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Bl Sports Stock tables Business NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1974 ers trounces 35- Lafayette, (-x: VJC-'C Mr If y' v-, v. r-'H -av iy -V- uv ki va.U'i-.. t. -fl-Z mnifi mtfAnii II Home Newi photo by Dick Costello up to stop Fisher is Mike Slattery (46) of Lafayette. Victory boosted Rogers record to 5-2-1.

KNIGHT BREAKS LOOSE Mik Fisher (24) of Rutgers gets away for an 18-yard gain in first period of 35-0 victory over Lafayette in Easton, yesterday. Coming Holt tames 0.1 111 arvar riiceto i again the next time it got the ball, this time driving 80 yards in 11 plays. Fisher started that one with a 15-yard run through the left side and Kosup later converted a third-and-two with an 11-yard sneak for a first down at the Lafayette 46. After Bolash and Edwards combined for 13 yards on the next two plays, Fisher romped for 14 yards to the 8. Edwards carried on the next three plays for the TD and Kosup then passed to Fisher in the end zone for a two-point conversion and a 14-0 lead with 11:31 re- maining before halftime.

Rutgers wasted no time in putting the game out of reach by scoring on two of the first three times it had the ball in the second half for a 28-0 lead with 1:35 left in the Third quarter. A recovered fumble by junior middle guard Steve Hoffman set up the first score as the Knights drove 34 yards in seven plays. Bolash, enjoying his finest game of the season, rambled for 17 yards on the first play to the Lafayette 17 and Kosup climaxed the march by sneaking across from the 1 with nine minutes left in the third period. The Scarlet struck again on its next possession, this time driving 7o yards in 10 plays. In that drive, Bolash swept right end for 18 yards to the Lafayette 47, Fisher cracked through the left side for another 18 yards to the 29, Bolash swept right end again for 12 yards to the 17 and three pfays later Kosup fired to tight end Pete Clark of New Brunswick, N.J., who scored his second TD of the season.

Bill Bradley's kick made it 28-0 and the Leopards were hopelessly out of it. In the fourth quarter, sophomore quarterback Matty Allison directed the Scarlet's final TD drive. Allison opened tip that march with an 18-yard pass to Dusty Bryan to the Lafayette 43 and later connected with Debes for five yards and then to Jeff Greczyn, for nine to the 19. After one TD on an Allison-to-Greczyn pass was nullified by a penalty, junior halfback Don Heilman swept left end for a 16-yard TD scamper and Bill Blackmon's kick made it 35-0. i Willi passes I By JOHN BRUNS Home News sports writer PRINCETON Princeton University's football team had a fine offensive day yesterday, but it was asking too much for the Tigers to match the flawless performance of Milt Holt and his Harvard teammates.

Holt was nothing short of sensational as be passed for three touchdowns and ran for two more to load the Crimson to a 34-17 victory over Princeton before 31,000 fans in sunny Palmer Stadium. Holt's statistics boggle the mind as he hit his tall ends, 6-6 Pat Mclnally and 6-5 Pete Cur-tin, almost at will to complete 16 of 24 passes for 234 yards. This performance more than offset another fine running day by Princeton senior Walt Snick- enberger who churned out 155 yards in 25 carries and scored two touchdowns. Snickenberger vaulted past Cosmo Iacavazzi and Dick Kazmaier into second place on the Tigers' all-time career rushing list. With two games remaining, "Snick" has an even 2,000 yards against 2,362 for the all-time leader Hank Bjorklund.

The defeat, Princeton's third straight, knocked the Tigers out of the Ivy League race and left them with a 3-3-1 overall mark and 2-3 in the league. Harvard, 6-1 overall and a perfect 5-0 in the league, appears headed for a season finale showdown with undefeated Yale for the Ivy crown. There were two key situations which spelled doom for the Tigers, and Harvard senior rover back John Clarke had a hand in both. After an 18-yard Ron Beible-to-Neil Chamberlin pass gave Princeton a first down at the Crimson 2 in the second period, the Tigers tried to send Snickenberger wide and Clarke dropped him for a three-yard loss. The Tigers came up empty-Jianded when Scott Morrison's try for a 22-yard field goal which would have tied the score at 13 was wide to the left three plays later.

"When we lost that one, it hurt," said Princeton Coach Bob Casciola. "It took the momentum for us and gave it to them and they eventually got something." What the Cantabs got was a five-yard Holt-to-McInally scor- of his offense during the second half "when we perked up quite a bit and were a lot more consistent and a lot quicker." He concluded, 'I'm just hoping we can keep our momentum going now." Lafayette Coach Neil Putnam praised Rutgers as "the best team we have faced in the last four years, even those Rutgers teams with 'JJ' Jennings "The big thing," said Putnam, "was that Rutgers did not make any big errors and their play-action passing was very well-executed." Rutgers dominated the entire first half although the Scarlet Knights held only a 14-0 lead at the intermission. Two Rutgers drives were stalled during the first 30 minutes one by a major penalty and another on a lost fumble as mistakes continued to plague the Knights. Still, the dominance of Rutgers was reflected in the first half stats which showed the Scarlet converting seven of 12 third-down plays while control-See statistics on page B2 ling the ball for slightly more than 22 minutes. Lafayette, meanwhile, which failed to convert any of its third-down plays during the first half, managed only four first downs two of them by penalties.

