Towson State
Tiger Tracks
Published exclusively for Tiger Club members
by the News and Publications Services
Tuesday, November 4, 1975
GRIDDSRS FALL TO SALISBURY STATE
Just when the Towson football team started to put it all together, like the
fairy tale character Humpty-Dumpty they fell off the wall and all Tiger grid fans are
hoping that coach Phil Albert can put them back together again before next Saturday.
The culprit in the most recent Tiger defeat was state rival Salisbury State, who
upset the heavily favored Towson gridders, 15-14, to drop the Tigers to 5-3 on the
season with only two games remaining.
For a while Saturday it appeared that the Tigers had victory in hand, when with
nine minutes remaining in the final period quarterback Dan Dullea scored from a yard out
to give the visitors a 13—12 advantage. Rather than attempting a two-point conversion
that would have increased the lead to 15-12, head coach Phil Albert called upon Phil
Rizas for the extra point and a 14—12 TSC advantage. The move seemed to backfire when
Salisbury recovered a Towson fumble on the Tiger 19— yard line and moved into field goal
range, where Jack Young booted a 32-yarder to give the Gulls the hotly contested victory.
That score came with four minutes left to go and the Tigers still had an opportunity to
pull victory out of the jaws of defeat. Following Young’s three— pointer, Towson* s Mike
Maloney returned a kickoff 95 yards for an apparent touchdown, but a clipping penalty
put the ball on the Tiger 10— yard line and erased any comeback dreams the Tiger fans
might have had in their he ads 0
On the afternoon, Towson was penalized 11 times resulting in 112 yards, and were
forced to start nine of 12 drives inside their own 20 yard line. "We just didn’t get good
field position all day," cited coach Albert. Besides Maloney’s 95— yard scamper being
called back, two long runs by Jimmy Boyd were also negated by penalties in the first half.
Maloney, a junior halfback from Rye, N.Y. , was not slated to see action at all but was
forced into action when Boyd was injured at the start of the second half. On the day,
Boyd rushed 10 times for 55 yards before being removed. On the ’75 season, Boyd has now
carried 119 times for 739 yards (6.2 per/carry average) and eight TD's. His replacement,
Maloney, rushed for only 30 yards in 11 attempts, giving him 407 yards on 75 carries on
the year plus six TD’s. One of those six (that counted) occurred on the first play of
the fourth quarter when he hit paydirt from the Sea Gull 10 yard line, capping a march
that began on Towson’ s 20 (again poor field position). K.P. Doyle also turned in an
adequate afternoon’s work, carrying 12 times for 52 yards. He now has picked up 313
yards in 56 carries on the campaign, third place on the current Tiger rushing stats.
Salisbury, on the other hand, had good days from Jim U at son, Levi Shade, and Jim
Mankiewicz in helping them to improve their season record to 6—2. Watson and Mankiewicz
scored a pair of first quarter TD’s to put the Gulls ahead with 12-0 advantage. On the
lay, Watson carried for 86 yards and Shade had 92 more on 15 carries against the tough
Tiger defense. Salisbury coach Dick Yobst, in his third year at the helm and now has
a 17-8-1 record there, felt pleased with his club’s effort. "I thought we contained
(TSC quarterback Dan) Dullea pretty well. Our defensive coordinator, Mike McGlinchey,
did a great job last week preparing us."
Dullea, junior from Loyola High, hit 17 of 26 aerials Saturday for 183 yards. He
also rushed for a touchdown (his third on the ground this season) that erased' Salisbury’ s
lead at the time to a 13—12 Tiger advantage after Maloney’s TD had made the score 12-7 still
in the Gulls* favor. On the season, Dullea now has completed 97 of 167 tosses (58.1 %)
for 1,207 yards and eight touchdowns. His total offense figures read an impressive
1,270 yards when his additional 63 yards rushing are tacked on. Dullea* s primary targets
through the air last week were Mike Bennett (5 for 40 yds.), Jim Sandusky (5 for 76 yds.),
Bill McDonald (4 for 50 yds.), Mike Hoey (2 for 14 yds.) and Boyd (l for 3 yds.) McDonald
now leads the Tigers in that department with 25 receptions on the season for 365 yards and
two TD’s, followed by Skip Chase (20 for 357 yds., 3 TD’s), Hoey (18 for 216 yds., 4 TD’s),
and K.P. Doyle (12 for 85 yds.)
In the Salisbury contest, Towson picked up 329 yards in total offense, 183 through
the air and 146 on the ground for a balanced offensive attack. Salisbury, meanwhile,
had 2l6 yards rushing and only 39 passing for 255 total yards, clearly indicating that
the Gulls preferred the ground game to the air. Of Salisbury’s 13 first downs, seven
were through the run, two by passing, and four by penalty. Towson picked up 20 first
downs, nine each by passing and rushing, and a pair by penalties.
Towson now takes to the road for the last time this Saturday when we visit the
Hampden— Sydney Tigers in Virginia at 2 p.m. The following Saturday, November
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Tigers return home to battle Cheyney State College on Burdick Field at 8 p.m.
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