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fe Iffularfptiia Inquirer colleges Sunday, Nov. 15, 1981 9-E Widener, with some luck, beats Swarthmore, 16-6 Pioneers end schedule undefeated Late surge by Princeton upsets Yale Associated Press PRINCETON, N.J. Quarterback Bob Holly passed for SOI yards, including three touchdowns, and ran in the winning score with four seconds remaining as Princeton upset previously undefeated Yale, 35-31, yesterday. It was the first time in 14 years that the Tigers (44-1, 4-1-1 Ivy League) had beaten the Elis (8-1, 5-1 Ivy), who are seeking their third straight Ivy championship. Princeton coach Frank Navarro said that snapping Yale's winning streak over Princeton was one of the most satisfying accomplishments of his coaching career.

"I was remembering that on the sidelines, along with my Hail Mary's, every second," Navarro said. "Now this monkey is off our backs. The ground thing and the Yale thing were heavy loads on our shoulders," he said, referring' to Princeton's weak running game. Princeton managed only 59 yards on the ground, and Yale ran up 312. But the Tigers fought back against Yale's rushing game, which included three touchdowns by Rich Diana, who ran 46 times for 222 yards.

Yale scored the first three touchdowns. Then Holly launched Princeton's first touchdown, on a 20-yard pass to Derek Graham with 1:57 left in the half. Next, Holly fired a 20-yard touchdown 'pass to Larry Van Pelt, and Yale's lead was cut to 21-15. Early in the third period, Holly gave Princeton a 22-21 lead on a 19-yard TD pass to Kevin Guthrie. Yale rallied with Tony Jones' 32-yard field goal.

Linebacker Jeff Rohr-er's fourth-quarter interception of a Holly pass set up Yale's final touchdown, a one-yard plunge by Diana that gave-the Elis a 31-22 lead. Holly threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Dave Ginda with 6:03 left to narrow the gap to 31-29, and he capped the final attack with a one-yard plunge for the victory. Pehn off ense is missing in action as Crimson buries Quakers, 45-7 By Lewis Freedman Inquirer SmW Writer Football coaches often say they'd rather be lucky than good. Yesterday, luck, the good kind, happened to Widener and it didn't hurt any that the Pioneers were good, too. The No.

1-ranked NCAA Division III team in the country had to squirm, grunt and rely on an official's hasty whistle, but the Pioneers out-struggled Swarthmore, 16-6, at Cloth- -ier Fields before an estimated 9,500 fans. Widener completed its second straight unbeaten regular season at 10-0 despite its offense not scoring a touchdown for the first time since an early season 1978 loss to Moravian. The Pioneers await a certain call today inviting them into the playoffs. For game, outmanned Swarthmore, the season ends 7-2, the Garnet's best record since 1919. Widener's points came on a 25-yard touchdown return of an intercepted -pass by linebacker Phil Aruffo, an extra point by Mark Stephan and field goals of 28, 30 and 22 yards by Stephan.

But that might not have been enough if a disputed play had gone the other way. "We got a lucky break," said Widen- er coach Bill Manlove. On the last play of the third quarter, with the score already 16-6, Wid- ener's all-America safety Tom Deery fumbled a punt on a fair catch and Swarthmore appeared to recover. But officials ruled the play had already -been blown dead. No turning back "It was an inadvertant whistle," said Swarthmore coach Tom Lapin-ski.

"They the officials told me 'We know we made a mistake. There's nothing we can do about Swarthmore would have had a first down on the Widener 26-yard line. "I guess I would have called it a fumble," Deery said. It was a rough game between rivals that pitted complementary strengths against each other. Swarthmore built its record with a -forbidding (35 yards per game) de-fense against the rush and the pass- ing of quarterback Steve Massi.

Widener came in averaging 28.1 points and 242.4 rushing yards, and with 27 interceptions. Widener could gain only 132 yards on the ground, being physically mauled most of the game, particularly by aptly named Garnet 280-pound defensive tackle Bob Maull who took up a couple of slots on the line. And the Pioneers picked off three passes, including Aruffo's return with 6 minutes, 28 seconds to play in the third quarter when it was 9-6 a Widener. Massi was under pressure from two tacklers and hurriedly dumped a screen pass to halfback Ed Meehan. Aruffo slid in front of him and coast-.

ed down the sideline for the score. "He IMassi simply threw without looking," said Lapinski. The last time Stephan, a senior, kicker from Trenton, had a day to match his three field goals, was in a junior varsity game three years ago. Under the gun "That's the most pressure I've seen," he said. "I'd rather see us run the score up so it doesn't come down to that.

