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lSnn.tSfpt. 13. 19HI SHRFVFPOWT BOSSIFR 77k Time NSU's big plays bury Angelo Rams, 59-26 It it wx -V Tech romps to 31-3 win over ETSU Quickel's 41-yarder was short. Two possessions later, Northwestern began to use the big play. Quarterback Bobby Hebert hit world class sprinter Victor Oatis with a 35-yard pass that got NSU up, 10-0.

On the Demons' next possession, Hebert aerieled fullback Carlton Finister for 12 yards and Oatis for 19 yards to set up Bossier City Parkway product Kenny Jones' five-yard touchdown run that gave the Demons a 17-0 lead. At that point, a busted play got the Rams back into the ballgame. Morgan took an option pitch and started right, then cut back left and raced 72 yards to paydirt. Mike Thomas' extra point kick made it 17-7. The score went to 24-7 when North-western's other world class sprinter, Mark Duper, beat strong safety Rusty Parker on a flag pattern and went 58 yards with Hebert's pass for a touchdown.

ASU fired back a big burst on its own for a touchdown late in the half. Jerry James took a handoff at the Angelo 24 and used a block by Dennis Green at the Northwestern 40 to go 76 yards for the score. A poor snap from center cost the Rams the extra point, leaving thl score at 24-13 before the half. Robert Shaw took a six-yard pass from Hebert for a third-period score. James Bennett took a 19-yard pass from Barkley in the third period and Mike Brown returned a blocked punt two yards for the Demons in the fourth period.

The last score came on Richard Clark's three yard run. By BRIAN McNICOL Times correspondent NATCHITOCHES Northwestern State put together a tremendous offensive show in downing Angelo State by 59-26 Saturday night Two quarterbacks, Bobby Hebert and Eric Barkley, combined for 355 yards in passing, just 12 short of the school record. Barkley threw a 94 yarder to Victor Oatis for the big play of the night. That missed the school mark by just four yards also. Place kicker Dale Quickel added eight extra points, a school record, and a field goal to the effort which evened NSU's record at 1-1.

"Any time you win it makes you happy but this one made me real happy," said NSU coach A.L Williams. "The high point was the pass blocking." There were defensive problems, though. ASU amassed 22 first downs to 16 for NSU. And. the visitors had 295 yards in the air.

Hebert left early in the first quarter after hitting 11 of 18 for 179 yards and three touchdowns. The longest was a 58-yarder to Mark Duper. The Demons lived and died by the big play in the first half. After Freeman Thomas pounced on a Norris Morgan fumble at the Angelo State 28, the Demons could not get a first down in three plays. But Dale Quickel kicked a 41-yard field goal.

Northwestern recovered another fumble in the Angelo State backfield on the Rams' next possession, but this time (AP Laserphoto) 14-10 ogs rally, Alabama's Paul Carruth sweeps the end as Tech's Rob Horton closes in Alabama iiBset FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UPI) Arkansas' Bruce Lahay kicked a 46-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter Saturday to lift the Razorbacks to a come-from-behind season opening 14-10 victory over the Tulsa Hurricane. Down by a 10-8 margin with nine minutes to play in the game, quarter-back Tom Jones directed the Razorbacks from their own 31-yard line on a drive that took them to the Tulsa 28 before Lahay produced what turned out to be the winning points. Lahay added a 21-yard field goal with 2:39 to go in the game after Tulsa had fumbled at its own 1L Tulsa's final hope for a victory took it to its own 40-yard line before linebacker Steve Douglas intercepted a pass for the Razorbacks in the final minute of play. Tulsa kept the Razorbacks off balance through much of the game and took a 7-0 early in the contest on a 35-yard run by fullback Michael Gunter.

Jason Staurovsky kicked a 42-yard field goal for the Hurricane in the third period to put Tulsa ahead, 10-0. The Razorbacks, despite two costly fumbles and several penalties, struck back with 1:14 left in the third period on a halfback pass from Thomas Brown to Derek Hollo way that covered 41 yards. The Razorbacks fumbled on the third play of the game and Tulsa's Willis Carolina recovered for the Hurricane at the Arkansas 32. following a 7-yard gain by Gunter and a penalty against Tulsa, Gunter took a handoff from Tulsa quarterback Kenny Jackson, cut over left tackle and rambled in for the Hurricane's only touchdown with less than two minutes gone in the game. Arkansas was not able to move into Tulsa's end of the field until the second quarter when a promising drive from the Razorbacks' 14 ended with a lost fumble at the Tulsa 14.

