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r1P1 College Football IITYM---a-1 MIITODAY4S GAMESTIMMI ACC Western Carolina 20 Furman 14 Illinois 20 East Carolina 10 Catawba 23 Mars HIN 20 Central Fla 34 Elon 10 Gardner-Webb 36 Newberry 29 Lenoir-Rhyne 48 Wofford 15 The Citadel 27 Presbyterian 12 Hampden-Sydney 42 Guilford 30 SC State 12 NC AST 0 NC Central 28 Norfolk State 20 In a match of quarterbacks who usually begin the game on the bench Scott Campbell will start today for the Atlanta Falcons against Doug Williams and the Washington Redskins Page BD Tom Sorensen forecasts the NFL games and offers his strike prediction Page 6D Clemson 21 -G401'01820 Maryland25 West Virginia 20 North Carolina 30 Georgia Tech 23 Virginia 14 Virginia Tech 13 Wake Forest NC State 3 Duke 35 Vanderbilt 31 Others Virginia State 10 JC Smith 3 1 Oklahoma Did not play 2 Nebraska Did not play 3 Auburn Did not play 4 Louisiana State 49 Rice le 5 Ohio State 24 Oregon 14 8 Miami (Fla) Did not play 7 Florida State 41Memphis State 24 8 Clemson 20 9 Notra Dame 31 Michigan State 8 10 Texas 29 Washington 12 Stories Stories 11 Florida 23 Alabama 14 12 Arkansas 30 Tulsa 15 13 UCLA 17 FrO8r10 State 0 14 Tennessee Did not play 15 Pacific at Arizona Stat late le Temple 20 Pittsburgh 14 17 Notre Dame 31 Michigan State 8 18 Clemson 21 Georgia 20 19 Michigan 44 Washington State 18 20 Penn State 41 Cincinnati 0 Page 100 Alabama 14 Tulsa 15 Fresno State 0 Did not play late Pittsburgh 14 chigan State 8 20 kage 100 Bucknell 34 Davidson 3 I Elizabeth City Stale District of Columbia Appalachian State Military 10 Fayetteville State 30 St Paula Stories Pages 11-15D Stories Pages 11-15D II A game-by-game look at the NFL today Page 61:1 Sports A Section Score Phone: (704) 379-6535 he (Marlow Tbservcr Sunday September 20 1987 Clemson Takes Another 0 7 i Her From Gear' a Pat 1 41 SE CO RECTION 1 rell peyear otEN OWNS Writer CLEMSON SC Of all the wild and crazy endings to recent Clemson-Georgia college football games Saturday's game in Memorial Stadium had to be the wildest and the craziest Ready? This time in the final six-anda-half minutes eighth-ranked Clemson downed a punt at No 18 Georgia's 1 got a safety to pull within two points then drove 52 yards for David Treadwell's winning 21-yard field goal with two seconds left for a 21-20 victory goal" One was maligned punter Rusty Seyle who was averaging 338 yards entering the game but who averaged 418 Saturday and dropped a 43-yarder near the Georgia goal with a little over six minutes left Saturday At the time Clemson trailed 20-16 Another was Chinedu Ohan who batted the high-bouncing ball into the air with his hand and then straight up off his own leg just before he tumbled into the end zone There to catch it was freshman John Johnson who announced he was going to Georgia last February but switched to Clemson Johnson did a little toe-dance to establish possession before also falling into the end zone and officials ruled the ball down at the 1 On second down from there Georgia quarterback James Jackson was caught for a safety on a surprise dash around left end The safety was made by cornerback James Lott of Kannapolis who grabbed Jackson and held him up and by safety See CLEMSON Page 14D It was Treadwell's fourth field goal of the game and the second straight year he has beaten Georgia with a kick Last season in Athens Ga he boomed a career-long 46-yarder which went through the uprights with no time on the clock Wild and crazy finishes? This is a series in which nine of the last 11 games have been decided by seven points or fewer and three of the last four on a field goal with 11 two and zero seconds on the clock "Whew!" said Clemson coach Danny Ford while lifting a metal folding chair over a table so he could sit down in the interview room "I can hardly lift this thing That's how whipped I am" Treadwell a stick-legged 6-1 165- pound senior from Jacksonville Fla came beaming and freshly showered out of the locker room "It felt incredible" said Treadwell who had missed a rushed attempt from 42 yards with 11 minutes to play "I never dreamed it would come down to getting another chance two years in a row But there were a lot of people who had to get us into position to win it with a field Deacons l't b) Pass Tat Heels Hurry PA A Tec 1 VV i1fi ack r77mr'''7r777777: ":4 '-s--' i -4': "'t--' of': 4'1 A'' 4''''' 4'-'---" I I 0 ligl: (Zi -J (''tti kw: I lt i'''''s 1 4iti 6 f-ii 1: 4 -1A g' 4 "''''ii 1 IA' A t- i '0' -1 4 i I :1:: 7 -1 '1 '''t-'1 k4 -44-0-4494441v h4yikk i 1 4 '4 1 1: Ity 741 f'3 4e 4': -1' tt tit 1 1 ''''S' 1 1 Itk' A 41' 1 i a '1 1' k'V 'f: 17 44 "0 I -N- 111 4 '6 40 '-14 -'4: iAtsb