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8D riday September 16 1994 YK MV College ootball Gannett Suburban Newspapers Iona begins title defense at Marist The MAAC champion Gaels look to repeat last 9 2 mark ByGregVenuto StaffWnter Iona College battled to get to the position it enjoys entering this season The Gaels will have to do more of the same to stay there Iona is coming off a best ever9 2 season in which the Gaels won the inaugural Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion ship in their first year on the Division I AA level quest to stay on top begins tomorrow as the Gaels face host Marist at 1:30 Marist (0 1) was beaten by Central Con necticut 24 22 in its season open er last Saturday know everybody will be coming after junior quarter back Tom Proudian said I like being on top We have that added confidence be cause we won a championship and we know we can do it If history has any bearing on the season opener then it will be a close contest according to se nior Vm Santeha of Yonkers has come down to the final seconds when played them the last three said Sante lia last MAAC defensive player of the year we have to do is stop their running game what they do best and people are writing that our defense is the question mark We lost all of our linebackers but I feel our defense is a ques tion lOth year coach Harold Crocker said the defense is an area of concern have a lot of young play ers on Crocker said have a good nucleus of play ers on offense and we have our top offensive lineman Emory Moody The offense is almost entirely Jntact The talent starts with Proudian who last season threwfor 3127 yards and 27 touch downs out of vaunted run and shoot The Gaels will alsowelcome back top tar get senior wide receiver Tim Silo The 6 foot 150 pound Silo made 47 catches for 832 yards and 12 touchdowns think our team will be very similar to last Crocker said put the ball in the air for a living like 1o see us run the ball a little better than we did in some Proudian who broke 12 school passing and offensive records last year expects the Red oxes to blitz often like to blitz and put pressure on the said Proudian who is from New Rochelle be successful early against their blitzes and have to stop blitzing That will give me more time to throw a big year for us the defending champions there are two new teams in the league (Duquesne and Marist) and ev erybody is gunning for Proudian is not ready to concede that Iona is the AAC favorite know if you could call us the he said guess you could if you go on last year but there any easy Santelia agreed with Proudian predicted to win it can work against Sante lia said program keeps getting better and I think getting a little more respect Our goal is to win the MAAC and get into the postseason and win ordham (0 2) at Hofstra (2 0) 6:30 This one may get out of hand quickly as Hofstra steam rolled its first two opponents Butler and Bucknell by a combined score of 86 21 while the Rams have been outscored 61 14 in their two contests against Villa nova and Lehigh Hofstra's dangerous offense is led by quarterback Carlos Garay who has completed 21 of 38 passes for 338 yards and four touchdowns and running back Hayward Cromartie who has Staff photoStuart Bayer Junior quarterbackTom Proudian of New Rochelle leads the Gaels in thei season opener tomorrow agai nst 0 1 Marist 'is '4'' r'" a gwT 'v A JB i 4 1 4 WHK 4 '4 rushed for 278 yards on 33 car ries and two touchdowns ordham coach Nick Quartaro will be looking to earn his first victory as Rams coach and will need improved performances from Chris Ross who has rushed for 49 yards on 23 carries after averaging 777 yards per game last season and quarterback Joe Moorhead who has