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Toimy IRice scripts legeedamy debist kids. I don't let it go to my head. I'm little Welcome to the Air Force Academy, By Mike Hunt Inside Complete conference scores, standings. Page 2C ACC: UNC stops N.C. State, Maryland stops Wake.

Page 3C State: PC beats Elon; Newberry whips Wofford. Page 4C. S.C. State's Michael Summers gets 299 yards. Page 5C.

Results of MichelinCoors Classic race. Page 6C. High school scores, schedules. Page 8C. Outdoors.

Page 12C. Bulletin Board. Page 17C. Tony Rice, not big Tony Rice." To Air Force head coach and fellow South Carolinian Fisher DeBerry, signs of greatness are apparent. "After the game I told him how proud Willie Varner and the whole town of Woodruff must be of him," said DeBerry.

Notre Dame's first black quarterback was Cliff Brown, who in 1971 was given the job after Bill Etter, who wore No. 2, was injured during the third game of the season. Rice was promoted in similar fashion. It was last week when Terry Andrysiak, also wearing No. 2, went down with a shoulder injury.

Holtz turned to Rice, a sophomore who lost his entire first year of eligibility at Notre Dame under the provisions of NCAA bylaw 5-l-(j). Thrown into the fire of a huge deficit last week at Pittsburgh, Rice was so nervous that he actually lined up to take the See Rice, Page 20C where a good football team and a altitude aren't the only problems presented opponents who dare tread Falcons Stadium. And welcome to big-time football, Tony Rice, greatly responsible for a 35-14 win Saturday afternoon. Starting quarterbacks for Notre Dame can deal with anything. That's the Notre Dame of Bertelli and Lujack and Hornung and Huarte, quarterbacks and Heisman Trophy winners all, men who have made the position perhaps the most glamourous and visable of all in college football; the same Notre Dame of Rockne and the Gipper and 16 national championships.

The same Notre Dame which as of Saturday entrusted the most sacred job of waking up the echoes and shaking down the thunder to a black Protestant from Woodruff, S.C. "There are a lot of people who think a The Greenville News COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. They do things a little differently here. Students cadets mobilize out of the stands to harass guest cheerleaders and mascots, in this case a leprechaun who, upon refusing to surrender his colors, got a bloody lip to become the only Irish casualty of the day. Moments before kickoff, jets, in perfect formation, buzz a stadium nestled before a splendid Rocky Mountain backdrop.

"I was impressed," said Lou Holtz. "They even run the wishbone in the air." Down on the field, Tony Rice was warming up for his first start at quarterback since the 1985 Shrine Bowl. "At first it scared me," said Rice. "I was calling plays and it got so loud that I had to shout. But I looked up and they looked kind of pretty." guy like me from a small town being quarterback here will give me a big head," said South Carolina's second-most famous Rice.

"But I try to set an example for little The A ciicd Pre Irish quarterback Tony Rice puts best foot forward ffhc CnraivUlcNaps greenville piedmont. ijMMtl Scoreboard Outdoors LL Sunday, October 18, 1987 Section ty f-" MXn.eS" 'tf. J--- jr i Tigers Lesson to be learned from victory. Scoring summary, statistics. Notebook.

Page 10D "We were (in the huddle) saying that our season was on the line," Johnson said, recalling Clemson's start from its own three-yard line after a Duke quick kick. "If we wanted to reach our goals, we had to get this drive. It was going to make or break us. We just did everything possible." Until then, the Tigers had done little against the Blue Devils (3-3, 0-2), who had managed to stall Clemson's running game. With the crowd of 72,000 stirred to life, sensing the urgency of the moment as well, the Tigers turned to Johnson in their time of need.

Johnson, a junior who had a career-high 93 yards, ripped off a 22-yard run on the first By Ron Green The Greenville News CLEMSON The expectations of a foot-tall season were closing in on the Clemson Tigers with gathering urgency. The seventh-ranked Tigers, with their quest for an unbeaten season hanging in the balance, summoned what may have been a season-saving drive in the closing minutes Saturday as they marched 97 yards for the winning touchdown and escaped Death Valley with a 17-10 victory over the Duke Blue Devils. It was a pulse-quickening escape for the heavily favored Tigers, who were flat and lethargic against the super-charged Blue Devils. Despite a series of frustrations on the sunny afternoon, the Tigers (6-0, 3-0) found a way to survive. It came largely in the form of fullback Tracy Johnson, who tore through the heart of the Blue Devil defense, gaining 60 yards in the final drive, capping it with the game-winning score with 6: 46 remaining.

Carolina 1 Slall tliuirajlii-r FJ Rulll See Tigers, Page IOC Clemson tight end James Coley (88) drags along Duke's Jim Worthington after completed pass Twins overpower St. Louis in opener 'gnmds' MINNEAPOLIS Dan Gladden's erand Vr RBI groundout. it out slam and RBI, double sent the homer hankies waving inside the Metrodome, and the Minnesota Twins overpowered the St. Louis Cardinals 10-1 Saturday night in the opening game of the first indoor World Series. Frank Viola shut down the crippled Cardinals on five hits over eight innings, striking out five, walking none and going to a three-ball count just once.

