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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 18, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 Faust May decide on Post this week South Bend ind. A for Mer notre Dame coach Gerry Faust j said monday that he May accept a col lege football coaching Post later this week. All of a sudden i m wanted every where said Faust who resigned four Days before Miami overwhelmed the Irish 58-7 in the final game of notre Dame s disappointing 5-6 season. Faust said he May decide by thurs Day or Friday. It s pretty whittled Down at this Point i May make one More trip he said. Faust s interviews have included discussions with officials at Youngstown state in Ohio Rice in Houston and Marshall in Huntington . I be been impressed that at every school the president of the University has been involved Faust said. I think they re really starting to tale a close look at who s  Faust 30-26-1 in five years at notre Dame was replaced by Lou Holly who kit the head coaching Post at Minnesota to join the Irish. Gerry Nusl. Wanted everywhere undefeated leu Rolls Over la mar from press dispatches Beaumont Texas guard Don Redden scored 19 Points to Pace a balanced Louisiana slate attack As the unbeaten and i Ith ranked tigers rolled to a 74-57 Victory Over Lamar monday night in a non conference game. A record crowd of 9,432 at Lamar s Montagne Center watched the 6-foot-6 senior from Monroe la., score ii of his game High total in the first half As leu built up a 41-31 Lead. Redden the tigers leading scorer this season with a 14-Poinl average also collected eight rebounds. Forwards John Williams and Nikita Wilson scored 16 and 11 Points respectively and guard Derrick Taylor chipped in 12 As the tigers padded their Lead to As much As 19 Points in the second half. Williams a 6-foot-8 Sophomore from los Angeles snared 13 rebounds As leu out rebounded the cardinals 44-39. Leu raised its record to 8-0 while Lamar which earlier Defeated defending National Champion Villanova by 19 Points fell to 5-2 after winning five straight. James Gully and James Nance each College basketball had 17 Points for Lamar in the cardinals worst loss at Home in 10 years. In other games monday Atacama 100, Florida state 89 Birmingham Ala. Buck John son scored 23 Points leading five Alabama players who scored in double figures As the unbeaten Crimson tide held off Florida state to become the 35th member of col lege basketball s 1,000-Victoryclub. Alabama 6-0, took an Early Lead and built a 20-7 margin with just Over six min utes gone on the strength of Center Derrick Mckey s 14-Point, nine rebound performance in the opening 20 minutes. Missouri 72, Southern Illinois 44 Columbia to. Derrick Chie Vous scored 17 Points and Dan Bingen Heimer added 15 As Missouri rolled Over Southern Illinois. The tigers 7-3, jumped to a 10-4 Lead but shot poorly during a slow paced first half hitting just seven of 22 Field goal attempts in route to a 26-15 Lead. Sports Fig by Reveiz gives dolphins win Over pats Miami a Fuad Reveiz s third Field goal a 47-yarder through a steady rain with 4vi minutes to play gave Miami a 30-27 National football league Victory Over new England monday night and moved the dolphins into position to win the acc East title. The Victory coming after Miami had blown a 14-Point fourth period Lead left Miami at 11-4. The dolphins need Only a win at Home Over 2-13 Buffalo on sunday to Clinch the title. New England 10-5 after losing for the 18th time in a Row at the Orange bowl dating Back to 1966, can still Clinch a wild card berth if it beats Cincinnati sunday. It was t an easy Victory for the dolphins who led 27-13 after Ron Davenport s second touchdown a one Yard run with new England rallied for two touchdowns in 15 seconds to tie it. Mosi Tatupu Dove Over from the 1 to Cap a seven play 72-Yard drive with 7 22 left on the ensuing Kickoff Joe Carter ear Lier a hero for Miami fumbled when hit by Rod Mcswain at the 18. New England s Cedric Jones picked up the Ball and rambled into the end zone from 16 Yards out to tic the score. Miami responded by driving 39 Yards in seven plays to set up the winning kick which came with 4 27 left. Reveiz a Rookie from Tennessee had earlier kicked Field goals of 44 and 49 Yards. The key play in the game winning drive was a 17-Yard pass to Mark duper from Marino who joined san Diego s Dan Fouts As the Only quarterbacks to twice throw for More than 4,000 Yards in a season. Marino completed 17 of 33 passes for 192 Yards giving him 4,001 Yards for the year. Glenn Blackwood s second interception of the game with 56 seconds left scaled the win for the dolphins. The win also virtually clinched a wild