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1 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, September 22, 1985 Section 4 3 College football Iowa rain falls only on NIU magic saves Indiana Navy lapse lets time run out i 'Y-L f' A A By Bob Logan Chicago Tribune BLOOMINGTON, Ind. It's a good thing Indiana and Navy were up for Saturday's nationally televised thriller. They had to be, because Ted Turner's TV network wanted an 11:40 a.m. kickoff, the first time football had been played in Memorial Stadium before noon. And the Hoosiers responded with an electrifying 38-35 victory.

Quarterback Steve Bradley was the Hoosier hero for the second straight week, capping the seesaw struggle with an 8-yard touchdown pass to flanker Ernie Jones with 56 seconds left. Even the controversy that erupted when Navy blew its last chance to win by failing to stop the clock couldn't dim the luster of this spectacle. "It was my fault," said Navy coach Gary Tranquill of the IS seconds that slipped away while his team roared downfield in the final minute. "I should have called time out." Aided by a holding call against defensive back Gary Gooden, the Middies marched to a first down on the Indiana 40. They had 19 seconds and three timeouts left.

While the crowd of 35,610 watched in frenzied fascination, Navy huddled leisurely instead of signaling for time. When the awful truth dawned on the Middies that only four seconds remained, all quarterback Bill Byrne could do was throw a Hail Mary pass beyond his receivers. "I should have had them up on the line, ready to go," Byrne said, confessing he was unaware the clock had started as soon as injured Navy end John Lobb was helpedj off the field. "We never thought of going for a field goal on that last play. We needed a win, not a tie." Instead, winless Navy took its third defeat, while Indiana soared to 2-0 after starting this season with a 16-game losing streak.

Tailback Napoleon McCallum did his best for Navy, breaking three team records he now holds 21 and tying one by netting 28S yards. He proved himself a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate, gaining 124 yards rushing, 30 receiving, 126 on runbacks and even completing a 5-yard option pass for a touchdown. Indiana's comeback made him wish he could trade all that yardage for a victory. "I don't vote for the Heisman, and I'm not thinking about records during a game," McCallum said. "If we could only win a game, I'd settle for one yard rushing." Navy surged ahead for the first time in the fourth quarter on a pair of scoring passes from Byrne to Tony Hollinger, the last one a 17-yard bullet over the middle with 10:18 left for a 35-31 lead.

Then the Hoosier defense forced a punt with six minutes to go, more than enough time for Bradley to work his magic again. The unflappable senior has been converting crucial third-down situ ations his whole career, but he topped himself Saturday with an even bigger fourth-down move. After keeping a drive alive with a third-down toss to tight end Dave Lilja, Bradley mixed his calls to milk the clock until it was fourth and 2 on the Navy 10. "I told my defense to be ready for a sweep or an option," Tranquill said. "We were set up to stop them from going outside." That's where the play went, Bradley racing to his right, with Damon Sweazy trailing for an option pitchout.

Bradley kept the ball, oozing through a small hole to pick up the critical first down. On the next play, he turned cor-nerback Steve Brady around with a pump fake that enabled Jones to kneel all by himself in the end zone and grab the winning pass. It was the last of many Navy mistakes that had Tranquill sputtering indignantly at his defensive unit. "I'm not sure what's wrong with our defense," he said. "I look out there and we've got five guys on the ground.

Indiana kept getting big gains on third down, when we knew they had to pass. "Lose three games by a total of eight points, the way we have, and it gets tougher and tougher. All of a sudden, you start to think you can't win." Despite throwing two interceptions, Bradley consistently riddled Navy's defense, completing 18 of 32 passes for 199 yards and two touchdowns. And just as he did against Louisville last week, the mobile quarterback ran for a TD a 53-yard gallop through the middle to give Indiana a 31-21, bulge late in the third period. Even more astonishing than Bradley's two-game net of 633 yards in total offense is his consistency on third down 10 of 17 conversions Saturday, 22 of 37 overall.

"I know how Navy feels, and I admire the way they kept coming at us," Bradley said. "It surprised me that they didn't want to try a field goal on the last play. "We were right there on the edge of winning last year, when we lost all 11 games. Now that we have a taste of it, we're making the plays when we need them. On the last drive, Navy was in a prevent defense, so everything was open for our receivers.

