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pider Trip Gobblers Rout VMI Wolf, Defense Spur Win VPPs Lewis Sets Standard SPORTS Dailn press VMI 14 3212 3 1 10-29-2 34 1-1 1-25 VPI 27 1-351 171 31 10-22-0 4- 14 1-1 5-42 First downs Rushevvards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts FumbKrvtosI Penalties-yards Section 19, 1978 Richmond 12 56-229 59 -J 4 12-0 9-40 4 3 4 SO WM 0 43-01 79 10 9-22-1 11-35 3-0 S-31 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards fS .1, By GEORGE WATSON Daily Press Sports Writer RICHMOND The State of Virginia cannot claim a Division I football team with a winning record this Fall. The University of Richmond saw to that Saturday afternoon. With the excellent punting of Kevin Wolf and fine all-around defensive play keeping William and Mary bottled up in the shadow of its goal most of the day, Richmond came away with a season-ending 17-3 victory. A City Stadium crowd of 17,500 watched under sunny skies with the temperature in the 70's as the Spiders forced the Indians to close out their campaign at 5-5-1, preventing them from becoming the only Big Five squad with a winning ledger. Besides their defensive play, the Spiders got just enough offense from quarterback James Short and tailback Jesse Williams to wind up with the triumph and a 3-8 record.

Short tossed two touchdown passes, and also escaped from the grasps of Indian tacklers on several occasions to pick up crucial first downs. Meanwhile, Williams, the world-class sprinter from Virginia Beach, carried 11 times for 90 yards. Two of his runs a 35-yard burst in the first quarter and a 25-yard romp in the third set up a Richmond touchdown and field goal, respectively. Williams' playing status was even doubtful since he had not practiced all week due to a thigh injury. The tone of the contest was set on Richmond's first possession of the football, After maneuvering to the 39, the Spiders were forced to punt.

Wolf booted the ball out of bounds at the 8, putting the Indians in a hole that they could never really escape. From that point on in the first half, started at the 20 or worse seven times, including three times inside the 10. By ED RICHARDS Daily Press Sports Writer BLACKSBURG Virginia Tech's Kenny Lewis felt more in the pink Saturday than he did like a player plagued with injuries from A-to-Z since the second game of the season. There was certainly nothing wrong with the elusive junior speedster in the INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING VMI, Washington 13-117, Clark 12-27, Allen 6-16, Hostetter 1-2. VPI, Lewis 34-223, Fitzgerald 7-62, Scott 2-26, Fuller 3-22, Casey 1-20, Rogers 2-13, Brown 1-mtnus 1, Lamie 4-minus 14.

PASSING VMI, Clark 26-102. (3; Gupetz 3-0-0, a VPI, Casey 19-0-0, 09; Lamie 3-2-0, 12. RECEIVING VMI, Weaver 1-23, Jackson 2-10. Savage 1-14, McLean 1-9, Hostetter 1-9, Woolwine 1-0. Washington 3-2.

VPI. Scott 3-80. Ballicefter 3-27, Ftmeram 2-27, Kenley 1-17. Watkins 1-12. season finale as he propelled the Gobblers to a 28-2 victory over rival Virginia Military Institute with a school record of 223 yards rushing on 34 carries.

With his super performance, Lewis climbed over the mark rushing for the season. He had gone into the game with 797 yards. Lewis, troubled with everything from, a slight shoulder injury to a hip-pointer, did everything but score a touchdown. "There was no doubt in my mind that I was going to get the 203 yards for the 1,000 (yards)," said the Danville product. "Our offensive line did a great job.

At halftime they kept telling me how many yards I needed." Lewis' final total broke Roscoe Col-See First, Page D-19 Column 3 (Staff Photo by Kenneth Silver) Except for a pass completion to the Spiders' 31 on the last play of the half, the Indians got beyond their 30 just once before intermission. That came when linebacker Steve Shull recovered an errant Short pitchout at the Spider 28. However, the Indians' offense got nowhere in three plays and Steve Libassi was wide left on a 45-yard field goal attempt. For the game, Wolf's nine punts averaged 40.8 yards, including a 63-yarder that backed the Indians to their 2 and a 53-yarder to the Richmond got the only points it really needed with 5:02 left in the first quarter when, with second-and-goal at the 7. Short rolled out left and hit tight end Tim Spriggs with the first touchdown pass of his career.

