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ffixt fUkfotyfm Inquirer colleges 4 Sunday, Nov. 14, 1982 11-E Widener downs Swarthmore, heads for playoffs fsmtmm mm 24-7 setback costs Garnet its first undefeated season Temple surprised by Colgate vNt-a -I 1 4 i Pioneers, who had a first-and-goal at the one late in the first period. The 45-yard drive ended when a low snap spoiled Nick Pulos' field-goal try. Swarthmore was going into the wind in the second period, and a short punt, coupled with a 12-yard return by George Johnson, put Widener back in business at the Garnet 15. The Pioneers made it to the nine, then settled for Pulos' 28-yard field goal.

Swarthmore never got past its own 41-yard line in the second quarter, one in which every snap was made in the Garnet's territory. The territorial advantage paid off for Widener when Mangold hit split end John Roche with a 48-yard scoring pass. The Pioneers had tried the same play without success on the previous snap. It worked the second time because Greene slipped at the Garnet 20, allowing Roche to field the pass unmolested and waltz into the end zone with 4:31 left until halftime. Swarthmore never got even again, and it was doomed by a broken Widener play.

Midway through the fourth quarter, the wind at their backs, the Pioneers had a third-and-goal at the Swarthmore eight. Mangold playing because Dan Guy had re-sprained an ankle was in the grasp of a would-be tackier when he fumbled the ball up in the air. He caught it and eluded the tackle. He was hit again while trying to run, fumbled the ball forward, then fell on it in the end zone with 8:27 to go. "We practice that play every day," Manlove joked, "but it never works as well as it did today." The touchdown made it 17-7 and sent Widener to West Georgia.

Small consolation After the game, Lapinski tried to console his players. "Get your heads up," he said to an unhearing audience. "You're the best team the school's had in its history." "I'm just not going to believe it for a while," said kicker Pete Covaleski, knowing that there would be no playoffs for Swarthmore. "I don't want to. I've had enough time in the library already.

I'm going to be sitting there, thinking, 'I wish I could go to Covaleski, shifted to running back from split end because of the the Garnet's thin ranks, reflected on the season. "I expected to be playing split end," he said. "I said, 'Great. I'll just get to run around and catch the ball. No "Then we lost all those linemen.

Swarthmore lost four of its potential starting lineman through injury or personal problems. I thought we would be 0-and-something. Then things started to happen Jt was like a dream." The dream ended yesterday. By Scott Pitoniak Special lo The Inquirer HAMILTON, N.Y. The turning 'c point came very early in Colgate's 24-, 17 upset of Temple yesterday afternoon.

"I think it came when we showed up. Or rather, when they showed up," said Temple coach Wayne Hardin after watching his battered Owls finish their season at 4-6. "We were outplayed and outcoached. Colgate simply wanted this more than we "It certainly appeared that way. Colgate, which had lost three straight after a 5-0 start, knew the oflly way to keep its shm Division I-AA playoff hopes alive was with a win over Division I-A Temple.

The Red Raiders got that victory, but just barely. On the final play of the game, from the Colgate 31, Temple quarterback Tim Riordan fired toward the end zone. Tight-end Gene Feingold split two defenders and caught the ball in stride. There was only one problem: He made the catch about one yard beyond the back line of the end zone. "I almost died when he caught it," said Colgate linebacker Jeff Knight.

"I was so caught up in the game that I didn't realize immediately that he was out of bounds." There was no argument from Hardin about the ruling. "The official was right on top of the play," Hardin said. "Anyway, that wasn't the deciding factor. The big thing was our turnovers. We had six of them, and you can't expect to be in many football games when you give it away that often." Harold Harmon had a big game for the Owls, rushing for 170 yards on 23 carries a large portion of that came on a 64-yard touchdown burst the third quarter and Anthony Young had a spectacular 65-yard punt return for a touchdown, but those performances, were overshadowed by Temple mistakes.

The biggest miscue came with about 3Vj minutes left in the game. Faced with a second-and-goal from, the one, Riordan began running an option to the left. He didn't get a good handle on the ball from the start, and as he began going down the line, Knight shot through and nailed him. The ball came loose, and Knight fell on it at the seven. Two runs netted very little for Colgate, but on third down, quarterback Steve Calabria hit tailback Stacy Hall jn a crossing pattern at about the 20, and the little speedster took the ball tH the Temple 42.

The Owls held, and Mike Brown, (See TEMPLE on 14-E) By Chuck Newman Inquirer Stall Writer What had seemed like an impossible dream ended here yesterday. Ac-ademia's Team lost. Widener, the defending NCAA Division HI champion, overwhelmed Swarthmore, 24-7, ending the Garnet's, hopes of producing the first undefeated season in the school's history and of gaining a bid to the. postseason playoffs. The home-field victory earned the Pioneers (9-1), whose only loss came when Gettysburg returned a fourth-quarter fumble 83 yards, a phone call today.

