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4C The SUHDAV Twnewan StPTEMBEW 1987 Memphis State scores shocker over Ole Miss, 16-10 ATLANTIC COAST: Sophomore tailback Torin Dorn, who became the starter after Derrick at Goodloe fumbled the ball away on his own 17 and nine plays later Memphis State freshman quarterback Rusty Trail a surprise starter flipped a three-yard scoring pass to Wayne Pryor. Johnny Butler's extra point gave the Tigers a 7-0 lead. 1 In the second quarter Memphis i State turned a midfield interception of a Mark Young pass into a 4 1-yard -Butler field goal. Another Butler field goal put Memphis State ahead 13-0 in the third quarter, then Ole Miss finally got on the scoreboard with a Bryan Owen three-pointer. Butler's third field goal of the night put Memphis State backup by 1 3 early in the fourth period, but Ole Miss LARRY WOODY Sports Writer MEMPHIS Memphis State stunned Ole Miss 16-10 here last night, serving notice that Vanderbilt Is in for atusselnextweek.

The Tigers invade Dudley Field -Saturday night at 7:30 for the Commodores' season opener. It's a game Vandy desperately needs to win and, judging from last night's showing, Memphis State won't go quietly. Among last night's 64,187 Liberty Bowl spectators was an understandably unsmiling Vandy coach Watson Brown. "Memphis State is very, very quick on defense," said Brown who had pre- scored on a 26-yard keeper by Young to pull within six, 16-10, with 9:23 showing. Memphis State ran three plays and punted.

Ole Miss took over 77 yards away from the end zone and started its final, futile drive. Trail threw only seven passes, completing two for nine yards and the touchdown, He carried 12 times for 41 yards. Running back Charles White had 52 yards on 1 4 carries and fellow sophomore Wayne Pryor added 44 yards on 16 attempts. Ole Miss'Younghitonly 12of 26 passes, although at least six of the in-completions were actually dropped. Memphis State was out-gained in total yardage 304-177.

Texas fails to lasso Auburn QB KENDAL WEAVER Associated Press Miami defense rings Florida's Bell, 31-4 Gators swamped before national audience on runs by tailback Willie Goodloe from the one-yard line. He was nailed on his first attempt by linebacker Damon Young and stopped on the next game-deciding fourth-down play byMarkBowen. "It was a beautiful stand," said Vandy defensive coordinator Dick Hopkins, who accompanied Brown on the scouting party. (The Commodores play Ole Miss Oct. 24, hence two coaches were permitted to scout the two opponents.) "Those last two plays were remark-, able," added Hopkins.

"The defense played as fine a game as any coach could ever ask for." Memphis State turned two Ole Miss turnovers into a 1 0-0 half time lead. mmmmm Miami defensive end Daniel Stubbs A -7 dieted a Tigers upset over the 14-point favored visitors. "I thought they were one of the best defensive teams we played last year, and they look even better this time," added Brown. Memphis State's only victory last season came over Vanderbilt The Tigers won the game with a granite goal-line stand in the closing moments. Ole Miss, expected to be one of the stronger teams in the Southeastern Conference this season, had four tries from inside the seven with less than two minutes to play.

The Rebels' last two attempts came respect they believe they deserve, coming off a No. 2 national finish last year. He said the Hurricanes gathered Friday night and discussed this alleged lack of respect "We are ready," Irvin said. "A lot of people showed doubts about us. It really irked us We got together and showed we can play." Florida coach Galen Hall noticed.

"A lot of things happened today that I was afraid of," said Hall, who is 1-2 against Miami. "Our young receivers had problems. We dropped a lot of balls. Our young backs made some wrong cuts. We knew all this could happen against an outstanding football team such as Miami." "They dominated the football game," Johnson said of his defense.

Oddly, in this Hurricane romp, Florida scored first, taking a 2-0 lead on a safety. No. 6 LSU 17, Texas 3: Victor Jones scored short No. 15 touchdowns on consecutive carries in the first half and sixth-ranked LSU gave 34-year-old Mike Archer a successful head coaching debut by defeating No. 15 Texas 17-3 in College Station, Texas.

