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S-E Sunday Sept. 29, 1974 Philadelphia Inquirer f- Rutgers Battle to Tie for 1st Time in 105 Years Special In Tkt 'nijuirer PRINCETON Senior halfback Walt Snickenberger scored on a one.yard plunge with only 22 seconds left to cap a 13-play drive Saturday as Princeton fought back to a 6-6 tie with Fqtgers in a game which will be remembered for its bizarre ending. After taking possession on their own 37-yard line with 3:49 remaining, the Tigers started the drive, but with 2:05 left, after junior quarterback Ron Beible had taken the team as far as the Rutgers' 42, fans took matters into their own hands. They tore down both goalposts. The result was a five-minute delay, but the Tigers maintained their momentum, moving to the one-yard line in six plays and a pass interference call against Rutgers.

After lunging across for the touchdown, Princeton's workhorse Snickenberger, who rushed 113 yards in 26 carries for the day, found no uprights to kick at. And Beible's attempted conversion pass to senior tight end Bob Harding fell incomplete, so the game ended in the first tie ever in the 105-year history of this oldest of all football rivalries. Rutgers took a 6-0 lead in the third quarter when co-captain Tony Pawlik returned a kickoff of the foot of Princeton barefoot punter Mike Stein. The 94 yard touchdown broke John Pollack's six year old return record for the Scarlet Knights. The Knights dominated the ground fighting led by full backs Curt Edwards and halfback Mike Fisher, with a team total of 236 yards.

Princeton reached the Rutgers 40 only once before the final drive. Referee Tom Elliot said he had never seen both goal posts come down at the same time, and the coaches were wary in commenting on the development and its effect on the game. "Princeton is in charge of security," Rutgers coach Frank Burns said. "But if they hadn't come down, there would have been a lot 'less time in the game. It gave Princeton about 20 seconds." Princeton coach Robert Caeciola pointed out that Princeton offered to put up new posts for a place kick.

"It was our responsibility and we were willing, but the ref eree said we couldn't he reported. Rutgers Princelonsift f) fl a- 94 PUnt leiledl 0 0 6 0-4 return (kick faest dnsvrs Rushes. yards Passing vardi Return vardi Passej Purrts Fumhles-loSt Penallies-vards Rutgers Princeton is 23i-ii 129i 44 77 156 62 4-1M 38 10-37 CO 0-0 J-74 S-45 Princeton EAST Trojans To Win Bumble Over Pitt N.C. State Edges Syracuse by 28-22 "-yy vn -ti-f V' Vi A PhiladelDhia Inquirer ALEXANDER DEANS Halfback Bob Harris scampers 22 yards for Temple's second TD Temple Gains Revenge, Routs BC thought we'd be toucher against the pass, particularly in our own territory." But it didn't matter where Temple got the ball. The Owls advanced it consistently.

After the first TD, set up by a break, the Owis moved from their own 23 to score on a 22-yard run by Harris with a pitchout, sapping a 77-yard, seven-play drive. Temple stopped BC at the Yukica said. "They didn't surprise us by throwing so much. We expected them to throw and mix the running start of the second half, then ciwe 61 yards in seven plays. Hynoski went over on a 21-yard pass play.

Next, the Owls went from their to the BC 16, where Bitterlich kicked another fie'id al just past mid-point the third period. That ended the scoring. INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUS-I'NS- TerswKe. Hnciki, 20 1 9-11. Harris, 7-6S, Grady, 3 a.

A-tlrshmn, 2-11. R. FspoMto 19-34. BfmeHe. 12-tl.

6-20, Vcicnicrre, 2-3, Con-CflPnOn. 2-0, St'CO. 1 4 -Temcle. JtMCliim, 21-33-1, 205 yards. B.

Kruczek, 9-21-1. as Varrls. Es-orsito. 0-3-1. RECEIVING Temnie.

S'emDel. S-7, Cl'. $:. Riolv, 4-42. K.

Williams, 1- 4. Hynoski, 3-45. B. C. Watts.

3-34. Richardson, l-o, 13, Barnetfe, 1-6, 2- 2', Petersen, 1-16. PITT, From 1-E most greedy speculator, then gave it back by committing more errors than did Richard Nixon during his Watergate travails. The truer figures are contained in the final statistics, that series of numbers which usually provides solace and moral victories to the loser. But all Majors could say after his defeat was.

