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Me Blanks idea (01 14 7 14 a Kentucky Alabama Ale Wheeler 7 past from T. Davit (B. Davis kick) Ala T. Davis 3 run (B. Davit kick) Ala Bisceglia 3 pass from T.

Davis (B. Davis kick) Ala Bisceglia 9 run (B. Davis kick) Ala Stokes 41 past from Rutledge (B. Davis kick) A 71,433 bobbled trying to punt. Minutes later the Tide moved from its 29 to the Wildcat 4 but a field goal attempt by Bill Davis, who converted after each score, was wide.

Gary Knutson ran for rrfost of the yards in Kentucky's only drive, the third period effort that fizzled on the fake field goal. That was the only Wildcat excursion into Alabama territory. The Tide defense', which in- Stokes for the final score. Alabama holds a 25-1-1 record with Kentucky, which last defeated the Tide in .1922. Alabama a.

2-0 mark against Vanderbilt in Tuscaloosa next Saturday night. Kentucky now is 1-1 going into jts game with Indiana at Lexington." Alabama failed on two scoring opportunities in the second period. It couldn't move the ball after getting it on the Wildcat 31 when John Tatterson tercepted two passes and covered one fumble and booming punts by Greg Gantt kept the Wildcats off balance. Terry Davis completed eight of 13 passes for 95 yards. Wilbur Jackson ran for 58 yards in nine carries for the Tide and Bisceglia got 51 yards in 10 carries.

Wildcat quarterback James McKay completed only five of 14 passes for 22 yard. Kmjtson ran for 62 yards in 13 carries. By HOYT HARWELL BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)-Quarterback Terry Davis cashed in on Kentucky mistakes for two quick Alabama touchdowns to start the Crimson Tide' toward defense of its Southeastern Conference football title with a 35-0 victory Saturday night. Davis threw touchdown passes of seven and three yards and set up another score with a 28-yard toss to the three.

coming out of the backfield. After this score, midway the third period, Kentucky got into Alabama territory for the first time but its drive stalled at the 11 when a pass off a fake field goal lost three yards. 1 Davis took Alabama 74 yards early in the fourth period and Bisceglia capped the drive with a 9-yard burst over center. With substitutes taking over, Tide quarterback Gary Rut-ledge passed 48-yards to Ralph Skip Kubelius recovered a fumbled snap at the 21 on the second play of the game and five plays later Wayne Wheeler made a fine catch in the end zone for the first Tide score. Steve Wade intercepted a deflected pass on Kentucky's next series and Davis ran it in after throwing the 28-yard pass to Wheeler.

The third Tide score came on a fake field goal. Davis threw three yards to Steve Bisceglia Kentucky Alabama 29 46-1 ia 22 15 5-17-2 7-3 2-1 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yardt Passes Punts Fumbtes-lost Penalties-yards 53-183 157 11 10-14 4- 44 1 5- 34 mamxf, jKfmmt IV, w- 3p Lolich, Tigers Tighten AL Race By Topping Bosox land Indians 5-2 in a rain-short By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sir in fhahxA rM beating the Boston Red Sox 7-1 behind Mickey Lolich's six-hit ened, six-inning contest. The Detroit Tigers further Lolich was unbeatable, after tightened the American- League 4 rf)Jkf ter. Detroit thus moved within his teammates gave him a 3-0 East baseball race Saturday by. 4 Vt, 1 lead in the first inning, one run Illinois Crushed By USC CHAMPAIGN, 111.

(AP) -Sophomore tailback Anthony Davis raced for two touchdowns as top-ranked Southern California wiped out an early deficit and erupted for a 55-20 victory over Illinois Saturday in an intersectional football game. Davis boosted USC to a 14-14 tie late in the first half with the first of his two touchdowns smashes. After that, the Trojans crushed the Mini with a 35 point splurge in the second half. Split end John McKay, son of one percentage point of the on an error and the other two on RBI singles by Duke Sims first-place Red Sox in the hot- Baseball Roundup and Jim Northrup. Aurelio Rodriguez and Al Kaline later hit bases-empty home runs for the Tigers.

