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11. 4-6 Yale Hangs On To Beat Upset-Minded Corne iwiiytiw in mimmMPWiiwBiJi hwijii hu ii .1 inu.niaiMniii.iwui iwi mm ra-W Mil 0 0 By OWEN CANFIELD NEW HAVEN Cornell's Jim Hofher kept getting up off the floor of the Yale Bowl Saturday and throwing Halloween-type scares into the Elis, but the shaky Blues hung on to the end and pulled out a 14-6 decision over Cornell's fierce-fighting grid forces Saturday. The Big Red's sophomore quarterback from Xavier of Middletown threw, ran and guided his upset-minded team to hear, touchdown territory four times in the but came Up empty three times as the Yalies stiffened; and threw them back. New England Football Scores I STATE i Delaware 30, Connecticut Trinity 35, Coast Guard 0 Yale 14, Cornell 6 Northeastern 35, Central Conn. 20 Bowdoin 42, Weslevan 34 Maine 24, Southern Conn.

14 Western Conn. 17, Plymouth St. 7 Lowell 26, Hartford 0 Curry 21, New Haven 15 OTHERS Colgate 21, Boston Univ. 14 Dartmouth 34, Columbia 14 Brown 16, Harvard 14 Holy Cross 33, Rhode Island 14 Rutgers 24, Massachusetts 7 Villanova 22, Boston College 3 RPI 31, Worcester Tech 6 Norwich 55, Plattsburgh St. 0 Middleburv 31, Hamilton 21 Tufts 18, Amherst 17 i-Williams 24, Union 19 Springfield 16, Wagner 6 C.W.

Post 34, AIC 16 i New Hampshire 27, West Chester 10 Bates 36, Colby 16 Nichols 37, Bridgewater St. 21- Maine Maritime 48, Boston St. 0 Hofher kept his composure despite continued interceptions and other setbacks, and Yale needed a saving fourth-down tackle by Jeff Waller on its own three yard line with less than a minute remaining to preserve its sixth victory in seven games and prevent a possible tie. "We stuffed their lead blocker," noted a relieved Coach Cam Cozza after the game. "They've got good people.

I've been saying that all week. They made us throw the ball, which we did well, but they stopped our running game." His counterpart, George Seifert, said, "We wanted to gain back our pride. Hofher is a winning type of quarterback. There will come a day when we're going to be winning these close ones." But it wasn't Saturday and credit the Yale defense which found itself bending a lot under the Cornell assault, but broke only once. Yale leaped away to a 14-0 first-half lead and the game appeared to be going Yale, territory in the period, but couldn't score.

An interception quelled the firsts We lost it on mistakes," the Cornell quarterback; said later. "I know I njade enough of them." He wa intercepted, in the course of the game, twice by Kurt Nondorf and twice by Steve Skrovan. But the youngster sparked as predicted. Cornell, after all KaHrtm a P1' drive that five losses, coming in. ZTrl 'JntT tfLV Stone Phillips threw a twice running himself.

pass to John Spagnola cover- fS 'EL' Lcft carried for the touchdown rnVnXTinTrn from the eight, to make it -v 14-6, but the snap was high two on the next play to put Yale ahead at 7:31 of the first quarter. A 50-yard, eight-play drive early in the second quarter, Pagliario carrying it in again, made it 14-0 after Randy Carter booted the extra point. "Pags" moved within two of on the extra point and the score stayed that way. Yale's Phillips passed to John Hatem on a play that carried to the Cornell eight yard line, from the Yale 45, but Hatem fumbled, Cornell recovered and drove again. Yale held at their 40, went "0 AM.W.VW.V'.WWi W.V.VJAV.VAV.V.'.

AVw. Calvin Hills record of 14 touchdowns with the two fheIe4Y JtLl Tie's Jn TViere Somewhere scores, but was otherwise "4SW checkedwell by Cornell. Li piUJ WliU U4U1I ft XAMlf UAkJil two The Big Red had Guard at New London. While the head linesman signals the dicating his team's success (Courant Photo by Michael score, Trinity quarterback John Gillespie also joins in in- McAndrews). into healthy drives deep See Cornell, Page 3C You can't see him, but under that goal-line pileup is Pat Heffernan, Trinity fullback, as he scored the first of five Bantam touchdowns Saturday in 35-0 rout of Coast Whalers Edge Birmingham Trinity Whips Cadets For Fifth Win, 35-0 gg 4 rv ByTOMHINE It took nine games, a lot of work, and a big boost to a an early-season sag in morale, but the New England Whalers finally reached the .500 mark Saturday night.

Parlaying goals from five different players, another great night tor goaltender Christer Abrahamsson and three two-goal leads that proved to be more than enough margin at the finish, the Whalers edged the Birmingham Bulls 5-4 to launch their longest road trip of the season with a winning record no farther away than a single game. Abrahamsson, content as usual to add two points to the standings, didn't even know after it was over that the Whalers had just posted their best won-lost record of the year. "Is it .500 now?" asked the third-year Swede who kicked out 40 of the 44 Birmingham shots directed his way. "That's good. We deserved it.

We've worked hard." 1 Abrahamsson, smile as big as it was, shook his head in amazement at the tough night he had just encountered. "I've neverfelt so tired. With 10 minutes to play, I was dead." Asked about the number of Bulls' shots on goal, Abra- See Whalers, Page 6C Live Sports On The Air PRO FOOTBALL: Eagles vs. Giants 1.00PMCh.3 Dolphins vs. Patriots 1:00 PM Chs.