"They kept the ball away from us. They kepi us off balance "It goes back to the old saying, 'Position is sometimes more important than Southern Cal enjoyed both, only to spit in the eye of the opportunities they presented. The Trojans ran 92 plays to Pitt's 33; they made 28 first downs to Pitt's five; they gained 402 yards rushing to Pitt's 99; they had 452 yards in total offense to Pitt's ill. "We had the ball so much offensively, that the two teams that got tired were our offensive team and their defensive unit," said USC coach John McKay. "It seemed like we had the ball for a week in the third quarter and everytime I looked up at the scoreboard we were behind." Certainly that period accentuated the frustrations of the Trojans.

When USC received the kickoff to begin the second half, it trailed, 7-3, and was missing Pat Haden, its starting quarterback who had been cold-cocked earlier. Vince Evans, a junior college transfer playing his first varsity game for Southern Cal, immediately guided the offense 53 yards to Pitt's 12. On second-and-six tailback Allen Carter accepted a pitchout and rambled seven yards to a first down at the four; it was called back for illegal procedure. On second-ancl-ll, Evans rolled right, looked for a re- Miami Shades Tampa, 28-26 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -Miami quarterback Kary Baker scored one touchdown and passed for another while running back on Martin Dran for two more to give Miami a hard-fought 2S-26 football victory over Tampa late Saturday.

The Spartans lost two chances in the final minutes to pull ahead as the favored Hurricanes blocked a pair of short field-goal attempts he-fore a howling crowd of in Tampa Stadium. Miami was holding a slim two-point lead when Martin capped a 64-yard drive with one-yard dive into the end zone with 1:46 left. The Spartans were led by quarterback Freddie Solomon. He scored two touchdowns and passed for a two more, the last a three-yard toss to Morris LaGrand with 48 seconds left, again closing the gap to the final margin. hoi -trou-, and the eou heard ceiver, then threw a near interception once he had crossed the line of another penalty and loss of down.

On third-and-14, Carter burst up the middle, stopped just a foot short of the first down; Evans snuck for it to the five, then again called his own play, a sprint toward the right corner. He moved quickly, cut nicely behind his blockers and, just as he was to cross the goal line, mysteriously fumbled, the ball bounding out of the end zone and into the loving arms of Pitt defensive tackle Randy Holloway at the three. "I had the ball," the quarterback would say in the looker room. "At least I thought I was conscious of having it. I don't know how I lost it.

I just know I didn't score." The drive consumed six minutes and 25 seconds, used 14 plays and covered 62 yards. The USC defense lumbered onto the field for another of its two-minute, three-plays-and-a-punt appearances, this time stopping three straight runs by the Pitt's brilliant Tony Dorsett before Pitt kicked out of bounds at its own 33. "Once you establish a name for yourself they're out to get you," said Dorsett, who gained only 59 yards on 15 carries. "But you have to blame our whole offense, and if that includes me, fine. "I was out there trying to run, but there just weren't too many places for me to go.

It's a bad feeling. It's demoralizing." So again The Bumbling Giant disguished as the USC offense took the field, moving 23 yards in three minutes and six plays to a first down at the Pitt 10. This time Evans didn't wait until he got into the open before fumbling; he dropped the snap from center, watched the ball slither around his feet, then trotted to the sidelines as Pitt defensive tackle Don Parrish fell on it at the 11. This time the Panthers managed a first down (one of only two in the entire second half) before Swider kicked 69 yards into and through the end zone. On the sidelines Haden had recovered enough to play, but again McKay sent in the fumbling Evans to guide the offense.

"When we went down to Arkansas we tried to win it the easy way," McKay would later say, referring to the forward pass and his team's opening game loss. "This one we were going to win our way. "We just wanted to keep running it at 'em, running it at 'em. Getting them out of there. We did.

But it. was a hard game for us 'cause we were our own worse enemy." This time The Bumbling Giant eschewed that role, and the substitute Evans looked more poised and comfortable. In high school he played tailback in a single-wing offense, and in this drive his running talents would complement those of the half-dozen backs McKay used to carouse amongst the worn Pitt defense. For a dozen plays and seven minutes, the regiment battered away, first Dave Farmer, then Allen Carter, men Kicky Bell, then Evans, then finally Anthony Davis, who rambled on this series seven times for 28 yards, scoring the touchdown from the two. (He would end the day with 149 yards.) The matter was then set-t'ed, Pitt's harried thrusts and the Trojans' insurance score nothing but peripheral.