com pleted 30 of 58 passes for 284 yards and a touchdown Hofstra plays as an indepen dent and holds a 13 6 1 advan tage over the Rams last win in the series was a 41 6 decision in the 1987 NCAA Divi sion HI playoffs ordham has lost nine consecutive road games Pace (0 1) at Monmouth (0 1 1 Pace will be heading to Mon mouth with both teams in search of their first victory of the sea son After a scoreless first quarter last week Pace was humbled 32 0 by Stony Brook Pace was in position to score a number of times but was hurt by turnovers and inconsistency The bright spots in the offensive game were freshman halfback Travis Wells who led the team with 106 yards on 19 rushes and Chris Chappa who rushed for 33 yards and punted six times for a 398 yard average Defensively the Setters are led by linebackers Brian Pirone and Chris DeGrazia and strong safety Mike Maceranks each of whom contributed 12 tackles in the opener Monmouth opened the season with a 26 19 loss to Robert Mor ris and was led by Ralph who ran for 127 yards and two touchdowns on 27 carries This will be thetfirst meeting in foot ball between the schools SCHEDULE Tomorrow EAST Virginia Tech (2 0) at Boston College (0 1) Yale (0 0) at Brown (0 0) Southern Connecticut (2 0) at Bucknell (0 1) Lehigh (1 0) at Buffalo (0 2) (n) Wagner(0 1)atCWPost(l O) Buffalo St (1 0)atCanisius(0 1)(n) Robert Morris (2 0) atCentral Conn St (1 0) Dartmouth (0 0) at Colgate (0 1) AVN: Harvard (0 0) at Columbia (0 0) Richmond (2 0) atConnecticut(0 2) (n) Princeton (0 0) at Cornell (0 0) Georgetown DC (0 0) at Duquesne (1 0) ordham (0 2) at Hofstra (2 0) a Massachusetts (0 1) at Holy Cross (0 1) Boston (1 0) at Maine (0 2) Iona (0 0) atMarist(O l) Pace (0 1) at Monmouth NJ (0 1) James Madison (2 0) at New Hampshire (1 0) Rhode Island (1 1) at Northeastern (0 2) Lafayette (0 1) at Penn (0 0) Iowa (2 0) at Penn St (2 0) Sacred Heart (0 1) at St rancis Pa (0 2) Siena (0 0) at St Peter (0 0) Rutgers (2 0) at Syracuse (1 1) (n) East Carolina (0 1) atTemple (1 0) (n) Delaware (0 1) at Villanova (2 0) Maryland(0 2)atWestVirginia(1 2) SOUTH Jacksonville St (0 2) at Ala Birm (1 1) (n) Alabama St (1 1) at Alcorn St (1 1) (n) NC (2 0) at Appalachian St (0 1) LSU (1 1)at Auburn (2 0) (n) Bethune Cookman (2 0) atCentral lorida (1 1) SC St (1 1) at Charleston Southern (0 1) (n) Western Carolina (1 1) at Citadel (1 0) (n) Towson St (1 0) at Delaware St (1 1) VM I (0 1) at East Tennessee St (2 0) (n) William Mary (2 0) at urman (1 1) (n) Northeast Louisiana (0 2) at Georgia (1 1) Marshall (2 0) at Georgia Southern (0 2) (n) Morgan St (0 1) at Grambling St (1 0) lorida (1 0) at Jackson St (2 0) (n) Indiana (2 0) at Kentucky (1 1)(n) Evansville (1 1) at Kentucky Wesleyan (0 2) Davidson (0 0) at Maryville Tenn (1 1 Central Arkansas (2 0) at McNeese St (2 0) (n) Tennessee St (0 2) at Morehead St (0 2) (n) NW Louisiana (1 1) at Nicholls St (2 0) (n) Tulane (1 1) at North Carolina (1 0) Texas Southern (1 0) at Savannah St (1 1) La Tech (1 1) at South Carolina (1 1) (n) Memphis (1 1) at Southern Mississippi (1 1) (n) Miss Valley St (1 1) at Southern (2 0) Troy St (1 0) at SW Louisiana 1 1 )(n) lorida (2 0) atTennessee (1 1) (n) Samford (1 1) at Tennessee Tech (1 1) Gardner Webb (1 1) atTenn Chatt (0 2) (n) Lane (0 1) atTennessee Martin (1 0) (n) Misstssippi(1 1)atVanderbilt(1 1)(n) Clemson(1 1)atVirgmia(1 1) Austin Peay (1 0) at Western Kentucky (2 0) (n) loridaSt(2 0)atWakeorest(1 1)(n) 4 MIDWEST Navy(0 2)atBowlmgGreen(1 1) i Georgetown Ky (0 1) at Butler (1 1) San Diego (1 1) at Drake (1 0) I Lock Haven (0 2) at Eastern Illinois (0 2) (n) Central Michigan (1 1) at Michigan (0 2) North Illinois (0 2) at Illinois (1 1) West Virginia Tech (0 2) at Indiana St (1 