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24 Auburn Spoils Florida Homecomih raiM Beaten ByKeyFumbles, rt -iMJi in erceo ions Powerful UCLA 42 Tennessee Volunteers Clobber 18 Behind Torrid Passing Game 1 H1 GAINESVILLE, iff) V' The fire-spouting lusaaaxaii ummmJfmmtmm'mmmfm rmm' 1 fm tfi)CH rrt-WS --vVY" I SNAGGING A TOUCHDOWN University the first quarter of the Florida Auburn of Florida tight end Jim Yarbrough (88) of homecoming game In Gainesville Saturday. Arcadia, pulls in a 5-yard pass from Defending is Auburn's Bobby Strickland (52). quarterback Jacky Eckdahl for a score in (AP Wirephoto) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) With an awesome display of of fensive power fifth-ranked Tennessee riddled UCLA's sec ondary with passes and rolled to tional football game. a 42-18 victory in an intersec- An overflow crowd of 64,078, largest ever to see an athletic event in Tennessee, watched the Volunteers explode for three touchdowns in a wild third quar ter and pile up 35 points before UCLA scored.

99-Yard Tally The Bruins scored two touch downs in the third quarter, fleet Mickey Cureton returning a Tennessee kickoff 99 yards for one and quarterback Jim Nader hitting end Ron Copeland with a 41-yard TD pass for the second. UCLA third touchdown came in the fourth period on a five-yard run by quarterback Bill Bolden. Tennessee set four records in marching to its fifth victory after battling Georgia to a 17-17 tie in the season opener. Records Fall The Vols made 32 first downs. eclipsing the old mark of 28 set against Wofford in 1952.

Other new marks were: Most pass attempts, 40; most passes completed, 24, and most first downs passing, 17, And they tied a fifth record, netting 319 yards on passes. The old mark was set against Tampa last year. Richmond Flowers scored two Vol touchdowns on short runs, while fullback Richard Pickens ran 33 for another. The Vols scored four touch downs on running plays and the other two on passes. Quarterback Bubba Wyche, who connected on 17 of 24 pass es for 223 yards in the first half, passed 14 yards to end Gary Kreis for a six-pointer.

Bobby Scott, Wyche understudy, tossed an 11-yarder to end Terry Dalton for the Vols' other touchdown. Soccer-style kicker Karl Kremser had a perfect day with extra points, hitting six for six. Tennessee misfired on two first-quarter drives before finally scoring twice in the second. The Vols took the opening kick- off and drove to the UCLA 26, where Kremser missed a field- Virginia Tech Gobblers Clout Luckless FSU Seminoles 40-22 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) second cuarter.

VPI's kickinij The Gobblers boosted their Poised Virginia Tech, sparked 'specialist, Jack Simcsak, kicked season record to 4-3 end the by Ken Edwards sensational' field goals of 32 and 36 yards setback put FSU at 4-2. This put 88-yard touchdown gallopjto round off the VPI scoring'the FSU-VPI series at 7-6 in fa- romp. Ivor of the Gobblers a- 1 (80) and Floyd Reese (74) of UCLA. Blocking for Flowers at bottom Is Don Denbo (63). (AP Wirephoto) ASCENT OF FLOWERS Richmond Flow-ers 22) of Tennessee vaults for six yards at Knoxville, Saturday past Bob Bartlett F00TJg Auburn Tigers spotted Florida 10 early points, then rode the passes of Loran Carter to a 24-13 victory that kept them on top of the South eastern Conference football standings.

Carter tossed two touchdown passes to Connie Frederick and one to Tim Christian. He com pleted 17 passes for 210 yards against what has been called the best pass defense in the SEC. Gators Fired Up The Florida Gators were fired up to a season peak and had a record homecoming crowd of 63,122 roaring at their heroics. But pass interceptions and fum- The Statistics Auburn Florida .12 17 Flrsh down Rushing yardoge falsing yardage 1 Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles tost Yacds penalized 60 164 220 136 87 15 i 17-30-1 l--3 1-28 7-40 2 3 31 Auburn 0 10 7 7-24 Florida 10 0 0 313 Flo FG Yaungblood 31 Flo Yarborouah nine east from Eck- dohl (Youngblood kick) Aub Frederick nine pass from Carter iKney kick) Aub FG Riley 24 Aub Christian five pass from Carter (Riiey kick) Fla FG Youngbood 28 Aub Frederick 41 poss from Carter (Riley Kick) bles let Auburn pull into a 10-10 tie at halftime and the visiting Tigers dominated the second half. Florida's starting quarter back, left-hander Jack Eckdahl, injured a leg and Larry Rentz, also hobbling on a bad leg, was thrown for several losses by the Auburn defense led by tackle David Campbell Lone Gator Rally After the first quarter, Flori da's only score was a 28-yard field goal by Jack Youngblood, which resulted from a Carter fumble.

