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18-E Sunday, Sept. 18, 1977 Philadelphia Inquirer 4 if iWiiwjiniLi.1 iLiiMij.WJ.iL'-ii 'WW pigiii'iiuiiiMiW'iiif 1 I'ifynnrrr rni t'i it rji mmmi i West Chester loses out to Delaware by one foot missed field goal and the fumble. West Chester couldn't get things together either time it had the ball in the third period while Delaware scored on Brandt Kennedy's 10-yard field goal and mounted a drive that led to the clincher early in the fourth period. Craig Carroll capped that 10-play, 53-yard drive with a three-yard scoring slant over right tackle. "I think we were a little flat in the first two series of that third period," Atkinson said.

"We usually come here and play one good half. Maybe we thought we had it won." Despite the mistakes, Raymond was generally happy about the situation. "We played better in every facet of the game," he said. Our offense was better, our defense was better and our kicking game was very much better. We're more than a week better than we were a week ago.

It's like I told the kids. A game like this is better than if we had gotten those three other touchdowns. This really turns the screw. We had our backs to the wall all day." end from Cornwells Heights, Bucks County, Senser caught nine passes for 151 yards and one touchdown. He also caught a two-point conversion pass that brought West Chester back into it midway of the fourth period.

"Senser is a fine football player," Raymond said with true admiration. "He was a very real factor in this game. He has height and excellent hands. Anytime you just throw the ball into the end zone and he has a chance to get it, that's something." Senser caught two passes for a total of 54 yards during West Chester's first scoring drive that covered 80 yards in five plays and saw Paul Brown dive over from the one-yard line. Delaware answered immediately by driving 81 yards in eight plays to score on a five-yard end-zone pass from Jeff Komlo to Ivory Sully.

Then three of the next four times, the Hens had the ball, they gave it up, deep inside West Chester territory. First was an interception, then a delay penalty that resulted in a Ft Am, hi West Chester's Mike Skalamara stops Villanova's Ivory Sully with a 36-14 win By Bill Simmons Inquirer Staff Writer NEWARK, think it was a case of overconfidence on our part and good preparation on their part," said West Chester State quarterback Craig Atkinson after a late Golden Ram rally came up short and Delaware sneaked away with a 17-15 victory. How West Chester, which hadn't beaten Delaware since 19S6, could cornel into Delaware Stadium that was virtually filled with 19,479 Blue 'Hen fans and be overconfident is a question nobody seemed able or willing to answer. But if it didn't infect the entire West Chester team, Atkinson seemed to; have enough to make up for any would-be pessimists even after Delaware's 17th victory against 3 losses and a tie became fact. 'There was no doubt in my mind that we'd win," said Atkinson who did' his level best to make it happen by completing 16 of 30 passes for 223 yards and one touchdown.

"After watching their films (of last week's opening 24-7 loss to Eastern Kentucky), we didn't think their offense was as potent as in the past," he continued. "I thought we could score four times on them and there's novyay they figured to score that mufch'on us." But West Chester scored only two touchdowns and, even so, came with-hraifoot of pulling it out on a field goaf with 1 minute, 23 seconds left. The Rams, now 1-1, got that final chance when Atkinson passed to Dok DuVal for 40 yards and a first down at the Delaware 23. An incompleted pass and two running plays left West Chester with a fourth and two at the Delaware IS and the clock running down. I don't think there was any question that wa'd go for the three (points)," Atkinson said.

And I figured we'd make it easy." Kicker Don Wolf seemed to get the placement away cleanly, but the ball kept fading to the right and sailed by the upright maybe a foot outside. "I wasn't gonna look," said Delaware Coach tubby Raymond. "But I figured maybe I'd see history being made." It was not, however, the kind of history the winningest coach in Delaware history wanted tosee. In nine previous meetings during Raymond's tenure, his teams had won by a minimum of 16 points, usually by three or four touchdowns. "Really, it was one of those games that could have gone either way," Raymond continued.

"We could have lost or we could have won bigger. Actually, we should have had fhree more touchdowns." Actually, the Hens blew five scoring opportunities, two inside the West Chester 10-yard line. The causes were two interceptions, a fumble and two penalties and four of them came in the first half. The guy who made the most of Atkinson's aerial antics was Joe fien-ser, a 6-foot-5, 225-pound junior split Rutgers' By Wendell Plumlee lnqm'er Stall Writer NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.

Rutgers' puzzling team shook off some rust yesterday, and happily discovered that a mistake against the likes of Bucknell is not as painful as one against the Penn States of the football world. The Scarlet Knights sputtered, and Coach Frank Burns was forced by injuries and sub-par performance to drastically change the starting lineup, but Rutgers still managed a 36-14 victory in its home opener. "This still can be a very fine football team," said a grim-faced Burns in the winners' dressing room. "Our defense, as a unit, seemed more coordinated. Our offensive performance was much better as a unit." As for errors, "We had fewer." Burns had inserted an entire new Special to The Inquirer KEITH MEYERS after a 15-yard gain an offside, an dgoing nowhere before Johnson took a little screen pass on the left, cut back right and was untouched in a 51-yard scoring run.

