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Colo. 14 Pago 5C Pioneers, Warriors win big pags 9C Hernandez leads Mets by Expos Pago 3C INSIDE Scoreboard pago 2C SportsPooplo pogo 2C pagos 3C, Coll pogo 3C Hon racing pago 4C Coll. football PB 5C NFl pagos 6C 7C Kon McMillan pago 7C School pagot 9C I2C Sunday, September 23, 1984 portsBusiness Poughkeepsie Journal 1C Paul Hurley Journal sports writer Some sure bets for an Oscar Movies they oughta remake, starring sports figures in major roles and slightly altering the original scripts: "OCEAN'S 11" Marlst College head basketball coach Mike Perry searches the globe to assemble 11 young men from every background for a special assignment to knock over a casino in Las Vegas. Between breaks In training, the crew learns enough basketball to accomplish a more lucrative feat. They get to the NCAA tournament.

"THE LONGEST YARD" Mark Castln eau plays a former pro football player sentenced to a Southern penitentiary for assaulting a cocaine salesman. Gastlneau mobilizes the Inmates into a Super Bowl contender, but they lose their final game when Gastlneau Is penalized IS yards for unnecessary dancing. "ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH" Marlst College football coach Mike Malet manages to win two football games simultaneously. When his game with St. Peter's Is forfeited to him, he lines up another opponent and wins, thus claiming two football victories on the same day for the first time in history.

"SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME" The classic boxing biography of Rocky Mar ciano Is remade with a football motif, starring St. John's University coach Bob Ricca. RIcca's team employs divine intervention each year in beating Marist, rallying for touchdowns in the final minutes no matter how well Marist plays. St. John's goes on to win four straight Metropolitan Conference titles and retires undefeated.

Fox' bran In Munchklnland THE WIZARD OF OZ" The Marlst College administration stars in the roles of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion as they begin their quest for a new athletic director. After a series of adventures along the Yellow Brick Road on their way to Oz, they discover there's no place like home, and hire a current member of the Marist athletic department. "THE LONELINESS OP THE LONG DIS TANCE RUNNER" Steve Schallenkamp stars as a driven distance runner. The camera follows Schallenkamp as he leads the Dutchess County Better Half Marathon for 13 miles with no one within shouting distance of him. Unlike the original, Schallenkamp keeps his lead, wins the race and collects his trophy.

The twist is that Schallenkamp does not complain about the course, the lack of competition or, the weather. "ITS A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD" A cast of international stars portray the coaches and athletic directors of the Hudson Valley, who race frantically around the globe In search of a viable realignment of athletic leagues. After a hilarious series of wrong turns, mistaken identities and general confusion, everyone returns to the same spot and the leagues stay pretty much as they are. "MISSING" Marist soccer coach Howard "Doc" Goldman Journeys to the Andes in South America searching for a player who can score some goals. Goldman finally finds a SO goal a season scorer, brings him to the United States, and loses him to a Division I school that awards scholarships.

A natural for Dwlght th "THE NATURAL" Instead of a hitting star, the remake has Dwlght Gooden starring as a pitching phenomenon in his first year In the major leagues. In a return to the original novel, Gooden pitches the game of his strikes out a major league record 21 batters, but loses the game on a balk. "ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK CITY" This stars the New York professional sports franchises, who, disillusioned by crumbling stadiums, high taxes and lack of parking, take their teams on a daring flight across the Hudson River into, of all places. New Jersey. They set up an Utopian community in the Meadowlands, but still call themselves New Yorkers, and await the day when New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump leads them back to their native land.

"THE LONGEST DAY" The day in question occurs sometime in October, when a cast of thousands participates in the world's largest sports orgy. The World Series baseball teams, all the NFL football teams, every high school and college in the country and most of the tennis players in the world all play games on the same day, shutting down the major news wire services and leaving behind thousands of casualties among sport fans. "ON THE BEACH" The remake becomes an allegory of apathy as one by one coaches in the area retire or resign, leaving teams without coaches and schools without teams. High school athletics is finally reduced to the Our Lady of Lourdes High School football team, which travels to Down Under to try to get a game of Australian Rules Football. "THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON" It stars the New York Mets as a group of aging athletes who gather years hence to reflect on the team that might have been champions, but never quite made it.

