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Sunday, October 3, 1993 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER JLC13 lollg6 Football i I How the AP top 25 fared I I I 4 i I j- I I 4 1 1 1 1 rx i. -V sij I RankTeam Record This Week Next Week 1-Florida State 5-0-0 beat Ga. Tech, 51-0 vs. Miami 2. Alabama 4-0-0 beat S.

Carolina, 17-6 Idle 3. Miami 4-0-0 beat Ga. Southern, 30-7 at Florida State 4. Notre Dame 5-0-0 beat Stanford, 48-20 vs. Pittsburgh 5.

Florida 4-0-0 beat Miss. 38-24 at LSU 6. Nebraska 4-0-0 Idle at Oklahoma State 7. Ohio State 4-0-0 beat Northwest 'n, 51-3 at Illinois 8. Michigan 3-1-0 beat Iowa, 24-7 at Michigan State 9.

PennState 5-0-0 beat Maryland, 70-7 Idle 10. Oklahoma 4-0-0 beat Iowa State, 24-7 vs. Texas 11. Tennessee 3-1-0 beat Duke, 52-19 at Arkansas 12. Arizona 5-0-0 beat USC, 38-7 Idle 13.

Syracuse 3-1-1 lost to BC, 33-29 Idle ,14. Texas 3-1-0 beat Texas Tech, 31-6 vs. Houston '15. Washington 2-1-0 Beats. Jose 52-17 at California 16.

North Carolina 5-1-0 beat UTEP, 45-39 vs. Wake Forest 17. California 5-0-0 beat Oregon, 42-41 vs. Washington 18. Louisville 4-0-0 beat Pitt, 29-7 at West Virginia 19.

Colorado 2-2-0 Idle vs. Missouri 20. BYU 4-0-0 Idle at UCLA 21. Virginia 5-0-0 beat Ohio 41-7 Idle 22. Wisconsin 4-0-0 Idle vs.

Northwestern 23. Auburn 4-0-0 beat Vanderbilt, 14-10 vs. Miss. State 24. N.

Carolina St. 2-2-0 lost to Clemson, 20-14 at Texas Tech 25. West Virginia 4-0-0 beat Va. Tech, 14-13 vs. Louisville if I ft WJr I Lit! i Yesterday's top performances The Philadelphia Inquirer JERRY LODRIGUSS Fordham's Shawn Harris clutches the ball and Penn's Jamie Daniels clutches his head after Harris' catch of a TD pass from Joe Moorhead.

Penn rallies to top Fordham, 34-30 Passing Florida's Danny Wuerffel completed 27 of 41 passes for 449 yards and three touchdowns in the Gators' 38-24 win over Mississippi State. Mississippi State's Todd Jordan hit 24 of 44 passes for 416 yards and two touchdowns in a losing cause In the same game. Boston College's Glenn Foley, a graduate of Cherry Hill East High School, completed 22 of 29 passes for 423 yards and three TDs in the Eagles' 33-29 upset of Syracuse. Rushing Massachusetts' Rene Ingoglia carried 22 times for 204 yards and Mj Iff if scored four touchdowns in the Minutemen's 33-10 win over James Madison. I Princeton's Keith Ellas rushed for 185 yards In 29 carries and scored four touchdowns In the Tigers' 38-0 shutout of Holy Cross.

Receiving Wyoming's Ryan Yarborough caught seven passes for 241 yards tying Howard Twilley's NCAA career record of five 200-yard games in the i Cowboys' 31-18 victory over Air Force. Florida's Chris Doering caught 12 passes for 199 yards and three TDs in Florida's victory over Mississippi State. Defense Penn cornerback Jamie Daniels made three interceptions in the Quakers' come-from-behind 34-30 win over Fordham. Clemson linebacker Tim Jones made 1 1 tackles and one interception and tipped a pass at the goal line to save the Tigers' 20-14 upset win over North Carolina State. The undefeated Quakers were far from perfect.

