European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. September 8, 1980 the stars and stripes Potje 21 tide Irish take season openers by Mike Harris a sports writer the tide rolled and Irish eyes smiled As iwo of America s perennial fall favourites led the Way on the first saturday of the College football season. Alabama s second ranked Crimson tide extended the nation s longest major col lege winning Slcak to 22 games with a 26 3 Victory Over Georgia tech. Billy Jackson dashed 13 and 5 Yards for touchdowns on his first two carries of the season and world class sprinter James Mallard added a touchdown on a 39-Yard pass play to spark the Alabama Triumph. Tide coaching legend Paul Bear Bry ant Starling his 23rd season at Alabama. College Roundup said i m proud of the defense for not letting them score a touchdown and i m proud of the offence for scoring a couple. But we never did look like an Alabama team is supposed to on offence. I can t be critical though because it was awfully hot out  the winners took advantage of a Fum bled snap by punter Jeff Pierce to set up Jackson s first touchdown just 3 41 into the game and tech s debuting coach. Bill Curry said we gave them two easy touchdowns the first after a dropped at tempted punt and their third when we blew a coverage. You give Alabama 14 Points and you re  meanwhile the ill ranked fighting Irish of notre Dame rocked ninth ranked Purdue 31-10 behind mystery Man quarterback Mike Courcy. Nobody knew my  said Courcy who was t announced As the Irish starter until the team took the Field for pregame drills. However the unheralded senior threw for one touchdown and ran for another As he completed 10 of 13 pass ing attempts for 151 Yards and rushed fur59 More. Workhorse running Back Phil Carter chipped in with 142 Yards and one touch Down on 29 carries to help the Irish avenge one of their most disheartening losses of1979. B Purdue was handicapped by the absence of Star quarterback Mark Herrmann who decided during the pc game Warmup that the thumb he sprained earlier in the week was not Strong enough to play with. I could t  Herrmann said. I could t squeeze the Ball. I thought we were Good enough to beat them. When i first said i was t going to play it was the toughest thing i have gone  in other games saturday involving teams ranked in the top Twenty nth rated Flo Ida slate blanked Louisiana slate 16-0, no. 14 North Carolina whipped fur Man 35-13. 15lh-Rankcd Stanford toppled Oregon 35-25, 16lh-Ratcd Georgia a wiped Tennessee 16-15 and no. 18 Penn stale ripped outman cd Colgate 54-10. Florida state playing under inc stars at Baton Rouge got three Field goals from Bill Capocc and a touchdown from Sam Platt to gain its 16th consecutive regular season Vic tory. That spoiled the coaching debut of  j Jerry Stovall. Georgia s bulldogs heaved a deep sigh of Relief saturday night after Pat Mcshea re covered a Tennessee Fumble at the Georgia 1 in the closing minutes of the game. The vols playing before a rated Home crowd of 95.28k the largest Ever to cent Inch a on Page 22 of stare & stripes sports Borg Mcenroe in final notre Dame halfback Phil Carter. Breaking away from Purdue defenders for 16-Yard gain Evert wins her 5th . Open Chris Evert new York up Chris Evert Lloyd won her fifth . Open championship saturday. On the men s Side John  won a fifth set tic Brcak from Jimmy Connors to set up a replay of his classic Wimbledon final with Bjorn Borg. For the second Day in a Row Evert Lloyd dropped the opening set Only to rally Back this time for a 5-7. 6-1, 6-1 Victory Over Hana Mandrikova of Czechoslovakia who was bidding to become the first East euro Pean woman to capture the open. In a match that took almost four hours and 15 minutes starting in Bright Sun Shine and ending under the lights Mcenroe the defending Champion displayed an incredible reversal of form after losing 11 games in a Row to overcome Connors 6-4, 5 7,0-6, 6-3. 7-6 winning the tic Brcak 7-3. Lloyd i figured i was in trouble Mcenroe. Checks the czech said about losing ii games in a Row. But he s come Back against me and i figured Iff Hung in there maybe i could come Back. With his Type of game the Way he was hitting so Many winners i did t figure he could keep it up. I thought i was controlling the match the first and second sets not totally. After that he started returning incredibly and i Nas jumping All Over the place. If he had been Able to do that All match it would have been too difficult. But he made a few errors and let me  Borg. Who has a penchant for digging himself a Hole and then scrambling out nonchalantly dropped the first two sets be fore recovering for a 4-6. 4-6. 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 Victory Over unseeded Johan Krick thus averting what would have been one of the sport s greatest upsets. Mcenroe took charge Early with Breaks in the eighth and 10th games to win the opening set. And he had a set Point it 5-4 in he second set. At this Point Connors Sud Denly turned the match around with some Superb passing Shou. Me won the second set with a break in the i Illi game on two passing shots and did t drop another game until he was up 2-0 in inc fourth set. The mood of the match reversed itself once again though of Mcenroe recovered his poise and broke service in both the sixth and eighth games the latter coming on his seventh break Point. After Mcenroe went ahead with a break in the fifth game of the final set Connors slaved off defeat by breaking Back in the Lola. But Mcenroe jumped off to a 6-1 Lead in the tiebreaker and won the match when Connors returned a service too Long. Mcenroe again in a petulant mood argued numerous Calls and referred to Umpire Don Wiley As or. Incompetent during Cirini imbed on Page 221 Fisk Rice hrs Power red sox past Seattle by United press International Carlton Fisk and Jim Rice refuse to let the Boston red sox Pennant Hopes slip  and Rice clouded Home runs arid the combined six hit pitching of Dick Drago and Tom Burgmeir lifted the red sox to a 5-1 Triumph Over the Seattle mar Iners saturday. Mike Parrott 1-13, who Defeated to Ronto on opening Day and has not won since went seven innings and gave up three runs. Drago went seven innings and gave up five hits Ana one run while Burg Meier picked up his 21st save a new Boston record for a left hander. Boston scored in the second inning on singles by Tony Perez and Fisk an error Al Roundup by Center fielder Dan Meyer and an rib single by Jim Dwyer. The red sox made it 2-0 in the third on singles by Dave Stapleton Rice and Perez. The rib was Perez 92nd of the season his highest total since 1975. Seattle scored a run in the sixth when Bruce Bochte who had three hits doubled off left fielder Rice s Glove. Joe Simpson s grounder advanced Bochte to third and Bochte scored on an infield hit by Larry Milbourne. Fisk s 16th Homer of the season made it 3-1 in the sixth. Rice hit a two run Homer in the eighth his 19th of the season for the final two red sox runs. Elsewhere in the american league twins 4, tigers 0 Jerry Koosman and Doug Corbell com Conli nuts on pane 221 Brett s Bat saturday 0 for 3 average .396 games left 26