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The play's no pMze 1 but it woe for llHiiWlinWfH! mm; ii'-i'r iJ- The mumi News Saturday, September 19, 1970 Section nil. 'A nilHIMMiaBilffl lllHilBBIIIilllllllliilllilBIHIlSIW ji Nw i. 4 A Jl. (4 vx I I By CHARLIE NOBLES Miiml Newt Reporter The play won't win any prizes for originality. University of Miami calls it a two overset, a passing play with two receivers running patterns on the same side of the field.

But William Mary could not cope with it last night and Miami opened its 1970 season with its highest first-game point production in Charlie Tate's seven seasons as head coach. The Hurricanes made ridiculous mistakes and spectacular plays in beating little William Mary, 36-14, before 27,286 at the Orange Bowl. Previously, Miami's most productive opening under Tate was the 28 points the Hurricanes scored in 1968 against Northwestern. "We killed them on that play," said Kelly Cochrane, who completed 21 of 32 passes for 271 yards and three touchdowns. "1 had that play all night long." Cochrane's chief targets were wide receivers Joe Schmidt and Don Brennan.

Schmidt caught eight passes for 129 yards and one touchdown, a 35-yarder. And Brennan, the highly-touted junior college transfer, caught four for 72 yards, including a 10-yard touchdown. Still, this wasn't a breezing victory for the Hurricanes, who suffered a whopping 128 yards in penalties, lost two of five fumbles and gave William Mary one of its touchdowns on a twice-deflected pass. Two-thirds of the way through the second quarter, Miami trailed 14-9 and the team was booed by impatient fans. But then Schmidt won a wrestling match with William Mary's Tom Duffey for a Cochrane pass in the end zone and the Hurricanes took permanent command.

"He caught the ball and I just kind of grabbed in there," said Schmidt. "At first I didn't think he (the referee) was going to give it to Schmidt, who established the school one-game pass yard-age record last year, against Houston with 186 yards, said he was delighted to have Cochrane aim so many passes his way last night. "I've never had that many thrown to me," he said. That will likely not be a problem this season. And it was a superb junior season start for Cochrane, who last Friday completed only three of 14 passes in an intra-squad scrimmage.

How can a man look so bad one day and so good the next? "I do about 33 per cent of what goes on out there." Cochrane said. "I've got to get good protection first, then throw the ball accurately and then the receiver's got to catch it. If there's a breakdown anywhere, I won't look good. But if I get good protection, then it's a game of pitch and catch. And I think, overall, I got good protection tonight." Center Tom Turchetta, one of Miami's top bodyguards, said, "Overall, I think we did a good job tonight, but we hurt ourselves with penalties.

I don't think we can be satisfied." William Mary stayed in contention until starting quarterback Bubba Hooker left in the second quarter with an ankle injury. But one of the Indians' touchdowns was a gift from Miami. Wes Meeteer swung left on a halfback pass and Continued on Page 3B, Col. 5 Jesse James had a horse and a gun pet, giving Miami its third touchdown late in the second quarter. Schmidt holds up the ball and the official signals touchdown.

Duffey can't believe it Neither can Wally Acke. But it happened. For a sequence on how it began, see Page 3-B. Miami News Photo by JOE RIMKUS William Mary's Tom Duffey (20) had Kelly Co-chrane's pass played just right last night. He got behind receiver Joe Schmidt and took in the ball in his own end zone.

And then he lost it. Schmidt stole the ball, like a horse thief in the Old West, as the two players tumbled to the Orange Bowl car Miami News Photo Kelly Cochrane 'We killed them Bubba can 'trun or throw, but he can play quarterback JOHN CRITTENDEN Sporfs Cditor Henry Lester Hooker III, who is called Bubba, has been the leading hitter on William Mary's baseball team for the last three years. Last season, he was an All-Southern Conference outfielder. "I'd really like to play pro baseball," he said last night, "but there's one thing that I know will stop me I can't throw. My arm is so bad I know I can't throw, well enough to make it." 7 Bubba Hooker can't throw any better in the fair than he can during baseball season, but he's the quarterback for William Mary's football team.

Perhaps that explains just how bad William Mary's quarterback situation And when Hooker is injured, the situation gets worse. At the Orange Bowl last night against the University of Miami, William Mary's most consistent ground gainer was a play on which Hooker ran toward the sideline, then flipped the ball to another back as the Miami tacklers closed in on him. But each time he called the play, Hooker was hit hard. Finally, the inevitable happened he twisted an ankle. At that point, with 5:54 left in the half, William Mary led Miami, 14-9.

