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Wxt JflnlaIpfita Inquirer colleges Sunday, Oct. 26, 1980 9-F Morris sets rushing mark as Syracuse tops Rutgers quarterback Ed McMichael's arm on an attempted two-point pass, and the Knights were dead. The official pronouncement came when freshman defensive end Jim Kimmel blocked a Rutgers punt and fell on the ball in the end zone for a 17-9 Syracuse lead with 3:02 remaining. That Morris would break the record on this day was questionable. He was coming off a three-game layoff with a bruised shoulder caused when he ran into a concrete wall of the new dome in a game against Northwestern.

The rustiness showed at the start. play. He was doing things he doesn't normally do, making tentative cuts." Morris, listed graciously at 5 feet, 7 inches in the Syracuse press brochure, agreed with his coach. "I know I didn't play well," he said. "I looked at the statistics at halftime and said this is no way to play." His second-half technique improved.

So did his statistics. He ran the way Joe Morris usually does. The way the other great Syracuse backs used to run Davis, Brown, Little. The way Larry Csonka used to run when Joe Morris was watching him on television. top in the statistics department.

He has rushed for 3,022 career yards after picking up 157 in a 17-9 victory over Rutgers at the Carrier Dome before 39,937 celebrants. Morris rushed past Csonka's school record of 2,934 with 90 second-half yards, breaking a 3-3 tie with a 38-yard touchown blast off a sprint draw with 2 minutes, 22 seconds left in the third period. Rutgers (4-3) cut the lead to 10-9 on an 80-yard drive capped by a one-yard sneak by reserve quarterback Ralph Leek with 7:10 left in the game. But Syracuse linebacker Ken Kollar hit Rutgers appeared to have Morris and Syracuse under control in the third period, pinning the Orange at its five-yard line on a punt. But Syracuse cranked up an 11-play, 96-yard drive that got it in front to stay.

On the 10th play of that drive, Morris went for four yards to go over 100. On the 1 1th he went 38 to win the game. "You only saw a shadow of Joe Morris out there today," said Syracuse coach Frank Maloney, one of only two coaches (the other was from New Hampshire) to offer a scholarship to Morris, who went to high school in Ayer, Mass. "He was sucking for air after almost every By Chuck Newman Inquirer SlaflWriler SYRACUSE, N.Y. Joe Morris was 6 years old.

growing up in North Carolina, when he first saw Larry Csonka on television. "All I can remember then was that he came from a school that seemed to always have great running backs," the 20-year-old Syracuse junior said yesterday. Syracuse has had, among others, Ernie Davis, Jim Brown, Floyd Little, Csonka. Add Joe Morris to that list. And as of yesterday you can put him at the Syracuse (4-3) called his number the first five plays of the game, and he went for 33 yards before going to the sidelines for a rest.

Fine statistics for an average running back, but not for Morris, who before the day was over would also run his 100-yard games to 15, breaking another Csonka mark. He went six yards on his sixth carry, but his statistics slowed after that," going to only 67 in 20 carries by half-time. he slipped with open field ahead of him. "After the first half, I knew I had to get better," Morris said. "The way the line was blocking I should have had 100 yards in the first half." Slade runs Owls over Cincinnati By Gail Shister Inquirer Stall Wriiar CINCINNATI The first time Wayne Hardin saw freshman Brian Slade run with the ball during a Temple practice, his eyes nearly popped from their sockets.

Wayne Hardin's eyes don't pop all that often, being a man not easily impressed. This is, after all, the coach characterized by his secretary as "a combination of Tom Landry, Johnny Carson and God." But yesterday they were popping again. Slade came off the bench to gain 162 yards on 15 carries including a 77-yard touchdown run as Temple (34) handed Cincinnati (0-7) its 11th consecutive defeat, 23-7, be-fore a chilled Homecoming crowd of 12,029 at Nippert Stadium. "I was amazed at his speed and quickness," Hardin recalled. "1 knew lie had a good reputation.

