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Show 2D. The Salt L Tribune ?' Sunday, October 21, 1984 f f 40- No. 10 LSU Pops Wildcats; Houston Stuns No. 6 SMU Dukes, who scored on a in the first quarter, threw a leenth-rankeAuburn scored on seven of its first eight possessions and .drove to the one on the other in raisThe Tigers exing its record to ploded Hr 41 points in the first half, Tribune Wire Services It was a happy homecoming for Bill Amsparger. bead coach, who LSU's first-yea- r hails from nearby Paris, Ky., married a girl from Frankfort, and was an assistant coach at the University of saw his Kentucky from 1954-6LSU Tigers win a battle of turnovers and penalties and defeat the previously unbeaten No. 16 Wil0 dcats Saturday as Dalton rushed for 164 yards and a record-lying four touchdowns Tip happy for my mother and my cousin, Amsparger said They have to ltve here in Lexington. I am also happy for the fans who made the trip up here. They had confidence in us. But Amsparger was happiest of all for his players, who overcame dtx turnovers and 107 yards In penalties Hilliard scored three times in a 2.09 span of the third period to turn a squeaker Into a 29-- 3 laugher. The Tiover-a- ll in Southand gers, eastern Conference play, built their halftime lead as Juan Betanzos kicked field goals of 43, 20 aid 38 yards to set an LSU career record of d mm Mann, starting for Injured Pat Washington, connected with Freddie Weygand on a scoring pass in the final quarter and ended the day with 11 of 17 completions for 271 yards. Quarterback John Dewberry rallied Tech to 34 second half points, throwing touchdown tosses of 33 yards to Gary Lee and 45 yards to Gary Wilkins, and running it In from the 9 himself. Tennessee 28, Alabama 27: At nt ' bama, which suffered its third straight Southeastern Conference touchTennessee's down was set up by Andre Creamers punt return to the Alabama II. Jones crashed in for the touchdown four plays later to cut Alabama's lead to Tennessee Coach Johnny Majors elected to play for the win and Robinson ran an option play to his right, faked a pitch to Jones and plunged across the goal line for the points. loss. go-ahe- ' 3-- 3-- 26-2- 0, 18: At Austin, '4 ' v , v , - a . k ' , '4 I .'.v- lW4i mm??. Associated Press Loserphoto Carolinas Kent Hagood struggles for yardage against 2 Notre Dames Mike Larkin during Gamecocks victory. South Midwest loss." It was the first time since 1956 that Notre Dame had lost three successive games at home, and the Irish dropped 3-- South Carolina, winning six straight in one season for the first time, did some gambling in the game but Morrison said With a record like ours and a game like this, you have to gambit Iowa 26, Michigan 0: At Iowa City, Chuck Long completed passes for 146 yards and Devon Mitchell set up two scores with a pair of interceptions to help No. 17 Iowa Oklahoma blast Michigan. It was the first time Michigan was shut out since 1977 and the third consecutive Big Ten game the Hawkeye defense did not allow a touchdown. The last time Iowa blanked Michigan was in a 0 tie in 1929. Long, Ronnie Harmon and Owen Gill each ran for touchdowns and Tommy Nichol kicked a pair of field goals for Iowa, which improved to 2 overall, 1 in the Big Ten and held onto a share of the conference lead. The Wolverines, who hadnt lost in Iowa City since 1962, fell to and The 26-- 0 loss marked Bo Schem-bechleworst margin cf defeat m 20th-ranke- d d rn'er-ceptio- Tech 311 bom, Mike Mann geltirg to start, completed hi" d At a., a first jo passes and directed a poten Auhrr. offen'f past Georgy Tech Tr,,- - 120 SL 47, Kansas 10: At 3 5-- 38-ya- 3-- cross-count- rs Notre Dame Coach Gerry F aust re 20: At 12th-rank- 4-- 5-- St Stillwater, Ken Zachary raced 87 yards for one touchdown as Oklahoma State used the big play to build a 31-- halftime lead and went on to defeat Kansas in a Big Eight Conference game. The Cowin the Big Eight Conboys, 1 and ference and held to one field goal in a loss two weeks ago to Nebraska, scored on five of their seven possessions in the first half, including a scoring run by Charles Crawtouchdown pass from ford, an Rusty Hilger to Jamie Hams and Zarun, in which chary's he outran two defenders. 