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BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE December 3, 1978 49 Army ,2 0 (Georgia. Georgia ,29 Alabama 31 Auburn 16 LSU 21 Wyoming 17 Houston 19 Arkansas 19 Teeli Kiee. 25 Texas Tech Commentary Scoreboard Recreation Obituaries 70 72 73 74. 75 -35051011 (Biota NEWS SECTION 5C tay snakebit 29 TT 177 rr -j i.nr 1 vV avh it i' fed A ''fairj fl It I -'f ii "A SJ as Jay Palazola's 12-yard pass to fullback Dan Conway with 62 seconds remaining. Twice on that drive 6-foot-5 BC end Tim Sherwin had victimized Verrette, the 5-11 safety from Andover.

So for the all-important conversion, BC went back to Sherwin again. The sophomore tight end lined up right and then swung left to the corner of the goal line. "It was a play we had worked on all said Chlebek later. "We knew they'd be in man-to-man coverage, just what we'd hoped for. And the guy (Verrette) just made a great play." Verrette, who earlier had moved to fifth place nationally with his seventh interception of the season, dove through the air and just flicked the ball out of the waiting Sherwin's hands.

"I knew I had to catch up with him because I was almost knocked down by their flanker and the end was open. I was barely able to knock the ball down at the last moment," said the youngster chosen by press box vote as the game's outstanding player. Almost as dismaying to Boston College was the HC winning touchdown three minutes earlier. The Eagles were trying to break the 23-23 deadlock when a clipping penalty on a completed pass play pinned them down at their 13. On second down from there, attempting a screen pass under pressure from defensive end Mike rianne, Palazola tossed a soft strike directly to HC's Howlett.

V. "I saw, our guys flying in on, Jay so I knew it must be a screen," recalled the 6-5 junior from Lawrence. "At first I thought he was going to be tackled. Then he threw it right to me (at the 10-yard line). That was a lineman's dream.

Suddenly it was all dark with the guys around me in the end zone and it didn't seem real." This was just another instance of the Holy Cross defense controlling the game. As coach Neil Wheelwright told his squad, Middleboro's Glen MacNayr lifts Dan Leonard in celebration point, and that slim margin stood up as Savio scored late in of team First and only TD in yesterday's Division 4 Super the final quarter, then Bowl game against Dom, Savio. Tom Kayajaq booted the extra Divisional i. 2) "2 8 Di ision 2 Catholic 13 Chelmsford .......1....... 8 matt 'Nighbnare9 still follows Dorsett eint of anger By Ernie Roberts Globe Staff Banzai.

Holy Cross sent Boston College off on its Kamikaze trip to Tokyo this week with its 10th straight defeat, 30-29, yesterday. Yet no matter what befalls the luckless Eagles in their Temple finale there, it cannot approach this weird, incredible contest, the 84th in this Jesuit College series, conducted before 28,109 in BC's Chestnut Hill stadium. Several late-game events after BC was in command, 23-9, and apparently en route to its first victory made it apparent that coach Ed Chlebek's first squad of Eagles is destiny's orphan. The major game-breaker came when BC, seemingly sure of seeing its 14-point lead increase, not only had a short field-goal attempt blocked but also had it returned 73 yards for a Holy Cross touchdown in the. third quarter.

Then early in the fourth score 23-all, the Eagles had second down on the Holy Cross 1-yard line. In three cracks at the Crusader line, Chlebek's corps which was to rip off 17 first downs and 281 yards in the second half alone could not score. Finally, after Holy Cross had surged: 30-23, on 240-pound tackle Jay Howlett's interception and 10-yard scoring run, BC fought back one more time, got within one point (29-30) only to be frustrated on its final gamble. This time the Eagles, who had been castigated for attempting a tie-seeking field goal at Army earlier in the season, went for victory. They went for a two-point conversion pass and apparently had it until O'Metia Award-winner Glen Verrette somehow got his right hand in front of the football and tipped it away.

Let's start with that ending and work back. BC had pulled within that one point on a pressurized, 70-yard drive and QB at Providence Civic Center during last fSGlobe photo by Stan Grossfeld) Globe photo by i "This was the greatest exhibition of clutch defense I've ever witnessed. I can't point to any place that we really moved the ball all day, although we did take it in after the defense gave us the opportunity." The finest moment for the Crusader defense came with the score tied and BC perched on its 1-yard line, second down, early in the fourth quarter. Anthony Brown (immense with 164 yards in 37 carries) had placed them there with a spinning six-yard run over his left side. But then BC forgot Brown on the next three plays.

Instead they sent fullback Dan Conway (116 yards) and Palazola (twice) into the middle. "We only needed a foot and we thought Jay could sneak over," said Chlebek, "but they had good drive and just stopped us." Finally there was the blocked field goal in the third quarter, the play which turned the game, according to both coaches. It was not entirely unexpected because three times this season defensive halfback Charlie Hourihan has done this, and in the Dartmouth victory he took it back 68 yards for a TD. "BC gives you the outside on field goals," explained this 180-pound senior from Roslindale. "When I was coming in from the right, I knew the center snap was a little slow and I might get a piece of it." He slapped the left-footed Tim Moorman's kick to the ground and the next thing BC fans realized a Purple player wearing 31 was heading the.

other way with the ball. It was sophomore end Jeff Fisher who went 73 yards for the very important ball bounced right into my hands and all I thought about going up the field was just not to let anyone catch me." It now is probable that this BC team (0-10 with only favored Temple remaining) will finish with the worst record in the college's history. Related story, summary, Page 60 and stabbed a man liams never showed any of it. Always in control, even as he was named the top basketball player in New England last season by the US Basketball Writers' Assn. Deadpan.

