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"COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sunday, Oct 13, 1991 The Philadelphia Inquirer 11-D Holy Cross tops Dartmouth, keeps win streak alive East 1 fcv 1 f- 1 1 1 mi imri in 1 1 tH" fmir nuir im nn T-nimm it ifnniwiiUMlnir mW'iiiMwi 1 iiiiiiinninTini-onTrnnranimiinnTirmiiffli Penn linebacker Jim Magellanes prevents Columbia's Ken Hayes from making a reception Associated Press during first- quarter action. ia wins? Penn still Asaodated Press Holy Cross extended the nation's longest Division I-AA winning streak to 14 games, a school record, as fullback Jerome Fuller caught a 9-yard touchdown pass to lead the Crusaders to a 2M victory over Dartmouth (2-2) yesterday in Hanover, N.H. Following a blocked punt, Fuller, the leading rusher in the division, took a short pass from Tom Ciaccio and broke two tackles en route to the end zone for a quick 7-0 lead. Anthony Pignio added three field goals for Holy Cross (5-0), which intercepted Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler five times and limited him to 96 passing yards. However, Fiedler accounted for Dartmouth's lone touchdown by hitting Mike Bobo with an 11-yard TD pass with 1 minute, 57 seconds remaining, then had his pass on the two-point conversion intercepted by Rob Milanette.

Al Rosier gained 144 yards rushing in 24 carries for Dartmouth while Fuller, who had been averaging 166.5 yards, had 101 in 30 carries. Lehigh 35, Northeastern 22 Glenn Kempa threw for 376 yards and four touchdowns as Lehigh defeated Northeastern in Bethlehem, Pa. Lehigh, 5-0 for the first time since 1957, took an early lead over Northeastern (3-2) with scores on three of its first four possessions. Kempa hit flanker Horace Hamm and tailback Larry Arico for touchdowns, and Arico rushed for the other to give Lehigh a 21-6 halftime lead. Rhode Island 17, Massachusetts 14 Chris Cassara drilled a 28-yard field goal with four seconds to play as the University of Rhode Island came from behind to beat the University of Massachusetts before a homecoming crowd in Amherst, Mass.

A game-winning drive by Rhode Island (3-2 overall, 1-2 Yankee conference), which included a 32-yard scamper along the left sideline by tailback Dario Highsmith and a 39-yard pass by Steve Holland to tight end Darren Rizzi, covered 75 yards in 1:22. Rhode Island's Chris Pierce carried the game's opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown. From that point until midway through the second half, however, Rhode Island's offense spun its wheels while the Minutemen built a 14-6 lead. Fullback Mike George ran 5 yards up the middle to give Massachusetts (2-4, 2-2) a 7-6 lead midway through the first quarter. The Minutemen took a 14-6 lead as tailback Jerome Bledsoe threw a 12-yard option pass to flanker Eric Thimas with 29 seconds left in the first half.

The Citadel 20, Army 14 Jack Douglas scored a touchdown and set up one with a 47-yard pass to Damond Boatright as The Citadel stunned Army in West Point, N.Y., the Bulldogs' first victory over Cadets. The Bulldogs (3-2), who play at the Division I-AA level, have beaten four of the last five Division I-A teams they've played. They beat Army for winless was blocked. Eight plays, 39 yards, no points. Then the Quakers shot themselves in the head.

Attempting to run out the clock four seconds before half-time at the Penn 9-yard line, McKinnon fumbled the snap, Columbia recovered, and Boccafola had just enough time to kick his second field goal, a 26-yard chip shot that gave the Lions a 13-6 lead. Except for McGeehan's final TD throw to Miller (and a two-point extra-point pass to Damon Young), Penn made only one serious scoring threat in the second half, driving to the Columbia 12-yard line midway through the third quarter. But McKinnon fumbled while being sacked by Columbia's Chuck Dimi-troff and that was that. Penn Columbia 0 814 0 720 Col Abbruzzese 1 run (Boccofola kick) Penn Cobb 13 pass from McKinnon (kick failed) Col FG Boccofola 37 Col FG Boccofola 26 Col Johnson 49 run (Boccofola kick) Penn Miller 5 pass from McGeehan (Young pass from McGeehan) A 7,870. Penn Col First downs 23 19 Rushes-yards 44-168 54-163 Passing 166 138 Return Yards 0 78 Comp-Att-Int 16-34-2 11-19-0 Punts 4-40- 6-29 Fumbles-Lost 5-3 2-1 Penalties-Yards 10-71 8-69 Time of Possession 27:56 32:04 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Penn, Rush 14-65.

