Farmer becoming front-runner at tailback

In some cases, games are closer than the score may indicate.

However, the UA football team's 27-3 victory against Stanford Saturday was not one of those games.

The Wildcats (3-1 overall, 1-0 Pacific 10 Conference) answered the questions that had dogged the team all season with a rout of the Cardinal, last season's Pac-10 Champions and a team that had defeated then-No. 6 Texas two weeks ago.

* After three weeks of platooning sophomores Leo Mills and Larry Croom with freshman Clarence Farmer, has Arizona finally found a featured tailback?

Apparently so. Farmer, a freshman from Booker T. Washington High School in Houston, rushed for 116 yards on 18 carries in the victory against the Cardinal. For the second week in a row, the freshman outshone both Croom and Mills. In Saturday's game, Croom had just 55 yards on 14 carries, while Mills gained a paltry 15 yards on six carries and fumbled a pitch at Stanford's 29-yard line.