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fiilahelpftta Inquirer colleges Oct. 4, 1981 9-F Lehigh rallies from big deficit, beats Delaware Columbia surprises Penn, 20-9 Five turnovers sink Quakers 1 IH Mill 1.11 1 Ml. MLUM mmmmia.MLmmmmmmmmipmmmimmmmm f1 i-" tefflp I rrr "-r" mur nmiii hm mTun rir-inirTi riftiinn fnt TMBimiiirnriifr r-''rlff1Tll iliwitwwafiiw mft jn---- iimwiiltfrtiiiMMMiniiiiwiil 1 proficient running the option. Even so, Delaware had a chance to land a possible knockout punch in the waning minutes of the half after Joe Valentino recovered a fumble by Lehigh's Chris Sexton at the Engineers' 27. But a fourth-and-one dive by fullback Bob Dougherty came up short at the 18-yard line.

"Right there is where we lost the ball game," said Raymond. "We announced to them the Engineers and 22,000 or whatever in the stands that we couldn't make a first down with a yard to go." The Engineers' defense stuck it to the Blue Hens and, at the same time, lit a fire under their own offense. Quarterback Michalski came' out firing, taking Lehigh in for a very important touchdown in just seven plays. The payoff was a 20-yard pass to Ryan in the left corner of the end zone with 1:39 left in the half. The beaten defender was Brand.

The first of Mike Whelan's three kicks left Lehigh down, 14-7. "At halftime, I really believed the only way we'd lose would be to beat ourselves," Whitehead said. "They weren't moving on us and we were able to capitalize on some soft spots we had seen in the films of previous Delaware His players proved him dead right in the third period. The Engineers scored all three times they had the ball in the quarter on passes of 27 and 34 yards from Michalski to Ryan, and on Whalen's 45-yard field goal that proved to be the winning margin. Ryan, a reserve defensive back the last two seasons, has caught nine touchdown passes thisyear.

Lehigh's defense stopped every Delaware thrust, despite the return of Scully at quarterack. Delaware's only first down of the third period didn't come until 1:18 remained, and the Hens' total offense for the quarter was 21 yards. "Their front beat ours both ways," Raymond said. "It simply was a very fine effort on their part that wasn't diluted a bit by our getting 14 quick points, I just didn't phase them." Delaware didn't quit, but it couldn't manage another score until 3:43 remained. It took a windblown Lehigh punt to set up a 35-yard touchdown drive, capped by Scully's 12-yard pass to Cliff Clement.

When the Hens got the ball again, they bad no timeouts and no hope left. .1 Lehigh's Larry Michalski (8) gets rid of the ball, avoiding a sack Philadelphia Inquirer RON DUBICK by Delaware's Barney Osevala gets Rutgers attack rolling By Bill Simmons Iiuguirtr Staff Writer NEWARK, Del. There are big games and then there are big games. For the University of Delaware football team, the big game always has been, and always will be, against Temple. Yesterday's meeting with Lehigh was your ordinary, run-of-the-mill big game.

Unfortunately for Delaware, it was the big game for the Engineers. Lehigh overcame an early 14-0 deficit to score 24 straight points during the second and third periods, then held on to beat the favored Blue Hens, 24-21, befwe a sellout crowd of 22,784 at Delaware Stadium. The victory pulled Lehigh's record to 3-1, and Delaware dropped to the same mark. "There's no doubt about it, this has become our biggest game every year," said Lehigh coach John White-head, whose teams have beaten Delaware four times in the last five years. "We rarely have trouble motivating our players, but for Delaware, you never have to say a word." The teams are perennial rivals for a Division I-AA playoff berth, although both could make it this year as at-large selections.

Because Lehigh had lost an earlier game to Colgate, it couldn't afford a loss to top-ranked Delaware. The Engineers and Blue Hens started just as two wary fighters do, feeling each other out. Then Delaware struck like a roundhouse right. Six plays after taking over at his 47-yard line, quarterback Rick Scully raced 43 yards down the right sideline for a touchdown while the Lehigh defense went for a fake pitch to trailing Kevin Phelan. K.C.

