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THE SUN SECTION Sports 2 Cornerback Tim McKyer's style, upsetting to some, fits in fine with the Atlanta Falcons. 2 IE NOVEMBER 10, 1991- MIKE Untamed Lions drive Terps ma Repeated marches key Penn State's 47-7 domination A 7 Itcould've been worse Maryland's worst losses to Penn State: I 1917 57-0 1969 48 1943 45-0' 1991 47-7: 1970 34-0 1938 33-0 1972 46-16 BnHHHWBBBBI By Mike Preston There were no more miracles left on 33rd Street yesterday. In perhaps its last football game at Memorial Stadium, Maryland was routed by No. 9 Penn State, 47-7, before 57,416. Maryland has played Penn State tough In the past seven years, losing six games by a total of 3 1 points and managing a 13-13 tie in 1989.

But yesterday it was no contest. Penn State (8-2) had 480 yards of total offense compared with 210 for Maryland (2-7). The Nittany Lions had touchdown drives of 80, 67, 52 and 97 yards. Maryland advanced to the Penn State 30 only three times, and didn't score a touchdown until 6 minutes, 56 seconds were left in the game. Penn State averaged 6.5 yards per play, Maryland 3.4.

The Nittany Lions had 131 punt return yards, including O.J. McDuffle's 60-yarder for a touchdown. The Terps had 17 yards in three returns. And on and on It goes. "Last week, there were a lot of questions about guys giving effort," said Maryland senior center Mitch Suplee.

"We were chastised. This week, there is no need for chastise- LITTWIN Decision to go, or, yes, to stay, must be Krivak's Joe Krivak Is an honorable man. Everyone says so. In fact, it's why he has his job today. And so, It's not unfair to ask: What Is the honorable course for him to follow now? His Maryland football team Is In a shambles.

That was never more clear than in the cold and dreary half-light of Memorial Stadium, which enjoyed a brief but inglorious afterlife yesterday. We said goodbye again to the old girl on 33rd Street. Are there more goodbyes to come? The numbers tell us something. Maryland is 2-7, its worst record in 20 years. The 47-7 defeat to Penn State was the Terps' worst loss in 13 years and worst regular-season loss in 22.

When they scored in the fourth quarter against Penn State's third team, they had been 10 quarters without a touchdown. All the great memories of all the great games and all the great finishes and all the tearful defeats against Penn State were Just memories. Whatever its record, Maryland would always seem to play Penn State tough, and now this. Maybe the way the game was played says more than the numbers. This time, the game was over early in the second quarter, or maybe by the game's opening drive 80 yards In seven plays in 3 minutes, 5 seconds.

By the start of the fourth quarter, the capacity crowd was so sufficiently depleted that you could have crashed another plane In any section of the stadium without fear of injury. What's a coach to do? Krivak kind of coach-talked about effort and loyalty. It was all he had left. This Is a tough situation," he would say after the game. This is a tough situation for a coach.

This is a tough situation for players. You Just roll up your sleeves. We're going through a tough phase now a See LITTWIN, 1 2E, Col. 4 ffey Worst of the winless, 'V. Navy trounced, 34-7 ment.

We gave effort; we just got beat by a better team. Forty points better? 1 don't know. But better? Yes." The loss was the worst for Maryland In the 35-game series since 1969, when Penn State won. 48-0. Penn State leads the series, 33-1-1 It was also Maryland's worst loss since a 42-0 defeat to Texas in the 1978 Sun Bowl.

1 Maryland coach Joe Krivak's status already is uncertain for next season, and there certainly will be more detractors after yesterday. But Krivak, in the first year of a See MARYLAND, 12E. Col. 1 Washington, Wall weigh options. 12E Paterno says Terps need speed.

12E; the Midshipmen dropped to 0-9, matching a school record for losses in a season. It also marked the worst start, surpassing the 1948 team, which dropped Its first eight games before tying Army In its season finale. Tulane (1-9) won for first time this year and stopped a 10-game losing streak dating back to last sear son. The Green Wave upped Its record against Navy to 5-0-1 Navy's 38-0 loss at Notre Dame was expected, but this defeat came out of nowhere even though Tulane has played six ranked opponents this season. Sure, Tulane's schedule was the eighth-toughest in America tougher than all but one of the top 10 teams but at the same time Tulane has been shut out three See NAVY, 6E.Col,4 Vols deflect late kick, rally from 24 By Gene Wojciechowski Los Angeles Times SOUTH BEND.

