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Sunbay itcgisf cr INSIDE and 1 rPmn Conmn 'I 1 i it ti-i f' 1 Top 20 2D UNI wins 3D Drake 3D Iowa 1 2D I) jjir If No. 17, 198S uvjrjuuuuviMy REGISTER PHOTO iY WARREN TAYLOR Kill III III IMipW WV s. a-4 v. a ww mm i IS mm Houghtlin to top spot By BUCK TURNBULL WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. The stakes have seldom been higher in the history of Iowa football when Rob Houghtlin prepared to attempt a 25-yard field goal here Saturday.

And for the second time this season Houghtlin came through In dramatic fashion, making the kick that gave the Ohio State Hawkeyes a 27-24 victory over Purdue, duplicating his heroics of a month ago in a 12-10 conquest of Michigan. Earlier Saturday, Iowa had received a totally unexpected assist from Wisconsin in the race for the Big Ten championship and Rose Bowl bid. The Badgers upset Ohio State in Columbus, 12-7, and left Iowa atop the conference standings. The fifth-ranked Hawkeyes, now 6-1 In league play and 9-1 overall, will earn the Rose Bowl trip if they beat Minnesota in their final game of the regular season at home next Saturday. The Ohio State-Michigan game, which had appeared to be so important, won't mean a thing In the Rose Bowl picture if Iowa wins.

The Hawks began a pressure- 7v i i 7 r' iv Mi1? a1 David Hudson leaps over the Purdue line for a Hawkeye touchdown -rakifflte catch lifts Cyclones Sirffren's score with 1:24 left pulls iSU out of league cellar MARC HANSEN Censor can't stop Hawks WEST LAFAYETTE, JND. Word travels slowly bere in Radio Free Purdue. It was 6:10 Saturday night, a few minutes after Iowa's 27-24 victory over the Boilermakers, when the public address announcer finally won out over the evil forces of censorship and exercised his most precious of personal liberties freedom of score announcing. final score," he told a stadium full of empty seats several hours after the fact: "Wisconsin 12, Ohio State 7." decree of "administrators" in the. Purdue athletic department, the Wisconsin victory was not to be disclosed to the inhabitants of Ross-Ade Stadium until the game here was a wrap.

Or at least a lock. Don't want to fire up those Hawk-eyes unnecessarily, you know. By 6:10, the game was both a wrap and a lock. The clean-up crew, no Hawkeye fans they, reacted with indifference to the news. AS IT ALWAYS does in a closed society, however, the truth leaked out long before it was officially disseminated.

As the Hawkeyes went into the dressing room with their 24-17 half-time lead, the fans who had smuggled radios into the stadium relayed the news of Wisconsin's upset. -I heard Ohio State had lest when we' were coming off," said Scott HeJ-verson, whose crucial 15-yard reception on third-and-eight had kept the Hawkeyes' last scoring drive ticking. "I couldn't believe it. I thought it was a -mistake. But Wisconsin seems to dp it every year, whether it's at home or down in the 'The Shoe, or Horseshoe, is the nickname for Ohio Stadium.

For the Badgers, the Shoe seems a fine fit. At halftime, the Iowa coachaing staff was apprised of the upset that pushed the Hawkeyes one victory from a trip to the Rose Bowl. George Wine, the Iowa sports information director, crept out of the ptes3 box at the end cf the second quarter, and told tight end coach Don Patterson. "What?" Patterson responded. "Are you serious?" WINE NODDED and slipped back into the press box as if he'd never left.

His duty done, the rest was up to the Hawkeves. In the locker room, Hayden Fry delivered the good news to his players, many of whom were hearing it for the first time. "It wasn't like we jumped up and down or anything," said Rob Hough-tlin. whose 25-vard field goal with lit tle over a minute to play was the game-winner. "We just said, -r me, dui that doesn't mean we can lie down Jay Norvell, Iowa's strong safety, fell back on a different metaphor.

"We just figured if we stick to our knittin'," he said, "the situation would take care of itself." Stick to their knittin'? That isn't a term on the lips of every college student. And yet, it's the same down-home expression Chuck Long used to a week ago, after the Illinois blood-letting, to explain his feelings about contending for the Heisman Trophy. Where in the world the two could have picked up such a quaint figure of speech is a mystery. Someone obviously has been influencing the speech habits of these young student-athletes. Many are beginning to sound like a certain 56-year-old former Texan.

