Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 48, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 October 1984 — Page 7
; Flewellen and Weaver lead rally
Tigers come back to beat Lords
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor When a football team falls behind 12-0 in the first quarter it usually does funny things, like scrap the game plan and throw more. But Saturday afternoon DePauw University stayed with its game plan, showing a more balanced attack while coming from behind for a 37-12 Old Gold Day victory over Kenyon College at Blackstock Stadium. TAILBACK MARVIN FLEWELLEN ran for a career-high 147 yards in the 23rd consecutive homefield victory for DePauw and Tim Weaver caught three touchdown passes to establish a school record. The win also sent the senior Tigers out with a 19-0 Blackstock Stadium record. “I thought we won the line of scrimmage and once again we were getting into the secondary a lot of times and sooner or later it’s going to break for us,” Flewellen said after playing his final game at Blackstock. “I thought we did a good job up front.” Not since Rick Lindlow graduated in 1982 has DePauw seen a back run with the speed and precision Flewellen showed. He followed his blocking and picked his way through enemy territory for a 21-yard run' to set up the first of Weaver’s three touchdown pass receptions. JUST A JUNIOR. Weaver tied Fran Lolli’s career touchdown pass reception mark at 13 with 11 minutes left in the second quarter, pulling in an 11-yard touchdown pass from deNicola. Not seven minutes later he had the record to himself, pulling in a 19-yard scoring strike from deNicola and extended the mark to 15 career touchdown pass receptions with a 15-yard catch in the third quarter. “I think it’s a really great honor because we’ve had some pretty outstanding wide receivers and I think that’s also a reflection on Tony (deNicola) to because he’s
Marvin Flewellen (22) made his last game at Blackstock Stadium his best in four years at DePauw University. The senior tailback rushed for 147 yards in 25 attempts Saturday, as the Tigers defeated Kenyon 37-12 in the Old Gold homecoming game. Not only was Flewellen's career-best
Badgers make everything rosy for lowa
By JOE MOOSHIL AP Sports Writer lowa’s Hawkeyes are all alone in first place in the Big Ten football race, their destiny in their own hands, with the title and a Rose Bowl bid a tough three games away. Quarterback Chuck Long completed 26 of 30 passes including an NCAA record of 22 in a row for 227 yards and 2 touchdowns Saturday to lead the Hawkeyes past Indiana 24-20 while Ohio State suffered a 1614 loss at Wisconsin. That toppled the sixth-ranked Buckeyes into a second place tie with Michigan and Purdue with 4-2 records while lowa holds the top rung with a 5-1 mark. Michigan whipped Illinois 26-18 while Purdue walloped Northwestern 49-7 and Michigan State edged Minnesota 20-13.
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really been able to get me the ball, espcially today. Some of those passes, they were just outstanding,” Weaver said after making six catches for 90 yards, as well as the three touchdowns. But it was not a typical DePauw victory. First, the Tigers had to come from behind and second, they set up the passing game with the running game, instead of the usual reverse approach. KENYON SCORED FIRST when the expected combination of Todd Stoner and Dan Pantic hooked up for a 47-yard touchdown pass play. The Tiger defender was on Stoner, but when he turned for the ball, he slipped and Stoner pulled Pantic pass in for the score. But the Lords proved they could drive the football also, going 80 yards in 11 plays, Matt Lampe scoring from the seven. However, in each case the Lords failed to add on the extra point. The Tigers foiled a two-point conversion attempt after the second TD. ‘‘lt’s not a good feeling when the first quarter is not over and you’re down 12-0 already,” deNicola said. “You realize you have to put some points on the board, but we really stuck with our game plan and we did it.” PART OF THE game plan was based upon the “Winds of Blackstock”. “It really worked out well because we had the wind with us in the second and fourth quarter
rushing day part of the 23rd straight win at Blackstock Stadium, but also sent the senior class out with a 19-0 homefield record. (Banner-Graphic photo by Beth Emery).
“He’s fantastic,’’ said lowa Coach Hayden Fry of Long who broke the record of 18 straight held by Brigham Young’s Steve Young. “He doesn’t look spectacular. He’s so nonchalant but he keeps throwing bull’s-eyes.” While Long was throwing strikes against Indiana, Wisconsin backup tailback Marck Harrison made things miserable for Ohio State. Filling for injured Larry Emery, Harrison, a 5-8, 190-pound senior, gained 203 yards in 31 carries to outshine Buckeye star Keith Byars Byars, the nation’s leading rusher, gained 142 yards in 26 attempts. “Our kids have taken a lot of abuse," said Wisconsin Coach Dave McClain. “They never quit. Good things come from bad things. I hope we have the sme feeling against lowa next week.”
and I think that was very important,” coach Nick Mourouzis said. Knowing that Kenyon’s secondary was very inexperienced, the Tigers drew them in with the ground attack. On a third and long situation deNicola rolled left, looking to pass, but seeing his receivers covered, tucked the ball away and cut back inside for a 23-yard pick up. That opened up Sky Holford up for six more through the air and set up a 22-yard Flewellen run. Flewellen ran for another two before Weaver caught deNicola’s pass in the front of the end zone. “But they were playing too far back off, that wouldn’t work,” Weaver said of his usual touchdown routes to the back corners of the end zone. “So Tony made a really good call. He called a quick out, we usually don’t run that on the goal line, but the way they were playing that was the only call that was open.” DePAUW SCORED ITS second and goahead touchdown much the same way. On their second possession of the period, two Flewellen runs for 10 yards, a deNicola dive for a crucial first down on third and inches all set up a 10-yard pass to Holford. Another Flewellen three-step opened a gap for split end Doug Penn between the linebackers and secondary in the middle of the field. That pass, followed by another incomplete dart over the middle, drew the Lords' secondary away from the sidelines, opening things for Weaver again.
