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Show Wjv Also in this section: Classified Tuesday- Sept. 23, 1990, , D5-- 8 . Irish NOTABLE QUOTES: "There's been a lot of And I see 'em pointed at me. We just have to keep our finger-pointin- g. mouths shut and keep a positive attitude. I feel, as the coaches have always told me, that the quarterback gets way too much credit when he wins, and way too much blame when he loses. I just don't want to have to talk about pressure all the time." So said Utah quarterback Mitch Richmond about the task of rebuilding the Utes' offense which lost Scott Mitchell to the NFL after his junior year, With that caveat, the son of Georgia athletic director Vince CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Virginia wide receiver Derek Dooley says he's a bit wary of the Cavaliers' No. 7 ranking in the . Dooley said maybe the unbeaten d Cavaliers can turn their national prominence into a positive. "It can help you if you look at the. ranking and use it as a source of pride and try to improve each week and focus each week on the game at hand," Dooley said. Virginia got to the seventh spot with a 59-- whipping of Duke. The Cavaliers, who earlier this season notched their first victory over Clemson in 30 tries, have outscored new-foun- latest Associated Press college football poll. "If you let the ranking get to your head, then it's going to cost you," Dooley said Monday after Virginia jumped to its highest spot ever in the weekly poll. "It's cost a lot of teams in the past and it will always cost a lot of teams because they start believing they are better and they forget how they got to 0 that ranking." k data. a.. W their four opponents 194-3They leaped three spots from last week's No. 10 to top their best previous ranking of No. 9 in 1949 and 1952. Meanwhile, Notre Dame received 43 first-plac- e votes and 1,478 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters and held onto its No. 1 ranking for the third consecutive week. Florida State is second, followed by Auburn and Brigham Young. The Seminoles, who beat Tulane votes and 1,397 got 11 first-plac- e points. Auburn and BYU each received 1. 31-1- 3, . 62-3- 4. Michigan, Virginia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Miami, Texas A&M, Washington, Houston, Illinois, Ohio State, Arizona, Florida, Southern Cal, Clemson and Colorado. Rounding out the Top 25 are Arizona State, Michigan State, Arkansas, Fresno State and South Carolina. Miami, which did not play, fell one spot to No. 10. Southern Cal and Arkansas plum-- ; meted in the rankings after suffer-;- , ' ing their first losses. Southern Cal dropped 13 places" to No. 18 after getting blanked by; Washington 31-- 0 and Arkansas fells 10 notches to No. 23 following a 21-17 loss to Mississippi. Fresno State and South Carolina-moveinto the rankings for. the first time this season, replacing " Texas and Pittsburgh. Fresno rose to No. 24 after beat- South ing New Mexico State 42-Carolina moved up to No. 25 after, downing Virginia Tech 1' d 3. 35-2- 4. Bell rings Brewers collecting five hits wrrJtsr. X 1 -- Vi'i 4 n 7 i P4 By The Associated Press is how George Bell's This latest eye examination went. The first line read: Kit In other games, Oakland failed for the second straight day to clinch a tie for the AL West crown, losing to Kansas California edged Rex-a- s City 10-2 and Baltimore beat New York 3 in 10 innings. Rookie Mark Whiten homered and Jimmy Key pitched seven solid innings for the Blue Jays, who are 16-- 6 in September and have eight games remaining all 3, Bell doubled in the second inning, singled in the third and double in the fifth. hit a two-ru- n The next line read: DETMER HONORED: byu quarterback Ty Detmer and Wyoming defensive tackle Mitch Donahue have been named the players of the week by the WAC. Detmer, a junior from San Antonio, Texas, threw for three touchdowns to lead BYU to a 4 victory over San Diego State Saturday. He completed 26 of 38 passes for 514 yards, the second-highepassing total he has achieved in a regular season game. Donahue, a senior from Billings, Mont., had 11 tackles and one sack as the Cowboys defeated Air Force, Bell singled and scored in the eighth inning. The bottom lino, read: Bell singled in the ninth inning. Bell passed the test and his vision was found to be the baseball equivalent of 0 as the Toronto Blue Jays 62-3- st 20-2- increased American their League East lead over idle Boston to Vk games by defeating the Milwaukee Brewers 24-1- 2. 