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PartC Automotive Towns SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1976 5SKSS5: New Hampshire Bodfe UConn in ErrorFilled Game coach Larry Naviaux said "it was a great effort which was marred only by the ftinal score. Came To Play "A lot of guys showed they came to play," explained Naviaux, who saw his forces rally from a 21-10 halftime deficit only to succumb in the final seconds. "We fell short but it was a helluva effort." Still, the stony silence in the UConn lockerroom told the story, as did quarterback Bernie Palmer and defensive coordinator Joe Gianelli. "We wasted too many scoring opportunities inside the 10-yard line," said Palmer, the senior co-captain. "Breakdowns killed us on those long scoring plays," declared Gianelli.

That just about summed it up. And the closeness of the final outcome was echoed in the final statistics, which showed the Wildcats out-gaining by just one yard, 376-375. Those wasted UConn scoring chances and defensive breakdowns came early, making it an uphill struggle all day for the Huskies. Came Away Scoreless On their first two possessions, UConn, on the strength of the running of Rick Mason, moved inside the Wildcat 10 and came away scoreless. The first time, fullback Darryl Schwartz was stopped on a fourth-and-one at the nine, and the second time Greg Sinay missed a 25-yard field goal.

On the ensuing play after Sinay's missed kick, New Hampshire got the first of four big plays which ultimately decided the contest. From his own 15, quarterback Jeff Allen, a junior out of Seymour, kept the ball on an option around right end, broke into the clear at the 20 and rambled 85 untouched yards for a touchdown with 7:03 left in the opening quarter. A 45-yard Mason scamper set up a three-yard keeper for a tying TD by Palmer just 90 seconds later, but two plays hence, the Wildcats had See Wildcats, Page 6C By BRUCE BERLET DURHAM, N.H. It was a heartbreaking deja vu for the University of Connecticut football team Saturday at Cowell Stadium. Almost a year ago to the day, Bill Burnham rambled 23 yards with 35 seconds to go to give the University of New Hampshire a 14-10 win over the Huskies.

Saturday, the Wildcats didn't wait quite that long and the method of victory wasn't the same, but the results were equally devastating at least from UConn's side of the field. This time it was junior Sam Che-covich who provided the heroics, a 37-yard field goal with 55 seconds remaining that gave the Wildcats a through," Checovich beamed. Another man who felt "great" and "quite pleased" was New Hampshire coach Bill Bowes. "It seems every time we play UConn, it's a cliff-hanger," Bowes said, rattling off his past wins over the Huskies of 15-14, 20-19, 10-7, 7-3 and last year's 14-10. "What really pleased me was that we won when everything seemed to be going their way and we didn't particularly play as well as I think we can.

"But we had it when we needed it and that is the sign of a football Despite the demoralizing defeat, the Huskies' fourth straight this season in their YanCon opener, head 24-21 win in an error-filled Yankee Conference battle. "I just thought positive," Checo-w vich said of his decisive last-minute boot, which was accomplished after a high snap from center. "I was just thinking it was going through and that's probably what made me disregard the bad snap." Three-for-Three It was the first time Checovich had been in a position to win a game in his football career. In fact, it was just the second week Checovich had been kicking for the Wildcats in place of the injured Scott Seero. "That makes three-for-three and it sure felt great when it went 4 I Trinity Defense Paces Triumph Over Bates, 24-0 rush," said Jancarski of his blocked punt.

"That turned it around for us. After that we got a few nice breaks." With a 7-0 lead, the Bantams' offense got untracked late in the opening period and moved to the Bates' five-yard line. When the march stalled, sophomore Bill McCandless came on to boot a 22-yard field goal for a 10-0 advantage with 8:59 left in the second quarter. Trivella Intercepts Bates had the ball for exactly one play after that score as Trinity defensive back Tony Trivella picked off the first of his two interceptions and returned it 34 yards to the visitors' 14. On the next play, bull-like Pat Heffernan rambled in for the See Trinity, Page 6C By TERRY PRICE Dave Jancarski plays defense for Trinity College and plays it very well, but he understands and sympathizes with the men who move the football, too.

