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8-E Sunday, Sept. 29, 1991 The Philadelphia Inquirer For Penn, a painful game to watch as in 45-0 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Holy Cross coach Mark Duffner finally pulled his starting quarterback after that. But then Roman kept the ball in the air and got his team yet another touchdown. somewhat stronger arm than McKinnon, and showed mobility out of the pocket in rushing for 39 yards. The Penn defense, though, was no match for Ciaccio, a preseason all-America pick with a cannon arm and a deft touch.

Ciaccio gutted Penn's defense early with handoffs to Fuller and spirals underneath to tight end Ron Hooey as the Crusaders took their first possession 75 yards before settling for a 3-0 lead on Anthony Pignio's 21-yard field goal. Holy Cross made it 10-0 early in the second period after Ciaccio threw a 13-yard scoring pass to Joe Riley, ending a 10-play, 82-yard drive that began when Chris Kovath intercepted McKinnon. The Crusaders', ball-control offense wore down Penn. Five of their six scoring drives were for 71 yards or more, with two for more than 80. "Basically, we just worked everything off the defensive game plan Penn showed us last year," said Ciaccio, who led Holy Cross to a more strenuous 17-3 win at Franklin Field last season.

"They play a lot of zone, a lot of loose man-to-man, because they gear up to stop our run. And there were a lot of open spots on the field." It was a performance so dominating, it was hard to recall that Ciaccio was intercepted four times. "Our defense was just on the field too much," said Steele. "We were out there forever." Holy Cross went into halftime with a 17-0 lead after Fuller blasted his way to a 28-yard score to end a seven-play, 75-yard drive with 5:42 left in the second period. And any notions of a Penn comeback were dashed when the Crusaders scored on their first drive of the third period on a 9-yard run by Fuller out of a wishbone formation.

Ciaccio closed the quarter by throwing a 51-yard scoring pass to Roman to make it 31-0. Then the Crusaders piled it on. Ciaccio was still in the game with 4:02 left and his 31-yard scoring pass to Roman made it 38-0. who also scored on an 8-yard run in the fourth quarter as the backup quarterback. Fullback Jerome Fuller added 166 yards 125 in the first half alone and a touchdown on 24 carries as the Crusaders, ranked No.

9 in the NCAA's Division I-AA rankings, rolled up 670 yards of total offense. The final outcome may not have been that surprising considering that Holy Cross came into the game riding a 22-game unbeaten streak, had won nine consecutive homecoming games, and had beaten Ivy League opponents decisively (.868 winning percentage) in the last 10 years. But Penn coach Gary Steele was rankled by his team's lack of competitiveness especially in the second half, when the Quakers yielded 28 points. "In the past, we've been able to make adjustments when we were behind at halftime," said Steele. "But we just didn't respond the way we should.

We didn't come out and bear down. And that's disappointing." Steele pulled starting quarterback Fitz McKinnon one play into the second quarter after McKinnon was intercepted for the fourth time in the young season in favor of sophomore Jim McGeehan. Afterward, Steele said that McKinnon was nursing a knee contusion. But in five quarters under McKinnon, Penn's offense turned the ball over six times, and that might have had something to do with the decision, too. When asked whether McKinnon would be the starter next week, Steele hesitated, then said, "Probably though we'll have to talk about that more during the week." Asked if he expected to be the starter against Lafayette, McKinnon said, sheepishly, "I hope so." McGeehan, a 5-foot-lO, 170-pounder from Roman Catholic who played on Penn's freshman team last year, didn't set the world on fire.

He completed 8 of 22 passes for 65 yards with one interception. But he did show a By M. G. Missanelli Inquirer Stall Writer WORCESTER, Mass. Midway through the fourth quarter, Penn linebacker Joe Kopcha looked at the scoreboard and realized that the game he had been in love with for most of his life suddenly wasn't that much fun.

"I mean, you're out there, and you just want the clock to run down," Kopcha said. "It's terrible to say, but you just want to get the heck out of there." It was that kind of day for the Quakers, who lost, 45-0, to Holy Cross yesterday and might also have lost a measure of self respect. It was Penn's worst defeat since 1985, when the Quakers lost to Army, 41-3. And it was only the second time they've been shut out since 1983. Yesterday, the Quakers got burned by Holy Cross' marvelous quarterback, Tom Ciaccio, who completed 24 of 38 passes for 370 yards and three touchdowns.

