Fort Worth Star-Telegram du lieu suivant : Fort Worth, Texas • 33

"'Cy 1 1 1 I I I 414V1-'fIllf14111'f q1110Ii9 999 IN IvII i I 0' 1- '1 4i 4 4A 41t 4' le ftr' I 'i' 11 '''N 4-rzr" 0 1ie '1 it r- '4 t- 14 oN 1 ri i 1 so I 'k" la sect '''-4 ion rt 2 It surtt4wildzmSlzla9rom $EPTEMBER 17 1978 '4 bn A Longhorns overpower Rice 34 0 How Top Ten teams fared 11 yards He made another spectacular catch of a 42-yard pass early in the second period that led to one of Russell Erdeben's two field goals Rice's offense geared to the throwing of Randy Hertel and Mark Snyder was well contained particularly by the Texas ends Ron Bones and Tim Campbell Campbell had a bravura performance with a fumble recovery an interception return for a toirhdown and the scalps of both Rice quarterbacks Rice finished with a 36-yard deficit rushing and Campbell was directly responsible for 15 of them The Owls' offense generated a net of only 85 yards Thus Texas' 13th consectgive victory over Rice looked easy And it was at least for most of the first half Then either from disinterest or from opening-night tension things became rather sloppy for the Longhorns They lost five of six fumbles and accumulated 165 yards in penalties The referees gained almost twice as much against them as did the Rice offense in bringing the axe down on the necks of the smaller slower Rice line On the third play of the Texas season quarterback Randy McEachern lofted a high pass down the right side and Lam Jones simply ran past cornerback Don Rutledge and under the ball at the Rice 17 He was long gone for the end zone and the 57-yard play put Texas in command at 7-0 Two possessions later it was 17-0 Five plays after Lam Jones' streak King darted through left guard wriggled into the clear and ran 47 steps to the Rice end zone The Longhorns were on the march again later in the first but stalled at the Rice nine In came Erxleben for a 26- yard field goal He hit his 46-yard three-pointer in the second period against a 12-mph wind and uith 11:52 left in the first half Texas had a 20-0 lead and it looked as if it might be 200-0 before the long night was over Lam Jones next beat Mike Downs at the end zone corner for a 33-yard touchdown catch and the Horns were ahead 27- 0 at intermission By GALYN WILIUNS StarTelegram Sports Writer with cement boots by a quick and overpowering Texas defense the Rice Owls went literally night The Texas offense which you've all been dying to hear about went somewhere some of the time The defending SWC champions with their former star Earl Campbell merely another spectator (although he had a good seat on the Texas bench) exploded in a brief series of brit flashes in the first half and with the defense completely in charge and went on to score a 34-0 victory THE ORANGE FAITHFUL in fact may have an inkling they found another Earl Campbell early in the game when LeRoy King a transfer from Blinn Junior College sprinted 46 yards to a touchdown on Texas' second possession That sent him on his way to a 106-yard night a flying start for the 215-pounder Johnny Lam Jones was a familiar blur beginning his junior season by turning passes into touchdown plays of 57 and 32 RICE HAVE taken some 13-12 shots or some defense shots during the intermission for the Owls returned in an aggressive mood and took the fight to the up front where they had been so decisively whipped in the first 30 minutes In the secondary for example Downs who had been beaten by Jones came back and intercepted a pass in front of his tormentor midway through the third quarter Texas had begun substituting liberally especially in the backfield late in the first half and continued the heavy traffic from the bench in the second half Mark relieved McEachem in the second period and threw the second TD pass to Jones Freshman Donnie Little played much of the fourth period with freshman running back Brad Beck