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J'ville M.C. .51 .14 Alcorn 14 Alabama St 3 Page 2 USC 20 Tennessee 17 Page 3 Millsaps 26 SAM ....10 Page 3 Page 2 ClariomLeDger JACKSON DAILY NEWS Spofti Sports AM Scorecard Home Sunday, September 14, 1980 ft? OJ 36 first downs 395 yards rushing 181 yards passing Steve Sloan: 'I'm 1 4 -t 1 i fr. I JL to a team when it gets "the whatever" beat out of it, but a good starting point is a breakdown in the kicking game. Specifically, it was a fake punt Ole Miss pulled on the Tigers that led to the Rebels' first touchdown. Fullback Kinny Hooper was the beneficiary of the trick.

He took a short snap on the Memphis State 41, cut to the sideline and ran 36 yards before going out of bounds on the 5-yard line. So slick was the trick that it even caught Ole Miss noseguard Bryan Kennedy off guard. "I didn't know anything about it until it was over," he said. "I thought it was a bad snap." Hooper ran two more plays before going over from the 2 to give Ole Miss a quick 7-0 lead on the Rebels' first possession of the game. They came back on their second possession to score on a 50-yard pass from John Fourcade to Gino English.

"If there was a key to the game, that was it," said Sloan of the fake punt. "We had it planned, but we hadn't planned to run it in the first series." See Rebs, Page 7D Related stories. Page Statistics. Page 10 By JERRY POTTER Clarion-Ledger Sports Writer OXFORD After a week of public ridicule in which they were called shoddy and undisciplined, the Ole Miss Rebels vindicated themselves Satur-' day, showing off before a record crowd of 41.412 fans at Hemingway Stadium with a 61-7 victory over Memphis State. It was the biggest victory margin since 1969, when the Rebels beat Southern Mississippi 69-7.

And it was a triumph that left both Ole Miss coach Steve Sloan and MSU coach Richard Williamson somewhat at a loss for words. "It's a little bit unusual for me to be talking after a win." said Sloan, "especially one that comes like this. We expected the game to be decided by a field goal or an extra point. I guess I'm just real proud of our team." Said Williamson: "I don't know what to say. We were totally embarrassed.

We got the whatever beat out of us." It's difficult to describe what happens I JtjttjtimM.i&'"- v. SHIfPhoto bvMikeW.nn Ole Miss running back IMalvin Gipson high-steps as he attempts to elude linebacker Todd Ondra. CI Louisiana Tech Miss. State 385 yards rushing 115 yards passing Emory Bellard: 'We played 34 yards rushing 166 yards passing Billy Brewer: 'It 9 runs before McDole took an option pitch to the right side on in from the 15. Bob Morgan's extra point made the score 17-3 with 320 left in the half, and the game was all but over.

While Louisiana Tech quarterback Matt Dunigan (15 completions in 36 attempts for 166 yards) slowly fumed after halftime his receivers, often open, dropped everything thrown their way the Bulldogs continued to gain ground at a 6-yard-per-crack average. On a drive that began all the way back at the State 46, Bond used the shifty instincts of Haddix (who led all runners ith 117 yards on just 15 carries) as well as his own broken-field abilities with an 18-yard option run help advance the ball to the Tech 3-yard line. From there, on first and goal, Bond scampered left into the end zone with 10:16 remaining- Stale's final score came on the last play of the quarter, when Bond and Haddix combined on a 25-yard screen pass so pretty that it should have been gift wrapped. Fred Collins, the hefty fullback, provided the important block on the defensive end. The Bulldogs piled up 384 yards on the ground, alternating 1Jie exciting Haddix with Bond (who gained 116 on 13 roll-out carries) and a' supporting cast of seemingly thousands.

The visitors never recovered from the blunder. "That was just a freshman mistake," bemoaned Brewer. "You go over it (in practice), but the guy out there has to make the decision. It hurts." Three plays against a taut State defense (which held Tech to 95 yards total rushing) preceded a poor 26-yard punt by Brett Brewer, and the Bulldogs had their hands well into the mushy part of the cookie jar at the visitors' 36. On State's first play of the series Bond optioned left and headed upfield before releasing a finely timed pitch back to halfback Michael Haddix who effortlessly slipped down the sideline for a touchdown with 11:39 remaining in the half.

Ah, but the generosity didn't stop there. Before the half concluded, poor punts enabled the Bulldogs to ignite offensive drives on the Tech 29, 41 and 43. Those are head starts Rosie Ruiz wouldn't even think of. A fumble botched the drive that began at the 29, and an interception stolen from Mardye McDole in the end zone prematurely concluded the 43-yard march seconds before halftime. But State did manage, however, to score on the 41-yard series, with Haddix contributing a couple of nine-yard what might have been an intriguing tussle of nerves into the mismatch everybody figured it to be.

The Bulldogs, rolling up 500 yards of total offense, spent much of the afternoon lolling around in Tech's backyard, prankishly knocking at the door. Oh, sure, they were chased away every so often they fumbled twice and were intercepted once inside the 10-yard line but to no harm. "Sure, we had excellent field position," said Bulldogs coach Emory Bellard. "Our players played the kicking game good and got some breaks in return. Their punting wasn't real stylish, but we're not going to take responsibility for the other side's punting.