Fortunately for them, so were the other guys. By Jay Searcy INQUIRER STAFF WRITER What happens when a football team commits 10 penalties, loses three fumbles, misses four field goals and has a touchdown called back? It loses, right? Not Penn. Not yesterday. Not at Franklin Field to a winless Fordham team. Seemingly operating under Murphy's Law, the undefeated Quakers dug themselves a large hole yesterday, fell in it several times, then crawled out in time to salvage a 34-30 victory.

Down by 24-7 in the first half and 30-14 with just over four minutes remaining in the third quarter, the Quakers rallied for two fourth-quarter touchdowns and escaped with their third victory of the season. The winning TD, which came on an 11-yard pass from Jim McGeehan to sophomore wide receiver Miles Macik, was scored with 4 minutes, 56 seconds left and ended what Penn's Al Bagnoli called perhaps the weirdest game in his 12-year head-coaching career. "The game was very strange," Bagnoli said, shaking his head. "You hardly ever see a team convert a touchdown on third and 23 las Fordham did, and you hardly ever see a team get a first down on second and 31." Penn actually converted on third and 33 on its winning drive. The Quakers, confronted with a spectacular show by Rams quarterback Joe Moorhead, a string-bean 6-foot-6 sophomore, and flanker Calvin Hargrove, countered with a spectacular performer of their own.

Terrance Stokes, a junior tailback, rushed 31 times for 192 yards, including a 30-yard touchdown dash. He also caught two passes for 23 yards and added 35 yards on kick returns. Bagnoli said Fordham's record, now 04, hadn't caused the Quakers to be complacent. "No, no," he said. "We knew this was a tough team.

The only surprise was I i 4 i I rs flagged 19 times for 170 yards in their first two games, and yesterday, they drew six penalties in the first quarter alone. But that was only part of the Quakers' early struggling. Fordham would score more points in the first half 24 than it had scored in its previous three games. The Rams scored three touchdowns two on long passes by Moorhead and one on a 37-yard fumble return by linebacker Ryan Reinert and got a. 38-yard field goal from Marc Ruoff.

But Penn wouldn't quit. McGeehan threw five times to Macik, accounting for 49 yards, in a nine-play TD drive that ended 57 seconds before halftime. And the Quakers, whose placekick-ing specialist, Andy Glockner, had missed on a 39-yard field-goal try mid-' way through the second period, missed on a 42-yarder five seconds" before the half, after defensive end Dave Betten recovered a Fordham fumble at the Rams' 16. Penn's second-half comeback heroics included TDs by Stokes, Macik and McGeehan and a 65-yard punt by Tim Henwood, who averaged almost 40 yards on eight kicks. Penn Fordham 7 7 6 14 34 10 14 6 030 Penn Brassell 1 5 pass from McGeehan (Horowitz kickl Ford Hargrove 26 pass from Moorhead (Ruoff kick) Ford FG Ruoff 38 Ford McKee 34 pass from Moorhead (Ruoff kick) Ford Reinert 37 fumble return (Ruoff kick) Penn Macik 12 pass from McGeehan (Horowitz kick) Ford Harris 22 pass from Moorhead (kick blocked) Penn McGeehan 1 run (pass failed) Penn Stokes 30 run (Horowitz kick) Penn Macik 1 1 pass from McGeehan (Horowitz kick) Penn Ford First downs 23 1 1 Rushes-yards 47-249 33-77 Passing 216 255 Return Yards 31 50 Comp-Att-Int 22-40-0 11-33-4 Punts 8-40 7-31 Fumbles-Lost 4-3 5-2 Penalties-Yards 10-91 7-70 Time of Possession 36:06 23:54 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Penn, Stokes 31-192, Allen 4-21, Abye 2-3, McGeehan 9-7, Scott 1-17.

Fordham, Robinson 15-35, Lang 11-39, Moorhead 6-0, Ross 1-3. Passing: Penn, McGeehan 40-22-0 216. Fordham, Moorhead 32-10-4262. O'Hagan" 1-1-07. Receiving: Penn, Stokes 2-23, Brassell 2-32, Allen 1-2, Macik 12-141, Abye 1-5, Higgins 1- 5, Scott, 1-0, Tonelli 1-7, Cobb 1-5.