t1 4 A 1 4- It 's 'I -I i Qt 04 1 1 '9- ''''1 6 1 ''4 'I'': 4 Ni i -i 4: By RON GREEN Staff Writer ATLANTA North Carolina's Tar Heels threw caution right out of Grant Field Saturday afternoon went to their two-minute offense for two quarters and came from 17 points down to beat Georgia Tech 30-23 in an ACC football game The Tar Heels (2-1) call their two-minute drill the "hurry-hurry" With quarterback Mark Maye of Charlotte calling the plays and executing them as no North Carolina quarterback ever had the Tar Heels hurry-hurried from a 20-3 deficit with just over three minutes left in the third quarter to win a game that was perilously close to being out of reach Maye completed 23 of 38 passes for a school-record 406 yards and four touchdowns Reserve wide receiver Randy Marriott pressed into extra duty when North Carolina went with three wideouts and no tight end for much of the game caught nine passes for a school-record 247 yards and three touchdowns One of his touchdown receptions covered 93 yards another school record When the Tar Heels went to the locker room at See NORTH CAROLINA Page 12D By STAN OLSON Staff Writer WINSTON-SALEM Say hello to Bill Dooley riverboat gambler calling plays with flash and dash in Wake Forest's 21-3 ACC football whipping of NC State Saturday in Groves Stadium And by golly even throwing the ball On first down Dooley coaching his second game at Wake Forest called for the pass 11 times on first down Saturday Forget that Deaj cons quarterback Mike Elkins was 1 i often off-target completing three F''' )0 of those The point was Dooley who is "ir I said to view the forward pass as 1' 2 one of those newfangled inven- tions that can only mess up a good 'p 1 game plan kept the Wolfpack off- balance all day with his guess- what-we'll-do-next strategy Dooley "We noticed they were trying not to double up (on coverage of wide receivers) on first down just using single coverage" Dooley they were overloading on later downs We wanted to take advantage of that and loosen them up a bit" Done and done And then they ran Tailback Darryl McGill gained 81 yards before spraining his right ankle in the third period Backup Mark Young of Belmont had 144 yards Meanwhile NC State 0-3 and without a touchdown in its last 11 quarters tried to ram the ball down the Deacons' throats The Wolfpack threw on first down only once in the first three periods "We thought we could run the ball on them" said NC State quarterback Shane Montgomery "We See WAKE FOREST Page 4D Did 2nd Half Save A Season? -t Wake Forest quarterback Mike Elkins (10) gets a pass off under pressure by NC State defenders :4 i j'nf11400 WES BOBENTItStaff Scott Auer (95) and Sterling Quash (40) during the Deacons' 21-3 victory Saturday Slayden Unbeaten Duke Hold Off Vanderbilt ATLANTA The wondrous deeds had been done North Carolina's Tar Heels had come out of gloomy oblivion to beat Georgia Tech 30-23 and outside the doors of the dressing room at Grant Field visiting celebrants wearing blue were making joyful noises on a Saturday afternoon Aft they won't soon forget 410: Mark Maye his right shoulder 441 stinging from a turf burn the shoulder that had launched 406 st yards and four touchdowns-worth of passes approached offensive coordinator Randy Walker "Thanks coach for believing in me" he said Ron Walker said "I'll never stop believing In you" ureen Walker could have been tempted during Maye's early injury-plagued years at Chapel Hill when he couldn't throw the lightning bolts he had thrown at Charlotte's Independence High or in the first two games this season one win one loss when the passing game was mysteriously See STRONG Page 12D 1 Duke's game-winning score and the touchdown came on a 2-yard run around right end by tailback Stanley Monk Slayden a senior quarterback from Atlanta completed 19 of 29 passes for a career-high 297 yards overall and tied a school record with four touchdowns "He was magnificent" said Spurrier a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback himself "I was better at reading defenses" added Slayden who threw only one interception after tossing six in Duke's first two games "Coach Spurrier is just teaching me all this This is the third game so I have no excuses for the rest of the year I felt like I gained a lot of experience tonight" Despite his passing success Spurrier had Slayden keep the ball on the ground for the winning score With more than four minutes remaining when the Blue Devils drove to the Vanderbilt 20 he didn't want to give the Vandy offense another chance in a game that featured seven lead changes "1 had one of our guys go in and tell Steve to milk the clock a little" said Spurrier