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.31 Nebraska 49 Ohio St 35 .10 Iowa St 0 Northwestern 17 14 Georgia 24 Penn ,14 Florida 3 Cincinnati. Tulane 27 LSU USL 17 Alabama Air Force 45 Iowa 59 Oklahoma 51 Miami, Fla 29 Auburn 35 Arkansas 20 Army 7 Illinois 0 Missouri 6 Maryland 22 E. Carolina 10 Baylor 14 pUriS Sunday, November 10, 1985 Page 29 Tulane tallies first victory courtesy of Ragin 9 Cajuns FBjjSftHj 1 Jackson, Kizer, and Williams helped move the ball to the 17 before the Cajuns faltered and called on Broussard again. This time, the Baton Rouge sophomore was true from 35 yards and USL had drawn within 14-10. The Wave, with Karcher hitting Wenhold for 25 yards and Maurice Nelson for 11, then lined Wayne Gements up for a 45-yard three-pointer, which he pushed wide to the right.

With Williams doing most of the damage, the Cajuns marched right down to the Wave 34, but were halted and Falgout punted dead at the Greenies' six. Tulane couldn't move either, and the Cajuns were set up at the enemy 45 with 10:59 to play. But Robertson's club wasted that chance, too, even losing back to its 44 on an offensive pass interference call. Then came the play that turned tne tide in the tight struggle. Falgout fielded a low snap, eluded a rush, and launched an eye-level punt on the run that Tulane's Troy Wetzel caught on his 48 and returned to the USL 18.

The Cajun defense stiffened at that point, and Clements booted a 35-yard field goal with 8:23 to go to give his team a seven-point, 17-10 edge. Any thoughts of a TD drive and winning two-point conversion, a la Tulsa last year, were halted when Jackson fumbled at his 36 on the first snap after the kickoff. A touchdown was again averted, but Gements' 20-yard field goal at the 3:02 mark was just as good for the victory-starved Green Wave. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Laserphoto Cajun brought down Two plays later from the seven, King rolled right and spotted Culpepper on the sidelines, and the first complete pass of the game became a touchdown when the freshman speedster shook a diving tackle and scooted past the safety into the end zone. The score was doubly significant, because it was the first touchdown pass thrown by a USL quarterback in 1985 (tailback Dwayne Williams had the other, to King, before that) It took the Wave a quarter to recover from that opening salvo, but Jones got busy in the second period and directed a 12-play, 64-yard scoring march to a tie.

The payoff came on a 10-yard burst by running back Danny Michael and Jones hit three passes on the march, including a critical third-and-13 shot of 18 yards to the USL34toMarcZeno. USL danced the tango on the next possession one, two, three, kick and senior TU QB Ken Karcher entered the game to try his hand after missing earlier season action with a sore shoulder. Karcher's shoulder looked healthy enough, as he zipped his team 66 yards in seven snaps to take the lead. A third-and-12 hit of 20 yards to Zeno ignited the Wave, and Zeno's 19-yarder on the next play reached USL's 29. Karcher got the TD on first down from the 19 when he found Jeff Wenhold on a flag route in the left side of the end zone 2:50 from halftime.

USL appeared ready to get that score back moments later when King found Jackson on a well-executed middle screen for 22 yards to the Green Wave 35-yard line. But on the next play King was sacked by Karl Chambers and fumbled away to TU's Tony Hannah at the Wave 46 with 25 to go to end the threat. The Cajuns began the third period well, forcing a punt and marching into range for a field goal mainly on the strength of Kizer's 18-yard run to the Wave 22. But King was sacked back to the 32 and Patrick Broussard was wide left and short on a 49-yard field goal attempt. Tulane gave the ball right back, though, when Zeno fumbled away to Clarence Glenn at TU's 41.

By BRUCE BROWN Sports Editor NEW ORLEANS USL's Ragin' Cajuns knew heading into Saturday night's contest against the winless Tulane Green Wave that they had to play with emotion and without mistakes. If they did that, they knew they could keep the Wave winless and keep alive their own hopes of a winning season. The emotion part went fine, but a pair of fourth quarter mistakes set up two Greenie field goals as Tulane secured a 27-17 triumph and broke a nine-game losing streak that had made them the king of columnist Steve Harvey's derisive Bottom Ten listing. Those field goals gave TU a 20-10 lead with 3:02 remaining to play, and a Thomas King-led drive sliced that to 20-17 with one minute to go. But on the ensuing onsides kick, officials ruled illegal procedure on USL never saying which team recovered the kick which Tulane touched before 10 yards' travel and the home team had a win.

