1976 Football - Year In Review |
Coaching Staff
Bobby Bowden, Head Coach
Ned Ashton, Graduate Assistant
Jerry Bruner, Offensive Line
Jim Gladden, Defensive Ends
George Haffner, Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks, Running Backs
Bob Harbison, Offensive Line, Staff Coordinator
George Henshaw, Defensive Line
Nick Kish, Graduate Assistant
Gene McDowell, Linebackers
Kent Schoolfield, Wide Receivers, Tight Ends
David Snell, Graduate Assistant
Jack Stanton, Defensive Coordinator, Defensive Backs
Frank Vohun, Graduate Assistant
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1976 FSU Football Handbook
Back: Jimmy Black and Joe Camps
Front: Rudy Thomas, Coach Bobby Bowden and Jeff Leggett
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From the Tallahassee Democrat, January 5, 1976, page 18, by Bill McGrotha. Finances key to Mudra firing.
Successor sought this week. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State will
move swiftly in quest of a new head football coach, and hopes to have one by the end of the week.
In a move that was not totally unexpected, Florida State Sunday morning dismissed Darrell Mudra as
coach, effective immediately, and announced it in mid-afternoon.
Mudra agreed to a $30,000 settlement on the remaining two years of his contract. His annual salary was approximately $30,000.
In
a 2-page press release, Florida State did not spell out reasons for the dismissal, other than financial ones.
Athletic Director John Bridgers said, in effect, that the university felt it could
generate more financial support for football, the athletic department and the university with a coaching change.
In recent weeks, the university is known to have had a number of expressions from
supporters indicating their support would not be as large if a change was not made.
Mudra was faulted in some quarters for his philosophical approach to the game - essentially a democratic one
versus an authoritarian approach. Many fans resented the fact that he coached from the pressbox. Mudra's candid, often controversial statements got him into trouble with the media around the state.
Some people expressed concern over a style that often seemed to be casual.
Mudra today released the following statement:
"It is with deep regret I leave Florida State University. No good end
would be served if I were to question the decision, and it is in that spirit I accept it. I wish the best possible for the future of the players and a deep concern for those who will continue here.
"I am especially grateful for the opportunities my family has enjoyed. We have been treated first class by everyone who touched our lives here. Tallahassee is the nicest place I have lived, and I will
miss it very much. I plan to continue coaching."
Assistants on the present staff are on year-to-year contracts, but three months notice is now required for those employed for less than a year, and
six months notice for those employed more than a year. Compensation would be required accordingly for assistants who do not voluntarily leave or who will not be asked to remain on the staff.
Presumably, this compensation would come from the $95,000 raised by supporters seeking a change.
Contrary to earlier word, the $95,000 was given to the university without condition; it would be
returned to the contributors should a change not be made. The contributors expressed the hope it would be used to effect a change, but said the university might use the money for any purpose it chose
should a change not be made.
There were approximately 70 people who contributed to the fund in a quiet drive that achieved its approximate goal in a few days.
Speculation on a successor still
centers on a "name" coach.
Such coaches as Maryland's Jerry Claiborne, West Virginia's Bobby Bowden and N. C. State's Lou Holtz are prominent in speculation. Earlier, Pittsburgh's Johnny Majors and
Texas Tech's Steve Sloan indicated they would not be interested. The possible interest of Holtz at this moment seems clouded.
Around town there is considerable support for Gene Cox of Leon High.
Around town and state there's also considerable support for Bill Peterson who last coached Florida State in 1970.
United Press International this morning quoted Peterson as saying he is "definitely
interested." Peterson added: "If I can get the job, I would give up money coming to me from the professional contract." (Peterson is still drawing approximately $45,000 annually from the pro Houston
Oilers on a contract that runs through October 1978.)
But it seems rather certain that Florida State will seek an active head coach of stature.
Some supporters have offered to contribute toward
the sum that a "name" coach would ask.
Mudra took over the Seminoles in '74 following an 0-11 season. The Seminoles were 1-10 his first year, 3-8 during his second. Bridgers noted the improvement
in the season past: "The team … showed fine effort and spirit, and since the season ended, Mudra and his staff have done an outstanding recruiting job."
Florida State has signed 25 or so high
school players, many of them heavily sought and highly evaluated. The change probably means that the Seminoles will lose some of these when the mid-February date for the first signing of national
letters of intent comes around.
FSU President Dr. Stanley Marshall, who shortly after the end of the season released a statement that the university did not "anticipate" a change, referred
yesterday to "new and important developments."
Those developments presumably centered around the $95,000 that provided an option when one did not previously exist.
"The athletic committee," said
Dr. Marshall Sunday, "concurred with Mr. Bridgers that we should reconsider our position. I am in full agreement."
The athletic committee is headed by Dr. Richard Baker. Other members: Dr. Janet
Wells, Dr. James Jones, Dr. Bill Long - all faculty members - plus Ernest Williams (representing the FSU staff), Jim Smith (alumni representative), Doyle Pope (president of Seminole Boosters) and
Chris Griffin (student representative).
There's no indication that a selection committee will be appointed this time. Dr. Marshall, Bridgers and the athletic committee will be primarily
involved.
From the Tallahassee Democrat, January 12, 1976, page 1, by Bill McGrotha. Bowden named FSU coach.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Climaxing an intense search that lasted barely
more than a week, Florida State today announced that Bobby Bowden is its new head football coach.
The coach of West Virginia for the last six seasons, Bowden guided the Mountaineers to a 9-3 record
last year, including a 13-10 victory over N. C. State in the Peach Bowl.
An assistant at Florida State in '63, '64, and '65, Bowden was earlier head coach at Samford (Ala.) University, where his
record was 31-6. Before that he had a 22-11 record at South Georgia Junior College.
His reputation is that of a personable, devout man. "I'm as happy as heck for Bowden," said former FSU Coach Bill
Peterson, himself a contender for the job. "He'll do a fine job." But Peterson also acknowledged disappointment in his not being chosen, as did Leon High's Gene Cox. (Peterson and Cox had been
interviewed on Sunday by the full athletic committee, as was Bowden.)
Though West Virginia ran a variation of the veer formation, there is indication that he will consider switching to a pro-type
offense at Florida State.
Bowden is said to have favored the passing game, but felt it wasn't altogether the most expedient offense in the winter cold of West Virginia.
Bowden, 46, and his wife
Ann have six children - two of whom are presently football players for West Virginia.
A native of Birmingham, Ala., Bowden was once a Little All-American quarterback for Samford.
FSU President
Dr. Stanley Marshall hailed the choice with these words:
"When we began our search for a coach with a solid national reputation I never doubted that we would find one. We have found just the person
we are looking for in Coach Bowden. He has all the credentials to lead Florida State to a level of achievement in football that all of us anticipate."
From the Tallahassee
Democrat, January 12, 1976, page 15, by Bill McGrotha. Bowden back as FSU coach.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Bobby Bowden, who had a record of 42-26 over the last six seasons at independent West
Virginia, is Florida State's new head football coach.
The selection of Bowden as successor to Darrell Mudra was announced late this morning.
He will receive a 4-year contract at $37,500. (West
Virginia has a policy of giving only year-by-year contracts, and his salary there is believed to have been $35,000.)
Last season the Mountaineers went 8-3, then knocked off N. C. State 13-10 in the
Peach Bowl.
An aide to Bill Peterson for three years during the sixties, coaching Florida State backs and receivers, Bowden has been at West Virginia for 10 years, the first four as an assistant
under Jim Carlen. Two of his sons, Tom and Terry, are presently members of the West Virginia team. Another son, Stephen, is an ordained Baptist minister.
Though he ran essentially the veer at West
Virginia last year, Bowden will probably consider a pro-type offense at Florida State.
Early word is that Bowden, before selecting a staff, will give first consideration to all members of FSU's
present staff.
Athletic Director John Bridgers added: "Coach Bowden ranks among the top coaches in the nation as far as winning is concerned. In 10 years as a head coach he currently ranks as the
14th winningest one in the nation. Bowden is from the South and he wanted to return to Florida State. His reputation and integrity are above reproach. He has experience, personality and background to
bring winning football back to Florida State."
Bowden, 46, has a 73-32 record in his 10 years as a college coach. Prior to joining Peterson at FSU he had a 31-6 record at Samford in his native
Birmingham. Earlier he had been head coach of South Georgia Junior College, and had a 22-11 record there.
There was unconfirmed word that Eddie Feely would be Bowden's offensive coordinator at
Florida State, and Bobby Jackson his defensive coordinator - but that word's from the rumor mill. Feely, a one-time FSU quarterback who was an assistant here in Mudra's first season, is now head coach
at Choctawhatchee. Jackson, another former Peterson aide, is now an assistant at the University of Louisville.
Yesterday Bowden had flown into Tallahassee for a second interview. He had been in
Tampa where he served on the coaching staff for Saturday's American Bowl.
Peterson and Leon High's Gene Cox were also interviewed yesterday, by the full athletic committee.
Pat Dye, coach of
East Carolina, withdrew his name from consideration at some point over the weekend. The former Bear Bryant aide is believed to have been in solid consideration for the job here.
Bowden says he runs
his football program through a "whole man" concept.
"I do not want our boys to smoke, drink or cut classes," he said prior to his last season at West Virginia, "and I encourage church attendance.
As far as coaches are concerned, I have surrounded myself with men who have religious convictions."
Bowden and his wife Ann have six children - Robyn 24, Stephen 23, Tom 21, Terry 19, Jeffrey 15,
and Ginger 14.
Bowden was a Little All-America quarterback at Samford, where he later coached. He has a master's degree in physical education from Peabody College.
He has described himself as a
football fundamentalist, a believer in blocking and tackling. "You can take all the X's and O's and the fancy formations and the hidden defenses," he says, "but if you don't block and tackle better
than the people you're playing, then you're going to get beat."
In his first year at West Virginia in 1970 the team went 8-3. Then the Mountaineers had successive seasons of 7-4, 8-3, 6-5, 4-7, and
9-3.
He was scheduled to fly into Tallahassee for a 3 p.m. press conference today. His plans were to return to West Virginia tonight, and it's uncertain when he'll be back to stay.
1976 Florida State Signees/Newcomers
From the 1976 FSU Football Handbook, page 30.
Brent Brock, 6-4, 225, OL, Albany, Ga.
Bland Burchett, 6-2, 237, OG, Goodyear, Ariz.
Dave Cappelen, 5-8, 155, PK, Vero Beach
Walter Carter, 6-4, 235, DT, Richmond, Va.
Tom Coll, 6-2, 239, OL, Miami
Ronnie Crawford, 6-1, 220, LB, Rehobeth, Ala.
Jerome Davis, 6-1, 183, DB, Middletown, Ohio
- A transfer from Syracuse who was forced to sit out last season. Has good size and is an aggressive player who likes to get into the action. Must improve speed and footwork in moving backwards.
Showed progress this spring on technique and knowledge of coverages.
Alfred Dawson, 6-5, 230, DL, Warner Robins, Ga.
Mike Dix, 6-3, 192, TE, Tampa
- Has good hands and speed to go with them. Should help at tight end position this fall if he gains weight and strength. Needs to become more aggressive also. As a freshman had an outstanding
receiving day in Baby Seminoles' victory over Florida frosh.
Ricky Eubanks, 6-4, 190, DB, Miami
Jackie Flowers, 6-1, 195, WR, Jacksonville
Mike Good, 6-3, 230, OL, Sanford
Ivory Joe Hunter, 5-10, 174, DB, Tallahassee
- Was standout wide receiver-defensive back on state championship Leon High club. Although he needs experience, he has the ability, speed, quickness and aggressiveness to be a defensive back. Covers
one-on-one very well.
Nat Italiano, 5-11, 183, DB, Tampa
- Another youngster who needs more experience to compete at this level. Has some tools to help in future - maybe after a year of redshirting. His father was an outstanding running back during Florida
State's early years.
Lorenzo Jackson, 6-4, 192, DE, Macon, Ga.
- Was injured most of freshman season. Thus, missed much needed experience. Has excellent ability, good speed and agility. If he lives up to his potential, he could give depth to his position this
fall. Has enough speed that consideration was made to switch him to another spot.
Carlton Jones, 6-1, 225, RB, Fitzgerald, Ga.
David Jones, 6-4, 215, NG-DT, Belle Glade
Levon Jones, 5-11, 178, DB, Miami Springs
- Has excellent speed and quickness but another youngster who lacks experience. However, he showed continued improvement during spring practice.
Jimmy Jordan, 5-11, 175, QB, Tallahassee
Grady King, 6-4, 195, WR, Satellite Beach
Greg Lazzaro, 6-6, 220, TE, Hialeah
Mark Lyles, 6-4, 222, FB, Buffalo, N.Y.
Kenny Marshall, 6-1, 175, DB, Frostproof
Edgar Morales, 6-3, 195, DE, Saint Augustine
Paul Phillippy, 6-2, 230, DL, Harristown, Pa.
Edenbur Richardson, 6-4, 210, TE, Crystal River
Bill Roe, 6-2, 246, DL, Sanford
Arthur Scott, 6-2, 210, LB, Brandon
Pat Tedesco, 6-0, 180, DB, Williamsport, Pa.
Robert Thompson, 6-1, 220, LB, Tampa
Edwin Turner, 6-5, 230, OL, Auburndale
Kurt Unglaub, 5-10, 175, WR, Tallahassee
Scott Warren, 6-4, 205, DE, Titusville
Ernie Washington, 6-1, 210, FB, East Liverpool, Ohio
Gil Wesley, 6-0, 231, C, Birmingham, Ala.
Cedric Wyatt, 6-4, 220, C, Montgomery, Ala.
1976 Roster - By Name
From the 1976 FSU Football Handbook, page 44.
L
T PY
R No Name Pos Hgt Wgt Cl Ltr Hometown (Prior School)
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Charlie Barnes C-OT 6-5 258 So Thomasville, Ga. (Central)
* 22 Mike Barnes WR 5-11 183 Jr-R Titusville (Titusville)
* 81 Ed Beckman TE 6-4 215 Sr *** Miami (South Miami)
* 16 Jimmy Black QB 5-11 186 Sr ** Merritt Island (Merritt Island)
* 35 Leon Bright TB 5-9 175 Jr ** Merritt Island (Merritt Island)
Brent Brock OL 6-4 225 Fr Albany, Ga. (Albany)
Herman Brown DT 6-2 237 Jr-R Fort Lauderdale (Boyd Anderson)
Bland Burchett OG 6-2 237 Jr Goodyear, Ariz. (Mesa JC)
* 42 Joe Camps DB 6-2 195 Sr ** Gainesville (Gainesville)
* 1 Dave Cappelen PK 5-8 155 Fr Vero Beach (Vero Beach)
* 51 Aaron Carter LB 5-9 182 Jr ** Gainesville (Gainesville)
* 76 Walter Carter DT 6-4 235 Fr Richmond, Va. (Walker)
* Jay Caven OT 6-4 230 Sr-R Saint Petersburg (Boca Ciega)
Harold Cheeseborough MG 5-11 215 Sr-R Jacksonville (Lee)
* 31 Gator Cherry RB 6-0 205 So Lake Wales (Lake Wales)
Tom Coll OL 6-2 239 Fr Miami
* Dan Corcoran C 6-2 221 Sr-R Holley, N.Y. (Mesa JC)
Jessie Corner LB 5-11 200 Sr Pensacola (Woodham)
Ronnie Crawford LB 6-1 220 Fr Rehobeth, Ala. (Rehobeth)
Craig Cunningham TE 6-1 221 Sr Daytona Beach (Seabreeze)
75 Doug Dane OT 6-4 241 Sr *** Altamonte Springs (South Plantation)
* 28 Jerome Davis DB 6-1 183 Jr Middletown, Ohio (Middletown/Syracuse)
Alfred Dawson DL 6-5 230 Fr Warner Robins, Ga.
Mike Dix TE 6-3 192 So Tampa (Plant)
* 3 Bill Duley P 5-11 174 Jr * Ocala (Vanguard)
Ricky Eubanks DB 6-4 190 Fr Miami
* 23 Jackie Flowers WR 6-1 195 Fr Jacksonville (Raines)
27 Vic Fowler DB 5-11 186 So Largo (Largo)
* 69 Mike Good OL 6-3 230 Fr Sanford (Seminole)
Hector Gray WR 6-1 186 So Miami Springs (Miami Springs)
David Hanks LB 6-2 215 So-R Orlando (Edgewater)
* John Harmeling TE 6-3 203 Sr * Winter Park (Winter Park)
Bruce Harrison OG 6-1 252 Sr ** Vero Beach (Vero Beach)
* 56 Jimmy Heggins NG 5-10 201 Jr ** Salisbury, N.C. (North Rowan)
78 Nate Henderson OT 6-4 245 Jr Albany, Ga. (Albany)
* 46 Ivory Joe Hunter DB 5-10 174 So Tallahassee (Leon)
Nat Italiano DB 5-11 183 So Tampa (Robinson)
* 40 Bobby Jackson DB 5-10 168 Jr ** Albany, Ga. (Albany)
Lorenzo Jackson DE 6-4 192 So Macon, Ga. (Northeast)
* 61 Wade Johnson OG 6-2 215 Sr * Valdosta, Ga. (Valdosta)
Carlton Jones RB 6-1 225 Fr Fitzgerald, Ga. (Irwin County)
72 David Jones NG-DT 6-4 215 So Belle Glade (Belle Glade Central)
Levon Jones DB 5-11 178 So Miami Springs (Miami Springs)
* 88 Willie Jones DE 6-3 214 So * Homestead (South Dade)
* 15 Jimmy Jordan QB 5-11 175 Fr Tallahassee (Leon)
* 26 Joe Joyner DB 5-10 180 Sr * Orlando (Colonial)
21 Lloyd Kelly WR 5-11 197 So Miami (Miami Central)
* 44 Larry Key TB 5-9 185 Jr ** Inverness (Citrus)
* Robbie Keyes QB 6-4 201 Sr-R Ocean Gate, N.J. (Central Regional)
* 24 Mike Kincaid DB 5-11 169 Jr * Waukegan, Ill. (Waukegan)
Grady King WR 6-4 195 Fr Satellite Beach (Satellite)
* 60 Mike Kissner OG 6-2 247 Sr ** Delray Beach (Cardinal Newman)
* 84 Greg Lazzaro TE 6-6 220 Jr Hialeah (Hialeah)
11 Ryals Lee PK 6-0 190 So Tallahassee (Leon)
* 30 Jeff Leggett FB 5-11 205 Sr ** Miami (Norland)
* 48 Mark Lyles FB 6-4 222 Fr Buffalo, N.Y. (Cleveland)
* 87 Rudy Maloy DE 6-4 218 Sr *** Frostproof (Frostproof)
Kenny Marshall DB 6-1 175 Fr Frostproof
Mark Marshall TE 6-4 211 Sr-R Cape Coral (Cypress Lake)
* 12 Steve Mathieson QB 6-5 215 Sr ** Rockville, Md. (Peary)
* 62 Billy McPhillips OG 6-2 248 Sr *** Tampa (King)
* 77 Mark Meseroll OT 6-5 268 Jr Piscataway, N.J. (Piscataway/Middlesex CC)
59 Fred Miller LB 6-0 214 Sr-R *** Jacksonville (Paxon)
Edgar Morales DE 6-3 195 Fr Saint Augustine
86 Roger Overby WR 6-0 171 Jr ** Tampa (Robinson)
74 Paul Phillippy DL 6-2 230 Fr Harristown, Pa.
Greg Pittman WR 5-11 175 Sr Monticello (Jefferson County)
* 85 Dave Porter DE 6-3 201 Sr ** Saint Petersburg (Gibbs)
* 14 Billy Prescott QB 6-0 175 Sr Fort Walton Beach (Fort Walton Beach)
* 19 Brad Prior TE 6-4 204 Sr Lake Wales (Lake Wales)
Greg Ramsey RB 5-10 168 So Dothan, Ala. (Dothan)
* 83 Detroit Reynolds LB 6-1 219 Sr *** Tallahassee (Leon)
Edenbur Richardson TE 6-4 210 Fr Crystal River (Crystal River)
79 Louie Richardson DT 6-5 231 Jr-R Crystal River (Crystal River/Western New Mexico)
* 39 Jeff Ridings DB 5-11 180 Sr ** Marietta, Ga. (Wheeler)
* 52 Alan Risk C 6-2 233 Sr * Miami (Norland)
* 70 Vic Rivas OG 6-2 245 Sr ** Miami (Coral Park)
Bill Roe DL 6-2 246 Fr Sanford
67 Gary Rose DT 6-4 245 So-R East Saint Louis, Ill. (East Saint Louis)
* 71 Tom Rushing OT 6-4 265 Jr-R * Blythe, Calif. (Palo Verde JC)
* 36 Chip Sanders TB 5-9 180 So Macon, Ga. (Southwest)
* 50 Bill Sawyer C 6-3 234 Sr ** Cordele, Ga. (Crisp County)
* 53 Brian Schmidt LB 6-2 217 Sr *** Lehigh Acres (Riverdale)
* 58 Arthur Scott LB 6-2 210 Fr Brandon (Brandon)
54 Garis Shaw DT 6-2 244 Jr-R Clearwater (Clearwater)
Mike Shumann WR 6-0 164 Sr *** Tallahassee (Leon)
* 82 Keith Singletary TE-PK 6-0 188 So * Thomasville, Ga. (Central)
* 68 Abe Smith NG 6-1 248 So Tallahassee (Godby)
* 66 Mike Stewart LB 5-11 205 So Hazlehurst, Ga. (Jeff Davis)
Pat Tedesco DB 6-0 180 Fr Williamsport, Pa.