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Holy Cross, Fuller 24-164, Givins 9-42, Sierra 8-41, Ciaccio 5-14, Roman 1-8. Passing: Penn, McGeehan 8-22-1-65, McKinnon 2-8-2-19, Barthlow 2-3-1-18. Holy Cross, Ciaccio 24-38-4-370, Roman 1-5-0-31. Receiving: Penn, Hernandez 3-22, Baker 3-34, Cobb 2-17. Holy Cross, Hooey 5-68, Roman 3-104, Riley 3-35, Givins 3-52, daNontagnac, 3-57, Hebron 3-25.

69-yard, 14-play drive that took 7 minutes. Courtney Hawkins tied the game in the third quarter when backup quarterback Jim Miller found him open on the Rutgers 20. Defensive back Ron Allen missed the tackle and Hawkins went untouched into the end zone for a 38-yard TD pass play. The game-winning drive was set up by a 20-yard punt return by Marshall Roberts that left Rutgers with the ball on its own 46-yard line. Tarver completed three passes, the first two to wide receiver James Guarantano for gains of 15 and 6 yards.

The third was a 26-yarder that Chris Brantley barely came down with in bounds with strong safety Myron Bell in tight coverage. That put the ball on Michigan State 7. Moore went up the middle for a 5-yard gain, then hauled in the ball for the go-ahead TD on the next play. Rutaara 714 7 Michigan St. Rut Moore 1 pass from Tarver (O'Reilly kick) MSU Hawkins 38 pass from Miller (DelVerne kick) Rut Moore 2 pass from Tarver (O'Reilly kick) A First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession defeats Rut MSU 15 15 40-98 35-63 182 203 112 67 19-33-0 13-31-1 5-40 3-23 10-42 10-45 2-0 2-1 3-45 2-15 34:31 25:29 By Jeff Holyfield Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich.

Tom Tarver flipped scoring passes of 1 yard and 2 yards to tailback Antoine Moore the second touchdown coming with only 46 seconds left yesterday as Rutgers downed Michigan State, 14-7. The defeat dropped Michigan State to 0-3 and marked the second time this season that a smaller school had upset the Spartans, Big Ten co-champs last season. Central Michigan knocked them out of the national rankings with a 20-3 victory on Sept. 14. The Scarlet Knights improved their record to 3-1 and took a 2-1 edge in the series between the two teams, with both victories coming in East Lansing.

Moore rolled up 83 yards on 22 carries, but it was the carbon-copy scoring passes that did in the Spartans. In both plays, Rutgers faked a dive over the goal line, and Moore broke free in the right flat to haul in the quick pass from Tarver. "I knew he was going to call that play because it worked so well in practice," Moore said. Graber said he was not surprised that it worked both times, because it is a very difficult play to stop. "I was oh-for-a-bunch against it in the NFL," said Graber, who was defensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1987-89 and defensive backfield coach at Kansas City from 1983-86.

"I never could figure out a way to stop it." The first TD pass came with 4:19 left in the first period and capped a Penn State's Troy Drayton hauls in a long pass from Tony Sacca just ahead of Boston College Lions hold on to beat BC, Fordham fumble leaves Princeton with victory No doubt, an effort such as yesterday's won't get it done against teams such as Miami, Notre Dame and Pitt later this season. "There was no reason, with the score 28-7, that it should have come down to the last play," State linebacker Mark D'Onofrio said. D'Onofrio, a co-captain, sensed that his teammates were flat during pre-game warm-ups. That's when he decided to give up the idea of resting his injured left shoulder, which he separated two weeks ago, and play. "I wasn't even going to play," he said.

"But I saw everybody's attitude in warm-ups and I'd had enough of it." And so has Paterno, whose wrath will surely be felt by his players in practice this week. Notes. Chmura caught seven, passes for 118 yards, setting a Boston College record for career receptions with 144 Foley shrugged off his five interceptions, which give him 10 for the season. "You can go through a game with 10 or 12 of them and still win," he said. State defensive PENN STATE, from 1-E game with a career-high 292 yards, completing 16 of 22 passes without an interception.