When the day ended one knew that the heralded meeting of the East and the West had turned out worse than a bad blind date and the far better team had won. 3 0 7 t-Prtl 11 1.1 (I tr FT, 1. rass panialj (l.nro k.rh USC-Oavis 7 run (Limahr-Ii b.cb USC-Evans 13 run (liicV tailed! USC Pit 7a aoj 7 if 1 It aj II First rlnxns lisH, Passing varrtt pp'oin va'di Pl.nU l-t n- 7 n-U 1 Slrn ir-il 5 pass Irnm Jnachim k-ifV 1 run (Bitterlich kick 1 rim i Strintort T- FG Bitterlich 38 71 pass Irom JoacKm (Hit. trrhch Imi-U'j T- Hv-'eUi 71 pass trom Joachim iP.t. kirk) FT, Billrilich 32 A- 12.7S2 PC 11 J5-8S 81 Tcmrle 74 4I-34 20S F'l'l Oc.su Hushes.

yards F-a-si-ii Yards Rr'i'rn Yards Punts Fumhles-lost Penalties-Yards fl 9-IS-7 1 1- 33 3-33 (1 0 3-1 2- 49 6-6S ALEXANDER DEANS first Temple TD B.Vtnn Cn'li-oe 6 7 T-mrie "1 "I was unable to score again until the fourth period. Milt Holt then fired a pair of touchdown passes, one to Tom Lincoln for 27 yards and another to 6-foot-6 Pat Mc-Inntly for a 47-yard-gainer. Mclnally caught six passes for 116 yards. He has grabbed 68 passes in his varsity career, shattering the old Harvard record of 62 by Carter Lord, a few years ago. Holy Cross got a consolation touchdown with three minutes left, after a pass interception by John Provost at the Harvard 31.

Morton passed three yards to Bob-Fitzsimmons in the end zone for the score. Boston Univ. 29 Vermont 6 BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -Two long first-half drives, one of them for 991': yards, powered Boston University to a 29-6 Yankee Conference victory over the University of Vermont here Saturday afternoon. After Boston University had stopped a drive by Vermont on the one-half yard line, the Terriers came all the way back for the first score.

The march was highlighted by the running of sophomore tailback Gelen Murphy, who carried the ball 12 times. Three seconds into the second period, fullback George Katapodis climaxed the first drive, going in from two yards out. Murphy had a brilliant afternoon, lugging the ball 36 times for 203 yards, including 24 yards for 171 yards in the first half. Later in the second period, Boston University traveled 80 yards in nine plays for its second touchdown, with fullback Joe Driscoll going the final yard. MjimhUiflti I) 0- Dartmouth 0 ft ft 0 MASS Lnt I run (Sorut Itick) MASS Parhfr It past from Tripucha (Sprout kick) Maisichuirtfs Dartmouth Finl Oown 10 Ru(hn-yrd 45-IJ0 SM' Pailino varets 21 Rtturn vardi II Passu Punts 75 4-3 Fumblfs lost 0 J-2S 4 Boston University 1 1 7-7 Vermont I 0 a- Bit Katn(M run IZirtidil tick) BU Or.scoll I run (Zirtid.s kickl BU Portar inlarcaotion (Strandharo runl VERMONT Snodorass tumbla racowar (Pasi i-Kd) BU Katapodn S2 run (Zirt.d.t kick) Nprth Carolina St.

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-Hooks run (Hutl inck) SVR-Kmsev run (Matip run) NC. First dawns RuShis-vards Passtnq yards Raturn yards Passes Punts FumMrs-lost Penallies-vards Syracuse 9 77 71 37 14 47! 3-37 4 1 IS Connacticut 0 7 0 0 7 Yale 10 7 3 Yale-FG Carter 74 Yale-Green a run (Carter kick! 2 pass trom Reck (Si-nav kick) Yaie-Henmnm 3 run (Carter lick) Yaie-FG Carter Conn Yale First downs' Rushes-vardt Return yards Passes Punts umhles-lost Penaltiesvards 17 54l3 5-31 3 IS 3-10-1 Lalavette 0 5 0 10-ls- Columhia 0 0 0 0 0 Lal-Satetv snan throuoh end lone. Lal-FG Kuhn 71 Lal-DrSanty 17 run (Kuhn kick) Lal-FG Kuhn 3S A -J ,491 Lafayette Columbia 2-111 37-17 an 74 3-a-t a 31 sn First downs Passmo yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penaiiiesvardi a a 4-41 7-S9 Harvard "I 0 )- Mary-Tsitsoi I run(TsitiOskick) Harv-FG Tsitsos 47 HC-Morton I run (KaMav k.ckl Harv-Lmcoln 27 pasl from Holt (Tsitsas kick Harv-MclneHV 47 pass from Hon (Tsitsos kick) HC-Fitisimmons 3 pass from Menon (Kellev kick) Halv First dawni Ptishes-vards Passing yards Return yards Passes Pun's Fumbles lost Penai'-es va'ds CrSJ Harvard 12 IS 47-ua as 1 71 34 IS H-H-J 14 7 1 i a ia to ti sSS 230 Anxnrintcd prps. SYRACUSE, N. Y.