Ollie Browns' clutch single a solo blast 'by Roy White helped New York stop Cleveland. Fritz Peterson won his 17th game this season and the 101st of his career. The Oakland A's moved toward the American League West pennant with a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Pinch-runner Allan Lewis came home from second base with the winning run in the ninth inning on an error. In another AL game Saturday afternoon, Dick Woodson and Wayne Granger combined for a seven-hitter as the Minnesota See TIGERS, Page 4-D 0 0 0 0 0 Pennant Race Pennant Races At A Glance By The Associated Press American League East WL Pet.

GB To Play Boston 79 64 .545 10 Detroit 80 47 .544 Baltimore 77 69 .527 2Vi 8 New York 76 70 .521 3V4 9 BOSTON Home (4), Detroit, Sept. 24, Milwaukee, Sept. 24, 27, Kansas City, Sept. 28; Away (4), at Baltimore, Sept. 29, 30, Oct.

1, at Detroit, Oct. 2, 3, 4. DETROIT Home (8), New York, Sept. 27, 28, Milwaukee, Sept. 29, 30, Oct.

1, Boston, Oct. 2, 3, Away (1), at Boston, drove home George Scott with test pennant race in the AL since 1967. The Baltimore Orioles remained in third place, 2y2 games behind, after losing to the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1, and the New York Yankees moved the tie-breaking run in the seventh inning as Milwaukee beat Baltimore and jolted the Orioles' pennant chances. Two-run homers by Ron Blomberg and Bernie Allen and 9 -M I within 3y2 games in fourth place after defeating the Cleve- the Trojan coach, also scored two touchdowns on passes of 31 and six yards, as USC scored nine touchdowns. Illinois, relying on rookie quarterback Tom McCartney, Sept.

24. BALTIMORE home (5), Cleveland, Sept. 26, 27, Boston, Sept. 29, 30, Oct. Away (3), at Milwaukee, Sept.

24, at Cleveland, Oct 3 (2). NEW YORK Home (5), Cleveland, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, Milwaukee, Oct. 2, 3, Away (4), at Cleveland, Sept.

24 (2), at Detroit, Sept. 27, 28. NAILED Fred Stuvek, (15), Navy quarter- get his pass off and suffered a loss in 1st back, is tackled in his own backfield by John period action at University Park, Pa. (AP) Wirephoto Skorupan (81) of Penn State as he failed to carried the battle to the heavily favored Trojans most of the second half, but then collapsed under USC's awesome second half power generated by Mike Rae's passing and a relentless Murray Falls 10-0 In Rain Golden Eagles Blank Racers Atl- sports Ufl (Jernj SttkinS EDITOR HmtimmmMmimmiMifiHHmiiHiiiiiiiifimiHii as Murray. Led by tailback Jeff Axel, the Golden Eagles gained ground attack.

The Trojans finally went ahead for the first time at 20-14 only 21 seconds before halftime when Rae shot a 31-yard pass to McKay in the corner of the end zone. The game became one-sided in the third period when Davis scored his second two-yard scoring run to cap a 54-yard Trojan march in seven plays. COOKEVILLE, -Tennessee Tech, pre-season pick in the Ohio Valley Conference, blanked Murray State University, 10-0, here Saturday night in Section 12 Pages September 24, 1972 290 yards rushing and 14 pass ing for 304 total yards. wmmmmmimmmmmmmmma Murray State rallied briefly in the third period and moved to the Tennessee Tech 32 where the Eagles held and took over on downs. On the first play from scrimmage, however, Tech fumbled and the Racers recovered at the 26-yard line.

