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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, November, 1988 Ell "1 if Cornell blows away Yale's Ivy League hopes, 26-0 By GEORGE SMITH Courant Staff Writer i ITHACA, N.Y. Yale's flickering hopes for a share of the Ivy League championship blew away in a 25- mph breeze high above Lake Cayu- ga's waters Saturday. "It was like men against boys," Yale Coach Carm Cozza said after his Elis were manhandled by Cor-) nell, 26-0. The loss sent Yale's record to 2-5-1, 2-2-1 in the league with games against Princeton and Har- vard remaining. Cornell moved to 5-2-1, 4-1 in Ivy play, setting up a probable show-I down with league leader Penn (5-0) here in two weeks for the champion- ship.

Yale only had one chance to stay in Saturday's game and that came midway in the third quarter when, trailing 12-0, it drove to the Cornell 2 only to have a 26-yard field goal attempt blown off course and off the right cross bar. Cornell answered immediately with an 80-yard drive to make it 19-0 and then put it away with a fourth-quarter touchdown that was set up by a fake punt. "I'd have to say the defense had an off day," Yale linebacker and team captain Don Lund said. "We didn't play up to our potential and I don't know why. It was just one of those days.

The team's other inside linebacker, junior Jon Reese, sat outside the locker room for 20 minutes with his head bowed. "I just didn't want to let go of the feeling I had," Reese said. "It felt bad. It stunk. The loss was pretty decisive.

I just felt we put so much into it that we should have gotten more out of it." Yale had three first downs in the first half and was in Cornell territory only once, for one play. The Elis had only 47 rushing yards in the game and just seven in the second half. The total yardage for the game was 100. "Right now, nothing looks good to me," Cozza said. "But I have to give credit to their defense.

It's one of the finest defenses we've played." Yale allowed six sacks. Senior tailback Buddy Zachery, who had rushed for more than 100 yards the previous four games, was held to 22 net yards on 14 carries. He was also On a fourth-and-6 from the Yale 45, Cornell punter Scott Miller lofted a 21-yard pass to tight end Mare Warrington to keep the drive alive. Four plays later, on a fourth-and-7 from the Yale 21, quarterback Aaron Sumida hit wide receiver Sam Brick-ley in the end zone to make it "We wanted to keep the ball moving," Cornell Coach Maxie Baughan said. "We didn't feel we had enough points.

What did we have, 19? That's not enough." Cozza felt the officials missed the fake punt call. "It was bush, bad, a terrible non call," he said. "That wasn't a screen pass. Half the team was down field. They shouldn't have gotten away with it.

The officials blew it." A lot of things were blown away Saturday. the day after taking the second-half kickoff. Sophomore quarterback Darin Kehler marched the Elis from their 25 to the Cornell 2 Kehler hit Mike Hosang with a 17-yard completion, scrambled for a 28-yard run and found Tom Szuba with a 16-yard pass to the 2. That's when it all went wrong. Zachery was dropped for a yard loss on first down, lost another yard on an off-tackle play and Kehler lost six when he was run out of bounds.

Pla-cekicker Scott Walton then hit the right upright on the field goal attempt. Cornell's final touchdown was particularly irksome to Cozza, who thought the fake-punt completion should have been nullified because several linemen were downfield on the pass. stopped twice behind the line of scrimmage. Asked to comment on his rushing game, Cozza said: "That's the or.ly thing we've got We can't throw it" The wind, which brought a few sprinkles with it, didn't seem to bother Cornell too much. The Big Red got a boost from the wind at 1:21 of the second quarter to take a 3-0 lead as Andy Bednar's 45-yard field goal just made it over the crossbar.

The Big Red made it 5-0 five minutes later when Yale botched a punt attempt and the ball was fumbled through the end zone. The home team took a 12-0 lead just 1:08 before the half when tailback Scott Malaga ran 9 yards up the middle for a touchdown through a hole vacated by a blitzing Reese. Yale put together its only drive of Ivy Lesgud pesleyan loses 19-0 to Williams League AR Penn 5-0-0 8-0-0 Cornea 4-1-0 6-2-1 Princeton 3-2-0 5-3-0 Yale 2-2-1 2-5-1 Harvard 2-3-0 2-8-0 Dartmouth 2-3-0 3-5-0 Columbia 1-54) 1-7-0 Brown 0-4-1 0-7-1 I is --T7 "4 J. Ij By TOM YANTZ Courant Staff Writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The I thud heard time after time after -time Saturday was the Wesleyan Cardinals hitting the turf, i "We crashed aid we crashed hard," Coach Kevin Spencer said af-i ter his team lost 19-0 to Williams.