I knew he could run. But not many guys his size can explode and outrun people." Slade, a 5-foot, 10-inch, 215-pound fireplug, scored. 18 touchdowns his senior year at Steelton-Highspire High School. Only Cincinnati, West Virginia and Temple recruited him because of grade problems. In his first start, Slade knocked over Pitt's all-America defensive end Hugh Green on one play.

He missed the next two games with a shoulder separation. Also coming off the bench, junior quarterback Tink Murphy directed the Owls to two quick scores and played a heady game. Both starting backs senior Bob Stark (bruised ribs) and sophomore Kevin Duckett bruised left elbow) did not play in the second half. Both are doubtful for Saturday's game at Louisville. For the second week in a row, the Owls' defense was outstanding, holding the Bearcats to 160 yards of offense and forcing five fumbles (recovering only one, however).

Senior safety Mark McCants picked off two Danny Barrett passes for his fourth and fifth interceptions in two games. Defensive tackle Colin McCarty, who swapped positions with end Guy Peters three games -x yf -x fjj 'A 4 ij Abe Philadelphia Inqww VICKI VALERIO SPLASHING ALONG, Penn quarterback Gary Perm didn't find much daylight in the sky or Vura (16) looks for daylight, with Yale line- through the Yale line, losing, 84), in yester-backer Scott McKenzie blocking the way. day's Homecoming game. Story on Page 12-F. Pitt routs Tennessee and Majors Aitoclatti Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

"This was not Johnny Majors versus Jackie Sherrill. It was a team matchup." With those words, Pitt coach Jackie Sherrill summed up the 12th-ranked Panthers' impressive 30-6 licking of Majors' Tennessee Vols yesterday, the first confrontation between Majors and the school that he left after coaching it to the national college championship in 1976. Pitt won this matchup going away. The Panthers answered Willie Gault's Tennessee-record 100-yard kickoff return with one-yard touchdown runs by Joe McCall and Randy McMillan in the second period and thoroughly dominated all aspects of the contest. Rick Trocano, who began the season at free safety, made his first start at quarterback since the seventh game of the 1979 season in place of the injured Dan Marino and directed Pitt to its sixth victory in seven games by completing 14 of 25 passes for 237 yards.

He also darted 31 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown. "Our defense just shut them down," said Sherrill. "They did a great job. Our offensive line was terrific. This was the second time the whole starting unit has been together, and it showed in the improvement of our running game.

"I can't give Trocano enough credit. He did a great job. We didn't change the offense at all for him. We played basically the same game as If Marino was in there." Majors declined to compare the Pitt defense with that of top-rated which held Tennessee to 59 'yards in total offense in last week's 27-0 triumph. "We've probably played the two best defensive teams in the country back-to-back," was all Majors would say.

A capacity Neyland Stadium crowd of 94,008 turned out in sunny but chilly 44-degree weather and watched the Vols suffer their fourth setback in seven games. efense By Danny Robbins Inquirer Stall Writer LEXINGTON, Va. With the austere main building of the Virginia Military Institute towering over the school's Alumni Memorial Field like some kind of fortress, perhaps it was fitting that Villanova's defense had to hold the fort in the Wildcats' 17-6 victory over VMI yesterday. On a natural grass field that had been pelted by about 24 hours worth of rain, the Villanova wishbone was never secure. The Wildcats managed to gain 270 yards in total offense, but they also managed to negate a lot of that with (this should sound familiar) five turnovers three lost fumbles and two interceptions.

Fortunately for them, the Keydets (3-5) were pretty inept themselves, fumbling six times and losing three. So the Wildcats came up with their A wave of SMU defenders rolls ago, recorded three sacks, giving him nine for the season. "This is probably the most solid game we've played," Hardin "Even though Cincinnati is 0-7; they're the best team we've beaten. Our guys hung in there and played right to the finish. But we're not deluding ourselves.

