The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 35

THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN Sports Sunday, October 7, 1979 1C OU Hits Quick, 49-24 Sims' Trophy Dash Opp. Iowa Tulsa Rice Colorado Totals By Al Carter Staff Writer NORMAN Under a high sky and radiant sun, Billy Sims' T-shirt saw almost as much daylight as his No. 20 jersey. Again. The better part of his Oklahoma Sooner teammates, their contributions to Saturday's 49-24 OU victory over the Colorado Buffaloes complete, stretched out along the Owen Field sidelines from early in the third quarter to the finish, toning up on sunbathing techniques.

Again. Sooner football is good work. When you can get it. The only things missing were a blanket, maybe some ants and did somebody re-' member the mustard? But then who needed a picnic on the sidelines? The one on the Held was festive enough. The game, played before the usual sellout throng of 71,187, was the first Big Eight.

with the man who inherited the OU fortune those six seasons ago, Barry Switzer. The salutations finished, Switzer turned his troops against Fairbanks' overmatched Buffaloes with as much fury as the 1979 Sooners have yet displayed. Quarterback J. C. Watts, as decisive and damaging as he has been this fall, guided the Sooners to four touchdowns on their first four possessions.

So dominant was the OU offense that only twice during those four drives did the Sooners have to run a third-down play. One was a simple third-and-three, the other a laughable third-and-one and both came on the Sooners' opening series, a convincing 98-yard trek. Sims capped it with a one-yard leap off his famous, invisible springboard, the first of four TDs in the game for last year's Heisman Trophy winner. The Hooks, Texas, senior scored a total of. three times on one-yard runs.

His longest touchdown effort was a six-yard dash off a pitch from Watts. Sims watchers were eager for the Sooners' showpiece to take advantage of the Buffs' limp defense and turn in his first fat rushing performance of the season. But, again, the game just got out of hand too quickly. Sims had to settle for 118 yards on 18 carries, running his string of consecutive 100-yard games to 13 and his season rushing total to a less-than-awesome 436 yards in four games. Still, it was exactly the kind of coasting effort the third-ranked Sooners were look-" ing for to take them into next Saturday's Cotton Bowl showdown with fourth-ranked Texas in Dallas.

OU stands 4-0 and Texas 3-0. The teams stand almost dead-even in ability, but only one will be allowed to tinue to chase No. 1 Southern Cal and No. 2 See Page 5C, Colnmn 1 confrontation of the new season and the OU victory came at the expense of one who used to enjoy those half-day workdays. Colorado coach Chuck Fairbanks, who introduced the wishbone to OU as Sooner coach from 1967-72, returned to Norman after a six-year stint with the New England Patriots of the NFL.

Fairbanks ran to midfield just seconds before the opening kickoff to shake hands Gamecock Ball Control Stalls Pokes past one Colorado defender. OU quarterback J.C. Watts is slowed by the fallen Tim Roberts as Colorado teammate Bill Roe dives in for the tackle By Ray Soldan Staff Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina followed one of the cardinal rules of the game control that football to mount a second half comeback which handed the Oklahoma State Cowboys a stinging 23-16 defeat Saturday night before a full house of 56,405 at Williams-Brice Stadium. The Cowboys weren't overwhelming the Gamecocks in the first half, leading just 13-10, but they were initiating more plays and gaining more yards.

That all ended after intermission. In the final 30 minutes. Carolina clicked off 48 -plays to OSU's 28 and outgalned the Cowboys, 171 yards to 113. As expected, South Carolina's 210-pound junior Al)-American candidate George Rogers dealt the most severe licks to the Cowboys. The rampaging tailback slashed 35 times for 165 yards and scored his team's only two touchdowns on runs of seven and 12 yards.

No Cowboy laid a hand on him on his first scoring run; No more than a heel was touched the second Both teams put three field goals on the board as Cowboy Colin Ankersen and Gamecock Eddie Leopard each batted 3-for-3. Ankersen actually kicked four because he had to duplicate one from five-yard further away because a teammate was not set at the snap on a successful first try. Ankersen, who now is an amazing 9-for-10 in field goal successes this year, plunked his through from 37, 31 and 25 yards. Leopard hit from 33, 26 and 28 yards out. Oklahoma State's only touchdown came during the second quarter on an 18 play, 80-yard surge which was capped by quarterback Harold Bailey's first TD of the season.