Wesleyan's dream of winning its first outright Little Three title since 1970 vanished as quickly as the Car-i dinals streamers that the wind took across Weston Field and into the i neighboring Berkshire Hills, So dominating was Williams (5-1-j 1) that Wesleyan (3-4) crossed mid-i field only once with 2 minutes, 40 seconds remaining in the game, Cardinals quarterback Jim Lu-i kowski; who was chased and harassed all day, slumped on the postgame locker room bench, trying to weigh what happened. "We couldn't move the ball," Lu-i kowski said. "Their defense was out- standing." Wesleyan had four passes inter-1 cepted, lost three fumbles, had a punt blocked and gained 58 rushing yards on 37 attempts. The shutout was the third straight for Williams, a feat not accom- since 1964. More importantly, it gives Wil-i the opportunity to win the Lit-i Three title Saturday at Amherst.

Wesleyan can only hope for a i of the mythical championship between the three New England Small College Athletic Conference I schools. Wesleyan defeated Amherst last month, so if Amherst defeats Williams each team would be 1-1 and share the title. i But no Wesleyan player was en-j couraged by that possibility. Disap-i pointment filled the locker room. Wesleyan trailed 6-0 at halftime, but it could have been worse, with i Williams having the ball twice inside the Wesleyan 19 and twice inside the 44 on two Interceptions, a fumble i recovery and a blocked punt.

Quarterback Scott Kennedy ran 4 i yards around left end for the touch- down 6:23 before halftime. Jeff Ete-J mad missed the conversion kick, i Williams limited Wesleyan to two first downs in the first half. The i ve-j man defensive front of Ken Dilaniai, 'Dave Montgomery, Mark Duff, Dan Newhall and Ted Rogers blunted vir-i every Cardinals attempt for I yardage. "Ken and I as the two ends were i on Lukowskj because he was the guy we were scared of," said I who led the team with eight tackles. "We wanted to contain him, -hit him make him know we were i around." Wesleyan did not improve in the i final half.

And with halfback Jon running (30 times for 89 yards for the game) and Kennedy i sowing poise, Williams was not go- ing to be stopped. Etemad's 37-yard field goal, Neal i "Chesley's 3-yard touchdown run and conversion kick put Wil-i 'liams ahead 16-0 after three quar-! ters. Etemad added a 27-yard field goal in the final quarter. By then, some of -the 5,789 fans were making their vway pusigame iiuiiicuuuuub uay 'parties. Included in this group was 'Yankees owner George Richard Mei The Hartford Courant Rodney Baron gained 96 yards on 16 carries and on this play.

He is stopped behind the line by South-scored two touchdowns, but none of the yards were era's Stephen Stearns. Central runs over Southern Kennedy (142), Baron (96) lead 28-14 victory Towson St. stops UNH Staff and wire reports David Meggett ran for one touchdown and caught another to lead Towson State to a 31-17 victory over the University of New Haven Saturday in Towson, Md. Meggett scored on 76-yard run in the second quarter, during which Towson State (5-3) scored three touchdowns to take a 24-3 halftime lead. Meggett finished with a school-record 221 yards on 32 carries.

State Keith McCoy scored on a 5-yard run and Dan Schwab caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Mike Horton as New Haven (6-3) pulled within 24-17 in the third quarter. Horton completed 23 of 51 passes for 395 yards. Horton holds the school's single-game record, 411 yards in 1986. Salisbury 20, Western 13: Jerry Short scored two touchdowns as Salisbury State won in Salisbury, Md. Short's 8-yard run helped Salisbury to a lead.

Western recovered a fumbled punt at the Salisbury 4-yard line late in the first quarter to set up the tying touchdown, a 4-yard pass from Scott Zinser to Jon Heineman. Short's second TD run, in the second quarter, and a Mark Hubler TD reception gave Salisbury a 20-7 lead. Zinser's 2-yard run in the fourth quarter made it 20-13. Western lost an excellent opportunity for a touchdown after recovering a fumbled punt on the Salisbury 10 in the third quarter. The Colonials were stopped on a fourth-and-1 play.

Spencer said Wesleyan's offensive performance (seven first downs, 142 total yards) was its poorest of the season. The defense, led by nose tackle Mike Charlton and linebackers Norm Beaulieu and Carter Heller, played a creditable game, but when the other team has a significant edge in plays, as Williams did (82-59), winning is unlikely. "They wore us down, the more our defense had to play," Spencer said. "That's no excuse, though. Williams' defensive line whipped ours." "Williams shut us down, shut us down cold," said Wesleyan's rushing leader for the year, Steve Usher, who gained just 14 yards on seven carries.

