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Inside sports Scoreboard Big Ten Roundup NFL Package SECTION C-3 C-2 C-11 Kenty keeps his title Decisions Fernandez despite leg cramps page C-3 Sunday. November 9. 1 980. Lansing. Michigan Lansing State Journal a scary sense of deja vtT Spartans in the quarter, wnen tney found themsejvi behind 7-0 before the game How tho AP top twenty fared was four inutes old.

I.Notre Dame (7-0-1) tied Georgia Tech, 3-3. I.Georgia (9-04) beat Florida, 26- By JAMES TINNEY Staff Vrifcf The Northwestern Wildcats again played the role of the Oral Roberts of Big Ten football Saturday. i They laid their paws on the Michigan State Spartans and, hallelujah, the Spartans felt all better. Senior tailback Steve Smith ran for 229 yards and scored an MSU record-tying four touchdowns to pace the Spartans to their first Big Ten victory of the season a 42-10 thrashing of the winless Wildcats before a chilly Spartan Stadium crowd of 60,157 fans. Michigan State finally had its chance to take out some of the frustrations of A Stev Smith fumble was recov-.

ered by Nbrthwestern's Steve Pals on the MSU i4. Kerrigan made the big -play of tige subsequent scoring drive four playf later, as he rolled right, eluded defensive end Joe Stevens, and carried th ball to the Spartans' six. Halfback Jeff Cohn ran it in on the next playMlay Anderson's PAT made it 7-0. I 3.Rorida State (9-1-0) beat Virginia Tech, 31-7. (7-0-1) beat Stan- 4.Southem Col ford, 34-9.

"I THCBJGHT OH my gosh, here we 5.Nebraska (8-1-0) beat Kansas State, 55-8. 6. Alabama (8-1-0) beat Louisiana State, 28-7. State (8-1-0) beat Illinois, yy cr a-. sr go again.l Against Wisconsin we fumbled sevel times or so and lost a game we should have won.

But this time we didn't let that happen," said Waters. Michigan State took control with a pair of tfuchdown drives before the first qualter was out. Quarterback John Leister gained 23 yards on an option play and Smith then carted the ball 27 yfrds to the one. Smith dove across frm there; Morten Andersen's conversi3i tied it. Northwestern was contained deep in its own tlrritory, and the ensuing punt gave MSiJ excellent field position.

The 8.UCLA (6-2-0) lost to Oregon, 20- 9.Pittsburgh (8-1-0) beat Louisville, 41-23. (8-1-0) beat N.C lO.Penn State State, 21-13. Spartan drove 53 yards in nine plays 1 I.Oklahoma (6-2-0) beat Kansas, 21-19. rmtn scoring on another one- with Si yard pli (7-2-0) boat Wis- 12.Mlchlgan fan a Vf kJ yM -w i I y- ILDCATS STAYED close THE when a A Anderson 42-yard field goal 13.Brigham Young (8-1-0) beat N. Texas 41-23.

just scr; over the crossbar, but the a painful 1-7 start, and the team made the most of its opportunity, rolling up 42 first downs and 571 total yards against a paper-thin Northwestern de-. fense. "WE ARE VERY happy to win this one. It was a game we had to win," said MSU Coach Muddy Waters after his first Big Ten coaching victory. "We made a few mistakes, but you always make mistakes.

We played somewhere between good and well. But I'm not deliriously happy with the way we played." "They just really beat the hell out of us," said Northwestern Coach Rick Venturi, who has become an expert at such things in his three years as the Wildcats' coach. "We had the long field for ever and ever and ever. Michigan State took a lot away from us, especially our running game." Going into the battle for the Big Ten. cellar, the Spartans figured it would be the pass, not the run, that would give them their biggest problems against the Wildcats.

