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Wednesday, September 7, 1994
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- Osborne ignores polls, again
The Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska coach Tom Osborne would just as soon have the polls go away.
Nebraska is just one game into the season. But the Cornhuskers jumped around Florida and into the No.1 spot in this week's Associated Press and CNN-USA Today nolls.
Osborne said yesterday even he doesn't know how good his team is at this stage.
"I think too much is made of the polls right now," Osborne said. "And even at the end of the season."
He would be in favor of a computerized system that would make use of what he calls pertinent information on teams to produce an objective rating, but the longtime coach isn't sold on opinion polls.
Osborne wasn't happy with the ratings game a year ago, when teams jumped around his unbeaten Cornhuskers late in the year as bowl assignments were being set up.
But he has always said that he can't do anything about what people think,
so he'd just as soon coach and let other people worry about it.
That will be the case this week when he tries for another victory on national television. The initial test for Nebraska went well in a 31-0 whipping of then-No. 25 West Virginia in the Kickoff Classic on Aug. 28.
Nebraska plays at Texas Tech tomorrow night on ESPN.
Osborne said he won't be playing that game with one eye on how the polls might react, considering Nebraska jumped around Florida despite the Gators' 70-21 opening victory.
"I'd be very happy with a win, and that's what we're going down there for," he said. "We don't play for the polls here."
Osborne said there was much room for improvement for his team, particularly in the area of turnovers. Nebraska had five against West Virginia.
Quarterback Tommie Frazier, who had two interceptions and a lost fumble, said he wasn't satisfied with his performance. Still, he ran for three
touchdowns and threw for another.
The junior said people who thought he played well only looked at the touchdowns and statistics (100 yards passing, 130 rushing) and not the rest of his game.
"The coaches dissect how we play and tell us when we do something wrong," he said. But he said he had learned from the experience and had his mind set on doing better this time around.
Texas Tech (1-0) also will help keep his mind on his game, Frazier said. A year ago, in Lincoln, the Red Raiders had the Cornhuskers on the ropes through three quarters.
Frazier, who had severely sprained an ankle the week before, played, but the coaches called fewer options. It wasn't until the fourth quarter that Nebraska was able to wear down Texas Tech on the way to a 50-21 win.
Frazier said the No. 1 ranking won't make any difference to Texas Tech tomorrow.
"We expect a good effort from everyone we play," he said.
NFL BRIEFS
Troubled Steelers guard reported missing by wife
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers guard Carlton Haselrig's wife has filed a missing persons report on him.
Haslinger, a 1992 All-Pro with a history of substance abuse, left the Steelers' training camp Aug. 15 without explanation. The Steelers later scratched him from the 1994 roster by placing him on the "left camp" list.
Haseligi's wife, Sarah, recently filed the missing persons report with police in Monroeville, Pa. where the couple and their two children live.
Haselrig's agent, Steve Weinberg, also wants to speak to him.
"I'd like to find out what he's thinking," he said. One of the last reported Haselrig sightings was Aug. 18, when police, a bartender and bar patrons said Haselrig punched out the window of his sport vehicle after locking his keys in his car in East Liverpool, Ohio.
Former Dolphin defenseman dies at 49
The Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. — Bob Matheson, a key member of the "53 Defense" that led the Miami Dolphins to three straight Super Bows in the early 1970s, has died after a long battle with Hodgkin's disease. He was 49.
Matheson died Monday at Duke University Hospital. A first-team All-American for Duke in 1966, Matheson was a first-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns.
was a first draft pick of the Cleveland Browns. He joined the Dolphins in 1971 and was a key member of the "53 Defense," named for his uniform number, which helped Miami get to three straight Super Bowls, winning against Washington in 1973 and Minnesota in 1974.
Matheson stayed with Miami through the 1979 season, then returned to Duke as an assistant coach.
He continued coaching even after he was diagnosed with cancer, working for John Gutenkut at Minnesota from 1988 to 1990, but then returned to Durham to work for the cancer research center there.
Rice touchdown record
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice set the all-time touchdown record Monday night when he scored his 127th career touchdown. Year-by-year comparison of touchdown receptions with hall of fame receiver Steve Largent:
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Record-setting Rice to meet KC's Montana
The Associated Press
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jerry Rice had little time to savor the record-setting effort that made him the NFL's all-time touchdown leader.
No sooner had he scored his 127th career touchdown Monday night in San Francisco's 44-14 rout of the Los Angeles Raiders than the 49ers wide receiver was caught up again in the Joe Montana-Steve Young rivalry.
The 49ers travel to Kansas City next Sunday for their first confrontation ever with Montana. He led San Francisco to four Super Bowl wins in the 1980s before losing his job to Young and joining the Chiefs in a 1992 trade.
"We've got a big game coming up, and I'm not going to have a lot of time to enjoy it," said Rice, who surpassed Hall of Fame fullback Jim Brown's previous mark when he scored his third touchdown of the game.
"But it'll be nice to see Joe again. He helped me get this record," Rice said.
He's right about that. Montana and Rice connected on 55 touchdown passes. Young and Rice have hooked up for scores 49 times, including two against the Raiders.
The first came on a 69-yard bomb from Young. Rice then made like a running back to pull into a tie with Brown, scoring on a 23-yard reverse and set the record with 4:05 to go when he' out jumped Albert Lewis for the ball and tumbled into the end zone.
"He made a great play," said Lewis, who played with Montana last year in Kansas City. "I was grabbing at his arm, grabbing at the ball, but somehow he managed to hang onto it."
Young nearly didn't get the pass off.
"I'm embarrassed it was a little short," said Young, who threw under pressure. "I had someone on my back and that's all I had."
"He was crying; he deserved to cry," running back Ricky Watters said. "He worked so hard for this."
Teammates rushed to congratulate Rice, and fittedly the celebration took place in the end zone. Rice was overcome with emotion.
Rice actually thought he was done for the night after scoring his second touchdown but was called back to the field by coaches to go for the record-breaker.
With the record taken care of, the attention shifts to the Montana-Young saga.
So, did the 49ers make the right decision in keeping Young and trading Montana? Rice may have an opinion, but he's keeping it to himself.
"I'm not going to put myself on the spot by saying, what if or what, you know. It's up to the organization," he said.
Rice said he likes the way he and Young have developed as a tandem and thinks they'll get even better. But there's also a lot of memories and big plays he shares with Montana.
"I watch Joe play during the season. I watch him throw those balls. I watch him place those balls right in receivers hands," Rice said.
"It brings back a lot of memories to me. But you know. One thing I never told Joe. I never told Joe he was the greatest to ever play the game. It's weird because you get caught up at times and you don't think about situations like that until something happens. And he was the best to ever play the game."
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