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_ Aggies fall from rankings;
$ Hurricanes regain top spot
u " ra ll ^ ie Miami Hurricanes, college
football’s defending national cham-
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to Rig just one game into the new sea-
ion.
'vn Texas A&M fell out after losing to
SU 27-0 Saturday night.
The Hurricanes’ 31-0 trouncing
of Florida State, the preseason No. 1
earn, vaulted Miami from sixth
ilace to the top in this week’s Asso-
iated Press poll. Nebraska re
named No. 2 while Florida State
hopped to 10th. Texas and Wash-
ngton replaced No. 1 1 Texas A&M
ind No. 18 Tennessee in the Top
>0.
Miami received 38 of 60 first-
ilace votes and 1,149 of a possible
,200 points from a nationwide
land of sports writers and sports-
asters. Nebraska, which has been
Vo. 2 in each of this season’s three
lolls, received 14 first-place votes
nd 1,113 points following a 63-13
out of Utah State.
Miami coach Jimmy Johnson isn’t
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getting caught up in the No. 1 hype
at this point.
“It’s really too early in the season
for a coach to be concerned about
the rankings,” Johnson said Mon
day. “I wouldn’t even address it one
way or another.
“We have a very young team and a
lot of difficult games to play. Our
only concern right now is going up
and playing Michigan (on Sept. 17)
in a place that’s very difficult to play
in. All we’ve done is win one game.”
Clemson, a 40-7 winner over Vir
ginia Tech, climbed from fourth to
third with three first-place votes and
1,003 points. Oklahoma, which
opens its season this week at North
Carolina, slipped from third to
fourth with two first-place votes and
969 points.
UCLA held onto fifth place by
crushing San Diego State 59-6. The
Bruins received two first-place votes
and 941 points. The other first-place
vote went to Southern Cal, which de
feated Boston College 34-7 and rose
from eighth to sixth with 878 points.
Auburn, which gets under way
this week against Kentucky^ re
mained seventh with 768 points
while Georgia jumped from 12th to
eighth with 703 points after beating
Tennessee 28-17.
Michigan moved up from 10th
place to ninth with 639 points. The
Wolverines open this week at Notre
Dame. Florida State rounds out the
Top Ten with 600 points.
The Second Ten consists of LSU,
West Virginia, Notre Dame, Ala
bama, Michigan State, South Caro
lina, Iowa, Penn State, Texas and
Washington. Texas and Washington
made the Top Twenty for the first
time this season although neither
has played a game yet.
Last week’s Second Ten was
Texas A&M, Georgia, Notre Dame,
Alabama, Michigan State, West Vir
ginia, LSU, Tennessee, South Caro
lina and Penn State.
Tennessee dropped out as a result
of its loss to Georgia.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Although Brigham Young has been long known for a potent aerial attack, Texas football
-Cpach David McWilliams said Monday he expects something different in Thursday’s nationally televised game in
Provo.
“They have committed themselves to more of a running game this year,” said McWilliams, whose Longhorns
■ill be playing their first game.
Who could blame BYU for pasing more after what happened during a 24-14 season-opening loss to Wyoming
last Friday?
Brigham Young lost starting quarterback Sean Covey, who suffered a mild concussion late in the first half,
then backup Ty Detmer threw three interceptions on consecutive drives.
Texas will be trying to avenge a 22-17 loss to the Cougars last year w'hen they committed seven turnovers.
Although Brigham Young did take to the ground, it was not successful and accounted for only 45 yards of
offense on 41 carries while Detmer hit only nine of 26 passes for 133 yards.
McWilliams has been concerned with his young defensive backfield that includes three sophomores and three
freshman on the two-deep depth chart, but is eager to see how the youngsters will handle game situations.
“No question that it is a concern against a passing team,” he said. “When you have question marks, the only way
to answer them is to put your feet in the fire.”
Another question mark for the Longhorns is at quarterback where Shannon Kelley will be making only the
Rcond start of his career after backing up Bret Stafford last season.
But Kelley may not have much to do much more than hand the ball to senior tailback Eric Metcalf if he has the
kind of year that is expected.
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Schroeder
happy in LA
after trade
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay
Schroeder, who went from
UCLA to a brief successful pro
football career with the Washing
ton Redskins, said he’s happy to
be returning to Southern Califor
nia.
“It doesn’t happen very often,”
the quarterback said after it was
announced early Monday that he
was getting his wish to be traded
from the Washington Redskins to
the Los Angeles Raiders.
“Everybody involved was won
derful, the Raiders, the Redskins,
for letting me do what I want to
do, which is play football,” said
Schroeder, who was still on the
East Coast.
“It took a while (for the trade
to be made final), but everything
worked out for the best. . . . I’m
very happy about it. I’m very
happy to be coming to one of the
best organizations around.
“I was in limbo there for a
while, trying to figure out what I
was doing.”
The Raiders dealt Jim Lachey,
a highly regarded offensive tackle
they had acquired this summer
from San Diego, and several con
ditional draft choices to the
Redskins for Schroeder.
Redskin officials said the draft
choices in the deal were depen
dent upon the Raiders’ final posi
tion this season in the AFC West
standings.
Schroeder had been relegated
to third string on the Washington
depth chart this year after losing
the starting job to Doug Williams
in the final regular-season game
of 1987.
