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9iiTrUiwgniao BYJERHYVERNON-nnriw Sports Writerworn William and Mary utilizedsioD??lmosl Perfect play execution<,r|j <jind what appeared lo be a touch -

of exlra-sensory perception to9?.n9ll)verwnelm Virginia Tech al,-lno Lane Stadium yesterday 27-15.3voifc Tne Indians bored into Techvi 2'lerritory for three touchdowns.llen-and two field goals .with theaid n . .

moments after (he game. "Itwas very evident Coa<5h (Jim)Hoot had his people prepared. Idid a poor job. We were juslplain oulcoached loday."

II look the Indians little timelo prove I hey were a bettersquad than the one Techdefeated last season 24-7.

William and Mary allowed theGobblers only four tough

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of the opening quarter.Rozantz became a familiar

name lo the extimaled 35,000fans who watched in dismay asTech droped its second match ofthe season. The lankysophomore connected on eightof 15 tosses for one touchdownwhile rushing for 32 yards inseven carries.

"He was like a magician,"said Sharpe. "He just steppedback and never missed. Ijippe

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rylhmic precision of a well oiledmachine. The Gobbler offense,on the other hand, moved like astraight drive transmissionwith a bad clutch.

The Tech offense jerked andjnever jelled as the Hokiessuffered Iheir firsl in-slaledefeat in Ihe lasl two years.Credit for the sluggish offensegoes to an Indian defense lhatanticipated every move CoachJimmy SharpVs team made.

"It was a long afternoon,"lamented the \Tech coach

running yards in the game'sopening series. The nexl limeIhe Hokies tried lo move Ihe ballIhe resulls were even moredisaslrous. Quarterback Mil-cheal Barnes fumbled aflergaining a firsl down. Indianlinebacker Jeff Hosmer fell onihe loose ball al Ihe Techjl.

II look quarterback TomRozantz only seven plays toguide Ihe Indians into Ihe endzone. Fullback Keith Fimianearned the score on a one yardplunge over the left side al 6:12

we don'I have lo face a quar-terback rlikfirr Rozantz-everyw^ek or we betler gfl better."

Bul the hokies had moreproblems lhan Rozantz. two ofthe troublemakers were backsFimian and Jim Kruis.

Fimian finished off an 80-yardtouchdown drive in Ihe secondquarler wilh. mildly con-troversial Iwo-yardd plunge upIhe middle. As Ihe 220-poundfullback dove inlo Ihe end zonebefore the ball was knockedloose from his grip. A Techplayer scooped the ball up, bulIhe officials ruled Ihe fumbleoccurred afler Ihe score. Kruis,who was a doublful starlerearned 27 of his day's 58 yardsin Ihe drive.

In a rare stroke of good luck,Tech managed lo narrow IheIndian's 14-poinl spread loseven jusl before Ihe half ended.The Hokies drive slarted onthe Indian's 47 yard line. Afterfour running plays nelted 10yards, Barnes hit moses Fosler

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Inspired FranklinDerails Ptilaski Co.

By JERRY RATCLIFFESenior Sports Editor

ROCKY MOUNT-PuIaskiCounty didn'i play like PulaskiCounty Friday night, but theCougars didn't play likeFranklin County either.

Hobbled and flat coming inloI he game, Ihe Cougars blew anoxcellenl opportunity lo be 4-1al the midseason mark' bydropping a travesty 14-6 lo Ihehost Eagles, which picked upiheir second viclory of theseason.

"If Ihey (PC) had been. wearing some other color of

uniform tonight, I'd have swornIhey were a completely dif-ferenl football team than what Isaw last week," confessedFranklin Coach Miller Ben-hington. He had previewed theCougars' 30-28 viclory overCave Spring the previous week.

Cougar Coach Dave Brownwas wearing - u frown offrustration. "We haven't met aweaker team since we've beenplaying in the Group AAAleague. But ,w«-just weren'tready, to play football when westepped oul on the field

lonight."Kighi halfback Kenny

Bruce's 26-yard gallop in thefirst period set Ihe Eagles upwilh a 7-0 lead, and FranklinCounly stayed in front all nighl.Il wasn'l u nighl wilh suspense.

Franklin led 7-0 al Ihe halfand took a 14-0 lead wilh nineand a half minutes left to playon Glennis Young's 50-yardrelurn of a Tim Venable passfor a score.

The Cougars failed lo light upihe Scoreboard until the two-

, minute mark when sophomoreJeff Harvey pulled in a Venablepass and scooted 45 yards forihe Catamount's lone score.

Pulaski Counly did Ihrealenonce near Ihe end of'the thirdquarter afler driving from itsown 40 lo Ihe Franklin 14 fromwhere a double pass was in-complete on fourlh down.

Thus the Cougars go to 3-2 onthe'season (1-1 in the RoanokeValley Dislricl). WilliamFleming, a 17-0 loser lo Nor-Ihside Friday night, is nexlFriday's opponent for theCougar Homecoming.

The Cougars gol only Ihe lone

louchdown oui of 192 yards totaloffense and 57 offensive plays,more Ihan Franklin in bothstatistical categories.

It wasn't a good nighl forfootball. A light drizzle turnedinto a heavy downpour early inIhe Ihird quarler and Ihetemperature fell off a bit.Kleenex slock must have rose afull point.

"It was jusl a miserablenighl," offered Coach Brown.

Franklin came on Ihe fieldready lo play. But there wassome question as to whether IheCougars arrived with the sameintenlions.

"We never established ourrunning game," Brown ciled asthe biggest hangup for the once-explosive Cougar offense."Since we couldn't do that, they(Franklin) didn'i respect ourfakes when we tried to open upand pass...it (fakes), jusl didn'iinleresl their defense."

Playing withoul Ihe district'sIhird leading rusher, IsaiahMcClanahan, ihe Cougars hadonly 35 yards tolal offense in.the

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TECH'S PAUL ADAMS (44) BULLS FOR YARDAGE AGAINST STUBBORN WILLIAM & MARY DEFENSE SATURDAYTribe s Doug Pearson (54) Collars Big Fullback After Short Gain. Adams Gained 45 Yards For The Gobblers.

Hendrix, King Lead Way

Bobcats Spear Spartans

VENABLE SCRAMBLES FOR YARDAGEBut The Cougars Failed To Stop FC

By DAVID J.BISSETSports Writer

Jerry Hendrix and Chad Kingscored touchdowns and IheRadford defensive unil had anexcellent goal line sland lo

•highlight "Radford's"" 21-0'blanking of Giles.

The victory was Ihe BobcatsIhird in four dislricl outings andupped their overall mark lo 4-1.

And it enables the Black &While lo slay on the heels ofleague leading Blacksburg whois undefeated and unscoredupon.

Hendrix, who averaged 5.4yards in Iherfirst four contests','dashed 61 yards lo paydirt forRadford's firsl score whichended a 87-yard drive. In ihethird quarler Hendrix added his

W&MFor Real;Root Confident• • ' • ' • . • • , ' . • / • - • ' . . . . ••.'• • • •

Team Could WinBy Dan Callahan

Staff WriterThere is absolutely no doubt about it now. The Indians of

William & Mary are indeed for real.They proved it quite adequately Saturday when they

whipped the Gobblers of Virginia Tech 27-15 in LaneStadium.

It was quite aptly put by Indian safety and punter JoeAgee. "We just finished with our Thanksgiving Day dinner afew weeks early."

The most shocking thing for area fans on this cloudy, coolfootball afternoon was the way in which W & M was able todominate the Hokies on both offense and defense.