card berth for Miami which would be eliminated Only if it loses by More than 39 Points to Buffalo while new England the new York jets and Denver All win their final games. The game began with a rash of turnovers. Miami s Bud Brown picked off a Tony Eason pass but new England s Raymond Clayborn did the same against Marino. Then new England s Tony Collins Fum bled at his own 39, and Brown recovered for Miami to set up the first score of the eve Ning. Five plays later Marino Given plenty of time hit Joe Rose with a six Yard touch Down pass to give the dolphins a 7-0 Lead. New England aided by a 41-Yard pass from Eason to Stephen starring moved 67 Yards to tic the game. The to came on a son s 10-Yard pass to Irving Fryar. Rcv i kicked a 44-Yard Field goal 6 10 into the second Quarter gave Miami a 10-7 Lead. It came at the end of a 54-Yard drive that was effectively halted by a sack of Marino by Andre Tippett. Davenport made it 17-7 with 3 18 left in the half going the final Yard of a 50-Yard, eight play drive. The dolphins got most of the yardage on the ground with the Sel Dom used Carter accounting for 25 Yards on two carries and Woody Bennett s nine Yard Yard run moving the Ball to the new England on Yard Linc. The half ended As it had begun with turnovers. Miami drove into new eng Hind territory Only to lose the Ball when Tippett sacked Marino. Garin Veris recovered the Fumble at the Patriot 39. Two plays later Blackwood picked off Eason s deep pass for Fryar. New England Cut it to 17-10 Midway through the third Quarter and had a Chance to tie after Tony Nathan s Fumble was recovered at the Dolphin 20 by Don Blackmon. Whalers rally tie Montreal Montreal a Stewart Gavin s shot bounced off the skate of Montreal de Senseman Larry Robinson and into the net to give the Hartford whalers a 4-4 tie with the canadians in the Only National hockey league game monday night. Gavin s goal with 5 45 left in the game capped a Hartford comeback from a 4-1 third period deficit and allowed the whal ers to further tighten the Adams division race. Hartford in last place is Only seven Points behind division leading Quebec. The tie moved Montreal into a second place tie with Boston two Points behind Quebec. Gavin shooting from a severe Angle launched a shot that Montreal goaltender Steve Penney kicked out. But the puck glanced off Robinson s skate and past Penney. Clippers hand Chaney win or go ultimatum los Angeles a coach Don Chaney of the los Angeles clippers has been Given a deadline. The first year coach whose team has lost games by 40 and 39 Points in the last 10 Days has been Given a week to turn things around or he Wui be fired the los Angeles times reported tuesday. The clippers play a games during the time Frame after which clippers management will evaluate the situation. -1 Don t want to say that if he does t win one or two of the three games or Cut the margin of defeat that he s out Clipper general manager Carl sch car said. Officials for the National basketball association team reached the decision after meet Ings late saturday night and Early sunday. The clippers were soundly beaten 114-92 by the Phoeni suns saturday night. After saturday s 127-102 loss to the suns team president Alan Rothenburg said to sch car that he wanted to make a coach ing change immediately. Later those two were joined by team owner Donald t. Ster Ling the times reported. Talks continued sunday and sch car apparently convinced Rothenburg and Ster Ling to wait a week before making a move. The clippers who have lost 17 of their last 20 after opening the season with five straight wins lost to the Utah jazz 131-91 on dec. 7 and after a win Over the Dallas Mavericks were trounced 134-95 by the Denver nuggets four Days later. Chaney who has closed practices to outsiders this week and reportedly is working the players hard said hell continue to do his Job for As Long As the clippers will let him. I just have to coach he said. Whether it s e Day a week a month or a year. I m worried about winning games. It s not the re Cord it s the margin of defeat Marques Johnson the clippers Captain said that firing Chaney would be purely a Scapegoat move by the franchise. My feeling is they Are just giving him enough rope to hang himself Johnson said. It s Tough for anyone to coach with All the chaos that has gone on Here this year and  the clippers have been injury riddled since their 5-0 Start. Smith the club s Lead ing scorer Johnson Cedric Maxwell and Jamaal Wilkes have each be sidelined at one Point or another. The team was also without Veteran guard Norm Nixon who was a contract holdout until almost a month into the season  
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