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College football scoreboard 9B NFL preview 12B Major league baseball 16B SuixLy Ma ltjymicryiVcKcrtiscr SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1990 0 UU UV LmZLS ViT vJLi VJf UVJViSr a irus John Kasay's 40-yard field goal with 1:31 left gives Georgia a 17-16 victory By PHILLIP MARSHALL Advertiser Sports Editor Phillip U- i Marshall VYV Advertiser, jf Sports Editor 1 1 111 i.i.i mm inn i I mmmm rr f) is wrapped by Georgia's Andre By MICKEY WELSHStaM Washington (48), Bernard Williams (96) and Ray Von Harten (92) ATHENS, Ga. As the scoreboard clock moved relentlessly toward 0:00, the taunt grew louder. "Oh and three, Oh and three," the Sanford Stadium crowd howled to the skies.

Alabama players stood silently on the sideline. Some wept. Most just stared straight ahead. The scoreboard told the story as Georgia quarterback Preston Jones fell on the ball for the final time. Georgia 17, Alabama 16.

Three games, three losses. Five straight losses dating back to last season. Not since 1956, the days of head coach J.B. "Ears" Whit-worth, has an Alabama team matched that record of futility. Gene Stallings' first season as head coach has become a fullblown disaster.

The Tide followed the same script here Saturday it followed in losses to Southern Mississippi and Florida. Things appeared in good shape going into the fourth quarter. But the wheels ran off. Jones, a sophomore who lost his starting job to Greg Talley, came off the bench with his team trailing 16-6 and provided a winning spark before a sellout crowd Montgomery's Larry Ware, playing against the Tide for the first time, finished off a 71-yard drive with a 3-yard run with 5:53 left in the game. He then tossed a halfback pass to tight end Chris Broom for a two-point conversion that closed the gap to 16-14.

Alabama couldn't make a first down, and Tank Williamson managed just a 31-yard punt. Pleas Ml TIDE, 11B Related storms, 4B, SB considering, "but they pale in the light of the opportunity to join the SEC, one of the premier conferences in the country. I hope we would have a good chance. I'm very excited about that possibility." South Carolina has been an independent in football since leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1971. It is a member of the Metro Conference in basketball Plea see S.

CAROLINA, 11 Six added to state's sports HOF Alabama athletic director Cecil'Hootie' Ingram will be among February's inductees Associated Press Report BIRMINGHAM Alabama athletic director Cecil "Hootie Ingram" will be one of six people inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in Feb ruary, it was announced Saturday. Ingram played football for the Crimson Tide from 1952-54 and was an All-Southeastern Conference selection at de- 4 mniaCie So airoOOma ffffeir Alabama's Derrick Owens-Lassie The school will be extended an invitation to join the league on Tuesday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune says Associated Press Report COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina officials said Saturday they had not heard from the Southeastern Conference, which reportedly will offer the Game Fourth quarter fatal for Tide again ATHENS, Ga. It once struck fear into Alabama opponents. As the fourth quarter arrived, Tide players would thrust four fingers into the air and swagger to the other end of the field.

Coach Paul Bryant called it the "man's quarter." His teams owned that time of the game when the pressure is suffocating. These days, when the fourth quarter comes around, Alabama folds like cheap cardboard. The Tide led Georgia 13-6 after three quarters and 16-6 early in the fourth quarter here Saturday. Georgia won the game 17-16. Last week, Alabama and Florida were tied 10-10 going into the fourth quarter.

Florida won 17-13. A week earlier, Alabama and Southern Mississippi were tied 24-24 going into the fourth quarter. Southern won 27-24. The Tide has been outcored 21-6 in the fourth quarter in losing its first three games for the first time since 1956. Disaster in making Alabama's season is a disaster in the making.

It would take a miraculous turnaround for this team to have a winning record. Even Vanderbilt's visit to Tuscaloosa next Saturday no longer looks like a sure thing. Senior center Roger Shultz, a man who loves to laugh, couldn't even smile Saturday afternoon. For three quarters, Georgia was soundly whipped. But when the game was over, it was the Bulldogs who celebrated.

i "I've never been 0-3 in anything in my life," Shultz said. "I don't know what to do or what to say or anything." Shultz and his teammates are hurting. "We're out their busting our butts," Shultz said. "When you are doing the things you have to do and still aren't winning, it hurts. "We are the ones walking the walk and talking the talk.

We have to go out there and win. "This is ridiculous." The fact that three opponents have taken games away from Alabama in the fourth quarter makes it even harder. "People are going to say Alabama is out of shape because it happens in the fourth quarter," Shultz said. "I know they are going to say that, but we're not out of shape. I don't have any explanations." End George Thornton was among the leaders of a big-play defense that kept Georgia at bay until the final 10 minutes of the-game.

The Tide sacked Georgia quarterback Greg Talley five times. Jones rallies 'Dogs But when Preston Jones replaced Talley, the Bulldogs started to move. Alabama's defense couldn't turn them away. 1 "It's very hard to take," Thornton said. "You look at the aliber of players you have and you know you should be winning.

But you're not. "It's hard to explain. I know I don't understand it." The unhappy fact is this Alabama football team just hasn't been quite good enough. And just when first-year head coach Gene Stallings thought things couldn't get any worse, he learned after the game that he had lost his third offensive starter. Wide receiver Prince Wimbley suffered a season-ending knee injury on Alabama's final offensive play.

