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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1975
Page
10
A patchwork of scores shows CR Metro teams posting wins and losses across the state. Notable results include Clinton 3 over Wash 6 and Dubuque Hempstead 13 in a dominant showing, with several games featuring large margins and several tied or disputed scores across East Central and North Iowa regions.
Guttenburg remains 6-0 in the Mid-East Iowa conference with a 31-6 victory over Bellevue. The ground game totaled 258 rushing yards led by Gil Evers on a 50-yard score. Mark Powall, Andy Davis, John Finch, Donny Wolke, and Tim Schmidt also produced scoring plays. Bellevue drops to 1-5 as Guttenburg preserves its unbeaten status.
Mt Vernon winds up a 14 7 victory over West Branch in an East Iowa Hawkeye Conference clash. Tom Kroul threw a touchdown pass to Joy Koehn and ran in a two point conversion. West Branch answered with a Craig Verto rushing TD and a successful kick.
Center Point remains undefeated at 6-0 with a 39-7 win as Dave Hough scores twice and Jeff Schwiebert adds a TD and a 16 yard pass to Steve Mrkvicka. Central City falls to 2-4 in conference after a 14-7 loss to West Branch.
East Dubuque topped Midland Wyoming 7 0 as Joe Fluhr scored the lone touchdown from ten yards. The victory lifts East Dubuque to 5-1 on the season while Midland drops to 3-3 in the Mid-Eastern Io wa Conference.
DIKE led by Dave Petersen with one rushing TD and two passing TDs plus a two point conversion. Petersen accounted for all points as Dike improved to 2-5 in Mid-lawal conference play.
Miami defeats Houston 24 to 20 and Penn beats Lafayette 13 to 0. San Francisco State 33 tops Hayward 6 while Stony Brook 14 loses to Kings Point 6.
Olin tops Lincoln 27-14 as Rick Chamberlain scores three touchdowns and Dick Andres adds one. Steve Flockhart connects with Kent Williams for Lincoln’s score. Olin improves to 2-4 while Lincoln falls to 3-3 after Friday night action.
Russ Phillips, a Coe College sophomore from Mount Vernon, anchored Coe to third place at the Kohawk Invitational cross country meet. Beloit won with 37 points, Grinnell second at 75, and Coe 81. Phillips clocked 26.51 for five miles on Squaw Creek, breaking the previous Coe mark of 27.12 set by Terry Hiebert. Campbell Lovett led Beloit in 26.35 with Sean Hartnett second at 26.41. Martin Smith of Cedar Rapids won the Open Masters two-mile event.
Doug Reck returned a 99 yard interception for a touchdown and caught a 62 yard pass from Mark Dolan as East Buchanan beat Alburnett 20-12. Dolan threw two TD passes to Beck while Larry Rowe connected on a 70 yard TD pass to Lonny Cameron. East Buchanan improves to 2-5, Alburnett falls to 5-1.
Sigourney dominated Iowa Valley 36-0 behind two TD runs by Steve Holt and two by Tom House. Jeff Cobb scored one on a short run, Randy Moteer added a 29-yard field goal and the Tigers overwhelmed the previously unbeaten Iowa Valley squad in a physical game.
Sigourney overpowered Iowa Valley 36-0 as running tandem Steve Holt and Jeff Clubb led with 82 rushing yards on 17 carries and Tom House scored twice. Randy Mateer added a 29-yard field goal as Sigourney moved to 7-0 while Iowa Valley fell to 5-2.
West Union North remains undefeated with a 26-0 win over West Central. QB Ron Underdahl threw for 210 yards as Bill Stephens and Bob Marshall each scored twice. West Central falls to 3-3. Fayette beat Valley of Elgin 42-7 with Matt Mattson scoring three times.
Benton topped Regina 10-6 in East Central Iowa conference action while Mid Prairie beat Wilton 24-0 in the Hawkeye Conference. Kevin Kos scored twice for Mid Prairie with Kerry Beckley throwing to Jerry Griffith and kicking the extra point. Central defeated Postville 28-8 behind Gene Glawe two rushing TDs and Brad Bushkofsky finishing with a pair of scores. Postville and Central both sit 4-2 in conference play.
Hempstead built a 28 0 lead scoring a touchdown each quarter and held on to defeat Iowa City West 28 19. Steve Brown Rick Smith and Greg Smalley scored for West which fell to 3 3 in valley play while Hempstead also moved to 3 3. Brown added a 55 yard TD and West closed with two scores in the final period.
Turkey Valley crushed Tripoli 53-0 in Cedar Wapsie football Friday night. Mike Hurd ran in three TDs as Turkey Valley improved to 2-4 in conference while Tripoli remained 0-6.
The Kennedy sophomores lost to Iowa City 20 to 12. Mike Chavalier forced a fumble and returned 25 yards for Kennedy's opening TD. A 20 yard pass from Kyle Galles to Scott Edmunds produced Kennedy's second score. The Cougars fall to 1-4-2 on the season.
Bettendorf handed Cedar Rapids Jefferson its first loss of the season 12 to 7 in a Mississippi Valley Conference game Friday. Jefferson had been undefeated before the setback.
North Linn blitzed Ed-Co 27-0 as Gerald Fangmon Shatzie Cooks and Ray Noonan scored for the victors to lift their conference record to 2-4. Ed-Co remains 0-6 in Tri-Rivers play with Dysart a 12-7 winner.
Springville scored touchdowns in each of the first three quarters to beat Stormont 19-6. Ted Zeller added two touchdowns to pace the Springville effort as they improve to 4-3 while Starmont drops to 2-4.
Mark Straate and Randy McClinnon each scored twice as Waukon defeated New Hampton 33-15 on Friday. The win moved Waukon to 2-3 in the Northeast Iowa conference while New Hampton fell to 0-5.
Cedar Rapids Prairie sophomore football team nipped Oelwein 27 26 Friday night after Veots Tate returned a kickoff 82 yards and added a 12 yard TD. Mark Pond had a 40 yard interception return for a Prairie score and Brad Brucher added an 18 yard run.
AP Iowa Top 20 high school football results from the weekend list Dowling Burlington Regis and several others with records in parentheses. Several games noted as wins losses or BYE outcomes, including Cedar Falls and Des Moines Lincoln, among others.
East Central Iowa Conference unbeatens Linn-Mar and LaSalle meet Saturday at Kingston Stadium at 7 45 for a Metro football contest that will decide the ECI title.
In Tampa a high school science teacher Rudolph Burgess 43 charged with first degree murder in the Friday night shooting of Hal Griffin 47 assistant principal of Hillsborough High after an argument at a football game between rival schools. The game on a neutral field ended 28 0 Hillsborough. Burgess was gate attendant at the event.
Williamsburg defeated H-L-V 21-7 in South Iowa Cedar League play. Key scores came from Dennis Decker, Jody Wilson on a 47 yard pass from Jim Bamrick, and Gary Stahl with a 1 yard run. Williamsburg rolled 252 rushing yards, now 6-5-2 in conference. H-L-V drops to 2-4.
Belle Plaine defeated BGM 13 to 0 in a South Iowa Cedar Conference game Friday night. John Duffy scored two touchdown runs and led the victors as Belle Plaine evened its league record at 3-3 while BGM fell to 2-5.
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