The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 21

FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11,1992 THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS 3-B Holtz and Slocum make plea for playoff system Associated Press DALLAS Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz and Texas coach R.C. Slocum on Wednesday advocated a one-game playoff for the national title after the bowl games are over. "I'd favor a two-team playoff after the bowls," said Holtz. "There are usually two teams after all the bowl games are played who could make a great matchup. Say if Miami beat Alabama and Texas defeated us (the Fighting Irish) on New Year's Day.

That would make a pretty good national championship game." Slocum, who has seen his team unable to climb higher than fourth in The Associated Press poll although the Aggies are 12-0, agreed and gave a formula for picking the two teams. "I think you could setup a poll of the 36 coaches involved in bowl games and have them select the two teams for the championship game," Slocum said. "That would be a big-time game with creditability. The nation would love to see a game like that." Holtz and Slocum were in Dallas to promote their New Year's Day game. The Cotton Bowl selection committee drew criticism for passing over No.

3 Florida State to pick Notre Dame. Slocum said on selection day that he was "disappointed" but he tried to make the Cotton Bowl feel better. There's no controversy as far as I'm concerned," Slocum said. "The Cotton Bowl acted in the best interests of the Cotton Bowl. We've got a great opponent.

"It's not like they've got some mullet. Notre Dame is an equal opponent to Florida State. Notre Dame is a nationally recognized team." Holtz said he understands why fans were frustrated with the possibility of their team going undefeated but having no way to win the national title. "If defeats Notre Dame and goes undefeated, that would be a great accomplishment," Holtz said. "It's not how much you win games by.

I'd say that if a team wins close games like it means something is good about them. plays great defense, doesn't make many mistakes, runs the ball well and has a quarterback who operates efficiently within the scheme of the offense." Holtz said he believes one thing that could help the national rankings "is a computerized rating of teams. It would go by the number of wins and the quality of the opponents. It's hard to be fair to everyone but that might be a good way." COUNTY SPORTS BRIEFS The Galveston Daily News welcomes your reports of sports-related events and meetings. Typewritten news releases are preferred.

Mail your news to Sports Desk, Galveston Daily News, P.O. Box 628, Galveston, Texas, 77553; or deliver it to 8522 Teichman Road between 8 a.m.. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. LM holding Little League meeting LA MARQUE The La Marque American Little League Association will hold a general membership meeting Tuesday, Dec.

15 at 7:30 p.m. at the La Marque City Council chambers. All coaches and prospective coaches are encouraged to attend. Several items of business will be transacted and the new board members will be introduced. Golf tournaments scheduled GALVESTON The Galveston Island Municipal Golf Course will hold a breakfast tournament on Sunday, Dec.

13 with breakfast served from 7 a.m.-8:15 and a shotgun start scheduled at 8:30. The format is a full handicap with nine holes low ball and nine holes one-man scramble. Players may form their own four- man teams. Entry fee is $40, which includes green fee, cart and breakfast. Deadline for entry is Saturday at noon.

To sign up, call the pro shop at 744-2366. Bring a toy which will be donated to needy children and receive a $10 discount on your entry fee. GALVESTON The fifth annual Greenskeeper's Revenge golf tournament will be played on Saturday at the Galveston Country Club. The entry fee is $20 plus a toy. All the toys will be donated to the children's wing at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

For more information about the tournament, contact the pro shop at the Galveston Country Club at 737-2776. Golf results LA MARQUE Mary Margaret Doyle won the front nine with a 41 and Grace Thomas won the back nine with a 35 in the La Marque Ladies Golf Association's NASSAU Tournament Thursday at the Lakeview Country Club. Doyle and Thomas tied for the overall title with totals of 77. Thomas had low putts with 30. Whitecaps to hold volleyball tryouts GALVESTON The Galveston College Whitecaps volleyball team will be holding tryouts Saturday, Dec.

12 beginning at 9 a.m. Player must be a minimum of 16 years old to participate in the camp. The tryout will end at approximately 5 p.m. O'Conneli names banquet speakers GALVESTON Former Dickinson High School and Texas Longhorn football standout Donnie Little will join former Houston Oiler Patrick Allen as guest speakers for the O'Conneli football banquet on Saturday, Dec. 12.

