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The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 21

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STORYBOOK IVIN OVER FLORIDA Down Duke Storms Back 9 9 Last-Half VV' Hj V4 v' 4 jL- wising Shocking Statistics Duke Florida 24 is H4 173 335 180 21-34 11 20 1 2 34 0 7 30 1 0 30 40 0 0 21 7 28 0 21 0 0 21 Plrsf Downs Rushing Yarring Passing Yardagt Passes Passes Intercepted By Punts Pumhles Lost Yards Penalized DUKE FLORIDA Holland 21 pass from Shannon (Hall kick) Dupree 70 run (Hall kick) O'Donnell 3 run (Hall kick) Leggett 2 run (Crissom pass from Rappold) Widener 33 pass from Garner i (kick tailed) Curtis 2 run (Reynolds kick) Curtis 1 run (Reynolds kick) Attendance 30000 By WHITEY KELLEY Observer Executive Snorts Editor JACKSONVILLE 1 a -Many of the great comebacks Observer Photo by James Dennlna of history were paled here STARTLER: Maryland' Ken Amhni'ko Jolted IV Slate Saturday With a 7ft-Yd Runt Return For A TI) lie Started It Ry Lyadin" Taao Tackle State Yields To Maryland Power 14-6 Absentee I SECTION Sun Oct 7 1962 By WILTON GARRISON Observer Sports Editor RALEIGH A 78-yard touchdown run that never should have happened was the only noticeable difference between two stout football teams here Saturday as Maryland shaded State by 14-6 in an Atlantic Coast Conference bruiser The contest played in shirtsleeved weather before a sunbaked crowd of 13000 kept the Terrapins undefeated for the season fourth-period touchdown was the first the Maryland defense has yielded in three straight wins The game was only seven minutes old when Glenn Sasser of State punted to 22 where Ken Am- Statistics Twisting By Slate's Bernhard Then Seeing Trouble State Maryland 13 42 101 18-11 I 7 32 4 I 42 it 14 IS 7 3 I I 35 7 1 25 Saturday when Duke its football pride battered by Florida's 21-point second quarter shattered Gator victory illusions 28-21 with four touchdowns in the last half This Duke team stared one of the most horrifying defeats ever inflicted on its pioud heritage smack the face at halftime Anyone of lesser fiber could easily have accepted the inevitable a sound beating But the 21-0 deficit apparently bothered the Blue Devils about as much as a flea bothers an elephUit They swarmed all over the Gator defenders with a similar 21 point explosion of their own in the third quarter then put the game in the victory column with 11:10 left in the final quarter when sophomore fullback Mike Curtis jammed his 209 pounds into the end zone for the 27th Duke point It was fantastic For the first 30 minutes the Dukes looked like a disorganized demoralized football team In the final 30 minutes theyi were everything a football coach admires aggressive determined daring and opportunist to the Nth degree At the end of the offensive orgy Duke's Bill Murray a wry smile on his face announced: were confident at halftime It's nothing out of the ordinary to come back like we did And if Murray was confident at halftime he was the only one' in the assemblage of 30 000 who thought his team would be within 100 miles of Florida at the end of the game Rut the Dukes can point to other such remarkable yo-yo acts Like the time they flattened Georgia Tech 30-21 in 1970 after being down by 21 points Or the time they scored three times in the game's final eight minutes to upset the same Yellow Jackets 21-20 in 1934 So maybe Murray's were confident at halftime" isn't so much of a lark as it sounds What proved the winning touchdown was a 60-yard nine-play excursion