9-- 5 Monday night. Bothered the last month by blurred vision because of a fluid buildup around the retina in his and right eye, Bell was FEATURED SPEAKER: Mountain View's Carl Ingersoll will be among the featured speakers at the Utah High School Basketball Coaches Association fall clinic Saturday. The clinic at Park City High School also features Len Stevens, head coach at Nevada, and Jim Mossell, an assistant at Weber State. More information is available from Mitch Wilcox at three first-plac- e votes, but the Tigers outdrew the Cougars 1,384 votes to 1,261. Auburn had the week off and BYU beat San Diego State Tennessee is fifth, followed by poll B CONTEST WINNER: Sherry Johnson of Provo was the winner in last week's Daily Herald football contest. She missed only two games. Ten other people missed just three picks. As the winner, Johnson receives gift certificates from Gart Bros, and Rick Warner Chevrolet and two tickets to a BYU basketball game. She also qualifies as a finalist and has a chance to win a trip to San Diego and tickets to the Holiday Bowl from Morris Travel. M tops5 Cougars 4th in air - "I guess that answered one of the questions of whether George can see or not. I guess he put a stop to the fact that a lot of people thought he wasn't seeing well," Toronto manager Cito Gaston said. Herald PhotoAndrew Holloway 394-462- 4. 3-- 6-- ; Pennant races ! on the road. The Red Sox have nine games left, eight at home, ' including three games with Toronto over the weekend. ' Royals 10, Athletics 3 ' Kurt Stillwell doubled home-thfirst of six Kansas City runs in the fifth inning and added a three-ru- n inside-the-pahomer in the seventh. Oakland has an eight-gam- e lead over the idle ; Chicago White Sox with nine games to play. The A's magic number is still two. NATIONAL LEAGUE It's beginning to look like a matchup between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds in the National League playoffs. ' (See MAJORS, Page D-e ; rk 2) cornerback Tony Crutchfield makes certain San Diego State split end Patrick Rowe is down in a defensive play from last Saturday's WAC contest in Provo. BYU COUGAR NOMINEES: tackle Rich Kaufusi and offensive tackle Neal Fort a,re among the 22 candidates for the 1990 Outland Trophy announced today by the Football Writers Association of America. The trophy, won by BYU's Mo Elewonibi last year and by the Cougars' Jason Buck in 1986, is awarded yearly to the nation's outstanding interior lineman. The list of nominees fdr the 47th annual trophy, includes Illinois nose tackle Morris Gardner (a finalist last year), plus two each from Auburn (OG Ed King, DT David Rocker), Colorado (OG Joe Garten, OT Mark Vanderpoel) and Miami (OT Mike Sullivan, DE Russell Maryland). BYU defensive GOODBYE DEION: Deion Sanders was waived by the New York Yankees for the purpose of giving the outfielder his unconditional release. LEAD: Timpview's team leads in Region Four after three of five leg have a team matches. The total of 894. Orem is second at 964, followed by Provo 1023, Pleasant golf golf Grove 1055, Mountain View 1063 and American Fork 1081. Will Huish of Timpview leads the team race with 213. Teammates Russ Madsen and Tyler Monsen are second and third at 222 and 229. Provo's Blaine Talley is fourth at 236 and Orem's Russ Ford is fifth at 238. The top three teams in the region qualify for state. Next y Golf Course in match is at 'American Fork Wednesday. Tri-Cit- SCHOOLS WITH MOST UNDEFEATED AND UNTIED FOOTBALL SEASONS 13 seasons (1979 last) Alabama 12 seasons (1960) 2. Yale 11 seasons (1964) 3. Princeton 11 seasons (1987) Tie Oklahoma 11 seasons (1988) Tie Notre Dnme 10 seasons (1971) 6. Michigan 9 seasons (1983) 7. Texas bowl games x 1. Source: Sports Features Syndicate Sports Features Syndicate will pay SS for your list it published. Send lists to Sports features, P.O. Box 660, Maple Shade, N.J. 08052. Include name, address, phone number and source. Tuesday 5:30 p.m. Baseball (ESPN) 5:30 p.m. Baseball, Braves at Reds (TBS) 5:35 p.m. Baseball, Cubs at Pirates (WGN) 6 p.m. Powerboat racing (PSN) 6:06 p.m. State Sportsline guest, recruiting rules expert Rick Perko, Rod Tueller (KTKK 630 AM) 6:30 p.m. Sponscentral (KSL 1160 AM) 7 p.m. Boxing, Foreman vs. Anderson (USA) 8 p.m. Surfing (PEN) 8:30 p.m. Baseball (ESPN) 9:30 p.m. College football. LSU at Vanaerbirt (taped, PSN) Wednesday 1 p.m. Golf. International Open (ESPN) 4 p.m. Bicycling (PSN) orris says he has Schmid efense giving up the the guts 'to lose 20' numbers on mak ing the plays By DOROTHY KNOELL Herald Sports Writer BYU linebacker coach Ken Schmidt, who has been filling the role of defensive coordinator in the absence of Dick Felt, isn't ready to call the Cougar defense great. But he does thinks the defense has been doing better than people may think in the Cougars' first four games, despite giving up some big yards and an average of about 25 points per game. "I think we've got a pretty good defense. I wouldn't say it's great, but it's a pretty good one. And the