But Hooker didn't get back into the game and William Mary didn't score again as the Hurricanes romped 36-14. For a long time after the second half started, Hooker sat alone on the end of the William Mary bench, while his teammates crowded the sideline for a better look at the' game. Finally, the injured quarterback tried to run short sprints, attempting to loosen up the ankle, and then he went to the coach and tried to get back in the game, but was refused. He took off his shoe and stood, with his foot in a bucket of ice, calling encouragement to his replacements. When the game ended, and the teams ran off the field, Hooker limped after his teammates, but he was left far behind, and a dozen boys, in a group leaned over the box seat railing and yelled for him to throw them his chin strap.

When with Cincinnati, but when he gets well again, he will be the starter. That's good enough for Bubba. That's why he has stuck it out all this time, although the doctors advised him in high school that he should give up football because of a bad knee. "But there's something about quitting," said Hooker, "if you know what I mean." Hooker, it seems, should have been disqualified as a quarterback long ago. For openers, there's the bad arm.

He can't see too well, either. "I honestly believe he has trouble seeing his receivers," said his father. "We bought him contact lenses but we had to stop he kept losing so many pair that it got too expensive." He was kidding, of course, but contact lenses aren't always a cureall. Hooker left his contact lenses in the dressing room when he came back out for the second half last night. "The humidity," he explained.

"They irritate my eyes." Hooker takes aspirin every day before practice in an effort to relieve the soreness in his elbow. He used to take cortisone shots before games, but the doctors stopped that. "Something about the calcium deposits," he said. The bad knee doesn't bother him any more, but when he first hurt it Hooker was told to quit football. "My mother was very much for me quitting," said Bubba.

I tried to explain the gravity of it to him," said 'his father, "but I left the decision up to him. When he decided that he was going to play, I took him to a couple of pro camps so he could talk to the players about bad knees. Norm Snead is from Virginia, so we went to the Eagles 4 camp and he talked to Jim Ringo, who had a lot of knee oper- ations." By this time, Les Hooker knew his son was never going to be an exceptional athlete he had too many things going against him. But Bubba went to William Mary planning to play football, basketball and baseball, as he had in high Continued on Page 4B, Col. 1 he shook his head, one of the boys shouted, "No.

10, you're terrible you stink." In truth, Bubba Hooker is no great shakes as a quarterback, and he knows it. Because of a constantly sore elbow, which he has had for two years, since he was a college sophomore, Hooker is not a good passer. "When I throw a spiral," he said, "that means the ball slipped. But I have learned to wobble it accurately." Six feet tall and 185 pounds, he is not an imposing physical specimen as football players go, and he's not very fast, either. "Sometimes," said his father, Les Hooker, William Mary's athletic director, "I think the main thing that he has to offer as a quarterback is his understanding of the game." In spite of all that, however, in many ways Bubba Hooker is what college football is all about, particularly college football on that level which is below those 50 teams which compete each year for ranking in the top 10.

Not every athlete has to be a pro prospect sometimes it is enough just to want to play, and to develop an understanding of the game. "I had some scholarship offers from bigger schools," said Bubba Hooker, "but I picked William Mary because, among other things, I thought I could play on this level." Hooker has not played very much. Last year, as the team's no. 2 quarterback, he threw 33 passes. His ankle may be injured badly enough for him to miss next week's game Miami News Photo by JAY SPENCER Lou Holtz consoles Hooker Coach Dose of flu poisons Mets The Associated Press NEW YORK A case of the flu gave Jose Pagan his chance and the little Pittsburgh third baseman calmly went out and chilled the New York Mets in a vital match between the National League East contenders.

Pagan drilled a 1-1 Jim McAndrew pitch over the left THE PENNANT RACE i. ii iiiii i mii mwawM mi ti i 1 i -K'U'---," i I 1 Games Rams butt Cards in opener, 34-13 The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Alvin Haymond stunned St. Louis with a 98-yard touchdown run on the kickoff opening the sec-' ond half and the Los Angeles Rams swept by the Cardinals in their National Football League opener last night, 34-13. A crowd of 63,130 roared in approval as the 194-pound Haymond took the kick in front of the goal post, swung to his right, received key blocks from Kermit Alexander and Jeff Jordan, reversed to his left and kept flying for the game-. breaking score.