The Razorbacks threatened twice more in the second period before having to punt from the Hurricane 37 and having a pass intercepted in the Tulsa end zone on the final play of the first half. The second half began much the same as the first before the Razorbacks took possession late in the third period on their own 32-yard line. From there, Jones directed a near flawless drive, culminating in Brown's scoring toss to Holloway. That touchdown gave Arkansas the momentum and the Hogs began to dom- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Freshman tailback Robert Lavette scored two touchdowns and quarterback Mike Kelley engineered a gutty comeback Saturday to lead scrappy Georgia Tech to a stunning 24-21 upset over third-ranked Alabama.

It was the Yellow Jackets first victory over the Crimson Tide in 19 years. Alabama Coach Bear Bryant was denied his 308th career victory and the loss set back the schedule on his quest for Amos Alonzo Stagg's career victory record of 314. It was the season opener for Bill Curry's Yellow Jackets, which went 1-9-1 last year, the tie coming against Notre Dame. Kelley threw a 22-yard TD pass to setback Ronnie Cone and Ron Rice had a 28-yard field goal for the other Tech scores. Alabama got two field goals from Peter Kim, a 47-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Walter Lewis to Joey Jones and a 4-yard touchdown run by Linnie Patrick.

Kim missed a 50-yard field goal attempt on the last play of the game. The Tide struck on its third possession after taking a punt. Lewis threw deep to sophomore split end Jones, who outran the Tech secondary for the score. Alabama took a Tech punt and drove 62 yards early in the second period, but had to settle for Kim's 36-yard field goal. Tech took the ensuing kickoff and drove 70 yards in eight plays.

The Yellow Jackets recovered two potentially costly fumbles and got bailed out by two Alabama penalties. Lavette scored on a 13-yard run with 7:50 left in the half to cut the lead to 10-7. The Tide immediately drove to its second field goal, a 39-yarder, for a 13-7 half time lead. Defensive back Mark Sheffield recovered an Alabama fumble at the Tech 38, spurring the Jackets to a 62-yard, nine-play drive to take the lead. A pass interference call against the Tide set up Kelley's 22-yard touchdown strike to Cone.

Jeremiah Castille intercepted a Kelley pass and returned it 22 yards for a touchdown only to have a clipping call nullify, the score. Alabama was undaunted, however, driving 41 yards in eight plays to regain the lead. Patrick scored from the four. Coley scampered around end for a two-point conversion and Alabama led 21-14 with 2:03 left in the third quarter. Tech was three yards from the tying touchdown early in the fourth quarter, but a quarterback sack and a delay penalty forced Rice to kick a 28-yard field goal and Alabama clung to a 21-17 lead.

Kelley ignited the excited Yellow Jackets, leading them on a dramatic 80-yard, nine-play game-winning march. The big blow was a 54-yard strike to sophomore tight end Ken Whisenhunt. Lavette scored from the 2 with 3:57 left. With time running out, Alabama drove into Tech territory but Kim's desperation 50-yard field goal with no time showing on the clock fell short. By JIM McLAIN Timet Sporti Writer RUSTON With quick draw quarterback Matt "Dunigan doing the long hauling and running back -Ronnie Williams making the short trips, Louisiana iTech bounced into the victory column Saturday night a 31-3 romp past East Tennessee State.

the 181-pound Junior from Dallas, completed 14 of 20 passes for 213 yards and directed three 70-yard plus scoring drives. Williams, who is listed as "the second string running back on -the Tech depth "chart, put the lid on those Dunigan-directed drives "with touchdown runs of three, three and four yards. lt was a rout almost from the opening whistle as the Tcchmen, who looked bad in a 17-10 season-opening road loss to West Texas State last week, moved the itall almost at will. ETSU, which had rolled up 407-yards total offense in beating Tennessee Tech, 33-21, last week in its opener, 'showed almost no offense to the crowd of 17,500 in Joe Stadium. I Tech bad 460 yards in total offense and limited the to just 77.