Rutgers piled up 14 first downs during that same span. The first Scarlet score came with 3:12 left in the opening period after driving 47 yards in nine plays. Halfback Bolash of Manville opened it up by cracking through the left side of the line for 15 yards to the 32. After Bolash picked up three more, Edwards crashed through the middle for 11 yards and a first down at the 18. Fisher and Kosup combined for eight yards before an illegal procedure penalty set the Knights back at the 15.

But Kosup then hooked up with split end Joe Yacaginsky at the left sideline for a first down at the 7. Three plays later, Kosup passed to Mark Debes of Mar- tinsville for a six-yard TD play. Bill Bradley's kick was wide right but the Knights held a 6-0 lead. The scarlet got on the board i5" 1 t' 1 .4." i a 4 I v4 y' By KEN O'BRIEN Home News sports writer EASTON, Pa. Quarterback Bert Kosup of Edison, N.J., passed for two touchdowns and five different Rutgers players scored TDs as the Scarlet Knights yesterday mauled Lafayette, 35-0, before a sundrenched crowd of 7,500 at Fisher Field.

The Scarlet's defense, which stretched its streak to 14 quarters of not yielding a touchdown, was highlighted by two interceptions by cornerback Ed Jones who now has 13 for his career along with free safety Tony Pawlik. The two are only one away from tying the all-time Rutgers record held by John Pollock during the 1966-68 season. The victory lifted the Scarlet's record to 5-2-1 while the Leopards fell to 3-6. Lafayette was hopelessly outclassed as the Knights posted their first shutout of the season while amassing their most yardage for a single game this year 458. The ground attack accounted for 381 of that total, led by freshman Mike Fisher of Edison who carried 15 times for 104 yards.

Fullback Curt Edwards, who missed the previous week's game against Connecticut, picked up 59 yards on 14 carries while Bill Bolash of Man-ville added 52 yards on 10 attempts. Rutgers Coach Frank Burns, who began substituting as early as the second quarter, used every player on his bench 'and even they proved too much for the Leopards to handle. "I'm very pleased with the way we came back after last said Burns, referring to the 9-7 loss to Connecticut. "I honestly felt we needed this game more than any other this year. If we had lost this game, we would have had tremendous problems for the rest of the year." Burns hailed his defense for "a great job in all areas, particularly with the way we contained the corners and applied pressure on the passer." Although he said he was "far from pleased with our offense during the first half when we were extremely inconsistent," Burns praised the performance 3f 1 1 SHORT GAIN Rutgers quarterback Edison finds opening in Lafayette line for 1 1 ing pass with only 20 seconds left in the half which gave Harvard a 19-10 lead.

In the third period after Princeton had fallen behind 27-17, Beible was going to the air trying to bring the Tigers back. But Clarke cut in front of Chamberlin to intercept at the Tiger 41 and returned to the See statistics on page B2 ball to tiie 10. On the first play of the final period, Holt went over the right side from the 6 for an insurance touchdown which completed the scoring. "Clarke's interception turned it around," said Crimson Coach Joe Restic who had kind words of Princeton. "They played well," he said.

"It was nip-and- tuck. They were matching us point for point They just kept storming back." Casciola, however, felt the deck was stacked against his team. "Offensively, I couldn't ask for much more. Defensively, we made mistakes, we're not a great defensive team and to keep up with those guys is tough. They just don't make mistakes." The Princeton coach called the Crimson "the best offensive team I've ever seen in the Ivy League." Holt, a 6-0, 180-pound native of Honolulu, is the man who makes them go.

He's made Crimson fans forget Jim Stoeckel who was picked as the Ivy League Player of the Year in 1973. Admitting that he was "pretty much on target," Holt modestly said his performance was a matter of taking what the Princeton defense was giving him. "Our offense is so flexible. We were able to hit them where it hurt and they couldn't adjust," he said. "They gave us a lot of man coverage on Mcln- ally and I let Mclnally run everybody, off and used Curtin coming back across." Actually, he made good use of both receivers.

Curtin caught seven passes for 87 yards and two touchdowns, while Mclnally had six catches for 80 yards and one touchdown. The scoring started at a furious pace, with both teams scoring the first two times they had the ball. Holt opened it by going over from the one to cap an 80-yard drive after the kick-off. Princeton came right back with a 77-yard drive on which Snickenberger scored from the one after setting up the score with a 27-yard sweep. Morrison added the PAT to give the Tigers their only lead, 3-6.

it fe'i -Hf-v k' i 'if f.r ii 'pl i i i 4 1 A' AP photo Mclnally took a short pass from quarter back Milt Holt and found the easiest way to the end tone was the air route. Harvard won, 34-17. UP AND OVER Harvard end Pat Mclnally (84) dives over Princeton defender Glen Pratt (44) for a second-period touchdown which gave the Crimson a 19-10 lead. Bert Kosup of sophomore quarterback passed for two touchdowns to guide short gain. The the Scarlet Knights to victory.

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