European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 24, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 21 Rolls on leu 21-7 victim As tide Racks we 500th Triumph Baton Rouge la. A Gary Rutledge Alabama s Mas Ter of the Wishbone hurled two Long touchdown passes and scored another and the second ranked Crimson fide Defeated no. 7 Louisiana state 21-7 thurs Day night in a nationally Tele Vised Southeastern conference football game. The Victory was the 500th in Alabama s football history Mak ing it Only the eighth College team Ever to reach that figure. It also sewed up Alabama s third straight Sec championship and enhanced its chances of a fourth National Crown. The sugar bowl bound tide produced the Victory with rut ledge s big play ability and a de sense that yielded huge chunks of first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards Alabama leu 11 21 47-191 57-212 173 144 13 3 5-6-0 12-20-3 7-46 7-34 3-1 3-2 1-5 0-0 Yards to leu s stable of Fine run ners but stopped scoring threats on turnovers. It also set up a possible sugar bowl Battle of unbeaten be tween the tide which closes against Auburn next week and notre Dame which beat air force48-15, earlier in the Day and ends its season next week against Miami Fla. Rutledge opened the scoring on a 19-Yard run in the second Quarter following a Fumble recovery and teamed up on touchdown passes of 49 Yards with George Pugh and 77 Yards with Wayne Wheeler. Ricky Davis stymied two leu scoring threats with interceptions at his five and in the end zone and another Tiger threat ended with a Fumble. Leu s Only touchdown came on a 40-Yard run in the fourth Quarter by Brad Davis who gained 143 Yards for the night. It was the 10th consecutive Vic tory for the Crimson tide while leu took its first defeat drop Ping to 9-1. The defeat also snapped a 15-game Home Field winning Streak for leu which meets undefeated Perm state in the Orange bowl new year snight. Alabama which now has won a dozen conference Champion ships also administered the last Irish Roll Over air Force 48-15 Best Penick spark first period burst South Bend ind. A fifth ranked notre Dame be Hind the bullish running of Art Best and Eric Penick scored four first period touchdowns thursday and devoured air Force 48-15 in a nationally Tele Vised thanksgiving Day College football game. The Irish built a 28-0 Lead As the Falcons gave up the Ball three times in the first Quarter on Fum Bles. The Victory ran the season re Cord to 9-0 for the sugar bowl bound Irish. Air Force had a four game winning string Stop Ped and wound up the season at 6 4. Came out throwing the Falcons received the open ing Kickoff and came out throw ing moving to a pair of first Downs in the first three plays. But a 24-Yard Rich Haynie to Bob Farr pass wound up with Farr fumbling the Ball to the. Irish at their 45-Yard line. Notre Dame moved the Ball for its first score in eight plays capped by a 14-Yard pass from Tom Clements to tight end Dave Casper. Air Force coughed up the Ball again two plays later when hitting Al Bready with a 21-Yard scoring pass. The key play in the drive was a 43-Yard run by fullback Billberry. The Falcons scored again late in the game on an 18-Yard run by Dave Reiner but after both touchdowns Sophomore Dave Lawson s extra Point kick was wide. The Only other air Force score came on a 51-Yard Field goal by Lawson who also missed from 52 and 62 Yards. Bob Thomas notre Dame s All time kicking Leader hit two of four Field goal attempts. The Irish appeared Flat throughout the second period and through much of the third but wholesale substitutions from that Point on gave them new spirit. The subs drove for a pair of Quick touchdowns in the final period to close Ttye scoring. Reserve quarterback Cliff Brown hit Pete Demmerle with a 22-Yard touchdown toss and Junior Al Samuel got the final score on a five Yard run. For air Force Haynie wrapped up his collegiate career with a 14-of-36 passing perform Ance for 189 Yards with one interception. The crowd of 57,236 in ancient notre Dame stadium was almost 2,000 under capacity and ended a string of 48 consecutive Home sellouts for the Irish. The last notre Dame Home game before some empty seats was on oct. 24, 1964, against Stanford. The Victory gave Ara Parseghian s Irish teams a 19-0 re Cord against service academies since the coach came to South Bend in 1964. It also brought the Irish within one game a dec. 1 contest at Miami of Florida of their first unbeaten untied regu Lar season since 1949 under Frank Leahy. Air Force 0 3 a15 notre Dame 28 6 0 1448 and Casper 14 pass from Clements Thomas kick and Penick 6 run Thomas kick and Bullock 8 run Thomas kick and Penick 4 run Thomas kick of Bready 21 pass from Haynie kick failed and Fig Thomas 36 and Fig Thomas 32. Of Fig Lawson 51 and Demmerle 22 pass from Brown Thomas kick and Samuel 5 run Thomas kick of Reiner 18 run kick failed a57,236 running Star leaks nerf Routs aggie 42-13 air Force notre Dame first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards 19 30-114 202 6 15-37-1 5-35 4-4 2-1 32 70-414 113 42 9-21-1 3-42 3-1 6-66 Sophomore defensive end Jim Stock caused a Fumble and recovered it at the air Force 11. Penick went in from the six Yard line to make it 14-0 with 10 41 left in the period. Third Irish score the Irish took an air Force punt at the Falcon 46 and drove in for their third score in nine plays with fullback Wayne Bull Ock going the final eight Yards. Penick then wrapped up the first period outburst with a four Yard dash four plays after the fal cons fumbled to notre Dame at the air Force 29. Best Penick and Bullock All were pulled Midway in the third period with the score 34-9. Best had rushed for 125 Yards in 11 carries Penick for 67 in in trips and Bullock for 64 in 15 rushes the Falcons