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SECTION SPORTS Scoreboard, 2C0 Prep Ratings, 5C Classified, 6C The TENNESSEAN TUESDAY, November 3 1987 Vols' defense also taking some blame, 3C Trevecca picked to win conference, 16C Ifrg I I Vandy's. Jones reaps honors I' 4 i ha '1 'I 44? tmm i liit mm I kiss ED SHEARER Associated Press fir if 7 LARRY WOODY Sports Writer Vanderbilt quarterback Eric Jones simply won't stay down. The redshirt junior from Decatur, bounced back twice from knockouts last Saturday against Rutgers to lead his team to victory and in the process completed an even bigger personal comeback. Jones went from "the worst game I've ever played" the previous week against Ole Miss to yesterday winning three Player of the Week honors. Jones was named Southeast Offensive Player of the Week by both the Associated Press and United Press International, and was selected co-Player of the Week by the Southeastern Conference.

He shares the SEC award with LSU receiver Wendell Davis. "I think 'redeemed' is a good word," said Jones yesterday when asked his thoughts on the awards sweep. "What I had to do was just put the Ole Miss game behind me," said Jones, who had a mere 47 yards total offense, two fumbles and two interceptions before being benched in the third quarter of the Rebels' 42-14 rout "You've got to understand that you are going to have a bad game, put it behind you and try that much harder to do better next time." And do better he did. Against Rutgers Jones ran for 1 01 yards and passed for 261 to account for 362 yards in total offense and spark a desperately-needed 27-13 victory. With three games left, starting Saturday against Kentucky, Jones is 243 yards away from becoming just the third Vanderbilt player ever to surpass 2,000 yards total offense in a single season.

Whit Taylor and Kurt Page each did it twice. The long day at Ole Miss didn't make Jones question his abilities. Just the opposite. "I told the coaches I couldn't wait to get back on the field," he said. "I knew I could play better than that, and I couldn't wait to prove it The important thing was, our team won.

But I'll have to admit, I was trying to prove something to myself, too." Jones gave his offensive line a large share of the credit for his Rutgers performance. Against Ole Miss, he was forced to scramble for his life; against Rutgers, he enjoyed excellent protection throughout the game. "The line couldn't have played better," said Jones. "The way they blocked made all the difference in the world." i f1" i f-L JONES Cowboys shovel Giants' pit deeper Parcells said the game, like the Giants' season, was a bad dream. "It was a nightmare at the end of the game," Parcells said.

"With those turnovers we just kept asking for it." Parcells, who had called it a "must" game, refused to bury the Giants for the season. "We've got eight games to go and it will be very difficult now," he said. "We'll see. Things have a way of changing in this league." New York quarterback Phil Simms left with a knee injury late in the fourth period but it wasn't expected to be serious. "We're optimistic on Phil," Par-cells said.

"We think he just has a sprain on his knee." The Dallas defense set up 26 of the 33 points, led by Jim Jeffcoat, who returned an intercepted pass 26 yards for a touchdown. Jeffcoat said "I want to thank the crowd for getting on our side. It helped." Ruzek said "I never thought about the distance on any of my field goals. My main concern was alignment. Turn to PAGE 4C, Column 6 IRVING, Texas (AP) The Dallas Cowboys won their fans back and may have dealt a fatal blow to the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants' playoff chances last night.

Roger Ruzek's record-tying four field goals and four New York turnovers in the fourth period carried the Cowboys to a 33-24 NFL victory over the Giants, who fell to 1-6. "I told the team it was our job to bring the fans back, not the fans' job to cheer," Dallas Coach Tom Landry said. "Winning cures all your ills. We've beat the world champions twice. The fans were really loud.

They got the Giants jumping offsides." Landry said Ruzek, who was cut once in training camp this year, "was just great You can't say too much about him." The elated Cowboys, 4-3, faked dumping a bucket of Gatorade on Landry, using dry towels instead of the wet stuff which soaked Giants Coach Bill Parcells after every victory of their Super Bowl season. "They kind of surprised me there," Landry said. College football Auburn's recruiting a novel ploy The secret to being a great college football coach is luring outstanding talent through the recruiting process. The NCAA tries to curb cheating in the chase for prize prospects with lengthy rules governing the process, one of which doesn't allow a college to publish the names of players it is seeking. All are aware of this, so it's probably understandable that some fuss was made recently when David Housel, sports information director at Auburn, extolled the virtues of two "recruits" Otto Macnab and Joe Mack in his column in a recent game program Auburn had to stop recruiting the two players when at least two Southeastern Conference schools reported the Tigers to the SEC office.

THE CONFERENCE office called Auburn officials on the carpet for the recruiting violations, telling them that neither Macnab nor Mack could sign with the Tigers. Housel fessed up to his "violation" in his column in the program for Saturday's Auburn-Florida game. "What we don't know is more amusing than what we do know," Housel wrote. "We do know that we were turned in, but can you imagine the conversation and consternation that must have gone through recruiting meetings? 'Who are these guys that Auburn is recruiting? How come they know about them and we don't? Let's get to work on it and find out all we can on this Mack guy and Macnab and Mack won't play for Auburn. They won't play for anybody anywhere.

