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COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sunday. Nov. 12, 1989 The Philadelphia Inquirer 13-D Yale edges Princeton, 14-7, to clinch tie for title yards on 283 carries for the season. Bjorklund gained 1,081 yards in 1970. Vaia Princeton 0 0 14 0 14' 7 0 0 0 7 Princeton Hallihan 6 run (Lutz kick) Vale Saah 30 run (Perks kick) Vale Kouri 1 run (Perk kick) A 37.762.

Vat Pri Frst down 08 15 Rushes-yards 49-200 55-151 Passing 019 087 Return Yards 13 29 Comp-Att-tnt 04-07-1 09-20-1 1 Punts 10-39 10-33 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 4-3 Penalties-Yards 9-85 5-35 Time of Possession 26:43 33:12 By Brett Goodman Tht Inquirer PRINCETON It was a game that led up to its billing. la a battle of defenses that will hglp determine the Ivy League champion, Yale took advantage of big plays to defeat Princeton yesterday afternoon, 14-7, before a Palmer Stadium throng of 37,761 It was the largest crowd, to watch a Tigers home game tn 24 years. With the victory head coach Cam Corn's ISOth in 25 years of coaching the Bulldogs Yale improved its record to 8-1 overall and 6-Qln the Ivy League, and it clinched at least a tie for the league title. The Bttlldogs can win the crown outright Saturday by defeating Harvard in fign Haven, Conn. nerback Rich Huff came charging through the line and blocked the kick, sending the ball out of bounds at the Princeton 17.

Four plays later, fullback Chris Kouri plowed over from the 1, giving Yale a 14-7 lead. Remig, who hadn't suffered a blocked punt in his varsity career, had been pressured all day by the Yale line. Cozza said he thought his team would block a punt "sooner or later." The snaps were up high, and there's a lot of tension in a game like this." Cozza said. Princeton might have felt some of the heat earlier in the second half, when it allowed Yale's Maurice Saah to escape a big loss and convert a busted play into a game-tying touchdown. On first and 10 from the Tigers' 30, Saah took a pitch left from quarterback Darin Kehler and seemed to run right into a Princeton lineman, Rob Henricks.

But Saah worked himself free and cut back across the field for the score. Princeton scored early in the first quarter, when Chris Hallihan plowed in from the 7 to conclude a seven-play, 43-yard drive on the Tigers' first possession. Garrett, Princeton's record-setting halfback, established yet another mark on that first possession by breaking Hank Bjorklund's single-season rushing standard. Garrett finished with 148 yards on 33 carries, and he now has 1,218 Princeton (6-2-1, 5-1) saw its five-game winning streak end, but the Tigers still can tie for the title Saturday if they defeat Cornell at home, and if the Bulldogs lose. "I dont know if we ever had a better Idefensive effort, considering the people we were playing," said Cozza, whose squad last won the Ivy League title in 1981, when both Yale and Dartmouth recorded 6-1 league marks.

Yesterday, the Yale defense blocked a punt that led to the game-winning touchdown, and it also forced four fourth-quarter turnovers, including Jim Parsons' end-zone interception on a desperation pass from Joel Sharp in the game's final seconds. In the final quarter, Yale's defense sacked Sharp twice, forcing the junior quarterback to lose the football on each occasion. In addition, Princeton's Judd Garrett fumbled deep in Yale territory after diving over the top of the line of scrimmage and gaining the yardage the Tigers needed for what would have been a first down at the Bulldogs' 11. Princeton's head coach, Steve Tosches, said mistakes plagued the Tigers. "We had our opportunities, not just for the big plays, but for some of the ordinary ones as well," he said.

One of those ordinary plays might have made the difference With the score tied at 7-7 midway through the third quarter, Princeton's Brad Remig lined up to punt from his 18-yard line. But senior cor- Temple loses to E. Carolina, drops to 0-10 ii ii inr--r-ir-oflpnniii wro rri -i -nnn-r" 11 111 in iipiiiiiwiiiiMisMM "its' II L3 j'Jt- 1 -''H 1 ttpgj. U. w'-r fis jju Sfcar.

whMwwwraw Villanova's Scott Thompson (center) stretches his arm in an attempt to catch a pass while being doable- covered by UMass. fillariova upends UMass, 29-26 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Yale. Kouri 16-66. Kehler 19-53. Callahan 11-48.

