European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes ports november 12,1994 Page 32 Irish . Have Someth i no to prove by defeats aztecs 35-28 Provo Utah a fullback Hema Heimuli used for 115 Yards an two touchdowns and also caught a to pass thursday night pacing no. 23 Brig Ham Young to a 35-28 Victory Over Sandiego state Heimuli s third touchdown of the game a 5-Yard run with 14 39 to play gave by 9-2, 6-1 Western athletic conference a 35-14 Lead. But Billy Blanton threw two of his four touchdown passes As the aztecs 4-6,2-5 Cut the by Lead to seven Points before running out of time. John Walsh passed for 392 Yards and two touchdowns moving past Steve Young into fourth place on the by passing yardage list with 8,166. By kept Pace with loth ranked Colo Rado state and no. 12 Utah in the wag title race. By Brent tallest Dorlando Fla. A the Circum stances Are different this notre Dame and Florida state squared off last season at South Bend the seminoles were ranked no. 1, the Irish no. 2. When the schools meet saturday at the Citrus bowl the matchup will Nave lost some of its Luster. This time Only the seminoles Are ranked and Only eighth at that t Low by flu Dame won that meeting 31-24 last november when Shawn wooden knocked Down Charlie Ward s pass at the goal line As time expired. Still the Irish 5-3 and the seminoles 7-1, 7-0 Atlantic coast conference have something to prove and the match up is bound to bring out the Best in the teams. " Our kids know what s on the line Florida state coach Bobby Bowden saidthursday.,"when you re playing somebody. That beat you and beat you pretty physically i won t have to do a lot of motivating for this can t help but remember that game. It was a game we got licked pretty Good notre Dame gave Florida state its Only loss last year but the seminoles still win the National championship. The Irish were second after a late season loss to Boston College. It Sonan College football notre Dame is. Florida state at Orlando 6 . Get on an radio 8j5 . Get delayed on an television. I Don t see any difference in one Flor Ida state team than the others Irish coach Lou Holtz said. They have As much Speed and Talent this year As the had last the seminoles have to room for error if they Hope to keep alive any Chance fora repeat National title while the Irish Are still thinking about a possible new year Day bowl Dame s offence has struggled in two of its last three games producing Only 11 arid 14 Points in losses to Boston College and Brigham Young respectively. ,. -.,. ,/./. We do have a Chance but we cannot make mistakes and we cannot turn the football Over Holtz said. And they la have to do it against a Flor Ida state defense that has allowed only30 Points in three games since its Lone loss of the year at Miami. Notre Dame s Redshirt freshman quarterback Ron Powlus has passed for 1,304 Yards 15 touchdowns and seven interceptions. The Irish average 30.4 Points and 402 Yards a game. At Florida state Junior Danny Kanel replaced Ward the Heisman trophy win Ner at quarterback and the seminoles have averaged 39.6 Points and 482 Yards a game. Kanell has put up respectable numbers throwing for 2,061 Yards and 14 touchdowns while being intercepted 12times. V Florida state coaches Felt like the counted too heavily on Ward in last year s game at notre Dame forgetting about Warrick Dunn. Dunn who averages eight Yards a carry this season and already has four games with More than 100 Yards Rushing was inon just six plays last year totalling 18yardswe be just got to find ways to get him the Ball Bowden said. Dunn presents an awful lot of prob lems Holtz said. They get an awful lot of big plays from their running game and of course Kez Mccorvey is an outstand ing Mccorvey leads the seminoles with 43catches for 635 Yards. Notre Dame enjoyed Las weekend and fullback Ray Zellars who has missed three games is expected Back. A lot of people Don t think we have much of a Chance said Holtz. I think Wedo nil players George wants Tyson George Foreman the new Aba and if heavyweight boxing Champion tells reporters in Houston that he would like to tight former Champ Mike Tyson. Tyson would be the Only Guy that would make me feel the spice to fight again Foreman said thursday. Foreman at 45 the oldest fighter to Ever win a championship in any weight class took Michael Moorer s Crown with a 10th round knockout in Las vegas last saturday night. On Rookie pay Hamilton Ontario a locked out nil players Hope they can save the hockey season by accepting limits on Rookie salaries. The players made what they called significant con Cessions during an All Day negotiating session thurs Day hoping that something approaching a Rookie salary Cap would convince the owners to drop their demand for control Over the veterans pay too. Union head Bob Goodenow declined to give details of the proposal saying Only it had to do with entry level salaries. He said the owners were studying the offer and he would speak with nil commissioner Gary bet than by Telephone today. We feel we have gone a Jong Long Way in addressing the concerns of the owners Goodenow said. We fee lit is a basis upon which Progress can be made. Hopefully this is the Marty Mcsorley of the los Angeles Kings vice presi Dent of the nil players association declined to com ment on whether the proposal included a hard salary Cap or a less restrictive drag on salaries. It is a significant Concession designed to sniff out any desire the owners May have to Compromise he said. If they have the absolute Agenda with no desire to Compromise then i guess it is pretty the two sides met Fot seven hours on thursday i Buffalo n.y., their second Day of talks this week and the most extensive face to face negotiations since shortly after owners locked out the players oct. 1. The quickening Pace of the talks sparked optimism in some quarters that momentum was building for Adeal. Brian Burke the nil s director of operations called thursday s talks the key to salvaging the season. Goodenow disagreed saying that every session is important until an agreement is reached. It seems like the next meeting could always be the most important one he said. Team officials have focused on mid december As the deadline for an agreement to Salvage the season. 49ers picked to beat cowboys Page 30 0"246850"q00504" i