The caller will invite them to meet West Georgia in the first round of the playoffs on Saturday. "The numbers just wore us down," Swarthmore coach Tom Lapinski said. "You don't want to get in a slugging battle with a strong team like that. They were just too big for us, too many for us." Widener dressed over 80 players for the game, Swarthmore 38. A title tie Widener, which gained a share of the Middle Atlantic Conference Southern Division championship with Swarthmore, has now beaten the Garnet 13 straight times.

Yesterday's may have been the last meeting between the schools because the MAC will be realigned for next season. In the end, It was neither numbers nor size that won for Widener yesterday. It was the breaks the kind of breaks the Pioneers have generally capitalized on while losing only 10 times in the 'last 11 seasons. A slip on the slippery grass by Swarthmore defensive back Ed Greene gave Widener its first touchdown. The clinching TD came on a play on which Widener quarterback Bob Mangold fumbled twice.

Swarthmore (8-1), whose players own the highest average college-board scores of any in the nation, had taken the early lead. Four minutes, 40 seconds into the game, Garnet quarterback Mike Reil optioned right, ducked inside, high-stepped over a defensive back and went 33 yards for a touchdown. "It made me really confident," split end Jim Weber said. "I thought it got us over the edge of the initial nervousness of the game." Weber, who is also the sports editor of the school newspaper, watched the game on crutches after having suffered a broken ankle against Western Maryland a week earlier. The Garnet's early TD made Widener coach Bill Manlove uneasy.

"You don't want to get behind a team as defensively skilled as they are," he said. Manlove was made all the more uneasy when the Garnet defense put up a goal-line stand to rebuff the Associated Press down Boston College's Phelan the way to upset city. In a minute and a half, Scully engineered a 68-yard scoring drive, and when Phelan hauled in a picture-perfect 22-yard pass from Scully, it seemed to take the starch out of the Rams. "I'm not a believer in so-called turning points, because each play is supposed to be as important as any other," Raymond said. "But for us to demonstrate to West Chester that we could move the ball into the wind with the clock running down was very important." Just how important became very clear in the third quarter as Delaware erupted for three touchdowns in a 6-minute span to ensure its seventh straight victory.

g' 111 111 1 Swarthmore's Don Lepone puts the squeeze on Widener's Mike ma Marino, Pitt beat Army, 24-6; BC, Holy Cross, Dartmouth win Philadelphia Inquirer STEVEN M. FALK Forward, ending a short run Jamie Kimmel of Syracuse brings hit I if i (itt li 'rJ From Inquirer Wire Services Dan Marino passed for three touchdowns and three interceptions as Pitt (No. 8 AP, No. 7 UP1) scored a 24-6 triumph over Army at West Point, N.Y. Marino completed just nine of 19 passes but hit scoring tosses of six, seven, and four yards as the Panthers rebounded from last week's loss to Notre Dame before a Michie Stadium crowd of 40,475.

The win improved Pittsburgh's record to 8-1, while Army fell to 4-6. Marino hit flanker Dwight Collins with a six-yard touchdown pass midway through the first quarter, completing a 10-play, 54-yard drive to give the Panthers a 7-0 lead. In the second quarter, Marino passed seven yards to Julius Dawkins to complete a three-play, 58-yard drive and a four-yard scoring pass to Collins to cap a 17-play, 89-yard march for a 24-0 lead. Army's defense three times stopped Pittsburgh drives within the Cadets' 30 in the the second half. Boston College 20, Syracuse 13 Doug Flutie threw a 29-yard touch- ir-j r17 ft Princeton defeated by Yale Associated Press NEW HAVEN', Conn.

Bill Moore kicked three field goals, including the longest in Yale history, yesterday as Yale defeated Princeton, 37-19. Tailback Paul Andrie carried 25 times for 118 yards as Yale ran up 324 total yards. Yale scored on its first possession, with a 17-yard pass from quarterback Joe Dufek to Roger Javens setting up Moore's first field goal from 25 yards. Princeton came back, however, to take a 7-3 lead as quarterback Brent Woods completed two passes and scored on a one-yard run. Andrie then returned a Princeton punt 51 yards, carried four times on Yale's drive and scored on a two-yard run at 11 minutes, 19 seconds of the second quarter to give the Elis a 10-7 lead.

On the next play following Yale's touchdown, Princeton's Kyle Heffley fumbled a punt to give the Elis the ball on the Tigers' 22. Moore followed with his second field goal, a 33-yard effort, to increase Yale's lead to 13-7. Seven minutes later, Moore kicked a 52-yard field goal, three yards longer than the Yale record set by Tony Jones last year, as the half ended with Yale ahead, 16-7. Yale then broke the game open in the third quarter as Dufek hit three passes and Andrie ran for 14 yards to set up John Neville's one-yard touchdown run at 7:19 of the third period to make the score 23-7. Princeton scored twice in the second half, on a two-yard run by Roland Warren and an 80-yard pass from reserve quarterback Steve Cusma to Kevin Guthrie.