After a great high school and college career, Little's stint in the Canadian League was cut short with a knee injury. Since then, Little has been giving back to the Austin community as a teacher and administrator at local schools. For more information, contact O'Conneli High School. Boxing Clinic scheduled GALVESTON Walt Haily, president of the Gulf Association of Boxing, will hold a clinic Dec. 12 from 2-4 p.m.

at the Galveston Boys Club. The clinic will be divided into three segments, featuring USA boxing structure and history, coaching basic fundamentals and USA boxing rules. For info, contact the Boys Club. Baseball holiday camp scheduled TEXAS CITY Texas assistant baseball coach Jim Lawler and Seattle Mariners scout Chris Smith will be conducting the annual Holiday Baseball Camp at the Nessler Center in Texas City Dec. 28-29.

Sessions will be from 9 a.m.-Noon and 1-4 p.m. on the first day and 9-noon on the second day. Early registration will guarantee a spot, but signups will be held at the door. The cost is $65. The camp is for players age 8 thru non-varsity level.

For information, contact (713) 665-5175 or (409) 830-1809. League City holding charity game LEAGUE CITY League City police officers and firefighters will play a charity football game to benefit the DA.R.E. program and the Blue Santa Toy program at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Clear Creek High School stadium. Admission is $4 for ages 12 and over, and $2 for ages 5 through 12.

Children under 5 and anyone wearing a DARE T-shirt will be admitted free. Halftime entertainment will be provided by the Friendswood Chiefettes and the Rosettes Twirling Team. Santa Glaus will be on hand. 0 0 A Foresig This games: Rutty Burton Stiglich Jr. ManiMl Morano Jr.

Rodyoill B. FW Trinity vs. Con. Judson Yates vs. SA Holmes Amarillo vs.

Temple Cons. vs. G-Portfand L. Estacado vs. Waxahachie Denver at Buffalo Green Bay at Houston Dallas at Washington New England at Kansas City Pittsburgh at Chicago San Francisco at Minnesota Cincinnati at San Diego New Orleans at LA Rams Philadelphia at Seattle LA Raiders at Miami Last week Judson Yates Temple Consolidated Waxahachie Buffalo Houston Dallas Kansas City Chicago Minnesota San Diego New Orleans Philadelphia Miami 11-4 Judson Yates Temple Consolidated Waxahachie Buffalo Houston Washington Kansas City Pittsburgh San Francisco San Diego New Orleans Philadelphia Miami 10-5 1 Judson Yates Amarillo Consolidated Waxahachie Buffalo Green Bay Dallas Kansas City Pittsburgh Minnesota San Diego New Orleans Philadelphia Miami 11-4 1 Judson Yates Temple Consolidated Waxahachie Buffalo Houston Dallas Kansas City Pittsburgh Minnesota San Diego New Orleans Philadelphia Miami 10-5 Judson Yates Temple Consolidated Waxahachie Buffalo Houston Dallas Kansas City da Bears Minnesota San Diego New Orleans Philadelphia Miami 11-4 Judson Yates Temple Consolidated Waxahachie Buffalo Houston Washington Kansas City Pittsburgh San Francisco San Diego LA Rams Philadelphia LA Raiders 9-6 Note: Rusty Burson is the sports editor of The Galveston Daily News, while Vince Stiglich Jr.

is the Naws' outdoor writer and Manuel Moreno Jr. a News correspondent. Two of the guest pickers are Bruce Rodysill, the golf pro at the Galveston Country Club, and Jeff O'Malley, the owner of O'Maltey's Stage Door Pub. The B. Jiggers Pelican represents a rotating picker, whose name will be drawn during Monday Night Football festivities at the Holiday Inn on the Beach.

This week's guest picker is Jerry Marza. Duo repeats on AP All-America team Faulk, Jones top all-star list for 2nd straight year Associated Press Marshall Faulk and Marvin Jones play on opposite sides of the ball and opposite ends of the country. However, they share a distinction on the 1992 Associated Press All-America team. The San Diego State running back and the Florida State linebacker are the only repeaters on the first team, which was released Thursday. Faulk was the nation's leading rusher for the second consecutive season and became only the second major college player to gain more than 3,000 yards in his first two years.

