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TO. F2 Sunday, Oct. 19, 1997 COLLEGE FOOTBALL The Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Constitution i wuMpmnw i Team W-L Saturday's result 1. PennState 6-0 beat Minnesota 16-15 2. Nebraska 6-0 beat Texas Tech 29-0 3.

Florida State 6-0 beat Georgia Tech 38-0 4. North Carolina 7-0 beat N.C State 20-7 Michigan 6-0 beat Iowa 28-24 6. Auburn 6-1 lost to Florida 24-10 7. Florida 6-1 beat Auburn 24-10 8. LSU 5-2 lost to Mississippi 36-2 1 9.

Tennessee 5-1 beat Alabama 38-2 1 10. Washington 5-1 beat Arizona 58-28 1 1. Ohio State 6-1 beat Indiana 31-0 1 2. Michigan State 5-1 lost to Northwestern 19-17 13. Washington St.

6-0 beat California 63-37 14. Texas 5-1 lost to Kansas State 36-1 7 15. Iowa 4-2 lost to Michigan 28-24 16. Oklahoma State 6-0 Did not play 1 7. UCLA 5-2 beat Oregon State 34-10 18.

Air Force 7-1 lost to Fresno State 20-1 7 1 9. Georgia 5-1 20. Kansas State 5-1 beat Texas 36-17 21. Georgia Tech 4-2 lost to Florida State 38-0 22. Virginia Tech 5-1 Did not play 23.

West Virginia 5-1 Did not play 24. Wisconsin 6-2 lost to Purdue 45-20 25. Stanford 4-3 lost to Arizona State 3 1-14 i 1 jw ja tr'vr nrn. 1 it's lonely at the bottom Prairie View drops No. 74 By Earnest Reese STAFF WRITER Montgomery Prairie View University, which has not won since Halloween 1989, had hoped to end its NCAA record-setting string of 73 losses Saturday against winless Alabama State.

But the long-suffering Panthers with 48 scholarships fewer than most of their opponents were once again humiliated, losing to Alabama State 56-7. This was Alabama State's first victory since it defeated Prairie View 31-15 in Texas a year ago today. This one surprisingly was much easier. Just 23 minutes into the game, Alabama State grabbed a 28-0 lead when Anthony Hall returned an interception 44 years for a touchdown. This just after teammate Byron Plummer returned a punt 40 yards for a touchdown.

"I can't believe we rode 14 hours from Prairie View for this," said Panthers senior Jer-rell Moore, a wide receiver who served as quarterback for the second week in a row. "It's very disappointing because we really felt like we had a shot today. But we came out flat and played that way all day. It's very JOE RAYMOND Associated Press Big foot: USC's Adam Abrams 1 9) celebrates his 37-yard, game-winning field goal with teammate Quincy Woods. would have fashioned the Hor nets as the answer to a trivia question somewhere in the future, but it literally would have I IT frtiwr 'f added insult to injury.

Alabama State coach Houston Markham suffered a broken leg during a practice and coached from a golf cart. Apparently he was taking no chances, since his team was still throwing after it had gone up 41-0 with nearly five disappointing." The opportunity to finally break the losing streak did not materialize as Alabama State's offense exploded. Freshman quarterback Darnell Kennedy, who had thrown only seven touchdown passes in the Hornets' six previous games, threw four TD passes and rushed 14 yards for another score, before being taken out of the game. "We really weren't thinking about their streak. We were thinking about winning for our benefit.

We had a streak going, too," said Alabama State's Damon Hodge, after a career-high eight catches for 184 yards and three touchdowns. A loss to the Panthers not only minutes left in the first half. Prairie View coach Greg Johnson was stunned about the lopsided loss. "I'm still in a daze," Johnson said. "I thought we prepared well iL But usually in a game of this magnitude, it's going to be close or it's going to be a blowout.

CRAIG HOUTZ Associated Press Penn State's Curtis Enis is hugged by teammate Floyd Wed-derburn (69) after Ennis scores the winning TD in a 1 6-1 5 win over Minnesota. 1 E. Kentucky 29, Munay SI I EAST McKendree 48, Blackburn 0 Miami, Ohio 45, Marshall 21 Elon 24, Presbyterian 3 Michigan 28, Iowa 24 Afay.lt.Y. 30, Stony Bwk 23 Allegheny 28, Wooster 27 fayetteville St. 38, Johnson C.

