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Jack Trudeau, who has guided the Indianapolis Colts most of the way into the playoffs this season, is expected to also get the starting nod when his team makes its first
Trudeau should start Colts’ playoff game
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Jack Trudeau, who quarterbacked the Indianapolis Colts to victories in three of their last four games enroute to the AFC East championship, will be there when the team begins playoff action. Trudeau has started in place of an injured Gary Hogeboom 19 times in two seasons, including the last five games since Hogeboom dislocated his right shoulder throwing a touchdown pass Nov. 29. Indianapolis coach Ron Meyer said that if Hogeboom is available for the club’s playoff game with either Denver or Cleveland, it would most likely be in a backup role. “Jack Trudeau has done a marvelous job. He's really performed well, and I can see Trudeau elevating himself week by week,” Meyer said. Trudeau, a second round draft pick from Illinois last year, completed 128-of-229 passes for 1,587 yards and six touchdowns in 1987. lie was intercepted six times and sacked 13 times for 100 yards, compling a 75.4 mark in the NFL quarterback rating system. That’s a significant improvement from the 53.6 rookie rating when he failed to win any of his 11 starts. “I’ve always felt a starter never loses his position via the injury route, but that varies with a lot of degrees as to how well he can come back and what percentage he can perform at,” Meyer said. “Certainly everyone on this team would like Gary to come back and be a very vital part of contributing to a victory. “Right now Jack Trudeau is the starter and I forsee that’s the way it’s going to be. I certainly don’t
Still time to qualify for Hoop Shoot Local competition for the 16th annual Elks Hoop Shoot the national free-throw shooting contest for youngsters between the ages of 8 and 13 will be held at South Putnam High School on Saturday, Jan. 9 at 10 a.m. Over three million youngsters from throughout the country entered last year’s competition for boys and girls in the three different age categories. On Jan. 9, each contestant in the SPHS gym on that day will receive 25 free-throw attempts. The three different age groups competitng are 8-9-year-olds, 10-11 and 12-13. The boy and girl in each age group with the best scores will advance through four tiers of competition to qualify for the national finals. LOCAL WINNERS will compete against other contestants in the district competition at Northview High School in Brazil on Sunday, Jan. 10. Names of the eventual national champions will be inscribed on the Elks National Hoop Shoot plaque, which will be on permanent display in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. A year ago, local student Jay Mutterspaugh was a state winner in the 12-13 age group and placed third in the regional competition in Ann Arbor, Mich. Other local winners were Lori Hembee, Venessa Scobee and Amy Scobee on the girls’ side in the three age categories from youngest to oldest, respectively. The boys’ winners were Andy Arnold, Chad Glaze and Mutterspaugh. This year promises to be one of the best for the hoop shoot. Anyone wanting to become eligible for the competition at South Putnam on the 9th must first compete at their school to qualify. Any schools that would like to participate that have not in the past need to call local chairman Donald Vance at 739-6419.
postseason appearance in a decade next weekend. Trudeau replaced Gary Hogeboom, who is still out with an injury. (Colts’ photo)
want Jack looking over his shoulder.” Trudeau connected on 17-of-27 passes for 246 yards as Indianapolis clinched its first AFC East championship and first playoff berth since 1977 by defeating Tampa Bay 24-6. “Trudeau, I thought, played another very sound football game. He had a couple of rough spots, but what quarterback doesn’t and we’re going to iron those out,” Meyer said. Trudeau’s biggest problem against Tampa Bay was handling the snap as three exchanges between him and center Ray Donaldson dropped to the turf. “I don’t know exactly what the problem was,” Donaldson said. “The first I think I moved a little early, but the other two were there.” “It doesn’t matter what the problem was,” Trudeau said. “We just can’t afford that in the playoffs. We’ll work on it and improve on it like we have on so many other things in the past year.” Unstandably, Trudeau isn’t satisfied being designated as the backup when Hogeboom is healthy, but his handling of the role has contributed to team harmony. “When I’m called to play, I’ve got to do the best I can. Being disgruntled or upset about it doesn’t do anybody any good, including myself,” he said. Trudeau and his mates will learn Sunday if they’ll be playing at Cleveland or at Denver the following weekend with the outcome of the AFC wild-card game between Houston and Seattle.