1) (n) Western Michigan (2 0) at Iowa St (0 2) Rice(0 1)atKansasSt(1 0) xa Akron (0 2) at Kent (0 1) Cincinnati (0 2) at Miami Ohio (0 2) Notre Dame (1 1) at Michigan St (0 1) SanDiegoSt(2 0)atMinnesota(1 1)(n) UCLA (2 0) at Nebraska (2 0) SW Missouri St (0 1) at Iowa (1 1) (n) Pittsburgh (1 1) atOhio St (1 1) UtahSt (0 2)atOhioU (0 1) BallSt(0 1)atPurdue(1 0) Murray St (1 1) at Southeast Missouri (1 1) (n)! Liberty(1 1)atToledo(1 1)(n) Millikm(1 0)atValparaiso(1 0) Illinois St (1 1) at Western Illinois (1 1) EKentucky(1 1)atYoungstownSt(1 0 1)(nj SOUTHWEST Alabama (2 0) at Arkansas (1 1) Southern Illinois (0 2) at Arkansas St (0 2) (n) Oklahoma St (1 0) at Baylor (2 0) (n) Missouri (0 2) at Houston (0 2) (n) Prairie View (0 2) at Langston (2 0) (n) Texas Tech (1 1) at Oklahoma (1 1) Angelo St (0 2) at Sam Houston St (2 0) (n) NM (0 2) atSouthern Methodist(0 2) (n) Sacra St (1 0) at Stephen Austin (0 1 1) (n) Kansas(2 0)atTexasChristian(l 1)(n) New Mexico St (0 2) at Texas EIPaso (1 1) (n) AR EST Northwestern (0 1 1) at Air orce (0 2) Louisville (0 2) at Arizona St (1 1) (n) Nevada (2 0) at Boise St (2 0) (n) ColoradoSt (2 0) at Brigham Young (2 0) HumboldtSt (2 0) at Cal Poly SLO (0 1) (n) UC Davis (0 1) at CS Northridge (0 1) (n) Hawaii (1 1) at California (0 1) Wisconsin (1 0) at Colorado (1 0h (n) Oregon St (1 1 at resno St (1 2) (n) Eastern Washington (1 0) at Montana (2 0) (n) IdahoSt (1 1) at Northern Arizona (1 1) (n) Utah (2 0) at Oregon (1 1) Southwest Texas St (1 1) at Pacific (1 1) (n) SonomaSt(1 1)atStMarysCaI(2 0) Western St Colo (0 1 at Utah (0 2) (n) San Jose St (0 2) at Stanford (0 0 1) ldaho(1 0)atUNLV(1 1)(n) Montana St (2 0) at Weber St (2 0) (n) Tulsa(1 1) at Wyoming (1 1) afe rT ns i i 1 air statistics impossible to ignore Duke Alcorn QB is putting up huge numbers in Division I AA The Blue Devils march off with a 43 7 win the first quar 12 22 Brooks 4 other SU players regain eligibility defeat to an Derrick Brooks quarterback took over but felt the quar immediately Duke 43 Army 7 Army i 0 0 7 7 Duke 8 7 7 Safety Chun recovers blocked punt in end zone Baldwin 7 run (kick failed) Baldwin 3 run (Cochran kick) Baldwin 2 run (Cochran kick) King 32 run (Heiss kick) Thomas 7 run (Cochran kick) 88 touchdowns and rushed for 1646 yards and another 25 Ds Not since two way player Gor die Lockbaum of Holy Cross has a I AA player gotten so much atten tion in the Heisman race Despite a campaign for him by Sports Illus trated Lockbaum still finished third in the 1987 balloting to Tim Brown of Notre Dame and Don McPherson of Syracuse Will big numbers be enough for McNair? The knock: McNair playing against the likes of lorida Notre Dame Nebraska and the other Division I powers and he gets little exposure in the Southwest ern Athletic Conference an eight team conference of historically black colleges in the South think (I AA players) get enough recognition or publicity not enough voters see them said ESPN commentator Lee Cor so who has seen McNair only on tape he was anywhere else he would have a great shot at the Heisman has got the attention of the country The problem is people who vote for the Heisman always bring up at who he is doing it Only one SWAC player Doug Williams of Grambling State has finished among the top four in the Heisman voting That was in 1977 before he became a Super Bowl MVP with the Washington Redskins While preseason Heisman fa vorite Tyrone Wheatley of Michi gan was sidelined with a shoulder injury the first two weeks of this season McNair was compiling as tronomical numbers And no other Heisman hopeful took as bold a step forward In the season opener McNair passed for 534 yards and five touchdowns and rushed for 99 yards in a 62 56 loss