He joins tailback Siran Stacy and wide receiver Craig Sanderson on the sideline. But the Tide must go on. The season can't be canceled. Alabama could easily be 3-0, ut that only serves to make it 11 the more frustrating. sucks," Shultz said.

"I'd "We're just waiting to see if the phone will ring," Dixon said during halftime of the Gamecocks football game Saturday at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The Times-Picayune quoted one source as saying: "The invitation to South Carolina will be made on Tuesday, and they'll accept and probably have an afternoon press conference. The announcement could come on Wednesday." Another source told the newspaper that the invitation is cer tain, and the presidents' vote is considered a formality. Dixon said he talked with the school's interim president, Arthur Smith, during the game Saturday. "To the best of my knowledge, he has not been in contact with the SEC," Dixon said.

Dixon said Smith would quickly contact him if South Carolina received word it was to be extended an invitation to join the conference. Dixon said there are other conference options the school is Texas SoaafiCueirirD ecOcijes LMIoirirDefts mi ffDimafl rpDav III IIIIP. H. Il I I I II I WWPW if V' i -iiliL i.i. rl i ii -ii A cocks membership this week.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune quoted unidentified league sources Saturday as saying the SEC will extend an invitation within days for South Carolina to become the league's 12th member. "That's news to me," said SEC commissioner Roy Kramer, in Little Rock, for the Mississippi-Arkansas game. South Carolina athletic director King Dixon said he had not heard from the SEC. rusher for Alabama State with 57 yards on 12 rushes. Toliver had a good night, completing 24 of 47 passes for 274 yards and two touchdowns.

The Hornets were also hurt badly by 102 yards of penalties. The Hornets scored their first points of the game on their first possession. Their first drive started on their 25-yard line. Only three plays later, the Hornets found themselves on the Texas Southern 16. Ricky Jones hit Derrick Roberts for an 11-yard gain for one of the three, but the big play came on Jones' 38-yard pass to "Downtown" Reggie Brown.

Three plays later, the Hornets were on the Texas Southern 10 but had to settle for a 28-yard Thomson field goal, giving them a 3-0 lead with 7:32 remaining in the first quarter. Later in the first quarter, Alabama State mounted a drive that started on the Texas Southern 49. Six plays later, the Hornets were on the Texas Southern 8 but they had to settle for another Thomson field goal, this time from 25 yards out with 1:58 remaining in the first quarter. Texas Southern blew two scoring opportunities in the second quarter. On thier first possesion of the second quarter, the Tigers drove from their 29 to the Alabama State 10 in 10 plays.

But the drive ended when Toliver fumbled on third-and-two from the 10. The Tigers started another drive on the Alabama State 46 with 9:34 left in the half. Nine plays later they were on the Hor- Jamal Robinson's 20-yard field goal provides the winning margin By BRIAN BOURKE Advertiser Sports Writer Jamal Robinson kicked a 20-yard field goal with no time remaining as Alabama State's frustrating season continued with a 24-23 loss to Texas Southern in a Southwestern Athletic Conference game at Cramton Bowl on Saturday night. Jason Thomson had just given Alabama State a 23-21 lead with a 30-yard field goal with 1:23 remaining, but Texas Southern quarterback Ronnie Toliver led his team on an impressive drive to get into field goal range. With the loss, Alabama State fell to 1-2-1 overall and 1-2 in the SWAC.

It was the fourth straight win for Texas Southern, which went to 4-0 and 2-0. It was a game dominated by the pass. Alabama State only gained 95 yards on the ground, while Texas Southern compiled 149 yards of rushing yards. But Alabama State had 144 yards in the air, while Texas Southern had 274. Alabama State quarterback Ricky Jones completed 12 of 19 passes for all 244 yards and two touchdowns and no interceptions.

Derrick Roberts, who caught two touchdown passes in last week's 41-3 win over Alcorn State, caught four passes for 127 yards and one touchdown on Saturday night. Rico White was the leading By MARK MILLERSUN Alabama State's Willie Rozier (55) fights for yardage after intercepting Texas Southern pass in second quarter Also named to the ASHOF were Jo Ann Prentice, Vaughn Mancha, Joe Cribbs, Erk Russell and Arnold "Swede" Umbach. The 57-ycar-old Prentice joined the LPGA tour in 1955 and won six events during his 27-year career, including the 1974 Dinah Shore, one of the LPGA's major events. She is the third woman named to the ASHOF. Mancha played football at Alabama from 1944-47 and was an All-SEC selection at center.

He later became a coach-administrator on the college level. Cribbs starred at running back at Auburn during the late 1970s and went on to have a successful pro career with the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers. Plat SIX, 11B nets' 8, but Toliver had a pass knocked up in the air by Alabama State's Willie Rozier. The 6-foot-3, 272-pound defensive lineman caught the ball out of the air, ran forward 5 yards and pitched back to linebacker Darren Hardy. Hardy, a 6-1, 218-pound junior, set the Hornets up for their first touchdown of the game by returning the lateral 63 yards to the Texas Southern 5.

On the very next play, Jones hit back-up tight end Anthony Mil-sap in the end zone. Thomson's extra point made the score 13-0 with 5:12 left in the first half. The Hornets took the 13-0 lead into the locker room, despite the fact the Tigers dominated the Pleas ASU.11B Jike to be in here telling how we won instead of how we lost. It's a terrible feeling. "It's getting harder and hard-' er.

But we have a long way to go." Alabama has improved since its first game and surely will lm-' prove more as the season goes on. --i Pleat MARSHALL, 11.