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PAGE 6C THE MUNCIE STAR, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1993 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Purdue first victim of new Wolfpack coach By TOM FOREMAN Jr. AP sports writer RALEIGH, N.C. It rained on Mike 0'Cain's parade, which hardly prevented a celebration for North Carolina State's new football coach. Steve Videtich kicked two field goals and Geoff Bender threw a fourth-quarter touchdown pass as the 24th-ranked Wolfpack sloshed to a 20-7 victory over Purdue on Saturday night. 0'Cain replaced Dick Sheridan, who abruptly stepped down in late June.

His debut was a soggy success. "You go through this transition. You don't ever know how things are going to work out," O'Cain said. "Everybody has handled it exceptionally well. "It could have been a negative, but the way our coaches and players handled it turned it into a positive," he said.

The weather was anything but positive just before game time. Torrents of rain started about an hour before kickoff and continued well into the second quarter. Passing was out of the question in the early minutes, and neither team could move into the opponent's territory in the first quarter. When the skies cleared in the second half, the offenses got going. "I thought a hurricane was coming through," said Bender, who completed 10 of 21 passes for 117 yards.

"It brings back memories of Pittsburgh, where it rains every Friday night." Purdue's season began in controversy. Quarterback Matt Pike was arrested last weekend for underage drinking, and his status was uncertain for the season opener. Rick Trefzger started, but Pike replaced him on Purdue's second series. The Boilermakers were within 13-7 after Pike's 17-yard scoring N.C. Purdue Purdue N.C.

State 818 3 7-20 -Downs 5 run (Videtich kick) NCS-FG Videtich 24 -Hill 17 pass from Pike (Bobich kick) NCS-FG Videtich 39 NCS-Goines 11 pass from Bender (Videtich kick) Pur NCS First downs 13 21 Rushes-yards 35-121 45-200 Passing 93 123 Return Yards I Comp-Att-Int 7-18-1 11-22-1 Punts Fumbles-Lost 2-0 3-0 Penalties-Yards 6-65 Time of Possession 26:40 33:20 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS -Purdue, Alstott 13-55, Conners 10-46, Rogers 6-24. N. Carolina Downs 20-94, George 12-56, Fitzgerald 7- 20. -Purdue, Pike 7-18-1-93. N.

Carolina Bender 10-21-1-117, Harvey 1-1-0-6. RECEIVING -Purdue, Ross 3-47, Thornton 2-14. N. Carolina Goines 4- 69, Dickerson 3-24. drive of the second half.

Purdue got a chance to take the lead almost immediately on Jayme Washel's interception at the N.C. State 39 three plays after the kickoff. But the Boilermakers failed to capitalize and punted back to the Wolfpack. N.C. State drove to the Purdue 22, where Videtich kicked his second field goal, a 39-yarder with 6:31 remaining in the third quarter.

After the Wolfpack punted from the Purdue 28 on its next possession, the Boilermakers marched to the Wolfpack 13, but Brad Bobich missed a 30-yard field goal attempt. "Right now, our team doesn't respond well to unfortunate situations," Purdue coach Jim Colletto said. "We cannot win by making errors." pass to Jeff Hill on the opening Sycamores put brief 'scare' into Air Force By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS State AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. Air Force coach Fisher DeBerry was "scared to death" of Indiana State, a Division I-AA football team with a history of opening against higher-level opponents. At least until near the end of the first quarter, when the Falcons scored two quick touchdowns to go ahead 14-7 en route to a 63-21 blowout of the outgunned Sycamores on Saturday.

"It was a good win for us, and it's only the beginning," DeBerry said. Indiana State, which plays in the Gateway Conference, was plenty tough for the first few minutes, scoring on its first drive. That was before Air Force quarterback Scott Teigen and halfbacks Jake Campbell and Jeremy Johnson got into gear. Teigen, a senior making his first start, was impressive in directing the run- Air Force wishbone attack. "He threw the ball well, and for the most part, he got us in the right play," DeBerry said.

"He did an outstanding job of pitching the ball and getting us to the corner." Air Force led 42-14 before Teigen was replaced at the beginning of the fourth quarter by Demond Cash. Indiana State coach Dennis Raetz offered DeBerry some advice. "I don't want to tell coach DeBerry who to play, but Cash is really a load. He's a heck of an ASSOCIATED PRESS PENN STATE'S BOBBY ENGRAM HEADS FOR ONE OF HIS FOUR TOUCHDOWNS Roderick Narcisse, Minnesota can't stop Nittany Lions in Big Ten opener Saturday Coaches apologize for sorry game By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LINCOLN, Neb. Things got so out of hand in No.

