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'''''''''''')" 7 '7' 2 i' 7 i''' 1' t'- 1 I 'I' '1' 4i -it: 44? -teA44 4e44 14i 11 Selte By BOB QUINCY Observer Staff Wr iter CHAPEL HILL Some say football is a game of inches but North Carolina's somewhat shocking 28-0 win Saturday over South Carolina was a game of feet The feet belonged to tailback Amos Lawrence and punter Steve Streater who combined to kick a South Carolina team some preseason polls had picked for the nation's top 20 Lawrence carrying 25 times for 134 yards and 2 touchdowns sparked a 14-0 halftime lead a gap the Gamececks never threatened to narrow Streater a Sy Iva sophomore and brother of Tennessee quarterback James Streater punted 7 times for a 413 average Those impressive digits tell only half the story Streater continually backed the Gamecocks Into poor field position with a combination of long high spirals and short precision boots which veered out of bounds Meanwhile North Carolina's defense which last season yielded 21 points per game never gave the Gamecocks a big play South Carolina's deepest penetration was to the Tar Heel 28 And in the stands where coach Dick Crum's name was taken in vain last season the chant changed to "Darn good coach" What a difference a year makes "We were unfortunate that our field position in the first quarter was poor" said Crum "Our kicking game got us out of that disadvantage" With 5 minutes elapsed in the second period and the teams stalemated North Carolina got a break Safety Ricky Barden intercepted quarterback Garry Harper's long pass at the Tar Heel 32 He returned it to the South Carolina 40 At that point Lawrence stopped in his early carries slipped through the line for 10 yards setting up a first down at the 29 A penalty and a 3-yard gain on Phil Farris's reverse placed the ball on the 21 where Lawrence gave a nifty exhibition On third down he took a pitchout left and found a Gamecock defender waiting "I gave him a little juke" explained Lawrence a junior who has rushed for more than 1000 yards in each of his first 2 seasons Lawrence cut back sharply to his right breezed past a linebacker and slipped into high gear finishing in the end zone with 9:31 By WHITEY KELLEY Observer Sports Edda RALEIGH If NC State didn't find Ted Brown's succesor Saturday then running back Dwight Sullivan will do until something better comes along A 5-10 200-pound Durham junior Sullivan picked his way through East Carolina's aggressive defense for 131 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Wolfpack beat the Pirates 34-20 The victory wasn't easy by any means to which a record Carter-Finely Stadium crowd of 53400 will attest In fact it took 3 second-half touchdowns by the Wolf-pack who fell behind 17-13 at halftime Sullivan who carried the football only 7 times as a freshman and 7 times as a sophomore while he watched Brown finish an ACC record 4602-yard career got several suprises Saturday night his first starting assignment and then 15 chances to carry the football "Coach (Bo) Rein didn't tell me until just before the kickoff 1 was going to start" Sullivan said "No I didn't think 1 would get the A -Iv football that tlp se I i -)'4 much because figured Billy Ray '411 Vickers would i-g 0 get it more" 14l-z7''ll Sullivan didn't 0 -i- feel he did any- 1t thing unsual i tt merely carried 4: "4 4 -1 4460tit the football with the blocking help Sulthian of his team 0000000106 si 4 tlawiftX 1 r'614 rt4r i6q Pe i Vtseg 'i -41066it--'strIA Observer Bv DON STURKEY Placekicker Jeff Hayes who kicked 4 extra points and continually sent the ball into the end zone on kickoffs made it 7-0 as the Tar Heels gained control South Carolina using running backs Steve Dorsey and George Rogers off tackle chalked up 2 first See TAR HEELS Page 10D Col 1 South Carolina Tight End Ben Cornett Cathers In Pass Tar Heel linebacker Darrell Nicholson holds Gamecock to 9-yard gain EIME Carolina Routs Alabama 5244 -II' -T 49 Inside Today Davidson opens football season with 35-7 victory over Catawba Chargers Ruin Showdown Page 4D Lenoir-Rhyne whips Johnson Smith 33-8 in season opener mates "They rJcked people down or sealed