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i Digest Redskins' game B2 For the record B4 On campus B4 High schools B5-7 College scoreboard BIO Sidelines Bll Outdoors B14 Fitness B14 Cooke not cooked If you think Redskins' owner Jack Kent Cooke lost his shirt financially last weekend, you're wrong. Thanks to the NFL TV contract, he still probably made over a million dollars. Page B2 JMU puts on show Madison quarterback Eric Green ran the option to perfection as he engineered a 41-3 mauling of the Richmond Spiders. The Dukes piled up 410 yards rushing in beating Richmond for the first time. Page B3 The Top 20 Bobby Allison on the pole today for Charlotte race The veteran Allison (at left) led the pack in qualifying with a record-setting run of 171.636 miles per hour.

See stories on Page B8. 1. Oklahoma del. Texas 44-9 2. Nebraska del.

Kansas 54-2 3. Miami def. Maryland 46-16 4. Notre Dame lost to Pitt 30-22 5. Auburn del.

Vanderbllt 48-15 6. Florida St def. So. Miss 61-10 9. Ohio State lost to Indiana 31-10 12.

Michigan lost to Mich. St. 17-11 lost to Memphis St 13-10 Page B12 1 4 1 i if Sf Sunday, October 11, 1987 section eriaan th bla 8 81 i ifts Tigers Clemson clobbers Virginia By DAVE FAIRBANK Staff Writer CLEMSON, S.C. Certainly one day Virginia's football team will snap its albatross of a losing streak against Clemson. On that day the Cavaliers will not squander scoring opportunities.

They will run the ball effectively and catch passes on third down. And they will do a creditable job of slowing Clemson's rushing attack. But until Virginia musters the required defensive effort, figure on one of college football's epic streaks of futility to continue. A season-high 403 yards rushing and just enough defense from a platoon of talented athletes earned Clemson's 27th consecutive victory over Virginia on Saturday, 38-21, in front of a festive Homecoming crowd of 80,500 and a regional TV audience at Frank Howard Field. Virginia's players and coaches had no complaints about an offensive performance that doubled stingy Clemson's per-game allowance in points and yardage.

The Cavaliers' defense simply was not up to stopping Clemson. "The offensive line made it very easy for the backs," said Clemson tailback Terry Allen. "The holes were there all day long." Allen, a redshirt freshman, galloped through milk truck-sized holes for a career-high 183 yards on 27 carries. Sophomore Wesley McFadden added 119 yards on 18 carries, marking the first time in two years that Clemson has had two backs gain more than 100 yards in the same game. "That was our plan," Allen said.

"Just to run right at them." In the first half alone Clemson rushed for 256 yards, soundly snapping Virginia's string of See Tigers, Page B3 AP photo DETROIT (AP) Pat Sheridan and Mike Henneman shared a rare place in the playoff spotlight Saturday. Sheridan, seldom-used and slumping badly at the end of the season, hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning that gave the Detroit Tigers a 7-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins in Game 3 of the American League playoffs. The rookie Henneman, ineffective in Game 1, was the winner with three scoreless innings of relief, stopping a leak that had allowed the Twins to come back from a 5-0 deficit to lead 6-5. Thus, the Tigers avoided a plight from which no playoff team ever has recovered. The Twins won the first two games, and no team ever has come back to win a seven-game postseason series after falling three games behind.

"This will tell you how my career has gone," Sheridan said in the postgame news conference. "I've never been to one of these before. I guess my career just started slow and tapered off somewhere. "I've never been in the limelight, and I probably wouldn't be very good at it," Sheridan said. Sheridan's last homer came Aug.

20 against the Twins. That time it was off Keith Atherton. This time, it was against Jeff Reardon as the Twins and Tigers reversed bullpen fortunes. The Twins bullpen had a win and a save in the first two games. Henneman pitched to two batters, walking them both, in the opener at Minnesota.

"I was a little more jittery in Minneapolis," Henneman said. "Over there, we had 55,000 peo- Tigers' Kirk Gibson beats throw to Twins' Steve Lombarozzi in third inning. Tonight's game, 8:25 p.m., WAVY TV-Channel 10 pie yelling at us. This time, we have 50,000 yelling for us. Greg Gagne and Tom Bru-nansky had homered earlier for the Twins, but Brunansky may have cost his club at least one run with a baserunning blunder in the third inning.

Henneman came on for Walt Terrell in the seventh and gave up a two-run, two-out single to Gary Gaetti that put Minnesota ahead 6-5. "I gave up that hit to Gaetti, and I really wanted him bad," Henneman said. And he later got him. He struck out Gaetti to end the game and send the Tigers into Game 4 with a chance for a tie in this series. The Tigers will send lefthander Frank Tanana, 15-10, against the Twins' first-game starter, Frank Viola, 17-10, Sunday night.

"We got behind the first two games, but we came back," Twins Manager Tom Kelly said. "It was 5-0 today against Walt Terrell at Tiger Stadium, but we came back and got the lead. We were battling all the way, but the Tigers didn't give up ei-ther. We saw that." The Game 3 matchups were set up for a Detroit win. The Tigers were returning home, where they were 54-27 during the season.

That home record was second only to Minnesota's 56-25 this season. The Twins, on the other hand, were 29-52 on the road, the worst traveling record of any division or pennant winner in history. Terrell was 15-10 during the season but 13-2 at home. The See Tigers, Page B2 Giants overpower Cards SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Jeffrey Leonard and the San Francisco Giants switched on the power and Mike Krukow shut off the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2, evening the National League playoffs at two games apiece.