The early Gator scores came on a pair of long drives, Youngblood kicking a 31-yard field goal soon after the kickoff and Jim Yarbrough taking a five- yard pass from. Eckdahl for a touchdown. Smith Hobbled Larry Smith, injured Florida fullback who leads the confer ence in rushing, was able to par ticipate in four plays but netted only eight yards and limped vis ibly on his brief appearance, The crowd gave him an ovation for his efforts in spite of leg, neck and shoulder injuries. His replacement, Jerry Vines- ett, led Florida rushing with 54 yards. While Carter found his skilled pass receivers open when he needed them, the Auburn run ning attack was able to gam only 60 yards.

Dwight Hurston got 29 of them, but his biggest contribution was catching four passes for 76 yards. Key Completion A Carter to Hurston toss cov ering 39 yards set up the go ahead touchdown midway in the third quarter and was quickly followed by Carter's five yard pass to Christian alone in the end zone. Frederick took his first scoring toss behind the goal, also without being touched. On his second, he broke past the Florida defender and streaked 41 yards. Trip Michigan Top Ranked USC Trojans Rally To Nip Scrappy Oregon 20-3 EUGENE, Ore.

(AP) Quar-i terback Steve Sogge directed a 62-yard scoring drive in the. closing minutes Saturday, giv Compefes 24 of 40 for eoal attemnt. Tennessee came storming back in this stanza and marched to the Bruins six.1 But Dennis Spurting intercepted Wyche's pass in the endzone to kill the threat. UCLA played most of the game in a virtual 8-man defen sive line, inviting passes but stopping Tennessee's running at tack effectively. The Bruins limited Flowers and Pickens, the Vols' leading ing top-ranked Southern Califor nia a 20-13 football victory over scrappy Oregon.

USC scored the winning touch- 244-Yards Hindman with 55 seconds left gave Mississippi Its go-ahead points. Circus Catch Hindman caught the pass at the one-yard line, beating two defenders and falling back' wards into the end zone. Manning, injured a week, ago and held out of practice until midweek, completed 24 of 40 passes and had a total offense of 361 yards. He also passed 65 yards to wingback Floyd Franks for a touchdown. It was a wild offensive battle with both teams rolling up mas sive yardage.

LSU's Kenny Newfieid had scored on an 11-yard run late In the fourth quarter to give the Tigers a 24-20 cushion. Then Manning went to worK, completing four passes In a march which began at tne Kenei 25. A 17-yard run by fullback Bo Bowen got the drive started, i turned five Flonda State mis-l cues into scores for a lopsided 40-22 football victory Saturday Bight. Faultless Football Playing virtually faultless football, the visitng Gobblers in tercepted five passes to frus trate the Seminoles' high-geared The Statistics VPI 22 312 FSU 28 '141 First downs Pushing yardoa Poumg yardage fassn Fnjnte Fumble lost Yords senollied Virginia Tech Florida Stale 53 265 MM W-49-6 5-47 IrV 1 I 120 52 10 21 1 ..17 15-221 VPI FG Simcsak 32 VPI Smooth 3 run (Simcsak kick) FSU Tyson 34 pas from Cappieman (Gutnrkt kick) VPI Edwordt 14 post from Kincoid (Simcsak kick) VPI Edwards 88 rait (Slmcsok kick) 1 VPI Constantinlde 10 run (Simcsak kick) vpi-4G Simcsak 3 FSU Tyson 5 pas from Copplemon (Guthrie kick) VPI Kincoid 12 run (pas failed) FSU Paiclc 25 pas from Warren (Gray poss from Warren) A-3U42 offense and turn the game into a nightmare for junior quarterback Bill Cappieman. Four of the interceptions were turned into scores, and the Gobblers made another score after a fumble recovery.3 7 Edwards constantly ground out big yardage, and his 88-yard touchdown run in the second quarter broke the game open.