Midway through the second quarter, Sacca read a blitz and checked off with a sideline pass to Terry Smith, who raced into the end zone for a 42-yard TD. "I saw the blitz coming and I had an option," said Sacca, who was sacked six times. "Overall, though, their defense was well prepared for what we did." Slumping Craig Fayak, who missed two field goals and is 4 for 10 this season, had his extra-point blocked. So it was 6-0. Running effectively, BC pulled ahead, 7-6, before the half ended on a 1-yard dive by fullback Dwight Shirley, a former Plymouth-Whitemarsh High star.

The Eagles wasted a chance to fatten their lead early in the third quarter after State tailback Richie Anderson lost a fumble on the Nittany Lions' 28-yard line. Moments later, State linebacker Reggie Givens inter The Philadelphia Inquirer REBECCA BARKER defender Charlie Brennan. 28-21 tackle Lou Benfatti sat out the game with an undisclosed leg injury. Paterno singled out the offensive line as an area of disappointment. Perry now has 12 career interceptions.

Boston College Penn St 7 0 1421 6 15 728 PS Smith 42 pass from Sacca (kick blocked) BC Shirley 1 run (Wright kick) PS Sacca 5 run (Sacca run) PS Hammonds 56 run (Fayak kick) PS D.Perry 45 interception return (Fayak kick) BC Chmura 20 pass from Foley (Wright kick) BC Mitchell 46 pa9S from Foley (Wright kick) BC PS First downs 18 14 Rushes-yards 41-74 35-78 Passing 277 292 Return Yards 35 48 Comp-Att-Int 17-34-5 16-22-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-27 6-45 Punts 4-37 7-37 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 5-60 10-95 Time of Possession 26:29 33:31 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Boston College, Green 1 1-50, Shirley 24-41, Foley 6-(minus 17). Penn Hammonds 8-90, G.Collins, 4-6, T.Smith 1-5, Gash 4-3, Anderson 8-2, Sacca 10-(minus 28). Passing: Boston College, Foley 17-34-5-277. Penn Sacca, 16-22-0-292. Receiving: Boston College, Chmura 7-118.

Mitchell 4-82, Cannon 2-34, Miller 2-24, Boyd 1-13, Shirley 1-6. Penn McDuffie 6-132, T.Smith 4-71, Drayton 2-69, Golden 2-19, Anderson 1-9, G.Collms 1-2. Paul Capriotti scored three touchdowns on short runs for Maine (0-4, 0-3), and carried 23 times for 71 yards. Massachusetts 15, Boston University 7 Quarterback Tony Williams came off the bench for his intercollegiate debut and ignited a sluggish offense in the second half, rallying Massachusetts to a Yankee Conference victory over host Boston University. Williams, redshirted as a freshman, and Jerome Bledsoe, a fifth-year senior sidelined with a broken ankle last season, each scored on 6-yard touchdown runs in the third period as Massachusetts (2-2, 2-1) beat Boston (1-3, 0-1) for the sixth time in seven years.

Virginia Military Institute 38, Richmond 27 Tony Scales ran for 204 yards as Virginia Military Institute (3-1) rolled to a school-record 531 yards rushing in a victory over Rich-, mond (1-2) in Richmond, Va. Colgate 31, Cornell 13 Jim Russell ran for two touchdowns and passed for one as Colgate (1-3) rallied and beat Cornell (0-2) in Ithaca, N.Y. Rhode Island 45, Towson State 25 Rhode Island (1-2) turned three Tow-son State turnovers into touchdowns en route to a victory over the Tigers (0-3) in Towson, Md. Kempa leads unbeaten Lehigh over Columbia INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Rutgers, Moore 22-83, Bailey 5-19, Dorsey 4-11. Michigan Duckett 22-79, Coleman 1-8.

Passing: Rutgers, Tarver 19-33-0-182. Michigan Miller 8-16-1-165, Johnson 5-15-0- Receivlng: Rutgers, Guarantano 5-15, Dorsey 4-29, Moore 3-7, Brantley 2-37, Stoll 2-26. Michigan Hawkins 8-143, MacFarlan 2-20. Elias squirmed off left tackle for the Tigers' first score. Then Princeton quarterback Chad Roghair, who finished the game 15 of 26 for 120 yards, with one interception, began to connect.