It was game time, and we all knew it. "We just looked at each other in the huddle, and I told them: 'If we score, we win. If we don't, we The offensive line held people out long enough for me to get the ball away." Indiana also got a lift from Leonard Bell, a safety from Rockford Jefferson High School. With the Hoosiers clinging to a 14-13 lead early in the third quarter, Bell dashed 52 yards for an touchdown on his first try at returning a punt. "There was a hole to the sidelines, so I just took off," he said.

"I was recruited by Illinois and Wisconsin, but now I'm glad I came to Indiana. I could get used to this winning stuff." Jack Trudeau tries to loft a pass over Nebraska's Mike Knox during the mini's 52-25 loss Saturday. Illinois gets 'humiliated' Nebraska intercepts 4 Trudeau passes in rout i UPI Photo rid of the ball and he stood up and it hit him in the chest. But if we played well early, we wouldn't have been in that position." The Illini did play well briefly in the second quarter when they closed a 17-0 deficit to 17-10 just before the half. Trudeau, whov earlier had seen his second pass of the game picked off and returned 56 yards for a score by Nebraska safety Chris Carr, led Illinois on a 12-play drive that covered 77 yards and ended with his 5-yard scoring pass to Cap Boso.

It was undoubtedly the Ulini's best drive of the season and it appeared it would give them an emotional lift going into the second half. But with only 1:25 to play when Nebraska got the ball, Cornhusker sophomore quarterback McCathorn Clayton stunned the Illini with his only pass completion of the day. It was a bomb down the right sideline that went for 64 yards when safety Ed White went for the interception instead of going for receiver Robb Schnitzler. Cor-nerback Todd Avery finally hauled Schnitzler down on the 16, but DuBose's touchdown leap beat the halftime clock by a full 28 seconds. "Everybody was fired up after we scored," said Illini wide receiver David Williams.

"We thought we'd go into the half down seven and that would be a big boost for us. Then they snuck that pass in and killed everything again." i Killed as in dead. "Nebraska came out in that third quarter and tore us limb from limb," said White. "We're in a shambles right now." down just before the half on a Payton-like leap over a stacked defense, also from a yard away. His 49-yard touchdown run on Nebraska's first play of the second half, when he shed tacklers like a bull shrugging off a bunch of rodeo clowns, gave the Cornhuskers a 31-10 lead and all but ended the competitive aspect of the game.

Nebraska built the lead to 45-10 going into the final quarter, and although Trudeau led a comeback that had some of the crowd a little netvy, it didn't fool White. "Nebraska just relaxed," he said, "and when a team relaxes, anyone can look good." Trudeau, who ended the day 29 of 51 for 292 yards, threw two touchdown passes and a two-point conversion pass to cut the deficit to 45-25. He had the Illini on the march again and would have had another touchdown except Keith Jones dropped a sure touchdown pass in the right flat with the ball at the Nebraska 13 and more than 7 minutes still left. It was one of several dropped balls on a wet, chilly day, but Trudeau, rushed hard all afternoon and sacked four times, also had some bad throws. Particularly the one he threw straight into the hands of tackle Chris Spachman for the 38-yard touchdown return that killed a rally.

"We had dropped passes, miss--ed tackles and the quarterback throwing the ball to anybody in the other uniform," groaned White. "I'm not blaming it solely on Jack. But when you're running for your life, at least don't throw it to the other guy." "At that point, I was trying to do too much," said Trudeau. "At that point, I was trying to do everything. I had pressure and didn't see him.

I was trying to get faster than Brown's return, the first kickoff returned for a TD against Michigan State since 1977. As the Irish blockers formed a wedge in the middle of the field, he veered to the left and went untouched to the end zone. "It was just a big hole," Brown said. "I didn't have to do anything but run the ball." "That was a big lift," Furjanic said, "but we had to realize we were still just seven pojnts ahead with a long game to play." The defense showed it got the message when Michigan State recovered an Allen Pinkett fumble at the Irish 35 in the third period. After the Spartans moved to a first down at the 9, Notre Dame forced them to kick a field goal that made it 14-10.

The Irish made it 20-10 with a strike almost as sudden as L' By Jody Homer Chicago Tribune IOWA CITY A steady rain' hi Iowa does more than help the com grow. "I don't care if it rains every game this year," said Iowa coach Hayden Fry after Saturday's soggy 48-20 victory over Northern Illinois. "It's funny, because in the past we've had some extremely good games throwing the ball in the rain. Chuck Long doesn't let anything bother him." In last year's Freedom Bowl, quarterback Long threw for 461 yards and 6 touchdowns in a 55-17 victory over Texas, played in a downpour. Saturday, Long completed 18 of 28 passes for 270 yards and five touchdowns in a cold, steady rain that gathered in big puddles on the Kinnick Stadium artificial turf.

