In this paper we study Turan and Ramsey numbers in linear triple systems, defined as $3$-uniform hypergraphs in which any two triples intersect in at most one vertex. A famous result of Ruzsa and Szemeredi is that for any fixed $c>0$ and large enough $n$ the following Turan-type theorem holds. If a linear triple system on $n$ vertices has at least $cn^2$ edges then it contains a {em triangle}: three pairwise intersecting triples without a common vertex. In this paper we extend this result from triangles to other triple systems, called {em $s$-configurations}. The main tool is a generalization of the induced matching lemma from $aba$-patterns to more general ones. We slightly generalize $s$-configurations to {em extended $s$-configurations}. For these we cannot prove the corresponding Turan-type theorem, but we prove that they have the weaker, Ramsey property: they can be found in any $t$-coloring of the blocks of any sufficiently large Steiner triple system. Using this, we show that all unavoidable configurations with at most 5 blocks, except possibly the ones containing the sail $C_{15}$ (configuration with blocks 123, 345, 561 and 147), are $t$-Ramsey for any $tgeq 1$. The most interesting one among them is the {em wicket}, $D_4$, formed by three rows and two columns of a $3times 3$ point matrix. In fact, the wicket is $1$-Ramsey in a very strong sense: all Steiner triple systems except the Fano plane must contain a wicket.
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