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_____pSort Waterloo A FINE BLOCK by teammate Dave Graffi (29) sprung Wilfrid Laurier punt reâ€" Saturday. But it was Mustangs and running back Greg Marshall who were turner Dave Rose (26) for a long gain on this play against Western Mustangs pulling off the big plays all day as they steamrolled over Hawks 51â€"28 . By Rick Campbell Chronicle Sports Editor LONDON â€" As he stood fielding quesâ€" tions and peeling off his shoulder pads in the chaos of the Western Mustang dressing room late Saturday afternoon, not once was instantâ€"hero Greg Marshall asked if his ears were burning. They should have been, because everyone within 10 square miles of J.W. Little Staâ€" dium was talking about him. _________ _ In one of the most amazing individual disâ€" plays of modernâ€"day Ontario Universities Athletic Association history, Marshall did nothing more than score four touchdowns, rush for an OUAA recordâ€"setting mark and was on the front end of an 82â€"yard optionâ€" pass touchdown to boot as Mustangs devasâ€" tated Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks 51â€"28 to win the Yates Cup, symbolic of football supremacy in the province. The game, played before over 8000 noisy fans on the UWO campus, marked the fifth consecutive title meeting between the two clubs. With the victory, Mustangs now adâ€" vance to the Western Bowl Sunday in Edâ€" monton against University of Alberta Golâ€" den Bears. Marshall, the league‘s leading rusher Hawks victim of Marshall art over the regular season, showed why Saturâ€" day as he piled up 272 yards rushing to erase former Laurier fullback Jim Reid‘s mark of 263. In doing so, the graduate of Guelph‘s Bishop Macdonnell high school had touchdown romps of 75,35, six and one yards as he steamrolled over Laurier‘s deâ€" fence at will. In addition, he tossed an opâ€" tion pass to Dave McCann that went for an 82â€"yard touchdown the first play after Hawks got on the scoreboard in the second quarter. Conceivably, it was the play that broke the camel‘s back. «*‘In the 10 years I‘ve been here with this program, I can never remember a single game where an individual has performed as superbly as Greg Marshall did today,"" statâ€" ed UWO coach Darwin Semotiuk in tribute to his 6â€"footâ€"2, 220â€"pound back. In stark contrast to one week earlier when they shut out Toronto Blues 30â€"0, Hawks were unable to assemble anything on defense to counter Marshall‘s bulldozing "It‘s a tribute to his abilities, and what makes it more rewarding is you won‘t find anyone more committed to his team than Greg... he just had a superb game. you can only talk about it in superlatives." ‘‘They (Mustangs) didn‘t do anything we didn‘t expect them to, they just did what they did better than we expected,"" said disâ€" consolate Laurier coach Dave (Tuffy} Knight. ‘"Every time we came back, they came back even stronger. I think we could have gotten some momentum if our defense had been able to stop them after we scored. but they couldn‘t." style. And once he made it past the initial wave of tacklers, forget it, there was no way he could be brought down individually in the open field with that head of steam. By threeâ€"quarter time Laurier had closed to 34â€"20 on a 10â€"yard run by Scott Leeming and field goal by lan Dunbar but again Mustangs rebounded on offense. A 31â€"yard touchdown pass from Leeming to Dave Graffi in the fourth softened the blow but was merely incidental as it was clear Laurier held no secret to stopping Mustangs â€" and Marshall. Western had a 17â€"0 lead by the twoâ€"minuâ€" te mark of the second quarter before Bill Burke bowled over from three yards to put Hawks on the board. But then came the ceâ€" lebrated option pass and Stangs were imâ€" mediately back in the driver‘s seat as they increased their lead to 27â€"10 by the half. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1980 â€" PAGE 19 Chronicle Sports Line 886â€" That skein allowed them to make their ninth consecutive appearance in the conâ€" ference final, but it was by far their most resounding defeat since Windsor hung a 65â€" 8 beating on them in 1975. ‘‘We just didn‘t get off to a good start today,"" summed up Knight. "I don‘t think we had a first down the first quarter. But then we came back well and when we closed it (lead) to 14 there in the second half, I thought we were in pretty good shape. Then what happens, Marshall rips off that big one, and it‘s all over." ‘"Did I expect a shootâ€"out at the OK corâ€" ral?"" queried Semotiuk. ‘"No way, I was very surprised that that many points were scored. Most games we‘ve had against Laurier the winning team has less than 30 points, I can‘t say for sure but I think that (51) is the most a Western team has ever scored on Laurier." The loss signalled the end of one of the weirdest seasons for Hawks in years. After dropping their opening three games, they were wiped off the slate as far as potential playoff material was concerned, yet rallied in admirable fashion to score victories in each of their next five contests.