Ind. His moment of glory reserved, his place among Rockne and the GIpper available for the taking, Rob Leonard stepped onto the Notre Dame Stadium field yesterday afternoon and tried to kick his way Into Fighting Irish folklore. Separating him from history was 27 yards and, as it turns out, the rear end of Tennessee defensive back Jeremy Lincoln. Leonard, a second-string walk-on, was not summoned until Tennessee owned a 35-34 lead, until four seconds remained on the scoreboard clock, until team trainers told Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz for the millionth time that starting kicker Craig Hentrlch was out with a sprained right knee. This is where Lincoln came in.

Lincoln sprinted past his would-be blocker and actually overran the ball as Leonard kicked. But. as luck would have it, the ball caromed off Lincoln's right buttock, cartwheeled toward the goalposts and missed wide right. A one-point See NOTRE DAME, 8E. Col.

3 THE SUNGENE SWEENEY JR. is picture of disappointment on sidelines during blowout loss. Term, butts Irish from title picture, 35-34 Albertville countdown: 90 days, Olympic worry 1-9 Tulane scores on first four drives By Jerry Bembry Sun Staff Correspondent NEW ORLEANS On a night when Navy got off to its worst start in history. It was only fitting that It put forth perhaps its worst performance of the season last night against Tulane. Both teams entered the game without a victory, but Tulane looked like a ranked team, scoring touchdowns on its first four drives of the game three of the scores touchdown passes from Jerome Woods to Wllbert Ursin on the way to a 34-7 win before 23,322.

For Navy It was the super disaster at the Louisiana Superdome, as ASSOCIATED PRESS blocked field-goal attempt. -1 C. AJti- joe Krivak, whose Terps fell to 2-7, Construction cranes cast shadows In the valleys of the Savoie region. Dump trucks clog two-lane roads that thread through the mountains. A ladder sits on the ice of the darkened hockey arena.

"The biggest worry?" says French Olympic ski champion Jean-Claude Killy. The cost and the weather. Or maybe it's the other way around the weather and the cost-Ninety days to go until the 16th Olympic Winter Games come to Albertville and the surrounding Alpine villages Feb. 8-23. Two thousand athletes representing more than 60 countries will compete for 57 gold medals.

These are the disposable Games, housed In an array of tern-, porary facilities, linked by roads that stretch to 13 venues across 640 square miles. "The French love sportsmen, but they do not love sports," said Killy. a co-chairman of the local organizing committee. Killy promises the Games will succeed. Six hundred thousand tickets are sold.

Another 200,000 See FRANCE, 4E, Col. 1 I Money, traffic, weather are issues By Bill Glauber i Sun Staff Correspondent ALBERTVILLE, France Ninety days to go Armando Cintron of the South Bronx and Puerto Rico is dressed In boots, Jeans and an overcoat, preparing to ride his second-hand luge down a sheet of Ice carved Into the side of the mountain. "A year ago, I never even heard of this sport," he says. "What would I need a sled for in the South BronxT Ninety days to go Workmen construct bleacher Seats on the bottom of the men's downhill in Val d'Isere. A fog bank hangs over the start house and obscures a course that plummets 3,000 feet and sweeps through two miles of the most rugged terrain In the French Alps.

"It's like looking through a bottle of milk," former Olympian Andy Mill says. Ninety days to go -f 'Li Tennessee's Floyd Miley is en route to the end zone after picking up a ititfifr Cal Ripken big hit in off-season, too Baseball notebook, PAGE 2E Will athletes change womanizing ways? PAGE 5E Skipjacks win in overtime, 8-7 INDEX' Letters 2fc- Did you wonder why? 2E- Baseball. 2E Pro basketball 3E' College football 6-1 2E Soccer 13E' Hockey 14-15E High 16-17E Horse racing 18E Golf 19E Stellino on pro football 22E Memorabilia 23E Outdoors 25E i COLLECT FOOTBALL No. 1 Florida State 38 South Carolina 10 PAGE 8E No. 2 Washington 14 Southern Cal 3 PAGE 8E No.

2 Miami 27 West Virginia 3 PAGE BE 4 No. 8 Alabama 20 LSU 17 PAGE 8E No. 10 Iowa 38 No. 25 Indiana 21 PAGE 8E No. 11 Nebraska 59 Kansas 23 PAGE 8E Towson State 13 Howard 7 PAGE 7E Johns Hopkins 16 Franklin Marshall 14 PAGE 7E Western Illinois 44 Morgan State 6 PAGE 11E i No.

4 Michigan 59 Northwestern 14 PAGE 8E No. 6 Florida 45 No. 23 Georgia 13 PAGE 8E No. 7 California 27 Oregon State 14 PAGE 8E 4 AGE 14E.