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C4 www.philly.com THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Sunday, November 4, 2001 Miami outclasses Temple, 38-0, for 17th in row good, the ball bounces your way. When you're struggling, it bounces away." Kevin Tatum's e-mail address is Matumphillynews.com. Miami 38, Temple 0 15-yard score on a second-down play with 8 minutes, 27 seconds remaining in the first quarter. Miami didn't score again until the 3:51 mark in the opening half, when the team's nine-play, 72-yard drive was aided by another Hurricanes' recovery of their own fumble. On the play, Beard got to a loose ball first, at the Temple 30, after teammate Jeremy Shockey lost control at about the Owls' 43.

It took Miami two plays a 23-yard pass from Dorsey to Beard and a 7-yard run by Portis to reach the end zone again for a 14-0 lead. Dorsey's pass to Beard on a third-and-16 play carried to the Temple 7-yard line. "That's the breaks," said Wallace, whose team's deficit at intermission could have been bigger had Owls defensive end Ra-heem Brock not corralled Portis on a fourth-and-1 play from Temple's 9-yard line with 3:43 remaining in the first quarter. "If we recover those fumbles, there's a possibility of us stopping two touchdowns. But, that's football, and when you're "We played well in the third quarter and in the second half, but Td be more concerned if we had gotten off to a good start with a big lead and couldn't finish," said Larry Coker, who is in his first season as the Hurricanes' head coach.

"Give Temple credit. They played hard and gave it their best effort. They represented themselves." When Miami let the final seven seconds of the first half tick off the clock and began heading off the field with a two-touchdown lead, the Hurricanes were accompanied by a smattering of boos. It was the second time during the second period that they received such an admonishment. Earlier, some of Miami's fans had made their feelings known when the Temple defense forced the Hurricanes to punt from the Owls 38-yard line with the score, 7-0, and the hosts needing 11 yards for a first down.

The first Miami touchdown came after a 17-yard punt return by Buchanon turned into a 47-yard gain for the Hurricanes because of a fumble. Buchanon had the ball knocked loose at about the Miami 48, and it bounced and just kept bouncing until it reached the Temple 22, where the Hurricanes' Al Marshall recovered. Dorsey, who was sacked for the first time this season, by Temple's Yazid Jackson, broke the school record for touchdowns in a career when he hit wide receiver Kevin Beard for a By Kevin Tatum INQUIRER STAFF WRITER MIAMI Against Temple yesterday, Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey became the school's all-time leader in touchdown passes, and tailback Clinton Portis became the fifth Hurricane to rush for more than 2,000 career yards. The Owls' offense? Once again, it thwarted an honest effort by the Temple defenders. In a Big East contest that was played before 31,128 fans at the Orange Bowl top-ranked Miami broke the game open with three third-period scores, and Temple suffered a 38-0 defeat that was the Owls' third straight loss.

With the win, Miami increased its nation's-best winning streak to 17 games. The Hurricanes are now 7-0 on the season and 4-0 in the conference. Temple, which fell to 2-6 and 1-4, wound up with only 34 yards passing and 118 yards rushing. "I thought we played really hard, but obviously, we played a great football team with great players, and that made it tough on us," Temple coach Bobby Wallace said. "We were overmatched, but we fought.

We couldn't protect our quarterback, and I felt like we'd have a hard time holding Miami out and throwing at their corners. We were just outpersonnelled." Dorsey, a junior who threw his 49th and 50th touchdown passes to break a tie with former Hurricanes Steve Walsh and Vinny Testaverde, left the game after AL DIAZ Miami Herald Miami's James Scott (29) stops Temple's Makonnen Fenton on a punt return in the third quarter, when the 'Canes scored three TDs. 'I I 1l aviuauiisir LQ)WE College Football Odds Las Vegas Une By Keith Glantz and Russell Culver Favorite Open Today TUESDAY Underdog TOLEDO OFF OFF YY. Michigan Home team in CAPITALS. Saturday, November 10 Noon 3:30 p.m.

