European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 6, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Penn Safe vaults of no. I Affer by win new York up Penn Sta c. A narrow Winner in seven of its eight games this season claimed College foot Ball s no. 1 ranking monday in voting by the Dpi Board of coaches. The Kittany Lions became the fourth no. Team this season by capturing 34 of 42 first place votes and 600 Points. It was the first time Penn state was named no. 1  in National championship season in 1982. Saturday s 16-12 Victory Over Boston College kept Penn state undefeated and marked the seventh time this season it has won by less than seven Points. That fact probably prevented the Kittany Lions from becoming a unanimous top Choice and kept them off one coach s ballot entirely. Iowa a unanimous Choice the past two weeks and no. 1 the last five Sank to no. 6 after a 22-13 loss to Ohio state Auburn and Oklahoma were the other no. 1 teams this year. Florida a 14-10 Winner Over Auburn raised its record to 7-0-1. The gators placed on Mcaa probation for three years for 59 rules violations arc ineligible for the up top 20. Southern methodist also on probation is the other ineligible team. Nebraska 5 first place votes and 570 Points moved up one spot to no. 2 while Ohio slate 1 and 505 jumped from seventh to no. 3. No. 4 air Force earned two top votes and Rose two spots. No. 5 Oklahoma advanced three positions. Miami Fla leaped from 12th to no. 7. No. 8 Baylor climbed two rungs. Michigan fourth last week dropped to no. 9 after being tied by Illinois. No. 10 Arkansas inched up from Lith. No. 11 Oklahoma state and no. 12 Urcla each in creased two positions while no. 13 Louisiana state improved by three spots. With its loss to Florida Auburn plummeted to 14th from no. 4. No. 15 Georgia Rose two notches. No. 16 Florida stat dropped from ninth while Tennis Lee advanced one spot to no. 17. Brigham Young fell from 16th to no. 18 while Texas am and Alabama remained 19th and 20th. There were no new teams in the top 20 with Nebraska and air Force the Only schools on All 42 ballots. Five Southeastern conference teams made the ratings. Manning has a cure for second though is on his retirement new Orleans a Archie Manning said monday that any time he starts haying second thoughts about his retirement from professional football he has a Quick cure. I really just have to see a picture of the Chicago bears about once a week and i Don t miss anything he said in obvious reference to the bears defensive line. Manning Quarter backed the new Orleans saints the Houston oilers and the Minnesota Vikings before retiring this season after 14 years in the National football league. He does a bit of television commentary locally but said he has t settled on a career for the rest of his life. I be ruled out politics and coach ing and Well go from there he told the new Orleans quarterback club. Lomax rallies cards to stun Dallas 21-10 rangers Post i 4-2 Victory Over penguins Pittsburgh a with Mike Al Lison providing the offence and almost everyone else contributing to the defense the new York rangers easily Defeated the struggling Pittsburgh penguins 4-2 in Mon Day night s Only National hockey league game. Allison cored his first two goals of the Mason to Lead the rangers to Victory. In addition the rangers out shot Pittsburgh 36-18, nuking it an easy night for new York goalie John Vanbiesbrouc. I made a couple of saves but nothing that was a game Saver Vanbiesbrouc said. You have to give the credit to our forwards and defens Emen when i Only get 18 shots. I should t be ashamed to give up two goals but i Felt 1 could have Given up even less. The rangers were still stinging from last Friday s 6-5 overtime loss to the new Jer sey devils. New York blew a 4-0 Lead in that game. "1 think we Learned that we can t Ever take a win for get used rangers coach Ted Sator said. We made a concentrated Effort to finish All of our checks tonight and we played a very solid  we were pretty mad about what happened against new Jersey said de Ensman Barry Beck. It s unfortunate we could t play the following night because we wanted to Correct that we had a pretty Strong defensive Effort tonight. This helps us forget about new Jersey. St. Louis a Neil Lomax brought St. Louis to life with a 46-Yard touchdown past to Pat Tilley Early in the second half and added an insurance toss to . Smith with four minutes to play As the cardinals ended their four game losing Streak by beating the Dallas cowboys 21 10 in a National football league game monday night. The St. Louis comeback from a 10-0 halftime deficit dropped Dallas 6-3, into a first place tie with the new York giants in the pfc East. The cards meanwhile improved their record to 4-5. While St. Louis staggered against the rugged Cowboy defense Dallas built a 10-0 halftime advantage on Danny White s 8 Yard pass to Drew Hill and a 19-Yard Field goal by Rafael Septien. St. Louis caught tire on its first posses Sion after halftime with Lomax s 10-Yard ass to Doug