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SPORTS Sunday, October 22, 1989 Albuquerque Journal Sportsline 821-1800 Page 1, Section mm im iron am A I Notre Dame's 28-24 Triumph Keyed by Rice SCOREBOARD FOOTBALL Colorado 49, Kansas 17 Nebraska 48, Oklahoma State 23 Michigan 26, Iowa 12 Alabama 47, Tennessee 30 Texas 24, Arkansas 20 Florida State 22, Auburn 14 Arizona 23, Washington State 21 Houston 93, SMU 21 West Virginia 69, Cincinnati 3 Texas Christian 27 Air Force 9 Brigham Young 49, UTEP 24 Colorado State 31, Hawaii 16 Utah 27, Stanford 24 Highlands 36, Ft. Hays State 33 Adams (Colo.) State 28, WNMU 13 E. New Mexico 45, E. Texas St. 28 'JV AS 1 Is THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 11 'Vir Houston angers SMU coach with 95-21 blowout E5 "I didn't like what I saw at the beginning, but I like what I saw at the end," said Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz, who saw the Trojans turn two Irish first-quarter fumbles into touchdowns and a 17-7 USC lead.

"It seemed like we were always fighting uphill," he said. Trojans quarterback Todd Marinovich tried to bring the Trojans back one more time, but lost nine yards when he was sacked, and then was called for intentional grounding as Irish defenders swarmed over him. The play helped Notre Dame stall a Trojan threat inside the 10-yard line with under two minutes left. D'Juan Francisco deflected a fourth-down end zone pass to Joel Scott "Notre Dame dropped a lot of people back, but I thought my man was open in the end zone," Marinovich said. The Irish have beaten USC seven straight MORE: See NOTRE DAME on PAGE E5 t- .4 J.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Tony Rice didn't mince words: He badly wanted to win Saturday. The Notre Dame quarterback ran for two touchdowns and engineered two more rushing scores against a Southern Cal defense that had allowed only 37 rushing yards a game as the No. 1 Irish beat the No. 9 Trojans, 28-24.

"It's the best in the West against the best in the East," said Rice, who scored the winning touchdown on a 15-yard run with 5:18 left. "And we like to be the best period." A powerful Notre Dame ground game broke the Trojans' vaunted rushing defense, twice overcoming Trojan leads with second-half rushing touchdowns. The Irish I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Notre Dame's Tony Rice stretches for a touchdown, pulling an unidentified USC player with him, in Saturday's 28-24 win over the visiting Trojans. (7-0) have won 19 straight. Trojans (5-2), whose defense had not "They can run on anybody in the coun- allowed a rushing touchdown.

try," Trojans coach Larry Smith said. Rice's 40-yard pass to Raghib "Rocket" Notre Dame ran for 266 yards against the Ismail set up the winner. MM If ator Foi 4 Bic oibo i Florida Barely Survives 27-21 Shootout With UNM By Dennis Latta JOURNAL STAFF WRITER II fill- 7r-A 1 1 i s- I i 1 1 I J- i a 1 I 'A it -v SI 4 if Mathis not consoled E7 NMSU falls again E6 homecoming crowd of 72,578 began wondering when, or if, the patsy that had been advertised would finally fold. The Lobos refused to go away. With just 1:26 left, UNM got the ball one final time deep in its own territory and attempted to move downfield.

The Lobos picked up a first down, but two incompletions were followed by a 10-yard holding penalty, and, with just 16 seconds left, Leach tried to force a desperation pass that was intercepted. Only then did the Gators manage to avoid what would have been one of the biggest upsets of the season. New Mexico's first signs of offensive life came late in the third GAINESVILLE, Fla. Saturday was a cold day in Florida, and it almost became the proverbial cold day in hell. The University of New Mexico returned to its early-season form here by playing well but losing a close football game.

Twentieth-ranked Florida had to stop a last-minute try by the Lobos to hold on for a 27-21 win at Florida Field. The Lobos made a game of it despite a record-setting day by Gators junior Emmitt Smith. The Heisman Trophy candidate gained a personal-best 316 yards on 31 carries. He was the reason Florida was able to survive. The UNM rally started when Eric Morgan took a pass from Jeremy Leach and went 59 yards to score, moving the Lobos within 27-21 with 3:52 remaining in the game.

After the Lobos' score, a MORE: See GATORS on PAGE E7 Mike Hall SPORTS EDITOR Majerus' Attitude On Women Rates A Terrible Rick Majerus is a little-known basketball coach. That's the best thing he has going for him. Otherwise, the man is on the streets. Majerus, the new coach at the University of Utah by way of Ball State has out-cruded and out-ruded Hoosier Bob Knight when it comes to remarks about women. (By the way, isn't Ball State also in Indiana? Is it safe to be a woman there? Has Indiana rescinded the 19th Amendment without telling Majerus went on a Milwaukee radio station and said the following: "You know, with women's athletics, my experience has been there's a great deal of, and I'll be frank with you here, there's a great deal of irregular sexual behavior." If a coach of Knight's, or Dean Smith's, or John Thompson's stature made that remark, they'd be back coaching junior varsity in a small town where news travels slowly.