Stats leaders for the Canines -included Carlton Jacobs, who scored the fourth touch-'down, with 77 yards rushing on 13 carries and two pass receptions for a whopping 97 yards. Reserve Kyle Gandy, who quarterbacked Tech to a in the fourth quarter, wound up with 4-of-5 for 61 -yards in the passing department. Williams proved his versatility with four receptions for 35 yards. Tech was out front by 10-3 at half time and had blown a couple of other scoring opportunities. Tech coach Billy Brewer said, "We're very pleased the win.

I was disappointed with the first half (when Tech blew two scoring opportunities). We have put some points on the board, but we came back in the second half very strong. We took possession of the football and I think from that point we held control of the ball game." Tech controlled the ball for almost 40 minutes during the game, prompting Brewer to say, "Our kids Iwere confident they could move the ball and that's what we wanted to do control the ball." Dunigan, who was dropped for 58 yards in losses last proved more adept at avoiding tacklers against ETSU. "It's the best he's done," said Brewer. The Tech "mentor said emphasis in practices last week had been on improving Dunigan's mobility.

The Techmen scored three touchdowns in the second half and Dunigan said it was because "We were executing a whole lot better." Matt had taken a lot of neat about his performance against West Texas. "I was real disappointed but I didn't get down on myself," he said. The Bulldogs, thanks to a game-opening 73-yard swing pass hookup between Dunigan and running back Carlton Jacobs, had a first and 10 on the ETSU 7, but the Bulldogs came up empty handed when Dunigan was downed on the three on a fourth-and-goal 'scramble. The Canines, completely dominating the line of scrimmage, were not denied on their next possession. Taking over on their 40 after a ETSU punt, they drove down to the 21 where barefoot kicker Roberto Dager boomed through a 37-yard field goal.

I The Techmen were on the move again on their next possession, riding the pinpoint passing of Dunigan on a 15-play, 77-yard drive that climaxed when Ronnie Williams knifed in from three yards out behind good blocking from the right side of the line. Billy Cox kicked it out to 10-0 with 14:21 remaining in the second period, The Techmen missed another opportunity on the kickoff following the touchdown. Ray Wilmer fell on a fumble by kick returner Ronnie Horton at the ETSU 19, but end Mike Smith sacked Dunigan for a nine-yard loss, forcing a 42-yard field goal attempt by Dager that was partially blocked by the Buccaneers' Danny Carmichael. The visitors, who did not make their initial first down until the 11:39 mark in the second quarter, finally got a drive going late in the period. Kept alive by a 16-yard scramble by quarterback Scott Nault, the march was capped by Phil Hunt's 33-yard field goal 22 seconds from the end of the half.

Tech wasted no time in resuming its rout in the second half, driving 76 yards and 74 yards to touchdowns to widen the gap to 24-3. Williams capped the first march (of 16 plays), blasting three yards over the right side. Cox again kicked the conversion with 5:33 left in the third chapter. The Bulldogs again forced a punt and, with Dunigan picking the Buc defenses to shreds, stormed 74 yards in eight plays with Williams again doing the honors, this time from four yards out. Cox's kick made it Tech 24, ETSU 3.

Reserve quarterback Kyle Gandy took over for Tech in the fourth period and the results were the same. Completing passes for 24, 19 and 15 yards, the Angleton, Texas sophomore directed a 90-yard march that running back Carlton Jacobs finished with a 17-yard touchdown run five minutes before the end. Cox's kick made it 31-3. Arkansas State pops Northeast MONROE, La. (AP) Running backs Rick Spivey and Waddell Kelly anchored an Arkansas State offense that rushed for 410 yards rushing Saturday night and ground out an easy 35-13 victory over Northeast Louisiana in a neighboring states football rivalry.

Spivey ran for touchdowns from 1 and 13 yards out, while Kelly was the game's leading rusher with 139 yards on 18 carries in giving ASU a victory in its first game of the season. Northeast is now 1-1. ASU also got touchdowns on a 1-yard run by Bill Johnson, a 12-yard pass from Tim Langford to Dennis Walker and a 25-yard run by Erven Beasley. Northeast scored on Feotis Moore's 4-yard run that opened the scoring and on a 25-yard pass from Bob Lane to Dewayne Robinson in the fourth quarter. After spotting Northeast the 7 points by Moore, Arkansas State put together four touchdowns before NLU could score again.

