European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 19,1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 sports wire Irish Virginia to meet in Kickoff classic from press dispatches East Rutherford . National Champion notre Dame will meet the University of Virginia in the seventh annual Kickoff classic to Start the 1989 col lege football season the associated press Learned tues Day game will be played on thursday night aug. 31, at giants stadium. Both teams will be making their first appearance in the Kickoff classic. The official announcement was to be made wednes Day by the new Jersey sports & exposition authority which sponsors the game. Notre Dame won its eighth National championship the most of any school in the 53-year history of the a poll by defeating West Virginia 34-21 in the fiesta bowl to finish with a 12-0 record. Virginia won its last five games and wound up 7-4but did not get a bowl bid and did not receive a single top 2g vote in the a s final poll. The Cavaliers were5-2 in the Atlantic coast conference their third Sec Ond place finish in the last five years. Both teams return most of their starters and Notredame is expected to be ranked High in the preseason poll while Virginia figures to be among the favourites in the acc. The two schools have never met on the Gridiron. Notre Dame will be the fourth National Champion to play in the Kickoff classic but the first in four years. The others were Penn state in 1983, Miami in 1984and Brigham Young in 1985. Virginia is the first acc team to participate. Umsu sports information director Steve Shutt also was injured and two other players suffered bumps and bruises. The three aggie starters injured were Center Stev Mcglothin Forward Willie Joseph and guard Jeff Mccool. All three along with Shutt were treated at Fres no Community Hospital and released. Players Sean Rourke and Chris Hickman both re serves suffered bumps and bruises according to Umsu spokesman Brian Mccann but did not require treatment. Hospital spokeswoman Donalyn Carlson said Mccool suffered a neck injury and possible concussion Joseph suffered a lower Back injury and Mcglothin suffered a knee laceration. Mccann said Mccool the team s Best 3-Pointshooter, and Mcglothin were listed As doubtful for the aggie conference game against Long Beach state inlay Cruces on saturday. He said Joseph s chances of playing were slightly Mccann said Umsu coach Neil Mccarthy another players were in a separate Van and not involved in the Accident which occurred As the team was Enro Ute to the Fresno Airport for a flight Home. New Mexico state had Defeated Fresno state 53-50 in a biggest conference game monday. Visibility was reported to be near Zero when the Van driven by Kenneth Smith an Umsu Trainer was hit by a car driven by Rachel Avila of Fresno. Ivain w Pai Iii fair i 11 i i. To ,. Woman eager killed in Accident Tellier named Columbia coach a of to new York Ray Tellier was named football coach at Columbia tuesday taking Over a program that has the worst record in the country Over the last25 years. It s the biggest Challenge in College football today was his explanation for seeking the Job As Columbia s fourth coach in the last six , a former quarterback at Connecticut was coach at Rochester for the last five years and was the offensive coordinator at Brown for six years before that. Columbia was 2-8 last season its Best record since1978. Larry Mcelreavy quit following last season after one of his assistants Doug Jackson accused him of drunk enness and professional misconduct and the player said they had lost Confidence in him. He denies any misconduct. Thompson continues protest Providence . Georget9wn coach Joh Thompson did not make the trip with the hoyas to Providence for wednesday night s game with the Fri ars As he continued his protest Over the recently adopted proposal 42, a school spokesman said. Thompson walked off the court before the Tipoff of Las saturday s Georgetown Boston College game in protest of the new academic standards which if not met by incoming freshmen will Cost that student athlete any financial Aid As Well As eligibility for the first information director Bill Shapland said Thompson remained in Washington when the Tea left for the big East conference game. He said the team would be coached by assistant Craig Mike Reilly coached the team in saturday s 86-60 Victory Over Boston College. 