Archer, the youngest major-college head football coach in the country, replaced the oldest, 60-year-old Bill Arnsparger, who became athletic director at the University of Florida. Archer was LSU's defensive coordinator the last two years and the Tigers defense appeared strongep than ever, holding Texas to three first downs and 67 yards in the first half. The Aggies didn't cross midfield on their own until their second posses-, sion of the third period, Tennessean News Services No. 10 MIAMI An awesome Miami defense dominated Florida and its Heisman Trophy candi No.20 date quarterback, pounding out an easy and stunning 31-4 victory yesterday in a nationally televised meeting of intrastate rivals. It was 20th-ranked Florida's first television appearance since 1984, and most of the 77,000 people in the Orange Bowl and millions around the country would have to agree they could have waited even longer.

Kerwin Bell, the Gators' highly touted candidate to succeed Vinny Testaverde as the new Heisman Trophy quarterback, never even came close to his press notices, serving up three interceptions. He was 15-for-33 for 168 yards. He was sacked five times. In last year's Miami-Florida game, he was sacked seven times. He suffered a slight shoulder separation late in the game, but should be back without any problem.

"Well, this is a happy day, but this is a sad day, too," said Miami coach Jimmy Johnson of the 49th game between the rivals. "It's a sad day be- cause it's the last in the series for five years (Florida took action to drop Miami to concentrate on its Southeastern Conference schedule) That's quite sad. I'd love to see them again." Small wonder. i So would wide receiver Michael Ir-vin, who had two receptions, including a 65-yarder, and a host of Hurricanes, including sophomore quarterback Steve Walsh, who in is first collegiate start was 1 7-for-27 for 234 yards. Although Miami came into the game ranked No.

10 in the Associated Press pre-season poll, Irvin said he and his teammates didn't receive the Curry makes Fenner was arrested on murder charges in June, rushed for; 165 yards and two touchdowns as North Carolina stormed past Illinois, 34-14. Dorn, carrying just 15 tlmeB, scored on runs of 4 and 56 yards for the Tar Heels, who launched their I5tn opening-oay victory In their last 17 tries Duke offense under new coach Steve Spurrier emphasizes the pass, and quarterbacks Steve Slayden and Anthony Dilweg threw two touchdowns apiece in a 41-6 win over Colgate The Syracuse defense stymied the passing game of Maryland quart erback Dan Henning with five sacks and Tim Vesting kicked four field goals to post a 25-1 1 win for the Orangemen Independent East Carolina, with Jarrod Moody rushing for two touchdowns, took advantage of North Carolina State mistakes to win 32-14. BIG EIGHT: Oklahoma State fullback Thurman Thomas, a Heisman Trophy candidate, punched out 164 yards on 25 carries and scored three touchdowns to lead the Cowboys past opening foe Tulsa 39-28. i SOUTHWEST: In their first-ever meeting, Boston College took an opening-game victory over Texas Christian, 38-20, behind three touchdown passes from junior quarterback Mike Power, Power, in his second collegiate start, completed 16 of 31 passes for 379 yards and had a 78-yard touch down pass to flanker Marcus Cherry that began a 21-point outburst Baylor defensive end Keith Rose blocked Louisiana Tech's chance for a tie when he blocked a field goal that set up a pass-run score and 13-3 win Rice quarterback Quentis Roper's second score, with 15 seconds to play, gave the Owls a 34-30 win and perfect record against Lamar. PAC 10: On the second play of the game, California tailback Chris Richards ran 76 yards for one of his three TDs as the Bears presented new coach Bruce Snyder with a 42-0 debut victdjy over Pacific.