When he ducked under the Rams' charge and rifled 10 yards up the middle to Erick Hamilton, the Tigers scored their second touchdown. A 4-yard dash off right tackle by Keith Elias gave Princeton a 20-7 lead with just over seven minutes left in the game. "As soon as we stopped shooting ourselves in the foot we were able to move the ball," said Elias, a sophomore from Lacey Township, N.J., who rushed 23 times for 74 yards. But the mistakes returned full force when Fordham's Jason Jacobs blocked Jason Scott's extra point. Jacobs, a sophomore linebacker from North Arlington, N.J., scooped up the ball and ran 87 yards for two points.

Tom Garlick, a junior wide receiver from Philadelphia, then caught a 23-yard over-the-shoulder touchdown pass for Fordham. The Rams' hopes rose further when Elias fumbled on the Princeton 37 with 2:24 left. Four plays later, Brennan mishandled the snap, three Princeton defenders stopped Iasiello shy of a first down, and the Tigers salvaged a victory in a sloppy, sloppy game. Princeton Fordham 7 1320 1017 Ford Potamousis 5 pass from Brennan (O'Ha-gan kick) Prin Elias 1 run (Scott kick) Prin Hamilton 10 pass from Roghair (Scott kick) Prin Elias 4 run (kick blocked) Ford Jacobs 87 return of blocked extra point Ford Garlick 23 pass from Brennan (Helverson pass from Brennan) Prin Ford First downs 18 9 Rushes-yards 59-209 32-73 Passing 120 100 Return Yards 39 58 Comp-Att-Int 15-28-1 12-27-2 Punts 6-26 8-22 Fumbles-Lost 3-2 1-0 Penalties-Yards 11-117 8-71 Time of possession 35:19 24:41 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Princeton, Hamilton 21-87, Elias 23-74, Lerch 2-23. Fordham, Helverson 7-27, Iasiello 6-20.

Passing: Princeton, Roghair 15-26-1-120. Fordham, Brennan 12-27-2-100. Receiving: Princeton, Lerch 4-38, McCloskey 3-52, Hamilton 2-13, Rudolph 2-13, Massick 2-6. Fordham, Helverson 4-27, Potamousis 3-22, Garlick 2-32. cepted Foley and, on the next play, Sacca hit Troy Drayton for a 44-yard pickup to the BC 4.

On third down, Sacca rolled left, eluded BC linebacker Jason Pohopek, reversed direction, and scored on a 5-yard run. Sacca then rolled right into the end zone for the two-point conversion and a 14-7 lead. Hammonds, the third-string tailback who looks like Gale Sayers against BC, made the score 21-7 on his 56-yard sideline run with 4:20 remaining in the third quarter. Last year in his only start, Hammonds rushed for 208 yards against the Eagles. Yesterday, he had 90 yards on eight carries after Anderson and.

Gerry Collins, the two tailbacks ahead of him, went nowhere. "I just tried to provide a spark," Hammonds said. "I think it was enough to help us win." But after Perry's interception return for a touchdown, which gave State that 28-7 bulge, the Nittany Lions slipped into a coma, playing more like a rank team rather than one that's nationally ranked. East Yale 24, Lafayette 14 Quarterback Nick Crawford scored on a 65-yard run and Matt Fahrney ran 5 yards for another fourth-quarter touchdown as Yale (2-0) came from behind to defeat Lafayette (1-2) in Easton, Pa. Crawford's 65-yard scoring run ended a three-play drive that began on the Lafayette 20 after a blocked field goal.

Crawford ended the game as the leading rusher with 167 yards on 22 carries. Dartmouth 34, Bucknell 16 Al Rosier rushed for 167 yards on 24" carries and scored two touchdowns as Dartmouth beat Bucknell in Hanover, N.H., to begin the season 2-0 for the first time since 1977. Backup quarterback Jay Fiedler passed for one touchdown and scored another for Dartmouth, which has won eight consecutive games. The Big Green dominated Bucknell, outrushing the Bisons, 279-81. Marshall 46, Brown 0 Michael Payton threw for 322 yards in three quarters and connected with wide receiver Brian Dowler on two touchdowns as Marshall routed Brown in Huntington, W.

