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Chf CTmunUf Nfus greenville piedmont Section College football High schools SMCCMEinilbs to Hmskeir chair sue Gamecocks blow lead, lose on road, 30-21 i Outdoors Inside Sunday How the AP, l-AA and NAIA top 20s fared, Page 2C. PC whips Wofford, Page 2C. ACC, SEC, Page 3C. College standings. Page 4C.

Clemson's defensive line has inter-changable parts, Page 7C. High schools. Pages 12C, 13C. ATLANTIC COAST Conference Overall WLT OH Del OMDef Clemson 1 0 0 33 12 4 0 0 42 Wake Forest 1 0 0 21 3 4 0 0 78 28 N.Carolina 1 0 0 30 23 3 2 0 119 99 N. Carolina St.

2 1 0 62 35 2 3 0 76 101 Morvland 1 1 0 35 61 2 2 0 71 106 Virginia 1 1 0 61 38 2 2 0 97 81 Duke 0 1 0 17 42 3 1 0 124 95 Georgia Tech 030 35 801308692 SATURDAY N.C State 17. Georgia TechO Wake Forest 17, Army 13 Auburn 20, N.Carolina 10 VMI at Virginia (n) Duke vs. Rutgers (n) straight at USC for 268 yards, a dozen more than the Gamecocks gained from the arm Todd Ellis. He completed 17 of 36 passes but was sacked six times and intercepted three times. Carolina's running game was a no-show finishing with a net minus 14 yards on 22 attempts.

See (JSC, Page 6C V. his concentration and catches the That was a Carolina fumble which Ne braska recovered at the Carolina 27-yard line, when over nine minutes of time and only two points of Carolina's lead remained. Those who had watched South Carolina lead Nebraska into the last two minutes a year ago and watched Nebraska convert a lost Carolina fumble into a 27-24 victory then, may have felt they were watching an old movie again, one they didn't like the first time around. But as the hardnoses say, the games are 60 minutes, not 58, or 50. And this one, like last year's, was too long.

The effort of Carolina's defense de 9s final scores cloud some great Sunday, October 4, 1987 re -s V'" USC's Jones Andrews keeps worse for the 17-point favorites before they got any better. Specifically, Carolina had a 21-13 lead, Nebraska's regular quarterback was hurt, and the Gamecocks had the famed Cornhuskers backed up at the Nebraska 4-yard line. "Things looked pretty bleak," recalled Nebraska coach Tom Osborne. But the other teams have heroes too. And Nebraska's backup quarterback, Clete Blakeman, did the job simply because he had to.

The Cornhuskers did much to help themselves, and they got one monumental break that seemed to write the verdict for this game. Suit ptam of raptor Wary Vftullt some of his 2 1 3 yards rushing FSCI, 26-25 utes remaining, had three chances to win in the final 6y2 minutes but wasted eacn opportunity. Derek Schmidt, who kicked field goals of 36 and 25 yards but missed a 29-yarder in the third quarter as well as a conversion attempt following Florida State's second touchdown, was wide right on a 31-yard try with 6:17 remaining. With 3:29 left, quarterback Danny McManus fumbled a snap from center and Ail-American free safety Bennie Blades recovered for Miami at the 11. The Hurricanes scored the winning touchdown four plays later.

Finally, McManus threw an 18-yard See Miami, Page 6C 11 By Scott Peterson The Greenville News LINCOLN, Neb. South Carolina has added another thrilling and ultimately sorrowful chapter to the deflating saga of The One That Got Away. Second-ranked Nebraska scored 17 points in the final 10 minutes Saturday to rally for a 30-21 victory and avoid what would have been the biggest upset of this college football season. Instead, well, you know the story by now. "It doesn't seem like we can win the close ones that we can put them away," said nose guard Roy Hart, one of the leaders of a stout defensive performance with 16 tackles against the Cornhuskers.

"We made some crucial mistakes and because of the calibre of team Nebraska is, they took advantage of them." It was because Hart and his defensive teammates labored on the field for slightly less than two-thirds of the game that USC (2-2) let it slip out of its grasp and keep Nebraska (4-0) in the running for a national championship. Though the Husker offense operated without quarterback Steve Taylor for the entire fourth quarter, powerful Nebraska didn't miss a beat. It offset the run-and-shoot by running Nebraska LINCOLN, Neb. Next month, or a year from now, the final score will still be Nebraska 30, South Carolina 21, and it won't give a clue as to what might have been. The stats won't help much either, because you're not supposed to win games in which you don't run the ball well.

The numbers from Saturday won't give a hint of the almost paralyzing fear that hung over Nebraska's Memorial Stadium for a quarter of an hour. But the Carolina Gamecocks scared a bunch of people as they threatened to bring off the most prestigious victory in the school's history. It will take at least a few days for the wman acts -Herd By Abe Hardesty News staff writer There was an uncanny mesh of contrasting teams and predictable yet dramatic events at Paladin Stadium Saturday. In one corner of the Southern Conference fight was a Marshall team filled with championship aspirations. Owner of the nation's most productive passing arm, it nearly buried urman under 428 passing yards.

