European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. November 1. 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 american football conference Charger defense foils sea Hawks the sea Hawks did score again but too late to change the Vaughn returned a Kickoff 93 Yards for a touch Down with 1 28 left. Humphries backup Gale Gilbert threw two touch Down passes in the fourth Quarter and natron Means rushed 26 times for 104 Yards and one to. Means be came the first running Back in chargers history to have four straight 100-Yard games. The chargers 7-1 rebounded from their Only loss of the season a 20-15 defeat by Denver. The sea Hawks 3-5 lost their fourth straight. With san Diego ahead 14-7 Lead and facing third and-10 from the Seattle 49, Humphries was tripped by linebacker Bob Spitulski and defensive lineman Sam Adams landed on the quarterback. Humphries was helped off the Field and taken into the training room for further examination. Coach Bobby Ross said Humphries will be questionable for next week s game at. Atlanta but would be ready in two weeks at Kansas City. Humphries was 7-for-17 for 86 Yards with no interceptions and two sacks. Gilbert was 11-for-14 for 125 Yards and two ads with one interception. Seattle s Rick Mirer was 15-for-30 for 177 Yards. He was sacked three times. By Bernie Wilson san Diego a san Diego s defense is Osgood this year that not even an injury to quarterback Stan Humphries can slow the chargers. Free safety Stanley Richard forced two fumbles by Chris Warren that set up touchdowns and the chargers beat the Seattle sea Hawks 35-15 on sunday. One of Richard s big plays came before Humphrie sustained a dislocated left Elbow Early in the third Quarter and the other one came right after. When Humphries went out we were in a Good Posi Tion Richard said. We told ourselves just Don t let them score and we will win " Bills Batter chiefs As Smith stars Orchard Park . A Bruce Smith still knows How to give Joe Montana headaches. And the Buffal Bills still know How to win big games. Smith forced an interception and re covered one of Montana s two fumbles sunday and Jim Kelly threw four touch Down passes to Lead the Bills past the Kansas City chiefs 44-10. It was a replay of last year s of championship game when Smith helped Knock out Montana with a concussion Early in the second half and Buffalo won 30-13 to earn its fourth consecutive superbowl berth. This time Montana was t injured just ineffective. He went 12-for-21 for 124 Yards an was sacked three times before being relieved in the third Quarter by Steve had three turnovers that led to 17 Buffalo Points including a Fumble and an interception in the last two min utes of the first half to turn a 21-7 Gam into a 31-7 rout. The Bills improved their record to 5-3 Bills linebackers Cornelius Bennett 97 and Darryl tally dive Over chiefs Marcus Allen in Pursuit of Ball Allen rumbled sunday. Elway Mastery of Browns continues Denver a John Elway treated the game against the Cleveland Browns As if it were another acc championship matchup. Elway regarded As a villain in Cleve land after beating the Browns in three conference championships completed 30 of 41 passes for 349 Yards and two touch Downs sunday in the Denver Broncos 26-14 Victory that ended the Browns five game winning Streak. Denver 3-5beating a division Leader for the second straight week ended a four game Home losing Streak and Defeated the Browns 6-2 for the fourth consecutive time in the series. Elway completed 18 of 20 passes in the first half leading Denver to a 14-6 pair of Field goals by Jason exam in the third Quarter made it 20-6. Mark Rypien who replaced a dazed Vinny Testaverde As Browns quarterback late in the first half engineered a 60-Yard scoring drive and a two Point conversion that Cut the deficit to 20-14 Early in the final Quarter. But Denver responded with a 74-Yard, six play drive for the clinching score. Derek Russell caught a Short pass and slipping an attempted tackle by Antonio Langham turned it into a 43-Yard gain. Two plays later Elway hit Glyn Milburn on a 17-Yard to strike with 11 35 left. Raiders trip oilers reach ,500 los Angeles a a subpar performance did t keep Jeff Hostetler from coming through when he los an Geles raiders needed him most on Sun Day. Hostetler threw an 11-Yard to pass to Tim Brown with 1 50 remaining then the raiders survived Al Del Greco s 52-Yard, last second afield goal attempt that slammed against the crossbar for a 17-14 Victory Over the Houston oilers. The win enabled them to reach .500 for the first time this completed 4 of 5 passes for 59 Yards on the a inning it Yard drive which came after the oilers took a 14-10 Lead on Billy Joe Tolliver s 7-Yard pass to Haywood Jeff ires with 3 19 left. Colts Hudd jets despite 5 turnovers. A. -.-. Indianapolis a the tajik an got Lucky no thanks to his butter fingered teammates and a couple errant passes of his own. Don Majkowski making his first nil Start in two years passed for one touch Down and ran for another As the Indiana p�15s Colts survived five turnovers and beat the new York jets 28-25 sunday. The Colts 4-5 took a 14-0 Lead in the first Quarter but then lost three of four fumbles and had two. Passes by Majkowski intercepted Marshall Faulk who had a 1-Yard touchdown run in the third Quarter added a to on a fourth Down 29-Yard carry Midway through the final period. The jets 4-4 came Back with a 41 Yard to pass from Boomer Esiason to Rob Moore with 5 21 remaining. Then after an Indianapolis punt two minutes later Esiason took the jets to the Colts 38, where a fourth-and-1 pass to Moore came up 2 inches Short. Dolphins dominate pats 23-3 Foxboro mass. A old pro Dan Marino beat Young Drew Bledsoe again winning the re match of their thrilling opening Day shootout. This time it was t even close. Marino threw for 198 Yards and a key touchdown on the opening drive of the second half As the Miami dolphins dominated the new England patriots 23-3 sunday. Bledsoe who started the Day As the nil Leader he passing Yards threw for just 125 Yards and three interceptions leading to 10 dolphins Points. Miami 6-2 stayed one game ahead of Buffalo in the acc East and jumped three games ahead of the patriots 3-5whose playoff Hopes have plummeted with losses in their last three games. The game matched the top two Offe Rees in the nil but Only one could do much of anything. The dolphins who were second to the patriots in Yards per game out gained new England 338 to 188
