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Sports Outdoors THE SUNDAY RUTLAND HERALD AND THE SUNDAY TIMES ARGUS NOVEMBER 17, 1991 Florida State Fails By A Foot duced five wins in the last six games against the Seminoles. Good enough to snap the streak of seven consecutive wins against No. 1 teams the Hurricanes had compiled in the past decade. Only problem was that someone forgot to give the Hurricanes their script. Without it, Miami did what seems to come so naturally, which was to beat the Seminoles and break their spirit with a remarkable 17-16 come-from-behind victory that was not decided until the final seconds when Florida States Gerry Thomas missed a 34-yard field goal attempt by less than a foot.

Now instead of celebrating New Years in Miami with a probable national championship coronation in the Orange Bowl, the Seminoles will be in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, haunted by the failure to beat the Hurricanes in a duel for the top ranking for the third time in five See Page 7: Miami Miami Wins Battle Of Unbeatens By MARK BLAUDSCHUN Boston Globe TALLAHASSEE, Fla. It wasnt as if they hadn't seen it before. Painfully and consistently they had. But this year was going to be different for Florida State. The Seminoles began the season as No.

1 and had stayed that way for 12 grueling weeks. They had taken on all comers and not even blinked. But now Miami was standing between them and the national championship they wanted so much. The Hurricanes came to Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday with nothing but self-confidence. They were ranked No.

2 and destined to lose to the Seminoles. Florida State was too good this year, good enough to overcome the magic of Miami, which had pro Dartmouth Tramples Brown By TOM HALEY Staff Writer Hanover, N.H. Tailback A1 Rosiers record-breaking performance led the Dartmouth Big Green to a 45-13 shellacking of Brown on Saturday and set up a showdown this week with Princeton for the Ivy League title. Rosier rushed for 229 yards, eclipsing the schools single-game rushing record of 222 yards by David Clark. Rosier, the Big Greens all-time leading rusher, also set a school rushing record for a season of 1,261 yards before leaving the game early in the fourth quarter.

The victory gives the Big Green a 5-0-1 record in the Ivy League, with Princeton bringing its 5-1 record to Hanover on Saturday. Brown coach Mickey Kwiatowski, whose team lost 59-37 to Princeton, envisions a classic game. It will be a great, great game, said Kwiatowski. They both have outstanding receivers, outstanding tailbacks and fine lines. They are very evenly matched.

Dartmouth will be shooting for its second Ivy championship in a row. The Big Green shared the title with Cornell last season. Dartmouth wasted no time, scoring on its first possession with Rosier capping the march with a touchdown run from seven yards out. Dennis Durkins kick for the point made it 7-0 just 2:57 into the game. Brown answered quickly.

The Bears marched 66 yards on six plays on the ensuing drive to tie the score. Two big pass plays by Brown quarterback Nick Richardson set up the 5-yard scoring run by Brett Brown with 7:35 left in the opening quarter. But the Bears couldnt stay in the game for long. Rosier scored twice from two yards out as the Big Green padded its lead to 20-7. See Dartmouth, Page 7 Miamis Darryl Spencer (35) makes a diving catch between Florida State defenders Richard Coes (16) and Kirk Carruthers in Tallahassee, Saturday.

Miami defeated Florida State 17-16. College Bowl Arrangements Become Official Today which lost to No. 8 Penn State 35-13. The Nittany Lions go to the Fiesta Bowl Jan. 1 at Tempe, against No.

10 Tennessee, which solidified its spot by defeating Mississippi 36-25. No. 17 Syracuse and No. 18 Ohio State are headed for the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa, on New Years Day. Both won Saturday, Syracuse defeating Boston College 38-16 and Ohio State surviving a last-second scare to beat Indiana 20-16.

No. 15 Clemson thumped Maryland 40-7 to clinch the ACC title and a date in the Citrus Bowl at Orlando, Jan. 1 against California, which defeated Arizona State 25-6. No. 14 East Carolina overcame a two-touchdown deficit to defeat Virginia Tech 24-17 and secure a Peach Bowl berth in lanta on Jan.

1, probably against No. 24 North Carolina State, which defeated Duke 32-31. rado. The Buffaloes then would go to the Blockbuster Bowl against No. 7 Alabama (9-1), which defeated Memphis State 10-7 Saturday, and Oklahoma would head for the Gator Bowl against Virginia, idle Saturday.

If Oklahoma beats Nebraska, the Sooners appear headed for the Dec. 28 Blockbuster Bowl at Miami, the Comhuskers would go to the Dec. 29 Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, and Colorado would play in the Orange, provided it does not lose to Iowa State. The consolation prize for Florida State (10-1) as the loser of the latest game between No. 1 and No.