Winning TD went 'just as Page 11C. In the other corner was Furman, which came into the game dragging the weight of two consecutive losses. Seemingly overmatched in speed as well as size, it somehow overcame five turnovers to forge a fourth-quarter tie. And then, for the 12th time in 12 Furman-Marshall duels, Furman wrestled away the victory in front of 13,122 fans. The score was 42-36, the highest totals for two teams and the highest for a visiting team in the stadium's eight-year history.

The triumph was paved largely by an offense that responded to Marshall's barrage with the nowerful lees of iunior tailback John Bagwell, who rushed for stadium records of See Furman, Page 6C Union: players must have pact to play $0 1 ft The AMKiclalHl Preu ball in front of Steve Forch moments serves better than the nine-point margin of Nebraska's victory, or the memory that the Cornhuskers were knocking at the Carolina 2 when the game ended. When an underdog has spent itself, with visions of a big upset, and then seen it slip away, those closing minutes can be the kind they'd rather forget. They don't, have the same energy or vision they had when greatness seemed to beckon. Osborne could empathize. Afterwards he said if Carolina didn't let down after this disappointment, "they will be very good." See Foster, Page 6C NFL strike: Day 12 NF-GOTIATIONS: None scheduled Saturday or in the near luture CHANCES AT SETTLEMENT: Slim.

Doug Allen, assistant to union chiet Gene Upshaw, said, "Going back to work without a contract is not under consideration Cardinal running back Stump Mitchell said Upshaw told the Cardinals he wasn't going to allow the players to lose much more money The Falcons don't know what to expect against Steelers, Page 9C. Mike Hold talks about becoming a non-union Tampa Bay player, Page 9C. meeting. "He doesn't want to see us hurt. "He said that one of the things that could be done is to have us go back in and play without an agreement, rather than sign one now that he can't live with." But Allen, Upshaw's assistant, Saturday was adamant about the strike continuing until a contract was signed.

See NFL, Page 1 1C Tht AftMCiatcd 9nm Alan Trammeir is surrounded after his game-winning single MS The Associated Press NEW YORK The NFL's "second season" begins Sunday with the striking players' union vowing to remain out until a contract is signed. After a weekend of games cancelled by the walkout, 13 games were scheduled Sunday, with the teams consisting of free agent replacement players and about 90 regulars who have crossed the picket lines. The third week of the season all games will count ends Monday night with the San Francisco 49ers at the New York Giants. "Going back to work without a contract is not under consideration," Doug Allen, assistant executive director of the NFL Players Association, said Saturday. "That's the story that's been planted by management to try to intimidate the players." Friday, union leader Gene Upshaw met with striking players of the St.

Louis Cardinals. "Gene said he wasn't going to allow us to lose much more money," Cardinals running back Stump Mitchell said after the crowd of 76,061 to dismiss from its mind the awful situation in which it viewed Nebraska's football hopes in the middle of the third quarter. Not only had the Gamecocks from Columbia outscored the nation's No. 2 ranked team, but it appeared things could get Furman's John Bagwell gains "We showed a great deal of character, a great deal of patience and a great deal of poise," said Walsh, who passed 49 yards to fullback Melvin Bratton with 57 seconds left in the third period and 26 yards to Irvin at 3:21 of the final period. He also hit Brian Blades and Warren Williams with two-point conversion passes, the second of which tied the score 19-19.

"Mike (Irvin) came to me and said, 'Get me the That's the kind of player he is." Irvin, Miami's career leader in reception yardage, said he "kept telling them (the coaches) to get me the ball. Maybe I Shouldn't do that, but that's the way I relt." Florida State, which led 19-3 with 16 min I W'J Iff (L Detroit a win away 'Canes' late storm wrecks The Associated Press DETROIT Detroit's Alan Trammell says "the tide has turned, somewhat," and the Tigers are one victory away from their second American League East title in four years. Trammell's grounder definitely turned the wrong way for shortstop Manny Lee. Trammell singled under Lee's glove with the bases loaded In the 12th inning Saturday to give the Tigers a 3-2 victory over Toronto and a one-game lead in the AL East with only the season finale left against the Blue Jays Sunday at Tiger Stadium. "We'd certainly like to close it out (Sunday)," Trammell said, "but the way this has been going.

Hey, I can't imagine this being any more intense, but it certainly has put us in an excellent position." Detroit, which won the division in 1984 en route to a World Series championship, could clinch the AL East outright by beating Toronto Sunday. If Toronto should win, the division will be settled in a one-game playoff here Monday. "We've been down before," Blue Jays See Tigers, Page 11C The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Steve Walsh has been under a microscope as the successor to Vinny Testaverde, Miami of Florida's Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback. On Saturday, after almost three quarters of misery, the 6-foot-3 sophomore from St.

Paul, earned his place in the sun and the college football spotlight. Held to eight completions in his first 20 attempts against a ferocious Florida State defense, Walsh passed for three touchdowns in the final 16 minutes, including a 73-yarder to flanker Michael Irvin with :22 left, that gave third-ranked Miami a stunning 26-25 victory over the No. 4.