Indian head coach Jim Root was ecstatic with his team'splay. "I felt all. along that we could beat that team. Tech hasa good team but William & Mary also has a darn good foot-ball team."

It was quarterback Tom Rozantz that led the Indians tovictory. His overall direction of the offense, faking, passing,and running kept the Gobbler defense off balance, the entiregame.

Root couldn't find enough complimentary things to sayabout his quarterback. "There's no better sophomorequarterback in this country than that young man. Damn, hereally did it.

"We protected him well, and this made it possible for himto maneuver. We were able to get enough yards inside tomake Tech respect the fakes, and this helped Tommy get onthe corner to do his stuff." •

Root was not about to leave without saying.somethingabout his defensive team's effort either. "We got a superdefensive effort out of our people today. We had to play someyoung birds on defense and they did the job. We went theentire game with backup people at both tackles (Pete Griffinand Doug Pearson of Pearisburg) and they had a greatbaptism."

Root even felt confident enough early in the fourth quarterto take Rozantz out of the lineup. This surprised a lot ofpeople Jjut Root couldn't understand that.

"We have an outstanding athlete as our backup quar-terback. Preston Green has just been sitting on the benchcollecting splinters. He's too good a player not to be used.

"He moved the team very well just as.I knew he could. Hehas great potential and I'm just glad that we got the op-portunity to use him today. I'm just mighty happy. We gotsuper efforts in all areas today."

It appeared at one point late in the first half that the In-dians domination of the game might be in jeopardy.

It came on a pass play. Tech quarterback Mitchell Barnesthrew long to split end Moses Foster. W & M cornerback Ken

, Smith had him well covered, and the ball was slightly un-derthrown. So Smith went for the interception. It bounced offSmith's hands and into the waiting fingers of Foster for thescore. Root couldn't believe that it happened.

"We had worked hard all the first half to get that 14 point.' lead and we just couldn't believe that happened to us Smith

is an outstanding defensive back and he was trying to makethe play he should have. Last year it may have effected Usmore, but we just got together and went right back at them ''

"Root couldn't have been happier. I don't want to blow toohard about this, but we've been through our hard times. I'mconvinced now that our program is moving in the rightdirection. I'm confident that we will fill up our dinky littlestadium (Gary Field), the rest of the year."

There's not much doubt about the Indians having goodattendance the rest of the year. They are for real.

The Tribe certainly appear to be the elite team in Virginiathis season, and one never knows for sure at this early stagebut it may be William & Mary that gets that much talkedabout bowl bid.

second touchdown of Ihe contestwhen the Bobcats marched 77yards with Hendrix sprintingthe final 16 yards into the end-zone. Radford's final louchdowncame on a 15-yard burst oft the,

"left"side1 by^ Chad King?The Cals, who intercepled

ihree passes and recovered onefumble, were also guilly ofcoughing up Ihe pigskin as Gilesrecovered Ihree Bobcat fumblesand intercepted one BobbyCloyd pass during the contest.

Neither team moved the ballearly in the game, bul EarlHaynes did spark the Bobcatswhen he intercepted a BobbyBuchanan-pass artd (returned i$to the Giles 47. $ul lw£ playglaler,_ClQyd!s__handofL wasrecovered by Sparlan tackleMark Gussler al the Giles 46.

The home learn drove lo IheBobcal 35 before being calledfor a holding penalty which putthe ball al midfield. On fourthand long Spartan RickeyTawney boomed Ihe pigskin lothe Cat 14.

With 1.-40 left Radford pickedup a firsl at Ihe 25 on runs byEarl Haynes and Chad King. OnIhe next play Hendrix wascaughl by 6-2, 205 senior tackleHoward Dickerson of Giles whorecovered ihe ball al theRadford 23.

On Giles' firsl play Buchanan,allempled lo hit the NRD.'s ..leading pass catcher BruceMorris, bul outside linebackMike King inlercepled the passat the RHS 13.

King's interception sparkedthe Bobcal offense as Iheybegan their firsl scoring drive.Fullback Billy Webb went forsix yards to Ihe 19 just beforethe quarler ended.

Then Haynes blasled for six

and a first al the 26. Hendrixpicked up Ihree and Cloyd fakeda pass and rolled to his right fora gain of six al Ihe 35. Webbgained len yards in two carriesfor, aaolherJ irsLoa-lhe ,45.,,....

After a Bobcat encroachmenlpenally,. Hendrix saw anopening up the middle, thenturned to his left, was spunaround, kept his balance andwith Bobcat blockers in front ofhim dashed inlo the endzone forRadford's first louchdown andthe only score of the half.

Afler Ihe kickoff both teamspunled once each. Radford'spunl went to the 35 where theSparlirtis scried for thgBbbcaj;endzone. Wilh 4?42V. left in thesecond period Buchananspoiled Ricky Eppling open atthe 17 for a nifly 18 yard pickupand a first down. Then,Buchanan eyed Morris open onihe left flat and the 6-0, 270,wideoul grabbed the ball awayfrom iwo Bobcal defenders althe Radford two.

With a first and goal Gilesmei Ihe "King-Haynes"Defense which slopped IheSparlans dead in Iheir Iracks.On first down fullback TimmyRadford oT Giles was smackedby defensive end Billy King for.a loss of Iwo. On second and fourRoger Lee look ihe handofffrom Buchanan arid Mike Kingwas wailing lo unload at Ihe sixfor another two yard setback.On third down Buchanan at-lempled lo pass lo RickyEppling in ihe endzone butagain Mike King was Ihere lobreak il up.

Faced wilh a fourlh and sixGiles called timeout lo discussIhe matter. The Bobcats,however didn'i mind the delaywhen play resumed as

linebacker Howard Haynescaughl Buchanan al the sevenon a roll out.

In the third quarler Giles wasforced lo punt afler Ihe opening

.kickoff, and Radford look overal Iheir-own 23 and drove 77yards lo paydirl.

Webb and Chad King gol (hecalls lo run up Ihe middle on IheSparlans' defense. Firsl Webbwent five yards Ihen King forfour and Webb again for a firstal Ihe RHS 37. An encroachmenlpenally moved il back lo Ihe 32where Webb gol the call againand bucked ahead for three.Chad King added, six moreyitftfs b§£or£Webb rjgped. off 12yards,.for another ,firsi at theGiles 47.

King then gol the call the nexlihree of four plays and ihejunior, who carried 12 limes for78 yards in ihe game, gained 24yards. Howard Haynes alsowent up (he middle on a quickopener for five yards and a firsial the 22. Hendrix Ihen lolled lohis right, cul back inlo Ihemiddle, knocked down Epplingand David Epperly of the Gilessecondary and scored from 16yards out. Again Ihe PAT wasmissed, bul RHS was on top 12-0.

After ihe kickoff Giles lookover at its own 36 and MilesJackson scrambled 15 yards tothe Cat 49. With Jackson againgetting ihe ball, Mike Kingzeroed in and stopped him for nogain.

Johnston then gained threeyards and on third and sevenJohnston rolled left and waspopped by Earl Haynes. Theball fell to the ground wheresafety Wesley Wall recovered

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CHAD KING (25) RAMBLES TO PAYDIRTFor Radford's Third Touchdown

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Foy Fires Three TD Passes<Tfic .Siinitaij (Timer. 3ournalpuLASKi-RADFORD. VA., October 3,197^9

INDIAN PHILIP WESEL (50) RIDES BALL CARRIER ̂ *""Blacksburg Defense Still Unscored Upon.

