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Ii ( u r Sdi urdd. night guid mg Grambling to .1 27 1 v u (on our ruu lMl.LA'I d - 1 v hl-- I idinc- V it w A&.M The triumph wus tht 324th of Rob - one more than tht insuns CdM-o- 1 17th-ranke- d r 21-1- 5 late Pdul 'Bear'' Bryant achieved ith Aldbariid Robinson has also lust JOS and tied la and is orih one it tore short of ttie w all-tim- vntorv record, set bv e George lldlds Bt ol the s M-- l Tribune Wire Services A.r Force junior linebacker Terry Maki terrorized Notre Dame with an inrred.blc SO tackles Saturday, 19 of them unassisted, but his biggest play of the day d.dn t even show Lp in those statistics Maki stormed in to block a fourth quarter field-goa- l attempt and AJ Scott raced 77 yards with the loosi-bal- l for a touchdown, rallying Air Force past Notre Dame before the largest football crowd (52.153) in academy history 'Kevin (Martin) and I knew we were going to get one." said Maki W e had u atched their films and w e knew they had some flaws They weren't protecting well on that side of the line We went past their t.ght end and I just stuck my hand straight out I really didn't have to jump or anything" Scott, a senior strong safety said he was merely in the right place at the right time ' It s just luck, really, that the ball came down to me," said Scott I just saw it. grabbed it and took off I didn't look around, I just lock off and didn t feel anyone near me Our whole team concept is to force big plays, and we got one today. Notre Dame Coach Gerry Faust who congratulated the Falcon players in their locker room and said he hoped they "go all the way," took the loss hard You can't lose one any tougher than that. he said Our kids played their hearts out. We moved the ball well against a very good defense, and we shut down an offense that had been scoring 50 points a game With the victory, their eighth straight, the Falcons raised their season record to 0 and continued their hex over Notre Dame, beating the Irish for the fourth straight time in this annual rivalry Notre Dame fell to 3 on the season Notre Dame, leading and driving for an apparent score, bad a line at the AFA before two running plays went for losses and quarterback Steve Beuer-lei- n was whistled fur intentional grounding shoving the Irish back to line and forcing the their field goal try Maki a standout on defense all dav Chicago jrs even that mark could be qualed n xt wet k when the unbeaten 1 igers meet Tennessee State in NashBut ville Grambling took advantage of four first half turnovers and took a 20 0 halftime lead on a 12 yard touchdown throw from Terrell Landry to Arthur Wells, a yard scoring plunge by Wayne Hill and a interception return by Jeffrey Smith r Grambling added a touchdown un an 11 yard run by vjnrteg press, inter no'0Ol Air Force quarterback Banks. The Falcons slipped past the Irish behind a superb defensive performance. Bart eiss pulls Robert defender Dame Notre from away 1 d Welch Handcuffs Reds Again, third-quarte- Clyde Dvson 'Prairie it s onh sc ore came on a pass from Ernest Brow to Charles Porter with nine minutes to play in the game . Robinson had a hard time seeing s'orne of the earlv ai non because photographers and videotape camera-m- t n swarmed along the sidelines recording his every move The game drew 36,652 to the 72.000-sea- t Cotton Bowl on the third day of tjic nation's largest annual exposition the Texas State Fair Although Prairie View has won only one of its last 32 games the Panthers had success moving the ball in the first half But Prairie lew hurt Use If w ith a bumbled punt at its own line an interception in the Grambling end zone another interception at the Grambling 28 and Smiths interception which he tan in for a seme . The Tigris scored the first two times they had the ball man hing 77 yards in 10 plats on its initial possesurd touchdow n sion leading to the throw from L.andiv to Wells w Tribune W ne Services Greg Brock singled home one run and scored another in the fourth inning as the Eos Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 3 Saturdav Winner Bob Welch 144 gave up nine hits, strut k out eight and walked one in eight innings as he continued his domination of the Reds, whom hes beaten eight times in a row Pirates Padres 9, 3: At San six-hitt- n Pbillies 4-- bases-loade- Alan Ashby hit a grand slam and Jose Cruz hit a solo homer and a RBI double to help Nolan Rvan gam his first victory since Aug 28 as the Houston Astros defeated the San Diego Padtes Orioles Giants cisco Braxes 7, left-hand- 1: At San Fran ida Blue fired a Twins 8, Indians 2: At 7. 