They are fictional characters, pulled out of the pages of two best-selling novels. Mack is the hero in Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed and Macnab is one of many characters in James Michener's Texas. ELSEWHERE IN Southeastern college football: After netting only 72 yards against Auburn's tough defense Saturday night Florida's gifted freshman, Emmitt Smith, faces longer odds in his chase of Herschel Walker's NCAA frosh record of 1,616 rushing yards. Smith has 1,083 yards with games remaining against Georgia, Kentucky and Florida State He has to average just over 177 yards per game to break the mark set in 1980 by Walker, the Heisman Trophy winner and three-time Ail-American at Georgia. Smith and Walker are the only players in SEC history to reach the mark in their freshman seasons.

Two other freshmen in the league have a shot at it this year. Tennessee's Reggie Cobb, a redshirt freshman, needs 295 yards in his last three games to reach 1,000 and Georgia's Rodney Hampton, a high school star in Texas last year, needs 320, also in three games. Florida State's 10-touchdown assault on Tulane put senior placekick-er Derek Schmidt even closer to be-, coming the all-time scoring leader in NCAA history. Schmidt ranked eighth on the all-time list before the Tulane game, but his 13 points he had one field goal against the Greenies lifted his total to 360 points, placing him second. ftVf-" 'II J.

it 1 SJWttwrn Schmittou honored as Executive of Year P. Casey Daley Staff Nashvillian Randy Hudson, now running for Auburn, edges LSU's Magnus Bengtson at the finish of the SEC Cross Country championships at Percy Warner Park. Teammate death spurs Ede Year honors in 1973 and 1974 made him the most successful baseball coach in Vanderbilt University history, was The Sporting News' Class AA Executive of the Year in 1978. Besides heading the Sounds, he is also part owner of the Wichita Pilots of the Texas League, the Greensboro, N. Hornets of the Class A South Atlantic League and.Huntsville, of the Class AA Southern League.

In addition, he and his partners still have hopes of acquiring the Columbus, franchise, a transaction that is currently in limbo. The Nashville native is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Prof essional Baseball Leagues. His leadership played a major role in recently establishing the first Triple-A All-Star Game to be played in Buffalo, N. on July 13, and was instrumental in bringing about the inter-league playing schedule for 1988 between the American Association and International League. Schmittou took time out to reveal that three major-league exhibition games will be played in Greer Stadium this spring, on April 1, 2 and 3.

"I can't tell you the name of the teams yet, but each division in the majors will be represented," he said. Meanwhile, season tickets are on sale daily at the Sounds' ticket office. BUD BURNS Sports Writer Larry Schmittou, president and general manager of the Nashville Sounds, has been named American Association Executive of the Year. As a result Schmittou, who has gained wide recognition and many awards in the 10 years he has headed the Sounds, has had his name placed in nomination for selection as The Sporting News' AAA Executive of the Year. 2 "Unhesitantly and without any reservation, we recommend for the choice as the Triple-A Executive of me Year, Mr.

Larry Schmittou," said Vincent McNamara, administrator of (Jie American Association, in announcing the award. "Naturally I'm pleased with the honor," said Schmittou. "However, any time you receive such an honor it must be attributed to the efforts of your staff and fans, and ours are the best." Others honored by the American Association are Max Schumacher of Indianapolis with the Larry MacPhail Promotion Trophy, Mrs. Melinda R. Rich of Buffalo as Woman of the Year and Buffalo owner Robert Rich, with the President's Trophy.

Schmittou, whose 300-plus wins and Southeastern Conference Coach of were involved, and if you knew Rod, you never thought about them anyway," he said. "They've told us they may never know why he died." The Kentucky team, which includes former Dickson County distance star Bob Whelan, finished fourth overall. Florida won the men's team title with 45 points. Tennessee placed second with 63, Auburn with former McGavock High star Randy Hudson finishing 30th was third with 66. Kentucky had a point total of 67.

In the women's division, Alabama ran away with the team title, scoring an SEC record 20 points. Evelyn Adiru, a native of Uganda, led the Lady Tide with a first-place time of 17:01 for 5,000 meters. Her teammates finished third, fourth and Turn to PAGE 3C, Column 1 CINDY SMITH Sports Writer Richard Ede ran with joy; his tears were all used up. The University of Kentucky junior won the 50th annual Southeastern Conference cross country championships yesterday at the SEC Course in Percy Warner Park and dedicated the victory his second straight conference title to the memory of teammate Rod McCravy. McCravy, a Louisville native and Wildcat sophomore runner, died Wednesday.