Va. The Thundering Herd (3-1) of the By Jonathan D. Rockoff Special to The Inquirer NEW YORK In an error-filled game plagued by five turnovers and 19 penalties, Princeton defeated Fordham, 20-17, yesterday at Jack Coffey Field in the Bronx. Like the game itself between these foes from the Ivy League and the Patriot League, the way Princeton (2-0) secured the victory was ugly. With a game-tying field goal in sight, on fourth and one at the Princeton 37, Fordham quarterback Gary Brennan fumbled the snap.

Tony Iasiello, the Rams' fullback, managed to recover the loose ball, but the Princeton defense dropped him for a 1-yard loss, preserving the win. The outcome would never have been in doubt if Princeton tailback Keith Elias hadn't fumbled in Tigers territory on the previous series while trying to run out the clock. "We showed some good signs in coming back in the second half," said Princeton coach Steve Tosches. "We were not a very good football team that first half." To be sure, Princeton's defensive line stuffed Fordham's runs, sacked Brennan five times and caused Fordham (0-3) to fall apart four times well into Tigers territory. But even the Princeton front four contributed a costly mistake, which led to Ford-ham's first score.

Late in the second quarter, Jim Renna, a sophomore defensive tackle, hammered Brennan after the Rams signal-caller missed badly on a pass on third and 6. The penalty kept the Fordham drive alive. And two plays later, Brennan, from Tunkhannock, eluded the Princeton rush and threw across the field to flanker John Pota-mousis, who was streaking to the far right corner of the end zone. "We did some dumb things out there today," said Tosches, who said in the postgame interview that he "blew up" at the team before the game because of its lack of intensity. In the middle of the third quarter, some of that intensity returned.

Princeton's junior strong safety, Keith Ducker, stepped in front of a fluttering Brennan pass, and with the interception in tow rumbled 25 yards up the left sideline to the Rams 4. On fourth down at the 1-yard line, AltotiOti Press Glen Kempa passed for 346 yards and three touchdowns yesterday, leading undefeated Lehigh to its third victory, 22-9, over Columbia in New York. Kempa completed 26 of 45 passes and threw scoring tosses of 12 and 35 yards to Horace Hamm, after throwing a 21-yarder to Jason Cristino. Columbia (0-2) took a 34 lead in the first quarter on a 21-yard field goal by John Boccafola, but the Engineers went ahead to stay on Kempa's pass to Cristino, which capped an 80- yard drive in 12 plays early in the second quarter. Solomon Johnson led the Lions' offense by rushing for 221 yards in 30 carries, including a 67-yard scoring run in the second period.

Army 21, Harvard 20 Backup quarterback Myreon Williams scored on a 3-yard run with 1:06 left as Army withstood a near-perfect first-half performance by Harvard quarterback Mike Giardi and beat the Crimson in West Point, N.Y. Williams, Array's starting split end, was pressed into his first-ever action at quarterback when Willie McMil-lian injured a knee midway through the third quarter and didn't return. Williams led Army (2-1) back from a 13-point deficit. Giardi completed 14 of 23 passes for 275 yards and scored twice as Harvard (1-1) gained a 20-7 third-quarter lead. Southern Conference, tied for 20th in NCAA Division I-AA, outgained its Ivy League opponent, 617 yards to 247, and kept the Bears (0-2) bottled up on their side of the field most of the game.

Bowling Green 22, Navy 19 Erik White threw for 307 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 5:29 left, as Bowling Green overcame a 13-point deficit to beat winless Navy in Annapolis, Md. Bowling Green (3-1) trailed 13-0 early in the second quarter and 19-14 in the final period when White directed an eight-play, 65-yard drive. Two plays after he converted a third-and-8 with a 13-yard run, White foiled a blitz with a 33-yard TD pass to Ronnie Redd. Navy (0-4) didn't threaten after, that. It was the fourth straight game that the Midshipmen scored first but failed to make the lead stand up.

New Hampshire 38, Maine 20 Barry Bourassa scored two of New Hampshire's four touchdowns in the fourth quarter as the Wildcats came from behind to defeat winless Maine in Durham, N.H. The Wildcats (3-1 overall, 3-0 in the Yankee Conference) trailed by 20-10 and had 211 yards in offense after three quarters, but scored on their first four possessions of the fourth period and rolled up 206 yards in the period. 4. 1.