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C16 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sunday, November 17, 1996 Reserve QB Small Colleges Ursinus wins game and title fn.t Pleads Penn over Harvard 0 The Philadelphia Inquirer JOHN COSTELLO Penn running back Jasen Scott shows he can block, too, upending Harvard's Troy Jones as Tom MacLeod throws a pass in the first quarter. Scott surpassed the rushing mark for the season. Owls squander 14-point lead, fall to BC for 9th straight loss Temple dominated most of the game. Two botched punt plays and a blocked extra point were crucial. Brian Russell replaced the Jasen Scott rushed for 149 By Joe Juliano INQUIRER STAFF WHITER Brian Russell wasn't even on Penn's depth chart in the preseason.

Yesterday, everyone associated with the Quakers, especially the seniors, was thankful he was around. Russell, a freshman quarterback from the Los Angeles area, came on for his first significant varsity playing time following an injury to starter Tom MacLeod and directed the Quakers to a 17-12 Ivy League victory over Harvard before a Parents Day crowd of 21,509 at Franklin Field. Russell, who played a portion of the first quarter and all of the last three quarters, completed 10 of 16 passes for 112 yards. He threw a 13-yard touchdown strike to Aman Abye on the first pass of his career. "It was really cool," he said.

Russell was aided in the third straight victory for the Quakers (54 overall, 3-3 Ivy) by two of their better-known contributors. Jasen Scott carried the ball 42 times for 149 yards and a touchdown, becoming the fourth player in Penn history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Defensive tackle Mitch Marrow spent enough time in Harvard's backfield to qualify for a white jersey, posting four sacks while leading a unit that held the Crimson (3-6, 1-5) to 180 total yards. MacLeod, a junior starting in his fourth straight game, was lifted from the game twice. In the first quarter, he went down hard on a sack, and Russell threw his TD pass two plays later.

Then, at the end of the first quarter, MacLeod suffered a sprained right (throwing) shoulder trying to make a tackle on an interception runback by Joe Weidle. That left the game squarely on the shoulders of Russell, who had been promoted to No. 2 when coach Al Bagnoli shook up his quarterbacks before the Brown game. "The coaches have been getting me ready," said Russell, who had played in junior-varsity games earlier in the season. "I had been taking some reps in practice.

So it's always been in the back of my mind that this might be the day. I didn't expect it to be this early. "At the beginning, I was definitely nervous. After the first couple of plays, I tried to get into a rhythm. I was just trying to be a leader of the offense, not some nervous freshman quarterback." The pressure might have been a little greater yesterday.

This was the final home game for the Penn seniors, who wanted to go out with a win and keep hope alive for a winning season after a 24 start. Russell stayed cool for the most part. He did throw a couple of interceptions and had the expected shaky moments. But he also scrambled twice for first downs. "We had wanted to play him, but By Stephen A.Smith INQUIRER STAFF WRITER CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.

Playing a Boston College team mired in a gambling scandal, Temple surren dered a 14-point second-half lead and 166 yards to tailback Omari Walker, giving the Eagles a 21-20 victory at Alumni Stadium yesterday. The win did nothing to quell speculation about Boston College coach Dan Henning being fired at the end of the season. But it might have given rise to speculation that Ron Dickerson's days at Temple are numbered. Dickerson, with just one game remaining on the season and just one year left on his contract, was denied a contract extension last April and has been coaching for one ever since. Unfortunately, his team hasn't been playing for one, losing nine straight.

"1 don't think I've ever been around a team that finds ways to lose the way this one does," a despondent Dickerson said after the game. "I feel like a boxer that wins every round, then gets knocked out in the 12th." That's practically what happened yesterday. For nearly three quarters, Temple dominated. The defense, accustomed to giving up 35 points each Saturday, was rock-solid for most of the afternoon. For the first time this season, the Owls didn't allow a point in the first quarter.

Boston College (5-6, 24 in the Big East) had nothing at the half, and Temple was in complete control. The Owls (1-9, 0-6) yielded just six first downs, 97 total yards and 20 yards passing by intermission. And the offense was doing its thing. With 11 seconds left in the first quarter, after quarterback Henry Burris connected with Shawn Over- ASSOCIATED PRESS Peter Hinckle tied a Centennial i Conference record with three interceptions, two of which set up second-half touchdowns, as Ursinus beat Dickinson yesterday, 14-0, in 1 Collegeville, Pa. The triumph gave the Bears (9-1) the conference championship.

