Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • 53

democrat Oklahoma State loses 2D Irish, Bama upset 3D Happy ending for FSU 4D Sunday, September 18, 1977 Tribe runs streak to five in row, 18-10 By BILL McGROTHA Dtmocral sports tdjtor MANHATTAN, Kans. Larry Key ran for 120 yards and became the first Florida State football player ever to go over the 2,000 mark in career yardage. But once again it was defense that did it as the Seminoles struggled to an 18-10 victory over a rather aroused Kansas State team here 'f -ul" -V" li i-ui in im) i umiiiiiiiiii.i. W'-' in hi, Vm I tVv' I r' Seminoles get big welcome Florida State's victorious football team was welcomed home Saturday night by something like 1,500 fans who swarmed in and around the airport. The team got back from its 18-10 triumph at Kansas State about 10:30, some 45 minutes later than scheduled.

Fans shouted and ran? cow AP Florida State's Larry Key turns on the speed to get around eager Kansas State defenders senior tailback rushes for 120 yards to pass the 2, 000-yard career rushing mark home cop By LARRY AMISON Democrat sports writer Florida University continued its mastery over Albany State here Saturday night, jumping out front by 12 points at halftime, then holding on for a 22-7 victory as a heavy rain made the going tough in the final two periods at Bragg Stadium. The 2-0 Rattlers, playing before the home folk for the first time this year, scored the second time they got their hands on the ball, but it took a sparkling fourth-down play to do it. Then late in the opening quarter they made it a 13-0 game with another fourth-down scoring play. Gators Saturday aiternoon. Futile on offense in the face of FSU's swarming defenders, but not so sorry on defense itself, Kansas State lost its 12th straight as a crowd of 26,200 partisans mourned on a strange-weather afternoon that saw it hot, muggy, windy and overcast.

It even rained hard for a brief period in the second quarter. For Coach Bobby Bowden's Seminoles it was a fifth straight triumph, extending back through the last three of 76. Not since 71 had Florida State won five straight. It was a game that went on and on three full hours. Turnovers, penalties, injuries, lots of passing and an unaccountable delay or two drug it out.

Now the Seminoles, off to a 2-0 start, look to a first home game Saturday against Miami. It could be a sellout, or something close to that. This victory followed the script of last week's 35-6 success at Southern Mississippi. Defense held the fort, until the offense finally produced its typically late show. It was a defense that restricted K-State to just seven first downs and 173 total yards.

It was a defense that still has not yielded a touchdown this season. K-State got its touchdowaagainst the offense, on a blocked punt. got the points on a two-yard quarterback draw. Early in the third period FAMU wrapped up the scoring with a 29-yard Reinhard field goal. Albany State, which saw its record fall to 1-1, had a couple of scoring opportunities in the second half, but (See FAMU, page 6D) Albany State 0700 7 Florida 13 630 22 FAMU Bogins 34 pass from Chester (Reinhard kick) FAMU Douglas 2 pass from Chester (Kirk blocked) FAMU James 2 run (run failed) Albany Bunche covers blocked punt in end zone (Johnson kick) FAMU Reinhard 29 field goal Robert James Miurwn Panus home opener last week.

Tech's defense intercepted Baker three times and the Jackets had two fumble recoveries, with two of those turnovers setting up missed field goal tries by Dassel of 34-yards each, the first of which was blocked. t22-7 fumbling Owls imiTCIVMVT ITrT i HOUSTON (UPD bells until the last Seminole was aboard buses that took the players to their apartments. And it was a defense that was led again by nose guard Ron Simmons and linebacker Jimmy Heggins, though there were timely contributions by virtually everybody back there. End Willie Jones made a couple of big plays in critical circumstances. For awhile, it looked like a scoreless tie.

Then just before halftime, nose guard Greg Brown, who once signed a scholarship with Florida State but then slipped away, tore through to block a Bill Duley punt. The line of scrimmage was at the 50. Brown picked up the rolling ball at the six and romped in for a touchdown that put the home team ahead 7-0. On its second series of the third quarter, Florida State changed that. A Duley punt had backed the Kansans to their two.

