The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 12, 1990, Page 7, Image 7
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By DOUG AUBE
Sports Editor
For all you football connoisseurs,
the time is here to make
sure the refrigerators are stocked, the
cable bill is payed and your
local Dominoes delivery person L
knows how to get to your house.
Football season is upon us, and
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accomodated us with an expanded
schedule that will stretch over a
period of 17 weeks. The networks
will oblige by televising 93 regular
season games plus the entire postseason
schedule.
The football widows depth chart
is getting stronger everyday.
For the die-hard football lovers,
eight excruciating months of waiting
on pins and needles have
bypassed other diversions such as
baseball and basketball. Now the
exhilaration of end-zone dances
and bone-crushing action is upon
us.
This weekend saw enough action
to get Old Mother Hubbard
out early for spring cleaning to
dust off the cobwebs of the football
Rip Van Winkles:
The San Francisco 49ers escaped
defeat by their chinny-chinchins
as 49er placekicker Mike
Cofer kicked a come-ffom behind,
game-winning 38-yard Field goal *
with :09 on the clock to lift the defending
Super Bowl champs to a
13-12 win over the New Orleans
Saints. (
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confused with black death) defense
of new head coach Jerry '
Glanville's Atlanta Falcons saw
their theatrical leader, Deion San- 1
ders, intercept a Warren Moon
pass and than glide and swagger 1
82 yards into the end zone un- i
blemished to help Atlanta defeat *
"the team from Texas," the Hous- J
ton Oilers.
# The NFL No. 1 pick, Jeff 1
George, received a rude introduc- <
tion in to the regular season as the I
Bills of Buffalo sacked him three
times and rocketed him from the <
hard turf to the sidelines after a 1
vicious blow by Cornelius Bennett *
knocked George from the game l
with a concussion in the fourth 1
quarter. 1
The Dallas Cowboys' (which 1
happens to be the team I root for)
win over San Diego enabled them ?
to match last season's victory total j
after only one game ? but I'll j
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For the offensive minded fans,
this season should provide plenty
of potent excitement with the accolades
of performers as the
following:
# Running back ChristianOkoye
of the Kansas City Chiefs.
All he did was lead the NFL in
rushing last season with 1,480
yards. Chief opponents will again
shudder at the sight of his large
frame bursting through the line.
+ R.B. Bo "I Know" Jackson
who will break more bats and
tackles than any other back in the
league.
# 1989 NFL Rookie of the
Year Barry Sanders traded the play
for nay for the play for pay and
turned the gamble in to big bucks.
Sanders gained 1,470 yards and
scored 14 rushing touchdowns last
season and, if he can avoid the sophomore
jinx, should be able to lift
the Detroit Lions to elevated offensive
heights.
# Sterling Sharpe of the South
Carolina Gamecocks ... oops, of
the Green Bay Packers, was AllWorld
last season as he hooked up
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fensive tandems in the league.
Sharpe led the NFL with 90
etches and his 1,423 yards, and
12 touchdowns were second only
to All-Universe Jerry Rice.
Rice was one of the main ingredients
of the two-time defending
world champions 49ers as he
matched 17 receiving touchdowns
ast season and had 1,483 yards,
rhe receiver is most dangerous afer
the catch; his open Field maneuvers
could be the best in the
business.
But what about the defense, you
isk. Some say football is all about
hose crude open feild tackles and
hose from-out-of-nowhereouchdown-saving
stops. So for
hose hard hitting fans, here is a
ist of the meanest and best of the
mnch.
The Minnesota Vikings sack
ittack of Chris Doleman and Keith
Millard combined for 39 stops behind
the lines last season and are a
lefinite threat to open the eyes of
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1987. Sharpe is now in his second s
Sharpe lead the NFL with 90 receptioi
any quarterback who stays in the
pocket any longer than a second.
The Packers can boast of ?
Tim Harris* 19-and-a-half sacks
last season and opposing offenses
can and will attest to his interruption
of their game plans.
L.A. Raider Greg Townsend \
had 3-and-a-half sacks in one
game against the Washington Redskins,
showing he can really "get
in your face."
Of course I cannot leave out 11
Lawrence "who needs training 1
camp, I'd rather be golfing" Tay- I
lor. The All-everything linebacker J
from the N.Y. Giants skipped all 1|
of training camp and missed all li
four of the Giants' exhibition l<
games. Yet, he was in good T
enough form to chase down the 11
squiggly Randall Cunningham I
three times behind the line and still 2i
had enough voltage left to record 2]
seven tackles against the Philadel- 21
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know" NFL 1990 summary. iz
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Gamecock Top 25
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1. Florida State(8) 390 #22.
Noire Dame(7) 380 #13.
Nebraska 346 #51.
Tennessee 335 #45.
Aubum(l) 333 #105.
Miami 303 #37.
Michigan /A>3
3. Southern Cal 278 #83.
Oklahoma 248 #133.
Colorado 222 #6t.BYU
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2. Ohio State 187 #11- 3.
Clemson ?\ |178 //f -jfr
>. Houston 172 #225.
Virginia f/>- fl 170 , A,, . X:ilC>V
7. Texas A&M 115 #20i.
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). South Carolina 76 #24).
Washington 68 ?
U Texas 67 -?
Arkansas 61 #195.
Georgia Tech 48 ?
1. Pcnn State 38 #175.
Illinois 35 #21Others
recieving votes: Florida 29, Alabama 28, N,C. State 17, Ar
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The USC baseball team began
five weeks of Fall practice Monday
with 17 letterman from the
33-25 team of 1990, plus four
i freshman, two junior college ren
cruits and a number of walk-ons.
Several key players are memIbers
of the Gamecock football
squad and won't be available until
* pre-season practice begins in JanuI
ary. This includes George Rush,
who batted .302 with three home
runs as a catcher-designated hitter
in 1990! Rush may move to the
outfield next spring.
Freshman catcher Rob DeBoer
of Omaha, Neb., is a running back
with coach Sparky Woods' football
squad and infielder Bru Pender
is a defensive back. Rush is a
receiver/running back in football.
I Another football player who may
be available to baseball in the
spring is freshman running back/
outfielder Cleon Jones, Jr.
The most experienced everyday
players are the Cromer brothers,
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Willman, a junior who batted .294
with five home runs and 28 RBI
last spring. Burke Cromer, a junior,
batted .304 with four homers
and 39 RBI, and D. T., as a freshman,
hit .325 with six homers and
equaled his brother's 39 RBI.
Burke played mostly at shortstop
last year but is expected to return
to third base, his natural position.
D. T. is the Gamecock right
fielder.
Ten returning pitchers combined
for 24 wins and 18 losses last
spring, led by righthander Charlie
Young, 7-2. Righthander Sean
Hardwick was 3-2 as a freshman,
lefthander Will Lewis was 5-4 as a
junior, lefthander Rich Pratt was
3-5 as a freshman, and righthander
Jared Baker had a 1-0 record with
one save but struck out 41 in only
33 2/3 innings as a freshman.
A key to the pitching staff is
righthander Matt Threehouse. After
a 6-0 freshman year, Threehouse
pitched only nine innings
last spring, with a 1-1 record, before
undergoing arthroscopic
surgery on his right shoulder. Head
coach June Raines said ThreeKaiICa'c
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the key to our whole year."
Raines added the Gamecocks
"had a good recruiting year" and
are looking forward to seing the
i younger players in Fall practice.
The Gamecocks began Fall
practice without a pitching coach.
Doug Lambert, who came to USC
a year ago from Southern Mississippi,
resigned over the weekend
to return to Southern Mississippi.
The other Gamecock assistant
coach is John Sullivan.
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