Fordham, Hargrove 5-185, Robinson 1-9, Angelillo 17, Lang 1-5, McKee 1-34, Harris 2-24. Boston U. half, and Marchese had a 1-yard scoring run in the final quarter to bring Villanova to within 23-15 before Dougherty put the game out of reach with a 7-yard toss to Jason Andrade. "I gave us a little spark today, and maybe if we had more time we could have won this game," Marchese said. "Will I start next week? Not sure." One thing is certain.

The injury list grew to 18 as offensive linemen Ante Benzija and Jim Trischan each suffered left-knee sprains. Villanova Boston U. 0 8 0 715 14 2 7 730 BU Hobbs 53 pass from Dougherty (Morello kick) BU Henderson 50 pass from Dougherty (Morello kick) BU Safety, Laudano tackled Pearson in end zone Vi Friend 6 pass from Pearson (Friend pass from Pearson) BU Dougherty 1 run (Morello kick) Vi Marchese 1 run (Hoffman kick) BU Andrade 7 pass from Dougherty (Morello kick) Vi BU First downs 14 25 Rushes-yards 28-84 44-155 Passing 223 323 Return Yards 45 18 Comp-Att-Int 18-38- 22-39-4 Punts 6-34 4-34 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 8-59 5-55 Time of Poss. 26:00 34:00 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Villanova, Moseley 15-65, Cowsette 4-15, Marchese 5-10, Pearson 4-(minus 6). Boston Dougherty 17-71.

Burwell 20-71, Benaglio 5-16, Jenkins 1-0, Moore 1-(minus 3). Passing: Villanova, Pearson 11-26-4 158, Marchese 7-12-0 105. Boston Dougherty 22-39-4 323. Receiving: Villanova, Lumpkin 5-101, Petrillo 3-46, Friend 4-44, Mosley 4-23, Cowsette 1-6, Massaro 1-3, Boston Mantie 4-89, Andrade 6-59, Hobbs 2-67, Henderson 2-59, Myers 2-19, Walker 1-15, Stephenson 5-15. It m.

r(l I If 1 III tl Biff, I I I 4- Elias leads Princeton i over Holy Cross, 38-0 The Philadelphia Inquirer JERRY LODRIGUSS The Quakers' Terrance Stokes races for a big gain in the third quarter. Stokes wound up running for 192 yards on 31 carries. Danny Wuerffel On defense, the Tigers didn't permit the Crusaders 'to cross midfield until the fourth quarter. Princeton sacked Holy Cross' Andy Fitzpatrick four times two by tackle Jim Renna and held him to 54 yards passing. The Crusaders' running game was equally subdued, with running backs Rob Subotich picking up only 16 yards, and Randy Trivers picking up only 10.

Princeton opened the game with scoring drives of 80, 61, 71 and 77 yards. Elias' first touchdown, which was set up by a 40-yard pass from Foote to Howdie Goodwin, came on a 7-yard burst up the middle. His 33-yard TD came after he was stopped going up the middle and broke the play around the right end. The 1-yarder was on a third-and-goal, and his 26-yarder was on a third-and-2 play that broke wide open two steps past the line of scrimmage. Set up by Elias' 46-yard scamper, Jeff Hogg stretched the lead to 31-0 with a 27-yard field goal on the Tigers' next series.

The big win was marred by a knee injury to right tackle Carl Teter in the first half. Teter tried to play after sustaining the injury, but could not. "If we're going to stay in the pennant race, we're going to need him," Tosches said. This article contains Information from the Associated Press. Holy Cross Princeton OOOO 14 17 7 038 Villanova stumbles, 30 to the crowd after his TD throws, had his bad moments.