and AJ Jones Texas had 312 yards in the first half and slowed to 154 yards in the second when they scored only on Campbell's point-blank touchdown interception from the Rice one-yard line The good news-bad news performance Turn to Longhorns 00 Page 2 IF IA I wow AU i () 6 I Li 4 ftaid60 tht 3 i 1 tci) I 1 I A -4 a 4 I 41 1 (I 4" gy ri A 11: 14C t2 C) a)o0 0 i Yt--4-et il A 1 ea NN 'or frA vs fA" 17 'z4 4'14(ig'''S A' 4hAttstoe 1 AP 1 or I o' la 4 tl: 41:: '4' AL 1 03 i 4 51' 1 i 2q''' I 44 4 4'''' 4 ff I i vr A ct "1 4 l' iz i -4 4 4 t4''' ICL 41 4y04 liS rf 44 4' A 0ili' 0 t- tit: 4 AO- 44Ii 2: lr A 4 A y0--47 Ke' i 0 4- -7 z--)I sti 04 T-- 4 't -stki! 1 4' 4 1 Bett I 1 1 J' '1! t'io k4': P''''''''''''''r '''''h--'4L'''''''' '---r t'4: 4I :) --1' 1'" 1 '-s ''7 t--- 7 t'! 11i it1' 's5-1' 44444f414444142441 444444 44' 4 1144! 44444 444444440 44 244 44A11L0 c)16 ila a0- 41 10 11 be 4 4:1 A I Zhir oto 41 0 0 41 ti tit 4 0 no0 a It t-N 1 ''11 4'-' a iM jtj 5 i17 4 0 41 tv 4 Texas 17 10 00 07-44 Rice 0 0 0 0-0 Jones 57 pass from McEachern (Erxleben kick) Erxleben 26 Erxleben 46 Jones 33 pass from McBath (Erxleben kick) Campbell 1 pass interception return (Erxleben kick) A-62000 Texas Rice First downs 71 08 Rushes-yards 60-302 35-36) Passing yards 144 121 Return yards 013 OOD Passes 13-17-1 13-28-2 Punts 5-43 11-37 Fumbles-lost 6-5 3-3 Penalties-yards 17-165 4-40 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Mc Eachern 3-6 King 10-106 Jones 16-14 Mc Bath 5-1 Goode 4- 37 Jones 1441 Little 5-68 Jones 6-19 Beck 2-3 Tate 3-5 Johnson 1-5 Rice Hertel 2-1-101 Broeren 16-24 Cooper 64-8) Booker 1-5 Snyder 104-47) PASSI Mc Eachern 3-6-85-1 Mc Bath 3-5412-1 Little 2-6-274 Rice Hertel 4-12-39-0 Snyder 9-16-72-0 RECE I VI Texas Lam Jones 3-132 Miksch 4-49 Koening 1-13 Rice Houser 2- 21 Cunni ngham 7-77 Broeren 2-9 Cooper 2- 14 Texas Erxleben 5-4130 Rice Gleaves 11-265 Bulldogs survive Bear scare By OIARLFS CLUSES Star-Telegram Sports Writer ATHENS Ga a guy a break in Georgia and he's liable to wind up as president Taking the cue the Georgia Bulldogs converted a rash of Baylor mistakes on a hot and humid Saturday afternoon to survive 16-14 in a football opener for both teams in the land where everyone talks like Jimmy Carter The Bulldogs squeezed everything they could out of two Bear fumbles and a roughing the kicker penalty and used the toe of sophomore Rex Robinson for three field goals that spelled the difference Robinson who managed only 10 of 20 attempts last year in the Bulldog' first losing season under coach Vince Dooley in 14 years authoritatively kicked field goals of 43 38 and 36 yards while Baylor's sophomore kicker Robert Bledsoe misfired from 38 and 34 to help bury the Bears STILL THE Southwest Conference Bears didn't die easily before a regional television audience and an estimated 43000 fans at Sanford Stadium After the Southeastern Conference Bulldogs had shot ahead 16-7 with 8:31 to play in the game on a I6-yard touchdown sprint by speedster Willie McClendon the Bears quickly moved down the field on the passing of junior college transfer Steve Smith and scored in a little over three minutes when Smith lobbed a pass over the head of defender Robert Hope into the arms of Nlike Fisher for a -yard touchdown There was 4:10 showing on the clock and Georgia was forced to punt after three plays netted only one yard After the punt Baylor took over on its own 43 and the Bear faithful knew coach Grant Teaff would inspire his troops to pull it out That's when Baylor's touted running back Greg Hawthorne did something that mined his otherwise outstanding day He rammed into the line on third and five at the 48 and fumbled to the eager hands of Georgia's Pat Collins Up until then Hawthorne had been a barrel of trouble for the Bulldogs and had racked up 127 yards rushing including a two-yard touchdown the second quarter which had