His fourth-quarter replacement, Mark Vlasic, was 2 of 4 for 77 yards and one touchdown. "This is the worst weather I've played in," said Long, "worse than the Freedom Bowl because it was cold today, and I'd rather play on grass in the rain. You have to give credit to the receivers for holding on." Iowa's six touchdown passes broke the stadium record of five. And Bill Happel's three touchdown receptions and 207 yards on nine catches both are school records. The senior scored on 36- and 39-yard throws from Long in the first half and on a 12-yard pass from Long in the third quarter.

'I didn't know about the record until they announced it," said the S-foot-1 1-inch, 180-pounder from' Cedar Rapids, "and then Coach Fry said he was going to try and get me another one just to make sure." Happel, known for consistency and holding onto the ball more than great speed, was the Hawkeyes' leading receiver in 1984 with 632 yards, but he had only three TD receptions in his career. He doubled that Saturday. Neither rain, nor NIU's veer offense nor six turnovers by the Hawkeyes could help outmanned Northern keep this game close. NIU's' option offense ran out options in a hurry. At the end of the third quarter, the Huskies had rushed 40 times for minus-9 yards.

In the' fourth quarter, the Huskies pulled quarterback Marshall Taylor for Pete Genatempo, and the Hawkeyes pulled many of their first-string defenders for back-ups. The Huskies finished the game with 16 net yards rushing and 69 passing. Taylor was sacked three times for a loss of 43 yards. Iowa led 24-7 at the half. The Northern touchdown was set up by an interception.

With five minutes left in the half, NIU's Mike Hol-lingshed intercepted Long and returned the ball 16 yards to the Iowa 23. Three plays later, Taylor completed a 21-yard TD pass to tight end Andy Wooldridge. Taylor scored on a 1-yard run in the third quarter and Genatempo completed a 22-yard TD pass to flanker Virgil Gerin with 1:34 left in the game to make the score more respectable against the No. 4-ranked Hawkeyes. Northern is two-thirds of the way through its Big 10 schedule.

NIU lost 38-17 to Wisconsin last week and plays Northwestern next week. The Huskies are 1-2 while Iowa moves to 2-0. "We don't have the speed or experience of the larger Iowa squad," said NIU coach Jerry Pet-tibone, "but our boys never quit playing. I'm very proud of that. We had no serious injuries, and I'm thankful for that.

"I feel like we have played one of the really great football teams in the country. I can't remember another team with so many players who can beat you so many ways." One of those is a walk-on from Glenview. Junior Rob Houghtlin handled both punting and kicking duties with great success, averaging 48 yards on his punts and making field goals of 41 and 50 yards. Hawkeye punter Gary Kos-trubala didn't play. Fry wouldn't say why.

"He was hurt today," said the coach. "That's all I'll say, he was hurt." He probably didn't feel much better after watching Houghtlin go after his job. Houghtlin said he received no scholarship offers out of New Trier High School, so he walked on at Miami of Ohio. After a year of not playing, he left to walk on at Iowa, where he earned a job last spring and is now on scholarship. "Iowa has always given walk-ons a fair shot," said Houghtlin, "so I jumped at the opportunity." The Hawkeyes have scored 106 points in their first two games, while holding opponents to virtually zero yards rushing.

Drake had minus-36 yards on the ground last week. Iowa rushed for 216 yards Saturday, with Ronnie Harmon getting 98 yards on 17 carries. Harbaugh, Michigan rip South Carolina By Robert Markus Chicago Tribune (LINCOLN, Neb. It was all Sweetness and light in Nebraska's 52-25 victory over Illinois Saturday. Nebraska I-back Doug "Sweetness" DuBose shredded the Illini defense for 191 yards and three touchdowns while the; Cornhuskers defense turned out the lights on Jack Trudeau and Co.

Trudeau was intercepted four times and two of them were run back for touchdowns as the Illini were embarrassed in front of a roaring crowd of 76,149. "We were humiliated out there today," exclaimed head coach Mike White. "Our program is at a real low ebb. We had a taste of big-time football against USC and Nebraska and we failed about as convincingly as you can fail. "We're a long, long way from USC and Nebraska, and we've got a chance to be a long way away from a lot of teams if things don't change." Nebraska got the jump on the Illini right from the start when DuBose, who derives his nickname from his hero, Walter Pay-ton, ran for 25 yards the first time he carried the ball.

