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Sooners, Canes still at top of AP poll
From the Associated Press
The Oklahoma Sooners and
Miami Hurricanes are within one
game of a national championship
showdown.
Oklahoma has done its part,
completing an 11-0 regular sea
son with the No. 1 ranking in the
Associated Press college Football
poll. The Sooners have been No.
1 in all but one poll this season.
They slipped to second two weeks
ago but reclaimed the top spot by
defeating Nebraska on Nov. 21.
Miami remained No. 2 for the
second week in a row Monday af
ter a solid 24-0 victory over Notre
Dame, but the Hurricanes, 10-0,
who meet Oklahoma in the
Orange Bowl on New Year’s
night, have a regular-season
f ame left against eighth-ranked
outh Carolina on Saturday
night.
In the next-to-last regular-sea
son poll, Oklahoma received 48
of 55 first-place votes and 1,090
of a possible 1,100 points. Six
first-place votes and 1,049 points
went to Miami.
Florida State, Syracuse and Ne
braska held onto the 3-4-5 spots.
Florida State, 10-1, received 985
points following a 28-14 triumph
over Florida; Syracuse, 11-0,
completed its regular season a
w^ek #»prlier and received the re
maining first-place vote and 914
r jints while Nebraska, 10-1, a 24-
winner over Colorado, received
904 points.
Florida State plays Nebraska in
the Fiesta Bowl and Syracuse
meets No. 6 Auburn in the Sugar
Bowl.
Auburn and LSU swapped po
sitions. Auburn climbed from
seventh place to sixth with 803
points by defeating Alabama 10-0
while LSU, which ended its regu
lar season a week ago, slipped
from sixth to seventh with 765
points.
South Carolina remained
eighth with 708 points and Michi
gan State held onto ninth place
with 635 points. However, Notre
Dame fell from 10th to 12th while
UCLA moved up from 11th to
10th with 573 points.
The Second 10 consists of Ok
lahoma State, Notre Dame, Clem-
son, Georgia, Texas A&M, Ten
nessee, Southern Cal, Iowa, Pitt
and Penn State.
Last week, it was UCLA, Okla
homa State, Clemson, Georgia,
Texas A&M, Tennessee, South
ern Cal, Alabama, Iowa and Pitt.
Alabama’s loss to Auburn cost
the Crimson Tide a spot in this
week’s Top 20. Penn State moved
back in after a two-week absence.
Tar Heels pass Orangemen in AP hoop poll
From the Associated Press
North Carolina, which de
feated Syracuse in the Tipoff
Classic and then won the Central
Fidelity Classic, took over as the
No. 1 team in the Associated
Press’ first regular-season college
basketball poll Monday.
The Tar Heels, 3-0, received
37 of 58 first-place votes and
1,109 points from the nationwide
panel of sportswriters and broad
casters after beating the then-to-
pranked Orangemen 96-93 in
overtime in the Tipoff on Nov.
21. North Carolina then defeated
Southern California 82-77 and
Richmond 87-76 in the Central
Fidelity tournament over the
weekend.
Kentucky, which had been
ranked fifth, jumped to second
with seven first-place votes and
955 points. The Wildcats have
played just one game, beating
Hawaii 86-59.
Syracuse, 2-1, fell to third and
received two first-place votes and
916 points, three more than Pitts
burgh, which remained fourth
with four first-place votes. Syra
cuse was to face Arizona Monday
night in the championship game
of the Great Alaska Shootout.
Indiana jumped one place to
fifth, receiving four first-place
votes and 817 points, five more
than Iowa, 3-0, which won the
Maui Classic, including an im
pressive 100-81 victory over then-
No. 7 Kansas.
Florida, Missouri and Arizona
were seventh, eighth and ninth,
respectively, and each received
one first-place vote.
Florida, 4-0, jumped from 14th
as the Gators won the Big Apple
NIT. Missouri did not play a
f ame as it remained eighth with
04 points, 13 fewer than Florida
received. Arizona, which beat
then-No. 9 Michigan 79-64 in the
semifinals of the Great Alaska
Shootout, jumped from 17th to
ninth and received 636 points.
