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3H fiilabelpto Inquirer colleges Sunday, Oct. 18, 1987 9-D Smith sets mark as Florida routs Temple, 34-3 great vision. He makes you play bolh sides of the block. As soon as you go to one side, he goes the other way." The Gators came out growling on the game's first possession. Smith gained 29 yards in three carries and caught a 14-yard pass from Bell.

On the eighth play, Bell underthrew Darrell Woulard on a post pattern, but Woulard out leaped backup cor-nerback Jeff Thomas for the touchdown with the game only 3:37 old. Afler Temple's three-plays-and-punt sequence, Smith was back on stage with runs of 11, 20, 9 and 10 yards that sparked a 66-yard scoring drive. He left the game after being shaken up on the fourth carry, but backup Wayne Williams carried it in from 10 yards out and it was 14-0. The Owls scored their only points on their next possession, a career-best 52-yard field goal by Bill Wright. They might have had more had a scrambling James Thompson not stepped out of bounds just a split-second before hitting Sheldon Morris for what could have been a 34-yard touchdown.

Late in the quarter, the Gators scored again when sophomore wide-out Stacey Simmons, who has been clocked at 10.38 seconds in the 100 meters, turned a simple 8-yard squareoul pass into an electrifying 70-yard touchdown play, breaking or eluding five tacklers as he cut back across the grain. "It was tough," linebacker Joe Pos-scnti said. "We had a big letdown early in the game and fell behind. But you can't fold there. Anything can happen." The Owls looked a lot better in the middle two periods, holding the Gators to a single field goal and 156 yards.

But without McNair, who watched the game on crutches because of his sprained ankle, Temple was punchless. The Owls' best drive came midway through the second quarter, when Thompson connected twice with Bryan Gibson for 13 and 18 yards and Florida was called three times for being offside as the Owls moved from their 16 to the Florida 11. But on a fourth and 2, Thompson was stopped for a 1-yard gain on an option keeper. ji Villanova demolishes Catholic U. Cats romp, 46-7, over Div.

Ill foe By Mike Bradley Special lo The Inquirer Commencement exercises were held yesterday for the Villanova football team, and the Wildcats graduated with honors. Villanova, in its first season as a Division I-AA team, ended its run against Division 11 and 111 competition by hammering Division III visitor Catholic University, 46-7, before 8,656 al Villanova Stadium. The triumph ran the Wildcats' record to 5-0 this season and extended their winning streak to 11 games. Since its football program was revived in 1985, Villanova has posted an 18-1 record, losing only to Buffalo, a Division II team. But 15 of the games have been against Division III teams, and only two have been against I-AA squads (Columbia and Boston University).

Starting with next week's visit to Northeastern, the Wildcats will face only I-AA teams. Next season, 'Nova will begin play in the Yankee Confer-. ence, one of the toughest leagues in I-AA. "I'm elated," Wildcats coach Andy Talley said about the departure from the lesser competition. "It was a no-' win situation for us.

It was a necessary part of our rebuilding process, but it's limiting." Yesterday's rout of Catholic was hardly a suitable primer for the Cats, who will conclude their season with contests against Northeastern, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Richmond and Holy Cross the No. 1 team in the I-AA rankings. Villanova broke open a 7-7 contest with 25 consecutive second-period points to bury the Cardinals. Junior tailback Ron Sency rushed 22 times for 148 yards and one touchdown for Villanova, and sophomore quarterback Kirk Schulz completed 10 of 22 passes for 152 yards and two touchdowns, moving him to within 118 yards of first place in career passing yardage. "Playing Division III schools has brought along the program in a good way," Schulz said.

"We're all juniors, and we've been around. We've seen Boston U. and Columbia, and next week will be no big thing." The Wildcats took a 7-0 lead on their first drive of the game, when Schulz connected with sophomore split end Bob Brady on a 6-yard touchdown pass with 9 minutes, 58 seconds left in the opening quarter. It marked the fifth consecutive game in which Brady has caught a scoring pass, and the 10th in the last 14 games. Tom Withka added the conversion.

Catholic (2-4) had its brief moment of glory with 58 seconds gone in the second period when senior safety Pete Manzi collected a tipped Schulz pass intended for tight end Jim Cash-man and streaked 53 yards for a touchdown, But 'Nova roared back. On their next possession, the Cats scored on a 15-yard pass from Schulz to Brady. Withka added a 25-yard field goal with 9:41 left in the period, and touchdown runs by Sency (13 yards) and backup tailback John Karoly (23 yards) gave Villanova a 32-7 halftime lead. By Joe Juliano Inquirer Staff Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. First there was Craig Heyward, Pitt's 260-pound fullback whose slam-bang running style is befitting of the nickname "Ironhcad." Then, there was Blair Thomas, the shifty, speedy runner from Frank-ford High and Penn State whose running style is made to order for the misdirection and draw plays Joe Pa-terno is so fond of.