It was the first of IS times during the game that a Cornhusker runner gained-10 yards or more on a play as Nebraska rolled up 456 yards on the ground. "I expected Nebraska's running game to be powerful," said White, "but if the ballcarrier falls forward every time he has the ball, something's wrong. You're not tackling. They were running violently and we were tackling passively." DuBose scored the game's first touchdown on a 1-yard run through a hole wider than a cornfield and added a second touch Irish Dig 10 roundup Minnesota 2-0 didn't have a third-down situation until late in the third quarter, so Foggie passed only six times, completing three for 101 yards before leaving the game after three periods. His bomb to Anderson broke open a 21-14 game with 6:40 left in the first half.

Montana is 1-1. Purdue 37, Ball St. 18-Senior Jim Everett threw for 340 yards and 4 touchdowns, including 2 to Mark Jackson, to lead Purdue to a victory in West Lafayette, in the first game between the two teams. Everett, who completed 24 of 32 passes, moved ahead of Bob Griese and into fourth place on Purdue's all-time passing list with 4,498 yards. Everett left the game in the third quarter.

Ball State 0-3 could muster only 245 yards against an aggressive Purdue 1-1 defense. Wisconsin 26, Nevada-Las Vegas 23 Todd Gregoire kicked two fourth-quarter field goals and Bud Keyes, a redshirted freshman filling in for Wisconsin's injured starting quarterback, threw three touchdowns to help the Badgers pull out the victory in Madison, Wis. Keyes, replacing starter Mike Howard, who was hurt last week, threw touchdown passes of 15, 49 and 78 yards. Gregoire's 42-yard fourth-quarter field goal with 9:08 left in the game gave Wisconsin 2-0 a 23-23 tie, and his 20-yarder with 3:38 left boosted the Badgers to the victory and dropped UNLV's record to 1-2. From Chicago Tribune wires Michigan rolled to its second straight victory over a highly rated opponent Saturday, defeating South Carolina 34-3 in Columbia, S.C., behind the passing and running of quarterback Jim Harbaugh.

The senior capped a time-consuming 76-yard drive by scoring on a 5-yard run late in the first period and pitched out to tailback Jamie Morris for a 4-yard touchdown run that gave the Wolverines a 144 lead with 2 minutes 11 seconds remaining in the first half. Harbaugh, who completed only 7 of 17 passes for 74 yards in Michigan's opening victory over Notre Dame, did better than that in the first half alone when he was 9 of 13 for 126 yards. He finished with 13 completions in 24 attempts for 183 yards. "Our offensive line opened up some big holes today," said Harbaugh, who also rushed for 45 yards on 7 carries. "Our offensive line is probably the most underrated in the country." Harbaugh completed three third-down passes on Michigan's first touchdown including a 41-yarder to Paul Jokisch, his 6-foot-8-inch split end, and fired a 26-, yarder to Jokisch to start the sec-' ond one.

Michigan 2-0 held South Carolina's 2-1 explosive veer attack to 33 yards in the first 27V4 minutes. Minnesota 62, Montana 17 Quarterback Rickey Foggie ran for three touchdowns and fired 75-yard scoring pass to Mel Anderson to lead the Gophers' rout in Minneapolis. 7 Brown's return, covering 68 yards in four plays and 85 seconds. Most of that came on Brown's big catch, and the last two on a run by Pinkett, who rushed for 116 yards in 25 carries. Notre Dame made it 27-10 after Brandy Wells blocked Chris Cau-dell's 49-yard field goal attempt.

Brown's fourth catch of the game, a 12-yarder, got that drive started, and sophomore fullback Frank Stams finished it with a 1-yard run for the first TD of his college career. Irish sophomore wide receiver Tony Eason had scored the first TD of his college career on a 17-yard pass play that tied the game in the first half. "I think we stopped ourselves," said Michigan State coach George Perles. "We had them on the run for a while, but we couldn't keep it up." 1 Continued from page 1 do the same thing. A sack "killed their first possession and a couple penalties made them go 77 yards for what was officially a 54-yard touchdown drive on their second possession.

Instead of only being tied 7-7 at halftime, the Irish could have put the game away early. But Beuer-lein overthrew fullback Frank Stams on fourth and 1 at the Spartans' 27 and later threw an interception at the Spartans' 2. He finished with 15-of-27 for 217 yards, one TD and two interceptions. "Both of them were terrible plays on my part," Beuerlein said of the interceptions. "But the guys were great in picking me up after my mistakes." Nothing could boost the Irish 4.

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