The first was Georgia's Herschel Walker, who is also the only other player since World War II to make the AP first team as a freshman and sophomore. Despite missing 2 games due to injury, Faulk gained 1,630 yards this season and finished third in scoring with 15 touchdowns. Jones won the Lombard! Award as the country's top lineman and is a finalist for the Butkus Award, which goes to the best linebacker. He led the Seminoles with 111 tackles, including three sacks and seven others behind the line of scrimmage. Joining Faulk in the backfield are Miami quarterback Gino Torretta and Georgia running back Garrison Hearst.

Torretta is 26-1 as a starter, holds almost every career passing record at Miami and is one victory away from leading the Hurricanes to their second straight national championship. He threw for 3,060 yards this season, completed 57 percent of his attempts and had 19 touchdown passes with only seven interceptions. He already has won the Maxwell and Walter Camp awards as the best college player, and is favored to win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday. Hearst was second in rushing with 1,547 yards and first in scoring with 21 touchdowns, which broke Walker's Southeastern Conference record. He averaged 6.8 yards per carry, third among rushers.

The all-purpose back is Stanford's Glyn Milburn, who was second in all-purpose yardage (177 per game) and third in punt returns with an 18.5 average and three touchdowns. The wide receivers are Sean Dawkins of California and O.J. McDuffie of Perm State, and the tight end is Chris Gedney of Syracuse. The offensive line is led by Nebraska guard Will Shields, who won the Outland Trophy as the outstanding interior lineman. Rounding out the offense are center Mike Compton of West Virginia; guard Aaron Taylor of Notre Dame; tackles Lincoln Kennedy of Washington and Everett Lindsay of Mississippi; and placekicker Joe Allison of Memphis State.

The defensive line features a pair of ends from Alabama's top-rated unit, Eric Curry and John Copeland. They are joined by linemen Rob Waldrop of Arizona and Chris Slade of Virginia; linebackers Jones, Micheal Barrow of Miami and Marcus Buckley of Texas and backs Ryan McNeil of Miami, Carlton McDonald of Air Force, Deon Figures of Colorado, and Carlton Gray of UCLA The punter is Sean Snyder of Kansas State. The team includes 18 seniors and six juniors, with Faulk the only sophomore. The juniors are Hearst, Dawkins, Taylor, Allison, Waldrop and Jones. Top-ranked Miami has three players on the team, while No.

2 Alabama has two. No other school has more than one representative. Dawkins set school records for receptions (65), receiving yards (1,070) and touchdown catches (14) in a season. He now has 31 career TD catches, one short of the Pac-10 record. McDuffie caught 63 passes for 977 yards and nine touchdowns, breaking Penn State records in all three categories.

He also was one of the top punt and kick returners in the country. Gedney had 34 catches for 587 yards and five touchdowns, snapping Syracuse's season and career records for catches and receiving yardage. Shields opened holes for Nebraska's vaunted rushing attack, which led Division I-A with 328 yards per game. Taylor helped Notre Dame finish near the top in rushing, scoring and total offense. Kennedy, the biggest player on the AP team at 6-foot-7, 325 pounds, anchored a line that paved the way for Washington's high-scoring offense.

Mississippi coach Billy Brewer says Lindsay is the best Georgia running back Garrison Hearst joined Marshall Faulk and Gino Torretta in the AP All-America backfield. offensive lineman he's coached in 10 years at Ole Miss. Compton is an iron man. He didn't give up a sack this year and has missed only 15 of 1,238 offensive plays over the last two seasons. Allison, winner of the inaugural Lou Groza placekicking award, made 23 of 25 field goals and all 32 of his extra points.

Copeland and Curry were bookends on an Alabama defense that gave up fewer yards than any other team. They had 9 sacks each, forced a total of five fumbles and combined for 49 quarterback pressures. Waldrop led Arizona's smothering defense with 10 sacks and 22 tackles for loss, while Slade had 15 sacks to break the Atlantic Coast Conference career record. Barrow led Miami with 131 tackles, including a career-high 19 against Penn State, and blocked a field goal against Texas Christian. Buckley overcame a preseason leg injury to become a major force in Texas 12-0 season.

In close games against Stanford and Tulsa, he sparked the Aggies by forcing a fumble and recovering the ball. McDonald led the nation with eight interceptions and blocked a field goal, a punt and an extra point. Figures won the Jim Thorpe Award as the No. i defensive back after making six interceptions, deflecting eight passes and leading Colorado in punt returns. 1992 ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL-AMERICA TEAM AH-Amertca, Teem By Associated Press FIRST TEAM otfenee Quarterback Torretta, Miami, 6-3, 205, senior, Pinole, Calil.

