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Show See UTEP CSU 3i 4] 37 Utah 20 Auburn Wyoming 16 Georgia Tech 7 Missouri New Mexico 24 Air Force 26 Tennessee OSU 7 NMS Navy 3 Alabama 24 0 Notre Dame 24 7 28 Minnesota 8 Stanford WSU Nebraska Kansas 63 16 4] 20 UCLA California Michigan MSU 24 21 34 20 Oklahoma Colorado 23 15 Miss. South 30 Mississippi 14 Long TDs (94, 29, 69 Yards) Spark ASU THE OUTSTRETCHED HANDS OF BYU’s J. C. Hyder (65) couldn’t stop Arizona State’s Steve Holden at the start of a 94 yard puntreturn in the first quarter of Saturday’s gamein BYU Stadium. Holden managed to tura the corner by getting past BYU's Pili Saloune (26) on a quick cutting move near the sideline. This opened the gate for Holden to goall the Herold Photos by Phil Shurtleff way. The run tied a WAC puntreturn record set by a former BYU player. Kent Oborn. Sunday, October 18, 1970 at Sun Devils Triumph273 Despite Good Y Showing By JOE WATTS Herald Sports Editor The long play, Arizona State’s forte this year, crushed the Brigham Young University Cougars Saturdayafternoon 27-3 as the 11th ranked Sun Devils chalked up their fifth straight win of the season to remain undefeated. The putent Devils struck for touchdowns on a 94 yard punt return by Steve Holden, a 29 yard pass interception by Windlan Hall, a 69 yard run from scrimmage by J.D. Hill, and a four yard pass from Joe Spagnola to Brent McClanahan. Going into the game the Sun Devils had scored 22 touchdowns during the season with 17 of them from farther out than 10 yards. The Devils have now scored 26 touchdowns, with 20 of them coming by the long variety. The game was played in Cougar Stadium on the opening day of deer season whick kept the attendance down to a slim 18,288 fans. Proved Difference Thethree long plays proved to be the difference in the ball game as the Cougars were able to battle on even terms for much of the contest. Forinstance, at the endof the first quarter BYU led in first downs 7-1, but trailed on the scoreboard7-3. Arizona State’s Steve Holden returned a punt 94 yards for a touchdown to tie a Western Athletic Conference record set by BYU's Kent Oborn to account for the ASU score. That wasliterally all that the Devils did against the Cougars that entire period, while the Cougar offense moved effectively at times,including a 52 yard dr've that ended with a 37 yardfield goalby Joe Liljenquist with 12 seconds remainingin the quarter. PassInterception Shortly into the second quarter Windlan Hall, outstanding ASU defensive halfback, plucked off en errant BYU pas and scooted 29 yards into the end zone unmolested to give ASU a 14-3 lead, still trailing 7-2 in first downs, The Sun Devils soon pushed the score to 21-3, this time on a substantialoffensive marchof 54 yards, The touchdown came on a four yard down and out pass fom ASU’s touted quarterback McClanahan, A very questionable pass interference block thrown by Ed Beverly on However,theofficial ruled he ruling gave ASUa first down on the last BYU defender who had mistakenly blown theball the 11 yard line to set up the ey had his arms around dead while it wasstill alive and decided to play the down all over score. The Cougars had two major again, thus giving ASUtheball. At that point in the contest the The Sun Devils were playing Sun Devils had a comfortable 21- scoring opportunities go by the without speedy back Dave 3 lead, but the Cougars were boards. The first came when Buchanan *in the lineup. He linebacker Jeff Lyman jumped leading in first downs 7-5 and in missed the game because he total offense 119 yards to 88 on an ASU fumble just 25 yards missed the plane, Whetheror not away from paydirt. yards. the Sun Devils missed him might The Cougars were then faced SuperBlock questionable. His with a fourth down anda foot to be replacement, Monroe Eley, Theonly other scoring play in go situation fora first down near carried 24 times for 119 yards the game was another sen- the 15 yard line, but the strong and was the leading individual sational effort by the Sun Devils Sun Devil lineheld and took over on the field in total offense. in the fourth quarter. Quar- on downs. The Arizona State vassing terback Joe Spagnola had sufPoorCall fered an ankleinjury ard left the On the very next play ASU game didn’t prove too effective against the primed BYU game, but on the first scrim- fumbled the ball and BYU's defense. The Sun Devils hit on mage play substitute quar- outstanding defensive only eight of 30 passes and terback Grady Hurst gave the safetyman, Dan Hansen, quickly gained only 90 yards in the air. ball to wingback J.D. Hill who pounced on the pigskin on the 23 BYU’s passing statistics scampered 69 yards down the yard line in what appeared to be sidelines on a magnificent play another scoring chance for the showed 30 attempts and 13 completions with 133 yards. aided cecal by the super Co; However,the pass interception that was returned for a.touchdown more than offsets what otherwise was a fine performance. The total offense difference came on the ground where the Sun Devils racked up 305 yards rushing compared to BYU's 40. Becomes Receiver Dave Coon, a sometimes starting quarterback for the Cougars, turned out to be an excellent pass receiver in his first start in that role. He replaced the injured Kip Jackson at the tailbacks spot muchof the gameand caughtsix passes for 59 yards in a mighty fine performance. The BYU secondary did an exceptional job of pass defense against the blazing speed of the Sun Devils. Ron Mendenhall, Chris Farasopoulos, and Dan Hansen turnedin fine games. Possibly the outstanding defensive playeronthe field was BYU's