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Chicago Tribune, Sunday, September 16, 1990 Section 3 3 Tho Press Box Mirers hardly resting easy COLLEGE FOOTBALL Mirer, a vice president at Midwest Commerce Bank in Elkhart "You get a second wind. You've still got a job, a life to' live and other family members to worry about For me the best thing is to keep busy." The Gulf crisis has given the Mirers a different perspective on college football. "If Rick doesn't win a game, it isn't life-threatening," says Karen Mirer. Rick, 20, became a highly recruited prospect after he passed for a state-record 3,973 yards his senior year in high school. His father too was successful in high school football, coaching the Goshen team to a state championship in 1978.

He left coaching in 1985, partly because Rick was preparing to enter high school "It's great for the dad, but tough for the kid," he said. GOSHEN, Ind. Ken and Karen Mirer have a son facing the challenge of leading the nation's top-ranked college football team, and a second son facing the threat of war in the Middle East While Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mirer started his first game Saturday against Michigan, U.S. Army Pfc. Jeff Mirer was stationed with the 82nd Airborne in Saudi Arabia.

"The only way we've been able to handle it is to take one day at a time, kind of feel out the needs of each day," said Karen Mirer, a 1st grade teacher. Jeff took part in the Panama invasion last December and shipped out Aug. 13 to the Middle East "If you look at the big picture, it gets too scary," said Ken -'Tr- ill I 'i -O I i Tribune photo by Bob Langer Northwestern quarterback Len Williams, trying to escape Duke's Scott Youmans, was 23 of 31 for 231 yards in his college debut. NU falls at the finish, but has fun fourth down. But- fourth down never came." Brown replaced starting quarterback Billy Ray, who was 8 of 10, and connected on 23 of 33 passes for 278 of Duke's 365 air yards.

lead changed hands six times as the two offenses totaled 899 yards on 146 plays. "Williams really impressed me," said Duke coach Barry Wilson. "I told Francis Peay this was a game that they did not deserve to lose but neither did we." At a glance BIG PLAY: Duke's Dave Brown made seven of them on the game-winning drive, completing passes for A 6, 22, 16, 18, 12 and 9 yards. LONG DAY; The 2:26 of that drive seemed like an eternity to Nil's embattled "prevent" defense. STAR IS BORN: NU's Len Williams completed 23 of 31 for 231 yards in his first college game.

NEXT: NU plays at Rice next Saturday. NCAA does Suzy MADISON, Wis. An appearance in a promotional commercial about standout Wisconsin runner Suzy Favor did not violate National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, the University of Wisconsin has been advised. The Wisconsin Athletic Department asked the Big 10 Conference for an interpretation of the TV commercial, which promotes CBS Sports and Channel 3 in Madison. "The committee determined that Wisconsin was misled in the request for the use of Suzy," Joel Maturi, Wisconsin associate athletic director, said.

"As a result, there is no institution or individual violation." If the NCAA committee had Meeting of minds I TV A By Bill Jauss "From a frustration standpoint," said wide receiver Richard Buchanan, "this was like someone stealing your sucker when you were a little kid. The game was ours." Frustration is a longtime companion of Northwestern football. But an additional feeling gripped Buchanan, his teammates and coach Francis Peay after Duke nipped the Wildcats 27-24 on Dave Brown's 9-yard touchdown pass to Marc Mays with 38 seconds left Call it excitement Or hope. Or encouragement Or even a hint of self-confidence. At any rate, the Cats actually had fun while they battled Duke's 12-point favorites to the wire before 28,177 fans in their Dyche Stadium opener.

Northwestern unveiled a truly exciting rookie quarterback. Len Williams, the sophomore from Rock-ford, completed 23 of 31 passes for 231 yards in his his first college game. And that includes four deliberate spikedowns to kill the clock. The acrobatic Buchanan caught 9 passes for 108 yards. Bobby Christian rushed and received for 112 yards.

Eric Dixon rushed for 98 yards. And each of the three scored a TD. The NU defense, which was pa- said Buchanan. "There was excitement on the field and on the sidelines. "The defense did a heck of a job.

Nobody should put his head down. The offense just couldn't make that one first down when we needed it." Buchanan referred to Duke's stopping the Cats and forcing a punt with 3:04 to go and Northwestern leading 24-20 on Dixon's 24-yard fourth-period TD run. Ed Sutter, whose earlier punts went only 9, 15 and 35 yards, boomed one 75 yards that NU freshman Mark Ruddy narrowly missed downing on the 1. It went into the end zone, and Brown marched his team 80 yards, completing 7 of 1 1 passes on the winning drive. "We were in a prevent defense," Peay said of an alignment with four linemen, linebacker Tom Homco and six defensive backs.

