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fo IffnlabetpJiia Inquirer Section Baseball C7 Golf cie Horse Racing C22 NBA C2 NHL CIO Outdoors C23 Sports in Brief C3 A rough racket It's tough making living as a pro squash player. C5. Sunday, November 13, 1994 4 back to beat Lions claw 11 II ft i 'X 1 far- )-- Associated Press FRANK POUCH Penn State players celebrate during their comeback after trailing Illinois by 21 points. The Nittany Lions won on a last-minute 2-yard TD run. Quakers bring Ivy title home in style Penn thumped Harvard and set off a celebration.

The only worry: QB Mark DeRosa was injured. Go 9-0 to earn berth in the Rose By Ray Parrillo INQUIRER STAFF WRITKR CHAMPAIGN, 111. With a stiff westerly wind blowing mist in their faces and feisty Illinois blurring their vision of a national Penn State 35 championship, Illinois 31 Penn State's Nit-' tany Lions completed a remarkable comeback from a 21-point deficit yesterday to defeat the Fighting Illini, 35-31. Fullback Brian Milne completed the comeback with a 2-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds left in a tension-filled game before 72,364 at Memorial Stadium. After battling back from deficits of 21-0 in the first quarter, 28-14 at half-time, and 31-21 in the fourth quarter, Penn State clinched the Big Ten title and a berth in the Rose Bowl on Jan.

2. It was the greatest comeback by a Joe Paterno-coached team, and he has been Penn State's head coach since 1966. And despite their predicament, the Nittany Lions said they believed all along it would happen. "We just said to ourselves, 'Hey, this is our tight end Kyle Brady said in describing the mood in the huddle when the Nittany Lions took the ball at their own 4-yard line with 6 minutes, 7 seconds to go against the second-stingiest defense in the nation. "We felt that if we deserved the national championship and the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl, it was time to do it." During the magnificent drive, quarterback Kerry Collins, who misfired on 8 of his first 9 passes, was simply pristine.

He completed all seven of his passes for 60 yards, cleverly spraying the ball around to Milne, Brady, Bobby Engram, Ki-Jana Carter and Freddie Scott. Then Milne, following standout guard Jeff Hartings and fullback Jason Sload, blasted into the end zone for his third TD of the game. While teammates mobbed Milne, an NCAA discus champion. Collins wheeled around, looked toward the other end of the field as if to marvel at how far he'd directed the offense, and pumped his fist. "I've been playing football a long time, and this is my most memorable drive," said Collins, who completed See PENN STATE on C20 Obviously, no thought could have been given it.

Michael Moorer was guaranteed $5 million, plus millions more from the HBO receipts, plus the untold millions that would come from his next title defense. Simple logic tells you there is not enough money to buy him off and still make a profit, because no one could book such an enormous bet. The decisive punch was a six-inch straight right, the most devastating shot in boxing, and it was the fourth of a crunching four-blow combina-ton, all dead on target. Even more disturbing is the lack of See ANGER on C24 Nebraska 28Jowa StateJ2 Auburn 23, Georgia 23 Florida 48, South Carolina 17 Florida St. 23, Notre Dame 16 Texas 48, Houston 13 ColoradoJiJJansasae ArkTst 3 Coverage, CI 7-C21.

O'Neal, Magic dump The 76ers looked good in the first half. But Shaquille O'Neal looked better in the second. By Frank Law lor INQUIRER STAFF WRITER For a half, they looked like the team they were meant to be. The big rookie, Sharone Wright, was backing in Magic IIS Shaquille O'Neal Sixers 103 and ripping re- bounds from Horace Grant. The little one, B.J.

Tyler, was breaking down defenders and whipping blind passes around them. Shawn Bradley was playing volleyball with offensive rebounds. Jeff Malone was raining those beguiling little jumpers. Dana Barros was buzz-sawing the lane, dropping a perimeter smart bomb or two. Alas, from these 76ers, one half of good basketball will have to suffice for now.

In the second half last night, Shaq dunked away and his Orlando Magic supporting cast filled in the blanks to take a 116-103 victory at the Spectrum. O'Neal was again a statistical storm, scoring 28 points, grabbing 12 rebounds, and dishing out six impressive assists, tying his career high. Five other Magic players scored In double figures, led by Nick Anderson with 21 points and Brian Shaw with 17. The Magic obviously had more weapons, which is why the 'stand put up early by the Sixers was encouraging. Moreover, the- Sixers survived embarrassment without help from their star, Clarence Weatherspoon, who managed just two points on 1-for-10 shooting, the worst scoring night of his three-year career.