9 Nebraska's game with Division I-AA North Texas that each coach felt the need to apologize. Reserve quarterbacks Brook Berringer and Tony Veland accounted for five touchdowns Saturday as the Cornhuskers opened with a 76-14 rout of the outmanned Eagles. Starter Tommie Frazier sprained his ankle on the second play of the game, but it hardly mattered. Nebraska scored the first five times it had the ball, and the longest of its 10 touchdown drives required only 3 minutes, 19 seconds. "I was a little sorry about the score, but I don't know what to do about it," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said.

"I'm not sure what this proves. I think we've got a good team. I've said that all downs and threw for one, and Berringer ran for two to touchVeland passed for one and ran for another. "It was a real nightmare," North Texas coach Dennis Parker said. "If they are asking coach Osborne about not letting the score get run up this bad, that's our fault.

I take all the blame for us losing the ball game 76-14. I apologize to coach Osborne for us not being a more worthy opponent." Nebraska also lost running back Calvin Jones to a knee sprain early in the second half, after he had scored twice and rushed for 124 yards on 16 carries. "Other than the injuries it was a good performance," Osborne said. "But when you factor in the injuries, it's not so good. We're 1 like anybody else in the country.

We have one or two players we can't afford to lose, and that starts with Tommie Frazier and Calvin Jones." Osborne said Frazier could have returned to the game. Berringer completed all seven of his passes for 124 yards, finding split end Corey Dixon for a 33-yard touchdown on Nebraska's first possession. athlete," Raetz said. Teigen scored on a 2-yard run in the first quarter and threw touchdown passes to Campbell and halfback Obasi Onuoha in the second quarter. Dre Knox, a freshman from Muncie Central, stopped an Air Force drive with an interception on the goal line and ran the ball back to the 23.

Urbana 49, Taylor 21: Trip Hopkins opened the game with a 94-yard kickoff return and scored twice more on long pass plays as Urbana opened the season with a 49-21 victory over Taylor at Urbana, Ohio. Hopkins's other two touchdowns came on pass plays that covered 56 and 49 yards from quarterback Ron Wallace. Manchester 24, Earlham 6: Willie Rivera scrambled for one touchdown and passed for two more as Manchester opened its season with a 24-6 victory over Earlham at Richmond, Ind. Rivera, who passed for 283 yards, connected on third-quarter scoring tosses of 27 yards to Jeremy Markham and 9 yards to Andy Linville, making it 24-0. Wayne State 34, Indianapolis 31: Mark Friday completed a game-winning touchdown pass to cap a second-half charge that carried Wayne State past Indianapolis 34-31 in a Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference game at Indianapolis.

The Greyhounds led 31-26 before Friday put Wayne State ahead with an 11-yard scoring pass to Richard Hall with 5:36 to play. They teamed up again for a two-point conversion. Grand Valley State 38, St. Joseph's 14: Rusty Setzer ran for two touchdowns, including an 89-yard dash in the second quarter, as Grand Valley State beat St. Joseph's (Ind.) 38-14 at Allendale, Mich.

Setzer had 12 carries for 199 yards. His second touchdown was a 42-yard carry in the third quarter of the Michigan Intercollegiate Football Conference matchup. Top 25 Veland completed six of nine for 76 yards with one interception. His 11-yard pass to Abdul Muhammad capped a 28-point Nebraska first quarter. Florida State 45, Duke 7: A muddy field couldn't slow down No.

1 Florida State and Charlie Ward as the Seminoles rolled over Duke 45-7 at Durham, N.C. Ward completed 22 of 31 passes for 272 yards and two touchdowns. The senior also ran for another score as the defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions manhandled the Blue Devils along the line of scrimmage in winning their ninth straight league game. Sean Jackson complemented Ward's passing with 107 yards rushing 13 carries, while the Florida State defense held Duke without a rushing yard in the opening half. The Seminoles missed out on a second straight shutout when the Blue Devils blocked a punt late in the fourth quarter and scored two plays later.

