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colleges Sunday, Oct 5, 1986 11-D Quakers crush Columbia, 42-7 'Bama thumps the Irish Shula tosses 3 TDs in 28-10 triumph tion where we let the calls affect us. But I hope the penalties don't affect play on both sides of the ball. We felt we did a lot of other things on offense and defense that we needed to do to become a good team. "We're aware that if we don't establish a passing game, some people would load up against the run. We wanted to loosen up Columbia right off the bat by mixing the pass and the run." Quarterback Jim Crocicchia's throwing numbers were modest 12 for 22 for 140 yards and one score but effective.

Penn benefited from continually favorable field position and proceeded to reel off scoring drives that were remarkably similar 58 yards in 11 plays, 51 in 8, 53 in 7, 54 in 4, 80 in 11 and 57 in 13. Columbia toughed it out in the first half but succumbed to Penn's size and muscle in the second half. The Quakers led by only 14-0 at the half, having choked off a Columbia scoring threat when outside linebacker Brad Hippenstiel's quarterback sack on fourth down at the Penn 5-yard line forced a fumble that inside linebacker Bruce McConnell recovered. "That goal-line stand gave us confidence," Hippenstiel said. "We did not underestimate Columbia.

We were fired up." The visitors lost their 24th in a row. Their last win was in 1983. In the last seven-plus seasons, they have won a total of four games. "Penn was much too big and strong for us, but then we knew that going in," said Larry McElreavy, the new Columbia coach. "We're playing with heart and enthusiasm, but we don't stack up talent-wise with them." By Bill Lyon Inquirer Sports Columnist Flags and Flynn.

Both were all over Franklin Field yesterday afternoon as unbeaten Penn stomped winless Columbia, 42-7- Flags an Ivy League record 28 of them in all, including 17 penalties against the winners. Flynn: Chris, junior partner in the Quakers' tailbacking firm of Comizio Flynn, ran for two touchdowns and 142 yards on only IS carries. Flynn's career high was particularly timely because Rich Comizio, the Ivy League's leading rusher, sat out the second half with bruised ribs and a bruised thigh. Five Penn players scored touchdowns and the Quakers scored in each quarter to run their record to 3-0. The offense piled up 522 yards (335 by rushing), while the defense was dealing out its usual ration the weekly touchdown and next to nothing on the ground.

Penn has given each of its three opponents a TD apiece and nothing more. Columbia (0-3), with only 45 yards on the ground, became the third opponent unable to manage 100 yards rushing. About the only discordant note on a warm, sultry day were all those yellow flags sprouting like dandelions on the artificial turf. The Quakers absorbed 154 yards in penalties, none of which seemed to slow them significantly, while Columbia was nailed with 80 yards worth of indiscretions. "It's a record I'm not at all happy with," said Penn coach Ed Zubrow, who has taken up right where Jerry Berndt left off.

"We got into a situa i Columbia, LYON, from 1-D world out there. "I'm an optimist," said Larry McElreavy, who is Columbia's third coach in the last three years. As he spoke, he dabbed at the blood running from a gash on his hand. He had sliced himself on a crushed soda can. The symbolism was rampant.

Life is like that at Columbia. You speak of a renaissance even as you bandage fresh wounds. "It may take four or five years, but I truly believe we'll have a good program," McElreavy insisted. "We saw a perfect example of how it can be done, right across the field from us today. What we're going through now is so reminiscent of the 1981 Ths Philadelphu Inquirer GREG LANIER Penn's Rick Inskeep (37) knocks the ball out of the grasp of Columbia fullback John Chirico.

after 24 losses in a row, longs to be a winner United Press International BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Second-ranked Alabama remained unbeaten with a 28-10 whipping of Notre Dame yesterday, ending more than a decade of frustration at the hands of the Fighting Irish. Mike Shula fired three touchdown passes, including strikes of 52 and 22 yards to flanker Al Bell, to end a string of four painful losses to the Fighting Irish. Alabama (5-0) had never beaten Notre Dame, including consecutive Sugar and Orange Bowl losses in 1973 and 1974, by a total of three points. Those defeats cost the Crimson Tide and late coach Paul "Bear" Bryant two national titles.

Alabama coach Ray Perkins didnt talk about the losses to Notre Dame, but he called the contest a great victory, despite an offense that he said was "almost non-existent except for some big plays." "We didn't do a good job running the ball. It was very poor, and I did a poor job coaching the offense," Perkins said. "IButl we're real proud of our players for winning the game. I'd put them up against anybody." Notre Dame (1-3) lost for the eighth straight time on the road. "Alabama is an excellent football team," first-year Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz said.