The score was set up by Williams' 35-yard scamper down the right sideline to the 9 after the Spiders had taken over at their own 49 following a 20-yard punt See Williams, Page D-ll, Columns 5-6 FIRED-UP RICHMOND DEFENSE PUTS CRUNCH ON QUARTERBACK TOMMY ROZANTZ Mark Seale Hits Tribe Star On Pass Attempt, Causing Throw To Carom Off Ken Gilliam (No. 67) Poquoson Routed By Indians Poquoson Sou First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards yards Ponts Fumbles-lost PenaKies-yards 10 52-253 123 4-7-2 37 2-2 9-89 7 35-67 22 3-19-1 63 5-40 3-2 4-40 York River District, held Southampton scoreless in the initial period, something 11 other opponents have failed to do. A fumble deep in its own territory, however, cost Poquoson a tie at George Yeager See Lawrence, Page D-9, Column 1 By MIKE KEATING Daily Press Sports Writer COURTLAND After the first quarter of the Poquoson-Southampton football game Saturday afternoon, Islander fans were ecstatic. After the first half they were excited, but by the end of the contest they were downright distraught. That was how the Group AA Region I championship showdown progressed for Poquoson from good, to bad, then to awful as the Islanders were routed Virginia Virginia Tech I 1 William Richmond Poquoson 28-0 by the Indians.

Poquoson battled the Peanut District champions admirably through the first half but was slowly worn down by the victors' awesome running attack. The Islanders, co-title holders of the Rich Spriggs 7 pass from Short (Adams Kick) FG Libassi 46 Rich FG Adams 27 Rich Jones 23 pass from Short (Adams Kick) A 17,500 VPI Scott 74 pass from Lamie (King kick) VMI Safety Lamie tackled in end zone VPI Fitzgerald 40 run (King kick) VPI Scott 5 run (King kick) VPI Fitzgerald 0 pass from Casey (King kick) A 20.000 SOU Lawrence 1 run (Lowe kick) SOU Cross 4 run (Lowe kick) SOU Lawrence 45 run (Lowe kick) SOU Cross 5 run (Lowe kick) Bowl Picture (Dec 20, Birmingham, Ala.) Hall Of Day, was chosen for the 1979 Cotton Bowl Classic to face the winner of the Southwest Conference at Dallas. The Fighting Irish's opponent most likely will be No. 6-ranked Houston, which must win only one of its two final games to gain the Cotton Bowl berth for the second time in three years. Atlantic Coast Conference champion Clemson accepted a bid to appear in the 34th annual Gator Bowl Dec.

29 at Jacksonville agairtst the' loser of the Michigan-Ohio State clash. It will be the first appearance ever in the Gator Bowl for a Big 'Ten team. Clemson will be making its fourth appearance. Arkansas and UCLA have accepted bids to play, in the Fiesta Bowl at Phoenix, officials say. The 20th annual Liberty Bowl will match 17th ranked Louisiana State of the Southeastern Conference and Mis--' souri of the Big 8 Conference; it was announced.

Maryland accepted a bid to play in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 23 after dropping a 28-24 decision to 12th-ranked Clemson. Texas was expected to be named the Tigers' Joe for the El Paso scrap. It's Iowa State against Texas. in the Hall of Fame Classic Dec.

20 at Birmingham, Ala. The 15th-ranked Purdue accepted a bid to play in the 11th Peach Bowl at Atlanta. See Three, D-ll, Columns 1-J From Wire Dispatches Saturday's college football results cleared the picture for a dozen post-season bowl games. Penn State Coach Joe Paterno accepted an invitation to bring his undefeated and top-ranked Nittany Lions to the Sugar Bowl for the New Year's Day classic against the Southeastern Conference champion in the Louisiana Super-dome at New Orleans. Fourth-ranked Oklahoma accepted an invitation to meet Big Eight foe Nebraska in this year's Orange Bowl at Miami.

The selection on a day of surprises among bowl contenders sets up the first-ever Orange Bowl clash between two Big Eight teams and will be a rematch of the Nov. 11 Oklahoma-Nebraska game, which Nebraska won 17-14. Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer said his players decided to accept an Orange Bowl offer after pasting Oklahoma State Saturday 62-7. Southern Cal's thrashing of UCLA propelled the Trojans into the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, on New Year's Day against' the winner of next Saturday's Michigan-Ohio State shootout determining the Big, Ten's champion or co-champion. Michigan State, also in the title picture, finishes against Iowa at the same time, but is ineligible for a bowl Tenth-ranked Notre Dame, which defeated the Texas Longhorns for the national championship last New Year's Sugar Accepted By Penn State; Orange Unique Texas AM (6-3-0) vs.