Bucknell, which was playing its opener, crept back with a five-minute drive that covered 58 yards in -10. plays, Lipp covering the last five yards. In an urlusually quiet dressing room, Chester High's Carter picked at some tape at his ankle and reflected that, "We just seemed to keep coming at them in this one. It seemed like we had lo a lot of confidence in the other two. We're getting it back." Carter had 65 of Rutgers' 203 yards passing, with three receptions.

had been quite concerned about changing to Carter," BurH said, "but I thought he did a fine job. Kosup did a good job too." The new starting quarterback was 9 for 14, passing for 139 of Kul: gers' 203 yards as the Scarlet rolled ui 453 vards oin total offense to Buck-nells' 195. Rutgers may have mads headway on getting rid of mistakes. After eight first-half penalties, the Scarlet produced but 2 after intermission. Jt Penn State, but Burns said he'd take it.

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Carter had caught a pass to open that drive and with some ough running had reached the Bison 26 before the clip. Kosup also hit Lassiter with a pass in that dnve. Five plays later, the Scarlet took over on its own 27. Eleven plays and one procedure penalty later, freshman halfback Lester Johnson scored from the two to end a 73-yard drive that featured 12 and 17-yard passes from Kosup to Carter. pass to Thomas, all alone on the Maryland IS.

Thomas sprinted 'into the end zone and it was 21-0. But Maryland had still a few more gifts for the Mountaineers. After Steve Atkins snuffed out another Terp drive with a fumble at the West Virginia 20, a roughing-the-kicker violation on fourth down enabled the Mountaineers to keep the ball. They cashed in on that one with six seconds remaining in the half, when Bill McKenzie kicked a 49-yard field goal tying a school record dating back to 1901. Things went so well for the Mountaineers that freshman sensation Robert Alexander did not make an ap West Virginia holds off Maryland shakeup defensive line for this game after losing to Penn State and Colgate by a combined score of 68-7.

The changes included starting a freshman, Phil Perkins, at defensive end, a position he had never played before last week. Rutgers, having opened the season ranked 18th in one poll, was desperate. Other changes in Rutger's starting lineup had senior Bert Kosup at quarterback and Chester High's George Carter, a sophomore, at tight end. A serious Rutger failing in the first two games were penalties. The Scarlet Knights opened this one with a clip and went on to two offsides in the first three minutes.

They were saved by the quality of the opposi-. tion. Rutgers linebacker Tim Blanch-ard intercepted Bucknell's Glyn Lipp Maryland appeared to be getting its act together after that, marching from its own 21 to the Mountaineers' 10. But on third and five, quarterback Larry Dick playing for injured Mark Manges was blind-sided while attempting to pass, fumbled, and West Virginia recovered. Moments lafer, after a Mountaineer field goal was wide, Dick's pass bounced off the hands of Vince Kinney and linebacker Jeff Maerelli a Mountaineer force all afternoon made a diving interception.

Before it was over, Macerelli would also recover two key Maryland fumbles. On the first play following the interception, Kendra lofted a 40-yard You have to come back next week," he said. Anderson, ranked by Hardin with "the best running backs I've evr coached," rushed for only 56 yards last week, and his move back to tailback may have surprised Drake. "I was impresesd with Anderson M1 SCHOOLS SALES WEST VIRGINIA, From 17-E break. "We figured that we have to beat at least two of four teams Maryland, Kentucky, Pittsburgh and Penn State to go to a bowl gamd this year.

Well, now it's one down and one to go. And who knows, we may make even more noise than that." But back to Maryland's inept first half. First, a fumbled punt at the Terp 41 led to West Virginia's first touchdown, a two-yard plunge by Dave Riley. Then, Maryland's line was stunting toward the wide side of the field when Riley cut back to the short side and raced 54 yards for a 14-0 lead. Rutgers put together an error-free, 53-yard drive to open the second half.

Lassiter scored from the four and even a mistake went right for the Scarlet when kick-holder Matt Allison took a high snap and ran for 2 points on the busted point-after try. After the next Bucknell possession, Paul Fego delivered a beautiful 38-yard runback to the Bison 36, but a blocking penalty moved Rutgers back to its own 27. Then substitute quarterback Jeff Rebholz missed Johnson on a handoff and Bucknell's Don Kel-ley recovered at the Scarlet 36. The Herd found this charity too tempting, and Lipp put it on the soreboard eight plays later with a keeper with 19 seconds left in the third quarter. Halfback Vince Woody carried for 2 and it was 29-8.

After the kickoff, Rutgers spent 2'i minutes and five plays committing by 24-16 pearance until late in the second quarter, after which he carried 11 times for 56 yards and fumbled once. The Terrapins virtually owned the second half, drawing to within 24-1 on Atkins' four-yard run, Dean Richards' five-yard sweep and Kinney's great catch on a two-point conversion. They added two more points when West Virginia punter Ken Hat-ton was downed in the end zone following a bad pass from center. But all hope even that of a tie went up with those balloons when, with one second remaining, Dick's pass fell incomplete in the end zone from the West Virginia 20. That's the way Temple felt after scoring 17 points in the first quarter last week and then losing.

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