We're not in the; top 20." -r boys up front were blowing 'em out," said Murphy (2-for-4 for 14 yards and one touchdown, 20 yards, rushing). "We were getting four or five yards a pop." Cincinnati drew first blood late in, the first quarter on a 17-yard pass play from Barrett to tight end Bo, Green. Barefooted Rich Karlis' con-" version made it 7-0. The Bearcats got the ball back two plays later when Mike Louis inters cepted a pass from Temple QB Kenny Rowe at the Temple 29. The drive' went for naught when a bad snap on a 51-yard field goal attempt by Karlis was recovered at Temple's 45.

Murphy came in on the Owls' next series and led a beautiful drive'. Keeping the ball on the ground, Temple reached the Bearcats six, where Murphy hit split end Gerak (Sweetfeet) Lucear in the corner. Bob (Bugsy) Clauser's conversion tied it. Clauser booted a field goal from the 35 against a wind gusting up to 30 miles per hour on the Owls' next drive, capping a march that began at their own 22. Taking a 10-7 lead at the half, the Owls had outrushed Cincinnati.

135 yards to 23. The Bearcats couldn't "dent Temple's defense the rest of the way. "Brian's a good player now," said Hardin. "His problem was grades. We hung with him and hung with him and hung with him.

He's in a tutor: ing program now. He's not a bad student. He never studied in high school. "He can be as good as any back we've ever had around here, in the mold of the (Zachary) Dixons, the (Anthony) Andersons, the (Mark) Brights. He may be better.

It's tough to put a tab on the kid yet. Let him get out of his freshman year." left, and it was time for another turnover. The Villanova wishbone was on the move, cranking out a first down on the 24. At that point, however, sophomore Milt Corsey fumbled. "We might have blown them out if we hadn't fumbled," Martin said.

"We had good field position, and we had our chances in the first half. When you do something like that (pile up some points) in the first half, the momentum is going your way." But Villanova wasn't out of the Southwest Virginia woods against a team without much of a defense, with something less than a decent passing attack and with no punter to speak of it could have put away early. The burden was on the defense to make the points it had be enough and the 'Cats' defense was up to it just a defender away from breaking for a touchdown. The Mustangs' strong drive died at the Longhorn 22 where Garcia hooked a 39-yard field goal attempt wide left. Thirty-five yards in penalties and a 14-yard Little to Sanford Coggins pass set up Texas at the Mustang two yard line from where Goodson hit a 21-yard field goal to give the 'Horns a 3-0 first quarter lead.

i SMU tied it 3-3 early in the second quarter on the running of James and a 16-yard end around run by Mitchell Bennett. Garcia was good this time from 41 yards. -4 The Longhorns drove from their own 20 to the Mustang 28 late in the second period and Goodson drilled a 47-yard field goal into the wind. The ball just did clear the crossbar. James slashed the 'Horns for 85 yards on 13 carries in the first half.

in Villanova's 17 6 win over VMI second half at Navy) and because, with the way the field was, I felt we needed his experience out there." But he really didn't make much of a difference as. the Wildcats remained mistake-prone and managed just one, short drive to a TD. It was a 28-yarder, set up by a VMI fumble and highlighted by a nice 14-yard run by Bill Conners (seven carries, 65 yards) on second-and-11 at the VMI 18-yard line. Shawn Passman then bolted the remaining four yards for the touchdown, and Villanova was on top, 7-0, with 3:03 left in the first quarter. After that, O'Brien's offense was frustrated, and the other Villanova TD came on David Martin's 75-yard punt return, the senior cornerback's first punt return for a touchdown at Villanova.

Punting into a wind that holds fort first road victory of this spotty 34 season. VMI produced 259 yards 158 of that coming from the shifty, 5-foot, 11-inch, 175-pound Allen, sort of a poor man's Charles White, who carried the ball 32 times. But the Keydets were kept out of the end zone until reserve quarterback Frank Brown came off the bench to engineer a scoring drive as the game wound into the final 2 minutes. The designated quarterback for Villanova yesterday was the senior, Pat O'Brien, who played all but one series. Coach Dick Bedesem used freshman Kevin Ingram on one possession in the second quarter, then left him on the bench.

