Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 7

9 it 0 rt wlaiwtwhste'f rt h- 6 seM section SUNDAY NOVEMBER SHE ST PETERSBURG TIMES Mosunma Ikodkoimg yse'smniailll MSs to beat UJF Walker carries load in comeback By SHELBY STROTHER St Nwhn Tlw Sad Writf r'w-V --r ft -y r- Jr- ii r-r va Kelly's passing keys 27-1 9 win Motivation no problem for 'Canes: 14-C FSU kicker accepts blame for loss: 14-C By RAY HOLLIMAN It NWriw Tlw SmH Wrif TALLAHASSEE Jin Kelly Hid ha was throw inf on behalf of the Univeraity of Miami seniors thoM unfortunates who have been etrickan from the food things of college football life And Miami aeniora and underclaaamen alike will have to admit Kelly handled hia dedication ceremo nice well Saturday when he threw for 273 yarda to lead the Hurricama to a 27-19 victory over Florida State dedicated thia game to the aeniora" laid Kelly only a junior himaelf but just aa inconvenienced by the NCAA1! midweek deciaion to slap the Hurricane! on probation for recruiting violation and rob them of bowl invitation thia year and in 1982 (the probation) gave us more incentive and we felt we had to show the nation that we were for After knocking Penn State from the No 1 ranking last week and then beating the No 14-rankad Semindea Miami now hu a 6-2 record and a lot of believers thought they might have difficulty coming back and beating ua after beating Penn State last week" said FSU coach Bobby Bowden whose team fell to 6-3 and saw its own bowl chances fall into the lower echelon among the poataeaaon games they rose to the occasion They were juat better than NOT BY MUCH though Florida State led 13-10 at the half Dan school record 67-yard field goal tied it for Miami in the third quarter and then the Hurricanes used their second bucked field pal of the day aa a catalyst for two touchdown in less than two minutes in the fourth period to win it And although sophisticated pern routes hid the Florida State secondary befuddled all day long it on of his quick elusive receivers Rocky Belk Mike Rodrigue or Larry Brodsky that Kelly used late in the game when touchdown became a must It wn sophomore fullback Speedy Neal The name would suggest a 165-pound scatback on of that breed used for punt return and long pan pattern Neal ia the antithesis Hell a maaaive 6-foot-3 247-pounder who got into the open on two straight series and used his bulk to set up one touchdown with a 33-yard reception and scored the clincher on a 23-yard pne from Kelly The big blows from Miami came just when it looked aa if Florida State waa going to break the tie on a 44-yard Mika Rendin field goal But it was not day to be a hero before 52J85 fans in Doak Campbell Stadium and a regional television audience that included Florida and scattered other parts of the southeast RENDINA ALREADY had had an extra point and a field goal blocked the latter the result of a bad anap from center This time early in tha fourth quarter the anp wu okay but the Miami rush lad by line-backer Greg Brown was too fierce thought I hit it said Rendina hia eyes still red from a post-game cry they had real good penetration and they should be complimented We had seen their rush on film and ere worked real hard all week on getting the ball up Ill have to look at the films and see and if I get it up enough 111 feel even 8m MIAMI 14-C (back page) JACKSONVILLE This year it took longer for the heartbreak to manifest This year instead of 93 yards one play and 17 seconds of horror it was 95 yards and 18 plays of agonising frustration that took almost eight minutes to complete But this yesr wound up the same aa last year Georgia 26 Florida 21 The fourth-ranked Bulldogs rallied from a 14-0 hole Saturday helped out of the upset ditch by the remarkable sophomore Herschel Walker and a scrambling big-play defense Then they finally pulled the end on the hopes with a convincing fourth-quarter touchdown drive that won the game and kept the legend of the Florida-Georgia classic surging waa a gnat drive a truly great said Georgia coach Vince Dooley plays 95 yards what a drive what an all-time drive The job by the offensive line was superb Under those circumstances an 18-play drive has to be one of the all-time WALKER WHO FINISHED with 192 yards on 47 carries and scored four touchdowns (two on pan receptions) accounted fn 65 of the yards during the march which began at the Bulldog 5-yard line following a penalty on the kickoff after the final touchdown with remaining His 1-yard sky jump over a tangle of bodies with 231 left put the scoreboard in the same position aa laat year's thriller won alao by Georgia but in a much speedier and shocking fashion on the Buck Belue-to-Lfadsay Scott 93-yard TD pais in the final minute The Gators tried to pull out their own version of football miracle in the final two minutes But Spencer Jackson fumbled after a hatchet tackle by Bulldog linebacker Nate Taylor and Eddie Weaver recovered for Georgia When the Gators got the ball back one last time following a miaaed Georgia field goal they were out of timeouts and forced to throw under a Georgia defense well aware of the things that can happen in the final seconds of Florida-Georgia games A couple of meaningless paaa receptions later the gun sounded and the Bulldogs had their fourth straight victory over the Gatos OBVIOUS Herschel Walker waa the difference in the eaid Charley Pell coach of the 5-4 Gators the gnatest running back I've ever coached or played Fo a while almost half of the nationally televised game in fact it looked aa if the Gators had Walker and the number The Gators had exploded fo a pair of touchdowns in leu than two minutes to break open what waa developing into a spotlight fo two sterling defensive teams Then was no scon after one quarter and 9:29 of another The Gators had threatened on the first possession reaching the Bulldog 19 but had been turned back when quarterback Wayne Peace was dumped twice fo big losses by Georgia Other than that it waa a physical standoff between the two best defenses of the Southeastern