Dickinson had not been shut out in 95 regular-season games since a 48-0 loss to Emory and Henry in 1987. The Ursinus defense held Dickinson (5-5) to 137 total yards. Hinckle's second interception, his 10th of the season a school record gave the Bears the ball at the Dickinson 11-yard line. Four plays later, Brandon Shepherdson scored from 2 yards out. Hinckle's final interception led to Chris Orlando's 23-yard touchdown pass to Ron Floyd.

The score sealed the victory with 1 minute, 44 seconds to play. Rowan 35, Montclair State 0 Tailback Jyi Peterson rushed for 61 yards and scored twice, while quarterback Greg Lister completed 15 of 25 passes for 217 yards and a touchdown as Rowan won its fourth straight game by thumping Montclair in Upper Montclair, N.J. The Profs, ranked third in the NCAA's East Region in Division III, assured themselves of a playoff invitation. Franklin and Marshall 35, Gettysburg 6 Andy Surtz became the first Franklin and Marshall running back to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, racking up 172 for the Diplomats (9-1 overall, 6-1 league) in a victory over Gettysburg (3-7, 34) in a Centennial Conference game in Gettysburg, Pa. Surtz had two touchdowns, including a 47-yard scamper on the opening drive that helped set the tone for the day.

Ten minutes later, he capped a six-play, 18-yard drive with a plunge from the 2. Lycoming 21, Wilkes 13 Keith Cadden threw for 257 yards and a touchdown and Jamie Allen ran for 154 yards and a score as Lycoming (9-0, 8-0) won the Middle Atlantic Conference title by beating Wilkes (8-2, 7-2) in Williamsport, Pa. Bloomsburg 58, East Stroudsburg 42 Tailback Irvin Sigler scored three touchdowns in the final 16 minutes to give Bloomsburg (10-1, 6-0) the victory over East Stroudsburg (6-2, 4-2) in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference game in Bloomsburg. Ten conference records were broken in the game, and East Stroudsburg quarterback Damian Poalucci broke the Division II record for passing yards in a season with 3,831. He passed C.W.

Post's Perry Klein, who had 3,757 in 1993. The two teams combined for 1,243 yards of total offense. Miltersville 32, Cheyney 7 Da- vonne Mobley ran for two touchdowns and Brady Myers rushed for 134 yards as Millersville (64, 4-2) trounced Cheyney (0-11, 0-6) in a PSAC game in Millersville, Pa. Elsewhere: Steve Witte rushed for 173 yards and three touchdowns as Clarion outscored Mansfield, 69-26, in Mansfield, Pa. Jeff Noonan kicked a 20-yard field goal with under four minutes left to secure Wid-ener's 31-26 victory over Susquehanna in Chester.

Bryan Snyder tossed four touchdown passes as Albright held off a fourth-quarter charge and won its ninth straight game, defeating Catholic, 4740, in Reading. Terry Throm passed for 400 yards and four touchdowns to lead Indiana (Pa.) to a 62-55 triumph over Ship-pensburg in Shippensburg, Pa. Brooks Fischer threw for 292 yards and two touchdowns to lead Washington and Lee past Swarthmore, 31-21, in Swarthmore, Pa. Slippery Rock exploded for three first-quarter touchdowns and piled up three more in the third quarter to defeat California 55-28, in California, Pa. The Rockets' Damon Macklin rushed for 101 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries Brad Lower rushed for 122 yards and Moravian held Muhlenberg to minus-2 yards rushing as the Greyhounds beat the Mules, 27-3, in Bethlehem, Pa.

Joe Savino passed for 176 yards and three touchdowns to lead Albany to a 49-21 non-conference victory over King's in Wilkes-Barre Edin- boro's Tony Brinson ran for 195 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Scots to a 45-17 victory over Lock Haven in Lock Haven, Pa. Ryan Brandes kicked a 44-yard field goal on the first possession of overtime to lift West Chester to a 17-14 victory over Kutztown in Kutztown, Pa Lebanon Valley tailback Randy Kos-telac scored three touchdowns as the Dutchmen defeated Delaware Valley, 48-33, in Annville, Pa. Fair-leigh Dickinson-Madison opened the scoring, but that was it as the Devils lost to Juniata, 28-7, in Madison, N.J. CA i -v yj vented another way to lose. "I played my worst game of the season," said Burris, who received intraveneous fluids Friday night after suffering from a 102-degree temperature.