them off so there wasn't that much for me to do" he said "I'll tell you I really had the jitters before the game I kept wondering if I'd freeze when I got the football but I got settled down as soon as someone hit me" Regarded as the ACC favorite NC State needed its second-half surge after East Carolina built its lead on touchdown drives of 67 and 71 yards It was the Pack defense headed by defensive end James Butler which actually turned the game around in the first four minutes of the second half Butler who collared Pirate runners for losses of 17 and 7 yards was injured in the final period and probably will be out for the season after undergoing knee ligament surgery today The first sign of NC State's defensive revival came when East Carolina Q3 Leander Green a Wolfpack in the first half when he flitted for 84 yards in 14 carries was pressured into a bad pitchout that resulted in a 21- yard loss back to the Pirate 2 early in the third quarter Taking over near midfield State went 52 yards in 4 plays QB Scott Smith reeled off runs of 29 and 17 yards before his reserve freshman Darnell Johnson scored from the 1 and Nathan Ritter kicked the point for a 20-17 State lead with 10:50 left in the period The Woltpack never again trailed A pass interception by safey See WOMACK Page 10D Col 1 Top-ranked Southern Cal loses standout running back Charles White but beats Texas Tech 21-7 in opener Page 10D Late touchdown pass boosts Wake Forest to 30-23 victory over Appalachian Page 10D Stock car driver Dale Earnhardt almost passed up today's Capital City 400 in yarder Cox who would much rather kick field goals and extra points anyway didn't mind missing the punting "1 love it" he said midway through the fourth quarter when Carolina led 52-7 "Let's score another one" The Chargers scored the first three times they had the ball on a 1-yard dive by quarterback Ellsworth Turner a 42-yard pass from Turner to Reggie "Super Gnat" Smith and a 47-yard neld goal by Cox Just like that Alabama was down 17-0 and when the Vulcans got the ball after Cox's field goal owner-head coach Harry Lander replaced starting quarterback Chris Vacarella with backup Mark Cahill The Chargers had prepared all week for Alabama's strong option-based rushing attack but when Vacarella was lifted the Vulcans became a drop-back passing team though not very successful At halftime Alabama had 7 yards rushing By game's end after Cahill had been sacked countless times the Vulcan ground attack totaled 3 yards By LES BOWEN Observer Staff Writer Some first-place showdown Prior to Saturday's 52-14 annihilation of the Alabama Vulcans by the Carolina Chargers in front of 7- 335 fans at Charlotte's Memorial Stadium the Chargers were tied with the Vulcans and the Jacksonville Firebirds for first place in the American Football Association Each team was 10-3 entering Saturday's action but Carolina defeated Jacksonville in 2 of 3 meetings this year so the way the Chargers figured it the Vulcans were the only thing standing between them and a rousing chorus of "We're No 1" Alabama beat Carolina 28-0 May 19 at Birmingham in the AFA opener for both teams and the Chargers have been looking forward to a rematch But the rematch was a mismatch Carolina set a team record for scoring points For a long time it didn't look like Mike Cox would even punt and when the Chargers finally kicked the ball away with less than 2:00 left in the game he was so out of practice he shanked a 28- Page 40 Clemson gets the big plays blanks Furman 21-0 Page 4D Alabama's Bear Bryant gets 285th career coaching victory in 30-6 romp over Georgia Tech Page 5D American Express tennis tournament begins today in Charlotte at Olde Providence Racquet Club Page BD Page 11D Tampa Bay wins North American Soccer League championship Page 14D See CHARGERS' Page 4D Col 5 Austin Tops art-atilt) ro Sportswaves MeEnroe Gerulaitis Gain US Open Final 3 NFL ((Imes LTS 0 Open stilts 1:00 ma) ID Charlotte-area stations provide a selection of 3 NFL games today CBS including Charlotte's channel 3 and Spartan burg's channel 7 shows the Washington Redskins (National Conference-East) at Detroit Lions (National