European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Johnson says Smith to be ready sunday Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson. Pronounces Smith healthy by Denne h. Freeman Irving Texas a Dallas coach jimmy5.Johnson, leaves no. Doubt about Emmitt Smith s role in sunday s pfc championship game against the san Francisco 49ers. He will play All Day. Emmitt will play and he won t have shoulder problems Johnson said tues Day. I have pronounced him  the nil s leading rusher reinsured his shoulder in sunday s 27-17 Victory Over the Green Bay packers. Smith is receiving round the clock care to reduce the soreness in the shoulder he originally separated in the last game of the season against the new York giants. I Don t think Emmitt will be hesitant at All Johnson said. Hell be raring to  the cowboys Aren t the same team without Smith. They lost their first two games without him during a contract holdout. We rely heavily on Emmitt Johnson said. Smith Hurt his shoulder against the packers trying to Block and Johnson held him out most of the second half. See pages 31 and 32 for More on nil if i thought we needed him he would have been Back in there Johnson said. His big problem is pass Protection. " Smith said he won t hold Back against the49ers, i did feel a Little out of synch against the packers Smith said. I had some problems holding the Ball. I won t take any pain killers. I have the fear of hurting my shoulder and not realizing it s Hurt. It s getting better every Day i la be read Yon  the cowboys Are 4-Point favourites and Johnson is acting like it s the game to de cide the eventual super bowl Champion. The most significant game we had Las year was the win at candlestick John son said. Nothing against Buffalo but we Felt if we won that game we would have Success in the super bowl. San Francisco is on Par with last year. The 49ers showed against the giants they can play with  the stars and stripes january 20,1994 Page 36 Johnson held a team meeting and told them he wanted to see some selfishness. There is a lot of rewards to be gained from this game and i told the team there will be a lot of people pulling at them Johnson said. I told them it would be to their Bene fit to be As selfish As they can be. It s the Best Way to get  Blue demons shoot Down minutemen by the associated press it May have taken a loss for Massachusetts to be paid its highest compliment. The sixth ranked minutemen off to one of the Best starts in school history and As High As they have Ever been in the polls had beaten then no. 1 North Carolina and were on a 10-game winning Streak that included Road victories Over Oklahoma and West Virginia. They lost 78-76 to Depaul on tuesday night As Tom Kleinschmidt scored a season High 29 Points for the College basketball hosting Blue demons and then heaped the Praise never heard before by a Massachusetts team. We need a big one and they Are no bigger than mass said Kleinschmidt who had 22 Points in the second half. The minutemen 13-2 weren t alone As top 10 los ers tuesday night. Florida beat no. 7 Kentucky 59-57, and no. 12 Purdue downed no. 8 Indiana 83-76 in overtime. The Only other ranked game had no. 16 Syra Cuse beating St. John s 92-82. Depaul 11-3 had lost its last two Home games and trailed Massachusetts 63-56 with 7 20 to play. Kleinschmidt had eight Points including two 3-pointers, in a 12-4 run As the Blue demons took a 68-67 Lead with 2 50 left. They took the Lead for Good when Kleinschmidt found Clef a Parks for the go ahead 3-Pointcr with 24seconds left. Tom said they would probably double team and they did. He passed it out and 1 happened to be there Parks said. -. Kleinschmidt did a lot More than score and pass for Depaul. He was also the Blue demons spiritual Leader As he prodded his teammates in his own style. A Pat on the Back Only goes so far. Sometimes you have to get up in people s faces. Sometimes some team mates got in mine when i did t do what i should have Kleinschmidt said. We played our first 40-minute game of the year. Even when we were Down seven with seven minutes Togo we believed we could  Massachusetts had a Chance to win it but Lou Roe s jumper bounced off the rim at the Buzzer. A 2 Indiana s Alan Henderson 44, left photo Battles for the Ball with Purdue s Ian Stanback 34 and Glenn Robinson. Florida s dam ctr Hill 35, right photo drives by Kentucky s Walter Mccarty. Indiana and Kentucky were upset Mike Williams had 19 Points for the minutemen while Roe finished with 17. Florida 59, no. 7 Kentucky 57 the gators 14-2, 4-0 took a Ivi game Lead Over Kentucky in the East division of the Southeastern conference and sent a record crowd of 12,221 Home Happy. Craig Brown made two free throws with 7.6 seconds left to give Florida a 59-56 Lead. Travis Ford of the wildcats 13-3, 3-2 was fouled before he could get near the 3-Point line. He made the first free throw and missed the second intentionally. Walter Mccarty grabbed the Loose Ball in the Lane and his 10-Fopter to tie was off the Mark. Dan Cross led the gators with 20 Points. No. 12 Purdue 83, no. 8 Indiana 76, of Glenn Robinson scored nine of his 33 Points in Over time As the boilermakers 15-1, 3-1 big ten prevailed at Home. Indiana 10-3, 3-1 did not score for the first four minutes of the extra period and Purdue s last 11 Points were from the free throw line. Cuonzo Martin had a season High 23 Points for the boilermakers and he sent the game into overtime with a free throw with 20 seconds left in regulation. No. 16 Syracuse 92, St. John s 82 the orangemen 11-2, 4-2 big East set a school re Cord by making 26 of 27 free throws including an 8-for? 8 run in the final 63 seconds. The loss was the fifth straight for the visiting redmen 7-7,1-5their longest losing Streak since 1962-63. 0"246850"00050411