Axel picked up 116 yards in 20 carries and Jay Bonds gain a loop opener played in a heavy ed 61 in 12 carries. Ledford's touchdown pass was his only own 25 to the MSU 19 in the first quarter before the thrust bogged down. Butch Gentry, however, booted a 36-yard field goal to put the Golden Eagles on top 3-0. A short punt which rolled dead on the Racer 45 put Tennessee Tech in motion again in the second period. The Golden Eagles marched the distance to the goal in nine plays with quarterback Mike Ledford hitting end Sam Anderson for 14 yards and the payoff.

Gentry booted the placement to complete the scoring. completion in two attempts. LSU Tigers Prowl Past Aggies 42-1 7 7 13 15 20-55 Southern Cal Illinois downpour. The Golden Eagles pushed across their ten points in the first half before the heavy rains made playing conditions on the artificial turf nearly impossible. 7 7 4 0-20 Murray State wound up with 160 total yards, 133 rushing and 27 passing.

Jim Engle was the Three plays netted Murray State only six yards and the SPORTS INDEX ON THE INSIDE PAGES: Atkins Alley 2-D Moynahan's Monologue 5-D College Football 2-D, 4-D Baseball 4-D, 7-D Pro Golf Tour 2-D -High School Football 3-D College Grid Scores 4-D Outdoor Features 5-D Bowling Scores 6-D Baseball Averages 7-D leading ground gainer with 68 Fumbles kept both teams, off By ED TUNSTALL Associated Press Writer Ill-Hayes 5 run (Rae kick) USC Garlson 50 pass from Rat (Rae kick) III Uremovlch 5 run (Rucks kick) USC-Davis 2 run (Rae kick) USCDavis 2 run (Rae kick) USC-McKay 31 pass from Rae (kick failed) USC Davit i run (McKay past from Rae) III Hayes 1 run (run failed) USC Cunningham 2 run (Rae kick) Racers failed on a fourth-and-four situation. Tennessee Tech, now 1-1, dom yards 12 carries. George Greenfield added 61 yards on 21 stride in the second half although the Racers put together one threatening drive. Tennessee Tech drove from its calls. Quarterback Tom Pandol inated the statistics piling up almost twice as many total yards fi connected on only three of 13 BATON ROUGE, La.

(AP)-Louisiana State's heavily-favored Tigers, caged by a surprising Texas for the first half, prowled for second half The Jones-Keigley com-binatfon started the scoring slaughter for the Tigers after intermission. Defensive back Norm Hodgens grabbed a Lex James pass and raced 45 yards for an LSU marker and halfback Joe Fakier took a pitchout from Jones and then zipped a scoring bullet to Keigley for another TD. Lion-Viking Showdown Keys Second Weekend Of Pro Football Struggle Longhorns Win 23-10 passes. Touted linebacker Jim Youngblood spearheaded the Tech defense with 11 tackles, seven of them unassisted. Paul Colthrap, a sophomore free safety from Paducah, led Murray with 15 tackles, five unassisted.

Coach Bill Furgerson's Racers, winless in two starts, journeys to Morehead State University next Saturday. touchdowns Saturday night and a 42-17 football victory over the outmanned Aggies. Quarterback Bert Jones threw for two second half touchdowns, one a 13-yard toss to Gerald Keigley, and the other a 10-yard bullet to miniature Jimmy LeDoux. Jones had a St. Louis at Washington, Den By TOM EMORY Associated Press Sports Writer and running figures as a strong contender for the title in the AUSTIN, Tex.

(AP) Texas quarterback Alan Lowry ver at San Diego, Dallas at the Greg Landry and Fran Tar- New York Giants, Oakland at National Football League's National Conference Central Green Bay, Los Angeles at Chi Lions in eight straight games. If Detroit changes the pattern against Minnesota today, it will get a two-game jump on Minnesota. The Lions beat the New York Giants 30-16 last Sunday and plucked his own fumble off the ground and dashed 34 yards to set up the game-clinching touchdown Saturday night as 24-yard scoring toss to Brad Boyd to open the scoring in the cago, Houston at Miami, San Murray State Tennessee Tech 0 0 0 00 3 7 0 010 But Minnesota, with passing scrambling, also Francisco at Buffalo, Atlanta at New England and Cleveland at kenton are both known as running quarterbacks. Landry gained 530 yards rushing last season. Tarkenton probably did more running but most of it was behind the line of scrimmage.