Running Marshall Faulk, San Diego Stale, 5-10, 200, sophomore. New Orleans; Garrison Haaral, Georgia, 5-11, 202, junior, Llnoolnton, Ga. Wide Sean Dawkins, CaMor- nia, 6-4, 205, junior, Sunnyvale, O.J. McDurtle, Penn Stale, senior, WarrensvHIe Heights. Ohio.

Tight end Chris Qedney, Syracuse, 6-5, 256, senior, Liverpool, N.Y. Center Mike Compton, West Virginia, 67,289, senior, Rlchlands, Va. Guards Win Shields, Nebraska, senior, Aaron Taylor, Notre Dame, junior, Concord, Calif. Tackles Lincoln Kennedy, Washington, 6-7, 325, senior, San Diego; Everett Lindsay, Mississippi, 6-5, 290, senior, Raleigh, N.C. All-purpose Glyn Milburn, Stanford, 5-9, 17S, senior, Santa.

Monica, Calif. Placeklcker Joe Allison, Memphis Slate, junior, Atlanta Defense Linemen Eric Curry, Alabama, 6-6, 265, senior, Thomasville, John Copaland, Alabama, 6-3, 261, senior. Lanett, Rob Watdrop, Arizona, 6-2, 265, Junior, Phoonlx; Chris Slade, Virginia, senior, Tabb.Va. Linebackers Marvin Jones, Florida Slate, 6-2, 230, junior, Miami; Micheal Barrow, Miami, senior, Homestead, BueMey, Texas s-4, senior, Fort Worth, Texas. Backs Ryan McNeil, Miami, 6-2, 185, senior.

Fort Pierce, Carrion McDonald. Air Force, 6-0, IBS, senior. Jacksonville, Deon Figures, Colorado, 6-1, 105, senior, Compton, Carlton Gray, UCLA, 6-0. 194, senior, Cincinnati. Punier Sean Snyder, Kansas State, 190, senior, Greenville, Texas.

SECOND TEAM Quarterback Marvin Graves, Syracuse. Running backs Reggie Brooks, Notre Dame; Trevor Cobto, Rice, Wide receivers UoyrJ Hill, Texee Tecti; Michael WestbrooK, Colorado. Tight end ColemanSeB, Miami. Center Steve Evertn, Michigan. Guards Stacy Seegers, Clemeon; Joe Coeouo, Michigan.

Tackles Willie Roaf, Louisiana Tech; Tony BoseHI, Southern Cal. All-purpose Ryan Benjamin, Pacific. Placekicker Scott Slsson, Georgia Tech. Defense Linemen Chris Hutchlnson, Michigan; Dona Stubblelleld, Kansas; Cole man Rudolph, Georgia Tech; Albert Fontenot, Baylor. Linebackers Darrln Smith, Miami; Dave Hoffman, Washington; Travis Hill, Nebraska.

Backs Patrick Bsrtee, Texas A AM; George league, Alabama; Corey Sawyer, Florida Slate; Mike Reid, North Carolina State. Punter Ed Bunn, Texas-El Paso. THIRD TEAM Often ee Quarterback Charlie Ward, Florida State. Running backs Chuckle Dukes, Boston College; drag HM, AAM. Wide receivers Lamar Thomas, Miami; Derrick Alexander, Michigan.

TrfirK end Troy Drayton, Penn State. Center Randall Parsons, North Carolina. Guards Mike Gee, North Carolina Slate; Fletcher Keteter, Oregon Slate. Tackles Alec Mlllen, Georgia; Ben Coleman, Wake Forest. All-purpose Curtis Conway, Southern Cal.

Plaoeklcker Nelson Welch, Clemeon. Defense Linemen Todd Kelly, Tennessee; Shame Carver, Arizona Stale; Jefl Zgonlna, Purdue; Ricky Logo, North Carolina Linebackers Brett Wallerstedt, Arizona Stale; Ron George, Stanford; Curt McMK- len, Miami (Ohio). Backs Tom Carter, Notre Dame; George Coghlll, Wake Forest; John Lynch, Stanford; Antonio Utngham, Alabama. Punter Jason Elam, Hawaii..