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4-E Sundav. Sept. 26, '76 DETROIT FRFE PRESS Northwood Upsets Hillsdale, 28-21; Wayne Edges Valparaiso, 16-9 Filliez Scls NCAA Receiving Record HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) Marshall University wide receiver John (Fuzzy) Filliez established an NCAA pass-receiving record hpre Saturday when the Thundering Herd met Central Michigan. Filliez, a senior from New Martinsville, W.Va., caught a 14-yard pass from quarterback Bud Nelson with 7:37 to go in the first quarter, marking the 35th straight game in which he has caught at least one pass.

The old NCAA Division I record of receptions in 31 consecutive games was set by former Nebraska Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rotigers. Lf Stated fiCollege wood defender to give the Chargers a first-and-goal at the twu Rodick scored the TD on a pitchout to tie it at 14. The Northwood victory overshadowed a pair of fine individual performances by Hillsdale players. Junior Dan Kelly from Detroit Bishop Borgess had an interception and 200 yards in returns and end Greg Delia Pena caught seven passes for 110 yards. Wayne Extends Win Streak to 7 Special to th Fre Prist VALPARAISO, Ind.

Wayne State University struck for 16 points in the first 18 minutes here Saturday afternoon and made the margin stand up for a 16-9 victory over Valparaiso University before 3,500 fans at Brown Field. The' victory enabled the Tartars to stretch their current winning streak to seven straight, three this season, and tie a school record for consecutive triumphs. The score didn't indicate Wayne's superiority. The Tartars piled up 310 yards in total offense to 34 for the Crusaders Wayne held Valparaiso to a minus 18 yards in total offense In the second half. Fullback Vince Biondo scored Wayne's first touchdown on a four-yard smash early in the first quarter.

The 60-yard drive was aided by a roughing-the-kicker penalty. Bill Kelley then came up with a 23-yard field goal. It marked the sixth straight game in which he has kicked at least one three-pointer. Wayne got its final touchdown with 12:28 to go in th? half when quarterback Jim Gendron went one yard for the scor? OC fourth down. Jim Smith booted a 2fi-yard field goal for the Crusaders who also scored on John Belskis 6S-yard punt return.

BY MICK McCABE Free Press Sports Writer MIDLAND According to coach Jack Finn, a young North-wood Institute football team is growing, but there were no signs of any growing pains Saturday as the Northmen recorded their first victory of the season by upsetting Hillsdale, 28-21, before a Parents' Day crowd of 2,511 at Juillerat Field North-wood, with only six seniors, entered its second Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game as a two-touchdown underdog. But, with the score tied at 21 and only 27 seconds left in the game, Finn called for a tight end screen, which Jim MacKay, a sophomore from Essexville, caught and ran for 45 yards and the TD, breaking three tackles along the way to put "both Northwood and Hillsdale at 1-1 in the conference. "Last year MacKay was our best running back," said a happy Finn after the game. "But over the summer he got bigger and lost some of his quickness and Tuesday we moved him to tight end. I told him that if he had it to take it, but if not to get out of bounds.

"We may be young, but we're exciting." Northwood broke a 14-14 halftime tie with Don Bolles, who was moved to offense just last Tuesday, scoring from the one late in the third quarter. Hillsdale, which slipped to 2-2 overall, tied it once again as freshman quarterback Mike Fisher, who completed 16 of 37 passes for 227 yards hut had five interceptions, going over from the one on a sneak to set up the thrilling finish. One of Northwood's interceptions was made by safety Ron Molter, who literally came out of the stands to help save the game. "Molter is our third-string safety," explained Finn. "But he was sick all week and hadn't practiced, so he didn't even dress College Grid Powers Form NCAA Lobby for the game.

He came into the locker room at halftime and since one of our safeties was already hurt I asked him to dress. "WELL, RIGHT AWAY THE other safety got hurt and we needed Molter and he did the job." Northwood opened its scoring when defensive back Rick Strasz of Detroit Servite stepped in front of a Chargers receiver at the 30-yard line and raced in to give Northwood a 7-0 lead, the first by the Northmen in any of their three games this year. Strasz wasn't finished, as he picked off another Fisher pass when the freshman QB threw it up for grabs as he was being tackled at his own five. Ten plays later Northwood quarterback Dave Radley of Westland, who completed eight of 13 passes for 102 yards, pitched out to Bolles, who outraced two defenders to give Northwood a 14-0 lead. On the second play of Hillsdale's next series Steve Rndick went off left tackle, broke to the outside and picked up 42 yards to the Northwest 15.

