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Texas 45, Houston Democrat fs UC Davis 12, Sonoma State 7 California 28, Oregon 3 Stanford 23, Arizona 10 UCLA 25, Washington 22 Notre Dame 34, Tennessee 29 Colorado 41 Oklahoma State 22 Ohio State 27, Iowa 26 Mississippi 13, Auburn 12 Michigan 22, Illinois 17 SATURDAY SCOR.ES Southern Cal 56, Oregon State 7 Virginia 24, North Carolina 10 BYU 45, Wyoming 14 Georgia Tech 6, Virginia Tech 3 Rosa, California, Sunday, November 1 1, 1990 vI -j) If I life Jlliiiliii (i Sonoma State's Sam Hernandez scoops up I a fumble during the second quarter against sacks out of the playoff picture, although SSU finished with its best record 7-3 overall and 4-1 in conference. The Aggies won the defensive battle with an old trick the fumble-rooskie when offensive guard Bill Mills scooped a loose ball off the turf and ran untouched 13 yards for what proved to be the winning score in the second quarter. "I've only seen that play on television," SSU defensive coordinator Gary Patterson said of the play made famous by Nebraska in the 1984 Orange Bowl. "They (the Aggies) had the guts to call it, and it worked." Mills, a 6-foot-2, 240-pounder, said the Davis captures 20th straight title The Press UC Davis. team only put the fumble-rooskie, which they call the "Boba-rooskie" in the playbook two weeks ago but practiced it 15 times on Friday.

"Who would ever have thought an offensive guard would score the winning touchdown in a game like this?" said Mills as he was being mobbed by teammates following the game. Certainly not SSU defensive lineman Curtis Smith. "We weren't expecting that (trick play) from a team of this caliber," said Smith. See SSU, Page C4 In short, Cal will draw live fans and TV viewers. In exchange, Cal will get national exposure for its football program and $600,000.

What more can you want? Perhaps an offer from a bowl not in Arizona. Cal athletic director Dave Mag-gard said he will read the team's pulse after its meeting, then discuss the matter with chancellor Chang-Lin Tien this week. "We'll want to know as much as we can about what the Arizona legislature is doing on the issue before we make a decision," Maggardsaid. Cal isn't likely to get an offer from any ANNIE WELLSPRESS DEMOCRAT who threw six TD downfield. 24 A A ti fl bury By BRUCE Staff Writer When Montgomery afternoon "our players One guy quarterback After the score Barbarian.

By the Cronin as the North Bay unbeaten "No Piner had resulted The coming Prospectors "That "I'm just Cal may catch a political football BERKELEY For the first time, by definition, we have a honest-to-goodness political football on our hands. It's called the Martin Luther King Bowl. Down in Arizona, it's known by another name: the Copper Bowl. At the bottom of Strawberry Canyon, it's making people extremely nervous. The Cal football team is feeling political pressure and is uncomfortable with it How odd, indeed.

Berkeley, home of People's Park, the free-speech movement and a radical on every corner. The issue is racism and, usually, Liberal Berkeley should have no trouble handling this one. It should react strongly, just as it did for demonstrations protesting South Africa's apartheid. Cal students demonstrate before national television. We've seen it before.

Now it's different If a Cal student demonstrates this time in front of a TV camera, he will be a football player. That changes everything, because we all know college football players generally have a tenuous -connection with the rest of the student body. No wonder Joel Dickson is nervous. His team probably will be invited to play in the Copper Bowl in Tucson, in a state that does not celebrate a holiday in honor of King, the slain civil rights leader. Dickson, a black, knows how his gut feels.

"I don't want to go to any place I feel has 1 insulted me, insulted my father and my grandfather," said the defensive left tackle. "I can't understand how they (Arizona voters) would do something like that, not recognize a great leader. It's so narrow-minded. Yeah, I take it personally. "On the other hand, I've been at Cal for five years.

I finally get a chance to go to a bowl. I've worked hard to get to this point" Today, the football team will meet discuss and maybe even vote on whether to go to Tucson if offered the Copper Bowl bid that appears so conclusively theirs. Like Dickson, the rest of Cal's team is i starved for affection. By whipping Oregon on Saturday, the Bears guaranteed their first winning season in eight years. They i want the limelight They deserve it "But it's a pretty volatile situation," i Dickson said.

A compelling problem, to say the least As the final gun ended the Oregon game, Cal's players didn't do cartwheels or thrust single digits into the sky. They just beat the 20th-ranked team in the country, i practically insuring a bowl invitation, and yet the players were subdued walking off the i "I grew up in San Diego," said outside I linebacker De Wayne Odom. "There was a street named Martin Luther King Boulevard. But in this certain section of 1 town, the people voted to rename it Market Boulevard. So now when this thing happens, it feels like an even more bitter pill for me to swallow.

"It's sad for the state of Arizona. This is a big concern for us. We know if we go down and play the game, it will mean revenue for the state." Odom doesn't know what he's going to do. Neither does athletic director Dave Maggard. Neither does Don Severe, a Copper Bowl representative.

Both men are hedging on any precise opinion on the i subject. Both are hoping the decision is taken out of their hands by the Arizona state legislature, which is considering i overturning the popular vote. But what if it doesn't? What should the i Golden Bears do? Vote not to go. Separate themselves from the NFL's decision to remove the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona. That was pure grandstanding.