struck quickly in the second Quarter for their first touchdown of the game going 87 Yards in five plays with Haynie College station Tex a eleventh ranked Texas playing the second half without injured running Back Roosevelt leaks ground out a 42 13 Southwest conference Victory Over the Texas aggie thursday keyed by three Short touchdown runs by quarterback Marty Akins. Leaks who already has set a Sec single season Rushing re Cord went out on the second play of the third Quarter with what trainers described As a badly sprained left knee. Leaks gained 87 Yards on 16 carries in the on runs of five and three Yards to Climax a lengthy longhorn drive. The aggie who finished their 1973 season with a 5-6 record trailed 21-7 at halftime scoring in the first Quarter on a three Yard run by fullback Alvin Bowers. Bowers scored again late in the third Quarter on a one Yard run in a drive that was kept alive by two penalties totalling 48 Yards against the longhorns. The longhorns put the game out of reach in the third Quarter when they scored two touch Downs in the first 9 13 of the period when the aggie had the Ball for Only one play. Substitute quarterback Mike Presley scored from three Yards for a touchdown that was set up by a pass interception by Joe Bob Bizzell his second of the game. The longhorns ranked among the top Rushing teams in the nation precise one three touch Down drives in the first half two of them set up by aggie miscues. Bowers fumbled on the first play of the game and it tackle Doug English recovered to set in motion Texas first touchdown drive. After unfeeling a 90-Yard drive continued on Page 23 Tiger stadium defeat on leu 14-7 two years ago. The tigers fired up by their noisy fans who jammed the stadium to its 67,000-seat capacity opened the game impressively after being backed up to their one Yard line by Richard Todd s 44-Yard coffin Corner punt. With Davis hammering out 60 Yards in seven carries leu reached the tide 33 where Hopes of a to ended on Greg Montgom Ery s recovery of a Fumble by Ken Addy. Alabama which reached the Tiger 19 in the first Quarter where it fumbled opened the scoring in the second Quarter after Mike Raines recovered a Fumble at the Tiger 19. Rutledge cashed in the break on the first play darting around the right Side to give Alabama a 6-0 Lead with 13 56 left in the first half. Rutledge who passes in frequently stunned the tigers with a bomb in the Middle of the second Quarter. After faking beautifully into the line rut ledge lofted a pass to Pugh who caught the Ball running Back wards wheeled around and Cov ered the final 34 Yards on the 49 Yard scoring play. There was t a Tiger defender within 20 Yards of Pugh when he caught the Ball. Ricky Davis put the skids on a late second Quarter threat by leu with an interception at the Alabama five. Alabama put the game on ice by scoring on its first Possession in the third Quarter with an 88 Yard drive in four plays. The to pass of 77 Yards was similar to the first one because there were no defenders around when Wheeler caught the Ball at the Tiger 40. Leu brought the Rabid crowd to life with an 82-Yard drive Early in the fourth Quarter on which Mike Miley completed two passes for 31 Yards and scrambled for 21 Yards on a crucial third Down play. Davis got the touchdown after bouncing off two defenders to break into the Clear on his 40-Yard run. Leu became the first team this year to out Rush Alabama 212 Yards to 191, but the tide made up the difference on Rutledge s passes. Rutledge paced the Alabama attack with 60 Yards in 13 carries and connected on four of five passes for 166 Yards. Alabama o 14 7 021 Louisiana state 000 77 Ala Rutledge 19 run kick failed Ala Pugh 49 pass from Rutledge Jackson run Ala Wheeler 77 pass from Rutledge b. Davis kick lsudavis40 run Jackson kick a-67,738 first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards Texas Texas atm 27 17 79-373 37-125 0 164. 0 0 0-0-0 11-22-2 3-44 3-33 2-1 3-2 5-63 7-81 Southern miss romps game giving him a season total of 1,415 Yards. Akins scored on runs of one one and nine Yards. The Victory gave the Long horns sole Possession of the Sec championship and marked their sixth consecutive title and Host berth in the Jan. 1 Cotton bowl against Nebraska. Freshman speedster Raymond Clayborn who had the fastest Schoolboy time in the nation in the 440-Yard dash last season scored two first half touchdowns Hattiesburg miss. A Sophomore quarterback Jeff Bower sparked Southern Mississippi to a 32-8 Victory thanks giving Day overpowering Utah state in the final game of the year for both teams. Southern rolled to a 25-0 half time Lead and Utah state was unable to penetrate deeper than the Southern 17-Yard line until a tied Way through the fourth Quarter when freshman quarterback Billy Swanson came off the Bench to Lead a four play 76-Yard drive for a touchdown. After taking the game s open ing Kickoff the eagles marched 73 Yards in 12 plays with senior fullback Wilson Plunkett Cra Shing across from the Utah state six Yard line. A 76-Yard drive which began on the last play of the first Quarter netted the second Eagle touchdown Early in the second period with senior halfback Noel Orange going in from the nine Yard line Southern defensive Back Billy Olson recovered a Fumble at the Utah state 35 on the first play after the ensuing Kickoff and when Southern stalled at the 16r Yard line Ricky Palmer came in to kick a 34-Yard Field goal. The last Southern touchdown in the first half was scored on a 19 Yard pass from Bower to Palmer after senior fullback Terrence Wells ripped off a 61-Yard run to cover most of the distance. Southern bounced Back after Utah s touchdown to add a final tally of its own with a 79-Yard surge in seven plays Orange wrapped up his career with a four Yard scoring run