The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 43

nr 1 i 1 --T "TT" PORTS MEMPHIS SUNDAY OCTOBER 9 1994 The Commercial Appeal SECTION ON SPORTS 2: Hurricanes trip bumbling FSU Auburn rips Bullies Early error paled by precision under coach Terry Bowden the longest winning streak in NCAA Division 1-A largely because the Tigers can sense and exploit the weakness That seem to be enough this time With a visit to top-ranked Florida next on the schedule the Tigers wanted to offer a demonstration of their greatness The Auburn offensive line dominated the line of scrimmage not by knocking back the defense but by tricking the Bulldogs into overrunning and misreading plays Tigers quarterback Patrick Nix completed 16-of-23 passes for 311 yards but the fakes that fooled the MSU defenders were as important as his throws weeks ago But their eighth victory over Florida State (4-1) in 10 years showed they are still a top team and kept alive their hopes of a fifth national championship i Three interceptions off Florida State quarterback Danny Kanell were a key for the Hurricanes (4-1) -The first by Malcolm Pearson in the Miami end zone halted an early scoring threat by the Semi-noles The second a momentum shifter by Richardson came two plays after a botched Miami punt and set up first TD run The third returned all the way by Jones broke the game open riving Miami a 31-17 lead late in the third quarter Florida State coach Bobby Bowden yanked Kanell after down catch was all that mattered was extremely deflating" said MSU coach Jackie Sherrill "We never overcame it" Hie Bulldogs (3-2 1-2) were charged with 12 more penalties but no one suggested they had been undone by poor officiating There are rules against that and have to see the films first anyway The truth was Mississippi State needed everything at its command to end Auburn'S winning streak which now stands at 17 games And a lot of that was gone quickly we hadn't had that touchdown called said quarterback Derrick Taite "we would have had a different outcome in the Auburn (64) 4-0) has gone 17-4) By Rick Warner The Associated Pran MIAMI Hold those Miami obituaries As Florida State learned Saturday night the Hurricanes are very much alive especially at the Orange Bowl James Stewart ran for two touchdowns backup quarterback Ryan Collins threw a 1-yard TD pass on his only play and Carlos Jones scored on a 16-yard interception return as the 13th-ranked Hurricanes continued their mastery of No 3 Florida State with a 34-20 victory There were widespread reports of demise after the Hurricanes had their record 58-game home winning streak snapped by Washington two £kmWy By Mike DeCourcy The Commercial Appeal STARKVULE Miss Eric Moulds kept running the fans kept screaming and mat yellow flu Just sat there mocking this pointless expense of energy Mississippi State had placed its entire stake on that play and the referee wiped it away like some dispassionate croupier Only two plays had been run in the Southeastern Conference game against No 9 Auburn Saturday afternoon and the whole thing was over The Tigers worked another 59 minutes or so to finish off a 42-18 victory before 41200 at Scott Field but the holding penalty that negated 67-yard touch that Teevens said Holliday who gained 171 yards two weeks ago in a 16-15 win over Arkansas Improved his per-game rushing average to 113 yards in four games as the team's tailback He said the in- I workload is welcome Defense wm By Phil Stukenborg The Commercial Appeal Tailback Marcus Holliday who was the University of Mem phis offense two weeks ago against Arkansas accepted role again Saturday night at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Tulane like the Razorbacks have an answer Holliday gained 151 yards on a school-record 42 carries as the Tigers shut out Tulane 134) in a steady rain that kept ihore than half of the 19400 ticket buyers at home The turnstile count was 8156 The Tigers (32) who scored all their points in the first half remain tied East Carolina for the lead in the five-member Liberty Bowl Alliance which rewards the team with the best record a berth in the Dec 31 Liberty BowL- East Carolina stunned South Carolina 56-42 on Saturday "We know how good East Carolina was but when they beat South Carolina that was an eye-opener for said Tiger defenmve end Dan Bonner "We knew we were going to have to win to stay with them in this Liberty Bowl race We needed this win Behind Holliday and the Tiger anked fifth nationally defense ranked Memphis didn't give the Green Wave (1-4) many opportunities Tulane the 102nd-ranked offense marched to the Tiger 11 on its opening drive )t closer than the but never got Memphis 44 afterwards The Green first drive ended on an interception in the end zone "We did some good things out there against a team that could have given us said Tiger coach Chuck Stobart "We The Mowing highlights tho day's other top stories on D3 our tecond front page Tigers getting ready for basketball practice Tennessee despite turnovers tops Arkansas DavIdWilliams column on Tennessee's win Boston College beats Notre Dame Again that play and sent 1b Jon Stark but he rally the Semi-noles Scott 34-yard field goal with 12:14 left made it 31-20 and Florida State quickly got the ball back on an interception by