Mott 8-48, Rushing 10-34, Mathews 3-20. Columbia, Abbruz-zese 23-83, Johnson 11-62, Pennartz 6-20. Passing: Penn, McKinnon 8-14-1-92, McGeehan 8-20-1-74. Columbia, Tribolet 10-18-0-117, Abbruzzese 1-1-0-21. Receiving: Penn, Cobb 3-46.

Hoehn 3-33. Mott 2-23, Young 2-21, Baker 2-15, Miller 2-12. Columbia, Sardo 4-30, Abbruzzese 2-40, Hayes 2-29, Spivey 2-18, Tribolet 1-21. 1 By Jay Searcy Inquirer Stall Writer NEW YORK Take a seat, Penn fans. This is not going to be easy.

Columbia (yes, Columbia) beat the Quakers, 20-14, at Wein Stadium in an Ivy League matchup of winless football teams. And if that doesn't send shivers down your spine, wait until you hear how it 'happened. Penn lost three fumbles and was intercepted twice. 1 A pass that coach Gary Steele thought was a certain touchdown was ruled incomplete in the end zone. Quakers gave Columbia two field-goal gifts, one on a penalty and another because of a fumbled Penn snap that was lost four seconds be- fore the half.

"Penn drew 10 penalties, one of which kept alive a Columbia scoring 1. drive. a It goes on and on. "It's the lowest point of my career," said Penn's senior linebacker Joe Kopcha, "and I've been playing since I was 8 years old. Get beat by bia? I don't believe it." Columbia, remember, is the team that set the NCAA record for most consecutive losses 44 between and 1988.

Yesterday's victory was its third in three years. "But the streak is over with," said Tellier, the elated Columbia coach whose team is now 1-3 (1-1 in the Ivy League) and whose three-year record here now stands at 3-22. "We don't think about it." And neither did the homecoming 'crowd of 7,870, which sat under blue Knights win 4th in row, over Maine the first time in seven tries at Michie Stadium by taking a 20-0 lead in the first half and then holding off the mistake-prone Cadets, who lost four fumbles and had a pass intercepted. Lafayette 20, Bucknell 16 Cornerback Rob Kulbacki threw a 45-yard scoring pass on a fake punt and recovered two fumbles to lead 'Lafayette over Patriot League foe Bucknell in Easton, Pa. Kulbacki gave Lafayette (1-0, 3-21 a 7-0 lead when he hit Al Rainey with the scoring pass in the first quarter.

Bucknell (l-l, 1-5) tied the gamfj on a 31-yard scoring pass by Travis Kopp, but John Kahn scored on an 8-yard run to give Lafayette a 147 halftime lead. Fordham 14, Harvard 7 Gary Brennan threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to Tom Garlick as Fordham beat Harvard in New York for the Rams' second straight victory over an Ivy League school. 1 Brennan's 30-yard TD pass to par-lick pulled Fordham (2-3) to 7-6 with 6:35 remaining, but John Hagen missed the extra-point attempt. Brennan's 15-yard TD pass to Garlick put Fordham ahead, 12-7, with 4:39 left and Scott Helverson passed to John Strauss for a 2-point conversion. Harvard (1-3) took, a 7-0 lead on quarterback Dave Morgan's 1-yard run four seconds into the fourth quarter, capping a 67-yard drive, Air Force 46, Navy 6 Air Force scored 39 points in the second half, including touchdowns of 7 and 12 yards by Jason Jones, to defeat Navy in Annapolis, the widest margin in the history of the service academy rivalry.