Gladden's slam, the first in the World Series since 1970, capped a seven-run explosion in the fourth inning, the biggest Series outburst in 19 years. The Twins, whose starting lineup ou-thomered St. Louis' 173-32 this season, made it 9-1 in the fifth on Steve Lombar-dozzi's two-run homer. Viola was supposed to be best man at his brother's wedding this day in East Meadow, N.Y., and instead was the game's best pitcher. He threw 100 pitches, 71 for strikes, and the only run scored on him came on on a bloop double, flyball and Joe Magrane, the first rookie left-hander ever to start the first game of a World Series, wore earplugs to block out the noise of 55,171 fans, but he couldn't block out the Twins' batters.

Magrane extended the Cardinals' postseason scoreless-inning streak to 25 before Minnesota broke loose during a six-pitch outburst in the fourth. Gary Gaetti and Don Baylor led off with singles on first pitches and Tom Brunan-sky's single on an 1-0 count loaded the bases. That sent pitching coach Mike Roarke to the mound, got Bob Forsch warming in the bullpen and had the screaming fans swirling their good-luck handkerchiefs. Kent Hrbek, just 3-for-20 In the Twins' playoff victory over Detroit, rewarded them with a two-run single up the middle on an ft 1 pitch. Lombardozzi walked to reload the bases See Twins, Page 13C Sun ptaMtravher Urn DtVtnry USC's Harold Green gets a piece of his 132 rushing yards Paladins' mistakes pave Appalachian trail By Scott Peterson Greenville News COLUMBIA South Carolina reversed Its offensive theory and used big plays by its defense and special teams to pound punch! ess Vjginia 58-10 Saturday in front of 67,638 fans at Williams-Brice Stadium.

The victory impressed representatives of the Peach and All-American bowls, padded the Gamecocks record to 4-2 and atoned for a 30-20 loss last year at Charlottesville that was of USC's worst outings of the season. Saturday, the roles were reversed. The Gamecocks amassed 572 yards offense against a Virginia defense that played without two of its top four tacklers and counted on only limited service from a third. Meanwhile, USC's 12th-ranked defense held Virginia to 96 rushing yards and caused six Cavaliers turnovers. Using the I formation for only the second week, the Gamecocks were perfectly balanced on offense rushing 51 times for 286 yards far and away the highest numbers since adopting the run-and-shoot last season and completing 19 of 33 passes for 286 yards.

If Virginia was surprised that USC ran out of the I so many times, consider its dismay at the performance of Harold Green, who rushed 23 times for a career-high 132 yards just 13 days after undergoing arthroscopic surgery. Green, who ran for 81 yards against the Cavaliers in only his second collegiate game last season, gained more yardage than the entire Virginia squad (96), including 77 and one touchdown in the first half when the Gamecocks established themselves on the ground by gaining 187 yards. "My knee was pretty strong after having surgery and I went through practice all week and felt fine," Green said. "I didn't know how much I would play, but once I got in there I felt confident and just took it to the limit. I've been out of the I for two years, but I never felt I lost the ability to run in the I.

It's just getting back there and getting a chance to run more. "I really didn't know how much we could Twins Gladden, Viola outshine Metrodome Nittmo tried three long field goals and IF MINNEAPOLIS It was expected that the dominant feature of the Minneapolis end of this World SFries would not be the athletes but the much maligned Metro-dome itself. But the arena played a distant second to the man of the hour Saturday night, 30-year-old Dan Gladden, the left fielder for the Minnesota Twins. The bases loaded home run Gladden hit in the fourth inning of this World Series opener was a 386-foot blast that didn't need treacherous lighting, hard surfaces, a windless indoors or any other assistance. All it needed was a place to land to become the first grand slam homer in World Series play in 17 years, and only the 13th in all 84 Series years.

And regardless of where or what year the others happened, they couldn't have triggered a more deafening response than Gladden's, or a more dejected expression than that of St. Louis relief! pitcher Bob By Abe Hardesty The Greenville News Furman's 16-8 loss to third-ranked Appalachian State was hard to swallow and easy to explain. "We beat ourselves," said Paladin coach Jimmy Satterfield. "The way our defense played, we should have won the game. But we kept stopping ourselves on offense, and we couldn't overcome that." The self-infliction came in the form of four turnovers three which led directly to ASU scores and erased Furman's flickering hope of climbing back into the Southern Conference title picture.

The turnovers came on a balmy homecoming afternoon in which the Mountaineers, who lead the league in field-goal kicking and turnover ratio, used Bjorn Nittmo's perfect long-range kicking to take the lead and flawless ball-handling to keep it. hit them all from 49, 41 and 42 yards as the Mountaineers grabbed a 9-0 half-time lead even though only one of the scoring drives was longer than two yards. In the meantime, four of Furman's first five possessions ended in frustration: lost fumbles killed two drives, a tipped pass became an interception on another, and the only field-goal attempt was blocked. The second half began with an interception that set up ASU's only touchdown on a 6-play, 13-yard drive and put Fur-man behind 16-0. The Paladins (4-3) responded with an 80-yard touchdown drive early in the fourth quarter, but ran out of downs on their last two series.

The point production was Furman's lowest in 40 regular-season games and the lowest in a regular-season game at home See Furman, Paige IOC Forsch. The noise generated by the 55,171 fans here by a mere single score has been measured at 110 decibels. It is said that a commercial jet airplane's noise goes about 120. So if a grand slam goes four times a single run you have an idea of how the Metrodome was vibrating about 10 o'clock Saturday night. It should not be said that the slam came without warning.

There was, in a manner of speaking, plenty. run against them, but seeing the openings we See Carolina, Page 15C See Foster, Page 13jC.