NCSU tops Wake Forest WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (UPI) Freshman tailback Joe Mcintosh rushed for 220 yards and two touchdowns Saturday night to lead North Carolina State to a 28-23 Atlantic Coast Conference victory over Wake Forest Wake Forest fought back all night long. After falling behind 28-12 because of Mcintosh's 38-yard touchdown run at the end of the third quarter, the Deacons scored twice in the final period on a 9-yard run by Wayne McMillan and a 23-yard field goal by Phil Denfield. -i-j Wake Forest got the ball two more times but failed to make a first down on its first possession and turned the ball over the second time when linebacker Robert Abraham picked off a. Deacon pass and returned it to Wake Forest's 16-yard line.

inate the game, holding Tulsa without a first down until the Razorbacks finally went ahead, 11-10, on Lahay's first field goal. The loss was Tulsa's second in two games, the Hurricane having dropped their opener last week to Kansas. Colorado 45, Texas Tech 27 BOULDER, Colo. (AP) Sophomore quarterback Randy Essington fired three long touchdown passes, two of them to sophomore wingback Walter Stanley, and Stanley returned a punt 70 yards for another score to lead Colorado to a 45-27 rout of Texas Tech Saturday in a college football opener. Essington completed 16 of 23 passes for 345 yards to establish a school record for passing yardage in a game.

Twice in the first half, the mercurial Stanley sped behind the Texas Tech defense to haul in TD passes of 87 and 74 yards. Essington subsequently hit split end Ricky Ward on a 35-yard pass play, and Stanley then broke off his long punt return as Colorado took a commanding 28-7 halftime lead. Texas 31, Rice 3 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Rick Mclvor rifled two touchdown passes including a 65-yarder to the senior he replaced at quarterback and the eighth-ranked Texas Longhorns rolled to a 31-3 Southwest Conference victory over the Rice Owls. It was Texas' 16th consecutive victory over the Owls in this season opener for both teams. Mclvor, who completed 7 of 10 passes for 128 yards before he left the game with dizziness in the third period, broke open a punting duel with his second period third down and 34 bomb to Donnie Little.

Little was the Longhorn quarterback for three years before he moved to wide receiver in the spring. i Baylor 38, Bowling Green 0 WACO, Texas (UPI) Quarterback Jay Jeffrey threw for two touchdowns and all three starting running backs scored one each to lead Baylor to a 38-0 victory over Bowling Green Saturday night. Georgia 27, California 13 ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Buck Belue scored one touchdown and passed for another and All-American Herschel Walker rambled for 167 yards as sixth-ranked Georgia, in a sluggish performance, beat California 27-13. It was the 15th consecutive victory for the defending national champions, the longest winning streak in the nation.

Belue fired an 18-yard scoring pass to Ronnie Stewart in the first quarter and galloped 14 yards on a keeper in the second quarter as the Bulldogs struggled to a 17-10 halftime lead. Georgia's other scoring came on a 6-yard run by Carnie Norris, fields goals of 24 and 30 yards by freshman Kevin Butler and a safety when Jimmy Payne blocked a punt which the Golden Bears recovered in their end zone. It was the second straight victory Georgia this season. Walker got his 167 yards on 35 carries. It was his ninth 100-yard or better effort in 13 games.

Florida 35, Furman 7 GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) Florida's Spencer Jackson grabbed two second-half touchdowns passes, one from Wayne Peace and the other from Bob Hewko, as Florida crushed Furman 35-7. The Gators, who dropped a 21-20 decision to Miami, on a last-minute field goal last week, evened their record at 1-1. Furman is 0-1. Florida trailed 7-3 after one quarter, but caught fire in the second period after defensive back Bruce Vaughan returned an interception 33 yards for a touchdown and a 13-7 halftime advantage.

Florida opened the scoring on its first possession with a 47-yard field goal by Brian Clark. Clark added one from 39 yards in the second period to pull the Gators within one point. Florida made it 21-7 when Peace hit Jackson from 3 yards out with 4:43 left in the third period. Jackson caught a 5-yard lob from Hewko with 4:23 left in the game for a 28-7 lead. Florida made it 35-7 with 2:42 to play when Hewko, a junior who sat out most of last season with a knee injury, hit Bee Lang with 15-yard scoring pass.