Demon ComebackFalls Too Short

By DAVE SCARANGELLASpecial Writer

With 24 seconds left in thegame, theChristiansburg benchwas ecstatic. Mark Vaughanhad just scored on a 14 yard run,putting the Demons ahead 22-20.Barring a miracle, there was noway Floyd could win this game,and a four game Demon losingstreak would be snapped. Thenit happened.

Christiansburg took everyprecaution. Instead of risking along kickoff return as hadhappened earlier, the kickoffwas squibbed very effectively.Floyd started on its own 23 yardline.

The Demons dropped backdeep expecting a pass. Floydquarterback Harvey Marshallfired a long pass to speedsterAdolf Turner. Turner wasdouble covered, as Vaughancame over to make the in-terception. The ball went

'.'mfbugh"Ws''hands'1 aud intoTurner's. There was no onebetween Turner and the goalline, as Floyd's miracle cametrue, winning 28-22.

For Christiansburg, it was aseries of comebacks that fellshort. Floyd capitalized on bigplays every time the Demonswent ahead.

The scoring started early inthe first possession, Floyd puttogether an impressive 43 yarddrive, grinding it all out on theground. The bulk of the loadwas carried by Lewis Stuart,who bears a striking resem-blance to Blacksburg's SidneySnell, not only in running stylebut in versatility as well. Stuartfinished the night with 150 yardson 21 carries, with 108 of thesecoming in the first half. RickyClower scored the Buffaloesfirst touchdown from three

yards out.Showing a little deter-

miration, Christiansburg cameback with a drive of its own.Covering 60 yards, the Demondrive effectively took ad-vantage of a good night byChuck Lynch. In only his secondgame at running back afterrecovering from an injury,Lynch rushed for 89 yards on 14carries. Tim Franklin, who didnot start for disciplinaryreasons, scored the touchdownon a one yard run; Mark Burkkicked the extra point, and theDemons led 7-6.

The lead was short lived asRobert Spence returned theensuing kick off, 77 yards for ascore and a 12-7 Floyd lead.

After a scoreless secondperiod, Christiansburg got abreak on a short Floyd punt tostart off the second half Fromthe Floyd 35, the Demonsscored in only four plays.Franklin scored from one yardout, and also ran in the con-version and it_ was, 15-12. :j

That was it until midwaythrough the fourth quarter,when with everyone keying onStuart, Marshall lofted a 50yard scoring strike to Jim Vest,The two point conversion wasgood, setting up the last minutedramatics.

Demon Coach Doug Greenerefrained from comment on thegame.

Buckeyes Rally

COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -Second-ranked UCLA, led bythe running of sophomorehalfback Theolis Brown and thepassing of quarterback JeffDank worth, rallied /in thesecond half Saturday to earn a10-10 lie with eighth-rankedOhio Stale in a nationally-televised game.

The Bruins, now 3-0-1, trailed7-0 at half time, but scoredmidway through the thirdperiod on a 47-yard field goalby Frank Corrall and wentahead 10-7 midway in the finalperiod on an 83-yard, 14-playdrive capped by Dankworth'splunge from less lhan a footaway.

That drive was set up by aBruins' recovery of a Jeff

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Friday Virginia High School FootballScores

By United Preit InternationalAllegheny 14 Glenvar 7AltaVista at Appomattox, ppd.(Sal)(Amelia 22 Powtialsn 14Mmherst Co. IB Nelson Co. 0Vnnandfflkat T.C Williams, ppd.(Sat)BIT. Washington 21 Granby 0Birth C* 32 Buffalo Gap 6BelhVfi Warwick 6Big Creek 9 Tazewell 0Bishop Ireloh at Stonewall Jackson

(Manassass), ppd.(Sat)Blacksburg 46 Narrows 0Bluestone 20 Randolph-Henry 11Bowling Green 45 Lancaster 0Bristol 31 Liberty 8Brookvllle 31 Liberty 8Brusnwlck 22 Greensvllle 0Charles City 16 Middlesex 15Charlottesvllle at E.G. Glass, ppd.(Sal)Chlncoteague 20 Parksley 15Churchland 38 Manor 6Cllntwood 48 Casllewood oClover Hill 53 Goochland 0Colonial Heights 19 Midlothian 14Covlngton 14 Andrew Lewis 12Denbigh 9 Phoebus 0Essex 6 New Kent 1Fairfax ISJMadlson 0Palls Church 7 Oakton 0Fauquler at Stafford, ppd.(Mon)Floyd 28 Christiansburg 22

. Floyd Kellam 29 Bayslde 7Fluvanha''4} Cumberland 0Forl Hunt 27 Thomas Jefferson 7Franklin Co. 14 Pulaskl 6Franklin 18 J.F. Kennedy (Suffolk) 6Ft. Defiance at Rlverheads, ppd.(Sal)Galax 21 Carroll Co. 14Gate City 28 Grundy 0Geo. Washington (Danville) 35 Heritage

7Geo. Wythe (Richmond) 6 Hermitage 6

(tie)Geo. Marshall at W. Springfield,

ppd.(Sat)Gill 20 Trinity Episcopal 7Gloucester 21 PoquosonOGraham 26 Marlon 6Great B'Idge 9 Indian River 7Halifax Co. 40 Albemarle 10Hampton Roads 29 Tidewater 20Handley at James Wood, ppd.(Sat)Harrlsonburg 7 Spotsylvanla 7 (tie)Hays! 26 Hurley 0Henrtco 44 Patrick Henry 0Herndon at Chantllly, ppd.(Sat)Highland Springs 49 Maggie Walker 0Honaker 20 Twin Springs 0Huguenot Acad. 12 Brunswick Acad. 0Independence 32 Auburn 2 ,»Isle of Wight 8 Nansemond-Suffolk

Acad. 7

J.F. Kennedy 30 Hopewell 8J.R. Tucker 20 Benedictine 13JEB Stuart 28 McLean 7James Monroe 20 Louisa 0Jefferson-Forest 22 Staunton River 14John Battle 14 Virginia High 8John Marshall 16,Huguenot 6John Yeats 30 Suffolk 0Ken.. Forest 6 Mecklenburg 0Klng'& Queen Central 22 Surry Co. 0

> King George 6 W&L (Montross) 0: LJifayelte 24 Ferguson 12

Lake Braddock at Groveton, ppd.(Sat)Jjandley 21 W&L (Arlington) 20Lee-Davis at Doug. Freeman, ppd.(Sat)Lexington 8 Rockbrldge 0

- Lexington 8 Wm Campbell 6Lord Botetourt 17 James River 0Lunenburg Cent. 42 Buckingham 18Madison Co. at Elkton, ppd.(Sat)Manchester 9 Prince George 7Martlnsvllle 46 Chatham 14Maloaca 60 Park-View 7 ,Montevideo at Strasburg, ppd.(SatIMt. Vernon at Edison, ppd. (Sat)Northampton 20 Forest Glen 13Northslde 17 Wm. Fleming 0Noltoway 13 Prince Edward Co. 0Orange Co. at Wm. Monroe, ppd.(Sol)Osbourn Park at Woodbrldge, ppd.(Sat)Oscar Smith"13 Craddock 6Park-View (Sterling) at Loudoun

Valley, ppd.(Sat)Patrick Henry 10 Cave Spring 3Petersburg S3 Dlnwlddle 0Powell Valley 29 Norton I