3 Umsu starters injured Fresno Calif. Three starters on the new mexi co state University basketball team were injured tues Day when the Van they were in was struck and turn Dover at a foggy intersection near the Fresno Airport police said. Springfield Ohio a co Captain of the Urbana University women s basketball team was killed tuesday morning when her car collided with a truck the state Highway patrol said. The patrol s Springfield Post said Sophomore for Ward Melissa l. Homan 19, of Anna Ohio was driving North on Ohio 56 when she lost control of her Carand collided with an Ohio department of transportation truck. Urbana s scheduled game with Malone Colleg tuesday night was postponed. Islanders topple penguins Uniondale . David Volek s goal snapped third period tie and the new York islanders went on to beat the Pittsburgh penguins 5-2 tuesday night for coach Al Arbour s 600th regular season Victory. The teams were tied 2-2 when Volek scored on the Power play at 4 03 and then set up Brent Suiter s goal at 9 29 to give the islanders a 4-2 Lead. Mikko Makela scored into an empty net with 1 25 left for new York s last goal. Sutter gave the islanders a 1-0 Lead in the first period. He also assisted on Volek s goal. Volek added two assists. The loss prevented the penguins from taking Over first place in the Patrick division. See Page 18 for nil standings summaries Price overtakes Thomas new York Mark Price of the Cleveland Cava Liers has moved past Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pis tons into second place in the voting for the easter conference starting guards in the feb. 12 Aba All Star game. Michael Jordan of the Chicago bulls the league leading scorer is the runaway Leader at guard and in the Overall voting with 580,536 votes. Price is next at 229,672, while Thomas has 205,908. Moses Malone of the Atlanta Hawks and Patrick Ewing of the new York kicks Are locked in a close Battle for the starting Center position. Malone Lead with 241,844 votes while Ewing has 226,591. Atlanta s Dominique Wilkins and Charles Barkle of the Philadelphia 76ers continue to Lead the vote for forwards with 402,152 and 260,141, Nance of Cleveland is third at 225,404. The voting by Aba fans will continue through sat urday and the starters for the game at the Houston Astrodome will be announced Jan. 26. Tie breaker vote set new York the Mcaa rules committee will vote wednesday morning on whether to Institute an overtime tie breaker for College football games. Dav Enelson Secretary rules editor of the committee said he could t speculate on How the vote among the 12members would go. It s always unpredictable he the proposal which is already employed in the division ii and Iii playoff system an overtime essentially would be a four play shoot out Between two teams. Possession would be determined by a Coin toss and the Ball would be placed 25 Yards from the goal line. A team controls the Ball until it either scores turns it Over or losses Possession on Downs. The second team then gets the Ball at the same 25-Yard line and attempts to score More Points than its opponent whether by touchdown or Field goal. Bot teams Are guaranteed the same number of possessions. If both fail to score or tie again they enter another to Nelson the big ten is one of the strongest proponents of the new system of the 12ties that occurred in divison i a football this past season six were in the big ten. Iowa was involved i three of those six. Chuck Neinas executive director of the America College football association opposes the change say ing an overtime system would be too similar to thenal. I think it emasculated the two Point conver Sion he said. If you want to see them play for a tie then watch on the rules committee includes four division i a representatives for whom television would be a concern. Nel son said television is not a priority for decision making Ona committee which is made up of More divison ii and Iii representatives. We re concerned with All Levels of foot Ball he said. To is a very Small part of it when you consider that about 800 schools play the game and Only 50or 60 of them appear on ref attacked by players Jacksonville Fla. A basketball referee was attacked and beaten by about 15 players and spectators after ejecting a player from an adult league game a City recreation official said. Bob Wunderlich who was attacked monday night was examined at a Hospital but was not seriously Hurt. The beating came in the final minutes of a Gam Between the pistons and Grasshopper Power said Kenny Green program coordinator with the recreation department. The pistons the top ranked team in their division were behind. Wunderlich told authorities he ejected a Piston player for throwing an Elbow at another player and was hit by a teammate from behind. Other players an spectators joined the Melee he said. Members of Grasshopper Power tried to protect him the referee said. By the time police arrived the fight had ended an those involved had left. The game was stopped with 90 seconds left and Grasshopper Power leading 72-52. The pistons were suspended from the league Pend ing an investigation and the players responsible for the Brawl will be banned Green if you had the worst referee in the world you Don t do that he said. To today superstition an to thursday s programs 0600 lbs evening news 0630 can sports tonight 0700 0730 3-2-1 Contact 0800 size Small Island 0830 an morning movie revenge of the Pink Panther the Clumsy French inspector clouseau is tracking an International drug dealer who believes his men Nave kilted clouseau. 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