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fe ffalabelpfe Inquirer colleges Sunday, Nov. 2, 1980 7-F 5 Hens top WMcats Princeton wins fourth straight tops Penn, 28-21i A 'iivJ. 9 3 12 Delaware sacks sink Villanova, 17-7 Rut Princeton used nparlv 7 min, 7. By Bill Simmons Inquirer Stall Writer NEWARK, Del. It was to be a final step back to respectability for the Villanova University football team.

After opening the season with three mistake-plagued losses, the Wildcats had come back to beat three of its last four opponents, losing only to Navy. But the goal got sidetracked yesterday as Jamie Bittner, K.C. Knobloch and Rick Scully led Delaware to a 17-7 victory before 22,680, the third largest crowd in Delaware Stadium history. The Blue Hens, now 6-2 and clinging tenaciously to their hopes of gaining a berth in the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs, played brutal defense all day and the offense was opportunistic enough to turn two turnovers into 11 points on the way to a 14-0 first-quarter lead that was all they would need. Villanova, which lost two defensive starters tackle Paul Phillippy and end Jim McCarthy Friday morning when they were suspended from school indefinitely for an "off-campus incident," didn't seem to have its heart in the game.

Cats' offense, which has been inconsistent at best this year, was Virtually non-existent. The running game netted 166 yards, but gave back 76, most of that as a result of 12 quarterback sacks by Delaware. The passing game managed only 26 yards for just 116 yards of total offense. Couldn't get going "We couldn't get the offense going at all," said Villanova coach Dick Bedesem. "We were so sporadic that we didn't do much of anything with consistency." One of the big reasons was Bittner, a 6-foot-2, 227-pound defensive end who crashed through the Villanova line to sack Villanova quarterback Pat O'Brien five times for a total of 35 yards.

"That was the best defensive effort since I can't remember when," coach Tubby Raymond said. "Getting. 14 points in the first quarter was certainly important. But, overall, our defense just shut them off." On the game's third play from scrimmage, Villanova's Don Ziesel lost the handle on a trap play and Bob Lundquist recovered for Delaware at the Wildcats 27. An offsides penalty, followed by two short gains and a loss, left the Hens with fourth-and-13 at the 30.

Knobloch came in and, with a wind of 20 miles per hour at his back, booted a 47-yard field goal, the longest of his career. The next time the Hens got the ball, on a punt to their end zone, they drove 71 yards in 10 plays before the Villanova defense stiffened and Knobloch came on to kick a 27-yard field goal for a 6-0 lead. A crucial tip Moments later, O'Brien unloaded a pass to Mark Savini. But Delaware's George Schmitt tipped it away, then picked it off and returned it seven yards to the Villanova 42. On the first play, Scully found tight end Mark Steimer alone on the right sideline at the Villanova 13 with a perfect pass.

Five plays later, Ed Wood dove over from the one and a Scully to Wood pass added the two-point conversion. Scully, a sophomore, completed five of 11 passes for 1Q9 yards, his best at Delaware. "Scully made one big mistake and it led to Villanova's touchdown early in tne third period. On a third-and-nine, he tried to force a pass to Steimer through a crowd of defenders. Tom Anthony picked it off at the 44 and returned in to the 28 before being bounced out of bounds.

Sparked by a 14-yard pass from sub quarterback Kevin Ingram to Tim Robinson, the Wildcats scored in eight plays with Shawn Passman sweeping right end on a pitch for the final five yards. "When we got that score, I thought we finally had things going like we almost managed against Navy," Bedesem said. "But we couldn't get consistency. We just kept on breaking down." Associated Press Anguished Duane Spielmaker misses a tackle as Navy's Jon utes of its ensuing possession marched 71 yards in 14 plays to score; "ft the decisive touchdown on a fourth' and-one pass from Lockenmeyer tot Neary from the one-yard line. "5 Penn's hopes of a last-minute winft were dashed when Rubin fumbled" the ball away with 7 minutes remain- ing, leaving the Quakers only more chance to score in the But that threat ended at the Penn yard line on a fourth-and-seven, and-? Penn elected to punt.