Franklin Mills Mall XUs (Center i.7. TPTPftt ymw sv I 0 0 0 -0 7 7 21 1 3 First after Mia-Beard 15 pass from Dorsey (Sievers kick), 8:27. Second ensfter Mia-Portis 7 run (Sievers kick), 3:51 Third quarter Mia-Johnson 11 pass from Dorsey (Sievers kick), 11:00. Mia-Gore 13 run (Sievers kick), 6:06. Mia-Buchanon 52 punt return (Sievers kick), 0:14 Fourth quarter Mia-FG Sievers 37, 6:05.

31,128. Ten Mia First downs 11 22 Rushes-yards 45-118 38-212 Passing 34 175 Comp-Att-Int 8-14-1 16-26-0 Return Yards 0 161 Punts-Avg. Fumbles-Lost 3-2 4-1 Penalties-Yards 9-81 7-65 Time ot Possession 30:16 29:44 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Temple, Fenton 6-61, Sharps 14-42, Trammer 18-40, McGann 6-(minus 10), team 1-(minus 15). Miami, Portis 20-117, Gore 11-86, Davenport 2-5, Cobia 1 -2, Team 1 -(minus 2), Crudup 1-(minus 3), Dorsey 2-(minus 7), Joseph 0-14. Passing; Temple, McGann 6-14-1 -34.

Miami, Dorsey 16-24-0-175, Crudup 0-2-H. Receiving: Temple. McKie 2-2, Lewis 1-12, Dillard 1-10, Carpenter 1-10, Fenton 1-0. Miami, Shockey 6-93. Beard 4-47, Johnson 2-8, Gore 1-14, Geathers 1-10, Sands 1-5, Davenport1-(minus2).

Court) Cecil Martin, 38 854 4312 0 4 CECILS READING A A 0 effort by the Owls' defense. Before Miami scored 21 third-quarter points thanks to an 11-yard pass from Dorsey to wide receiver Andre Johnson, a 13-yard run by Gore, and a 52-yard punt return by Phil Buchanon the Owls were hanging around. different today." The Quakers' offense also had to make some plays, probably none more important than one on a fourth-and-inches call at the start of the fourth period with the ball just inside the Penn 23. Quarterback Gavin Hoffman stretched his 6-6 frame past the sticks on a sneak. "I felt we really needed a boost," Bagnoli said.

"For whatever reason, we were very lethargic. Obviously, that's not the typical percentage play, where you're going to go for it on fourth and a half-yard and the ball's on your own 23 and you're losing. But I felt we had to take some chances. "If it works, you look semi-intelligent. If doesn't work, you look like an idiot." Hoffman converted another fourth down on a 7-yard pass to Rob Milanese to the Princeton 31, and Ryan took it from there, running on four of the drive's final five plays.

Four plays later, the Quakers had the ball back following a Tigers turnover. Penn converted three consecutive third-down plays, including a 14-yard run by Ryan on third and 13 and a 14-yard scramble by Hoffman on third and 8. Keslosky finished the drive off. "A lot of older guys tried to make it a point not to look past Princeton," Ryan said. "It's our rivalry, and you never expect that your rival is going to come in and lay down.

To Princeton's credit, they had a lot of emotion, moved the ball well, and played well on defense. The coaches did a good job at halftime. We said all we have to do is play." "You can't print a lot of what was said," Bagnoli said of the halftime talk. "But we challenged them and they responded." Joe Juliano's e-mail address is jjulianofjfiillynews.com. J.i I APRIL SAUL Inquirer Staff Photographer Penn running back Kris Ryan tries to escape a tackier from Princeton.

Ryan piled up 1 66 yards. Perm's defensive stand propels it past Princeton The Quakers rallied for 2 late touchdowns to stay unbeaten. three quarters with 16 completions in 24 attempts for 175 yards. Portis, a 5-foot-ll, 210-pound junior, rushed for 118 yards on 20 carries and scored a first-quarter touchdown. His backfield mate, Frank Gore, finished with 90 yards on 11 carries and one score.