The NFL simply wants a i happyfacearounditsmarqueegame.lt doesn't want to see demonstrations and i seeks to avoid the ugliness of Overtown that tainted the Miami Super Bowl. i The players should vote not to go. i They should protest racism. It would mean taking the high moral ground and they ought to be proud to take it because so few take it these days in college football where hypocrisy, drugs and criminals seem to dominate. Of course, Cal may not change one lily-white vote.

It may not stem the tide of big-time college corruption. And it certainly won't enjoy the fruits of a season well-spent by not going to a bowl game, i But it can make a statement that football players can be students, too; maybe even i people, in fact, who care about people other than themselves. That will be a legacy much more substantial than beating someone like Wyoming in a side-pocket bowl. It's an idealistic thought and oh boy, I can hear the snickers now. But isn't this -Berkeley? And if it can't happen at this campus, if ideals can't be nurtured even a little bit then where? rVrl ii nil 1 KENT PORTERPRESS DEMOCRAT Inside Healdsburg beats El Molino to claim a share of the SCL football title.

C4 Sonoma State's women's soccer team advances to NCAA finals. C4 SRJC men's, women's cross country teams qualify for state championship meet. C4 SRJC men's basketball wins Alameda tournament title; football team falls to Sacramento. C4 Santa Rosa boys, Montgomery girls win North Coast Section soccer championship. C5 other bowl, Maggard said, even though Oregon, supposedly headed to the Freedom Bowl in Anaheim, lost to Cal.

But at least until they vote this morning, the Bears can celebrate. The Bears assured themselves of their first winning season since 1982 by dominating Oregon (7-3, 3-3). Cal scored 21 first-quarter points and coasted the rest of the way, relying, surprisingly enough, on its defense. The Cal defense, ranked last in the league, had its best game of the season. It had five sacks and allowed only 273 total See Cal, Page C8 By RALPH LEEF Sports Editor DAVIS It took a trick play to confuse the the nation's top defensive unit, but the UC Davis Aggies extended their gaudy string of championship football seasons with a 12-7 victory over Sonoma State University at Toomey Stadium on Saturday flight.

v-1 Winning their 20th consecutive Northern California Athletic Conference title and 50th straight home game, the Aggies (7-3, 5-0) today find out whether they will make the NCAA Division II playoffs. The bitter defeat, in front of 8,600 spectators, knocked the 16th-ranked Cos Cal rouite By JACKIE KRENTZMAN Staff Writer BERKELEY Just Cal's luck. The Bears finally put together a bowl-quality season, but now they have to decide whether to play in the Copper Bowl or boycott it. Some of the luster was lost off Cal's 28-3 thrashing of No. 20 Oregon before 45,000 fans at Memorial Stadium Saturday, as the team will vote today whether it should accept a likely bid from the Copper Bowl, which will be held in Tucson, or refuse because of Arizona's vote last week Hot to make Martin Luther King QregouL will vote on bowl bid Fiesta Bowl may leave Arizona, C9.

birthday a state holiday. Bowl bids cannot be tendered until Nov. 24, but two Copper Bowl representatives at Saturday's game basically said Cal (6-3-1 overall, 4-2-1 and in second place in the Pac-10), which has the Big Game left against Stanford, was a lock. "I'm going to recommend Cal," representative Don Severe said. "The Bears played a great game today, they're in the Pac-10, a tough conference, and they have a lot of people who travel." Lowly Cowboys lower expectations Cronin's six TD passes help Piner Montgomery they don't make mistakes.

That's what makes them so good." Washington reasons that if the Cowboys can overcome their built-in fear of Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and company, they'll be able to beat them with a sound, well-executed game plan. Good luck, James. Listen to your teammates talking about their chances. "It would be a strange thing, but stranger things have happened," said coach Jimmy Johnson, who went on to say that the 49ers "might be the best team ever to play the game." Hey, quarterback Troy Aikman, what's your team's chance of knocking off the boys from San Francisco? "Not much. If any," Aikman said.

Last year, however, the Cowboys gave the 49ers a battle, and that was in the middle of a 1-15 season. The 49ers had to rally in the second half to sew up their 31-14 victory, using a blocked field goal by tackle See 49ers, Paged They practically concede vs. 49ers By MICHAEL SILVER Staff Writer IRVING, Tex. Trapped in a locker room of pessimists and self-defeatists, James Washington stands alone. The Dallas Cowboys safety, raised on success as a member of the UCLA Bruins and Los Angeles Rams, is the only player on his current team expecting to beat the 49ers tonight when the two teams meet at Texas Stadium at 5 p.m.

Pacific Time. "What people don't realize is that the 49ers aren't that much better than the next guy," Washington said earlier this week, as the rest of the Cowboys (3-6) were preparing, at least verbally, to get their boots shined by the 8-0 Super Bowl champions. "It's not so much the big plays that they make, it's that MEADOWS Piner High School took a 14-0 lead against early in the second quarter Saturday at Piner, Prospectors coach Ed Lloyd said just seemed to lose interest." who seemed to maintain his focus was Piner Paul Cronin. the Vikings had driven down the field to make' 14-7, the quarterback became Cronin the time he left the game late in the third quarter, had thrown a career-high six touchdown passes Prospectors rolled to a 39-14 victory to claim the League championship outright and remain at 10-0. co-championship this time," said Lloyd after atoned for a loss to the Vikings last year that in a two-way tie for the title with Montgomery.

victory was Lloyd's first over Montgomery since to Piner in 1985 and the first time the have defeated the Vikings since 1979. may mean something to the kids," said Lloyd. happy to win period." See Piner, Page C4 Paul Cronin, passes, looks.