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pTB cf THE HOME NEWS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 7, 1 985 carlet ights solve offensive woe RICK sg METHOT 14 to cauture te victory over Colga Gagliardi tosses two second-half TD strikes Old-time weather at Rutgers Stadium Colgate is not on the Rutgers schedule in 1986. Nor in 1987. Perhaps nevermore. Pity. It is a game that has been played on and off since the Great Depression, a battle of old school tie nostalgia and tradition.

A tug of war for the Alumni Cup, sentiment cast in silver and donated by a Rutgers man, class of 1925 and a Colgate man, class of 1918. Yesterday was the 39th playing of the ritual. But in this modern gallop to instant fame, notoriety, blue chip gladiators and television's pot of gold, ritual and tradition don't necessarily pay the bills. It's a rare deal sealed with a handshake. It's a rare football schedule built on the echoes of yesterday's cheers and groans.

They sold 17,285 tickets to yesterday's game at Rutgers' Stadium. They said 6,500 showed up. If this was so, I submit about 3,250 were invisible and most of the rest showed up for cookies and coffee in the press box. It was not for lack of a good-old fashioned rivalry, but simply because a lot of folks knew enough to stay in out of the rain. The fans that did show could be classified in the diehard category, were forced into it at gunpoint or normally go through life about eight degrees off center.

Here was bleak theater in gloom and gray. It didn't rain, it spit. Slicing, driving ice water that stung when it hit and turned hands the color of raw hamburger. Patches of glaze ice covered the running track, midfield turned a sickly brown ooze, by game's end the field would have been well lit with torches, the participants named Heathcliff or White Fang. It was cold, mind you.

The cold that turns hands of receivers to stone and pumps breath plumes from the mouths of the linemen, hunched and quivering, spewing exhaust like fast-idling engines. Colgate arrived in white and looked like a traveling circus of mud wrestlers five minutes into the game. Rutgers fared better in home field red, but not by much. There was room enough in the student section to accommodate the population of Botswana, seats empty rV-y Rutgers defensive tackle David v4- py- i i o-yirAyv' I-? V' Ki, -r-- WVUv -V a 4'a IT H. vvi-'t iv 1 y-Vr; V'y-, Wf- 1 'fi A t'-y'l A' v- vyA y-i; .1 1 I TH Horn News Marc Ascber day at Rutgers Stadium, against Colgate.

It is being financed by a combination of public funds and private con-trubutions being raised by the university. Fred Gruninger, athletic director, in stressing the importance of facilities to an athletic program said the building will serve some 15 sports teams for both men and women. The new building, he said, continues the program started last year with the construction of the indoor training "bubble" and lighted artificial surface field, both contracted in the stadium area. Dick Anderson, football coach, said he sees "very good years ahead, "and lauded the "resurgence of pride in New Jersey" from all segments of the state community. A continued rise in the "academic and athletic fortunes of Rutgers" Marino, cola and muady after a long watches the scoreboard in the closing minutes of yesterday's win Groundbreaking ceremony marks start of Athletic Training Center By JOHN BRUNS Home News sports writer PISCATAWAY It wasn't a day fit for football or any other outdoor activity.

But as the sleet and rain pelted the sog- gy Rutgers Sta- dium turf, Rutgers (2-7-1) washed away some of the frustration of the 1985 football season with a 28-14 victory over Colgate (6-3-1) yesterday. With an estimated 6,500 hardy fans (17,285 tickets were sold) looking on, Rutgers scored touchdowns on its first three possessions of the second half to take a 28-6 lead. Colgate had stayed close during a first half in which the Scarlet Knights were guilty of some of the same mistakes which have plagued them all season and particularly through the past two games in which the Scarlet had been outscored 67-0 by Tennessee and West Virginia. "In the second half I thought the kids played well. They played like they wanted to win," coach Dick Anderson said.