The final discouragement for' Wesleyan probably came when Lu-kowski, in full retreat from a ferocious rush, stumbled into a referee at his 5. The ball bounced away and was recovered by Williams at the 1 with 5:40 to go. Lukowski, who completed 9 of 22 passes for 86 yards, went to the sideline, knelt, bowed his head and stared at the ground. back Brian Jurek said. "They're so dangerous.

Their offense is designed to do a lot of different things." Though senior Kevin Griffin got the Bantams untracked in the second half with three touchdown passes, the Trinity offense could not completely atone for the first-half calamity. Three Trinity fumbles led directly to Amherst touchdowns and made it seem like there was only one team on the field or one that had come to play. "The team wasn't in the competitive spirit," Trinity Coach Don Miller said. "We got up real high for Coast Guard a tough, 28-27 loss. By halftithe, they realized they had Yale's next fame: Saturday vs.

Princeton, Yale Bowl, 1 p.m. Penn remains unbeaten Associated Press Mike Waller rushed for 88 yards and two touchdowns and Bryan Keys rushed for 125 yards and one touch-', down to lead Pennsylvania to a 31-1 7 victory over Lafayette in a non- league game Saturday in Easton, Pa. I Ivy League leader Pennsylvania (8-0, 5-0) forced six Lafayette turn- overs. Lafayette is 6-2-1. The game I was tied 10-10 at halftime, but Wal-; ler scored twice in the third quarter 1 on runs of 2 and 30 yards.

Princeton 45, Colgate 13: Quar-1 terback Jason Garrett scored on a 2- yard run, threw two touchdown passes and had a 61-yard scramble to set up one of three field goals by Chris Lutz as Princeton scored on seven straight possessions in Prince- ton, N.J. I The Tigers began their scoring on their second series and Colgate did not stop them until Princeton was forced to punt with 7:08 left in the third quarter. By that time the score was 38-7. Garrett completed 17 of 21 passes for 202 yards and ran the ball eight times for 70 yards in the first half. Boston University 24, Harvard 7 23: Jim Schuman set a pair of Bos- ton University single-season records while passing for 269 yards and; three touchdowns as the Yankee1 Conference team won in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard trailed 21-0 at one point and closed to 24-23 on a 2-yard touchdown run by quarterback Rof MacLeod with three minutes Harvard gambled on a two-point' conversion, but safety BU's Mike White intercepted MacLeod's pass. The three touchdown passes gave 1 Schuman 17 for the season, breaking the BU record of 16 set by Pat Man-; cini in 1986. Schuman also has; passed for 2,260 yards this season, breaking Mancini's record of 2,223 set two seasons ago. Dartmouth 20, Columbia Brendan Mahoney's 67-yard punt return proved to be the winning touch-: down in Hanover, N.H. Columbia has not won at Dartmouth since 1946, the year coach Larry McElreavy was born.

Columbia has lost four straight since breaking its record 44-game losing streak with a win over Princeton Oct. 8. Dartmouth quarterback Mark Johnson had 19 completions, setting a school record for completions in a season with 159. Maine 37, Brown 10: Davie Hol-liday scored the first of two touch-1 downs in the third quarter to put Maine ahead, and the Black Bears of. the Yankee Conference went on tC win in Providence, R.I.

Brown lost for the seventh consecutive game. The Bantams actually started their spirited comeback from a 27-0 hole after another fumble on a pitch from Griffin at the Trinity 11 led to Love's 26-yard field goal with 7:38 left in the third quarter. Kevin RisCassi scored on a 23-yard screen pass and Redgate tallied twice on short passes to get Trinity back in it. Jurek, who had blacked out from a first-half hit, re-entered the game after the third Trinity score and engineered the clinching field-goal drive that ate up nearly all of the remaining 8:49. "It's a huge win," Jurek said.

"We always have a tough fight against -them." man that today was a big game for the years to come," Kennedy said. Halfback Rodney Baron had a typical day, running for 96 yards on 16 carries and scoring two touchdowns. Central freshman corner-back Scott Castle hat two interceptions and broke up three passes. Linebacker Juan Roman had 10 tackles and a sack. With about five minutes left in the first quarter.

Baron capped an 82-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown pass. The extra point failed. Southern scored early in the second quarter on a 1-yard run by Ivan Cropper to go up 7-6. The Owls scored again late in the second quarter on a Carl Newton 2-yard touchdown run to make it 14-6. After Kennedy's 70-yard TD, a two-point conversion tied the game at 14.