Seven plays later Rodick followed his left guard into the end zone to get the Chargers on the scoreboard. The next time the Chargers got the ball Fisher guided the team 52 yards in eight plays, with 34 yards coming when wide receiver Bob Myers leaped to take the ball away from a North- mW 1. Jifl PvTP Ml 5r5 Ms At tT MkA if ATLANTA (UPI) Keep your eye on an innocuous organization called "The Collegiate Football Association." The CFA exists at the moment in name only, but, unless there are some radical changes within the NCAA, it may someday become the governing body for big time college athletics. Southeastern Conference commissioner Boyd McWhorter, one of the founding fathers of the CFA, insists its only purpose, if it becomes operational at all, will be to serve as a "lobby" group within the NCAA to press for legislation favorable to the bigger schools. The major powers are incensed over NCAA rules limiting (he size of college football teams, the size of their coaching staffs, recruiting, and scouting.

Responsible officials across the country have warned if smaller NCAA members don't quit trying to cut everyone down to their size, the NCAA may be torn apart. "We're still hopeful that realignment can come within the NCAA," says McWhorter, a member of the NCAA council when he was a dean at the University of Georgia. "We do not assume that our group will be in conflict with the NCAA. That's certainly not our thinking at this time." The CFA has no official members at the moment. But plans call for major conferences and top independents to join together, complete with a hoard of directors and some of the other trappings of a national organization.

"We seek a sounding board for those of us who think alike," said Louisiana State athletic director Carl Maddox. "Our biggest problem has been our inability to get this group to vote in a bloc. It hasn't been the small schools that have created most of our difficulties. It has been the inconsistency among the bigger ones." THERE HAS BEEN a financially-motivated move within the NCAA the past few years to trim athletic budgets. This move has been resisted by groups like the Southeastern Conference, but seldom with enough support to slow it down.

But now, the big schools have a rallying point. The NCAA apparently gave them an issue they can fight together on the 30-95 rule. The 30-95 rule says a school may recruit 30 new football players each year, but, starting in 1977. can have no more than 95 under contract at any one time. Thus, over a four-year period, the schools may bring in a total of 120 players, but, by one means or another, must get rid of 25 of those.

Conferences which permit "red shirring" have an even bigger problem. They must get rid of 55 of the 150 players they bring in over a five-year period. "I can't speak for the other presidents," says University of Georgia president Fred Davison. "But, I must disagree with any regulation which, on its very face, proposes that a school offer athletic scholarships to a certain number of young men with the intention of letting some go, no matter how hard they may try on the field, or how well they might do in the classroom. "I've always believed that if you give a boy a grant and he does the best he can, both as a player and as a student, then you should continue to honor that commitment." McWhorter contends the NCAA set the stage for the 30-95 rule hen it came up with one-year scholarships.

"I never agreed with the old rule that forced a school to keep a boy on scholarship even after he refused to participate in athletics," said McWhorter. "I always felt that anytime a boy made that decision, his grant should have been forfeited. "But, now, we're in a position where we need to protect the athlete rather than the school. The rule will force a coach into a guessing game. He'll be forced to cut those players he doesn't think will help him on Saturday in order to bring in others that he hopes will help.

"Coaches are under tremendous pressure to win. I can't fault them, from a pragmatic standpoint, for wanting the best 95 players they can get. But, from an ethical standpoint, I dislike the steps they'll have to lake to stay within that limit." SEC OFFICIALS FEAR high school prospects will be unwilling to sign grants with schools where they may be cut at the end of any year. "There will be a tendency," says one official, "for a boy to Sign with a school where he feels he has the best chance of sticking it out the full four years." "That problem wouldn't exist if we went back to four-year scholarships," said McWhorter. "Then, as h'ng as he held up his end of the bargain, a boy would know that he'd get his education.

