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Friday, November 14, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Penn State to battle Miami for season title
United Press International
Third-ranked Penn State aspires to an undefeated season and national title showdown tomorrow against No.1 Miami. Standing in the way of the Nittany Lions is a Notre Dame team that must win to keep alive slim chances for any bowl bid.
Penn State, 9-0, must defeat the Irish and Pittsburgh to complete an undefeated season and have a chance at being the nation's No.1 ranked team after the New Year's Day bowl games.
The Irish, 4-4. want to exact some revenge for last year's 36-6 loss at State College, Pa., as well as continue toward a possible 7-4 record in Lou Holz's first season as coach.
The Irish are coming off a 61-29 rout of Southern Methodist last week. The Nittany Lions slipped by Maryland 17-15 by breaking up a two-point conversion attempt with 14 seconds left to play.
Senior quarterback Steve Beuerlein threw for a career-high 269 yards and the Irish offense gained a season-high 615 yards against the Mustangs. Beuerlein's favorite target is flanker Tim Brown, who is averaging 23.3 yards a catch.
averaging 2.5 points a guy that makes them go." Penn State coach Jeptermo said of Beuerlein "When he goes in and they're not taking him out and putting him back in and he settles down, he's played really well."
down, he's played on several running backs spark the Several running backs spark the
Penn State has allowed an average of only 10 points per game and has been impressive on offense. John Shaffer has completed 99 of 172 attempts with four interceptions and eight touchdowns. Running back D.J. Dozier is averaging 4.7 yards per carry.
Irish ground game, with freshman tailback Anthony Johnson the leader, averaging 4.8 yards a carry. Holtz said he respected Penn State's defensive line, especially nose tackle Mike Russo.
The Hurricanes will also try to keep their perfect record in tact when they play Tulsa. Despite a 7-3 record and the nation's seventh-best offense, Tulsa enters tomorrow night's game at 35-point underdog.
"Tulsa's a much better football team than people give them credit for," said Miami head coach Jimmy Johnson. "Because people in this area are not familiar with Tulsa. I think they're taking them lightly. They have an excellent football team."
Tulaa abandoned the Missouri Valley Conference last season in an attempt to find more respect as an independent. A victory tomorrow would guarantee it.
"Part of the problem that we have had is that we were part of the Missouri Valley Conference and it was not a real strong football league," said Tulsa head coach Don Morton. "That's why we got out of it. This is our first year as an independent. There's a certain pecking order in college football and we're working our way into that pecking order."
Tula has rolled up some impressive offensive numbers. The Golden Hurricane is averaging 433.8 yards per game, 301.8 on the ground and is third best in the country.
Sophomore Derrick Ellison has rushed for 1,028 yards, and quarterback Steve Gage is averaging 63 yards per game rushing and 104 yards per game.
In other games involving the top-ranked teams tomorrow, it's Minnesota at No. 2 Michigan, Oregon State at No. 5 Arizona State. No. 6 Nebraska at Kansas, Georgia at No. 8 Auburn, No. 9 Ohio State at Wisconsin and UCLA at No. 10 Washington.
SMU may face more football sanctions
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Southern Methodist University could be the first school to receive the "death penalty," a two-year suspension of its football program, if the most recent allegations about cash payments are proved true, an NCAA official said yesterday.
The penalty, which has yet to be imposed on any school, is part of a 1985 sanctions package adopted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
SMU now is serving three years of probation mandated in 1983 because
of illegal cash payments to players by boosters and other NCAA violations.
Linebacker David Stanley, who dropped out of SMU in December, told Dallas' WFAA-TV in a report aired Wednesday that he received $750 a month in payments that continued after the NCAA sanctions. Stanley also told the station he had been paid $25,000 to sign with the Southwest Conference school in 1983.
Athletic Director Bob Hitch and head coach Bobby Collins denied Stanley's allegations.
NCAA Enforcement Director David Berst yesterday said he was
of the Stanley's charges Oct. 27, the day WFAA confronted SMU officials.
"If there is a penalty, that will be left to the discretion of the Committee on Infractions," Berst said. "The 'death penalty' can be imposed, but it is not mandatory. There also could be no action."
The last time the NCAA took drastic suspension action was in the early 1970s, when it halted Southwest Louisiana's basketball program for two years because of repeated, substantial and broad violations, Berst said.
Stanley could not be reached for comment.
News of Stanley's allegations rumbled across the campus yesterday, stunning students and faculty.
"I don't think we're ready to lose our football," student body vice president Tracey Haley said. "But it came as a complete surprise. We thought the university had cleaned up its act, and the university thought it had too. We'll work through this like anything else."
Sports briefs
Davis undergoes knee surgery
Offensive tackle dim Davis underwent knee surgery yesterday afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Ken Wertzberger, team surgeon, performed the surgery.
surgery. Director of sports medicine Lynn Bott said last night that Davis was still in pain from the surgery and under sedation.
"There's hope for next season," Bott said. "But a long rehabilitation will have to take place from now to next season. Even then there is a little bit of a question mark."
