The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 37

Bosox Reds Romp in Playoff Openers TianPs tf-Elitter As Errors Spark 7-1 Triumph by Boston BOSTON (AP) The chant began as a long low rumble that seemed to shake the very foundations of venerable Fenway Park Loo-ey roared the capacity crowd of 35578 On the mound ageless Luis Tiant glowered through his fierce-Iooking Fu Manchu moustache and finished off his three-hitter pitching Boston to a 7-1 error-marred victory over Oakland in opening game of the American League playoffs Inside Tiant glowed makes you feel good to hear them yell that he said makes you try a little The last thing the needed this day was Tiant trying harder The Cuban normal stuff was more than enough to stifle the Oakland bats take anything away from said Manager Alvin Dark pitched great A playoff record four Oakland errors helped the Red Sox to four unearned runs that made task even easier The also helped by trying to overpower the veteran righthander tried to hit it out of the he said Tiant has learned a few things in 16 years of professional pitching And he used them all mixing speeds the way an artist blends colors twisting around in his unorthodox style and even occasionally looking at the sky as he wound up The outcome was a masterpiece Turn to Page 9C Col 4 GulletPs dud Bat Too Much for Pirates 9 U-3 From Herald Wire Services CINCINNATI Don Gullett not only took the bats out of the Pittsburgh hands Saturday but also demonstrated how to use them The 24-year-old lefthander a 15-game winner this season despite spending two months on the disabled list with a broken thumb checked the hard-hitting Pirates on eight hits and also drove in three runs with a single and his first professional homer to lead the Cincinnati Reds to an 8-3 victory in the first game of the National League playoffs was the greatest day in my life in baseball I gave it all exulted Gullett He said because he once scored 72 points in a high school football game said Gullett you could say that the 72 points in the football game was my greatest performance as an amateur and this one was my greatest as a He got no argument from batterymate Johnny Bench an athlete to the nth the All-Star catcher said of Gullett always been taught to give 100 per cent 110 per cent if got said Gullett Showered with three standing ovations from a frenzied Riverfront Stadium crowd of 54633 Gullett said felt a million chills up my Turn to Page 9C Col 2 Don Gullelt: Man of the Hour winning pitcher hit fifth-inning homer Sports On Air Television fnimnfD SECTION Sljc Miami Sunday October 5 1975 PRO FOOTBALL 1pm New Orleans at Atlanta Ch 4 2 pm Miami at Green Bay Ch 7 and 5 4 pm Washington at Philadelphia Ch A BASEBALL 5 pm (Time approximate joined in progress) Pittsburgh at Cincinnati Ch 7 and 5 ttadio PRO FOOTBALL 2 pm Miami at Green Bay WIOD (610) Hurricanes Blow 0-7 Edge 2nd Half hocks UM 5:30 remained in the game Meanwhile Nebraska churned out drives of 76 82 80 and 44 yards to score three touchdowns (two by and a field goal for a 31-9 lead THE fourth-ranked Cornhuskers are now 4-0 heading into their Big Eight Conference opener with Kansas The Hurricanes (0-3) must con FSU Ripped By Tech 30-0 31-16 tend Friday night in the Orange Bowl with Colorado a 21-20 loser at Oklahoma Saturday came back in the second half and beat us against the lamented Miami Coach Car! Selmer whose decision to kickoff and take the wind in the first half Turn to Page 6C Col 1 FSU 17 5 10 2 65 28 58 207 41 13 2 0 272 69 8-35 3-31 4 75 2-0 231 Ga Tech 20 17 2 FIRST DOWNS TOTAL First downs rushing First downs Passing hirst oowns'bv penalty NET YDS RUSHING Rushing Plays Yards lost NET YDS PASSING Passes attempted Passes completed Passes had interc Net yds interc ret NET YDS TOTAL total offensive plavs Punts-averf-ge