.- Pr. Edward Acad. 33 York Acad. 7Princess Anne 36 Maury 0Princeton 16 Wytheville 8R.E. Lee (Staunton) at Turner Ashby,

ppd.(Sat) 'Radford 21 Giles 0Rappahannock at King Wm., ppd.(Sat)Rich Valley 27 Rural Retreat 6Rlchlands 6 Abington 0Robinson 12 W.T. Wood son 0Rustburg 36 Gretna 6Saltville 26 Holston 0Shawsvllle 14 New Castle 12Smlthfleld 34 Windsor 0Spotsylvanla 7 Harrlsonburg 7 (tie)St. Christopher's 10 Blue Ridge 6St. Johns at Gartleld, ppd.(Sat)Tabb 6 York 0 . . •Thomas Dale 13 Meadowbrook 12Thomas Jefferson (Richmond) 20

Armstrong 0Varlna 13 Culpeper 12Waynesboro Si Stuarts Draft 0West point 27 Malhews 8Wilson Memorial 21 Broadway 13Wise 14 Coeburn 6Wm. Byrd 17 Roanoke Catholic 0Woodberry 21 Collegiate 15Yorktown 14 Wakelleld 13

Logan fumble on Ihe UCLA 17when il appeared the Buckeyeswere going in for a score.

The key play in the 83-yardscoring march was a 24-yardrun by Brown, who took theball from Ihe Bruin 27 to theOhio Slate 49 on a fourth-and-one fake punt.

Dankworth, who hit eight of14 passes for 79 yards,connected wilh Rick Walker ona 15-yard pass to the OSU 10.Four plays later, Dankworthwent over from the one.

Ohio Slate (2-1-1) marchedright back with a 73-yard drivewhich stalled on the Bruinseven, allowing Tom Skladanyto boot a 25-yard field goal tolie Ihe game at 10-10 with 7:21lefl in Ihe game.

UCLA, after taking thekickoff, managed to gel to theOhio Stale 43 bul was forced lopunt on fourth and one.

The Buckeyes, sparked by therunning of quarterback RodGerald, then moved the ball .loIhe UCLA 47 bul Ohio StateCoach Woody Hayes refused logamble and ordered his team topunt with 24 seconds left in Ihegame.

Ohio Stale, which suffered itsfirs* home loss in 25 games aweek ago to Missouri, scoredits touchdown'midway in thesecond period after Ray Griffinreturned a UCLA punt to theBruin 46.

Gerald hit tight end GregSlorer for 19 yards to the UCLA27 and six plays later fullbackPete Johnson powered overfrom the four.

Brown led UCLA's rushingattack with 103 yards in 20carries, while Wendell Tyler,the Bruins all-time leadingrusher, got 60 yards in 21carries.

Logan, who had over 100yards in OSU's first threegames, had 68 yards in 19carries while Gerald finishedwith 59 yards in 14 attempts, allof il in the second half.

The contest was the thirdbetween the teams in the lastyear lo be nationally televised.Ohio State won last year'sregular season game and theBruins upset the then-top-ranked Buckeyes in the RoseBowl.

Indians Shell Green Wave. By JERRY VERNON

- Sports WriterIt was obvious.Narrows High School in-

tended to stop Blacksburg'sSidney Snell Friday night.

The Green Wave stacked itsline with a nine man front. Thedefense proved effectiveagainst the Indian runninggame, but the Green Waveforgot one key element infootball.

It's called passing and theresult of Narrows almost non-existent aerial defense leftBlacksburg: with its fif thstraight shutout, 484).

"They took the running gameaway from us," said IndianCoach Dave Crist after thegame alongside the rain-sleeked tribe field. "Sidneydidn't have a great night run-ning. But his fakes helped ourpassing and he provided keyblocking on the pass. They(Narrows) made us pass andwe did."

A f t e r B l a c k s b u r gmethodically drove its first ballpossession to the Green. Wave17, quarterback Richard' Foyuncorked his arm. The seniorhit end Scott King with a 13 yardpass on fourth and one. Snelltook the ball into the end zone onthe following play: Foyproceeded to connect on four offive more passes before the halfclosed.

Two of his completions wentto wide receiver Bruce Hamlinwithin a two minute timeperiod. Hamlin beat the GreenWave defensive secondary bothtimes as he raced 63 and 20yards for scores.

"Richard just threw the ballso well, I couldn't help but catchthe passes," laughed Hamlin inthe locker room. "And Narrows

PioneersBomb Fries

By MIKE GOTHANSpecial Writer

Friday night's game betweenFort Chiswell and Fries endedin on a very wet note. At the

but Coach Mike Wardand hisFries Wildcats were soaked theworst. They were downed 41-14by the Fort Chiswell Pioneers.

Fries didn't1 have a footballteam lasl year and this hurtthem. "We knew we were goingto take our lumps and ourbuilding process will behampered by the loss of twoseniors, Richie Pack and BradJames who each had brilliantperformances for us tonight."

Three years ago PioneerCoach John Hinkle was lookingfor a loser like Fries and FortChiswell was just such a team.Actually what he found was adormant winner. In his threeseasons as head coach thePioneer have compiled a recordof 18-6.

The first half of Fridaynight's game was dominatedtotally by Forl Chiswell withPaul Moore running for twotouchdowns and passing for twomore. The Pioneers passed orran at will and Moore's first TDrun was a nifty 49-yard jauntwhich was the loneest of thegame. David Jackson caughtthree of four Moore passes for113 yards during the first half.

The second half was almosteven. Fries went up against thePioneers second learn andscored twice in the fourthquarter. Both of Fries' talliesvia runs from Pack and James.Pack scored from one yard outwhile James lugged the pigskinacross the goal from the ten.

Statistically this game couldhave been a toss-up as Friesoutgained Forl Chiswell on theground. However, the Pioneersout-passed the losing Wildcats.Fries' major problem for the

game was fumbles and IhePioneers capitalized on two ofthem for touchdowns. Fries hadmore first downs lhan FortChiswell but the flag wasthrown more limes against thePioneers.

Most of the total game statswere misleading as thePioneers had tallied six touch-downs in the first half while,Fries had practically no statsexcept for fumbles loss.

After the game winning coachJohn Hinkle stated, "That's onemore on one side and none onthe other and I'm happy."

"The Pioneers usually haveeleven starters that go bothways the entire game, buttonight we were able to give thestarters a rest and that gave theunseasoned some seasoning."

This Friday the Pioneers visitChristiansburg to play Auburnwho are playing for football forthe first time. .

was playing up on me. Theywere watching for the run morethan the pass."

The two quick aerial scoresdidn't lead to any changes in theWave front line. Neither didBlacksburg change its gameplan. In the waning minutes ofthe first half Foy tossed a 13yard scoring pass to Scott King.

"My passing was better thanusual," said Foy. "Our options

of Narrows Garythe handsThompson.

The game, as the final scoreindicated, was a bad eveningfor the Narrows" offense anddefense. Wave quarterbackLonnie Green hit on only one ofnine throws and watched one ofhis tosses end in defensive backJ.D. Dymock's arms. But back-up quarterback Tim McKinneyrolled up a more depressing

didn't work, but our passing, evening. The junior hit on two ofburned them. Now I know I can his five throws, but his passing

game suffered with two .in-terceptions. Sherman Earley ,.T . „ .,pabbed one in the second half . T k^w theyand returned it 22 yards for a kev on me- said

touchdown.

do it. I proved to myself when Ihave to pass I can."

