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FK' key Ustisnsl, Area Collage Football Scores Complete Ust of cccrca cn Pcra CZ. nTT7T3T3'L I Kansas 34 I Iowa St 34 Colorado 33 B-IUJJIE I Missouri 31 HJiSSJJiL I Nobraska 43 Illinois 31 Kansas St 8 Ohio St. 20 Oklahoma 31 Indiana 42 Oklahoma St. 17 North wittim 0 EES Michigan Wisconsin 41 .3 Stanford Notro Dam 36 31 Washington U. 28 C.

Mothodlst 7 Knoxvillo 82 Llndanwood 26 SW Missouri 31 SIUC 17 Minnesota Purdue 19 7 Miami (Fla.) Florida St 31 22 Auburn La. Tech 16 14 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH POM SECTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1990 Iowa Michigan St. 12 7 Florida 34 Oregon 52 LSU Utah St. 7 Houston 31 Georgia Tech 31 Baylor 18 Maryland .3 Clomson 34 N.

Illinois 73 Georgia 3-. FrasnoSt. 18 Texas AAM 28 Arliona 28 TaxasToch 24 UCLA 21 TS BERNIE. Irs MIKLASZ COMMENTARY 4 Disputed Last Series Helps No. 12 Colorado Pull Out 33-31 Victory By Jim Thomas Ol thaPott-Oitpatch Staff COLUMBIA, Mo.

How best to sum up Colorado's controversial 33-31 football victory Saturday over the University of Missouri? I For starters, this may be the first time in college football history that fans of the losing team tore down a goal post. Of course, Mizzou fans thought the Tigers won. Ditto for Mizzou players and coaches. And they may think so for some time. Why? The rule is you get four downs in football.

But Colorado scored on what amounted to fifth down an extra play. The Buffaloes scored the game-winning touchdown as time expired on a 1-yard touchdown run by quarterback Charles Johnson even though they should have been out of downs. With a first and goal on the Missouri 3 and 31 seconds left in the Big Eight Conference opener for both schools, Colo-, rado trailed 31-27. On first down, Johnson intentionally spiked the ball to stop the clock. Two running plays by Eric Bieniemy followed, advancing the ball to the 1.

Then Johnson spiked the ball again to stop the clock with two seconds remaining. That should have been fourth down, but the down marker on the sideline showed only third down. The Buffs lined up one more time and Johnson scored on a quarterback keeper to his right. Ordidhe? "They didn't even score on the fifth play," Missouri defensive coordinator Michael Church said. "When we see the film, we'll see that he did not cross the goal line." Mizzou defensive end Rick Lyle added, "It looked like he was down and the ref took a while to call it" But It went down as a touchdown and the Buffaloes for the sixth game In a row had played a game that went down to the final possession.

About 20 minutes expired between Johnson's disputed touchdown and the game's end, as coaches and officials discussed the fifth-down controversy. See MIZZOU, Paget 3Sr -mm ir tJ, A il Officials, Fans Were Wrong In 5th-Down Row COLUMBIA, Mo. Madness at Faurot Field: What began as a football game threatened to end in a lynching as a mob of Missouri fans chased the officiating crewinto an equipment hut behind the south end zone. 1 Security guards blocked the door. In the rush to safety, a few bodies clashed, then crashed to the pavement not far from where fans were tearing down a goal post.

A university policeman was bowled over. An ambulance was summoned. Other officers tackled a young man, presumably the trespasser, and handcuffed him. There were cuts, bruises and arrests. This scene didn't require riot gear, but it was dangerously close to exploding.

Had tempers flared a few degrees higher, Missouri's 33-31 loss to Colorado could have been a prelude to something truly unfortunate. Hey, wasn't this college football, the All-America experience, the best reason to put on a sweater on a fall afternoon? Wasn't the band supposed to be playing marching music? Why were educated people spitting, screaming, shaking their fists and behaving like British soccer hooligans? Why was Missouri coach Bob Stull, normally so decent, left so bitter that he made a tasteless, inexcusable remark about a Colorado player who died of cancer last year? "Sal's still around," Stull said sarcastically, referring to Sal Aunese, whose memory helped inspire Colorado to the Big Eight title last year. How did a fantastic matchup between an underdog and a defending conference champion always the most attractive story line regress into a regrettable forum of ugly behavior? The guerrilla theater was inexcusable. Certainly, an injustice was committed on the field. Missouri deserved to win the game.

