East Roundup : Long Runs Help Penn State Beat Rutgers, 17-10

For the fourth straight week, Penn State was victorious without being overpowering.

Dave Clark raced 76 yards to set up a touchdown early in the second quarter, and Steve Smith rambled 63 yards for a fourth-quarter score, pacing the ninth-ranked Nittany Lions to a 17-10 victory over Rutgers Saturday at Giants Stadium.

Kevin Woods scored from four yards out after Clark’s long run and Massimo Manca added a 53-yard field goal to account for the winning margin, which equals Penn State’s largest of the season. The Nittany Lions beat East Carolina, 17-10, last week.

“We have not improved as a football team since the week before we played Maryland (in the season opener),” Penn State Coach Joe Paterno said. “We’re not ever going to improve either until we get healthy a few weeks in a row.”

Penn State is banged up on offense, the most serious injury being to running back D.J. Dozier, who did not play. Still, Penn State rushed for 260 yards and got the two big runs from Smith and Clark.

“I always say a couple of plays make the difference in a game and today that’s what obviously happened,” Rutgers Coach Dick Anderson said.

Rutgers has lost two straight after opening its season with a tie against Florida.

The Nittany Lions are 13-1 against Rutgers, their only loss coming in their first meeting in 1918.

Rutgers scored on Tom Angstadt’s 22-yard field goal and a two-yard pass from Joe Gagliardi to Greg Alvord.

Penn State quarterback John Shaffer injured his left hamstring late in the game and was replaced by Matt Knizer.

Pittsburgh 10, West Virginia 10--West Virginia backup quarterback Tony Reda scored on a one-yard run with 4:38 remaining to salvage a tie at Morgantown, W.Va., that was marred by penalties, fumbles and missed scoring chances.

Pitt (1-2-1) scored on a 20-yard field goal and a one-yard run in the first half but missed two field goal attempts in the third quarter.

West Virginia, trailing, 10-0, at halftime, scored on a 32-yard field goal by freshman Charlie Baumann in the third quarter and Reda’s one-yard plunge.

Pitt gained 412 yards to West Virginia’s 227 yards, outrushing the Mountaineers, 203 yards to 61, and outpassing them, 209 yards to 166.

Lafayette 20, Columbia 0--Columbia lost its 13th straight game over a three-year period as Bruce McIntyre ran for 105 yards and two touchdowns to pace Lafayette at Easton, Pa.

McIntyre scored on runs of one and eight yards and quarterback Jim Johnson also threw a three-yard touchdown pass to tight end Carl St. Bernard for the Leopards (2-1).

John Williamson averaged 34.4 yards on nine punts for Columbia. The Lions’ former punter, Peter Murphy, quit the team after he was severely criticized by Coach Jim Garrett after a loss to Harvard last week.

Brown 32, Rhode Island 27--An opportunistic Brown defense scored nine third-quarter points to offset a record-setting performance by Rhode Island tight end Brian Forster at Providence, R.I.

Forster set an NCAA record for most yards receiving by a tight end with 327 yards. The record covers all divisions. Forster tied his own I-AA mark with 18 receptions. Rhode Island quarterback Tom Ehrhardtcompleted 30 of 67 passes for 461 yards and 3 touchdowns but threw 5 interceptions.

Brown is 1-1; Rhode Island 2-2.

Colgate 21, Cornell 20--Colgate split end Tim Walsh legged out an 86-yard pass-run play and safety Neil Viserto snuffed out a Cornell conversion try with an interception to give the Red Raiders (2-1) over the Big Red (0-2) at Ithaca, N.Y.

Cornell had a chance to win it after reserve quarterback Chip Knapp passed to Todd Pressley for a 15-yard touchdown with 1:16 left to play. But Viserto stepped in front of Cornell’s Jim Perrello to snuff out the two-point play.

Harvard 10, Massachusetts 3--With only 2:05 left to play, Terry Denson scored the game’s only touchdown when he caught a deflected pass at the Massachusetts 41 and raced to the end zone to complete a 61-yard play at Cambridge, Mass.

The Crimson (2-0) trailed, 3-0, when quarterback Brian White’s first-down pass was tipped by defender Todd Rundle into Denson’s arms.

Ken Tarczy recovered a fumble two plays later on Massachusetts’ 34, but Harvard (2-0) could not move the ball and settled for Rob Steinberg’s 43-yard field goal.

Massachusetts is 2-2.

Army 41, Penn 3--The win at Philadelphia was Army’s sixth straight over two seasons and third this season. Penn (1-1) lost for the first time after five straight wins.

Clarence Jones scored on runs of 1 and 6 yards, and Army rushed for 449 yards in 79 attempts. Army threw only 9 passes.

New Hampshire 23, Dartmouth 7--Andre Garron set a school single-game rushing record by racking up 250 yards in leading New Hampshire (2-1) over Dartmouth (0-2) at Durham, N.H.

It was the fifth straight game in which Garron, who scored twice, has run for 200 or more yards, tying an NCAA Division I-AA record.

Holy Cross 22, Delaware 6--Senior quarterback Dave Hock, making his first start, threw for one touchdown and ran for another, and Gill Fenerty gained 204 yards rushing to pace Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass.

The Crusaders (2-1), rebounding from last week’s upset loss to Massachusetts, limited the Blue Hens (2-2) to just 70 yards in 38 rushes.

Lehigh 34, Princeton 13--Marty Horn threw for 256 yards and freshman Lee Blum ran for 85 more to lead Lehigh at Princeton, N.J., in the teams’ first meeting at Princeton in 50 years.

Lehigh (2-1) gained 422 yards in total offense, while limiting Princeton (1-1) to 127.