* 47 Nat Terry DB 6-0 160 Jr Tampa (Robinson)
* 63 Jon Thames OT 6-0 242 Sr *** Gainesville (Gainesville)
* 33 Rudy Thomas TB 5-11 195 Sr ** Quincy (Shanks)
65 Robert Thompson LB 6-1 220 Fr Tampa (Tampa Catholic)
Edwin Turner OL 6-5 230 Fr Auburndale
64 Keith Tuten DE 6-5 210 Sr Indialantic (Melbourne)
* 19 Kurt Unglaub WR 5-10 175 Fr Tallahassee (Leon)
Dickie Vasquez LB 6-2 226 Sr Blythe, Calif. (Palo Verde/Palo Verde JC)
* 18 Clyde Walker QB 6-3 195 Jr-R * Chapel Hill, N.C. (Chapel Hill)
* 80 Scott Warren DE 6-4 205 Fr Titusville (Astronaut)
49 Ernie Washington FB 6-1 210 Fr East Liverpool, Ohio (East Liverpool)
55 Gil Wesley C 6-0 231 Fr Birmingham, Ala. (Woodlawn)
* Waldo Williams TE 5-11 235 So * Merritt Island (Merritt Island)
Wally Woodham QB 5-11 187 So Tallahassee (Leon)
* 41 Gary Woolford DB-SE 6-0 178 Sr * Joliet, Ill. (Joliet West/Western Illinois)
57 Cedric Wyatt C 6-4 220 Fr Montgomery, Ala.
1976 Roster - By Number
From the 1976 FSU Football Handbook, page 44.
L
T PY
R No Name Pos Hgt Wgt Cl Ltr Hometown (Prior School)
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Charlie Barnes C-OT 6-5 258 So Thomasville, Ga. (Central)
Brent Brock OL 6-4 225 Fr Albany, Ga. (Albany)
Herman Brown DT 6-2 237 Jr-R Fort Lauderdale (Boyd Anderson)
Bland Burchett OG 6-2 237 Jr Goodyear, Ariz. (Mesa JC)
* Jay Caven OT 6-4 230 Sr-R Saint Petersburg (Boca Ciega)
Harold Cheeseborough MG 5-11 215 Sr-R Jacksonville (Lee)
Tom Coll OL 6-2 239 Fr Miami
* Dan Corcoran C 6-2 221 Sr-R Holley, N.Y. (Mesa JC)
Jessie Corner LB 5-11 200 Sr Pensacola (Woodham)
Ronnie Crawford LB 6-1 220 Fr Rehobeth, Ala. (Rehobeth)
Craig Cunningham TE 6-1 221 Sr Daytona Beach (Seabreeze)
Alfred Dawson DL 6-5 230 Fr Warner Robins, Ga.
Mike Dix TE 6-3 192 So Tampa (Plant)
Ricky Eubanks DB 6-4 190 Fr Miami
Hector Gray WR 6-1 186 So Miami Springs (Miami Springs)
David Hanks LB 6-2 215 So-R Orlando (Edgewater)
* John Harmeling TE 6-3 203 Sr * Winter Park (Winter Park)
Bruce Harrison OG 6-1 252 Sr ** Vero Beach (Vero Beach)
Nat Italiano DB 5-11 183 So Tampa (Robinson)
Lorenzo Jackson DE 6-4 192 So Macon, Ga. (Northeast)
Carlton Jones RB 6-1 225 Fr Fitzgerald, Ga. (Irwin County)
Levon Jones DB 5-11 178 So Miami Springs (Miami Springs)
* Robbie Keyes QB 6-4 201 Sr-R Ocean Gate, N.J. (Central Regional)
Grady King WR 6-4 195 Fr Satellite Beach (Satellite)
Kenny Marshall DB 6-1 175 Fr Frostproof
Mark Marshall TE 6-4 211 Sr-R Cape Coral (Cypress Lake)
Edgar Morales DE 6-3 195 Fr Saint Augustine
Greg Pittman WR 5-11 175 Sr Monticello (Jefferson County)
Greg Ramsey RB 5-10 168 So Dothan, Ala. (Dothan)
Edenbur Richardson TE 6-4 210 Fr Crystal River (Crystal River)
Bill Roe DL 6-2 246 Fr Sanford
Mike Shumann WR 6-0 164 Sr *** Tallahassee (Leon)
Pat Tedesco DB 6-0 180 Fr Williamsport, Pa.
Edwin Turner OL 6-5 230 Fr Auburndale
Dickie Vasquez LB 6-2 226 Sr Blythe, Calif. (Palo Verde/Palo Verde JC)
* Waldo Williams TE 5-11 235 So * Merritt Island (Merritt Island)
Wally Woodham QB 5-11 187 So Tallahassee (Leon)
* 1 Dave Cappelen PK 5-8 155 Fr Vero Beach (Vero Beach)
* 3 Bill Duley P 5-11 174 Jr * Ocala (Vanguard)
11 Ryals Lee PK 6-0 190 So Tallahassee (Leon)
* 12 Steve Mathieson QB 6-5 215 Sr ** Rockville, Md. (Peary)
* 14 Billy Prescott QB 6-0 175 Sr Fort Walton Beach (Fort Walton Beach)
* 15 Jimmy Jordan QB 5-11 175 Fr Tallahassee (Leon)
* 16 Jimmy Black QB 5-11 186 Sr ** Merritt Island (Merritt Island)
* 18 Clyde Walker QB 6-3 195 Jr-R * Chapel Hill, N.C. (Chapel Hill)
* 19 Brad Prior TE 6-4 204 Sr Lake Wales (Lake Wales)
* 19 Kurt Unglaub WR 5-10 175 Fr Tallahassee (Leon)
21 Lloyd Kelly WR 5-11 197 So Miami (Miami Central)
* 22 Mike Barnes WR 5-11 183 Jr-R Titusville (Titusville)
* 23 Jackie Flowers WR 6-1 195 Fr Jacksonville (Raines)
* 24 Mike Kincaid DB 5-11 169 Jr * Waukegan, Ill. (Waukegan)
* 26 Joe Joyner DB 5-10 180 Sr * Orlando (Colonial)
27 Vic Fowler DB 5-11 186 So Largo (Largo)
* 28 Jerome Davis DB 6-1 183 Jr Middletown, Ohio (Middletown/Syracuse)
* 30 Jeff Leggett FB 5-11 205 Sr ** Miami (Norland)
* 31 Gator Cherry RB 6-0 205 So Lake Wales (Lake Wales)
* 33 Rudy Thomas TB 5-11 195 Sr ** Quincy (Shanks)
* 35 Leon Bright TB 5-9 175 Jr ** Merritt Island (Merritt Island)
* 36 Chip Sanders TB 5-9 180 So Macon, Ga. (Southwest)
* 39 Jeff Ridings DB 5-11 180 Sr ** Marietta, Ga. (Wheeler)
* 40 Bobby Jackson DB 5-10 168 Jr ** Albany, Ga. (Albany)
* 41 Gary Woolford DB-SE 6-0 178 Sr * Joliet, Ill. (Joliet West/Western Illinois)
* 42 Joe Camps DB 6-2 195 Sr ** Gainesville (Gainesville)
* 44 Larry Key TB 5-9 185 Jr ** Inverness (Citrus)
* 46 Ivory Joe Hunter DB 5-10 174 So Tallahassee (Leon)
* 47 Nat Terry DB 6-0 160 Jr Tampa (Robinson)
* 48 Mark Lyles FB 6-4 222 Fr Buffalo, N.Y. (Cleveland)
49 Ernie Washington FB 6-1 210 Fr East Liverpool, Ohio (East Liverpool)
* 50 Bill Sawyer C 6-3 234 Sr ** Cordele, Ga. (Crisp County)
* 51 Aaron Carter LB 5-9 182 Jr ** Gainesville (Gainesville)
* 52 Alan Risk C 6-2 233 Sr * Miami (Norland)
* 53 Brian Schmidt LB 6-2 217 Sr *** Lehigh Acres (Riverdale)
54 Garis Shaw DT 6-2 244 Jr-R Clearwater (Clearwater)
55 Gil Wesley C 6-0 231 Fr Birmingham, Ala. (Woodlawn)
* 56 Jimmy Heggins NG 5-10 201 Jr ** Salisbury, N.C. (North Rowan)
57 Cedric Wyatt C 6-4 220 Fr Montgomery, Ala.
* 58 Arthur Scott LB 6-2 210 Fr Brandon (Brandon)
59 Fred Miller LB 6-0 214 Sr-R *** Jacksonville (Paxon)
* 60 Mike Kissner OG 6-2 247 Sr ** Delray Beach (Cardinal Newman)
* 61 Wade Johnson OG 6-2 215 Sr * Valdosta, Ga. (Valdosta)
* 62 Billy McPhillips OG 6-2 248 Sr *** Tampa (King)
* 63 Jon Thames OT 6-0 242 Sr *** Gainesville (Gainesville)
64 Keith Tuten DE 6-5 210 Sr Indialantic (Melbourne)
65 Robert Thompson LB 6-1 220 Fr Tampa (Tampa Catholic)
* 66 Mike Stewart LB 5-11 205 So Hazlehurst, Ga. (Jeff Davis)
67 Gary Rose DT 6-4 245 So-R East Saint Louis, Ill. (East Saint Louis)
* 68 Abe Smith NG 6-1 248 So Tallahassee (Godby)
* 69 Mike Good OL 6-3 230 Fr Sanford (Seminole)
* 70 Vic Rivas OG 6-2 245 Sr ** Miami (Coral Park)
* 71 Tom Rushing OT 6-4 265 Jr-R * Blythe, Calif. (Palo Verde JC)
72 David Jones NG-DT 6-4 215 So Belle Glade (Belle Glade Central)
74 Paul Phillippy DL 6-2 230 Fr Harristown, Pa.
75 Doug Dane OT 6-4 241 Sr *** Altamonte Springs (South Plantation)
* 76 Walter Carter DT 6-4 235 Fr Richmond, Va. (Walker)
* 77 Mark Meseroll OT 6-5 268 Jr Piscataway, N.J. (Piscataway/Middlesex CC)
78 Nate Henderson OT 6-4 245 Jr Albany, Ga. (Albany)
79 Louie Richardson DT 6-5 231 Jr-R Crystal River (Crystal River/Western New Mexico)
* 80 Scott Warren DE 6-4 205 Fr Titusville (Astronaut)
* 81 Ed Beckman TE 6-4 215 Sr *** Miami (South Miami)
* 82 Keith Singletary TE-PK 6-0 188 So * Thomasville, Ga. (Central)
* 83 Detroit Reynolds LB 6-1 219 Sr *** Tallahassee (Leon)
* 84 Greg Lazzaro TE 6-6 220 Jr Hialeah (Hialeah)
* 85 Dave Porter DE 6-3 201 Sr ** Saint Petersburg (Gibbs)
86 Roger Overby WR 6-0 171 Jr ** Tampa (Robinson)
* 87 Rudy Maloy DE 6-4 218 Sr *** Frostproof (Frostproof)
* 88 Willie Jones DE 6-3 214 So * Homestead (South Dade)
1976 Conference Awards
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ed Beckman All-South Independent - 1st Team
Jon Thames All-South Independent - 1st Team
All-Conference - 2
1976 All-Americans
Name Organization
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Ed Beckman Associated Press - Honorable Mention
Jon Thames Associated Press - Honorable Mention
Kurt Unglaub Football News - 2nd Team Freshman
All-Americans - 3
1976 Noles in the Pros
Name No Pos Team
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Fred Biletnikoff 25 WR Oakland Raiders
Duane Carrell 3 P New York Jets
Randy Coffield 52 LB Seattle Seahawks
Bert Cooper 56 LB Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Gary Huff 19 QB Chicago Bears
Charlie Hunt 55 LB Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Eddie McMillan 41 CB Seattle Seahawks
Lee Nelson 38 DB St. Louis Cardinals
Gary Parris 84 TE Cleveland Browns
Barry Smith 88 WR Tampa Bay Buccaneers
J.T. Thomas 24 DB Pittsburgh Steelers
Noles in the Pros - 11
1976 Schedule and Results
EOY Stats | Ref |
Overall Home Away Neutral
------------------------------------------------
FSU record is 5- 6 3-2 2-4 0-0
Against Top 25 1- 2 0-1 1-1 0-0
1976 - 100 Yard Rushing Club
Name Date Opponent Att Yds Avg TDs
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Larry Key 11/20/1976 Virginia Tech 13 154 11.85 1
Jeff Leggett 10/23/1976 Auburn 9 108 12.00 2
1976 - 100 Yard Receiving Club
Name Date Opponent Rec Yds Avg TDs
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kurt Unglaub 11/13/1976 North Texas State 4 128 32.00 1
Rudy Thomas 11/06/1976 Southern Mississippi 3 115 38.33 1
Mike Barnes 11/20/1976 Virginia Tech 3 114 38.00 1
Ed Beckman 10/16/1976 Florida 6 113 18.83 0
Kurt Unglaub 11/20/1976 Virginia Tech 2 112 56.00 1
1976 - 300 Yard Passing Club
Name Date Opponent Att Cmp Yds Int Avg TDs
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Jimmy Black 11/06/1976 Southern Mississippi 39 21 351 0 9.00 2
1976 EOY Stats
From the 1977 FSU Football Press Guide, page 52.
Overall Team Statistics
TEAM STATISTICS FSU OPP
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SCORING....................... 205 258
Points Per Game............. 18.6 23.5
TOUCHDOWNS.................... 26 33
TDs Rushing................. 14 26
TDs Passing................. 11 7
TDs Fumble Return........... 1 0
TDs Punt Return............. 0 0
TDs Interception............ 0 0
TDs Kickoff Return.......... 0 0
TDs Blocked FG Return....... 0 0
PAT-ATTEMPTS.................. 18-26 28-34
Kick........................ 16-21 26-30
Pass........................ 2- 5 0- 2
Run......................... 0- 0 2- 2
FIELD GOALS-ATTEMPTS.......... 9-17 10-13
SAFETY........................ 1 0
FIRST DOWNS................... 201 219
Rushing..................... 99 164
Passing..................... 87 47
Penalty..................... 15 8
RUSHING YARDAGE............... 1826 3069
Yards gained rushing........ 2105 3354
Yards lost rushing.......... 279 285
Rushing Attempts............ 488 630
Average Per Rush............ 3.7 4.9
Average Per Game............ 166.0 279.0
PASSING YARDAGE............... 2040 949
Att-Comp-Int................ 247-137-14 135- 68- 5
Efficiency.................. 128.20 119.12
Average Per Pass............ 8.3 7.0
Average Per Catch........... 14.9 14.0
Average Per Game............ 185.5 86.3
TOTAL OFFENSE................. 3866 4018
Total Plays................. 735 765
Average Per Play............ 5.3 5.3
Average Per Game............ 351.5 365.3
KICK RETURNS: #-YARDS......... 40- 677 36- 634
Average Per Return.......... 16.9 17.6
PUNT RETURNS: #-YARDS......... 27-167 17- 59
Average Per Return.......... 6.2 3.5
INT RETURNS: #-YARDS.......... 5- 62 14-103
Average Per Return.......... 12.4 7.4
FUMBLE RETURNS: #-YARDS....... 17- 65 19-
Average Per Return.......... 3.8 0.0
FUMBLES-LOST.................. 33-19 32-17
PENALTIES-YARDS............... 40- 423 51- 441
Average Per Game............ 38.5 40.1
PUNTS-YARDS................... 49-1935 54-2098
Average Per Punt............ 39.5 38.9
Net punt average............ 38.3 35.8
ATTENDANCE.................... 145,675 215,304
Games-Avg Per Game.......... 5-29,135 6-35,884
| | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
Total |
|---|
| Florida State | 39 | 47 |
41 | 78 |
205 |
| Opponents | 53 | 85 |
75 | 45 |
258 |
Overall Individual Statistics
RUSHING G Att Gain Loss Net Avg TD Long Avg/G
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Larry Key 11 144 742 30 712 4.9 4 97t 64.7
Jimmy Black 11 129 514 167 347 2.7 2 30 31.5
Jeff Leggett 11 66 317 5 312 4.7 3 53t 28.4
Mark Lyles 11 72 270 2 268 3.7 1 19 24.4
Rudy Thomas 11 64 263 8 255 4.0 4 16 23.2
Gary Woolford 9 4 44 0 44 11.0 0 19 4.9
Bill Duley 11 1 0 8 -8 -8.0 0 -8 -0.7
Jimmy Jordan 5 8 1 59 -58 -7.3 0 1 -11.6
Total......... 11 488 2105 279 1826 3.7 14 97t 166.0
Opponents..... 11 630 3354 285 3069 4.9 26 279.0
PASSING G Effic Att-Cmp-Int Pct Yds TD Long Avg/G
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 11 135.51 178-103- 9 .579 1506 9 95t 136.9
Jimmy Jordan 5 120.11 50- 23- 3 .460 434 2 96t 86.8
Clyde Walker 4 81.05 19- 11- 2 .579 100 0 20 25.0
Total......... 11 128.20 247-137-14 .555 2040 11 96t 185.5
Opponents..... 11 119.12 135- 68- 5 .504 949 7 86.3
RECEIVING G No Yds Avg TD Long Avg/G
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Kurt Unglaub 11 33 665 20.2 4 96t 60.5
Ed Beckman 11 37 521 14.1 3 24 47.4
Rudy Thomas 11 15 233 15.5 1 95t 21.2
Mike Barnes 5 8 194 24.3 1 75t 38.8
Jackie Flowers 9 9 160 17.8 1 43 17.8
Jeff Leggett 11 10 104 10.4 0 26 9.5
Larry Key 11 15 91 6.1 1 18 8.3
Gary Woolford 9 5 35 7.0 0 15 3.9
Mark Lyles 11 5 18 3.6 0 15 1.6
Total......... 11 137 2040 14.9 11 96t 185.5
Opponents..... 11 68 949 14.0 7 86.3
PUNT RETURNS No Yds Avg TD Long
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Nat Terry 19 64 3.4 0 16
Dave Porter 1 13 13.0 0 13
Bobby Jackson 2 12 6.0 0 12
Larry Key 1 7 7.0 0 7
Joe Joyner 2 5 2.5 0 5
Chip Sanders 2 1 0.5 0 1
Total......... 27 167 6.2 0 16
Opponent...... 17 59 3.5 0
INTERCEPTIONS No Yds Avg TD Long
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Rudy Maloy 1 0.0 0
Joe Camps 1 0.0 0
Jimmy Heggins 1 0.0 0
Detroit Reynolds 1 0.0 0
Nat Terry 1 0.0 0
Total......... 5 62 12.4 0
Opponent...... 14 103 7.4 0
KICK RETURNS No Yds Avg TD Long
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Larry Key 27 520 19.3 0 44
Rudy Thomas 6 79 13.2 0 17
Chip Sanders 4 52 13.0 0 23
Jeff Leggett 1 11 11.0 0 11
Mark Lyles 1 11 11.0 0 11
Gary Woolford 1 4 4.0 0 4
Total......... 40 677 16.9 0 44
Opponent...... 36 634 17.6 0
Fum
FUMBLE RETURNS No Yds Avg TD Long For
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Aaron Carter 3 0 0.0 0 . 0
Gary Rose 3 0 0.0 0 . 0
Rudy Maloy 2 65 32.5 1 65t 0
Willie Jones 2 0 0.0 0 . 0
Joe Camps 1 0 0.0 0 . 0
Jimmy Heggins 1 0 0.0 0 . 0
Bobby Jackson 1 0 0.0 0 . 0
Joe Joyner 1 0 0.0 0 . 0
Mike Kincaid 1 0 0.0 0 . 0
Detroit Reynolds 1 0 0.0 0 . 0
Brian Schmidt 1 0 0.0 0 . 0
Total......... 17 65 3.8 1 65t 0
Opponent...... 19 0.0 0
|-------- PATs --------|
Name TD FGs Kick Rush Rcv Pass DXP Saf Points
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Dave Cappelen 0 9-17 16-21 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 43
Larry Key 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1-1 0 0 30
Rudy Thomas 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 30
Kurt Unglaub 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0-0 0 0 26
Ed Beckman 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0-0 0 0 20
Jeff Leggett 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 18
Jimmy Black 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1-4 0 0 12
Jackie Flowers 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 6
Mike Barnes 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 6
Mark Lyles 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 6
Rudy Maloy 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 6
Team 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 1 2
====================================================================
FSU 26 9-17 16-21 0-0 2 2-5 0 1 205
Opponent 33 10-14 26-30 2-2 0 0-1 0 0 258
| Touchdowns | R | C |
P | I | FR |
PR | KR | BFG |
|---|
| Larry Key |
4 |
1 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Rudy Thomas |
4 |
1 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Kurt Unglaub |
. |
4 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Ed Beckman |
. |
3 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Jeff Leggett |
3 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Jimmy Black |
2 |
. |
9 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Jackie Flowers |
. |
1 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Mike Barnes |
. |
1 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Mark Lyles |
1 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Rudy Maloy |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1 |
. |
. |
. |
| Jimmy Jordan |
. |
. |
2 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Total |
14 |
11 |
11 |
. |
1 |
. |
. |
. |
| Opponents |
26 |
7 |
7 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
R = Rushing
C = Catch
P = Pass
I = Interception
FR = Fumble Recovery/Return
PR = Punt Return/Blocked Punt
KR = Kickoff Return
BFG = Blocked FG Return
TOTAL OFFENSE G Plays Rush Pass Total Avg/G
--------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 11 307 347 1506 1853 168.5
Larry Key 11 144 712 0 712 64.7
Jimmy Jordan 5 58 -58 434 376 75.2
Jeff Leggett 11 66 312 0 312 28.4
Mark Lyles 11 72 268 0 268 24.4
Rudy Thomas 11 64 255 0 255 23.2
Clyde Walker 4 19 0 100 100 25.0
Gary Woolford 9 4 44 0 44 4.9
Bill Duley 11 1 -8 0 -8 -0.7
Total......... 11 735 1826 2040 3866 351.5
Opponent...... 11 765 3069 949 4018 365.3
FIELD GOALS FGM-FGA Pct 01-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-99 Lg
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Dave Cappelen 9-17 .529 0- 0 4- 5 2- 3 3- 9 0- 0 44
| FG SEQUENCE |
Dave Cappelen |
|---|
| Memphis State |
(21), 46 |
| Miami |
None |
| Oklahoma |
(41) |
| Kansas State |
49, (24), (41) |
| Boston College |
26, 47 |
| Florida |
(21), 41, (27) |
| Auburn |
None |
| Clemson |
39, 44, (39), (44) |
| Southern Mississippi |
(37), 46 |
| North Texas State |
None |
| Virginia Tech |
None |
() For made field goals
PUNTING No Yds Avg Long TB FC I20 Blkd
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Bill Duley 48 1935 40.3 64
Team 1 0 0.0 0 1
Total......... 49 1935 39.5 64 1
Opponent...... 54 2098 38.9 1
ALL PURPOSE G Rush Rec PR KR IR FR Tot Avg/G
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Larry Key 11 712 91 7 520 0 0 1330 120.9
Kurt Unglaub 11 0 665 0 0 0 0 665 60.5
Rudy Thomas 11 255 233 0 79 0 0 567 51.5
Ed Beckman 11 0 521 0 0 0 0 521 47.4
Jeff Leggett 11 312 104 0 11 0 0 427 38.8
Jimmy Black 11 347 0 0 0 0 0 347 31.5
Mark Lyles 11 268 18 0 11 0 0 297 27.0
Mike Barnes 5 0 194 0 0 0 0 194 38.8
Jackie Flowers 9 0 160 0 0 0 0 160 17.8
Gary Woolford 9 44 35 0 4 0 0 83 9.2
Rudy Maloy 11 0 0 0 0 0 65 65 5.9
Nat Terry 10 0 0 64 0 0 0 64 6.4
Chip Sanders 6 0 0 1 52 0 0 53 8.8
Dave Porter 8 0 0 13 0 0 0 13 1.6
Bobby Jackson 10 0 0 12 0 0 0 12 1.2
Joe Joyner 11 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0.5
Bill Duley 11 -8 0 0 0 0 0 -8 -0.7
Jimmy Jordan 5 -58 0 0 0 0 0 -58 -11.6
Total......... 11 1826 2040 167 677 62 65 4837 439.7
Opponent...... 11 3069 949 59 634 103 0 4814 437.6
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE LEADERS GP UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
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Aaron Carter 11 76 59 135 . . . . . 3- 0 . . .