Wyoming, which beat Denver
113-82 in its only game, remained
10th with 636 points.
The Second 10 is Purdue,
Temple, Duke, Louisville, Michi
gan, Kansas, Georgetown, Okla
homa, Nevada-Las Vegas and
Memphis State.
reseason Second 10 was
The
Iowa, Temple, Louisville, Flor-
:orgetown, Arizona,
Tempi*
ida, Duke, Ge
Georgia Tech, Oklahoma and
DePaul.
Georgia Tech and DePaul were
the only teams to fall from the
Top 20. Georgia Tech lost to
Florida 80-69 in the Big Apple
NIT, while Pepperdine beat De-
Paul, which is playing without
academically-ineiigible guard
Rod Strickland, 84-76 in over
time.
Nevada-Las Vegas and Mem
phis State were the newcomers to
the ranks of the ranked. UNLV
has not played, and Memphis
State beat Washington 86-57.
Purdue fell from second to
11th after losing to Iowa State in
the NIT and Kansas fell from
seventh to 16th as the Jayhawks
saw their record fall to 1-2, losing
to Iowa and Illinois in the Maui
Classic.
Coogs look to next season after strong finish
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston
Cougars won three games and tied
another on the field in their final
four games of the season, and not
even a forfeit could dampen Coach
Jack Pardee’s enthusiasm for next
season.
The Cougars lost six of their first
seven games while learning the intri
cacies of Pardee’s run-and-shoot of
fense.
Then came the surge that in
cluded a record-setting 60-40 victory
over Bluebonnet Bowl host Texas.
Athletic Director Rudy Davalos
announced Sunday the Cougars
would forfeit the 37-7 victory over
Temple because safety Randy
Thornton was scholastically ineli
gible to play in the game.
But the 3-7-1 finish is a plus, Par
dee said.
“It won’t do anything but help,”
Pardee said. “We needed something
good to happen to our program.
We’re getting back the fan support
and we’re getting back the winning
tradition.”
Pardee will lose only one offensive
starter, center Tim Britton, from the
1986 team and will choose from
three quarterbacks who all played
this season.
“A win today is a start for tomor
row,” Cougar wide receiver Jason
Phillips said following Saturday’s 45-
21 victory over Rice. “We should
have a strong team. We have a lot of
young guys back and we should look
real good next year.”
Phillips will be one of the brightest
returning stars.
He caught 99 passes this season,
the fourth best single season perfor
mance in NCAA history.
David Dacus, the preseason SWC
newcomer of the year, stumbled
early in the season but emerged as
the starter and closed out Saturday
with a Southwest Conference record
450 passing yards.
He expects to be the starter next
season.
“Whenever I’ve played a whole
game, my record is 3-1-1,” Dacus
said. “When I do good, good things
happen.”
Dacus got a second chance this
season because freshman Andre
Ware broke his arm in a 37-35 loss to
Wyoming. But Dacus says the job is
his now.
“I don’t see that (Ware regaining
the starting job) happening,” Dacus
said. “Why do it? Coach Pardee’s a
smart man. I don’t have to prove
myself again. The problem is in a lot
of people’s minds but not in mine.”
Sophomore Kimble Anders and
receiver James Dixon also are key of
fense threats who will return next
Anders caught 13 passes and I
rushed 88 yards in the finale against
Rice. He finished the season with |
791 rushing yards and was the No.2
receiver
yards.
with 61 catches for
Anders’ 14 touchdowns tied the I
school single season record. Dixon
finished third in receiving with 58
catches.
“We wanted to have a good season
and go to the Cotton Bowl or some
kind of bowl, we just couldn’t seem
to put things together early in the |
season,” Anders said.
The Cougars will lose starting |
linebackers Derrick Hoskins, Gat)
McGuire and Robert Harper and
safety Robert Jones in addition to
kicker Chip Browndyke, who kicked
a school record 19 field goals this
Dodge survives adversity
to find coaching success
ROCKWALL (AP) — Todd
Dodge arrived in Rockwall in June,
almost too excited to wait for Sep
tember and the start of football sea
son. Within a few days, he wondered
why everything seemed to be falling
apart.
