The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 45

i i Hogs delay cdttosi pickin Arkansas keeps Aggies from clinching title The Aggies trailing by 4 began with 3:49 to go when Arkansas failed from the 45 jiestafnears 1 same fyKWf Ak it MlamLPerm State win D2 By Phil Stukenborg Staff Reporter their last drive to convert on fourth-and-1 Murray came out firing moving the Aggies to the Razorback 14 in eight plays On first-and-10 from the 14 with 1:08 left Murray found Vick for 2 to the 12 and then followed with incompletions to Keith Woodside and Shea Walker to set up the dramatic- fourth-and-8 Murray had a lot of time to said Hatfield did a great Job of protecting But it wasn't enough As Murray scrambled to his right he lofted a pass into the end zone for Vick that was first tipped by Lloyd and then swatted out of bounds by Washington Please see HOGS Page D4 From Our Pint 3MtAmiana CFla)icbu'' Jlxnxny ohnson last night said tbeSnnkist Fiesta Bowi is planningto move its game from I New Day Jan-2 and match the i i pranked Hturicanesv against i ranked Penn StatevoV Klopfnked Hurricanes to accept The move is contingent Please see FIESTA Page D8 alive The Razorbacks 8-2 overall and 5-2 in the SWC finish the season Saturday against SMU in Dallas The Aggies (7-2 5-1) play host to TCU Saturday and then face Texas on Thanksgiving Day one will go down in history" said Arkansas coach Ken Hatfield thought we were ready to play we were loose And that was as fine a defensive effort as ever been a part of be able to hold an explosive offense like we did especially late in the game was terrific They had won games against Baylor and SMU late in the which rallied to beat Baylor 31-30 and SMU 39-35 earlier this season had an excellent opportunity to add Arkansas to its list of comeback victories But a secondary that had been tested all afternoon by Murray passed its final exam LITTLE ROCK Delay the Southwest Conference victory celebration Texas is going to have to wait in its attempt to clinch a second straight conference title and Cotton Bowl berth The last-minute drive stalled at the Arkansas 12 with 38 seconds left allowing the Razor-backs to escape with a 14-10 triumph before 54912 Memorial Stadium Cornerback and rover Odis Lloyd com-deny Texas Roger Vick a game-winning touchdown reception batting a Kevin Murray pass out of bounds The victory kept Arkansas' Cotton Bowl hopes Storm rallies to win Record crowd watfches victory Tennessee knocks out the Rebels Vols gain first SEC victory By Pete Wickham 8taff Reporter By Al DOnning Sport Editor phone have a tendency to say This is like the good old days' Majors said we'd rather say this is a good new day Our second half had us playing with our highest confidence level of the So dominant was Tennessee in the second half that the Vols: Outscored Ole Miss 16-3 Outgained the Rebs 216 yards to 60 after the halftime break And catch this: In the last 25 minutes Ole Miss ran just 10 offensive plays and Tennessee ran 42 Keyed by linebacker Kelly 10 tackles and corner bach Terry McDaniel's game-busting interception in the fourth quarter Tennessee defenders slam-dunked the Ole Miss offense On its last four posessions Ole Miss never advanced past its 24-yard line Once the Vols clawed to the front early in the fourth guarter it became the William toward Show Howard a 225-pound junior entered the game officially listed as Tennessee's fourth-string fullback He carried the ball once in the first half for 6 yards In the fourth quarter he carried it 16 times in a row and trampled people for 68 more yards His 74-yard rushing total was a game high for both teams smasheroo finish in the fourth period helped wipe out what looked like a sugary start for Ole Miss Ole Miss leaped to a 7-0 lead on the first possession of the game Rebel cornerback Don Price Please see REBS Page D3 Cooler heads had helped the Memphis Storm survive a rocky week off the field And some wise old heads helped the club give it a sweet finish a 3-1 win last night over the Fort Wayne Flame at the Mid-South Coliseum With the new owners Don DeWeese and Joyce Smith and an American Indoor Soccer Association record crowd of 5989 watching veterans Oscar Albuquerque Toni Carbognani and Tuny Johnson helped break a 58-minute scoring drought in the third quarter And they set a pace that formed a protective cocoon around goalkeeper Manny Sanchez in his debut requiring the former US Armed Forces team goalie to make only four saves scoring is going to said Storm coach Gary Hindley after his team broke a two-game losing streak but could not break the three-goal barrier "But tonight we changed our plans to adapt to their (Fort Wayne's) young legs We dropped back more at mid-field and kept them from getting any breakaways We kept our i poise and kept to the plan and that's That they kept theirpoise was admirable in itself The Storm had not scored since the 94-second mark of the third quarter in an 8-3 loss at Toledo Nov 8 And the streak continued in robust health through 30 minutes last night thanks to Flame goalie Warren Lipka Lipka who shut out Toledo in his debut kept Fort Wayne on JACKSON Miss Last season's Sugar Bowl champs punched one of this lights out here yesterday Finally regaining the form that carried them to a Southeastern Conference football title a year ago Tennessee's Volunteers knocked Ole Miss loopy-kneed with two touchdown haymakers in the fourth quarter and TKO'd the Rebels 22-10 The defeat slammed a Big Orange torpedo into Ole Miss' hopes for at least a share of the SEC championship and a possible Sugar Bowl trip The Rebs fell to 6-3-1 overall and 3-2 against SEC opposition No team has won an SBC title with two losses in league play Tennessee now on a two-game roll after a 2-5 start pumped its record to 4-5 The victory was the first of the year over an SEC opponent It kept alive