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D12 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, November 20, 1983 BC Pounds Holy Cross, Irish Lose, Bow Out Of Liberty Expects New Bowl Foe By PETER MAY Courant Staff Writer FOXBORO, Mass. The timing couldn't Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. Air Force had not blocked a kick all season, but Coach Ken Hatfield warned his team ill i UPI Doug Flutie was 3-for-16 in the first half and BC led at intermission, 10-0, on a 20-yard i field goal by Brian Waldron, who missed three extra points and had two others blocked, and a three-yard burst up the middle by Biestek. Only a Todd Russell interception in the BC end zone late in the second quarter, one of six thefts by the Eagles, kept the score at 10-0. "I said 'Thank you, we'll take Bicknell said.

"We were emotionally ready but we were tight. We struggled in the first half." "It was frustrating in the first half," said Flutie, who had 48 yards rushing and 26 pass- ing in the first two periods but finished with 13-of-22 for 177 yards. "We were sluggish." Bicknell sensed the jitters and told his troops at halftime to relax and have fun. He didn't want Holy Cross to feel it belonged on the same field. The Eagles wasted little time in discarding their first-half persona.

On its first possession of the third quar-" ter, Boston College marched 71 yards in nine plays with O'Melia Trophy winner. Troy Stradford (165 yards on 26 carries) going around right end from 10 yards to make it 16--0. On its next possession, Boston College went 86 yards in 13 plays with Steve Strachan scoring from one yard to make it 22-0. On its next possession, Boston College drove 73 yards in eight plays with Biestek scoring again from the three-yard line to make it 28-0. At that point, with 14:39 to play.

1 BC alumnus William H. Sullivan emerged from his stadium aerie and worked the press box with ex-Red Sox General Manager Dick-'-O'Connell in tow. "Glad to have you aboard, good to see you," Sullivan said. When Stradford scored again four mia- utes later to make it 34-0, Holy Cross managed only two first downs in the second-half and 53 total yards. As it was, the ers were outgained 562-257 in total yards.

have been more bizarre Saturday. There was Liberty Bowl President Kem Wilson officially inviting Boston College to his Dec. 29 bash in the finest of Tennessee drawls after BC's 47-7 rout of Holy Cross. While the Eagles were graciously accepting, their scheduled opponent, Notre Dame, was going down in flames for the third straight week, an ignominious defeat to Air Force flashing across the Sullivan Stadium Diamond Vision scoreboard. As the masses looked on in horror, and BC's Bob Biestek muttered something about being insulted to have to play a 6-5 team, Wilson kept smiling.

"Obviously, we would have liked them to win. But they told us before the game they would come. We're counting on them," Wilson said. Such is the magnetism of Notre Dame. An Irish loss more than 1,000 miles away upstaged Boston College's convincing victory.

And hours after their loss to Air Force, the Irish asked the Liberty Bowl to find someone else to except the $620,000 paycheck and a week in Memphis, If Notre Dame's decision is final, possible substitutes include Arizona State, Virginia Tech and Oklahoma, even though Mike Treps, Oklahoma's director of sports information, indicated last night Oklahoma is not now interested in going. "I am disappointed they (Notre Dame) lost. But it doesn't take away any of the lustre for us. From our standpoint, we're excited. The Liberty Bowl is a great bowl," said BC Coach Jack Bicknell.

Wilson already had the invitation prepared for Boston College when he arrived. The game plan was to present it to the Eagles on the field if they won or in the locker room if they lost. No RSVP was needed. For the first 30 minutes, Boston College did little to warrant such faith. Quarterback that the conditions were right Saturday to fix that failing.

The Falcons responded with three blocks, including Chris Funk's knockdown of a Notre Dame field goal attempt with just four seconds remaining, to preserve a nonconference victory over Notre Dame, With the loss, its third straight, Notre Dame announced it has asked Libert Bowllofficlals to seek another opponent for Boston College in the Dec. 29 classic at Memphis. Gene Corrigan, Irish athletic director, said before Saturday's game against Air Force that Notre Dame would probably accept the Liberty Bowl but he apparently reversed his decision after the 23-22 Qpmgan has asked Liberty Bowl officials to find another team to play Boston College and if a replacement cannot be found, Notre Dame players will vote today on whether to appear in the bowl, according to Eddie White, assistant sports information director. "We're not sure we're worthy of a bowl date, being 6-5, that's why we've asked them to find another team," I said White. "They (Liberty Bowl officials) were really banking on us to come there White said Bowl officials had agreed to look for another team.