Michigan’s Bo Schembechler, dean of Big Ten coaches, went back to the option to defeat Illinois. “We used the option more this game,” said Schembechler. “Some people think it’s conservative but it opened up the game for us. We scored on two options, one on a keeper and one on a pitch.” Bo started sophomore quarterback Chris Zurbrugg who was an option quarterback in high school. Purdue set its sights on a postseason bowl bid and quarterback Jim Everett had to impress representatives of the Liberty Bowl who witnessed the game. Everett completed 25 of 35 passes for 312 yards and three touchdowns. “This is the first game of a new season for us,” said Everett who helped the Boilermakers snap a two-game losing
The elusive junior pulled in a 17-yard pass and finally a head-first diving 19-yard catch put the Tigers ahead. Steve Shadoan’s second PAT kick gave DePauw a 14-12 lead. THE TIGER DEFENSE got a big assist in the 17-12 halftime lead. Scott Stetson and Clark Rogers sacked Pantic twice and Andrew King broke up a pass play to force a punt, giving DePauw possession with 24 seconds left in the second quarter. Going right to the two-minute drill, deNicola guided the Tigers down field with 20-yard passes to Penn and Holford and an eight-yard flip to Gino Gianotti out the backfield. That set up a 24-yard Shadoan field goal and gave DePauw a 17-12 halftime lead. “That gave us a lift,” coach Mourouzis said. “Even though we would have been ahead 14-12, that quick two-minute drill really helped us out there.” WITH THE WIND in their favor in the third quarter, the Lords went to the air and the Tigers were ready. Rich Was intercepted a Pantic pass, giving DePauw possession on its own 49 after a 14-yard return. It took just eight plays for the Tigers to go ahead 24-12. Weaver and Flewellen covered most of the distance, Weaver pulling in a 17-yard pass and finally a 14 yard pass for the touchdown. Flewellen covered 14 yards in three carries, 10 of those on one burst. Kenyon tried to use the “Winds of Blackstock” in its favor, taking a timeout with just seconds left in the third quarter so the Tigers would have to punt into it. Mike Sellers though boomed a highhanging 44-yarder away and Kenyon took possession back on its own 10-yard line. AFTER STONER AND Pantic picked up six yards and Lampe another two, Kenyon was faced with a third and eight. Stetson, Rogers and Lee Banks came blowing through the Lords’ line and sacked Pantic for an eight-yard loss on the critical down, forcing a punt into the wind. Kenyon’s Chris Smith tried to punt a line-drive and keep it out of the wind, but instead it went off the end of his toe, traveling just 23 yards. DePauw took possession on the Kenyon 33. After the day Flewellen had had, Mourouzis appeared determined to have him score a touchdown. Five straight plays the 190-pound tailback carried the football, going 22 yards on the last play of the drive, his last carry of the game and last carry at Blackstock Stadium for a touchdown. SHADOAN, ALSO A senior kicked his final PAT at Blackstock sending the Tigers into a 31-12 lead. Mourouzis started pulling the first-line players and making sure all seniors played. The players might have changed, but the attack and results remained the same. Senior Gary Radz carried for six yards, then threw a halfback pass to Greg Terpstra for an 18-yard pick up. Chip Jordan found Pete Eshleman for a seven-yard gain, putting the Tiger on the two. Radz got the first touchdown of his senior year on back to back one-yard gains to set the final score. However, when the excited Radz jumped into the air after scoring the touchdown he injured a knee and is expected to miss next week’s game at Dayton. SCORE BY QUARTERS Kenyon 12 0 0 #-12 DePauw • 17 7 13-37 First Quarter KC-Stoner, 47 pass from Pantic (run failed), 8:24. KC-Lampe, 7 run (pass failed), :01. Second Quarter DPU-Weaver, 7 pass from deNicola (Shadoan kick), 11:00. DPU-Weaver, 19 pass from deNicola (Shadoan kick), 4:38. DPU-Shadoan, 24 field goal, 0:00. Third Quarter DPU-Weaver, IS pass from deNicola (Shadoan kick), t:35 Fourth Quarter DPU-Flewellen, 22 run (Shadoankick), 11:07. DPU-Radz, 1 run (kick failed), S:l2. STATISTICS KC DPU First downs 14 24 Rushing yards 24-30 51-201 Passing yards 243 207 Passes ‘ 29-47-2 16-27-0 Total offense 273 406 Return yards 32 139 Punte-Avg. 7-32.8 6-30.5 Fumbles-lost 0-0 3-2 Penalties-yards 6-60 6-55
streak. "A bowl bid is part of our goal but we’re not letting it fill our minds.” Minnesota lost the services of quarterback Reggie Foggie with a separated shoulder in the third quarter and that limited Gopher chances'. "If he hadn’t been hurt it might have been a different game,” said Michigan State Coach George Perles. “He’s great, he makes it go.” lowa has tough home game against Wisconsin on Saturday while Michigan goes to Purdue in a key contest. Minnesota will be at Illinois, Indiana at Ohio state and Northwestern at Michigan State. After Wisconsin, lowa has a home date against Michigan State and finishes its conference schedule at Minnesota. If the Hawkeyes can sweep all three games, they will have their first undisputed Big Ten title since 1956.
