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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. September 7, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports no sweat for sooner huskers Early Blitz puts it away for no. 1 Oklahoma Norman. Okla. A backup quarterback Charles Thompson rushed for Throe touchdowns and threw for an other saturday As lop ranked Oklahoma Defeated North Texas state 69-14 in a College football season opener. Thompson a second year freshman scored on runs of 7, 4 and i Yards and hit split end Carl cabbiness on a 20-Yard touchdown pass. Thompson relieved starter in mlle Holiway Midway through the second Quarter after the sooner had taken a 35-0 Lead then played All but two series after intermission. Oklahoma s All America tight end Keith Jackson aug la three passes for 95 Yards including a 45-yarder for a touch Down. He also had a 24-Yard catch on a Lhird-and-14 play that kept another scor ind rive alive. The sooner had their Way Early and i More football on pages 23 i College scores on Page 24 often against the Mcaa division i a eagles. Oklahoma safety David Vickers intercepted a bran beat pass on the first play of the game and returned it 29 Yards to the North Texas 5. Two plays later fullback Lydoll Carr scored the first of his two touchdowns. On Oklahoma s next play from scrim Mage halfback Patrick Collins raced 67 Yards Down the led sideline for a touch Down giving the sooner 14 Points in 45 seconds of Possession time. The defense also got into the scoring when linebacker Dante Jones stripped the Ball from halfback Damn goblins and ran 58 Yards for a touchdown in the first period. Jones fuels Nebraska Lincoln. Neb. A Keith Jones scored three touchdowns and Quarter Back Steve Taylor ran for is7 Yards and " two touchdowns As second ranked Nebraska downed Utah state 56-12 in the season opener far both teams saturday. Nebraska lied in big eight conference record by returning two punts for touch Downs Dana Brinson on a 57-yarder and Rod Smith from 80 Yards. The Cornu skin had set the record against Kansas in 1983. Taylor s Rushing total was a school re Cord for a quarterback beating the pre Vious record set by John Bordogna against Iowa slate in 1952 by 14 Yards. The Cor huskers rolled up 327 Yards on the Way to a 28-3 first half Lead. Jones scored twice on 1-Yard runs Brinson added his punt return and Taylor ran 44 Yards for another to. Utah state held to 75 Yards in the first half got a. 29-Yard Field goal from Dene gamer after an interception by safely Chad Troxclair at the Nebraska 36. Garner also kicked a 26-Yard held goal in the third Quarter after a Fumble recovery at the Nebraska 21, and the a Gies got their Only touchdown when Timo Tagaloa took a 50-Yard pass from Russ Widerburg against Cor Husker re serves in the fourth Quarter. Taylor ran 58 Yards for a touchdown Jones scored his third touchdown on a 13-Yard run and Smith broke his Long punt return in the huskers 2 Point third Quarter. Reserve quarterback Clete Blackman ran 10 Yards on the first play of the fourth Quarter for Nebraska s final score. Appino Thosam Schmidt runs Over Utah stale s Donald Milter during Nebraska s 56-11 to Story. Mcenroe fined after feisty win by Rick Warner new York a John Mcenroe Over came his violent temper to beat Slobodan Zivojinovic in a Long match to Advance to the fourth round in the . Open Tennis championships Triumph saturday. But the Victory had its Price $17,500 in fines and a two month suspension assessed by the International professional Tennis Council. Ken Farrar the Council s chief of supervisors said Mcenroe s behaviour was among the worst tic had seen since becoming a supervisor eight years ago. Verbally it probably ranks at the top he said during a news conference at the National Tennis Center. We be had some physical abuse that was pretty  the $7,500 Fine included $5,000 for verbal abuse and $2,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct. Mcenroe s agent Peter Lawler said Mcenroe would Appeal the penalties which cannot go into effect until the Appeal is reviewed by the men s International professional Tennis Council Mcenroe who was to play ninth seeded Andres Gomez in the fourth round has 10 Days to file an Appeal after the open ends sept. 13. The Council fined Mcenroe a Tola ofs7,500 sea Mcenroe on Page 26 bile Surprise 1,500 Winner Lewis snares 2nd Gold Buderi Host Mill Rome a somalian Abdi bile scored a stun Ning upset in the men s 1,500 meters and Carl Lewis anchored the United Stales 400-meter relay team to Victory for his second Gold in As Many Days at the world track and Field championships at olympic stadium sunday. Bile beat out world mile record Holder Steve cram of Britain and 10 other Stellar Middle distance runners. The ., which had not performed Well during the first seven sessions Goi off to a rousing Stan winning the men s and women s 400-meter relays Wilh Brilliant performances highlighted by a come from behind final leg by Lewis and Florence Griffith. Then Butch Reynolds anchoring the american 1,600-meter relay team to Victory in a meet record Lime of 2 minutes 57.31 seconds. Lewis had captured his firs Gold saturday by win Ning his favorite event the Long jump. His first jump of 28 feel s1/ inches stood up. Only five of the meet records set in the first world championships four Jears ago remained when the eight Day Competition ended with speeches. Italian a Gentry and fireworks on a mild roman evening. East Germany lopped the medal count winning 31 including 10 told. The soviet Union followed with 25. Seven Gold. The . Which collected 24 medals in the first world championships settled for 19 Here second in golds Vith eight. Bile s unexpected Triumph by bile in the 5,000 was his 38th straight Victory Over the last two years at distances from 800 meters to 10,000 meters. Bile Winner of the Mcaa championship in 1985 and i9g7 while at George Mason University had not been expected to win despite running some fast limes this summer. But he sped into the Lead coming off the final turn and pulled away Down the stretch winning handily Over runner up Jose Luis Gonzalez of Spain n. Bile was timed in three minutes 36.80 seconds in inc tactically paced rare with Gonzalia clocked in 3 38.03. American Jim spicy took third in 3 38.82, while cram the Leader coming into the last Bend faded badly and wound up eighth in 3 41.19. Steve Scott the american record Holder wound up last in 3 45.92. The . Men s 4ch relay team anchored by Lewis the Gold medallist in the inns jump and Silver medallist in the 100-meter dash rallied to capture the relay in 37.91 seconds the Init fastest clocking in history. The . Women s team Ken a b its no. 3 runner Griffith won in 41.58. The fourth Best Ever and a championship record. Lewis who has made news off the track As Well As on by claiming that some Gold medallists in the Champ i see Lewis on Page 26  
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