(AP)-Running open a halftime tie broke open a tie with touchdowns runs of one and six yards early in the third period and th-ranked North Carolina State held on for a 28-22 college football victory over Syracuse Saturday, v- Trailing 28-14 'with less than three minutej.ft, Syracuse pulled to vithin six points on tailbackKen Kin-sey's three-yard rtyi with 2.08 remaining and Dptt Magee's run for a two-point conversion. A last ditch effort to pull the game out fell -short when North Carolina State recovered an onside kteK at their own 23 and ran the. clock out. Syracuse, 1-3, had moved on top 14-7 midway in the second quarter or quarterback Jim Donoghue's seven-yard keeper. Kins'ey ran the ball in for a twp-tfoint conversion.

The Wolfpack, 4.0, came right back, however; moving 80-yards in 11 plays for a touchdown that palled them even at the half, MR Quarterback Dave BUfkey hit Hooks on a two-yard pass for the score with 31 Seconds remaining. Lafayette 15 Columbia 0 NEW YORK (AP -Lafayette senior guard Dan Kuhn kicked two field goals, blocked a Columbia attempt and added conversion in leading the Leopards to a 15-0 college football victory over the Lions Saturday. The victory was Lafayette's first after two defeats while the game marked the opening of Columbia's initial season under new head Coach Bill Campbell. Lafayette got its first points in the rain-drenched first half when a from center went through the hands of Columba punter Bob Watson and rOHed out of the end zone for; a safety early in the second quarter, Kuhn then kicked his first field goal, a 24-yrder wi.h less than one minute left in the first half. Dean Colwes was the backbone of the Lafayette offense, gaining 97 yards ia'32 carries.

Colwes carried thrfce times in the drive which produced the game's only touchdown, a 69-yard thrust in the fipal quarter capped by Greg DeSanty's (8-yard run). Harvard 24 Holy Cross 14 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -Harvard sent Alky Tsitsos plunging for a 'touchdown after recovering It's opening kickoff, and went on to whip Holy Cross 24-14 Saturday in the Crimson's 1974 football debut. Harvard, launching its centennial season, took command at- the oiftset in a strange turn of events. Holy Cross won the toss and elected to receive.

Harvard ignored taking the wind, and kicked off into 15 The kickoff sailed towards the left sideline, a free ball. A Holv Cross player watched as Harvard fticx is-tello pounced on the ball just inside the stripe at the 20. Harvard needed just seven plays before Tsitsos banged one yard for a touchdown. Helped by a fourth down roughing the kicker penalty against Holy Cross, Harvard moved down field to set up Tsitsos for a 42-yard field goal in the 10th minute of action. Holy Cross, which managed just five first downs despite a 45-10 victory over Brown last week, put together its attack for a 48-vard scoring thrust early in 'the second period.

Quater-back FSo'j Morton snaked the final yard. Harvard domina'ted the action the restjf the way, but f'sP' mum -1 iMl 4 in I 7s ir (scn' mi y' i 1 a V'var TEMPLE, From 1-E There were so many Temple standouts it would be difficult to list them all. "Our kids played a heck of a game from beginning to end," said a happy Hardin. "They played better than they know how." Hardin, who has been booming Steve Joachim as the best in the country, saw his quarterback complete 21 of 33 passes for 203 yards and three touchdowns, only one interception. Halfback Henry Hynoski rushed for a career-high 138 yards in 20 carries and caught three Joachim passes for 45 yards and one touchdown.