When they kicked out of the hole, Florida State got the ball at the Wildcats' 38. Four plays later soph quarterback Jimmy Jordan passed nine yards to a Yardstick Florida St.Kansas St. First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 19 7 42-179 225 73 16-37-2 10-40 4-3 6-49 48-101 72 94 4-22-2 14-38 0-0 4-37 wide-open Mike Shumann for the touchdown. Surprisingly, the Seminoles went for two points, Jordan again hitting Shumann, making it 8-7. In the early going of the last quarter K-State regained the lead, 10-8 on a 19-yard field goal by Kris Thompson.

An interception of a Jordan pass had put K-State in position at FSU's 48. With 6:58 to go in the game the Seminoles capped an 80-yard movement with Dave Cappelen's 27-yard field goal, moving back up 11-10. Then, with 2:27 left, Jordan hit Shumann at the goal line with a 26-yarder. The touchdown climaxed a 61-yard drive. -I Only 5-for-19 in the first half, Jordan was U-for-18 on passes after intermission.

He got 225 yards out of his 1 6 completions in 37 attempts. Two injured Seminoles, wide re-- ceiver Kurt Unglaub and tight end Greg Lazzaro, played not at all in this one. They should be ready for Miami, but two others starters may not be. Defensive tackle Abe Smith and offensive tackle Tom Rushing came down with knee injuries that may be severe. Florida State awaits doctors' reports today.

Reserve defensive tackle Jerry Mindlin twisted an ankle, and so did Simmons, but those injuries did not appear to be all that serious Saturday night. Key got his 120 yards in 24 carries. His exact career total now is 2,018. K-State got spectacular defensive play from linebacker Gary Spani, who roamed all over. Among other things, he recovered two fumbles and intercepted a pass.

Florida State netted 363 yards on offense. But the Seminoles lost three fumbles, had two passes swiped, drew binding penalties and had that punt blocked. Jordan had trouble with his timing on passes into that wind. He over threw some. He had some dropped.

Shumann caught five for 108 (See SEMINOLES, page 6D) Florida St. 0 0 I 10-18 Kansas St. 0 7 0 3- 10 Kansas St. Brown 50 return block punt (Thompson kick) Florida St. Shumann 9 pass from Jordan (Shuman, pass from Jordan) Kansas St.

FG Thompson 19 Florida St. FG Cappelen 27 Florida St. Schumann 36 pass from Jor-: dan (Cappelen kick) INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Flordla Key 24-120. Kansas Lovely 19-79. PASSING Florida Jordan 16-37-2, 225.

Kansas Henrikson 4-22-2, 72. RECEIVING Florida Schumnn 5-108, Flowers 4-43, Key 3-32. Kansas C. Green 1-25, Lovely 1-22 sidestepped a would-be tackier and streaked to the Rams' ten-yard line. He was denied a touchdown when an Albany State player barely got an arm on one leg around the 25-yard line.

He stumbled for 15 yards trying to regain his balance, but finally fell. Chester, on third down from the ten, threw to Chris Douglas at the two, then teammed with the former Godby player again on fourth down for the remaining distance. Freshman Gif ord Ramsey picked off a Ricky Alexander punt in the second quarter and returned it 55 yards to the Albany State 21, from which point the Rattlers scored their third TD in seven plays. Reserve Robert James in on FAMU quarterback The second TD was the result of a dazzling 50-yard punt return by freshman Sammy Knight, the hero at God-by High last season when the Cougars won the state Class 4A championship. The FAMU lead was increased to 19-0 before Albany finally got on the board with just 47 seconds left in the half.

And it was an error that allowed the Rams to do it even then. Knight, standing in his end zone to punt, got a poor snap from center and the kick was blocked and recovered by Albany's Curtis Bunche for a touchdown. THE FIRST Rattler touchdown came on a 34-yard pass from Albert Chester to Kenny Bogins with 7:20 left bomb Florida Dlaved four auarterharks as freshman Jim McClellan played the last half of the fourth quarter. Split end Chandler caught four passes for 64 yards and quarterback LeCount ran for 90 yards on seven carries to lead the Gators offense leaders. Rice running back Earl Cooper, who rushed for 167 yards in Rice's season opener one week ago, gained only 64 yards on 19 carries against the stiff Gators' defense.

