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Sports TUCSON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1971 14 Wallace. Defense Shine In 14-3 Wildcat Win In total offense. The WildcaUhad 167 to Utah's 165. Arizona had 95 yards ruling and 72 passing with Demory hitting on tlx of nine. Longmire completed 11 of 20 pasts for 96 yards to go with 69 yards rushing.

Eddy, who had caught oily one pass previously this season, receive all six of Demo-ry's completed passes, but ht suffered a shoulder separation that put him jut for the rest of the game. His only other reteption this season was a deflected pass againsl Washington State hich he grabbed in the end zone for the Wildcats' first touchdown of the sason. the game when Mike DeSylvia kicked the extra point that gave Arizona a 7-0 lead. Longmire came back to pass the Utes deep Into UA territory at the 17, but they were pushed back by an illegal receiver penalty. On the next play Wallace intercepted again, this time on the UA goal line.

He returned to the 11. Unable to move, the Wildcats were forced to punt and Utah took over on its own 48. On the third play Longmire went for the bomb, but Greg Boyd intercepted on the Arizona five and returned to the 13. Early in the second quarter the Wildcats marched from their own 20 to the Utah six on hard rushes by Joe Petroshus and passes from Bill Demory to Barry Dean and Chris Eddy. On first and goal at the six Dean was called for offensive pass interference in the end zone and the Utes had the option of either taking a 15-yard penolty or a touchback which would give them the ball on their own 20.

They took the touchback. Longmire again passed them Into Arizona territory, but Arizona's fourth interception, this one by Bob White, killed the drive at the UA 17. Just before the half ended, Jim Allison, filling in for the injured UA All-America candidate Arneson at middle linebacker, killed another Utah drive with an interception at the Arizona 20. He returned to the 34. Both teams had 10 first downs In the first half, and there was only two yards difference By TOM FOUST Star Sports Editor Lanky Jackie Wallace, a 185-pound Junior cornerback from New Orleans, proved Arizona's best offense is its defense, last night as he returned a pass interception 36 yards and a punt 74 yards to give the University of Arizona a 14-3 victory over Utah in an important Western Athletic Conference football game before 31, 000 fans at Arizona Stadium.

The victory broke a three-game Arizona losing streak and evened the Wildcats' season record at 3-3. It also kept them in the WAC title i( Related Story, Stah Pag 2B. race. Arizona now has a 2-1 conference record with a homecoming date coming date coming up at 2:30 p.m. Saturday against New Mexico.

It was the third time this season that Wallace has scored on a punt return. He ras Perhaps inspired by Bateman, Arizona punter Marty Shuford had his best night of the season, with a 40.2 average on nine kicks, two of which went out of bounds deep in Utah territory. It was definitely a victory for the UA defense, which has been riddled by injuries. The "Royal Wreckers" were without star linebacker Mark Arneson, end Greg Poole and at the last minute tackle Jim Johnson was heldout. Although Utah gained 317 yards total offense, the UA defenders were tough when it was necessary and held Utah to a single field goal by Bateman.

The Utes, after winning their last two games, dropped to a 2-4 season record. The loss was their second in WAC play and it practically eliminated any hope they may have had for conference honors. At the start of the third period the Utes marched from their own 29 to the Arizona 23 where the Wildcat defense held and Bateman kicked a 33-yard field goal with about 9:20 left in the period. Greg Boyd broke through to practically block Batman's punt which covered only 36 yards to the UA 34 and Arizona, with Shuford making good gains, marched to the Utah 33. The drive stalled, however, and Shuford punted out of bounds on the Utah six.

Bateman, punting on third down boomed a 55-yarder to the UA 33. With 13:55 left in the game, Wallace took a 50-yard Bateman punt on his own 26-yard line, headed for the west sidelines and, picking up a couple of blocks, cut back in the other direction to race all the way for the score. The 74-yard return was the third of the season for Wallace, tying a National Collegiate Athletic record held by several players. The hard charging UA defense again broke through to partially block a Bateman punt with 10 minutes left, but with a good bounce, it still covered 47 yards to the UA 24. Shuford was forced to punt from his own goal line and with 8:02 left, Utah began marching from their own 37 after being pushed back by a 15-yard penalty on the kick return.

Scooter Longmire's sharp passes took the Utes all the way to the Arizona five, but on fourth and two th Utah quarterback's pass into the end zon hit Boyd in the back with 4:30 left and Arizona took over and ran out the clock. The Wildcats kept the Utes under control in the first half by picking off five passes by Longmire. Arizona picked up two first downs on the first series and Marty Shuford put the Utes in the hole with a 43-yard punt that went out of bounds on the Utah one-yard line. Nine plays later Wallace intercepted a pass intended for Fred Graves and trotted 36 yards for a touchdown. There was only 4:48 gone in Utah OA First downs 17 .16 Rinhlni yardage 11! l'S Pasting yardaoe 202 Return yardage pm aj-4j-i j-'i Punts Fumbles lost Yrd penalUed t-79 one back 73 yards against Texas Tech and another one 94 yards against UCLA last week.

