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Texas FB in Brief Ark. Sti Edges UTA, 14-13 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Fullback Leroy Harris rambled through Texas Arlington (or 196 yards on the ground to lift Arkansas State to a 1413 Southland Conference victory here Saturday. Harris, who scored both Indian touchdowns on a snow-covered field, broke lose with 8:39 left in the third period on a SOyard run that eventually doomed the Mavericks. UTA scored with 13:40 remained In the game on a threeyard scoot by Rickey Kelley, but David Walker's extra point try sailed wide to the left. Harris, who finishes the season with scored ASU's first touchdown with 2:39 left in the second period on a three-yard run.

UTA's other score came early in P.u*rin Pasting rard! Relurn yardi Patwi 170 I I I 1) It I) Ml 7 1 660 the second period on a one-yard dive by fullback Derrick Jensen. The Indians finish Ihe season with a 5-6 record and a 2-3 mark In Southland Conference play. UTA, which has two games remain- Ing, Is now 4-5 overall and 2-2 in conference. AikS-Harril run tOoodi kick! ArkS-Harrii 19 run IDcdds UTA-Kcllv 3 run Lklcx railed) Prairie View Upsets Alcorn PRAIRIE VIEW, Tex. (AP) Larry Jackson recovered a fumble in Ihe end zone and the Prairie View defense held at the one-yard line three in the last quarter as Prairie View upset Alcorn 14-4 Saturday afternoon in a Southwest Athletic Conference football game.

Jackson, a defensive end, cut through to chase a bad snap from center and gave Prairie View a quick 6-0 lead in the opening quarter. In the second quarter quarterback Samuel Maxie climaxed a 75-yard drive with a 14-yard run and then sus- titute quarterback Richard Warfield passed to Develoux Weatherspoon for the two points. Alcorn's only score came In the third quarter when William Outlaw scored on a quarterback sneak from one-yard out. Alcorn reached the one-yard line in firil RuWits yards a yards Relur a a Pynli fumblfilirtl Penaltiei yards a Ruiriei net the fourth quarter with 4:29 left but the Prairie View defensive line held three consecutive smashes to preserve Ihe lead. Prairie View's Charles Smilh led all rushers with 90 yards in 23 attempts.

Prairie View is now 5-5 for the year and 3-2 in league play. Alcorn dropped to 7-2 for Ihe season and 4-1 in conference play. THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Sun. Nov. 14, 1976 5-C Top 20 in Brief Iowa State Topples Huskers 0 0 4 0--i I 0 mble.

In end View PRV- Jackson klcx PRV Maxie II run (Wea rherspoon from warFIeldJ Outlaw 1 run (kkv A-Kfl Fla. St. Conversion Nips 21-20 DENTON, Tex. (AP) Florida State tailback Larry Key found Kurt Unglauv open in the North Texas end zone and connected with him for a two-point conversion and a 21-20 victory for the Seminoles Saturday. The conversion came with two minutes left in the game after Jeff Leggett went seven yards for a score that made the score 20-19 with North Texas on top.

The Mean Green took an early lead in the second period when Florida State punter Bill Duley fumbled a center snap at his own two. North Texas recovered, and on the first play from scrimmage quarterback Kenny Washington sneaked through the middle for the score. After a blocked punt, Seminole quarterback Jimmy Black hit Ed Beckman for a nine-yard strike to.tie 'the score at the half, 7-7. Florida State later forced a North Texas State fumble on the Florida State nine. Black quickly hit Unglauv in the left flat and Unglauv turned upfield and took 81 steps through the snow into the end zone to put the Seminoles Florida Mate irst Dowru ushes yards Passing yards Relurn Yards ahead 13-7.