"Only eight years ago, 'run-off was the ugliest word in the NCAA," says McWhorter. "Now, that's exactly what they are going to force coaches to do unless we can effect some changes in January. "That's what the Collegiate Football Association is all about." East Carolina Comes from Behind, 20-19 WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) East Carolina's Pirates, taking advantage of three William Mary kicking breakdowns for an early 14-7 lead, came from behind in the final period Saturday for a 20-19 Southern Conference victory on Fete Cona-ty's 3fi-yard field goal with 3:22 left. Fullback Raymond Jones, who finished with 109 yards on 22 carries, scored two touchdowns in the first half after a poor W8.M punt and a blocked kick, but the Pirates never were certain of the victory until Frnest Madison intercepted a Tom Rozantz pass with the Indians' driving at midfield in the last 30 seconds.

1 iri -si 0 Chippewas Ramble Past Marshall, 22-7 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) Central Michigan over-come an NCAA record breaking performance by Marshall University wide receiver John (Fuzzy) Filliez Saturday behind the running of Walt Hodges and freshman Will Young to beat the Thundering Herd, 22-7. Young, making his first start due to an injury suffered by regular Chippewa running back Mike Gray, scored both Central Michigan touchdowns on short yardage. Meanwhile, Hodges paced the ball-control Chippewa offense by rushing for 133 yards on 20 carries. Filliez, a senior and four-year starter for the Herd, made four receptions for 53 yards to set an NCAA Division I record of catching at least one pass in 35 consecutive games.

The previous major college mark was set by former Nebraska AU-American Johnny Rodgers, who had receptions in 34 straight games. With a total of 148 career receptions, Filliez needs just five more to move onto the NCAA's list of the top 20 all-time pass receiving leaders. Filliez's record-breaking showing was the only bright spot in a dim Marshall offensive attack. The Herd was never able to move against the Chippewas, who also got three field goals from placekickt-t Rade Savich. Hope Wins Its 1st 33-11 HOLLAND Quarterback Mark Boyce completed 12 of 28 passes for 184 yards, with two passes going for touchdowns to Dave deZwann, in defeating Indiana Central, 33-14, for its first football victory of the season.

Hope, which led 14-7 at halftime, also piled up 270 yards rushing. The visiting Greyhounds rushed for 118 yards and picked up 105 through the air. Soiiinaic Valley Rallies, 17-0 UNIVERSITY CENTER Saginaw Valley, snakebit throughout the first half, recovered with a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns to beat Northeastern Illinois, 17-0, Saturday and increase its record to 2-1. The Cardinals failed to capitalize on several scoring opportunities in the first half as they saw two touchdowns called back via penalties and fumbled the ball away twice inside the Eagles' five yard line. But Steve Kaplan got Saginaw on the board with 5:35 remaining in the third quarter with a 33-yard field goal and the Cardinals locked things up in the final quarter on short touchdown runs by B.J.

Lathwell and Steve Zott. 1SMU Turns On the Poner, 44-0 Special to the Free Press MARQUETTE It was another big offensive Saturday for Northern Michigan University, the defending national NCAA Division II champions. Coach Gil Krueger saw his Wildcats roll to a 23-0 first half lead and go on to a 44-0 rout of the University of Minnesota-Duluth Branch, before 7,047 fans in Memorial Stadium. The victory was the 12th straight for NMU and the fourth this season. The Wildcats play Eastern Michigan University next Saturday in Ypsilanti.

Junior tailbac Reggie Webster, a transfer from Pasadena City College, scored twice on runs of six and 29 yards and picked up 101 yards in 18 carries. Junior fullback Randy Awrey scored twice on short bucks and rushed for 103 yards in 17 carries. Quarterback Steve Mariucci completed 12 of 22 passes for 216 yards, with junior Zach Taylor grabbing five aerials for 125 yards. Albion Posts 3d Sjnitout, 36-0 ALBION Albion College, off to its fastest start in a decade, recorded its tTiird consecutive shutout of the season Saturday, pasting Winona (Ind.) State, 36-0. Tom Desana scored two touchdowns for the Britons on a three-yard plunge and a 13-yard pass from quarterback Steve Robb.

