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The Philadelphia Inquirer College Football Sunday, October 18, 1992 E13 Penn, despite a raft of errors, outscores Columbia There were penalties, fumbles and sacks. Luckily for the Quakers, there also were touchdowns. 7 7 7 21 14 10 3 7 34 Penn Rush 1 run (Horowitz kick) Penn Freeman 2 past from McGeehan (Horowitz kick) Colu Klosek 12 run (Teal kick) Penn FG Horowitz 27 Penn Darnels 91 interception return (Horowitz kick) Colu Andrzeiewski 2 run (Teal kick) Penn FG Horowitz 35 Colu Andreziewski 1 run (Teal kick) Penn Rush 3 run (Horowitz kick) A 8,867. Columbia Penn Col Penn 19 15 36-96 47-227 199 120 37 109 21-36-3 8-21-1 2-15 5-38 7-28 6-43 3-1 2-0 7-72 10-92 30:44 29:16 back with a 61-yard drive, capped by John Klosek's 12-yard touchdown run up the middle, to let Penn know they were in a game. "We came flying out of the locker room," said McGeehan, who was given the starting nod on Thursday.

"We were all pumped up. But when we got up 14-0, we might have let up a little bit. We might have thought we were pretty good." Rush's 50-yard run led to Horowitz's 27-yard field goal midway through the second quarter. With 1:50 left, though, Columbia moved down to the Penn 13 looking to cut into the deficit before halftime. But Lions quarterback Chad Andr-zejewski then made a capital error, throwing a weak pass into the flat that was picked off by Daniels at his own 9.

The sophomore, in as part of a package of six defensive backs, raced up the right sideline for the score with 11 seconds left as Penn took a 24-7 lead. "I just stepped in front of the receiver," said Daniels, the new owner of the second-longest interception return in Penn history. "It was more of a bad read by him than a good play by me. It looked like a beach ball coming at me." The Lions had plenty of reserve, though. Andrzejewski scored on a 2-yard run on his team's initial possession of the second half, then went over again from a yard out on the first play of the fourth quarter to cut the deficit to 27-21.

But the Quakers, who had managed just two first downs in four possessions after a 35-yard field goal early in the third quarter by Horowitz, salted the game away late when Rush carried seven times on a 43-yard drive, including the last three. "We have to work on being consistent," Rush said. "We had some mental lapses. We have to play four quarters of football. The coaches come in at halftime and on the sidelines and tell us we've got to wake up.

We have to take it upon ourselves to do it." With tougher Ivy opposition lying ahead, the Quakers would do well to take that advice. Bagnoli will be sure to remind them this week. this week," the senior free safety said. "I guess that would probably be it We didn't do very much well, but when we needed a big play, we came up with one. I guess that's the sign of a good team." Good thing for the Quakers they led 14-0 before the Columbia offense had a chance to run its first play.

With junior quarterback Jim McGeehan making his first start of the season, Penn took a short kickoff and scored in nine plays, with Rush taking it over from the 1. Horowitz, assuming the kickoff duties because of an ankle injury to Andy Glockner, then attempted a squib kickoff, which nailed Columbia linebacker Rick Brenders in the foot and popped right back to Horowitz, putting the Quakers in business at the Penn 43. McGeehan's 31-yard pass to Chris Brassell set up the quarterback's 2-yard scoring pass to U-back Steve Freeman, giving Penn two touchdowns in a span of 2 minutes, 54 seconds and a 144) advantage with the game just 6:19 old. However, Columbia came right game like this. There were so many personal fouls, so many key penalties.

So many unnecessary things happened that it kind of takes the joy away from taking a The Quakers' problems included a couple of roughing-the-passer calls, an offensive holding penalty inside the Columbia 5, a sack that preceded a missed field-goal attempt, a fumbled pitchout inside the Lions' 10 and a dropped ball on an interception that had "touchdown" written all over it. "I'll be perfectly honest with you: I don't think the kids played with any intelligence today," Bagnoli said. "We did a lot of things that good football teams don't do." Co-captain Tom Gibbs, who had an interception, said he sensed something wrong at practice during the week. "It wasn't that we weren't fired up, but we really didn't practice well Holy Cross upsets Princeton, 10-7 ASSOCIATED PRESS WORCESTER, Mass. Andy Fit patrick ran 9 yards for the winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter to lift Holy Cross to a 10-7 upset of Ivy League leader Princeton yesterday afternoon.

