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Show Adams’ Arm Leads Utah State Past BYU29-7 Aggie Defense Too Tough For Cougars WhoLose 3rd Straight By JOE WATTS Herald Sports Editor LOGAN — The Utah State Aggies, using a powerful defense Five plays later Utah State had a 22-7 lead as Jerry Hughes dove over the goal line on fourth and one. BYU Fumble and the passing of Tony Adams, There was no scoring in the rambled to a 29-7 victory over third quarter, although the Aggies had one great scoring Brigham Young University opportunity when Alan McSaturdayafternoon at the USU Murray, USU's outstanding defensive player, fforceda fumble stadium. which was recovered by another The only bright spot the Aggie defensive standout, Kent Cougars had came in the first Baer, on the BYU25 yardline. quarter on a beautiful 49 yard The Aggies were forced to try a touchdown run by Pete Van. field goal attempt but Doyle Valkenburgthatput the Cougars missed. ahead 7-3, but from there on in The lone touchdown in the the Cougar offense was fourth quarter was engineered paralized and almost helpless by Adams, He threw a touchagainst the aggressive Aggie down strike to Tom Forzani, a defensive forward wall. distance of 40 yards, A USU BYU finished the game with holding penalty nulliffed the play, but only delayed the touchonly 31 yards rushing, 18 fewer down. Adams then hit passes yards than compiled by Van from 11 and 10 yards and on Valkenburg in his touchdown fourth and two, ran 27 yards to Tun, That one statistic shows how completely Utah State the BYU 9 yardline. Two plays dominated the inept BYU of- later Adams scored to put Utah fense. BYU gained only onefirst State ahead 29-7, BYU had three passes indown in the second half, that being a 40-yard pass play to tercepted in the fourth quarter, Golden Richards who had to amdcounting the punt they were come up with a miraculous ef- unable to getoff and a fumble, fort to make the catch, Other had five turnovers during the game while Utah State didn’t than that BYU gave the chain gangs a rest throughout the make any turnover errors. Coach’s Comment second half. Field Goal Utah State took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter on a 42 yard field goal by Mickey Doyle, but the Cougars marched 86 yards in eight plays, highlighted by the in their first two games, and have scored only14 in their last three games. They now havea 2- 3 record, and still face four straight road games. Utah State is now 41 on the season with its only loss being against top ranked Nebraska. Defensive standouts for the Cougars were RayCrandell and Karl Bowers, along witn Jeff Lyman, The BYU secondary, which has been outstanding in the interception department failed to come up with any in this game and had a hard time covering the pass patterns run by Wicks and Forzani, two very good receivers. STATISTICS BYU usu First Downs Bsa Yards Rushing 3] Yards Passing Né 172 Total Offense 14736) Passes A.C-| 19-8-3 23-12.0 Total Plays 4 Punts 8-45 5.38.2 Penaitties 678 5-65 Fumbles inDt VIDUAL staristics Rushing Player Att. Yds, VanValkenburg, BYU so Adams, USU n 5 Sawyer, USU 3°37 Hughes, USU 3 (32 ites, USU 13° 48 ¢‘oon, BYU 7 % Passing Player C-A-I. Yds. Adams, USU 12-23-0 172 August, BYU 817-3 46 Receiving Player Number.Yds. Coach Tommy Hudspeth of- Forzani, USU 493 5 66 fered no excuse. “We were a Wicks, USU Richards, BYU 2 4 poor football team today and Hunter, BYU 2 % unless we strap them up it’s Miller, BYU 2019 going oebe a long season,” said — by Quarters 7- 0.0.0— 7 10-12-0-7 — 29 The Cheats scored 95 points PETE VAN VALKENBERG gets good blocking on a 49-yard touchdown ramble for Brigham Young University against Utah State University at Logan Saturday. It was the Cougars’ lone sizike against Utah State, which won tue contest 29-7 before more than 17,000 fans on their homefield, great run by Van Valkenburg to quickly take the lead away from the Aggies. BYU's offense was inept and the stout Aggie line kept the visitors backed deep In their own territory much of the game. VanValkenburg’s run was beautiful to watch. He broke throughtheline, did a two-step with an Aggie linebacker, spun away and broke down the sideline picking up blocks from Golden Richards and Dave Coon to clear the path into the end zone. _THE HERALD,Provo, Utah—Page 9 