Joe Gagliardi passed for two of the second half touchdowns, and fullback Albert Smith scored twice after the intermission, once on a run and once on a pass from Gagliardi, who also threw a touchdown pass to tailback Reynold Walbrook. "Joe Gagliardi came on in the second half picked us up a little bit," Anderson said. Gagliardi was working in relief of Rusty Hochberg, who had quarterbacked the entire first half and passed 33 yards to wide receiver Greg Rafaelli for Rutgers' first touchdown in the opening period. The switch to Gagliardi was one of two key personnel changes the coach made in the second half. The other was to go to freshman Paul Castiglia as his kicker after senior Tom Ang-stadt missed three field goal tries in the first half, giving him eight con was predicted by Carmen Orechio, president of the State Senate.

Lewis B. Thurston of New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority said the authority is "proud to be part of the partnership" supporting the improvement of Rutgers athletic facilities. The training center will be constructed in three levels above and around the East stands, featuring a multi-purpose room and lounge with a glass wall on the third level overlooking the stadium playing field. A foot exercise and strength training room will be on the first level. Other features include a treatment and rehabilitative care training room, coaches offices, six classrooms and a large lecture room on the second level.

JOHN BRUNS The Home News 'Marc Ascher it- i. Jersev Snorts and Fxnnsitinn President Carmen Orecchio secutive misses over three games. It had not been Anderson's plan to switch quarterbacks at the half, but he said, "We thought Rusty could have been doing a little better job than he was, so we decided to go with Joe in the second half Gagliardi said, "When I got in there it felt good. It seemed like we had a lot of confidence. The team was down and we needed a win.

We want to go out with two wins. There had been a lot of talk about us not having any pride." The junior quarterback completed 12 of 16 passes for 116 yards and two touchdowns. Hochberg in the first half was 8-for-24 for 107 yards and a touchdown. Neither threw an interception. "Tommy Angstadt really is having a difficult time," the coach said of the other switch.

"When he shanked that last one (from 24 yards), I thought it was time to make a change." Castiglia did not have a field goal try, but kicked the extra point after all three Rutgers touchdowns in the second half. Rutgers had gone through nine period without any points, dating back to the final period of the Richmond game three weeks earlier. "It's a great feeling of accomplishment to finally do things and get the ball in the end zone," said Smith, who rushed the ball for 48 yards on 13 carries, caught five passes for another 48 yards and scored a touchdown both ways. On the rushing side, the Knights also got 99 yards from their tailbacks with Walbrook picking up 49 on 14 carries and freshman Henry Henderson getting 50 on 10, all in the second half. Defensively, Rutgers didn't shut down the Raiders completely, even though they kept Colgate's leading receiver Tom Stenglein without a reception.

But the offense provided enough cushion to absorb 14 points, which is 23 below what the Raiders have been averaging. See RU, Page D9 Princeton hands Yale 21-12 loss By SUE ESTERMAN Home News sports writer PRINCETON BOROUGH Forty degree temperatures and a chilling, steady rain didn't hamper the Princeton University football team yesterday, as the Tigers prevailed over a muddy field and the Yale Bulldogs for a 21-12 victory at Palmer Stadium. The Tigers captitalized on three bad breaks for Yale and halfback Chris Ratliff's two touchdowns to swell their Ivy League record to 4-2 and go to 4-5 overall. The Bulldogs fell to 2-3-1 in the league and 3-4-1 overall by losing their third straight game. The first Eli mishap set the stage for Princeton's first touchdown.

Princeton coach Ron Rogerson, having gambled and decided to kick after winning the toss, saw the move pay off, as the Tigers gained possession after Yale advanced the ball only 9 yards in four plays and then punted to the Tiger 45. See TIGERS, Page D9 EHSZ Jets battle Tampa Bay Bucs today. Page D2 Weather snarls high school football schedule Highland Park blanks St. Pius South Brunwick snaps losing streak. Page D6 College basketball preview.