Quarterback Trey Taylor completed 18 of 22 passes for 245 yards and two touchdowns in Cal's most lopsided victoryiln six years Quarterback Tlrnm Rosenbach ran 25 yards for one touchdown and threw 67 yards for another as Washington State exploded in the second half to beat Fresno State 41-24. The WSU win marked the debut of Cougar foot ball coach Dennis Erickson btit spoiled the return to Pullman, of Fresno State Coach Jim Sweeney, a former WSU who also coached Erickson at Montana State Southern pal linebacker Marcus Cotton 'and Michigan State tailback Lorenzo White, top awards candidates, Vp lead their teams against each other tomorrow on national a OTHER MAJORS: Host Louis ville made a tremendous comeback against Tulane, winning lis first game 42-40 on Jay Gruders fourth-and-1 touchdown pass to George Williams with 24 seconds left. The Cardinals had been down 37-14 with 10 minutes left in the third quarter, but scored three straight TDs Rutgers tailback Henry Henderson rushed for 199 yards and quarterback Scott Et- ney inrew ior us yams 10 spoil Cincinnati opener at home. Quarterback Danny McCoin, from Livingston, passed for JEoe Bearcats' only score and became Cincinnati's all-time passing leader with 5,028 yards The Jifst collegiate completion for West Virginia's redshirt freshman quarter back Major Harris was a 40-yard touchdown pass in the Moun taineers' 23-3 win over Ohio Uni versity. I ne game Kept coach uon Nehlen perfect in eight opening games at WKU Sophomore Todd Ellis threw a school-record 30 passes for 329 yards in engineering South Carolina's 24-3 victory over l-AA's Appalachian State.

Harold Green bulled for three touchdowns to tie another school mark Wyoming quart erback Craig Burnett burned Air Force with 253 yards through the air, 1-0, as the Cowboys soared 27-13 in a home WAC game. OHIO VALLEY: Michael Proctor's 275 yards passing included two scores and he ran for another TD to lead Murray State over Divi sion H's Tennessee-Martin Playing in a downpour, Marshall quart erback Tony Petersen passed for 335 yards and two touchdowns to help avenge last year's loss to Morehead State, 29-0 Eastern Michigan's defense held Youngs- town to a minus-19 yards rushing in a 4d-aj win. OTHER l-AA: Senior Jesse James passed for three touch downs, including a 53-yard Hail Mary pass with 21 seconds left, to lead NAIA member Gardnejr-Webb (N.C.) past Western Kentucky 28-24. At 1:47 WKU went up 24-21 on a 26-yard field goal by Dan Maher, a career school- record 20th. Sophomore tight end Tim Waters hauled in James' desperation bomb and spun away trom three defenders at the West ern 15 Georgia Southern, the two-time defending l-AA champs despite a young program, set three school records including freshman Joe Ross' longest play from scrimmage, a 75-yard scoring run, in crushing Catawba, 27-0 East Tennessee quarterback Jeff Morgan rolled up 295 total yards and had a hand in five TOs in a 49-25 defeat of William Mary.

back Kerwin Bell (12) in the Hurricane's 31-4 victory. debut at Alabama with 38-6 victory AP has dead aim on Florida quarter Southern, held to only 38 yards in the first half, drove 86 yards after taking the second half kickof scoring on Young's 2-yard run at right end. Young passed twice to Darryl Till- man and once to Carlos Powell and carried five times during the drive. Alabama struck back with a 70- yard drive, capped by Humphrey's 28-yard run down the fight sideline. Humphrey picked up 84 yards on 17 carries and another 60 on three catches.

His relief, Kerry Goode, ran for 70 yards on 15 carries. Smith, exceptionally poised with only limited experience in the previous two seasons, completed 13 of 21 passes for 142 yards and two touchy downs, with no interceptions. AUBURN, Ala Fifth-ranked Auburn romped over Texas 31-3 in a college football season opener yesterday as Coach Pat Dye faced a problem he has rarely experienced in six seasons with the Tigers. Auburn, with a history of great running backs such as Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, didn't generate much on the ground and had to turn -to the passing of quarterback Jeff Burger. Burger, who just recently was cleared of academic and NCAA wrongdoing, passed for 269 yards and two touchdowns.

"It sounds funny to say, but we must develop a running game to complement our passing game," Dye said. The victory by Auburn spoiled the debut of Texas' new head coach Da- vid McWilliams, who was hired after last year's 5-6 record, the Longhorn's first losing season in 30 years. "We had four crucial turnovers in the first half and two gave Auburn touchdowns," McWilliams said. "The, Auburn defense controlled the line of scrimmage most of the game." Auburn, its newly expanded stadium holding an estimated 80,000 fans, relied on Burger's arm as the fifth-year senior completed touchdown passes of 22 yards to Vincent Harris and 49 yards to Alexander Wright. He also made key completions that set up all the other points.