Saturday's loss saddled the Irish with their first losing season at home since 1963. touchdown in the second quarter against Air Force Saturday. against Mississippi (6-5). Notre Dame quarterback Blair Kiel, who came off the bench to toss two second-half touchdown strikes, drove the Fighting Irish to the Air Force 21-yard line with four seconds to play before Johnston's field goal attempt was blocked. The Air Force victory overshadowed a second-half Notre Dame comeback led by Kiel, who finished the day with 16 completions on 22 attempts for 285 yards.

He tossed a nine-yard scoring strike to Milt Jackson in the third quarter and a 67-yard touchdown bomb to Joe Howard in the fourth to help erase a 10-7 Air Force lead. Sophomore sensation Allen Pinkett ran 27 times for 197 yards and his 18th touchdown of the season, a Notre Dame record. Notre Dame's Allen Pinkett raises his arms after scoring the Irish's first In addition to blocking Irish kicker Mike Johnston's would-be game-winner, Funk also blocked a 37-yard attempt in the first quarter. And the Air Force line blunted an Irish extra-point attempt in the third period. "We felt Johnston was a low kicker and from watching the films, we no-.

ticed that the field was slippery," said Hatfield. "So we called an extra time-out and told some of them (Air Force players) to go for the block." It worked. Johnston's last kick, a 31-yard try, was low and a leaping Funk batted itiway with his hand. Notre Dame Coach Gerry Faust conceded, "Our kicking game broke down. "In all fairness to Mike Johnston, it looked like it was right down the middle (the last kick)," Faust said.

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Parks nudged past Vin Clements, who had seasons of 1,060 and 962. Parks, a Bristol sophomore, finished with 56 points, the top scorer of the season. Senior placekick-er Domingos Carlos of Waterbury kicked a field goal and two conversions, for five points, giving him a school-record 170 points for his career, supplanting Clements' 167 points accumulated between 1968-70. But it was Corn, 6-1, 184-pounds, from New Rochelle, N.Y., unlike the others who rang up glittering numbers, who caused most of the dramatics. He completed 24 of 48 passes, for 277 yards and four touchdowns.

"I feel better after today," said Corn, who has been alternately good and bad in most games, never showing consistency. "Better late than never. I'm not out to get my stats. This just happened to be our best offense all year." Corn bumped into fullback Mike Har-kins, causing a fumble in the first quarter and setting up Colgate's 14-0 lead. But he seemed to shed his shaky play there and was nothing but a driving force the remainder of the game, throwing a touchdown pass to Harkins to bring the Huskies within eight points with 2:32 remaining and nearly pulling the game out as he had done against New Hampshire and Rhode Island earlier this season.

"I feel good about the year," Corn said. "It's a start. This will help us next year. We moved the ball against Colgate today. Why not move it against them next year?" UConn opens its 1984 season Sept.

8 at Colgate. STORRS Colgate's 41-33 football victory over the University of Connecticut Saturday will make a nice highlight film for Steve Calabria, Rich Ehrenberg, Billy Parks and, that's right, Larry Corn, UConn's quarterback, who saved his best game by far for last. By winning, the Red Raiders (8-3) can expect a berth in the national Division 1-AA playoffs beginning next weekend, probably at Northeast Louisiana or Middle Tennessee. Despite the loss, UConn (5-6) finished in an upbeat manner, gaining Colgate's praise and, more importantly, notice that it may have uncovered an offense and a quarterback to go along with what should be another solid defense next year. Although the mountain of yards (949) was split nearly evenly, it was UConn which supplied the dramatics, rallying from 14-0 and 28-10 deficits to within 28-25 after three quarters.

UConn's bid for a tie ended with 26 seconds remaining on Tim McMullan's interception on the Colgate six. "We walked into halftime ahead, 28-10, thinking one or two early scores would put them away," said record-breaker Erenberg. "But UConn got two scores and it was a fight to the finish. I'm surprised they came in only five-five." Nothing Erenberg did surprised anyone. The 6-0, 194-pound senior tailback from Chappaqua, N.Y., bobbed and weaved for 166 yards and four touchdowns, adding seven 1-AA records to his booty of five.

His 1,883 yards this season is the fifth best ever by any player in college football. Calabria, a 6-5 junior quarterback from Carle Place, N.Y., was the catalyst for the 12th-ranked winners. His play-action enabled receivers to spurt open as he completed 20 of 34 passes for 288 yards and two touchdowns. It was his passing that kept the Red Raiders alive early in the second half, when the Huskies rallied for 15 points. Erenberg netted only 54 yards in the second half.

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