Jimmy Heggins 11 68 63 131 . . 1- . . 1- 0 . . .
Detroit Reynolds 11 47 55 102 . . 1- . . 1- 0 . . .
Gary Rose 11 51 32 83 . . . . . 3- 0 . . .
Willie Jones 11 46 33 79 . . . . . 2- 0 . . .
Nat Terry 10 35 20 55 . . 1- . . . . . .
Joe Camps 9 30 23 53 . . 1- . . 1- 0 . . .
Walter Carter 10 26 26 52 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 11 23 27 50 . . 1- . . 2- 65 . . .
Mike Kincaid 10 28 19 47 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Jeff Ridings 6 21 14 35 . . . . . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 10 24 10 34 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Scott Warren 11 15 17 32 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Stewart 9 15 15 30 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 11 20 9 29 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Abe Smith 7 14 11 25 . . . . . . . . .
Jerome Davis 5 7 7 14 . . . . . . . . .
Ivory Joe Hunter 10 8 5 13 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Woolford 9 8 3 11 . . . . . . . . .
David Hanks 1 7 3 10 . . . . . . . . .
Paul Phillippy 6 4 3 7 . . . . . . . . .
Gil Wesley 1 5 2 7 . . . . . . . . .
Dave Porter 8 1 5 6 . . . . . . . . .
Brian Schmidt 7 4 1 5 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Arthur Scott 4 5 . 5 . . . . . . . . .
Keith Singletary 9 1 3 4 . . . . . . . . .
Robert Thompson 5 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Louie Richardson 2 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Ed Beckman 11 3 . 3 . . . . . . . . .
Bill Sawyer 9 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Chip Sanders 6 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Vic Fowler 1 2 . 2 . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Black 11 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Jeff Leggett 11 . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
Wade Johnson 10 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kissner 6 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Lloyd Kelly 1 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Larry Key 11 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bill Duley 11 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mark Lyles 11 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jon Thames 11 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Thomas 11 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kurt Unglaub 11 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dave Cappelen 10 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mike Good 10 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jackie Flowers 9 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vic Rivas 8 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alan Risk 7 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mark Meseroll 7 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy McPhillips 6 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tom Rushing 6 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Jordan 5 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Greg Lazzaro 5 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mike Barnes 5 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clyde Walker 4 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Doug Dane 3 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fred Miller 2 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Roger Overby 2 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Garis Shaw 2 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Nate Henderson 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gator Cherry 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bruce Harrison 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keith Tuten 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ryals Lee 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Totals 606 470 1076 . . 5- 0 . . 17- 65 . . .
Game Participation
## Player GP-GS Mem UM OU KsSt BC UF Aub CU USM UNT VT
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Charlie Barnes 0- 0
Brent Brock 0- 0
Herman Brown 0- 0
Bland Burchett 0- 0
Jay Caven 0- 0
Harold Cheeseborough 0- 0
Tom Coll 0- 0
Dan Corcoran 0- 0
Jessie Corner 0- 0
Ronnie Crawford 0- 0
Craig Cunningham 0- 0
Alfred Dawson 0- 0
Mike Dix 0- 0
Ricky Eubanks 0- 0
Hector Gray 0- 0
David Hanks 1- 0 xx
John Harmeling 0- 0
Bruce Harrison 1- 0 xx
Nat Italiano 0- 0
Lorenzo Jackson 0- 0
Carlton Jones 0- 0
Levon Jones 0- 0
Robbie Keyes 0- 0
Grady King 0- 0
Kenny Marshall 0- 0
Mark Marshall 0- 0
Edgar Morales 0- 0
Greg Pittman 0- 0
Greg Ramsey 0- 0
Edenbur Richardson 0- 0
Bill Roe 0- 0
Mike Shumann 0- 0
Pat Tedesco 0- 0
Edwin Turner 0- 0
Dickie Vasquez 0- 0
Waldo Williams 0- 0
Wally Woodham 0- 0
1 Dave Cappelen 10- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
3 Bill Duley 11- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
11 Ryals Lee 1- 0 xx
12 Steve Mathieson 0- 0
14 Billy Prescott 0- 0
15 Jimmy Jordan 5- 0 xx xx xx xx xx
16 Jimmy Black 11-11 O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB O-QB
18 Clyde Walker 4- 0 xx xx xx xx
19 Brad Prior 0- 0
19 Kurt Unglaub 11-11 O-FL O-FL O-FL O-FL O-WR O-FL O-FL O-FL O-FL O-SE O-SE
21 Lloyd Kelly 1- 1 O-SE
22 Mike Barnes 5- 3 xx xx O-SE O-FL O-FL
23 Jackie Flowers 9- 4 xx O-WR xx xx O-SE O-SE O-SE xx xx
24 Mike Kincaid 10- 9 D-CB D-RC D-RC D-RC D-RCB D-RC D-RCB xx D-RC D-RC
26 Joe Joyner 11- 2 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx D-SS D-SS xx
27 Vic Fowler 1- 0 xx
28 Jerome Davis 5- 1 xx xx D-LC xx xx
30 Jeff Leggett 11- 4 O-FB xx xx xx xx xx xx O-FB O-FB O-FB xx
31 Gator Cherry 1- 0 xx
33 Rudy Thomas 11- 3 O-TB O-TB xx O-TB xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
35 Leon Bright 0- 0
36 Chip Sanders 6- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx
39 Jeff Ridings 6- 3 xx D-FS D-FS xx D-FS xx
40 Bobby Jackson 10- 9 D-CB D-LC D-LC D-LCB D-LC D-LCB D-LC D-RC xx D-LC
41 Gary Woolford 9- 6 D-FS xx O-SE O-SE O-WR xx xx D-RC D-LC
42 Joe Camps 9- 9 D-SS D-SS D-SS D-SS D-LS D-SS D-SS D-SS D-SS
44 Larry Key 11- 8 xx xx O-TB xx O-RB O-TB O-RB O-TB O-TB O-TB O-TB
46 Ivory Joe Hunter 10- 1 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx D-LC xx
47 Nat Terry 10- 7 xx xx D-FS D-RS xx D-FS D-FS D-FS D-FS D-FS
48 Mark Lyles 11- 7 xx O-FB O-FB O-FB O-RB O-FB O-FB xx xx xx O-FB
49 Ernie Washington 0- 0
50 Bill Sawyer 9- 6 xx xx xx O-C O-C O-C O-C O-C O-C
51 Aaron Carter 11-10 xx D-LB D-LB D-LB D-LT D-LB D-LB D-LB D-LB D-LB D-LB
52 Alan Risk 7- 5 O-C O-C O-C O-C O-C xx xx
53 Brian Schmidt 7- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
54 Garis Shaw 2- 0 xx xx
55 Gil Wesley 1- 0 xx
56 Jimmy Heggins 11-11 D-NG D-NG D-NG D-NG D-RE D-NG D-MG D-NG D-NG D-NG D-NG
57 Cedric Wyatt 0- 0
58 Arthur Scott 4- 0 xx xx xx xx
59 Fred Miller 2- 1 D-LLB xx
60 Mike Kissner 6- 2 O-LG O-LG xx xx xx xx
61 Wade Johnson 10- 3 xx xx xx xx xx xx O-RG O-RG O-RG xx
62 Billy McPhillips 6- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx
63 Jon Thames 11-11 O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT O-LT
64 Keith Tuten 1- 0 xx
65 Robert Thompson 5- 0 xx xx xx xx xx
66 Mike Stewart 9- 4 D-RLB D-LB xx xx xx xx D-LB D-LB xx
67 Gary Rose 11-11 D-RT D-RT D-RT D-RT D-LLB D-RT D-RT D-RT D-RT D-RT D-RT
68 Abe Smith 7- 3 xx D-LT xx xx D-LT D-LT xx
69 Mike Good 10- 9 xx O-LG O-LG O-LG O-LG O-LG O-LG O-LG O-LG O-LG
70 Vic Rivas 8- 8 O-RG O-RG O-RG O-RG O-RG O-RG O-RG O-RG
71 Tom Rushing 6- 4 xx xx O-RT O-RT O-RT O-RT
72 David Jones 0- 0
74 Paul Phillippy 6- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx
75 Doug Dane 3- 1 O-RT xx xx
76 Walter Carter 10- 7 xx xx D-LT D-LT D-RT D-LT D-LT D-LT xx D-LT
77 Mark Meseroll 7- 6 O-RT O-RT O-RT O-RT O-RT O-RT xx
78 Nate Henderson 1- 0 xx
79 Louie Richardson 2- 1 D-LT xx
80 Scott Warren 11- 4 xx xx xx xx D-LE xx D-RE D-RE xx D-RE xx
81 Ed Beckman 11-11 O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE O-TE
82 Keith Singletary 9- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
83 Detroit Reynolds 11- 7 xx xx D-LB D-LB D-RLB D-LB D-LB D-LB xx xx D-LB
84 Greg Lazzaro 5- 0 xx xx xx xx xx
85 Dave Porter 8- 0 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
86 Roger Overby 2- 0 xx xx
87 Rudy Maloy 11- 8 D-LE D-LE D-LE D-LE xx D-LE D-LE xx D-LE xx D-LE
88 Willie Jones 11-10 D-RE D-RE D-RE D-RE D-MLB D-RE xx D-LE D-RE D-LE D-RE
Memphis State 21, Florida State 12
09/11/1976, Memphis, Tenn.
From the Tallahassee Democrat, September 12, 1976, page 49, by Bill McGrotha. FSU loses a good fight.
Memphis wins 21-12.
MEMPHIS, TN - Looking like a pretty fair football team
some of the time, Florida State gave it the good fight, but lost to a better Memphis State 21-12 here Saturday night.
Lloyd Patterson was much the difference, as Coach Bobby Bowden feared he might
be.
Much of the way Patterson was pure quicksilver at quarterback, tough to pin down. Late in the first half be threw for one touchdown, early in the second half for another, and before the third
quarter was gone he scored a third personally on a rather dazzling 6-yard run.
Right early in the game the Seminoles forced a fumble out of Ricky Rivas, who had bad-mouthed Florida State during the
week. A wide receiver from Tampa, Rivas coughed up the Seminoles' first punt when tackled. FSU recovered and freshman Dave Cappelen kicked a field goal from 20-yard range for a 3-0 lead.
It held up
until a minute and a half before intermission. Helped much by penalties, plus a 31-yard pass to Keith Wright, Memphis went ahead 7-3 on a Patterson toss of eight yards to fullback Zacky Butler.
As
a crowd of 30,194 watched on a cool, fair night, Memphis dominated the third quarter, pushing the Seminoles around.
The Tigers drove 84 yards to a touchdown that came on Patterson's 12-yard toss to
Wright. They got a third one on a 51-yard movement capped by Patterson's scrambling dash.
Florida State narrowed it early in the fourth quarter as Jimmy Black directed a quick 80-yard drive, capped
by Larry Key's determined 5-yard run.
The Seminoles near the end were driving again, but that played out with a fumble at the Memphis eight.
With less than a minute left, Florida State wouldn't
let the Tigers out of that hole, pushed them back to the three.
On fourth down Memphis took a safety. The center deliberately snapped the ball over the head of the punter, and out of the end zone.
That, rather than run the risk of a Florida State touchdown that would have made it a final 21-17, or 21-18.
Florida State managed 251 yards of offense, including 139 running. Memphis got 301, with
167 passing.
Terdell Middleton, a swift one, picked up 102 yards on 19 Memphis runs. Patterson hit on 10 of his 17 passes for 167 yards - and that was the vital factor.
Rudy Thomas led FSU
runners with 55 yards in 15 carries. Key got 43 in nine. As Black completed eight of his 15 throws, Ed Beckman pulled in five for 60 yards.
Bill Duley had some nifty punts for the Seminoles,
averaging 41.8 on six.
Florida State had four turnovers - two fumbles, two interceptions - while claiming three Memphis bobbles, but getting no interceptions. Penalties were about even, but the 82
yards stepped off against the Seminoles seemed particularly costly.
A dangerous Memphis punt-return game netted nothing, actually lost a yard.
"I felt like," said Bowden later, "if we executed
we could win. We had the momentum in the first quarter and kept it for most of the half, and then lost it with that dadgum 15-yard penalty after we got the first down." (He referred to a
second-quarter, personal-foul call.)
Bowden added: "The defense played better than I expected. We had our chances to win it, but needed to execute flawlessly, and didn't.
"I am encouraged by
what I saw."
In the third quarter Bowden noted that Memphis had "snuffed off" FSU's running game, and he felt a big play was needed to "get back in the game." He put Clyde Walker in at quarterback
over Black, who played all of the first half. Walker was the victim of two rather quick interceptions.
"We got away from out game plan there," said the coach, "and it hurt us.
"I know one thing
- FSU players didn't quit tonight, like some people thought they would."
Of Patterson, Bowden said: "That kid is fantastic. Take him out of the game tonight, and see what happens."
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Florida State |
3 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
12 |
| Memphis State |
0 |
7 |
14 |
0 |
21 |
1st 3- 0 Dave Cappelen, 21, field goal, 10:40
3- 0 Opp, 38, field goal failed
2nd 3- 0 Dave Cappelen, 46, field goal failed, 15:00
3- 7 Opp, 8, pass (kick), 1:34
3rd 3-14 Opp, 12, pass (kick), 7:03
3-21 Opp, 6, run (kick), 0:22
4th 3-21 Opp, 35, field goal failed, 11:48
10-21 Larry Key, 5, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 7:34
12-21 Team, safety, 0:28
Note: Center snapped the ball over the punter's head and out
of the end zone.
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 18 19
Rushes-yards 47-139 45-134
Passing 112 167
Att-Comp-Int 19-8-2 17-10-0
Total Yards 66-251 62-301
Punt Returns 3-8 1--1
Kickoff Returns 4-79 3-56
Interception Ret. 0-0 2-34
Fumble Returns 3-0 2-0
Punts 6-41.8 5-35.8
Fumbles-Lost 3-2 3-3
Penalties-Yds 6-82 7-74
Attendance 30,194
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Rudy Thomas 15 55 0 10
Larry Key 9 43 1 13
Jeff Leggett 10 20 0 5
Mark Lyles 3 16 0 7
Jimmy Black 10 5 0 6
---------------------------------------------
FSU 47 139 1 13
Opp 45 134 1 25
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Ed Beckman 5 60 0 15
Kurt Unglaub 2 30 0 20
Rudy Thomas 1 22 0 22
---------------------------------------------
FSU 8 112 0 22
Opp 10 167 2 47
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 8 15 0 112 0 22
Clyde Walker 0 4 2 0 0 0
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 8 19 2 112 0 22
Opp 10 17 0 167 2 47
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 1 7 0 7
Chip Sanders 2 1 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 3 8 0 7
Opp 1 -1 0 -1
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 2 45 0
Chip Sanders 1 23 0 23
Jeff Leggett 1 11 0 11
---------------------------------------------
FSU 4 79 0 23
Opp 3 56 0
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 6 251 52
----------------------------------------
FSU 6 251 52
Opp 5 179 42
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aaron Carter 10 8 18 . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Heggins 7 3 10 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Gary Rose 7 2 9 . . . . . . . . .
Gil Wesley 5 2 7 . . . . . . . . .
Abe Smith 4 3 7 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Woolford 7 . 7 . . . 2 . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 2 4 6 . . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 2 3 5 . . . . . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 3 . 3 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Detroit Reynolds 2 1 3 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 2 . 2 . . . . . . 1 . .
Joe Joyner 2 . 2 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Camps 1 1 2 . . . 1 . . . . .
Jeff Ridings 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Lloyd Kelly 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Bill Sawyer 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Brian Schmidt 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kissner 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Jerome Davis . . . . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 59 27 86 . . . 3 . 3- 0 1 . .
Opp 62 44 106 . . 2- 34 4 . 2- 0 . . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
SE 21 Lloyd Kelly
FB 30 Jeff Leggett
TB 33 Rudy Thomas
C 52 Alan Risk
LG 60 Mike Kissner
LT 63 Jon Thames
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 75 Doug Dane
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
CB 24 Mike Kincaid
CB 40 Bobby Jackson
FS 41 Gary Woolford
SS 42 Joe Camps
RLB 55 Mike Stewart
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
LLB 59 Fred Miller
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 79 Louie Richardson
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
RE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
18 Clyde Walker
23 Jackie Flowers
26 Joe Joyner
28 Jerome Davis
31 Gator Cherry
36 Chip Sanders
39 Jeff Ridings
44 Larry Key
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
48 Mark Lyles
50 Bill Sawyer
51 Aaron Carter
53 Brian Schmidt
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
54 Garis Shaw
61 Wade Johnson
62 Billy McPhillips
65 Robert Thompson
65 Gil Wesley
68 Abe Smith
71 Tom Rushing
76 Walter Carter
78 Nate Henderson
80 Scott Warren
82 Keith Singletary
83 Detroit Reynolds
85 Dave Porter
86 Roger Overby
|
Miami 47, Florida State 0
09/18/1976, Miami
From the Tallahassee Democrat, September 19, 1976, page 49, by Bill McGrotha. 'Canes rip Seminoles 47-0.
FSU streak broken.
MIAMI, FL - The temperature was 80 degrees, the
humidity 66 per cent, and the wind eight miles per hour out of the northeast.
And the skies, before darkness fell, were cloudy.
Florida State's football team got blown out 47-0 by University of
Miami under those rather normal atmospheric conditions here Saturday night.
It was the Seminoles' second biggest margin of defeat in history, topped only by ignonimous 49-0 setback at University of
Florida hands in the closing game of the all-losing season of '73.
Was Miami that good? Was Florida State that bad?
It certainly seemed a combination of both.
And it could have been worse,
maybe should have been worse. Miami played fourth-teamers much of the last quarter.
UM Coach Carl Selmer had said openly and often that he was going to have some kind of football team. He said it
right.
The Hurricanes' offensive line opened holes you could drive a two-horse wagon through. A multitude of Miami backs, led early by Ottis Anderson and late by people nobody knew, slammed through
for 327 yards on the ground. FSU defenders missed tackles by the dozen, it seemed.
So it was that Florida State's phenomenal winning streak in the Orange Bowl terminated. FSU had beaten Miami eight
straight times down here.
Among the many oddities in this one was that Florida State had no penalty yards stepped off against it.
FSU lost three fumbles, had two passes stolen. Miami didn't lose
anything on this night as the slight crowd of 22,710 in the Orange Bowl whooped and hollered.
The scoring went thisaway:
(1) An Anderson TD on an 8-yard run following recovery of an FSU fumble
at the Seminole 15 in the game's first moments, (2) A 90-yard drive capped by E.J. Baker's 16-yard pass to Larry Cain, (3) A 30-yard field goal by Chris Dennis after an interception set UM up at the
FSU 30, (4) A drive of 100 yards, climaxed by Woody Bennett's 15-yard run, (5) A 4-yard run by Frank Glover, at the end of a 60-yard drive.
That was the first half, which ended 31-0.
After
intermission Miami scored on (1) a 25-yard Dennis field goal, (2) A 55-yard run by Baker, (3) An 87-yard drive with Ken Johnson going over from the one.
UM's last touchdown came in the very first
seconds of the last quarter.
After that the Hurricanes just sort of played around.
Florida State seemingly had one chance to get back in the game. When the score was 17-0 and the second quarter
young, Jimmy Black directed a drive that played out on UM's 1-foot line.
When UM took over and went 100 yards it must have taken lots of something out of the Seminoles.
Jimmy Jordan, the
freshman quarterback from Tallahassee, had a fiery baptism. He completed six of 12 passes. But Black was 6-for-9 and Clyde Walker 4-for-4. … So much for passing statistics.
As Miami's I-attack
gained 453 yards of offense, FSU managed 174, much of it late, only 26 of it running.
Anders picked up 76 yards in 16 runs - but Baker had 82 in just four while also hitting three of three passes
for 79.
"We had to play a perfect game," said Selmer, "to beat Florida State 47-0. We had momentum, and we had everything go our way. We played aggressively on defense.
"I said all along we had
a good team. We have been just waiting to play. We were eager to play."
FSU Coach Bobby Bowden said he saw nothing good "except our punting." Bill Duley boomed five punts for an average of 43.6.
Bowden said he thought FSU would beat Miami.
We played like a bunch of high-school kids," he said. "This has happened to me before. Seems like it comes along once every five years.
"We'll grade
the films, and next week we'll put our best players possible on the field.
"Our tackling was atrocious. We will learn how to tackle next week, I guarantee you."
Next week it's Oklahoma out at
Norman.