at Grambling If not for a dropped pass in the end zone with 10 seconds left McNair would have been 4 0 against Eddie Robinson college all time winningest coach with 389 victories Associated Press Robert Baldwin (47) tries to hurdle past Army's Brad Miller after getti ng a block from teammate Chad Melita (64) during the second quarter of last game in Durham NC Duke 24 38 123 254 166 20 32 1 4 40 1 0 7 40 30:21 Medearis abandons comeback Miami defensive end Rusty Medearis who fought his way back from a major knee injury two years ago to start in the first two games this season ended his comeback attempt gave my best shot at something I love to do: play football with the Medea ris said have chosen to stop playing football because of the chronic pain associated with my injury Sept 26 1992 required 13 hours of surgery to repair Doctors had warned tnat another injury to the knee would ne mucn more difficult to fix The Associated Press 1 The NCAA restored the eligibility of five suspended lorida State football players yes terday freeing All American linebacker Der rick Brooks and reserve Marcus Long to play tomorrow The NCAA however added a third game to tail back Tiger sus pension making it as long as Patrick ban The fifth player orrest Conoly has two more games to miss All five were suspended for taking gifts from an agent last November generally agreed with lorida State on the aonronriate sanctions for these young said Carrie Doyle NCAA director of eligibility facts indicate that actions more clearly violated NCAA amateurism rules than (Brooks and Long) who receivi two game McNeil a three year starter at guard will They still had none after Sidney Wells came through the left side of the line for the block The ball rolled all the way to the end zone where James Chun fell on the ball and was tackled for the safety Duke took advantage of good field position following the free kick to move 44 yards in seven plays the last being a 7 yard touchdown run by Baldwin for an 8 0 lead Baldwin struck again in the third quarter capping a 57 yard drive with a 2 yard dive on fourth down Army answered on its next drive with its only touchdown Akili King ran it in from 32 yards to cut the lead to 22 7 with the point after But Duke put the game away with a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns Baldwin appeared headed for his fourth score but fumbled on the goal line Tijan Redmon recovered in the end zone Adam Geis caught a pair of touchdown passes one covering 50 yards to7accounl for the $thcr Duke scores: Army 16 50 224 87 3 7 14 2 8 34 1 1 6 40 29:39 Stokes doubtful UCLA All America wide receiver JJ Stokes was listed as doubtful for the 13th ranked game at No 2 Nebraska tomor row Stokes who caught 82 passes for 1181 yards and 17 touchdowns last season suffered a also miss a fourth game tacked on by coach Bobby Bowden for an unspecified violation of team rules lorida State President Talbot originally suspended the players while the school and NCAA went to court over due process law which stalled a final answer on the eligibility The NCAA was freed to intervene after federal judge William Stafford signed off on an agreement between the NCAA and attorneys for lorida State and lorida Board of Regents on Tuesday Brooks one of the most dominant defenders and Long are expected to play tomorrow when the third ranked Seminoles visit Wake orest McMillon who led the Semi noles in rushing two years ago could appeal the additional penalty and possibly rejoin the team this weekend Except for case the penalties mirrored those handed down by The school declared the players ineligible bruised left thigh in season opening again Tuesday after the temporary 25 23 victory over No 15 Tennessee