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6E Press Sun-Bulletin COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sunday, October 22, 1995 CPs ieffeeSe stomps Penn St. McNabb has big day i iz3 1 Fr I i 1 If; i move in 4th qt. IOWA CITY, Iowa AP) Penn State's Bobby Engram saved his heroics for the fourth quarter against Iowa. And for the third time this season, the Nittany Lions decided to do the same. Wally Richardson connected with Engram for two touchdowns in the final 15 minutes and Jon Witman scored thre times as No.

19 Penn State raN lied to beat 18th-ranked Iowa 41-27. Engram had just two receptions for 39 yards at halftimg but ended up with seven for 150 while becoming the school's career leader in TD Gannett News Service SYRACUSE The victory may have been sealed with a hit Syracuse defensive backs Kevin Abrams and Darrell Parker denying the end zone to a West Virginia rusher on ourth-and-goal from the 1 in the fourth quarter. But it was signed, Donovan McNabb. Twentieth-ranked Syracuse (6-1, 3-0) won sole possession of first place in the Big East with a 22-0 thumping of West Virginia (3-4, 2-1) before a crowd of 48,880 at the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Three plays after the goal-line stand, McNabb connected with wide receiver Marvin Harrison on a 96-yard touchdown pass, the longest in Orange history.

"That's the signature of our offense this year, fullback Terry Morris said. "We've been able to nickel and dime, nickel and dime, But our big plays have separated from the team last year." McNabb is the 18-year-old red-shirt freshman at the helm of Syracuse's big-play offense. In only his seventh start, he competed 16 of 24 for 308 yards, two 5uchdowns and one interception against the nation's ninth-rated passing defense. He also ran 20 umes for 46 yards and one TD. "Donovan McNabb is a heck of quarterback," West Virginia opach Don Nehlen said.

"It is unbelievable the way he can scramble abound. It is an amazing ability." McNabb's first TD pass almost looked routine. For him. He eluded West Virginia's rush, stepped out of a would-be tackler's grasp and threw 45 yards on the rtm to junior wideout Deon Mad-dox. That play opened a 9-0 lead and elided a 154-minute, 59-second touchdown drought against West "-Sj 1 Syracuse defensive backs Kevin Abrams and Dar- staunch defense in a 22-0 victory on Saturday after-rell Porter stop West Virginia running back Jimmy noon over the Mountaineers at the Carrier Dome.

Gary shy of the goalline, symbolic of the Orange's 16-yard, by Pitt urhcanes; squeeze rm 5 ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS Army back Adam Thompson muscles his way past BC defenders, much as the Cadets did on Saturday, 49-7. Thompson scored a TD and gained 81 yards on eight carries. aclc beat Yale (2-4). Columbia opened its season with victories over its first three Ivy League opponents for the first time since 1945. Harper ran 15 and 27 yards in the first quarter and 1 8 yards in the second period as the Lions built a 21-0 halftime lead.

Lafayette 27, Holy Cross 17: Lafayette quarterback Joe McHale struck for a pair of touchdown passes and back Jarrett Shine scored to lead the Leopards (2-4-1 in a Patriot League game at Holy Cross (1-' 6). Richmond 3, Fordham 3: Grayson Master kicked a 19-yard field goal with 10:07 remaining to lift visiting Richmond (5-1-1 to the tie in a non-league game at Ford-ham (3-4-1), of the Patriot League. Fordham scored on Bob Hagan's 35-yard field goal in the first --aaaS" t' as. run Virginia. Syracuse hadn't scored a point on the Mountaineers from Oct.

17, 1992, until Olindo Mare's career-long 50-yard field goal with 1:22 left in the first half. After breaking the plane of the goal line, it took the Orange less than two minutes to return to the end zone. McNabb capped a five-play, 63-yard drive with a 14-yard option run, his first collegiate TD on the ground. It made the score 15-0 with 5:39 left in the third quarter. West Virginia was not out of the game, however.