He was sacked three times, lost a fumble and threw four interceptions three made by junior cornerback Jamie Daniels. The Rams were penalized seven times for 71 yards, converted first downs on only two of 15 third-down attempts and lost two of five fumbles. It took Penn five plays and less than three minutes to score. McGeehan completed two passes in the 45-yard drive, including a 15-yard TD pass to Chris Brassell. That was followed by one of the world's longest extra-point kicks a 35-yarder by Marc Horowitz, who was pushed back by three straight illegal-procedure penalties.

The Quakers have been plagued by penalties all season. They had been 15, against he could get," Dougherty said. Helon intercepted Pearson three times in the first half as BU opened up a 16-0 lead. For the third time in four games, Villanova gave up points in its own end zone, too, with the safety. And in keeping with its season average, Villanova was hit with eight penalties for 59 yards in the game.

Mentally, Villanova was not in the game in the first half as BU racked up big yardage while Dougherty left scorch marks all over the' Wildcats secondary. Three times he threw completions of 50 yards or more, twice burning Villanova strong safety Matt Smith in single coverage. Dougherty's 53-yarder to Jay Hobbs over Devian Logan gave BU an early 7-0 "A quarterback like that puts you in a bind," Logan said. "You don't know whether to stay in coverage or break coverage, and I looked back and it was over my head." The run-and-shoot is most effective outside the 30-yard line. So when BU drove to the Villanova 27 late in the half, only to be pushed back to mid-field on a clipping penalty, it worked in Dougherty's favor.

He simply threw 50 yards to Carnell Henderson, who was working over Smith again. That made it 14-0. On both 50-plus TD passes, the Cats were blitzing and the secondary was in man-to-man coverage. Pearson had a 6-yard scoring pass to Pat Friend to make it 16-8 at the the high score." If the Moorhead-to-Hargrove show didn't surprise Bagnoli, it did virtually everyone else at Franklin Field. Moorhead, a lefty making his first start, completed 10 of 32 passes for 262 yards and three touchdowns, and Hargrove, a 6-2, 190-pound junior from Levittown, caught five passes for a touchdown and 185 yards He made four catches for 133 yards, including a 26-yard TD, in the first half.

McGeehan and Macik also put on an aerial show. McGeehan finished 22 for 40 with no interceptions, and 12 of the completions were to Macik, a 64 target who accounted for 141 yards and two TDs. If Penn shot itself in the foot, Fordham did, too. Moorhead, who saluted and played "That kid is so elusive," said Villanova coach Andy Talley. "It's bad enough having to defend against the run-and-shoot without worrying about the creative things he can do on the run." Villanova wasn't very creative.

Once again, the Cats were their own worst enemy. Two of the interceptions thrown by Pearson, a redshirt freshman, led to BU touchdowns. Pearson was also sacked in the end zone for a safety. Take away those 16 first-half points, and Villanova wins this game, 15-14. "Erik would not come back to his second receivers," Talley said.

"He seems very determined to see the No. 1 guy." Which is why Talley yanked him seconds before the fourth quarter began in favor of redshirt sophomore Tom Marchese. Although Mar-chese looked good in orchestrating a 78-yard scoring drive, he looked erratic during another drive, and finished the game 7 of 12 for 65 yards. As for Pearson, he finished 11 of 26 for 158 yards with one touchdown. "Tell the truth, I don't know what was wrong," Pearson said.

"I never got into a groove. They gave us less than what I thought. They do some crazy things on defense." Dougherty did some amazing things in the first half alone, throwing for 276 yards and two touchdowns. "I was kidding Chris Helon that we were having a contest to see if I was throwing more interceptions than The game was supposed to be closer. However, a good football team had a great day.

By Steve SearfosH EMt THE INQUIRER PRINCETON Keith Elias scored on runs of 7, 33, 1 and 26 yards on Princeton's first four possessions as the Tigers steamrolled Holy Cross, 38-0, yesterday at Palmer Stadium. The Tigers (3-0) scored on their first five possessions in the first half, outgaining the Crusaders, 339 yards to 26, in the opening two periods, and went on for their first win over Holy Cross since 1989. The game wasn't supposed to be this lopsided. The Crusaders (1-3) were coming off a 13-7 win over Dartmouth, which was expected to challenge Princeton for the 1993 Ivy League title. Instead, the game proved to be a case study of what happens when a good football team gets together and has a great day.