King hit Willie Culpepper for 19 and 17 yards on the drive, reaching the TU 29, and two plays later an interference call put the ball at the Wave four. On second down Jerry Kizer dived over from the one and USL was within three. Then, after the onsides kick failed, Wave freshman quarterback Ter-rance Jones guided his team 47 yards in three plays, scoring from the four, for the final count. Coach Sam Robertson's Cajuns owned a 7-0 lead before many of the 24,040 fans had settled into their Superdome seats, but still fell to 4-6 with one game to play. The visitors rocked the Greenies back on their heels at the start, driving 73 yards in 13 plays to grab a 7-0 lead on their hosts.

It was a 19-yard Thomas Jackson run on a fake punt that sparked the TD march, as Jackson rolled around right end to the TU 35 to keep it alive. Jackson gained another first down with a 10-yard ramble to the 24, and a pair of eight-yard thrusts by Kizer got the ball to the Wave eight. Wave broke the nation's longest losing streak with a 27-17 win over the Cajuns. USL Ragin' Cajun Thomas King (16) is brought down by Tulane's Peter Batton during early action in the Superdome on Saturday night. The Green LSU Tigers, Crimson Tide struggle to 14-14 stalemate Shula, the nation's most efficient passer going into the game, completed 13 of 24 passes for 153 yards.

Wickersham, the most productive passer in LSU history, finished with 12 completions in 24 attempts for 214 yards. USL 7 3 7-17 Tulane 0 14 1317 USL Culpepper 7 pass from King I Broussard kick) TUL-Michael 10 run (Clements kick) TUL Wenhold 19 pass from Karcher (Clements kick) USL-FG Broussard 35 TUL-FGCIements35 TUL-FG Clements 20 USL Williams 1 run (Broussard kick) TUL Jones 4 run (Clements kick) USL Tul First downs 1 '7 Rushes-yards 53-208 34-127 Passing yards 19 195 Return yards 1 38 Passes 10-1B-0 18-274 Punts 5-35 5-37 Fumbles-lost 2-2 Penalties-yards 10-B3 326 Time of Possession 33:49 26:11 ...7 7-14 game when sophomore kicker Ron Lewis missed a 24-yard field goal with five seconds remaining. Jelks threw his flea-flicker touchdown pass to quarterback Mike Shula from the 2 yard-line, capping a 68-yard drive for 20th -ranked Alabama. Alabama Coach Ray Perkins said he considered a two-point conversion attempt but thought better of it. "I chose the one-point conversion because I thought we had time possibly to get down there and cause a turnover.

As it turns out, we didn't." Jelks, who ran 15 times for 87 yards, scored Alabama's first touchdown 7 minutes into the first quarter on a 33-yard run. Fifteenth-ranked LSU scored consecutie touchdowns to open the third period the first on a 49-yard run by Garry James, followed on the next LSU possession by a 67-yard pass from Jeff Wickersham to Wenzell Davis. The nationally televised game was played before scouts from several postseason bowls. By DAVID McCORMICK Associated Press Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -Freshman running back Gene elks, who ran for one touchdown and threw for another Saturday in his first starting game with Alabama, says he only wished his efforts had resulted in victory.

Jelks' touchdown pass to quarterback Mike Shula with 1:24 in the game tied Louisiana State 14-14. "A tie is better than a Jelks said. "I don't really know how to feel but I know that I feel better than I would if we'd lost. Garry James, who ran 49 yards for an LSU touchdown, said he too was disappointed at the stalemate. "A lot of my teammates are walking around with their heads down, and I know what they feel like.

