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Second-Chance Kick Lifts Clemson Some of our players say the ball was tipml when they called us for roughing the kicker Of course if that was the case then it was not a ftenally Hut I'm not going to comment further on that The fact is that ice hurt ourselves with mistakes IT'c had our chances to win the game Va TVcli's Bill Dooley Mack to tight end Steve Johnson who made the catch just inside the right sideline olthc end zone could call it throwing up a prayer because everyone out on the field wax praying he was going to catch it" Greenwood said felt like he ran a good route and 1 felt like 1 threw the ball where it needed to be and he made a big Clemson got its 17-10 lead earlier with a pass-and-run play that rivaled Greenwood and Johnson's later heroics Facing a third and 8 situation from the Virginia Tech 46 Clemson quarterback Kandy Anderson rolled out to Bvoid a fierce pass rush and just before getting sarked heaved the ball down field in the direction of wide receiver Ray Williams Williams curled back for the underthrown ball lost the defender in the process and made the catch on about the 35 Williams veered right and outraccd the remaining defenders to the end zone was third down ami we needed a big play to keep the drive going" said Anderson who played all but one play at quarterback for the Tigers was a deep bend route and Williams hadn't gotten intu his bend yet so I tried to buy some time The blitz was coming from one side and I got hitI knew I needed to keep my By Charles Bennett Ktoff KparU Writer BLACKSBURG Va All the horrible things that Clemson Coach Danny Ford had imagined for his team came true Saturday With one important exception: Despite six turnovers his Tigers beat Virginia Tech 20-17 Saturday in front of a Lane Stadium crowd of 30100 in their first game of the season The Hokies who turned the ball over twice are 0-3 The Tigers won it on David Treadwell's 36-yard second-chance field goal that cleared the crossbar by approximately a foot alter time had expired first attempt from 41 yards was just short but Virginia Tech defensive end Morgan Roane was penalized for running into the kicker And with the game clock showing double zeros and after waiting though a Virginia Tech timeout Treadwell lined up and kicked it again this time over the bar was wanting the penalty because I did get said Treadwell a sophomore walkon competing in his first college game was nice to have a second chance but I really shouldn't have missed the first one hit the first one straight so when 1 got a second chance from closer in I knew I have to do any- kick saved the Tigers from a tie in a game Ford was unsure if his teum deserved to win At his weekly press conference lust Tuesday Ford had voiced his uncertainties about theyouth and inexperience of his team and even hinted darkly that the Tigers may turn the ball over or five Even Ford's grim imagination could not ponder six the only thing I ran say about today (Saturday) is that we won a football Ford said don't know if we deserve to win or not I thought Virginia Tech did a wonderful job against us Rut we toted the football like it was a loaf of bread We could not stop the third down play we had no pass rush they killed our underneath coverage They did a world of a better job than we did and we're just fortunate to win like we told the players the bottom line is to win We sure were lucky and I think anybody doubts fifth and final fUmble of the day almost proved to be the Tigers' undoing Leading 17-10 with 6:09 remaining Clemson tailback Terrence Flagler fUmbled the ball away to defensive tackle Horatio Moronta on the Clemson 17 Virginia Tech got the tying touchdown moments later on a fourth-and-15 pass play from the Clemson 22 Hokie quarterback Todd Greenwood lofted a perfectly thrown pass over Clemson bandit end Terence thing Roane reflised to comment on the controversial play but Virginia Tech Coach Bill Dooley said several Tech players claimed the kick had been tipped meaning that any contact after that point would be legal of our players say the ball was tipped when they called us for roughing the kicker" Dooley said course if that was the case then it was not a penalty But not going to comment fbrther on that The fact is that we hurt ourselves with mistakes We had our chances to win the Sports Ga Edition Scoreboard 2-C Capsule' 7-C Baseball 8-C 9-C Todays Quote 7 don 7 know that we deserved to win the football game I'm pretty sure we didn't deserve to win the football game Virginia Tech did a wonderful job against us and we made every mistake that can possibly be made per Clemson's Danny Ford for all the scores 225-1623 I I Anderson ilndcycnflcitt-Blail Sun Sept 15 1985 1C Bulldogs Take Big Bite Out Of Baylor Tim Ellerbee Sports Editor By A1 Muskewitz staff Sport Writer ATHENS Ga No one in the Georgia dressing room was foolish enough to think Saturday's 17-14 victory over Baylor instantly solved the Bulldogs' problems but after going so long without a victory at least a start Georgia snapped its longest winless streak in 15 years (64-1) and it was almost as if a huge sigh of relief rose from Sanford Stadium when the clock hit 0:00 The Bulldogs pulled it off by making life miserable for Baylor quarterbacks Cory Carlson and Tom Muecke who last week made life miserable for Wyoming Despite the victory the offense still struggled Although the Bulldogs had 296 yards of total offense 276 rushing they were only three of 13 on third-down conversions And Georgia wasted two long kickoff returns 44 yards by Keith Henderson and 64 yards by Tron Jackson and aninterception by defensive tackle Henry Williams without scoring any points Three times in the fourth quarter the Bulldogs made big defensive plays only to comeaway empty offensively failure to capitalize on the scoring opportunities was almost its undoing In the fourth quarter with a seemingly comfort-able lead Muecke squirted through a heavy rush to throw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Glenn Pruitt with 3:40 remaining in the game raising fears of a repeat of Labor Day's 20-16 loss to Alabama But Georgia held on for the victory passed the test because as a football team we won that's the bottom defensive coordinator Bill Lewis said think a long way from being a good football team and I hope the attitude of our See Georgia Page 4-C hull Photo by Uwn Kilcy Jr Georgia's Keith Henderson 