Saah 3-33. Princeton. Garrett 33-148. Hallihan 9-27. Haan 1-10.

Sharp 12- mmus-34. Passing: Yale. Kehler 4-7-0 19. Princeton. 9- 20-0 87.

Receiving: Yale. Griffin 1-1 1, Kouri 3-8. Princeton Maslowski 3-43. Garrett 3-29. Gibbs 3-15.

Owls suspend -Stevenson By M. G. Missanelli ineuirer staff Writer GREENVILLE. N.C Temple left a valuable piece of equipment home when it departed from Philadelphia on Friday for yesterday's football game here against East Carolina tailback Ventres Stevenson. Stevenson, the team's leading rusher with 841 yards this season, was suspended for disciplinary reasons and was not with the Owls in their 31-24 loss to the Pirates yesterday at Ficklen Stadium.

Temple coach Jerry Berndt would say nothing more than that Stevenson had been left home for "break- ing a team rule." But sources close to the situation said the senior had arrived late at McGonigle Hall for the team's bus ride to Philadelphia Inter- national Airport Stevenson was unavailable for I comment. Berndt said he was unsure whether Stevenson would be rein- stated for Temple's season finale Saturday against Rutgers. in 1985) and Brian Broomell (against Cincinnati in 1979). Though they came late in thet fourth quarter, when East Carolina coach Bill Lewis had many second-; teammers on the field, Richardson's touchdown passes were Temple's first of the season. Temple took a 7-0 lead with 4 min- utes, 55 seconds remaining in the i iirsi period un a -yara run oy Jenkins, a sophomore from Mount Holly, who found out only late Friday at Temple's practice that he would be starting.

"We were in the locker room, and (teammate! Tommy Quinn told me that Ventres didnt make the trip," said Jenkins, who finished with 76 yards on 16 carries. "I try to keep everything low-key, anyway, so 1 5 didn't get overly nervous or excited. And IStevensonl had told me ear- lier in the week to expect to play a little more because his ankle was" hurting. So I just wanted to play hard when I was out there." A 35-yard return by Robinson set up a seven-play, 52-yard TD drive for East Carolina that knotted the game at 7-7. The Pirates scored on a trick play when quarterback Travis Hunter pitched to Cedric Van Buren, then took a pass from Van Buren in i the left flat to score unmolested from 5 yards out.

The Owls turned the ball over just two times yesterday down from their nation-leading average of four per game but one, a third-quarter fumble by McNair, was a killer. -i Temple had gathered some mo- 4 mentum by holding East Carolina to a field goal by Robb Imperato after the Pirates had driven to the Temple goal line. Leslie Shepard took the ensuing 1 kickoff 37 yards to the Temple 42. On first down, McNair carried for 8 yards, then got stripped. The ball floated into the hands of East Caroli- 1 na's Brian McPhatter at the Temple -41.

And five plays later, Hunter made the score 17-7 with a 14-yard option .1 keeper. The win made East Carolina's rec- -ord a respectable 5-3-1 with Pitt and Southern Mississippi left. 7 0 0 17 24 7 0 10 14 31 EtCarolina TU Jenkins 4 run (Wright kick) ECU Hunter 5 pass from Van Buren (Imperato kickl ECU FG Brenner 22 ECU Hunter 14 run (Imperato kick) ECU Fisher 22 pass from Hunter (Imperato kick) TU FG Wnght 30 ECU Wilson 32 pass from Hunter (Imperato kick) TU Shepard 10 pass from Richardson (Wright kick) TU Chamber (Wnght kick) A 24,1 12 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards 34 pass from Richardson TU ECU 21 21 41-147 44-164 305 200 7 57 By M. G. Missanelli ineuinr Staff Writer GREENVILLE, N.C.