Knobloch's placement made it 7-0 with 4 minutes, 21 seconds left in the first period. Early in the second quarter, after Lehigh had halted a Delaware drive at its 16, Engineers quarterback Larry Michalski fired a sideline pass toward his favorite receiver, Dan Ryan. But Hens cornerback Owen Brand tipped the ball, gained possession and raced 52 yards for a touchdown and a 14-0 lead. Still, Delaware had a problem. On the last play of its previous possession, Scully suffered a slight concussion, and coach Tubby Raymond had to switch to John Davies, who isn't as yard touchdown run that was nullified by another procedure call; got a break on an interference call in the end zone against Cornell, then, finally, scored when fullback Ted Be-thune bolted over from a yard out with 5:28 left in the half.

Alex Falci-nell's extra point gave Rutgers a 14-10 lead. Falcinelli was roughed on the extra point, causing a 15-yard penalty against Cornell on the ensuing kick-off. The Rutgers kicker then perfectly placed an onside boot over Cornell's front line, and the ball was recovered by Mark Seger at the Cornell 18. Rutgers settled for a 27-yard field goal by Falcinelli for a 17-10 advantage. Rutgers got the ball back at its 36-yard line 2:23 before intermission, and Leek rushed them 74 yards for a 1 AsaocWM Pratt the Spartans' 23-yard line, leading to a quick touchdown.

Michigan 38, Indiana 17 Tailback Butch Woolfolk rushed for 176 yards and a pair of touchdowns as the eighth-ranked Wolverines, moving almost at will against Indiana's struggling defense, prevailed in Bloom-ington, Ind. The victory, evened Michigan's Big 10 record atT-1 and gave the Wolverines a 3-1 overall mark. The Hoosiers fell to 1-1 in the conference and 1-3. By Gail Shister Inquirer Staff Wrtier NEW YORK Jerry Berndt didn't like the question. But when you are the head coach of Penn's football team, you learn to expect questions you don't like.

Losing, 58-0, to. Lehigh last week was one thing. But losing, 20-9, yesterday to Columbia before 4,375 chilled fans at rickety Baker Field was quite another. Columbia a team that came into the game with a 10-game losing streak, third-longest in the country. Columbia a team that went 1-9, 1-8 and 3-5-1 in its last three seasons.

Columbia a team so anemic that the Quakers broke their 14-game losing streak against it last season. Berndt was asked if this was simply more of the same old Penn. "We're not the same old Penn," he bristled after the Quakers (1-2, 1-1 in the Ivy League) committed five turnovers four fumbles and an interception against the Lions (1-2, M). "We have a new staff. We are 1-2.

We're still 1-1 in the Ivy League. 'Would have won' "We still have seven games ahead of us. Nobody said it would be easy. I never said we would be 10-0. We were competitive out there today.

Had we not turned the ball over, we would have won." Berndt is no ingenue. He knows that "would haves" don't count. "I'm speechless," said co-captain Dan Prendergast, who spearheaded a commendable defensive effort for the Quakers. "We have more poise, though we didn't show it today. I thought we'd win it in the fourth quarter.

That last drive really hurt us." Behind, 20-9, early in the fourth quarter, the Quakers drove from their five-yard line to the Columbia three benind quarterback Doug Marzonie. But Marzonie threw two straight incompletions to end the scoring threat. "The Good Lord is still with us," said Bob Naso, Columbia's second-year coach. "One time during the game I looked up and said, 'Hey, Lord, how about a Penn's early prayers were answered. Its first drive resulted in a 21-yard field goal by Dave Shulman, the Quakers' first field goal of the season.

The lions countered with a 31-yarder by Miro Lovric to tie it with 13:27 left before halftime. A Quaker fumble On Penn's next drive, Gary Vura completed a pass to Jeff Schulte, who fumbled after a hard hit. Columbia's James Witherspoon recovered on the Penn 44, but the Lions couldn't capitalize. Not to worry. Vura fumbled on Penn's next possession and the Lions' Tim Coleman got it on the Quakers' 23.

Lovric booted a 37-yarder to give Columbia a 6-3 lead at halftime. The Lions struck for 14 points in 15 seconds early in the third quarter. After another Penn fumble, Jim McHale scored on a 12-yard run. On the first play of the Quakers' next drive, Rick Beauvais fumbled at his 24. Columbia quarterback John Wit-kowski immediately hit Bill Reggio with a touchdown pass and it was suddenly Columbia, 20-3.