Tennessee's chances to escape 1986 with a winning record which the Vols can achieve by beating Kentucky and Vanderbilt in the next two weeks In front of an estimated 35000 and more than 27000 empty seats in Mississippi Memorial Stadium Tennessee won pulling away to fatten its series lead over Ole Miss 34-18-1 Behind 109 entering the fourth quarter the Vols manhandled Ole Miss down the stretch and were just 2 yards from still another score when time ran out Tennessee's sharpest performance of a wobbly season had coach John Majors grinning from earphone to ear nr- Austin Hudson (7) battles Fort Wayne's Peter Forde for the ball in the first homo debut was a 3-1 success Please see STORM Page D8 LSU beats Mississippi State to gain share of SEC title offense inept in defeat live been said LSU coach Bill Arnsparger who was a defensive coordinator for the two-time Su-Bowl champion Miami Dolphins befote com-to LSU three seasons ago is the most sa- By Ron Higgins Staff Reporter By Bobby Hall 8taff Reporter In recent years Mississippi State has been the late-season wall LSU hasn't been co in Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium has been a Bailey said But he wasn't using the travel as an excuse "Tulane was Just in complte control" he said Hie Green Wave now 4-6 dominated the Tigers with an inspired effort by a defense that had been weak all season and an offense that struck for 364 yards Jones rushed 20 times for 93 yards and one touchdown and completed 11 of 24 passes for 95 yards The Wave which was completing a five-game homestand was ahead 15-0 before the Tigers showed any sign of an offense with its malfunctioning Wishbone MSU's key play in the 14-play touchdown march was a 28-yard burst by freshman fullback Wayne Pryor who rambled to Please see MSU Page D6 the Tigers' punchless offense from being shut out Just move the football and very said Tiger coach Charlie Bailey whose team fell to 1-9 While the Tiger offense was inept Tulane got three field goals from Guirl Including two for a 6-0 halftime lead and an impressive mix of running and pmaring from sophomore quarterback Terrence Jones The road-weary Tigers who were playing their fifth consecutive game away from home will end Bailey's first season Saturday afternoon against New Mexi tisfying game IVe had since IVe been at LSU because it was for the championship" Coupled with 20-16 loss last night to Georgia LSU can have the league championship to ltseuif Auburn beats Alabama Nov 29 Don't ftet for LSU which has games left against Notre Dame and Tulane Nine other bowls were in attendance last night and all of them liked what they saw in the Tigers LSU made sure they had a piece of their sixth SEC championship by dizzying State with a dazzling combination of wide-open offensive football and teeth-rattling defense please see LSU Page D6 NEW ORLEANS There was no joy for Memphis State at the end of the road only the relief that the trips are finally over Tulane placekicker Dan Guirl kick-started the Green Wave to a 15-6 football victory over the Tiers last night in the Louisiana iuperdome Offensively MSU barely got "started Only a fourth-period touchdown which came on a well-executed 93-yard drive prevented able to scale for the Southeastern Conference football championship Last night at Mississippi Memorial Stadium the Tigers got out the ropes early and climbed past the Bulldogs 47-0 to claim at least a share of the 1986 SEC title LSU 7-2 overall completed SEC play at 5-1 Only a missed field goal in the final seconds against Ole Miss to give the Rebels' a 21-19 victory two weeks ago has prevented the Tigers from winning the title outright won a championship in every league creating a dynasty Louisville reigns as best bisen in four Final Fours No one else can say that a dynasty? How do you interpret Pat Kennedy the former Iona coach who is Lawler steps lightly into role El TO NOW JERRY Lawler's idea of fancy footwork has been Company of Memphis for next month's performance of The AT if frfvrAF be the easiest on stage making his debut at Florida State Interprets quite simply: talk about dynasties what school really is one how you create one and you know that what Denny has done at Louisville is a Kennedy said When Crum 49 thinks of a dynasty UCLA is the clear definition don't think there's ever going to be a dynasty like UCLA" said Crum whose Cardinals won the national title in 1980 and 1986 'Ten championships in 12 years like UCLA did or four or five in a row that type of thing is a dynasty We have been dominant but we're certainly not a Yes but Louisville has 6-9 center Pervls Ellison HrHng people in the head and doing tap dances on their breastbones But that was before he took up ballet Ballet? Lawler? The Mid-! most successful practitioner of the Manchurian Death Grip and the Barefanged Ear-Chomp? Yep same guy all 234 pounds of him i arch-hero of 1 professional wrestling has joined the Tennessee Ballet guy to Lawler said laughing through his goatee be the fat guy everyone else is dancing around" KNOWN TO CONNOISSEURS of pro as King" Lawler will maintain his royal identity is his toe-dancing debut He will play the role of the Sultan in the endurlngly popular story of a toy nutcracker who becomes a real-life prince my part consists of is that I come out on stage carrying 1 AL DUNNING Dynasty Louisville basketball coach Denny Crum feel comfortable with the word Not yet anyway It reminds him too much of the real thing the incomparable domination that UCLA his alma mater established in the 1960s and 70s anybody in the '80s would be considered a dynasty it would have to be us I said Crum' shrugging his shoulders Ve won two national championships No one else has done that WeVe a rolled-up oriental rug over my Lawler said "I lower the rug and unroll it and inside the Please see LAWLER Page D8 Please seeCARDS Page D12.