer than usual yesterday. It's just as well. The first time Middle Tennessee got the football it looked like Dela ware was going to have to get a supoena to regain it.

The bunch from Murfreesboro, intimi-ated the Blue Hens, adroitly marching 81 yards on 20 plays and with 2:51 to go in the first quarter it was 7-0. "I thought they were going to take it (the ball) to Middletown," Coach Tubby Raymond quipped. "They were heading in that direction and I didn't think they were going to stop." Raymond had nothing to worry about. What came next was an incredible six-touchdown, 39-point second quarter and when the magnificent autumn afternoon finally came to a close Delaware had won 60-7. Was this the same team that was virtually run out of the Main Line by Villanova last week? Could this be the same Blue Hens who were tied by Morgan State, a team that was to lose to Delawa re State yesterday? And above all, were these the same Blue Hens who lost their opener 24-7 to Eastern Kentucky, a team Middle Tennesse turned back 19-10? "The same," said Tubby Raymond, who was belly-laughing for the first time since he sank a 50-foot putt last July.

"Strange things happen in football." One of the strangest things might be the in-and-out performances of his 12th team. During the good years, which have been all of them except 1967 (2-7), Tubby Raymond has died a lot between starts. Every opponent, even the dreadfully weak ones, worried the coach. He kept See BODLEV Sports 10 SUff pkois S. UOni Able to leap across goal lines in a single bound.

Blue lien halfback Craig Carroll scores a second period touchdown while Middle Tennessee defensive back Pat Siegfried helplessly watches. Buzzer shot fails as Sixers fall in OT resembled a halloween party. "All night everybody had long faces," Free said in offering an explanation for the Sixers performance. The one bright spot for the Sixers was the return of Julius Erving, his first game action since June 5 in the playoffs. The Doctor was called on for 28 minutes of service as the Sixers needed help with George McGinnis and Doug Collins shooting horribly.

Erving wound up as the Sixers' top scorer with 21 points, including two clutch baskets in overtime that set the stage for Free's final shot. Coach Gene Shue also wanted Erving to take the last shot, but Jazz strategy prevented that from See SIXERS Sports 2 By CAESAR ALSOP Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA Okay, so we all knew the Sixers weren't going to win every game. But the first loss wasn't expected so soon. Last night, in a lethargic performance, the Sixers weren't able to overcome the New Orleans Jazz, falling 104-103 in overtime in a game they seemingly were helplessly out of on several occasions. Lloyd Free missed a jump shot from just beyond the free throw circle on the last play of the game, and Harvey Catchings culminated the Sixers' woes by failing on a tap-in of Free's favorite shot.

"That would have been something, huh?" Catchings said in the startled Sixer locker room which Minnesota halts No. 1 Michigan MINNEAPOLIS AP) Minnesota's stunning 16-0 upset of unbeaten and No. 1-ranked Michigan yesterday was for Gopher Coach Cal Stoll the biggest victory of his career. "I had a gut feeling on Wednesday that we could beat Michigan," said Stoll. "But what happened was that we had a bunch of kids who just went out there and threw their hearts on the field." Minnesota, which had not beaten Michigan since 1967, used a stifling and opportunistic defense to return the famed Little Brown Jug trophy to Minnesota for the first time in 10 years.

"The game was won with the Minnesota defense," said Bo Schembechler, Michigan coach. "We needed a big play and never got it. We kept handing them the football and their offense did a good job of moving it after we gave them 10 points." Sophomore place kicker Paul Rogind booted field goals of 41 and 37 yards in the first half, and Marion Barber scored on a three-yard run to put Minnesota ahead 13-0 at the half. Rogind added a 31-yard field goal with just over four minutes remaining in the game. Stoll said that you don't beat Michigan unless you play with "great intensity and that's what we did.

They didn't get the breaks and things fell into place for us," he said, referring to three fumble recoveries and two interceptions by the Gophers. "You have to have those kind of breaks," Stoll said. "It's the only way to beat Michigan." See MICHIGAN-Sports 11 Wayne Stephenson hurt as Leafs whip Flyers with just 6:40 remaining in the rough contest. Referee Wally Karris handed out 94 minutes in penalties, 47 to each club, including 17 minutes apiece to Philadelphia's Andre Dupont and Toronto's Lanny McDonald for their third-period fight. Flyers goalie Wayne Stephenson was forced out of the game at 17:22 of the first period, when Thompson broke in and scored.

Momentum carried Thompson into Stephenson, who suffered possible cartilege damage to his knee. See FLYERS Sports 2 TORONTO (AP) Center Dar-ryl Sittler scored three goals and Errol Thompson tallied two last night as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat Philadelphia 6-1, handing the Flyers their first loss of the National Hockey League season. Two of Sittler's goals came during power plays. Toronto has scored eight of its 16 goals this season during manpower advantages. Thompson's first goal, by contrast, came while the Leafs were shorthanded.

'The Flyers, who had won their first four games this season, used Don Saleski's seventh goal of the season, spoiling the shutout bid by Toronto goalie Mike Palmateer AW' SUH pboto by Rod Dublck Sixer Julius Erving (6), backing in on New Orleans' Aaron James, saw his first action of the season in the second period of last night's game at the Spectrum. How the AP top 20 fared 11. Notre Dame (5-1) beat No. 5 USC 49-19 P-4 12. Texas (5-1) played Rice 28-14 P-7 13.

Texas Tech (5-1) did not play 14. Pitt (5-1-1) beat Syracuse 28-21 P-4 15. California (5-2) lost to UCLA 21-19 P-2 16. Iowa St. (5-2) lost to No.

6 Oklahoma 35-16 P-6 Inside sports Pro basketball P-2 Pro hockey P-2 College football P-3-7 High school football P-8-9 Pro football P-12 Recreation P-l 3 Horse racing P-14 Michigan (6-1) lost to Minnesota 16-0 P-l Texas (6-0) beat Southern Methodist 30-14 P-4 Alabama (5-1) beat Louisville 55-6 P-6 Ohio St. (6-1) beat Northwestern 35-15 P-6 USC (5-2) lost to No. 11 Notre Dame 49-19 P-4 Oklahoma (6-1) beat No. 16 Iowa State 35-16 P-6 Colo. (5-1-1) lost to No.

18 Nebraska 33-15 P-6 Kentucky (6-1) beat Georgia 33-0 P-6 Arkansas (5-1) played Houston 34-0 P-7 Penn St. (6-1) beat West Virginia 49-28 P-4 17. Brigham Young (5-1) beat Wyoming 10-7 18. Nebraska (5-2) beat No. 7 Colorado 33-15 19.

Florida (3-1-1) beat Tennessee 27-17 20. Clcmson (6-1) beat North Carolina State 7-3 P-7 71 5 wkh 8 10.