Speedy halfback Bob Harris gained 68 yards in seven tries and scored once in his first game at Temple, Tight end Jeff Stempel grabbed eight passes for 76 yards and two touchdowns. And kicker Don Bittcrlich booted 38 and 32-yard field goals as well as four extra points. The defense, led by tackle Joe Klecko and ends Joe Teklit and Dave Chinnock, was equally superb. The Owls shut off one of the nation's top running backs, Mike Esposito, holding him to a mere 34 yards in 12 carries and prevented the Eagles from gaining 100 yards either by rushing or passing. The Temple players were not surprised by the win but by the margin.

"We were ready," Joachim said, "and we knew if we went out and executed, that we could score on them. We did nothing spectacular. Our game plan was to come out using the two-minute drill and mix in a few running plays." The Owls did just that. They took the opening kickoff and six of the first eight plays were aerials, mostly to the sidelines. That drive died at the BC 37 but the Eagles couldn't move and tackle Tom Ruchlewicz blocked Jim Walton's punt after a bad pass from center.

Temple covered the IS yards in two plays, passing to Hynoski on the sideline for 10 and then into the end zone to Stempel, -the ball passing through the hands of BC's Steve Scial-abba. That was one of the plays BC coach Jooe Yukica mentioned in his post-mortem. Yukica noted that twice his defense touched completed Temple passes early, but overall, he said, the Eagles didn't play their game. "We just didn't play a football game," he said. "We were quicker and stronger than you saw out there on the field.

We were just standing still too much, but give them credit. They played well and deserved to win." Yukica agreed that Temple was better than last year's 45-0 score and BC is season's 31- "That's game in would indicate, better than this exactly rip.ht," with it. But I MfeW vS-c Pliilesdelohia Inquirer Henry Hynoski picks up 10 on pass, sets up But afterwards they were bellowing in the lockerroom, "No. 1 in the East, baby," and Wayne Hardin was shouting to introduce the winner of the Why-I-Like-Tcmple-Footbail essay contest, who was promptly engulfed in sweaty hugs, and Monte Cole, a starting defensive tackle who had been hurt the week befoie, limped in on crutches and the while u'siiu pec-io cna ii: rig, "Mont-ceccc Mont-eeeee" and Monte Cole bowed his head and cried and squeezed the game ball against his "It was an significant game for mc," Wayne Havdin said later, "because this was the one wc dedicated to my dad last We lost it and I lost But Wayne Hardin was, now, a year later, an emphatic winner, playing and underclassmen and a lot of transfers. "Wc probably have more success with transfers than any oilier school in the he said "It's like -one kid told mc, 'I want to play big time football and I want to stay close io So quarterback Steve Joachim was lured from Pcnn Slate, and the ce im-vbe 12 to 15 other transfers, including halfback Bob who bolted 22 yards for a TD the second time he carried the ball for Temple.

"i 'rs; time I've playpj "1," he said. "Went to Florida end oidn't like it Laid out a year and a half, and then 1 missed the opener here "cause my mother died. It's creat to be back playing. You never miss something Bill Lyon's Column LYON, From 1-E were absolutely smothering on defense and brilliantly balanced on offense. Aid 'h; Al Jl.

press information, found himself in the suddenly heady position of being able to walk down the aisle and lean over typewriters and casually inform that Temple has now won in straight and that is third best in the country because Notre Dame has woii in a row and Oklahoma 10 and hey, wait a minute, heir's a halftime score that shows Purdue beating Notre Drum' 21-7. Anyway, whin was the last time they were nicnti'min? Temple in the same breath with the Notre Dames and the Oklahomas? "I'll tell vnu, we foci like we can play with any team in the country," said Joe Klecko, the quick and agile 255-pound sophomore defensive tackle. Klecko winced whi'e he talked because there was a big flap of skin hanp-ig loose just under his lower lip. "Got the quarterback on the sidelines and I stuck nv-sclf with ihe yard market. They never even dropped it," he explained.

"It dec-m't hi-ft now. it will when I net it stitched back. But right now I'm too hsh. We wore super bch all week. "We owed gu We owed them plenty.

And we paid 'em tvick. Wc paid 'em in fti.l. We held 'cm to fewer points than Texas. And I guess that ou'ih'a prove where we bclnnc now." Wayne Hardin said his team had been up all week. "1 mean, thev weren't tight, thev weren't choking.

They it taken awa op'i vou. Outside, along M'Jicner street, there was a n-honkino. traffic jam. The nci-e In joy filtered 'hroush tne window next to Wayne Hardin -miled. "When's the b'-t time locker.

"Listen," he that around here weren't hysterical. It was just a goo solid.