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Show Page 6 - THE HERALD. Provo, Utah, 3 Friday. September 7. 19S4 pons r report and A full a commentary on winners, losers and coming events 0 By MARION DUNN Herald Sports Editor encore to their upset of mighty 4f Pitt. But beating Baylor won't be easy. Coach Grant Teaff's team lost some bright stars through graduation, but he has nine BYU faces a hard fact of life in college footballs fast lane this weekend: It isn't uhat youVe done that counts, it's uhat you've game of the season and the Cougars have since swept past 12 straight rivals. At 1:30 p.m. Saturday the Cougars will try to make Baylor pay for last year's win by becoming their 13th consecutive victim. IF that happens and IF Michigan beats Miami in Ann Arbor, the Cougars would then have the longest major college winning streak in the nation. And IF those two things happen the Cougars would then have come up with the perfect 40-3- conference's Offensive New- all-SW- Back are the two young quarterbacks who alternated on every play on that September night in Waco a year ago. As Teaff noted, "Our overall Titf rr FtoM J nose Beats, offensive power won't be the same because of the skill people we lost, but that's not to say we don't have some good athletes ready to emerge. I t Hutu cbt MR. 'D also Muecke is only a junior. Ron Francis, 190, a sophomore, will probably start at tailback after starting as a defensive back two years ago. Francis was impressive in spring drills. Derric McAdoo, 1, vjaht a MauuN fabm ME )! defensive-minde- men- d tors. Teaff was the guest speaker at the annual Cougar Club Awards Banquet two years ago and the audience responded enthusiastically to a memorable speech he delivered. His reception Saturday won't be as warm. McEnroe Provides Veeal Win I , f scored three touchdowns first game lone of them the first time he carried the ball I, could start and is sure to share time with Francis. Bobby Joe Conrad, whose father, Bobby, was a star at Texas A&M and for the St. Louis Cardinals in the NFL, is the No 1 wide receiver. Conrad was third in catches a year ago with nine for 162 yards. Baylor won't be as big as Pitt, and may be a little less physical., although that i3 debatable. The Bears will be quicker and faster than the Panthers and that could mean big trouble for the Coogs. Against Pitt, BYU's defense was simply superb. The defenders swarmed to the ball and never allowed the Panthers to mount a legitimate scoring drive. What could happen Saturday is the two teams will reverse last year's offensive show and have a defensive standoff this time around. Teaff and BYU coach La Veil Edwards are close friends and in his comer of the Year and also In made first team one poll he and Muecke were both named to the league's first team. FT f wt feel good about our backs as a group. And the receivers should be able to get the job done. The offensive line will be young but they are players who have come up through an extensive redshirting program. They've had time to develop." Back to share quarterback-in- g duties are Cody Carlson and Tom Muecke. Last year Teaff alternated them on every play and then used a third quarterback on short yardage situations. Teaff said he will probably alternate the on each series instead of each down this tune and that he will use a third quarterback on short yardage situations again. Carlson, only a sophomore, was the fourth ranked passer in NCAA passing efficiency last yar, the highest freshman by far. He led the Southwest Conference in that department and was named the . back and 13 others who started at least one game. And those veterans beat BYU, went on to a season and an appearance in the New Year's Eve Bluebonnet Bowl. Most of Baylor's personnel losses came on the offensive side which prompted Teaff to tell the Utah press by telephone at the B:g Four Huddle on Tuesday that his defense will be the same as last year and add with a laugh, "'BYU should be glad to hear that." Teaff was referring to the fact that last year's meeting between these two powers was a 6 offensive shootout. But Teaff did laugh when he recalled that and that means something. Baylor's offensive cupboard isn't bare by any means. better team. The Bears were the only team to beat BYU last year. That came in the opening - o-- defensive starters full-tim- e done lately. What BYU has done in this young football season is beat the nation's third ranked team at the time, Pittsburgh, in Put Stadium. What comes lately for BYU is its home opener against Baylor Saturday. The big, bad Bears of Baylor didn't bring Pitt's reputation when they arrived in town today, but they might well have brought a , Opp 9SIMfJ (Si a p q) - NEW YORK (UPI) ...... " - - V-- v m .' ' No one really expected it to last. John McEnroe with a big smile and a good boy image just didn't jibe with the talented youngster who screamed, scratched and clawed his way to the very top. McEnroe felt constrained, fighting himself as well as his opponent, and the crowds were uncomfortable when they were left i ''ft f with little excuse to taunt or tease him. Normalcy finally prevailed Thursday night. The old John McEnroe was back in full view, cussing the officials and fighting with the noisy, jubilant specta- tors. It was vintage McEnroe as he f .3 a W v J' , J At dim II - In the end, despite a sluggish V start and what he admitted was a f 0 ft j told umpire Ken Slye, "You alhow bad you are," and then received a code violation warning after saying to Slye, "Who do you think you are up there, God almighty." ready proved f W lack of concentration, McEnroe defeated Gene Mayer, to reach the semifinals of the U.S. Open Championships. 