middle linebacker Ted Nelson who was credited with six unassisted tackles and 14 assists. Outstanding defensive players for the Sun Devils were Windlan Hall with a pass interception for a touchdown,andlinemen Mike Fanucci, Bob Davenport, Richard Gray, and Bruce Kilby. The 27 points scored by the Sun Devils was their lowest scoring effort of the year, which is a credit to the Cougar defense. Other ASU wins have been 38-0 DAN HANSEN,aggressive BYU defensive safetyman, goes over Colorado State, 35-13 over ahinAearingraban cee just vrior to halftime. Kansas State, 52-3 over 's for whom t! 188 Wax inten Wyoming, and 37-30 over to battle Hansen for the ball. rn m nenees Nae ace Washington State. Herald Photo by Mark Wilcox ASUPER BLOCKthrown by ASU’s Ed Beverly sprungJ. D. Hill the rest of the distance for a 69 yard touchdown run against BYU Saturday afternoon. The last defender, Jeff Lyman, actually had hold of Hill when Beverly slashed through with the great block. Deer Hunt Hurt Game Attendance By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Writer The opening of the Utah deer hunt undoubtedly cut down ca the size of the crowd at Saturday’s BYU-Arizona State football game, because there were only 18,288 fans on hand on a beautiful fall afternoon to see the contest, one of the smallest crowdsto seea grid battle in the present Cougar Stadium. And the east stands (the student section) were the most sparsely populated part of the stadium. Either lot of students went deer hunting Saturday or else they Lave given up on them team because of the Cougars’ poor won-lost record this season. Perhaps the crowd also was downa little because many of the Cougar fans felt Arizona State would run up a huge score against the Cats and they didn’t want to be in on the massacre. However, Arizona State didn’t score as manypoints as many fans thought they would. Thetitle of “most loyal BYU fan” must go to the press box observer who was predicting a Cougar upset victory before the game. Hewaseitherplentyloyal or just plain crazy A guy wearing red garb cf some kind and carrying binoculars was seen standing on aknolljust north of the north end of the stadium. There was much speculation as to whether he was a deer hunter, a University of public address announcer, told Utah tvotball scout or a boy theofficialsfirst to halt play and then seconds later informed themthatthe troubie had been “T think he’s a boy scout,” declared DavePrice,director of corrected. But theofficials came over to information for the Western the sidelines anyway and used Athletic Conference. the field phonesto check out the ‘You won’t think he’s a boy situation. Apparently the scout whenhestarts shooting at problem was permanently you," Nordy Jensen, sports corrected, because Dr. Loyd information director at Arizona Whitiock, the official timer for State, laughed. the game, had no moretrouble “Aw,” somebodyelse jokingly with the device. interjected, ‘“‘he’s probably a Golden Richards, the Cougars’ University of Utah scout and split end, made a valiant athe’s probably standing there, tempt to catch one of Quarbecause BYU wouldn’t let him terback Rick Jones’ long passes into the game.” in thefirst quarter when he wert There also was a lot of flying full length through the air discussion as to why Dave to grab the ball. It appeared to Buchanan, a s‘arting halfback some observersin the press box for the Sun Devils, didn’t make that hc had held on to the ball, the trip to Provo for the game. even though he camecrashing to Even Jensen didn’t have a the ground, but the officials logical explanation as to why ruled otherwise. Buchanan wasn’ton handforthe Jim MeCann, the Arizona game. State punter who boomed the “He was hurt early in the ball sky-high and a mile long week,” Jensensaid, ‘“‘but I don’t Saturday, fumbled the pass from know whether that was the center on hisfirst boot and had reason heea make the “ to scurry aroundto pick up ee ‘Th, ball and didn’t a ‘the trip. didn't a a him ‘the Cougat Somebodyelse in the press box very strong rush zoing, so he said he just plain missed the was able to get the punt away plane that carried the Sun Devils without it being blocked. It to Utah. didn’t go as far as someofhis A kicks, but it still traveled a timing device caused the buzzer rather respectable 43 yards. to keep going on and off soon The Arizon: ite-BYU game after the game got under way will be shown as partof College Jimmy Lawrence, the game's Football Highlights telecast scout. today at noon over Channel 4 according to Price. The films also will be used as part of the WAC Highlights film. When Arizona State fumbled after a sizeable gain early in the fourth period, and BYU recovered the ball only to have theofficials return the ballto the point where the play started, © rybody appearedto be in a state of confusion and nobody seemed to come up with a satisfactory explanation of just what happened Give Dave Schulthess, the BYU sports information director, a lot of credit for makinga valiant effort to try to unravel the ruling. But after contacting several sources concerning the play, Schulthess threw uphis handsin dispair and finally had to admit ‘Nobody seems to know just what the ruling onthe play i One observer cracked “Theofficials must have been scouting the officials who worked the Arizona-BYU game last week.” The guy was refer to the BYU fumble that Arizona ‘allegedly” recovered -- a play that kicked up quite a storm of controversy A reporter asked Price to explain the ruling on the Arizona State fumble, but the WAC information director apparently didn't have an answer either, because he remained silent. |