There are times when going for it on fourth and 1 in the second quarter of a tie game is an absolutely foolish football play. But there are'other times when a team has to take a shot, especially when the team is 0-9 and the worst that could happen is that it would be 0-10. Other things contributed to Temple's 31-24 loss to East Carolina yesterday before 24.112 at Ficklen Stadium, but the Owls' decision to punt in that fourth-down situation played a large part At the time. Temple and East Carolina were tied at 7-7, and the Owls had been moving the football consistently. Using the running of Sam Jenkins filling in for the suspended Ventres Stevenson Owls quarterback Anthony Richardson had moved his team to the East Carolina 45.

On third and 1, fullback Scott McNair was stopped cold. Temple coach Jerry Berndt had Richardson bring the team out on fourth down, giving the appearance that the Owls would try to make the yard. Instead, the coach had Richardson try a long stutter count in the hope of drawing East Carolina offside. East Carolina didn't jump, and Temple wound up taking a delay-of-game penalty, then punting. The Pirates scored 17 straight points in the second half to take a 24-7 lead, and the Owls were dead again.

"We thought a lot about (going for itl," Berndt said. "But I didn't like the alternative, which would have been to give them good field position if we didn't make it. Most people, I guess, would consider it defensive football. But by the same token, I have to look at my kids, and they have to know that I'm making the right decisions." Yesterday's loss made Temple 0-10 with one game remaining against Rutgers on Saturday. The worst Temple season before this came in 1959, when the Owls were 0-9.

The loss was the 28th straight for Berndt over the last three seasons at Rice and Temple. One of the other factors that contributed to a loss that wasn't as close as the final score indicated was East Carolina's Junior Robinson. Robinson amassed 111 yards on three kick-off returns that set up two Pirates TDs and a field goal. Robinson, a free safety by trade, also returned five punts for 43 yards and had an important interception that snuffed out a Temple drive in the fourth quarter. The defeat overshadowed an impressive performance by Richard-, son, who completed 22 of 37 passes for 305 yards and two touchdowns.

In doing so, Richardson became only the fourth quarterback in Temple history to pass for more than 300 yards in a game. The others were Matt Baker (against Rutgers last year). Lee Saltz (against Cincinnati Harvard Quakers within seven with plenty of time left. "I thought we just had it rolling," he said. "In retrospect, I would have taken a timeout to talk about it a little bit more.

I thought we were in a position where we were working hard and had the momentum." Penn got the ball back after a punt but had to punt after a holding penalty. That's when the Crimson put the game away on Reidy's touchdown, rendering Glover's 25-yard scoring pass to Lance Rushing with 27 seconds to play meaningless. Perm Harvard 0 0 7 8 15 0 10 7 724 Har Reidy 6 run (Kotz kick) Harv FG Kotz 32 Har Perry 3 run (Kotz kick) Penn Keys 1 run (Fnedenberger kick) Harv Reidy 7 run (Kotz kick) Penn Rushing 25 pass from Glover (Duffie pass from Glover) A 12,600 PENN HARV 20 20 36-172 58-318 First down Rushes-yards Passing 76 54 Return Yards 5 0 Passes 17-31-1 5-7-1 Punts 6-27 3-31 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 3-2 Penalties-Yards 8-65 5-50 Time of Possession 30 20 29 40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rusting: Perm. Keys 28-145. Glover 5-12.

Harvard! Reidy 14-118. Smyers 11-51. Passing: Perm. Glover 17-31-1, 176 yard. Harvard.

Perry 5-7-1. 54 yards. Receiving: Perm. Young 4-57. Whatey 5-56.

Harvard. Collins 3-42. Reidy 2-12. Wilkos put the Minutemen ahead, 144, with runs of 14 and 5 yards in the first quarter and came back to put them ahead again, 26-21, on a 1-yard run with 4:05 left in the third period. But backup quarterback Paul Tor-natore was forced to take over for the Minutemen when Wilkos was knocked out of the game late in the third period by a tremendous hit by safety Kevin Lopg.

"The kid (Wilkosl was hurting us," Talley said. "He kept us off-balance. We didnt know whether he was going to run the option or throw the football. We haven't played an option team all year. We knew we were going to have some problems." The Minutemen had just as much trouble containing the Wildcats except in the third quarter, when Schulz seemed to be tentative after serving up a crucial interception.