"The better football team won today. It was no fluke." Defensive back Freddie Robinson, who said he came to Alabama because of Bryant and dedicated yesterday's victory to Bryant's memory, intercepted two passes. Another Bryant recruit, Desmond Holoman, recovered a third-quarter fumble that led to Alabama's last touchdown. Shula completed 15 of 23 passes for 191 yards and, in addition to the TD passes to Bell, he hit Howard Cross on an 11-yard scoring strike in the last minute of the first half. Bell caught five passes for 99 yards and ran two reverses for another 40 yards.

End Greg Richardson electrified the crowd of 77,858 with a 66-yard punt return for a touchdown with 5:23 left in the first quarter to make the score, 7-0. Alabama increased the lead to 14-0 late in the first half on Shula's 52-yard TD pass to Bell. But Shula, trying to blow the game open before the half with a third-down pass deep in his own territory, was hit hard by linebacker Darrell Gordon and fumbled. Notre Dame quarterback Steve Beuerlein used the mistake to get the Irish back in the game, firing an 8-yard touchdown pass to flanker Tim Brown on third down to close the gap to 14-7 with 2:59 remaining in the half. But the lefthanded Shula brought the Tide back with an 80-yard drive.

A 14-yard pass to fullback Kerry Goode, an 18-yard strike to Richardson and a 15-yard penalty for a late hit on the same play set up a 16-yard reverse by Bell that gave Alabama the ball on the Notre Dame 11. One play later, Shula found Cross slanting in for the touchdown to stake the Tide to a 14-point lead with 59 seconds left in the half. Reserve quarterback Terry Andry-siak replaced Beuerlein, who suffered a concussion after a hard sack by linebacker Cornelius Bennett. An-drysiak led the Irish 71 yards before John Carney kicked a 22-yard field goal with no time left in the half to make it 21-10. puter analysis ranked the Lions 194th.

The catch is, there are only 192 teams playing Division I-A and I-AA football. (Columbia was ranked behind two Division II schools.) No one gloats over Columbia's failure, certainly not in the Ivy. If anything, there is sympathy and empathy. "You have to feel for them, for their kids especially," agreed Ed Zubrow, Penn's rookie coach. "You really want them to succeed, but at the same time you don't want to be the team that loses to them.

All we had to do to get our players ready was show them the films of Columbia's game last week against Lafayette (a 26-21 loss). Columbia really should have won." It is the familiar litany of losers. Could have. Should have. Would have.

Didn't. "We had a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown called back in that game," said Bill Steinman, Colum-' bia's sports information director. "It was for clipping. The kid they called it on tripped over his own feet and fell into the back of another player. Those things seem to happen a lot." If there is a resurrection, it will be in the future.

Which means that for the seniors at Columbia, time is running out to participate in any sort of victory. Early errors damage DelState in 28-25 loss to Jackson St. session, Lane went back to punt, but the snap sailed over his head and rolled out of the end zone for a safety. Delaware State's offensive blunders continued in the second quarter, when a fumble on a punt return led to a 1-yard touchdown run by Tigers quarterback Shannon Boyd. "We'll have to go on from here," said Collick, whose team is now 3-1.

"We've got seven more games, and any one of them could go either way." Jackson State, the defending Southwestern Athletic Conference champion, is 5-1 this year. thought we had a chance to beat this team," Collick said. "It's our own fault. We didn't put the nail in the coffin when we had he chance." Delaware State outgained the Tigers, 325 yards, to 243, but it also led in turnovers, five to three. "They IJackson State! have been outgained by almost everybody they've played," Collick said.

"But they make things happen." The Tigers opened the scoring in the first quarter, when Carl Johnson recovered a fumble and scooted 12 yards into the end zone. Then, with Delaware State unable to gain a first down on its next pos By Robert Seltzer Inquirer stuff Writer The Delaware State Hornets boast the kind of offense that makes defenses look like speed bumps inconveniences rather than obstacles. In its first three games of the year, Delaware State averaged 30 points and 324 yards a game. Last night, however, it was the Hornets' offense that was run over by the opposition, at least in the first half. And that was enough to provide the difference in the ball game, as Jackson State beat Delaware State, 28-25, in a non-conference battle at said.

To their considerable credit, the Columbia players' enthusiasm is un-, flagging, their competitive zest commendable. But for now, they are simply overmatched physically. So they settle for small victories, find solace where they can. Putelo, describing the Lions' only score, a 65-yard pass: "We knew that route would work. We should have had another one in the first half.

Hey, we don't just lay over and die. We're trying, believe me." Yes, the effort is evident, the spirit admirable. But Columbia, alas, is several studs removed from the pure talent needed to compete with anyone. Last year, for example, one com Then, in a series of possessions that had more reversals than an episode of Dallas, the Hornets intercepted a pass, lost a fumble, recovered a fumble and scored when Walker hit John Lane from the 8-yard line, cutting the gap to 22-21. On Delaware State's next possession, David Parkinson kicked a 44-yard field goal, giving the Hornets their first lead of the game, 25-21.