Holy Cross (2-4) snapped a two-game losing streak in handing Princeton its first loss in five games. Princeton's Erick Hamilton ran 74 yards on the Tigers' first play for a 7-0 lead. Thereafter, the defenses dominated. But the Crusaders pulled to within 7-3 at halftime on a 27-yard field goal by Anthony Pignio. The Tigers had a setback in the third quarter when quarterback Tom Mclnerney was injured on a hit by defensive end Jim Bowes.

In the fourth quarter, Holy Cross drove 46 yards in five plays for the winning score after a 28-yard punt by Princeton's Matt Golden. Fitzpatrick completed a 24-yard pass to tight end Ron Hooey, who broke a tackle at the 18 and ran to the 9. On the next play, Fitzpatrick scored with 8 minutes, 29 seconds remaining in the game. A 23-yard punt by Holy Cross' Jeff Meader provided a final chance for the Tigers at their 37. Cam Scholvin By Joe Juliano INQUIRER STAFF WRITER He could have waxed poetic on his first victory in the historic Ivy League, but Penn coach Al Bagnoli chose to do otherwise on the Quakers' 34-21 victory over Columbia yesterday at Franklin Field.

The Quakers (3-2 overall, 1-1 Ivy) treated an audience of 8,867 to a "career-high 152 yards rushing and )wo touchdowns by Sundiata Rush, two field goals by Marc Horowitz and a 91-yard interception return for a TD by sophomore James Daniels. However, Bagnoli saw a number of splotches in this masterpiece, such as the 10 penalties (for 92 yards) and the 19 first downs and 21-of-36 passing performance achieved by the luckless Lions (14, 0-2). "We had a lot of problems," Penn's first-year coach said. "We moved the ball well at times. But as a coach, you get very little satisfaction out of a mt 1 'TIT '-IT nr HT Tl i irisuf'm Neal Martin of Dartmouth leaps into ig first ASSOCIATED PRESS Jay Fiedler passed for four touch-clowns and set three school records yesterday in leading Dartmouth to a 39-27 Ivy League victory over Yale in Hanover, N.H.

Dartmouth (4-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy) led by 30-0 at halftime before Yale (3-2, 1-1) rallied for four touchdowns, two each by quarterback Steve Mills and I tailback Keith Price. Fiedler's fourth I TD pass put the game out of reach as Dartmouth ran its Ivy League unbeaten string to 15 games. Fiedler, who completed 20 of 31 passes for 419 yards, raised his rec-iord for career TD passes to 28. Dennis Durkin's 28-yard field goal gave Dartmouth a 3-0 lead, and he added a 21-yarder in the third quarter. Dartmouth's Mike Holobetz recovered a Yale fumble in the first quarter, setting up Fiedler's first scoring a 28-yarder to Greg Hoffmeister.

After Neal Martin's TD run, Fiedler passed 18 yards to Joe Tosone and 11 yards to Dave Shearer for TDs that made it 30-0 at the half. East Penn State cut down by Boston College rr -tv Ai the end zone for the second of the Associated Press JIM 0 Big Red's four first-half touchdowns en route to the 39-27 victory. First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possess. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Columbia, Klosek 9-51, Andrzejewski 16-30, Branum 3-21, Werthman 3-1. Foss-bender 1-1, Doolittle 3-(minus 3), Mundt 1-(minus 5).

Penn, Rush 23-152, Stokes 11-51, McGeehan 8-20, McKinnon 1-5, Mott 4-(minus 1). Passing: Columbia, Andrzejewski 14-26-3-138, Doolittle 7-10-0-61. Penn, McGeehan 8-21-1-120. Receiving: Columbia, Blair 6-61, Hayes 3-47, Sardo 4-33, Lafferty 2-20, Mundt 3-15, Greenfield 1-1 1. Fossbender 1-8, Klosek 1-4.

Penn, Miller 4-67, Brassell 1-31, Knapp 1-16, Hernandez 1-4, Freeman 1-2. passed 15 yards to Michael Lerch, but two plays later a fumble by Scholvin took Princeton out of field-goal range. Princeton running back Keith Elias, who hurt his ankle in a game against Brown last week, gained only 2 yards on three carries. Elias has rushed 117 times for 827 yards this season, an average of 7.1 yards per attempt and 165.4 yards per game. He has also scored eight touchdowns.