2 is a trip to the Cotton Bowl to play the Southwest Conference champion on New Years Day in Dallas. Texas needs two victories in its final three games to clinch the host spot have No. 3 Washington and champions of Associated Press Although nothing will be signed or sealed until Sunday the new date when bowl bids can formally be extended Saturdays college football games took care of delivering some teams to their postseason games. When No. 2 Miami (9-0) survived a last-minute field goal try to defeat top-ranked Florida State 17-16, it sent the Hurricanes into the Orange Bowl for a Jan.

1 date with the Big Eight Conference champion. No. 11 Nebraska defeated Iowa State 38-13 and remained tied for the Big Eight lead with No. 16 Colorado, which scored in the final minute for a 30-24 victory over Kansas. Nebraska and Oklahoma, which defeated Oklahoma State 21-6, play Nov.

29. A victory by Nebraska in that game would send the Comhuskers to the Orange Bowl because they are hicher ranked than Colo the Pac-10, against Big Ten champion Michigan. Both won Saturday, with Washington pounding winless Oregon State 58-6 and Michigan clinching its berth with a 20-0 victory over No. 25 Illinois. That sent Illinois to the John Hancock Bowl at El Paso, Texas, Dec.

31 against UCLA, which defeated Oregon 16-7. No. 9 Iowa clinched second place in the Big Ten with a 24-10 victory over Northwestern, earning a ticket to the Dec. 30 Holiday Bowl at San Diego against either No. 23 BYU or San Diego State, who played Saturday night for the Western Athletic Conference championship.

The WAC loser goes to the Freedom Bowl at Anaheim Dec. 30 against Tulsa (7-2), which defeated Louisville 40-0. No. 5 Florida clinched its first official SEC title vvith a 35-26 victory over Kentucky. That sends the Gators Into the Sugar Bowl against No.

12 Notre Dame, AP Photo At 7-1 and 290 pounds, Louisiana State center Shaquille ONeal is one of college basketballs most dominating players. i. SHAQ SET TO ATTACK LSUs ONeal Back For Another Season Of Terrorizing Opponents By SKIP MYSLENSKI Chicago Tribune BATON ROUGE, La. So here is Shaq, the Love Shaq, His Shaqnificence, Shaquille the Real Deal ONeal, and hes deep into displaying the second-best talent enveloped in his 7-foot-l-inch, 294-pound body. His best talent, of course, is playing college basketball, which he does for LSU and as well as nearly any being on this planet.

But he is just talking, improvising with all the skill of an accomplished jazz soloist, and as question after question comes his way, he proves able to perform nearly as well as he does in those games he dominates. Oh, yeah, the Shaq can wail, and here is the key to understanding the rifts he blows. Dont take all of it seriously. Hes just 19, after all, a teen-ager fully capable of fun and high-jinks. He started bathing in klieg lights back in the 11th grade, and since then has grown comfortable with his notoriety and learned how to handle all the crazed attention continually coming his way.

This does not mean he is never serious, or never gives up the real deal. Just ask him if he is looking forward to one game more than any other this season, and you know hes not kidding when he says, February 8th. One-thirty p.m. I got a big on my calendar. That day, LSU plays Duke and Christian Laettner, who outscored (24 to 15), outreboimded (11 to 10) and thoroughly embarrassed him during the Blue Devils 88-70 rout of the Tigers last February.

So, no, that is not a Shaq-laugh attack. But minutes later, after pointedly revealing that he is taking journalism this semester, he serves up this when asked to begin a story on his Shaq-nificent Once upon a time, there was a boy named Shaq-. uille O'Neal who could hit three-point shots falling back. I remember one time, February 8th, 1:30 p.m., he hits one. Score: LSU 3, Duke nothing.

Mike Kr-zyzewski (the Duke coach) calls time out. ONeal comes back out, hits three more threes. They cant stop him. Hes hot. The end.

Now there is the flip side to that Brobdingnagian character who looks so menacing on the court. It is a side that can be mischievous, as free-lance writer Ruth Laney learned when she went to interview Shaq for Sports Illustrated for Kids. He watched, unseen, as she entered the bathroom, then locked her in, and let her out only after she did some heavy pounding. I thought it was hilarious, she remembers, mainly because he was so tickled. And it is a side that sometimes indulges whimsies, as LSU guard Mike Hansen has learned while living in the dorm room next to Shaqs.