Page D7 Gene Haley's College Notes. Page D8 Bernards harriers repeat as cross-country champs. I Page D10 PISCATAWAY As ground was broken yesterday for the new multipurpose Athletic Training Center at Rutgers Stadium, Dr. Edward J. Bloustein, university president, called it a symbol of "a new era in the relationship between this university and the state of New Jtrsey." "This university has now come into its own as a state university in a way that was never so clear before," Bloustein said.

"These facilities are but a symbolic representation of the new spirit of pride the legislative and the executive branches of government and the people of the state take in their state university." The facility to be constructed behind the stadium's East stands at a total cost of is expected to be complted by the summer of 1987. Notre Dame crushed by Penn State By RALPH DERNSTEiM AP Sports Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Quarterback John Shaffer passed for one touchdown and ran for another, and Massimo Manca kicked five fields goals as Penn State crushed Notre Dame 36-6 yesterday in what was to have been a stern test of the Nittany Lions' No. 1 national college football ranking. Penn State ascended to the No.

1 spot in The Associated Press poll last week. Penn State tailback D.J. Dozier rushed for 75 yards and scored another touchdown for Penn State, whose defense intercepted three passes, recovered two fumbles, blocked a punt and stymied Allen Pinkett and the Notre Dame offense. Manca kicked field goals of 32, 27, 50, 26 and 35 yards to boost his season total to 20 of 25. Penn State, 10-0, so dominated the game that the Lions scored on seven straight possessions and eight of 10 as they avenged last year's 44-7 lacing by the Irish at South Bend, Ind.

The loss snapped a four-game Notre Dame winning streak and dropped the Irish record to 5-4. The Lions took a 7-0 lead in the first period on a 21-yard pass from Shaffer to Dozier. In the second period, Manca kicked a 32-yard field goal after the Lions stalled at the Notre Dame 16. He made it 13-0 with a 27-yarder after linebacker Rogers Alexander intercepted a pass and returned 36 yards to the Notre Dame 34. Penn State boosted it to 20-0 with a 10-play, 65-yard drive triggered by Shaffer's 37-yard completion to split end Ray Roundtree.

Fullback Steve Smith scored from the 2. Three seconds before haiftime, Manca kicked his third 50-yard field goal of the season after Penn State-recovered a kickoff fumble. Penn State made it 30-0 at 6:04 of the third period after a pass interception gave the Nittany Lions the ball at the Notre Dame 32. Shaffer See IRISH, Page D9 save for the enterprising souls who erected a tent and braved to the last. The rest of the faithful were donned in more yellow slickers than the cod fleet out of Hyannis.

And it was a grand game. A game of close to 90 passes. Who'd have thunk it? This was supposed to be a 7-6 affair, maybe 3-0. But 28-14? Not hardly. But with receivers at a natural advantage (they know where they're going) they get an extra edge in rotten conditions.

Defenders can go slip-sliding away. Colgate's Tom Burgess is a quality quarterback. On a day of normal conditions, who knows what the result would have been. Yesterday the Rutgers receivers did the better job. They caught the ball.

My Daddy used to say anybody can work under ideal conditions. Maybe Rutgers likes it messy. A 28-14 win over a 1-AA school and so what? Irrelevant. You muster the troops, take the daily task at hand and say, "boys, here's another day, another opportunity to exceil." And bring on the positive reports. Rutgers is 2-0 on its home field.

(Giants Stadium ain't home sorry, marketing people) Rutgers scored the most points since the opening game against Florida. Rutgers has a 6-game winning streak against Colgate. Dick Anderson is 2-0 against Colgate. And we have a spendid performance by Joe Gagliardi who takes over the second half at 7-6 and puts the game away. And Tyronne Stowe with two interceptions.

And the running of Walbrook, Smith and Henderson, gutsy and inspired. Disappointments? A few to be sure. Rutgers president Edward J. Bloustein who asks at halftime, "Who put the voodoo on Tom?" This in reference to Angstadt's three missed field goals, one a toughie, one that bounced off the cross bar and one a blown chip shot. He's now 0 for the last eight.

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