BUT NORTHWESTERN quarterback Mike Kerrigan, who threw four touchdown passes against Purdue last Saturday, came up empty against MSU, hitting 15 of 36 passes for only 111 yards and no touchdowns. And his star receiver Todd Sheets was held to one catch by an aggressive young MSU secondary, led by a surprise starter at strong safety, Tim Cunningham, a freshman out of Lansing Everett High. Despite the lopsided final score, the i ended the game, for all in Spartan: (8-1-0) beat tents ani purposes, with a pair of big 14.North Carolina Clemson, 24-19. 15.South Carolina (7-2-0) beat 45-24. (8-1-0) beat Arkansas, 16.

Baylor 42-15. 17.Purdue (7-2-0) beat Iowa, 58- plays before halftime. Smithfbroke free on a sweep of left end andoutsprinted the Northwestern secondary to the end zone for a 64-yard touchdown run with 6:13 gone in the second uarter. Then, with the clock running down and MSU trying to get in field go4 position, Leister found Freshman split end Daryl Turner in the end zone with a 27-yard scoring pass. That piade it 28-10 at intermission, and Noifthwestem had little hope left of stopping the victory-starved Spartans.

"Thej are a sound football team," Venturi gsaid. "We knew Steve Smith could rufi, and Leister is a sound quart- 18.SouH.em Methodist (7-2-0) beat 19. Mississippi State (7-2-0) did not ploy. 20. Florida (6-2-0) lost to Georgia, 26-21.

8 Staff Photo bv NORRI5 INGELLS Spartan tailback Steve Smith outruns Northwestern defensive end Richard Moore for part of his 229-yard output Saturday. Concluded on page C-7 wkos: first stfop; 1 7 JO y' Pf i- 10 11 ir jv IIB jfl C3 "'jl By BOB GROSS Staff Writer On a day when No. 1-ranked Notre Dame may have lost its national ranking and defending Class state high school grid king Jackson Lumen Christi was a 7-6 playoff upset victim, Okemos took a big step toward the familiar surroundings of the Pontiac Silverdome where the school competed for and lost a' state championship game to East Grand Rapids four years ago. Coach Pete Schmidt's Capital Circuit champions pulled out a nail-biting 17-16 Class regional playoff victory over Flint Beecher before 3,200 fans at Sexton Sigh's Memorial Stadium Saturday. Down in Atlanta, Notre Dame rallied to tie Georgia Tech, 3-3, while Farmington Harrison was springing its upset on Christi.

SATURDAY'S VICTORY put Okemos in next weekend's semifinal game against Farmington Harrison at Brighton, but the defeat left a bitter taste in the mouth of Beecher Coach Mike Alexander, "Who was still fuming over a 15-yard penalty in the fourth quarter that kept an Okemos drive alive en route to the game-clinching" 22-yard field goal by sophomore Mark Abraham. Ironically, it was the first time Okemos had attempted a field goal this season. With the game deadlocked at 14-14 and only two minutes left to play, Okemos punted from the Beecher 49 on fourth down and five. But one official Concluded on page C-6 1 Mfc ir Photo by EILEEN BLASS. Staff photo by SUE TUSA Okemos tailback John Scarlett hadUbusy day with 103 yards rushing in the 17-16 Class quarterfinal football win over Flint Beecher Saturday.

Guard Matt Federau threw the key block on I this run. Dansville receiver Jim Brooks loses possession when blasted by Fowler's Doug Cook. Fowleir hewt gap wSo OsnmsBDDe Irish Ed Senycztto 0 salvage But wiat will Moeller do? theiast time Dansville touched the ball. After Dansville's kickoff and a 25-' yard return by Lloyd Feldpausch, Fowler drove from its 33-yard line to Dansville's five, then watched the final 27 seconds run off the clock. Fowler converted three fourth-down plays into first downs on that drive, two coming Concluded on page C-6 3-3 ti One of the coaches reportedly under considera Sports on TU By STEVEN WAITE Jourrtal Correspondent ST.

JOHNS Tom DePuit walked softly around Frank Buck Field Saturday carrying a big stick with a piece of Astroturf from the Pontiac Silverdome attached to it. The Dansville High coach rubbed the artificial grass now and then, thinking about how it would feel to touch it in person. Fowler High had a different idea, however, eliminating any thoughts DePuit had of the Class state championship football game in the Silver-dome with a 16-6 Region II quarterfinal victory before 3,400 evenly divided loyalists. Coach Steve Spicer's Eagles, instead, will touch the newly carpeted Wittington Stadium in Jackson next Saturday. Opposing the Eagles will be once-beaten Reading, a 41-12 quarterfinal victor over Lawton Friday.