Conference-Central) Announcers are Frank Glieber and Sonny Jurgensen from the Pontiac Mich Silverdome NBC including Charlotte's channel 36 airs a doubleheader: the Houston Oilers at Pittsburgh Steelers an American Conference Central Division game at 1 and the Seattle Sea-hawks (American Conference West) at Miami Dolphins (American Conference East) at 4 The Pittsburgh-Houston game is a rematch of last season's AFC championship game won by the Steelers 34-5 Announcers are Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen in the first game Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy in the second 4:00 GO CD Today concludes the 2-week run of the US Open tennis championships at Flushing Meadows Park Corona NY CBS-TV provides 5 hours coverage of the men's and women's finals with announcers Pat Summerall Tony Trabert Tim Ryan and John Observer Wire Reports NEW YORK No matter who wins today's finals matches in the US Open Tennis Championships you can be certain of this: The men's champion will be a New Yorker The women's champ will set '''1 1 1 AK 4-11 1 1 7 4 i if' i -4 'i''' I 4 s- '4 ''''i 1 )' l': I i '7--1' '''''4 -------L-77'-4 2:00 WSOCAM Diego Padres at Atlanta Braves Tennis 4:00 Open championships Corona Miscellaneous 6:00 wresIling 730 WAYSAM Kilgo's talk show US Open history Battling for the men's title will be New Yorkers Vitas Gerulaitis and John McEnroe Gerulaitis advanced with a 3-6 2-6 7-6 6-3 6- 3 victory over Roscoe Tanner and McEnroe swept past defending champion Jimmy Connors 6-3 6-3 7-5 Both semifinals were Saturday Women's finalists are 4-time defending champ Chris Evert Lloyd who defeated Billie Jean King on Friday and 16-year-old Tracy Austin a 7-5 7-5 victor Saturday over Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova If Lloyd wins today she becomes the first 5-time champion If Austin triumphs she'll be the youngest champion May Sutton the 1904 US Open champ was three weeks older than Austin when she won One championship was settled Saturday Betty Stove and Wendy Turnbull defeated defending champions Navratilova and King for the women's doubles title 7-5 6-3 It was a reverse of the Wimbledon championship The Gerulaitis-McEnroe final could be quiet because spectators at the tournament have not treated either player with admiration Each player has complained throughout the tournament that spectators have been rude to them In Mc Enroe's second-round victory over the Nastase the crowd cheered for Nastase Spectators favored Connors over McEnroe late in Saturday's match See MeLNROE Page 8I) Col 2 g' (---' ii 4- 0- f1 4r-41 Of 7 A 1 0 It 11: 1149 -I '11 1 0 If 4 A I irl 0 le 44-4rit 1141111 4 ii 1 '---111'" 4 i Jr' l'-''' I mow 114011fla Miscellaneous 7:03 WSOC-AM (930)--Soorts line Guests Caro hoe Chargers coach Perry Moss Observer reoorter Les Bowen host John Toth! Outdoors 7:30 8M Sportsman 6:30 World Football 12:30 CP 0)---The NFL Today Preview of the days games 12:30 '79 A review and analysis of the NFL's fumble rule preview of the day's games 12:45 WMAPAM (1060)p 1:00 GD NFL: Washington Redskins at Detroit Lions 1:00 Th) Houston Oilers at Pittsburgh Steelers 4:00 041--NFL Seattle Seahawks at Miami Dolphins 4:30 WSOCAM Seattle Sea-hawks at Miami Dolphins (joined in progress atter Atlanta Braves baseball) 11:30 rT)--N or Carolina: Dick Crum Show Chargers highlights Motorsports 12:45 WSOCFM Centel City 400 Richmond Baseball 2:00 (t)---Los Anew Dodgers at Cinrin nen Reds (backup game- San Francisco (plants at Houston Astrost 2:00 a Orioles at Boston Red Sok Football 8:00 (It Falcons vs Philadelphia Eagles preview Falcons coach Leeman Banned 8:00 Redskin Game Washington Star columnist Morris Siegel film and inter views from Detroit Lions-Washinglon Redskins game 9:00 (f) WSOC-AM (930) WIST-AM (1740)---NFL: Atlanta Falcons at Philadelphia Eag1es 12:15 am (1)--College Football '79: highiightstrom weekend games South CarnlinaNorth Carolina Svracuce-Ohin State Oregon-Colorado San DiegdMiscouri Alabama-Georgia Tech Illinois-Mdhioan Slate UPI Photo 0 jillilm COilii(OrS fill i IIII I tSo ca Trays- kthliti returns shot he 140S beaten Saturday by John MeEnroe 1 0 A 4.