And on a gorgeous day in Gainesville yesterday, Temple was introduced to Emmitt Smith, the wise-beyond-his-years freshman from Florida. Smith rushed inside and outside for 175 yards to reach the plateau, marking the earliest point in NCAA history that a freshman had ever attained that mark, scored one touchdown and set up two others to lift the 14th-ranked Gators to a 34-3 pummeling of the undermanned Owls, Temple's third straight loss. Before a homecoming crowd of 74,286 that had Florida Field awash in a sea of orange, the Gators (5-2) scored three first-quarter touchdowns, including a pair of scoring passes by Kerwin Bell, to take a 21-3 lead. The Owls (3-4), hurt by the absence of tailback Todd McNair, the nation's lOth-leading rusher, and the loss (again) of wide receiver Keith Gloster in the second quarter, never recovered. Although Smith didn't score his touchdown a 2-yard run early in the fourth quarter until the game was out of reach, the day nonetheless turned into a showcase for the 5-foot-10, 201-pound bundle from Pensacola, Fla.

Smith shook off a sprained right wrist, which he suffered in the second quarter, and eclipsed the record on his 23d and final carry of the day a 25-yard run with 7 minutes, 26 seconds to play for 1,011 yards in only his seventh game. Tony Dorsett (1973) and Herschel Walker (1980) held the old freshman record, reaching 1,000 yards in eight games. Afterward, Smith showed that his mouth moves almost as well as his feet, saying that he was angered by what he called "cheap shots" and talk by the Temple defense. "With all the pain I had, it made me more eager to prove to Temple that I'm not a Iwimpyl running back," Smith said. There is no doubt that Temple coach Bruce Arians or his players felt that way, as they spent their postgame interviews being asked to compare Smith with Thomas (167 yards vs.

Temple) and Heyward (171). "Emmitt is a totally different style of runner," Arians said. "His offense fits him perfectly. He wouldn't fit at Penn State, because Blair Thomas is a good cutback runner and they run a lot of misdirection for him. I don't compare anyone with Heyward, because he weighs 260.

"Emmitt is a great runner with The Philadelphia Inquirer RICHARD M. TITLfcY Penn's Jim Bruni (left) and Navy's Larry Dickinson grab onto each other's face masks. QB rushes for 225 yards as Navy downs Penn, 38-28 Temple Florida 3 21 0 3 1034 Fla Woulard 18 pass from Bell (McGinty kick) Fla W.Williams 10 run (McGinty kick) Tern FG Wright 52 Fla Simmons 70 pass from Bell (McGinty kick) Fla FG McGinty 33 Fla E. Smith 2 run (McGinty kick) Fla FG McGinty 29 A 74,286. Tern Fla 13 30 45-63 46-247 95 212 0 71 6-18-0 15-22-0 8-41 5-40 5-2 0-0 13-111 14-136 28.46 31:14 yards this season, to a knee injury.

Zubrow said he was pleased with his offense. Flynn's replacement, sophomore Bryan Keys, finished with 81 yards and fullback Tim Waller had 104. But the Penn offense didn't get going until it was too late. Penn's lone first-half touchdown came after Navy took a 21-0 lead. Waller took a pitch from quarterback John Keller to cap a 10-play, 72-yard drive with a 13-yard touchdown run.

The next score didn't come until Navy led, 35-7. Keller, playing with more confidence, directed a lovely 16-play drive that included key passes of 14, 6, 5 and 13 yards. Fullback Joe Laurano scored on a 1-yard dive, but there were only about 6 minutes left in the game. The Quakers, now 2-3, will be back in the Ivy League on Saturday at Yale and with some new hope. League-leading Cornell was knocked off by Brown, 23-15, leaving Cornell, Brown, Penn, Princeton and Harvard each with one Ivy loss.