The cause of his death remains unknown. "We still don't know why he died," said Ede of Bar-net, England, who covered the 8,000 meter course in 24 minutes and 17 seconds. "The first tests showed that no drugs or alcohol hm3 Vols hang on for No. 19 rating The Top Twenty teams in the Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, record through games of Oct. 31, total points based on 20-19-18, etc.

and last week's The Tennessean Reader Ratings with this year's record, points and last week's ranking. Points are based on 10-9-8-7, etc. First-place votes in parentheses: ranking: Team Rec Pts Pv I.Oklahoma (38) 8-0-0 1,173 1 Team Rec Pts Pv 2. Nebraska (15) 8-0-0 1,137 2 1. Oklahoma (14) 8-0-0 293 3 3.

Miami, 6-0-0 1,108 3 2. Nebraska (7) 8-0-0 289 1 4. FloridaSt. 7-1-0 987 4 3.Miami(10) 6-0-0 281 2 5. LSU 7-0-1 943 5 4.

Florida St. (3) 7-1-0 253 4 6. Auburn 7-0-1 906 6 5. Syracuse (5) 8-0-0 222 5 7. UCLA 7-1-0 835 7 6.

LSU (3) 7-0-1 195 6 8. Syracuse 8-0-0 798 8 7. Auburn 7-0-1 153 7 9. Notre Dame 6-1-0 751 9 8. UCLA 7-1-0 149 8 10.

Clemson 7-1-0 599 14 9. Notre Dame 6-1-0 134 10 10. Georgia 6-2-0 599 12 10. Clemson 7-1-0 61 20 12. Oklahoma St.

7-1-0 437 17 11. Oklahoma St. 7-1-0 52 16 13. Alabama 6-2-0 393 16 12. S.

Carolina 6-2-0 49 11 13. S. Carolina 6-2-0 393 19 13. Georgia (2) 6-2-0 39 NR 15. Michigan St.

5-2-1 386 20 14. Michigan St. 5-2-0 38 15 16. PennSt. 6-2-0 309 18 15.PennSt.

6-2-0 23 NR 17. Florida 5-3-0 229 10 16. Indiana 6-2-0 22 9 18. Indiana 6-2-0 224 11 17. Ohio St.

5-2-1 15 NR 19. Tennessee 5-2-1 90 13 17. Pittsburgh 5-3-0 15 NR 20. Texas 6-2-0 84 NR 19. W.

Virginia 4-4-0 12 NR Alto receiving votes: Arkansas 57, 20. Tennessee 5-2-1 11 17 Associated Press The Tennessee Volunteers hung on for a spot in the Associated Press Top 20 college football poll released yesterday. The Vols were ranked 1 9th in the survey despite a loss Saturday at Boston College 20-18. It marked a tumble from the No. 1 3 position for the Vols from a week ago in the balloting of sports writers and sportscasters from across the nation.

Tennessee, now with a 5-2-1 record, received 90 points, compared to the 466 points UT totaled in the balloting last week. Meanwhile, second-ranked Nebraska cut into top-rated Oklahoma's lead in the poll for the third week in a row. Texas replaced Ohio State in the Top 20. Oklahoma, which has been No. 1 in every poll this season, pounded Kansas 71-10 and received 38 of 60 first-place votes and 1 1 73 of a possible 1 ,200 points Nebraska, which defeated Missouri 42-7, received 15 first-place ballots and 1,137 points.

The Cornhuskers have been No. 2 all season although both teams have identical 8-0 records. Last week, Oklahoma led Nebraska 40-13 in first-place votes and in points. The previous week, it was 42-12 and and the week before that 47-7 and The remaining seven first-place votes and 1,108 points went toMiami of Florida, which is No. 3 for the sixth consecutive week after defeating East Carolina 41-3.

The top nine teams are the same as last week. Fourth-ranked Florida State walloped Tulane 73-14 and received 987 points, No.5 LSU beat Mississippi 42-13 and received 943 points and No. 6 Auburn trimmed Florida 29-6 and received 906 points. Seventh-ranked UCLA received 835 points after downing Arizona State 31-23, No.8 Syracuse beat Pitt 24-10 and received 798 points and No.9 Notre Dame crushed Navy 56-13 and received 751 points. Florida, No.

10 last week, slipped to 17th after losing to Auburn. Georgia and Clemson, 12th and 14th, respectively, a week ago, are tied for 10th this week. Georgia was idle while Clemson beat Wake Forest 31-17. Ohio State dropped out following a 13-7 loss to Michigan State. Texas won its fourth straight game, defeating Louisiana Tech 32-3, and made the Top 20 after a four-week absence.

The Southwest Conference had not been represented in the Top 20 the last two weeks. AP tabs Craig See page 2C Ohio State 44, Iowa 30, Southern California 26, Wyoming 21, Arizona State 13, San Jose State 9, Eastern Michigan 6, Michigan 4, Texas 4, Boston College 2, Pitt 2, North Carolina 1. Also receiving votes: Colorado 9, Oregon 9, Texas Christian 7, Texas 5, Florida 3. Boston College 2, Iowa 1..