Iowa State (8-3-0), 0 o.m. HotMa.Y Bol (Dec. 22, San Diego, Calif.) Brtgham Young (7-2-0) vs. ftavv J-3-0), 9 e-m. 3 Bowl (Dec.

23, El Paso, Tex.) Maryland (0-2-0) vs. Tens (7-24), 12:30 p.m. liberty Baml (Dec. 23, Memphis, Tenn.) Missouri (7-4-0) vs. LSU (6-2-0), n.m.

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team la be determined. 1 p.m. Ftotta Bowl (Dec. 25, Tempo," Ariz.) UCLA 0-3-0) vs. Arkansas (7-2-0), 2:30 o.m.

tjvjuor Bowl (Dec. 29, Jacksonville, Fla.) Clemson (9-1-0) v. Big Ten runner-up, 9 p.m. (oUM Bowl, (Jan. 1, Dallas, Tex.) Notre dame (0-2-O) vt.

SWC champion, I Softar Bowl (Jan. 1, New Orleans, La.) Pom State (10-04) vs. SEC champion, 2 Roue Bowl (Jan. 1, Pasadena, Calif.) Big Ten winner vs. Southern Cal (9-1-0), 5 P-m.

t' Oraajfe Bowl (Jan. 1, at Miami, Fla.) Nebraska (9-2-0) vt. Oklahoma (10-1-0), I p.m. JT inH'TWill I owerm Overp gJlliaCKblTIS Clemson To ACC Crown Clemson 20 01-230 8-17-0 6-30 3-1 12-90 Maryland It 51-269 83 6 9-16-0 9-36 1-0 S-32 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards N.C. State's Ted Brown against Syracuse.

A jubilant crowd, which included a reported 10,000 Clemson rooters, may have thought that broke the back of the invaders, but Fuller promptly took the Tigers on a nine-play march for 89 yards, culminated by Fuller's pitch to leaping Dwight Clark who caught it at the Terps' 40 and cashed it in for a 62-yard TD. That knotted the game at 21-all with only 55 seconds remaining of the third quarter. Then, with just 3:53 elapsed in the final period, Fuller launched the game-winning drive of 70 Maryland drew first blood with 0:47 See Tigers, D-10, Columns 1-2 By CHARLES KARMOSKY Daily Press Sports Editor COLLEGE PARK, MD. Clemson rose twice to the heights in one fell swoop Saturday afternoon, riding an overpowering offense to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship its sixth plus a share of another and earning an encore junket to the Gator Bowl. The Tigers from Columbia, S.C., with quarterback Steve Fuller again at the throttle, flaunted its nationally fourth-ranked ground-gaining machine through the last three quarters to shake off stubborn Maryland 28-24 and.

nail down their first crown since 1967. It wasn't easy, though. The Tigers, ranked No. 12 in college football's two major polls, had to come from behind three times to deadlock the No. 13 Terps before.

Fuller directed their shortest touchdown drive of the day 70 yards to lift (he South Carolinians on top to stay. Hard-running Lester Brown bolted to the game-clinching TD from five yards out with just 7:30 to go, bis 14th scoring run of the season to keep him one in front of Fuller, who registered his 13th to climax Clemson's first scoring march which tied the Terps 7-7. The Terps, who really didn't go away empty-handed since they also accepted a post-season bid to appear in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 23, came roaring back and drove to Clemson's 11 with the help of a pass interference penalty, but the Tigers' defense made them settle for a meaningless field goal by Ed Tides Set Here Loncar from 35 yards away. With 20 yards to negotiate a first down needed to keep the Terps rolling goalward for a TD and hoped-for two-point conversion, Coach' Jerry Claiborne explained the better option was to "go for the field goal and try to get the ball back with an onsides kick." Obviously, the strategy proved fruitless.

As a result, the Terps go on to a possible post-campaign date with Texas while the ACC's new titlists from South Carolina "try to prove ourselves" in the Gator where last year they took a 34-3 licking from Pittsburgh. Redemption won't come any easier for the 9-1 Tigers than did Saturday's triumph, because they'll take on either Michigan or Ohio State. The victory in that Big Ten finale next Saturday goes to the Rose Bowl and the loser will be Clemson's foe. However, in dealing Maryland only its second loss in 11 games, the Tigers may have showed signs this is their' redemption year by staging TD onslaughts that covered 80, 98, 89 and 70 yards while its defense several times blunted menacing offensive bids by the doughty Terps. It was a gridiron performance worthy of the crowd of 51,376 packed with hard-hitting defense, lengthy scoring drives and two ACC records.