To Utah's credit, Athletic Director Chris Hill acted quickly. He jerked Majerus' chain so hard the'coach might have landed in the 20th century. Certainly, he wasn't there before. Hill said his surprise and shock lasted only a millisecond. Then, he got angry.

"I'm proud of the type of women's programs we have at Utah," says Hill. "This was bad from a personal and a university stance." Hill says he didn't wait to see how the remarks played on campus because he didn't care. He only wanted a quick apology, and he got it. "I'm penitent, I'm contrite and I've been reprimanded. I put my foot in my mouth and I'm done with it," Majerus' statement read.

Phyllis Safman, an assistant dean at Utah and the acting director of women's studies, isn't so sure Majerus is "done with it" not because she's out to get him, but because of other remarks he has made. "He's been making other statements since he's been here," says Safman. "He's pretty loose-lipped, crude. He makes negative comments about Utah, stupid state-, ments. He's forever slamming Utah." Safman hasn't called for Majerus' resignation, but she's quick to note that "at other places a resignation would be asked for He really has no sense of what his role is.

and with the tinge of hostility toward women, it's frightening to think he is a role model for young men." Agreed. Role models should base their actions, their remarks, on knowledge. Majerus lacks knowledge. Take a closer look. First, he says, no one can name the women's basketball coach at Marquette.

Hell, I can't name her." That's odd. Majerus coached at Marquette before going to Ball State, but he doesn't know the women's coach. Yet, he can paint her with the same distorted brush that he has all other women athletes. I take it back. That's not odd, that's ignorant.

Second, Majerus says, "And you know, that's (the alleged irregular sexual behavior) never been brought to the forefront. If that were that prevalent in men's athletics, there would be Sports Illustrated, Time magazine would have exposes from now to eternity." More ignorance. Believe it or not, bedrooms are not our business. I've probably known as many deviants in men's athletics as women's, but I've yet to write in a story, "The sexually-irregular outfielder then tied the game with a two-run shot over the 340 sign in left." Only in a case where sex has a profound affect on a player or a team would the media be interested. So I'm offended by Majerus on two fronts as a professional journalist, and for women who don't need to live in a world where men think as Majerus does.

Mike Hall's column appears Sundays in the Albuquerque Journal. Vincent Mulls Possibility Of Canceling World Series i THE ASSOCIATED PRESS He said the games might be scrapped if the city declines to allow Game 3 this Tuesday, postponed by last Tuesday's earthquake, or if the parks are declared unsafe. "We can't just stay here and tread water. We have to play or not play," Vincent said in an interview in his 31st-floor hotel MORE: See COMMISSIONER on PAGE E9 SAN FRANCISCO The World Series, already a week behind schedule, could still be canceled, Commissioner Fay Vincent said Saturday. "We can't stay here forever," he said.

Though Vincent said it was "not likely" he would have to cancel the games, he also said "it's possible." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Florida's Emmitt Smith scampers for yardage past UNM nose guard Dave Warner Saturday in the Gators' 27-21 victory over the Lobos. Smith had 316 yards on 31 carries. Chuck Hill's Legacy: A Mound of Clippings, Mountain of Heartbreak 7 -vj ft Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald By Toby Smith JOURNAL STAFF WRITER through the mound of paper.

Among the clippings is one from Sept. 24, 1950. The night before at the University of New Mexico's old Zimmerman Field, UNM's Chuck Hill scored five touchdowns. They weren't short scores, either, but typical Chuck Hill runs: twisting, turning, dazzling, and averaging 23 yards a piece. The five TDs is a school record.

In fact, Hill, who played halfback from 1949-1951, still holds a handful of UNM marks. After four decades, however, some of Hill's UNM marks have begun to fall. Lobos star Terance Mathis, the Chuck Hill of the '80s, broke one a couple of weeks ago. In fairness, though, Hill set his records in only three years, as -compared t6 Mathis' four. And Hill played both offense and defense.

JOURNAL PHOTO When Chuck Hill's athletic career at Albuquerque High and the University of New Mexico was at its zenith, stories about him were everywhere. A PALE GREEN SUITCASE that sits in a Central Avenue motel holds most of the newspaper clippings. "CHUCK HILL PASSES, RUNS AHS to 33-0 WIN;" "HILL TINY DYNAMITE FOR LOBOS;" "HILL LEADS NCAA." Time has turned the clippings the color of fallen leaves. They were going to be put in a scrapbook by their keeper, Beulah Hill. But then the subject died, and then the keeper died and now the keeper's daughter, who owns the motel, hasn't found time to go "Everybody and his dog was after Sadly, Chuck Hill's legacy, the legacy of one of the most remarkable athletes Albuquerque ever produced, will one Chuck, I can tell you that," says day be only that suitcase stuffed with Pauline Bauer, poking around in the clippings.

Once worshiped by a city that he loved, Chuck Hill wound up being rejected by it. MORE: See HILL'S on PAGE E4 'I.