"This was tough," a dejected said in the locker room. "We'd been looking to beat Prince-, ton," he said. "It's tough when you keep losing." Syracuse crushed by Pitt, 43-6 4 A Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. Rick Trocantf' threw three touchdown passes and fullback Randy McMillan scored on runs of 39 and 44 yards yesterday as llth-ranked Pittsburgh routed Syracuse, 43-6. i Trocano hit Dwight Collins twice-on scoring passes of 54 and eight, yards and teamed up with Joe McCall! on a six-yard scoring play.

Trocano, who played defensive; back until Pittsburgh's regular quar' terback, Dan Marino, was injured three weeks ago, completed 20 of 35 passes for 276 yards as Pittsburgh raised its record to 7-1. McMillan'-ended the game with 126 yards rushing, Pitt coach Jackie Sherrill said the! game was good experience for Trocano, who quarterbacked the Panthers for two years before losing his start- ing job to Marino last year. Marino is, nursing a knee injury. The Pitt defense, led by end Hugh Green, dominated the Syracuse offense, keeping the Orangemen in poor field position throughout the game. Syracuse's only score came as' quarterback Dave Warner ran one yard on the final play of the first half.

The Panthers defense held Syra; cuse's all-time leading rusher, tail-' back Joe Morris, to 16 yards on 12 carries. Morris had averaged more" than 162 yards a game before the kickoff. Dave Trout kicked field goals of 36, i 34 and 26 yards for Pitt. Syracuse fell to 44. Rutgers drills Army, 37-21 Associated Press WEST POINT, N.Y.

Alex Falcinel-' li kicked three second-half field, goals yesterday, lifting Rutgers to a 37-21 victory over Army. Falcinelli, a sophomore, broke a 21-21 tie with a 23-yarder in the third period, then added 18-yard and 43-yard field goals in the fourth Army (2-5-1) marched 60 yards in. eight plays for the game's first Rutgers (5-3) answered with a 56-yard drive, quarterback Ralph Leek, scoring from the one. Ken Smith took the second-half kickoff and raced 97 yards for a touchdown, giving Rutgers a 14-7, advantage, but Army scored 14 sec-, onds later when Jerryl Bennett connected with Mike Fahnstock on a 77-, yard pass. Rutgers made it 21-14 when Leek, teamed with Tim Odcll on a three-yard pass play in the third period.

Army tied it when Harris scored, from the one with 6:38 left in the quarter. Ted Bethune scored Rutgers' final touchdown on a one-yard run with 37 seconds to play. Craft gained 127 yards on 10 car- ries, including a 52-yard sprint on. the first play of the game. Sophomore' Kevin Duckctt, playing with a tender" left elbow, led the Owls with 105 yards on 22 carries.

Louisville had two chances to win' late in the game. Sherman Myers" fumbled a pitch, and the Cardinals1 recovered on their own 14. They, drove to the Temple 41, but on a' fourth-and-one, Greg Hickman was thrown for a one-yard loss. Their last-ditch drive brought them to a third-and-fivc at their own 38 with 1:48 to go. Guy Peters sacked Patterson for a loss of seven, and Louisville couldn't make up the By George Shirk Inquirer Stall Writer PRINCETON, N.J.

They have been playing football since 1876, but rarely have Penn and Princeton played the kind of game they played yesterday afternoon. It was the way the game is supposed to be played, in weather that was as perfect. It was closely matched, well-played and exciting down to the last play. And it was Princeton that prevailed, 28-21. But nobody was taking anything away from the visiting Quakers, who broke a string of nine scoreless quarters in the second period but could not shake their latest streak of winless games, which was lengthened to four.

Princeton lifted its record to 4-3 and 3-2 in the Ivy League. Penn dropped to 1-6 overall and 1-3 in league play. Princeton running back Larry Van Pelt ran for 159 yards, including a run for 53 yards; Mike Neary scored two touchdowns and ran for 98 yards, and Mark Lockenmeyer completed 10 of 15 passes for 126 yards to offset Penn's Steve Rubin, the sophomore halfback who gained 118 yards on 21 carries. "We're better," Penn coach Harry Gamble said after the game. "We're getting better.