This movie is remade again and again and again with various teams supplying the cast members, but always a hit at the oox ouice. I edmen edcie Foxes bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbML; WKrV SljIbbbbbbbbbbbY, rf TYrBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBnl a BI Jrr km mf ij Bi hkLbbbbbH ffv kLIBl Mir VB.ILBr HW bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb PvV BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalLaaaBaaaMBBBBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBX Iff fcy AwKY By v.Wr;av BBBOBBOOBSf WlF JlflLB Junior defensive back Franklin Davis' expression sums up the day for Marist as he reacts after Pete Moloney's 52 yard JournalCraig RuHl interception return for a second quarter touchdown was nullified by a clipping penalty during Saturday's 8 7 loss. Cadets, Vols ploy to 24 24 fie By Patricia A. Paquette The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Quarterback Nate Sassaman's one yard touchdown run with 1 17 remaining lifted Army into a 24 24 tie with Tennessee in one of the more impressive efforts the Cadets have posted in recents years.

Sassaman passed for 82 yards, including one touchdown, and ran for 85 yards. Army junior Doug Black, who played in his first varsity game against Colgate last week, led all rushers with 120 yards on 25 carries. Army coach Jim Young said he was pleased with the tie. "When you're a 20 point underdog against a team like Tennessee and you've been losing to teams like that for the past 10 years, the players deserve not to lose." Rutherford tops 215 in Detroit BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) Johnny Rutherford, subbing for the injured Rick Mears, blazed to the fastest official qualifying lap in the history of auto racing Saturday, searing the Michigan International Speedway oval at 215.189 mpb for the pole In today's Detroit News Grand Prix Indy car race.

No other qualifier was able to even approach that mark, with fellow front row starter Tom Sneva wheeling his March to a fast lap of 212.002. Rutherford's lap easily eclipsed the track record 211.392 by Sneva in June of 1978 and broke the all time mark of 214.158 set by Mario Andretti at Texas World Speedway in October or 1978. Only a pair of unofficial laps done in closed course record runs at Alabama International Motor Speedway stand as faster clockings. A.J. Foyt, in a Coyote Indy car, turned a 217.854 at the Talladega, track in August of 1974 and the late Mark Donohue, driving a Porsche Can Am car, beat that a year later, bitting 221.120.

(the fast lap) was easy," said Rutherford. really just mashed the pedal down and steered it around." Rutherford said the speed being generated by the cars now is "a preview of 1985... Some of the things the crew has been working on all season are showing up here and the bottom of the car is getting a tremendous amount of downforce." The top 18 qualifiers for the 200 mile race, which will be televised live on ESPN starting at 12:30 p.m., all were over 200 mp Leading Tennessee's effort was senior tailback Johnnie Jones, who ran for 118 yards and two touchdowns before suffering a shoulder injury of undetermined severity. Tennessee Is 2 0 1 while Army Is 1 0 1. The Cadets, making effective use of their new wishbone offense for the second straight week, put the first points on the board with a 32 yard field goal by placekicker Craig Stopa 4:24 into the game.

Tennessee scored the first touchdown on an eight yard run by Jones with 4:05 remaining in the first quarter. A one yard pass from Sassaman to tight end Rob Dickerson and a 48 yard field goal by Tennessee placekicker Fuad Reveiz sent the teams to the dressing room tied at 10 10. Army halfback William Lampley scored on a two yard run six minutes into the half and Jones dove for two yards to even the score at 17 17 at the end of the third quarter. The Cadets' second quarter touchdown drive ended in a near loss of the ball at the Tennessee one yard line. Sassaman fumbled and Vol cornerback Terry Brown grabbed the ball, sprinting the length of the field for an apparent Tennessee touchdown.

But officials declared the ball dead. Tennessee opened the fourth quarter on Army's one yard line and backup fullback William Howard ran for the touchdown 39 seconds into the quarter. Sassaman completed six of nine passes with one interception. Tennessee quarterback Daryl Dickey, who was filling in for injured starting quarterback Tony Robinson, completed 14 of 24 passes for 167 yards. He was sacked once.

Redmen skin Red Foxes for 4th straight year By Paul Hurley Journal itarf Marist fans are going to remember the 1984 football matchup between the Red Foxes and the Redmen of St. John's for a long time. They are going to remember It for the missed opportunities, for the infamous clipping penalty, and for Marist's superb defense. But most of all, they are going to remember it as the game St. John's did it to the Red again.