He went straight through the i Seminole middle and outran three FSU defenders to score, I tying a record for the longest touchdown run against FSU. The play was set up when I Lenny Smith intercepted a Cap-; pieman pass on the VPI 12. Smith grabbed two FSU aerials during the game and linebacker iMike Widger also intercepted two Cappieman passes, i Within seconds after Edwards touchdown run the Gobblers pounced on another Seminole miscue and scored again. FSU's Tom Warren took the VPI kick-off and lateraled to Gary Paj- cic, who fumbled. VPI recover-ed on the 10 and on the first play from scrimmage fullback I George Constantinides burst I through the middle of the line to score.

7 It was a sluggish niht for the usually potent nassina duo of Caopleman and all-Ameican flanker Ron Sellers. Sellers I hampered by a Charley horse and tight VPI coverage, man- aced only four receptions. This forced Cappieman to go to other receivers. He hit tight end Jim Tyson for two touch-I down plays. The final FSU score coming in the waning moments of the fourth quarter, was on a i 25-yard pass from substitute FSU" Quarterback Warren to I Paiclc.

VPI made a shambles of the FSU defense In the lirst half, Archie 'Super' Manning Passes Rebels Over LSU Tigers 27-24 i runner to 43 and 53 vards respec lively" They sat out most of the serond half, Three-Game Series The contest ended -a three- game series with the Pacific-Eight team in which Tennessee won two and UCLA one, UCLA returned home with a 3-4 rec-i ord. UCLA had no defense for Wyche's quick passes down the middle to tight end Ken DeLong down with just over a minute left on a three-yard pass from Sogge to Bob Klein. Oregon was called for pass interference on the previous play, putting the ball on the three. Last-Minute Drive Oregon made a last-minute drive, going from its own 25 to Southern Cars eight on three passes by reserve quarterback Eric Olson. But three passes from the eight were incomplete and USC took over.

Underdog Oregon gained 359 yards to Southern Cal's 196 in the Pacific-8 game. O.J. Simp son was held to 67 yards in 25 carries. His average was 196 yards per game. USC took a 7-0 lead nto tine third period and quickly made it 13-0, but the Oregon defense set up the tying touchdowns.

Brilliant eaten Jack Gleason intercepted one of Sogge's passes and returned it 31 vards to USC's 24. Oregon scored In five plays, the key being a brilliant sideline catch by Bob Newiand or an oison pass. Reserve back Stan Hearn, who was named back of the game, vent over for the score. USC's Bob Chandler fumbled the kickoff and Oregon recovered on the 23, scoring again In five plays. Hearn took it into the end zone but fumbled, and Olson fell on the ball.

Staubach completed 21 of 27 passes for, 290 yards and two ores Miami, Ohio 21. Toledo 17 Otterbein 40. Heidleberg 21 Kenyon 34. Oberlin 16 Wavne Stata 14, Wash. A Jeff.

Illinois Wesleyan 43, Carroll 20 Youngstown 18, Southern III. IS Akron 46, Illinois State 0 Morris 42, Morehead 35 North Dakota 37, Morningslda 20 Wooster 40, Hiram 17 Marietta 14, Mt. Union John Carroll 22, Bethany 13 Caoital 20, Ashland 7 Thiel 40, Adelbert 0 Eastern Mich. 41, NE Mass. Hillsdale 34, Winona State 20 EAST Notre Dame 45, Navy 14 Princeton 50, Brown 7 Columbia 34, Cornell 25 Rutgers 23, Delaware 14 Harvard 28, Pennsylvania Penn Stata 28, Army 24 Syracuse 47, Holy Crew 0 Colgate 27, Lehigh 11 Boston U.