We're not winning football games, but we get better every week. This was the third tough loss in a row for us." If it was a tough loss for Gamble, it was a sweet win for Princeton coach Frank Navarro, whose team now has won four games in a row after losing its first three of the year. No Princeton team since 1971 had won four games in a row. The game didn't begin with any signs that Penn would make a struggle of it. After the Quakers were stopped on their first series of downs, Princeton responded with a 63-yard, 15-play touchdown drive that was capped with a two-yard touchdown pass from Lockenmeyer to Van Pelt.

But in the last 3 minutes of the first quarter and the first 3 minutes of the second, the Quakers mounted a drive of their own. Mixing wishbone and I formations and calling audibles at the line of scrimmage on nearly every play, sophomore quarterback Gary Vura directed Penn from the Princeton 24 into the end zone, carrying it over himself from one yard out. The Quakers struck again in less than a minute. Defensive end Bob Fleck pounced on a Lockenmeyer fumble at the Princeton 20, and after Vura rolled left for six yards, Rubin took the ball in from the 14. But Princeton would not break.

Immediately after Penn had grabbed the lead, the Tigers struck back on a combination of Lockenmeyer-to-Chris Crissy passes and Van Pelt runs. Four times Princeton converted third-down situations in the drive, and on a fourth-and-four from the Penn 24, Lockenmeyer hit wide-receiver Crissy over the middle for eight yards and a critical first down. With the pass reception, Crissy became the Princeton record-holder for career receptions, breaking the record of 78 held by Neil Chamber-lin. With both teams unable to capitalize on the other's mistakes early in the third quarter, the 12,025 chilled fans in Palmer Stadium settled in for what looked to be a defensive struggle the rest of the way. But suddenly, Van Pelt struck.

The Princeton back burst through the Penn line at the Tiger 23, and before cornerback Greg Hemmings could haul him down, Van pelt had run 53 yards to the Penn 23. Four plays later, Princeton was in the end zone when Neary swept right end and stiff-armed his way past two Tiger defenders for a 14-yard touchdown run. Rubin, however, struck back by himself. With time running out in the third quarter, Rubin ran from the Penn 37 to the Princeton 43, and when the fourth quarter opened, he broke around Princeton's right end and found nobody there, running unscathed into the end zone to give Penn the tying points. linebackers," he said.

"Now I am drilling them. That's called experience." McCarty's spectacular return gave the Owls a 17-6 lead with 3:21 left in the third period. Louisville stalled on its next drive but got the ball back at the Temple 45 when Jim Bosler recovered a punt touched by Gerald (Swcctfeet) Lucear. The recovery could have been an important one for the Cards. They marched 56 yards in eight plays to score on a one-yard dive by junior tailback Donald Craft.

A run failed on a two-point conversion attempt, leaving Temple with its final five-point margin. Stone sparks Irish, 33-0, in annual romp over Navy In its worst day since the Pueblo incident, Navy started its first seven possessions at its own 22, 17, 6, 20, 20, 2 and 5-yard lines. Meanwhile, Notre Dame halfback Jim Stone, who had been a reserve only a month ago, was on his way to a 33arry, 211-yard, one-touchdown game. His effort made him the first Irish back to go over 100 yards in four consecutive games, erasing the previous mark of Neil Worden, Marchy Schwartz and George Gipp. Stone's rushing yardage was the third highest ever for a Notre Dame back, Vagas Ferguson having gained 255 against Georgia Tech in 1978 and 219 against Navy the same year.

Stone was not the only addition to the Irish record book. Kicker Harry Oliver booted field goals of 41 and 50 yards, bringing his season total to 15, erasing the old one-season mark of 13 established last year by Chuck Male. So much for the embellishments. The details were basically simple. Stone carried the ball four straight times, eating up 73 in one carry, as the Irish drove 92 yards for their first touchdown, 8:23 into the game.

Halfback Ty Barber did the official honors by capping the drive with a nine-yard, off-tackle blast. Navy, on its first play from scrimmage after the score, fumbled the ball to Notre Dame at the Midshipman 21. Stone carried five straight times to the three, and fullback Pete Ross skips for extra yardage Buchanan took it over from there. Notre Dame went 56 yards in eight plays at the outset of the second period, Stone scoring from 13 yards out to make it 18-0. A pass play off a fake extra-point kick formation made it 20-0, and Oliver made it 23-0 with a 41-yarder, and 264) with a 50-yarder before halftime.