But Jackson State ended the Hornets' hopes when running back Steven Weems plunged into the end zone from 1 yard out with 8 minutes, 34 seconds left in the game. "I'm disappointed because I converting twice on fourth-down plays to sustain the drive before connecting with Dan Withers on a 19-yard touchdown pass with 4 minutes, 49 seconds left in the game. The Bulls took a lead for the first time, 22-21, when Crosta completed a pass to Ron Gilhousen for the two-point conversion. As they had done last week in a 42-35 victory against Mercyhurst, the Wildcats retaliated quickly driv-ing 64 yards in eight plays and scoring on a 3-yard run by Peter Lorn-bardi with 1:54 remaining. Quarterback Schulz, a redshirt freshman, was nearly impeccable on the drive, completing passes of 17, 9 and 14 yards.

The two-point run attempt failed, however, when Pascoe fumbled the handoff, and Villanova had to settle for a 27-22 lead with less than 2 minutes remaining. That proved to be plenty of time for Buffalo. The Bulls had no trouble handling the attempted squib kickoff by Todd Schaeffer and took over on their own 40 with 1:49 remaining. Crosta picked up 18 yards on a pass to Tim Teicher and then moved the Bulls to the Villanova 12 on a 30-yard pass to Withers. After a Villanova timeout, Crosta threw one incomplete pass before connecting with Mark Schmidt on a 12-yard TD pass with 1:07 remaining.

Bill Lyon season at Penn, it's uncanny." McElreavy was an assistant coach at Penn when that rise from the ashes began. The Quakers had been every bit as inept as Columbia, but since that springboard season of 1981 they have won the last four Ivy League championships. And they have inspired McElreavy. "We told our players, 'Don't forget the score, look at Penn's poise, how they worked in the weight room, use them as a model, make that off-season commitment, and what goes around comes McElreavy Franklin Field. Delaware State made three mistakes that led to 15 points in the first half a deficit that proved too formidable for the Hornets, despite a furious rally in the second half.

"Before we could look up, it was 15-0," said Delaware State coach Bill Collick. "I'm very proud of our kids, coming back the way they did. But, if' we're going to be a good football team, we just can't make those kind of mistakes that's all there is to it." Delaware State quarterback Mike Walker scored on a 5-yard run in the third quarter, pulling the Hornets to within six points, at 21-15. lead at the half on a 43-yard run by Ron Sency and a 4-yard pass from Kirk Schulz to Bob Brady. But they also accrued 40 yards on five penalties 81 yards in 10 penalties by game's end that cost them some offense.

"We squandered too many scoring opportunities," Talley said. "Penalties hurt us both ways but more offensively. We can't play that way against a decent team. A good team will blow you out." So it was that entering the third quarter the Wildcats found themselves on top, but precariously so, 21-7. For in a span of 12 minutes, the Wildcats were stunned by three Bulls touchdowns.

The Bulls (4-1) rallied without their leading rusher, O. D. Underwood, who suffered an ankle injury in the first quarter. They began their comeback after Ken Crosta returned at quarterback in the first series of the fourth quarter, replacing his replacement, John Gentilella, and immediately directed an eight-play, 53-yard drive that culminated in a 6-yard touchdown run by Dan Mettica that made it 21-14. Villanova's next drive was halted when a pass by fullback Gary Pascoe was intercepted by Maurice Drewitt at the Buffalo 14.

From there, Crosta drove the Bulls 86 yards in 12 plays Buffalo rallies for 22 in 4th quarter to hand Villanova its 1st loss, 29-27 By Sarajane Freligh Inquirer Stuff Writer The sun rose this morning on the Main Line, as coach Andy Talley knew it would. His Villanova team lost yesterday, 29-27, to Buffalo, a Division III team that had been considered a sizable underdog to his Wildcats. Talley's team lost for the first time since 1980, and it was deeply disappointing to him. But it was not the end of the world. Nevertheless, it was a silent squad that filed off the field at Villanova Stadium, all of the Wildcats tasting for the first time the bitterness of a Villanova loss.

A Wildcats football team had not lost since 1980, a winning streak that extended only 10 games because the school dropped the sport for four years. And since the program's resurrection last year, the Wildcats had put together a 7-0 streak that was snapped yesterday by virtue of a 22-point rally by Buffalo in the fourth quarter. "What bothers me is that we lost to a team that was not better than us," Talley said. "We made too many mistakes. We had too many penalties and our offense should have put more points on the board.

"We did not get beat," he said. "We beat ourselves. And I am very, very upset." The Wildcats (2-1) had taken a 14-7 x.r?n.vw. jfc Ttw Philadelphia Inqmcer JOHN PAUL FILO Fullback Jerry Brown is stopped by a swarm of Villanova defenders, led by Ted White (73). A i..