Leonard set a record by homering in his fourth consecutive game and tied the mark for homers in a series. He now has seven hits in 13 at-bats in the playoffs. His contract provides for a bonus if he is named most valuable player in the playoffs. "This is a lot better than other Octobers," said Leonard, still bothered by a hamstring Robby Thompson and Bob Brenly also connected against starter Danny Cox for the Giants, who out-homered St. Louis 205-94 this season.

"He (Cox) didn't complain at all about the cold weather," St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog said. "Those three home runs did him in." Krukow, a 20-game winner last season who lost his spot in the rotation this year because of inconsistency, overcame RBI singles by pitcher Danny Cox and Vince Coleman in the second inning to finish with a nine-hitter. He struck out three and See Giants, Page B2 Today's game at 4:35, WAVY TV-Channel 10 injury that put him out of action for a month. "But I'm still not running at 100 percent." Against the Cardinals, Leonard has not had to run.

Instead, he has been taking some of the slowest home-run trots in history. It was his two-run drive into the swirling wind at Candlestick Park that put the Giants ahead 3-2 in the fifth inning. "I knew I hit it real good," Leonard said. "Help of the wind, see you later." offensive shootout, 40-34 Yale tops By CHARLIE DENN Staff Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. It will go down as a game which had a memorable ending for the William and Mary Indians.

Or maybe unforgettable would be more appropriate. The Indians battled back from an 11-point third-quarter deficit to take the lead against Yale in the closing pened, because after Yale scored the winning points, the Indians managed to get off three plays. But it was close enough for Laycock. After a Steve Christie field goal boosted the Indians on top, 34-33, with 2:27 to go, Yale took over at its 20-yard line. The Bulldogs moved down to the 33 but faced a seemingly-difficult 3rd-and-19 situation.

But quarterback Kelly Ryan survived some intense pressure and lofted a 25-yard strike to Tom Szuba for a first down at the 7. Two plays later, with Yale out of timeouts and the ball on the 3, running back Mike Stewart took a pitch-out and headed around the left side. He pulled up and hit Dean Athanasia with a TD pass for the margin of victory. Athanasia made a miraculous catch, a diving grab in which his body was fully extended in the left corner of the minutes. But the Bulldogs came right back with the winning drive and scored with 23 seconds left to pull out a wild 40-34 triumph over the Indians Saturday in the Yale Bowl.

"They couldn't seem to stop us," said Coach Jimmye Laycock, "but we couldn't stop them, either. It boiled down to a matter of the team which got the ball last probably being the one that would win." That wasn't quite the way it hap end zone. "We've worked on that play all week," said Yale Coach Carm Cozza. "Stewart was a high school quarterback and we've toyed with the idea of using it. William and Mary de-fensed it well, and they put pressure on Mike.

It had to be a perfect pass and a perfect catch and it was." Stewart was a nemesis to the Indians all day. He finished with 188 yards See Page B9 NFL owners balk at new proposal on free asencv issue TYSONS CORNER, Va. (AP) ft ing to their contention that the major roadblocks were the owners' pension proposals and their demand for a six-year contract instead of a three-year if rr? y.r I Despite the impediments, Gamecocks demolish Tech, 40-10 By RICH RADFORD Staff Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. In a game matching two teams that are headed in completely opposite directions, the University of South Carolina stepped on a Virginia Tech squad when it was already down Saturday afternoon. Behind the expert leadership of quarterback Todd Ellis, the Gamecocks picked apart a Tech defensive secondary already wrecked by injury and academic shortcomings and thrashed the Hokies 40-10 before a homecoming and capacity crowd of 73,150 at Williams-Brice Stadium.

The victory left South Carolina at 3-2 with a home date against Virginia upcoming. Tech fell to 1-4 and plays its homecoming against East Carolina this week. Although only a sophomore, Ellis may be the best collegiate quarterback around and Saturday's performance did little to tarnish that growing image. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound Ellis completed 25-of-41 passes for 334 yards and one touch See Gamecocks, Page B16 both sides agreed to continue the talks. i' The NFL players union disclosed Saturday that it had offered a new proposal on free agency that it said should solve the dub owners' concerns about the system and break the impasse in the 19-day strike.

But Jim Conway, the assistant director of the NFL Management Council, indicated the proposal would be unacceptable, and the negotiations remained bogged down as the league headed for a second Sunday of replacement-team football. "Free agency still remains the main impediment to a settlement." Conway said after the new plan was disclosed, calling it the "11th different version of free agency we've seen." Nonetheless, talks continued between Jack Donlan for management and Gene Upshaw for the union with the players stick- The new proposal on free agency, disclosed by union official Doug Allen, was the first public airing by the players of their new position. It came about two hours after Conway had said the union had not moved off its demand for unrestricted free agency. The owners have declined to accept any system that would not incorporate the present system, which gives teams the right of first refusal and provides compensation in the form of draft See Strike. Page B2 A Stiff photo by SCOTT KINGSLEY In heavy traffic Apprentice School fullback James Clouse struggles for yardage against Guilford College Saturday afternoon.

Clouse helped the A's cause with one touchdown but Guilford went on to win a thriller, 24-23. See story on Page B3..