Smith 27 Ferrum 19, Chowan 0 I i i JfA Michigan Tech 34, Ferris St. 24 Mid Lutheran 28, Concordia. Neb 20 Minn -Morris 45. Bemidji St 28 American Intl 26, Connecticut 23 Florida 24. Auburn 10 AROUND THE NATION Late lack lifts USC past Irish ASSOCIATED PRESS As the USC players and the Trojan band ran onto the field at Notre Dame Stadium, coach John Robinson stood on the sidelines, a happy smile on his face.

Maybe it isn't time for him to step aside, after all. "I don't know where we're going, but we took a step forward today," he said. "We turned it around for a week. But who knows what's coming next week." Robinson, in his 12th season at USC, said this week that he'd quit if he couldn't get the Trojans (3-3) turned around by the end of the season. His players showed they're not ready to let him go just yet, and their 20-17 victory Saturday over Notre Dame might have saved his job.

Again. Adam Abrams kicked the game-winning 37-yard field goal with 1:05 left after linebacker Mark Cusano set up the score by picking off Ron Powlus' pass and returning it to the Irish 29 with 2:40 left. It was the first time USC has won at Notre Dame (2-5) since 1981. The players surrounded Robinson before running onto the field. The Irish players hung their heads, and receiver Malcolm Johnson lay on the field, covering his face with his hands as USC players stepped over him.

"All of us dedicated this game to him," said tailback Delon Washington, who rushed for 34 yards. "This is a big win. This is a stepping stone for the rest of the season." Miami of Ohio 45, Marshall 21: Travis Prentice set a school rushing record with four touchdowns and a career-high 203 yards, pacing host Miami of Ohio in a Mid-American Conference showdown. Marshall's standout wide receiver, Randy Moss, had 10 catches for 147 yards and one touchdown. He caught a 41-yard pass from Chad Pennington with 2:01 left in the first quarter to tie the game at 7-7.

Miami (6-1, 4-1) had scored first when linebacker Dustin Cohen inter-cepted Pennington's pass and returned it 28 yards. Moss has 54 catches for 1,003 yards and 17 touchdowns. South Carolina State 17, Bethune-Cookman 10: Jermaine Derricott returned a blocked field goal 82-yards for a touchdown in the third quarter to lead South Carolina State. The Bulldogs (6-0, 2-0 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) won despite managing just 103 total yards and only six first downs. Bethune-Cookman recorded 20 first downs and a season-high 397 yards.

Furman 21, The Citadel 7: Freshman Brent Rickman tossed a pair of touchdown passes to Jody Wade in a driving rain, propelling visiting Furman. Rickman, making his fourth career start, hit Wade with a 36-yard TD pass in the second quarter and a 9-yard score in the third as the Paladins (4-2, 3-1 Southern Conference) won consecutive games for the first time this year. Southern 28, Jackson State 8: Steve Wofford rushed for 157 yards and a touchdown and Southern took a giant leap toward clinching the SWAC title. Southern, ranked No. 8 in Division 1-AA, remains undefeated at (6-0, 5-0) as No.

13 Jackson State falls to 5-2, 3-1. Wofford's 48-yard touchdown run with 2:44 left in the game sealed the Jaguars' victory after Jackson State had pulled within 16-8 with 3:35 remaining in the game. BYU 17, Hawaii 3: Brian McK-enzie rushed for one touchdown and Jarod Dabney ran back a punt 83 yards for another to lead BYU. The homecoming victory moved Cougar coach LaVell Edwards into a tie for fourth for most wins at an NCAA Division I school with former Alabama Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Each has 232 victories, 12 fewer than third-place Amos Alonzo Stagg.

