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BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE October 29, 41 Da rlnum th 1 1 7 L'RI 7 Boston Univ 6 Tufts 10 'Amherst 3 Harvard 21 Princeton 21 Massachusetts 17 Connecticut 10 New Hampshire 20 Northeastern 21 Yale 17 IVim 17 Navy 21 Pitt II Michigan 12 Minnesota 10 Oklahoma 56 Kansas St 19 Alabama MM 0 I Vim St 19 est Virginia 21 Notre Dame 20 Miami (Kla.) 0 Mar) la ml 27 Duke 0 Southern Cal 12 California 17 Ohio St 63. Northwestern 20 Texas 22 SMI! 3 Colorado 2l Missouri 27 Commentary Scoreboard a SdlOols 63 to 0.5 Obhuaries m. NEWS SUCTION IC hits a rothole Bruins race past Maple Leafs, 5-3 Crusaders can't recover after 3 costly fumbles III Jill gw i visitors with a 31-yard scoring toss to Barry Blum just before intermission. "It was a play we'd put in for HC this week," explained the 6-foot-l QB from Phoenix. "1 almost called it on an automatic the previous play (Whipple estimated he changed plays at the line about 40 percent of yesterday's game) but I didn't.

Luckily they came out in the same defense the next play." Page 42 Nets play catchup, beat Celtics, 111-109 Page 44 More penalties called to protect passers The National Football League quietly is making a move to protect quarterbacks from serious injuries. Word has gone out to officials to call more rough-ing-the-passer penalties, and the results are starting to show. While total penalty calls this year are up 2.3 percent over last year, roughing-the-passer penalties have jumped 52 percent. On top of that, two defensive players have been ejected from games this year for trying to hurt quarterbacks. In past years, that was a rare call.

Story, Page 46. Leigh Montville on Luis Tiant Page 60 Peter Gammons on a hockey 'goon' Page 60 Recreation, Pages 1-10, Ml Navy decks Pitt, 21-11 Navy showed a record stadium crowd of 32,909 in Annapolis why its defense is the best in the nation yesterday, handing Pittsburgh a 21-11 loss in the only afternoon game between two ranked teams. No. 18 Navy, now 7-0, held lath-ranked Pitt (5-2) without a first down on the ground until the third quarter and twice stopped the Panthers near the goal line. Pitt quarterback Rick Tro- cano completed 25 of 51 passes for 275 yards, but was sacked seven times for 65 yards in losses.

Other top 20 teams with the excep tion of No. 13 Missouri, a 28-27 loser to unranked Colorado rolled. No. 1 Ok lahoma whipped Kansas State, 58-19, No. 2 Penn State topped West Virginia, 49-21 and No.

3 Alabama was a 35-0 winner over VPI. Boston University's sweet start has turned sour. The Terriers, winners of their first four, lost their third straight yesterday, 7-6, to Rhode Island in Kingston. L'RI did it with defense, recovering three fumbles, intercepting two passes and twice stopping BU on first-and-goal situations. BU's Mai Najarian rushed for 167 yards (URI had a total offense of 191 yards) to set a school single-season record of 1001, but was forced out in the last quarter with a shoulder injury.

Northeastern let a 21 14 lead and New Hampshire halfback Biii Coleman slip away in the last period and fell to UNH, 29-21. Coleman scored the tying and winning touchdowns in that last quarter. NU's Dan Ross set New England university records for pass receptions (136) and receiving yardage (2130), breaking old records, set in 1969 by Maine's Gene Benner. Details, Pages 50 57 experiences yesterday. Holy Cross' Peter By Ernie Roberts Globe Staff PROVIDENCE Halloween came early for valiant Holy Cross here yesterday.

A big, poised Brown team tumbled New England's only undefeated team and one of five remaining in the nation from that status in a 31-25 televised game which was not that close. Bruin captain and senior quarterback Mark Whipple ran for two scores and passed for the other two touchdowns in his best collegiate performance. In fact, Brown seized upon three HC fumbles and one pass interception to mount a 31-10 lead before the third quarter was completed. Dave Boisture, HC freshman quarterback, passed for a late touchdown against the Brown second team and Mike Mur-nane returned a blocked punt 28 yards for another with 49 seconds remaining. But the issue had been decided earlier in the period when Brown twice held the Crusaders inside its 5-yard line.