"We tried to apply pressure. Anthony Purkett had a shot at an interception but couldn't hold it. We can live with that" "We dropped back to prevent the long one, said safety Pat New. "That gave them the 6-yard pass. But complete 10 for 6 yards, and it's like one 60-yarder downfield.

We were fighting to get them to Duk 3 14 0 1027 Northwtlwn 0 14 3 72 Duke FG Gardner 33 NU Buchanan 8 pass from WHIiams (Adtor kick) Duke Dorsey 21 pass D. Brown (Gardner kick) NU Christian 3 run (Adler) Duke Gaiiman 8 run (Gardner) NU FG Adler 37 Duke FG Gardner 20 NU Dixon 24 run (Adler) Duke Mays 9 pass from D. Brown (Gardner) Team Duke NU First downs 27 26 Rushes-yards 25-110 47-193 Passing yards 365 231 Return yards 2 33 Passes 31-43-0 23-31-0 Punts 2-35 4-34 Fumbies-lost 04 1-0 Penalties-yards 7-65 8-66 Time of Possession 25:30 34:30 Indiana rally tops Kentucky Michel Barnier (left) and Jean-Claude Killy (center), presidents of France's Albertville Olympic Organizing Committee, chat with IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch in Tokyo. Favor a favor concluded there was a possible violation, Wisconsin would have had to report the incident, rule Favor ineligible and appeal to the NCAA to have her eligibility restored. Favor, who has used all of her track eligibility but has a season of cross country left, has won nine NCAA track titles, 23 Big 10 track titles and an unprecedented three Jesse Owens awards as the Big 10 female athlete of the year.

The 30-second commercial, which last aired Sunday during "The NFL Today" pregame show, also includes football coach Barry Alvarez and basketball coach Steve Yoder. Favor is seen for 3 seconds, stopping to smile and wave. AP Laserphoto Alexander Kogevnikov scored 5:41 into the overtime to give the Soviet Wings a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota North Stars in an exhibition game in Moscow. Boxing: Dave McAuley retained his International Federation flyweight title with a unanimous decision over Rodolfo Blanco, despite being knocked down four times and cut under both eyes, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Pro football: The National Football League said it will soon offer a toll-free telephone hotline so players can talk confidentially with a drug adviser.

Tennis: Goran Ivanisevic of Yugoslavia and Guy Forget of France won semifinal matches in the Bordeaux tournament in Bordeaux, France. Ivanisevic beat Guillermo Perez-Roldan of Argentina 6-4, 6-4 and Forget beat Ronald Agenor of Haiti 6-3, 6-4. de France champion Greg LeMond won the 35-mile Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival race in Cable, Wis. his debut on a mountain bike. LeMond pulled away from six close challengers eight miles from the finish of the race between Hay-ward and Cable.

He finished in 2:17:58, a minute and a half faster than Scott Hebel of Burnsville, Minn. Auto racing: Darin BrassGcld held off Tommy Kendall to win the Red Roof Inns Trans-Am in Lexington, Ohio, but Kendall clinched his first Sports Car Club of America series title. Kendall wrapped up the title by passing defending series titlist Dorsey Schroeder for second place five laps from the end of the 42-lap event at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Brassficld trails Kendall by 69 points with a maximum of 68 available in the remaining two races. From TrUunt Marl and wire reports Briefs From Chicago Tribune wires LEXINGTON, Ky.

Vaughn Dunbar's debut Saturday may give Indiana fans a reason to forget about Anthony Thompson. Dunbar, a junior college transfer who was redshirted last season, overcame two fumbles and rushed for 94 yards and two touchdowns in his first appearance in leading Indiana to a season-opening 45-24 victory over Kentucky. Thompson, now with the Phoenix Cardinals, was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy last season after completing his career with 5,299 yards and 68 touchdowns. "I was just getting my feet wet," said Dunbar, whose touchdowns came during a 28-point onslaught in the fourth quarter. "It feels good to be back and playing." Sophomore quarterback Trent thetic near the end of last year's 0-11 wipeout, looked vastly improved.

It fought until Mays outreached Greg Gill and grabbed Brown's winning pass. "It came down to one play," said Gill, who had eight tackles, one an 11 -yard sack. "And I had my hands on it." In the Wildcats' locker room, however, the attitude was definitely upbeat "I'm obviously disappointed, but I had fun out there," said Peay. "I credit Duke and Dave Brown. I'm proud of our defense.

