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Sun-Sentinel, Monday. August 11,1986 1 1 UM FOOTBALL 'Canes big on brawn but short on breath on the practice field Era -j) sr. wtit. j. I Vf By FRAN LaBELLE Suit Wrnar CORAL CABLES After several dayi of watching his players in the weight room, University of Miami football coach Jimmy Johnson was eager to see what they could do on the field.

Their first test came Sunday afternoon, when the Hurricanes ran 16 110-yard dashes. The backs and receivers had to run each in 17 seconds while the linemen had to run them in 19 seconds or better. Johnson should have stayed in the weight room. "I'm disappointed," Johnson said. "Overall, our players seem to be in good shape, but there are about a dozen who are not in good shape and they will hold back the progress of the rest of the team.

"I think that some of our guys were too busy reading their press clippings rather than working out in the offseason." Until Sunday, Johnson was convinced that his players were ready to go, based on their efforts in the weight room. And among the more impressive achievements was the effort of quarterback Vinny Testa-verde. Weighing 224 pounds, bis heaviest, Testaverde awed onlookers with a bench press of 325 pounds and a vertical jump of 30 'A inches. "This is definitely the strongest I have ever been," said Testaverde, who finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting last year. "I feel really good about everything right now." Testaverde, 22, says he is in good shape because of his outlook toward this season.

"I talk to my dad all the time, and he's told me all along to just sit back and have fun with all the hype regarding the Heisman Trophy," Testaverde said. "So I worked hard to get myself in shape and last week, I went with tackle Ed Davis and his family up to their lake house in Fort Meade. It was a chance for me to get away and relax before the season started. Now, I'm ready to work bard and I know the other guys are ready, too." That certainly seems to be the case based on other results of the strength test Running back Alonzo Highsmith, who weighs 237 pounds, bench-pressed 405 pounds, squat-lifted 505 pounds and his vertical jump was measured at 33 inches. Linebacker George Mira Jr.

benched 445 pounds, and 190-pound defensive back Tolbert Bain joined the 300-pound club in the bench press. Still, the most impressive guy in the weight room is defensive tackle Dan Sileo, a transfer from Mary Some banks whet your appetite with promises of loans, but when it comes right down to it, they dorit always deliver. If you really want fast NCNB.We'11 siveyou an answer in eight business hours or less, guaranteed. And if yourloan is approved.well put the money in your hands in that same record time. Its another way we work to be the best bank in the neighborhood.

Member FDC manage your ess effectively? Dusm land. Sileo, whose uncle is former New York Giants defensive end Andy Robustelli, had the best bench Stress among the nation's college ootball players last year at 535 pounds. He stopped at 610 pounds this season. "I hurt my shoulder a few months ago and I didnt want to put too much of a strain on myself," tho 6-foot-2, 288-pound junior said. "I got over 500 and that's what I wanted.

"I felt pretty good and I probably could have gone 30 or 40 pounds heavier, but there was no sense in it," he said. "I'm feeling good right now. I've gained 45 pounds since I came here last August, and my body fat measures 11 percent. Now, all I have to do is play football" The university's investigation Into the leasing of automobiles by Highsmith, Cleveland Gary and Jerome Brown, as well as the use of a car by Winston Moss to run "er-( rands" for a part-time UM instructor, has prompted observers to take a closer look at other Hurricanes' means of transportation. Testaverde, who has never owned a car, either walks, rides a bicycle or borrows his girlfriend's car when he has to get somewhere.

Then, there is the story of Matt Patchan. A brute of an offensive tackle, the 6-4, 276-pound native of Pittsburgh, bought a 1974 Plymouth Duster from former Miami defensive end Kevin Fagan late last season. Since a mechanic told Fagan the car wouldn't last another two weeks, he let Patchan have it for $20. The car, which has since reached the mark, is still running and its many bumper stickers are a traveling conversation piece. "Yeah, it has a lot more than one bumper sticker," Patchan said.

"But that's what I wanted, a car with all the options. I mean this one is loaded." Highsmith, though surly to the media because of the car investigation, still finds time to clown around with teammates, fans and coaches. Saturday, at the team's Press-Photo Day, Highsmith donned two Big Foot slippers. Actually, that fad was started by tackle Ed Davis, who had them last year. Highsmith 's fashion display did not go unnoticed, especially by one of his teammates, who said, "Check out Alonzo's slippers.

Man, that's how he should have been traveling in the first place." we're going for our third straight championship. We hope this year to go to the Sugar Bowl as SEC champion and prove we should have been there the last two years." Injuries, or lack of them, will play a prominent role in the Gators' success. Because of the NCAA probation, Florida's scholarship roster was reduced to 75 players this season, and 32 of those have never played in a varsity football game. "I feel '86 is the start of feeling the NCAA sanctions," Florida coach Galen Hall said. "It's created a depth problem.

Injuries could keep us from having the kind of season we'd all like to have." Because of the lack of depth, preventive medicine has come into focus. Strength coach Rick Tuten has been stressing conditioning, especially endurance and flexibility. "Players get hurt when they get tired," Tuten said. "When they start thinking about how hot they are and how tired they are, instead of delivering a blow, they take a blow. That's when they get hurt." NOTES: A crowd of 500 showed up Sunday for Gator Fan Picture Day at Florida Field.

Redshirt freshman wide receiver Ben Glover is the only no-show. Hall said Glover had "some personal problems" and didn't know when or if he would report. Florida's all-time leading rusher, Neal Anderson, the Chicago Bears' unsigned top draft pick, graduated Saturday. Hall called it "a fine Brian Massingill has given up quarterbacking and hopes to make the team as a punter. Middle guard Jeff Roth had a wisdom tooth Redshirt freshman guard Chris Birch, an All-State lineman at Taravella High School, will have wrist surgery.

Linebacker Ceroid Dickens, sporting a Mr. haircut, is nursing a dislocated big toe. The SEC's new seven-game conference is set for 1988. The Gators will play Ole Miss and Vanderbilt in 1988 and '89, and Alabama and Tennessee in '90 and '91. UF FOOTBALL i.J.i-iy if i I Gators look ahead to a sweet season You've just announced your biggest sale of the year.

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