Robb added a touchdown on a short sneak and Tim Compton and Dave Wood also tallied. In all, the Albion offense rolled up a total of 513 yards, the biggest offensive output of the year for the Britons who last week were ranked number nine in NCAA Division III. Albion, now 3-0, held Wabash to 161 yards in total offense. Record Day for Alma, 53-3 ALMA Alma College set two school football records here Saturday in overwhelming Lakeland (Wis.) College, 53-3, for its first victory of the season. Junior Stan Izykowski from Bay City caught touchdown passes of 70 and 45 yards and picked up a record 154 yards in four receptions.

Jim Meyer set a record by kicking six exra points after touchdowns. Halfback Bobby Hamilton scored on runs of 11 and one yards. Kazoo Wins Siucnker, 33-32 KALAMAZOO Backup quarterback Tim Brenner scored on a one-yard keeper with just over eight minutes to play and the Kalamazoo College defense rose up to halt a late drive at the Hornets won a squeaker against Mount Union, Ohio, here Saturday, 33-32. The victory, the first for Kalamazoo after an opening game tie, came only after the Hornets stopped a long Mt. Union drive which climaxed where the Raiders were stopped on the Kalamazoo 25 yard line when a fourth-and-two run came up a yard short.

Kevin Clark, a junior from Detroit Denby High School was the only Kalamazoo player to score twice in the game, tallying on runs of one and 12 yards. AP Photo Arbor. Navy recovered the bobble on its own two-yard line, but Michigan scored the first of its two safeties a few moments later. Navy quarterback John Kurowski looks back In anger at the ball he pitched wildly before being hit by U-M's John Anderson in first quarter at Ann Gophers Slip Past Broncos IV a Tidal Wave! U-M Sinks Navy, 70-14 has outscored its first three opponents this year by a 161-40 margin. "I don't like being No.

1, because I'm not used to being No. 1. "I like being in the Top Ten, but when you're No. 1, there's only one way you can go and that's down. Continued from First Sports the game the rest of the way was the scoreboard clock.

But all Schembechler was thinking about afterward were the perils of being rated No. 1. "We're not great," he insisted, despite the fact that U- "Today we were outplayed in the first half, but we had the lead at halftime. We could have gotten beat. That's the kind of thing that can happen when you're No.

1. "We're not even a good team yet," Schembechler claimed. "I'm afraid to find out what we really are." He shouldn't have to worry about finding out next Saturday either the Wolverines are at home again, this time against Wake orest. Bring along your calculators. Navy 7 7 0 7 14 28 Navy 9 14 2170 U-M 29 57-342 209 ti 10- 14-0 2 37 1-1 3-45 Michigan First downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penalties vards 50-75 42 0 J-lo-1 837 2-0 MINNEAPOLIS Tony Dungy and Jim Perkins scored touchdowns in the final 76 seconds Saturday to lift Minnesota to a 21-10 noncon-ference football victory over upset-minded Western Michigan.

Dungy raced untouched eight yards around his own left side with 1:16 left in the game to cjimax a 70-yard scoring drive, boosting the Gophers into a 14-10 lead. Perkins iced it on a one-yard run with only 11 seconds left in the game following an interception by George Adzick. WESTERN MICHIGAN', now 2-1, had taken a 10-7 lead with only 4:24 left in the game on a US-yard field goal by Dave Gibson. The Gophers, who had .179 yards total offense to 264 for the Broncos, threatened in the second quarter, driving to the WMU seven. But an interception by defensive back Tony Townsend, his second of the game, thwarted that bid and the teams were scoreless at intermission.

Senior quarterback Pepper Powers scored on a seven-yard keeper to climax a 70-yard drive and Gibson's extra point sent the Broncos playing without injured running back Jerome Persell from Detroit Northern into a 7-0 advantage with 2:42 left in the third neriod. 5-3? INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING-Navv. L. Miller 13-32; Kurowski 14-24; Chalin 8-17. Michiqan, Hucklebv 11-79; Reid 7-79; K.