The game was delayed 15 minutes because of lightning and heavy rain. But the Seminoles (2-0) scored on their first possession and applied the knockout punch with a 22-point second quarter to hand the Blue Devils their 14th straight league loss. Alabama 31, Tulane 17: Alabama began defense of its national championship by piling up 371 yards in the first half and getting two touchdowns from both Sherman Williams and Chris Anderson to beat Tulane 31-17 at Birmingham, Ala. The second-ranked Crimson Tide extended its winning streak to 24 games against a team that went 2-9 last season and came in a 35-point underdog. Miami 23, Boston College 7: Miami's defense, quarterback Frank Costa's successful debut and Dane Prewitt's three long field goals gave the fourth-ranked Hurricanes a 23-7 season-opening victory over 20thranked Boston College at Boston.

Miami had three interceptions and four sacks and repeatedly pressured quarterback Glenn Foley. Costa succeeded Heisman Trophy winner Gino Torretta and threw for 205 yards, including a 63-yarder that set up Donnell Bennett's second id touchdown. He completed 15 of 31 passes. I Texas 24, LSU 0: Texas leading rusher, Greg Hill, was suspended, but the fifth-ranked Aggies didn't need him. After a mistake-filled, scoreless first half, Leeland McElroy caught touchdown passes of 26 and 58 yards and Rodney Thomas ran 80 yards for a score, igniting Texas to a 24-0 victory over Louisiana State at College Station, Texas.

McElroy, a redshirt freshman playing his first college game, took a screen pass from quarterback Corey Pullig and turned it into a 26-yard touchdown play for first score. McElroy caught the ball behind two blockers, ran around the pileup and down the sideline for the touchdown with 8:40 to play James holds head high as he walks away By JOHN AKERS Knight-Ridder Newspapers SEATTLE The first couple of days, Don James figures he received a supportive phone call every 3 minutes. He and his wife, Carol, returned home once to find the answering machine light flashing 27 times. Then there are the letters he has received and the 153 dozen roses (for every coaching victory at Washington) delivered to him by a local radio station as he watched a Huskies scrimmage. These are among the many reasons James hasn't felt the need to spend the first days of his sudden retirement and the Huskies' probation hiding in disgrace or shame.

Not the least among those reasons is that he believes his program was wronged by the Pacific-10 Conference's decision to hand the Huskies a 2-year bowl ban. "If there was ever any fairness in the judicial system, it ended there," James said. Penn State wins Big Ten debut By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Joe Paterno's smile said it all. Nearly 4 years after announcing it would join the Big Ten, 17thranked Big Ten, MAC Penn State won its first 0 INNESOT4 in the third quarter.

Thomas and McElroy split time at tailback in place of Hill, one of five players suspended for accepting pay for work on summer jobs they didn't perform. Florida 44, Arkansas State 6: The long wait is over for Terry Dean, who took control of Florida's offense and threw for 237 yards and two touchdowns in the eighthranked Gators' 44-6 rout of Arkansas State at Gainesville, Fla. Dean, a fourth-year junior, threw only 45 passes while playing behind two-time Southeastern Conference player of the year Shane Matthews the past three seasons. He completed 16 of 22 in his first college start and finished with a streak of 11 consecutive completions. Tennessee 50, Louisiana Tech 0: Heath Shuler threw three touchdown passes and No.

10 Tennessee rolled past Louisiana Tech 50-0 at Knoxville, in Phillip Fulmer's first on game as coach of the Volunteers. Fulmer served as interim head coach for the first three games last season while Johnny Majors was recuperating from heart surgery. Majors returned to finish the regular season, but was forced to resign after the regular season. Fulmer took over the program in December and led the Volunteers past Boston College in the Hall of Fame Bowl. Washington 31, Stanford 14: Washington took all its frustrations on Stanford.

Angered Pac-10 sanctions and Bill Walsh's criticism of their program, the 12thranked Huskies retaliated by routing No. 15 Stanford 31-14 at Seattle in their first game under coach Jim Lambright. Sophomore Damon Huard threw three touchdown passes and ran for another in his first career start, and Napoleon Kaufman rushed for 195 yards as Washington beat Stanford for the 10th straight time. South Carolina 23, Georgia 21: Brandon Bennett hurdled into the end zone from a yard out with 2 seconds remaining to give South Carolina a 23-21 victory over No. 14 Georgia at Athens, Ga.

