Florence Morning News du lieu suivant : Florence, South Carolina • 29

Sports Section Covering the World of Sports for 50 Years SUNDAY OCTOBER 22 1978 1 80 YARD TOSS HIGHLIGHTS 18 17 COMEBACK Gamecocks Pull It Out Hi (AP) to 273 came when Varn intercepted OB defense held and Scott McKin RELATED STORY PAGE6C way for the UT Edges urman ASU Crushes Citadel (Ariri kick) Driskell 10 0 0 3 13 Leopard Moc Wofford Newberry Wins 2 2 in 7 42 run first their (AP) 1 Mil wide receiver and tailback to Mississippi with 3:02 left ans began filing for the exits 1 when the Carolina defense gave up a first down to the Rebels center and Scott recovered for the Tigers on the Duke 47 Clemson stuck to the ground for nine successive plays led by 3 4 the GREENVILLE SC (AP) Joe Zeman booted field goals of 20 and 45 yards to lead the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to a 13 9 Southern Conference football victory over urman Saturday afternoon: with two minutes remaining but the held for three more downs and Miller punted the ball out of the end zone with 30 ticks left for the Carolina of fense to come back And come back they did After an incomplete attempt to McKinney over the middle Harper stepped up out of the pocket on the next play and lofted a pass on the letters to Smith who raced the 80 yards untouched With Gamecock fans scream ing Harper calmly rolled to his right and hit McKinney with calmly stepped back and fired a pass over the head of a Mississippi defender to flanker Zion McKinney for the two point conversion and fourth win of the season have to applaud our players and coaches They never quit They hung in there together and this is a good win for said Carlen in a post game interview The Gamecocks held scoreless for three quarters by a determined Ole Miss defense put together an offensive show for what remained of the 50226 fans in the final stanza br inging down the house with a beautiful 80 yard bomb from quarterback Garry Harper to freshman split end Horace Smith to bring the Gamecocks to within one with nine seconds on the clock Then Harper 33 yards and also had two in terceptions lanker Derrick Lewis caught five passes for 73 yards all in the first half for the Blue Devils By JIM McLAURIN Morning News Sports Writer in 66 52 16 8 0 3 47 2 0 6 66 22 57 325 199 100 14 21 1 7 39 1 0 4 38 irsf Gowns bushes yards 3assng yards beturn yards 3untsumbles iost yards irst downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbies lost Penalties yards from Meredino from Henderson dropped to are another perfect strike to give USC a two point conversion and a breathtaking 18 17 win Carlen commenting on the decision to go for two said was never any doubt in my mind to go for two We had come too far to go for a ference passed for 200 yards and got a balanced attack from his running game as Western Carolina rolled to a 26 11 victory over Wofford Saturday night The nonconference triumph gave the Catamounts a 4 3 record while Wofford dropped to 1 6 After a scoreless first quarter Pusey led Western Carolina on an 80 yard 15 play drive with back Robert Brown scoring from 5 yards out early in the second quarter 21 63 275 89 32 20 9 0 10 45 2 1 853 WIDE RECEIVER JIMMY KISER MAKES A CATCH UT Tom Bracket (19) Breaks Up Pass 16 52140 94 67 19 6 3 6 36 5 3 00 The triumph gave the easins a 6 0 1 overall record and a 3 0 record in conference play urman fell to 4 3 for the season (pass failed) and 1 1 in the league urman scored first on a 30vard field goal by freshman Keith Potter in the first minute of the game The Paladins i me uau aiier unaiianouga quarterback Tony Merendino fumbled on the opening play On the next drive Chat tanooga running back Gwain Durden led the Moccasins with runs of 29 and 21 vards Durden had 90 yards in 10 carries for the passer in the Southern Con atternoon the drive enaea when Zeman kicked a 20 yard field goal Later in the first quarter Chattanooga drove 70 yards and scored on a 44 yard pass from Merendino to wide receiver Joe Burke to take a 10 3 lead urman dominated the third quarter keeping the ball for 13 minutes But the Paladins failed to put any points on the scoreboard as Potter missed a 32 ya rd field goal attempt With three minutes left in the UTC urman 16 54 188 110 74 1260 839 4 2 8 99 LESTER BROWN (44) VAULTS OVER DUKE DEENDER Brown Scored Over Dan Brooks In the Second Quarter and Harold Goggins on his first play of the game swept the right side fought through two Duke defenders and scored a brilliant touchdown kick make it 28 0 Clemson with 9: 18 left in the game It became a question of whether the Tigers could gain the shutout now but despite the wild support of the Clemson 7 14 4 (Abernathy kick) pass from Brown (Abernathy kick) fans (who forced stoppages of the game for too much noise on reven occasions) Duke scored The tally came on a fourth down pass from Driskell to end Cedrio Jones in the end zone the play covering six yards Driskell ran in the two point try and Duke trimmed the big lead to 28 8 but it was way too little and way too late Despite the injury uller ran for 58 yards on 11 carries and passed for 66 more on 8 of 16 ac