Schulz, who completed 21 of 34 passes for 333 yards, fired the first of two scoring passes with 8:53 left in the half, hitting tight end Scott Donald for 74 yards. That was the first of three second-quarter touchdowns. The Wildcats tied the game at 14-14 On a 1-yard sneak by Schulz with 5:25 left and came back to score again By Mike Bruton Inquirer Staff Writer The Villanova Wildcats have been called overachievers all season long, but yesterday they simply achieved. With their hopes for a playoff berth hanging in the balance, the Wildcats took the fight straight to the University of Massachusetts and came away with a 29-26 victory at Villanova Stadium. Trailing, 26-21, with 6 minutes, 54 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, Villanova took possession of the ball 78 yards away from victory.

said 'One drive, the whole sea-son," Villanova quarterback Kirk-Schulz "Here we go." And they went. 'Schulz completed five passes to drive Villanova down the field, with the final one going for a 21-yard touchdown to Robert Brady. Following the go-ahead score with 4:15 remaining, Schulz hit running back Pat Kennedy for a two-point conversion. Villanova improved to 7-3 overall and 5-2 in the league, but with New Hampshire and Connecticut winning yesterday, the Yankee Conference race remains a four-way logjam. has to happen next week is for us to win," Villanova coach Andy Talley said of the Wildcats' season Ths PtutaMphia Inquirer ED HIUE with 1:05 left in the half, when Jeff Johnson ran it in from 3 yards out.

Kennedy, who ran for 116 yards on 10 attempts, was a major factor for the Wildcats throughout the day. The Villanova back made a clutch grab and shook off tacklers to gain 28 yards on a third-and4 situation in the go-ahead drive. "We did a good job of running the patterns we had been running all day long and delaying our backs into it," said Schulz, describing the final march. "It was sort of like the San Francisco 49ers do it" It didn't necessarily look like Joe Montana to Roger Craig and Jerry Rice, but it certainly had the same effect MauachuMtts Villanova 14 0 12 026 14 0 829 Mass Wioe 6 run (kick failed) Mass Wilkos 14 run (Tobm pas from Wilkos) ViM Donald 74 pass from Schulz (Withka kick) Vill Shult 1 run (Witt a kickl Vill Johnson 3 run (Withka kickl Mass Pastorick 1 run (kick failed) Mass Wilkos 3 run (pass failed) ViM Brady 2 1 pass from Schulz (Kennedy pass from Schulz) A 7.109 MAS VH 21 14 65-227 35-130 239 333 30 148 16-37-3 21-34-2 7-32 7-31 1-1 4-3 4-64 8-65 32:10 27:50 First down Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passe Punt Fumbles-tost Penalties-yards time of Possession from a 26-yard first half with 93 yards in 11 carries in the third quarter alone. Keys ran the ball four straight time for 29 yards, and Glover hit Damon Young with a 17-yard pass to set up Penn's first touchdown a 1-yard run by Keys with 4:40 left in the third period.

On the second play of the Quakers' next possession. Keys raced 47 yards behind a great block on the corner by fullback P.J. Maley to get Penn into scoring position again. A 4-yard run by Keys later gave the Quakers a first and goal at the Harvard 9. Keys gained 6, then nothing.

Glover then called for a keeper, but got mixed up with Keys on a fake hand-off and was halted about lVj yards from the goal line. On fourth and goal. Keys took a pitch to the right but Harvard caved in that side of the Penn offensive line. Cornerback Jim Smith led a host of tacklers stopping Keys short. "It was designed to go outside," Keys said, "but when I looked, all I saw was a wall of crimson.

I tried to stop and go straight ahead, but there was too much congestion there." Steele said he didnt give a second thought to a field goal, which, if successful, would have brought the finale against Boston University. "We control our own destiny." Maine leads the conference with a 6-2 record, with Connecticut, Villanova and UNH all at 5-2. A Villanova victory Saturday coupled with a New Hampshire loss to Massachusetts would virtually assure the Wildcats of an at-large berth in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. If UNH and Villanova both win, the Wildcats will have to hope that the tournament selection committee decides to take two at-large teams from the Yankee Conference. Maine would represent the conference in postseason play in any event.