The Gamecocks blew a 10-point fourthquarter lead, then drove 52 yards in the final 2:52 to capture the Southeastern Conference game. Sophomore Steve Tanneyhill completed two key passes in the drive, a 35-yarder to Stanley Pritchell to the 15 followed by a 13- yarder to Boomer Foster. Clemson 24, UNLV 14: Clemson shook up its offense and changed its fortunes as Patrick Sapp threw for two touchdowns and the 22nd-ranked Tigers opened with a 24-14 victory over UNLV at Clemson, S.C. Sapp, a strong-armed sophomore who completed 10 of 14 passes for 194 yards, threw a 13-yard pass to Terry Smith to put the Tigers ahead 17-14. 25-yard pass to Marcus Hinton set up a 1-yard scoring run by Rodney Blunt.

Those scores came after UNLV had awakened memories of Clemson's struggle with Ball State in last season's opener, when the Tigers needed two late TDs to break away from a 10-10 tie. on its own investigation, which covered 8 months and 225 interviews and led to a 761-page response to the Pac-10 charges. Not all the charges stuck. The most serious, according to the Pac-10, involved recruiting trips that provided current players with only a few extra $10s and $20s but left the Huskies with a "competitive advantage." The Hobert loan was undeniably wrong, but the Pac-10 acknowledged that Huskies coaches weren't in a position to know about it. The boosters who provided summer jobs also were found innocent of trying to give Washington an edge.

Yet the Pac-10, the only conference that polices itself, gave the Huskies a stiffer penalty than the NCAA gave an Auburn program whose coach was found guilty of paying his players. "I'm astounded," said Patrick Walsh, an attorney for a booster named in the allegations. "Where's the money? Where's the girls? Where's the drugs?" conference football game Saturday, beating Minnesota 38-20 behind John Sacca's four touchdown passes to Bobby Engram. "I feel pretty good. I'd be dishonest if I told you otherwise," said Paterno, still grinning broadly a half-hour after the game.

"I went into the game with some anxiety," he said. "You want to start right, and I feel pretty good about it. I don't mean that in a gloating sense, but I feel good about it." Sacca completed his first six passes, including TD passes of 29, 31 and 20 yards in the first quarter, and finished 18 of 32 for 274 yards. Engram, suspended from the team last year after being caught breaking into an apartment, marked his return by catching eight passes for 165 yards. His four scores broke the school receiving record of two.

The Nittany Lions clinched the victory on Sacca's 31-yard touchdown pass to Engram in the fourth quarter, three plays after taking over on Minnesota's failed fake punt. "I thought it was there," Minnesota coach Jim Wacker said. "I thought we'd run for 30 stinking yards." The play gained 2 yards. "Jim has a history of trying that stuff," Paterno said. Michigan 41, Washington State 14: Todd Collins made Michigan fans forget about Elvis in a hurry.

Collins, in his first start since Elvis Grbac graduated, threw for 265 yards and three touchdowns as the third-ranked Wolverines rolled over Washington State 41-14 at Ann Arbor, Mich. Kevin Hicks scored both Washington State touchdowns, on a 97-yard kickoff return and a 3-yard pass from Mike Pattinson. Pattinson, taking over for top NFL draft pick Drew Bledsoe, completed 19 of 33 passes for 139 yards with one interception. Michigan rolled up 453 yards and held the Cougars to 220 yards. Collins completed 19 of 29 with no interceptions before sitting down early in the fourth quarter.

Two of his scoring tosses were to Mercury Hayes, who had eight catches for 105 yards. Tyrone Wheatley, picking up from his MVP performance in the Rose Bowl, ran for 117 yards on 15 carries, including a 59-yard touchdown burst. Michigan's veteran defense didn't let the Cougars past midfield until the third quarter. Michigan also came up with two turnovers and converted both to scores. around Iowa left 26, end Tulsa for 25: touchdown Ryan Terry with raced a less than a minute left and Iowa converted a two-point play for the winning points as the Hawkeyes rallied for a 26-25 victory over Tulsa at Iowa City, Iowa.

Iowa's Todd Romano added a record-tying. four field goals. Tulsa had gone ahead when Solomon White broke several tackles and scored on a 38-yard screen pass from quarterback Gus Frerotte with 8:16 to play. Frerotte then hit Chris Penn for a two-point conversion to make it 25-18. Iowa's Paul Burmeister was intercepted on the ensuing possession, but the Golden Hurricane failed to move the ball.