But this one was particularly sweet because it came against the nation's leading punter, the sensational "'Super Leg" Marv Bateman, Bateman, who has been averaging better than 49 yards every time he kicks the ball, was rushed all night by the hard-charging UA de-fense, but he still managed to average 47.4 yards on seven punts. Two of his kicks were partially blocked by the Wildcat defense. ASU's White Sets Record In 60-28 Sun Devil Romp UA's Opponents San Diego St. 3t, Utah State 20 Brigham Young 23, Tulsa 7 UTEP 12, Wyoming 7 Arizona State 60, New Mexico 28 SMU 18, Texas Tech 17 Washington St. 24, Stanford 23 Washington 38, Oregon State 14 California Jl, UCLA 24 "I was extremely pleased with the defense in the first half but in the second half we ere quite ragged," Kush said.

"Our defense had a tendancy to stop people and then let them off the hook." Although the Lobos' Wishbone-T was able to finish with 332 yards, White dominated the game. In the fourth period, following two New Mexico scores, White took the Sun Devils 64 yards in 10 plays, capping the drive with a four-yard toss to Demery which gave White, who had already broken a school single game record, the conference mark. Demery and Petty, who had missed several days of practice this week visiting his father, who was taken ill in New Jersey, each caught tw touchdown passes. It as the best day so far for Demery, who grabbed six passes for 48 yards. White attempted only 15 passes, but completed 12 for 124 yards.

His counterpart, Rocky Long, hit four of 16 for 54 yards. The victory gave the 17th ranked Sun Devils a 3-0 conference mark and 5-1 record overall. Next week, ASU plays host to Air Force. Ariiena St. New Meiice 11 20 0 7 11 40 1 31 21 ASU Oemorv 14 past from White (Ekstrand kick).

AO 5 poss trom While lEkstrend kickl, ASU Green Uoass from White (Ekstrand kick). ASU Petty 14 pass from While (Ekstrand kick). A1 Milone 1 Diunqe (kick blocked). ASU Holdrn pass from White (Ekstrand kick). ASU Holden 31 run (Ekstrand kick).

NM fcCall 4 run (Hrishorn- kick). NM Henry 3 run (Hartshorne kick), NM McCall 5 run (Hartshorne kick). ASU Demory 4 pass from White (kick failed). ASU Robinson 22 pass from Brndv (kick tailed). NM Leiuiioasenoa 5 run (Hartshorne kick).

Alt 24,200. A i A M-m UA Wallace 36 Pass Interceotws (DeSylvH kick) UTAM FG Bateman 11 UA Wallace 74 Punt return (D4ytvla kick) Attendance 11,000 vainly pursues Wallace as the Wildcats' John for his speedy teammates. (Jack Sheaffer All three of the leaders McCluskey, Foyt and Andretti pitted during the nine yellow laps that began when Bill Simpson spun in turn two on lap 97. Andretti picked up fucj in 9.5 seconds to maintain the lead. Once everybody was back track, Foyt and McCluskey easily outracedjhe field but the latter couldn't catch the omnipotent Foyt.

It was the 36-year-old Texan's 43rdhampion. ship victory and his first in over a year. He did it in a new car he had never run before and said after the race would never run again a new engine and experimental fuel and ignition systems. The win also gave Foyt second place in the 1971 points standings. Joe Leonard, who finished tenth, had won the title before the race started.

Billy Vukovich finished sixth lh" -the race and third in the standings. McCluskey will move up in the standings from his 14th position but how far wasn't determined yesterday. Swede Savage, winner of last fall's Bobb Ball race, went out on the 10th lap after qualifying seventh and Mike Mosley, who was making his return to competition in this race after a serious accident at Indianapolis, In May, qualifed fifth but only went 33 laps before a dropped valve in his turbo-Offy eliminated him from the group running at the front of the pact Only 11 of the 24 starters finished the race. Wallace Does It Again he had spilled on the track, keeping the yellow on for five laps. McCluskey jumped into eighth just after the second yellow flag was lifted.

Al Unser, the 1970 Marlboro champion, and Johnny Rutherford tangled in the first turn to bring on the yellow for eight laps. From there McCluskey methodically ran down the drivers ahead of him and finally moved Into the top three with 47 laps gone in the race. Foyt held the lead from lap 27 and 91 and after a pitting for fuel led from lap 108 to 150. McCluskey held the lead for a half lap while Foyt was making up time after the stop, but Mario Andretti, the 1969 champion and Indy winner, was credited with the lead for 16 laps. Today In Sports Dog Racing Tucson Greyhound Park, 4 and 8 p.m.

