The Greenville News from Greenville, South Carolina • Page 39

Sunday, Nov. 16. 1975 WWiil KW-PCDMONT 1 -C pons Scores Opinions Schedules Assured Winni'n Season US ii mw flu lit A By RUDY JONES News Sports Writer COLUMBIA It's official now. Jim Carlen's first season at South Carolina has been a success. The Gamecocks rolled to a 31-0 lead, then let the second unit defense fight off a Wake Forest rally for a 37-26 win over the Deacons Saturday.

And, like many other USC victories over the past three seasons, quarterback Jeff Granu was one of the main factors. The victory was USC's sixth In 10 ty, said "Grantz is a great one. He's got the full vision of the field at all No single Carolina player dominated the game, although Clinton native Kevin Long set a new school single-season rushing mark with 95 yards for a 1.037 10-game total. Bobby Marino also set a school mark, the 24th field goal of his career. Wake Forest had its offensive heroes also.

John Zeglinski caught three touchdown passes from Mike McGlamry and accounted for more than 270 yards in the game. McGlamry, who came on in the third period after starting quarterback Jerry McManus was victimized by three interceptions, completed 12 of 14 passes, scored a touchdown and added a two-point conversion pass to Clark Gaines. Gaines gained 97 yards rushing, and needs 117 against Virginia Tech next week to gain 1,000 for the season. Wake has a 3-7 mark. The Gamecocks' first defensive unit held the Demon Deacons to one touchdown, and set up three USC scores.

Henry Laws had two interceptions to set up touchdowns, and Russ Manzari, USC's fiery defensive end, recovered a fumble to set up Marino's field goal. But for the mistakes, the game could have been much closer in the first half, instead of the 21-0 halftime score. "The first half mistakes took the edge off of us," said Wake's Mills. We just (Contd. On Pg.

10-C) Long 'Misses' Record Page S-C How They Scored Page 10-C games, snapping a three-game losing streak, with the season finale against Clemson set for Williams-Brice Stadium next Saturday. Granu directed the Gamecock offense through the first V2 periods, building a 37-12 lead, and then came back in with three minutes left to run off the remaining time after Wake had narrowed the score to the final 11-point margin. The Bel Air, Md. senior rushed for 41 yards and passed for 129 more, including a 70-yard pass to Phillip Logan for the final touchdown. "Jeff had another good game." Carlen said.

"About the only thing I coach him on is to make sure he shows up for the game-" Chuck Mills, who has rebuilt the Demon Deacon program into respectabili- laratina I 7 I J. CJnllM 2) S-Mt lit 5-14-1 4-J7 Km downs Pitting yard fim yard Rut Rmnfevloa Hmliievyirdi 14 I72W 3-1 4- Douglas H. Cilmore South Carolina quarterback Jeff Grantz considers his options Field Goal Decides 22-20 Game Terps Clip Tigers With Eight Seconds Left It was the fourth time Parker Sees 'Turnaround' Page 4-C How They Scored Page 9-C this season the Terps have returned a kickoff for 92 yards or better after an opponents' score, and Parker said, "We had just emphasised that point on the sidelines and talked about it. It seemed like everyone was waiting for someone else to make it happen." Willie Jordan, who had (Contd. On Pg.

9-C) scrambling hurt us as much as anything. I looked for him after the game to shake his hand." O'Cain scored Clemson's first two touchdowns. When he went into the end zone on the third play of the second quarter, the Tiger offense had run 32 plays to only four for the Terps. Despite that, Maryland only trailed by a 12-7 count, as John Schultz's 92-yard kickoff return after O'Cain's first touchdown did as much damage as either of the long scoring drives O'Cain and the Tigers carefully carved out. bearing on Clemson's hopes for next season.

O'Cain, who had started eight previous times during his Tiger career, had never had a good game in the No. 1 role until last week at Chapel Hill. "It's great to see a guy mature," said Parker in explaining O'Cain's recent play. "Mike has been much better in a pinch-hitting role, but I think that's behind him. This was a big game for him, I don't think there's any doubt about that." "O'Cain was super," agreed Maryland's borne.

"He did the most damage to us and his away and say, 'Well, they lost by fewer points than they were supposed but the players and the coaches can.t. All we know is that we didn't score enough points to win." But even in defeat, Parker had to admit "there were some things we did better than we had at anytime this year." One of them was the play of quarterback Mike O'Cain. For the second straight week, the junior signal caller started and operated the offense with a consistency the Tigers have lacked all season. That fact has a big the Pac-8 has realized the Rose Bowl isn't the only game around. "I think we deserve a bowl," said Maryland's Jerry Claiborne after the game.