Introspective. A loner. "He was never an emotional player," says Dave Gavitt, his coach at Providence College. "We always wanted him to be more emotional on the court, exert some personality out there. But Dwight was always so much under control that's why i it's so hard to figure." Maybe his best game at Providence came last Jan.

18 when the Friars blew out Holy Cross, 90-64, in a head-to-head joust between the two best teams then in New England and two of its best guards," Williams and Ronnie Perry. Williams did his talking with the basketball that night, with his 25 points, including 19 in the second half, with his through-the-leg dribbles and drives, with his three clean steals from Perry, with his stop-and-pop jumpers in Perry's face. When it was over, though, Williams was deadpan. He talked about how he never concentrates on one player, how he wasn't trying to show up Perry, how basketball is a team game. Always in control.

Dwight Williams. But seven months ago, Dwight Williams stabbed another Providence College student the catcher on the baseball team. He lost control. And he lost just about everything else. Nobody denies the stabbing.

The facts were never in dispute even Williams admits he dug the 2M inch Imperial Veri-sharp knife through the PCAA tee shirt and into the left shoulder of Raymond Romagnolo. WIIAMS, Page 62 Mams lost control his basketball career at Providence i.nl missed two-point conversion attempt. (Globe photo by Stan Grossfeld) Division 3 Con cord-Ca 1 isle ........................3 1 Shawsheen. 0 Division 4 Middleboro 7 Dom 6 Du ig Williams watches from the stands Wedisday's PC victory over Assumntion. i 1 gip V'A ft 1 i i I The Super Bowls Details, Pages 68-69 By Steve Marantz Globe Staff DALLAS Every day at noon the Dallas Cowboys break from their interminable succession of meetings and repair for lunch, conversation, trysts in the parking lot with wives andor girlfriends or whatever activity can occupy an hour in the life of a pro football player.

On Friday Tony Dorsett yawned at noontime and decided to do what any normal million-dollar Heisman Trophy halfback would do to ease his fatigue. Dorsett sprawled flat out on the carpeting in front of his locker with the 'TD' lettering above it, rolled up some sweat clothes for a pillow, arranged two towels as a blanket, and lay down to sleep. "I came in too early this morning," said Dorsett. "I missed some sleep." Within minutes he fell asleep. Nobody asked him why he arrived at practice too early and nobody asked him why he was short on sleep, a sensitive subject these days.

The best that could be said for sleeping on the clubhouse floor was that Dorsett wouldn't need an alarm clock to awaken him for the afternoon practice. The Alarm Clock Incident is already fading into the misty past of the 1978 season, even as the Cowboys rise up mightily for their title defense, but it would be a mistake to assume that Dorsett (rhymes with overslept) cannot recount every detail of that apocalyptic affair. He promised he wouldn't forget after Tom Landry benched him for most of the Philadelphia game the next day, despite the fact most of Dorsett's relatives had flown in from Aliquippa, Pa. "I was humiliated and totally embarrassed in front of my family," Dorsett had said. "It was distasteful It was hard to swallow.

I'll live with it, but I'll never forget Six weeks later Dorsett is able to sleep contentedly on the clubhouse floor. Teammates step carefully over him. The resurgence of the Cowboys has been a balm to the hurt feelings, and Dorsett is able to say of the incident he promised not to forget "That's all in the past It's not worth talking about" But his face still mirrors the pain of the memory. DORSEf, Page 55 I 4 i VN iM'i By Mike Madden Globe Staff BUFFALO Charmaine Williams has the look of a woman who realizes that life has presented its last for her. Now, it's a matter of survival.

Not that she's looking for sympathy. One of 10 children, orphaned before she was a teenager, ghetto-born and ghetto-bred, again living in another of Buffalo's housing projects, staring out the front window at the giant American Optical plant across the street, right there on the city line between Buffalo and Cheek-tawoga. Ask her about life as a child and she blurts out, "Tough. Oh, my, they was bad times. But don't do no good to talk about them.

Don't do no good at all." So life has hardened her. But ask her about her younger brother Dwight and, my lord, the smiles. The way Dwight used to bounce a basketball "all the time bouncin' a ball, bouncin' in the fields even," and how he used to show up the little dudes at Public School 87, at East High School and then at Bishop Neumann High School and finally "at that school in Providence. It's not just me doin' the talkin' here, honey; Randy Smith says the same thing. You go and ask him." That's why it's so tough, she says.

That's why it's so hard that Dwight is no longer at that school in Providence, why he's back in the housing projects of Buffalo, "sittin around the house, not doin' much of anything, just so down." "Uh, huh," Charmaine says with a frown. "I ain't seen Dwight cry but twice the day his mommy died and the day he found out he couldn't go back to that school in Providence." just it. Emotion. Dwight Wil- TONY DORSETT sleeps better now INSIDE" More on Patriots LEIGH MONTVILLE writes about the Cowboys' corporate approach to football, Page 70. RAY FITZGERALD wonders which team to bet on.

The facts say Dallas or do they? Page 70. THE COWBOYS are supposed to be the best Today the Patriots get the chance to see how they measure up. Page 54. THE PLAYOFFS: Right now it looks like the Patriots vs. Houston.

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