put Baylor ahead 7-3 "I WAS HIT on the thighs and the ball just slipped out" said a tearful Hawthorne after the game He felt as if he had betrayed the Bears However so did Bledsoe who said that kicking off the real grass instead of artificial turf bothers him "But I'm not using that as a crutch" he said "I don't know why I wasn't kicking any better but I do know that it meant the game" Bledsoe explained that his kicking foot would scrape the grass but again refused to use that as an excuse Quarterback Smith also felt he helped cut his team's throat in the fourth quarter when he fumbled a map and allowed Georgia to cover at the Bear 41 From there the Bulldogs scored in only four plays when McClendon raced over for his 16-yard touchdown "The difference is their field goals and our two missed field goals" said Teaff Turn to Baylor on Page 2 Bayior 0 1 0 1-14 Georgia 3 3 0 10-16 Robinson 42 2 run (Bledsoe kick) Robinson 38 Robinson 36 run Robinson kick) 29 pass from Smith (Bledsoe kick) A-43030 Baylor Georgia First downs 19 20 Rushes-yards 38-168 93-224 Passing yards 178 60 Return yards 16 13 Passes 15-24-0 5-12-1 Punts 3-44 3-43 Fumbles-lost 2-2 1-0 Penalties-yards 2-20 2- 8 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS McClendon 26-120 Stewart 4-57 Pybum 13-52 Mc Mickens 2-16 Womac 6-17 Belue 3-9 Baylor Hawthorne 24127 Howel1837 Pollard 11 Smith 3-1 Pybum 5-11-60 Be lue 0-1-1 Baylor Smith 15-24-178 Russell I-18 Scott 2-17 Norris 115 Hodge 1-10 Baylor Fistktr 3-52 Lee 3-29 Marshall 2-27 it 1- 17 Hawthorne 3-26 Cockrell 1-17 Howell 1- 1 I ALABAMA walloped Missouri 38-20 2 ARKANSAS plastered Vanderbilt 48-17 3 OKLAHOMA romped past West Virginia 52-10 4 MICHIGAN hanunered Illinois 31-0 5 PENN STATE blanked Ohio State 19-0 6 OHIO STATE was beaten by Penn State 19-0 7 TEXAS shut out Rice 34-0 8 SOUTHERN CAL bested Oregon 37-10 9 UCLA dumped Tennessee 13- 10 TEXAS did not play Texas rips UTA By KEN SINS Stu-Telegram Spirt Writer would the seeingest of seers know of the talent which was resting on the North Texas State bench in 1977 One was a reserve flanker a slender freshman vto said his name was Bernard Jackson He wasn't to catch a pass through that well-rested season Seated somewhere near Jackson was a well-built sophomore quarterback from the where's-that? city of Seagoville Jordon Case would complete all eight of his 1977 passes but both were hardly household names of the John Travolta-Reggie Jackson stripe Shoot they weren't even candidates for anonymity As Richard Nixon once noted what a difference a year makes Jackson and Case were a two-man arson squad Saturday night providing the fuel for another Mean Green offensive bonfire which smoked out UT-Arlington 23-23 NOT THAT the underdog Mavericks allowed cardiac patients among the 16821 Texas Stadium onlookers a night of peace UTA was staring at a 28-10 deficit with about five minutes remaining before striking fora pair of lightning 'Ms to make matters entertaining Only Marty Morrison's second interception of a Roy Dewalt pass with 1:08 remaining in the contest sealed the Mean Green's fourth straight triumph over its heated neighborhood rival But the late fireworks only slightly tarnished Jackson's and Case's heroics Jackson who entered the game as the NCAA's third-leading rusher owned the school rushing record with 44 seconds remaining in the third quarter His 208 yards stood one better than Ray Renfro's previous mark established in 1951 but he lost two yards on the last play of the game to finish with a tie And Case? He ended his night's work with 14 completions in 19 attempts good for 199 yards and a touchdown in addition to a one-yard scoring plunge in the first half A goodly number of UTA partisans had headed homeward when the Mays got their act together Quarterback Roy Desalt got the near-miss UTA comeback underway with 5:48 remaining Dewalt's second completion