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Rallies! 9-20) Streak at 17 CM mgeirs before we start thinking about bowls." Rutgers is scheduled to play Colgate next week in New Brunswick but there is still a possibility that the game might Pen it St. Wins9 Eyes Bowl Bid Miami (AP) Chuck Fusina threw two touchdown passes in the second half last night to lead Penn State to a 1 De movea 10 uianis oiaaium ana piayea By Marty McLaughlin New Orleans Trailing, 20-17, at the half, Rutgers shut out Tulane the rest of the way last night and won its 17th straight game, 29 20, before 28,872 fans at the Superdome. The victory was all the more iimportant because representatives for the Peach and Tangerine Bowls were here to watch the unbeaten Scarlet. Soph Glen Kehler led the Rutgers attack, pushing for 100 yards, and his running mate, Mark Lassiter, picked up 84. The victory was the Scarlet Knights 10th, the most ever in one season for a Rutgers team.

Tulane was able to handle the Scarlet's top ranked defense in the early coins but Rutgers was able to shut down the Green Wave passing attack iin the second half while the Scarlet offense continued to move the ball. The Scarlet picked up a total of 347 yards, 209 on the ground. Leading 24 20 in the fourth quarter. String Broken Allendale, Mich. (AP) Fullback Jamie Hosford washed for 133 yards and scored two touchdowns yesterday as Grand Valley stunned top-ranked small college football power Northern Michigan, 31-14.

snapping Northern's 1 8-game winning streak. Rutgers pinned Tulane back on its own five and the Green Wave opted to take a safety, punter Jeff Gaines stepping out of the end zone to make it 26-20 in favor of Rutgers. Kennan Startzell put the icing on the cake, booting a 29-yard field goal with 4wo minutes left. "Tulane played us a hell of a ball game, they deserve a lot of Rutgers coach Frank Burns said, in the jubliant locker room. Asked about a bowl invitation, he said, "we certainly would like to go.

but first we've got to win another game yi on Thanksgiving evening. Tulane drew first blood on its second possession, marching 74 yards in 11 plays to the Rutgers seven. The Scarlet defense held there and Ed Murray booted a 24-yard field goal to make it 3-0. Tulane quarterback Terry Looney burned the Rutgers defense with swing passes to fullback Bill Kramer for 16 and eight yard gains. Three straight running plays to Kramer got it to the seven, one yard short of the first down.

Tulane scored again the next time it got the ball, marching 60 yards in plays to make it 10-0. Looney opened up with a perfect 32-yard pass to flanker Alton Alexis. lie then hit end Nick Anderson for seven more. After three inside running plays to Gary Rudick and Kramer netted 13 yards, Looney 21-7 victory over Miami and virtually assure the Nittany Lions of a bowl invitation. The victory was Penn State's sixth in a row for a 7-3 record.

The Nittany Lions, who play top-ranked Pitsburgh Nov. 26, are idle next week when bowl bids are extended. lofted a short swing pass to a wide open Kramer who went in untouched. Rutgers finally got on the board on the first play of the second quarter when Kennan Starzell kicked a 40-yard field goal to make it 10-3. The big play in the drvie came when Scarlet quarterback Bert Kosup hit Mark Lassiter for a 25-yard gair Stave ft teSn a em By Jack Wilkinson South H-nd.

Inch wasn't for the national championship, as the Sugar Howl was three years ago. It did not win the Orange Howl, or any other howl. Hut when asked to compare it to his greatest victories, Dan T)vin mm id "This A A XK dm "It" was Notre Dame edging Alabama, again, and it was much more than a 21 18 victory. It was the first important game the Irish have won in nearly two seasons under Dcvine and put them back in the bowl picture. "If we'd lost," 1 i '4 end Ken Mac-KXce said, "it would've been people saying it was the coaches who lost, the coaches.

Now that we won, they should say the coaches won," Ievine's players demonstrated how they felt when he entered the locker room afterward. "They grabbed me and threw me up in the air," said De-vine, drenched with soda, "and they threw anything they had at me." Just as critics had thrown anything rj past two years. There were reports of dissension and dissatisfaction with Devine's coaching and handling of players, rumors he would be fired. That was all forgotten yesterday. "There's a lot of cohcsiveness on the tram now," MacAfee said.