"Sometimes it's tough on the offense," said the senior defensive back Saturday. "Sometimes the defense can start it up for them." Jancarski should know. It was his first period block of a Bates punt that started Trinity on the road to a 24-0 football win over Bates College before an estimated 750 rain-soaked fans. Plenty of Flags After Jancarski burst' through the line to block Tom Burhoe's punt and Dan Iadonisi scooped it up at the three and ran it in for a touchdown, just about everything went right for Trinity and everything wrong for Bates. The only thing that saved it from being more ode-sided that it was the officials who dropped flags for almost 200 yards in penalties.

By halftime, Trinity led 17-0 and Bates didn't have one, first down to its credit other than the two the officials provided them with on a pair of pass interference calls. A heavy rain that began at intermission and made moving the football in the second half and a 47-yard interception return for a touchdown by Jancarski in the third period helped the Bantams cruise to their second win without a loss. "I got it on an outside JdBJiWW AP'sTop20 How They Fared 1. Michigan beat Wake Forest, 31-0. 2.

Pittsburgh beat Duke, 44-31. 3. Oklahoma beat Iowa State, 24-10. tied Ohio State, 10-10. 5.

Nebraska beat Miami, 7-19. 6. Georgia beat Alabama, 21-0. 7. Maryland beat Villanova, 20- 9.

8. Ohio State tied UCLA, 10-10. 9. Kansas beat Wisconsin, 34-24. 10.

Alabama lost to Georgia, 21- 0. 1 1. Louisiana Statate lost to Florida, 28-23. 12. Missouri beat Nort Carolina, 24-3.

13. Southern California played Iowa, night. 14. North Carolina lost to Missouri, 24-3. 15.

Boston College beat Navy, 17-13. 16. Mississippi lost to Auburn, 10-0. 17. Texas Tech did not plav.

18. Notre Dame beat Michigan State, 24-6. 19 Florida beat Louisiana, 28-23. 20. Penn State lost to Kentucky, 22- 6.

IP Silt; lllilillllllli Getting Their Points Across Dan Welling (37) brought Heffernan down, too late, as both the runner and the referee got their points across. Heffernan ran for 110 yards during the 24-0 victory over Bates (Courant Photo by Anthony Bacewicz). Official at left leaves no doubt, giving the touchdown signal vigorously as Trinity's Pat Heffernan (31) falls across goal line after running 14 yards in the third period. Yale's Pagliaro Powers 21-6 Win Wesleyan Routs Colby Behind Variacore, 38-0 drive of just over 40 yards to the Colby one from whee he leaned in for the first score. Wethersfield's John Papa kicked all five extra points and added a 30-yard field goal as time ran out in the first half.

Steve Imbriglia's record-setting pass interception a few minutes later led to a 14-0 lead. The safety from Wilkes-Barre, picked off a Steve Plomaritis pass on the Colby 48. It was his 10th interception, a Wesleyan career record. Colby held this time but extra point. Yale monster back Scott Rooth set up the scoring opportunity by picking off a Mike Rieker pass at the Lehigh 31.

Rooth scooted 24 yards on the interception. According to Yale head coach Carm Cozza, "Rooth's interception was the turning point of the game. It took us out of a big hole and forced them into a mental letdown." Yale's second score of the day came just 2:54 later, when Pagliaro created his own option in the Eli's number 84 play and romped along the left sideline for 75 yards and his second TD. The play, which Pagliaro had capitalized on for 57 yards in the first half, was designed to go inside and spearhead off the left tackle. But according to the 5-11, 150-lb.