Schroeder, 27, led Washington
to the NFC Championship game
in 1986 and played in the Pro
Bowl. But he was erratic last sea
son and was finally benched.
Williams led Washington to the
Super Bowl victory last January
while Schroeder watched from
the sidelines. Early in training
camp this summer, when it be
came apparent that he would
start this season as a backup, Sch
roeder asked the Redskins to
trade him.
The five-year veteran suffered
through a woeful preseason,
completing only 16 of 40 passes,
and made no effort to hide his
dissatisfaction with being a sec
ond-stringer.
Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs fi
nally lost patience with Schroeder
last week and refused to play him
in the preseason finale against At
lanta.
“We hate to lose a talent like
Jay, but feel that we are getting
one of the top, young offensive
linemen in pro football,” said
Redskins general manager Bobby
Beathard. “Jay has provided the
Redskins with some great mo
ments and we wish him the very
best.”
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Oil
ers quarterback Warren Moon will
be sidelined four to six weeks with a
shoulder injury suffered in Sunday’s
victory over Indianapolis, Oiler offi
cials announced Monday.
“Obviously, I’m very disappointed
to have this injury at this time,”
Moon said. “When it happened, I
thought it was a bruise but the X-
rays showed it was fractured.”
Moon suffered a fractured sca
pula in his right shoulder when he
was tackled by linebacker Cliff
Odom early in the third quarter of
Sunday’s season-opener.
Moon, who had an outstanding
preseason, completed 1 1 of 15
passes for 137 yards and had no in
terceptions before he was sidelined.
Moon will miss Sunday’s home
opener against the Los Angeles
Raiders and also will likely miss suc
ceeding games against the New York
Jets, New England Patriots and Phil
adelphia Eagles.
Cody Carlson, an Oiler rookie, last
season, played his first NFL game af
ter Moon’s injury and is the probable
starter for Sunday’s game in the As
trodome.
Carlson, a former Baylor quar
terback, was activated shortly before
game-time Sunday instead of the
team’s third quarterback, Brent
Pease.
“I felt good about the win, no mat
ter how ugly it was or how conserva-
PITTSBURGH (AP) — It was
classic misdirection. The only prob
lem was that it wasn’t the opponents
that Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Steve Pelluer fooled.
Pelluer went the wrong direction
on a critical third-and-two play,
spoiling what had looked like was
going to be the latest in the long line
of Cowboys comeback victories.
Trailing 24-21 on the Steelers’ 4-
yard line, Pelluer called for a “36”
pass play when he meant to say “37.”
The first call would have given
him two receivers in the end zone
and the comfortable feeling that
sturdy running back Herschel
Walker was in front as a blocker.
Instead, Pelluer rolled to his right
and saw nothing but black Pitts
burgh jerseys. Worse yet, he tried to
force a pass anyway, which was then
intercepted by Steelers linebacker
David Little.
Landry, who vigorously bawled
out Pelluer in front of network tele
vision cameras, softened a bit af
terward.
“Young quarterbacks do those
things,” Landry said.
Pelluer accepted the blame for his
fourth-quarter gaffe.
“It will not be the last time you see
me make a stupid mistake,” Pelluer
said. “I will tell you right now that I
live it was,” Carlson said. “It was still
a win.”
After Moon’s injury, the Oilers
went to a conservative ground-
oriented offense.
“That had nothing to do with
changing quarterbacks,” Oiler Coach
Jerry Glanville said. “We had de
cided to lean on them before War
ren got hurt.”
But it was a 21-yard pass from
Carlson to Drew Hill in overtime
that set up Tony Zendejas’ game
winning field goal.
Glanville said he wouldn’t decide
until later in the week who will start
at quarterback but Pease is prepar
ing to be the backup.
“I expect to work hard this week
and be ready to backup Cody,” Pease
said. “I don’t think I’m that far be
hind Cody and I’m just one step
away from going into a game the
same way Cody was on Sunday.”
Carlson spent Sunday’s on the
sidelines last season while Pease
suited up for games. But Carlson
had an outstanding preseason and a
good week of work prior to the sea
son opener.
“I wasn’t nervous when I first
went into the game,” Carlson said.
“Then, after a couple of plays, I saw
Warren take his pads off and I knew
it was my show.
“Then I got nervous.”
The Oilers activated cornerback
Patrick Allen and placed Moon on
the injury list.
will make some more. But I will also
make some big plays for this team.”
Dallas teammates were generously
understanding of the blunder.
Fullback Timmy Newsome was
the secondary receiver sent to the
wrong side of the field was sympa
thetic.
“What you must understand is
that we have hundreds and hun
dreds of plays in the playbook. It’s
pretty easy to get them wrong,”
Newsome said.
Pelluer might have gotten a clue
that trouble was about to happen by
noticing Newsome had not lined up
in the “silver right formation” that
he had just called in the huddle.
Newsome said he decided to line
up behind left tackle, instead of the
right, because the “36” play Pelluer
called goes to the left.
“Normally in a situation like that,
I would have said, ‘Hey, Steve, are
you sure we’re in the right forma
tion?’ But it was so loud at that end
of the stadium that I couldn’t say
anything.”
Pelluer gathered no solace from
an otherwise solid performance in
which he completed 24 of 37 passes
for 289 yards.
“Stats are for losers,” the Cowboys
quarterback said.
Pokes support Pelluer
despite crucial mistake
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