The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 46

I Sunday November 1 1987 The Miami Herald Section ors rocked umcane Smith has 72 yards in loss UM 6-0 after 41-3 victory on 21 carries was the first time in five collegiate starts he surpass 100 yards He was averaging a nation-high 1443 yards coming into the game expect to get 100 yards al the time especially against defenses that are this good" he said just let down all game" contained said Auburn Coach Pat Dye who nearly signed last February to play at Auburn "That was the key We let him control the football The loss dropped Florida to 5-3 overall and 2-2 in the Southeastern Conference Auburn went to 7-0-1 and 3-0-1 a half-game behind 4-0 Louisiana State in the SEC standings The game which laid any Gator SEC title hopes in the coffin also Please turn to GATORS 8D By DAVE HYDE Herald Sports Writer AUBURN Ala It came down to a battle between the top rusher against the top rushing defense and in the end there was more crash than dash Behind a Rocker-ribbed defense Auburn stopped University of Flonda freshman Emmitt Smith and used three first-half field goals by Win Lyle and three second-half touchdowns Saturday night to ride to a 29-6 victory Auburn defensive end Tracy Rocker had three unassisted tackles on Smith to lead a greeting committee that was backed up by a Jordan-Hare Stadium record crowd of 85187 To put that crowd in perspective if it posted city limits it would have been fourth-largest city To put performance in perspective his 72 yards rushing up to 27 games just as the successive run of road victories reached 19 before a near-capacity crowd of 31791 amid the autumn leaves surrounding Ficklen Stadium Saturday made it three straight seasons without a regular-season road loss because the Hurricanes now are home at the Orange Bowl the rest of the way beginning Saturday against Miami of Ohio and likely as not ending Jan 1 for the national championship Ho hum as in the ho-ho-ho of a season laying out like pearls and the hum of a team got the motor purring Saturday the Hurricanes scored on Steve Walsh touchdown passes of five and nine yards to Brian Blades and four yards to Leonard Conley on runs of 18 yards by Warren Williams and four by Please turn to VM9D By GREG COTE Herald Sports Writer GREENVILLE NC No razor blades in the apples No toilet paper in the trees No tricks no surprises Mostly no sudden detour off the one-way street that is National Championship Boulevard It must have been a lopsided victory for the University of Miami football team Saturday afternoon because a few local fans were trotting out the obligatory running-up-the-score postgame calls Ho hum 41-3 Ho hum third-ranked and undefeated Hurricanes (6-0) spent Halloween day making East Carolina Pirates (4-5) seem about as threatening as the little kid who showed up at your door last night wearing an eyepatch and carrying a rubber sword Ho hum the consecutive regular-season victories meter clicked Auburn quarterback Jeff Burger who entered on the second play from scrimmage eludes Jeff Reuter for yardage Edwin Pope Sports Editor Except passing Dolphin grades are only passing i Offerdahl activated for 1 pm game 4D RAUL RUBIERA Miami Herald Stall Marlboro Challenge winner Bobby Rahal is followed closely around Turn 5 by second-place finisher Danny Sullivan Rahal rises to The Dolphins would face a terminal statistic today under any conditions remotely close to normal Losing to the Steelers would drop them to 2-5 No team in pro 16-game-schedule era has gone from 2-5 into the playoffs That stat would grow even more stark in a season strike-shortened to 15 games As it happens the rest of the AFC East is so undistinguished 8-7 might win it all this time The Dolphins could win every game from here in So could any other team and most seem more likely than Miami Can it be only five and three seasons ago the Dolphins were rolling into Super Bowls? Now they are reeling around down there with the dregs and it cannot be blamed entirely upon the strike 1-2 is just as bad as the 1-2 No instant solutions present themselves short of a sensational trade which brings up another question: Why the Dolphins ever figure in say an Eric Dickerson deal? OK not that easy Take a shot! What could be much worse than this constant tip-toe across the tightwire of disaster? Short of some deal things will not turn golden any more suddenly than they went sour The Decline and Fall of Everything but the Dolphin Passing Game is a volume that has been in the works for some years A combination of unsuccessful drafting and physical losses has drawn this noose around their necks The Dolphins certainly are not dead yet in this messy season Not as long as Dan Marino and Mark Duper and Mark Clayton stay sound Not as long as there is hope of John Offerdahl Hugh Green and Please turn to POPE 1 2D I I exiting Turn 1 on the final lap and coasted to a halt The difference between second and fourth where he finished was $65000 