Dartmouth 21, Yale 7: Senior quarterback Peter Sellers completed 14 of 22 passes for 198 yards, ran for one score and threw for another. The victory was Dartmouth's 15th in a row and extended its unbeaten streak to 22 games (21-0-1), tying two school records. The 22-game unbeaten streak is the second longest in division I-AA history and two shy of the record set by Penn (24-0) in 1992-95. Louisiana Tech 42, Arkansas State 14: Tim Rattay passed for 348 yards and four touchdowns to lead Louisiana Tech. Rattay, the nation's total offense leader with 356.3 yards per game, also had 33 yards rushing for a total of 375 yards as Tech (5-2) avenged a 55-38 loss last season at Amherst 36, Wesleyan, Conn 14 Army 37, Rutgers 35 MrnotSt Missouri 37.

Texas 29 Florida AMI 49, Delaware St 0 Florida SI 38, Georgia Tech 0 Furman 21, Citadel 7 Georgetown, Ky, 48, Cmbrlitd, Tenn 30 Guilford 30. Bridgewater.Va. 14 Benltey 47. Mass -Lowell 14 Ihiel? Bioonisbure Millersville 8 Bridgewater.Mass 55, Westtield St 21 Hampton U. 9, Norfolk St.

2 Mo. Western 13, Washburn 12 Moorhead St. 10, SW Minnesota 6 Mount Senario 49. Concordia. St P.

26 Mount Union 42, John Carroll 14 N. Dakota St. 31. North Dakota 10 Iowa 35. Youngstown St 32 NW Missouri St.

59, SW Baptist 3 Nebraska 29, Tenas Tech 0 BmckportSt 33. Fiostburg St 22 Brown 23. Rhode Island 15 BucMI 36. ordham 10 Howard U. 52, Morehouse 0 Kentucky 49.

NE touisiana 14 Liberty 16, Virginia Union 8 Livingstone 41, Elizabeth City St. 16 Louisiana Tech 42, Arkansas St. 14 Methodist 19, Davidson 16 Mississippi 36. ISO 21 Morris Brown 7, Benedicts Carolina 7. Morgan St 6 NW Louisiana 31.

SW Texas St 3 Nebraska-Kearney 46. Mesa, Colo. 22 Nebraska-Omaha 31, S.Dakota St. 21 Buffalo St 16 Mercyhuistl4 CW Post 42, Assumption 7 California, Pa. 30.

Clarion 0 Caroms 23. Allied 20 Catholic 51. FPU Madison 14 CobsI Guaid 21, Connecticut 14 Northwestern 19, Michigan St. 17 Ohio Northern 41, Muskingum 7 Ohio St 31. Indians 0 College of 35.

Salisbury St 7 CdVicofd 49. Wesflibeily 21 Ohio 24, Bowling Green 0 North Alabama 17. Delta St 10 S. Carolina St. 17.

Bethune-Cookman 10 Ohvet 38. St Ambrose 35 Pittsburg St 30, Cent Missouri 29 Cornell 41, talayelte Dartmouth Yale7 FaSriield 34" Wanst 14 Gannon 19. Pace 3 Purdue 45, Wisconsin 20 Ripon 16. St, Norbert 14 Rose-Hulman 29, Manchester 28 SW Missouri St 4), Illinois St 7 Saginaw Val St 38, St Francis. Ill 18 Simpson.

Iowa 31. Cent Iowa 27 Gwgetown. 33. lona 2 immmmm GUnvilleSt 23. Fairmont St 14 Grave City 71 Blulllon 21 Hamilton 28.

Colby 0 HylwicHI 19 Harvard Holy Cross 24 Hobarl 10, Franklin Marshall 7 Hostra45. tehigh 38 Jersey City St 7. KeanO KiMown44.ManslieldO South Dakota 22, MormngsideO Southern Cal 20, Noire Dame 17 Southwestern, Kan. 52. McPherson 7 St Cloud St.

43, Augnstana.S 28 St John's, Minn. 20, Cncidia, Moor. 12 SI. Thomas, Minn. 30.

Macalester 3 Taylor 38, Iowa Weslyn 14 Thomas Moie 21, Defiance 14 Toledo 41 Illinois 14 Tri-Slate 42. Tiffin 24 Truman St. 56, Missouri-Rolla 7 Upper Iowa 34, Aurora 17 Valley City St 45, Dakota Tech 19 Valparaiso 19, Butler 17 looming 49. Delaware Val 3 MH3I.CurlyO HARRY WALKER Knight Ridder Loose ball: Howard's Jermaine Hutchinson (22) is stripped by Morehouse lineman Martin Williams. AROUND THE STATE St Joseph's.