Purdue wins, Butler loses
Quick start leads Hoosiers to Classic title
By The Associated Press Stanford fell into a 10-point hole in the first five minutes against No. 13 Indiana and was never able to climb out, Boxes in scoreboard Indiana took that 10-0 lead and went on to an 83-73 victory and its sixth championship Tuesday night in the Hoosier Classic a tournament it has never lost “We actually made it a little tough on ourselves with the opening nervousness or errors that we made,” Stanford coach Mike Montgomery said. “Against a team like Indiana or any team of that quality you can’t get down 16-4 or 18-4 and expect to have an opportunity to win.” In other action Tuesday involving Division I teams from Indiana, Purdue won in the first round of the Hurricane Classic, 81-73, over Wake Forest, while Butler was defeated in the championship game of the Blade Classic by host Toledo, 52-50. The Hoosiers, 8-2, held Stanford without a field goal until Bryan McSweeney got a layin with 7:09 gone in the first half to make the score 16-4. Stanford’s leading scorer, Todd Lichti, was scoreless until he sank a free throw halfway into the first half. With Joe Hillman guarding him most of the night, he finished with 15 points, well below his 22.7-point average. “We probably opened up the game playing defense about as well as we ever played,” said Indiana coach Bob Knight. “Probably for seven or eight minutes we were as good defensively as a team can be. I thought Hillman did a really good job defensively.” Rick Calloway, who scored a season-high 27 points, was named the tournament’s most valuable player. He was joined on the alltournament team by Hoosiers Keith Smart and Dean Garrett, who had 17 points, 12 rebounds and three blocked shots Tuesday night. “I thought Garrett was tremen-
Field goal lifts Georgia past Arkansas in Liberty Reserves to get shot as bowl games continue
By The Associated Press Bowl games are the time to reward regulars for their contributions to a winning season. For Air Force and lowa, appearances in games tonight in Southern California will feature untested reserves getting their shot at the limelight.
Bowl schedule in scoreboard
Air Force plays Arizona State in the Freedom Bowl at Anaheim, while lowa faces Wyoming in the Holiday Bowl at San Diego. Dee Dowis, who set an NCAA single-season record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 1,315, broke his right hand in the Falcons’ last game at Hawaii. Steve Letnich a graduate of Valparaiso High School in northwest Indiana who was beaten out by Dowis this season will step in to run the Air Force wishbone. Suspensions have depleted lowa’s ranks, costing the Hawkeyes free safety Dwight Sistrunk and defensive end Joe Mott, plus reserve defensive lineman Paul Glonek. That means Jay Hess and Sean Ridley will start in place of the players that coach Hayden Fry suspended for disciplinary reasons. The bowl season got into full swing Tuesday night when No. 15 Georgia got a last-second field goal of 39 yards from freshman John Kasay to beat Arkansas, 20-17, in the Liberty Bowl. The Bulldogs capped a 9-3 season with the 39-yard effort by Kasay as time expired. “I’m very proud of the way our team came back and won the ball game. We’ve lost games in the last second recently, so it’s good to win one in the same way,” Georgia coach Vince Dooley said. The Bulldogs escaped disaster with 1:42 left in the game when Arkansas placekicker Kendall Trainor was wide to the left as he attempted to break a 17-17 deadlock with a field goal try from 36 yards out. Arkansas forced the Bulldogs to punt and wanted to mount a lastgasp drive from its own 40-yard line. The Razorbacks’ victory hopes were dashed quickly, however, as Georgia comerbaek Carver Russaw intercepted a first-down pass by Greg Thomas at the Arkansas 43. Four plays later, Kasay sent the