used our full Fittipaldi said of the CART-regulated one gallon of methanol for every 18 miles in a race "It just enough Everyone was running full turbo-charger boost and you use a lot of fuel when you do Case in point: Danny Sullivan who collected the $135000 second prize for Penske Racing in a March-Chevrolet made his mandatory pit stop the moment rules allowed after 10 laps And the 1985 Indy 500 winner was right at rear wing after Rahal had pitted But Rahal proceeded to leave him balance started to go Please turn to MARLBORO I ID By GARY LONG Herald Sports Writer Bobby 75-mile sprint to a $225000 Marlboro Challenge payday Saturday appeared to typify True-Sports Racing precision and perfection Not quite strategy for the inaugural running of the $730000 all-star 10-car event called for a change of right-side tires on required pit stop Right-side tires were changed the car got loose and as coming in radioing change left-side Rahal said crew get the No problem The Cosworth-pow-ered Lola after Rahal returned to the 1784-mile Tamiami Park road course Later Rahal said saw a fuel sign hung out by his crewj I thought Guerrero welcomed 10D Mario wins pole 10D Pit worker injured IIP does that mean OK or a It meant conserve fuel fuel light started blinking with four laps to he said darned near ran out on me on the cool-off lap" But "darned describes the pitfalls Rahal team manager Steve Horne and the TrueSports crew have avoided these past two championship seasons while rivals have charged right into them trying to chase Rahal down Case in point: Emerson Fittipaldi running second and closing on Rahal in the last five of 42 laps ran out of fuel 8:30 am Carteret VintageHistoric warmup 9 am Gulf Bank Barber Saab warmup 9:30 am Buick American Racing Series warmup 10 am Carteret VintageHistoric races (20 minutes each) 11:15 am Gulf Bank Barber Saab race (30 minutes) Noon Buick American Racing Series race (45 minutes) 2 pm Nissan Indy Challenge (200 miles) final event of CART season TICKETS General admission $15 Grandstands 1 and 2 $75 (includes pitpaddock pass) all other grandstands $35 pitpaddock pass $20 INFORMATION Call 665-RACE Seminolcs score at will in routing Tulanc 73-14 Buffalo signs Bennett Bills join Colts Rams in Dickerson deal What the Buffalo Bills Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Rams ended up with in the Eric Dickerson trade: Bills Rights to linebacker Cornelius Bennett from Colts Colts Running back Eric Dicker-son from Rams Rams RB Owen Gill from Colts Running back Greg Bell from Bills First- and second-round picks in 1988 from Colts First-round pick in 1988 from Bills First- and second-round picks in 1989 from Bills Second-round pick in 1989 from Colts Florida State the fourth-ranked team which is now 7-1 tuned up for next pivotal meeting at Auburn by treating 53210 fans to the second-most lopsided victory in school history FSU defeated Tulsa 76-14 in 1985 and Louisville by a 59-0 score in 1953 biggest thing is that Florida State is a great football said Tulane Coach Mack Brown who played running back for FSU in 1972 and but obviously enjoy this homecoming celebration that saw his squad drop to 4-4 we got into the game By GARY FERMAN Herald Sports Writer TALLAHASSEE Some day when Florida State football team returns for its own Homecoming celebration it will remember Halloween night party inside Doak Campbell Stadium It will recall how a group showed up in green and white dressed as Tulane football team It will gloat over its total domination and polish beginning with linebacker Terry impressive rendition of the national anthem And it will remember the beauty of the score Seminoles 73 Tulane 14 five-year contract reportedly worth $4 million including a $15 million signing bonus Running back Greg Bell was shipped from the Bills to the Colts along with three draft choices: a 1988 first-round pick and first two picks in 1989 The Colts then sent Bell the three draft choices acquired from Buffalo plus the first-and second-round picks in 1988 and No 2 pick 1989 plus running back Owen Gill to the Rams for Dickerson Dickerson 27 reportedly will dress for the game against the New York Jets today at East Rutherford NJ but said he did not expect to play Said Colts Coach Ron Meyer: "No 29 Please turn to 1 2D By will McDonough Boston Globe There is just one way to describe it: Big Big names and big money and big thinking combining to bring about the biggest trade in recent National Football League history After nearly four days of frantic negotiating the Los Angeles Rams Indianapolis Colts and Buffalo Bills got together to do the following: Superstar running back Eric Dicker-son was sent from the Rams to the Colts where he signed a reported four-year $56 million contract making him the highest-paid running back in history Rookie linebacker Cornelius Bennett was sent from the Colts who sign the player they made the No 2 pick in the draft to the Bills where he signed a Please turn tt SEMINOLES 8D.