The Rams' Roman Gabriel fired three touchdown passes two bullets from only three yards out and a 15-yarder to Jack Snow to wind up the Los Angeles scoring with less than two minutes remaining. The elusive Haymond returned another kickoff 50 yards early in the fourth quarter and the Rams, in 10 running plays, -scored again on David Ray's second field goal. Haymond and the Cardinals' Chuck Latouriette got into a fight on the sidelines in the middle of the St. Louis bench after his 50-yard return and both were ejected from the game. Another skirmish broke out but ended when the gun sounded at the finale.

The awesome Ram defense, which sacked the Cardinal quarterback, Jim Hart, six times for 54 yards lost, limited the scoring of the Cards to two field goals by Jim Bakken from the 9 and 1 7 yard lines until the fourth quarter. Then Hart connected on a 59-yard bomb to Jackie Smith. Gabriel completed 16 of 26 passes for 185 yards without an interception ahd the Rams built up additional ground with the running game featuring second-yard man Larry Smith and Willie Ellison. i centerfield fence following Bob Robertson's two-run home run, giving the Pirates their three seventh-inning runs in last night's 3-2 triumph over the Mets before a soggy 42,225 at Shea Stadium in the opener of a four-game series. "I didnt even know I was going to play until 45 minutes before the game," Pagan said.

Richie Hebner, the Pirates' third baseman against right-handed pitchers, had the flu bug and wasn't feeling well. "I knew I hit the ball good," Pagan, 35, said. "It felt good to get the big hit but we've still got a lot of games to go. It's not over yet We still have six games with the Mets." The loss dropped the Mets into third place, 2'i games behind the Pirates. The Chicago Cubs edged into second, V2 games behind by beating Montreal 3-2 and 5-4.

Pirate starter Steve Blass gave up a leadoff walk to Wayne Garrett and an infield chopper to Cleon Jones his third hit in the eighth and Pittsburgh manager Danny Mur-taugh went to his bullpen for Dave Giusti. "It was time for Giusti," said Murtagh. "Blass had pitched hard early and had to go hard all the way." The Mets got their runs when Art Shamsky singled and Dave Marshall cracked a sacrifice fly, but Giusti stopped them the rest of the way. "I felt this was our biggest win of the year," Giusti said. "We've got a great club and we're in first place.

I don't think there's any question we're going to win it." Robertson left the game in the eighth when he fouled a pitch off his left ankle and was sent to Roosevelt Hospital for X-rays. "I dont know how bad it is," said Murtaugh. "But it was Continued on Page 5B, Col. 5 Pet. GB Left Pittsburgh 80 69 -537 13 Chicago 79 71 .527 l2 13 New York ....77 72 .520 2'2 14 REMAINING SCHEDULE PITTSBURGH HOME (7): Montreal 4 (Sept.

22. 22-23-24); New York 3 (Sept. 25-26-27). AWAY (6): New York 3 (Sept. 19-20, 20); St.

Louis 3 (Sept. 29-30-Oct. 1). Pirates' record vs. Montreal 7-7; New York 7-5; St.

Louis 10-5; Chicago 10-8; Philadelphia 14-4. Pirates' record vs. East; 48-29. NEW YORK HOME (7): Chicago 4 (Sept. 28-29-30-Oct.

1); Pittsburgh 3 (Sept. AWAY (5)( Philadelphia 2 (Sept. 22-23); Pittsburgh 3 (Sept. 25-26-27). Mets' record vs.

Chicago 9-5; Philadelphia 11-5; Pittsburgh 5-7; St. Louis 13-5; Montreal 8-10. Mets vs. East: 46-32. CHICAGO HOME: None.

AWAY (12): Montreal 2 (Sept. 19-20); New York 4 (Sept. 28-29-30-Oct. 1); Philadelphia 3 (Sept. 25-26-27); St.

Louis (Sept 22-23-24). Cubs' Record vs. Montreal 12-4; Pittsburgh 8-10; St Louis 5-10; Philadelphia 8-7; New York 5-9. Cubs vs. East: 39-39.

Mi int. -mumrnitm Associated Press Wireehoto RAMS' LARRY SMITH charges through a gaping hole in the Cardinals line during NFL opener last night at Los Angeles. Smith, the former University of Florida star, gained four yards the play..