Here Saturday night it was sort of like Oklahoma had come along a week early.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Florida State |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Miami |
17 |
14 |
9 |
7 |
47 |
1st 0- 7 Opp, 8, run (kick), 14:03
0-14 Opp, 16, pass (kick), 8:47
0-17 Opp, 30, field goal, 4:35
2nd 0-24 Opp, 15, run (kick), 7:08
0-31 Opp, 4, run (kick), 0:39
3rd 0-34 Opp, 26, field goal, 11:48
0-40 Opp, 55, run (kick failed), 8:43
4th 0-47 Opp, 1, run (kick), 14:20
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 14 24
Rushes-yards 37-26 66-327
Passing 148 126
Att-Comp-Int 25-16-2 11-7-0
Total Yards 62-174 77-453
Punt Returns 0-0 2-30
Kickoff Returns 9-140 1-20
Interception Ret. 0-0 2-30
Fumble Returns 0-0 3-0
Punts 5-43.6 4-30.3
Fumbles-Lost 5-3 2-0
Penalties-Yds 0-0 4-50
3rd Down Conversions 2-11 7-16
Time of Posession 26:43 33:17
Attendance 22,710
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Rudy Thomas 9 20 0 9
Larry Key 8 13 0 5
Mark Lyles 3 10 0 5
Jeff Leggett 3 10 0 5
Jimmy Black 9 1 0 10
Jimmy Jordan 5 -28 0 1
---------------------------------------------
FSU 37 26 0 10
Opp 66 327 5 55t
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Kurt Unglaub 3 53 0 32
Gary Woolford 2 31 0 18
Ed Beckman 3 29 0 20
Mark Lyles 3 21 0 15
Rudy Thomas 3 13 0 5
Larry Key 2 1 0 5
---------------------------------------------
FSU 16 148 0 32
Opp 7 126 1 44
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Jordan 6 12 1 64 0 32
Jimmy Black 6 9 1 45 0 15
Clyde Walker 4 4 0 39 0 20
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 16 25 2 148 0 32
Opp 7 11 0 126 1 44
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------
FSU 0 0 0
Opp 2 30 0 15
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 6 110 0 28
Chip Sanders 2 19 0 15
Mark Lyles 1 11 0 11
---------------------------------------------
FSU 9 140 0 28
Opp 1 20 0 20
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 5 218 51
----------------------------------------
FSU 5 218 51
Opp 4 121 45
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aaron Carter 10 1 11 . . . . . . . . .
Jeff Ridings 8 3 11 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Rose 6 1 7 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Stewart 5 2 7 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Camps 6 1 7 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 5 1 6 . . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 3 2 5 . . . . . . . . .
Louie Richardson 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Jerome Davis 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Heggins 3 . 3 . . . . . . . . .
Walter Carter 3 . 3 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 2 1 3 . . . . . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Robert Thompson 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Scott Warren 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Black 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Ed Beckman 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 68 17 85 . . . . . . . . .
Opp 58 22 80 . . 2- 30 . . 3- 0 . . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
WR 23 Jackie Flowers
TB 33 Rudy Thomas
FB 48 Mark Lyles
C 52 Alan Risk
LG 60 Mike Kissner
LT 63 Jon Thames
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 77 Mark Meseroll
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RC 24 Mike Kincaid
FS 39 Jeff Ridings
LC 40 Bobby Jackson
SS 42 Joe Camps
LB 51 Aaron Carter
LB 55 Mike Stewart
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 68 Abe Smith
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
RE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
3 Bill Duley
15 Jimmy Jordan
18 Clyde Walker
26 Joe Joyner
28 Jerome Davis
30 Jeff Leggett
36 Chip Sanders
41 Gary Woolford
44 Larry Key
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
47 Nat Terry
50 Bill Sawyer
53 Brian Schmidt
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
59 Fred Miller
61 Wade Johnson
62 Billy McPhillips
65 Robert Thompson
69 Mike Good
71 Tom Rushing
76 Walter Carter
79 Louie Richardson
80 Scott Warren
82 Keith Singletary
83 Detroit Reynolds
85 Dave Porter
86 Roger Overby
|
Oklahoma 24, Florida State 9
09/25/1976, Norman, Okla.
From the Tallahassee Democrat, September 26, 1976, page 57, by Bill McGrotha. FSU fights, falls, 24-9.
NORMAN, OK - Simply, if also incredibly, it was a football game Florida State could
have won, might have won.
Conceding Oklahoma's national champions not one thing going in, the Seminoles stung the prideful Sooners time and again - offensively and defensively.
Before 71,286
people - biggest crowd ever to see Florida State play - Oklahmoa unhappily settled for a 24-9 victory.
It should have been closer than that.
Trailing 10-6 late in the first half, Florida State
moved inside the Oklahoma 1-yard line. But a fumble following a pitchout was well played by the Sooners ended an opportunity to retake the lead.
Once the Seminoles were ahead, 6-3. Second time they
got the football they moved 80 yards in a dozen plays, scored on a 5-yard run by Larry Key - who played himself some kind of football game.
Key ran 29 times, gained 89 yards the hard way, including
66 in the first half.
And Jimmy Black was the dangerous quarterback he had often looked to be in practice. He kept the ball himself 16 times and netted 86 yards.
Stunningly, the Seminoles played
Oklahoma at its own game - running the football. Each team threw only eight times. FSU hit on four, the Sooners on just two.
But the two passes that Oklahoma hit were big ones that set up the
Sooners' first two touchdowns. Steve Rhodes, a freshman split end, caught both, for 19 and 39 yards.
Detroit Reynolds and Willie Jones sparked a magnificent Florida State defensive effort. Reynolds
intercepted a pass, recovered a fumble, and a pressbox accounting had him in on 17 tackles, as well as Jones on 11, Joe Camps on 11 and Jimmy Heggins on 12.
Oklahoma did get 513 yards on offense,
including 455 running, but so often the Seminoles stopped them when needed - including once at the goal line, where a fumble was grabbed by Reynolds in the end zone for a touchback.
FSU got 219
running plus 51 throwing.
Though the Seminoles lost three fumbles, they played a remarkably poised game. Only one interception. Only five yards in penalties - that in the game's final minute.
Coach Bobby Bowden abandoned a pattern of alternating running backs, played Key and Mark Lyles nearly all the way. Lyles, the big freshman, rambled for 38 yards in 13 runs. All of this overcast
afternoon, it was either Black or Key or Lyles running, and very little of anybody else. Freshman Kurt Unglaub caught two of the four passes Black completed.
Horace Ivory, scoring each of
Oklahoma's first two TDs, ran just nine times but stacked up 112 big yards. Six other Oklahoma backs got 44 or more from the productive wishbone offense.
"We had an excellent effort out there
today," said Bowden, "we needed some fumbles out of Oklahoma. We didn't get 'em." … Only two. "So," added Bowden, "we fumbled - which was ridiculous. Oklahoma took the fumble play out of their
offense. We didn't. But we played about as good as we could. They fought today, and there's still a chance for the Seminoles to be a football team. We've had three games on the road and that just
irritates me to death."
The Seminoles come home next Saturday, to play Kansas State.
"To be honest," Bowden continued, "Oklahoma wasn't stopping us. Without the fumbles, it would have been
close. They're too good to play reckless football against.
"Oklahoma is going to be good, about as good as they come. I imagine they had a little problem getting ready for us mentally."
The
Seminoles' Bill Duley averaged a big 45.3 yards on six punts - including one for 64 yards.
The Sooners got on the board the first time they had the ball, on a 40-yard field goal by Uwe von
Schamann.
Next series saw the Seminoles go ahead 6-3 on that 80-yard drive. One of the key plays was a 15-yard pass to Unglaub on third down, down to the OU 22.
Early in the second quarter the
Sooners moved 88 yards on eight plays for a score, Ivory scoring on a 37-yard sweep with a pitchout.
The Seminoles jumped on an OU fumble at the Sooner 39 and keepers by Black got them to the five
in quick order. But on third down inside the one Key got stacked up on a pitchout, fumbled, and the ball rolled out of the end zone for a touchback. Key had lost it at about the five.
From there
Oklahoma drove 80 yards. The big play was a 39-yard Dean Blevins pass to Rhodes. On a play similar to the first one, Ivory scored from the 23 on a pitch.
So it was 17-6 at halftime.
In the third
quarter Reynolds' interception gave FSU the ball at OU's 32, and Dave Cappelen's 41-yard field goal narrowed the score to 17-9.
Previously in the quarter the Seminoles drove to OU's 45 and 30, only
to lose the ball on an interception and fumble.
Oklahoma got its clinching TD after Black lost a fumble at the FSU 31. Six plays later Elvis Peacock scored from the three on a pitchout.
Barry
Switzer, the OU coach, said he was happy with the victory but "disappointed with our sloppy play."
He added:
"We rushed for a lot of yardage, but penalties and fumbles kept us from scoring many
points.
"It was a strange feeling before the game - there was a complacency in the stands and on the field. Neither the fans nor the team were ready to play, and so Florida State made a game out of
it."
Switzer said tackling was poor. "If we had been playing Texas today," he insisted, "Earl Campbell would have made 400 yards."
Switzer said that if it hadn't been for costly mistakes the
Sooners could have had 30 points on the scoreboard. "But I want to congratulate Florida State," he said. "They played us better than California did." … Said Oklahoma runner Elvis Peacock: "Their
defense was rough. We thought we knew about what they would be trying to do, and then they would run in a different defense on us."
The Seminoles emerged relatively free of key injuries,
apparently. Jeff Ridings has a charley horse, Vic Rivas a hip-pointer, and Scott Warren a twisted knee - but none of those hurts seemed binding ones.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Florida State |
6 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
| Oklahoma |
3 |
14 |
0 |
7 |
24 |
1st 0- 3 Opp, 40, field goal, 10:55
6- 3 Larry Key, 5, run (Dave Cappelen, kick failed), 6:00
2nd 6-10 Opp, 37, run (kick), 9:37
6-17 Opp, 23, run (kick), 2:35
3rd 9-17 Dave Cappelen, 41, field goal, 1:48
4th 9-24 Opp, 3, run (kick), 7:15
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 14 25
Rushes-yards 56-219 64-455
Passing 51 58
Att-Comp-Int 8-4-1 8-2-1
Total Yards 64-270 72-513
Punt Returns 1-0 3-41
Kickoff Returns 4-68 2-32
Interception Ret. 1-17 1-0
Fumble Returns 2-0 3-0
Punts 6-45.3 3-42.3
Fumbles-Lost 5-3 2-2
Penalties-Yds 1-5 6-40
Attendance 71,184
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 24 89 1 17
Jimmy Black 16 86 0 30
Mark Lyles 13 36 0 5
Rudy Thomas 2 6 0 5
Jeff Leggett 1 2 0 2
---------------------------------------------
FSU 56 219 1 30
Opp 64 455 3 42
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Kurt Unglaub 2 24 0 15
Ed Beckman 1 17 0 17
Larry Key 1 10 0 10
---------------------------------------------
FSU 4 51 0 17
Opp 2 58 0 39
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 4 8 1 51 0 17
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 4 8 1 51 0 17
Opp 2 8 1 58 0 39
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Nat Terry 1 0 0 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 1 0 0
Opp 3 41 0 31
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 3 58 0
Chip Sanders 1 10 0 10
---------------------------------------------
FSU 4 68 0 10
Opp 2 32 0 18
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 6 272 64
----------------------------------------
FSU 6 272 64
Opp 3 127 51
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Detroit Reynolds 2 15 17 . . 1- 17 . . 1- 0 . . .
Jimmy Heggins 4 8 12 1.0- 1.0 . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 4 7 11 1.0- 8.0 . . . . . . . .
Joe Camps 4 7 11 . . . . . . . . .
Jerome Davis 4 6 10 . . . . . . . . .
Nat Terry 4 5 9 . . . 1 . . . . .
Walter Carter 2 6 8 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy . 3 3 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 1 2 3 . . . 1 . . . . .
Gary Rose 1 1 2 1.0- 8.0 . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Abe Smith 1 . 1 . . . . . . 1 . .
Ivory Joe Hunter 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Jeff Ridings . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 28 61 89 3.0- 17.0 . 1- 17 2 . 2- 0 1 . .
Opp 22 73 95 1.0- 7.0 . 1- 0 . . 3- 0 . . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
SE 41 Gary Woolford
TB 44 Larry Key
FB 48 Mark Lyles
C 52 Alan Risk
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 77 Mark Meseroll
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RC 24 Mike Kincaid
LC 28 Jerome Davis
FS 39 Jeff Ridings
SS 42 Joe Camps
LB 51 Aaron Carter
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 76 Walter Carter
LB 83 Detroit Reynolds
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
RE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
Bruce Harrison
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
23 Jackie Flowers
26 Joe Joyner
30 Jeff Leggett
33 Rudy Thomas
36 Chip Sanders
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
47 Nat Terry
50 Bill Sawyer
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
53 Brian Schmidt
55 Mike Stewart
60 Mike Kissner
61 Wade Johnson
62 Billy McPhillips
68 Abe Smith
80 Scott Warren
82 Keith Singletary
84 Greg Lazzaro
85 Dave Porter
|
Florida State 20, Kansas State 10
10/02/1976, Tallahassee
From the Tallahassee Democrat, October 3, 1976, page 45, by Bill McGrotha. Suddenly FSU wins.
Black pulls the trigger.
TALLAHASSEE, FL - In the first half Florida State's
football team made a bushel of mistakes - and in the last half Kansas State made a couple of bushels.
And that was the simple story in Campbell Stadium on Saturday night as the Seminoles, down 10-0
at halftime, scrambled to a 20-10 victory - their first under Coach Bobby Bowden following three losses on the road.
Quarterback Jimmy Black, banished to the bench in favor of passer Clyde Walker
in the second quarter, spurred the sudden rally.
The Merritt Island senior, who some say cannot throw, passed 17 yards to Ed Beckman for a touchdown that tied it 10-10 late in the third quarter.
Then, late in the fourth quarter, he tossed a 26-yard scoring strike to Kurt Unglaub to sew things up.
It all happened like lightning.
Unable to get the ball into the end zone after a first down
at the K-State four, the Seminoles got on the board with a 24-yard field goal off the toe of freshman Dave Cappelen. That cut the Wildcats' lead to 10-3.
On the ensuing kickoff K-State fumbled away
the ball to the Seminoles at the Wildcat 26. Three plays later Black hit Beckman with the pass that knotted it 10-10.
On K-State's next offensive series a Bill Swanson pass was stolen by Jimmy
Heggins, who fumbled - but teammate Aaron Carter recovered.
That gave the Seminoles a shot from the visitors' 28, and Cappelen soon put them ahead 13-10 with a 41-yard field goal.
A fumble by
reserve quarterback Roy Jones gave FSU the ball at the K-State 31 late in the action. Whereupon, Black socked a touchdown pass into the hands of the freshman Unglaub.
K-State drove 52 yards to a
field goal from 36-yard range by Bill Sinovic for a 3-0 lead early in the second quarter. A fumbled punt soon provided a chance from FSU's 30, and a few plays later Tony Brown got the touchdown from
the one.
Florida State ran up 343 yards, including 188 on the ground while hitting on 13 of 21 passes for 155 more. (Black was 6-for-10 and 94 yards, Walker 7-for-11 and 61.)
Brown bucked for 78
yards in 22 carries, Roosevelt Duncan for 61 in 14 as the Wildcats got 194 of their 226 yards on the ground.
K-State completed only two of 13 passes for a mere 32 yards.
It wasn't quite the
punting duel that some thought it might be. Each punted five times - the Seminoles' hot Bill Duley averaging 43.2 yards, the Wildcats' Sinovic 42.
K-State never really threatened - other than the
two times it scored.
In the end, K-State had four turnovers (three on fumbles), the Seminoles' two. But in the first half Florida State hobbled itself with a couple of holding penalties, two lost
fumbles, a clipping call, a penalty for intentionally grounding a pass - and, additionally, K-State blocked a long field-goal attempt. Greg Brown blocked a 3-point attempt of Cappelen, and that early
development appeared to take lots of pep out of the Seminoles.
Nose guard Jimmy Heggins and linebackers Detroit Reynolds and Aaron Carter again were prominent defensively for the Seminoles. A
pressbox accounting had Heggins in on 21 tackles, Reynolds and Carter in on 12. K-State linebacker Gary Spani was credited in on 14, and end Perry Viers in on 10.
Beckman caught six of the 13
passes the Seminoles completed, for 95 yards. Running was rather evenly divided among FSU backs, with freshman Mark Lyles the leader with 50 yards on 11 carries, Black with 44 on 10, Larry Key with 40
on 11.
It was only the second home victory for FSU in the last 17 played here - and the first in Campbell Stadium since an opening 17-8 victory over Utah State last year.
"It was a tough loss,"
commented Ellis Rainsberger, the Kansas State coach. "We played a decent first half, then gave it away in the second half. I thought our defense played well, although we did miss some tackles. Florida
State's speed has something to do with our missing, however. Their backs have excellent speed.
"In the first half we had the feeling we could move the ball."
Florida State's Bowden said his
Seminoles in the first half "looked like a team that had never lined up." He said in the second half the team "got back to its game plan to get it going."
He thought the kicking game made a
difference. "Duley and Cappelen kept us in the game," he said, "until we got it going."
Bowden said he would rather have an ugly win than a beautiful loss. "We were," he declared, "ugly in the
first half."
Before the game Bowden had talked about it looking like a battle of 'no goal-line offense versus no goal-line offense." Afterwards, he said: "we must have the worst goal-line offense
in the U.S.A. We're not strong enough on the goal line. It's ridiculous. I'm going to have to do something about it."
Going in, Bowden said he really thought Florida State might be the better of
the two teams. In conclusion he said: "Our kids didn't lose their poise."
A crowd of 30,353 on a pleasant, fair night sat in silence much of the early going, then whooped it up late.
Seminoles turn it around in second half. TALLAHASSEE, FL - Jimmy Black threw last-half touchdown passes of 17 and 26 yards Saturday night as Florida State came from behind to
down Kansas State's football team 20-10.
Freshman Dave Cappelen kicked a 41-yard field goal that put the Seminoles ahead to stay early in the last quarter. FSU had trailed 10-0 at halftime.
All
dressed up in new garnet-jersey uniforms for the first time, the Seminoles had first turn with the football after winning the coin toss. It was the fourth straight week FSU had received the kickoff at
the start.
Larry Key took the ball at the three, broke clear at the 25 and appeared gone all the way - but he had stepped out of bounds at the FSU 47.
Rudy Thomas sped wide for nine, and the
Seminoles probed on to the K-State 35, where holding cost them 15. A Jimmy Black pass to Kurt Unglaub got 11 back. Black ran for six to the 32.
When Dave Cappelen tried a 46-yard field goal on
fourth down, Greg Brown ripped through and blocked it. The ball rolled to FSU's 35.
Three plays netted only three yards, however. Bill Sinovic's bid for a field goal from 49-yard range was
short.
Pushed back to the 12 by another holding penalty, the Seminoles got out of the trap on a 7-yard keeper, then a 19-yard run by Gary Woolford that got 'em to the 38. Three more runs left FSU a
yard short at the 47.
Bill Duley ripped off his first punt, a 47-yarder to the seven.
On the running of Tony Brown - who got six, five and nine yards on successive runs - the Wildcats moved up
to the 34. Soon Sinovic punted to FSU's 35.
Ed Beckman snared a 21-yard pass from Black. Two plays later there was a fumbled handoff, between Lyles and Black. Theopolis Bryant recovered for the
visitors at the 45.
Holding slapped K-State back to its 30, and a punt was forced.
On the first play of the second quarter Sinovic's punt was returned for 10 to the 28 by Nat Terry - but
clipping was called and the Seminoles set back on the 12.
A pass missed. Key got five. Then Black was flagged for intentional grounding of a pass and FSU penalized to the four. Duley punted to the
Seminole 48.
A running game spurred by Brown and Ken Lovely led to FSU's 19. On fourth down Sinovic kicked a 36-yard field goal for 3-0.
Starting anew at the 25, the Seminoles shifted to Clyde
Walker at quarterback, who completed his first three tosses - including ones of 14 and 19 yards to Beckman, down to the K-State 40.
At the 32, needing two, the Seminoles gambled on fourth down.
Walker was hit as he threw, and the ball fell incomplete.
Jimmy Heggins and Rudy Maloy, on second down, sacked quarterback Bill Swanson for a loss of five as he tried to throw.
When Sinovic
punted, Terry fumbled. K-State recovered at FSU's 30.
On a pitchout, Brown soon got seven to the 19. Duncan, on a dive, ripped to the five. Duncan got three more. Then Brown carried three straight
times, and raced into the end zone for the TD on fourth down. Sinovic's point made it 10.0.
From the 19, Walker passed 11 yards to Jeff Leggett. Two more completions were shorties, to the 38, and
Duley soon punted 46 yards to the 16.
A couple of short dives into the line, and time ran out in the half.
At this point the Seminoles had out-yarded K-State, 160 to 108, including 93-0 in
passing. Florida State had also out-erred the opponent in just about every category. In a ball-control game, K-State had got off 34 plays to FSU's 29.
Three runs at the middle reached FSU's 45.
Then Swanson fumbled and Rudy Maloy claimed the football for FSU at the 42.
On pitchouts, Thomas got four and 10 yards to K-State's 44. Black was back at quarterback.
That effort bogged at the
40. Duley again got off a nifty punt, to the four.
Walter Carter and Maloy led a stand at the 20, after Duncan's running had brought the Wildcats that far. Sinovic punted to FSU's 34.
Key
cracked wide on a pitchout, 15 to the 50. After Lyles got four, Black kept for 11, to the 35. Then a quick pass over the middle to Beckman at the 17.
On a pitch Key dug to the nine, and Lyles
pounded to a first down at the four. But Lyles and Key got only one yard apiece on runs, and Key was decked for a loss of five on a pitchout.
Cappelen entered and kicked a 24-yard field goal for
10-3.
When racked on the kickoff return, Cox fumbled and Mike Kincaid recovered for FSU at the 26.
Black kept, to the 19. Key got two. On third-and-one, Lyles faked into the line while Black
stepped back and fired to a wide-open Beckman in the end zone for six points. Cappelen's point tied it 10-10.
A face-mask penalty on the tackle of the kickoff return man lifted K-State to the 30.
The Wildcats ran to a first down at the 40 as the quarter ended.
On third down, under heavy pressure, Swanson threw as he was hit. Jimmy Heggins intercepted, then fumbled - and Maloy recovered for
Florida State.
Three plays netted just three yards.
In came Cappelen, and the freshman kicked a 41-yard field goal to put the Seminoles up 13-10.
Runs - mostly pitchout - moved K-State from
its 20 to 45. Soon a punt backed FSU to its 14.