Princeton 7 0 0 07 0 3 0 710 Holy Cross Pri Hamilton 74 run (Hogg kick) HC Ha fignio it HC Fitzpatrick 9 run (Pignio kick) prtn 10 43-91 64 10 60-2OO 7-39 5-3 HC 16 65-152 100 45 10-16-1 6-32 2-1 First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-Lost 3-20 3-25 Time of Possession 24:17 35:43 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Princeton, Hamilton 20-120. Bailey file Elias 3-2. Holy Cross, Sierra 14-46, Cepero 16-39, Sampson 16-38, Fitzpatrick 11-12. Passing: Princeton. Mclnerney 3-8-0-40.

Scholvin 3-12-0-24. Holy Cross, Fitzpatrick 10-16-1-100 Receiving: Princeton, Lerch 3-54, Beiswenger 1-5, Bailey 1-4, Hamilton 1-1. Holy Cross, Sampson 4-23, Summers 2-40, Hooey 2-28. State got the ball with 2:42 to go and, after Sacca left the game by aggravating an injury to his clavicle, Kerry Collins made his first appearance of the season at quarterback since breaking an index finger in early August. The 6-5 Collins completed passes of 24, 41 and 20 yards, the last two to McDuffie, before Anderson plunged 2 yards for the TD.

Collins completed a two-point conversion pass to McDuffie and, suddenly, it was 35-32 with 1:39 remaining. The stadium, by now only half-filled with die-hards, erupted when tight end Kyle Brady outleaped several Eagles to recover State's onside kick at the Nittany. Lions' 46-yard line. But Collins' first-down pass, intended for McDuffie on a deep pattern, was intercepted by BC's Joe Kamara, and the Eagles ran out the clock. Now, with successive road games against West Virginia, Brigham Young and Notre Dame ahead, terno must put this team back together or the season could become a disaster.

State's defense played raggedly and, no doubt, Paterno will be tempted to move Collins ahead of Sacca, who completed 20 of 41 passes for 288 yards and was intercepted once while struggling with his aching shoulder. "I landed on the shoulder when I took a shot at the end," said Sacca, who missed one day of practice because of the injury. "And if you saw the way I threw the ball on the next play, you can see I was better off on the sidelines." Boston College Penn State 7 21 7 035 3 7 6 1832 BC Shirley 1 run (Wright kick) PS FG Muscillo 29 PS Anderson 1 run (Muscillo kick) BC Boyd 48 pass from Foley (Wright kick) BC Mitchell 16 pass from Foley (Wright kick) BC Mitchell 29 pass from Foley (Wright kick) BC Grice 29 pass from Foley (Wright kick) PS Anderson 1 run (run failed) PS McDuffie 7 pass from Sacca (Archie pass from Sacca) PS Anderson Sacca) 2 run (McDuffie pass from A 96,130. BC PSU First downs 32 21 Rushes-yards 56-206 28-100 Passing 344 373 Return Yards 29 5 Comp-Att-Int 21-37-0 23-46-2 Punts 7-39 7-41 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 5-33 6-46 Time of possession 37:56 22 04 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Boston College, Dukes 29-149, Shirley 19-56, Foley 5-11, Green 2-4, Team 1-(minus 14). Penn McDuffie 1-43, Morris 6- 28.

O'Neal 2-11, Sacca 5-10, Carter 2-7, Anderson 13-1. Passing: Boston College, Foley 21-37-0-344 Penn Sacca 20-41-1-288, Collini 3-6-1- 85. Receiving: Boston College, Mitchell 7-106 Miller 4-66. Boyd 2-73. Grice 2-50, Cannon 2- 29, Dukes 2-8.

Shirley 1-7, Green 1-6. Penn McDuffie 11-212. Drayton 7-86, Themes 4-51, Williams 1-24. half puts Dartmouth by Yale PENN STATE from E1 win at Beaver Stadium and only their second over State in 21 games. Gave the Eagles the last laugh in a series that yesterday ended for the foreseeable future.

BC rolled up an amazing 550 yards in total offense against a Penn State defense that seemed to be suffering from a hangover after last week's gut-wrenching 17-14 loss to Miami. "We came out flat," State receiver O.J. McDuffie said. "We thought all we had to do was press a button." The only encouragement the Nit-tany Lions could take from this game was that they awakened in time to make the Eagles nervous at the end. Foley, who relied on the relentless running of Chuckie Dukes 149 yards on 29 carries) and Dwight Shirley (56 yards), a rugged fullback from Plymouth-Whitemarsh High, exploded for three rapid-fire TD passes in the final four minutes of the first half to give the Eagles a 28-10 lead.