The Mountaineers put together a 17-play, 75-yard drive that had them on the Syracuse 1. Tailback Jimmy Gary was handed the ball, forced outside and stopped at the goal line by Abrams and Parker. The Orangemen took over on downs with 9:30 to play. "It was very important for us to avoid three-and-out," McNabb said. Facing a third-and-7 from the 4, McNabb rolled left in the end zone and spotted Harrison streaking down the sideline.

He threw it to the senior who has more receiving yards than any player in Syracuse history. "It's something we put in this week," Harrison said about the play. "Third-down-and-short, we're going to go up top." The ball flew about 60 yards. Harrison caught it over his shoulder as cornerback Mike Logan fell. Nothing but artificial turf stood in Harrison's path.

"That broke their backs," Morris said. It was payback time. The last two years, West Virginia won 43-0 and 13-0. Now the zero was on the other football team. It was Syracuse's first defensive shutout since 1991.

EAST field goals. Gonzalez, a sophomore making his first start, completed just four of 20 passes'for 100 yards and an interception against a relentless Miami pass rush. Two of Ferencik's field goals were set up by fumbled kicks by Miami's Magic Benton. The Hurricanes fumbled seven times and lost three', and Clement and freshman Scott Covington each were intercepted. Miami (3-3, 2-1 Big East) recovered to drive 80 yards oh six plays for the winning touchdown, with Clement throwing five straight times before Ferguson scored on IVY, PATRIOT LEAGUES two touchdowns, closing out the scoring with a 75-yard touchdown run on third-and-2 with 1:31 left to play.

Mateo finished with 137 yards on six catches, Smith had 100 yards on 16 carries and Joyce finished 15 of 31 for 261 yards. Dartmouth 35, Colgate 14: Greg Smith ran for two touchdowns and scored another on a 35-yard pass play in the first period in leading Dartmouth (4-2) of the Ivy League to victory over Colgate (0-6) of the Patriot League. Dartmouth scored four times in the opening period in defeating dominates victory With 10 minutes left in the quarter, James Gambino caught San-zo's 14-yard touchdown pass with a leaping grab in the corner of the end zone. Seven minutes later, Sanzo and freshman Ben Johnson connected on a 79-yard touchdown bomb. Johnson caught Sanzo's pass at midfield and raced down the right sideline for the score.

Gambino led Cortland with seven catches for 99 yards, while junior tailback Romel Griggs led the ground attack with 74 yards rushing on 12 carries. Cortland held Newport News Apprentice (1-7) to 161 total yards. Cortland State hosts Washington and Jefferson, the top-ranked team in the South Region, Saturday at 1:30 p.m. on before intermission. The Hokies broke open the game in the third quarter, scoring on three of their first four possessions.

14: Reserve quarterback Ben Fay scored twice on 1-yard sneaks as Navy j-4) rallied to beat visiting Villanova (2-5). Tim Cannada's 7-yard run gave the Middies a 20-7 lead with 4:39 left in the game. Elsewhere: Massachusetts (4-3) used a dominating ground game and stubborn defense to beat visiting William Mary (5-3) 20-9. The game-sealer for UMass was a 14-yard run by quarterback Anthony Catterton in the fourth quarter, coming eight plays after a fumble recovery on the William Mary 32. UMass led 14-3 at halftime.

2) beat visiting Brown (3-3) in an Ivy League game. Penn came within a point of the Ivy League record for most points in a game, set by Brown last year in a 59-27 win over Columbia. The first of three Jeremiah Greathouse field goals put Penn up 24-0. Princeton 14, Harvard 3: Brock Harvey passed to Kevin Duffy for a pair of touchdowns and Marc Washington ran for 129 yards as Princeton (6-0) won at Harvard (1-5) in an Ivy League game. It was Harvard's 10th loss in 11 home games under a second-year coach, Tim Murphy.

Harvey put the Tigers in front to stay with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Duffy in the first period. John Harper scored three first-half touchdowns as Columbia (3-2-1) later to help even the game at 7-7 in the first quarter. The Bombers moved ahead for good late in the second quarter when Weidman's pass was tipped by senior tight end Jim Betz and caught by flanker Cory West for a 20-yard scoring play. Weidman had Ithaca ahead 26-7 by the end of the third quarter after throwing 8- and 13-yard touchdown passes to Jeff Higgins. Freshman quarterback Mike O'Donovan, in for Weidman in the fourth quarter, connected with fellow freshman Keith Bonser for an 11 -yard scoring play.