which was triggered by Gil Garner's passes to the swing ends Charlotte's Edi Chesnutt and Stan Crisson The third completion a 12ardcr io Chesnutt gave Duke a first down at the Flonda 23 From there the infantry took i over Garner ramming the ball I on slant plays featuring Cuttis and Bill Futrell The big movement was an 11 yarrier by Futrell to the one On the next play Cuitis riiove over right tackle to put Duke in front for the fust time at 27-21 with 11 19 left in the game When Blllv Reynolds toed the 28th point the Gator Bowl once a place of roaring satis- See DIKE Page 8C Col 4 First Downs Rushing Yards Passing Yardaga Passas Passes Intercepted By Punts Fumbles Lost Yards Panalized Scort by periods: STATE MARYLANO 8 8 8 8 7 8 7 8 14 Scoring- Armbusko 71 punt return (Han-nigan kick) Sbmer run (Hanmgan kick! Kriger 1 run (Sasser kick (ailed) Attendance 13800 College Football Results fAROLINAS: Maryland 14 Slate 6 Michigan St 38 6 Clemson 21 Wake Forest 7 Duke 28 Florida 21 North Car 13 Norfolk 6 Camp Lejcune 42 Ft Belvoir 0 William Mary 29 Citadel 23 Calawha 26 Western Carolina 13 Georgia 7 So Carolina 7 Wofford 18 Fredrick Col 10 So Car 8 Smith 0 Lion 23 Fast Carolina 19 Davidson 13 Presbyterian 9 MAJOR GAMES: Boston College 18 VMI 0 Dartmouth 17 Penn 0 Brown 6 Yale 6 Holly Cross 22 Colgate 0 A illinova 36 Buffalo 6 Cornell It Harvard 12 Princeton 33 Columbia 0 Conn 13 Rulgers 9 Mulligan 17 Army 7 Northwestern 43 Illinois 0 VPI 20 Virginia 15 AV Virginia 7 Boston 0 Michigan 17 Army 7 Purdue 21 Noire Dame Minnesota 21 Nazy 0 Mississippi St 7 Tennessee 6 Mississippi 10 Houston 7 So Calif 7 Iowa 0 Emory Henry 48 AUL 33 Missouri 17 Arizona 7 Kansas 35 oloradn 8 Wisconsin 30 Indiana fi 10 Georgia Teth 7 Nebraska 36 Iowa St 22 Pill 26 California 24 I LA 9 Ohio Mate 7 Oklahoma 17 Tulsa 7 Air on 23 So Mrth 20 Oregon SI 27 Stanford 0 Auburn 16 Kentucky 6 Texas 7 Texas Tech 3 Arkansas 42 Texas Christian II Oregon fl San Jose St 0 Alabama 17 Vanrieiblll 7 Washington 41 Kansas St 0 Texas 33 Tulane 8 See Ol 1 1 (1 Page SC Cnl Reversing By Tmo More Tacklers And Turning On Tin Steam JMlrS jfLytF A A 7' i WHI 4 AROUND Flonda left halfback Hagood Clarke (20) goes around the right side of the line for a 6-yard gain against Duke in the first period at Jacksonville Fla Blue Devil fullback Mike Curtis (33) tries for the tackle (AP Photo) WF STAR INJURED Clem son Explodes Wake Suffers: 24-7 brusko hauled it in amid a host of tacklers Apparently trapped and mobbed the shifty Ambrusko somehow pulled away from the tangle picked up blockers and set sail Joe Ifrezo put the key block on State's last defender Skip Matthews at the Wolfpack 40 and Ambrusko dashed the rest of the way on his 78 yard gallop The reliable John Hnnni-gan who hardly ever misses booted the exti a point and the Terps were ahead to stay Maryland launched another march from its own 34 that rolled down the field Quar-tei back Dick Shiner and half-bat Tom Biown dazzled the Wolfpack with runs and passes Don Montgomery finally slopped the drive bv flagging Jim C'orcoian for a 7 yaid loss and Hanmgan tried a field goal from the Stale 28 which went wide Gaining consistently on punt exchanges on the basis of Roger Moore's booming spirals State finally got its iharne when Joe Searpati returned Don White's kit 19 yards to the Mai and 37 4 Mrs V'-V'! 