Utah State quickly retaliated ona 5é-yard drivein 6 plays with a pass from Tony Adams to Tom Forzani for 29 yards and a touchdown.Thatput the Aggies ahead 10-7 and it appeared at that point that it was going to be a wide open, high scoring game. However, the Aggie Jefense saw to it thatit was only high scoring on oneside. Leach Wins for Third Time ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ray Leach fired a 69 Saturdayto capture medalist honors at the Tucker Invitational Golf Tournament for the third straight time and lead BYU to the team title. The Cougars trailed by two Touchdown Run Early in the second quarter Bob Wicks returned a punt 61 yards for a touchdown,using his blockers all down the sideline, and faking out the last BYU defender at the 10 yard line and waltzed in for the score. The pregamepublicity centered around BYU's Golden Richards on punt returns since he leads the nation, but Wicks finished second in the nation in that departmentlast year and returned two punts for touchdown last season. Wick’s punt return put the Aggies ahead 16-7. The punting department simply didn’t work very well for the Cougars. Thenext time BYU went back to put, Joe Liljenquist dropped the pass from center, and was unable to get the puntoff and Utah State took over on BYU’s 18yardline. Buckeyes BeatIll. sophomore. Less than two minutes later Keith scored again from two yards out after Kevin Fletcher blocked an Illinois punt and Mike Scannell recovered on the Illinois two-yardline, Only four minutes and 51 seconds had elapsed in the game and Illinois trailed, 14-0. ‘The Illinois, now 0-2 in the Big Ten and 0-5 Overall, managed to score in the second quarter when quarterback Mike Wells kicked a 37-yard field goal, But OSU ranits lead to 245 in the third quarter on a threeyard scamper by Hare and a 2%-yard field goal by Fred Schram, The Illinois, struggling for respectability, refused to quit against Ohio, which is now 2-0 in the Big Ten, OSU turned back the Illinois inside the Buckeye 5 twice in the first half—stopping them on the 3 in the first period and on the 4 in the second. BYU. coup! 738 by Joey and Randy five teams in the country.” Bye 74 by Davesee? @ 77 by Rusty Guernse’ Laooh had fined a Tein eachof but rallied to win the team the first two rounds but soared to championship by 14 strokes over a 78 Friday. However, he bounced back with the 69 to finish at 287, only one stroke off Utah Beats UTEP 32-10 BURIED BENEATH the yi fle of Utah State junior Jerry Hughes scoring a one-yarder for the Aggies (dark jerseys). Stanford, Bunce Win Over Huskies 17-6 SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI)— Stanford quarterback Don Bunce fired a 20-yard strike for line in the third quarter. The Huskies got on the scoreboard in the fourth period when Luther Slight went over from the one. Stanford apparently had stopped the Washington drive by throwing Sixkiller for an 11- one touchdown Saturday to win his personal duel with Washington’s Sonny Sixkiller and lead the Indians to a 17-6 win over the Huskies, The Stanford victory put the yard loss to the Indian 20. But Indians on the inside track in a defensive holding penalty the Pacific-8's race to the Rose gave the Huskies the ball on Bowl and knocked Washington the one and Sligh went over on from the ranks of the unbeaten. the next play. It was only the second A partisan crowd of 60,777, touchdown the Stanford defense Bunce’s touchdown pass to flanker John Winesberry opened the Indian's scoring. Fullback Reggie Sanderson romped 20 yards for the second Stanford tcachdown and Rod Garcia kicked a 47-yard field goal to give Stanford a 17-0 halftime lead. A rock-hard Stanford defense that held Washington to a has given upthis year. U.S. Davis Lead Cut CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UPI)— Muscular Ion Tiriac and ailing teammate Ilie Nastase kept Romania's hopes alive in the Davis Cup challenge round Saturdaywith a 5-7, 46, 6-8 win over Stan Smith and Erik Van Dillen that narrowed the United States lead to 2-1. minus 13 yards rushing and The Romanians locked up the muffled Sixkiller, deserved a doubles event when VanDillen, large share of credit for the a 20-year-old college junior win, Sixkiller completed only 12 of 46 passes, the poorest performanceof his college career. Sixkiller