33, Connecticut 23 Juniata 40, Susquehanna 0 Rochester 37, St. Lawrence 7 East Stroudtjburg 47, Delawara Stata 14 Amherst 42, Tufts Bowdoin 41, Bate 14 John Hopkins S3, Carnegie- Mellon 38 Middleburv 24. Norwich 24 New Hampshire 27, Rhode Island 6 union ii, wimams Yale 47, Dartmouth 27 Allegheny 60, Case Tech IS Wlike 28, Dickinson Lafayette 37, Gettysburg 0 Muhlenberg 55, Swarthmora Bucknell 42, Maine 21 Grove City 32, Hobart 27 Slippery Rock 19, Lock Haven 14 Delewara Valley 24, Ursinus Weynesburg 39, Wesmlnister, Pa. 6 Edinboro 31, Geneva 7 Ithaca IS, Bridgeport 13 Albright 12, Moravian Upsala 39. Lvcominc 8 Franklin A Marshall 19, Lebanon valley 17 SOUTHWEST Arkansak 25, Texas AAM 22 TCU 47, Baylor 14 Texas Tech 38, Rica IS Texas 38, Southern Methodist 7 SE Louisiana 7.

Trlnitv. Tax. 1 Arkanses Stata 48, Lamar Tech 17 Eat Texas Stata 24, Howard Payne Prairie View 19, Miss. Valley 7 Jackson Stata 23, Wiley, Tex. 7 FAR WEST Southern Cal 20, Oregon 13 California 7, Washington 7 Oregon Steta 29, Stanford 7 Montana Stata 29, Montana 24 Wyoming 46, Colorado Stata U.

14 Air Forca 28, North Carolina IS Utah 30, Brigham Young 21 Humboldt Stata 20, Nevada 17 Arizona 28, Wash. Stata 14 Idaho SO, Weber State 42 N. M. Highlands 70, Western Colorado 7 Buckeyes COLUMBUS, Ohio State's pounced on four Michigan State fumbles and intercepted three passes Saturday and the Buckeyes continued on their path to the Rose Bowl with a 25-20 Big Ten victory over the Spartans before a Stadium record crowd of 84,859. The second-ranked I Bucks rang up their sixth straight triumph and 10th in a row over two years while Michigan State was taking its third loss in sev en games, unio is 4-0 in the conference and the Spartans 1-3.

Soph QBs i A pair of sophomore quarterbacks, Rex Kern and Ron Ma-ciejowski, led the Buckeye at- Ohio (AP) defensedowns and Kreis' on down-and-out tosses. Kreis caught six for66 yards and DeLong five for 65 yards. The Bruins intercepted three Vol passes all stopping scoring threats deep in $he visitor's ter ritory. Zenon Andrusyshyn, UCLA kicking specialist who led the na tion in punting last season, booted the ball five times for a 47.6-yard average. His longest kick sailed 57 yards.

Tampa Spartans Hip 11. Michigan With late Rally TAMPA, Fla (AP) The Tampa Spartans survived a bruising Northern Michigan defense Saturday night to come from behind in the last half on Jim Del Gaizo's pin point passing and gain a tough 22-19 football victory. Hitting Bobby Fernandez on three key passes In the third period, Del Gaizo smoothly piloted the fifth-ranked small college team to the Wildcat's two-yard line. Matt Mac Vane plunged for the touchdown. 4 That made the score 12-11 and put Tampa In front for the first time.

Early in the final quarter, Del Gaizo connected on a 35-yard touchdown pass to end Joe Slik-er. Jesse Soper kicked the extra juuini uwsung me score to 19- 11. Then Tampa's Rick Swales Intercepted an NMU pass and the Spartans moved into position for a 38-yard field goal by Soper. The Wildcats snapped back when defensive back Dave Gur-ica, intercepted a Del Gaizo pass and ran 56 yards for a touchdown. Quarterback Ric McCarthy ran the ball In for a conversion and the score closed to 22-19.

During the first half, the Spar tans, now 6-1 for the season, were held to 11 yards total rushing. NMU halfback Lonnie Holton broke the Wildcats Individual rushing record of 1,658 yards and boosted his career mark to 1,706. asssisBsaBBsssBBBBBSBtsaBaaasaaM Little League Meets There will be a meeting of tha Vnrt Mvore Iftla a.aoiia Ferreira Field at 7:30 p.m. Monday. This will be an zauonai meeting ana an par COLLEGE SOUTH 9 Auburn 24, Florida 13 Virgml Tech 40.

Fla. Stata 22 Ouka 46, Ga. Tech 30 Alabama 20, Mis. Stata 13 S. Caro.

49, Va. 28 Tennessee 42. UCLA IS Clemton 24, N. Stata 19 Houston 10, Georgia 10 Richmond 35, VMI Wm. A Mary 33, Villanova 12 Vanderbilt 21, Tulana 7 Kentucky 35, West Virginia 1 Wake Forest 38, Maryland 14 The Citadel 28, Davidson 21 Louisville 23, Kant Stata 9 La.