Furman's lone score came on a 8-yard touchdown pass from Tim Sorrells to Billy Richer. The Paladins had two apparent touchdowns nullified in the first half. An illegal procedure penalty wiped out a 3-yard scoring pass from Sorrells to Byron Lee and an illegal motion penalty wiped out a 37-yard field goal by Tim Tanguay. was Notre Dame all the war Ron Higgins SOUTH BEND, Ind. You got the feeling right away here Saturday afternoon before Notre Dame's 27-9 win over LSU that the only way the Tigers could win was for new head coach Gerry Faust to get confused and show up with his team in Cincinnati at Moeller High's field instead of Notre Dame Stadium.

From the word go, the odds were against LSU. Just a whiff of the campus atmosphere could tell you that. A hot-seller at the campus bookstore was the book, "Gerry Faust, Notre Dame's Man In Motion." One sign hanging out a fraternity house window read, "Wonder if Moeller has a basketball coach, too?" Just a few minutes before kickoff, former Irish head coach Ara Parseghian was standing on top of the Notre Dame press box. Dressed in his green coat and with the Irish band playing its famed fight song in the background, he was flashing back 17 years ago to Oct. 3, 1964.

Back then, it was he standing in that tunnel ready to lead the Irish on to the playing field and not Gerry Faust. "The crowd is so close to the field, everything shakes when they yell," said Ara, who was a winner in that initial home game over Purdue 34-15. "I'll never forget the moment when I first ran on this field as Notre Dame's coach. I'm sure Gerry will feel the same way, but even more so because he's so emotional." Faust showed that "I think I saw coach crying five different times today," said Notre Dame wingback Tony Hunter. "He is living in a dream." Faust made sure his team was as emotional as he was in his pregame talk.

Boudreaux, LSU's free safety, of Notre Dame's offensive line which averaged 6-6 and over 250 pounds per man. LSU defensive tackle Ramsey Dardar wasn't that impressed with the Irish front "I expected them to be devastating, but they weren't I expected them to come off the ball a little better," he said. "But when you play people like Notre Dame, they come at you full-speed every play because they know they can lose their job to the man behind them." LSU quarterback Alan Risher won't lose bis job to freshman Timmy Byrd, but Risher admitted he played his second consecutive poor game. "I stunk," he said. The passes I missed on came at times when we needed them.

The passes I completed didnt help us any. I deserved to be on the bench in the second half." By that time, the game was out of hand. "Depth was the difference between us and Alabama and Notre Dame," said Dardar. "Right now, we need the second team to be as good as the first" That may be difficult since LSU bead coach Jerry Stovall sounded more like Florence Nightingale than the Tiger boss after the Irish loss. "Junius Dural may have a dislocated elbow," began Stovall.

"Alex Clark re-separated his right shoulder. Tommy Boudreaux got dinged towards the end of the game. James Britt has a bruised forearm. Terry Roussel strained a knee. Obviously, LSU will be overjoyed to face Oregon State Saturday night in Tiger Stadium, a team which didn't have to try to bard to go 0-11 last year.

A vr -x -k- i -v Til--1-- "Coach Faust read us a letter he received in the office before we ran out on the field today," said Irish senior linebacker Bob Crable, who should be voted an honorary member of the LSU backfield since he spent so much time in it Saturday. "The letter was from an LSU fan from down south and he said we were an overrated team that couldn't win the big games. Hearing something like that really gets you fired up. We just wanted to take it to them." Which is precisely what the Irish did. They took LSU left, right, down the middle, wide, long and short to the tune of 376 yards total offense.

In the first half, Notre Dame's offense had so many people in the backfield in motion that you had to double check the Irish sideline and make sure basketball coach Digger Phelps wasn't Faust's offensive coordinator. LSU cornerback James Britt claimed the motion didn't bother the Tigers. "Notre Dame ran a lot of trick stuff on us, but we were expecting it," he said. "We just had a few breakdowns here and there. They were faster than they looked on the film." Notre Dame couldn't have been any bigger, both offensively and defensively, than they were on film, "On a sweep, they just brought everybody around and took all they could," said Tommy (AP Loserphoto) Faust exhorts his team.