also threw four interceptions, with Stanford safety Benny Barnespicking off three of them. Washington was not able to make a first down until the second quarter was almost four minutes old, ‘The Husky defense tightened in the second half and put on a stirring goal iine stand to stop Stanford on the Husky one-yard playing in his first Davis Cup event, a 20-year-old college junior playing in his first Davis Cup event, dropped two succes- USU beat BYU 29-7 at Romney Stadium, dominating mostof the gamewith a deft passing gameand strong line. College Grid Scores EL PASO, Texas — Utah scored’ 20 points in the second half to defeat Texas-El Paso 3210 for the Redskins’first victory of the year. The win gives Utah a J3 0-3 in the WAC. EAST Utah led at halftime 12-7 and Ithaca 39 Fordham 6 saw the lead cut to 12-10 before Holy Cross 24 Colgate 14 capitalizing on UTEPerrors to Dartmouth 19 3 dominateplayin the second half. Penn St. 42 Army 0 Arizona St. 42 Colorado St. 0 Yale 17 Brown 10 Stanford 17 Washington 6 (jc; Lehigh 35 Rutgers 14 LA 34 Washington St. 21 Boston Coll. 23 Villanova 7 California 30 Oregon St. 27 Drexel 14 Kings Point 6 Pittsburgh 36 Navy le SOUTH Harvard 21, Columbia Virginia St, 46. Shaw0, Westminster Pa. 34 Waynesburg Livingston 28 Samfo Florida St. 27 TAlssiasippl St.9 amherst 39 Bowaoin 21 NASHVILLE, Tenn, (UPI)— Georgia 38 Mississippi 7 Hampden-Sydney 16 Wash. & Lee Quantico Marines 23 Springfield Johnny Musso pounded out 113 yards and set a SouthBastern Auburn 27 Southern Mississippi 14 Tatts 44 Norwich 2 Middle Tennessee 31 Eastern Rhode Island 34 Vermont 22 Contes career touchdown Gettysburg 42 Albright 13 Kentucky 18 record on a 17-yard gallop Morehead 22 Austin Peay 0 aeante 2h Coon Millsaps 27 Georgetown Ky. 0 0 Saturday nightas fourth-ranked ; Centre 27 Washington Mo. 21 Seve givti sie Corot Alabama mauled Vanderbilt, Southwestern Tenn. 28 Princi Slippery Rock 34 Shippensburg 7 42.0, pia Northeast Louisiana 27. Tennes. Wagner 20 Morav Heavily favored Alabama Cornell 19 Princeton a see Chattanoog overcame early mistakes to MorganSt. 1MMaryland Eastern Wesleyan 35 Coast Guard 34 blow the game open in the Shore 13 C.X, Post_45 Cortland St. 13 Frostburg St. 20 Towson St. 0 second half with * four touchNortheastern 28 American inter. John Hopkins 27 Ursinus 14 national downs after holding a 130 West Virginia 28 William & Mary ; lead. halftime Curry 7 Trenton St. 0 Clemson 3 Duke New Hampshire 24 Maine 14 Musso's touchdown raised his Tennessee 10 Deals Tech 6 Delaware 49 Bucknell 8 career total to 32—one more Syracuse 21 Maryland 13 West chester St. 48 Millersville than former Georgia great Tulane 37 North Carolina 29 Notre Dame 17 Miami 0 Davidson 20 Bucknell & ok ‘caution LSU 48 Florida 7 atts Franklin & Marshall 31 Sarth- to within 10 points of tying the Kansas 39 KansasSt. Western Michigan 3} Kent St.0 Western Maryland18je veonnlig 7 individual SEC scoring mark of Rochester 21 Union 204 points held by former Boston U. 47 Restsenatl 21 Northwestern 28 lowa 3 Georgia Tech back Billy Glenville 43 West Virginia Wesle. Lothridge. Ohio St. 24 IMinois 10 yan Wisconsin 35 Indiana 29 Musso’s score capped a 79Clarion 17 Lock Haven 7 Nebraska 36 Missouri i Colorado 24 lowaSt. Shepherd 17 West Virginia Tech yard drive in 11 plays with the Michigan 24 michigan $1.13 v7 strong halfback helping his own Okishoma 48 Texas 2) West Liberty 22 West Virginia St cause with runs of nine and 13 1 yards before his 17-yard gallop. Temple 38 Connecticut 0 Nastase in the second match of Fairmont 7 Salem 3 the day in the three-day, best- Williams 33 Middlebury 18 Downtown Coaches Trinity Conn. 23 Rensselaer Poly of-five series, WEST Utah State 29 BYU 7 sive points, returning one ball out of bounds and the other into Tiriac, a former Olympic the net in the final game. The doubles match, played in hockey player, never lost his serve against the Americans a steady downpour before a but later expressed disappointcrowd of 5,700 hinged the outcome of the challenge round mentwith his game. “It was not e particularly on Sunday's two singles well played game from my matches. Smith plays Tiriac in the point,” he said. “I was tried to play opening match at 1 p.m. EDT surprised they and Frank Froeiding meets back on my serve.” Alabama Rolls Over Vanderbilt Jersey City