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Section Football Baseball Outdoors The News and Observer Sunday Sept 29 1 985 Raleigh NC Radio-TV 1:00 Auto racing: Holly Farms 400 (WAKS-FM-104 WTIK-1310 WKIX-850 ESPN) 1:00 Football: Washington at Chicago (WPTF-680 WRAL-Ch 5 WNCT-Ch 9 WJKA-Ch 26) 1 :00 Football: Los Angeles Raiders at New England (WECT-Ch 6 WITN-Ch 7 WPTF-Ch 28) 2:00 Baseball: Kansas City at Minnesota (WWAY-Ch 3 WTVD-Ch 11 WCTI-Ch 12) 2:05 Baseball: San Diego at Atlanta (WTBS-Ch 1 7) 4:00 Football: Miami at Denver (WECT-Ch 6 WITN-Ch 7 WPTF-Ch 28) 800 Tennis: Transamerica Open (USA) Staff photo by Jonathan Wigqs NC State's Erik Kramer reaches across goal line to score Wolfpack touchdown as Furman defender hangs on in 42-20 Paladin victory 1 i eezes past Wol fpack9 raiairi the right side and darted 46 yards for the score and 29-12 Furman advantage Furman hiked the margin to 35-12 early in the fourth quarter on a Lamb-to-Greg Smith pass then saw State retaliate on a 20-yard toss from Kramer to Brothers The TD was set up on a 60-yarder from Kramer to Nasrallah Worthen Furman then wheeled for a final touchdown featuring John Drye's 38-yard burst up the middle and Lamb's 9-yard toss to Lamb By night's end Lamb had completed nine of 15 passes for 167 yards Kramer's pitching performance was 19 of 36 for 290 with two interceptions both after deflec- See FURMAN page 10B Paladins were off and rolling They led 14-6 at the end of the first quarter 22-12 at intermission 29-12 after three and were knocking on the end zone door as time ran out "Every time you beat a big school like State it gets a little sweeter" said Fox who had five catches for 74 yards "Some people probably felt it was a fluke last year but we didn't And no one can say this one was a fluke" He was right It wasn't Furman didn't rip down the fence on the grassy bank but the Paladins did rip for 451 total yards en route to their third victory in four tries this season Oh the Pack had its moments and chances Kelly Hollodick kicked a pair of first-half field goals from 28 and 37 yards Quarterback Erik Kramer ran 11 yards for a TD and passed 20 to Phil Brothers for second-half scores And Vince Evans battered for 133 yards on the ground State had plenty of yards 508 total But just when it looked like the Pack might be ready to make a move in the third quarter something went awry Trailing 22-12 State reached the Furman 28 only to have a deflected pass intercepted by alert Carl Moody Minutes later the Pack advanced to the Paladin 17 but suffered a holding penalty bogged down and missed a 43-yard field goal The Paladins breathed a sigh of relief and struck for a quick TD as Fox on a reverse picked up a wall of blockers on By A CARR StaH Writor They did it again Furman's Paladins came to town Saturday night jolted NC State with an early blow and then breezed to a 42-20 victory before 36600 fans at Carter-Finley Stadium most of them stunned partisans Never mind that No 1 tailback Robbie Gardner was injured Quarterback Bobby Lamb tied a school record with four touchdown passes and receiver Chas Fox tallied three times as Furman defeated State for the second straight season The Paladins used some option-play trickery and a razzle-dazzle reverse but they didn't win purely on foxy football They led all the way and left the Wolfpack wondering what the fates er Furman had wrought as a full moon hung overhead "This is probably the worst we've played since I've been here" lamented Pack coach Tom Reed whose Pack fell to 1-3 "It was an amazing situation the ball bouncing off receivers penalties We were not good at all (five turnovers) "But give Furman credit" The Division I-AA team with 55 scholarships doesn't seem to back off from Division 1-A schools In the last four years the Paladins have beaten Georgia Tech South Carolina and the Pack twice After Lamb got them on the board with a 29-yard pass to Jeff Lee less than three minutes after the opening kickoff the Heels bruise outmaoned 51-7 VMI fk I it tfi 3 '(O ji By JOE TIEDE Sports Editor CHAPEL HILL Bigger stronger and deeper North Carolina pummeled VMI 51-7 Saturday as the Tar Heels asserted control in greater measure as the game went on UNC started slowly making only one first down cfi its first three possessions But the Heels scored eiglat of the next nine times they had the ball moving to a 44-7 lead with 1:46 left in the