Detroit, with Landry passing the 14-th-ranked Longhorns beat Miami, 23-10. TT Butch Gentry 36 field goal. TT Sam Anderson 14 pass from Mike Ledford; Gentry kick. STATISTICS gets a high rating in the divi Washington upset Minnesota 24- sion, which it has won four 21 Monday night. The Longhorns, defending MSU First Downs 8 Net Yards Rushing 133 Net Yards Passing 27 Southwest Conference football straight years.

The Vikings have beaten the In addition to Landry, who TT 15 290 14 304 4 first period. -The Aggies, rated a three-touchdown underdog to the powerful Bayou Bengals, trailed only 14-10 at intermission with Pat McDermott booting a 44-yard field goal and Skip Walker going down the sidelines for 11 yards and a touchdown. threw three touchdown passes champions, held a shaky 13-10 half-time lead in their season Total Yards 180 Return Yardage 16 Passes 3-13-0 against the Giants, the Lions' 1-2-0 Punts opener before Lowry worked Ballard Tourney Shortened LA CENTER, Ky. Heavy morning rains washed out the opening round of the second annual Ballard County Invitational Golf Tournament at the Ballard County Country Club here Saturday. The tournament will revert to an 18-hole event over the nine-hole course today according to Tournament Chairman Tot Waldon.

Starting times will remain unchanged. A full field of 120 area golfers is entered in the tournament. Following completion of today's play, $800 in golf scrip will be distributed among the top six finishers in each of six flights. biggest offensive threat Is fullback Steve Owens. The Heis- Fumbles Lost 3 5 Yards Penalized 15 50 his magic in the third quarter of a game played in a steady man Trophy winner from Okla Hilltoppers Crash Austin Peay, 28-7 homa plowed through New York for 114 yards.

rain. Lowry, a senior playing his Philadelphia. Kansas City plays New Orleans in Monday night's nationally-televised game. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw has a tendency to throw interceptions and the Cincinnati defensive backfield is quick to cash in on mistakes. Both Bradshaw and Cincinnati QB Ken Anderson are young and make errors but both teams are rated the favorites for the American Conference Central title.

Baltimore has won the four regular-season meetings with the New York Jets. Joe See LANDRY, Page 2-D Arkansas Trims Oklahoma State LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The Lions have to beat a tough defense to beat Min BOWLING Green, Ky. (AP) first varsity game at quarterback after two years as a defensive back, fired a 41-yard pass to Jim Moore on the play! preceding his fumble. game open early, scoring three times in the initial quarter.

nesota. The Vikings' front four of Carl Eller, Alan Page, Gary Drake Thumps Memphis State MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) The Dennis Redmond and Jerry Heston show came to Memphis Saturday, leading Drake to a Arkansas tailbacks Dickey Morton and Jon Richardson Western Kentucky opened its defense of its Ohio Valley Con sliced around and through the Larsen and Jim Marshall is almost legendary for what it does to vaunted offenses. Clarence Jackson took a 'Leo Peckenpaugh pass 71 yards to break the scoring ice, but Aus Lowry muffed the snap, but! ference crown by defeating Austin Peay 28-7 here Saturday. The Hilltoppers broke the Oklahoma State defense for 185 yards and two touchdowns Saturday night as the Razorbacks slipped past the Cowboys 24-23 23 to 7 Missouri Valley Confer tin Peay quickly returned And then there Is Tarkenton, picked the ball up and slithered through the dazed Miami players to the Hurricane one-yard line.

