European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                6". " cowboys survive big scare Cincinnati a unheralded Jeff Blake nearly turned his first nil Start into one of the league s biggest up sets. -. Y y. Blake stunned the Dallas Cowboy with a pair of Long touchdown passes for a 14-0 Lead. But the two time super bowl champions regrouped behind Troy Aik Man and played just Well enough to grind out a 23-50 Victory sunday Over the win less Cincinnati bengals. Aikman Shook in another blow to the head just one week after sustaining concussion and threw a pair of first half touchdown passes. Chris Boniol kicked three second half Field goals to give dal Las 7-1 its seventh straight read win Matching the club record. Lions win in of other pfc games Page 30 the matchup Between he nil s Best and worst was t the mismatch everyone expected thanks to a surprising debut by the bengals third string quarterback. Blake a third year pro forced to Start because of injuries to David Klingler and Don Hollas threw for 247 Yards and caught the league s Best defense Flat footed twice. He threw touchdown passes of 67 and 55 Yards to Darnay Scott the longest passes allowed this season by the league s Best pass defense for the 14-0 Lead one play into the second Quarter. Blake completed 14-of-32 passes with out an interception. Aikman started the cowboys Turna round by hitting Alvin Harper in double coverage on a 27-Yard touchdown pass to culminate a four play 65-Yard drive in the second Quarter. The bengals 0-8 then reverted to bumbling late in the first half helping the cowboys put together a 13-play drive that ended with Aikman s 10-Yard to pass to Michael Irvin. Linebacker James Francis was penalized for hitting Aikman on the Side of his head with a forearm after he threw a fourth Down incompletion giving the cowboys a reprieve. The stars and stripes november 1,1994 Page 32 not even a ghost of a Chance Greg Norman wearing a halloween mask has some fun As he walks up the 18th Fairway in sunday s final round of the 1994 tour championship at san Francis co s olympic club. Norman finished 7 strokes behind Winner Mark Mccumber who won in a playoff with fuzzy Zoeller. Story on Page 31. Davs kick pulls cards by see ers Tempe Ariz. A Greg Davis 51-Yard Field goal his longest this season 1 40 into overtime lifted the Arizona cardinals past the Pittsburgh Steeles 20 17 sunday night. The Field goal was set up when Pittsburgh Rook Echarles Johnson fumbled the Kickoff beginning the extra period. Y David Merritt recovered at the Pittsburgh 32, and chargers go to 7-1, other acc games Page 29 Davis connected four plays later on Only the sixth Fiel goal Over 50 Yards in the nil this season. Steve Beuerlein s passing set up Short touchdown runs by Larry centers and Ronald Moore for  Gary Anderson s 23-Yard Field goal with 47 seconds left tied the game. The score was made possible when Neil p Donnell with a Tacker wrapped around his legs found Eric Green with a desperation pass. The280-Pound tight end rambled 46 Yards to the Arizona 5 with 62 seconds to play. Arizona safety Terry Hoage tackled Green to pre vent what would have been the winning touchdown. The tying Field goal came after Anderson failed to get a first Down on a fake Field goal earlier in the fourth Quarter. The cardinals 3-5 held 17-14 halftime Lead. Penn state share top Billing by Gene Wojciechowski los Angeles times " As hard sell campaigning goes Nebraska offensive tackle Zach Wiegert might want to think twice about a career in politics. Asked saturday if he thought the unbeaten Cor huskers deserved to be ranked no. 1 in the polls Wiegert showed remarkable restraint for a player whose team had humiliated second ranked Colorado 94.7 " a ". " a i just Hope All the voters watched the game that Sall i m going to say said Wiegert who then declined to speculate about the vote. Gue a what someone watched  in yet another ballot flip Flop the associated pres voters bumped Penn state 7-0 from the top spot and moved Nebraska 9-ov there from the no. 3  it turns out i Vougn of the 62 writers and broadcast ers who vote thought More of the Cor huskers Victor than the Kittany ups 63-14 rout of then no. 21 Ohio state. The upper reaches of the Usa today can coaches Boll remained the same by the Slimmest of margins or the third consecutive week Fenn state 32 first place votes 1,520 Points stayed at no. 1, followed by Nebraska 30,1,518. College football polls Page 28 the mandate in the a poll was also hardly unanimous. Nebraska received 33 first place votes and 1,520 Points. Penn state had 28 first place votes and 1,514.Points. -,.,-a. If Nebraska and Penn state remain unbeaten Hecor huskers would return to the Orange bowl and most Likely play Miami Jan. 2, whereas the Nitt Antlions would travel to Pasadena calif., for a Jan. 2 appearance against the Pacific 10 conference  the moment Oregon Washington state Arizona and us Are tied for the Lead. Bowl victories by both Nebraska and Penn stat might result in yet another split National championship which would be the third since 1990. For now though neither Cor Husker coach Tom Osborne nor Kittany lion coach Joe Paterno Are pleading their cases. If anything they say they could care less about the polls. For now. Come Jan. 3,when the final results Are released they will care. This was a big step said Osborne after the Colora do Victory. We be got a  Osborne was talking about an Orange bowl trip not the weekly rankings. Ask him about the polls and he grimaces. Paterno was no different after the Victory against Ohio state. He said he did t hear Osborne pushing for no. 1, so Why should he anyway he said there were too Many games left to worry about rankings. Osborne and Paterno Don t need to Campaign Colo Rado and Ohio state will do it for  buffaloes coach Bill Mccartney who said his Tea was whipped pure and simple cast his vote for Nebraska Colorado never had a Chance a theme echoed by Buff players. Monday update court turns Down Reynolds washingt9n a track Star Butch Reynolds failed monday in his supreme court bid to collect $27.4 million from the group that barred him from the1992 olympics. The justices turned Down Reynolds argument that . Court had the authority to order the International Amateur athletic federation to pay damages for saying he tested positive for steroids