third quarter William Humes and Brad Sullivan each scored tvo touchdowns and Lee Gliarmis kicked three field goa Is as Carolina improved to 2-1 heading into next weed's game at Georgia Tech A free-for-all involving most players on both teams enlivened the proceedings right after VMI's lone touchdown in the second quarter It started near the VMI bench after a 38-yard kickoff return by UNC's Eric Starr i No penalties were assessed but there was a 'lot of flailing away by both sides UNC defensive coordinator Denny Marcin served as chief peacemaker hurling blue-clad players back toward the Carolina bench A much longer delay occurred earlier in the game after a neck injury felled defensive end Todd Freiwald of the Keydets Play was held up 15 rninutes until Freiwald was removed by an ambulance Later it was announced that he had suffered no broken bones and would return with the team to Lexington Va "After two weeks off we were looking for some improvement and I think it was there" Carolina coach Dick Crum observed "We were sluggish when we started and I was not surprised about that But as Staff photo by Jim Stratakos See HEELS page 7B North Carolina fullback Brad Lopp (27) can't get around a leaping Virginia Military Institute defensive player i Owls' Palmer piles up yards TPs as Temple decks Pirates Tech gets break tames Tigers Ford blames 'sorry coaching' Robinson ties Bear as Grambling wins SHREVEPORT La (UPI) -Grambling's Eddie Robinson tied Paul "Bear" Bryant as college football's winningest coach Saturday night when his team scored a 23-6 victory over Oregon State Robinson who has coached at Grambling since 1941 now has a record of 323-105-15 He can break Bryant's record next Saturday against Prairie View Robinson who was carried onto the field on his players' shoulders after the victory is in the middle of what he hopes will be his 26th consecutive winning season at Grambling CLEMSON SC (AP) Clemson coach Danny Ford dubbed the Tigers' 14-3 loss Saturday 'the sorriest-coached football game I've ever coached" but it took an unusual series of plays in the third quarter to seal the Atlantic Coast Conference victory for Georgia Tech Tech quarterback John Dewberry was throwing from the Clemson 33 to the end zone when Clemson safety Kenny Danforth apparently broke up the pass tipping it high in the air But Tech tight end Tim Manion came down with the ball at the Clemson 1-yard line Two plays later Dewberry pitched to tailback Jerry Mays who threw back to Dewberry for the touchdown that gave Tech its final margin "We got an incredible break on the long throw that John shouldn't have thrown" said Tech coach Bill Curry "Sometimes those things happen but we were very fortunate in that respect today We played good enough defense to win anyhow and I think that was the thing that made me most proud" In the Clemson locker room Ford was feeling anything but proud The Tigers lost three fumbles and had trouble with Georgia Tech's stunting and blitzing defense "This undoubtedly is the sorriest-coached football game I've ever coached" he said "This was a poor showing by my football team and they are mine when they See FORD page 10B By DANE HUFFMAN Staff Writer GREENVILLE Temple's Owls called the best 0-3 team in the country by East Carolina football coach Art Baker no longer are winless The Owls led by junior tailback Paul Palmer simply plowed through the Pirates Saturday night using Palmer's two second-half touchdowns to claim a 21-7 victory at Ficklen Stadium The loss was the Pirates' second straight and dropped their record to 2-2 ECU hosts Miami of Florida next Saturday Palmer carried 39 times for 184 yards and all three Temple touchdowns Fullback Shelley Poole added 72 yards on 13 tries as the Owls 1-3 amassed 307 yards rushing a Ficklen record for an opponent The Owls also earned 20 first downs wishing another record for opponents at Fkklen "They just ran it up the middle they just kept pushing it in" said ECU cornerback Kevin Walker "I wa real surprised Defensively we're pretty good "Palmer he's the best I've played against this year I couldn't believe how many times he got out of so many things He's not big but he's fot great moves" The victory was the first for Temple after close losses to Boston College Penn State and BYU "We've needed a win" said Temple coach Bruce Arians "We've played well all See PALMt'R page 10B Tennessee stuns Auburn Page 4B.