Rutgers' 31-point burst buries Boston College Villanova Catholic 7 25 7 7 7 0 0 46 7 Vill Btady 6 pass from Schulz (Withka kick) Cath Mani 53 interception return (Lamanna kick) Vill Brady 15 nass from Schulz (Brady run) Vill FG Withka 25 Vill Karoly 23 run (Withka kick) Vill-Sency 13 run (Withka kick) Vill Lombard! 1 run (Schaeffer kick) Vill Werth 9 pass from Reilly (Schaeffer kick) Vill Cath First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 26 8 51 289 26--17 214 188 46 222 16453 15401 533.2 11 33.6 2-0 10 536 965 35:18 24:42 Time of possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Villanova, Sency 22-148, Lombordi 10-50 Karoly 78, Schulz 1-(minus 4). Hodge 1-(minus 131, Kingsbury 3-13, Reilly 2-6. Braider 4-11. Catholic, Harris 1-4, Kohl 7-9, Nahr 7-(minus 4), Gibson 9-(mmus 29), Boyer 2-3. PASSING Villanova, Schulz 10-22-2-152.

Reilly 6-13-1-62, Catholic. Gibson 15-39-1-188, Kelly 0-1-0-0. RECEIVING Villanova. Brady 4-66, Lombardi 4-43, Sency 2-12, Cashman 1-25 Werth 3-27. Kinosbury 1-18, Senger 1-23.

Catholic, Pa-troneil 4-72! Wisley 2 40, Ennght 3-29, Kohl 1-6 Boyer 1-1, Norman 3-17, McFarlane 1-ZJ. seems the prototypal wishbone quarterback. He's calm. He can take a vicious hit from a linebacker and still hold onto the ball until just the last possible second before making the pitch. And he's got speed.

To be fair, the wishbone is a tough offense for any team to prepare for. Penn won't face another wishbone team this year. The last time was in 1985 against Army, and Army won, 41-3. "We're at a real disadvantage," Penn coach Kd Zubrow said. "Most teams, if they know they're going to play a wishbone team, work on it in spring practice.

We don't have spring practice. "I thought our defense had worked well on it this week. But until you see it run full speed, you just can't tell." Grizzard's 225 yards were the most ever by a Navy quarterback. He is only the fourth Navy quarterback to gain more than 100 yards. He now ranks eighth on Navy's single-game rushing list.

Navy's 428 total yards (which were all on the ground) is the second highest in Navy's modern history, and the highest since 1954. It's the most yards a team has gained against Penn since Yale piled up 429 in 1976. In all fairness, Penn was a battered NCAA Division I-AA team playing a Division I-A team, albeit a winless Division I-A team that had lost to the likes of William Mary, 27-12, and Lehigh, 24-9, Last week, in a 38-17 comeback victory over Brown, the Quakers lost talented tailback Chris Flynn to a bruised knee and starting quarterback Malcolm Glover to a broken thumb. Flynn may play next week at Yale. Glover is through.

But Navy, too, was handicapped. While losing to Air Force, 23-12, last week, the Midshipmen lost standout fullback Charles Smith, who has 364 ception by free safety Dean Cain, his third of the day, gave Garrett his Lehigh Princeton 3 12 3 7 015 316 Pnn FG Goodwin 36 Leh FG Beattie 22 Leh Blum 34 run (McGowan pass failed) Pnn Judd Garrett 1 run (Goodwin kick) Leh Blum 8 run (McGowan pass failed) Pnn FG Goodwin 38 Prin FG Goodwin 38 A 13,800. Lehigh Princeton 22 19 38-152 38-29 166 309 14 26 18-33-3 25-31-0 7-29 1-0 3-1 10-87 8-88 First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 29:51 RUSHING Lehigh, Blum. 22-126. Princeton Jason Garrett, 17-37.

PASSING Lehigh. McGowan 17-32-3-160 Harris 1-1-0-6. Princeton, Jason Garrett 25-31- 0-309. RECEIVING Lehigh, Blum, 6-61; Curtis, 6-53 Princeton, Judd Garrett, 11-120: John Garrett By Diane Pucin Inquirer Wriler His name is perfect for the job. Alton Lee Grizzard, Wishbone Quarterback.

His demeanor is perfect for the program. "The offensive line did a great job today. 1 had room to run," said Grizzard. Of course, before he met the press, Alton Lee had a little prompting. "Remember you're only a plebe," said coach Elliot Uzelac.

"You're no damn good." Alton Lee Grizzard, Navy wishbone quarterback, gained 225 yards on 23 carries, scored three touchdowns and led the Midshipmen to a 38-28 win over Penn yesterday at Franklin Field. It was Navy's first win of 1987 and broke a 12-game losing streak. It was Uzelac's first win as Navy coach. It was Grizzard's second start ever. "Did we have anyone covering him?" said Penn linebacker Brad Ilippensliel, repeating a question.