curacy Punter David Sims had an outstanding game averag COLUMBIAI peo ple who went to the fair early They missed one heckuva the way South Carolina Gamecock coach Jim Carlen described his spectacular last quarter 18 17 comeback win over the Univer sity of Mississippi Rebels at Williams Brice Stadium Satur day irst downs Rusties yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbleslost Penalties yards two touchdowns Eddie Estes added 161 yards rushing and a pair of ORANGEBURG SC (AP) Newberry quarteback Eddie Pettus hit halfback Rick Har ward with a 7 yard touchdown himself as the leading receiver in Tiger history uller also overall 1 1 in the ACC was held went over the 5000 yard mark to 125 yards rushing compared in nis career Butler caught five passes for The second Clemson break 4o varus to give nun career totals of 111 receptions for 1739 Driskell and returned to the yards (also a school record) Tiger 46 It was then Sims and The fleet wide receiver from Brown again carrying the bulk Ware Shoals was bruised up on of the load for the Tigers as Clemson second series or downs leaving the game for the remainder of that series retur ning to the lineup later Duke drove to the Clemson 23 touchdowns Saturday to lift Ap palachian State to a 42 14 Southern Conference win over The Citadel Brown engineered an 81 yard touchdown drive following the opening kickoff with Estes go ing 38 yards for the score He got his other TD a 54 yard run in the second period as the Mountaineers rolled up a 21 0 lead squad which was unable to move the ball consistently no matter whether the quarter back was Mike Dunn or Stanley Driskell The Tigeis escaped what could have been a tough game as a stout defense made the job easier for the ClemSon offense which was slowed down by minor injuries to quarterback Steve uiier Jerry Butler Lester Brown Leading the defenders was linebacker Ran the running of uller fullback dy Scott who recovered two Marvin Sims (the fumbles and intercepted a pass leading rusher with 95 yards on Defensive backs Willie Jordan 14 carries) and Brown The Steve Ryan and Rex Varn each ninth play was a one yard plunge by Brown which made it 14 0 Clemson with Obed conversion at the 10:59 mark of the second quarter In the early moments of the third quarter leading runner on the season Greg Rhett left the game with an picked off a pass and Dari Toney Williams had two key quarterback sacks to spark the Tiger front 1 uller suffered a slightly Sprained left ankle on his two yard touchdown run on Clem first series capping a 71 Mississippl 7 3 0 7 17 Carolina 0 0 0 18 II Miss Coleman 24 run (Langley kick) Miss Langley 38 SCar WrigM 2 run (Leopard kick) Leopard 31 Coleman 3 run (Langley kick) SCar Smith 80 pass from Harper (McKinney pass from Harper) Operating from A wishbone forma tion Brown threw touchdown passes of 29 yards to Rich Beasley and 20 yrds to Michael Peterson The Mountaineers ad ded a pair of touchdowns in the final period on runs of 3 and 22 yards' by halfback Scott McConnell Halfback Alvin Perkins got both of The touchdowns on a 47 yard run in the second quarter and a 1 yard plunge in the final period The Mountaineers netted 524 yards total offense 325 on the ground and 199 through the air The Citadel had 271 yards rushing and 145 passing Appalachian State upped its record to 5 2 on the season while the Bulldogs Both teams conference Citadel Appalachian St ASU Estes 38 ASU Beasley 29 (Abernathy kick) ASU Estes 54 run Cit Perkins 47 run (Chavez kick) ASU Peterson 20 pass from Brown (Abernathy kick) ASU McConnell 3 run (Abernathy kick) ASU McConnell 22 run (Abernathy kick) Cit Perkins 1 run (Chavez kick) 11131 Mississippi on the USC 5 put the Gamecocks back in business Harper then kept on an option right and picked up 13 yards to the Rebel two yard line and two plays later Wright bulled his way over to make the game 10 The fired up Gamecocks blasted Ole Miss quarterback John ourcade on the second play following kickoff forc ing him to cough up the ball to Carolina at the Mississippi 28 After Wright blasted for 15 yards the offense stalled and placekicker Eddie Clemson coach Charlev Pell was happy over the' win ex 11 yards and a 19 yard bullet to claiming we are a real split end John Bailey to get the yard march Butler caught one ankle injury and did not return pass a two yarder to establish Rhett was held to just two yards himself as the leading receiver on six carries as Duke (3 3 Beaten SPARTANBURG SC (AP) Mike Pusey the leading split the uprights from the 31 to tie the score at ten all Rebels came roaring back with the following kickoff and marched 56 yards in 11 plays to give them the go ahead td Quarter back Roy Coleman kept over the right side to cap the drive on a three yard run with 6:33 remaining The stalled in the following nossession and Neither Carlen nor the Runager booted the ball away Gamecock fans had much to cheer about statistic wise however as the Rebels out distanced USC in every depart ment save passing 275 yards rushing to 143 364 total yards to 278 for the Gamcocks The first half was a defensive struggle for both teams with the Gamecocks