effort has been good all year, except maybe that first half against Washing ton State," he said. "Basically this year we've been going LirO Ken Schmidt against some pretty good offenses. "Look at the yards and points our offense is getting against other teams. I'm not saying we've been facing offenses as good as ours, but we've been facing some pretty good ones with some great quarterbacks. And they are tough to stop completely." Schmidt said the biggest weakness the defense has right now is in coverage in the secondary and with tackling. "We are struggling a little in the secondary with some coverage, but we'll get better there," he said. "And then our tackling just isn't where it should be." Part of the tackling problems arise from BYU's practice philosophy, he noted. "Our philosophy is that we don't tackle that much in fall practices," he said. "We only have a couple of scrimmages where we go full speed and tackle. "The positive from that is that we don't get people hurt; we don't beat up our offensive people. I can we don't have a understand that lot of depth. "But the negative is the defensive players don't get a chance to do a lot of tackling, and so it takes us a while to get where we want to be in that area after the season begins. In practice, we concentrate on getting the kids in the position to wrap up the ball carrier. But it takes some time in the games to become good tacklers. "If you go to Ohio State or Nebraska, they tackle pretty much every day. But that's not our phi- - losophy, and while it can be frustrating for a defensive coach, I can understand it. We just have to get better, improve our tackling. And we will. The kids are playing really hard, really aggressively." In evaluating defensive perform- ance in the. first four games, Schmidt said he felt things were pretty good at UTEP, where the Miners scored only 10 points, none in the second half. He was pleased with the Miami game from start to finish. "I thought we played outstanding defense against Miami a great offensive team like that. We came at them with a few different things, things they weren't ready for, and I thought the defense was excellent the whole game," he' said. The following week against Washington State, however, Schmidt admitted the defense and the entire team was flat in the first half as the Pullman Cougars scored 29 points. Still, during that stretch the BYU defense stiffened after three long drives and forced Washington State to settle for field goals. Also, one of the WSU touchdowns came off an interception return. "We made some mental adjustments and played much better the second half," said Schmidt of the BYU defense, which gave up only one touchdown to WSU in the final two quarters. Against San Diego State last Satlapse reurday, a second-quartsulted in 24 Aztec points in the period. But SDSU added only 10 more the rest of the game, despite moving the ball well. "We do give up yards, but the kids manage to make big plays when they have to," Schmidt noted. "In the case of Washington State and San Diego State, there is the fact that they've been aole to study our films. We came at Miami with a package they hadn't seen. Washington State had our Miami films and SDSU had our films from Miami and WSU. And while you can make some adjustments, you can't change everything for the same kind of offense. They had two nice game plans for our defense. "And you aren't going to completely shut down good offensive packages. Face it, Miami didn't shut us down. I think you can slow them down, but you really can't stop them. "We've faced three or four quarterbacks who vould have to be in the top 10 at that position in the country. People expect us to be giving up seven or 14 or 21 points, er and, in a lot of cases, that's not realistic." Schmidt said the Cougars need more work on their defense than on short yardage situations, where they do a pretty good job. "In the spring and fall we and worked hard on goal line situations. We went full speed on those situations and consequently, the kids are pretty good on those plays. But we are not doing a very good job on the we're not tight plays enough on our coverage or good enough on our tackling. That's where we've got to improve. And we will." The fact that the BYU offense often scores quickly can sometimes be a problem for the Cougar defenders, Schmidt added. Against SDSU, the Cougar defense was on the field almost 40 minutes. "SDSU had about 100 plays. That's a lot of defense to play, and the kids do get tired. We have to do a better job of rotation," Schmidt said. "But I'll tell you, after the games we play this month, our kids are going to be in great shape. These offenses we've faced and will face Saturday (against Oregon with quarterback Bill Musgrave) are really