"It didn't look like it, did it?" No, it didn't, at least not in the first half, when Grizzard gained 163 of his yards and Navy built a 28-7 lead. On Navy's first drive, Grizzard carried five times for 49 yards and scored on a 3-yard run. On Navy's second drive, Grizzard carried twice for 33 yards, and fullback Curtis Brown scored on a 2-yard run. On Navy's third drive, Grizzard carried three times for 27 yards and scored on a 2-yard run. On Navy's fourth drive, Grizzard carried three times for 47 yards, and Brown scored on an 8-yard run.

On Navy's fifth drive, Grizzard passed. It was incomplete, but the half ended 44 seconds later anyway. "Let's not overplay Grizzard's stats," Uzelac said. "He's a young kid, and he'll get better. He's got some tough times ahead of him." Yeah, like Pitt, Notre Dame and Syracuse in the next three weeks, for example.

But the 5-foot, 11-inch freshman across the middle for 20 yards, and then, on fourth and 8, he found John lor 14 yards and a first down. After a Lehigh sack pushed the Tigers back to their own 35, Jason hit Judd three straight times in the flat. Then, with only 20 seconds to go, Jason hit John in the right flat for 10 yards and a first down at the Lehigh 21. Although John didn't get out of bounds, the referee stopped the clock to move the first-down markers, allowing more than enough time for Goodwin and the field-goal team to get on the field. The Engineers' mistakes came back to haunt them.

A fumbled snap resulted in a missed extra point after their first touchdown, and a two-point conversion failed on the second. Lehigh (3-3) was looking to put the game away late in the final quarter with a first and 10 at the Prince- ton 26, but a sack and then an inter Navy Penn 14 0 14 7 338 21 28 NAV Grizzard 3 run (Fundoukos kick) NAV Brown 2 run (Fundoukos kick) NAV Grizzard 2 run (Fundoukos kick) PEN Waller 13 run (Grass kick) NAV Brown 8 run (Fundoukos kick) NAV Grizzard 26 run (Fundoukos kick) PEN Laurano 1 run (Grass kick) PEN Bruni 6 run (Grass kick) NAV FG Fundoukos 32 PEN Keller 15 run (Grass kick) A 16,809 Navy Penn 22 51-292 69 34 9-16-3 4- 32 1-0 5- 55 31:01 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Time of possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS 2.1 69-428 0 21 0-1-0 4-40 3-1 9-75 28:59 RUSHING Navy, Grizzard 23-225, Parker 9-65, Brown 14-58, Bradley 9-21, Sims 6-24, Bowman 4-18, Nobers 3-17, Venizia 1-0. Penn, Waller 13-104, Keys 17-81, Bruni 15-72, Keller, 4-33, Laurano 2-2. PASSING Navy, Grizzard 0-1-0. Penn, Keller 9-15-69, Kolbe, 0-1-0.

RECEIVING Navy, None. Penn. Novoselsky, 4-44, Sandler 1-10, Miklos 1-6, Joyce 1-5, Keys 2-4. How the AP top 20 fared Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J, Scott Erney threw touchdown passes of 10 and 63 yards to Eric Young, and Rutgers scored on five consecutive possessions yesterday as the Scarlet Knights had their biggest point production of the season and defeated Boston College, 38-24. Rutgers (4-2) had scoring drives of 81, 68, 67, 48 and 62 yards during its 31-point surge in the second and third quarters, which wiped out a 10-point second-quarter deficit.

Besides Erney's scoring tosses, Bart Graf and Curtis Stephens scored on 1-yard dives and Carmen Sclafani kicked a 27-yard field goal before a homecoming crowd of 30,252, the third-largest in Rutgers Stadium his- First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Temple, Ouinn 21-67, Herrera 7- 23, Morns 4-4. Florida. E. Smith 23-175. D.Perry 3-27.

W.Williams 7-19. PASSING Temple Thompson 5-12-0-75. Lerro 1-3-0-20. Florida. Bell 15-22-0-212.

RECEIVING Temple. Gibson 4-70, Garczynski 1- 14. Florida. Simmons 2-83, Snead 3-43, Mills 2- 31. tory.