A punt was downed at the Iowa 4, and from there Burmeister began the winning drive. Ohio State 34, Rice 7: Rice coach Fred Goldsmith said he felt badly for the first national TV audience to see the Owls since 1954 after a 34-7 loss to 18th-ranked Ohio State at Columbus, Ohio. "I'm real disappointed in our performance because I'm sure we bored the dickens out of that TV audience," Goldsmith said. "I feel sorry for those ESPN Ohio State did its part in turning the game into a yawner, all but shutting down Rice's offense while methodically racking up points. It reached the point that one of the biggest roars from an Ohio Stadium crowd of 89,040 came when a squirrel ran onto the field during the fourth quarter.

Wisconsin 35, Nevada 17: Darrell Bevell threw a school-record five touchdown passes and Wisconsin made four interceptions as the Badgers beat Nevada 35-17 at Madison, Wis. Bevell, a sophomore 2 years removed from a Mormon mission, hit J.C. Dawkins with scoring passes of 49 and 16 yards in the second half as the Badgers pulled away. Bevell completed 19 of 27 passes for 263 yards. The Badgers intercepted Chris Vargas four times in the first half to go ahead 14-3.

Bevell then led an 80-yard scoring drive to open the second half. Virginia Tech 33, Bowling Green 16: Maurice DeShazo passed for 214 yards and two touchdowns and Virginia Tech's newlook defense kept Bowling Green out of the end zone until the final seconds in a 33-16 victory at Blacksburg, Va. DeShazo fumbled early in the game to give Bowling Green its first touchdown, but he made up for it by completing 16 of 21 passes. VPI led by only four points before DeShazo directed two long touchdown drives in the third quarter that took 11 minutes off the clock and put the Hokies ahead 27-10. 6: Jake West Kelchner Virginia 48, Eastern Michigan threw for a touchdown and ran for one as West Virginia beat Eastern Michigan 48-6 at Morgantown, W.

Va. The Mountaineers spoiled the debut of Eastern Michigan coach Ron Cooper by scoring on six of their first eight possessions to lead 34-3 at halftime. Eastern Michigan managed just 12. yards on 21 rushes in the half and made it beyond midfield just once before halftime, on a 68- yard screen pass from Michael Armour to Steve Clay. Kentucky 35, Kent 0: Pookie Jones passed 56 and 28 yards for touchdowns and had scoring runs of 9 and 60 yards to power Kentucky to a 35-0 season-opening victory over Kent at Lexington, Ky.

North Carolina 44, Ohio U. 3: Leon Johnson scored two touchdowns and powered a North Carolina ground game that averaged more than 8 yards a carry as the 16th-ranked Tar Heels downed Ohio University 44-3 at Chapel Hill, N.C. "I'm not saying we were totally clean. We made mistakes. But I guarantee you, we didn't do enough to warrant 2 years probation." Don James Former University of Washington football coach Since that day, he has golfed, exercised and checked into his retirement plans.

He'll continue to live in Bellevue from where he made the short hop across the I-520 bridge to Husky Stadium nearly every day for the past 18 years and will attend games. For the first time in 4 years, he'll celebrate his birthday his 61st on New Year's Eve, without a Rose Bowl to worry about. But no matter how high the "Dawgfather" holds his head, his once-impeccable image never will be the same. Though he wasn't named in any charges, he ultimately was responsible under the Pac-10's umbrella indictment of a "lack of institutional control." In some corners, James's sudden resignation was interpreted as an act of cowardice. He said it instead was a spontaneous response to the penalties.

The Pac-10's original recommendation called for a 1-year bowl ban, but James was hoping it would be negotiated down to nothing. When it instead was doubled, he was dumbfounded. He already had won a national title; about all he had left to coach for were the 24 victories needed to reach 200 for his career. He didn't see much reason to continue. "I felt good about my decision right away," he said.

"My initial concern was for my staff and the team. "I didn't enjoy last year at all. But after 14 practices I was enjoying my job again. I never dreamed what would happen. not saying we were totally clean," he said.

"We made mistakes. But I guarantee you, we didn't do enough to warrant 2 years probation." How was one of college football's most respected coaches perhaps the most respected coach knocked off his lofty pedestal? It began the week after last season's Stanford game, when quarterback Billy Joe Hobert, unwittingly believing he'd been cornered, confessed to a Seattle Times reporter that he'd received an improper $50,000 loan and used it toward a wild spending spree. Washington spent some $600,000.