North Texas regained the lead when Key fumbled a punt at the Seminole 30. Washington moved the ball to the 14, where running back Mike Jones look over. Jones took five straight carries and scored from the one to put North Texas ahead 14-13. A 12-yard Washington to David Ray pass moved North Texas ahead 20-13. Glen Ray.

missed the crucial extra point to give'Florida State Ihe chance to win it. Ray was subbing for regular kicker Iseed Khoury, out with an injury. Flcrioa Siatt 0 6 1-71 Nc.lh Tejas 0 7 13 0 7 0 NT-Wasfiinafon, 1 ryn (Raf kfck) Fla-Btckman pass from Black (Cap One for the Irish Notre Dame halfback AI Hunter goes in for a 2-yard touchdown as Dewey Mitchell of Alabama tries in vain the make the tackle. It was Notre Dame's second score enroute to a 21-18 victory in South Bend, Wirephoto) Irish Continue To Master Tide AMES. Iowa Dexter Green ran for two touchdowns Saturday as Iowa Stale surprised ninth-ranked Nebraska 37-28 to lake a share of Ihe Big Eight Conference lead.

Luther Blue relumed a kickoff 95 yards for another touchdown and Scott Kollman booted three field goals to ice Ihe victory. The final seconds were played without goalposts afler fans swarmed onto the field and uprooted them after the Cyclones'scored the final touchdown for their first home victory against the Cornhuskcrs since 1959, The win boosted Iowa Slate's season record (o 8-2 and Iheir league mark to 4-2. Nebraska dropped to 7-21 and 4-2 and a tie for the conference lead, Green scored on a one-yard run in Ihe first period after Kollman's firsl field goal, a 21yarder, Green scored from the three midway through the fourth period as Iowa Stale went ahead lo slay after Nebraska pulled even al 20-20 earlier in the period. Blue's kickoff relurn came after Bobby Thomas had taken a 43-yjrd touchdown pass from Vince Ferragamo with one minute remaining In Hie first quarter, Ntoraska 7 6 0 15-31 S1. ,7 3 0 17-37 S-FG oilman 71 a on rflurn (Kollman IS -crifn run iKouman kic IS-FG Kollman 21 tS-Hardeman 16 run (Kollm 1 run IShAmbtin Ohio State Hangs Tough, 9-3 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A vaunted Ohio State defense, which has allowed only two touchdowns in its last four games, stopped Iwo Minnesota scoring drives in the second half as Ihe Buckeyes hung on for a 9-3 Big Ten football victory over the Gophers Saturday.

The nationally-ranked Buckeyes maintained sole possession of the Big Ten lead with Iheir seventh straight conference victory and improved Iheir season mark to 8-M. Minnesota, now 6-4 in all games and 4-3 in the conference, reached the Ohio Slate 22 in the third quarter and Ohio First downs vird Pa Ming yar Stale Minrtttola Penalties yards 4 drove to the Buckeye 27 in the flail period, But both drives were stopped, Defensive tackle Nick Buonamici rambled 42 yards with an interception, which killed Minnesota's third-period threat. Ohio Slalf 5 a 0 0- 9 Minnesota 0 3 0 0- OSV--FG SVIadany Minn-FG Roqind rt OSU-Pjcenla run IkieX railed) 1 NT-gar failed I Fla -Le-aae Karl Oklahoma Outlasts Missouri by 27-20 NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Quarterback Thomas Lott scored two touchdowns, one from 49 yards out, and teammates Horace Ivory and Kenny King each ran for more than 100 yards as Oklahoma outlasted Missouri 27-20 Saturday, bumping the Tigers out of the Big Eight Conference race. Lett's long touchdown run and a 39- yard scoring sprint by King put the Sooners ahead 2710 in the third period.

But the Sooners had to choke off a furious Missouri rally in the final quarter to keep their Big Eight title and bowl hopes alive. Quarterback Steve Pisarkiewicz came off the bench to direct the Tigers to a pair of touchdown drives in the final period. But the Tiger rally fell short when SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame continued Us mastery over Alabama Saturday as Rick Slager passed for 208 yards in the first half, including a 56-yard touchdown bomb Dan Kelleher, and led Ihe Irish to a 21-18 victory in the first regular-season meeting between two of college football's greatest names. Notre Dame built a 21-7 halftime lead but survived a series of second-half scares and didn't nail down the victory until Jim Browner intercepted Jeff Rutledge's pass in the end zone with 4:17 left and halfback Pete Cavan wide open and waving for the ball across the field.