I enjoyed the competition." "I had fun despite the scoe," Green also had an auspicious performance in his first start. He completed 9 of 15 passes for 171 yards and a touchdown and rushed 10 times for 67 yards and one TD. Indiana, which scored the first 17 points of the game, went up 24-17 on Dunbar 11 -yard run with 11:55 remaining in the game. Green passed 10 yards to Scott McGowan at the Kentucky 1 1 on fourth-and-3 to keep the drive alive. Kentucky (1-2) punted on its next possession, which Rob Turner took on his own 36, broke three tackles and ran down the right side for the touchdown to give Indiana a 31-17 lead' with 10:20 to go.

Dunbar added a 1-yard run at 6:10 and Steve Goodrich went 27 yards off left tackle at 1:48 to Big 10 Ohio St. 31, Boston College 10 It wasn't surprising that Boston College couldn't score on four plays from the lyard line. The surprise was that 17th-ranked Ohio State stopped the Eagles. A third-quarter, goal-line stand helped the defensively improving Buckeyes beat the offensively weak Eagles in Newton, Mass. "The goal-line stand was probably the key in the ballgame, stopping them right there," Ohio State coach John Cooper said.

"I'm not surprised at all. We expect to play better on defense." Last season, the Buckeyes allowed a school-record 297 points. But this season they've given up only 20 points in winning their first two games. Boston College (0-2) hasn't scored a touchdown on offense this season. Before the goal-line stand, Bobby Olive caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Greg Frey in the second quarter and a 21-yardcr from Kent Graham in the third that put the Buckeyes up 17-3.

After it, Ray-mont Harris added touchdown runs of 9 and 33 yards in the fourth quarter. Washington 20, Purdue 14 No. 22 Washington limited Purdue's run-and-shoot offense to zero yards rushing on 25 carries, plus six sacks, in West Lafayette, Ind. Orlando McKay caught a 33- Michigan St. last-play field goal ties RUSHING Duke, Cuthbert 10-77, C.

Brown 5-28, Gaiiman 4-14, Dyer 1-6, Mays 1-minus 3, Ray 4-mlnus 12. Northwestern, Dixon 19-98, Christian 16-74, Wil- liams 10-18, T. Smith 1-2, Ziptel 1-1. PASSING Duke, D. Brown 23-33-0-278, Ray 8-10-0-87.

Northwestern, Williams 23-31-0-231. RECEIVING Duke, Shaw 9-100, Mays 8-101, Cuthbert 5-39. Dorsey 3-54, Clements 2-33, Gaiiman 2-30, Breedlove C. Brown 1-2. Northwestern, Buchanan 9-106, Christian 5-38, Glssendaner 2-23, Morris 2-21, Dixon 2-20.

Cross 2-14, T. Smith 1-7. 'f AP Laserphoto Indiana quarterback Trent Green is stopped by Kentucky's Jeff Brady after a short gain during Indiana's 45-24 victory Saturday. Syracuse Rodgers scored three touchdowns for the Hawkeyes in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes scored four second-quarter touchdowns, two of them as the result of Cincinnati turnovers, and three more in the third quarter as they handed the Bearcats their third loss in as many games.

Iowa fell behind early but marched to a 28-10 halftime lead and then scored touchdowns on its first two possessions of the third quarter one as the result of yet another turnover to put the game away early. It was the largest margin of victory for an Iowa team since a 38-0 victory over Drake in 1985. Minnesota 20, Iowa St. 16 Scott Schaffner, benched last week, replaced injured Marquel Fleetwood and threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Grant with 2:12 to play to lift Minnesota in Minneapolis. Minnesota (1-1) rallied from 13-0 and 16-13 deficits to avert its first 0-2 start since 1972.

Star tailback Blaise Bryant and quarterback Chris Pedcrscn were injured for Iowa State (1-1). Bryant, the fourth-leading rusher in NCAA Division I last year with 1,516 yards, suffered a deep bruise in his right shoulder and left in the second quarter with 69 yards. Iowa State is 0-19-1 against the Gophers since last winning in 1898. Coach Jim Waldcn is 0-10 against Big 10 schools. complete Indiana's decisive fourth-quarter offensive explosion.

10 0 0 2845 10 724 Kentucky Irvd-FQ Bormell 24 Ind-ThomaB 53 pass from Green (Bonnell kick) Ind Green 8 run (Bonnell) Ky Boiden 11 pass from Maggard (Palfrey kick) Ky FG Pelfrey 25 Ky Baker 1 run (Pelfrey) Ind Dunbar 1 1 run (Bonnell) Ind Turner 64 punt return (Bonnel) Ind Dunbar 1 run (Bonnell) Ind Goodrich 23 run (Bonnell) Ky Boiden 41 pass from Maggard (Pelfrey) A 58.150. Team Ind First downs Rushes-yards Passing Return Yards Comp-Att-Int Punts Fumbies-Lost Penalties-Yards Time ol Possession 19 58-260 171 135 9-15-0 2- 41 3- 3 6-40 32:51 24 33-105 282 11 27-48-2 6-39 2-1 2-10 27:09 Individual ttatisUca RUSHING Indiana, Dunbar 25-94, Green 10-67, Miller 9-45, Goodrich 5-35. Kentucky, Walker 15-65, Baker 9-30. PASSING Indiana, Green 9-15-0 171. Kentucky, Maggard 27-46-1 282.

