The Week

In Raleigh Dave Buckey, a skinny freshman quarterback from Akron, Ohio, led North Carolina State to an upset 43-20 win over Syracuse. At 6 feet, 155 pounds, Buckey needed lots of protection from charging linemen, and he got it. He masterminded four Wolfpack scoring drives and set up one of the touchdowns with a dazzling 57-yard run.

Defending ACC champion North Carolina won its 10th straight league game, but it was not easy. Maryland was threatening at the end, then blew its chances by fumbling in Tar Heel territory with 35 seconds to go. Carolina Quarterback Nick Vidnovic passed for one touchdown and ran five yards for another to help give his side a 17-3 halftime lead. But Maryland tied it at 17-17 and kept the pressure on until the fumble insured a 31-26 Carolina win.

EAST

1. PENN STATE (0-1)
2. WEST VIRGINIA (2-0)
3. NAVY (1-0)

UCLA first got its hands on the football at its own one-yard line, then gave Pitt a taste of things to come by marching 99 yards to a touchdown. The Bruins, especially Halfback Kermit Johnson, ran through and around the slower Panthers for 405 yards and a 38-28 victory. The Wishbone ground attack was working so well that Quarterback Mark Harmon passed only seven times. Pitt trailed 24-0 at halftime, but Quarterback John Hogan threw three TD passes in the second half to make the final score respectable.

Gary Marangi, the highly touted Boston College quarterback, was a disappointment in his debut, throwing an interception and fumbling twice in the Eagles' 10-0 loss to Tulane. One of his fumbles led to a Tulane field goal. The winners claimed Marangi was tipping off his plays, but BC Coach Joe Yukica blamed the loss on failure to move the ball in third-down situations. "I don't know what the percentage was, but it was terrible," he said.

West Virginia and Navy won, preventing President Nixon from declaring the East a football disaster area. The Mountaineers, entertaining Richmond in Morgantown, unleashed Kerry Marbury for 175 yards and two touchdowns (one a 51-yarder) and beat the Spiders 28-7. Navy put on a late 81-yard drive, capped by Quarterback Fred Stuvek's two-yard TD sprint with 34 seconds left, to edge William & Mary 13-9.

Fullback Joe Wilson and solid blocking helped Holy Cross launch its season on a high, happy note—a 24-14 victory over Rutgers. Wilson scored all three of the Crusader touchdowns and set three school records: most carries in a game, 34; most yards in a game, 274; and most career yardage, 1,739. The career record had stood since 1945. Wilson is a senior from Roxbury who scored nine touchdowns last season, when Holy Cross had a 4-6 record.

WEST

1. USC (2-0)
2. ARIZONA STATE (1-0)
3. UCLA (2-0)