Higgins caught eight passes for 122 yards. Connolly led the defense with five tackles, including three quarterback sacks. receptions with 27, two more than Kenny Jackson (1980-83). "You may not be on top of your game every day" Engram said. "That happened to me today.

It's just Bobby Engram one of those days I was a little bit off and some things weren't going my way." Iowa coach Hayden Fry figured Engram would break loose sooner or later. "Little Bobby Engram is just unbelievable. He's just a great football player," Fry said. "That was the best I've seen Penn State play all year. They have improved in a lot of categories just since last week." Penn State beat Purdue a week ago by rallying in the final minutes, a tactic it also used against Texas Tech earlier this year.

"It's a team that really feels it can do that," Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. "And that's half the battle. 'T think we're still learning to be a football team. We're just not as smooth as we should be," he said. The Nittany Lions (5-2, 2-2 Big Ten) defeated Iowa (5-1, 2-1) for the sixth consecutive time at Kinnick Stadium.

Richardson, a 62-percent passer, was 10 of 24 for 202 yards and an interception, but his 13-yarder to Engram deep in the left corner of the end zone snapped a 27-27 tie with 6:07 remaining. Matt Sherman, 21 of 28 for a career-high 374 yards and two toucnaowns, arove tne Hawkeyes 30 yards to midfield on the ensuing possession. But his pass to Scott Slutzker was picked oil by Kim Herring Sherman's first interception in 100 passes and the Nittany Lions took over at their 39. Four plays later, Richard- i son and Engrain hooked up on a 43-yard TD pass to put the game away with 3:09 to play. Zach Bromert's 22-yard field goal drew Iowa into a 17-17 tie with 8:40 left in the third quarter before a 1-yard touchdown plunge by Witman on Penn State's next series capped a 73-yard drive to give the Nittany Lions a 24-17 lead.

Witman also had two 1-yard TD runs in the first half. Bromert answered with 826-yard field goal to cut the margin to 24-20 with 4:33 left in the third quarter. The Hawkeyes took a 27-24 lead on Sedrick Shaw's 19-yard rufl around right end 12 seconds into the final period. run gave Hartwick a 19-12 lead with5 10:48 left in the game. Greg Spencer's kick was wide for his sec ond straight extra-point missf jor? the day.

,1 Three minutes earlier, Rensse laer had closed the gap to 13-12' when McGovern scored from the. 1. David Kohler's extra-point kick: failed after a bad snap. RPI scored first in the marching 65 yards on its opening! drive. Marc Barnes found Chris-Reigle for a 10-yard touchdown? The extra-point kick failed.

McGovern finished the day with! 96 yards rushing on 26 carries. After an off week, Hartwick returns to action a week from Sat- urday at Hobart. W7 beaten by tehigh's 5-TO third-and-7. Army 49, Boston College 7: Ronnie McAda ran for two TDs and threw for a third as Army (2-3-1) won at Boston College (2-5). It was 42-0 at the half.

McAda ran for 117 of Army's 272 yards in the first half. The Cadets capitalized on five Boston College turnovers on consecutive possessions. Virginia Tech 45, Rutgers 17: Jim Druckenmiller threw for two touchdowns during a 24-point burst as Virginia Tech (5-2) posted its fifth straight win, at Rutgers (1-5). Trailing 10-7, the Hokies took control with an eight-play, 62-yard drive, going ahead for good on a 7-yard scoring pass from Druckenmiller to Bryan Still six seconds Colgate for the first time since 1949. Smith, son of ex-NFL receiving great Jackie Smith who was in the stands carried 15 times for 113 yards, including 104 in the first half.