Rutledge, however, never-saw him. The triumph gave 18th-ranked Notre Dame a 7-2 record and kept its hopes alive for a major bowl bid. Alabama, which was ranked 10th, had a five-game winning streak snapped and dropped to 7-3 over-all, the most losses for the Crimson Tide since 19JO. Slager picked Alabama's secondary' apart in Ihe first half, completing 12 of 19 passes. His long heave to Kelleher on the first play of the second period started the scoring and the Irish added touchdowns the next two times they had the ball on Al Hunter's two-yard run and a 17-yard dash by freshman Vagas Ferguson.

The only two previous meetings between the tradilional gridiron powers came in postseason action. Notre Dame nipped Alabama 24-23 in a Sugar Bow! showdown for the 1973 national championship and edged the Tide 13-11 the following season in Ihe Orange Bowl. Slrong running by Hunter and Fergu- Alabama Norrt Dame dcrwns Rushes yards 170 572J? Passing yards 13L HJ Relurn yards 31 Pisses M7.51 IS I Punls 7 2 5 3 7 Fumbles lost 11 Penalties yards IK son complimented Stager's precision passing as Noire Dame's Wing-T offense gobbled up 365 yards in the first half alone. Ferguson, in his first starting assignment, gained 76 yards on 12 carries in the first two periods and Hunter added 71 on II rushes. For the game, they had 113 and 90, respectively.

On three consecutive'firsl half possessions, Notre Dame reeled off scoring drives of 80, 60 and 72 yards. The last one, capped by Ferguson's nitty 17-yard run on which he cul sharply around defensive back Phil Allman al the live, came just afler Jack O'Rear scored Alabama's first touchdown on a one-yard run. The score by Ferguson made it 21-7 and equalled the most points yielded by one of Bear Bryanl's leams since Noire Dame's dramatic Sugar Bowl triumph three years ago. Slager's aerial dynamics came against an Alabama pass defense which ranked fifth in the nation, allowing an average of 83.2 yards in nine previous games. 0 7 1 e-is 0 21 0 0-31 (rom Stager Colorado Rips Kansas, 40-17 Ffril downi Rusr.es yard; Piling yards Return yards Passes Punls FumQles lost PC rallies cornerback Terry Pelers inUrcepted a Pisarkiewicz aerial on the Oklahoma three with 4:12 left.

Panthers Fend Off W. Virginia, 24-16 BOULDER, Coto. A Nine- leenlh-ranked Colorado, capitalizing on 10'Kansas turnovers, used a career-high 168yard rushing performance by senior tailback Tony Reed to crush the Jayhawks 40-17 Saturday in Big Eight football. The victory boosted the Buffaloes' conference record to 4-2 and moved them into a fiveway tie (or first place in the league. Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Iowa State have identical records with only one Big Eight game remaining.

The Buffs turned Ihrce Kansas errors into 13 points in the first half and carried a 20-17 lead into the dressing room. Billy Waddy's Si-yard kickoff relurn accounted for the Buffs' other first-half touchdown. James Mayberry returned the second-half kick 72 yards and fullback Jim Kelleher followed with a seven- ya.rd scoring run to put Colorado ahead 27-17. Later in the third quarter, a fun- bled pitchoul by Ihe Jayhawks al Iheir 25 set up anolher Kelleher score. Quarterback Jeff Knapple completed the rout with a five-yard run in the final period.

