The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 637

tt rr rr How Top 20 Fayed College Report 5-9D PB A Sunday October 18 1987 The Miami Herald Section Gators gallop as Smith hits 1000 By DAVE HYDE Herald Sports Writer GAINESVILLE Ever hear 74286 people fidget? That was the sound coming from Florida Field late in the second quarter as Temple moved the football Not that the game itself sent nerves into calisthenics The 14th-ranked University of Florida 1 (5-2) would go on to score a 34-3 victory over Temple (3-4) and the game already had all the intrinsic excitement of standing water at that point But minutes before freshman running back Emmitt Smith was taken into the locker room clutching his right wrist and turning Florida Field into a hospital waiting room But a quick X-ray a quicker tape job 2 and who should emerge from that locker-room tunnel? But paper records aside Smith said he had extra incentive to return wanted to show Temple that no ordinary running he said the impression I think they had of Those hard words and harder feelings were the outgrowth of two late hits that Smith charged were against him Certainly he and his Gators had the more lasting shots Bell threw for a season-high 212 yards and two touchdowns and the Gator defense held Temple to 158 yards and has yielded only three points in eight quarters But all this was an afterthought Saturday Smith gained 82 yards on nine carries before warding off a potential tackier with a second-quarter stiff-arm and spraining the wrist I thought it was broken at the he said He made his triumphant return to the bench in the second quarter but return to play until the second half Then he ran the ball And ran seemed like every play was to me" he said knew everyone wanted the It fell in the fourth quarter in typical Smith flair A jitter-step left a juke right and he was alone on the field and in the record books He went around right end and was pulled down from behind 25 yards later in front of the Florida bench by cornerback Willard Cooper wanted to go all the he said tell everyone not No matter It was party time Eight teammates helped him up and immediate- Please turn to GATORS 6D Clark Kent Well right idea The wrist was sprained and still numb but so was the rest of his body when the crowd stood and accompanied his jog to the bench with a chorus of "Em-mit Quarterback Kerwin Bell walked over to Smith tapped his helmet put an arm around him and asked the three words any right-thinking Gator would all right?" am Smith answered And he only got better Better than Herschel Walker Tony Dorsett or any other freshman at this stage in his carer Smith returned to play and gained 175 yards and one touchdown on 23 carries to surpass 1000 yards in fewer games than any other freshman He now has 1011 yards in seven pames Walker and Dorsett previously held the record at eight games JOHN WALTHER Special to The Herald Emmitt Smith gives the (injured) thumbs-up sign after leading Gators to 34-3 victory over Temple Twin bats thunder in 104 win Twins vs Cardinals result Minnesota 10 St Louis 1 Game St Louis (Cox 11-9) at Minnesota (Blyleven 15-12) 8:25 pm TV Channels 10 12 Radio WIOD (610) WSBR (740 Boca Raton) WJNO (1230 West Palm Beach) By PETER RICHMOND Herald Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS It had been a quarter of a century since they last won a World Series game here and reduced that stadium into rubble so you can hardly blame the Twin Cities for trying to raise the roof Saturday night And the St Louis Cardinals are desperately hoping that there will be life beyond the thunderdome Because they showed none Saturday night To the aural accompaniment of the sound you might hear if you were standing on a launch pad the Minnesota Twin juggernaut Me-tromashed the St Louis Cardinals 10-1 for Frank Viola who it turns out probably could have attended his wedding anyway The way the Twin bats are popping the first viola in the Minneapolis Symphony could have faced the Cardinals and won this one St Louis managed four hits off Viola who missed his best-man appointment to play best man But he had to share that honor with Dan Gladden whose five RBI fell one short of the record Gladden had a grand slam and a double on a night when the baseball flew off the Twin bats as if shot The bantamweight Cards had better hope life beyond the thunderdome for beginning to seem virtually impossible for opposing teams to keep the Twins down in their own extraordinary cocoon The sound of 55171 impossibly loud domedwellers seems to will the hits Perhaps it was just the struggles of Cardinal pitchers Joe Magrane and Bob Forsch and Ricky Horton A truer test will emerge this evening when Danny Cox brings his off-speed stuff to the Metrom-ound