"This is definitely comparable with the Orange f.owl (of two years ago. when the Irish ruined Alabama's perfect season and won Ara I'arse. hian's last game, 13 11)." "This was the greatest game of my life," said quartei bai Rick Slager, and it was. In the first half, Slager threw 19 times, completing 12 for 208 yards. Fifty six of those yards came on a pass to Dan Kelleher.

for the first Irish touchdown on Ihe first play of the second quarter. As he anticipated doing. Slager call- CT Sir ea OU lo vu per rem 01 ine pi.is 111 the first half on audibles. Those running plays which Slager did not check off were successful because Al Hunter can run, and V'agas Ferguson finally got his chance. Ferguson, a freshman, became the fifth Irish player to start at fullback this season, because he's quicker than the other four.

Although told he would start last Monday. Ferguson never told his family. "Sometimes I don't play and don't want to get their hopes up," said Ferguson. Instead, he excited 59.075 fans. After Huntei scored the second Irish touchdown on a two-yard sweep.

Ferguson turned a dive into a 17 yard scoring run and a 217 half time lead. Jack O'Rcar had scored Alabama's first half touchdown on a one yard keeper, but it was his alternate at quarterback. Jeff Rutledge, who nearly beat the Irish. After the Tide turned a Slager interception into Bucky Berrey's 38-yard field goal. Rutledge passed to Thad Flanagan for 15 yards at the Irish 30.

From there, on the first play of the fourth quarter, Rutledge hit a wide open Ozzie Newsome for the score, and Newsomc's twopoint conversion run trimmed the Notre Dame bad to 21-18. Slager Hurts Shoulder But Notre Dame won with an overdose of the luck of the Irish and some scrambling. Slager injured his his right shoulder midway through the fourth quarter (he may be lost for the season) when he was hit at the Tide 18 and fumbled the ball away. His backup, soph Rusty Lisch later scrambled for a 21 yard gain on first down, and a 16yard gain from the Irish 20 for the first down late in the game. But in betwen those runs came the luck, with just over four minutes to play.

Two plays after Newsome stole a 39-yard pass from two defenders at the Irish nine, Rutledge dropped back to pass. "It's a totally helpless feeling." said halfback Pete Cavan, who was all alone in the right corner of the end zone. "I was screaming at him, but "I never saw him," said Rutledge. who instead threw back to the middle to Flanagan and into saftey Jim Browner's arms, for the second Irish interception in the end zone. GRID DUST: Ferguson finished with 107 yards on 24 carries the Irish have won all three games between teams, by total of six points (first being 24-23 victory for national chamoionship in Sugar Bowl three seasons ago.

Associated Press Wirephco Tony Dorsett goes over the top for four yards. 3 IBs) Exits Fighting; Pitt Wins Pittsburgh Tony Dorsett started the game by defiantly flashing a No. 1 signal to the entire West Virginia team, and he ended it with a flurry of punches. Geortjiti IViit.v SEC. Suytir BUI Auburn, Ala.

(UPI) Kevin Mcl.ee and Al Pollard rushed for a combined 301 yards and three touchdowns yesterday to lead Georgia to a 28-0 victory over Auburn, giving the Bulldogs (9 1) the Southeastern Conference championship and a berth in the Sugar Bowl. Florida lost a chance to share the title when it was upset by Kentucky. 28 9. McLee, who set a school record a week ago when he rushed for 198 yards against Florida, broke it with 203 yards in 30 carries, including a three-yard touchdown run late in the first half. Pollard rushed for 158 yards, scoring on runs of five yards early in the second period and two yards early in the third.

Willie McClendon scored Georgia's other touchdown on a two-yard run at the end of an 83-yard march with 3 09 left in the game. onds after exchanging punches with West Virginia defenders near the Pitt bench. "I was getting a lot of dirty play the whole ball game," he said. By being tossed out of the game Dorsett missed a chance to tie an NCAA record of three consecutive plus-200 yard games. His yardage, gained in 38 carries, was his 32nd career pins 100 yard game.

It pushed his career yardage total to 5,858. Sloppy play by Pittsburgh kept game close. "It's amazing the way Tony gets psyched. He's a lot like Muhammad Ali," teammate Al Romano said after Dorsett rushed for three touchdowns and 199 yards to lead top ranked. 10-0 Pittsburgh to a 24 16 victory yesterday as officials of the Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowls watched.

"It was a very emotional game, and I was showing my emotion," Dorsett explained after the final home game of his Pitt career. His number 33 was retired in half time ceremonies. Dorsett was ejected in the final sec.