30 is sprung loose on a kickoff return by Herman Archie 's block on Bivin Poole 48 Dewberry Sends NC State Packing Clemson Victory IFas Blue Collar BLACKSBURG Va Perhaps it was appropriate that Danny Ford held his post-game press conference Saturday in a corner of Lane Stadium with his back pressed against a cement wall That's right where the Virginia Tech football team kept Clemson during much of game Many of the Clemson fans who made the trip here left Saturday knowing that Others didn't seem to care For those Clemson is 1-0 and ready to take on the world Several of those in fact leaned over a cement wall above Ford singing praises to the head coach and his team love Danny they shouted "Bring on Georgia We love Danny Ford Bring on Ford looked above and asked those fans to settle down I'll be with you in a he said now let me talk to these people got to write up this Son-of-a-gun it was A lanky long-legged kid from Jacksonville Fla kicks a football 36 yards and 13 inches to give Clemson a three-point victory in the 1985 opener There is no time on the clock It it sounds like a perfect script for in it isn't The book won't be ready on this one for at least another week They'll be long rows to hoe on the Clemson practice field this week We can sit here and write about six Clemson fumbles five of which were disastrous We can write about missed snap counts offsides and breakdowns on offense and defense But Danny Ford saw all those things And he does a much more descriptive job one the only thing I think we did today was win the football said Ford don't know that we deserved to win the football game I'm pretty sure we didn't deserve to win the football game Virginia Tech did a wonderful job against us and we made every mistake that can possibly be made per man We toted the football like it was a loaf of bread We weren't tough enough to make first downs We could not stop a third-down play less than 80 percent of the time No pass rush They killed our underneath coverage I'm sure they did a world of a better job than we did and we were fortunate to win the game "I don't think you doubt Ford continued don't think I doubt that and I don't think our players doubt There are a lot of knock-kneed youngsters on this Clemson team Randy Anderson is one He got his first start at quarterback fur the Tigers showing brilliance in some cases and inexperience in others Anderson did not sleep Friday night He pared in a motel room with Rodney Williams ('iemson's other quarter back prospect "I think we stayed up all Andenon said "We got up a couple oftimes and went merdifTe-rent game situations We finally figured we weren't doing either ul' us any good and dec ided to try to get a shut eye Andersen is asked when the tax made that decision -Around 3 he said "But I si: don't think either of us slept I know 1 tos-ed and turned all ricfct Then there's Paid Treadwell a strapping 6 foot 1Si pounder Mr Long Ball he ain't Tread-vtii didn Know until Saturday See Lilerbee Pace Dewberry completed 10 of 20 pass attempts for 197 yards in the regionally televised season opener for the Yellow Jackets Tailback Cory Collier rushed for 80 yards and Jerry Mays added 69 as the Yellow Jackets piled up 411 yards in offense to 269 for NC State Kramer led the Wolfpack passing with 181 yards and two touchdowns Running back Vince Evans rushed 90 yards on 16 carries See Tech Page 3-C team had fettered offensively after a 21-7 first half that included two touchdown passes to Gary Lee put our defense under enormous pressure all day and by taking a vacation in the second Curry said was embarassing to me and we'll correct Kramer hit Rickey Isom on a 23-yard scoring pass with 1:13 left and teamed with Ralph Britt for a 2-point conversion to make the game close but an onside kick failed and time ran out RALEIGH NC (AP) Georgia Tech found a way to give quarterback John Dewberry room to hit three touchdown passes while closing in on North Carolina State's passing gamer for a 28-18 Atlantic Coast Conference victory Dewberry is an outstanding said NC State coach Tom Reed had him contained a number of times and he scrambled out and made a big Meanwhile the Yellow Jackets were handing out seven sacks to Wolfpack quar terback Erik Kramer including five by defensive end Pat Swilling taken a few responsibilities away from him to allow him to get into the quarterback's said Georgia Tech coach Bill Curry you use him as a contain person then he can't pin his ears back and go after the quarterback So taken that away from him and let him go for the Curry whose team captured the school's 500th victory faces three consecutive ACC clashes in the coming weeks He said his Indians Ambush Furman Paladms Taylor's kick ended almost two quarters of frustration for the Indians who saw Furman 1-1 take a 21-14 lead despite Newberry's domination of the offensive statistics Breakaway touchdown runs of 77 and 65 yards and a 20-yard reverse for a score accounted for most of the Paladins' offensive showing in the game Newberry meanwhile was destroying its chances with penalties and turnovers But late in the fourth quarter Furman handed the Indians one last chance a shanked punt by Dave Day that covered only 12 yards and gave Newberry a first-and-10 at line Five plays later quarterback Jimmy Skipper found Darryl Livings alone in the end zone for a 21-yard touchdown pass that brought the Indians to within one point with just 225 remaining to play It was decision-making time for New berry Coach Clayton Johnson who decided not to try for a go- Sre Indians Page 3-C By Alan Cannon Staff Sputa Writer It was a simple enough motion two deliberate steps followed by a sharp decisive swing of the foot But Saturday afternoon as Newberry College's Eddie Taylor went through the motion of which he has made a collegiate football career his kicking form held the attention of more than 11000 spectators at Furman's Eugene Stone Field And when Taylor's 57-yard field goal attempt sailed through the goal posts with just two seconds showing on the scoreboard clock his motion had proved the undoing of the Furman Paladins who watched in disbelief as such a simple act sent them to a 24-21 defeat in their first home game of 1985 "I knew I had hit it Taylor said moments after his kick had lifted New berry to a victory in its opening game I knew that if the wind didn't mess it up it would be good And then when I saw it go right on through there I couldn't believe it.