Tech. 27, Southern Miss. 20 Tenn. A A I 16, Southern Austin Peay 47, Findlay 20 Emory Henry 68, Hampden- Sydney 14 W. Va.

Stata 14, Glenville 7 Wash. 4 Lea 16, Sewenee 7 Randolph-Macon 41, Western Maryland 14 East. Ky. 21, Murray Stata 20 Wheaton 19, Georgetown, Ky. 7 Newberry 25.

Guilford 14 N. C. A A 7. Morgan State I MIDWEST Purdue 15, llhnoi 17 Kama 27, Colorado 14 Indiana 21, Wisconsin 20 Oklahoma 35, Kansas Stata 20 Ohio Stata 25, Mich. Stata 20 Iowa 35, Minnesota 28 Memphis State 32, Tulsa I Missouri 42, Okla.

Stata 7 Ohio U. 34, West. Mich. 27 Michigan 35, Northwestern Xavier, Ohio 27, Dayton 2S Nebraska 24, Iowa Stata 13 Bowling Green 54. Marshall 21 Evansville 36, St.

Jmeph's 0 Baldwin-Wallace 26, Ohio 20 Depauw 30, Butler 7 Wabash Washington, Mo. 7 Hanover 34, Taylor 14 Indiana Stata 20, Ball Stata 14 Omaha 27, Emporia Stat 26 Arkansas Rallies for 25 to 22 Win Over Texas COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (AP) Firey sophomore quar terback Bill Montgomery rallied Arkansas in the second half with a dazzling passing display that included nine completions in a row to propel the Razorbacks past Texas 25-22 and into a share of the Southwest Con ference leadership. Montgomery, a. near-sighted 174-pounder, who wears contact lenses, threw two touchdown passes and guided the Razor-backs to two other, scores on plunges by sophomore tailback, Bill Burnett Arkansas raised its conference to 3-1 and sank the defending champion Aggies to an SWC record of 1-3.

Ahead 14-6 at the halftime, Texas elected to kick into the 17-mile per hour wind beginning the third quarter. Montgomery then proceeded to strike the first two times Arkansas had the ball. He nailed Chuck Dicus with a 14-yard scoring pass and BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Archie "Super" Manning, the Mississippi quarterback, as sen sational as his press clippings, passed for 344 yards Saturday night as he led the underdog Rebels to a 27-24 victory over Louisiana State. The Rebels had to come from behind in the fourth quarter to tie the score.

Then a nine-yard Manning pass to tailback Steve State one-yard line for the first score, with the game less than two minutes old. Kern then climaxed a 64-yard drive early in the second period with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Bruce Jankowskl. The Spartans fought back, driving 71 yards in 18 plays with quarter back Bill Triplett banging over from the one. But Ohio scored again late in the first half when Otis crashed across from three yards. 13-Yard Strike Triplett's 13-yard touchdown strike to Frank Foreman cut the deficit to 19-14 but Maciejowski circled left end from the two and the Bucks led 25-14 midway 'tack that produced four touch-alert in the first three periods.

Staubach Bows Out In Fine Fashion The stubborn Spartans, trail ing all the way, stayed in contention with a slashing ground game, paced by tailback Tommy Love and fullback Charles Wedemyer. But in the end, it was the Ohio defense which once again rose to the occasion by checking every Spartan bid in the final peri od Kern, who suffered an injury to his right, ankle midway through the second quarter, set up the first two Buckeye scores. Accurate Passer He completed four passes and ran 18 yards on a keeper before touchdowns and raced 67 yards'the cluhhous. rwh Td PENSACOLA (A Rogeri Staubach put on a tremendous show in his final appearance at Kane Field Saturday night as he led the Pensacola Navy Gos-1 hawks to a 35-0 victory over Bradly, The Dallas Cowboys bound for another score. The Goshawks recorded their sevemn victory or tne season oe-.

hind Staubach against one'ents, officials and interested getting 10 points quickly in theiput the Razorbacks ahead 19-14 first quarter and then strik-with a 10-yard touchdown shot Ing for three touchdowns In theito Mike Sigman. persons are urged to attend. Jim Otis bucked over from the. third period..