College and High School Football Report

Robert Stephens, Contributor

Stephens provides a football rundown.

October 12, 2001 - Parker Munoz connected on a 21 yard field goal with four seconds remaining as the Howard Bison spolied FAMU's homecoming with a come from behind 29-28 win.

The Bison outscored the Rattlers 29-7 in the fourth quarter
to secure their third win of the season. It was only the second time that Howard had defeated the Rattlers on their home field.

"This team is growing up," said Howard head coach Gary
Harrell. at his post game press conference. "To be down like that and come back and win shows the character of this team. Mishaps are a part of football but what Iam most proud of is that they never gave up."

The Rattlers with a two point lead and 26 seconds left
instead of taking a knee handed the ball off to Damien Fleming who fumbled the ball which was recovered by Sackie Kerkulah at the Rattlers 15 yard line.

The Bison with the win improved to 3-3 on the season.

Howard will hosts Georgetown Saturday at Greene Stadium and the kick off is set for 1pm.

Lonvontae Page scored two touchdowns for FAMU, but Matthew Vann and Howard prevailed.

In other college scores Hampton defeated Princeton
28-23. NCA@T over Bethune-Cookman 22-3. Norfolk St. beat Delaware St. 38-21. South Carolina St. beat North Carolina Central 49-38. Tennessee St. jumped on SE Missouri 55-3. and Morgan St. won their homecoming game with a 44-17 win over Savannah St.

In the continuing saga of BCS football (in search of the
post season $ payday) Georgia Tech (6-0) remained unbeaten with their 21-16 win over the Terps. In other scores LSU beat Florida 41-11. Alabama blanked Vanderbilt 34-0. Oklahoma blasted Texas in the Red River Shootout 55-17. Boise St. over Fresno St. 57-7.
Oklahoma St. beat Kansas 70-28. and Stanford rolled over
Colorado 48-7. Wisconsin was idle. Clemson, Kansas St.,
Illinois, Michigan remained unbeaten thus far in the BCS.

In games this week. NC A&T hosts Delaware St. South
Carolina St. hosts Georgia St. Fort Valley St. travels to Bethune-Cookman. North Carolina Central hosts Morgan State. and Florida A&M travels to Savannah St.

In high school football in a WCAC featured matchup Good
Counsel defeated DeMatha 35-21. Good Counsel is now 6-0 on the year. Friendship Collegiate suffered their first loss of the season to Bergen Catholic (N.J.) 48-32. Gonzaga edged Carroll 29-22. In the DCIAA Coolidge blasted Cardozo 49-6. Wilson beat Roosevelt 33-12. HD Woodson defeated Spingarn 38-6. Ballou edged Anacostia 12-6. and McKinley blanked Kipp 41-0.

In PG County, MD, E. Roosevelt beat Laurel 48-6. Wise blanked Oxon Hill 45-0. Suitland over DuVal 46-7. Largo shut out Fairmont Heights 34-0 and and Northwestern edged Bladensburg 15-14.

In games this weekend Friday October 14 at 7pm. Bell
hosts Wilson. McKinley travels to HD Woodson. Cardozo hosts Dunbar and Coolidge entertains T. Roosevelt.

Other games on Saturday (all start at 2pm): CH Flowers travels to E Roosevelt. Wise hosts Parkdale. High Point travels to Suitland. Forestville is at Douglass. Suitland welcomes High Point and St. John's hosts DeMatha. At one pm. Poly Prep (N.Y.) homestands Friendship Collegiate.