He completed 16 of 34 attempts for 252 yards and a touchdown, with two interceptions. "I didn't do my job." Added defensive back Tom Indio: "We win as a team; we lose as a team. We're not pointing fingers at anybody. If we did that, who knows? The same thing that happens to someone today could happen to any one of us next Saturday." BC's victory snapped a three-game losing streak that started against Syracuse on Oct. 26 the game in which two BC players bet against their' team.

The investigation led to the suspension of 13 players and left the Eagles shorthanded for the rest of the season. Temple 7 0 7 620 Boston College 0 0 7 1421 First quarter Tern Lee 1 run (Michalski kick), 14:49 Third quarter Tern Lee 3 run (Michalski kick), 4:32 BC Walker 5 run (Hackell kick), 9:00 Fourth quarter BC Walker 2 run (Hackell kick), :39 Tern Kersey 27 pass from Burris (kick failed), 353 BC Walker 13 run (Hackelt kick), 8:58 A 42,463. Tern BC First downs 19 21 Rushes-yards 38-77 45-220 Passing 252 102 Punt Returns 3-23 3-3 Kickoff Returns 4-58 4-94 Interceptions Ret. 1-19 2-3 Comp-Att-Int 16-36-2 15-35-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-16 2-17 Punts 6-35 7-43 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-2 Penalties-Yards 6-45 6-41 Time of Possession 26:41 33:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Temple, Lee 13-54, Culbreath 7-31, Burris 10-13, McBride 4-14, Bonner 1-(minus 5), Van Johnson 1-(minus 10), Boies 2-(minus 20). Boston College, Walker 33-166, Gauzzo 1-30, Cloud 3-25, Mutryn 3-11, Hasselbeck 5-(minus 12).

Passing: Temple, Burris 16-34-2-252, Bonner 0-2-0-0. Boston College, Hasselbeck 6-16-0-21, Mutryn 9-19-1-81. Receiving: Temple, V.Johnson 8-126, Kersey 4-68, Gilliard 2-20, Overocker 1-25, McBride 1-13. Boston College, Harding 4-42, DiCosmo 2-30, Guazzo 2-14, Pollack 2-8, Chamberlain 2-4, Walker 2-2, Washington 1-2. Randy Kinder said.

"Whatever else happens is going to happen." The stream of replacement possibilities has already started. The obvious top choice is Northwestern coach Gary Barnett if the Irish can put the right kind of deal together. Asked about that possibility on Friday by the Chicago Tribune, Barnett sidestepped it, saying, "It's all rumors." Wadsworth yesterday said he has never met Barnett. The in-house candidate will be Irish defensive coordinator Bob Davie, who took over for a game last season when Holtz had his surgery. LSU coach Gerry DiNardo, a Notre Dame alum, and Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez, a former Irish assistant, make the list of usual suspects.

It would be important for Notre Dame to name a new coach quickly for recruiting purposes, but Irish nothing is a given after a change. The name Gerry Faust comes to a lot of minds. "Exactly," Zurovchak said as he stood in front of the Golden Dome, where a crowd had gathered at noon to hear the Notre Dame marching band strike up the Victory March. "I think everybody's apprehensive about what's going to happen." Not everybody. "Nobody can love this university any more than I do, and nobody can' love the players anymore than I do," Holtz said.

injured Tom MacLeod. yards in the 17-12 win. we didn't think the opportunity was quite right," Bagnoli said. "But all of a sudden, the opportunity presented itself. He came in and really showed a lot of poise.

He made some freshman mistakes, but overall he showed a tremendous amount of poise and leadership. He made some plays and did a pretty good job of running the offense." It also helped that Russell had Scott with him. Penn's 190-pound senior was a workhorse, particularly in the second half when the Quakers were nursing a 7-6 lead. Scott, Penn's 190-pound senior, carried five times for 28 yards, including the final 12 inches for a touchdown, on Penn's first possession of the second half, giving the Quakers a 14-6 lead. On that drive, he joined Bryan Keys, Terrance Stokes and Rich Comizio as the only Quakers to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.

He now has 1,068. "I don't have the best sense df Penn history," said Scott, who set a school record with 45 carries a week ago. "I'm glad I got 1,000. But I have no idea where my place in Penn history is. We have one more left and when the season is over, I'll reflect on it, be happy I had that many yards, and have a couple with the guys." Jeremiah Greathouse kicked a 24-yard field goal midway through the fourth quarter to make it 17-6, but Harvard then hit a razzle-dazzle play, a 69-yard double-reverse pass from wide receiver Jared Chupaila to Colby Skelton, to set up Eion Hu's 1-yard run that cut the lead to five with 6 minutes, 37 seconds to play.