It's exciting to be the deciding factor." This shaped up as the first time Swarthmore could really challenge Widener in 12 years. The fans jammed the stadium and filled the surrounding grassy hills. "It was a David-and-Goliath situa- tion," said Manlove, who admitted he would have been rooting for Swarth- "1 more if the Garnet hadn't been play- ing his team. When Swarthmore 's Pete Coveleski fumbled the opening kickoff and Stephan booted a 28-yard field goal, it seemed the pre-game hype might have been misplaced optimism. In other years, Swarthmore might have thought about packing it in there because of Widener's explo-siveness.

But even though the of fense wasn't moving, the defense was holding: "These kids lonly 37 of them in uniform have never given up, given in, gotten down," said Lapinski. It was 6-0 at the half on Stephan's 30-yarder, But finally, with 9:50 to go in the third quarter, Massi (14 for .37, 158 yards) directed Swarthmore on an 11-play, 59-yard drive that ended with a four-yard scoring toss to tight end Greg Hansen. The extra point would have given the Garnet the lead, but Deery blew in untouched and blocked Phil Favel-lato's extra point kick. Swarthmore never really got offensive drive going again. Neither did Widener.

"I think we went backwards more than forwards today," said Widener quarterback Bob Cole (5 for 15, 118 yards). The Pioneers went forward just enough to win. 4v Widener's Phil Aruf fo tries to and gives the Crimson a shot at the league title, should Penn upset Dartmouth on Saturday. The Quakers fell to 1-7, 1-5 Ivy. The massacre began on the first play, when Callinan ran a draw play straight up the middle for a 68-yard score.

"Everyone wanted to break that first one," Callinan said. "Our line coach told us before the game that if everyone blocked the right way, we'd get on the board. He got the line really psyched." Stunned, the Quakers rebounded by fumbling on their next three drives. The second, by quarterback Doug Marzonie on the Penn 20 after a hard hit by Joe Azelby, set up the Crimson's next score, a two-yard hurdle by Scott McCabe. Steve Rubin had the hot-potato hands on Penn's next drive, parting company with the ball at the Penn 31.

Five plays later, quarterback Ron Cuccia, who also plays receiver for the Crimson, ran it in from the one-yard line. With 5:53 left in the first quarter and the gusting New England wind at their backs, the Quakers were already buried, 21-0. Jim Villanueva booted a 36-yard field goal early in the second quarter. Peter Coppinger picked off a Marzonie balloon at the Harvard 44 late in the half, setting up another TD. This one came on an eight-yard scamper by No.

2 quarterback Don Allard to give Harvard a 31-0 lead at half. "We played as poorly as we have all year," said Berndt. "I have to give credit to Joe Restic. The way it was going, it could have been 100 to nothing. He took it easy on us." Unfortunately for the Quakers, they didn't take it easy on themselves.

A face-mask penalty against Penn aided Harvard early in the third Raymond, was as distraught as he could be. "I can't understand it," he mumbled, one second before losing his composure. "I really thought we'd win the ball game," he said, moments later. "The wind was a big factor. ITen of the game's 11 touchdowns were scored with the wind at the south end of the stadium.

We thought about gambling on taking the wind in the fourth quarter but figured if we could get a comfortable lead with the wind in the third and hang on, we'd win it. We got the lead, but we didn't hang on." The Bearswho finished 3-7-1, held on until the closing minutes: Reserve quarterback John Davies engineered a 10-play, 48-yard drive that ended when Cliff Clement dived two yards to break a 35-35 tie. The touchdown put the Hens (7-2) ahead for the first i ByGailShister Inquirer Stall Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Don't blame Harvard. The Crimson used 85 players including six quarterbacks and a one-armed halfback for this one.

Is there anything left to say about team with an so anemic that the Red Cross Bloodmo-bile probably wouldn't accept its donation? Not to mention a defense that makes second-string quarterbacks look like Y. A. Tittle. "This was a tough ball game to play," said Harvard coach Joe Restic after the Crimson handed the Quakers their seventh loss in a row, 45-7, yesterday before 10,500 chilled fans at Harvard Stadium. "One thing I never want to do is run up a score and take advantage of a situation.

If you stay in coaching long enough, it will come back to haunt you," he added. Penn coach Jerry Berndt will have plenty of other nightmares to haunt him. Like eight Quakers turnovers (four interceptions, four fumbles), four of which resulted in touchdowns. Like a confused, porous defense that gave up 331 yards rushing and 112 yards passing. Senior fullback Jim Callinan picked up 188 yards on just 15 carries, including touchdown runs of 68 and 66 yards, to break Harvard's single-season record of 950 yards set by Dick Clasby in 1951.