Key, on a third-down draw, dug from the 17 to the 27. Lyles rammed twice, for seven and eight yards. But a personal-foul call soon set the Seminoles
back, from the 48 to the 33.
With 4:43 left, a punt left K-State on its 10 after clipping was called on the runback.
A pass to Paul Coffman gained to the 24. Quarterback Roy Jones, running out
of a trap, fumbled when hit at the 31 and the Seminoles' Gary Rose recovered.
Two plays later Black threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Unglaub. Cappelen kicked and it was 20-10 at 2:46.
An
18-yard pass on third down, Jones to Greg Searcy, got the Wildcats to their 45. Then Jones passed himself out of downs, and FSU took over at midfield with 56 seconds remaining.
Three runs into the
line, and Florida State had won a football game.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Kansas State |
0 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
| Florida State |
0 |
0 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
1st 0- 0 Dave Cappelen, 49, field goal blocked
0- 0 Opp, 49, field goal failed
2nd 0- 3 Opp, 36, field goal, 10:17
0-10 Opp, 1, run (kick), 3:04
3rd 3-10 Dave Cappelen, 24, field goal, 3:10
10-10 Ed Beckman, 17, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick), 1:40
4th 13-10 Dave Cappelen, 41, field goal, 12:07
20-10 Kurt Unglaub, 26, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick), 2:46
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 16 13
Rushes-yards 43-188 53-194
Passing 155 32
Att-Comp-Int 21-13-0 13-2-1
Total Yards 64-343 66-226
Punt Returns 4-14 3-2
Kickoff Returns 3-72 4-84
Interception Ret. 1-6 0-0
Fumble Returns 3-0 2-0
Punts 5-43.2 5-42.0
Fumbles-Lost 3-2 4-3
Penalties-Yds 6-73 3-30
Attendance 30,353
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Mark Lyles 11 50 0 12
Jimmy Black 10 44 0 11
Larry Key 11 40 0 15
Rudy Thomas 8 34 0 9
Gary Woolford 2 20 0 19
Jeff Leggett 1 0 0 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 43 188 0 19
Opp 53 194 1 14
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Ed Beckman 6 95 1 21
Kurt Unglaub 3 44 1 26t
Jeff Leggett 2 12 0 11
Gary Woolford 1 2 0 2
Larry Key 1 2 0 2
---------------------------------------------
FSU 13 155 2 26t
Opp 2 32 0 18
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 6 10 0 94 2 26t
Clyde Walker 7 11 0 61 0 19
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 13 21 0 155 2 26t
Opp 2 13 1 32 0 18
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Nat Terry 4 14 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 4 14 0
Opp 3 2 0
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 3 72 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 3 72 0
Opp 4 84 0
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 5 216 46
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FSU 5 216 46
Opp 5 210 49
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Heggins 5 16 21 . . 1- 6 . . . . . .
Aaron Carter 4 8 12 . . . 1 . . 1 . .
Detroit Reynolds 2 10 12 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Rose 1 8 9 1.0- 2.0 . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Nat Terry 3 6 9 . . . 2 . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 2 5 7 1.0- 8.0 . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Joe Camps 2 5 7 . . . 1 . . . . .
Willie Jones 3 2 5 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 1 4 5 . . . 1 . 1- 0 . . .
Walter Carter 2 2 4 1.0- 8.0 . . . . . . . .
Scott Warren 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Brian Schmidt 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Keith Singletary 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 1 . 1 . . . 2 . . . . .
Ivory Joe Hunter . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
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FSU 30 70 100 3.0- 18.0 . 1- 6 7 . 3- 0 1 . .
Opp 27 70 97 . . . 4 . 2- 0 . 1 .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
TB 33 Rudy Thomas
SE 41 Gary Woolford
FB 48 Mark Lyles
C 52 Alan Risk
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 77 Mark Meseroll
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RC 24 Mike Kincaid
LC 40 Bobby Jackson
SS 42 Joe Camps
FS 47 Nat Terry
LB 51 Aaron Carter
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 76 Walter Carter
LB 83 Detroit Reynolds
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
RE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
18 Clyde Walker
26 Joe Joyner
30 Jeff Leggett
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
44 Larry Key
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
53 Brian Schmidt
80 Scott Warren
82 Keith Singletary
|
Florida State 28, Boston College 9
10/09/1976, Boston, Mass.
From the Tallahassee Democrat, October 10, 1976, page 49, by Bill McGrotha. FSU stuns B.C. 28-9.
BOSTON, MA - Blending considerable poise with some striking willingness, Florida State's
surprising football team slapped Boston College from the ranks of the nation's unbeaten in one of the season's bigger upsets here Saturday night.
The score was 28-9.
As 22,866 looked on a
relatively clear night following a rainy day, the Seminoles extracted a 7-6 lead by halftime, stretched it to 14-6 in the first moments of the third quarter, then got two late touchdowns for a little
icing on the cake.
Boston College fumbles precipitated all three of the Seminoles' last-half touchdowns.
Winning two games in a row for the first time since '72, Florida State drove 53 yards to
its first TD in the closing minutes of the second quarter.
The Eagles, ranked 13th nationally by The AP poll going in, took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter as Tim Moorman's 23-yard field goal
capped a 93-yard drive. Moorman extended the score to 6-0 with a 25-yarder for three in the second period. He kicked a final 3-pointer from 37 yards out in the third period.
Rudy Thomas got the
Seminoles on the board first with a 12-yard scoring burst. Quarterback Jimmy Black's scrambling runs were a factor in the drive that set it up.
A fumbled pitchout gave Florida State the ball at
B.C.'s 15 early in the third quarter, and Black scored on an 11-yard keeper.
Then a fumbled punt gave the Seminoles the ball at the foe's 12 early in the final period. Mark Lyles, a hard runner all
night, got the touchdown from the one.
Finally, and the most dramatic of all, defensive end Rudy Maloy plucked a fumble out of the air, off the fingertips of Eagle quarterback Ken Smith, and
scampered 65 yards to a final Florida State touchdown.
All told, Boston lost the football four times on fumbles while the Seminoles yielded it only once. Neither team had an interception. Passing
was hardly a factor in this one. Boston hit on six of 14 throws for a mere 73 yards, the Seminoles on just six of 16 for 41. The Astroturf field was wet, but there was no rain during the game. A wind
that early in the game whipped around at between 27 and 30 miles per hour was a factor, but it dwindled in the late going.
Larry Key cracked for 68 yards in 18 runs for the Seminoles, Lyles got 65
in 17, and Black 42 in 12. Florida State amassed 191 on the ground. Meanwhile, hot Glen Capriola got 111 of Boston's 201 running.
Florida State's hard-hitting defenders, probably the telling
difference in this one, seemed again led by nose guard Jimmy Heggins. A pressbox accounting gave him eight tackles, three assists. Other notables included linebacker Aaron Cater, end Willie Jones and
cornerback Joe Camps - each credited with six or more tackles.
Much of the way it was a punting duel, with Bill Duley again keeping an opponent backed up for FSU. He averaged 44 yards on six boots.
Boston College's Jim Walton, who had a wind-blown 77-yarder, averaged 44.8 on five.
With Black functioning well, FSU made good on seven of 15 third-down plays. With the Seminoles' defense
functioning well, Boston College converted just three of 11.
"The defense," said Coach Bobby Bowden, "forced a lot of their mistakes, and we just capitalized on them. That's what it takes to win.
I've gone against Boston College teams coached by Joe Yukica and none have been close. One of the two has always won big.
"This one meant a lot to us, but I can't tell you where it ranks among my
coaching victories.
"Duley was very instrumental. I thought he did a fine job when he had to kick into the wind.
"The Good Lord just took care of us last week. We didn't practice outside
Wednesday or Thursday because of the rain. I think He was telling us that we were working too hard.
"We ran a lot more than I expected. We came into the game expecting to pass a lot more,
especially on first down. Other than that field goal we had blocked early, I thought it was the most complete game we've played this year."
Boston College's Yukica called it a "very disturbing
football game" for him.
"We did some foolish things out there," he said, "like giving them good field position, and turning the ball over at critical times. We made a couple of foul-ups on offense,
our offense was only fair, at best.
"When it was 14-9 I still felt like we could win this game. We played good defense in the first half and early in the second.
"Black made some key plays for
them, especially on third down when we had good coverage and he just broke out and made the plays go.
"It's a very tough kind of loss from which to come back."
Big run helps
Seminoles. BOSTON, MA - Jumping on three last-half Boston College fumbles for three touchdowns, Florida State stunned the nation's 13th-ranked football team 28-9 here Saturday night.
Behind
6-0, then ahead 7-6 shortly before halftime, the poised Seminoles did it with a steady running game and a minimum number of big errors.
Boston College had won eight straight, going back to last
season, and was 3-0 this year, including an opening upset of Texas.
At the start Florida State was on the receiving end of a kickoff for the fifth straight game, beginning at its 20 after a boot
into the end zone. The home team had a brisk (25 mile per hour) wind advantage. An all-day rain had stopped two hours prior, but the field was wet.
On second down Larry Key burst on a draw play for
14 yards to the 37. Two plays later Key cracked for 10 to the 50.
There things bogged down. Three plays later, from the B.C. 45, Bill Duley punted down to the seven.
First play saw Rudy Maloy
deck Glen Capriola for a loss of two. But then the 220-pounder whacked off 17 right up the middle. Paul McCarty got nine to the 28, before Capriola took off again, for 21 to the 49. The Seminoles
stiffened, checked three runs just inside their territory - and a clip set the Eagles back to their 42. But a personal-foul call, apparently on Detroit Reynolds, got B.C. 15 back, to FSU's 43.
Capriola pounded to a first down at the 41.
Ken Smith passed 10 yards to McCarty at the 30 a couple of plays later. Then Capriola got five, two and 11 yards - a first down on the 12. A bad pitchout
lost nine, but Capriola promptly got 12 back, to the nine.
Florida State held. On fourth down Tim Moorman booted a 23-yard field goal for 3-0.
From the 20, Key dug for five, then six. Mark Lyles
boomed through for six, and Black passed to Jackie Flowers for seven, to the 43, as the quarter ended.
That played out at the FSU 49 as Black, twice trying to pass, was obliged to scramble.
Duley punted - and Joe Joyner downed it for the Seminoles just inside the B.C. one - a 50-yard boot.
Three runs worked the ball no further than the eight.
When Jim Walton punted into the heavy
wind, it was short - just up to the 29. Chip Sanders fumbled the ball - but Joyner was there to recover for the Seminoles.
A Black pass to Lyles got six. Then Lyles shot through for eight, and a
first down at the 14. Two runs by Key netted just four, and Gary Woolford dropped Black's low pass at the one.
Dave Cappelen lined up for a field goal from 26-yard range. It was blocked by
linebacker Kevin Cunniff. End Bill Ohrenberger picked up the ball and ran it to the B.C. 48 before Cappelen and Jeff Leggett drug him down.
Two surprise passes failed, and Reynolds pulled Smith
down at FSU's 48 when the quarterback tried to run out of a trap. A punt boomed into the end zone.
Black, scrambling, had the ball pulled out of his hands, and Cunniff recovered for B.C. at FSU's
12.
Capriola was checked at the seven on two runs. A pass missed. Moorman connected on a 25-yard field goal for 6-0.
A short kickoff into that wind, coupled with a foul, gave FSU a start from
its 47. Promptly, Black threw long to Kurt Unglaub, who seemed to catch it at the 16 - but officials ruled him out of bounds.
Lyles caught a pass at the B.C. 45, and Key pounded to the 40. Lyles
and Key runs brought a first down at the 27.
About five plays later, after a delay penalty and a pass interference call that brought the ball back to the 27, it came to third down at that spot.
Black, to pass, scrambled wide - 15 yards to the 12.
Next play, on a dive, Rudy Thomas hit off the left and scored. Cappelen kicked a point for a 7-6 Florida State lead with 2:27 left in the
half.
Boston College couldn't get beyond its 22 following the kickoff that left the Eagles at their 15.
A punt gave the Seminoles a shot from the Boston 45 with 50 seconds left. A long pass
failed. Thomas struggled to the 41. On the last play of the half, Cappelen, with that tremendous wind behind him, attempted a 57-yard field goal. It was wide.
FSU held a halftime lead for the first
time this year. Boston College, at this point, had managed 132 yards, the Seminoles 106.
A kickoff into the end zone meant a third-quarter beginning at the 20 for the Eagles.
Capriola
immediately tried to go wide - and lost three. Next play he fumbled a poor pitchout - and Rudy Maloy recovered for the Seminoles at the 15.
Lyles panged up the middle for four.
Black, keeping
all the way, curved to his left and dived into the end zone for a touchdown - an 11-yard play.
Cappelen's point made it 14-6.
Again B.C. began at its 20 following a kickoff.
Runs of 14 and 16
yards by McCarty and Capriola overcame a holding penalty. Smith then passed to Dave Zumback, 15 yards to FSU's 48. On third down, Anthony Brown cut loose wide for 18 to the 25.
Sharp defense
checked three runs. With the ball at the 21, Moorman came in and kicked a 37-yard field goal to narrow it to 14-9. The heavy earlier wind had simmered down.
A mishandled kickoff left FSU in poor
position at its 13.
On third down, needing six, Black scrambled for nine to the 26.
Key popped for 11, but the Seminoles ran out of moves at the 40 as Black twice overthrew receivers. Duley
punted out of bounds at the three. A clipping call shifted the ball back, close to the one.
Two runs got no more than three. On third down freshman tackle Walter Carter stripped the ball from
Capriola. The fumble rolled into the end zone, but Smith picked it up and struggled to the six.
When Walton punted, up to the 40, FSU was called for holding and B.C. retained the ball - at the
21.
Willie Jones ripped in and decked Smith for a loss of 10 as he tried to pass.
A pass fell harmlessly, and a run got nothing. Walton's punt was a beaut, setting back the Seminoles to their
35.
Lyles got 12 on two runs. On third and 13, Black passed to Ed Beckman, 17 yards to B.C.'s 39. Black got stopped on a keeper.
On the first play of the last quarter, Black kept for nine to the
30. But Kelly Elias stopped Key cold on a third-down run. On fourth-and-one FSU lined up to gamble, but jumped offsides. After the penalty, Duley punted - and Jeff Kanfman fumbled with Joe Camps
recovering for the Seminoles at the 12.
Lyles dug to the six on two runs - and a personal foul moved the Seminoles to the three. Lyles whammed to the one, for a first down. Then Lyles got nothing -
next play he rammed off to the right side and scored easily. Cappelen made it 21-9.
When, from its 23, Smith went to Zumbach with a screen pass, Jimmy Heggins nailed the receiver for a loss of
four.
Two sideline passes missed. When Walton punted, the wind lifted it, and it sailed 77 yards! Out of bounds at the FSU four.
FSU struggled to its 10. Standing in the end zone, Duley punted
to the B.C. 49. Smith passed 30 yards to Zumbach at the 21. Capriola led to the 12 - but soon fumbled, trying to go wide, and Aaron Carter got the ball for FSU at the 13 with 6:25 left.
With Key
getting five on a pitchout and Black keeping on third down, FSU worked the ball to the 24. Then Key lost seven. Staying on the ground, FSU worked the ball back to the 22 before Duley came in for a
punt with 3:30 to go. He backed B.C. to its 35.
Two passes moved B.C. inside the FSU 40, and Capriola shot through to the 22. Then Smith, trying to pass, met a rush - the ball slipped out of his
hands, and Rudy Maloy grabbed the fumble in mid-air and raced 65 yards to a touchdown. Cappelen's point made it 28-9 with 1:15 to go.
A roughing-the-punter call got B.C. close to midfield with
about 30 seconds left. The Eagles probed to FSU's 20 on the last play.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Florida State |
0 |
7 |
7 |
14 |
28 |
| Boston College |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
1st 0- 3 Opp, 23, field goal, 2:12
2nd 0- 3 Dave Cappelen, 26, field goal blocked
0- 6 Opp, 25, field goal, 7:50
7- 6 Rudy Thomas, 12, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 2:33
7- 6 Dave Cappelen, 47, field goal failed, 0:00
3rd 14- 6 Jimmy Black, 10, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 13:35
14- 9 Opp, 37, field goal, 9:03
4th 21- 9 Mark Lyles, 1, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 11:10
28- 9 Rudy Maloy, 65, fumble recovery/return (Dave Cappelen, kick), 1:14
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 16 15
Rushes-yards 49-191 48-201
Passing 41 73
Att-Comp-Int 16-6-0 14-6-0
Total Yards 65-232 62-274
Punt Returns 1-0 1-0
Kickoff Returns 1-4 2-30
Interception Ret. 0-0 0-0
Fumble Returns 4-65 1-0
Punts 6-44.0 5-44.8
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 6-4
Penalties-Yds 5-55 4-38
3rd Down Conversions 7-15 3-11
Attendance 22,866
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 18 68 0 14
Mark Lyles 17 65 1 8
Jimmy Black 12 42 1 15
Rudy Thomas 2 16 1 12t
---------------------------------------------
FSU 49 191 3 15
Opp 48 201 0 21
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Ed Beckman 1 17 0 17
Mark Lyles 2 16 0 9
Jackie Flowers 1 6 0 6
Gary Woolford 2 2 0 5
---------------------------------------------
FSU 6 41 0 17
Opp 6 73 0 30
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 6 16 0 41 0 17
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 6 16 0 41 0 17
Opp 6 14 0 73 0 30
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Joe Joyner 1 0 0 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 1 0 0
Opp 1 0 0 0
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Gary Woolford 1 4 0 4
---------------------------------------------
FSU 1 4 0 4
Opp 2 30 0 16
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 6 264 57
----------------------------------------
FSU 6 264 57
Opp 5 224 77
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Heggins 8 3 11 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Camps 7 2 9 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Aaron Carter 6 2 8 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Willie Jones 7 1 8 1.0- . . . . . . . .
Walter Carter 5 1 6 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Rose 4 2 6 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds 4 1 5 . . . . . . . . .
Jeff Ridings 3 . 3 . . . . . . . . .
Arthur Scott 3 . 3 . . . . . . . . .
Scott Warren 2 . 2 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 2 . 2 . . . . . . . . .
Nat Terry 2 . 2 . . . . . . . . .
Paul Phillippy 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Vic Fowler 2 . 2 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy . . . . . . . . 2- 65 . . .
Bobby Jackson . . . . . . 1 . . . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 56 13 69 1.0- 0.0 . . 1 . 4- 65 . . .
Opp 61 17 78 1.0- . . 2 . 1- 0 . 1 .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
WR 19 Kurt Unglaub
WR 41 Gary Woolford
RB 44 Larry Key
RB 48 Mark Lyles
C 52 Alan Risk
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 77 Mark Meseroll
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RCB 24 Mike Kincaid
LCB 40 Bobby Jackson
LS 42 Joe Camps
RS 47 Nat Terry
LT 51 Aaron Carter
RE 56 Jimmy Heggins
LLB 67 Gary Rose
RT 76 Walter Carter
LE 80 Scott Warren
RLB 83 Detroit Reynolds
MLB 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
18 Clyde Walker
23 Jackie Flowers
26 Joe Joyner
27 Vic Fowler
30 Jeff Leggett
33 Rudy Thomas
39 Jeff Ridings
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
53 Brian Schmidt
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
55 Mike Stewart
58 Arthur Scott
61 Wade Johnson
62 Billy McPhillips
64 Keith Tuten
74 Paul Phillippy
82 Keith Singletary
84 Greg Lazzaro
85 Dave Porter
87 Rudy Maloy
|
Florida 33, Florida State 26
10/16/1976, Tallahassee
From the Tallahassee Democrat, October 17, 1976, page 29, by Bill McGrotha. Seminoles reluctantly fall.
Gators outlast Tribe by 33-26.
TALLAHASSEE, FL - In maybe the most
magnificent football game in the 19 years of a notable rivalry, Florida State finally fell to Florida 33-26 on a crisp Saturday night.
Neither team deserved to lose. The tie, that it might well
have been, would have seemed appropriate to any neutral observer, of which there were really perhaps none in the sellout Campbell Stadium crowd of 42,803.
In defeat, Jimmy Black was an incredible
quarterback this night. Completing his first dozen passes, Black hit on 14 of 17 passes for 211 yards, ran for 46 more and repeatedly came through on vital third-down plays. He bowed out with more
than seven minutes left, after suffering an apparent concussion.
And in the last seconds, Jimmy Jordan, the Tallahassee freshman, had the Seminoles on the Florida nine after leading them to a field
goal that wrought the final score and brought them into position to tie - or even win 34-33 with a successful 2-point gamble after a touchdown.
Remarkably, Florida State outgained explosive
Florida, 507 yards to 417.
The Seminoles came back to lead 17-13 and 23-20, but those were brief leads. Each time UF went back in front on the following series.
The scoring, in sequence:
(1)
David Posey's 27-yard field goal, capping an opening 77-yard drive, (2) Larry Brinson's 15-yard burst following recovery of a Seminole fumble at the FSU 15, (3) Dave Cappelen's 21-yard field goal,
cutting UF's lead to 10-3, climaxing an 82-yard drive early in the second quarter, (4) Posey's school-record field goal from 54 yards out, (5) a 10-yard run by Rudy Thomas, topping a 70-yard movement,
(6) Black's 26-yard pass to Kurt Unglaub after an 80-yard push, giving FSU its first lead at 17-13 with 1:09 left in the half, (7) Florida's 93-yard drive against the clock, helped notably by a
pass-interference penalty, capped by Jimmy Fisher's 23-yard scoring pass to Wes Chandler, giving UF a 20-17 halftime lead, (8) an 80-yard FSU drive, Black scoring from the two, putting the Seminoles
back up 23-20 at the start of the third quarter, (9) Willie Wilder's 5-yard sweep at the end of a 69-yard drive, set up by Tony Green's 58-yard dash, making the score 33-23 midway the last quarter,
(11) Cappelen's 27-yard field goal with more than five minutes left.
With 1:08 left the Seminoles with Jordan at the wheel, drove from their 24 to the Florida nine on passes. At least three passes
down close might easily have been a touchdown.
I don't know who keeps writing the scripts for these games," said UF Coach Doug Dickey, "bbut whoever he is he is making an old man out of me.
"Give Bobby Bowden and his staff an A-plus, a double-plus. They did a super job of coaching. You have to admire them for what they did. I said before the game this was the best Florida State team in a
long time."