But those statistics belied the 1 fftr' Villi 1 Penn 21, Princeton 10 Princeton 3 7 0 0 10 7 0 0 14 21 First quarter Prln-FG Northrop 37, 8:17. Penn-Smith 3 pass from Hoffman (Galas kick), 2:11. Second quarter Prin-Splithofl 3 run (Northrop kick), 13:59. Fourth quarter Penn-Ryan 1 run (Galas kick), 1 1 :20. Penn-Keslosky 2 run (Galas kick), 5:1 1 18,610.

Princeton Penn First downs 24 23 Rushes-yards 42-141 47-192 Passing 217 167 Comp-Att-Int 19-340 16-30-0 Return Yards 7 23 Punts-Avg. Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 7-65 6-49 Time of Possession 28:27 31:33 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RuihlnF Princeton. Veach 14-66, Splithoff 20-55, Benson 6-25, Bowden 1-1, Bryant 1 -(minus 6). Penn, Ryan 36-166, Keslosky 4-14, Hoffman 5-10, Phillips Passing: Princeton, Splithoff 19-34-0 217. Penn, Hoffman 16-30-0 167.

Receiving! Princeton, Morrison 6-59, Llndell 5-57, Opara 4-72, Bowden 2-8, Schottel 1-13, Veach 1-8. Penn, Smith 8-60, Milanese 5-58, Holahan 2-27, Phillips 1-12, Keslosky 1-8, Ryan 1-2. Missed FleM Goeh): Princeton, Northrop 51 210-pound sophomore, passed for 217 yards, rushed for 55, and scored the Tigers' only touchdown in the second quarter to give Princeton a 10-7 halftime lead that extended into the fourth quarter. "I fully expected it not to be easy," Penn coach Al Bagnoli said. "And I told the kids that all week.

The Princeton kids played their tails off, and I give them a lot of credit." But when the Penn defense had to make a play, it did. Actually, it made two: the pass breakup by Bouldrick in the end zone, and a hit by defensive end Brian Person on Splithoff to force a fumble that Vince Alexander recovered at the Princeton 42, setting up the final TD. "Coming out at halftime, we met as a defense and said, They're not going to get another defensive tackle John Galan said. "They got fourth and inches, and we sucked it up. D.L made a great play.

It was a great goal-line stand. WeVe been making plays all year, and it was no 3 Week 5: Are You a Vocabulary Veteran? Did you know the size of a person's vocabulary is the best indicator of school success, and later job success? Between the ages of four and nine, your child will need to understand 3,000 words. By the time she graduates from high school, she should be able to understand between words. However, there are only 15,000 words in the average adult's spoken vocabulary, so simply talking isn't enough I One of the best ways to improve vocabulary is to read books. There is a greater variety of vocabulary in a book written at the third grade reading level than in the everyday speech of college-educated adults) Children learn new words, along with their use and meaning, from hearing them in the context of a story.

In addition to books, reading newspapers and magazines will help your child learn new vocabulary words that are relevant to news events and topics of interest. uocaouiary Challenge 1 i child build vocabulary, try to: By Joe Juliano INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Princeton appeared well on its way yesterday to fulfilling its mission to spoil the dozens of postgame homecoming parties on the Penn campus, not to mention the Quakers' dream of an undefeated season and another Ivy League championship. The Tigers had marched 80 yards against the usually staunch Penn defense and stood 2 yards away from taking a 10-point lead over the heavily favored Quakers late in the third quarter. But on fourth and 1, quarterback David Splithoff pass in the end zone to tight end Mike Chiusano was broken up by D.L Bouldrick. Having blunted the Tigers' momentum, the Quakers marched 98 yards for the go-ahead touchdown aided by a gutsy fourth-down gamble in their own territory and went on to a hard-fought 21-10 victory over Princeton before a Franklin Field crowd of 18,810.

Kris Ryan, who rushed for 166 yards on 36 carries to top the mark for the second time in three years, gave Penn the lead for good with a 1-yard TD run in the fourth quarter. Full-. back Adam Keslosky added a 2-yard score with just over five minutes to play. The victory by the 18th-ranked Quakers (7-0 overall, 4-0 Ivy) set up a showdown next week at Harvard, a duel of undefeated teams. But it almost didn't come to pass.

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