Callinan now has 994 yards. He was quite charitable about his opponents. "Except for those long Penn shut down our running game," he said. "Their defense played a hell of a game." The victory raised Harvard's record to 5-3-1, 4-1-1 in the Ivy League, Philadelphia Inquirer RICHARD M. TITLEY Steve Massi sets up to pass Associated Press away a pass to Penn's John Sylva ware 39.

Two minutes later, Oullette scored the second of his three touchdowns from a yard out to make it 28-18. After Delaware's K. C. Knobloch got three back with a 19-yard field goal, Oullette capped a 12-play, 66-yard drive with a one-yard dive to make it 35-21 on the first play of the fourth quarter. "When we got within 22-18, I figured we'd win it, but when it got to 35-21, it didn't look like we'd have enough emotional energy to do it," said Raymond, who was celebrating his 55th birthday.

The Hens did muster the energy, however. Davies engineered back-to-back scoring drives of 37 and 59 yards to tie it at 35. Knobloch's placement that would have broken the tie sailed wide right to set the stage for the closing heroics. break through or over the quarter, leading to another Callinan score on a nine-yard run. The Crimson got the ball right back on the first of two interceptions thrown by Gary Vura, but they could take advantage only of the second, picked off by Marc Mills at the Harvard 34.

Again, it was Callinan, who raced 66 yards for the score to make it 45-0 with 8:24 to go in the third quarter. The entire Harvard squad ran into the end zone to congratulate Calli- nan. The Crimson was called for delay of game, but at that point it was like trying to stop a blitzkrieg with a Band-Aid. The Quakers' lone score came on their next drive, going 73 yards in 12 plays. Marzonie hit flanker Rich Syrek on a post pattern from 29 yards out.

"I told the team, 'We just got said Berndt. "You can't make all those turnovers against a good team and expect to win. We took a step backward today." NOTES: Sophomore Bill Saleeby, a one-armed halfback, played for one series in the third quarter. The game was the second varsity appearance for Saleeby, who is normally a junior varsity player. He caught a pass in the Crimson's 41-7.

victory over Brown. The points represented Harvard's biggest offensive output since the Crimson beat Brown, 45-26, in 1975. Penn wide receiver Karl Hall suffered a severely sprained ankle midway through the fourth quarter. His status is questionable. Marzonie was 12 of 30 for 149 yards; Vura was 0 for 6.

Both suffered two interceptions. Penn sophomore quarterback Bob Papenfuss made an appearance with just minutes remaining in the game. Why so late? "He's not ready to play," said Berndt. time with only 34 seconds left. Still, the Bears refused to quit.

Sparked by freshman quarterback Rich LaRonte, who completed 24 of 47 passes for 270 yards and three touchdowns, Maine scratched to a first-and-10 at the Delaware 30. With just one second remaining, LaBonte lofted a pass toward Pete Oullette. Delaware's George Schmidt picked it off in the end zone. That was LaBonte's fifth interception and Maine's sixth turnover. Delaware gave the ball away nine times six interceptions and three fumbles.

"This certainly was not a classic," Raymond said. "They came out extremely emotional, and our kids seemed to be overwhelmed by their enthusiasm. We kept turning the ball over so fast and kept giving them opportunities." blockers as Swarthmore quarterback Harvard's Peter Coppinger tips And the Bears seemed to cash in on every one of them. They jumped out to a 19-0 lead before many in the crowd of 16,743 had made their way to their seats. Then, early in the second quarter, freshman kicker Jack Leone booted a 26-yard field goal after yet another turnover for a 22-0 lead, marking the first time a Maine team had scored that many points against Delaware.

The Hens regained their poise for a while scoring 18 unanswered points, With 1:40 left in the. half, though, things went haywire again. In the space of 45 seconds, there were four turnovers, and Maine left the field at intermission with a 22-18 lead. And in the first 2:16 of the third period, there were three turnovers in less than four minutes. The last of those miscues left Maine with a first down at the Dela Delaware fights off unrelenting Maine in laM minute, 42-35 By Bill Simmons inquirer SiaWriler NEWARK, Del.

It was not the kind of homecoming that Ron Roger-son had figured on. As the gray clouds that hovered over Delaware Stadium throughout yesterday afternoon grew' darker, Rogcrson was making the longest walk of his brief career as the University of Maine's head football coach. As he walked the 150 yards or so between the field and the visiting team's locker Rogerson tried to hold back the tears. But he couldn't. His underdog Black Bears, who had never beaten Delaware and who had been outscored, 314-54, in eight previous meetings, lost, 42-35.

And Rogerson, who had spent the last 10 years honing his skills as an assistant to Delaware coach Tubby.