"I don't feel too good about my performance, because I know my production is needed," he said. "I had open looks. I just couldn't knock them down. It's a process of not focusing well. I can't afford to let myself slip like that." The Sixers also were hurt by a 15-for-29 performance at the free-throw line.

See SIXERS on C2 Today's game: 1 p.m. vs. Browns at Veterans Stadium. Cornerback woes Eric Allen may be in a slump, but he's not panicking. Cll.

Terry's son Eric Metcalf follows closely in his father's footsteps. CI 2. Ten minutes with Vaughn Hebron, who's running better than ever. CI 2. Buddy Watch He's giving quarterback advice now, to the Giants.

CI 5. Inside Sports Schumacher is Formula One champion. C22. Sixers 5) tional NCAA Division I-AA record. The Quakers can establish a new mark in their season finale next Saturday at Cornell.

Maybe the celebration will be over by then. "I'm on top of the world right now," said defensive end Michael Turner, of Germantown Academy. "Last year we were so excited to be in this position. This year we had more of a chance to enjoy it. We could all feel it on the sideline today.

It was fantastic, just as sweet as last year." "This one was better," said center Pete Giannakoulis, the leader of Penn's offensive line. "I'm a senior going out; we're undefeated for two years, two rings, we stuck tight It can't get much better than this." See PENN on C17 The fans climbed up, and the goal victory at Franklin Field. It was the We're lost in the disenchanted forest of sports have enveloped us. Witness the reaction to George Foreman's win. By Joe Juliano INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Penn players stoked up victory cigars and watched in delight yesterday as Franklin Field's west goal post Penn 33 tjje ground and Harvard 0 then was carried from the ancient stadium for a dunking in the Schuylkill.

It was a closing scene that a scriptwriter couldn't have made more perfect. The Quakers clinched their second straight outright Ivy League championship and bid a fond home farewell to their seniors with a 33-0 victory over Harvard before a parents' weekend crowd of 28,918. With its 20th consecutive win, Penn (8-0, 6-0) tied Holy Cross' na EagiesPreview Allen painful season at the corner TjS-tmt JFi'swf .3 t-L'3 Evvr3 Next week: world peace Curt Schilling had a lot of time on his hands lately, so he came up with a plan that would not only end the strike. It would save baseball. On Baseball, C7.

A Tor a This could Sabatini her streak Anke much night's 1 The Philadelphia Inquirer JERRY LODRIGUSS post came down after Penn's Quakers' 20th straight win. we are suspicious, skeptical, of even the most heart-warming stories. One week ago, we were treated to one of the most gratifying and inspiring performances in sporting history: the seizing of the heavyweight championship of the world by George Foreman, old, bald and fat, yes, but also possessed of stout chin, stouter punch and grand heart. Yet rather than simply savor the wonder, rather than celebrate this glorious triumph of the indomitabil-ity of the human spirit, the question you heard again and again was: So, was it fixed? It is a question asked reflexively. College Football WestVirginia 55, Temple 17 Princeton 19, Yale 6 N.

Hampshire 21, Villanova 14 Delaware 41, Hofstra41 Virginia Tech 41, Rutgers34 Miami 17. Pitn2' Texas A 4 M2B, Louisville io Air Force 40, Utah 33 Bill "fey Lyon 1 Spite and skepticism It's gotten mean out here in Sports World. Mean-spirited and nasty. We don't seem to be going to games for the fun. We go to vent and purge and release.

We go to spew anger and frustration. We go to boo everyone and cheer almost no one, and to greet every play, every decision, with upraised middle finger and obscene chant. You wander through the crowds and you are startled by the casual, sustained profanity and by the rage, which is directed indiscriminately, like the spray from an Uzi, without regard for loyalty. The visiting team, the home team, the officials, the per- son in the seat next to you it matters not. If our sports are as we claim a reflection of our society, then we are not a very happy people these days.

We are hostile and belligerent and discourteous. We just aren't very nice to each other. And worst of all, Over valley, through woods Orienteering: Running around in the forest looking for points on a map. In Scandinavia, it's a passion. Here, it's still a bit on the fringes.

The Outdoors, C23. Sabatini, tough loss one hurt, you tell. Gabriela hoped to end 43-tournament losing in Philadelphia, -but Huber was too for her in last semifinals. C22. 4.