of the evening to halfback Phillip Jessie and a NT clipping penalty set the Mays in business at the NT 40 DL'IVALT CLICKED with Jessie for a 21-yard completion and Bill Mcaesky covered the final 17 yards on three carries Tom Skoruppa attempted an onside kick and recovered at the UTA 46 after NT's Jim Lemming had touched the ball Dewalt picked up six more points in a hurry finding tight end Jerry Woodard beyond the Mean Green secondary for a shocking 54-yard touchdown Dewalt's passing attempt for the two-pointer was broken up by David Morris NT punter Buddy Hamm booted the Mean Green out of danger with 1:42 left a 38-yard coffin comer boot which fell out of bounds at the May 21 Jackson motored for his tint 'ID as a collegian at :44 of the third quarter burning 41 yards around the right side reversing field to the middle and scooting into the end zone Collins contributed a fourth quarter TD a two-yarder which proved to be the winning points The heralded freshman from Blooming Grove had collected a 15- yard Case pass earlier in the drive after Case and Pete Harvey hooked up on a 20- yarder NORTH TEXAS 2-1 finished with 494 yards in total offense (273 rush 221 pass) 0-3 wasn't that far behind in this offensive orgy knocking down 407 yards (290 rush 117 pass) Again penalties punished the Mean Green 124 yards of them Jackson killed us" said UTA coach Turn to Jackson on Page 2 UTA 7 3 0 13-23 01 Texas 7 7 7 7-21 I pass from Case (Hamm kick) 20 run (Skoruppa kick) 1 run (Hamm kick) Skoruppa 27 41 run (Hamm kick) 2 run (Hamm kick) 1 nal (Skoruppa kick) pass from Oswalt (pass failed) A-16521 UTA Texas First dons 10 20 Rushes-yards 54-290 56-273 Passing yards 117 nt Return yards 33 42 Passes 6-17-3 15-21-0 Pulls 5-26 4-35 Fumbtes-lost 4-2 5-5 Penalties lards 5-52 10-124 BUT THE LONGHORNS PUT ON a show for a while They wasted little time k) ragged game with a lot of mistakes We're going to be a good football team but we're just not good yet" He considered Thomas Brown's kickoff runback a key to the victory It came when Vandy had just scored 17 points "We were still ahead" Holtz said "but we had to arch our backs and get with it We got the big play" The Hogs' first score resulted from a chain of events that included (1) a Bruce Lahay punt killed at the Vanderbilt 3 (2) a Vanderbilt fumble which Arkansas grabbed at the Commodore 6 and (3) a television radio sports RADIO SUNDAY Baseball 1:50 Rangers vs Oakland Ks WBAP-820 Football 2 Cowboys vs Los Angeles Rams KRLD-1000 KIXO-FM102 KESSFAA94 (Spanish speaking station) TELEVISION SUNDAY Football 10 Akers Show Channel 10:30 Landry Show Channel 5 10:30 is the FL Channel 4 11 Game of the Week Channel 4 11:30 Today Pre-Game Channel 4 11 :30 BC Pre-Game Channel Bears vs Detroit Lions Channel 4 Steelers vs Cincinnati Eengals Channel 1 :30 Football 78 Channel 3 Cowboys vs 1ns Angeles Rams Channel 4 6:30 Football Channel 11 8 FootballChannel 11 10:30 pm-5Mli vs Florida (replay) Channel 5 Golf 4 Coventry Women's Golf Channel 13 BECK'S Steve Beck (37)leaves the ground to deflect a pass intended for Bruce Chambers (far left) in first-half action of Razorbacks cover It) C' Star-Tekgram Photo by RON HEFLIN game at Texas Stadium North 17 Duckworth spun away from two defenders to go in for the score standing up Leading 7-0 Arkansas came right back on its next possession to go 58 yards for another TD Eckwood got 9 yards and COMM burst loose over left tackle breaking three tackles to reach the Vandy 7 A motion penalty put the ball back at the 12 but Eckwood ran to the 8 and then Calcagni rolled around right end for the score and a 14-0 lead with 12 minutes left in the first half Moments later another Arkansas up by an interference Turn to Hogs on Page 2 Vanderbilt 0 0 17 0-17 Arkansas 7 14 10 17-41 30 pass from Scanlon (Ordonez kick) 8 run (Ordonez kick) 2 run (Orcionez kick) 46 FG 13 run (Woodard kick) 