THE IMAGE of big, mean football players sticking to their knittin' is a strange one, but there it is. Leon Burtnett, the towel-waving Purdue coach, didn't care a whit altout the Ohio State-Wisconsin score. It had nothing to do with his strategy, he kicks Iowa in Big Ten SUtUtictl low 28 47206 268 5 20 33 1 5 1-0 419 SCORING 7 17 7 10 Purdu 16 ZS 36 311 32 23-J2-1 4 3U 2 1 2 10 3 27 7 24 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fjmbleslost Pnaltiesyards lowt Purdu Grittin 48 pan (rom Eveiett (Briggs kick) I R. Harmon 1 run (HouRhtlin kick) I Hudson 1 run (Houghtlin kick) Medlock 1 run (BiirfKS kick) I Hudson 1 run (Houghtlin kid') FG 37 Bngtfs I FG 33 Houghtlin Medlock 1 run (Bnggs kick) I FG 25 Houghtlin A 57,762 packed drive to Houghtlin's crucial kick with 6 minutes 35 seconds remaining, after Purdue marched downfield to tie the score at 24-24. Chuck Long completed two clutch third-down passes to Bill Happel and Scott Helverson, eating up time and eventually turning the outcome of the game over to Houghtlin, who hammered through the decisive kick with 1:08 left.

No time remained when his HAWKEYES Please turn to Page 4D REGISTER PHOTO BY DAVID PETERSON winning TD Harlan upset in 3-A shocker By RANDY PETERSON Rttfsttr Staff Writer CEDAR FALLS, IA. Mike Manor kicked a 19-yard field goal with 55 seconds remaining Saturday as ninth-rated Pleasant Valley put an end to the state's longest-running high school football success story. The fourth-down kick allowed the Spartans to upset top-ranked Harlan, 10-7, in the Class 3-A state championship game at the UNI-Dome, ending the Cyclones' state championship dominance. Harlan entered the game with the past three state Class 3-A titles to its credit one more than anyone else had been able to accomplish regardless of class but it all ended in a I matter of seconds. I i I tl (i.li i oou lonoeiiy uiiercepiea a nooDy 1 'yS--t (i hi Iowa State's Hughes Suffren escapes David Astfor the Garrigan, Pleasant Valley capture grid playoff titles Statifttics tow St.

21 Mnta SI. 13 44-125 129 10 6-14-1 8-44 3-2 3-35 First downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Fumbles-losl Pena'ties-yards 48-113 252 26 19-33-0 10-39 2 1 SCORING krwaSUt 7 0 7 7 21 KtnsasStat 0 7 0 7 14 I SuhVen 25 pass from Espinoza (Frank kick) Alphin 0 pass from Welch (Porter kick) I Jackson 7 run (Frank kick) Moody 5 pass from Williams (Porter kK I Suffren 67 pass from Espinoza (Frank kick) also was on the receiving end of a 25-yard scoring pass from Espinoza in the first quarter. Running back Andrew Jackson, who rushed for 141 yards on 32 carries, scored the other Iowa State touchdown on a 7-yard run in the third quarter. "The winning touchdown play was a curl pattern," said Criner. "We bad used the play twice before CYCLONES Please turn toPageioD but Drake football past son.

Obviously, the defense Improved between the losses to the Redmen. By 1898, things had gotten so much better under Coach A.B. Potter that victories over Grinnell, Monmouth, Iowa and Nebraska brought the school's first winning season, 4-2. ere was a marvelous fullback, Charles Pell, who was one of the nation's most versatile track stars. There was Homer Holland, who later triple-jumped 45 feet, 8 ft inches for a world record.

There was 17-year-old Dan McGugin of Tingley, now enthroned in the College Football Hall of Fame as one of the great coaches in Vanderbilt's history; Cbanning Smith (who personally put on the annual team banquet, which still bears his name, for the next 50 or so years); and Dan Morehouse, who must be spoken of a bit more. Daniel W. Morehouse came to Drake as a student in 1896 and, except for brief periods of graduate study in astronomy at Stanford and the University of Chicago, never really left. During one of the absences while at Chicago, he discovered the comet that bears his name. He was dean of men at Drake in 1922 when elevated to the presidency, a position he held at the time of his death in January 1941.

Drake football had many of its brightest moments during the long presidential reign of one of the school's earliest football stars. And now, ironically, with the fac- WHITE Please turn to Page 11D By WAYNE GRETT KnMtr SlR WrlW MANHATTAN, KAN. Iowa State owes the University of Kansas football team a thank you card after its victory over Kansas State here Saturday. The Cyclones borrowed a play that the Jayhawks used several times egainst Kansas State earlier in the season to capture a 21-1 victory over the Wildcats that assured Iowa State of no worse than a fifth-place tie in the Big Eight Conference standings after the season finale next week against Oklahoma State. A 67-yard pass from Alex Espinoza to Hughes Suffren with 1 minute 24 seconds remaining provided the win ning points and improved the Cyclones' record to 4-6.