Someone posed the brilliant question to Devine as to why the Irish were not as productive in the second half. "What was the difference?" the Irish coach repeated, making sure he had not heard the question wrong. "Well; what we really wanted to do was to eat the clock up. I wanted to get out of the quarter ahead, 26-0. And we did." The Irish defense then concentrated on running its string of scoreless quarters to 12.

The only scoring in the second half was a 27-yard run by a running back named Greg Bell, who was penciled onto the Irish traveling roster very late. Stone could find himself back on the bench, behind Phil Carter, who was the starter until he suffered a bruised thigh. But he said he has had his fun. "Phil beat me out in the spring, but I knew I'd get a chance to play," said the 6-foot, 1-inch, 198-pound senior, one of three brothers on the Notre Dame squad. "I just didn't figure things would turn out this well when the opportunity came." the second quarter, took a 10-6 lead.

Temple junior Tink Murphy, making his first start as quarterback in three weeks, got a finger in his left eye on a fourth-down conversion and left the game. Kenny Rowe came in for the rest of the drive, and Murphy returned in the fourth quarter. "That was our best drive all year," said Murphy, who was told by Hardin "two seconds befor.e kickoff" that he had won his job back. "Everything seemed to work. It's been coming for a long time with our style of offense." Murphy had a good night, completing eight of 15 for 98 yards and, most importantly, no interceptions.

"At the beginning of the season, I was trying to float my passes over the By Chuck Newman Inquirer Stall Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. It was your normal, annual Notre Dame-Navy football game. If you discount the five records that the game produced. The result was nothing new. Same as it had been the previous 16 times.

The point spread, too, was about what it had usually been over that span, 33 points. And the amount of doubt as to which was the far better team was as it has always been none. The Irish (7-0), ranked No. 3 nationally before Alabama was upset yesterday, annihilated the 5-3 Midshipmen, 33-0, before a record Giants Stadium crowd of 76,981 in a game that, competitively, was over just 1 minute, 17 seconds into the second quarter. By that time, Notre Dame had crowded 23 points into a 10-minute, 4-second span to assume a 23-0 advantage, and coach Dan Devine had begun to use the bench to avoid adding to his extensive in jury list.

By that time, Notre Dame had run 35 plays, to only 15 for Navy, and the Midshipmen had managed only one first down, had fumbled the ball away twice, had thrown an interception and had committed two tactical errors by allowing Irish kickoffs to filter through up-front receivers to deep men. end zone late in the third quarter to ignite the Owls to a 17-12 win over Louisville. The win was the third in a row and fourth in five games for the Owls (4-4). Louisville dropped to 3-5. "I was standing over center, making a move to the right gasped McCarty, cradling his first-ever game ball like a newborn baby in his massive forearms.

"Next thing I know, the ball's in my hand. "I was dying. It felt like forever. I kept thinking, 'I've got to get closer to that flag. Just look at that orange Believe it or not, we have a drill where we practice that.

We just fool around with it. Maybe we should put more of them in our game plan." McCarty returns fumble for TD as Temple downs Louisville, 17-12 ByGailShister Inquirer stall Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. Temple coach Wayne Hardin got tired of seeing his defensive linemen standing around during the Owls' warm-up and practice drills, so two weeks ago he told linebacker coach Frank Massino to install a special drill for the big guys. The drill involved linemen retrieving a ball tipped in the air and running it into the end zone. Well, a funny thing happened before a crowd of 13,436 at Fairgrounds Stadium last night.

You guessed it. Big Colin McCarty, Temple's sack leader with 10, intercepted a Nate Dozicr fumble in midair, then huffed and puffed his way 45 yards to the The touchdown, McCarty's first since high school, highlighted a superb defensive effort by the Owls, who sacked quarterback Pat Patterson six times. Two were by freshmen Kevin Ross, whom Hardin nominated as ECAC rookie of the year three weeks ago. The Owls spotted the Cardinals a couple of field goals by Dave Betz in the first half, then rebounded with a picture-perfect drive that ate up the first 9:37 of the second half. Capping a drive that covered 81 yards in 19 plays, freshman Brian Slade (21 carries for 67 yards) ran in untouched on a sweep left, and the Owls, already on the board thanks to a 32-yard field goal by Bob Clauscr in.