The Blue Devils then controlled the game in the second half. Kennedy's 82-yard run and Baron's 1-yard run, which completed a 72-yard drive, gave the Blue Devils the victory. "It's a big rivalry. There were a lot of tempers flaring out there," Baron said. "No one wants to lose this game.

As my coach told us, it was a big rivalry 20 years ago and it is going to be a big rivalry 20 yean from now. It was just a great win." By ROBERTO GONZALEZ Courant Staff Writer NEW HAVEN Central Connecticut State University's running game, led by Dan Kennedy's 142 yards, overpowered state rival Southern Connecticut in a 28-14 victory Saturday. It was Central's (4-3-1) first win on the road since 1986. While Central ended a streak, Southern continued one. It was the Owls' 18th consecutive defeat and ninth this season.

Southern was playing for the first time at its new facility, Jess Dow field, which hasn't had all the kinks worked out yet. The scoreboard stopped working minutes before the start of the game and couldn't be repaired. The stadium's artificial turf was tested in two ways. The game was played in monsoon-like conditions, and the field got plenty of wear and tear from Central's offense (454 totals yard; 339 rushing, 115 passing). Central scored 14 second-half points to break a 14-14 tie.

"I just felt we played by far the best football we've played all year," Central Coach Mike McGlinchey said. "This was on the road, and we haven't won on the road since I've been here." some fight left down deep inside." Joe Love's 18-yard field goal his third three-pointer of the game put the game out of reach with 1:10 to go. "We gave too much away in the first half," Griffin said. "It's just tough when you spot somebody 24-0 at halftime." The win upped Amherst's record to 4-3 with a Little Three showdown next week against Williams remaining. Williams, which beat Wesleyan 19-0 Saturday, can win the title outright with a victory.

An Amherst win means the Lord Jeffs share the mythical title with Williams and Wesleyan. Trfnity fell to 4-2-1 with their tra Kennedy, who has been plagued by shoulder problems all season, ran for 142 yards on 16 carries and had two long touchdown runs. With less than a minute left in the first half, Kennedy took a short pass from quarterback Eric Valentine near Central's 30-yard line and ran 70 yards for a touchdown. He did it again, only a little bit better, on the first play in the second half. He took a handoff from Valentine for 82 yards to put Central up 21-14.

"I got him in the office the other night," McGlinchey said. "And I said, 'Danny, you just haven't had the success you could have and I don't know why it's been, but tomorrow, I just want you to tell everybody in the stands and stadium to know why you are the captain of this football "And he showed that." The game against Southern was the one Kennedy wanted to do well in with or without a sore shoulder. "You've seen me all through the year in just spurts. I really didn't have the opportunity to do it and today I did," Kennedy said. "I had it in my heart, I really wanted it bad.

I'm still hurting, my shoulder isn't too good." Kennedy also wanted to make an impression on the younger players. "I really wanted to show the fresh ditional confrontation with Wesleyan remaining Saturday in Middle-town. Because of their bobbles, Trinity ran just 13 plays in the first half to 57 for Amherst. The Lord Jeffs had the ball 25:22 to just 4:38 for the Bantams. Trinity had just one first down in the first half to 14 for Amherst.

The Lord Jeffs shredded a placid Bantams defense for 221 yards rushing on 54 carries in the first half. "I was surprised we were able to run the ball that well," Jurek said. "With all the turnovers, their defense was getting tired." Griffin made the first fumble when he was crunched at his 28-yard Fumbling Trinity spots Amherst 27-0 lead, loses 30-21 1 By TERRY PRICE Courant Staff Writer The epitaph on the tombstone of Trinity College's Homecoming foot-; ball defeat Saturday was etched in a suicidal first half. The inscription said: fumbles, fumbles." The ultimate price was a 30-21 to Amherst College on Broad Street's soggy Jessee Field. The only solace for the beaten was a valiant comeback in which the Lord Jeffs' 24-0 halftime I lead shriveled to six slim points (27- 21) with 8 minutes, 49 seconds left in the game.

I "I was scared," Amherst quarter line. Amherst, which had already taken a 3-0 lead on Love's 31-yard field goal, moved in for a Kevin Minicus 2-yard touchdown run that helped hike the lead to 10-0 with 1:01 remaining in the first quarter. On Trinity's next play from scrimmage, Stephen Redgate ran 22 yards and fumbled at his 47. Twelve plays later, a 1-yard touchdown dive by Minicus gave Amherst a 17-0 edge with 11:09 left in the second quarter. With 7:37 left in the half, freshman David Devlin, subbing for injured junior Darren Toth, misplayed a punt and Amherst recovered at the Trinity 7.

The Jeffs turned the turnover into a 5-yard touchdown run by Jurek..