Wilder and Green led UF's ground game with 98 and 90 yards as the team rolled to 264. Fisher was on target with nine of 12 passes for 139, with Chandler and tight end Jimmy Stephens
each catching four.
It was a game relatively free of turnovers. Florida lost the ball just once, on a fumbled punt. FSU lost it twice, a fumble and an interception. There wasn't much punting. FSU
being obliged to kick only twice, UF three times.
Jeff Leggett was the surprise rushing leader for the Seminoles, coming in early for Mark Lyles, and gained 76 yards in 15 carries. Tight end Ed
Beckman snared six passes for 113 yards, Unglaub five for 90, Jackie Flowers three for 72.
Florida State was successful in controlling the football, to a stunning degree - 83 plays to 57. In the
drive to a touchdown at the start of the third quarter the Seminoles ate up 8:35 on the clock.
The 26 were the most points a Florida State team has ever scored on the Gators.
"You were just a
step away," Bowden told his Seminoles. "I'm proud of every one of you. You know, we've played Oklahoma and we've played Florida - two pretty good football teams.
"I think you're awfully close to
being a good football team, too. I'm proud of you all the way."
Bowden said he thinks he's never played a team with as many "skilled people" as Florida. He said his practices were indeed lousy
during the week as reported.
With one second on the clock, the Seminoles at the UF nine, the play called for Jordan to hit Unglaub over the middle. But Tallahasseean Mike Dupree put a fierce rush
on Jordan and decked him for a big loss. "We told Dupree," said Dickey, "to back his ears, and go."
Linebackers Aaron Carter and Detroit Reynolds appeared to lead FSU defensively, a pressbox
accounting having them in on 15 and 14 tackles. Defensive back Alvin Cowans, who was counted in on 14, additionally came up with the game's lone interception. UF linebacker Scot Brantley was in on
15.
A lot of people were pretty remarkable on this occasion.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Florida |
10 |
10 |
7 |
6 |
33 |
| Florida State |
0 |
17 |
6 |
3 |
26 |
1st 0- 3 Opp, 27, field goal, 11:05
0-10 Opp, 15, run (kick), 5:50
2nd 3-10 Dave Cappelen, 21, field goal, 13:41
3-13 Opp, 54, field goal, 11:20
10-13 Rudy Thomas, 10, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 8:10
10-13 Opp, 47, field goal failed
17-13 Kurt Unglaub, 26, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick), 0:47
17-20 Opp, 23, pass (kick), 0:10
3rd 23-20 Jimmy Black, 2, run (Dave Cappelen, kick blocked), 6:25
23-27 Opp, 5, run (kick), 3:14
4th 23-27 Dave Cappelen, 41, field goal failed
23-33 Opp, 2, run (kick failed), 7:44
26-33 Dave Cappelen, 27, field goal, 5:19
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 28 21
Rushes-yards 53-187 43-264
Passing 320 153
Att-Comp-Int 30-20-1 14-10-0
Total Yards 83-507 57-417
Punt Returns 1-4 1-0
Kickoff Returns 5-84 5-79
Interception Ret. 0-0 1-0
Fumble Returns 1-0 1-0
Punts 2-35.5 3-39.7
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 2-1
Penalties-Yds 6-60 8-63
Attendance 42,803
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Jeff Leggett 15 76 0 14
Jimmy Black 19 46 1 16
Rudy Thomas 7 45 1 16
Mark Lyles 7 27 0 9
Larry Key 4 13 0 4
Jimmy Jordan 1 -20 0 -20
---------------------------------------------
FSU 53 187 2 16
Opp 43 264 3 58
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Ed Beckman 6 113 0 24
Kurt Unglaub 5 90 1 26t
Jackie Flowers 3 77 0 43
Rudy Thomas 3 20 0 13
Larry Key 2 11 0 10
Jeff Leggett 1 9 0 9
---------------------------------------------
FSU 20 320 1 43
Opp 10 153 1 24
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 14 17 1 211 1 43
Jimmy Jordan 6 13 0 109 0 24
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 20 30 1 320 1 43
Opp 10 14 0 153 1 24
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Nat Terry 1 4 0 4
---------------------------------------------
FSU 1 4 0 4
Opp 1 0 0 0
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 4 67 0
Rudy Thomas 1 17 0 17
---------------------------------------------
FSU 5 84 0 17
Opp 5 79 0
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 2 71 36
----------------------------------------
FSU 2 71 36
Opp 3 119 44
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aaron Carter 6 9 15 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds 8 6 14 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Camps 5 4 9 1.0- 9.0 . . 2 . . . . .
Willie Jones 6 2 8 . . . . . . . . .
Jeff Ridings 3 4 7 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Rose 5 2 7 1.0- 3.0 . . . . . . . .
Walter Carter 4 3 7 1.0- 6.0 . . . . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 4 2 6 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 4 2 6 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 2 3 5 . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Heggins 2 3 5 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 2 . 2 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Scott Warren 2 . 2 . . . . . . . . .
Dave Porter 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Nat Terry . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
Brian Schmidt 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 55 42 97 3.0- 18.0 . . 2 . 1- 0 . . .
Opp 70 45 115 2.0- 22.0 . 1- 0 4 . 1- 0 . 1 .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
SE 23 Jackie Flowers
TB 44 Larry Key
FB 48 Mark Lyles
C 50 Bill Sawyer
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 77 Mark Meseroll
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RC 24 Mike Kincaid
FS 39 Jeff Ridings
LC 40 Bobby Jackson
SS 42 Joe Camps
LB 51 Aaron Carter
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 76 Walter Carter
LB 83 Detroit Reynolds
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
RE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
15 Jimmy Jordan
22 Mike Barnes
26 Joe Joyner
28 Jerome Davis
30 Jeff Leggett
33 Rudy Thomas
36 Chip Sanders
41 Gary Woolford
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
47 Nat Terry
52 Alan Risk
53 Brian Schmidt
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
55 Mike Stewart
58 Arthur Scott
60 Mike Kissner
61 Wade Johnson
62 Billy McPhillips
65 Robert Thompson
68 Abe Smith
74 Paul Phillippy
75 Doug Dane
80 Scott Warren
82 Keith Singletary
84 Greg Lazzaro
85 Dave Porter
|
Auburn 31, Florida State 19
10/23/1976, Auburn, Ala.
From the Tallahassee Democrat, October 24, 1976, page 45, by Bill McGrotha. Lesson costs FSU - 31-19.
Gargis keys Auburn.
AUBURN, AL - Striking hard in the last half, playing
the game much as the book says you should, Auburn's football team gave Florida State a rather harsh 31-19 lesson here Saturday afternoon.
Phil Gargis, a rugged scrambler of a quarterback, scored
all four of the Tigers' touchdowns on runs of one, 14, one and 82 yards.
But probably the bigger part of the telling of this tale was Auburn's relatively error-free performance, coupled with a
keenly efficient kicking game.
As 58,500 fans - including Jimmy Carter's mother - watched on this sunny homecoming afternoon, Auburn never allowed Florida State a start with the football beyond the
Seminoles' own 26.
Auburn lost no fumbles, had only 25 yards in penalties (none until the fourth quarter rolled around), and controlled the football a stunning 85 plays to 58. The Tigers' game on
this day, in other words, was of a classic sort.
Ahead 7-0, then 13-7, the Seminoles trailed 14-13 at intermission. And in the last half Auburn simply wouldn't let Florida State have the
football.
The Seminoles pulled to within 21-19 late in the third quarter on Jeff Leggett's sudden scoring run of 53 yards. Carrying just nine times Leggett got 108 yards, becoming the first
Seminole this season to top 100 in a game. He also scored the first TD on a 21-yard pop.
Meanwhile, Gargis got 129 on 14 runs, Bob Bradley 122 on 21 as the Tigers ran up an even 400 on the ground
against a Florida State defense that, among other things, couldn't stop pitchouts.
Gargis also hit on six of 13 passes for 54 yards, and would have had a late one for a touchdown but an uncovered
receiver let it slip through his fingers in the end zone.
The quarterback's 82-yard run down the sidelines "broke it open" early in the last quarter, and made the score 28-19. A bit later Neil
O'Donoghue booted a 26-yard field goal.
FSU's Jimmy Black wasn't the runner he had been in recent games. Auburn limited his to seven yards net in five carries. But he hit on nine of 14 passes for
149 as the Seminoles managed 382 yards of offense.
The Seminoles started as though it was going to be their day, marching 80 yards from the opening kickoff to a touchdown in eight plays, Leggett
scoring on a pitchout from 21 yards out.
Auburn promptly tied it after freshman Joe Cribbs returned the following kickoff 56 yards to FSU's 44. A few plays later Gargis scored his first, from the
one.
Early in the second quarter FSU again reeled off an 80-yard scoring drive, Black passing seven yards to Larry Key for the touchdown. But Dave Cappelen missed the extra point, and conceivably
that altered the course of things. It certainly seemed to give Auburn incentive.
The Tigers came right back, moving 65 yards in a hurry, Gargis scoring from the 14, and Auburn took a 14-13 lead.
FSU reached Auburn's 37 on its next series, but - excepting Leggett's 53-yard burst - the Seminoles never again threatened.
As the Seminoles got 233 yards running, Key had 74 on 11 carries. FSU
never really got the passing game going which Bobby Bowden said it would have to do to upset Auburn, completing just three after intermission.
Once again nose guard Jimmy Heggins was a big one on
defense for the Seminoles, a pressbox accounting crediting him with 17 tackles and four assists, as well as Detroit Reynolds with 12 and three.
"Gargis is a good one," commented Bowden. "He whipped
us going outside. They just beat us out there on the corner, Gargis helping. The guy that was supposed to get Gargis just didn't.
"I was very disappointed over the loss. It was a game we had to
have. But Auburn had to have it, too.
"We tried it all offensively, but Auburn made some good adjustments - I thought we could get outside on them. We just didn't stop them on defense.
"Our kids
are pretty beat-up right now. This was our fifth tough game in a row."
Auburn Coach Doug Barfield called it "one of the guttiest" victories in Auburn history. "We won't go into a lot of detail," he
said, "but we're kind of held together by baling wire right now. We're pretty patched up. A lot of our kids played hard out there today, and just wouldn't fold."
He called Gargis "in a special
class" as a winner. "That long run of his," said Barfield, "came when it was still a game."
The Seminoles three of their final four at home, starting with Clemson next week.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Florida State |
7 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
19 |
| Auburn |
7 |
7 |
7 |
10 |
31 |
1st 7- 0 Jeff Leggett, 21, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 11:00
7- 7 Opp, 1, run (kick), 5:17
2nd 13- 7 Larry Key, 7, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick failed), 10:38
13-14 Opp, 14, run (kick), 5:38
3rd 13-21 Opp, 1, run (kick), 2:05
19-21 Jeff Leggett, 53, run (Jimmy Black, pass failed), 0:49
4th 19-28 Opp, 82, run (kick), 10:27
19-31 Opp, 25, field goal, 5:05
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 17 25
Rushes-yards 37-233 66-400
Passing 149 54
Att-Comp-Int 15-9-1 14-6-1
Total Yards 52-382 80-454
Punt Returns 3-8 2-4
Kickoff Returns 1-22 3-97
Interception Ret. 1-0 1-0
Fumble Returns 0-0 1-0
Punts 6-40.7 5-42.6
Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-0
Penalties-Yds 3-33 3-25
Attendance 58,500
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Jeff Leggett 9 108 2 53t
Larry Key 11 74 0 24
Gary Woolford 2 24 0 18
Rudy Thomas 5 17 0 6
Mark Lyles 3 13 0 8
Jimmy Black 5 7 0 11
Jimmy Jordan 2 -10 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 37 233 2 53t
Opp 66 400 4 82t
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Kurt Unglaub 2 52 0 29
Rudy Thomas 2 46 0 30
Ed Beckman 2 32 0 18
Jackie Flowers 1 12 0 12
Larry Key 2 7 1 7t
---------------------------------------------
FSU 9 149 1 30
Opp 6 54 0 13
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 9 14 1 149 1 29
Jimmy Jordan 0 1 0 0 0
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 9 15 1 149 1 29
Opp 6 14 1 54 0 13
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Nat Terry 3 8 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 3 8 0
Opp 2 4 0
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 1 22 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 1 22 0
Opp 3 97 0
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 6 244 49
----------------------------------------
FSU 6 244 49
Opp 5 213 45
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Heggins 17 4 21 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds 12 3 15 . . . . . . . . .
Aaron Carter 8 3 11 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 7 1 8 . . . . . . . . .
Nat Terry 8 . 8 . . . 1 . . . . .
Walter Carter 3 3 6 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 3 3 6 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Rose 4 1 5 . . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Ivory Joe Hunter 2 1 3 . . . 1 . . . . .
Scott Warren 1 2 3 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Camps 1 1 2 . . 1- 0 . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 1 . 1 1.0- 10.0 . . . . . . . .
Brian Schmidt 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Arthur Scott 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Paul Phillippy 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Wade Johnson 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 74 23 97 1.0- 10.0 . 1- 0 2 . . . . .
Opp 48 20 68 3.0- 12.0 . 1- 0 1 . 1- 0 1 . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
SE 23 Jackie Flowers
RB 44 Larry Key
FB 48 Mark Lyles
C 50 Bill Sawyer
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 77 Mark Meseroll
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RCB 24 Mike Kincaid
LCB 40 Bobby Jackson
SS 42 Joe Camps
FS 47 Nat Terry
LB 51 Aaron Carter
MG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 76 Walter Carter
RE 80 Scott Warren
LB 83 Detroit Reynolds
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
15 Jimmy Jordan
22 Mike Barnes
26 Joe Joyner
30 Jeff Leggett
33 Rudy Thomas
41 Gary Woolford
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
53 Brian Schmidt
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
58 Arthur Scott
60 Mike Kissner
61 Wade Johnson
74 Paul Phillippy
75 Doug Dane
82 Keith Singletary
84 Greg Lazzaro
85 Dave Porter
88 Willie Jones
|
Clemson 15, Florida State 12
10/30/1976, Tallahassee
From the Tallahassee Democrat, October 31, 1976, page 57, by Bill McGrotha. Clemson ends FSU's dream.
Tigers win 15-12 leaving Tribe 2-6.
TALLAHASSEE, FL - So much for Florida
State's aspirations of a winning football season…
Playing gutty defense, refusing time and time to allow the Seminoles to capitalize on abundant opportunity, Clemson pulled off a mild 15-12 upset
on the Seminoles here Saturday night.
Coach Bobby Bowden had talked hopefully of "a chance" for Florida State to win its last four and finish 6-5. But before one of the smallest Campbell Stadium
crowds in a long while - just 21,473 - the Seminoles' record fell to 2-6 with three games remaining. (A cloudy day, afternoon rain and the threat of more rain, kept away many fans who had bought
tickets, but the game was played under relatively good, though damp conditions.)
The architect of Clemson's come-from-behind triumph was sophomore Steve Fuller. Banished as starting quarterback
early in the week, Fuller came off the bench to spur touchdown drives of 85 and 73 yards after the Tigers were down at half time 9-0.
Florida State extracted two fumbles and two interceptions from
Clemson but couldn't do much with them. Dave Cappelen, the freshman kicker, missed his first extra-point attempt, then field goals from 39 and 44 yards out, but later was true on shots from exactly
the same distances.
At the start it looked like the makings of a rout. Without throwing a pass, Florida State moved 74 yards in 12 plays on its first possession to a touchdown that Larry Key got
from a yard out.
Never obliged to punt in the first half, the Seminoles moved futilely to Clemson's 23, then 27 - where Cappelen missed those 3-point tries. A Rudy Malloy interception provided
still another close-down chance, at Clemson's 23, and Cappelen was true on a 39-yarder that brought the score to 9-0 in the second period.
Fuller capped that 85-yard march in the third period with
a 7-yard touchdown pass to Joey Walters, who caught four passes for 57 yards during a busy evening.
With 6:36 left in the game Fuller topped the second scoring drive with a run himself from the
one. Harold Cogging pounded through on a 2-point run for the final score. FSU made it 15-12 on the final play of the third quarter with Cappelen's second field goal.
Florida State's last chance
went out the window at the Clemson 30 with 3:04 to play when the Seminoles lost their only fumble of the night.
Linebackers Marlon Brown and Randy Scott, each in on 15 tackles according to a
pressbox accounting, were keys in a Clemson defense that restricted FSU to 192 yards running, 134 passing. Getting 250 on the ground - Goggins and freshman Tracey Perry each knocking off 84 - the
Tigers finished with 362 yards to the Seminoles 326.
Key cut out 99 yards for FSU in 23 carries, and Kurt Unglaub caught five passes for 66.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Clemson |
0 |
0 |
7 |
8 |
15 |
| Florida State |
6 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
12 |
1st 6- 0 Larry Key, 1, run (Dave Cappelen, kick failed), 8:14
6- 0 Dave Cappelen, 39, field goal failed, 3:34
2nd 6- 0 Dave Cappelen, 44, field goal failed, 9:50
9- 0 Dave Cappelen, 39, field goal, 7:18
3rd 9- 7 Opp, 7, pass (kick), 3:41
12- 7 Dave Cappelen, 44, field goal, 0:01
4th 12-15 Opp, 1, run (run), 6:36
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 17 21
Rushes-yards 49-192 54-250
Passing 134 112
Att-Comp-Int 20-11-1 13-7-2
Total Yards 69-326 67-362
Punt Returns 4-30 0-0
Kickoff Returns 2-51 2-22
Interception Ret. 2-39 1-0
Fumble Returns 2-0 1-0
Punts 2-37.5 4-42.3
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 3-2
Penalties-Yds 5-36 2-10
Attendance 27,198
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 23 99 1 21
Jimmy Black 16 41 0 15
Mark Lyles 2 22 0 19
Jeff Leggett 6 18 0 6
Rudy Thomas 2 12 0 12
---------------------------------------------
FSU 49 192 1 21
Opp 54 250 1 28
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Kurt Unglaub 5 66 0 22
Jeff Leggett 2 31 0 26
Ed Beckman 2 21 0 14
Rudy Thomas 2 16 0 12
---------------------------------------------
FSU 11 134 0 26
Opp 7 112 1 26
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 11 20 1 134 0 26
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 11 20 1 134 0 26
Opp 7 13 2 112 1 26
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Nat Terry 3 25 0
Joe Joyner 1 5 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 4 30 0
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 2 51 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 2 51 0
Opp 2 22 0 12
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 2 75 42
----------------------------------------
FSU 2 75 42
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Heggins 9 8 17 . . . . . . . . .
Aaron Carter 8 7 15 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds 7 8 15 . . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 5 8 13 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Gary Rose 4 5 9 . . . . . . . . .
Walter Carter 4 5 9 1.0- 2.0 . . . . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 3 3 6 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Camps 4 2 6 1.0- 1.0 . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Nat Terry 3 2 5 . . 1- 36 . . . . . .
Scott Warren 2 2 4 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 1 3 4 . . 1- 3 . . . . . .
Mike Stewart 2 1 3 1.0- 2.0 . . . . . . . .
Gary Woolford 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
Paul Phillippy 1 . 1 1.0- 2.0 . . . . . . . .
Keith Singletary . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
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FSU 54 57 111 4.0- 7.0 . 2- 39 . . 2- 0 . . .
Opp 62 54 116 5.0- 13.0 . 1- 0 2 . 1- 0 1 . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
SE 23 Jackie Flowers
FB 30 Jeff Leggett
TB 44 Larry Key
C 50 Bill Sawyer
RG 61 Wade Johnson
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RT 71 Tom Rushing
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
LC 40 Bobby Jackson
RC 41 Gary Woolford
SS 42 Joe Camps
FS 47 Nat Terry
LB 51 Aaron Carter
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 76 Walter Carter
RE 80 Scott Warren
LB 83 Detroit Reynolds
LE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
26 Joe Joyner
33 Rudy Thomas
48 Mark Lyles
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
55 Mike Stewart
74 Paul Phillippy
82 Keith Singletary
87 Rudy Maloy
|
Florida State 30, Southern Mississippi 27
11/06/1976, Tallahassee
From the Tallahassee Democrat, November 7, 1976, page 45, by Bill McGrotha. Thomas run rallies Tribe.
TALLAHASSEE, FL - Running with the football as if there were no tomorrow, Rudy Thomas
lifted Florida State - on three last-quarter touchdowns - to an astonishing 30-27 victory over Southern Mississippi here Saturday night.
And certainly it would not have seemed much of a tomorrow
for Florida State had it lost this one.
Trailing 27-10 going into that fourth period, the Seminoles got three touchdowns from Thomas on remarkable runs.
The first was a 10-yarder off the old
statue-of-liberty play, with the Quincy senior running over and through would-be tacklers. And the second was an equally determined run through people, from four yards out.
Then, with Florida State
backed to its five on third down, Thomas took a very short pass from quarterback Jimmy Black and somehow maneuvered through Southern defenders until he broke free after about 30 yards.
It was a
95-yard scoring pass, the longest in Florida State history, surpassing an 88-yarder that Gary Huff worked with Barry Smith against Kansas in '71.
The comeback may have been Florida State's most
remarkable of all time.
Black, who sat on the bench in the second quarter while freshman Jimmy Jordan tried futily to rally the Seminoles with passes, was a magnificent last-half leader.
As the
Seminoles put the ball in the air 57 times - one attempt short of the school record - Black hit on 21 of 39 for 351 yards, including 13 of 14 for 250 in the final half.
Looking little like the 0-8
team it now is, Southern played nearly an error-free game (no fumbles lost, no interceptions) while two back, Ben Garry and Curtis Dickey, ran for 101 and 103 yards as the Golden Eagles piled up 297
on the ground.
Florida State got ahead early on a 37-yard field goal by Dave Cappelen. Southern came right back with a 79-yard drive, fullback Chuck Clancy passing three yards to John Pitts for six
points. Florida State retaliated with a 69-yard movement, Black passing 15 yards to Ed Beckman for a touchdown that provided a brief 10-7 lead.
Whereupon, the Golden Eagles moved 72 yards, Dickey
scoring from the 10. A little later an interception of a Jordan pass gave Southern the ball at FSU's 39, and the Mississippians scored in two plays, Garry going in from six yards out, making it 20-10
at halftime.
A homecoming crowd of 29.173 sat sullenly much of the way on this clear, cold night as Southern pushed it to 27-10 late in the third quarter on a 1-yard plunge by Garry.