1: At Baltimore, Tigers homer by Gary Roemcke in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the Baltimore Orioles to victory over the Tigers after Detroit had gone ahead in the top of the ninth on Lance Tarrish s second homer of the game a 1 12-- y d rain-delay- Angels 3, Rangers 1: At Arlington Reggie Jackson and Doug DeCinces homered as the Cahforna Angels edged the Texas Harpers Jacksons homer his 27th of the year and 53uth of his career came in the first inning after Rod ( an x Walled Tfesnush over the left find wall also ran up Jac kson s career RBI total to Mil home-ru- the American League Brewers 3, Red Sox 2: At Boston Ed Romero drove in two runs with a double with one out in the ninth inning, lifting the Milwaukee Brewers to a victory over the Boston Red Sox American League Diego in nesota Twins defeated the Clevelard In bans At Phila- 2-- tops sea-s- c and surpassed 200 strikouts for the sev enth time in fus career as the Min- delphia rookie Mike Bielecki pitched for seven-plu- s a three-hitte- r innings and Johnny Ray knocked in four runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates swept a double header from the Philadelphia Phillies Evpos 8, Mets 3: At New York, Andre Dawson homered and drove in four runs, sending Floyd Youmans and the Montreal Expos to victory over the New York Mels who were eliminated from contention in the National League East Astros r 8-- 8 1 d s Bert Blyleven pitched a tor his 24th complete game of the for his 19Pt h major league the San Francisco Giants and victory downed the Atlanta Braves Blue, held the Biaves hitiess until pinch-hitte- r Al Rail singled with one out in the sixth He lost his shutout bid vc hen Brad Komminsk led off the eighth with a homer, his fourth five-hitte- 3-- 1 two-ru- n White Sox 10, Mariners 4: At ChiScott Fletchers cago pinch-hitte- r two run single capped a five-ru- n fifth inning as the Qucago White Sox rolled to victory over the Seattle Mariners Mmneupo 5-- 15-1- 3 d m and :cmtd neys Jchn blc-ikc- attempt d the am Car- tall Tr.e SeO'.t grabbed it down the r.ght and ran untour'-esideline Lr the clinch, -- g score with rem.a nrg Vuarerback Bart t conver-s.oWeiss ran f r the ac courting for the f.nal marg,n p pped in j6 two-po.n- Nebraska 38, New Mexico 7: At Nebraska, Paul Miles rushed for 189 yards and one touchdown and McCathorn Clavton added two more Netouchdowns to lead colbraska to a 38-lege football victory over New Mexico Clayton ran one and two yards for f,rst-hal- f scores as Nebraska, a favor.te. led only 14-- at Wilke Turral put the J Lobes on the scoreboard first with a score just over 2t minutes into the game The Cornhusker defense then shut the door on New Mexico recording nine quarterback sacks and four interceptions M.les opened the second half going 59 yards for a score with 125 gone in the third quarter 13th-ranke- d .t inter-missio- n d Fresno 24, Hawaii 24: At Fresno sophomore Barry Belli kicked a field goal with 8 37 left in the tie game to give Fresno State a with Haw ai Fresno State came back deficit in the fourth from a quarter on an srorirg pass from Kevin Sweeney to Anthony Mosley and Belli s kit k Hawaii scored three touchdowns in the third quarter after trailing J at halftime Fullback Nuu Faaola run and Walter scored on a touchdown Murray caught a a pass from Gregg Tipton to give a lead less than two minutes later La'er in the quarter. Tip-to- n hit Theo Adams on a touchdown pass. Fresno State's first-hal- f scores came on a pair of runs by Mosley Fresno State is now Hawaii is 29-yr- d 24-2- 4 24-1- 4 3 Ha-w- 17-1- 4 Pacific 19, New Mexico St. l(k At New Mexico State, fullback James Mackey rushed for 102 yards and Pacific s opportunistic defense led the Tigers to a victory over New Mexico State The victory improved Pacific s record to ,n the conference and overall New Mexico State, which to beat a PCAA opponent since overjoimrg the league in 1984, is all and in the league 0 3--2 ha-y- et 4 0-- 2 Real in NFC Fast? Dallas or New York? Whos for '' k Rv Dave Ruffo The races in the NFL's toughest two divisions will be put in sharper focus Sunday and Monday The Giants knocked off the Cow bovs twice last year for the first time since 1983 Those two games put New York in the pla voffs ov or Dallas w hen those teams and St Louis finished the NFC East, the New X ork Gi ants art host to Dallas in a battle of teams St Louis, a third 3 NTC East team, travels to Washington In Joe Theismann threw f.ve inter eeptions in that game and he s plodin the NFC in ding along passing The Cardinals got their deep passing game going in a victory over L,reen Bav last week Neil Lomax is yank'd third in the conference in f 126 passing having completed for 94 yards eight touchdowns and three interceptions In the AFC West thi surprising C hi"fs are looking for a repeat of their Sept 12 game in w hie h Bill Ken ney threw lor two TDs to give Kansas Citv a 3fi 20 victory over tlm Raiders A vic'ory