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Pitt carves up Temple 35-0 statistics opening period, two to Central Bucks West flanker iw 53 Barry Compton, after Temple fumbled deep in its ysrdage 14.fJ territory. The Owls had only one serious scoring threat, pssej ''intercepted' 'HyZZZZZZi 4 taking the ball at the Pitt 23 when punter Dave Hepler i t0 1xs was smothered after taking a high snap from center, Yards penalized 70 .25 Dut three plays later linebacker Rich Kraynak made a By COULT AUBREY shoestring interception at his 8. Call-Chronicle Sports Writer That was one of only four times the Owls got to PHILADELPHIA In a performance less than cross midfield against the tough Pitt defense. They syrupy but nonetheless sweet, collegiate football's No. 1 reached the 49 in the first period, got to the 42 in the team carved up a pre-Thanksgiving Owl instead of a third and reached the 45 in the final minute of play, turkey yesterday and claimed an almost automatic spot They also contributed to their mediocrity with in the Jan.

1 Sugar Bowl against defending national seven fumbles, five of them lost, champion Georgia. "We are delighted to accept a bid to play in the Pittsburgh quarterback Dan Marino found out that Sugar Bowl against the defending national champions," major surgery in the swirling wind of Veterans Stadium Coach Jackie Sherrill told newsmen in the crowded is a risk by throwing four interceptions, but he Pittsburgh locker sure we'll play well, countered those with four touchdown passes as the "This is a great football team, as great as last Panthers shut out Temple 35-0 for their 10th victory of year's and Pittsburgh teams before that. The difference the season and third in a row without yielding a this year is that everybody has worked hard and has touchdown. rr Three of the five Panther touchdowns came in the Please See PITT Page C8 State rallies to beat Irish statistics nou mu State football history, but none more timely. With the Rirshiwni di in mi discomfort of last week's disappointment against Ala- h2 bama still lurking in and around these mountains (and pSsS "i'ntwMp'tid "by "'i elsewhere) a win was imperative, especially against the Fumltei iOTt likes of Notre Dame off-season or not.

Yrd 25 Add the fact that Penn state squandered a 10-point lead, the victory doubled the Nittany Lions' pleasure. See Related Story on C3 First, listen to the defense, which delivered a mighty stand at the 3 with 10: 43 left: By JOHN KUNDA "On the goal line stand," said defensive end Rich Executive Sports Editor D'Amico, "we just knew we had to get tough and get UNIVERSITY PARK A good part of what Penn down on them and fire out to stop them right there. We State was expected to be surfaced in the last quarter wanted the seniors to leave Beaver Stadium with their yesterday and, like magic, the sting of Miami and heads up." Alabama was rubbed away in the cold, bleak confines of Now, a word from the offense, which put together Beaver Stadium. an 82-yard drive for the clinching score with 3: 48 left: The defense opened the final act and the offense "We wore them down and were able to do the little closed it all in a matter of 11 minutes and the things that we did," said tailback Jon Williams, the Nittany Lions had themselves a 24-21 victory over Notre offensive star with a 192-yard game. "Personally, I Dame and a berth in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's played a good game, but that was due to the offensive Day against Southern Cal.

line. The holes were there today and the offensive line There have been more significant wins in Penn Please See PENN STATE Page C8 SUNDAY CALL-CHRONICLE SPORTS SCORES 8206550 OUTDOORS TELEVISION SECTION C7 NOVEMBER 22, 1981 1 1 Collegiate bowl games at a glance Leopards' defense ruins Engineers' bid to reach playoffs STATISTICS Uf 17 97 164 19-37 3 9-36 1 54 Lth 13 58 95 11-29 0 9-31 0 26 First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Jan. 1 Pasadena, CA Iowa vs. Washington offense team in the nation in Division 1-AA, not only didn't get into Lafayette territory during the second half, it didn't get beyond its own 40-yard line. Mark Sitar, Lehigh's fine offensive center, summed it up: "We just couldn't get anything going.

