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BLOOP TO ADPRESS BELOvaj
Harrell’s ‘gamble’ pays off
United Press International
USFL looking toward future
United Press International
NEW YORK — Despite a
committee looking into moving
its season to the fall, the USFL’s
major priority is solidifying its
spring standing, a league
spokesman says.
“The major emphasis is es
tablishing ourselves firmly in
the spring and establishing our
selves as a television product,” a
USFL spokesman said.
USFL Director of Commu
nications Jim Byrne added that
progress is being made in the
league’s negotiations with ABC
and FSPN. The two networks
currently televise USFL games
and have the right cif first refu
sal to renew contracts which ex
pire after the 1984 season.
“Everybody expects some
thing to be finalized in a couple
of weeks,” Byrne said of a new'
television deal.
A five-man committee
headed by New Orleans Break
ers owner Joseph Canizaro has
been studying a move to the fall
since January. Also on the com
mittee are New Jersey Generals
owner Donald Trump, Tampa
Bay Bandits owner John Bas
sett, Pittsburgh Maulers Presi
dent Paul Martha and Los An
geles Express general manager
Don Klosterman.
While Bassett has pubicly op
posed a move to the fall, Trump
has been a major booster of the
shif t since he bought the Gener
als last November. Trump pre
dicted the move would take
place in the fall of 1987 last
Sunday after the Generals’ vic
tory over Memphis.
how well Herschel Walker is
playing or whether he will play
this week.”
I he committee is studying lo
gistic and financial problems of
the proposed change in seasons.
Since 12 USFL teams are lo
cated in NFL cities and 1 1 of
them share NFL stadiums — in
cluding three which share ma
jor league baseball stadiums —
stadium availiability is a prob
lem.
Trump said he was optimistic
because of high television rat
ings by the league this season.
Trump used the 1987 target
date because the NFL’s current
television contract expires after
the 1986 season, while the
USFL would be free to nego
tiate a new contract with ABG
that season if it moved to the
fall.
Trump suggests playing
games on Thursday and Sun
day nights to dleviate the
scheduling problems.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Hous
ton Gamblers running back
Sam Harrell used to sit in his
dormitory room at East Caro
lina University and dream of
what life would be like as a pro
fessional football player.
In his senior year at ECU,
Harrell rushed f or 596 yards on
81 carries and scored seven
touchdowns. He also caught
nine passes for 61 yards.
It was this display of versatil
ity and his size — 6-2 225 —that
caught the eye of the manage
ment of the NFL’s Minnesota
Vikings. The club drafted Har
rell in the 11th round of the
1980 NFL draft, the young run
ning back so impressed the Vi
kings coaching staff with his
hard-Tunning style and desire
that they kept him on the roster
when the team broke camp. No
small accomplishment for
someone drafted so late.
But then Harrell’s dream was
turned into the nightmare that
haunts all fringe players in the
professional ranks.
Instead of the dreamed of
press clippings and fans asking
tor his autograph, Harrell was
confronted with the stark real
ity of being a seldom-used sub
stitute back. His biggest oppo
nent no longer was bulky
linebackers but the frustration
of being so close, yet so far
away.
In three seasons with the Vi
kings, Harrell had only one
rushing attempt and caught a
mere two passes. The club re
leased him f rom their training
camp in 1983.
It appeared that Harrell’s
dream was over.
But then the fledging Hous
ton Gamblers of the USFL
called. Harrell jumped at the
chance to play again. And both
he and the Gamblers could not
have anticipated the results.
Harrell leads the Gamblers
into Monday night’s showdown
with the winless Oakland Invad
ers as the Western Conference’s
leading rusher with 488 yards
on 87 carries. He also has
rushed for 200 yards in a game
this season.
Those are impressive num
bers but not as impressive as
Harrell’s ability to score once he
gets the ball near the goal line.
Going into this weekend’s ac
tion, he led the USFL with 13
touchdowns, eight more than
the entire Oakland team.
With those numbers you
would think that Harrell was a
one-man band for coach Jack
Pardee’s 4-3 Gamblers. But un
fortunately for the Invaders, he
is not.
Houston also has quarterback
Jim Kelley, an outstanding
rookie, who has directed the
Gamblers’ of fense to a league
leading 1.961 yards in offense
through the airways.
So far this year, Kellev has
thrown for more touchdowns
— 14 — than any other quar
terback in the league.
Kelley will face a defense that
has been tough on opposing
passers. The Invaders — lead
by strong safety Marcus Quinn
— are the seventh-ranked pass
defense in the league.
Last week, Quinn — one of
the team’s few bright spots this
year — intercepted his t'oavih
pass of the season.
“Marcus is a prime example
of a player who doesn’t give up
when things start tok
Oakland coach Chuck lit
son said. “He gets belief
belter each week, and seem
come up with the big plat
regular basis.”
I lutchison also has to
good about his quarterbad
at ion heading into Mm
night’s contest. The Inn
mentor should havethesen
of of quarterback TomRa
f or Monday night’s comes
in i use starter Fred Be
should falter. Ramsey
over to the Invaders two
ago in a trade with iheU
geles Express.
Ramsev’s availability mat
key 1 .a tor if the Invadersil
come away with their firs
tors because the Houston
defense has not been
this season. The Gat
ranked 18th in the leaf
that category.
"Their def ense has
weak moments this
Hutchison said. "Hop
that’s something we cam
i/e on Monday night."
Getting the networks to allot
additional air time and generat
ing fan interest w'ith two leagues
in the fall are other obvious
problems.
“The biggest story of this
league is we’ve been getting the
highest ratings in our time slot
by far,” Trump said last week.
“That’s the biggest story — not
The committee is also
looking at the availability of ad
vertising money and whether
current advertisers would be in
terested in sponsoring the
league in the fall.
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ARLINGTON — Willie Up
shaw and Gliff Johnson hit
back-to-back homers on succes
sive pitches off Dave Stewart in
the ninth inning Sunday to lift
the Toronto Blue Jays to a 2-1
victory over the Texas Rangers.
victory. Until Upshaw hom-
ered, Stewart had retired 15 of
16 batters.
George Wright’s two-out,
RBI single in the eighth inning
had given the Rangers a 1-0
lead.
With one out in the ninth,
Upshaw connected on a 2-1
pitch from Stewart, 0-3, for his
third homer of the season and
Johnson hit the very next pitch
for his third homer of the year
to give Dennis Lamp, 2-2, the
Wright’s base hit up the mid
dle off
FT Luis Leal delivered
Wayne Tolleson from third
base. With one out, Tolleson
ripped his second single, stole
his second base of the day and
advanced to third base on Gary
Ward’s groundout.
Before the eighth, neither
team advanced a runner past
second. The Blue Jays’ best op
portunity came in the fourth
when Upshaw and Johnson
ripped consecutive singles with
one out. But right fielder Bobby
Jones made a running catch of
George Bell’s long drive and
Stewart struck out Ernie Whitt
to escape the jam.
Leal pitched 7 2-3 innings, al
lowing five hits, walking three
and striking out three. He was
replaced by Lamp after
Wright’s single.
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WHEELCHAIR TRACK MEET?
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