For he is also an aspiring disc jockey, and often amuses himself by mixing the records of two artists (Suzanne Vegas and YZ's last year, Chubb Rocks and Special Eds currently). Sometimes, says Hansen, he scratches the records and gives you a headache. But hes hav-ing fun, so I let him slide. See Page 7: Shaq I Green Mountain Advances Staff Report BRIAR CLIFF MANOR, N.Y. John Lynch scored the only goal of the game to give Green Mountain College a 1-0 victory over St.

Josephs (N.Y.) College in the NAIA District 5 and 10 championship game Saturday. The Eagles, 15-4-2, have now qualified for the 12-team NAIA national tournament in Boca Raton, for the first time in the 10-year history of the mens soccer program. The tournament runs from Nov. 25-28. Brian Davies set up the Eagles goal, crossing a direct kick deep into the penalty area for Lynch, who put it in from inside the six-yard box.

The game-winning goal came with 38:42 remaining in the second half. Davies, who created several scoring opportunities, almost put Green Mountain further ahead when he pushed a shot wide of St. Josephs keeper Ray Simms from close range near the end of the game, but the shot was just wide of the net. The Eagles outshot St. Josephs 13-3 and could have easily scored several more goals had not Simms kept St.

Joseph's close with several critical saves of shots by Davies, Richie Grant and Toma Noguchi. GMCs Danny Valentino recorded two saves for his 10th shutout of the season while Simms had 10 stops for St. Josephs. For Green Mountain coach Chris Gilmore, the win was a big one. It has taken us a long time to achieve our dream of qualifying for the national tournament, Gilmore said.

I cant describe the feeling, its incredible. Im so pleased for the team, its their hard work and dedication that has made it all possible. Its going to take us a few days to come back down and start to get ready for the national tournament. GMCs representation of District 6 and 10 in the tournament marks the third consecutive year a Vermont team has qualified for a Boca Raton trip. In 1989 and 1990 Johnson State College represented the region.

Revelation Changes Tone Of AIDS Debate Its being said that Magics done more in three days than all the AIDS educators did in a decade and, if so, its because the group to have been most affected by his case is the media. AIDS educator Jeanne Mirabella Johnsons By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press NEW YORK It seemed last week that one mans blood test changed a nation's view of AIDS and its own sex life. One day after Magic Johnson told the world about his HIV infection, the president of the United States admitted not doing enough about AIDS. Soon a life-size plastic penis appeared on a Today show coffee table. A TV network said it will air condom commercials.

Heterosexual men lined up for HIV tests. Perhaps strangest of all in the land of Cotton Mather and Jerry Falwell, a man who claimed to have had sex with countless women was hailed as a hero. The basketball star said he got the deadly virus having sex with a woman, though there were too many women to know which one. I to his penis. Instead of titters, boos or gasps, he got hearty applause.

Once, Johnson would have been ostracized for such talk. Nbw even religious leaders praised his honesty. He seemed immune from the fickleness of advertisers; Converse said it would continue using Johnson to sell its sneakers and buy $1 million in television time this year for an AIDS education campaign. There were dissenters. Vice President Dan Quayle and many Roman Catholic bishops endorsed abstinence.

Rut they sounded slightly irrelevant in a country where more than half the high school students have sexual intercourse. We were empowered by Magic, said Tom Capra, producer of Today, which used the plastic penis last week to demonstrate condom use. Right now the whole country is so aware of the problem that this is the time to do it. NBC got about 80 calls concerning the condom segment, mostly supporting it. Fox television announced it had already decided to become the first network to accept condom coni-mercials.

Its being said that Magics done more in three days than all the AIDS educators did in a decade and, if so, its because the group to have been most affected by his case is the media," said Jeanne Mirabella, an AIDS educator in New Jersey. The effect was seen at HTV test centers around the country. Test applications doubled in Atlanta, tripled in Tucson, quintupled in Washington. Who was turning out? Heterosexuals who are scared witless, said a public health official in Camden, NJ. His only expressed regret: failing to wear a condom.

Johnsons revelation captivated a nation still tom between prudish tradition the government recently killed two studies of sexual behavior, one because the questions were too explicit and sexual revolution. In print, in classrooms, on the air, Americans now discussed sexual practices familiar everywhere but in public discourse. If the topic was AIDS, the real issue was sex. Im going to get married, said Reggie Miller, star of the NBAb Indiana Pacers. This is a big enough message for me to slow down.

The White House invited Johnson to join the National Commission on AIDS and share his very important message a message no conservative Republican would have lauded 10 years ago. Appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show," Magic Johnson told a national audience: Please put your thinking cape on and put your cap on down here, he said, gesturing 4.