Cooper lost three fumbles, and all three times Florida scored. Florida drove 79 yards on its game-opening possession, but when that drive failed to produce any points due to a fumble, the Gators disdained ball control for big plays. Rice's Cooper was forced to fumble twice early in the second quarter. The first fumble rolled into the Rice end zone and Dupree recovered. Moments later the Gators converted another fumble recovery into a 51-yard Yepremian field goal and a 10-3 lead.

Late in the second quarter sophomore John Brantley replaced LeCount at quarterback and drove his team 63 yards to a touchdown. Wil-der's 43-yard run around left end kept the drive. LeCount returned to the game with time running out in the half and scrambled 52 yards to the Rice nine yard line. Three plays later, with nine seconds left and no more time outs, LeCount threw a four-yard scoring pass to Chandler. Yardstick Albany St.

First downs it Rushes-yards 34-74 Passing yards 90 Return yards 16 Passes (Ait-CimMnle.) 22-9-2 Punts-average Fumbles-lost 2-1 Penalties-yards 3-25 FAMU 16 63-223 47 97 9-4-1 3-3 8-93 in the first quarter. Chester had just overthrown a receiver on third down, but the bullet to Bogins was right on the money and Herb Reinhard booted the extra point to make it 7-0. Late in the period Knight gathered in a punt (from former Rickards High player Eddie Davis) at the Albany 40, Defenders close Gary Lanier going the final 14 yards 'it- I a wun ien in me quarter. Drew Hill set up the touchdown with a 16-yard scamper on an end reverse to the Miami 18. One minute later, Baker fumbled a snap and Colbert recovered at the 1 rriiti mm- dux nawers -rx XT' ft fjl i's I inyt- tMumJ fcnn it mi Runnintr har-l Willie Wilder and split end Wes Chandler each scored two touchdowns Saturday night to help the big-play Florida Gators open their season with a 48-3 victory over the fumbling Rice Owls.

The Gators converted four fumbles into scores and the first one was the easiest. Defensive end Michael DuPree fell on a fumble in Rice's end zone to score. Dupree's touchdown overcame an early 3-0 Rice lead and started the Gators' offensive stampede. Quarterback Terry LeCount threw touchdown passes of four and 19 yards to Chandler, Wilder scored on sprints of 46 and five yards, and Berj Yepremian booted 51- and 47-yard field goals. With the Gators' regulars sitting on the bench in the fourth quarter, third-team quarterback Cris Cullin-sworth threw a 99-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Gaffney.

SPORTS on the air Buffa, Bill vs. Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m., WSB Channel 2, WALB Channel 10, WMBB Channel 13; Atlanta Falcons vs. Los Angeles Rams, 1 p.m., WCTV Channel Dallas Cowboys vs. Minnesota Vikings, 4 p.m., WCTV Channel 6. TENNIS Grand Prix, 2 p.m., WFSU Channel 11.

BASEBALL Atlanta Braves vs. Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 p.m WTCG Channel 17. Miami ATLANTA (AP) Georgia Th turned a pass interception by Reggie Wilkes and a fumble recovery by Freeman Colbert into a touchdown and field goal within a five-minute span of the third quarter and went on to defeat Miami of Florida 10-6 in a college football game Saturday night. Iv wnip Albany 22-7 in errors lead to 10-6 Tech win The two teams hart slncheH nn the Miami 21, but the Hurricane defense held at the three and Tech had to settle for Mike Dassel's 20-yard field goal with 7:30 left in the quarter. The victory squared Tech's record at 1-1 and Miami dropped to 0-2, having lost a 10-0 decision to Ohio State slippery artificial turf to a scoreless deadlock until Wilkes picked off a pass by E.

J. Baker and returned it nine yards to the Hurricane 34. It took the Yellow Jackets only three plays to score with quarterback 1.