somelong-yarda- short-yarda- third-and-lo- thing." Overall, Schmidt said the new, more aggressive defensive style the Cougars adopted this year has gone over well with the players and he's pleased with their efforts. "I'm most pleased with the attitude. They work hard. If you play hard, good things will happen. I think we've put more pressure on the quarterback than we have in many years. We've got more sacks and hurries than in the past. We're more aggressive. They may be moving the ball on us and scoring some, but we're getting great ef- fort." Especially in the second half the Cougar defense has given up a total of only 24 second-hal- f points this season. "We usually make some adjustments at halftime and the kids have done a good job at that," Schmidt said. Schmidt said he expects more offensive fireworks this weekend at Oregon. Last year, Musgrave had 489 yards and the Ducks scored 41 points on the Cougars. But BYU had 45. "It will be another tough battle. We'll try to put pressure on Musgrave and change our coverages a little." Jack MorDETROIT (AP) ris says he isn't afraid to lose 20 games. a lot of and many people do things but gutless isn't one of them. In case you missed it, Detroit manager Sparky Anderson said last week he might take Morris out of the Tigers' rotation, rather than let him lose 20 games. The Yankees did that with Tim Leary after he reached 19 defeats last year. "I know Jack will want' to pitch, but I'm not sure what I'll do," Anderson said. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. And maybe I won't get to it." Morris, 8 after beating the Oakland Athletics on Sunday, probably should have two more starts in the Tigers' nine remaining games. If he gets his way, he'll make those starts. You can call Morris 13-1- The Tigers, who were off Monday, begin their final home stand Tuesday night against Seattle. They finish up with three games in New York. "Sometime in someone's going to look at the numbers and see 18 losses or whatever next to my name," Morris said. "That doesn't sit sweet with me. In my mind, it's not all justified, but I know I've got to live with it. "I know in my own mind I'm healthy. I know I can pitch." And he doesn't hesitate to let mid-Februa- his manager know it. He has completed 10 his 34 starts, tops in the American League, and he grumbles every time Anderson gives him the hook. "When I come out, in my own mind, I have no control anymore," Morris said. "I'm just a cheerleader." The' right-hande- r, the winningest pitcher of the 1980s also believes he can pitch well into this decade. "I know I have some years left," Morris said. "I think I can pitch until I'm 40." But there's no guarantee he'll spend those years in Detroit. Dick Moss, his agent, said he expects Morris to be declared a free agent at the end of the season as a result of last week's collusion ruling against major league owners. Arbitrator George Nicplau ruled that baseball owners must pay players $102.5 million in damages for conspiring to hold movement afdown free-ageter the 1987 and 1988 seasons. Moss said he expects Nicolau to rule on whether the players can have "new look" free agency before clubs can begin bidding for free agents in November. If so, Morris is in luck. "If the Tigers are contenders, Jack would like to be part of it nt and make his contribution,". Moss said. "He's always en- joyed playing for the Tigers and in Detroit." Thomas racks up 214 yards as Bills butcher Jets, 30-- 7 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. It wasn't anything special (AP) that made the night so special for Thurman Thomas and the Buffalo Bills. No trickery. No fleaflickers. No outlandish, totally out of character maneuvers. It simply was a matter of the Bills executing to perfection in a 30-- 7 execution of the New York Jets on Monday night. It was Thomas running wild for a pro career-hig- h 214 yards, 11.9 yards a pop. It was the defense, led by Bruce Smith, shutting down New York's attack. It was total domination. "It feels great doing it on national television," Smith said after the Bills moved into a tie for the AFC "We East lead with Miami at 2-- 1. wanted to make a statement alaout the Bills." Thomas made the loudest statement, running through gaping holes for big yardage, including a dash that was a personal NFL and a high, a rd "It's the old counter play," tackle Will Wolford said. "Everyone knows it, everyone uses it. I don't know why we were so successful with it. "I don't know if this was the best I've ever seen a runner, but I can't remember another game when I looked downfield and saw our back still shaking and baking." Thomas couldn't believe the size of the holes in the middle of the Jets defense, which had done well against the rush in its first two games. |