Two plays-later. downfield to knot the score 7-7 the one-time Viking, who was ence football victory over Memphis State. in a wild intersectional game. traded away by one head coach (Norm Van Brocklin) and re acquired by another (Bud Fif th-Ranked Vols Outclass Wake Forest 45-6 Grant). While Landry holds the season-record for most rushing yardage by a quarterback, set last year, Tarkenton holds the career mark of 3,044.

down the middle for a scoring pass that covered 52 yards. Holloway, a sophomore from Huntsville, hit flanker Chip Howard with a 69-yard bomb for Tennessee's third another in the third quarter. Tennessee's other six-pointers came on a 13-yard run by cor-nerback Conrad Graham after picking up a blocked punt and a 21-yard pass from Valbuena Tarkenton was re-acquired Clayton Heath scored from the one for the Deacons midway in the fourth quarter after the visitors had recovered a fumble on the Vol 31. Heath ran 21 to the one to set up the touchdown. from the Giants to put some flair into the Vikings' offense.

In Monday night's game he By ESCAR THOMPSON KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-Vol quarterbacks Condredge Holloway and Gary Valbuena riddled Wake Forest's secondary Saturday as 5th ranked Tennessee outclassed the Atlantic Coast Conference team 45-6 for its tenth straight football victory. Valbuena, a junior college transfer subbing for Holloway touchdown and later ran 29 for I to Trott. on a Charlie Gregg pass over the middle to Leslie Wright. Western went ahead for good at 2:41 in the first quarter when running back John Embree swept outside for 63 yards and the touchdown.

Steve Wilson's kick put Western up 14-7 -and moments later Jackson tallied his second score of the afternoon on a 56-yard draw play. Embree added a score to pad the margin in the fourth. The key to the Western attack was running back Clarence Jackson, who tallied 135 yards in 17 attempts and grabbed two passes for 77 yards -a total of 212. All-OVC quarterback Leo Peckenpaugh threw seven completions for 104 yards and a TD to bolster the Western attack. Western is now 2-1-0 overall completed 18 of 31 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns.

threw three touchdown passes and Holloway connected for one and ran 29 yards for another to the delight of a partisan crowd of 66,266. Ricky Townsend, Tennessee's soccer-style barefoot kicker, began the rout with a 32 -yard field goal, his third of the season. Townsend added six extra points to run his total to 14. Then Valbuena got the touchdown parade going with a 25-yard toss to Stan Trott in the end zone. Moments later Valbuena caught tailboack Neil Clabo In today's other games, it's Mississippi State Nips Vandy East Tenn.

Tops EKU RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) -East Tennessee capped an 11-play drive in the fourth quarter with a one-yard touchdown run by Bob Hardy and then went on to tally another touchdown as they defeated Eastern Kentucky 28-12 here Saturday. Eastern Kentucky, behind the running of Alfred Thompson who scored both of the Kentucky team's touchdowns, came from a 14-point deficit at the half to narrow the score to 14-12. Two conversion attempts failed. But East Tennessee came back in the fourth to put the game out of reach with Hardy's TD and a two-yard run by Greg Stubbs that pushed the visitors to a 16-point lead.

East Tennessee scored "early on a pass interception by John Kendrick and a 13-yard lob from Alan Chadwick to tight end Ron Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, the New York Jets at Baltimore, second play of the second period. Vanderbilt, which saw its only early threat end on Frank Henderson Couple Leadsj Guys And Dolls Tourney Dowsing's interception in the end zone, finally got untracked tempting to get off a pass on the conversion. Vandy had one last shot at victory with about three minutes remaining following a 26-yard punt by Mike Patrick that gave the Commodores possession on their own 43. However, Vandy failed to convert a fourth-and-one at the State 48 when Dowsing batted down Brown's pass. 0 0 a 10 21 7 7-45 and 1-0-0 in the OVC, and Aus GILBERTSVILLE, Ky.