Iowa State Coach Jim Criner said the pass play was installed last week, and Espinoza said it had been taken from film of the Kansas-Kansas State game earlier this season. "They were very successful with it," he said. The Jayhawks defeated Kansas State, 38-7, Oct. 13 in Lawrence, Kan. Suffren, who caught four other passes and had 146 yards in receptions, An era ends, won't forget By MAURY WHITE Realsttr Stall Writer In 1893, despite great opposition in the ranks of their peers, professors Jarvis A.

Strong, Charles Kinney and Luther Ross formed a three-man faculty committee that finally obtained permission from President B.O. Aylesworth to start a football program at Drake University. The students had been clamoring for a team for several years. "Away with this old backwoods theory that athletic contests detract from the real objects of the school. That discussion has long been laid away in its grave," declared a February 1881 ediitorial in The Delphic, the student publication.

"Are we to have a class of weak, puny, stoop-shouldered, sallow-skinned, sunken-eyed men? or a grade which can be compared with any men in the west? "0, Faculty! shake the dust off your feet, wipe the soot off your gold-rimmed spectacles, come down into the Delphic office, read the exchanges and catch the college spirit" The sum total of equipment for the 1893 season was 11 canvas jackets, 1 pair of canvas pants and one foot-bail. The practice field was the west campus, where Cowles Library now stands. There wasn't a coach, so Strong, head of l.he music department, took charge. Drake didn't score a point all season, playing a scoreless tie with a Des Moines high school team, then losing 62-0 and 6-0 games to Simp Borg topples McEnroe in D.r.1. net exhibition By RONMALY Rtetster Staff Writer Bjorn Borg, flashing some brilliance of old, whipped John McEnroe, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, Saturday night in an exhibition tennis match at Veterans Memorial Auditorium that was a box-office smash.

The crowd of 8,706 included Vice President George Bush, and set a single-day gross-receipts record of $206,682 for the auditorium. The old mark of $165,000 was established for a performance by Elvis Presley on June 23 1977. "I want to thank Bjorn for beating me in front of the vice president," McEnroe joked. "I also want to thank him for being in retirement." McEnroe thrilled the fans by saying he was aware "Iowa's football team has a chance to go to the Rose Bowl." When the crowd roared about that, McEnroe said: "Don't get too excited. They still have one game left" Borg jumped to a 4-0 lead in the third set before McEnroe broke his serve.

It was Borg's second victory in a tour that ends today in Richmond, Va. The Swede earlier won at Blooming-ton, Minn. McEnroe won at Milwaukee, Nashville, and St. Louis, Mo. "John was nice to me tonight," said Borg.

"It was fun being in Des Moines for the first time ever." The fans seemed split down the TENNIS G.R. LaSalle fails in 2-A final By DAVE STOCKDALE Rlstr Staff Wrttor CEDAR FALLS, IA. Algona Garrigan wasn't rated in the top 10, but the Golden Bears proved they belonged there by going all the way to the top Saturday on the artificial turf of the UNI-Dome. Garrigan, which opened the playoffs by stunning top-ranked Emmets-burg, 34-0, showed the same ability in the Class 2-A championship game by trimming ninth-ranked Cedar Rapids LaSalle, 30-14. Quarterback Bob DeLange, who broke one championship-game record and tied another, led the victory by passing for two touchdowns and running for another.

"I know there are some good quarterbacks around, but Bob has been great," said Garrigan Coach Larry Weier. "He's carried us the last half of the season." DeLange threw touchdown passes of 11 yards to Mike Winkel and 23 yards to Dan Winkel to help the Bears to a 14-0 halftime lead. Chuck Dodds ran for a two-point conversion. While Garrigan rolled to a 257-184 advantage in total offense, the Bears' CLASS 2-A: said. He marched into the interview room after the game yellow towel protruding from his rear pocket shook his head and swore under his breath.

On the sideline, the towel pokes out from underneath his windbreaker like a rooster's tail when he isn't waving it, that is. He mentioned nothing about knitting. In fact, he was seething about the scoreboard operator who was bold enough not to give the home team the break Burtnett believed was rightfully theirs. He and his assistants, who had raced HANSEN Please turn to Page 5D Kioewer pass witn 2 minutes remaining to give Pleasant Valley a first down at its own 46-yard line to start the late heroics. Record-setting quarterback Andy Green then passed 50 yards to Mike Strobbe to put the ball on the 4-yard line.

But the Harlan defense, which has been a hallmark of Coach Curt Bladt's teams, stiffened. Three Tom Miller attempts at the goal line netted only 2 CLASS 3-A Please turn to Page 9D Please turn to Page 9D Please turn to Page 6D.