Marsh lighting the fuse on an 1 Yard drive. Lomax followed with a 13 yarder to Tilley and the cards picked up an additional 15 Yards on a roughing penalty. Lomax then connected with Tilley on the Long touchdown play to Cut the Dallas advantage to 10-7 with 12 05 remaining in the third Quarter. Television replays of the play appeared to show that Tilley spiked the Ball before Actu ally reaching the cad zone but the play was ruled a touchdown. The cardinals moved 65 Yards on their nut Possession for the go ahead touchdown. Cards a a Neil Lomax. Two to passes against Dallas Lomax completed passes of 11 Yards to Smith and 15 and 12 Yards to Tilley to set the stage for Earl ferry los 8-Yard touchdown run with 4 07 remaining in the third Quarter. While the Cardinal offence rolled the Dallas offence was frustrated throughout the second half by an aroused St. Louis defense that prompted two turnover. St. Louis moved 80 Yards in 10 plays for the insurance score. Stump Mitchell ran 21 Yards sad Thea took a Lorna pass for 25 to put the cardinals on the Dallas 42. Lomax nit Smith for gains of 10 and 19 Yards be fore connecting with him on a 9-Yard scor ing play with 4 13 left. It was the cards third straight monday night Victory Over Dallas which had won 11 of the previous 13 games Between the teams including the last three at Busch stadium. Lomax completed 17 of 32 passes for 260 Yards while White made Good on 21 of 36 for 203 Yards with one interception. Neither team managed much offence in the Early going but St. Louis used a rough ing the kicker penalty to pose the first scor ing threat of the night. A 44-Yard punt by Carl Birdsong backed Dallas up to its own 7 Yard line but White s passing quickly got the cowboys moving. While threw 12 Yards to Kirk Phillips on third Down then connected with Drew Hill for 32 Yards. Tony Dorset ran 14 Yards then took passes of 10 and 9 Yards from White to set the stage for Hill s 8-Yard scoring grab. Through judicious use of two timeouts and two pass interference penalties against the cardinals the cowboys drove to a Field goal late in the first half. Wayne Smith was assessed a 25-Yard penalty while defending against Hill and two plays later Rookie Lonnie Young was whistled for interference in the end zone. Septien came on to kick his 19-Yard Field goal with one second left in the Milf. Herzog is no manager of fhe year new York a Whitey Herzog who Mant cd St. Louis to the National league Pennant in what was expected to be a rebuilding year for the cardinals was named National league manager of the year by the baseball writers association of America monday beating Cincinnati s Pete Rose by one Point. Herzog received 11 first place votes and 86 Points in balloting by the a Baa panel composed of two writers from each of the 12 league cities. Rose who took the reds to a second place finish in the no West As a player manager had 85 Points and 10 first place ballots. Tommy Lasorda of the los Angeles dodgers Winner of the first a Baa Man Ager award two years ago finished third with 39 Points and three first place votes. Darcy Johnson of the new York mets had four Points and Buck Rodgers of the Mon Treal expos had two. Two years ago when the writers introduced the award Lasorda beat Bob Lillis then manager of Houston by a single Point 10-9. In an Effort to avoid that close a Fin ish the ballot was expanded to three names with Points awarded on a 5-3-1 basis but the Herzog Rose race still came Down to a single Point. One writer Charley Feeney of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette left Rose off his ballot Johnson was the Only manager who received votes last year As Well As this year. The Meu skipper finished second to Chi Cago s Jim Frey in 1984. Herzog s cardinals were jolted by the off season free agent departure to Atlanta of bullpen Ace Bruce Sutler who had saved 45 games for the team in 1984. But the manager designed a bullpen by commit tee using a combination of Lix pitchers to replace Sutler. The Cardinal relievers produced 44 saves. Early in the season Herzog gave the left Field Job to Rookie Vince Coleman whose 110 steals As Mcadoff Man served As the catalyst for the Cardinal attack. Her of and general manager dal Max vill aug engineered a Trade with san fran Cisco for slugger Jack Clark who gave the team a legitimate cleanup hitter and produced 22 Home runs. When Clark was injured in August a casual Coffee shop conversation with Cincinnati pitching coach Jim Kaat led Herzog to acquire Cesar Cedeno As a replacement and he was an important contributor in the Pennant race. The cards won 101 games during the regular season capturing the East title by three games Over Johnson s mets. Rose staged a season Long Pursuit of Tycobb s record of 4,192 hits passing him in september. At the time he still had the reds in Contention for the no West title after the team had been picked near the Bottom of the division. He was rewarded with a three year contract that will pay him $1 million a year and make him baseball s highest paid manager