junior, the mirror-image runs were the result of a See Yale's, Page 6C By GINNY APPLE NEW HAVEN A 57-yard run wasn't enough for Yale halfback John Pagliaro. What he wanted was a touchdown and a cloud of dust. He got just that Saturday afternoon at the Yale Bowl when he raced 75 yards for the Elis' second touchdown of the day to skyrocket Yaie to a 21-6 college football victory over unbeaten Lehigh University before a crowd of 13,034 chilled Parents' Day fans. The Derby junior scampered for 193 yards on 17 carries, the third best single-game rushing performance in Yale history. His dazzling day's work included the 52-yard jaunt, a 75-yard touchdown run and a six-yard scoring Albie Booth, who rolled up 223 and 194 yards in separate games, owns the top rushing performances in the Elis history.

The Engineers and 'the Elis wrestled to a scoreless first half which saw Yale inside the Lehigh 30-yard line three times. The first drive ended in a 35-yard missed field goal, while the other two were stifled by a fumble and a pass interception. The Elis jumped to a 7-0 lead on their first possession of the second half when Pagliaro skipped and hopped six yards for the touchdown. Randy Carter added the had to kick out to midfield and the Cards surged goal-ward on two Vanacore pas ses to fullback Bob Latessa one for 28 yards and the scoring toss for nine. A Colby fumble recovered by Gary Sturgis on the White Mules' 14 led to a third score with 4:09 to intermission, this one coming on a two-yard smash by halfback Andy Darpino.

Another long aerial slash from past midfield gave Papa the opportunity to kick his field goal on the final play before the break. Czepiel Intercepts Wesleyan got a third-period score with 18 seconds left on the clock on a pretty 25-yard pitch from Vanacore to end Bob Coolen and wrapped it up in the last quarter when defensive end Jim Czepiel intercepted a Frank Sears pass and streaked 55 unmolested yards. Colby offered no threat to the Wesleyan goal line until the final minute of play and then a passing attack by Sears reached the Cardinal five yard line before it was rerouted back to the 25 as time expired. Middle guard Don Dan-delske, end John McVicar and linebacker Neil Fitzgerald were particularly effective in Wesleyan's defense along with Imbriglia. This was Wesleyan's first See Brad, Page 6C BY BILL NEWELL Sports Editor MIDDLETOWN Quarterback Brad Vanacore tossed two touchdown passes and sliced in another score on his own Saturday as Wesleyan University's football team erupted for 24 points in the second period and clobbered Colby 38-0 on Andrus Field.

The victory, much easier than expected, was the Cardinals' first of the season after a one-point opening game loss to Tufts, and the 38 points was the most scored by a Wesleyan team in Bill Macdermott's six years as head coach. "This was our best game in quite awhile a total team effort," said Macder-mott. "Everyone played and quite a bit and the second level people did about as well as the first Wesleyan's quickness to the ball, both offensively and defensively, was easily apparent. The Cards swarmed all over Colby most of the grey, rainy afternoon and when Wesleyan had the ball it moved with incisive execution. "Yes, our quickness our team takeoff helps us a lot against physically superior teams," commented Macdermott.

Papa Kicks Well After an uneventful first quarter, Vanacore got un-tracked and led a Wesleyan Jf Kay. ft Baseball Standings On Page UC Live Sports On The Air PRO FOOTBALL: Raiders vs. Pats ltfOPAAChOaO Giants vs. Cardinals 1:30 PAACh.3 Rams vs. Dolphins 4:00 PM Ch.

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Conn 7 Brgwtr St 22 Maine Mtime Rhode Island 14 Mam 9 Trinity 24 Bates 0 WPI 39 Union 21 Westevan 38 Colbv 0 Wstn Conn 16 New Haven 14 Brown 13 Princeton 7 i 25 That's Three Wesleyan's Andy Darpino goes up and over for the Cards' third touchdown in the sec ond quarter against Colby Saturday in Middletown. The Mules' Nick Jans (31) and Henry Newman (82) strain to prevent the score, to no avail (Courant photo by Joseph Cannata Jr.).