0-- zone. 36-3- ry Nebraska 24, Colorado 7: At BoulTravis Turner der, junior walk-oscored on runs of 1 and 3 yards, and TD pass as No. 5 tossed an Nebraska struck for 21 points in the fourth quarter to rally past determined Colorado in a Big Eight encounter. The Huskers were lethargic for three quarters, with Coach Tom Osborne alternating between Turner and senior- Craig Sundberg at quarterback. But with Nebraska trailing late in the third period, Osborne decided to go with Turner and the slumbering Huskers finally came to n Mountaineers Upset No. 4 Boston College Tribune Wire Services touchdown run John Gays fourth-quarte- r ended an drive and brought West Virginia all the way back Saturday for an upset over fourth-ranke- d Boston College Not ore minute did we think we wtreo t going to make it, said Gay, who ran around left end and bounced off a defender into the end zone with 4 52 for the winning d ear-rtng.r- 21-2- 0 touchdown "At halftime, you could tell it in the players' eyes We were down 20-- because we had stopped ourselves," 6 quarterback Todd Dodge threw two touchdown passes and Texas defenders intercepted four Arkansas passes as the Longhorns fought off an Arkansas comeback to secure their Southwest Conference victory A fumble by Texas Terry Orr a: the Arkansas one when it appeared Texas cad scored almost turned the game around, and Arkansas put on a furious rally that fell only three yards short of a winning score After the fumble, Arkansas moved 99 yards for a touchdrwn, which came on a pass from q iarter-bacBrad Taylor to James hu.lK-s- t with 4 50 left m the game An by Arkansas Natr.ar, J..nes at the Razorbacks 39 yard !. wn:i 2 rema.ning gave the viv.ors a change to pull out a Victory Arkansas drove to the Texas 12, and after uo penalties for delavirg B garr' "i Taylor threw to Jamie Lud m was tackled by Tony Tillmon d the Texas three with no time rt.rnj.nirg on the clock 48, Ga. ' , . : a- 23, Michigan late-chargi- day that gave me some good feelings if you can have good feelings after a to St touchdown yards and scored a in the third quarter after Rich field Spangler kicked three first-hal- f goals to give No. 8 Ohio State its victory over Michigan State. Ohio State escaped a tie when Michigan State senior kicker Ralf field goal try Mojsiejenkos went wide to the right through the drizzle and mist with three seconds left in the game. Byars, who carried 40 times, scored two plays after linebacker Pepper Johnson recovered a fumble by Michigan States Carl Butler on his own 2. Byars TD gave the Buckeyes a 16-- 0 lead. Spangler kicked field goals of 36, 42 and 30 yards for Ohio States first nine points. Michigan State junior quarterback Dave Yarema brought the Spartans to life with a touchdown pass to sophomore flanker Bobby Morse after the Buckeyes, who snoozed their way to the first 16 points of the game, botched a punt attempt on their own 29. 5-- s Auburn v 26-1- vH Ohio East Lansing, Keith Byars gained The turnovers in the second half hurt us, said Faust Any loss is tough but I saw some good things to- - 17-1- d fr.c-yar- r w his 16 years as Michigan coach. Iowa held Michigan to just three first downs in the first half and picked off three passes in the game. that llth-ranke- 68-ya- third-ranke- t 36-1- fused to find fault with his team after the Irish lost their third straight home game and said, I thought we played an excellent football game. We made big Improvements in our offensive line. Our intensity was excellent Now we have to build from Tribune Wire Services Exciting, said South Carolina Coach Joe Morrison. Taking Georgia, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame in one year is damn exciting. It took some doing to take Notre Dame Saturday, but the unded Gamecocks feated and did it with a fourth quarter burst led by backup quarterback Mike Hold. Hold scored two of the touchdowns in the fourth quarter on a touchdown sneak and a scramble that put South Carolina ahead to stay. We didnt change anything at halftime," said Morrison, the former New Mexico coach. We just started to play football Morrison said he was somewhat worried when Notre Dame, leading 4 at the half, boosted the lead to 4 by grabbing a pair of fumbles and turning them into a field goal and a touchdown. 