Foley hit Ivan Boyd for 48 yards, and tight end Pete Mitchell for 16 and 29 yards. The two TD strikes to Mitchell came in the last minute of the half. Foley's flurry of TD passes came after State's Terry Killens had been penalized for roughing BC punter Jeff Beckley. The penalty came with State leading, 10-7, and it gave the Eagles a first down and the impetus for their blitzkrieg. "Those two late TDs were a little demoralizing," said State cornerback Shelly Hammonds, part of a secondary that seemed to wave BC receivers free all afternoon.

"It's like we were trying to figure out what the hell was going on." When Foley threw his fourth TD pass, to Greg Grice midway through the third quarter, BC's lead ballooned to 35-10, and the Nittany Lions appeared cooked. "I don't know what Penn State was thinking," Foley said of the Nittany Lions' pass coverage. "Maybe they were looking for a lot of underneath patterns. Our guys got into the seams of their defense and got upfield." From that point on, though, Foley and the Eagles watched in near horror as State kept twitching back to life. A 43-yard run on a reverse by McDuffie, who set single-game school records with 11 catches for 212 yards, set up the second of tailback Richie Anderson's three TDs to make it 35-16 with 3 minutes, 49 seconds to go in the third quarter.

With 7:21 left in the game, quarterback John Sacca hit McDuffie for a 7-yard score and followed with a two-point conversion pass to Mike Archie. That brought State within 35-24, and things got interesting. which had beaten the Big Red two straight times but rarely threatened yesterday. Cornell, which has scored first in each of its games, went ahead, 6-0, on Oliaro's 15-yard run midway through the first quarter. Quarterback Bill Lazor scored on an 1 1-yard run in the second quarter to give Cornell a 13-0 advantage, and Oliaro's 3-yard run made it 19-0.

Lafayette 31, Harvard 29 Tom Kirch hoff threw for two touchdowns and 274 yards to lead Lafayette (3-3) to a victory despite a closing rally by Harvard (1-4) in Easton, Pa. The two were tied, 14-14, through the end of the third quarter. But Lafayette began the fourth quarter scoring spree on a 2-yard run by Erik Marsh at the end of a 14-play, 65-yard drive with 13:44 remaining. A little over two minutes later, Eric Perry scored on a 26-yard pass from Kir-choff, followed in another two minutes by a 4Syard field goal by Jason McLaughlin. Massachusetts 20, Connecticut 7 Freshman tailback Rene Ingoglia "People were starting to write us off," said Fortay, who completed 12 of 19 passes for 159 yards.

"But the teams we lost to were great teams." Backup tailback Bruce Presley rushed for 103 yards and scored on a 2-yard run. It marked the first time since 1984 that the Scarlet Knights have had two backs rush for 100 yards apiece. The 45 points were the Scarlet Knights' most against Army. The series dates to 1891. "I think Rutgers was a lot faster than we were," Army safety Mike McElrath said.

Army was limited to 100 yards while falling behind by 17-0 in the first half, and it didn't get on the scoreboard until Dan Davis tackled Mitter for a safety in the third quarter. But by then, Rutgers had a 24-0 lead and was well on the way to handing the Cadets their 10th loss at Giants Stadium in 11 games. Mitter, who carried 23 times, gave Rutgers the lead for good by taking a handoff and going through a hole between left guard and tackle for 64 rushed for 138 yards and one touchdown in leading Massachusetts (4-1, 3-1) to a Yankee Conference victory over Connecticut (2-4, 1-2) in Amherst, Mass. Ingoglia scored his touchdown on a 1-yard run, capping a 94-yard drive with a little more than five minutes gone in the game. Maine 21, Rhode Island 9 Ben Sirmans ran for 146 yards and two touchdowns to boost Maine (4-2, 2-1) past Rhode Island (1-5, 0-3) in a Yankee Conference game in Orono, Maine.