20, 22, 30 Cowboys vs. Redskins 3:45 PMWSNG (610) BY BILL NEWELL Sports Editor NEW LONDON Trinity College bounced back into the win column Saturday with a one-sided 35-0 rout of Coast Guard Academy and Coach Don Miller was somewhat surprised. "I didn't think we would control the game so completely," said the Trinity coach as his 5-1 squad trudged off Cadet Memorial Field and into Rowland Hall, its stickout season three-fourths completed. "Usually we go right to the wire down here and often lose on a field goal but today we played well all the way except that I wasn't pleased with our kicking game," the Bantam mentor volunteered. Trinity did play well, indeed.

It rolled up 371 yards in total offense led by the Trinity goal line until the waning minutes when reserve quarterback Mark Feldman ran and passed the spirited but over-matched Cadets to the Trinity six yard line where the Bantams held with just a minute left to play. Trinity took over the very first time it had the ball, surging 51 yards with the burly Heffernan denting in from the four. Bill McCand-less kicked all five extra points. The Bantams put it away in the second quarter as Gillespie passed 27 yards to Brennan, Heffernan banged in from the two for his second score and finally, with 31 seconds to half time, Gillespie kept on a six-yard scoring sweep. See Heffernan, Page 3C heavy-duty fullback Pat Heffernan, halfback Mike Bren-nan and quarterback John Gillespie.

Heffernan carried 23 times for 83 yards and two touchdowns and admitted he was "sore but happy" when it was over. "I'm used to it," laughed the 215-pound senior from Rockland, Mass. whose brother Tom was a standout at guard. Gillespie Has Big Day Halfback Brennan, from Norwood, Mass. ran 10 times for 84 yards and caught a 27-yard touchdown pass from quarterback John Gillespie, who also scored one by himself and fired an additional scoring pass to split end Tom Lines.

Coast Guard, slipping to 1-7 in a rebuilding year' under new head coach Bill Hickey, never approached Very Little Room Delaware's Bob Sabol found little running room on this particular play during Saturday's UConn-Dclaware football game at Storrs. Sabol made only a couple of yards on the play but Delaware went on to beat Connecticut, 30-6 (Courant photo by John Long). Delaware Sends UConn to 7th Defeat of Season, 30-6 session, quarterback Bernie Palmer was sacked twice, the second time back to his own five, and was forced to punt from his own endzone. Delaware got the ball at the UConn 36 and, aided by a pass interference call at the three, quickly moved for its final touchdown of the day and a 28-0 halftime spread. Just how bad things were going for UConn was made plain early in the second half as Palmer, attempting to punt from his own ten, was forced to scramble Into his own endzone after the snap from center went sailing over his head.

This came only one play after UConn By TERRY PRICE STORRS The University of Connecticut has said it would like to drop Delaware from its football schedule in order to make room for another Division I opponent. UConn has the right idea only its reason is wrong. The reason should be that it can't stay on the same field as the Fightin' Blue Hens who have done very well for themselves as one of the most powerful Div. II teams in the nation. Saturday, by halftime it was all over but the shouting.

Delaware had erected a 28-0 advantage while limiting the Huskies to giving Delaware a first down at the seven. Komlo climaxed the march two plays later when he skirted right end from four yards out, Greg Allen adding the extra point for a 7-0 lead. Late in the opening period, the score moved to 14-0 as Bob Sobol, the holder on an apparent field goal try, bolted 24 yards for a touchdown after receiving a low snap from center. The senior halt-back scooped up the errant snap, skirted right end and cut back through the middle of the UConn defense untouched for the score. Allen, son of Washington Redskins' was detected having only ten men on the field.

Finally Tallies Delaware substituted freely during the second half, content to sit on its four touchdown bulge. UConn finally dented the Blue Hens' defense with 6:36 left in the third quarter as Palmer bolted three yards for a touchdown after the Huskies had gained possession on a fumble recovery by Mike Bove at the Delaware 47. Delaware's first half dominance was evidenced by the time of possession for the two teams. UConn had the See Delaware, Page 3C coach, George Allen, again added the PAT. DeGraffeMiss Delaware, now 5-2-1 on the year, upped the count to 21-0 with 4:18 left in the half after recovering a Herb De-Graffe fumble at the UConn 21.

DeGraffe, back to field a punt, bobbled the ball at the 35 and Len Perfetti fell on rolling pigskin. Four plays later, including a 14-yard scramble by Kom-loot to the UConn 8, the Hens were again in the endzone, shifty halfback Craig Carroll accounting for the score on a two-yard run and Allen again adding the PAT. On the Huskittt next pos Indeed, Delaware let it be known right from the outset it intended to make a shambles of a team that dare consider dropping them from their schedule. With sophomore quarterback Jeff Komlo cooly and calmy directing the famed Delaware Wing-T, the Blue Hens took the opening klckof and marched 74 yards for a touchdown. The well designed drive consumed seven minutes and 59 seconds and consisted of 13 running plays and two key offsides penalties.

Both penalties provided Delaware with first downs, the second coming the UConn 12 and two first downs and 16 yards rushing and only returned for the second half to make the 30-6 final score official. Eighth Straight Loss The win was Delaware's eighth straight over Connecticut. Of those eight games, three have been shutouts and six have found the Hens winning by 24 points or better. Saturday was only more of the same. "We allowed too much right at the start," said a stunned UConn coach Larry Naviaux who had to fight to keep from crying.

"You've seen Delaware before. Once they get it going it's all over.".