Punt returns-yds Kickoff returns-yds Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 367 63 20 42 4 1 ft 39 409 67 547 0-0 1-19 1-0 4-50 HOW TOP 10 TEAMS FARED Here are the results of games involving the Associated Press top ten teams Oklahoma (4-0) defeated Colorado 21-20 Next week: at Texas (4-0) Ohio State (4-0) defeated UCLA 41-20 Next week: Iowa (0-4) Southern Cal (4-0) defeated Iowa 27-16 Next week: Washington St (2-2) Nebraska (4-0) defeated Miami 31-16 Next week: Kansas (3-1) Missouri (3-1) lost to Michigan 31-7 Next week: Oklahoma St (4-0) 6 Texas (4-0) defeated Kansas State 10-0 Next week: at Texas Tech (2-2) 7 Texas (4-0) defeated Utah St 61-7 Next week: Oklahoma (4-0) 8 Notre Dame (3-1) lost to Michigan State 10-3 Next week: at North Carolina (2-2) (3-1) defeated Mississippi 32-6 Next week: Washington (2-2) 10 Penn State (4-1) defeated Kentucky 10-3 Next week: West Virginia (4-0) SATURDAY'S SURPRISES Michigan State 10 Notre Dame 3 Virginia Tech 23 Auburn 16 Michigan 31 Missouri 7 Temple 21 Cincinnati 17 Maryland 4 Syracuse 7 t-y Y-' my i UM Coach Gaffney To 34 By GARY LONG Herald Sports Writer BATON ROUGE La Most of Louisiana State 67494 Homecoming fans around to boo their declawed Tigers in the fourth quarter Saturday night Florida quarterback Don Gaffney left them in a black mood while passing his team to a 27-0 halftime advantage and the Gators coasted Irom there to a 34-6 victory LSU averted its first shutout in this 22-game series only when quarterback Pat Lyons passed four yards to wmgback Carl Trimble with 36 seconds left in the game Even then the Tigers needed six plays to move the ball 14 yards after Ronnie 59-yard punt return GAFFNEY passed for two touchdowns and dived a yard for a third in the first half as Florida improved its record to 3-1 and a perfect 2-0 in Southeastern Conference play He watched from the sidelines in llie second half as reserves on the 48-man traveling squad got much-needed experience Had more been allowed to take the trip more would have played Disgruntled ISU alumni stunned t'v' LEVISON Miami Herald Staff Homecoming c5 Gators of LSU said had about as good a game of execution in the wishbone as a quarterback can have and he threw extremely The 231 rushing yards were liberally spread among 10 ballcarriers fullback Jimmy Du-Bose the leading gainer with 52 yards in just five carries Tailback Terry Robiskie notched 91 of 156 rushing yards and the Gator defense budgeted Lyons to eight completions of 22 passes for 83 yards Dickey said team is improving and maturing and the experience of playing three straight on the road has helped But I sure will be glad to gel back playing before the home Florida plays SEC rival Vanderbilt in Gainesville next Saturday THE TIGERS stacked up to stop the run in the first half and Gaffney passed them dizzy Two of his tosses went for touchdowns as the Galors jumped to a 14-0 first-quarter cushion and another completion set up own one-yard dive lale in the second period With David third point- Turn to Page 2C Col 2 Miami Nebraska FIRST DOWNS TOTAL 12 22 First downs rushing 5 15 First downs passing 6 7 First downs by penalty 1 NET YDS RUSHING 90 211 Rushing plays 37 65 Yards lost 21 NET YDS PASSING HI Passes attempted 25 19 Passe6 completed 10 ij Passes had interc 0 0 Net yds interc ret 0 NET YOS -TOTAL 201 399 Total offensive plav 62 84 Punts-average 6443 7-43 7 Punt returns-yds 37 3-12 Kickoff returns-yds 3-86 4-89 Fumbles-lost 41 2-1 Penaities-vards 436 6-66 By JIM MARTZ Herald Sport Writer LINCOLN Neb For a half the University of performance brought back visions of the Oklahoma donnybrook Steadman Scavella and his defensive teammates contained vaunted attack while the Hurricane offense punched its way to three Chris Dennis field goals and a 9-7 lead But the Cornhuskers