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Channel v. (23) block Arizona's Jackie Wallace (25) heads goalward with his second back Cal Poulson touchdown after picking off his second Utah pass in the fourth D'Auria tries to quarter of last night's football game at Arizona Stadium. Utah full- Photo) By RICK DAVIS Star Staff Writer ALBUQUERQUE Sophomore Danny White took control of Arizona State's confused offense here yesterday, and the result was a record-shattering 60-28 victory for the Sun Devils over New Mexico. His left shoulder completely healed from a pre-season injury, the son of former ASU star Whizzer White turned in one of the most complete quarterbacking jobs in school history. His six touchdown passes established a Western Athletic Conference single game record, as the defending champion Sun Devils flew through what was supposed to be their toughest conference test with a 41-point explosion in the first half.

With the 6-3, 175-pound Mesa native calling signals, ASU scored the first two times it got the ball on a 14-yard pass to split end Calvin Demery, culminating an eight-play, 80-yard ASU NM First downs .11 Rushing yardage 409 332 Passing vwnaQS l'A Return yardage 143 150 Passes 14-17-0 4-17-1 punts ms.s Fumbles lost 3 3 Yards penalized 7-5 (-55 sweep through New Mexico's shocked defense, and a 27-yard scoring toss to tight end Joe Petty coming off a perfect roll out pattern to the left. From then on, White's poise and the ability of every Sun Devil receiver to work himself loose turned the game into a rout, as halfback Woody Green took a 14-yard pass from White to make it 21-0 at the end of the first quarter and another 14-yard pass to Petty, a 29-yard bomb to wingback Steve Holden and fullback Ben Malone's one-yard plunge completed the first half "My arm felt great; there wasn't a twinge in it even on the long passes," a calm White said afterwards. "We worked hard all week on their defense. The coaches picked out the patterns for us to run." White was aided by the power running of Malone, the sophomore from Eloy who picked up 181 yards in his first start as a collegian and Green, who added 141 of ASU's 409 rushing yards. Lolw middle linebacker Houston Ross, one of the keys to the New Mexico defense, suffered a broken left leg making a tackle with 1:32 gone in the game and his absence enabled Green and Malone to break loose.

"White did an excellent job reading the de-fense and calling plays at the line of scrimmage," ASU coach Frank Kush said. "He called a spring-out at the line that was responsible for one score and he also set up several others this way. "We started Malone at fullback because we wanted to get as much speed as possible against New Mexico. I was hoping our youngsters had forgotten the previous week." Apparently, they did. ASU, handed its first loss in 21 games last week by Oregon State, limited the Lobos to 117 yards and six first downs in the first half, while rolling up 22 first downs and 380 yards of its own.

In the second half, New Mexico outscored Arizona State behind the power running of Fred Henry and Nate McCall and that was enough to draw Kush's ire. McCluskey Second Foyt Wins Ball Memorial mm i tCa L2? t2-' I nmHli f1-" 1 By CALVIN REYNARD Star Staff Writer PHOENIX A. J. Foyt staged what could have been a one-man show in the 150-mile Bobby Ball Memorial Race yesterday at Phoenix International Raceway. The spoiler in Foyt's win in the final event of the 1971 U.S.

Auto Club's championship trail was Tucson's Roger McCluskey. McCluskey was an obvious favorite with the fans and everytime the likeable Tucsonan moved up in the pack, there was applause that could almost be heard over the roar of the racing engines. Foyt's win was impressive, beating McCluskey by almost a half lap, but Mc-Cluskey's change from the 15th starting position grabbed the spotlight. Foyt's time was 1:21.18 at an average speed of 110.33 miles per hour. Bobby Unser set a track record in qualifying, whipping around the one-mile D-shaped track in :26.68 at 134.932 m.p.h.

Mark Donohue -shared the front row with the oldest of the racing Unser brothers and Foyt sat in the number three spot. McCluskey could only get a :27.95 (128.801 m.p.h.) out of his new turbo-charged Offenhau-ser as Foyt qualified a half second and three miles an hour faster. McCluskey had moved into tenth position by the time the first of three yellow flags came out on the third lap. Lloyd Ruby spun jn some oil Holding On University of Arizona flanker Chris Eddy clutches a pass from quarterback Bill Demory as an unidentified Utah defender tackles him in the air. The pass, during first quarter action, was complete to the Utah 44-yard line.

(Sheaffer Photo).