Foy appeared .to prove thesame point to Coach Crist whokept back-up quarterback JoeWhite in the game most of thesecond half. The junior signal-caller hit on half of his sixpasses while sending one into

we should have made a bettershowing. Mental mistakes hurtus most. We were forgetting ourresponsibilities."

Thompson never forgot hispunting responsibility. Heconsistently booted the ballaway from Snell. But placekicker Bobby Gautier, in hisonly kick-off forgot to keep theball away from the back. Snellreturned the opening boot of thesecond half 83 yards in tenseconds and notched his finalscore-of the evening. ...

"Blacksburg has a very goodteam," said Green WaveAssistant Coach W.R. Johnstonin the losing locker room, "but

seniorback, "but I wasn't expectinganything like they did. On thereturn I came close to fjalling. Ithought I was tackled. I don'tknow how I got out of it."

After Snell and Barley's

back-to-back scores, Crist wentto his bench and sent back-uppersonnel onto the turf. TheIndian depth held solid withNarrows unti l the closingminutes of the ' game whenrunning back Jerry Farrowinked Blacksburg's final scoreon a three yard plunge up themiddle. '

The timid Narrows offenseadvanced on the Indians' onlyonce. The Green Wave^drovefrom its 31 to Blacksburg's 17early in the second ;half.Dymock's" interceptionT onT hisown eight sliced -the scoringthreat to a slim whimper.

"This game shows we're stillimproving," said Crist. "Ouroffensive line looked better.We've got to improve becausewe still need a lot of im-provement."

Cross Country RecordShattered By Ben Turpin

By WORRELL NEWSBRISTOL—Strong running

Ben Turpin Radford High'spremier cross counlry man,showed up East's Chuck Brownwilh a super-fast lime of 15:22 tolake first place and sel a newcourse record at the VirginiaHigh Invitational Cross CountryMeel at Waldo Miles Park. BothTurpin and Brown broke JimmyYonts' old mark of 15:47 whichi he Marion harrier set last year,

Allhough Turpin and Brown..finished..one two.in the meet,..Marion's Jimmy Yorits andSieve Helherington, Ihe South-west Districi 's lop Iwo runners,brought up third and fourthplaces lo pace Ihe ScarletHurricane lo victory. •

Marion accumulated only 25learn points which was 57 pointsbetter lhan Easl who placedsecond wilh 82 points.

The event lurned oul to be anoutstanding match-up betweensome of Ihe best cross counlry

A-un in bblh' SoiiihweS "'—'"""'"-and Easl Tennessee. Brown andTurpin, followed closely byMarion's Sieve Hetheringlonand Jimmy Yonts set a fastpace as every one Of Ihe lop 15

finishers was under Ihe 17minute mark.

As Ihe firsl runners cameover Ihe ridge, Ihe'word weniout that it was Turpin andBrown running together, but IheRadford star haJ already madehis move and il was Turpin alli he way down the final 500yards. When asked if he hadcome lo run Ihe race, or tomatch himself with Brown,Turpin replied, "I really camejust to win Ihe race, il doesn'tmatter who I'm, runningagainst.

"He (Chuck Brown) wasleading all the way until the laslmile. I didn't know the coursetoo well so I decided to letsomeone else set the pace. Ipulled ahead on the lasl mile orso and.led the rest of the way."

Thursday's race was the firsltime Ihe Radford runner hadcompleted on the three-mileWaldo Miles Park course.

Chuck Brown was 13ifffW^fieSfime of Ihe

first place finisher, bul alsomanaged to break the oldcourse record. Brown set thepace from the very beginning ofthe race/keeping the light field

of runners charging at agrueling rate. It was nol unlilthe lasl mile lhal eilher Brownor Turpin made Iheir move asbolh runners were head to headuntil Ihe last part of the race.Brown wasn't disappoinled withhis lime saying, "I was pleasedwith the race. I wanted to comeoul and see what I could doagainst some good competitionand overall I was pleased withthe results."

Steve Hetheringlon. fromMarion, tame in third with a15:48, just one second off the oldrecord. Steve placed second inthe recent Va. Tech Invitalionalwhile Bobcat Ben Turpin wasfirst. Marion also won Ihe Techmeel and that gave Ihe ScarletHurricanes two teams winswithin a week.

Jimmy Yonts, also of Marion,was the fourth place finisherwith a good time-of 15:55 mark.The Hetheringlon-Yonls

10 win the ladies compelilion,and place Ihe ScarletHurricanelles lo viclory. Slageknocked off 31 second from theold record of 10:39 sel byVirginia High's Nancy Rose.Central Mary Rutherford wassecond wilh a 10:19 , andMarion's Violel Caldwell was•.hird wilh a 10:25...Virginia High placed second

overall wilh 61 points whileRadford was third with 113points followed by Kingspprt'sDobyns-Bennelt with116 points,Tennessee High 166 poinls, JohnS. Battle 168, Patrick Henry 191and Central 228.

In the junior varsity event,Tennessee High's David Haynesout ran Ihe pack in a lime of17:40 lo win Ihe meel.Kingsporl's Dobyns Bennetllook learn honors wilh JoeDavidson placing third. ChrisMorrell from East was second

combinalion sparks Marion's L with a 17:48 mark. ;excellent cross counlry team 1;S**. "'•.'•:«-&4i/;c*w ;j£effort and is what makes IheScarlel Hurricanes the top SWDteam.

Marion's Cindy Slage sel anew girls course record of 10:08

Radford and Marion com-peted in the junior varsity eventbut both lacked a fifth manwhich is necessary in order fora team to place.

COUGARS' JEFF HARVEY NEEDS A BLOCKERWhile B.C. Clark Hopes To Help Him

Photo By Dan ttllihan

Pulaski CoWasn 'tReady ToPlayBy DAN CALLAHAN

Staff Writer• The Cougars of Pulaski County High School proved to allviewers, and hopefully to themselves, that they must bementally, physically, and emotionally ready to play thegame of football each Friday night when they take the fieldregardless of the competition.

It is questionable if the Cougars were any of the threeabove mentioned .necessities when they travelled to RockyMount to play the Eagles of Franklin County Friday night.

They lost to what is probably the worst team in their(Valley) district, 14-6. The defense showed marked im-provement. The offense, most notably the offensive line,stunk up the place. As one of the coaches was leaving for thebus he stated it quite correctly. "I understand they play athome again next week. I hope the odor is all gone by then."

It was a very disappointed Cougar head coach Dave Brownthat looked back on>the game very honestly. "You can chalkthis up as a miserable night. We didn't hit the field ready toplay football. We had to play catch-up in the second half.That's when it started to rain. But that's really not goodenough an excuse, they played in it too." One thing that wasvery evident upon watching the PC offense flounder aroundwas they missed Isiah McClanahan maybe even more thanwhat was thought. The lanky tailback did try to run on thefirst series of downs in the second half.but the score anklejust wouldn't let McClanahan function even at half speed.

Brown wouldn't dwell on that however, stating "I don't

want to alibi too much. Sure, it hurts us not having him, he'sour best runner, but how much I can't say. I would have lovedto have had him."

It seems that what Brown was trying to get across waswhat most observers seem to believe. If McClanahan hadbeen able to play .the Cougars would have won, no doubt, bulthey still should have been able to pull win without him.

Brown added, "We had no flash,, no gusto. We weren'tquick. This is very frustrating. We thought we'd get thisone."

As poorly as the Cougars played they still had op-portunities to win. On a play from the Franklin County 14yard line midway in the third quarter a flanker pass wasattempted. It worked perfectly as wingback Jeff Harvey, thelone shining light for the Cougars on this night, was wideopen. It may have been the slippery ball, but the pass justdidn't get there*. It was underthrown by some ten yards.