Dartmouth scored three times in the final 4:22 of the first period. Smith leaped over from the 1-yard line; Ambrose Garcia circled the right side on a 22-yard scoring run; and Smith gathered a swing pass from Jon Aljancic and sprinted 35 yards for his third touchdown. Colgate's two touchdowns came on an 8-yard pass from Mark Lin-dell to Corey Hill and a 3-yard run by Daymon Smith. Ian Prisuta flipped to J.J. Hope for the two-point conversion.

Penn 58, Brown 21: Mark DeRosa threw three touchdown passes in the first half as Penn (4- The Associated Press Danyell Ferguson fooled Pitt with a 16-yard touchdown run on an apparent passing situation with 5:49 remaining and Miami pver-; Jame five turnovers to rally for a' j7-16 victory Saturday. Ryan Clement, benched for several second-half series in Miami ooach Butch Davis' new quarter- Hack rotation, was 4-for-5 for 49 Jards on the decisive drive as Miami odged a near upset by Pitt for the second consecutive season. I Pitt (2-6, 0-4 Big East), a 17-12 frser at Miami last season, used a Succession of Miami mistakes and muffed kicks to lead most of the game on quarterback Pete Gonzalez's 2-yard touchdown run and freshman Chris Ferencik's three The Associated Press I Rabih Abdullah ran for a career-ftigh 266 yards and five touchdowns $3 lead Lehigh to its third straight victory, 34-23, over Cornell Saturday at Bethlehem, Pa. Abdullah, who carried the ball 22 times, scored on touchdown runs 0f 75, 55, 52, 20 and 15 yards in the game between Lehigh of the Patri-et League and the Ivy League's Big Red (3-3). Cornell went ahead 14-0 on a 71-ard touchdown pass from Steve Joyce to Ron Mateo and a 7-yard touchdown run by Terry Smith.

But Abdullah scored the next hree touchdowns to put the Engineers (5-2) ahead. Smith's second touchdown run made it 21-20 before John Rodin's 24-yard field eoal gave the Big Red the lead back. Abdullah then added his final Cortland St. With shutout Cornel! i 2-point conversion lifts RPI over Hartwicfe Bombers strike by air in beating Montclair From staff and wire reports 1 1 Senior quarterback Steve Sanzo threw for 242 yards and two touch From staff and wire reports ITHACA Neal Weidman threw for 210 yards and three touchdowns to lead Ithaca to a 34-7 victory over Montclair State on Saturday at rain-soaked Butterfield Stadium. Weidman completed 18 of 33 passes in setting a school single-season record for passes attempted (219).

He also moved into sixth on Ithaca's career passing yardage list with 1,667 total yards. Ithaca (3-3) took a 7-0 lead in the first quarter on a 1-yard touchdown plunge by Scott Connolly, a defensive end who joined the Bombers' offense for the play. The Red Hawks (2-4) returned the ensuing kickoff 57 yards to the Ithaca 25. Mike Green's 20-yard touchdown run followed two plays From staff and wire reports Dan McGovern's two-point conversion run following his 12-yard touchdown scamper with 3:41 left gave Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a 20-19 college football victory Saturday at Hartwick. Hartwick (3-4) threatened on the ensuing kickoff when A.J.

Pittori-no returned the ball 53 yards to the Engineers' 33. The Hawks drove to the 7-yard line, but with 1:38 to play Pittorino fumbled and Rensselaer recovered. The Engineers (4-2) then ran out the clock. McGovern's run capped a 10-play, 67-yard drive that began with 9:55 left in the fourth quarter. McGovern ran into the end zone a Rensselaer tackle for the successful conversion.

Pittorino's 36-yard touchdown downs to lead Cortland State to a 28-0 college football victory over Newport News Apprentice on Saturday afternoon in Newport News, Va. Cortland State (5-1-1), ranked fourth in the latest NCAA Division III East Region coaches poll, jumped out to a 7-0 lead with 9:44 left in the first quarter on a 1-yard touchdown run by senior fullback Bruce Hedlund. The Red Dragons struck again with 8:48 left before halftime when Omar Darling scored from 15 yards. Sanzo added to the Hawks' 14-0 halftime lead with two touchdown passes in the third quarter..