Dan and Sue Zoller of Henderson tin Peay is 0-2-0 and 0-1-0 in the conference. midway through the final period when Tommy Tompkins picked off a Barkum pass at the Bulldog 33. Steve Burger fired an 18-yard pass to Don Mahaffey on the first play. The two teams then grabbed the lead in the ninth an By Ed SHEARER NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-Sophomore quarterback Melvin Barkum engineered Mississippi State to a 10-6 Southeastern Conference football victory over Vanderbilt Saturday night as the Bulldogs ended an 8-game conference losing streak by surviving a late Commodore charge.

Barkum, first black quarterback at State, scored the Bulldogs touchdown on a three-yard sweep with less than two minutes remaining in the first half, capping a 42-yard drive launched on John David Calhoun's pass interception. Barkum had fired a 47-yard pass to BH1 Buckley at the Commodore 27 to set up Glen Ellis' 48-yard field goal on the Aiutin Peay 7 0 0 07 Western Kentucky 21 0 728 Three share the lead in the first flight, which includes couples who completed nine holes with scores of 45 and 46. The three couples are Charles and Rosemary Deaton, Jim and Barb Haworth and Reg and Jane Eubanks. 1 nual Guys and Dolls Golf Tournament at Kentucky Dam Village here Saturday after the opening Tenn-FG Townsend 32 Tenn Trott 25 pass from Valbuena (Townsend kick) Tenn Clabo 52 pass from Valbuena Townsend kick) Tenn Howard 4f past from Holloway Townsend kick) Tenn Graham 13 return blocked punt Townsend kick) Tenn Holloway 79 run Townsend kick) Tenn Trott 21 pass from Valbuen Townsend kick) wake Heath 1 run kick failed) Mis Stat It 0 t-lt Vanderbilt exchanged penalties, with Van round was cut to nine holes by MSU-FO Ellis 41 heavy rains. dy gaining the upper hand on a defensive holding infraction that cost the Bulldogs 26 yards West Jackson 71 pass from Peckenpaugh; Wilson kick.

Aust Wright 32 pass from Graff, Shis kick. West Embree 63 runt Wilson kick. West Jackson 06 runt Wilson kick. West Embree on run; Wilson kick. A 12,500.

West. Autt. MSU Barkum 1 run (Ellis kick) Vandy Burger run (run failed) The Zollers toured the front Seven are tied for the top spot nine of the par 36-3672 Ken East Tennessee 707 1428 Eastern, Kentucky 0 0 6 612 and put the ball at the State Mist Stat Vandy 14 tucky Dam Village course in 40 First Downs 10 13 in the second flight, 48-49 shooters, and four are deadlocked in front in the third, 49-51 shooters. Tenn ia Jf-223 211 153 M7-1 3-37 $-4 Rushes yards 286 60-1M Passing Ysrds 104 51 Return Yard 56 21 Passe 13-7-1 12-3-1 Wake I 55-120 1 33 2-M 11 -41 4-2 4-20 five. Burger then hammered over for the touchdown with about six minutes remaining, but Watson Brown was dumped at First downs Rushes-yards Passing yardi Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yard First downs Rushes-yards Passing yardt Return yards Passe Punt Fumblevtost Pnltls-yrd 11 34-103 140 11 15-30-1 1-31 1-1 1-14 ETSU Kendrick 7 paaa Interception; Griffith kick.

ETSU Hlllman 13 pmi from Chad-Wlrk; Griffith kick. EKU Thompson 1 run! kick failed. EKU Thompson 24 runs run failed. ETSU Hrdy 1 rum Griffith kick. ETSU Stubbi 2 rum Griffith kick.

57-171 114 -4 J-Ta-1 7-42 3-1 f-47 to take a one-stroke lead into today's final 18 holes. Robert and Shirley Shannon are in second place. Bill and Jean Skillman are Punts Fumble Lost 1 3 alone atop the fourth flight at 52. Ptnsltie Yard 6-60 6.