And then
the fireworks. On the next series Black directed a 76-yard movement with quick pass completions - five of 'em - setting up the Thomas run from the 10.
Next time the Seminoles got the ball they
moved 84 yards, with Black passes again paving the way for a Thomas payoff.
The play that someone said Florida State had been waiting years for came with 4:05 still showing on the scoreboard
clock.
Florida State's defense, pushed around badly in the early going, stood off Southern after a following first down at the Seminoles 31. Aaron Carter, Jimmy Heggins, Joe Joyner, Mike Stewart
and Gary Rose appeared big in the defensive turnaround. Carter was in on 17 tackles, according to a pressbox accounting.
"I don't know how they won that dad-gum game," said FSU Coach Bobby Bowden.
"I already had my alibis ready at the end of the third quarter."
In the second quarter Florida State had five freshmen in its offensive lineup much of the time - Jordan plus wideouts Kurt Unglaub
and Jackie Flowers, guard Mike Good and fullback Mark Lyles. It had been planned much that way. "We went with the young kids on purpose in that quarter," acknowledged Bowden, "and we found out they
aren't ready yet. We forced ourselves, to see what they could do."
Bowden thought his team played well only after it scored the first fourth-quarter touchdowns. The Seminoles had planned to throw
on pass-vulnerable Southern, but hardly to the extent they did.
Thomas, incredibly, ran the football from scrimmage only three times - scoring twice, getting tossed for a 3-yard loss shortly before
the winning pass play. His statistics were a net 11 yards on those three runs. He handled the ball, on pass receptions, three other times, getting 115 yards out of those.
Running 87 plays to
Southern's 78 in an unusually long game, FSU bothered little with runs, netting 101 yards on 30. The Seminoles rolled up 521 yards of offense to Southern's 390.
"The answer is pure and simple,"
said Southern Coach Bobby Collins. "We didn't stop them in the fourth quarter when we had to. Give them credit for hanging in the game, and for making the big plays that won for them. That winning
touchdown came on a well-executed play - accomplished by determination."
Collins said, however, that one play didn't lose the game for his team.
If it didn't, it sure fooled lots of folks.
Thomas was crowning touch.
20-point fourth quarter. TALLAHASSEE, FL - Down 27-10 at the start of the last quarter, Florida State's football team rallied on the
extraordinary legs of Rudy Tomas for a 30-27 victory here Saturday night.
Thomas scored all three of the Seminoles' late touchdowns, on runs of 10 and four yards, then on a 95-yard pass play as
quarterback Jimmy Black threw from deep in his end zone.
The Seminoles, now 3-6, had seemed altogether out of it.
On a clear, cold night, Southern got off to a faulty start. Hemmed in at its 10
after taking the game-opening kickoff, Southern got to the 19 on three runs before punting to FSU's 34.
The Seminoles came out throwing. After missing on a couple, Jimmy Black hit Larry Key with an
18-yarder to Southern's 48. It came to fourth-and-two at the 40. FSU ignoring the happening to Florida against Georgia earlier in the day, went for it - and got it on Jeff Leggett's 9-yard burst.
Black's 19-yard toss to Ed Beckman gained the 12.
But Black was penalized for intentional grounding of a first-down pass, setting the Seminoles back to the 28. Leggett got eight back on a screen
pas. Two plays later, freshman Dave Cappelen hit a 37-yard field goal for 3-0.
Runs by Ben Garry and Curtis Dickey led Southern quickly from its 21 to 47. Keeping on the option, quarterback Ken
Alderman suddenly broke wide for 40 yards to the 13. Three chopping runs brought a first down at the two.
An illegal procedure penalty rubbed out Garry's touchdown smash - and an identical penalty
on the following play set Southern back to the 12. On third down Alderman passed to Garry at the three.
Shunning a field-goal try on fourth down, Southern gambled - and had just the play. Alderman
pitched to fullback Chuck Clancy, who passed to tight end John Pitts - all alone in the end zone - for the touchdown. Mike Wright's point made it 7-3.
From the 31 after the kickoff, the Seminoles
managed a first down to the 41 by virtue of an offside call against Southern when Bill Duley punted.
A 20-yard pass to Mike Barnes gained Southern's 39. An 8-yard pass to Jackie Flowers left the
Seminoles a couple of yards short. Again FSU gambled on fourth down, Black getting the needed yardage with a keeper to the 27.
Then Black fired to Beckman at the 15. Next play Beckman caught
another - for a touchdown. Cappelen kicked for 10-7.
Southern moved quickly from its 28. A pass to Clancy for nine started it. Three runs later, Clancy broke through on a 26-yard romp to the 21,
where he tripped. Garry's 7-yard run on third down with a pitchout got a first down at the nine.
An offsides call slowed Southern only briefly. Third down at the 10 saw Dickey pop off the left side
and score easily. A bad snap on the point try resulted in a futile passing attempt by kicker Wright, leaving it 13-10 in the early moments of the second quarter.
Freshman Jimmy Jordan moved in at
quarterback. Suddenly FSU had five first-year players in the offensive lineup - Jordan plus wideouts Kurt Unglaub and Jackie Flowers, fullback Mark Lyles and guard Mike Good.
Jordan completed his
first three passes to Flowers, Beckman and Unglaub for 12, 13 and 10 yards leading quickly to Southern's 37.
Cornerback Don Law ended it with an interception, and a 17-yard runback to the Southern
33.
After runs gained the 45, Southern got stopped and punted to FSU's 25. Two plays later Law intercepted another Jordan pass, at FSU's 39.
Another fullback pass, Clancy to flanker Chuck Brown,
picked up 30 to the six. Garry scored on the next play. Wright kicked a point for 20-10.
Receivers couldn't hang onto Jordan throws, and Duley punted to Southern's 34.
Garry's running soon
provided a first down at the Southern 49. But safety Joe Joyner slashed through to deck Dickey for a loss of six, soon forcing a punt.
With 1:31 left in the half, FSU got the ball back at its
16.
Jordan passed for 17, to Unglaub. As Kent Newman intercepted a deep bomb, pass interference was ruled on Southern - and FSU had the ball at the Eagles' 32. Jordan threw to Barnes for seven.
After two throws missed, the Seminoles worked the ancient statue-of-liberty play on fourth down, Jordan slipping the ball to Ley, who swept to a first down at the 15. Time for two passes in the end
zone - both incomplete - before time ran out.
At this point the Seminoles had put the ball in the air an incredible 35 times, completing 14 for 170 yards, with Black hitting on eight of 17 for 101
in the first quarter, Jordan going 6-for-18 and 69 in the second. Southern had 196 running. Garry alone 68 on 16 carries.
With Black back for the start of the third quarter, the Seminoles shifted
from their 24 to the 50 on short passes to Beckman and Key plus clutch running by Leggett and Black.
After Key got seven to the 42, Black passed to Beckman at the 25. But Key got nothing, a pass
missed, and Black was sacked on the 29. Cappelen tried for a 47-yard field goal; it was wide.
From the 20, Garry rammed for five, 12 and five before the Seminoles wrought a halt. A punt left FSU at
its 17. After three plays, Duley punted to Southern's 38.
Dickey's 21-yard run soon had the Eagles at FSU's 34.
A pass-interference call on Nat Terry moved Southern to the 20. A couple of plays
later Joyner rapped Garry for a loss of five on a pitchout. On fourth-and-3 at the 13, Alderman passed to Dickey at the four. Fourth down at the one, and Garry scored off the left side. Wright added a
point for 27-10 with only seconds left in the quarter.
Two passes to Rudy Thomas and one to Unglaub - each for about 10 yards - got FSU to Southern's 46. After a successful fourth-and-one run by
Black for two, the quarterback passed to Unglaub for 18, then 15 at the 10. Thomas came around - another statue-of-liberty play - took the ball from Black and scored on a determined wide run through
would-be tacklers. Plotting to try for two points, the Seminoles drew a delay penalty - after which Cappelen kicked and cut the score to 27-17.
Carlos Montgomery wheeled the kickoff back 30 yards
to FSU's 40. Three runs netted just five, and Wright punted to the 16.
Flowers snared a 27-yard pass at the 43. Leggett caught one at Southern's 48, and Black kept to the 40. Leggett and Flowers
grabbed passes of 16 and 12 yards, down to the 12. Leggett pounded, on a run, to the four. Thomas took it from there on another determined effort. FSU went for two but Newman intercepted Black's
end-zone pass, leaving it 27-23. The clock showed 6:51 left.
With Aaron Carter stopping Garry on a key third-down run, Southern was obliged to punt. A clipping call on Terry's short runback set the
Seminoles back to the eight.
Thomas lost three on a run. A pass missed.
Then Black, deep in his end zone, threw short to Thomas at the eight. The senior from Quincy, brushed aside tacklers, cut
toward the middle and suddenly was in the clear on a 95-yard scoring run.
It was the longest pass play in Florida State history, eclipsing an 88-yarder, Gary Huff to Barry Smith. Cappelen's point
gave the Seminoles a 30-27 lead with 4:05 left.
A 16-yard pass, Alderman to Larry Harrington, lifted Southern to its 47. Strong running by Dickey led to a first down at FSU's 31. But one pass was
dropped. Another lost a yard. A third missed. A fourth was short, at the 27 - and FSU took over with 59 seconds remaining.
Black kept three times, up to the 36. That was it.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Southern Mississippi |
7 |
13 |
7 |
0 |
27 |
| Florida State |
10 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
30 |
1st 3- 0 Dave Cappelen, 37, field goal, 9:27
3- 7 Opp, 3, pass (kick), 4:40
10- 7 Ed Beckman, 15, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick), 2:01
2nd 10-13 Opp, 10, run (pass failed), 12:39
10-20 Opp, 7, run (kick), 7:11
3rd 10-20 Dave Cappelen, 46, field goal failed, 10:29
10-27 Opp, 1, run (kick), 0:13
4th 17-27 Rudy Thomas, 10, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 11:28
23-27 Rudy Thomas, 4, run (Jimmy Black, pass intercepted), 6:53
30-27 Rudy Thomas, 95, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick), 4:05
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 28 19
Rushes-yards 30-101 63-297
Passing 420 93
Att-Comp-Int 57-27-2 15-10-0
Total Yards 87-521 78-390
Punt Returns 5-27 1--1
Kickoff Returns 5-71 5-112
Interception Ret. 0-0 2-18
Fumble Returns 0-0 0-0
Punts 2-34.0 6-41.5
Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0
Penalties-Yds 4-36 7-65
Attendance 29,173
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 6 30 0 10
Jeff Leggett 6 30 0 9
Jimmy Black 10 21 0 8
Rudy Thomas 3 11 2 10t
Mark Lyles 5 9 0 4
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FSU 30 101 2 10
Opp 63 297 3 40
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Rudy Thomas 3 115 1 95t
Ed Beckman 6 81 1 18
Kurt Unglaub 5 66 0 17
Mike Barnes 4 65 0 27
Jeff Leggett 3 33 0 16
Jackie Flowers 3 32 0 12
Larry Key 3 28 0 18
---------------------------------------------
FSU 27 420 2 95t
Opp 10 93 1 32
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
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Jimmy Black 21 39 0 351 2 95t
Jimmy Jordan 6 18 2 69 0 17
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FSU 27 57 2 420 2 95t
Opp 10 15 0 93 1 32
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Nat Terry 5 27 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 5 27 0
Opp 1 -1 0 -1
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 4 66 0
Rudy Thomas 1 5 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 5 71 0
Opp 5 112 0
Punting No Yds Lng
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Bill Duley 2 68 36
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FSU 2 68 36
Opp 6 249 47
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
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Aaron Carter 7 10 17 . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Heggins 6 9 15 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Stewart 5 10 15 . . . . . . . . .
Nat Terry 7 4 11 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Rose 8 3 11 1.0- 3.0 . . . . . . . .
Scott Warren 2 9 11 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 4 5 9 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 4 3 7 2.0- 11.0 . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 5 2 7 1.0- 1.0 . . 2 . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 3 1 4 . . . 1 . . . . .
Walter Carter 1 3 4 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds . 4 4 . . . . . . . . .
Abe Smith 1 2 3 . . . . . . . . .
Paul Phillippy 1 2 3 . . . . . . . . .
Robert Thompson 2 1 3 . . . . . . . . .
Gary Woolford . 2 2 . . . . . . . . .
Keith Singletary . 2 2 . . . . . . . . .
Ivory Joe Hunter 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Arthur Scott 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Ed Beckman 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
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FSU 59 74 133 4.0- 15.0 . . 3 . . . . .
Opp 53 52 105 2.0- 8.0 . 2- 18 7 . . . . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
FL 19 Kurt Unglaub
SE 22 Mike Barnes
FB 30 Jeff Leggett
TB 44 Larry Key
C 50 Bill Sawyer
RG 61 Wade Johnson
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RT 71 Tom Rushing
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
SS 26 Joe Joyner
RC 40 Bobby Jackson
LC 41 Gary Woolford
FS 47 Nat Terry
LB 51 Aaron Carter
LB 55 Mike Stewart
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 68 Abe Smith
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
RE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
15 Jimmy Jordan
23 Jackie Flowers
24 Mike Kincaid
33 Rudy Thomas
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
48 Mark Lyles
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
58 Arthur Scott
65 Robert Thompson
74 Paul Phillippy
76 Walter Carter
80 Scott Warren
82 Keith Singletary
83 Detroit Reynolds
|
Florida State 21, North Texas State 20
11/13/1976, Denton, Tex.
From the Tallahassee Democrat, November 14, 1976, page 49, by Bill McGrotha. FSU 'snows' North Texas St.
Unglaub catches two-point winner.
DENTON, TX - Shrugging off miserable
circumstances, Florida State rose up, mainly on the passing arm of Jimmy Black, and put down North Texas State 21-20 here Saturday afternoon.
Snow that fell during the night, then stopped, then
started again left Fouts Field covered with the white stuff. No yard line could be seen - only the markers on the concrete walls beyond the sidelines. Soft snow three to four inches deep covered
players' shoe tops.
As snow fell throughout most of the game, a wind of about 15 miles-per-hour made it numbing cold. The thermometer showed 32 degrees at the start.
The Seminoles won it with a
dramatic drive in the closing minutes. Jeff Leggett capped a 68-yard movement with a run from seven yards out. Coach Bobby Bowden then called for a timeout to get a 2-point play down pat.
Florida
State made it look easy as Black pitched to Larry Key, who lobbed a pass into Kurt Unglaub's waiting hands in the end zone, shifting the score from 20-19 to 21-20.
Black, going all the way at
quarterback, somehow hit on 12 of 18 passes for 192 yards. Tops was a 91-yard bomb to Unglaub that provided a 13-7 lead early in the final half.
North Texas State came back stoutly on the strong
running of Mike Jones, who carved out 148 yards in 26 carries.
By the end of the third quarter the Eagles were in front 20-13, on a 1-yard run by Jones and Ken Washington's 12-yard pass to David
Ray. A fumble at the FSU 30 set up the first of those two, but NTS drove 77 yards for the other as Jones uncorked runs of 22 and 41 yards.
With only 3,850 showing up for North Texas State's
homecoming under the frigid circumstances, it looked to be the makings of a scoreless tie at the start.
But a fumble as Bill Duley tried to punt gave NTS a crack from FSU's two in the second
quarter, Washington got the touchdown on a keeper.
The Seminoles tied it 7-7 with 25 seconds left in the half after Dave Porter blocked a North Texas punt at the foe's 31. Black passed nine yards
to Ed Beckman for that touchdown.
Leading 20-13, North Texas State had a first down at FSU's seven in the early moments of the last quarter, following recovery of another FSU fumble, but got
nothing out of it.
Florida State managed 343 yards of offense, including 151 running as Key pounded for 89 yards in 11 carries and moved up to No. 2, behind Tom Bailey, on the Seminoles' all-time
rushing list.
The Seminoles fumbled seven times and lost five of 'em while the home team lost just one of four. Jones got most of the Eagles' 224 yards in this one. NTS got only 44 passing, 180
running.
FSU overcame a horrendous start. First time the Seminoles got the ball a high snap on a punt attempt gave North Texas the ball at FSU's 32. Next time the Seminoles drove to the North Texas
23 before losing a fumble. Third time FSU had it Duley's fumble on a punt try paved the way for the Eagles' first touchdown.
Florida State had missed a point kick after its second TD, and North
Texas missed one after its third.
Bowden credited George Haffner, his offensive coordinator with the winning 2-point play.
"We've had it all year," said Bowden, "and worked on it every week, but
never had the chance to use. We called it our Kent Schoolfield play, because he has wanted us to use it every week." (Schoolfield coaches FSU wide receivers).
Bowden, whose team is now 4-6, said he
had no idea how his Seminoles might play. "How are you supposed to tell in a game like this," he said. "I thought the score would end up something like 2-0, 3-0 or 7-0. I was surprised and not
surprised that we threw so much. There was absolutely no timing on the pass patterns."
The coach said it was the worst snow conditions he had ever seen. "We would have it when I coached West
Virginia," he said, "but never this bad. This was a tailback's day for running the ball; the fullback couldn't get the ball."
Hayden Fry, the North Texas coach, said his players thought they knew
what was coming on the 2-point play. "Our free safety just didn't get over," he said. "The only fine pass defense all afternoon was when our J.T. Smith intercepted one."
At the end the gleeful
Seminoles romped and rolled around in the snow, pulling Bowden down among them.
FSU beats 'worst' conditions. DENTON, TX - Playing under perhaps the most difficult
conditions of its football history, Florida State rallied to down North Texas State 21-20 here Saturday afternoon in a snow-blanketed stadium.
Only 3,850 fans braved the freezing circumstances.
Snow fell throughout most of the game.
The Seminoles, now 4-6, marched 68 yards to a touchdown that Jeff Leggett scored from seven yards out with 2:13 left. Then Florida State went for a winning
2-pointer, and got it on Larry Key's pass to Kurt Unglaub.
At the start, the Seminoles elected to kick off in the snow after winning the coin toss. With Keith Singletary back home nursing a bum
ankle, freshman Dave Cappelen booted one down to the 16, and it was returned five yards.
In three carries Mike Jones netted just two yards in the slop. Don Fechtman punted to FSU's 40.
An
offsides got the Seminoles five. Jimmy Black passed short to Larry Key, three yards. Then Black sneaked for the first down at the Eagles' 49.
Three runs got just three yards. When Bill Duley went
back to punt, the snap sailed over his head, and North Texas got the ball at FSU's 32.
As Ken Washington dropped back to pass, tackle Abe Smith sacked him for a loss of five. Two plays later the
home team punted to the five.
Black got four, Key five, then Black a couple more for a first down. Jeff Leggett and Key led on to the 31. Then Key, on successive carries, knocked off seven and 15
yards, to the North Texas 46. On a third-down draw Key sliced for 13 to the 32.
Three plays later Black couldn't hang onto the snap from center, and linebacker Burks Washington recovered the fumble
for the Eagles at the 24.
Keepers by Ken Washington for nine and 12 yards spurred NTS to its 45. Three more runs gained FSU's 43 in the early moments of the second quarter.
But Aaron Carter
caught Washington for a loss of five, blighting that bid. Soon Fechtman entered and punted to the 10.
Two runs got just a yard, and the Seminoles decided to punt on third down. The snap was okay,
but Duley's hands couldn't hang onto it. The ball bounced crazily off and around his head as Duley tried to recover it. Cornerback Kelly Fry moved in and claimed it for NTS at FSU's two.
Washington
kept up the middle. After about a minute, officials decided he had scored; there was difficulty establishing just where the goal line was. Glen Ray added a point for 7-0.
A 24-yard sweep by Key got
the Seminoles out of a hole at their 10, up to the 34. After two more runs got little, Duley punted to the foe's 30.
NTS struggled up to its 46, where Rudy Malloy decked Washington for a loss of
five. When Fechtman tried to punt a couple of plays later Dave Porter tore in from defensive end to block it, giving the Seminoles a crack from the NTS 31.
On fourth down at the 27, Black fired to
Kurt Unglaub. With gloves on, Unglaub snared the pass at the 15. Lyles got two and Black four. Then Black passed to Ed Beckman in the end zone for the touchdown. Cappelen added a point to tie it 7-7
with 25 seconds left in the half.
NTS was messing around at its 30 when time ran out.
At this point Florida State had managed 122 yards, including 98 running, of which Key owned 71 in 10
carries. The home team had 50 yards, 44 of it running.
The Seminoles found early trouble in the last half. Rudy Thomas returned the kickoff nine yards to the 32, and Key runs had gained the 41. But
a fumbled handoff was claimed by the Eagles' Julius Mitchell at the 40.
Jones ran for 13, then 15 yards, down to the 12. Two plays later Jones fumbled and Aaron Carter got the football for the
Seminoles at the nine.
Promptly, Black dropped back and threw to Unglaub, who had gotten behind defender Bruce Bell at the 50. Unglaub pulled in the strike and had a clear field ahead of him on his
scoring run - a 91-yard play. Cappelen's extra-point try was wide, leaving it 13-7.
NTS couldn't move from its 37 after the kickoff, partially hobbled by a clipping call on a Jones run. Willie
Jones caught Washington with a timely tackle on a keeper, when he seemed headed for big yardage. A punt was short, a 24-yarder to FSU's 41.
They swapped punts, Florida State getting the ball back
at its 32.
On a pitchout, Key couldn't retain the ball. J.T. Smith recovered the fumble at the 30.
A pass-interference call on Nat Terry moved the ball to the 14. On three straight runs, Jones
got five, four and three - to the two. Two plays later he scored from the one. Ray's point moved NTS back in front 14-13.
Unable to crank out a first down from its 21, Florida State soon called on
Duley again. He punted 47 yards to the 23.
A couple of plays later Jones, on a sweep, ripped for 22 yards to the 50. Next play saw him dash 41 to the nine. Gary Rose caught Jones for a loss of
three before Washington pegged a touchdown pass into the hands of David Ray.
Glen Ray's point try was wide, leaving it 20-13 with just seconds left in the quarter.
When Thomas fumbled after
catching a short pass from Black, North Texas got a shot from FSU's 28 as Bobby Battles recovered the ball.
Jones rammed for six, then 14, to the seven.
But two runs netted nothing. Terry broke
up a pass in the end zone. On a fake field-goal attempt, Ken Smith reared up to throw the ball but was sacked by Willie Jones at the 23.