We'd get a first down or two and then they'd just stuff us." Lafayette's secondary drew three pass interference penalties, but that was more an indication of how tight the coverage was than of any difficulties the defensive backs were encountering. Russo gave credit to assistant coach Joe Sarra "for just an outstanding job of coming up with a defensive game plan" to stop Lehigh's passing attack. Not that the Engineers were doing much on the ground, either. Middle guard Tony Green saw to that and defensive end Joe Calhoun hurried and harassed Lehigh quarterback Larry Michalski into his weakest performance of the See LEOPARDS Page C4 "This (Lehigh-Lafayette) game needed some balance for the sake of the rivalry, Russo said afterward. "The tradition needed for us to do this.

Just making it a close game wouldn't have been good enough." Well, maybe the guys in Brown might have preferred a close game that went their way, since the loss undoubtedly cost Lehigh a Lambert Cup and a post-season playoff berth a spot that obviously was on Russo's mind. He told the reporters surrounding him in a brief, but raucous post-game celebration, "I wish one of you guys would say something to the people on the Division 1-AA selection There's no denying he has a point. If Lehigh would have been certain to go to the playoffs with a 9-2 record, and just two losses to Colgate and New Hampshire, why not Lafayette? Certainly the Leopards proved yesterday that they wouldn't embarrass themselves against top-notch competition. That's exactly what they were up against and they came through in style. Lehigh, which came into the game as the top total Jan.

1 Miami, FL By TERRY LARIMER Call-Chronicle Sports Writer Bill Russo may be remembered at Lafayette as the man who brought respectability back to the football program, but at Lehigh he's going to be remembered as the man who put the word rivalry back into the Lehigh-Lafayette game. The first-year coach of the Leopards left no doubt in the minds of anyone in the capacity crown of 19,000 in Taylor Stadium yesterday that his team's 9-2 record this season was no fluke as it buried Lehigh on its own end of the field and pulled off a 10-3 win that made Maroon a fashionable color again. Clemson vs. Nebraska Jan. 1 New Orleans, LA Georgia vs.

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Unnamed llfFIlClil Dec. 31 Atlanta, GA By TED MEIXELL Call-Chronicle Sports Writer As the years pass, those who keep close watch over the Lafayette-Lehigh football rivalry will probably insist on calling the Leopards' convincing 10-3 win in yesterday's 117th renewal at Taylor Stadium an upset. But the Leopards, from rookie head coach Bill "Messiah" Russo on down to the assistant waterboy, are having none of that. "People kept saying that we didn't beat anybody that was very tough," Russo shouted over the lockerroom din as he launched his Division 1-AA playoff lobbying effort. "How good could we be, they wanted to know.

I think today we played a great football team and you saw the results. If people don't respect us now as a very good football team, they never will. Make no mistake, he was right on the money. Lafayette IS a very good football team. But until yesterday area fans and, yes, the media had looked upon Lafayette as merely a much-improved team, an exciting team to watch.

But, they felt, the Leopards hadn't improved enough to knock off Lehigh, especially on its own turf. "Hey," they liked to say, "Lafayette's better. But not THAT much better." What follows simply begs to be said, so let's get right to it. Lafayette's victory yesterday was no fluke. The Leopards dominated play at the line of scrimmage.

They stuffed Lehigh's ground game completely. They defensed the famed Larry Michalski-to-Dan Ryan passing combo as it had never been defensed before. And the offense, led by MVP quarterback Frank Novak and a determined offensive line, moved the ball well enough to keep it in Lehigh territory throughout the second half and punch across the winning touchdown with 9:11 left. AGAINST the wind, a wind that had, until then, been a huge factor. Lafayette beat Lehigh 10-3 because well, doggone it, because it was a better football team than Lehigh.

Lehigh would almost certainly have gotten a postseason bid had it won. Although it might not happen, the Leopards showed convincingly that they deserve the same consideration. And, to a man, they said so. "I hope we get in," Novak said, "and I certainly feel we've gotta' get some backing for it. We went toe to toe with those guys and we beat 'em, not just on the scoreboard, but statistically and physically." Senior linebacker George Wilson who, like all his defensive cohorts played brilliantly, added, "We felt right from the beginning of the game that we were in control, there was no doubt in our minds that we'd win.

When we made them go three downs and punt on their first series. See LAFAYETTE Page C4 W. Virginia vs. Unnamed Dec 12 Shreveport LA Okla. State vs.

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