But the Quakers defense had things well in hand. Marrow notched his fourth sack to end one possession, and James Finn's interception snuffed out the Crimson's last hope. Harvard Penn 0 6 0 6 12 7 0 7 3 17 First quarter Penn Abye 13 pass from Russell (Greathouse kick), 09:31. Second quarter Harv Skelton 19 rush (kick failed), 00:49. Third quarter Penn Scott 1 run (Greathouse kick), 04:36.

Fourth quarter Harv FG 24 Greathouse, 08:00. Harv Hu 1 rush (pass reception failed), 08:23. A 21,509. Harvard Penn First downs 07 19 Rushes-yards 36-62 52-158 Passing 118 175 Punt Returns 2-17 2-0 Kickoff Returns 3-46 3-37 Interceptions Ret. 3-53 1-47 Comp-Att-Int 6-18-1 17-28-3 Punts 6-30 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 2-31 Time of Possession 22:49 37:11 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Harvard, Hu 13-41, Skelton 1-19, Men-ick 12-17, Linden 10 minus-15.

Penn, Scott 42-149. McGee 2-27, Russell 7 minus-8, MacLeod. 1 minus-10. Passing: Harvard, Linden 5-17-1-49, Chupaila 1-1-0-69. Penn, Russell 10-16-2-112, MacLeod 7-12-1-63.

Receiving: Harvard, Skelton 2-72, Chupaila 2-40, Drakos. 1-7, Menick 1 minus-1. Penn, Dafferner 7-71, James 3-45, Bonanno 3-34, Scott 2 minu9-3, Ricchio 1-15, Abye 1-13. Yale (2-7) cut the gap early in the second half when Bryan Whalen recovered a fumble at the Princeton 18 and Jabbar Craigwell scored on a 6-yard run. The extra point was ft missed and the Tigers led, 7-6.

Princeton added to the lead on a 43-yard field goal by Sierk. Yale came back with a 56-yard drive early in the fourth quarter, aided by a roughing-the-kicker penalty that turned a fourth and' 14 into a first down. One play later, Blake Kendall passed 45 yards to Clint Rodriguez, and John Lafferty's extra point made it 13-10. Princeton 0 7 3 717 0 0 6 713 Yale Second quarter Clifford 2 run (Sierk kick), 14:10. Third quarter Craigwell 6 run (kick failed), 3:33.

FG Sierk 43 FG, 8:22. Fourth quarter Rodrintiez 45 paw from KpnHnll nHrr kick), 2:41. Clifford 1 run (Sierk kick), 10:52. Attendance 29,469. Prin.

14 40-98 147 13-27-2 7 1-1 4-36 Yale 11 40-138 119 10-24-3 11 2-1 7-65 First downs Rushes-yards Passing Comp-Att-Int Return Yards Punts-Avg. Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession 30:53 29:07 Rushing: Princeton, Giurato 25-64. Clifford 6-16. Erb 2-3, Budzinski 7-(-8). Yale, Craigwell 25-107, Masella 2-3, D.

Freccaro 1-1, Barber 9-(-10), Kendall 3-(-25). Passing: Princeton, Budzinski 13-27-147-2. Yale, Kendall 8-17-95-2, Barber 2-7-24-1. Receiving: Princeton, House 5-55, Duffy, 3-56, Clifford 3-20, Giurato 1-11, Kamura 1-5. Yale, Rodriguez 4-60, Ackley 3-44, Craigwell 2-7, Marschner 1-8.

4 ocker on a 25-yard pass play, Ramod Lee powered up the middle from 1 yard out to make it 7-0. It stayed that way until halftime. On Temple's first drive of the third quarter, the Owls marched 62 yards in six plays, getting a key 20-yard run from Eugene Culbreath. Lee ran it in from 3 yards out with 10 minutes, 28 seconds left for a 14-0 cushion. Boston College looked pained, and Temple's defense wasn't offering relief.