He wondered why his athletic ca
reer, which once held such unlim
ited potential, had ended on the
University of Texas bench.
He wondered why, in April, an
electrical meter he was reading ex-
E loded, burning much of his arms,
ands and face and landing him a
seven-week hospital stay.
He wondered why his friend and
former coach, Ronnie Thompson,
was fired the week Dodge arrived in
Rockwall to begin his career as a
football coach.
“There was a string of events that
really made me have to dig down
deep and find out what I’m all
about,” said Dodge, the former
Longhorns quarterback and a blue-
chip high school prospect from Port
Arthur Jefferson.
“I just couldn’t understand why
things kept happening,” Dodge said.
“Now I look back and see how ev
erything has worked out for me, and
I guess I’m pretty lucky after all.”
Dodge, a Rockwall assistant coach,
took the field at Mesquite Memorial
Stadium Saturday as one of the lead
ers of one of the state’s hottest Class
4A teams. Rockwall routed Ennis 41-
6 in their regional playoff game and
now will play Kilgore, 12-1, in the
quarterfinals.
It’s a development he never ex
pected.
“I don’t think anybody would
have thought about being where we
are with the kind of summer that
went on in Rockwall,” Dodge said in
an interview before the regional
playoff battle.
“It shows how much these kids
have put it on the line and paid he
price to succeed. I feel great about
everything now. Any coach would
love to have a first year like this. It’s
been great to see how kids have
come together. They went through
all the turmoil with everyone else
and really came out of it as winners.”
The turmoil came when Thomp
son, Dodge’s high school coach, was
fired just four months after he was
hired. Thompson was dismissed for
breaking school and University In
terscholastic League policies.
Skins Game pays off big
for Trevino, not for Palmer
LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) —
The Skins Game will be back.
Lee Trevino will be back.
And it’s up to Arnold Palmer
as to whether he’ll be back.
“He’s had the greatest impact
of any man who ever played the
game. He’s the most popular
player who ever lived. He’s
magic,” said Don Ohlmeyer, pres
ident of Ohlmeyer Communica
tions and originator of the popu
lar, two-day, 18-hole, made-for-
television Skins Game.
“As long as I have anything to
do with it, Arnold can play as
long as he likes,” Ohlmeyer said.
Ohlmeyer and Barry Frank, of
Trans World International, as the
sponsors, have the option of pick
ing one of the four participants.
Palmer, 58, was their pick this
year. He did not win a skin, did
not win a dollar.
“It’s entirely up to Arnold. If
he wants to play, he’ll get a spot,”
Ohlmeyer said.
“What we’re trying to do is get
the four players the public wants
to see play. Not necessarily the
guy who wins the most money.
We want the players the public
wants.
“Now, we have gone into a se
nior Skins Game (the inaugural to
be in Hawaii in January). Ar
nold’s going to play in that.
“Maybe he’ll decide he’s a se
nior and wants to concentrate on
senior play,” Ohlmeyer said.
The fifth Skins Game, played
over the weekend, was high
lighted by Lee Trevino’s hole-in-
one on the 17th Sunday. The ace,
which Trevino said was only the
second of his career, was worth
$175,000. It helped him sweep all
of the $285,000 available Sunday
and gave him $310,000 for the
two days of play.
It also made him eligible, as the
defending champion, for the
1988 Skins Game, which Ohl
meyer said also will be played in
the La Quinta area, but not nec
essarily on the PGA West course.
“I presume he’ll want to pla
hope so. He’s been good for us;
an eagle last year and a hole-in-
one this year. Makes you wonder
what he’s going to do next year,"
Ohlmeyer said.
It's MUSICAL Week!
iMy fair Lady
Starting
with:
TODAY Tuesday, December 1, 1987
Rudder Theatre, $2.00 with TAMU ID
The festivities begin at 7:30 p.m.
This weekend: Little Shop of Horrors and The Wall
Audrey Hepburn
Rex Harrison
Winner of 8
Academy Awards