I don't like it." The two teams went into the game tied for the Southeastern Conference lead, both with 3-1 records. The tie left Alabama at 6-2-1, and LSU at 5-1-1 overall. LSU missed a chance to win the Louisiana Stat I ri t-M Ala-- Jelks 33 ura run am in kick) LSU James 49 yard run (Lewis kick) LSU Davis 67 pass from Wickersham pass (Lewis kick) Ala-Shula 2 pass from Jelks (Tiffin kick) Ala LSU First downs 19 16 Rushes-yards 47 182 35-164 Passing yards 155 214 Return yards 20 49 Passes 123-0 12 23 0 Punts 7-47 7-43 Fumbles-lost 0-0 10 Penalties yards 319 3-34 Time of Possession 33:45 26:15 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Alabama. Jelks 1495, Shula 13-53, Turner 9-29. Louisiana State, James 5-84, Hilliard 19-64, Martin 7-4J.

PASSING- Alabama, Shula 13-24 0, 153. Louisiana State, Wickersham RECEIVING Alabama, Jelks 6 36, Bell 4-83, Louisiana State, Davis 3119. Green Wave's Brown is grateful drought over off." That broke up a tight field position duel between the two Southern Independents and dictated the flow of the fourth period. A subsequent fumble set up another field goal. "I have a lot of questions about the calls that were made to il," said Robertson.

"I had a Dooley' dream comes true, 'Dawgs shackle No. 1 Gators ficult time getting the time in they know they can win." Coach Sam Robertson's Cajuns, on the other hand, must live with an entire offseason of grief after helping Tulane out of its miseries sort of the same feeling the New Orleans Saints had in 1977 after becoming the first NFL team to ever lose to Tampa Bay "I think our first mistake," said Robertson, "was going down on that first drive and scoring, because we didn't do anything after that. "You make your own breaks and that didn't happen for us tonight." One of the breaks Tulane made was when USL punter Terry Falgout punted on the run for eight yards and the ball was returned to the Cajun 18. That led to a Geld goal and a 17-10 Tulane lead with 8: 23 to play, "It was just a bad snap, and he couldn't get a handle on the ball," said Robertson. "He should have kicked it, no doubt about it.

But he just didn't feel he had a good enough handle on the ball to get it By BRUCE BROWN Sports Editor NEW ORLEANS When you've been down so long, bottom looks like up, it is sometimes hard to relate to success. The Tulane Green Wave, before Saturday night the only Division l-A team in the nation without a 1985 victory, made USL's Ragin' Cajuns that first victim with a 27-17 score that assured USL of a losing season. It was a double shot of joy for the Greenies and a double dose of the blues for the visitors. "I don't think that words- can even describe the feelings in this locker room," said Tulane Coach Mack Brown amid the pandemonium that was the Green Wave celebration. "I think the thing that I was so concerned about throughout the drought, I guess you could call it, was the team quitting.

But they hung in there and won and I'm happy for them. "It was a great feeling now the first quarter because of the clock malfunction and I couldn't get the refs to help me. "The Southern Independent officials do a real good job," Robertson said with a touch of sarcasm. For a relieved Mack Brown, though, the mood was far different, as if a anvil had been lifted from his shoulders. "I'm a lot more relaxed when I win, "he said.

It's a feeling the Green Wave had not felt in a long, long time. And USL's Ragin' Cajuns have a long, long time to remember being on the other side of this one sacked James JacKson tor a 9-yard loss and forced a fumble that Tommy Duhart recovered at the Georgia 40. The Gators reached the Georgia 16 before bogging down, and Dawson's 33-yard field goal try was wide right. The Bulldogs needed only two plays to go the distance Jackson keeping for 4 yards before Henderson broke through the middle and was untouched until Curtis Stacy made a diving attempt that forced Henderson to stumble into the end zone at the end of his 76-yard run. An interception by John Brantley when Bell was under pressure from Waters stymied Florida's next effort, but the Bulldogs didn't get their 14-0 margin for another six minutes.

Worley had a 16-yard run on the second play of the four-play, 53-yard drive that Henderson ended on his 32-yard run 1 1 39 before halftime. The Gators wasted a 30-yard punt return by Ricky Nattiel to the Georgia 30 when Dawson failed on a 46-yard field goal try. Florida's only scoring drive covered 50 yards in eight plays to the Georgia 20, where Dawson kicked his 36-yard field goal 2:04 before halftime. being No. 1 in the nation and maybe, hopefully we will learn from our mistakes." Hall said he thought Georgia had played "one of its greatest games ever.