Conference that the ABC-TV cameras beamed across the country Thai almost unexpectedly the big-play lightning returned Steve Miller a walk-on transfer from a junio college in Texas found himself in a man-to-man matchup with a linebacker Miller who ia the fastest player on the Florida team burst open on a fly pattern and Peace lofted a strike that Miller See GEORGIA 3-C IV: S-w'7 Jr- i au" r'-- fr I vs 'Ju TA i writ iv Ju i St Pwnfcyrs Tlum fWEP VICTOaai Miami's Mark Rush dives over Ron Hester (83) for head-first TD 'Dogs over UF as sure as taxes death SPORTS EDITOR HODEm miZELL JACKSONVILLE In the Gator Bond a steely old stadium that sits unelegantly in a Duval County crook of the St Johns one easily can get a senaa of deja uuvuvu vu Some things you count on On May in Moscow it's safe to presume tanka and cannons will rumble menacingly across Red Square On Ess-ter pretty much a sura thing that New York's Fifth Avenue will be clogged with strolling souls marvelously befrocked in new-bought threads And ons more thing In Jacksonville on the first Saturday in November getting so even a right-wing gambler can feel aafe in betting the farm on the University of Georgia carving out a heroic Uth-hour rally to beat the Florida Gators Deja vu uuvuvu As surely as Campbell makes soup and Kenny Rogers fim lUTRIjr UUnpUBU BMIW soup UKX mnny fYOgen hung Marcus Allen of Southern California? He only wishes he was Herschel Walker Temporarily the 19-year-old from the Georgia burg of Wrightaville seemed a goat in extraordinary athletic affair He fumbled a kickoff and then thinking poorly tried to snatch it from the Georgia end xone and ran Florida smacked Walker to the Gator Bowl grass at the 2-yard line Then on the first play from scrimmage Georgia fumbled array the ball The Gators marched those 5 yards inches in four plays and in the second quarter the Gainesville troupe waa in a stunning 14-0 lead Walker was to say later play proved Herschel's not perfect either I know the rules I should've downed the ball in the end xone But See MIZELL 3-C Ml MIACLLi a sings the Bulldogs have done it to the Gators again This time Florida fought with Alamo-style gallantry Still in the end Georgia and its wMwring and rumbling cannon had gunned tha Gators down King Herschel IF THAT 222-pound sophomore running back doesn't win the Henman Trophy the jury should be avyj9 uw jut MIUUIA8 UV How the AP Top 10 farod 1 Pittsburgh (8-00 dsf Rutgers 47-3 8-C 2 damson (9-00) daf Car 10-8 6-C 3 USC (8-10 dsf Calif 21-3 8-C 4 Georgia (8-10 daf Florida 26-21 1-C 5 Tsxm (6-10 played night game 6 Penn St (7-10 dsf NC St 22-15 6-C 7 Alabama (7-1-1) did not play 8 Car (7-20 lost to damson 10-8 6-C 9 Arizona St (6-10 played night game 18 SMU (8-10 dsf Rice 33-12 9-C A Buc victory would carry a bonus I TV: 1 Dm Charnel 13 Bucs will wesr white The Vikings will wear McKay said whoever wins this game Dili will not play today barring TV: 1 pm Channel 13 Bucs will wear white The Vikings will wear McKay said whoever wins this game Dils will not play today barring Radio: 12:30 pm WDAE-1250 lineups rosters 2-C By MIKE TIERNEY st purple (Well not black but close enough) And before sundown one team will paraphrase the quicker-drawing gunfighter on tha old western program and say as he blows the smoke from his pistol room in thia hero division lead for tha both of At the moment the teams are dead-even at 5-4 Unleaa the game ends in a tie either the Bucs or the Vikas will have first i all to themselves with only six weeks place i an injury to Tommy Kramer Injured himself Kramer was a spectator on Sept 5 fa Tampa Stadium Although the abilities of the two players are comparable the variance in experience is obvious Which is to say Kramer might never have thrown the dangerous sideline pass that robbed his team of a chance for victory Minnesota is 5-2 with Kramer at the wheel The match of wits between the quarterback an MVP candidate this season and the Buc linebackers is a fascinating sidelight today Minnesota ranks first league-wide for paseing yards the Bucs are tied for the lead fa touchdown throws allowed The Vikings favor a short aerial game as a frequent substitute to the run The best illustration of their offensive style can be See BUCS 5-C is going to have an A hidden bonus awaits Tampa Bay A triumph today would complete a season sweep of Minnesota The head-to-head record between two teams is the first tiebreaker procedure So if the two would that finish fa a deadlock the Bucs get the playoff nod For that they can thank safety Neal Co-lxie His daring interception of a Viking pase fa the last half-minute and 82-yard touchdown return gave the Bucs a 21-13 win on opening night The thrower of that pass was young Stevs Dils Ha tossed 61 others in the game the third most ever and completed 37 aa Minnesota outgained its hosts by a 2-to-l margin But all the Vikes had to show for it was a touchdown and two field goals Meanwhile Tampa Bay could hold up tha game as a perfect example of its rubber-band defense fa action left Undordog Dolphins face Patriots 4-C Largo runners rulo ipPCC moot 10-C This was tho hunt of a lifotimo 1-G BLOOMINGTON Minn The highlight of most old TV westerns was the climactic showdown between two gunsling- era Tlw dust would swirL Tho time would be high noon One would wear white the other black Appropriately the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' schedule hits its loftiest highlight of the season at hoon Minnesota time (1 pjn back home) The Bucs show down today with the Vikings to see who will be the fastest gun in the NFC Central at least until Winds will kick up dust from tho infield at Metropolitan Stadium which hm a date with a wrecking ball in a for months The Nothing is final of course fa this most halawniH of all divisions After aQ the previous four racea have required a tiebreaker formula to solve But the Bucs recognise the potential value of a victory a team thinks that if they win this one they'll win it all they might be whistling Tampa Bay coach John.