Temple's special teams were another story. Punter Josh Boies was sacked twice without getting off a kick and barely evaded a BC rusher another time to squib it away. With a little more than six minutes left in the third quarter, Boies took a high snap and was tackled by Shalom Tolefree at the Owls' 35-yard line. After a double reverse by Mike Guazzo that gained 30 yards, Walker ran in for a 5-yard TD to make it 14-7. Two drives later, Walker zipped through a gap in Temple's defensive line, running 55 yards down to the Owls 4-yard line, ending the third quarter.

Two plays later. Walker's 2-yard TD run tied it at 14-14. Temple's offense wasn't finished. Burris drove the Owls 81 yards, connecting with Troy Kersey on a 27-yard TD with 11:07 left. That's when the special teams allowed Daryl Porter through the line, blocking the extra point.

It would be crucial. Walker scored again, this time on a 13-yard touchdown run with 6:02 left. Chris Hackett's extra point was all BC needed. In two possessions in the final six minutes, the Owls couldn't get one first down. Even on a day when receiver Van Johnson (eight catches, 126 yards) set a school record with his seventh career 100-yard game, the Owls in Dame graduates.

"I think he's a coach who cares about his athletes," said Dick Lar-kin of Downers Grove, 111., who wore his kilt to the game. "I think it's the most difficult job in football. I don't think there's a human being who could handle it for more than 10 years." The love for Holtz is far from universal, though, even around here. Some of the football alumni are said to be tired of him. There is a contingent that would like to see Holtz gone before he breaks Knute Rock-ne's school record of 105 career wins.

Holtz indicated yesterday that things would happen pretty quickly. "I've been through this for eight years," he said, alluding to persistent rumors that he would leave the school. "This year, the vultures were out." To win vpstPTYlav nil thp Irish (7. 2) had to do was field a few kicks. The school's previous season record for punt returns for touchdowns had been three.

The Irish got that many in the second quarter alone. Allen Rossum and Autry Denson took turns returning Pitt's punts. So Rossum had 39-yard and 83-yard returns for scores, and Denson added a 74-yarder all part of a Notre Dame-record 40 points in the second quarter. The game seemed a sideshow to the speculation, however. "All the coach has said to us is stay the course," Irish running back No announcement from Holtz Princeton spoils Cozza's final game at Yale Bowl NOTRE DAME from C1 Dame," Holtz, 59, said after the Irish broadsided Pittsburgh, 60-6.

"I don't think Notre Dame is going to go bankrupt." The speculation is that Holtz, who has coached the Irish for 11 seasons, will have an announcement on Tuesday. Holtz, who has a 99-29-2 record and one national championship at Notre Dame, has coached more games than any other Irish coach. Athletic director Mike Wadsworth said he had begun to gather a list of potential coaches last season when Holtz underwent surgery to relieve pressure on his spinal cord. "You're always aware of people in the profession We do not have a person specifically in mind." He quickly added, "If Lou is going to leave." Many Irish fans gathered here yesterday were alreadv wrnnninu tne Hoitz era in a misty gauze, remembering the 1988 national championship and the other big games like that 31-24 upset of Florida State in 1993. They were talking about Holtz not just as coach but as a teacher of young men.

They said the Friday night pep rally was unusually subdued. One fan thought he detected a tear in Holtz' eye. "He certainly will be remembered for turning the program around, for establishing a winning program that is consistently there on bowl day," said Paul Zurovchak of Mead-ville, the father of three Notre ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW HAVEN, Conn Almost everything was in place for Carm Cozza's last game at Yale Bowl yesterday everything except a victory. The usually irreverent Yale Precision Marching Band formed a pulsating heart at halftime and serenaded Cozza with "Auld Lang Syne" and "He's a Jolly Good Fellow." But Princeton (3-6) made the mood somber by besting the Elis, 17-13, with a fourth-quarter touchdown to come from behind. "Obviously, it's been a very hectic week, very emotional," said Cozza, who is retiring after 32 years at Yale.

"When I saw all my Iformer captains there, I felt pretty good. But I'm embarrassed because of the performance. We obviously didn't play well. We played hard at times, but we didn't play well. It's just sad." Princeton lullback Mike Clillord got his second touchdown of the day, on a 1-yard run with 4 minutes, 8 seconds left, for the win.

It was the first time in his college career that Clifford had scored twice in a game. "We realized it was going to be a big game," Clifford said. "The coaches told us to match (Yale's) emotion at the beginning of the game and then go on from there." The first half was scoreless until the final 50 seconds, when Clifford capped a 65-yard Princeton drive with his first touchdown on a 2-yard run. Alex Sierk added the extra point for a 7-0 lead..