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Sunday October 3, 1971 Ifoptte SPORTS Section J) Giants Nip Bucs on. Homers by McCovey, Fuentes By ALLEN LEWIS Of The Inquirer Staff SAN FRANCISCO. The most powerful Giant of them all hit one of the mightiest home runs of his career and San Francisco won the first game of the National League's championship series from the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-4, Saturday at Candlestick Park. Willie McCovey, the towering first baseman who is playing with two bad knees and an injured left hand, crashed a pitch against the upperdeck construction near the right field foul line with a teammate on base in the fifth inning to give the Western Division champions a 5-2 lead. That was just enough for pitcher Gaylord Perry, who went The Baltimore was rained out.

Oakland game Story on Page 5 the right field fence with the aid of a strong wind, and it brought the Giants from behind. Equally as important as the homers, of course, was the great clutch pitching of the balding, 33-year-old Perry, who twice had to retire the NL's new home run king, Willie Stargell, with the game on the line. Perry got Stargell to foul out with one out and the bases loaded in the seventh just before Al Oliver singled home the game's last two runs, then had to retire the massive Pirate slugger with the tying run on base to end the game. This time, Stargell bounced an easy hopper to first base. The series is scheduled to continue here on Sunday, when the Pirates' 19-game winner, Dock Ellis, will face Giant southpaw John Cumberland (9-6).

After a day off for travel on Monday, the series will conclude in Pittsburgh. "That's about as good as Lean hit a ball, although this was more of a line drive," said McCovey, whose tape-measure shots are usually high-in-the-air Ruthian shots. McCovey, who wasn't sure what pitch he hit Blass said it was a fast ball for his game-winner, said hitting a homer didn't surprise him. "I was pretty confident I was going to-hit one off him," said Willie, who still sports a large bandage on his left hand where 16 stitches were needed to close a split suffered from a ground ball during a game on Sept. 5.

"He walked (Willie) Mays on four pitches twice. I feel I demand more respect than that," McCovey said with a smile. "He got away with it the first time, and that made me more determined." McCovey struck out to end the third inning after a single Continued on Page 5, Column 1 the route to win to the delight of the 40,977 who sat in on the opener of this best-of-five-game playoff to decide the NL pennant-winner and World Series entry against the American League champion. Despite McCovey's mammoth blow, which hit at a point 75 feet from the ground, the Giants wouldn't have won without another two-run homer, also hit in the fifth inning, off loser Steve Blass, who had struck out nine Giants in the first four innings for an NL playoff record. If the gangling McCovey was the most likely Giant to hit a home run, then the author of the first homer, -Tito Fuentes, was the most unlikely.

But the slight Cuban with the unorthodox batting stance, the switch-hitting second baseman who hit only four homers during the regular season, hit one which just managed to clear 1 rVrj -tiiAk UPI Telephoto Jubilant Giants Leave Field After Win Dick Dietz Tito Fuentes escort hurler Gaylord Perry after Bucs LIONS STEAL 6 PASSES rain St. Edges Air Force On Field Goal by Vitiello cheerleader named Carolyn Christmas Saturday night. Asked why sophomore quarterback Rich Haynie had so many- interceptions, the good-natured Martin quipped that Penh State's linebackers and defensive backs "were the only guys open-." Going into Saturday's game at Beaver Stadium, Perm State was the nation's leading team in scoring and ranked second in rushing offense and Jh3i i Ot5 W' Villanova Falls to By CHUCK NEWMAN Of The Inquirer Staff NEWARK, Del. Villanova, which has lived by the pass for two seasons, died by that weapon Saturday as Delaware's fired-up. Blue Hens ended five years of frustration by upsetting the Wildcats, 23-15.

"We. just ran out of miracles," a saddened Lou Ferry said, alluding to 1969 and 1970, when Villanova went into the final periods here trailing by, 26 and 10 points respectively, and came away with victories. Tubby Raymond, Delaware's classy coach, was overcome by his team's effort, emerging from the winning locker room red-eyed. "They gave me the game ball and it took me 20 minutes to say anything," Raymond said before being greeted by Delaware Gov. Russell Peterson.