1 felt our chances were slim then, said Morrison. I thought going in it would be a good game if we didnt do anything to hurt ourselves. With two turnovers in the second half, I was concerned. I thought to myself Here we go again but our guys got back and turned it around." The Gamecocks didnt start clicking until Hold came in midway in the third period. We just kept fighting, said Hold, We never let down, we were able to make a lot out of their mistakes." touchBefore breaking his down run, Hold had had an open field but threw an incomplete pass and was told about it by Morrison. The coach told me they were letting me have the delay," said Hold. I just did what he told me and was able to follow my blocks into the end 36-3- 2 Houston 29, SMU 20: At Irving, Texas. Mike Clendenen kicked five field goals and quarterback Gerald Landry'hit tight end Carl Hilton with a scoring pass to give Houston its apset of Southern Methodist and the Southwest Conference leadership Houston, defeating a top 20. team for the first time in its last 12 tries, is now 3 and 0 in the conference. Previously unbeaten and untied SMU Is 1 in the league and overall. Houston built a 16-- 0 halftime lead Reggie Dupard sprinted 71 yands for a touchdown to close the gap The Cougars made it 26-- 7 in the third period when Hilton broke free and outspnnted the Mustang secondary on a short pass from Landry SMU rallied on Don King's scoring run and Gary Hashaway's touchdown plunge Leading only the Cougars put the game away when Gary S'cManus recovered a fumbled punt by SMU's Frar.ky Thomas at the Mustang 16 Clendenen, who had earlier field goals of 37, 48. 23. and 25 yards then kicked a field goal It tied his school record of five held goals in a game Arkansas $. Gamecocks Slay Irish; Iowa Blanks Michigan 90-jr- 24, f v Associated Press Lorserphoto I thought our defense was real good all day, he said. We had a good nass rush and effective defense . gainst the run. In the first half, it was a good thing we had good defense because we turned the ball over so much. Hilliard, th nations fourth leading rusher with a 123.4-yar- d average, carried 31 times and scored twice on ransonce on a plunge and finally on a burst George Adams, the nations sixth beet rusher with a 118.8 average, scored Kentuckys touchdown on a run late in the third period to d drive engineered by cap a second-strin- g quarterback Kevin Dooley. But Adams managed only 24 yards on 13 carries in the first half, although he finished with 76 on 23 rushes. Texas x,- - ,s Adams of Kentucky short of the goal line to help Tigers preserve 0 SEC victory Louisiana States Shawn Brooks (left) and Kevin Guidry (below) team to stop George Amsparger agreed. 2-- "? iTVM 5-- 4-- V fc' 27-2- 21-2- 3-- sixth-ranke- v Ns, , UR Y.'; 45-ya- 14th-ranke- d 15th-ranke- run Knoxville, Johnnie Jones scored on a run and quarterback Tony Robinson dived into the end zone for a two-poiconversion with 309 left to lift Tennessee to its upset of Ala- threw for two touchdowns and scored another in his first start while leading Georgia to a its highest point total In 26 years to help the Bulldogs bury Vanderbilt Georgia, 0 In the Southeastern Conference, tbroke out of a 1 tie when Tony plunge Mangram scored on a with 345 left in the first half, then scored two more touchdowns before halftime on passes by Dukes. The fidld goals, plus a defease that d offense held Kentuckys to 75 yards In the first half, enabled the Tigers to withstand three lost fumbles and two interceptions in the first two periods. But Kentucky, which got a field goal from Joe Worley that tied the score 3 early in the second quarter, coughed the ball up four times itself in the first half and five more in the Imal two periods to set up Hilliards last three touchdowns. The Wildcats also were penalized 13 times for 77 yards, one. of which cost them a touchdown. "We had as many turnovers as Ive ever seen us have," Coach Jerry Claiborne said after the setback ended Kentuckys best start in 34 years and left the Wildcats witha 1 record, 1 in the SEC. We just How many turnovers did we have? I lost count Nine? You just cant do that against a team like LSU. I thought LSU was afine football team and some of those turnovers were good plays by them. v er Georgia 62, Vanderbilt 35: At Athens, Ga, freshman David Dukes 36. j J jU.