Ironically, both were posted by Terps. Loncar's field goal was his 16th and represents a new standard, while tailback Steve Atkins in the third quarter shook himself free from, what looked like a hopeless logjam of tacklers and raced 98 yards for six points. That dash, enabling him easily to top all rushers for the afternoon with a net of 197 yards on 28 carries, broke the previous mark of 95 set last year by In All-Star Tilt The Carolina League All-Star game in 1979 will be in Peninsula War Memorial Stadium. The opponents for the July 9 clash, however, will be the Tidewater Tides of the Triple-A International League. It had been expected that the Peninsula Pilots' parent affiliation, Philadelphia, would help bring Reading (Pa.) of the Double-A Eastern League here to face the league All-Stars.

However, it was ascertained from non-Philadelphia sources that Reading "may" appear here in early April on the way north fron Spring training. The Reading Phils are managed by former Pilot skipper Jim Snyder 1977-78) and their roster is crammed with former Pilot standouts. This will mark the second straight year in which the Tides have faced the Carolina League. Last mm (AP Lasers no to) MARYLAND'S BALL-TOTING TIM O'HARE MEETS CLEMSON'S BUBBA BROWN HEAD-ON Triumph Over terps Earns Tigers ACC Title, Trip To Gator Bowl On Dec. 29 At Jacksonville, Fla.

Tar Heels Rout Virginia 38-20 N.Carolina 25 59-333 162 73 13 20-1 3-40 3-1 10-107 Virginia 21 43-89 209 7 19-31-4 7-44 1-0 5-29 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards After freshman quarterback Todd Kirtley led the Cavaliers to their first score on a 13-play, 65-yard drive (Dan' Hottoway going in from the 1), a short punt by Russ Henderson and another interception set up two quick touch- Summer, the All-Stars triumphed 5-4 downs for North Carolina (2-3 in the ACC, 4-6 overall). Virginia's record dropped to 2-8 and 0-5 in the conference. Kirtley, who was inserted midway in the first quarter when Mickey Spady failed to get Virginia moving, came back to direct Virginia to another long scoring march, 80 yards in 16 plays. Tom Vigorito scored on one-yard plunge. It was 21-14 at intermission.

The Tar Heels took the second half kickoff and drove 72 yards with reserve quarterback Chuck Sharpe scoring his second seven-yard end run of the afternoon. See UNC, Page D-10 By TOMMY SEWARD Associate Sports Editor CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Three of North Carolina's five touchdowns came as the result of interceptions as the Tar Heels went on to drub the University of Virginia 38-20 Saturday before a Homecoming crowd of 44,000 at Kenan Stadium. In the Atlantic Coast Conference contest, North Carolina's Amos Lawrence became the third player in the league to rush for over 2,000 yards as a sophomore, reaching the 2,087 mark. The Lake Taylor High star from Norfolk carried 25 times for 131 yards, 0 6-20 14 1 Virginia North Carolina-.

a I 24 Clemson in Lynchburg before 1,258 fans. Peninsula Director of Sales Bob Neal stated that "Philadelphia and the Pilots feel for the first time in several years that the Carolina League All-Star game has the possibility to realize a profit and we feel it will entice a number of Tidewater fans here." including his first touchdown run of the season. He had a TD on a pass earlier this year. An interception early in the game set up an eventual 28-yard scoring pass from Matt Kupec to Wayne Tucker for the Tar Heels. On that play, the pass deflected off intended receiver Jim Rouse into the hands of Tucker just short of the goal line.

UNC Tucker 27 pass from Kupec (Hayes kick) VA Hottowey 1 run (kick failed) UNC Loomis 17 pass from Sharpe (Hayes kick) UNC Sharpe 7 run (Hayes kick) VA Vigorito 1 run (Grier pass from Kirtley) UNC Sharpe 7 run (Hayes kick) UNC FG Hayes 32 UNC Lawrence 2 run (Hayes kick) VA Tneiiing 33 pass from Mark (pass failed) VA Carr 22 pass Irom Jones (kick tailed) A 44.000 Mary Maddox 3 run (Loncar kick) Clem Fuller 1 run (Ariri kick) Mary Carney recovered blocked punt in end ion (Loncar kick) Clem Butler 87 pass from Fuller (Arirl kick) Mary Atkins 98 run (Loncar kick) Clem Clark 62 pass from Fuller (Arirl kick) Clem Brown 5 run (Ariri kick) Mary FG Loncar 35 A 51,376.