But Duke's defense burned for 534 yards in the game still needed to make a last stand to preserve the win The Commodores quickly took the ball from their own 20 to the Duke 26 with more than a minute to play as quarterback Eric Jones completed four passes for 51 yards on the drive But after Vanderbilt called its first time-out of the second half Jones threw into heavy coverage in the See SUITEN Page 3D By DANNY KNOBLER Special Correspondent DURHAM Duke's newly redesigned offense passed its first tough test of the season Saturday night Down by 31-28 to Vanderbilt with seven minutes 42 seconds to play quarterback Steve Slayden led the Blue Devils on a 66-yard scoring drive giving Duke a 35-31 win in front of a rain-soaked crowd of 23100 at Wallace Wade Stadium The win gave Duke its first 3-0 start since 1982 Steve Spurrier the offensive coordinator that year is In his first year as the Blue Devils' head coach Vanderbilt which had upset Duke last year in Nashville fell to 1-1 Slayden threw three times for 43 yards to set up 1 NFL Owners Adopt Get-Tougher Policy Davis Welcomed Home With Cheers Applause ee" 1 't ill40 Tom 1 Sorensen ''7 4' 11 411qv- iz 44 A ts' Sr! 4ti-e -4 r- if 1-: i i -s A0-t4 ir! 4 1 ke! 0- tstbe'' 1 'l i 54 i N4041 ik ot ti -t w- Nt 'k) 14? i 4 Ar 0p 44 kl't 414 I 44 1 Sk 10 it a11k 1u441- s'' In addition the owners said that all games played by teams made up of free agents and non-striking players teams the league plans to field starting Oct 4 would count In the standing There were no immediate plans for new negotiations Gene Upshaw the executive director of the Players Association immediately denounced the management position Issued through a statement by the Management Council's executive committee Speaking from his office in Washington Upshaw said: "What they're trying to do is divide us divide the union and never negotiate That's their stance" Upshaw said that the league was trying to appeal to players on the better teams to remain "By saying all the games will count they're tring to stop the playoff teams from going on strike" he said "What they're saying to the playoff teams is that a scab team can screw up your record" You knew Randy Jackson would get polite applause Not many fans had heard of Randy Jackson who played for Shaw in the CIAA And you knew Michael JOrtian would get a rock star ovation In North Carolina Michael Jordan always gets rock star ovations But you didn't know how fans these fans would react to 'Walter DaVIS Davis a basketball star with North Carolina with the NBA's Phoenix Suns and perhaps the best basketball player to come out of Charlotte waited for his introduction Saturday at the Charlotte Coliseum He was playing in a benefit basketball game with Jackson Jordan Sam Perkins Kenny Smith and assorted other North Carolina-tinged NBA stars What added spice to his introduction was that proceeds from the game would go to the Athletes Against Crime and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes At a workshop before the game young basketball players were told by a I Now York Times lNEW YORK The NFL own- ers adopted a tougher stance Sat- urday one designed to hit the wal- lets of players who go out on strike They also said they be5 lieved the only stumbling block remaining in the labor dispute was the issue of free agency on which I both sides remained far apart Thirteen games are scheduled today Monday night the New En- gland Patriots meet the New York '0 Jets in what could be the final time fans will see their favorite 1 players for awhile Facing a strike Tuesday the league warned players that if they I went out they would probably not be able to make up the missing paychecks since the league would be unlikely to add games at the end of the season Also the league said it would not pay a bonus to players returning when the strike ended as it did in 1982 That bonus was a so-called "money now" payment that ranged from $10000 for rookies to $60000 to veterans variety of speakers to stay away from drugs And Davis hasn't Last spring he left the Phoenix Suns the NBA team for which he averaged a slick 236 points a game to check into a Southern California rehabilitation center Ile had abused cocaine and alcohol and he needed help It was his second stay there Now came the Introduction Davis 33 and a South Mecklenburg High graduate jogged onto the court with long graceful strides And the 2000 or so fans greeted him with cheers and applause The See DAVIS Page 3D UPI Home Safely Houston's Gerald Young bites the dust and Is safe at home on a late tag by San Diego catcher Benito Santiago in the Padres' 2-1 victory Saturday at Houston Baseball Next Page A i 1.