St. John's University, after being outplayed most of the game, scored a touchdown and a two point conversion with 2 minutes, 2 seconds to play, beating Marist. 8 7, before 1,125 fans at Leonidof Field Saturday, and robbing the Red Foxes of their first Metropolitan Conference victory. Marlst led. 7 0.

on Interception return for a touchdown by Paul Gamer dinger with 6:25 to play. Then Red men quarterback Mike Burrell, who had been benched after a lacklustre first half, came back and drove St. John's 69 yards for their oply touchdown. Burrell hit Tony Sas with a four yard touchdown pass and made the two point conversion with a pass to halfback Tony Costenza. It was the fourth year In a row that St.

John's, 1 2, had beaten Marist, which saw Its record drop to 1 1. Last year, St. John's scored two late touchdowns to seal a 27 7 victory. Saturday's game had such an astonishing finish that players, spectators and coaches couldn't help but think that, somehow, Marist just wasn't meant to beat St. John's.

"Somebody up there wants to make it tough for us," sold Marlst defensive lineman Wayne Jackson. Jackson keyed the defense with two quarterback sacks himself, assits on three others, and several key tackles. Pete Moloney, besides his key interception, combined with Sean Keenan at linebacker to prevent Burrell from throwing to his short receivers. "We pulled it out the same way last year, In the same end zone," said St. John's head coach Bob Ricca.

"I'm Just happy to get out of town with this win." Marist head coach Mike Malet was stoic, although it was obvious that both he and the entire team had not only wanted to win, but expected to win. "One game doesn't make or break a season," Malet said. "We have to keep our spirits up." If there were any justice, Marist would have led, 10 0, at halftime. Marist's Chris Douglas missed a 10 yard field goal attempt by a yard or See ST. JOHN'S, page 4C Bw'' 'Bi HBPVfMC 'H jJ igff' 'TfcW sHbIIbbbbbI 'DBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsT'Xr" ate JBBBBBBBBBBBBB VeBBBBBBBBw "JJeBBBBBBBBBBBle sxxzExnn Brown believes he's above it all Payton, Harris not comparable ngali; nph.

Tht Associated Press Jim Brown is content to believe his record is the one "purists" will regard as the standard. By John Nadel The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Indignation las given way to self satisfaction for Jim Brown. With his career rushing record destined to live only a few more weeks, he says his place in National Football League history if not the record books is secure. "I think things speak for themselves." says Brown, whose 12,312 yards has been the NIL standard since he retired at age 29 after the 1965 season. "You don't need confirmation of it.

Greatness Is greatness I don't know what I'm supposed to say. I have no record of failure. I don't relate to newspapers or players." Newspapers and players at least two of them are certainly relating to Brown these days. Franco Harris, nqw with the Seattle Seahawks after 12 years with Pittsburgh, is just 303 yards behind Brown. Chicago's Walter Payton is Just 337 yards short.

Last year, Brown sounded indignant about the whole thing, even talking about a comeback, possibly with the Los Angeles Raiders. Now, he sounds above it all. "This is the media's job, this is what's going on right now," Brown said by telephone from his Hollywood Hills home. "It really doesn't involve me. I don't 8" understand what I'm supposed to talk about now and why." Brown retired after one of his best seasons, a year in which he gained 1,544 yards on 289 carries, averaging 110.3 yards per game and 5 34 yards per rush.

"You don't have to be a great back to break a record like mine," Brown says. "You only have to be good and last a while. Every good back playing 10 or 11 years could break the record. I think any of them could break it playing nine years and 12 or 14 games a year During brown's first four years, each NrL team played 12 games. During his last five, each club played 14 games.

Since 1978, each team has played 16 games a year Looking back, did he retire too soon' "What would be the purpose of playing longer?" he answers. "If you do a little research and you check the numbers and the level cf performance, the numbers speak for themselves." Here's what they say Brown set his record in nine seasons with the Cleveland Browns In 118 games, he averaged 104 yards per game and 5 2 yards per carry. Harris has appeared in 167 games, averaging 72 yards per game and 4 I yards per carry. Payton, in his 10th season, has played in 133 games, averaging 90 See BROWN LETS, page 4C.