"We feel like we have two No. 1 quarterbacks," Bedesem insisted later. "I used Pat today on the basis of his performance last week (in the Associated Prss over Texas' Sanford Coggins Avi ft? 1 No. 2 Texas shocked by SMU, 20-6 ter 2 minutes away. Such was the ability of the Villanova defense to rise to the occasion on a day when standout defensive tackle Howie Long did not play because of his strained knee.

But the Wildcats didn't lose anything with Randy Crofton playing in his place. After Martin's punt return made it 14-0, Villanova had two more great scoring opportunities and tossed away both of them. An Allen fumble he basically dropped the ball in the open field after gaining 13 yards gave Villanova the ball at the VMI 26 With 4:47 left in the half. But on third-and-six at the 22, O'Brien was intercepted by Bill Grigg. Nothing gained there.

The Wildcats quickly regained possession after a 20-yard VMI punt into the wicked wind. It was first down Villanova at the VMI 46, 2:24 Mobley grabbed the ball and bolted 22 yards down the sidelines for a touchdown. Texas later drove to the Mustang three-yard line but Dick Blaylock tackled Darryl Clark for a six-yard loss and when backup quarterback Rick Mclvor threw incomplete, the Mustangs celebrated joyously while the partisan crowd of 73,535 sat in stunned silence. The Mustangs killed Texas' final threat when John Simmons intercepted a pass at the SMU 30 with less than two minutes to play. It was only the fourth time Texas had lost in Memorial Stadium in 66 games.

The Mustangs surprised the Long-horns with a strong first-half ground game which consumed most of the clock. James gained 49 yards the first time SMU had the ball, including runs of 23 and 18 yards where he was was gusting up to 40 m.p.h., VMl's Lou Darden booted one in a series of knuckleballs, and Martin caught a couple of blocks, then cruised untouched up the left sideline. That made it 14-0 with 8:44 to go in the second quarter, and the 'Cats held that lead at halftime. Then, on their first series of the third quarter, they moved into position for Chuck Bushbeck's 37-yard field goal, and it was a 17-0 game. When the Keydets got the ball back, their gears began to mesh, and they had, a first down ai the Villanova 23.

Allen lost a yard on first down, another on second down. Quarterback Dan Fritz threw incomplete out of the shotgun formation on third down, and he was thrown for an 11-yard loss by Bruce Kullman on fourth down and the fourth quar stunned afterward. "SMU just lined up and whipped us," he said. "They deserved to win. "The Southwest Conference is tough and the season is long and people haven't heard the last of us." Meyer said, "Our defense was absolutely fantastic.

And Craig James ran very, very hard." Texas led 6-3 at halftime on field goals of 20 and 47 yards by barefoot John Goodson but the Mustangs struck for the go-ahead score on their second possession of the second half. James took a pitchout, circled left end and sped 53 yards untouched for a touchdown to give SMU a 10-6 lead. Eddie Garcia, who had earlier kicked a 41-yard field goal, kicked a 44-yard-er and SMU led 13-6 going into the fourth quarter. The Mustangs, Bpoint underdogs, then applied the clincher when Texas quarterback Donnie Little overthrew tight end Lawrence Sampleton. glf a)H if0t Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas Sophomore tailback Craig James shredded No.

2-ranked Texas for 146 yards, including a 53-yard scoring dash, and safety James Mobley returned an intercepted pass for a touchdown to ignite underdog Southern Methodist to a shocking 20-6 Southwest Conference victory yesterday. It was the first time in 14 years SMU (5-2, 2-2 in the SWC) had beaten Texas SMU's freshman quarterback Lance Mcllhenny, starting in place of Mike Ford for the first time, directed an errorless Mustang attack that overwhelmed Texas on the ground. James said the change at quarterback never bothered the team. "It was a big thing in the media, but it didn't effect us," said James. He added, "We trusted coach (Ron) Meyer to make the right quarterback choice." Texas coach Fred Akers was tk em A Hill 0 WmBndEi ahrtfllium if tft rial afll.il udfri art I ijffl.