That score also followed a lurnover linebacker Tom interception near Ihe goaliine. Kansas 7 ID 0 0-17 7 13 li Cal- FG Manrjnsit 33 Xan-FG Kerbft JS Col-KeJIttier run IMangnall kic I run kic CcJ-Knapple i run (Kick failed) Georgia Wins SEC Title 7 1 0 TQ-tt 3 19 0 31 Woods Gib- Oklahoma Mo-Lewis pass ire toil kick) Qkla-FG w(Xl Sthjmenn 3i 7 run (von 5. ham inn kick) Gibboni J7 a VOA Stn smarm a Otra-Lolt rtrun ivon Scha-nann Hchl Okld- King 71 run (von Scharrvann Jl pan fiom Pisa'kiewici (GibbOfH Mo-FG Gibixm 73 Miller Scores 5 TDs; Okla. St. Wins MANHATTAN, Kan.

(AP) Workhorse running back Terry Miller erupted for five touchdowns as Oklahoma Stale survived a late Kansas State threat and rolled past the Wildcats 45-21 Saturday in their Big Eighl football game. Miller, who finished the. day with 221 yards on 37 carries, gave (he Cowboys a lead they never surrendered when he rambled from nine yards out in Ihe second quarter to make it 10-7. The 6-foot, 196-pound junior, who had nine touchdowns going into the game, lacked on a IGyard scoring dash in the third period and exploded for touchdowns of 9, 1, and 18 yards as the Cowboys pulled away in the final quarter. Miller's one-man show boosted his career rushing total to 2,592 yards, an Ok- Return yardi Pa sws 33 4 7 73S Fumblei las! 3 Ptaailies 4 4 3) lahoma Stale record.

The victory lifled Oklahoma State's season mark to 6-3. Oklahoma SI. I 21-Jj Keisai St. 7 4-fi Dargle xs-Rxhardton 11 run ESIncvic Jutt) 1 rua (Oalg'e kick) OS a i 29 IfOm Weafrifrbic kick! PITTSBURGH (AP) Tony Dorset! bolted 30 yards for his third touchdown of the game lo help lop-ranked Pittsburgh fight off a second-half rally and defeat West Virginia 24-18 Saturday. Officials from the Orange, Cotlon and Sugar Bowls looked on as the Panthers' record climbed to 10-0.

Facing an open date, they're likely assured their pick of bowls when bids go out next Saturday. Quarterback Mall Cavanaugh and Dorsett, college football's all-time rushing leader, both surpassed the 100-yard mark rushing early in the third quarter as Pitt look a 17-3 lead with a drive that ended with Carson Long's 27-long field goal. But West Virginia, 5-5, responded with its best drive of the day, a 57-yard march capped by a 11-yard touchdown pass from Dan Kendra lo Steve Lewis. That cut the PHI lead to 17-10 with 4:03 left in the third quarter. Bui the Panthers turned back the rally 3 3 a- MtCtniiii with an 86-yard drive early in the final quarter.

It ended when Dorset! took a pilch and ran 30 yards to the end zone after scoring first-half touchdowns on runs of 17 and two yards. Capitalizing on Pitt's fifth (umblc of the day, West Virginia scored another touchdown with 3:11 left on a nine-yard Kendra to Lewis pass. P.H DcrseJi run irvu FG MeKeniric pit' Otwieir I run FG V.W Lewis HiCkl P.n rw A Uwis 9 Kentucky Chills Florida's Claim on SEC Crown A Ala. A Kevin McLee ran for 203 yards and set a new school singlegame rushing record for Hie second time this season as Georgia trounced Auburn 28-0 Saturday (o win Ihe Southeastern Conference football championship and a berth in the Sugar Bowl. McLee.

a (Moot, 184-pound junior from Uniontown, who also scored one touchdown, had to hustle, however, to outdistance Georgia's fullback. Al Pollard, who piled up 158 yards and scored twice. The victory Vince Dooley's Georgia Bulldogs their first conference title since they won the championship in 1968, also by defeating Auburn in the showdown game. Michigan Rolls, 38-7- AX'S ARBOR. Mich.