Richmond 37, Boston University 27 Greg Lilly threw for 215 yards and two touchdowns and Uly Scott rushed for 148 yards and a score as Richmond (5-1, 4-1) beat Boston University (0-6, 04) in a Yankee Conference game in Boston. Northeastern 28, Youngstown State 23 Quarterback Ralph Barone ran for two touchdowns and passed for two more to lead Northeastern (4-2) to an upset in Brookline, Mass. 10 win yards and a 7-0 lead on the second play from scrimmage. Army 0 0 2 810 Rutgers 7 10 7 2145 Rut Mitter 64 run (Benestad kick) Rut FG Benestad 27 Rut Mitter 54 pass from Fortay (Benestad kick) Rut Guarantano 8 pass from Fortay (Benestad kick) Army Safety, Davis tackles Mitter in end zone Rut Walker 5 pass from Fortay (Benestad kick) Rut Presley 2 run (Benestad kick) Army Carpenter 1 run (Carpenter run) Rut Lucas 7 run (Benestad kick) A 22,164 Army 13 65-278 58 16 Rut 20 First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards 51-345 171 12 13-22-1 3- 23 1-1 4- 40 3-8-1 4-26 4-3 4-28 Time of Possession 28:44 31:16 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Army, Carpenter 13-88, Davis 9-73, Roper 22-58, Weber 14-39, Spaulding 1-7, King 2-7, Vaughn 4-6. Rutgers, Mitter 23-159, Presley 13-103, Lucas 2-36, Fortay 4-25, Moore 7-21, Blackwell 1-5, McCord 1-lminus 41.

Passing: Army, Roper 1-4-1-8, Carpenter 2-4-0-50. Rutgers. Fortay 12-19-1-159, Lucas 1-2-0-12, McCord 0-1-0-0. Receiving: Army, Weber 2-50, Andrzejewski 1-8. Rutgers, Battaglia 3-34.

Presley 3-34, Guarantano 3-32, Mitter 1-54, Bailey 1-8, Walker 1-5, Brantley 1-4. Lehigh 31, Brown 24 Jason Mas-tropierro ran for 120 yards and two touchdowns as Lehigh (2-4) ended a four-game losing streak with a come-from-behind victory over Brown (0-5) in Providence, R.I. A pair of late touchdowns made the difference as Lehigh, which had led earlier, rallied after falling behind in the third quarter. The Bears opened the second half with a pair of touchdowns by Brett Brown, whose runs of 5 and 2 yards gave Brown a 24-17 lead before Lehigh dominated the final quarter. Dave DiDomizio ran up the middle for a 4-yard TD run to tie the score with 13 minutes, 44 seconds to go.

Brown failed to get a first down the next time it got the ball, setting up Lehigh for a 10-play, 47-yard drive, which saw Mastropierro run in the winning score with 7:02 left. Cornell 25, Colgate 7 Scott Oliaro rushed for 76 yards and scored three touchdowns, leading Cornell past Colgate in Hamilton, N.Y. Cornell (4-1) jumped to a 19-0 half-time lead against Colgate (3-3), Even Mitter said he felt the Cadets' defense sag after his touchdown run, which came just 40 seconds into the contest. "It was important to come out hard," said Mitter, whose best previous rushing game was a 106-yard effort against Army (2-3) last year. "Once you get someone down, they start thinking.

They put their heads down a little bit. That's what we made them do, put their heads down a little bit." Mitter also turned in the other play that killed Army, a 54-yard touchdown on a screen pass just before halftime that gave Rutgers a 17-0 lead. "I don't like giving up big plays," Army coach Bob Sutton said. "It appeared that some of those plays were preventable, and that's what makes them disappointing." Fortay, who regained his starting job early in the week, also had touchdown passes of 8 yards to Jim Guar-antano in the third quarter and 5 yards to Eddie Walker as Rutgers broke a two-game losing streak. Rutgers romps past Army for 45 ASSOCIATED PRESS EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.

Doug Graber spent a whole week telling his Rutgers team to do something against Army that it hadn't done all season get off to a fast start. After all, this was a Rutgers team that had not scored a touchdown in the opening quarter of its first six games. That trend ended against Army yesterday. On their second play, the Scarlet Knights scored on a 64-yard touchdown run by Craig Mitter, and they went on to clobber Army, 45-10. Mitter rushed for a career-best 159 yards; he ran for a touchdown and caught one of Bryan Fortay's three scoring passes.

"Offensively, the key was getting off to the quick start," Graber said after his team rolled up 516 yards in total offense, the best performance for the Scarlet Knights (4-3) in his three years as head coach. "That's the key to playing a wishbone team," Graber added. "That changed the whole complexion of the game." 1 I'.