"They're aren't many teams around with records like our's." While Maryland thinks of the ACC title and postseason play, Clemson now lhas only rival South Carolina remaining on the schedule before concluding the most dismal Tiger campaign in a long time. The 2-8 record, only one loss from being the most defeats in Clemson history, hasn't been the worst part of it A 17-point favorite, Maryland nows needs only a victory over hapless Virginia next week to claim the title and an 8-2-1 record. That would be the Terps best finish in two decades, but if it will bring a third straight bowl bid remains to be seen. While Clemson was on the verge of stopping Maryland's 14-game ACC winning streak, Sun Bowl officials had time to look at Pittsburgh as the Panthers upset Notre Dame, 34-20. That would leave the Fiesta- Bowl, which seems to have eyes on Southern Cal now that By HENRY FREEMAN Assistant Sports Editor CLEMSON A Clemson.

football team that has: "stumbled through a period of darkness" this season came within eight seconds of bursting into the sunlight here Saturday. Playing some of their finest football of the season, the Tigers had officials of the Sun and Fiesta Bowls hastily checking other scores until Mike Sochko's 29-yard field goal with eight seconds to play put Maryland back on track in its quest for a second straight Atlantic Coast Conference championship, 22-20. 7 0 -22 6 6 1) 8-4) Miryland Oernxjo This was to have been a banner year for the Tigers, and not even last week's win over North Carolina and Saturday's near upset of the Terps can erase that fact. "This was an important game for us to win," said Tiger coach Red Parker. "Maybe the fans can go Maryland 14 47173 1J Otmn W4 114 24 Vint downs fashes-yards Hissing-yards Hnura yards Risks Ruts RmNes lofcl lmJtiejryards 7-14-1 10-13-1 J-U 4-J6 1 1-1 3-15 Untried Sum rail Leads Cadets, 1 3-9 Sumrall 'Nervous' Page 2-C How They Scored Page 10-C By DAN FOSTER News Sports Editor CHARLESTON It is the dream of every bonafide third string football player to one day, somehow, be the hero for his team in its biggest game of the year.

Saturday afternoon, an unlikely kid named Joe Sumrall had that dream, drew his assignment, and delivered the victory, for-The Citadel, 13-9, over Furman's Paladins. It was a frustrating and costly afternoon for Fur-man. The Paladins' own star quarterback, David Whitehurst, went out of Day id Whitehurst Injures knee 4 a-v vj -H-Si av a the game in the second quarter with possibly torn knee ligaments, and no hope was seen for his playing the last game of the season next week against Wofford. Citadel understood well in advance how devastating that kind of blow can be. The Cadets had seen not only their first string quarterback, but their second as well, go down to injuries before the teams even dressed for Saturday's game.

That is when they handed the flag to SumraTl, who admitted after the game his varsity experience had been limited to "the fourth quarter against Davidson, and a few plays against Colgate," which had produced a career varsity figure of minus three yards of rushing, and 4 for 8 on passes. But Saturday, in what could be the only start of his career, he was everything The Citadel needed. Operating a team which had been shut out in three games and held to less than eight points two other times with other quarterbacks, Sumrall led the Cadets boldly on their first touchdown drive, and scored it himself. All he did on their second one was hand the ball to Alvin Perkins for a 54-yard jaunt which gave them a 13-0 lead. But in the fourth quarter, when (Contd.

On Pg. 10-C) Postseason Bowls Start To Shape Up Sugar. Oklahoma would not go to the Cotton Bowl because of the possibility of meeting Texas, whom the Longhorns have already lost to this year. Once-beaten Alabama was reported by football sources to have wanted to keep its Orange Bowl options open just in case Ohio State loses and Nebraska wins next Saturday. In that event, the Crimson Tide would have had a chance at defeating the top-ranked team and thus possibly winning the national championship.

But the Orange Bowl decided not to wait. Speaking of the committee's decision to take either Ohio State or Michigan, Orange Bowl official Nicholas Crane said, "We'd be very happy with either one. Both schools are the highest-ranked teams available to us. We feel like they will remain that way after next week's ball game." By early Saturday night, three bowls had extended invitations. Florida, ranked 14th in the nation, accepted a (Contd.

On Pg. 9-C) BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Orange Bowl announced Saturday 'that its annual Jan. 1 classic will match the winner of next week's Oklahoma-Nebraska game against the loser of the Ohio State-Michigan game. The decision means that fifth-ranked Alabama is headed for the Sugar Bowl and will not get a chance to play a contending team for the national championship. Top-ranked Ohio State and fourth-ranked Michigan-both unbeaten-meet next Saturday in Ann Arbor.

The winner goes to the Rose Bowl as Big Ten champion and the loser heads to Miami. Meanwhile, second-ranked Nebraska and sixth-ranked Oklahoma meet next Saturday in Norman. The winner goes to the Orange Bowl as champion of the Big Eight The loser also will go somewhere. If Oklahoma loses, it is believed the might get an invitation to the Sugar Bowl to meet Alabama. If Nebraska loses, the Cornhuskers might- go to the Cotton Bowl, or they might go to the- Firman Citadel 0306-9 76 0 0-U First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Rwan yards 14 10 51-174 51-130 82 83 31 31 10-IM (-130 7-32 7-43 33 2-1 6o0 664 in mi iinrrr GREENVILLE Rami for oass.

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