He got in from a yard away. The Cowboys wound up with 292 net yards against a South Carolina team which went into the game having yielded 204.7 yards a game the ninth best defensive record in the nation. Oklahoma State became the first team in four weeks to rush for more than a 100 yards against the Gamecocks, but the Cowboys barely made it with 108. Worley Taylor led the way with 74 rushing yards on 20 carries. With the loss, Oklahoma State closes its non-conference log with a 2-2 mark.

The Cowboys open Big Eight play next Saturday at Missouri. South Carolina's record climbs to 4-1. Jimmy Johnson's thebry that it's best to kickoff See Page 7C, Column 4 Orioles Win Series Spot WBSA McGregor Six-Hits Angels ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) The Baltimore Orioles, led by Scott McGregor's six-hit pitching, plus power hitting and double-play defense, advanced to the World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates by whipping the California Angels 8-0 Saturday. The Orioles, who took the American League Championship Series three games to one, will host the opening game of the World Series Tuesdiiy.

Rick Dempsey started two rallies and dou- and with Sammy Stewart warming up in the Baltimore bullpen, Merv Rettenmund drew a walk, filling the bases. Rick Miller's short fly to Roenicke produced the first out. Then Jim Anderson slammed a drive down the third base line that DeCinces went to his right to backhand, tagged the bag for. a force out and threw Anderson out at first, ending the inning. Baltimore has appeared in the World Series four other times.

bled home a run, Ken Singleton drove in two runs and Pat Kelly contributed a three-run homer in the seventh, when the Orioles scored five times, assuring them of their fourth AL pennant 1969, when the present playoff system started. The loss, before a partisan crowd of 43,199, awoke the Angels from their dream of reaching the baseball pinnacle for the first time in their 19 seasons of existence. Baltimore, beaten 4-3 Friday night, jumped on Angels starter Chris Knapp for a pair of runs in the third inning. Dempsey singled, Al Bumhry walked and Ki-ko Garcia beat out a high bouncing bunt, filling the bases and setting up a sacrifice fly by Singleton and Eddie Murray's run-scoring single. The Angels averted further damage when Gary Roenicke bounced into a double play.

The Orioles made it 3-0 in the fourth on doubles by Doug DeCinces and Dempsey. The Angels mounted their only big threat in the fifth, and it was third baseman DeCinces who cut it off after California had loaded the bases with none out. Brian Downing and Bobby Grich singled, in outside man Steve Doolittle (80). Defense, Field Goals Fuel 26-9 Texas Win AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas' defense, second-best in college football, smothered Rico's offense and John Goodson kicked four field goals for the second week in a row as No. 4 Texas defeated Rice, 26-9, Saturday night.

However, Texas, which faces high-powered Oklahoma next Saturday, was often punchless near the Rice goal. Texas stalled at the Rice 31, 21, eight and 11, with the barefooted Goodson drilling field goals each time. Early in the fourth quarter, Texas passed up an almost-certain field goal and Rice held Texas on fourth down inches from the goal line. Texas' first touchdown came on a one-yard plunge by A.J. "Jam" Jones, the nation's fourth-leading rusher, after a pass interference call in the end zone gave Texas a first down at 16-3.

But Little sat out the second half with a thumb injury. The game may have cost Texas several starters because of injuries. Besides Little, offensive guard David Studdard weilt to the sidelines with a bruised hip and cornerback Vance Bedford hurt his knee. Guard Alan Williams also hurt his thumb. Rice coach Ray Alborn whose team lost to Oklahoma and Texas on successive weekends declined Saturday night to pick a winner when the two undefeated and highly-ranked teams play next Snturday.

"Oklahoma has more overall speed, but Texas has that awesome defense it will be interesting," Alborn said. Asked about Oklahoma, Texas coach Fred Akcrs merely said, "We'll be there." the Rice one late in the first quarter. Sub quarterback Jon Aune threw 13 yards to Les Koenning for Texas' final touchdown with less than a minute remaining in the game. The field goals by Goodson, a sophomore who was put on scholarship at midweek, carried 48, 39, 25 and 28 yards. Rice quarterback Randy Her-tcl hit Earl Cooper with a short toss over a blitzing linebacker, and Cooper turned it into a 68-yard pass-run play for a Rice touchdown with 9:45 left in the game.

It was the first touchdown in three games against the Texas defense and climaxed a 99-yarcl drive that started after Rice held Jones inside the one. Texas quarterback Donnie Little had 156 yards total offense at halftimc as Texas 1 HH SpMPfeMM BjPaH wEl Wit mm wWmwm UI1 W)o by Al McUunhUn p- and completes the perfect option with a late pitch to Billy Sims for a touchdown..