"I had a lot of weapons on the field today," Burger said. ''There's been a big turnaround in the quality and number of receivers since I came to Auburn." No.20 Georgia 30, Virginia 22: Lars Tate rushed for 218 yards and scored touchdowns on runs of 28 and 44 yards as No. 20 Georgia overcame a 1 4-0 deficit to down Virginia 30-22 in Athens, Ga. It was the 1987 college football opener for both teams. Tate, who had 28 carries, became the first Georgia back to reach the 200-yard mark since former Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker had 219 against Florida in 1982.

The Bulldogs play another non-conference game next Saturday, hosting Oregon State of the Pac Ten in Sanford Stadium. Miss. State 31, SW La. 3: Running back Hank Phillips scored three touchdowns and freshman quarterback Albert Williams ran for another last night as Mississippi State dominated Southwestern Louisiana 31-3 in Phillips ran for touchdowns of 2, 7 and 30 yards as the Bulldogs rolled up 333 yards rushing and 421 yards total offense. a school rushing record for quarterbacks with 157 vards.

No. 13 Washington 31, Stan ford 21: Chris Chandler passed for a career-best 314 yards, including a 45-yard touchdown pass to Darryl Franklin, as 13th-ranked Washington won a Pac-10 opener over Stanford 31-21. A crowd of 73,676 fans turned out at Husky Stadium and saw Chandler, a senior, complete 18 of 31 passes with two interceptions. His main target was Darryl Franklin, who hauled in the third-quarter TD pass and had eight receptions for 209 yards. Stanford played most of the game without star tailback Brad Muster, who sprained his left ankle in the opening quarter after three carries or a net of minus-2 yards.

No.9 Clemson 43, Western Ca rolina 0: Ninth-ranked Clemson got its 92nd football season started quickly by scoring on six of its eight first-half possessions in a 43-0 opening win over visiting Western Carolina. Freshman tailback Terry Allen scored twice and David Treadwell kicked three field goals on a rainy afternoon at Memorial Stadium. All but one of Clemson's first-half scoring marches began inside Western Carolina's 32-yard line two after long punt returns, two after fum ble recoveries and the other following aDiocKedpunt. "Smith was phenomenal," said Curry. "There's Jbeen a lot of speculation about him and his starting.

He displayed poise, accuracy and proper, use of our audible system. He had an extremely good day." Smith passed for two touchdowns and directed a fumble-free offense. Alabama, said Southern Coach Jim Carmody, "is as good or better than they were last year." He said Alabama "reloads every year. They graduate all of those good seniors and they don't rebuild. They reload." Curry said he was proud of his team.

"It's most obvious that we have some fine players," he said. "They were here when we got here." Curry succeeded Ray Perkins after the re I' 1IOYT HARWELL Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala Bill Curry, with major help from Bobby Hum-, phrey and David Smith, broke in suc-fc. cessf ully yesterday in the high-pres-l sure job as Alabama's head football coach. "It was a good start, but it was only a start," he said after the Crimson Tide defeated Southern Mississippi 38-6 in the season-opener for both teams. 1 Alabama has to travel to Penn State next Saturday to play the de- fending national champions.

"Humphrey did what he always seems to do," Curry said after the jun-1 ior tailback scored twice on runs and once on a pass. Paterno's 200th win one of several routs in top 20 cruiting season was well under way last winter. After Alabama took a 7-0 lead on a 16-yard pass from Smith to David Whitehurst, Humphrey scored on a 1 0-yard run and on a 43-yard pass play. Philip Doyle added a 22-yard field goal as the Crimson Tide took a 24-0 halftimelead. Gene Jelks, converted from runner to defensive back, put the Crimson Tide in position for its first touchdown by intercepting Ailrick Young's pass and returning it 31 yards to the South-ern26.