Princeton missed two-point conversion attempts after both touchdowns. Yale got another second-half touchdown from Dufek 'on a five-yard run and its final points on a 29-yard pass from Dufek to Rick Crews. Yale improved its record to 4-5 overall and 3-3 in the Ivy League. Princeton is 3-6 and and 3-3. ception in the game for a 31-yard touchdown with 49 seconds left as Dartmouth (4-5) kept alive its hopes for a share of the Ivy League title with a win at Providence, R.I.

The win improved Dartmouth's Ivy. record to 4-2, leaving it one game behind Penn with one game to play. Cornell 35, Columbia 26 Cornell (3-6) took a 21-0 lead midway through the second quarter, but barely held on for the victory. Columbia (1-8) narrowed the margin to 28-26 early in the fourth quarter as John Witkowski threw four touchdown passes. Massachusetts 27, New Hampshire 0 Jim Simeone completed 11 of 16 passes for 223 yards and one touchdown to lead the Minutemen (4-6) past the Wildcats (4-6) at Amherst, Mass.

Connecticut 26, Rhode Island 21 Brian McGillicuddy caught two touchdown passes, and defensive end Pete Rostosky ran in a blocked punt for another TD as the Huskies (5-5) beat the Rams (64) at Storrs, Conn. sinks West recover his own fumble. On the first play from scrimmage, Ron Perkins fumbled the ball, and the first of Joe Valentino's two recoveries gave Delaware the ball at the nine. On the Hens' second play, Kevin Phelan swept left for eight yards and the first of his three touchdowns. "That might have been the worst thing that could have happened to us at that point," Raymond said.

"What with our open-date syndrome and general all-around lethargy, we recover a fumble and score right off the bat. That looked like it would be a total wipeout." But West Chester had other ideas. It shut down Delaware's high- East down pass to Gerard Phelan with 58 seconds left that enabled the Eagles (7-2-1) to keep their bowl hopes alive with a win at Newton, Mass. Flutie, who completed only four of his first 20 passes, completed three long passes in a row to rallied the Eagles to victory. He passed 21 yards to Paul Zdanek at Syracuse's 45, and then 16 more to Bob Biestek.

Phelan then took off down the right side and was all alone in the end zone as he grabbed Flutie's TD toss. The loss dropped Syracuse to 2-8. Holy Cross 21, Maine 7 Andy Clivio set a single-season Holy Cross rushing record and bolted for a fourth-quarter touchdown to lead the Crusaders (8-2) at Worcester, Mass. Maine dropped to 74. With Clivio's touchdown run, he broke the school's single-season rushing record of 973 yards.

Dartmouth 22, Brown 16 Dave Neslund returned his second inter "It was not one of our better days," said Delaware coach Tubby Raymond, whose Hens are 8-1 and, with Bucknell coming up this week, a victory away from a Division I-AA playoff invitation. It's not at all unusual for teams to look ahead, but Delaware started this one as if it were looking three games down the road and thinking the same thing that the 20,012 paying customers were that this one was won when it stepped out on the field. West Chester, which closed out its season at 64, did little to dispel such ideas in the opening minute. The Rams' Mike Irving took the opening kickoff at the four, got to the nine, slipped and fell, and then had to Slow-starting Delaware Chester upset bid, 55-13 powered offense on two series and got even when Bruce Carthon returned a 49-yard Owen Brand punt 69 yards for a touchdown. Tom Augustine added the point to put West Chester ahead.

Early in the second quarter, Delaware mounted a 16-play, 80-yard scoring drive that was capped by quarterback Rick Scully's five-yard option run around the left side. Scully's pass for two extra points missed the mark. But West Chester came right back, driving 68 yards in six plays, with Ron Gaynor passing the final seven yards lo Al DePippo. The conversion pass failed, but the Rams still were on top, 13-12, with 2:47 left in the half. Then a funny thing happened on By Bill Simmons Inquirer Sl Wriler NEWARK, Del.

West Chester playing against Delaware is like Delaware against Temple the West Chester Golden Rams have everything to gain and nothing to lose. West Chester had won only three and tied one in 25 games with Delaware before yesterday, the last win coming in 1956. Simply put, the Rams aren't supposed to beat Division I-AA Delaware, a perennial power. Everybody in Delaware Stadium knew that. Everybody except the West Chester players, who scrapped their way to first-half leads of 7-6 and 13-12 before being overwhelmed in the final 32 minutes to lose, 55-13 A.

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