No phone call came from the White House but Raymond and 260-pound defensive tackle Dennis Johnson could have cared less. "It's like being born again," Johnson, a junior who cried after the 1970 defeat, said in jubilation. Villanova's game plan, according to Ferry, was to throw the ball a lot. Daryle Continued on Page 8, Column 5 Delawm Penn Interception Saves 17-16 Victory Over Brown By JOHN DELL Of The Inquirer Staff Saturday was the day that Penn and Brown proved poor people can have as much fun as the rich. In talent, neither team may be among the Ivy League's more heavily endowed, but each enjoyed a lavish time and provided a Franklin Field crowd of 15,105 with $1 million worth of quickened heartbeats before Penn put away a 17-16 victory with, a controversial, interception on the next-to-last play.

Brown flanker Dan Swartz was running a deep pattern when he sideswiped Penn defender Tom" Welsh. Swartz triped and Steve Solow picked off the pass on Penn's eight with nine seconds left. A few seconds later) Len Picture on Page 2 Jardine, the Brown coach, rushed out to the middle of the field to give Penn coach Harry Gamble a quick handshake, then dashed after the officials. Afterwards Jardine said sportsmanlike things to the press. "There definitely was con By SANDY PAD WE Of The Inquirer Staff UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.

Friday afternoon after practice, Pe'nn State's offensive unit captain, tackle Dave Joyner, asked a writer if Perm State really had been favored to beat Air Force by 17 points. "I don't see it," Joyner replied when told that the Picture on Page 8 spread was 17. "I think it's going to be close. They throw an awful lot of. defenses at you.

We're going to be busy." Joyner's prediction was perfect. Penn State needed a 22-yard field goal from Alberto Vitiello with 4:07 left to defeat the young and aggressive Falcons, 16-14. State now is 3-0 and Air Force is 2-1. Earlier, Vitiello had missed an extra point after Penn State's second touchdown. Though Vitiello's field goal provided the points for the win, the Penn State secondary also contributed heavily with six interceptions, most in clutch situations.

"Penn State's defense," said Air Force Coach Ben Martin, "is a little underrated because they have (Franco). Harris, (Lydell) Mitchell and (John) Hufnagel on offense. But, it's a flexible, tough defense." Vitiello's field goal was the perfect "present" for Joyner who married a Penn State Sports on TV COLLEGE FOOTBALL 11:30 A.M. Notre Dame Highlights, Ch. 3 Noon Penn vs.

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Pittsburgh vs. San Francisco, Ch. 3 Inquirer photo by JAMES L. AAcGARRITV John Bush May Have Hid, From Camera, But Not From Refs Delaware defender (partly obscured) interferes with Mike Siani (88) fell, 5-4 total offense -(548 yards per game). Air Force "held" the Lions to 176 yards on the ground Saturday and 93 passing.

Continued on Page 8, Column 1 tact, but being 50 yards away, I can't sa yif it was interference," Jardine said. Swartz was not permitted to give his version of the play. An'interviwer was tapped on( the shoulder and told, "The coach does not want the players to be interviewed." Swartz already had said, "There might have been interference," but now he clammed up. "I didn't know 'where he (Swartz) was," the Penn defensive back said. "He Continued on Page 2, Column 1 College LOCAL-FOOTBALL Penn 17 Brown 16 Delaware 23 Villanova IS Temple 34 Boston U.

10 Penn State 16 Air Force 14 Glassboro State 12 Trenton State 7 Cheyney 14 DC Teachers 0 West Chester State 9 East Stroudsburg 7 PENN A. Bucknell 14 Gettysburg 13 Shippensburg 14 Kutztown 12 (Westminster 18 Lycoming 0 Edinboro State 49 Slippery Rock 21 Delaware Valley 19 Albright IS Shepherd College 14 Millers ville St. 0 MAC Upsala 29 Wagner 14 Muhlenberg 28 Haverford 0 Johns Hopkins 0 Lebanon Valley 21 Ursinus 12 Susquehanna 10 (tie) Juniata 10 IVY Dartmouth 28 Holy Cross 9 Harvard 17 Northeastern 7 Continued on Page 9, Column 1 INSIDE WHIPPED BADLY in their first two starts, the Eagles try for their firsr victory against San Francisco at The Vet today-Page 4 EAGLES FACE loss of $125,000 if wage price freeze forces refund to ticket-buyers Page 4 FLYERS DEFENSE will be tested in system of new coach Fred Shero Page 7 (( i zQ Lpughran Scores 3, Temple Romps, 34-10 By MARK HEISLER Of The Inquirer Staff Early Saturday evening the fog came down hard on Temple Stadium. By halftime the Hound of the Baskervilles would have been right at home. Visibility, however, was better on the field, and there Temple came down hard on Boston University.