We capitalized on the field position we had." The game's complexion changed soon after the team's exchanged first-quarter field goals. Tech's Roberto Dager, a freshman from Colombia, kicked a school-record 52-yarder with plenty of room to spare before State's Dana Moore reciprocated with a 47-yard effort. Then, when a John Bond-led drive stalled and Moore was summoned to punt on the first offensive series of the second quarter, Tech's David Out-ley carelessly called for a fair catch on his team's 3-yard line. Related stories. Pages Statistics, Page 10 By JOHN McGRATH Dailv News Sports Writer STARKVILLE Minutes after the battle lines were drawn Saturday afternoon here at Scott Field during Mississippi State's 31-11 victory over Louisiana Tech, the home team looked its opponent straight in the eye, flexed its muscles, and virtually changed the ground rules.

Just like that. It was as if chess player Bobby Fischer, in the middle of a brain-boggling match with Boris Spassky. advanced all his pawns across the board in one move. Here, comrade, we'll play it this way from now on Indeed, if coach Billy Brewer's game but obviously undermanned Louisiana Tech squad had even a prayer, against the Bulldogs in its home opener before 32,820 persons, continously poor field position negated it. You can't dam a river shivering in the rapids.

"Our field position killed us in the second quarter," said Brewer during the post-game wake outside the Tech locker room. "Our kicking game killed us at that point." The "death, alas, was slow, painful and largely self-inflicted, turning Sir fi i Staff Photo by Jay Koalzar Haddix, 26, after Tl). Dojjs embrace Michael Inside Jackson State own enemy in 20-0 loss Borden column Page 3 Smith column Page 6 Turner column Page 6 Hood column Page 7 Scorecard Page 10 TELEVISION TODAY NFL '80 (NBC), 12:30 p.m. 0 NFL Today (CBS), 12:30 p.m. NFL: Pittsburgh at Baltimore (NBC), 1 p.m.

(D Baseball (ABC), 1 p.m. (D NFL: New Orleans at Chicago (CBS), 1 p.m. Baseball: Chicago at New York (Cabie), 1 p.m. 03 NFL: Dailas at Denver (CBS), 3:30 m. 0 Steve Sloan Show, 5 m.

03 Emory Bellard Show, 5:30 p.m. J3 Bobby Collins Show, 10:30 p.m. Alcorn State Highlights, 1 1 p.m. (O Mississippi Valley Highlights, 11:30 p.m. 1 1 1 1 'f posession on Jackson State's 20 late in the second quarter.

According to officials, one came when he kicked the flag and the other when he walked out on the field. Five plays later, Tennessee State running back Henry Foster ran over from the 1 on fourth down, and Buck Tarpey's kick gave the hosts a 7-0 lead. Both teams had some trouble moving the ball, either by ground or by air, but both also threw away scoring opportunities in the first quarter. Jackson State moved the ball to Tennessee State's 12 on the strength of a 48-yard Keith Taylor-Carl Powell connection and an ensuing 17-yard scamper by Taylor. The threat ended, though, when kicker Bryant Moore, who bad hit 3 in last week's 16-13 win over Alabama State, missed from 29 starter Keith Taylor.

He also used Larry Whitfield before the game was over, without much success. Jackson State still had one mistake left in it, though. That came with about three minutes left in the game when a bad snap from center gave TSU the ball on the Jackson State 21. It took running back Larry Kinnebrew two plays to tack on Tennessee State's third score, finally going over from the 5 with 1:31 remaining. Jackson State and TSU proved to be their own worst enemies in the first half, failing to score on several drives, but as it turned out, W.

C. Gorden proved to be Tennessee State's best friend. Two 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct calls on Gorden, coming after a 20-yard shoestring completion from quarterback Joe Adams to Mike Jones, gave TSU Whenever we got close, the penalties killed us. "It was just one of those nights," he said. "It was best to find out about it now." The first mistake came early in the fourth quarter, with TSU clinging to a precious 7-0 lead.

A crucial pass interference call gave TSU a first-down and new life on JSU's 41, and two plays later quarterback Joe Adams, a Gulfport product, nailed wide receiver Mike Jones on a 36-yard pass for a 13-0 lead. "I don't think it was interference," said Al Marshall, Jackson State's cornerback who was called for the penalty in his defense. "We were both going for the ball. By this time, Jackson State coach W. C.

Gorden was going with back up quarterback Derek McCall in place of regular Statistics, Page 10 By JIM GROVE Daily News Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. The scoreboard at Dudley Field showed very clearly whe the winners and the losers were here Saturday night: Tennessee State 20, Jackson State 0. But any of the 30,000 plus in attendance can tell you that Jackson State proved to be its own greatest enemy. Whether it was a pass interference call, an unsportsmanlike conduct call or a bad snap from center on a punt, JSU seemed to have a mistake for every occasion. "I feel like we whipped ourselves," said running back Otis Brown, who helped JSU move the ball into scoring range twice in' i ihf alrhniiuh thpv couldn't can-htalize.

'I don't feellike they whipped us..