East Roundup : Penn State Racks Up 42-17 Win

Unbeaten Penn State walloped East Carolina, 42-17, Saturday at University Park, Pa., and left Coach Joe Paterno worried.

Worried after a game in which East Carolina crossed midfield only once under its own steam?

“Well, when you win too easy you tend to overestimate,” Paterno said. “You know, it’s true what they say that you’re not as good as you look when you win, and not as bad as you look when you lose.”

John Shaffer, who completed 11 of 16 attempts for 157 yards, threw for 2 touchdowns as the seventh-ranked Nittany Lions ran up a 35-0 halftime lead and then coasted to their third victory of the season.

Paterno emptied his bench in handing East Carolina its fourth straight defeat and extending the nation’s longest losing streak to 13 games.

East Carolina gained just 200 yards running and passing, most of it late in the fourth quarter.

“It was once again a long Saturday for us,” East Carolina Coach Art Baker said. “ . . . They (Penn State) are as good as we thought they would be, and they are going to have a good season. I think we were probably in awe of them.”

The victory was the 190th of Paterno’s 21-year career, tying him with John Vaught, former University of Mississippi coach, for 13th place in Division I-A.

Pittsburgh, 48, West Virginia 16--John Congemi completed 16 of 30 passes for 260 yards at Pittsburgh as the Panthers (2-1-1) beat the Mountaineers (2-2) for the first time since 1982.

“Not to take anything away from West Virginia, but it was easy,” said Congemi, who threw for three touchdowns, including a 66-yarder to Bill Osborn, and ran for another. Osborn passed for another touchdown on a halfback option play.

It was Pitt’s most one-sided victory over West Virginia since a 52-7 win in 1978.

Rutgers 16, Syracuse 10--Quarterback Joe Gagliardi, running away from pressure, lobbed a 24-yard touchdown pass to fullback Matt Prescott in the third quarter for the decisive score at Syracuse, N.Y., as the Scarlet Knights handed the winless Orangemen their fourth consecutive loss.

Doug Giesler converted three field goals to help keep Rutgers (3-0-1) undefeated.

The last time Syracuse lost its first four games was in 1978, when the Orangemen finished 3-8.

Wake Forest 49, Army 14-- At West Point, N.Y., fullback Chip Rives ran for 122 yards and 2 touchdowns, and halfback Darrell McGill ran for 144 yards and a touchdown as the Demon Deacons ended the Cadets’ 13-game home winning streak dating to a 1983 loss to Doug Flutie and Boston College.

Mike Elkins, ranked fifth in the nation in total offense, completed 15 of 25 passes for 178 yards and 2 touchdowns for the Demon Deacons (3-1). Army is 1-2.

Navy 41, Lehigh 0--Chuck Smith ran for three touchdowns and scored a fourth on a 39-yard pass from quarterback Bill Byrne to lead the Midshipmen (2-1) at Annapolis, Md.

Smith, who entered the game as the nation’s leading all-purpose rusher, played less than three quarters but still wound up with 192 yards on rushes, pass receptions and kickoff returns.

His four touchdowns tied a Navy record held by Joe Bellino, Eddie Meyers and Gerry Goodwin.

New Hampshire 66, Dartmouth 12--At Hanover, N.H., Bob Jean passed for four touchdowns as the Wildcats (3-1) tied a school record for most points scored in a game. For Dartmouth (0-2), it was the worst defeat since a 70-0 loss to Harvard in 1886.

Holy Cross 41, Harvard 0--At Cambridge, Mass., sophomore quarterback Jeff Wiley led the undefeated Crusaders (3-0) to four touchdowns in a 6 1/2-minute span.

Wiley completed 17 of 32 passes for 278 yards, while Harvard (1-1) committed 11 turnovers.

Penn 10, Bucknell 7--Rich Comizio ran for 175 yards in 26 carries, but the Quakers (2-0) had to fight off a fourth-quarter rally to edge the Bisons (1-2) at Philadelphia.

Comizio’s 175 yards brought his three-season total to 1,686, making him the fourth leading rusher in Penn history.

Connecticut 17, Yale 12--At New Haven, Conn., Marc Mofsowitz scored on a 50-yard run, and Jeff Gallaher added a 1-yard touchdown to lead the Huskies to their third straight victory.

Lafayette 26, Columbia 21--At New York, Kurt Bowman and Bruce McIntyre scored two touchdowns each as Lafayette (2-1) extended the Lions’ winless streak to 26 games--longest in the nation. Columbia (0-2) has lost 23 in a row.

Cornell 21, Colgate 12--Junior wide receiver Shaun Hawkins caught 4 passes for 108 yards and 2 touchdowns at Hamilton, N.Y. to lead the Big Red to their first victory over the Red Raiders since 1979.