Paul Loughran, a junior running back, scored three touchdowns, one on a 96-yard kickoff return, and the Owls beat BU, 34-10, to even their rec Hens Remember: 'Sixty FRANK DOLSON and saying, "Hey, that's the little kid who's going to cover Siani." It didn't bother John Bush. "That's why they put him on Siani, I guess," Billings said. "He's so cool." Was little John Bush frightened of big Mike Siani? Did his knees tremble the first time he looked across the line of scrimmage and saw No. 88 staring back? "When I came out I looked at him," Bush said. "I thought he was going to be bigger than he was." Still, Mike Siani must have looked big enough to junior John Bush, playing his third game as a defensive back.

"He had me riled a little bit in the first quarter," the kid saidJ "I Continued on Page 8, Column 6 NEWARK, Del. "Sixty minutes!" the Delaware coaches kept reminding them. "Sixty minutes!" And now, as the last quarter ticked away the Delaware players were reminding themselves. "Sixty minutes! Sixty minutes!" Not 45 minutes, as in 1969 when Tubby Raymond's "small-college" powerhouse carried a 33-7 lead into the fourth quarter, and lost to Villanova, 36-33. Not 45 minutes, as in 1970 when Delaware held a 31-21 lead after three periods, and lost, 34-31.

Sixty minutes. Four quarters. An entire football game against a major-college team with bowl ambitions. This time after the third period the score was Delaware 23, Villanova 9 and nobody had to remind the excited kids, in, the blue and gold jerseys that there were 15 more minutes to play. Fifteen of the hardest, biggest, toughest minutes of their football lives.

Surely, Dennis Johnson knew it. The 6-foot-5, 260-pound-defensive tackle was on the edge of exhaustion. "I was tired," he said. "Really tired. You give it all and then you want to catch your second wind so bad and it doesn't come Somehow Johnson survived.

He had to survive. "The captain (Ralph Borgess) hurt his knee last he said. "It's doubtful he'll play. Then he comes out and plays. You can't help but give 100 percent We had to beat 'em.

We had to beat 'em. They mouth off so much in the press. JT ffL 1 i ord at "Happy Birthday," said 'Temple coach Wayne Hardin to his son after the game. "My third son's birthday," he explained to reporters. "We always win on his birthday.

He was born the day we (Navy) beat South Carolina." And then he explained how Temple, which led, 10-7, at the half, had taken over the game. "What happened during the it worthwhile course of the game was just the culmination of two weeks of practice," said Hardin. It just started to come and started to come and took its toll." The fog? "It was never that bad," said Hardin. "I never lost sight of the players, the ball," the end zones and the side of the field." A reporter said it had been difficult to see what was going on from the pressbox. "We had a helluva good time on the field," said Hardin, smiling.

You don't play from the pressbox. You play from the field." "I wish I could blame it on the fog," said BU coach Larry Naviaux, I can't. They took it to us. They took, advantage of the breaks they got. They took it down and scored.

We just didn't play to 1 Temple took a 3-0 lead in the first period on Nick Mike-Mayer's 34-yard field goal, then, fell behind when BU quarterback Bill Poole found tight end Al Durkovic with a 14-yard touchdown pass The lead lasted all of 13 seconds the time it took Loughran to break up the middle, find the right sideline and outrun the rest of the BU bomb squad. By the second half the Temple offensive line was kicking Continued on Page 9, Column 4 'Game Was the Whole World SIXTY MINUTES! A full 60 minutes! Surely, nobody had to remind Borgess. A year ago, he tore ankle ligaments in the third period and had to watch the fourth period. This time he went the route. "This game was the whole world," he said.

"The biggest game of my life. Sixty minutes! To John Bush, it must have seemed like 60 years. Here he was, all five feet, 10 inches of him (if you believe the program height) covering Mike Siani, Villanova's 6-3 All-America candidate who became a star in this stadium two years ago by catching three touchdown passes in the fourth quarter. On Friday night Bush watched a high school football game with his friend" Herky Billings, and people were pointing at him Inquirer photo by JAMES L. McGARRITY Giant sheet of Among: tne israve plastic protects Delaware fans from the rain; upset made.