Missouri, so depressed for so long, deserved to be rewarded for outplaying Colorado, It is obvious that Missouri, in fact, had really won until the officials, having lost track of how many times Colorado snapped the ball in the final sequence, provided the Buffaloes with an extra play. Colorado used that "fifth down" to score the winning touchdown on a quarterback sneak as time expired. But even that plunge to glory was bogus the television replay clearly showed that QB Charles Johnson failed to reach the end zone. It was perfectly understandable for Missouri's coaches, players and fans, to complain about the officials' general negligence, which was best summed up by defensive tackle Mario Johnson. "We were robbed," Johnson said.

"The officials are supposed to know the rules. That's what they're here for. They let us down. They need to go back to school and learn the rules." JimftackwiUPost-DisDatcn Mizzou fans charge onto the field and start to tear down a goal post in the final seconds of Saturday's game against Colorado. The celebration was premature, however, as the Buffaloes won the game 33-31.

Lateral Move Helps Illinois Overtake Ohio State 31-20 No. 1 -Ranked Notre Dame Beaten By Stanford 36-31 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mirer reached deep for one more Fighting Irish miracle, only to find the well of dazzling tricks had run dry. Stanford quarterback Jason Pa-lumbls, disappointed by three close losses, found luck finally playing on his side. With 36 seconds left Tommy Vardell plunged for his fourth 1-yard touchdown to give Stanford a 36-31 comeback victory over No.

1 Notre Dame. "I don't know if I've ever been in a loss this difficult" Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz said. Stanford (2-3) trailed 24-7 at 6 minutes 30 seconds of the first half before stringing together Vardell's touchdowns series, two coming after Notre Dame (3-1) fumbles on punts. "We ran the same play over and over again," Vardell said. "We figured they would shift over and tighten up." See IRISH, Page 5 name, and he just pitched it to me," Parker said, smiling.

"It was a great pitch, and I was pretty even with him." Parker was working on the special teams for the Illini, who were nursing a four-point lead early in the fourth quarter of the Big Ten Conference football game. Ohio State lined up to try a 51-yard field goal. The Buckeyes had only 10 men on the field, and Illini co-captain Darrick Brownlow alerted his unit By John Sonderegger Of the Post-Dispatch Staff COLUMBUS, Ohio Qulntin Parker offered the grin that gave the cat such a bad reputation with the canary. His 45-yard return for a touchdown on a blocked field goal kick in the fourth quarter was the key play in Illinois' 31-20 victory over Ohio State Saturday before 89,404 at Ohio Stadium. "I was trailing Mike Poloskey, who recovered the block and called his The block was on, with pressure up the middle.

Mel Agee came strong and got a hand on Tim Williams' boot It fell to defensive tackle Poloskey, who began lumbering upfield. Enter Parker, a senior defensive back from Webster Groves. Poloskey is known as "Rocket" on the Illini football team, as In "Polish Rocket" he said. But he was about to fall with the ball See ILLINI, Paget Blues Squander Early Lead In 5-2 Loss To Blackhawks 1 That is reasonable advice. But it -MOW VJ I 1 VV ate.

Iff 1 doesn't mean the officials deserved to be stalked like wild game by hostile fans as they evacuated the field. And it doesn't warrant Stull behaving like Andrew "Dice" Clay. Repeat three times: It's only a game, i And Stull and his coaches deserve some of the blame for not reacting when the officials were making a If Saturday's game any indication, the results may be slow in coming. "We've been built up so much, but we can't win every night" defense-man Paul Cavallmi said. "The people have to understand that We have a couple of new defensemen, and it's going to take some time." That was painfully evident as the Blues caved in under the Blackhawks' relentless forechecking.

Chicago scored five consecutive goals after the Blues took a 2-0 lead in the first period, and the defense was the main culprit Riendeau didn't give up any soft sil "-fW. ''J 4 lV 'iiOvj 0 By Dave Luecking Of th Post-Dispatch Staff A standing-room-only crowd of 18,324 gave the Blues a rousing welcome Saturday night at the home opener, but most of the fans were gone by game's end. Only a couple of hundred red-clad Chicago Blackhawks fans sitting in the south end of The Arena had anything to cheer about and they made the most of it with their derisive chant Goodbye. The Blackhawks ruined the Blues' homecoming party with a 5-2 victory and gave the Blues and their fans a heavy dose of reality. "That's a nice way to put it" coach Brian Sutter said, "without using too many adjectives." Sutter saved those adjectives for the players after the game.