-.- Florida 43, Cincinnati 17: At Gainesville, freshman Kerwin Bell threw two touchdown passes to Ricky Nattiel, and John L Williams ran for two more scores to lead No. 18 Florida to its thrashing of Cinclnatti. Bell, sharing time at quarterback with Rodney Brewer, connected with Nattiel on a scoring pass play in the first quarter and a in the second en route to a 31-- 2 halftime. with Mann passing for 42 yards for one and Jeff Burger, 18 yards for another. Tommie Agee, Tim Jessie and Collis Campbell ran for touchdowns . 9-- 3 U 42-2- 1 South Hil-Ba- V3 er 10th-rank- 36-1- & ' scoring strike to Herman Archie with I.- 55 left in the half and a to Stanley Blalock with 38 seconds left halftime lead. to give Georgia a 5-- 4 y V"1 V said Gav West Virginia's defense did most of the stopping m the second half, slowing down Boston College quarterback Flutie and keeping the Eagles, from scoring Boston College entered the g3me No. 2 nationally in both scoring '39 points) and total offense 504 yards), but the Eagles managed just 318 yards Saturday Linebacker Fred Smalls, who loss afsacked Flutie for an ter BC had reached the West Virginia 38 with just under three minutes left, said the Eagle quarterback never saw him coming ' I didnt trunk I d gpt to sack somebody like tnat." said Smalls "He didn t see me When he snapped the ball, he never looked at me When 1 c t old I ran tell my kids I sacked Doug Flutie ,uo credited me west irgima d (ense for its aggressiveness They We were coming on everything mov'-the ball good. 30 or 40 yards at a time hu' ihm d get a big p'ay 'md " he said , "sh u" bark B iMon t oliege loach Jack Birk-n'-l- l said Wt Virginia's comeback surprised him I thought they rould Mug 5 score some points, and maybe kick a few field goals or something, but I Dever thought they could come back to beat us like that" BC built Its halftime cushion with two big second-quartplays against d the Mountaineers, now 1 with a game against Penn State next week. Steve Strachan rambled 24 yards for a score with 111 to go in the second period to break a 6 tie, and Flutie hit Kelvin Martin with a scoring pass on the next senes as the Eagles rooroentanly silenced soldout Mountaineer Field. Strachans touchdown run followed a controversial play on a at the West Virginia 34 when Flu-tiperfect fake prompted an inadvertent officials whistle. It was ruled that BC had made enough yards for the first down before the whistle, and two plays later Strachan broke loose off the nght side for the touchdown to give BC a 13-- 6 lead. Paul Woodside kicked three field goals for West Virginia, including a in the third quarter. er 20th-ranke- 6-- yards and Solomon smothered it in the end zone. Schmidts kick made it with three games to go. With a halftime lead, Miami, put the game away in the third quarter when Highsmith dove over from the 2 and then rolled in from the 5 less than four minutes later. The Hurricanes had scored in the first hall on a pass from Kosar to Stanley Shakespeare and a 44- - 2.502 7-- 10-- 0 20-- Penn St 21, Syracuse 1 At state College, Pa., tailback D.J. Dozier ran for 159 yards on 22 carries and scored a touchdown to power o es Miami 27, Pitt 7: At Miami, Ber-m- e Kosar set three Miami passing records and Alonzo Highsmith scored two touchdowns to give the 1 Outranked Hurricanes an easy victory over struggling Pittsburgh. Kosar. who had been questionable for the game because of a sere ankle, completed 29 of 42 passes for 351 yard3 with one touchdown no interceptions. 