The Bulldogs shut down every phase of our game plan. Georgia's defense, led by end Greg Waters, kept pressure on Bell throughout the game, and the Gators were unable to sustain lengthy drives as Jeff Dawson missed two field goals before converting from 36 yards after the Bulldogs had built a 14-0 lead. Henderson raced 76 yards up the middle with 5:24 left in the opening quarter, giving Georgia a lead it never relinquished. Henderson's 32-yard scoring jaunt capped a 53-yard drive early in the second quarter, and the Bulldogs lifted their halftime lead to 17-3 on Steve Crumley's 32-yard field goal 15 seconds before intermission. In the final eight minutes, Florida moved from its 2 to the Georgia 7 where John L.

Williams fumbled and Steve Boswell recovered for Georgia at the 8. One play later, Worley went 89 yards for his score with 3:58 remaining. Georgia is 7-1-1 overall and 3-1-1 in the SEC. Florida, losing in the SEC for the first time in 10 games, fell to 7-1-1 and 4-1. Florida appeared to have ended Georgia's mastery in the series with a 27-0 victory last year, but Saturday's triumph was the seventh in eight years for the Bulldogs and lifted their series lead to 41-21-2.

The victory also kept alive Georgia's slim hopes of capturing the SEC championship, but the Bulldogs would need some help along the way with Tennessee and the Alabama-Louisiana State Saturday winner having only one defeat. The game drew a record crowd of 82,327 into the Gator Bowl, breaking the mark of 82,138 set in the 1984 Gator Bowl game. Florida, a -t point favorite, got an early break when Leon Pennington By ED SHEARER AP Sports Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) It was so much more than Vince Dooley expected. "I thought that we had a chance to win, but never did I think that we'd win by such a large margin," Dooley said Saturday after his 17th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs ended the nation's longest college football unbeaten string at 18 games with a 24-3 victory over top-ranked Florida.

"I never dreamed that we would make the long plays, nor that we could hold Florida to three points," Dooley added. "All we wanted was for our defense to minimize Florida's big-play capability. Our defense did a superb job. Georgia's big plays came from a pair of freshmen running backs touchdown sprints of 76 and 32 yards by Keith Henderson in the first half and an 89-yard dash by Tim Worley that sealed it in the final quarter. And, although it yielded 408 yards passing to the Gators, a swarming Georgia defense never allowed Florida any offensive continuity while sacking quarterback Kerwin Bell five times and keeping him under constant pressure.

Dooley figured Florida was ripe for an upset when the Gators climbed to the top of The Associated Press poll for the first time after last week's victory over then sixth-ranked Auburn. "Florida was in the difficult position of winning big last week, being ranked number one by AP and having to play a big rival the next week," Dooley said. Besides ending Florida's unbeaten streak, the Georgia victory marked the first setback for Galen Hall, now 15-1-1 since becoming the Gators coach three games into the 1984 season. "I thought the winning streak would end some time," Hall said. "Of course, I wish that it hadn't happened today.

But this was a great experience for our kids at JHrAfc wtf imm--jLjK ft 'M J1" mF'U itf iWtf fnJ jMT IBI mi I St'M Florida 10 9-1 Georg.a 7 II I 7-4 Ga Henderson 76 run ICrumley kick) Ga Henderson 32 run (Crumley kick) Fla FG Dawson 36 Ga FG Crumley 32 Ga Worley 89 run (Crumley kick) ft UW Fla Ga First downs '3 Rushes yards 30 28 47 344 Passing yards 408 31 Return yards 31 Passes 331 310 Punts 544 7 50 Fumbles-lost Penalties yards 3-33 6-41 Time of Possession 32:17 27:41 INDIVIDUAL ST AT I STICS RUSHING Florida, J.L. Williams 12 42, Anderson 12 11. Geotgia, Henderson 9 145, Worley 7 104, Tate6 58 PASSING Florida, Bell 33 49 1 401. Georgia. Johnson 2-6-0-25, J.Jackson 1 2-0-6.

RECEIVING Florida, J.L. Williams 12 103, Anderson 7 IS, McDonald 4 61, Neal 1 49 Georgia, Lane 1 17, Smith l.Osooml 6 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Laserphoto Ult and running touchdown run at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. The Bulldogs went on to stun the Gators 24-3 Georgia tailback Keith Henderson (30) outruns Florida defenders Ricky Knight (24) and Curtis Stacy (23) on the way to a 76-yard first quarter i.