90 punt return (Woodard kick) 33 FG kickoff return (Ordonez kick) 21 pass from Scanlon (Ordonez kick) 32 FG 5 run (Ordonez kick) A-55718 Vanderbilt Arkansas First downs 10 23 Rushes-yards 47-161 62-308 Passing yards 30 120 Return yards 109 (-4) Passes 4-13-0 917-1 Punts 9-37 5-42 Fumbles-lost 5-4 3-1 Penalties-yards 5-66 7-73 RUSHING 23-89 Mordica 11-37 Hood 7-23 Mack 2-7 Madison 3-3 A RK 15-144 Eckwood 11-81 Scott 2-35 Forrestt 8-16 Sales 4-14 Brown 3-11 Toltert 2-9 Wright 2-5 Calcagni 6-3 Scanlon 8-minus 4 Wessinger 1- minus 6 PASSING 10-4413 Madison 8-4-0- Calcagni RECEIVING 2-14 Edwards 1-9 Kemp 1-7 2-51 Duckworth 2- 46 Hay 1-15 Cowins 14 Sales 1-1 Eckwood 1-minus 1 111111 Saturday night's North Texas-UTA Texas won the contest 28-23 Vandy goal-line stand by the Commodores which stopped Arkansas at the 6-inch line VANDY HAD TO PUNT and Arkansas set up shop at the Commodore 43 In came Scanlon and the No 2 offensive unit snatching first downs at the 31 and then the 16 There was a temporary setback when Vanderbilt's John Pointer caused a Wi Id pitchout back to the 30 But on third down from there Scanlon hit Bobby Duckworth crossing at the 10 and Angels win game 4-3 but brawl is a draw KANSAS CITY Mo (AP) Carney Lansford hits three-run homer in the eighth inning to lift the California Angels over the Kansas City Royals 4-3 Saturday night in a game marred by a bench-cleaning brawl that lasted nearly 10 minutes The victory only California's second in its last six games moved the Angels 3112 games behind the first-place Royals in the American League West Lansford's blast to left off reliever Al Hrabosky 8-7 followed walks to Bobby Grich and Rick Miller It was Lansford's second homer in two nights off Kansas City pitching The fight began moments later Hrabosky threw two pitches over the head of the next batter Lyman Rostock and Rostock charged Hrabosky Players from the dugouts and bullpens raced onto the field as the two wrestled to the ground The umpires had apparently restored order a few minutes later but Itrabosky and Rostock then exchanged words and charged each other once more Both were ejected from the game Reliever Dyar Miller 6-1 who struck out pinch-hitter John Wathan with runners on and third and two out in the seventh was the winner I 1 By PAT TRULY Star-Telegram Sports WriturrLE ROCK figured out how to dissolve the "Sports Illustrated Jinx" Saturday night You play an outmanned Vanderbilt team in the season opener and then you turn loose a bunch of homes Ben Cowins Jerry Eckwood freshman Thomas Brown quarterbacks Kevin Scanlon and Ron Calcagni and a horde on defense It worked for a 48-17 Rawrback victory before 55718 fans and so much for being on the SI cover The Hogs ranked No 2 nationally by most polls looked like it Saturday And they demorlstrated frightening speed and depth Scanlon transfer from coach Lou Holtz' former North Carolina State stomping ground actually outshone Calcagni last year's all-Southwest Conference quarterback Scanlon threw for two touchdowns and ran for another OVERALL THE HOGS gobbled up 428 yards while holding Vanderbilt to 191 most of that by soph quarterback Van Heflin Cowins opened his bid for all-America honors by rushing for 144 yards Eck-wood gained 81 But new guys also got into the act Freshman whippet Thomas Brown returned a kickoff 96 yards during the point-happy third period' The Hogs had a comfortable 24-0 lead early in the second half saw it cut to 24- 17 and then ran away from the Commodores By the finish it was freshman-dominated squads of reserves who tacked on the final 10 points Certainly the Razorbacks impressed Vanderbilt "They're the most awesome team we've ever played" said Commodore coach Fred Pancoast 'A great team We couldn't stand up to their depth Arkansas has more athletes than most three schools" HOLtZ SAID his team "played a I 10 91 1116 1PP IP gli 104 lk.