7-- 1 6-- 3, em 6-- 4, e Jimmy Connors, the defending champion, earlier beat John McEnroe grabs his aching elbow after diving for a shot. two-tim- John Lloyd of Britain, and will face McEnroe in the semis on Saturday. The other semifinal will pair Ivan Lendl and Pat Cash. The women's semifinals were to be decided today with defend- 7-- John Lloyd couldn't grit bis way to a victory over Jimmy Connors Thursday. Connors won 7-- 5, Pittsburgh togs 23-1- 7 6-- 2, 6-- 0. 6-- 2, 6-- 0, LJB ft VA JST 0-- r ' V K i i 23-1- yards on 12 quarterback carries, intercepted Pat Ryan three times and recovered a fumble to drive. set up their ''We were concerned about the Jets running and our defensive line and the linebackers did a great job," Steelers coach Chuck Noll said. "We needed this win badly to stay together. It's tough mentally after so many injuries but they still hung together." Pittsburgh rebounded from an loss to embarassing opening-da- y City Chiefs to even The Jets, after their record at with a victory the year beginning over the Indianapolis Colts, dropped to David Woodley, starting just four days after suffering a concussion, threw two touchdown passes and Gary Anderson kicked three field goals to help the Steel- - troubles started Tonight's Events: COUGAR COUNTRY FOOTBALL JAMBOREE At the Parkway Plaza ( the new shopping plaza across from Square on the South side better of University Parkway known as the Diagonal): Everyone invited. 7 p.m. Band music, dancing. 8:30 p.m. Cloggers perform. Old fashioned Pep 9 p.m. Rally including bonfire and burning in effigy of the Baylor Bear. Cougar cheerleaders will be there, along with Cougar coaches. Cot-tontr- !Cffi$ 3 WW) I , " wnimiwi.ilfnrMlTm-n-1-M-""- s IftII &J a.,,!,..!, m of the knocked out against Kansas City Sunday, threw a touchdown pass to rookie Louis Lipps in the first period and sent Pittsburgh ahead for good throw to another with a rookie, Weegie Thompson, in the third quarter. Anderson hit field goals of 32 and 43 yards in the second period in the final and a Woodley, quarter. On Sunday, it's Diego at Seattle. Indianapolis at Houston, Kansas City at Cincinnati, at Miami. Detroit at Atlanta. Minnesota at Philadelphia. Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Buffalo at St. Louis. Cleveland at the Los Angeles Rams, Denver at Chicago, Dallas at the New York Giants and Green Bay at the Los Angeles Raiders. San Washington plays in San Francisco night. Saturday's Events: 11 a.m. 12:40 p.m. tailgate party at the BYU track complex. The public is invited. KSL Come Early Party west of stadium is also open to the public. 11:45 a.m. - Cougar Club briefing and buffet for members only in Cougar Club Room at stadium. Briefing by Los Angeles Express quarterback Steve Young. Speakers: Utah Jazz coach Frank Lay-deBaylor sports information director Maxey Parrish. Reservations are required. 1:30 p.m- .- Game, BYU vs. Baylor, Cougar Stadium. Expected crowd: 65,000. Radio: KSL (1160 AM). e Notes 'n Quotes: Baylor Coach Grant Teaff: "You can look at history and see it's not reasonable to expect to stop BYU. Nobody ever has. They WILL make their yards. The key is to try to keep them out of the endzone and then make more yards and points than they do. There are no 10-- 7 games when BYU plays. They're all high scoring, and if you expect to win you'd better do some scoring." BYU Coach La Veil Edwards: "The fact that they use two quarterbacks isn't the big problem. The problem is their style of play. With their quickness and speed, that option attack will cause problems. And I think they'll have a very fine defensive team, too." - -- Pre-Gam- n, Television: Live, KSL-T- V (Channel 5). Taped Delay, KBYU-TSaturday, 10:30 p.m., Monday, 9 p.m. V : New York Jets' Johnn Lynn (29) leaps high to bat away a pass intended for Pittsburgh's John Stallworth. ers continue their mastery Jets. start, swept the last nine games from Lloyd and 12 of the last 13. This is a record 11th consecutive year he has gained the semifinals of the Open, and he has won his last 19 matches in the championship stretching over three years. on his arm, and he seemed to be favoring his left wrist and elbow for the remainder of the set. He also alluded later to some stomach problem. Connors, following a tentative The fun and games revolving around Saturday's BYU-Baylfootball game in Cougar Stadium will get underway tonight and won't end until just before the kickoff at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. - A change of scenery did UPI not reverse history for the Jets and Steelers. New York, playing their first regular-seaso- n game in their new home, Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., had their record fall to 8 against the Steelers as Pittsburgh posted a 7 triumph Thursday night. The Steelers recaptured a bit of their recent history as their defense registered a Steer Curtain performance reminiscent of the 1970s. They held Jets star running back Freeman McNeil to just 30 McEnroe's early when he fell hard on the third point, landing There's Plenty To Do If You Like BYU's Cougars I'.', Victory champion Martina Navrati-lov- a taking on Wendy Turnbull at 11 a.m. EDT, followed by Chris Evert Lloyd against Carling Bas-set- t. ing Monday Game Dunn (11-- 4. 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