Bruins Take Their Time in Victory : UCLA: Daluiso’s 21-yard field goal with one second to play beats Stanford, 32-31. Winless streak of seven is broken.

It has been almost a year since UCLA won a football game and, when it finally did, the drama was fittingly drawn out to the very end.

Brad Daluiso kicked a 21-yard field goal with only one second remaining to give the Bruins a stirring 32-31 victory over Stanford Saturday at the Rose Bowl before a crowd of 45,855.

It was somewhat improbable that Daluiso, a walk-on, would make the winning kick because he has been practicing extra points and field goals for only 1 1/2 years after a soccer background.

However, it was more improbable that a redshirt freshman quarterback with negligible game experience would come off the bench to provide a spark for the Bruins.

Tommy Maddox, who recently turned 19, performed like a veteran in the second half.

He figured prominently in a most bizarre play in the fourth quarter, one that had a significant effect on the outcome.

Maddox’s 36-yard touchdown pass to freshman flanker Bryan Adams enabled UCLA to cut Stanford’s lead to 28-27. The Bruins then lined up for the extra point with 5:54 remaining.

The holder, Maddox, bungled the snap and, when he put the ball down, Daluiso’s kick was blocked by Stanford nose tackle Frank Busalacchi. The ball bounced back into Maddox’s hands. He quickly backpedaled and lofted a two-point conversion pass to tight end Rick Daly.

Instead of trailing 28-27, the Bruins were ahead, 29-28.

Stanford, which led at halftime 14-7 and again at 21-7 in the third quarter, responded with a field-goal drive.

When John Hopkins kicked a 49-yard field goal with 1:14 left, it seemed that the UCLA comeback had been stifled.

However, the Cardinal still had to contend with Maddox, the cool youngster from Hurst, Tex.

Starting from the Bruin 17 and working the clock, Maddox picked Stanford’s prevent pass defense apart with accurate throws to split end Reggie Moore.

On first down from the Cardinal 27-yard line, Maddox passed to Moore for an 18-yard gain to the nine-yard line.

Kevin Smith, a surprise starter at fullback, bulled his way to the three-yard line, where UCLA called time out.

When play resumed, Daluiso was accurate with his field goal and UCLA had snapped a winless streak of seven games, dating to Oct. 7, 1989.

Maddox, who had replaced starter Jim Bonds at the start of the second half, completed 13 of 20 passes for 244 yards and two touchdowns.

The 6-foot-4 quarterback’s only previous game experience was 1 1/2 quarters in UCLA’s 34-14 opening-game loss to Oklahoma.

It was a bitter defeat for Stanford in the first Pacific 10 game for both schools.

The Cardinal had lost to heavily favored Colorado, 21-17, in the final 12 seconds Sept. 6 at Boulder, Colo.

Maddox came into the interview room with a gash on his chin and a big grin.

“You can’t feel anything but great,” he said. “The club needed that so much after the season we had last year (a 3-7-1 record). We had to prove to ourselves that when the chips are down, we’re not going to fold.”

As for the two-point conversion pass that he threw to Daly, Maddox said:

“I didn’t even know if it counted. I just picked the ball up and reacted.”

Daly said that no one was rushing through his gap. “I just went out about six or seven yards and Tommy threw me the ball.”

Daluiso said that Maddox was exhausted at the time and could hardly breathe, and that might have contributed to him fumbling the snap from center on the extra-point try.

“It was a lucky play,” UCLA Coach Terry Donahue said, “but we’ve had a lot of bad luck, so I’m not going to apologize. It was a very aware play by Tommy Maddox, who was cool all day under pressure.”

Donahue said he had decided at halftime to replace Bonds with Maddox even before offensive coordinator Homer Smith arrived at the same decision.

Bonds completed only two of eight passes in the first half for 15 yards, missing receivers who were open.

So Maddox has established himself and so has fullback Kevin Smith, a junior, who had been used sparingly in other seasons.

Donahue said he had not been impressed by the 6-foot-4, 246-pound Smith previously. He was Saturday when Smith gained 75 yards in 13 carries.

Even though it lost, Stanford is obviously an improved team from its 3-8 record in 1989.

Quarterback Jason Palumbis had the UCLA defense guessing with a ball-control offense. He completed 21 of 32 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns. His favorite target was split end Ed McCaffrey, who caught nine passes for 123 yards and two touchdowns.

The Cardinal also has an improved running game. Fullback Tommy Vardell gained 59 yards in 15 carries and scored two touchdowns, and Glyn Milburn had 75 yards in 21 carries.

Stanford was seemingly in control while leading, 21-7, midway through the third quarter.

Then Maddox went to work. He directed an 80-yard, nine-play scoring drive that culminated in a 34-yard touchdown pass to Reggie Moore. “The receiver ran a different route, a streak, as they (Stanford) were in man-to-man coverage,” Maddox said.

Moore caught the ball at the goal line and, after the extra point, UCLA had closed to 21-14.

UCLA pulled even, 21-21, early in the fourth quarter after Palumbis’ pass was intercepted by linebacker Roman Phifer at the Cardinal 11. Five plays later, tailback Kevin Williams did a virtual cartwheel on a one-yard dive into the end zone.

Stanford went ahead again, 28-21, with an 80-yard scoring drive that was climaxed by Vardell’s shedding would-be tacklers on a five-yard run up the middle.

Maddox retaliated with a 79-yard scoring drive, resulting in the impromptu two-point pass.

In the winning field-goal drive, Reggie Moore was surprised that the Stanford defensive backs were playing so far away from him. He caught four passes for 62 yards and, for the game, had a career-high eight catches for 133 yards.

No one was happier, though, than Donahue. The winless drought had finally ended.