Rutgers took control of the game by scoring three touchdowns in the final 8V2 minutes of the second quarter, wilh Erney, who completed 18 of 26 passes for 234 yards, and Young hooking up on two. Young, who had 9 receptions for 136 yards, caught a 10-yard swing pass for a touchdown to cut Boston College's lead to 10-7 with 8:23 to play in the half. Afler the Eagles were denied a first down at the Rutgers 32 because of a penalty, the Scarlet Knights got the ball back and drove 68 yards in 10 plays, with Graf diving over the left tackle on his third collegiate carry to score on a fourth-and-goal play with 2:26 left in the half. The Eagles (4-3) jumped to a 10-0 lead on a 1-yard touchdown run by reserve fullback Bill Ilislop and an 18-yard field goal by Brian Lowe in the opening 18 minutes. Boston Coll.

Rutgers 3 21 7 10 -24 -38 BC Hislop 1 run (Lowe kick) I LUVVb I Rut Young 10 pass from Erney (Sclafani kickl Rut Graf 1 run (Sclafani kick) Rut Young 63 yard pass from Erney (Sclafani kick) Rut FG Sclafani 27 BC Power 1 run (Lowe kick) Rut Stephens 1 run (Sclafani kick) BC Giles 4 pass from Kamphaus (Lowe kick) Rut- Henderson 52 run (Sclafani kick) A 30,253 BC Rut 21 24 37-150 49-247 234 279 40 56 17-32-1 18-26-0 4- 36 3-44 1-1 1-1 5- 40 2 15 28:51 31:09 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Time of Possession INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Boston College, Sanders 22-112, Power 2 17, Turner 2-12. Rutgers, Henderson' 12-100, Stephens 18-76, Lipsott 8-29, Both 4- PASSING Boston College, Power 1S-28-1-262, Kamphaus 2-4-0-17, Rutqers, Errlev 18-26 0-234, I 1 RECEIVING Boston College, Waddle 8-174 Flutie 3 51, Giles 2-7. Rutgers. Young 9-136' Campbell 4-32, McQueen 3-50. Princeton defeats Lehigh, 16-15 The top 20 teams in the Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, record, total points received (20 points for a first-place vote, 19 points for second), last week ranking, this week's result and next week's opponent: Rank Team Record Points Previous This Weak Next Week 1 -I I pnn 1 0 1 C.

CO Ifl PolnnHn 2. Nebraska (7) 5-0-0 1,122 2 beat Oklahoma 35-0 at Kansas St. 3. Miami, Fla. (6) 4-0-0 1,111 3 idle at Cincinnati 4.

Florida State 6-1-0 935 6 beat Louisville, 32-9 idle 5. Auburn 4-0-1 934 5 beat Ga. Tech, 20-10 at Miss. St. 6.

Louisiana State 5-0-1 901 7 beat Kentucky, 34-9 idle 7. Clemson 5-0-0 880 8 beat Duke, 17-10 N.C. State 8. Tennessee 4-1-1 752 10 lost to Alabama, 41-22 Georgia Tech 9. UCLA 4-1-0 713 11 beat Oregon, 41-10 California 10.

Penn State 5-2-0 606 14 lost to Syracuse, 48-2 1 idle 1 1 Notre Dame 4-1-0 544 4 beat Air Force, 35-14 Southern Cal 12. Oklahoma State 5-1-0 439 19 lost to Nebraska, 35-0 at Missouri 13. Syracuse 6-0-0 421 17 beat Penn 48-2 1 Colgate 14. Florida 5-2-0 398 18 beat Temple, 34-3 idle 15. Arkansas 4-2-0 285 20 lost to Texas, 16-14 Houston 16.

Oregon 4-1-0 229 nr lost to UCLA, 41-10 at Stanford 17. Ohio State 4-1-1 211 9 beat Purdue, 20-17 Minnesota 18. Georgia 5-2-0 209 16 beat Vanderbilt, 52-24 Kentucky 19. Michigan State 3-2-0 133 nr beat Northwestern, 38-0 Illinois 20. Indiana 5-1-0 114 nr beat Minnesota, 18-1 7 Michigan By David Grumhaus Jr.

Special to The Inquirer Senior Rob Goodwin kicked a 38-yard field goal on the last play of the game yesterday to give Princeton a dramatic 16-15 victory over Lehigh. Perhaps the real hero, though, was junior quarterback Jason Garrett, who was 25 of 31 for 309 yards. Starting from his own 2-yard line with 2 minutes, 25 seconds to go, Garrett drove the Tigers (4-1) 77 yards in 12 plays, overcoming two sacks and a Princeton holding penalty in the process. Garrett did, of course, have some help from his friends or, more specifically, from his brothers. During the winning drive, he threw six times to brother Judd and twice to older brother John.

At one point early in the drive, the Tigers faced a third and 28 from their own 6. Jason Garrett hit Judd.