The defense showed inprovement as they gave up lessyardage than in any game this season, and only one score.Franklin's second touchdown cWe on something of a circusact. The Cougars had the ball, komeone started early, flagsflew, the ball was thrown, it wai picked off by an Eagle, andmost of the Cougars stood and watched as he ran all the wayto the end zone. The penalty was against the Catamounts formotion and Franklin had their second touchdown and a 14-0lead.

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with a 35-yard scoring loss. TheTech end grabbed Ihe ball in theend zone after connecting backKen Smith tipped the pass intoFoster's direction.

"I was thanking Ihe Lord(after Ihe pass)," said Sharpe."You always feel if you canscore at the half you have alittle something extra going intothe locker room."

If tech picked up anything in' ihe dressing room, il never

appeared un t i l late in thesecond half.

The Hokies ran only eightplays in the third quarter andnever picked up a first down. Infad, with the signal calling<$Iotalternating between Barnes andDavid Lafriie, Tech managed .only eight offensive yardsduring the period,

i William and Mary utilized Iheperiod to put the wrappers onthe contest. Steve Libassi's 17-yard field goal and Rozantz's 14yard scoring pass to fimian leftihe Hokies staring at the poorside of a 24-7 score going into thefinal 15 minutes.

Libassi added another threepoinler halfway through the lastquarter from 41 yards.

Tech's offense finally showedsome life against an Indiandefense sprinkled with reser-ves. Starting from ii's own oneone yard line. Roscoe Colesmoved the Hokies out of the holewith consecutive eight and 11-yard runs. From there, Techchipped away al Ihe Indiandefense until Coles broke loosefor a 28-yard gain to the Williamand Mary four. On Ihe Nestplay, George-Heath notched thefinal touchdown of the afternoonwith a run up the middle. Colesran two yards for the con-version wilh t Jess than twominutes to play.

"You're sitting and look at theScoreboard," recalled Sharpe,"and you know you've got loscore two more in 1:50.Everybody hangs their head. It

. happens in Ihe pros every, week.II jusl gels you in the guts."

Of Ihe 12 times Tech gainedball possession, the Hokiesstarted inside their own 20 on 11occassions. This statistic serves

. as just another dismal numberlo remind the Gobblers of

CoachesSelectedAt Tech

Although appointment of a,women's athletic director is stillin a screening process, VirginiaTech's new women's in-tercollegiate athletic programis moving ahead with ap-pointment of two coaches,

jFrank Moseley, athletic(director, announced Saturday.- John ; Wetzel, former Tech' star and a pro player for the lastsnine years, will coach thewomen's basketball team.e Billy Beecher, a former Tech^swimmer, will direcl the• women's swimming program in^addition to similar respon-sibilities with the men's team.£ Applications are still open forecoach of ihe women's tennis(team.

Dr. William E. Lavery,(president, in August announcedta series of steps lo implement,"eventually, a comprehensiveIwomen's athletic program inkeeping with development oflihe lolal universily.fc First step was the creationilast month, of the new posilion ofwomen's intercolTegiate(athlelic direclor, and respon-sibility of filling this post wasAssigned to Moseley, assistedby an advisory committee in-cluding faculty and studenlrepresenlalives.

"We're slill screeningthrough 14 worthy applications,arid 1 believe we'll reach adecision very soon," Moseleysaid. "Meanwhile, we felt itimperative to gel the baskelballand swimming programs un-derway."' Welzel, a native of^Waynesboro, played his varsity'career at Tech, 1963-66, and wastlhe Gobblers leading scorer in-his junior and senior seasons.'During lhat lime Tech's record'was 48-22, including an N.I.T.appearance.

fi His pro career included stintsnjwith the Los Angeles Lakers;.Phoenix" Suris and Atlanta

William and Mary's total effort, chance to see what kind of"Make no doubt about it," football team we have. We'll

said Sharpe, "they're a good bounce back. We've been herefootball team. Now we have a before."

More Than JustA Spectatorj. ™

DAVE SCARANGELLASpecial Writer

"Watch the receiver on the right. He was open last timeand they might go to him this time:

"They're giving us the outside run, put Snell in for a littlemore speed.

"The defense is keying on Coles. Run something up themiddle./ 'These comments are not being made by the averagearmchair quarterbackrThey 're coming from five individualswhose opinions have quite an Impact on the game. These arethe coaches in the press box.

Every Saturday Virginia Tech Coaches Wayne Hall, MikeYeaguer, Nelson Stokely, Jack White, and Bruce Ariansventure atop stadiums, home and away, to scout the op-position. From here most of the decisions concerning thegame are made.

Nelson Stokely is the offensive coordinator. He scoutsprospective plays and relays them down to Head CoachJimmy Sharpe. Even though Sharpe makes all the decisions,about 60 percent of the plays Stokely suggests are used..

Bruce Arians assists Stokely in watching the offense. TheFormer Virginia Tech quarterback finds it quite differentlooking at the action from above, rather than peering overcenter.

"You can see the overall defensive formation," saidArians. "Down there you can't see things like people pin-ching in. You can see secondary rotation, but you can't tellthe depth, whether its 6 yards or 16 yards. You can see thatfrom up here".

Tech is not the only team to do this. All teams send coachesupstairs for an aerial view. Football, as a result becomes agame of strategy. "Its like a chess game," said Arians. "wemove and they countermove."

All infonnattoiHs kept and used to brief the team athalf timemcluded are photographs of various formations theother teams are using, so players get better ideas of whatthey should do. Thus a team can find itself in a position toregroup and turn a game around at the start of the secondhalf if these coaches do their job well. Arians agreed,. "Whathappens in the first five minutes of the second half is a prettygood indication of what the rest of the game will be like."

All of this information gathered during the game is tran-smitted to the field by headset. As a result the headsets getnumber on priority. What happens when the phones don'twork? "Its a major disaster" laughed Arians" that's why thefirst thing you do at a visiting stadium is to check thephones."

A major disaster did actually happen this season. Ithappened at Wake Forest. "We couldn't hear a thing,"remembered Arians," and we had to scream into them forthem to hear us. Finally by the second half they got one ofthem to work". ..... ~ ............. " ~ j

These coaches can actually call for any necessary personelchanges on the field. When one coach noticed that Williamand Mary was giving the Tech quarterback room to runyesterday the call came down to use Eddie Snell, since he is a

" few steps 'faster than Mitcheal Barnes. Other tunes justpointing out an' open play is sufficient.

Sometimes, trends can be noticed and still have no effectSometimes, trends can be noticed and still have no effect

on the game. At half time Arians noted a need for morelife in the Tech offense. Adjustments were made, but it reallydidn't matter, since Tech only had the ball twice in theentire third quarter.

At the other extreme, mistakes are occasionally madefrom up top. "Sometimes you miss things," said Arians. "Itjust all goes back to the chess game. You've got to make theright move."

When It Rains

H. He announced his retiremenl9jn August, and he has returned'1

jjjo finish his education at Tech.^Beecher , a native"jBlacksburger, was a three-yearlelterman, specializing inbreaststroke, for Tech while

"earning his undergraduate andPiaster's degrees in Health arid^Physical Education.5'; He has coached the Techgirls' team for the last two'^ears.

It PoursBy DAVE SCARANGELLA

Special WriterThere's an old saying that "into each life a little rain must

fall." In football, that rain can last an entire season.For the Christiansburg Demons, the rain continues to fall.