would give the Chiefs their k st start since 1971 9-- 7 3-- The Cowboys have the NFC's top offense in total yardage, but will be going against the NTL s No j defense Sunday Landry thinks his defense could be the best hes ever had The Cowboys lead the NFL with 13 inter eeptions and tied an NTL record w ith 12 sacks last week against Houston think it s difficult for a team out of this division to play against them because they're not used to seeing eight men up front,' Giants coach Bill Parcells said of the Cowboys' Flex Defense 'Houston didn't have a i hance They d stai k a couple ol sate-Meup there and Hojstun had no'.oJv to block them They create sunn bad plavs you have to expert some bad plavs ' against them The Redskins have made their 1 Monday night KanIn the AFC West, sas Citv travels to Los Angeles to meet the Raiders while Seattle is host to San Diego in mtradivisional with the games The Chiefs are Raiders Seahawks Chargers and Denver Broncos all first-plac- share of bad plays against everybody and might not even contend fur the NFC East alter winning it the past two years Tht y embarrassed them selves once already on Monday night lusing the opener 44 14 to Dallas the East is wide open with Washirg ton struggling ' Imted Press International e next-to-la- 43-2- 8 67-o- 1 2-- 2 I think il s Dallas New York a pivotal game in the NFC East. Dallas coach Tom Landry said ol the Giants game Youve got to win in your tf iv ision if you re to w in mi"- di I we sav wont cant win 'hi vision division d we lose this game fmt thev're in excellent shape if they win - 'New Yn;k is a legitimate contender The Giants handled Philade lphia twice and heat the Cardinals I think s or the second straight year, the I iers have quarterback problems Jim Plunkett is out and backup Marc Wilson left last week s game with an Flai ankle injury leaving the job to rookie Rusty Hilger Los Angeles needs a healthy passer against the Chiefs, w ho had five interceptions four bv Deron Cherry) and recovered two fumbles last week in a 28-v their fifth ictory ov er Seattle straight victory over AFC West foe Seattle will try to end a slide against the Chargers, who lost quarterback Dan Fouts last week During the week, San Diego signed running back Gary Anderson from the ISFL and fired defensive coordinator Tom Bass The Chargers' defense last in the NFL in total defense and rushing defense will have us hands full with Curt W arner Warner has shaken off the knee injury that ended his 1984 season after one game to gam 323 and rush for two TDs m four games "There s a lot of pressure in this division ' W arner said of the division which had a combined record last year You really cant relax You lose two games you should have wun and you're in trouble i 7 two-gam- e ya-d- 51-2- 9 Idaho 51, Portland St. 17: At Portland. tailback Steve Jackson gained In other games Sunday, it s Chicago at Tampa Bay, Detroit at Green Bay, San Francisco at Atlanta, Minnesota at the Los Angeles Rams. Philadelphia at New Orleans. Houston at Derver. Pittsburgh at Miami Buffalo at Indianapolis. New England at Cleveland and the New York Jets at Cincinnati At Tampa one of the league s two unbeaten teams meets one of two are winless clubs The Bears. 0 Washa off cf beattng coming Buccaneers had a ington The o linecrisis when backer Hugh Green left the club Green is unhappy about the team s defensive schemes 4-- 0 45-1- 0-- 4 mid-wee- All-Pr- k At Miami, the Dolphins and Steel-er- s meet m a rematch of last year's AFC Championship game, won by MiThe game matches Pittsami. 45-2- burgh's top-ranke- d pass defense against No 2 pass offense, fueled by Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino Miami leads AFC East at 1 while is tied for AFC CenPittsburgh, tral lead with Cleveland 3-- 2-- October Specials NATIONAL CAK CARE MONTH a SNOW OR ALL SEASON STEEL BELTED RADIALS MUD RADIAL TRAIL KINS FREE MOUNTING With Tire Purchase WE DO SPLIT 33 - 1250R15 PLUS FET COUPON r -COMPUTERIZED COUPON COUPON PPJW Aa 0 a rvnv dfttr-rf)' trDH a to tx 15 Mow mrvi A Arn r3 . 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Idaho State quarterback Vern Hams passed for three touchdowns and the Bengal defense staged a goal-lin- e stand to pace ISU to a victory over Northern Arizona in a B.g sky Conference football game The Bengals increased their season record to and 0 m the conference Northern Arizona dropped to overall in the Big Sky first-quart- 3-- Long Beach 17, Boise St. 16: At Boise, senior quarterback Doug r Gavnor climaxed a drive with a fourth-dow- n touchdown pass to split end Charles Lockett as Long Beach State upended Boise State. The winning touchdown came after the Boise State pass defense had frustrated the 49ers on three plays from inside the 8 yard d line fourth-quarte- |