Ind 60, Union, Ky 20 Sue Bennett at Charleston Southern, ccd. Tennessee Tech 33. 2 Tusculum 51. Miltsaps 34 ValdostaSt 33, West Alabama 20 Villanova 40. Richmond 29 Virginia 13.

Duke 10 Wake Forest 35, Maryland 17 Wesley 34, Newport News 6 Wingate 22, lenoir-Rhyne 21 Winston-Salem 21, Virginia SI 12 Wotlord 17. W. Carolina 7 MIDWEST Alma 56, Albion 16 Augsburg 41, GuslavAdolphus 35,201 Auguslana.lll. 28, North Parti 3 Baker 55, Culvei-Slockton 25 Baldwin-Wallace 31, Otterbein 17 Ball St. 37.

Cent Michigan 34, 0T Beloit 34. Lawience 27 Bethany. Kan. 33. Sterling 7 Bethel.

Minn 52, St Plan 0 Buena Vista 24. Warlburg 14 Carroll. Wis 28, Lake Forest 16 Coe 34, Monmouth, III. 7 Concordia. III.

26, Greenville 19 Cornell, Iowa 49. Grinnell 48 Dakota Weslyn 32. Dakota St 29 Dayton 49. San Diego 25 Denison 54. Oberlin 18 Dickinson St 23, Minn -Crookston 19 Maine 62, Boston 29 MlsTMaiitime45.FilchbuigSt 22 Mss -Dartmouth 43, Mass -Boston 6 Massachusetts 26.

Buffalo 20 Monimackl7. Sacred Heart 7 Miami 45. Boston College 44. 20T MkJdlebuiy 35. Bates 14 Monmouth.

27. SI Francis, Pa 7 Moravian 31. Susquehanna 24 Navy42TvMI7 Third-quarter outbursts carry Appalachian State over Eagles Northeastern 34. New Hampshire 19 Pin 24. Columbia 7 PjniiJtJiinesojal5 Plymouth St36.

Springfield 16 Prtncelon 31. Colgate 28 RJcheslei 28. Chicago 18 tone 34, Dana Drake 28. Evansville 18 Salve Regina 10. Maine Maritime 0 SHepheid 48, Virginia Tech 3 Sfjiipery Rock 30, tdinboto 10 Sd John fisher 29.

Nichols 20 Illinois 37. Indiana St 3 Michigan 50. Kent 27 Westminster, Pa. 42, St Xaviei 7 William Jewell 31. Graceland 20 Wilmington, Ohio 43.

Eailham 7 Winona St 63, Minn -Duluth 35 Wis -LaCrosse 42. Wis -Rtv. Falls 36 Wis -Stevens Ft 50. Wis -Oshkosh 33 Wis -Whitewater 35. 14 SOUTHWEST Cent Arkansas 36, Henderson St 21 E.

New Haidin-Simmons 34, McMuiry 25 Houston 41, Cincinnati 38, 20T Oklahoma 24, Baylor 23 Arkansas 20, NW Oklahoma 14 SW Oklahoma 21. St Oklahoma II Sam Houston St 24, Nicholls SI 17 FAR WEST Ausa Pacific 23, LaVerne 14 Bngham Young 17, Hawaii 3 Carroll, Mont 49, Rocky Mountain 35 Colorado Col 54, Trinity Bible 0 Colorado St 14, Wyoming 7 Oregon 44, Whitworth 7 Washington 40, Montana 35 Fresno St 20. An Force 1 7 lewis Clark 34, Puget Sound 0 Montana St 34, CS Noithndge 20 St John's. NY 14 Duquesnell Dubuque 35, William Penn 27 Illinois 30. Middle Tenn 17 Michigan 45, AkionO tureka 17.

Bethel, Tenn 14 Findlay 34, Trinity. Ill 7 Fort Hays St 28, Western St Colo 15 Friends 29, Bethel. Kan 22 Slonehill 33. NewtnglandM Syracuse 60. Temple Towson 33.