Earplugs work for Migraine Maybe he should try earmuffs It seemed as if the Please turn to TWINS 2D Martin Yanks a 5-time match? Dan Gladden (32) is congratulated by Tom Brunansky (left) Kent Hrbek (14) and Steve Lombardozzi after his fourth-inning grand slam Twins enjoy their win amid the din Edwin Popo Sports Editor From Herald Wire Sendees NEW YORK Billy Martin may be about to become manager of the New York Yankees for a fifth time according to a report published Saturday The New York Daily News quoting unidentified sources reported that owner George Stein-brenner is considering firing Lou Piniella who has managed the Yankees for the last two seasons and has one year remaining on his contract Steinbrenner favors Martin for the job the newspaper said true but Billy would be brought back only until Bucky Dent is ready to take said a source familiar with the situation Dent a former Yankees infielder managed the farm club at Columbus Ohio of the International League this year The team finished second with a 77-63 record MINNEAPOLIS The Twins not only got the first laugh in their second World Series in the land of Minnehaha when Dan grand slam drove them ahead 7-1 in Saturday furious fourth inning 'Twin hilarity in their eventual clubbing of the Cardinals turned the Metrodome into a thunderdome For the Mississippi River link of these two cities anyway it brought back Mark beautifully acerbic line talks about the weather but nobody does anything about Everyone has been talking about the noise level in the Metrodome but the Twins did something about it if the wreckage they wrought Saturday night could be described merely as The Metrodome decibel level figures about 100 every time the Twins get a hit and 110 Magrane broke down on four singles and a walk with none out the fourth It reached crescendo I figured about 130 when I took out my earplugs when Gladden struck his bases-loaded blow off reliever Bob Forsch for 7-1 The thunder re-crescendoed when Steve Lombardozzi delivered another Forsch pitch into the seats for 9-1 in the fourth fans jacked us up no doubt about said Lombardozzi know what it did to the Cardinals but it sure makes our blood pump Twin fans were celebrating 22 years of waiting They lost their last World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1965 But now they were tasting blood with Gladden and Lombardozzi and just about Please turn to POPE 2D when they score a run slightly below the level of 120 you would get standing on a runway beneath a jet landing This jet was carrying Twins moving faster than even the eagle eyes of the Cardinals could follow Zoom! The birds scattered but escape The roar from the great majority of 55171 Twinatics began when Cardinal starter Joe FSU overcomes slow start it to trounce Louisville 32-9 FAMU strikes late ties Central State By GEORGE DIAZ Herald Sports Writer Florida salvaged a 10-10 tie in the 55th Orange Blossom (not-so) Classic against Central State Saturday night in the Orange Bowl The announced crowd of 20439 appeared satisfied with the work of acclaimed band which performed during pregame and at halftime It certainly eclipsed the entertainment value of the during an often-sloppy if not confusing game Which brings us to a fourth-and-a-half yard call with 4:28 left in the game All Central State Coach Billy Joe needed to do was call for a field goal from the FAMU eight-yard-line Instead he gambled and lost Quarterback Eric Moore budge the Please turn to lD By GARY LONG Herald Sports Writer TALLAHASSEE Uninspired early and unusually unimaginative most of the night Florida State University still delivered a workmanlike 32-9 victory over Louisville Saturday A 349-yard ground assault featuring 119 yards by Sammie Smith and 124 by third-stringer Victor Floyd more than offset 339 passing yards by Cardinal quarterback Jay Gruden A Doak Campbell Stadium crowd of 53114 watched as the Seminoles improved their record to 6-1 and protected a No 4 Associated Press national ranking For the second week in a row all three FSU tailbacks Smith Floyd and Dexter Carter ran for TDs Quarterback Danny McManus passed 26 yards to Herb Gainer for another score In spite of marksmanship the Cardinals were budgeted to a 27-yard field goal by Ronnie Bell until Deon Booker barged three yards with just over a minute remaining Louisville slipped to 2-4-1 but with glory was a game where Louisville ought to get all the FSU Coach Bobby Bowden said took the fight to us all the But Seminole players agreed that this was the letdown that was expected last week when FSU coming off a 26-25 loss to Please turn to SEMINOLES 7D CHRIS USHER ami Herald FAMU quarterback Andre Williams is sacked by Central State defenders Keith Phelps bottom and Darren Harris.