Navy (0-5) shut down the potent Air Force wishbone running attack for most of the first half and entered halftime trailing by one, 7-6. But the Falcons (6-1) took advantage of short Navy punts, a fumble recovery and two pass interceptions to score on four of five possessions in the second half. Yale 25, Colgate 7 Halfback Chris Kouri ran for 116 yards and two touchdowns to pace Yale to the victory over Colgate in Hamilton, N.Y. It was the first time in the 82-year-old series between the schools that the game was played at Colgate. The 34 previous games had been played in the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn.

Yale (3-1) intercepted four Jim Russell passes, and kept Colgate (1-5) in poor field position for most of the game. The Red Raiders were unable to cross Yale's 37-yard line until late in the third quarter. New Hampshire 34, Richmond 0 Barry Bourassa rushed for 199 yards and scored three times to lead New Hampshire (5-1, 4-0 in the Yankee Conference) to a homecoming-game victory over Richmond (14, 1-3) in Durham. N.H. 609 340 4000 ext.

4400 for details, Vi! RLD. iMter (Sm lii Tribolet and forced a fumble that was recovered by Penn's Dave Rawicz. But a face-mask penalty wiped out that play and Columbia went on to score with just over eight minutes remaining in the first quarter. Ab-bruzzese's 1-yard plunge capped the nine-play, 58-yard touchdown drive, and Tom Boccafola, who kicked two field goals of 37 and 26 yards, kicked the extra point. McKinnon gave the Quakers a chance to pull even 10 seconds before the end of the quarter when he threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Bill Cobb (only the third TD of the season for Penn).

That capped a five-play, 44-yard drive. But Dave Lazarus missed the extra point kick and Penn trailed, 7-6. Penn seemed to have stopped Columbia again five minutes into the second quarter when Boccafola missed a 42-yard field-goal attempt. But a running-into-the-kicker penalty gave Boccafola another chance and this time he hit from 37 yards out, giving the Lions a 10-6 lead. That was only the beginning of Penn's misery.

Minutes later McKinnon had the Quakers at the Columbia 5-yard line, thanks in part to Ako Mott's 42-yard kickoff return to the Columbia 44. At the 5, McKinnon lofted what appeared to be a touchdown pass to running back Lance Rushing. Rushing, reaching for the ball as he was falling, had it and came up signaling touchdown but the officials said it was not caught. Lazarus's 22-yard field-goal attempt Associated Press Capriotti in easy 40-17 victory. Main 0 17 3 1417 3 14 fi 40 Rutgers Rut Brantley 65 pass from Tarver (O'Reilly kick) Rut Roberts 27 interception return (O'Reilly kick) Rut FG Benestad 47 Rut FG Benestad 32 UM FG Mottola 44 Rut Dorsey 5 pass from Tarver (Benestad kick) Rut Mitter 21 run (Benestad kick) UM Curran 2 run (Tobin kick) UM Smith 89 run (Tobin kick) Rut Moore 5 run (kick failed) First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession UM Rut 18 20 49-210 45-160 117 285 5 80 9-22-3 19-33-1 7-38 4-39 2-1 3-1 4-25 5-40 29:16 30:44 66Play like youVe never playedlDeforeL skies in mid-60s temperatures on the banks of the Hudson River.

What was it like to watch another team deteriorate the way Columbia is famous for doing? "Well," he said, "we're, just two struggling teams. They just made more mistakes than we did this time. I'm just happy for our players." The last time Penn had lost to Columbia was 1981, a year the Quakers went 0-9. The Quakers now stand 0-4. Despite the five turnovers, Penn showed some offensive zip (and its defense registered six sacks) and trailed only 13-6 at halftime.

The Quakers were in a position to tie the game in the third period, but a sack and lost fumble at Columbia's 12-yard line stopped the drive. They wouldn't get that close again until the final two minutes of the game, when they were down 20-6. Too late. Starting quarterback Fitz McKin-non completed eight of 14 passes for 92 yards and a touchdown and his backup, sophomore Jim McGeehan, completed eight of 20 for 74 yards and a touchdown. It was McGeehan who rallied the Quakers in the final minutes, throwing a 5-yard TD pass to Cache Miller.