King 9-52; Lvtle 10-52; Andrews 4-28; Leach 9-24. RECEIVING Navy, King 215; Gat-tuso 1-13; Michiqan, J.Smith 4-147; G. Johnson 2-20; Lytle 2-12. PASSING Navy, Kurowski vards; Lesrczynski 2-2-0, 15. Michiqan, Leach 8-12-0, 179; S.Johnson 2-2-0 30.

A 101,040. How TJiey Scored FIRST QUARTER 0-7 John Kurowiki, 20-yard run (49 yards in nine plays; big plays Kurowski completed two posses and ran (or eight yards). Tata converted. 7-7 Rob lytle, 3-yord run (67 yards in nine plays; big plays 12-yard run by lytle, 10-yaidrun by Harlan Huckleby and two Navy penalties). Bobby Wood converted.

SECOND QUARTER 9-7 Curtis Greer tackled Novy punter Art Ohanian in end zone for sofety. 12-7 Wood, 5 1-yard field goal (24 yards In lour plays; big play 27-yard Rick Leach to Jim Smith pass before U-M penalty). 12-14 tarry Klawinski, 1-yard run (60 yards in 14 plays; big plays 12-yard run by Leon Miller and fourth-down dive play by Kurowski). Tata converted. 14-14 Jerry Meter blocked Ohanian's punt out of end zone for U-M safety.

21-14 Jim Smith, 3 1 -yard touchdown pass from Leach (57 yards in six plays; big plays-Leach passes of 1 1 to Lytle and 1 5 to Gene Johnson) Wood converted. THIRD QUARTER 28-14 leach, 6-yord run (32 yards in eight plays; big play 5-yard gain by Leach on fourth down, 1 1-yard run by Kevin King). Wood converted. 35-14 Calvin O'Neal, 29-yard run with interception of John Kurowski poss, after hard rush by Dom Tedesco. Wood converted.

42-14 Leach, 7-yard run (56 yards in three plays; big play 42-yard Leach to Smith pass). Wood converted. 49-14 Gene Johnson, 5-yordpass from Leach (50 yards in Iwoptays; big ploy 45-yard leach to Smith poss). Wood converted. FOURTH QUARTER J4-14 Stacy Johnson, 4-yard run (55 yoids in eight plays; big plays 21-yard run by lawrence Reid, 16-yard Johnson to Dave Harding poss).

Wood converted. 63-14 King 13-yard run (86 yards in eight ploys; big plays Johnson to Rick Whit 16-yard pass, 1 4-yard run by Reid). Wood converted. 70-14 Reid 2-yard run (71 yards in eight plays; big plays Reid runs of 15 and 19 yards, Andrews 1 5-yard runl. Wood converted.

Duke Clips l'unchless I iiisima, 21-6 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Quarterback Mike Dunn and fullback Tony Benjamin provided the offensive fireworks as Duke scored on its first two possessions and went on to smother Virginia, 21-6, in an Atlantic Coast Conference game here Saturday. Dunn accounted for one Blue Devil touchdown as he ran for 118 yards on 14 carries and completed seven of 11 passes for another 107 yards. Benjamin also had a touchdown as he piled up 100 yards on 18 carries. In getting its conference campaign off with a victory and posting its second win in three outings this season, Duke piled up 416 total yards against only 182 for Virginia.

The Cavaliers, now 0-3 in 1976, extended their losing streak to 12 games. Virginia has not scored a touchdown in its last fiine quarters of play. Rally Saves Day for Yale, 21-10 NEW HAVEN (AP) Halfback John Pagliaro scored two touchdowns within five minutes Saturday as a fired-up Yale football team came from behind to defeat Connecticut, 21-10. Pagliaro, a junior from Derby who chose Yale over put Y3le back i nthe lead late in a listless third period with a tackle-breaking 18-yard touchdown. Pagliaro, who rushed 75 vards for the day.

scored again from the four early in Lalo TI) (ives Lchijlli 2 1-20 Win PHILADELPHIA (AP) Ron Gardner's one-yard touchdown run with just 55 seconds remaining capped an SO-yard drive as Lehigh rallied for a 24-20 college football victory over Pennsylvania Friday nicht. It was unbeaten Le-.