Derrick Brooks But Stark fumbled two plays later and Miami recovered to put the game away Florida State beat Miami last Please see MIAMI Page D5 III i per game was limited to 29 yards on right carries Tulane coach Buddy Teevens said the unsuccessful opening drive set the tone for the Green Wave offense "When struggling a little offenrively and don't score races a whirl but found out how tough the competition was "It was quite a race (the Grand National at Le-Hi) drew a ton of people back then 17000 said Hood 63 But a series of ralnouts finally dampened the resolve of the promoters who were out of business after the 1957 events And the late Bill France founder changed stock-car racing forever when he built Daytona International Speedway late in the decade When the Grand National cars left the dirt for the pavement involvement seemed to hit the skids Local drivers stayed in their dirt-track sprint DIG DUCKS CA Scores new 544-6000 Please see AUBURN Page D6 AL DUNNING Sports EdltofCommentary Leagues promote good games I v-'lootball games between I Tulane and the University of Memphis are going to get better Honest they are Granted it take much Imagination or action to improve on 130 victory over the Green Wave Saturday night in rain-spattered Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium In terms of excitement this one ranked up there alongside a drag race beteen a forklift and a bulldozer both with transmission trouble It was noteworthy that on a dreary drippy night the football crowd of 8156 half as big as the audience at the Elvis Tribute at The Pyramid But then Elvis hasnT been dead as long as offense Still the day is coming soon when Memphis-Tulane football games may leave fans coaches and players all shook up or at least closer to it than they do now because Memphis Tulane and four other schools Louisville Houston Southern Mississippi and Cincinnati have agreed to create an allsports conference that includes football All six now operate at football independents Memphis Tulane Cincinnati and Southern Mississippi along with East Carolina already are tied together in the new liberty Bowl alliance but the new Please see OF Page D9 Young blood Thirty-year-old Kevin Hunter is the lead man of the five-man ownership group that is bringing an Arena Football League expansion franchise to Memphis beginning play in May of '95 Story on Page D3 published Wednesday 9 -X got (quarterback Tracey Watts) out of the ballgame and we held (fullback Jerald Sowell) Watts a junior was making his second career start but start struggled completing only 4-of-14 passes for 25 yardsSowell the leading rusher at 83 yards the biggest racing circuit NASCAR Winston Cup the former moonshiners and grease monkeys would flock to the beaches at Daytona Fla and to dirt ovals like Le-Hi just outside West Memphis As it turns out those days were high point in stock-car racing though Memphis Motorsports Park officials talk of enticing second-tier circuit Busch Grand National to their facility NASCAR and Indy car races were held at Le-Hl in the mid-1950s Top NASCAR drivers like Buck Baker Lee Petty Speedy Thompson and Fonty Flock dominated the 1-mile dirt oval billed as the largest dirt EYEING THE "I love Holliday said "It feels good that the coaches are showing confidence in me and the offensive line keeps blowing people off the line just a matter of me hitting the creases Please see TIGERS Page D9 Mid-South in middle of NASCAR gulf Memphis has its supporters for top stock cars to return track Memphis racing legend Hooker Hood often dominated the lower-budget modified classes and sometimes gave the stock-car cars And by the time NASCAR circuit evolved current Winston Cup schedule the early 1970s it largely the Eastern seaboard into Its in hugged venturing occasionally to Southern California and Arizona "If you went east or west you made your name Guys like me who stayed in the sprint cars here that was our big Hood said "If I had picked up and moved I might own Richard Petty right he said with a laugh NASCAR also used to run at the fairgrounds track in Nashville but left there more than a decade ago and hasn't been back despite By Pete Wickham The Commercial Appeal Race fans if they look hard enough can still find it poking from the weeds a ridge of dirt from what was once a big-time auto racing track known as Memphis-Arkansas Speedway or Le-Hl Speedway Some legends of the sport still recall it remember on the pole at that place in a said Junior Johnson one of stock-car best-known drivers and car-builders "Big dirt track Lotaofeogle Some good racing I know I win In the infancy of what is now Please see NASCAR Page D12 Auto racing roundup and today's race previews D12 13 FOOTBALL CONTEST SCORES LUCKY InfoLine and more: ext 4777 Caro 56 8 Alabama 14 8a Winner's Social Security number to be Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Dunleavy doesn't think that Glenn Robinson the top pick in the NBA draft will sign anytime soon Carolina 31 Ga Tech 24 Tennessee 38 Arkansas 21 Texn 17 Oklahoma 10 Florida 42 LSU 18 Cara 42 Min 6 Vandy 34 Cincinnati 24 Georgia 40 Ctamaon 14 Indiana 27 Iowa 20 LoUavWa 35 NC 8tate 14 Memphis 13 Tulane 0 Miami 34 Florida St 20 Michigan 40 Mich State SO Auburn 42 MM State 18 FrneaU In Memphis area A a WaSaSii.