Talley, happy to still be in the hunt, said the tough victory over the defending conference champions yesterday was satisfying. "We turned the ball over and kept the game close." said Talley. "We came out and stumbled in the third period, which put us in great jeopardy. But we came through with the offense in the fourth quarter." Massachusetts quarterback Gary Wilkos, running out of the triple option, had ravaged the Wildcats' defense in the first three quarters. He ran for 152 yards and three touchdowns on 21 carries and passed for 146 yards.

watched Harvard mount an 88-yard, 13-play drive that took up more than 5Vi minutes and ended in Reidy's yard run with 1:19 left that clinched the win. "If we can just hold them, we have field position on them and maybe we can score again," Penn coach Gary Steele said of the iccisive drive. "But they went down and put up a touchdown. That's frustrating. What's even more frustrating is that they did nothing fancy.

We've got to be able to make those plays." Mark Ltgos, Penn's fiery strong safety, put it in harsher terms. "The coaches put us in position so many times, and we've got to make the plays," Li gas said. "We had to stop them, and we didnt do it That's the story of our season. We have to reach deep to make the plays, and we don't do it" The scenario was familiar. Yale had driven to a late field goal in a tough 23-22 loss that started the Quakers' skid two weeks before.

On two other occasions against Brown and Bucknell the Quakers had the same problem defensively but managed to outscore their opponents. "If I had the answer, we wouldn't let that happen," Steele said. "When Penn again fails to mesh and falls to you've got a young group, you try to have patience with a number of approaches. You hang in there and work on fundamentals. But it hasn't got to the point where we are where we need to be." The Penn offense had the football in Crimson territory three times and claimed three turnovers in the opening half but still managed to come up with a big goose egg on the scoreboard.

The Quakers' deepest penetration was to the Harvard 18, but quarterback Malcolm Glover lost 16 yards on a sack and fumble. It marked the third straight game in which the Quakers had failed to score a touchdown In the first half. Reidy sparked Harvard's first touchdown drive with runs of 18 and 15 yards, and took it In from 6 yards out for the score, dragging linebacker Tony Frazier the final 3, just over five minutes into the second quarter. The Crimson (4-5, 4-2) added a 32-yard field goal by Brian Kotz six minutes later. Harvard boosted its lead to 17-0 on its first possession of the second half.

Reidy raced 34 yards to spark a 74-yard drive that ended on a 3-yard run by quarterback Tim Perry. But the Penn offense finally got going behind Keys, who rebounded By Joe Juliano Ineirirar aff Writer BOSTON It is getting to be a familiar, and sad, refrain for the Penn Quakers. Their offense moves the ball well but stalls but in scoring position. Their defense looks good at times, mediocre at other liuits, auJ rarely comes up with the big play at the key moment Once again, this lethal mixture hurt the Quakers yesterday, as Harvard, behind 118 yards and two touchdowns ty tailback Jim Reidy, ground out a 24-15 victory, sending Penn to its third straight loss and dropping the preseason Ivy League favorite to .500 for the year. The Quakers (4-4 overall, 2-3 Ivy) could put the blame equally on their offense and defense on this blustery day" at Harvard Stadium.

The offense failed to punch it over on fourth and goal from the Harvard as Bryan Keys, who topped the career plateau with 145 yards in 28 carries, was thrown for a 2-yard loss with 12 minutes, 35 seconds to play in the game and the Quakers trailing 17-7. And the defense, with the Crimson pinned back at its 12 with :54 remaining and Penn still trailing by 10, 37-22-1 27-15-0 6-234 7-218 2-1 2-0 11-106 7-76 27:28 32:32 Punts FumWes-tost Penalties-yards Time of Possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Temple. Jenkins 16-76. McNair 13-46. East Carolina.

Rhett 10-69, Hunter 14-33. Passing: Temple, Richardson 37-22-1-305. East Carolina. Hunter 20-10-0-147. Receiweiy: Temple, Chambers 6-89, Drayton 5 75.

East Carolina. Wilson 6-75. Fisher 3-58..