'll 1 s'- -T Fv GFORGF I NMNGIt run and devoured Wake Foiest Observer Sports Writer 24 7 WINSTON-SALEM A fat I Except for one first half lapse contented cat turned into a ter- Clemsnn's line toyed with Wake rorizing tiger here Satin dav as Forest's offense as a kitten Clemson came to life on Mackj 88 ymd touchdown Ifm'wSS' 1 4 ttaqM' Statistics Wake Forest Clem Tlio lil Stale Defender Wave And A I II BACKS TO IliWi WIN 18 348 44 38 3 143 3 8 IS 52 18 I 8 42 8 35 I First Downs Rushing Yerdage Passing Yardige Passes Passes Intercepted By Punls Fumbles Lost Yards Penalized WAKE POREST CLEMSON 3rd GAME But the Terps put the rush on Jim Rossi and he could not hit his mark Tom Brown lnlercepted a Bossl toss at the goal line and was thrown by Jimmy Guln for an apparent safety but Male was penalized for an Illegal pass to kill the play 8 7 8 8 7 8 18 8 14 37 Michigan Stale Rolls Over Tar Heels Scoring' Rogtrs 77 field goal Crin I run (Rogart kick) Ttlck 17 pail Irom Mackovlc (Walkar kick) Mallbgwi 88 punt rtlurn (Fog-in kick) Crain 11 run (Rottri kick) Atlandancai 10580 Statistics Vs Mich Slat Carotin O) 4) SI 154 III 1)34 1 1 13) 4)3 1 1 1 70 10 Plrt Dftwn Huihini Yardan Paum YardM PlAlH Pum Intrcpt9tf 1 Puntt PumhlM IfHt Yrdl Pn hid After another exchange Rossi pitched out to Tony Koszar-sky for a 23 yard gam ns the half ended Koszaisky sliding might with a harmless piece of tnlo -the bass riium on the string I sidelines with a hig hnnm But you couldn't have (old it The Tops put the game on by Ihc Ihud quaiter ainiehoaid ice early in Hie thud pcimd For tint il (hen a 22 aid field goal by Rodney Rogers wax (he only diffocnie in Ihix Malisiic-ally lie sided contest wilh a 62vnrd march in 14 plays which even 15 aid pendly failed In (heck Again it was the deadly a Bv DICK P1FRCE Obttrvtr Seorlt Wrllar EAST LANSING Mirh -Mulligan State' brawny Spartans pnde rubbed raw by last week' upset Inxs to Stanford began a gum piestige tegain-mg campaign by smashing Noth C'mnlinn Salmday nfto-noon Duffy Spat tans Imned loose a rmial of pony balks behind blocking that could In bond a half mile away In throughly Ihiash the out mo lined Tar Heels 33 6 Fmemosl of these Jet nvi Stafford The 207 yards sui passed (he Michigan slate one -game reemd act by Sonny Gran-clellus In 1950 by 23 yards While Rulm and his hlnck-eis weie enough to have beaten I NC all hy themselves another hallhuk i mining as I he iilhuk in Daugheitv's multiple olfense puknl up two tmu lulow ns on the same pliv Used li Itiiliu He was Mum man Lewis a 6 spnntei who Me VP AH TANS Page Col 1 tors mnsqueinding as half-hacks was Ron Ruble fl squat junior who lolled thiough North Carolina's line ami see-ondaiv like a herseik bowling ill Iliihuk puked up thiee Spaitan tmululnwn nn intis of 67 It nnd 15 vaids and el Mulligan Male gtoiind-gaming ieoid in the pi mess In diming the hull 1 1 time through monstrous holes In the I line Ihc 19 pound Rtildik gained 2(17 yards lor menige fllnmst 13 yards per (rot Pitre MICH St ATP NORTH CAROLINA 11 1) 4 4 0 4 0 0 4 The San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees move to Yankee Stadium today to resume their World Series duel with both teams holding one victory See details on page 9-C passing combo of Shiner lo Blown wlrnh did Hie damage Shiner kept on a fake leveise See MARA LAND Page 8C Cnl Or Print lawit 4 run (Lattlmar NtcN I AMU-Rubck 41 run (Nick (atiad) Lawl I run (LaHimer kith) NC-Latty 10 pat Irom Idaa (kith tailed) M5URuhirk 11 run Ipmi faiktf) I opal 4 run (run faitad) mui- tuhfck il run (kick ftiiad) AMandantt 41 070 Then with 12'n minute to play nnd Clemson leading 10-7 See IMFSS Page 8 nl 1 is A A -A A A A A A A 4 A A -Vn A tr A A A a.

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