A run for six by Leggett and an 11-yard pass to Unglaub
gained the 40. On third down Unglaub caught a 14-yarder at the Eagles' 43. Beckman snared an 8-yarder and Thomas cracked to the 31.
But J.T. Smith intercepted a Black shot in the end zone and
brought the ball out to the six.
Washington's keeper for 14 soon got North Texas to the 20. Four plays later G. Ray punted to FSU's 31.
Black passed to Leggett for 13. Mike Barnes pulled down a
15-yarder at the North Texas 40. On the draw, Key got nine and an offsides helped the Seminoles to the 27. Key caught a pass for 15 at the 12. Leggett got four, Key just one on a pass. Then Leggett
popped off the right side and scored on a tackle-breaking run of seven yards.
The Seminoles took a timeout, as the clock showed 2:13, and decided to go for two point. Black pitched to Key, who
lobbed a high pass to Unglaub in the end zone for the two that gave FSU the lead 21-20.
A 16-yard kickoff return by Jeff Brown gave the Eagles good position at their 38.
A 13-yard pass to Andy
Everest gained FSU's 48. After a Washington fumble, recovered by a teammate, lost a yard or two, the quarterback hit Everest with another pass, at the FSU 38.
Then Jimmy Heggins sacked Washington
for a loss of 12, back at the 50.
Time for just two more pass tries. A long one was over the receiver's head. Washington got sacked on the last play, Heggins jumping on the ball as time ran out.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Florida State |
0 |
7 |
6 |
8 |
21 |
| North Texas State |
0 |
7 |
13 |
0 |
20 |
2nd 0- 7 Opp, 2, run (kick), 9:54
7- 7 Ed Beckman, 9, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick), 0:25
3rd 13- 7 Kurt Unglaub, 91, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick failed), 12:11
13-14 Opp, 1, run (kick), 4:05
13-20 Opp, 12, pass (kick failed), 0:21
4th 21-20 Jeff Leggett, 7, run (Kurt Unglaub, pass from Larry Key), 2:13
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 16 14
Rushes-yards 48-151 55-180
Passing 192 44
Att-Comp-Int 18-12-1 9-4-0
Total Yards 66-343 64-224
Punt Returns 2-14 2-20
Kickoff Returns 4-53 4-42
Interception Ret. 0-0 1-6
Fumble Returns 1-0 5-0
Punts 4-26.3 7-26.9
Fumbles-Lost 7-5 4-1
Penalties-Yds 1-16 4-24
Attendance 3,850
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 17 89 0
Jeff Leggett 11 37 1
Rudy Thomas 8 18 0
Jimmy Black 8 8 0
Mark Lyles 3 7 0
Bill Duley 1 -8 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 48 151 1
Opp 55 180 2
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Kurt Unglaub 4 128 1 91t
Larry Key 3 18 0
Ed Beckman 2 17 1 9t
Mike Barnes 1 15 0 15
Jeff Leggett 1 13 0 13
Rudy Thomas 1 1 0 1
---------------------------------------------
FSU 12 192 2 91t
Opp 4 44 1
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Black 12 18 1 192 2 91t
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 12 18 1 192 2 91t
Opp 4 9 0 44 1
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Dave Porter 1 13 0
Nat Terry 1 1 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 2 14 0
Opp 2 20 0
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 2 29 0
Rudy Thomas 2 24 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 4 53 0
Opp 4 42 0
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 3 128
Team 1 -23
----------------------------------------
FSU 4 105
Opp 7 188
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimmy Heggins 7 6 13 . . . . . . . . .
Aaron Carter 10 1 11 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Gary Rose 7 4 11 . . . . . . . . .
Abe Smith 3 4 7 . . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 4 1 5 . . . . . . . . .
Nat Terry 4 1 5 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Stewart 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Scott Warren 1 2 3 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds 1 1 2 . . . . . . . . .
Jeff Leggett . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
Chip Sanders 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Bobby Jackson 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Ivory Joe Hunter 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Bill Sawyer . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
Dave Porter . 1 1 . . . . . . . 1 .
Rudy Maloy 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 48 26 74 . . . . . 1- 0 . 1 .
Opp 61 25 86 . . 1- 6 . . 5- 0 . . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
SE 19 Kurt Unglaub
FL 22 Mike Barnes
FB 30 Jeff Leggett
TB 44 Larry Key
C 50 Bill Sawyer
RG 61 Wade Johnson
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RT 71 Tom Rushing
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RC 24 Mike Kincaid
SS 26 Joe Joyner
LC 46 Ivory Joe Hunter
FS 47 Nat Terry
LB 51 Aaron Carter
LB 55 Mike Stewart
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 68 Abe Smith
RE 80 Scott Warren
LE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
33 Rudy Thomas
36 Chip Sanders
40 Bobby Jackson
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
48 Mark Lyles
83 Detroit Reynolds
85 Dave Porter
87 Rudy Maloy
|
Florida State 28, Virginia Tech 21
11/20/1976, Tallahassee
From the Tallahassee Democrat, November 21, 1976, page 49, by Bill McGrotha. FSU rallies, wins 28-21.
Jordan's late show.
TALLAHASSEE, FL - With stunning overtones of high
hopes for its football future, Florida State rallied here Saturday night on the remarkable young arm of Jimmy Jordan for a stirring 28-21 victory over Virginia Tech.
Jordan won it with the longest
touchdown pass in FSU history, a 96-yarder to fellow Tallahassee freshman Kurt Unglaub with 5:45 to play. Entering the game at the start of the fourth quarter, the Seminoles behind 21-14, Jordan had
quickly uncorked a 33-yard scoring pass to Jackie Flowers - another freshman.
A 5-11, 175-pounder, Jordan threw only five times, completing four for 163 yards and the two touchdowns.
Incredibly,
the same game also saw the longest scoring run in Florida State's record book, a 97-yarder in the first quarter by junior Larry Key, who picked up 154 yards in this one and became the Seminoles' top
all-time runner with a career run of 1,860, easily overtaking Tom Bailey's total of 1,777 for the seasons of '68, '69 and '70.
Florida State's other touchdown was also a big-play beaut, a 75-yard
pass from Jimmy Black to Mike Barnes.
Following an all-day rain, only 16,148 fans showed in Campbell Stadium to see the Seminoles close their first season under Coach Bobby Bowden with their third
straight victory and a final 5-6 record. About 6,000 folks elected to stay home after buying tickets. It never rained during the game - maybe a little misting precipitation.
As Florida State put
three victories together for the first time since '72 and registered its most triumphs since that season, Virginia Tech started strongly, getting an early touchdown on Paul Adams' 1-yard run that
capped a short drive of 52 yards.
Key's dramatic 97-yarder late in the first quarter gave FSU a 7-6 lead and the Seminoles soon padded it to 14-6 as Black connected with Barnes.
Tech marched 72
yards and tied it 14-14 in the third quarter as Adams again scored from the one and quarterback Mitcheal Barnes scooted in on a 2-point run.
Next time the Gobblers got the football they wheeled 79
yards, hard-running Roscoe Coles scoring from the one, making it 21-14 in the first moments of the last quarter. Coles had set it up with a 59-yard scamper to the 10.
In came Jordan to direct a
quick 68-yard movement. He hit Flowers on a fourth-down scoring throw after the Seminoles seemed stalled at the Tech 33. The Seminoles had two cracks after electing to go for two points, a
pass-interference call providing the second, but couldn't get the job done, leaving them behind 21-20.
Tech was driving with a first down at the FSU nine when Coles - who ran for 160 yards in 28
carries - fumbled and tackle Walter Carter (another freshman) recovered for the Seminoles at the four.
Right away Jordan dropped five yards back in the end zone and heaved the ball to Unglaub at
midfield - the ball going at least 50 yards in the air - and the receiver quickly got by a last defender to race on. Black passed to Ed Beckman for two points.
The 96-yard pass topped a record that
stood for only two weeks. Rudy Thomas had scored on a 95-yard screen pass from Black to beat Southern Mississippi 30-27. Key's 97-yard run broke the record of 81 that Fred Pickard worked against
Virginia Tech back in '57.
Dropping to 6-5, Tech got 394 yards, including a whopping 357 on the ground. Florida State ran up 516, with 318 passing. Oddly, Tech succeeded with ball-control tactics,
getting off 80 plays to FSU's 57.
"I can't believe it," said Bowden just after, "I can't believe it! … I'm not going to believe that 96-yard touchdown, but that's the only thing we could do against
those dad-gum fellows!
"This game meant a lot to our program. I believe the excitement is back in FSU football. But we need to do some things on defense. It's encouraging to know that Jordan and
Unglaub will be back the next three years, and I hope this is the way it is going to be for awhile."
Tech Coach Jimmy Sharpe said he guessed "it just wasn't meant to be" for his team, adding that
no team this year had gotten that many big plays on his Gobblers.
Tech quarterback Barnes kept FSU defenders off balance much of the night, mostly with effective keepers in the clutch. While Coles
got 160 yards, Adams pounded for 84 more in 19 carries.
Florida State again appeared to be led defensively by nose guard Jimmy Heggins (in on 14 tackles, according to a pressbox accounting) and
linebacker Aaron Carter (in on 17). End Willie Jones had some big defensive plays, including a fumble recovery and two sacks. Jeff Ridings and Mike Kincaid were busy fellows in the secondary, in on
about a dozen tackles apiece.
Black, completing seven of 13 passes for 155 yards, moved up to No. 6 in total offense for a single Florida State season. Hampered by pulled stomach muscles, he was
hardly his normal self in this one, however. "He's about played out," said Bowden of the senior who sparked the team virtually all the way. Only Gary Huff, Bill Cappleman and Kim Hammond ever
accounted for more run-pass yardage in a single year than Black, who finished with 1853.
Hot punting by Tech's George Roberts, who averaged 42.4 and drilled the ball to FSU's three, four and eight,
gave Florida State a field-position problem much of the night.
Bowden had said prior to the game that Tech was difficult defensively, and tough to march on successfully with a sustained drive. So …
for the third straight game the Seminoles broke out with big plays and came from behind to win in the fourth quarter.
Players gave the coach the game ball.
Seminoles rewrite
the record book. TALLAHASSEE, FL - Coming off the bench in the last quarter, freshman quarterback Jimmy Jordan threw touchdown passes of 33 and 96 yards to Jackie Flowers and Kurt Unglaub to
lift Florida State to a 28-21 triumph over Virginia Tech here Saturday night in an explosive football battle.
Ahead at the half 14-6, the Seminoles dropped behind 21-14 before Jordan came on with
his late show.
The 96-yard scoring pass was a school record. So was a 97-yard scoring run by Larry Key for the first FSU touchdown. Key rushing for 154 yards in this one, also broke the school
record for most rushing yardage in a career - and he's got a year of eligibility left to pad it out.
An all-day rain kept many fans away from this one but it stopped shortly before the kickoff. The
playing field, covered with a tarpaulin since Friday afternoon, was in fine shape.
Ryals Lee, subbing for the injured Keith Singletary, kicked off to Virginia Tech's three, and the Gobblers started
at their 12 after a short runback. A 14-yard burst up the middle by Paul Adams keyed a running push to the 42. Then a 50-yard George Roberts punt backed the Seminoles to the eight.
With Mike Barnes
wide open, Jimmy Black was short on a pass that looked like a 92-yard touchdown play. Two runs were short, and Bill Duley punted to Tech's 48.
Tech scored in five plays. Roscoe Coles started it
with a 15-yard pop to FSU's 37. Three plays later Coles got 13 more to the 12. Adams pounded up the middle for the TD. Paul Engle missed the PAT kick, leaving it 6-0.
From the 28, Larry Key whacked
off 12, then soon caught a screen pass for 14 as FSU moved to Tech's 48. But Tom Cooper intercepted Black's long pass at the seven and wheeled it back to the 22.
Three runs gained the 37. On a
keeper, quarterback Mitcheal Barnes slipped away for 18, to FSU's 45. There Coles fumbled and Willie Jones recovered for the Seminoles.
On third down Black was sacked for a loss of 10, on the 38.
Duley punted to the 20.
Florida State stopped Coles' running at the 35. A punt was mishandled by Nat Terry at the 15, and it rolled to FSU's three.
Key spun off the left side, seemed to stop,
broke a tackle or two and was suddenly free on a 97-yard touchdown run - the longest in school history. Dave Cappelen added a point for 7-6.
With that one crack, Key became the leading rusher in
FSU history, topping the career total of Tom Bailey. The 97-yarder topped the record 81-yard scoring run that Fred Pickard had against Virginia Tech back in 1957.
A Barnes keeper for 13 shifted
Tech from its 18 to 31 but a holding penalty soon stymied the movement. On third down, Willie Jones sacked Barnes for a loss of eight at the 15, and Tech punted up to its 47.
But Black's short
third-down pass from the 43, intended for Ed Beckman, was stolen by Tech's Rich Razzano at the 32.
Tech probed to FSU's 48, primarily on Barnes' 12-yard pass to Moses Foster. A foot short of a
first down, Tech judiciously punted on fourth down, to FSU's four.
Third down at the seven saw Black pass to Beckman at the 20. Mark Lyles hit the middle for five.
Black dropped back and threw
long, to a streaking Mike Barnes, who pulled in the ball at the Tech 35 and cruised on for a 75-yard touchdown play. Cappelen tacked on a point for 14-6.
Barnes' 9-yard keeper helped left Tech to
its 31. With Jones breaking up a third-down pass, FSU forced a punt to its 34.
Rudy Thomas ran for 12, then seven. Hard running by Lyles and two keepers by Black led on to a first down at the Tech
27. But Black was sacked for a loss of 11 on third down, back to the 36. The Seminoles took a delay penalty, and time ran out in the half moments later.
At this point, the Gobblers had 167 running
and just 15 passing. Florida State showed 256, with 156 of it running. Key, in just four carries, all in the first quarter, had 114.
Florida State couldn't move from its 20 after receiving the
third-quarter kickoff, and Duley punted a 48-yarder that gave Tech the ball at its 33.
For the first time in the game FSU's defense checked Tech on three downs, and the Seminoles got the ball back
on a punt at their 27.
A 22-yard pass, Black to Beckman, gained Tech's 49. But Tech stopped two runs, and again sacked Black as he tried to throw. Duley's high punt was to the 28.
Coles bucked
for three. Next play the swift, stocky 168-pounder broke off tackle into the clear and ran 59 yards before Ivory Joe Hinter overtook him at the 10.
Heath pounded to the four and a couple plays
later Adams scored from the one. Tech went for two and made good, on Barnes' keeper run, tying it 14-14.
Third down at the 23 saw Black hit Barnes with a 21-yard pass at the 44. Key got loose for
12. But Black's pass was picked off by Gene Bunn at the 21.
A pass to Foster for 12 gained the 31. A 17-yard penalty, for pass interference, soon vaulted Tech to FSU's 44. Runs by Adams and Chuck
Nattyoombe led to the 27. Soon Heath popped on an 11-yard run to the 13.
On third-and-six Heath whammed for 11 to the two. Coles scored from the one in the first moments of the fourth quarter.
Engle's point made it 21-14.
From the 32, freshman Jimmy Jordan moved in at quarterback and immediately hit Barnes with an 18-yard pass at the 50. Next play Kurt Unglaub snared one at the Tech
34.
Key, on two draw plays, netted just a yard, and a pass was broken up. On fourth down Jordan nailed Jackie Flowers with a pass at about the 10 and it was a 33-yard scoring play.
The Seminoles
went for two. Black threw to Beckman, and a pass interference was ruled at the goal line, moving the ball to the one for another attempt. Then Black's pass was batted back into his own hands and he
was stacked up at the four, leaving it 21-20.
An 11-yard pass to Dave Dolphin got Tech to its 41. At the 50, Tech took a fourth-and-one gamble. Heath cracking to the 48. Then it was a
fourth-and-two gamble at the 40, with Coles slamming to the 30.
With Coles and Adams pounding, the Gobblers moved to a first down at the nine. Whereupon Coles fumbles, and the Seminoles' Walter
Carter recovered at the four.
Jordan, dropping five yards back in his end zone, unleashed a bomb that Unglaub pulled in at the FSU 45, and the freshman wide raced on to score on a 96-yard play.
Black passed to Beckman for two and it was 28-21 with 5:45 left.
With Jones sacking Barnes for a loss of four on third down, the defense checked Tech at its 19. Roberts boomed a punt to FSU's
32.
Three runs worked the ball up to the 41. As Duley punted Tech was offsides, providing a first down at the 46 with 2:19 to go. Third down at the Tech 49 saw Key break wide to the 36. Time ran
out with the Seminoles at the 29.
| |
1st |
2nd |
3rd |
4th |
Total |
| Virginia Tech |
6 |
0 |
8 |
7 |
21 |
| Florida State |
7 |
7 |
0 |
14 |
28 |
1st 0- 6 Opp, 12, run (kick failed), 9:36
7- 6 Larry Key, 97, run (Dave Cappelen, kick), 2:00
2nd 14- 6 Mike Barnes, 75, pass from Jimmy Black (Dave Cappelen, kick), 7:27
3rd 14-14 Opp, 1, run (run), 6:45
4th 14-21 Opp, 1, run (kick), 13:58
20-21 Jackie Flowers, 33, pass from Jimmy Jordan (Jimmy Black, pass failed), 12:14
28-21 Kurt Unglaub, 96, pass from Jimmy Jordan (Ed Beckman, pass from Jimmy Black), 5:45
TEAM STATISTICS
FSU OPP
First downs 17 23
Rushes-yards 39-199 73-357
Passing 318 37
Att-Comp-Int 18-11-3 7-4-0
Total Yards 57-517 80-394
Punt Returns 3--3 1-7
Kickoff Returns 2-33 5-60
Interception Ret. 0-0 3-15
Fumble Returns 2-0 0-0
Punts 4-37.8 7-42.4
Fumbles-Lost 1-0 5-2
Penalties-Yds 3-27 3-22
Attendance 16,148
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Larry Key 13 154 1 97t
Rudy Thomas 3 21 0 12
Mark Lyles 5 13 0 5
Jeff Leggett 4 11 0 7
Jimmy Black 14 0 0 8
---------------------------------------------
FSU 39 199 1 97t
Opp 73 357 3 59
Receiving No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Mike Barnes 3 114 1 75t
Kurt Unglaub 2 112 1 96t
Ed Beckman 3 39 0 22
Jackie Flowers 1 33 1 33t
Larry Key 1 14 0 14
Jeff Leggett 1 6 0 6
---------------------------------------------
FSU 11 318 3 96t
Opp 4 37 0 11
Passing C- A- I Yds TD Lng
-----------------------------------------------
Jimmy Jordan 4 5 0 163 2 96t
Jimmy Black 7 13 3 155 1 75t
-----------------------------------------------
FSU 11 18 3 318 3 96t
Opp 4 7 0 37 0 11
Punt Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Bobby Jackson 2 12 0
Nat Terry 1 -15 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 3 -3 0
Opp 1 7 0 7
Kickoff Return No Yds TD Lng
---------------------------------------------
Rudy Thomas 2 33 0
---------------------------------------------
FSU 2 33 0
Opp 5 60 0
Punting No Yds Lng
----------------------------------------
Bill Duley 4 151 48
----------------------------------------
FSU 4 151 48
Opp 7 297 51
|---------Tackles---------| |---Sacks---| |---Pass Def---| |-Fumbles-| Blkd
DEFENSIVE STATISTICS UT AT Total ForLoss No - Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aaron Carter 7 10 17 . . . . . . . . .
Jimmy Heggins 8 6 14 1.0- 2.0 . . . . . . . .
Mike Kincaid 7 6 13 1.0- 2.0 . . . . . . . .
Jeff Ridings 6 6 12 . . . . . . . . .
Detroit Reynolds 6 5 11 . . . . . . . . .
David Hanks 7 3 10 . . . . . . . . .
Willie Jones 5 4 9 2.0- 12.0 . . 1 . 1- 0 . . .
Gary Rose 4 3 7 . . . . . . . . .
Abe Smith 5 2 7 1.0- 1.0 . . . . . . . .
Joe Joyner 4 2 6 . . . . . . . . .
Ivory Joe Hunter 3 2 5 . . . 2 . . . . .
Nat Terry 4 1 5 . . . . . . . . .
Walter Carter 2 3 5 . . . . . 1- 0 . . .
Scott Warren 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Rudy Maloy 3 1 4 . . . . . . . . .
Dave Porter . 3 3 . . . . . . . . .
Ed Beckman 1 . 1 . . . . . . . . .
Chip Sanders . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
Mike Stewart . 1 1 . . . . . . . . .
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FSU 75 60 135 5.0- 17.0 . . 3 . 2- 0 . . .
Opp 49 42 91 3.0- 16.0 . 3- 15 2 . . . . .
STARTERS
Pos ## OFFENSE
----------------------------------
QB 16 Jimmy Black
SE 19 Kurt Unglaub
FL 22 Mike Barnes
TB 44 Larry Key
FB 48 Mark Lyles
C 50 Bill Sawyer
LT 63 Jon Thames
LG 69 Mike Good
RG 70 Vic Rivas
RT 71 Tom Rushing
TE 81 Ed Beckman
|
Pos ## DEFENSE
----------------------------------
RC 24 Mike Kincaid
LC 40 Bobby Jackson
SS 42 Joe Camps
FS 47 Nat Terry
LB 51 Aaron Carter
NG 56 Jimmy Heggins
RT 67 Gary Rose
LT 76 Walter Carter
LB 83 Detroit Reynolds
LE 87 Rudy Maloy
RE 88 Willie Jones
|
PARTICIPANTS
## NAME
-----------------------------
David Hanks
1 Dave Cappelen
3 Bill Duley
11 Ryals Lee
15 Jimmy Jordan
23 Jackie Flowers
26 Joe Joyner
28 Jerome Davis
30 Jeff Leggett
33 Rudy Thomas
36 Chip Sanders
39 Jeff Ridings
46 Ivory Joe Hunter
|
## NAME
-----------------------------
52 Alan Risk
54 Garis Shaw
55 Mike Stewart
60 Mike Kissner
61 Wade Johnson
62 Billy McPhillips
65 Robert Thompson
68 Abe Smith
74 Paul Phillippy
77 Mark Meseroll
80 Scott Warren
84 Greg Lazzaro
85 Dave Porter
|