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Tim Weaver caught three touchdown passes Saturday in DePauw's 37-12 victory over Kenyon College. The three receptions give the junior 10 touchdown pass catches for the year and a school-record 15 for his
Pizzolato surprise marathon champion
NEW YORK (AP) Before the 1984 New York City Marathon, race director Fred Lebow had promised, “You will be surprised.” While Lebow did not predict what the surprise would be in Sunday’s race, even he had to be shocked by the name of the winner Orlando Pizzolato, a 26-year-old native of Piovene, Italy, who never had won a marathon in 12 previous races. The race was marred by the death of a 48-year-old French runner, Jacques Bussereau, who suffered an apparent heart attack midway through the race. It was the first fatality in the 15-year history of the event. Unseasonable warm temperatures in the mid-70s and humidity readings in the 90s contributed to a busy day for medical technicians. About 200 runners were treated at area hospitals for dehydration and cramps, compared with nine last year. Pizzolato’s best marathon time was 2 hours, 14 minutes, 42 seconds, when he finished fourth in the 1983 Rome Marathon hardly considered a world-class clocking. The previous eight winners of the New York City Marathon since the race was taken strictly out of Central Park in 1976 and run through the city’s five boroughs had been Bill Rodgers (four times), Alberto Salazar (three times) and Rod Dixon of New Zealand (last year). Each was regarded as an elite marathoner. Not Pizzolato. Even Italian journalists here for the race were hard-pressed to come up with much significant information on him. And, Laura Fogli, the third-place finisher in the women’s race, won for the third consecutive year and the sixth time in seven years by Norway’s Grete Waitz, was surprised at Pizzolato’s victory. “I thought he would lose, because he’s too nervous before a race,” said Fogli, who trains with Pizzolato in Ferrara, in northern Italy. Nervousness appeared to be the least of Pizzolato’s worries Sunday. His biggest problems were severe stomach cramps and the heat and humidity which gripped the 26-mile, 385yard course. His winning time of 2:14:53 was the slowest in the New York City Marathon since Tom Fleming’s 2:19:27 in 1975 and nearly seven minutes slower than the
October 27,1984, The Putnam County Banner-Graphic
career with two games and all of next season ahead. Weaver caught six passes for 90 yards in DePauw's 23rd consecutive homefield win. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).
world-best of 2:08:05 set last week in the America’s Marathon-Chicago by Steve Jones of Britain. “The important runners were behind me,” said Pizzolato, who finished 27th in last year’s New York City Marathon. “I had the courage to keep running.” His courage was remarkable indeed. Afterward, he said the physical problems that had plagued him during the race had disappeared. “Now, I feel fine,” said Pizzolato, who earned $25,000 from the total purse of $273,800 and was given a Mercedes Benz, valued at $23,000. Dave Murphy, a native of Britain now living in Louisville, Ky., finished a distant second in 2:15:36. West Germany’s Herbert Steffny was third in 2:16:22, and was followed by Pat Petersen of Ronkokoma, N Y. in 2:16:35 and Gianni Demadonna of Italy in 2:17:05. Dixon, the first foreigner to win the race since it was inaugurated in 1970, was unable to defend his title. He dropped out, because of stomach cramps, about 100 yards short of the 21-mile mark, when he was in fourth place. Waitz, meanwhile, had little difficulty in winning again, after overcoming diarrhea and stomach cramps, which she said nearly forced her to quit. She thought the problem was caused by drinking too many fluids. “It was very warm, so I was drinking more than usual,” said the 31-year-old Waitz, whose only loss in nine marathons in which she has finished came in the Olympic Games at Los Angeles, where she was second to Joan Benoit of the United States. “I was seriously thinking of dropping out,” added Waitz, whose six victories in the same marathon put her only one behind the record, held by Clarence DeMar, who captured the Boston Marathon seven times. Waitz’ winning time was 2:29:30 and her margin of victory was even greater than Pizzolato’s. Her closest competitor, Veronique Marot, a French native now living in England, finished nearly five miputes behind Waitz, in 2:33:58. Laura Fogli of Italy was third in 2:37:25, with Lizanne Bussieres of Canada fourth in 2:37:34 and Judi St. Hilaire of Cambridge, Mass, fifth in 2:37:49.
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