Davis originally was scheduled for arthroscopic surgery, however the injury exceeded simple cartilage damage so more extensive surgery was performed, Bott said.
KU basketball to get 2 recruits
SMU President L. Donald Shields said he would call a special meeting of the university's board of governors to determine what steps to take.
The KU men's basketball team expects to receive signed national letters of intent from two high school recruits, Dick O'Connor, assistant sports information director said yesterday.
O'Connor salo the letters were signed above the mail, but the University has not yet received them.
The early signing period for high school seniors and junior college players will continue through Nov. 19.
director said Kansas has gotten verbal commitments from Ricky Butler, a 6-foot-6 forward from Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach, Calif., and Antoine Lewis, a 6-1 guard from Grady High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. O'Connor said the letters were signed in, the
Tennis team to play Minnesota
Diggins signs KSU intent letter
Competing for Kansas will be senior Mike Wolf, juniors Darin Herman, Larry Pascal and Sven Groeneveld, and freshmen Craig Wildey and Chris Walker.
MANHATTAN - Carlos Diggins, a forward-guard at Butler County Community College, El Dorado, has signed a letter of intent to play at Kansas State, head coach Lon Kruger said yesterday.
The KU men's tennis team will play the Minnesota Golden Gophers in a dual match at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in Minneapolis. The Minnesota team is ranked in the top 10.
Diggins, 6-foot-4 and 200 pounds, averaged 18 points, two steals and three assists a game last year. The South Bend, Ind., native was an all conference selection.
The Sporting News ranked Diggins as one of the top ten senior college players available.
MU coach suspends 2 players
COLUMBIA. Mo. — Missouri football head coach Woody Widenhofer said yesterday that he had indefinitely suspended two players arrested this week in separate incidents.
Linebackers Ron Walters and Mike Rodro were arrested Tuesday morning, Columbia police said. Neither Rodro nor Walters has played for the Tigers this season.
"They've got to learn to control themselves a little bit." Widenhofer said. "（Rodro） was going to get a scholarship in January, but he's not going to get one now."
Widenhofer also said he would wait on awarding a scholarship to Rodbro, a sophomore transfer from the University of Miami (Fla.) who was expected to receive one next semester.
Police said Walters, a redshirt freshman from Blue Springs, was arrested Tuesday morning after he reportedly broke into Broadway Donuts in Columbia
and ate an unspecified number of doughnuts, some of which he left half-eaten on the floor of the shop.
Witnesses told police they had seen Walters in the doughnut shop, and he was arrested at his dormitory room a short time later, authorities said.
Drobro had been arrested a short time earlier in downtown Columbia for driving while intoxicated, police said.
police said. The two apparently were riding in Rodbro's car when Columbia police pulled it over, after which Walters left on foot.
Walters left on 100.
Walters was charged with second-degree burglary and property damage, police said. They said he posted $7,000 bond Tuesday night.
Rodro was charged with driving while intoxicated and posted a bond of $243.45 Tuesday night, police said.
New knee treatment approved
wASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved an artificial knee ligament expected to enable people with some sports injuries to recover in weeks instead of months.
The ligament, to be attached between the thigh and lower leg bones, is made from a braided strand of the same synthetic fiber used in ski parkas and cold-weather gear.
The FDA said the device stabilized the knee after the anterior cruciate was torn. This kind of injury is common in football, soccer and skiing.
the traditional way to treat such an injury is to graft a patient's tendon in place of the ligament. It usually takes six to eight months for the graft to grow strong enough for patients to walk and run.
The artificial ligament has been used experimentally for two years on more than 1,000 patients. The FDA said many were able to run in several weeks.
Former Star sports editor dies
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ernie Mehl, a former sports editor of the Kansas City Star and the man widely considered the father of major-league baseball in Kansas City, has died at the age of 85.
Mehl's efforts to bring major-league baseball to Kansas City led Arnold Johnson to buy the Philadelphia Athletics from Connie Mack. The Kansas City A's played their first major-league game in 1955.
Mehl, who died Tuesday at his home in Sun City, Ariz. served as sports editor of the Star from 1950 to 1965. He began working for the newspaper in June 1920 on the city desk and switched to sports in 1921.
Mehl and others also led the campaign to build the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex, now the home of the Royals and the Kansas City Chiefs.
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt faces up to 60 days in jail, a $2,000 fine and loss of his expensive sports car under terms of a plea bargain yesterday that settled charges that he had to smuggle drugs from Mexico.
Hoyt, American League Cy Young Award winner in 1983, pleaded guilty in a brief hearing to two misdemeanor counts in exchange for dismissal of any felony charges that could have been issued had his case gone to a grand jury.
Pitcher guilty in smuggling case
Hoyt admitted possessing 322 Valium tablets and 138 tablets of Propoxyphene, a pain killer.
Hoyt was arrested by customs agents Oct. 28 when he tried to walk across the Mexican border into California with the pills stuffed in his underwear.
In addition to the potential jail sentence and fine, the plea bargain also requires that Hoyt turn over to the federal government his 1986 Porsche 944, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Swan.
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