Runs by Humphrey and Bo Wright put it on the 16, and Smith, successor to Mike Shula, hit Whitehurst, who made a diving catch in the end zone. Oklahoma's Carl Cabbiness (83) hauls down a pass over North Texas defender Kenneth Biggers. winning string to 23. No.l Oklahoma 69, North Texas SL 14: North Texas State Coach Corky Nelson had no quarrel with the preseason ranking of Oklahoma, whose backup quarterback Charles Thompson was the star in a 69-14 opening-day rout Thompson, a second-year freshman, relieved Sooner standout Jamelle Holieway in the second quarter and proceeded to score on runs of 7, 4 and 1 and throw a 20-yard touch-down pass. "Yes, I'd say they're No.

1," said Nelson, whose Division I-AA team had an uphill battle from the start. "I AP APTop20 OKLAHOMA beat N. Texas State 69-14 2. NEBRASKA beat Utah State 56-12 3. UCLA beat San Diego State 47-14 4.

OHO STATE Idle. Sept. 12 vs. W. Virginia 5.

AUBURN beat Texas 31-3 6. LSU beat Texas 17-3 7. MICHIGAN Idle. Sept. 12 vs.

Notre Dame 8. FLORIDA STATE beat Texas Tech 40-16 9. CLEMSON beat W. Carolina 43-0 10. MIAMI beat Florida 31-4 11 PENN STATE beat Bowling Green 45-19 1Z ARKANSAS Idle.

Sept. 12 vs. Mississippi 13. WASHINGTON beat Stanford 31-21 14. ARIZONA STATE Idle.

Sept. 12 vs. Illinois 15. TEXAS lost to LSU 17-3 16. IOWA Idle.

Sept. 12 vs. Arizona 17. TENNESSEE beat Colorado State 49-3 18. NOTRE DAME Idle.

Sept. 12 vs. Michigan 19. SOUTHERN CAL Idle. Tomorrow vs.

Michigan St. 20. FLORIDA tost to Miami 31-4 21 GEORGIA beat Virginia 30-22 tj mm STATE COLLEGE, Pa MO. A Cnaeh Joe Paternn Coach Joe Paterno, whose Penn State teams in recent years lived by defense, showed something new on the occasion of his 200th coaching victory. His 1 lth-ranked Nittany Lions auditioned an explosive offense in beginning defense of their national college football championship with a 45-19 rout of outmanned Bowling Green.

Most of the damage was done with big plays as Paterno, 200-44-2, became the ninth major-college coach to reach 200 wins. Michael Timpson returned a punt 63 yards for a touchdown and Blair Thomas turned a screen pass into a 67-yard "I'm thinking of 201. Alabama is a fine football team," Paterno said, looking ahead to Saturday's game against the Crimson Tide. As for No. 200, "It's a great honor for our Paterno said.

I am proud to have worked with hundreds of wonderful people who have enriched my life beyond dreams." Paterno, in his 22nd year of coaching, also was pleased with his big play attack: "We can score at any time." Penn State fell behind 7-3 in the first period of its 1987 opener, but rallied for four touchdowns in the second period to take a comfortable 31-161eadathalftime. Penn State extended the nation's longest major-college winning streak to 13 games and its regular-season think they're just as explosive as they were last year." Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer, however, said he is used to better execution by his teams. The Sooners fumbled six times, losing two and was penalized 10 times for 75 yards. "We were a ragged football team today," Switzer said. But the Sooners took off early as safety David Vickers intercepted a Bron Beal pass on the first play of the game and returned it 29 yards to the North Texas 5.

Two plays later, fullback Lydell Carr scored the first of his two touchdowns. No.2 Nebraska 56, Utah State 12: It wasn't exactly enough for Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne that his second-ranked Cornhuskers rolled up 603 offensive 'yards and 205 more on kick and inter-ception returns in a 56-12 opening rout of Utah State. He was particularly upset with turnovers. Nebraska lost the ball five times, three on fumbles and two on interceptions. "I wasn't real impressed.

I chewed the players out at halftime," Osborne said. "I didn't think we had played well. We had not earned a whole lot of offensive points. I told them at the end of the game they had played fair." Running back Keith Jones ran for three touchdowns, and junior Steve Taylor ran for two more while setting.