(AP) Rob Lytle scored three touchdowns and became Michigan's all-lime rushing leader Saturday as Ihe fourth-ranked Wolverines rolled lo a 38-7 Big Ten football victory over Illinois. Lylle scored on a five-yard pass from quarterback Rick Leach in the second quarter, Ihen scored on runs of 13 and 3 yards in the third period as Michigan raised Us conference record lo ij-1 and 9-1 over-all, heading into next Saturday's showdown championship game at Ohio State. Lytle, a senior from Frcmonl. Ohio running at both fullback and tailback, rushed for 89 yards lo put his career toial al 3,085 13 more than Ihe previous Michigan record sel by Billy Taylor from 1969 through 1971. Meanwhile, for Illinois, now 3-1 in the conference and 4-6 over-all, kicker Dan a lied i a Red RuiHens yards Paiiiny y.iriJi Rflorn Georgia completely overpowered Auburn but had help also from Tiger penalties.

One Auburn setback, 15 yards for a personal foul, gave the Bulldogs a first down on the Tiger 32 and kept their second touchdown drive going. I rs craMler 1 blocVrt novk kic'O P4U I'Om He Wvicfcrtk) OS-Mi'lCT 9 run Ht OSMillfr 1 rut, kk OS Vine' 14 run etvrn is, UCLA Romps, 45-14 CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) -'Second- ranked UCLA scored three touchdowns in the second quarter, two on runs by reserve halfback James Owens, and rolled to a j-14 Pacific-8 Conference football victory over Oregon Stale Sslurday. The Bruins, who failed lo move the bill throughout most of the second half, scored twice in the final minutes to provide the lopsided final margin. Oregon State, now 1-9, moved the ball with surprising consistency against the 94-1 Bruins, but the Beavers lumed the ball over nine limes on five pass interceptions snd tour fumbles.

UCLA converted five of the lurnovers inlo 31 poinls. Oregon Stale was down 31-14 most of the second half, and twice the Beavers moved deep into UCLA territory, but m- teraplions slopped both Ihreals. LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Derrick Ramsey, Kenlucky's huge quarterback, fired two touchdown passes Saturday and led the Wildcats to a 28-9 upset victory over 15th-ranked Florida, probably denying the Gators their first Southeastern Conference football crown in history. Florida, held throughout the game by a scrappy Wildcat defense, could have clinched a title tie with a victory.

Ramsey, a 222-pound bull, connected wild Dave Trosper on a strange 52-yard scoring play in the final minute of the opening half and came back with a 17-yarder to Randy Brooks in the third quarter, moments after Florida had made a bid to get back inlo the game. The pass lo Trosper demoralized the Gators and personified Florida's frustration in SEC competition. It appeared lhal Terry LeCounl would intercept at Grange for Ihe Illini all-time scoring lead with 186 points when he kicked an extra point following a twoyard touchdown run by Larry Schute in the first quarter. Thai score came alter Michigan tallied on an 11-yard run by Leach to climax a 61-yard, Il-play drive on the Wolverines' firsl possession. Maryland Whips Clemson, 20-0 1 7 7 7 II I the five, but at Ihe last moment team- male Warren Gaffney lipped Ihe ball away into the hands of Trosper for the touchdown.

Ramsey ted the domineering Wildcat offense with 17 carries for 80 yards. KV- iJ COLLEGE PARK. Md. A Unbeaten and sixth-ranked Maryland, rescued time and again by its defense, turned back stubborn Clemson 20-0 a a i the help of a 33yari touchdown pass by Mark Manges on a fake field goal call. The generally uninspired effort, watched by scouts from four postseason bowls, stretched Maryland's winning slrcak to 10 this season and was the ISth consecutive victory by the Terps over an Allantic Coast Conference foe.

Wake Forest Stops Gamecocks COLUMBIA. S.C. A Linebacker Don Cervi came up with a game saving interception in the last minute of play Salurday as Wake Forest upset 20lh ranked South Carolina 10-7 in a college football game. Tho Deacons turned a blocked punt inlo a second quarter touchdown and made their lead hold up as South Carolina came back with a last gasp effort in the fourth quarter..