"We got beat by a better football team at every facet of the game," Holy Cross coach Peter Vaas said. As always, the spectacular running of Elias, who picked up 185 yards on 29 carries, sparked the Tigers. Elias' four touchdowns gave him nine this season and 40 for his career, one shy of the school career mark set by Judd Garrett in 1989. Elias is also 140 yards shy of breaking Garrett's career rushing record of 3,109 yards. "Our offense was like a juggernaut today," Elias said.

"If you can picture an army and see the dust coming far away in the mountains, we came and rolled and wiped them out." But the Tigers also featured a large cast of supporting characters. Quarterback Joel Foote completed 12 of 16 passes for 188 yards, including a 37-yard scoring pass to Colin Nance in the third quarter. Nance's TD was the first one by a Princeton player other than Elias this season. Fullback Peter Bailey showed he could do more than open holes for Elias, gaining 62 yards in 14 carries. In all, Princeton outgained the Crusaders, 506 yards to 175, including 318 to 27 on the ground.

"We'd been working" on mixing the run and the pass, Princeton coach Steve Tosches said. "We've got to continue the balance." Undefeated BU's quarterback, Robert Dougherty, threw for 323 yards and ran for 71. By Tim Panaccio INQUIRER STAFF WRITER BOSTON It was a tale of two quarterbacks who each threw four interceptions for teams going in opposite directions. Boston University junior Robert Dougherty threw for 323 yards and three touchdowns yesterday as the Terriers ripped Villanova, 30-15, dropping the Wildcats (1-3) to 0-3 in Yankee Conference play. His rival, Villanova freshman red-shirt Erik Pearson, overthrew his receivers all afternoon, proving there is no match for experience, especially in this, a season in which the young Wildcats are being mauled by teams they once sharpened their claws on.

The win was Boston University's 300th and its first against Villanova in six conference meetings. Dougherty, who came into the game second in the nation in Division I-AA in total offense, with an average of 336.3 yards per game, piled up 394 yesterday. He completed 22 of 39 passes. He also rushed for 71 yards and one touchdown on 17 carries as the Terriers (4-0, 3-0) continued to prove they're for real. Pri Elias 7 run (Hogg kick) Pri Elias 33 run (Hogg kick) Pri Elias 1 run (Hogg kick) Pri Elias 26 run (Hogg kick) Pri FG Hogg 27 Pri Nance 37 pass from Foote (Hogg kick) A 7,520 HC Pri First downs 10 25 Rushes-yards 32-76 68-332 Passing 148 188 Return Yards 7 22 Comp-Att-Int 12-28-0 12-18-0 Punts 8-41 2-33 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 7-80 6-47 Time of Poss.

25:41 34:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Holy Cross, Subotich 8-16, Wynn 3-10, Moody 1-10, Sanchez 2-9, Cravedi 2-8, Harrington 1 -minus 3, Callahan 1 -minus 6, Trivers 6-minus 7, Fitzpatrick 8-minus 10. Princeton, Elias 29-185, Bailey 14-62, Foote 6-36, Jordan 6-20, Brucato 2-9, Washington 2-6, Maliza 1-0. Passing: Holy Cross, Fitzpatrick 5-12-0-54, Harrington 4-5-0-47, Callahan 3-11-0-47. Princeton, Foote 12-16-0-188, Huckelbridge 0- 2- 0-0. Receiving: Holy Cross, Splaine 5-65, Summers 3- 39, Hebron 1-23, Farrier 1-16, Subotich 1-8, Cooney 1-minus 3.

Princeton, Nance 3-62, Goodwin 2-53, Scoggin 2-22, Brucato 2-20, Moore 1-20, Bailey 1-8, Elias 1-3..