For awhile Friday night, it looked as if things might finallyclear up for the Demons, with 24 seconds left in the gamethey watched as quarterback Mark Vaughan rolled aroundleft end for a score that gave them a seemingly safe 22-20lead.

But the glory was short lived. Anything can happen infootball, and when things are going bad, it probably will.With 18 seconds left, and everyone in the stadium knowingthere was going to be a pass, the Demon bench watched inhorror as Vaughan planted for the interception. The ballwent through his hands and into the waiting arms of AdolfTurner, who went the remaining 77 yards for a score.

Throughout the game, the Demons refused to get down onthemselves. Christiansburg has shown a new attitude of late,and at other low points of the game, when many teams wouldquit, the Demons didn't. But this was too much to take.

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Eagles head coach Miller Bennington was of course, quitepleased. "We got a good defensive effort. That flanker passhad us if it hadn't been underthrown. I hope than Mc-Clanahan is ready to play for them next week, but I can't sayI'm unhappy he didn't play tonight. When we found out thathe wasn't able to go, we concentrated on containingVenable."

Bennington unlike Brown felt the rain helped his team."Brown runs a very complicated misdirection offense. I'msure it hurt them to play with the slippery ball and it cer-tainly didn't do them any good when they went to theirpassing attack. We run a very simple, straight forward, typeof offense. So I think the fain hurt them more. I'm justpleased to win. After what we saw them last week at CaveSpring I had my doubts. We're not blind, they weren't at thetop of their game, they looked very sluggish. They didn'teven run up to the line of scrimmage on offense."

The remarks made by Bennington puts us right back to thefirst paragraph of this article. Regardless of competition, if,the Cougars don't go on the field physically, mentally, andemotionally prepared to play football then they are verylikely going to lose.

The Cougars were not ready and therefore they lost to aninferior team. That's the price one pays for lack of en-thusiasm. It remains to be seen if PC learned its lesson. We'llprobably find out next Friday when they entertain theColonels of William Fleming, a team they have never beaten.

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United Presi IntenutionilSOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

Virginia Quarterback Gets A Warm Welcome From Georgia's Wilkes

Yellow JacketsSting Cavaliers

ATLANTA (UPI) - SeniorDavid Suns, returning 'to thehard-driving form he showedbefore breaking a leg lastseason, smashed for twotouchdowns and broke theGeorgia Tech career rushing

record Saturday night in a 35-14win by the Yellow Jackets overVirginia.

Sims carried 20 times for 96yards before leaving the gameearly in the final period tomake way for a wave of Tech

Vernon NamedSports Editor

substitutes in the one-sidedcontest. That gave him 1,778yardsin his three years at Tech,breaking the record of 1,743 setin the 1965, 1966, and 1967seasons by Lenny Snow.

Sims teamed with sophomorespeedster Eddie Lee Ivery topower a. Tech running gamewhich seemed to gain at willagainst the Virginia defense.Ivery gained 123 yards in 23carries and scored one touch-down.

Tech, l-2-l, had switched toIhe veer before the game.

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Most of that came off therunning of young running backJohnny Bratlon, who wasmaking his first start of hiscareer, and from banged upsenior B.C. Clark, who madeseveral good runsin'lhe game.

But the big thing in that firsthalf, was Franklin's ability toget to Cougar quarterbackVanabtei

Franklin's "D" sackedVenable five times in the firsthalf for 34 yards in losses andforced the Cougars into poorfield position most of theevening.

With Ihe constant sacking ofVenable the Cougars wereunable la -convert third downsituations into first downs sixlimes in six opportunities thefirst half, although they didconvert a fourth down into a bigfirst down early in the secondquarter on fourth and one.

Venable sneaked for the firstat the Franklin 37 immediatelyafter .the first Franklin score.

But unlike in the past, theCougars weren't able to bounchback after an opponent's score,and ended up punting the ballone of five limes in ihe game,.

Neither team threatened therest of Ihe half. •

Pulaski County made the onlyihreal in the third period withClark making two big firstdowns in the lengthy drive. Thebig play was Clark's secondeffort spin from his 20 to the 16for a first.

But the next three plays wereless than productive—only twoyards. The Cougars called atimeout with 12 seconds left inthe period and a fourth andeight down staring them in theface.

The call was nifty. Venablepassed behind Ihe line ofscrimmage to backup quar-terback Alan Burnett. ButBurnett's pass to Harvey in the

' end zone was wobbly and baiteddown by an Eagle defensiveback.

Pulaski County got the ballback three plays later whenMike Wilson, who played a gooddefensive game, recovered anEagle fumble at the Cougar 34.

After three m&re plays camethe decisive play of the game.The Cougars dropped back (opass, but a flag: went down.

Pulaski County's offenserelaxed momentarily, under theimpression the play wasnegated. But Venable's passwas picked off by Young at the50 and returned all the way forthe touchdown. Which made it14-0 with 9:39 to go.

Pulaski County triedeverything from there on out. Afake punt was stymied amongother things. The offense wasjust lackadaisical all night withthe exception of its final series.

On a fourth and eight and 2:22to go, Venable scrambled eightyards for a first down at IhdFranklin 45.

Two plays later, Harveymade the most electrifying playof thenighl for Pulaski County.He snagged a pass for a 45-yardTD, cutting it to 14-6, the Iwo-poinl conversion run short, with2:07 left.

An onside kick almost back-fired with Franklin's JerryDavis picking it up and running10 the Cougar 36. Franklin justran out the clock.

"We'll meet a bigger aridtougher defense next Fridayagainst Fleming," notedBrown. "To win that game wewill have to play with moreemotion."

Both offenses were less thanelectrifying. The leadingCougar back was Harvey with39 yards. He also made tworeceptions for 52 yards.

Robert Edwards was the starof the game for Franklin. Herushed 24 times for 142 yards,but the workhouse was neverable to break but one long run, a41-yarder.

SEATTLE (UPI) - FullbackRobin Earl and quarterbackWarren Moon each accountedfor two touchdowns Saturday tolead Washington to a 38-7victory over unbeaten Min-nesota.

Husky tailback Ronnie Row-land added a fifth score. Moonscored once on a run andpassed 50 yards to split endRobert "Spider" Gaines foranother.

Jerry Vernon has been namedsports editor of the BlacksburgSun."

"Jerry Vernon is a verycapable man who isknowledgeable, and con-scientious about the sportsscene. He realizes what makesa good story and works to bringreaders the 'inside' of a gamestory or interview," noted JerryRatcliffe, senior sports editor.

"I feel Jerry is a bonus to ourcomprehensive sports package.

Vernon began working at the"Sun" following graduationfrom the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill lastMay. After a brief stint as ageneral reporter and sport-swriter, he was assigned ex-clusively to sports coverage.

While in Chapel Hill, Vernonworked as a sportswriter on the"Chapel Hill Daily" newspaperfor six months. Previous to thatemployment, he had had ex-perience on the campuspublication, the "Daily TarHeel," as a feature contributorfor three years.

Vernon also worked on the"Kernersville News" as asports and feature writer forone summer.

Although Vernon received hisdegree in journalism fromUNC, he also once attended OldDominion University part-time.

Before his college experience,Vernon put in three years ofduty with the Marines.

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"I believe the so-called minorsports are rapidly gaining inpopularity," said Vernon, "andwe intend to provide detailedcoverage of these eventswithout forgetting the popularappeal of football, basketballand baseball."