St. 31. Nichols 6 Meet With Hudspeth Geneva 37 Bethany W. Va. 0 Alfred 2) St. Lawrence 8 Penn Military 21 Upsala 0 Susquehanna 24 Randolph Macon % Wilkes 35 Galaivare Vatley 30 Club will hold its regular Monday morning breakfast in Elliott's Cafe at 7 a.m. Coach Hudspeth will discuss the Utah State game and the Bridgewater St. 37 Maine Mari- xo 20 East Strouds. tHe Prove Downtown Coaches coming Wyoming contest. He icomsburg 35 California St. 26 vi alse show films of yesterLebanon Vallry 2) Muhlenberg 16 day’s action in Logan, Mansfield St. 45 Cheyney St. & up eesi xwaialchiaiite well ahead of Forida and also included a 70 by Bob Lapic, Houston which are two of the top strokesgoinginto the final round CHAMPAIGN, Ill, (UPI)— Randy Keith scored two lightning quick first-period touchdowns and Ohio State added 10 more points in the second half to give the Buckeyes a 24-10 victory over winless Illinois Saturday. The first time the Buckeyes had the ball sophomore quarter- largest ever to see a football back Greg Hare, subbing for gamein the Pacific Northwest, ailing starter Don Lamka, was silenced in the first directed a four-playdrive of 62 minutes of play when Stanford yards, ending with a one-yard scored allits points. scoring smash by Keith, also a national power Florida. Favored Coach Karl Tucker after the Hae was third, 15 stroxes the course record. The top team scores were as follows: 1, BYU 1177 9. Florida 1191 3 Houston 1192 4 New Mexico 1197 5, Arizona State 1203 Weber State 124 The two-time All-America7, North Texas State 1231 won the tournament as a fresh- § Louisiana State 1233 man and tied for medalist honors as a sophomore. Three BYU players tied at 296: Shipiey, Dills and Tiersiera. Lapic finished at 298 and Guernsey was at “This is one of the most 6, Dennis Walters, North Texas rewarding wins we've had,”said State - 295 Nebraska Gains 36-0 Win OverMissouri COLUMBIA,Mo. (UPI)—Jeff Kinney pounded over for two touchdowns in the second quarter Saturdayas relentless Nebraska pushed Missouri all over thefield en route to a 36-0 victory before a sellout crowd: of 61,200, The game was Nebraska's 24th straight without a loss as the topranked Cornhuskers began defense of their Big Eight championship in awesomefashion. Missouri was never in the Johndrow guided the Tigers to the Nebraska 15 and 30 in, the second half before pass interceptions by Bill Coach and Dave Mason halted the threats. Quarterback Jerry Tagge, who accounted for 234 yards passing and another 8 running, put Nebraska on the scoreboard twice in the third quarter. The senior quarterback passed 28 yards Johnny Rodgers for one touchdown and sneaked 1 yard for another. The drive covered contest as the Big Red held the 72 and 80 yards. impotent Tigers to seven first downs and a mere 9 yards rn vushin, ig. Nebraska erupted for 16 points in the second quarter after being held twice inside the Missouri 20 in the first 15 minutes. Kinney capped a 67-yard drive with a l-yard dive with 8:42 to play before halftime. A few minutes later, middle guard Monte Johnson slipped through and blocked Jack Bastable's attempted quick-kick out of the end zone for a The 36-point margin was the most decisive loss by a Missouri team since 1958, when Oklahomaran up a 39-0 verdict. Lobos, Ags Tie 35-35 ALBUQUERQUE,N.M. — Pat McTeer of New Mexico State missed a 27-yard field goal attempt with four seconds Cornhusker safety. The safety remaining as arch rivals New was setup bya clipping penalty Mexico and New Mexico State battled to a 35-35 tie. that pushed Nebraska back to its four yard line. Thetie is an upsetof sorts as Kinney capped another touch- the New Mexico Lobos were down drive,this one covering 55 heavily favored going into the yards, with a 3 yard run near contest. UNM is now 2-1-1 while ¥ end of the half. the New Mexico State is 2-2-1. Missouri was held to minus 2 's All-American candiyards rushing and two first downs in the first half, while date Ron ‘Po’ James tore at the Nebraska chewed up 214 on the Lobos’line in the final minut +s ground and another 116 in the as the Aggies made a final air. The ers replaced charge. But with the ball on the quarterba¢k Chuck Roper with nine-yard line NMSU went for sonamire Ed Johndrow the the field goal but the kick was wideto the left trom the 17, last 30 minutes. |