And the Holy Cross squad, despite this bitter disappointment to its best season start in two decades, was man enough to admit it. "It would have been a fluke if we had pulled it out against their subs," said coach Neil Wheelwright. "No question the better team won on this day. Brown beat us up front both ways. They are big, tough kids and their defense took some of our better things away." With linebacker John Woodring dominating play, the Bruins simply refused to let the fleet HC halfbacks get outside.

The Purple, which had been averaging 230 yards on the ground, managed only 94 yesterday and 5-8 quarterback Peter Colombo was reduced to carrying the ball himself. Still the teams were tied, 10-10, late in the second quarter. Rallying HC had battled back from a 10-0 deficit on Larry Ewald's 23-yard wide sweep and then a 33-yard Mike Smith field goal. But Whipple took the momentum away from the (Globe photos by Frank O'Brien) Dartmouth has share of Ivy League lead Dartmouth travelled to Ithaca, N.Y. yesterday and returned to Hanover, N.H.

with a share of first place in the Ivy League. The Big Green took a hard-earned, 14-7 win over Cornell, mainly on the 38-carry, 169-yard performance of Jeff Dufresne. Dartmouth, 3-1 in the league, is tied with Brown a non-league winner over Holy Cross yesterday for the top spot. The two meet Nov. 11 in what could be a game that decides the title.

Yale, a preseason co-favorite for the crown, dropped to a 1-1-2 Ivy record after a 17-17 tie with Penn, and Harvard scored three times in the third quarter to earn a 24-24 tie with Princeton. Split end Blum fled down the left sideline, got a step behind defender Peter George and after taking the ball at the 8, wrestled into the end zone. Brown led, 17-10 at halftime. "That was the big one for them," said Wheelwright. "Now they were doing what we had done in our earlier games." The change in spirits was evident early in the third quarter.

HC's Chuck Hour-ihan had blocked a Barrows field goal attempt and Steve Gannon, almost breaking clear for a TD, got the loose ball out to his 40. But two plays later the Crusaders gave the ball right back to Brown which immediately capitalized for the clinching TD. The sequence went like this: Brown end Don Place smashed John Ahem on a Colombo pitchout, forcing a fumble which Mike Audie covered at the HC 32. On third down Whipple lofted a pass down the left side to his favorite receiver, Mark Farnham. Tall Curt Bletzer of HC stepped in front of the pass but it deflected into Farnham's hands for a 27-yard TD.

Said Farnham, "I had a feeling that ball might be deflected. So I concentrated hard and when it bounced to me, I was ready. Actually this game was fun for us. It was the first time we haven't been favored (HC was a seven-point choice). So we just went out there relaxed and had a good time." Whipple closed the Brown scoring shortly thereafter with a one-yard plunge climaxing a 50-yard drive.

As Wheelwright had suspected earlier, the Brown QB was master of both the roll-out and drop-back pass and he, balanced his offense well. Sending fullback Marty Moran up the middle for 86 yards and Rick Vil-lella outside for 50, Brown had 195 yards rushing and another 148 passing. So the Cinderella story of Holy Cross football (which endured trips to Air Force and Army), ended in Providence. The Crusaders are now 5-1, entering their trip to BU next Saturday. Brown, now 4-2 overall, will get back to Ivy League business next week.

Tied with Dartmouth for the Ivy lead at 3-1, the Bruins visit Harvard Stadium Saturday. "It was the best game we've played overall this season," said Brown's John Anderson. "Both offense and defense. And we needed to have that total effort against a team like Holy Cross." "Brown put more pressure on us than any team we've played," said HC's Colombo, who was sacked five times. "They came so hard they took away our usual aggressiveness.

Playing only one game in the past three weeks didn't help our execution but that's no excuse. What really stung was that touchdown they got just before the half. They had outplayed us but we thought we'd go off then in a 10-10 tie." Summary, Page 53 These two quarterbacks had contrasting while Brown's Mark Whipple crosses il i Colombo is about to be sacked scores to put the Bruins up, 100. I if a i J.vt i the goal line for the first of his two touchdown 4.