Penn's leading rusher, Sundiata Rush, finished with 65 yards on 14 carries. Columbia's leading rusher was Greg Abbruzzese, who rushed 23 times for 84 yards and a touchdown. Penn first shot itself in the foot on Columbia's opening series. Kopcha appeared to have stopped the driving Lions at the Penn 24-ard line when he sacked Lions quarterback John Rutgers defenders stopping Paul and was tackled at his 20. Benestad added a 32-yard field goal in the second quarter before Maine got on the scoreboard with 29 seconds left in the half, on a 44-yard field goal by Mottola.

A 5-yard scoring pass from Tarver to fullback Tekay Dorsey and a 21-yard touchdown run by Craig Mitter in a 1-minute, 58-second span in the third quarter stretched Rutgers' lead to 34-3. A 2-yard plunge by fullback Marc Curran and a zigzagging 89-yard touchdown jaunt by tailback Carl Smith got Maine to 34-17 late in the fourth quarter, before Antoine Moore closed out the scoring for Rutgers with a 5-yard run with 1:44 to go. "We jumped on them right off the bat and then lost our intensity," Rutgers coach Doug Graber said. "The natural tendency is to relax, but that just doesn't get it done. I thought we played well in the first and third quarters." iv 1 I I 1 4 i Las Vegas By The Sea Celebration.

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Tom Tarver threw a 65-yard touchdown pass and Marshall Roberts scored on a 27-yard interception return in a 17-second span in the first quarter, leading Rutgers to a 40-17 victory over Maine yesterday. The triumph was the fourth straight for the Scarlet Knights (5-1), who are off to their best start since .1981. The winning streak is their longest since 1980, when they also won four games in a row. Vi Maine (1-5) was never in the game 'after Rutgers' early scoring spree, trailed by 31 points in the third quarter. The Division I-AA Black 'Bears turned the ball over four times "to the Scarlet Knights, who came into the game ranked 14th nationally in total defense.

i The Black Bears lost one fumble and freshman quarterback Emilio was intercepted three times, twice by Ron Allen. Allen's first interception gave -r Rutgers the ball at its own 35 early in first quarter, and Tarver, who -j threw for two touchdowns, needed i.only one play to cash in. Tarver got cornerback Bill Curry bite on a pump fake to the left flat on first down, and then hit a wide-lopen Chris Brantley for 65 yards, giving Rutgers a 7-0 lead. if' "A game like this is good for our "confidence," said Brantley. "I 1 wouldn't say that our confidence was down, but it does feel good to hit "Hsome big plays." Roberts made it 14-0 on the second play after the ensuing kickoff.

Waiting in the right flat, he stepped in front of wide receiver Kenny Squires 8 just as a Colon pass arrived, caught the ball, and scored without anyone touching him. Rutgers, which had not kicked a 'field goal since its loss to Duke on Sept. 14, got a 47-yard field goal from John Benestad late in the first quar-tcr. The score was set up when Maine punter Jeff Mottola fumbled a snap ft Easy to read signage Designated non-smoking tables Friendly, courteous Trop World service Lucky Tables Sweepstakes! October 5-31 Win a Free T-Shirt "Lucky Tables" randomly chosen Instant winners CASINO 4 1 5 There's more to TropWorld opWo INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Maine. Smith 20-153, Capriotti 15-53.

Colon 9-18. Curran 1-2. Willey 3-2. Mottola 1-minus 16. Rutgers, Moore 21-99.

Mitter 14-75, Bailey 2-7, Dorsey 3-1, McCord 2-minus 10, Roberts 2-minus 3. Passing: Maine, Colon 9-22-3-1 17. Rutgers, Tarver 15-24-1-247, McCord 4-9-0-38. Receiving: Maine, Willey 3-28. Curran 2-20, Keegan 1-22, Davis 1-22, Shaw 1-21, Capriotti 1-4.

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