on Sept 3 injunction let the NCAA rule without violating He play in the 17 10 win over statelaw Southern Methodist last week Geis 7 pass from Green (Boston kick) A 24342 irst clowns Rushes yards Passing Return Yards Comp Att Int Punts umbles Lost Penalties Yards Timp of PotteiKinn INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Pl Armv A klnn amonler Vaughn 6 15 Robinson 3 13 Young 1 13 Ross 2 12 McAda 4 4 Makovec 3 9 Duke Baldwin 19 83 White 6 16 Green 2 16 Thomas 1 7 DeOrio 3 7 London 1 7 Lowman 1 0 ischer 3 (minus 3) Pickens 2 (minus 1 PASSING Armv AAakovpr 1 3 0 1 Caropnlpr 2 4 0 48 McAda 4 7 2 38 Duke ischer 15 24 0 150 Pick ens 4 7 1 97 Green 1 1 0 7 1 Army Thomas 6 65 Cantefupe 1 22 Duke Baldwin 6 60 Thomas 4 36 Khayat 3 33 Geis 2 57 arquhar 2 32 Jensen 2 23 Nicholson 1 13 The Associated Press LORMAN Miss With the numbers Steve McNair is putting up the number I AA may not mat ter when time to vote for this Heisman Trophy winner No Division I AA player has ever won college most coveted individual prize but if McNair keeps producing re cord breaking numbers the Al corn State quarterback will be hard to ignore Through two games this season McNair has 1025 yards and 13 touchdowns The 6 foot 3 218 pound senior also has 255 yards and a rushing TD is a once in a lifetime ath said Dave Te Thomas of The NL Draft Report an indepen dent scouting agency one in the NL can hold a candle to this McNair is fifth in NCAA history (all divisions) with 12304 yards of total offense 373 yards a game He has completed 678 of 1239 passes (55 percent) for 10658 yards and By John erro Gannett News Service DURHAM NC Army took another painful step down its depth chart and another trip down a painfully familiar road last night absorbing a 43 7 loss to Duke before 24292 at Wallace Wade Stadium One week after Rick Roper blew out his knee on the sixth Duke Geis 50 pass from Pickens (Cochran kick) play of the 1994 season No 2 Army quarterback Mike Makovec went down with a twisted ankle midway through ter Third string Steve Carpenter offense recover Running back Robert Baldwin meanwhile had a career night to ing) and eight passes in a 54 28 lead the Blue Devils (3 0) to their 1 inoo victory at tennessee cnattanoo ga he has done (in two games) is a season for the average said Alcorn coach Cardell Jones is not an average quarterback by any shape form or Associated Press Alcorn State quarterback Steve McNai looks for an open receiver during offensive practice WednesdayinLorman Miss McNair has thrown for 1025 yards and 13 touchdowns in Alcorn's first two games Last Saturday McNair set I AA records with 647 yards total of fense (491 passing and 156 rush best start since 1988 The Atlan W) tic Coast leading rusher scored three touchdowns and would have had a fourth had he not fumbled on the goal line The loss marked the fifth straight season the Cadets (1 1) opened with a victory over a Division I AA opponent only to sutler their first ACC team offense terback change Carpenter a junior who prac ticed most of the preseason and half of the past week at halfback managed just two first downs in the tirst hail wice ne couiciea with running back Akili King on third down The Cadets cross midfield until the third quarter Baldwin a senior from Deland la finished a 59 yard drive with three more carries the last a 3 yard pitch that gave Duke a 15 0 lead Old ghosts came back to haunt the Cadets on special teams A fake punt and a 44 yard punt return keyed 42 21 victo ry last year A blocked punt gave the Blue Devils a 2 0 lead and excellent field position on their first scoring drive in the first quarter Prior to Mark first attempt Army was tl only team in the nation without a punt 23 tai r' 1 I i drW Army so.