Robert Morris 30 UgmsJGetlyslHirg W.Maryland 41. Dickinson 7 Grand Valley St 39, Michigan 22 Hamline 36, Caileton 7 Hastings 42. Nebraska Weslyn 7 Heidelberg 34, Capital 6 Hillsdale 10, Wayne. Mich 6 Morehouse, under first-year coach and former Washington Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, dropped its sixth straight game to fall to 2-6. Valdosta State 33, West Alabama 20: Donnie Johnston threw four touchdown passes as host Valdosta State built a 26-10 halftime lead and staved off a West Alabama rally.

Three of Johnston's scoring tosses went to split end Mike Bowman from 21, 7, and 18 yards out. The other was a 17-yarder to running back Vontrell Mitchell, which put the Blazers (5-2, 4-0) up 26-7. Johnston was 16-28 for 236 yards and Bowman had six catches for 108 yards. Mitchell had his second straight 152-yard rushing game. Tuskegee 20, Savannah State 14: In Dallas, Andre Dawson scored a touchdown in overtime to lift Tuskegee.

The teams were tied 14-14 at the end of regulation, after Corey Durant ran for 2 yards with three seconds left for Savannah State. time on a 1-yard run. Baker completed the scoring for Appalachian on a 10-yard strike to Daryl Skinner with 31 seconds left in the quarter. Georgia Southern (5-2) finally got on the scoreboard in the fourth quarter on a 7-yard run by quarterback Greg Hill. Morris Brown 7, Benedict 6: At Columbia, S.C., Roosevelt Brown returned a punt 58 yards in the second quarter, setting up a 3-yard touchdown run by Ray Jinks.

Morris Brown (4-4) churned out 184 yards rushing under soggy conditions, with no individual runner gaining more than 54 yards. Howard 52, Morehouse 0: Howard quarterback Ted White rebounded from the worst performance of his career by throwing for 294 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Bison. Howard posted its first shutout of the season before an overflow homecoming crowd of more than 14,000 at Howard's Greene Stadium, ASSOCIATED PRESS Appalachian State scored 21 third quarter points behind the running of Gerard Hardy and the passing of Bake Baker and cruised to a 24-12 win over visiting Georgia Southern in Southern Conference action Saturday. Both teams' offenses struggled early, as only Appalachian scored in the first half on a 36-yard Chris Barden field goal. In the third quarter, though, the Mountaineers' offense got untracked, piling up three touchdowns in the final 9 minutes of the quarter.

Hardy began the scoring spree with a 49-yard touchdown run at the 8:21 mark of the third quarter. The score capped a nine-play, 94-yard drive. Appalachian State (3-3) then mounted another long drive, this time going 86 yards on nine plays. Hardy scored again, this W.Vi.gima SI g.WVi Weslyn 16 Wagner 34 Cent Connecticut St 23 Wesh HJeH 28. Waynesbuig 27 WeM Chester 54, Cheyney 20 WilkM 23.

Kings. Pa 0 irVTlliams 26. Tuffs 24 iiicester St 44, hamingham St 15 1 SOUTH Aep State Georgia Soufltero 12 Illinois Weslyn 28, North Central 20 Indianapolis 24, Northwood, Mich 19 Jameslown 16, MayvilleSI 6 Kalamaroo 12, Olivet? Kansas St 36. Texas AftM 17 Western 27 Knox 50, Illinois Col 30 Ky Wesleyan 42, Quincy 20 I akeland 24, Mac Murray 17 tindenwood 38, Cent Me'hodist 7 Loral 35. Luther 28 Nevada 42, Idaho 23 Oregon 31, Utah 13 Cjmpbellsvilfe 52.

Cumberland. Ky 17 Cirsonjfewnian 31. Mars Hill 20 GaidiwAVehbf) Ctnire 36. Maryville, Tenn 22 Simon fraser 21, Humboldt St 16 Washington 58, Aiironi 28 Washington SI 63, California 37 Weber SI 16. Portland St 7 Malone 42, Uibana 7 riatlannoga 28, Tennessee Sl7 Dtiawart 49 Tames Madisat 2 Arkansas State (1-5).

Marietta 55. Hiram Col 10.