delivered the second-half punches in the form of reserve quarterback Vince passing John running and an aroused defense led by Jim Wightman and someone named Wonderful Monds The result was a 31-16 Nebraska football victory Saturday before 76231 spectators 75000 of whom wore either red shirts red hats red pants red shoes or even red bib overalls and red underwear FELT they be on Jhe same field with said Monds a monsterman who was a teammate at Fort Pierce Central High of Eddie Edwards and Don and Mike Latimer halftime we decided to beat their brains out We want to go all the way this year and you do it by losing to The Hurricanes generate a first down in the second half until BILL STANFILL the ailing defensive will watch 2 game against the Packers on television Saturday as his teammates flew to Green Bay Stanfill was confined to Mercy Hospital with his neck In traction to control muscle spasms The Dolphins have other injury problems too Story on Page 3C By SKIP BAYLESS Herald Sport Writer ATLANTA The Florida State football team poured over films of the Georgia Tech wishbone right up to the opening kickoff Saturday But the FSU defense had a hard time following the Yellow offense in person until the third quarter By then Georgia Tech had blitzed the visitors for 20 unanswered points and it coasted to a 30-0 victory before a delighted but bored crowd of 35261 at Grant Field It was the third straight victory after an opening loss to South Carolina while the Seminoles fell to 1-3 STRIKING from its no-huddle offense Tech came at FSU with a mixture of what Coach Pepper Rodgers calls his wishbone Halfback David Sims scored from three yards split end Steve Raible found the end zone three times and Don Bessiliieu added a 38-yard field goal and two extra points Meanwhile the defense which had yielded 430 yards a game forced the FSU offense to play most of the game in its own territory watch that thing (the wishbone) on said FSU strong safety Gary Woolford an ice pack on the back of his neck it seem like that much Then you see it in person and an awful lot quicker" FSU is not a bad football Rodgers said just played better defense We were able to blitz and get to the passer a little more which took the pressure off our secondary (where Tech had two freshmen and a reserve After the rushing game shackled for only 65 yards in 28 attempts was stymied by the Jackets on its first series Tech began its blitz The crushing chunk of yardage in opening 10-play 87-yard drive was a 27-yard sprint by quarterback Danny Myers Then on fourth and one from the FSU three Sims took a pitchout eluded FSU cornerback Lee Nelson and trotted in for the score Though boot was wide Tech had a 6-0 lead with 7:10 left in the quarter ABOUT four minutes later FSU Turn to Page 8C Col 1 Carl Selmer: A Sour Directs 6 Rout 1 1" 'iii um Yardstick Florida 19 11 LSU 13 7 6 0 156 45 17 106 10 1 0 73 838 1-59 4107 4 3 438 FIRST DOWNS TOTAL Fn st downs rushinq First downs passing First downs by penalty NET YDS RUSHING Rushing plays Yards lost NET YOS PASSING Passes attempted Passes completed Passes had interc Net yds interc ret NET YDS -TOTAL Total offensive plays Punts-average Punt returns-yds Kickoff refurns-yds Fumbies-lost Penaltios-yards i 211 61 20 152 15 8 0 19 383 76 7-38 2 26 21 2-23 miMHi' '1'iiiiii into virtual silence early saw the Tigers fall to 1-3 en route to what could be their first losing season since 1956 The selback was only the third in last 21 Homecoming games and all three have been to Horida Even a queen named Liz Taylor couldn't beautify the situation Gaffney totaled 112 yards with his six pass completions contributing to accumulation of 383 yards That shouldn't hurt a No 3 national standing in offensive statistics fnr Florida AN ELATED Coach Doug Dickey WVftJRHMi h'phii gw hiiwl WWSfff?.