coming out on the short end 10 0 Ole Miss got on the board in their third possession of the afternoon behind the running of junior halfback reddie Williams and a key third down pass by quarterback Roy Col eman to split end Curtis Weathers to the Carolina 24 On the next play from scrimmage Coleman optioned right kept the ball and rolled into the end zone to give Ole Miss a 7 0 lead with 5:13 remaining in the first quarter Both offenses were stalemated by the fine punting "exhibitions of Max Runager and the Rebels' Jim Miller until four minutes re mained in the first half Then Rebel safety Jerry Spore intercepted a Garry Harper to Zion McKinney pass at the Ole Miss 32 In ten plays Ole Miss moved the ball in close enough for Hoppy Langley boot a 38 yard field goal to give Mississippi a 10 0 lead at inter mission South Carolina squandered an excellent scoring opportunity on their first drive following the second half kickoff Horace Smith took the deep kick from Langley and raced for 58 yards to the Mississippi 36 but on the second play from scrimmage Skip Ramsey who had begun the half at quarterback made a bad pitch to halfback Johnny Wright on the option and Ole Miss fell on the fumble The offenses were again stifl and twice gave Duke the ball on thumb (he also left the game ed by the punting of Runager and Miner until tne tourtn quarter Carolina after a short (for Miller) punt of 39 yards took possession at their own 24 Harper back at the field general post completed two quick passes for first downs one to fullback Steve Dorsey for Mississippi 5 Carolina ii 35119 159 14 27 9 1 1047 2 2 7 103 Clemson Defense orced Turnovers Offense Took Advantage of Them Newberry defense needed as the Indians gave the MidEastern Athletic Con ference Bulldogs shutout since 1974 Newberry Carolina St New Harward 7 (McMillian) New Wilson 1 run A 6232 BOONE NC (AP) Sophomore quarterback Steve Brown passed for 199 yards and Citadel App If 49 271 145 176 13 26 1 6 1 7 55 and fullback before Pettus began to move Newberry with a short passing game scoring toss to Har pass and CW Wilson scored ward in the third quarter cap from 1 yard out as the Indians ped an 80 yard 15 play march handed South Carolina State its It was all the cushion the stout first defeat of the season 14 in a college football game Saturday afternoon The victory gives Newberry the 20th ranked team a 5 1 record State ranked sixth by the NCAA I AA pollsters now is 6 1 1 The two teams battled through a scoreless first half irst downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts umbles lost Penalt'es yards Clemson moved to 5 1 overall in the first period but the and 2 0 in the ACC with a 28 8 defense held and Scott McKin win over an inept Blue Devil ney missed on a 40 yard field goal try lhe score stayed Clemson after the first quarter The Tigers got their first break of the game when Driskell fumbled the snap from Duke Clemson ri Puller 9 run Brown 1 run (Arlrt kick) CLEM Brown 3 run (Ann kick) CLEM Goggtns 5 run (Ann kick) MUM: Junes Haii "Vl" wl (Driskell run) 51109 once again Brown capped a drive by scoring this time from three yards out Ariri who missed three field goals on the day in one of his ing 473 a kick for three boots poorer efforts booted the con Brown from Myrtle Beach version to give the Tigers a 21 0 finished with 71 yards on 16 car lead midway through the third ries quarter Driskell hit 7 of 14 passes for The Tigers played listlessly in 113 yards and two interceptions the latter stages of the period while Dunn bothered by a bad fumbles inside the Clemson 40 briefly with an injury following But both occasions the defense a hard tackle) hit only 5 of 13 for frustrated Dunn and UrisKeil and the shutout was preserved through three quarters Clemson got their third break early in the fourth quarter when middle guard Charlie Bauman recovered Ned fumble at the Duke 26 reshman flanker Perry Tut tle gained 16 yards on a reverse threat to win the Pell Gamecocks rolling Carolina play Sims gained four to the 5 aigo praised the offensive line stalled momentarily but a pass on having their tinest game oi jnierierenee can against tne year uukc iof coming in to the game with an excellent game and the Tiger defense for the big play when they had The Tigers travel to Raleigh for a key ACC clash with North Carolina State next Saturday afternoon The Tigers are already poin ting to it game urman quarterback David Henderson fired a 55yard touchdown pass to flanker Jimmy Kiser But another pass for a 2 point conversion fell short UTC urman UR Potter 30 Zeman 20 UTC Burke 44 pass Kiser DoSS i UTC Zeman 45 76)8 By MARK MAYER Morning News Sports Writer CLEMSON was hardly an exciting football game at the Valley Saturday but tne ligers won another game thanks to a defense that forced seven Duke turnovers three of which were turned into touchdowns Duke Clemson 19 49 125 59 273 146 7 27 12 4 2 36 5 3 6 40 pass (rom Pettus (McMillian kick) (AP) JOHNNIE WRIGHT MAKES EORTTO CAPTURE LOOSE OOTBALL USC Back Was Stopped by Eddy Householder on the Play It 0 fl TaA'JL gKi 3 wmr I sff fek 4 'r WK XY livS' AV AZ 4 JLWsHr RHL jAS rv It H'.