"He was just like always upset" goalie Vincent Riendeau said. "He had a right to be," said captain Scott Stevens, who experienced a Sutter loss for the first time. "We let them take control of the game. There's no excuse for it "We can't have that especially In our building." Especially with a sellout crowd of high-rolling fans and with great expectations that include dreams of a Stanley Cup. The fans gave the Blues a big return on their investment this summer, and now they want results.

mess of things. About 20 writers in the press box realized it immediately when the chain official failed to flip the sideline marker from second down to third down. Wes PazPost-Dispatch Mizzou has assistant coaches sitting upstairs, observing from the identical vantaee point And down on the field, See BLUES, Page IS Mizzou broadcaster Tom Dore saw the Chicago goalie Ed Belfour is up in the air over the efforts of the Blues' Ron Wilson to corral the puck. Card Grades Dunce Caps Aplenty Passed Out As Redbirds Flunk Baseball Exam Stewart Pitches Oakland To 9-1 Win Over Boston BASEBALL mistake and attempted to speak to an official. He was rebuffed.

Where were the coaches? Conceivably, someone on the staff could have gotten the attention of an official Colorado ran two plays and called a timeout between the mistake and the touchdown to initiate a correction. Looking Back Dan O'Neill reviews the Cardinals season and finds there were many highlights amid the valleys 3 Stull said he wasn't paying attention HOCKEY to the officials. But the officials compounded their error by stubbornly refusing to change the call when it was obvious a mistake had been committed. And they had time to do it The officiating crew spent 20 minutes after the touchdown, nervously reviewing the sequence. But they would not reverse themselves.

The colors of an official black and white stripes are supposed to represent integrity. Why is it that the uniform has come to symbolize an imvieidine eeo? Why can't adults ad By Vahe Gregorian Of ttw Post-Dispatch Staff BOSTON Forget the fine Boston whine known as "The Curse of the Bambino." It wasn't a jinx that shackled the Boston Red Sox with five hits and erupted for seven runs in the ninth inning to humiliate Boston 9-1 Saturday night in the opening game of the American League Championship Series. The harsh dose of reality was administered by the Oakland Athletics, not the apparitions said to have hovered over Fenway Park since the Red Sox unceremoniously sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1919. "Yeah, baby, that's just like we should do itV's catalyst Rickey Hen-Se ATHLETICS, Page 4 By Rick Hummel Of ths Post-Dispatch Staff CINCINNATI -Unlike college basketball and football where schools want their players to stay eligible by going to summer school, the Cardinals had some student-athletes this season who they prefer would transfer or just drop out of school. The curriculum was either too difficult or the coeds were distracting.

But the report cards for this team, the worst Cardinals team in 12 years and one of the worst in the last 75 years, are so bad that you wouldn't want to take them home to your father for fear of being strapped on the backside. I Herewith the annual Post-Dispatch report card with grades, as usual, based on what expectations were for a player Lee Smith, A Without Smith, the Cardinals would have finished in the Texas League. Smith had 27 saves in 32 attempts and had a remarkable strikeout-walk ratio of 70-20. Vine Coleman, A Injuries and suspension limited Coleman to just 124 games but that was enough for him to steal 77 bases and win his sixth consecutive stolen-base crown. The question that prospective suitors would ask: Is his .292 average the real thing? 0 See CARDS, Page 4 Leading By Example Although Brett Hull groused a bit last season when team- mates bypassed him in the voting for captain and alternate captains, he didn't mind being overlooked again this season.

He hopes to lead by example ..15 REGULARS Eye Openers 2 Bob Pastin: Wise Guy 10 For The Record 12 Tim Renken: Outdoors 16 Game 1 Result: Oakland 9, Bos-ton 1 (Oakland leads series 1-01 Up Next Game 2, Oakland at Boston, Sunday, 7:20 p.m. Game 2 Pitching Matchup: Bob Welch (Athletics) vs. Dana Kiecker (Red Sox). TVRadio: (Tonight) KMOV (Channel 4); KMOX (1 1 20 AM). mit that they are wrong? What is their priority: to know and enforce the rules, regardless of how clumsy it may mifte them appear, otto protect their See MIKLASZ.

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