1 he completions by the rangy sophomore from Boardman, Ohio, broke the single-gamrecord of 25 he had shared with George Mira Kosar's touchdown pass was his 16th of the year, breaking the m nrd of 15 he mi last year Kosar, who left the game with 14 08 to go also set a record at seavjn passing yarda e Penn State yard field goal by Greg Cox. Cox addin the fourth quarter. ed a didnt score until the Pittsburgh, final eight minutes of the game when touchChris Jelic threw a down pass to Darnel Stone to finish off a seven-pladrive highlighted by a pass from Jelic to Matt Stennett. d Florida St 27, Tulane 6: At Tallahassee, reserve safety Joe Wessel raced 10 yards with a blocked punt for a touchdown and second-strinlinebacker Jesse Solomon recovered a punt be blocked In the end zone for d another score to lead Florida State past Tulane. The victory by the Seminoles avenged a loss they suffered to Tulane last year and improved their slate to 51-Green Wave dropped to Wessel scored when FSUs Lenny Chavers blocked Sammy Amarena s punt in Tulane territory with 11 52 remaining In the third quarter Wessel g 15th-ranke- 34-2- 8 1 Penn 5-- 2 life as sophomore John raced 10 yards untouched. Derek Schmidt, who had kicked two field added the goals earlier in the Afto put FSU ahead 13-point-afte- r ter Florida State stopped Tulone, Solomon broke throtgh Tulane s punt g-- 6 formation and blocked another 10 44 quarterback Doug Strang, completed 10 of 23 passes for 141 yards. Strang was sidelined with a shoulder sprain. Penn State scored on its first two possessions, Tony Mumford racing across from the 7 ending a drive, and Dozier romping 23 and then 58 yards to personally acdrive. count for an The Lions made it 21-- 0 in the second period when fullback Steve Smith bolted into the end zone from the 1. drive He capped a nine-platriggered by a pass interception. It was the 14th straight victory for Penn State over Syracuse and boosted the Lions senes lead to Syracuse, which lost its fourth game against three victories, scored its only points with 51 seconds remaining on a field goal by Don McAulay y, 36-ya- d 's 5 quarter Syracuse. Shaffer, substituting for regular East in the past States Nittany Lions boosted their record to Amarena punt with 3 19th-ranke- d 6-- fourth-and-tw- - remaining The ball .rolled 19 Cavs Cut Wilkinson - The CleveCLEVELAND (AP) land Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association Saturday waived forward-cente- r Dale Wilkinson, a rookie from Idaho State, reducing their player roster to 15 In four exhibition games with the Cavs, Wilkinson, who was signed as a free agent after playing two years in the Continental Basketball Assona-tion- , averaged 4 3 points and 1 8 rebounds per game Turner began his resuscitation efforts late m that period by starting a drive the ended 39 seconds into the fourth quarter when he plunged over from a yard out to give Nebraska its first lead, 10-- Five minutes later, Nebraska safety Bret Clark intercepted a Steve Vogel pass and returned it 11 yards to the Colorado 29 Four plays later, the Huskers were on the Colorado 3 and Turner called his own number on the option and dove over for another TD that made it 17-- and clinched the victory. Illinois 34, Purdue 20: At Champaign, Illinois quarterback Jack Trudeau fired two touchdown passes to help the Illini strip Purdue of its share of the Big Ten lead The triumph kept alive Illininois' hopes of successfully defending their 1983 conference championship Trudeau connected with Davyd Boatright in the first quarter on a touchdown pass, then hit David Williams with a 35yard r onng pass in the third quarter He also moved Illinois into touchdown position for a plunge by Thomas Rooks in the first TD run by quarter and a Ray Wilson in the fourth quarter y, 7. 7 five-yar- Missouri 61, Kansas St. 21: At Manhattan. quarterback Marlon Adler ran for two touchdowns and threw for another during a 21 point first quarter that propelled Missouri to its easy Big Eight victorj over Kansas Stap- - |