"Our mistakes were technical ones, not physical ones," said co-captain Beauvais. "We were into the game, right down to the last minute." The Quakers' lone touchdown came on a 54-yard, nine-play drive in the third quarter. The drive was. capped by a 26-yard pass from Vura to Rich Syrek. Shulman's kick failed.

'No one to blame' "There's no one person to blame," said Beauvais, whose 66 yards pushed him over the career mark in rushing. "We had two excellent practices this week. We had worked really hard physically and mentally for this game." Despite losing 91 yards on 10 penalties, the Lions put together 162 yards in the air (Penn had 117) and 124 on the ground (Penn had 163). Vura, in his first start this season, was 7 of 21 for 82 yards and one interception. Marzonie was 2 for 7 for 35 yards.

Sophomore flanker Karl Hall, the Quakers' speedster who had caught 10 passes for 323 yards going into the game, was held to two catches for 24 yards. Columbia's Ted Norton led all rushers with 77 yards on 21 carries. "The sad thing is that I truly believe we're a better football team than Columbia," said Berndt, who kept the team behind closed doors for more than 10 minutes after the game. "Nothing today (frsputed my feeling. However, they IColumbia did the things they had to do to win." the Rutgers offensive unit.

The Scarlet had the ball for only one series, seven plays and 3:35 of the first period. And Cornell's domination accounted for a 14-play, 82-yard march that culminated in Derrick Harmon's three-yard blast into the end zone on the final play of the opening period. Rubenstein's kick gave Cornell a 10-7 lead. But Rutgers rebounded in the second quarter, permitting Cornell to run only 10 offensive plays, two of them intercepted passes. Cornerback Dan Errico, who would later make a big fumble recovery, picked off a throw by Cornell quarterback Chris Metz and gave Rutgers the ball at the Cornell 43.

It took the Knights 13 plays to score on a bizarre drive in which they were called for a procedure penalty at the Big Red three-yard line; lost an 8- for win touchdown in 1:22 for a 24-10 half-time edge. Leek's 17-yard pass to flanker Andrew Baker produced the score. Cornell evidently wasn't discouraged. It took the second half kickoff and marched 67 yards in nine plays, with fullback Bill Zittel scoring from two yards out just 3:16 into the second half. Rubenstein's conversion brought the Big Red to within 24-17.

The Big Red made three feints at tying the game but was stymied by a sack, a blocked field goal (by Rutgers' Joe Corbin) and a fumble. Errico recovered the bobble at the 50, and in seven plays it was 31-17. The Scarlet drive was highlighted by 28-yard bolt by freshman running back Dwayne Hooper and a 14-yard pass from Leek to Baker. Hooper -scored from a yard out with only 6:32 left to play. Oklahoma Illinois 38, Minnesota 29 Tony Eason hit on 21 passes for 330 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Illi-ni (3-1) over the Gophers (3-1) in Champaign, 111.

Eason passed 32 times and scored a touchdown on a brilliant four-yard quarterback draw play. An aerial duel with the Gophers quarterback Mike Hohensee never materialized as the Hohensee completed only six passes in 21 tries for 81 yards with one touchdown toss. He had thrown five against Oregon State last week. Iowa 64, Northwestern 0 Eddie Phillips rushed for two touchdowns and backup quarterback Gordy Bo-hannon threw for two more as the Hawkeyes scored four times in the first 8 minutes to hand the Wildcats (04) a Big 10 record 24th straight loss.inEvanston.Ill. The Hawkeyes are 34.

State; Iowa State ties Defense By Chuck Newman Inquirer Stall Writer PISCATAWAY, N.J. The Rutgers defense took the field just six seconds into yesterday's game against Cornell. It wasn't supposed to, but Rutgers fumbled away the opening kickoff. Nothing new there. The Rutgers defense has seen trouble all season.

Big trouble. But the Scarlet Knights defense, as it has all season, came through by holding Cornell to a 32-yard field goal by Ken Rubenstein, then handed the Rutgers offense the lead on a blocked punt. The message finally arrived. Rutgers woke up and scored 17 points in the second period en route to a 31-17 victory that lifted the Knights' record to 3-1. Cornell is 0-3.