"The expanding New RiverNewspaper sports staff willoffer greater depth in localcoverage," added Vernon."And the recent addition ofUnited Press Internationalservice will provide timelydevelopments of national eventsto the 'Sun' readership."

Sharpe Takes Blame

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for the Bobcats.Radford grounded out 43

yards including two first whenCloyd attempted a reverse onthe Giles four. Timmy Radfordwasn't fooled and smacked

.Cloyd to the turf and the ballcame bouncing out of Cloyd'sarms into Radford's at the four.

On the first play for Giles,D.A. Worrell slopped the ballcarrier for a loss of three. Onsecond and 13 at the Giles one,fullback Radford attempted lobuck forward, but ,Richard"Itch" Holbrook greeted him atthe goal and Bucky Morgan,Worrell, Blaine Sulphin and theolher Bobcat defense joined inlo catch Radford for a safely.

Ahead 14-0 with 8:30 left, EarlHaynes received the free puntand returned it to the Giles 38.After an incomplete pass off thefingertips of Randall Duncan,the Bobcats gained four yardsto the 34. A. 15 yard penally waslacked on lo the play when Gileswas caughl for illegal use of thehands. After an incomplete

pass, Chad King galloped 15yards off the left side lo theendzone with 6:57 remaining.Bart Compton kicked Ihe PATand RHS had a 21-0 lead.

In the final six^minutes theRadford coaches' used thesecond and third offensive anddefensive units. The Bobcatsmoved (he ball from their own38 to the Spartan 30 before Gileshalted the drive.

On the statistics the Bobcatsrushed for 324 yards and gainedfive more through the air for a329 total. Giles gained 32 yardsrushing and 58 passing for a nellolal of 90 yards.

Bob Buchanan of Gilescompleted 4 of 14 passes andhad one interception whileCloyd of the Bobcats failed locomplete any of his nine passes.

Jerry Hendrix led the Bobcatswith 119 yards while Chad Kifeegained 78 yards and Billy Web¥had 51 yards. Giles was led byMiles Jackson who gained 19yards in 10 carries as theBobcats stopped the Gilesrunning game cold.

ByJERRY RATCLIFFESenior Sports Editor

Virginia Tech's coaching staffand players will spend alot ofhours this weekend dissectingthe 27-15 upset loss lo William &Mary Saturday afternoon.

Field position' will definatelybe one of the things rehashedover, and over in the coaches'minds. Some will blame theoffensive line, some theinability of three differentquarterbacks lo move the team.Some the defense..Sharpe look the sole blame forthe loss.

"I did a poor job," Sharpe tolda room full of scribes after theHokies went down to defeat forthe second time in four gamesthis season.

"We were jusl plain ole out-coached today," he said in hiscountryside mannerism.

Defensive coordinator BuddyBennett echoed Sharpe'sstatement. "We did a poor job ofcoaching today. They (W&M),just lined up and whipped ourbutts, plain and simple."

The Gobblers were beatenevery way possible.

But field position did have alot to do with it. Tech had twokinds of field position Satur-day—terrible and bad.

Of the 12 times Tech hadpossession of the ball, 11 ofthose limes it was inside its own20-yard line. Combined with 86yards in penalties at crucialtimes, along with a fumble, apass interceplion and William &Mary's punting by Joe Agee(s,ix boots for 46-5 average),kept Tech backed up.

"I never though we coulddominate play the way we did,"said Tribe coach Jim Root. TheHokies only crossed the mid-field stripe three limes in thegame, scoring twice.

The Indians, however,dominated the game of-fensively. Tech's ball-controlwishbone offense neverestablished itself. William &Mary controlled the pigskin 34minutes and 17 seconds lo 21minutes and 27 seconds for theGobblers.

Tech only converted 5-of-13third down situations while theTribe converted 7-ofl7 and onefourth down conversion.

"It was a long afternoon,"mumbled Sharpe, obviouslyfeeling the sting of defeat. Itwas* a game Tech had ear-

marked for a victory."Coach Root obviously had

his team ready to play. Wemade a lot of mistakes out theretoday, But they're agoodfootball team.

"now we'll get a chance to seewhat kind of class , andcharacter we've got. I look forour players lo bounce back.We've been here before."

Tech faces Virginia Militarynext week in what could be theonly bowl game the Hokies willappear in this season, theTobacco Bowl in Richmond.VMI upset Furman Saturdayfor its first win of the season.

"We grab-bagged in the firsthalf, and couldn't get anythinggoing offensively. We got a lottafolks hurt again. They (W&M)executed their offense.to nearperfection."

Obviously Tech's lack ofpunch from the power footballscheme will produce somechanges.

One came during the courseof the fourth quarter whenreserve fullback George Heath,a superb blocker, came up toSharpe and said "put me atright halfback and (Paul)Adams at fullback and we'llmove Ihe football."

II worked. Well enough toconvince Sharpe thai Heath willbe moved to the right half slotnexl week.

The move should strengthenTech's backfield. "That willgive us two big ones blocking onthe corner, which makes formore breaking away by thelittle man (Roscoe Coles).

Coles rushed for 115 yards in15 attempts, the ninth time inhis career he's had a 200-yardsplus rushing performance,moving him to second on Tech'sall-lime list in that category.

"We beat ourselves today,"said "Two.too" Coles in thelocker room. "They (W&M) didexactly what they thought theywould. We just didn't donothing."

Coles said he thought Heath'saddition to the backfield willhelp Tech because he is both agood runner and blocker. "Weneed to gel our offensive linemotivated," noted the superjunior back.

That could be Tech's problemin a nutshell. It's hard to gainyardage when there's no placeto run.

Fullback Adams also thinks

Heath in the backfield will help."He's a good blocker and will bean asset. Bui our problem is justmaking mistakes, especiallypenalties today.

"We didn't have good fieldposition, and it's hard to bemore lhan conservative insideyour own 20."

Another change could come atquarterback. Tech used three,Mitcheal Barnes, Eddie Snelland David Lamie, who made hisfirst appearance.

"I've got lo make thedecision," Sharpe said. "It's notall up in the air. But we'llevaluate the films, obviously allthree have different types ofability."

Tech's passing game wasterrible Saturday and Sharpewas the first to admit it. "That'smy fault too. We didn't makethe big play until late."

Tech's only successful passworth mention was a 35-yarderto Moses Foster just before thehalf that made it 14-7. Actuallythe ball was tipped and camedown in Foster'a.handsi.

"I was thanking the Lord. Itwasn't like you draw it up orrehearse it on the field, but ilwas Ihe only good Ihing lhalhappened up until then,7' notedthe Tech boss.

Tech fell before the g«fme thaiit had to stop Tribe quarterbackTom Rozantz. If not stop, thencontain.

Rozanlz picked Tech apart on. short, Key passes and ran theveer option well. ActuallyRozantz, who Sharpe called thebest quarterback Tech hasfaced in three years, threw theball underneath the Tech zonedefense.

Tech attempted lo use acornerback to move up andforce a quickpitch on Ihe opliori,possibly forcing a fumble likeTech did at Texas A&M. ButRozantz, like a magician, readIhe defense and played it lo hissatisfaction.

"We didn'l force any tur-novers. We gotta be recklesscutting and slashing. We justdidn'l make anything happen "

With the loss Tech had iwosix-game streaks broken. Techhad previously won six straightin Lane Stadium and had beatensix consecutive in-stale rivals

It was the largest crowd toever attend a contest betweenTech and William & Mary, anestimated 35,000.