"THESE KIDS ARE crazy," Spicer said between congratulatory handshakes. "They fool you because they're not big, but they never, ever quit. They played awfully well today; they only let down once." That letdown was a 33-yard scoring pass from Dansville quarterback Mark Brooks to Kevin Caudill at the game's 8:07 mark. Brooks' fourth-and-15 pass capped a nine-play drive and cut Fowler's lead to 16-6. Brooks try to hit Caudill for a two-point conversion was "I'M CONVINCED Notre Dame is the best.

There is nothing like it. I think that and I believe that and always have. It would be natural for me because I could believe in what I said to the kids I tried to recruit." There's sound reason for Notre Dame's interest in this high school coach, too. Faust not only may be the most outstanding prep coach in America, but everywhere you look at this high school just north of Cincinnati you see evidence of his other abilities. AN ALMOST-COMPLETED $1 million indoor athletic facility is largely the result of his fund raising.

Faust and several friends built a weight room for the school on their own time. Moeller's athletic budget is around $100,000, but not one penny comes from the school's regular funds. The money is raised by Faust, who puts together a thick program book for the football season. And he sells the advertising as well as editing the book. There would seem to be little question about Faust's ability to fill the shoes of the head football coach at Notre Dame.

The big problem would be to find someone to fill Faust's shoes at Moeller. Ed Serryczko is Executive Sports Editor of the State Journal SUNDAY (Ch. 4, 8, 10) FootbalL Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay. 2-5 (Ch. 2, 3, 6, 9C, 25) Lions Detroit at Minnesota.

4-7 (Ch. 4, 5, 8, 10) Football. Cincinnati at Oakland. tion for the prized job of head footbalfe coach at Notre Dame, to be available at the end fif this season when Dan Devine retires, is a rfgh school coach. He is Gerard "Gerry" Faust highly successful athletic director and footbal coach at Cincinnati Moeller High.

g' Moeller has been a main contributor outstanding recruits to Notre Dame. Two of mem, linebacker Bob Crable and wide receiver Tony Hunter, are starring on Devine's Irish football teajm this son. Since 1967, 14 Moeller graduates hve played football at South Bend. FAUST CURRENTLY has his Moellel team bidding for a fifth state title. In his 18 ylars at the school, Moeller teams have won 171, lostl7 and tied twice.

Faust has been offered college coachitig jobs be-, fore but turned them down. There's, only ne college job that interests him, and that's at NotraDame. In Faust's words, "I'm in coaching becfiuse I love kids and enjoy watching them develop. I never wanted to coach a college team just to et a better job for "myself. I could not take a jo and then change.

For me to recruit at a university where I just wanted the coaching job for my Jwn benefit, would be impossible. I couldn't talk to th kids. ATLANTA (AP) Top-ranked Notre Dame, plagued by five turnovers, needed a fourth-quarter 47-yard field goal by Harry Oliver in salvaging a 3-3 tie Saturday against the three-touchdown underdog Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, winners of only one game this season. Tech, 1-7-1, took a 3-0 lead on Johnny Smith's second quarter 39-yard field goal and the swarming Yellow Jackets' defense managed to bottle up Notre Dame's potent offense through-, out the contest until the last quarter, when the Irish tied the score and threatened to win it in the closing minutes. NOTRE DAME, 7-0-1, possibly looking ahead to next week's battle against No.

6 Alabama, tied it with 4:44 remaining when Oliver booted his three-pointer after the Irish drove 60 yards in seven plays before stalling at the Georgia Tech 29. The tying drive was set up when Tracey Toran intercepted a Ted Pee- Concluded on page C-l 0 FOOT- RADIO (WJR) NFL BALL: Detroit vs. Minnesota. MONDAY 9-12 (Ch. 7D, 12, 41) Football.

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