RECEIVING Indiana, Thomas 2-61. Kentucky, Page 5-23. Boiden 4-69, Baker 4-43. yard scoring pass from Mark Bruncll in the fourth quarter for the winning score. McKay's score with 10:02 to play capped a 66-yard, three-play drive that included a 15-yard penalty against Purdue for spearing.

Washington (2-0) trailed much of the game after Purdue (0-1) took a 7-0 lead on its first possession. The Boilermakers led 14-7 after one period on two Eric Hunter touchdown passes. Wisconsin 24, Ball St 7 Tailback Robert Williams rushed for 114 yards and scored two second-quarter touchdowns in Madison, sparking Wisconsin and giving Barry Alvarez his first victory as Badger coach. "You won't see me holding a said Alvarez, the former Notre Dame and Iowa assistant. "We beat a MAC Mid-American Conference team and had some improvement, but we got a long way to go.

It's just like getting the first olive out of a jar. The rest come tumbling after it, I hope." Williams scored on his first carry of the game, a 23-yard run with 13:13 left in the second quarter. He scored again from one yard out nine minutes later, giving the Badgers a 14-0 lead. The Badgers (1-1) got their third touchdown of the quarter with :14 left when receiver Lioncll Crawford ran 12 yards on a reverse after taking a handofl from Tony Lowery. Iowa 63, Cincinnati 10 Matt Track: Mark Witherspoon of the U.S.

beat Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell for the second time this month in winning the 100-meter dash in the Toto Super "90 meet at Shizuoka, Japaa Witherspoon was timed in 10.21 seconds. Lewis and Burrell tied for second overall World record-holder Butch Reynolds of the U.S. edged compatriot Danny Everett and Cuba's Roberto Hernandez in the 400, winning in 44.77. Everett was second. World record-holder Roger Kingdom led a U.S.

sweep in the 1 10-meter high hurdles, clocking 13.28. Courtney Hawkins was second, Tonie Campbell third. Evelyn Ashford won the women's 100 in 1 1.1 1. Steve 'Scott held off a strong finish by runner-up Mogens Guldberg of Denmark to win the Stockholm City Mile in 4:12.3. Greg Welch of Australia won the men's overall tide in 1:51.37 in the Triathlon World Championship in Orlando.

Karen Smy-ers of Medford, won the women's race in 2:03.33, leading the U.S. women to their second straight world title. Soccer: Peter Vermes, Bruce Murray and Eric Eichman scored as the United States stopped Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 in an exhibition match at High Point, N.C., in front of 11316 fans. Hockey: Goalie Ron Hex-tall and right winger Rick Toc-chet have agreed to incentive-laden contracts with the Philadelphia Flyers that could pay them $1 million apiece this season. Hextall, who played only eight games last season because of a suspension and injuries, agreed to a five-year deal with a base salary of more than $700,000, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News reported.

Tocchet, 26, who led the team with 96 points last season, agreed to a four-year contract paying $730,000 this year, with incentives. From Chicago Tribune wires John Langeloh kicked a 43-yard field goal as time expired, allowing No. 19 Michigan State to salvage a 23-23 tie with Syracuse Saturday night in Syracuse, N.Y. The kick allowed Michigan State to weather a 13-point fourth-quarter rally that had given Syracuse a 23-20 lead. Langeloh's kick came after it appeared the Orangemen had taken over on downs with 1 1 seconds remaining.

But the Spartans gained a reprieve when Syracuse was penalized for being offside, and quarterback Dan Enos used the break to hit wide receiver Courtney Hawkins with a 17-yard pass to the Syracuse 26. Michigan State was playing its season opener. Syracuse is 1-1-1. Kicker John Biskup had given Svracuse a 23-20 lead with 1:25 to play with a 27-yard field goal, his third of the game. He kicked a 30-yard field goal to shave Michigan State's lead to 17-13 with 13:27 to play and sophomore tailback David Walker scored on a 7-yard dash four minutes later to give the Orangemen a short-lived 20-17 lead.

Michigan Stale tied the game at 20-20 on Langeloh's 49-yard field goal with 7:20 remaining. The Spartans broke a 10-10 halftime tie when Enos finished off an 80-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown dive to open the sec-, ond half..