"I think the blocked punt got us Fla. State Associated Preu Opposing quarterbacks Rick Stockstill of Florida State and Art Schlichter of Ohio State passed for a combined total of 757 yards yesterday, with Stockstill guiding the Semi-noles to a 36-27 upset of the seventh-ranked Buckeyes in a nonconference game in Columbus, Ohio. Stockstill, a senior, engineered a Florida State rally with a pair of touchdown passes that gave the Seminoles (3-1) a 30-21 lead early in the third quarter. Stockstill completed 25 of 41 passes for 299 yards. Schlichter set an Ohio State single-game passing record by hitting on 31 of 52 throws for 458 yards and a pair of touchdowns as the Buckeyes lost for the first time in four games this season.

His performance broke a 29-year-old Ohio State passing record. John Borton had passed for 312 yards against Washington State in 1952 for the previous single-game record. He also broke the Buckeyes' marks for pass completions and attempts. Florida State, which was playing a Big 10 Conference school for the first time in its history, stunned Ohio Stadium's 80th consecutive home sellout crowd of 87,158 with a 26-point explosion in the middle two quarters. Iowa State 7, Oklahoma 7 Tailback Dwayne Crutchfield dived for a going," Rutgers quarterback Ralph Leek said.

"It seemed for the last three games that every time we got going, something happened to stop us." The now-wounded defense (two starters are hurt) took matters into its own hands when linebacker Jim Martello rushed through a missed block and, with his shoulder pad, rejected Cornell punter Scott Dow-dell's kick. The ball fell into the hands of sophmore defensive end Kevin Dyevich, who carried it 52 yards to give Rutgers a 7-3 lead with 5 minutes, 32 seconds left in the first period. "We had noticed Ion the films that their kicker took an extra half-step," Rutgers coach Frank Burns explained. "We thought we might get something." The play didn't immediately rouse stuns Ohio Midwest tying fourth-quarter touchdown and ran for 171 yards as the Cyclones' defense shut down the No. 5 Sooners' wishbone en route to a tie in the Big 8 opener for both teams in Norman, Okla.

Crutchfield, held in check the first half by a swarming Oklahoma defense, carried the ball 43 times for the 20th-ranked Cyclones (34-1). Oklahoma is now 1-1-1. The Iowa State touchdown came on the Cyclones' second fourth-quarter possession, which began at the Oklahoma 46 after an interception by strong safety John Arnaud, and Alex Gifford's kick tied the game. That turnover was one of five in the second half for Oklahoma, which lost a week ago, 28-24, to No. 1 Southern California.

Wisconsin 20, Purdue 14 The Badgers spotted the Boilermakers a 7-0 lead, then stormed back with two touchdowns and two field goals for a Big 10 triumph in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin, led by quarterback Jess Cole and tailback Chucky Davis, packed all its scoring into the fourth quarter and repeatedly brought the Camp Randall Stadium crowd of to it feet. The victory by the Badgers (3-1) kept them in a tie for first place in the Big 10. They are 2-0 in the confer- mati C'm Seminoles scored after blocking punt by Gary Alders (9) Bruce Kallmeyer's 38-yard field goal with nine seconds remaining boosted the Jawhawks (44) over the Indians (2-2) in Lawrence, Kan. The Indians appeared to have the Jayhawks stopped but were cited for having too many men on the field.

The ensuing 15-yard penalty gave the Jayhawks a first down on the 26-yard line. Nebraska 17, Auburn 3 The Corn- huskers took advantage of two fumble recoveriesleep in Tigers' territo- ry to prevail in Lincoln, Neb. Both teams are 2-2. I ence, having defeated Michigan, 21-14, in the season opener. Purdue's record is now 2-2 and 1-1 in the conference.

Notre Dame 20, Michigan State 7 Notre Dame tailback Greg Bell scored a pair of first-quarter touchdowns and the Fighting Irish (2-2) rolled over, the Spartans (1-3) in South Bendjnd. Michigan State fullback Tony Ellis fumbled on the first play from scrimmage and Notre Dame recovered on jtl ttti titr tt r- i fl A.