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dous defensively in the first half,” Knight said. “I think that’s the best defensive job I’ve ever seen him do. That was absolutely outstanding maybe the best defensive play from a center that we’ve ever had.” Lichti and Penn’s Phil Pitts were also named to the all-tournament team. Penn was defeated in the consolation game by Cal-Santa Barbara, 82-52. Montgomery also praised the Hoosier defense, which held his team to 37 percent shooting (10-of--27) in the first half. The Cardinal shot 65 percent (17 of 26) in the second half to finish with 51 percent “Defensively, that’s as good a team on the half-court that we have played this year,” he said. “They did some things that confused us a little early the switching of all the back screens we didn’t handle real well.” In the consolation game, Gary Gray scored 16 points to lead CalSanta Barbara over Penn, 82-52. Indiana led, 41-31, at halftime, but Stanford, 9-3, came within 5953 with 11 minutes left after a layin by Greg Butler and a 10-foot jumper by Scott Meinert. The Hoosiers, led by Garrett’s five points, outscored Stanford 10-3 in the next 3:29, taking a 69-56 lead on a dunk by Garrett. Stanford could get no closer than seven after that Horrible and horrendous were among the adjectives Boilermakers’ coach Gene Keady used in describing the lllh-ranked Boilermakers’ victory Tuesday over Wake Forest in the first round of the Palm Beach Classic.
Bulldogs home a bowl winner for the first time in four years. “I guess the turning point in the game was Russaw’s interception,” Dooley said. On Thursday, the bowl blitz <xntinues as ninth-ranked S >th Carolina plays No. 7 Louisiana State in the Gator Bowl, and No. 19 Pittsburgh goes up against Texas in the Bluebonnet Bowl. Freedom Bowl Air Force, 9-3, and second in the nation in rushing with 386.3 yards a game, will go from a 1,000-yard rusher in Dowis to a 192-yard rusher in Letnich. “I’m Dee’s backup; that’s my job on the team to be physically and mentally prepared to go in,” Letnich said. “Unfortunately Dee got hurt. He’s what made Air Force go all year. “My job is to make sure we don’t miss a beat, and to make sure all 11 cylinders run at once.”
White joins Dickerson in AP backfield
NEW YORK (AP) Charles White, who began the season as the backup to Eric Dickerson in the Los Angeles Ranis’ backfield, is teamed with Dickerson at running back on the Associated Press AllPro team. The ascension of White to the team, announced Monday, was made possible when Dickerson was traded at midseason to the Indianapolis Colts. White, who played in three replacement games during the NFL players strike, went on to lead the league in rushing, with Dickerson second. Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers, who set two season receiving records despite playing in only 12 games because of the strike, was the only unanimous choice in the voting by three sports writers or sportscasters representing each of the 28 NFL teams. Rice was also today named AP’s most valuable offensive player. The 6-2, 180-pound third-year player from Mississippi Valley State set records by catching touchdown passes in 13 consecutive regular-season games dating to last year and had 22 touchdown catches this year, breaking the 1984 mark of 18 set by Miami’s Mark Clayton in 16 games. Rice was joined by three teammates from a club that posted the NFL’s best record, 13-2. They included quarterback Joe Montana, who threw most of Rice’s TDs,
The University of Miami used 66-percent shooting and a 64-point second half to thump American University, 104-70, in the other first-round game. Purdue, 9-1, and Miami, 6-3, play in the championship game tonight. Troy Lewis made seven 3-point shots, all in the first half, and scored 31 points to lead Purdue, but Keady qualified his praise of the senior guard. “The first half was about as well as he has ever played,” Keady said. The second half his defense was just horrible. He couldn’t stop anybody.” Purdue led, 46-19, late in the first half, but the Demon Deacons rallied to within five points four times in the final four minutes. “In the first half we played about as well as we have all year,” Keady said. “In the second half, instead of running their offense, they just took the ball to the hoop on dribbles, and we couldn’t contain any dribbles. Our defense was really horrendous the second half.” Everette Stephens, had 12 points and eight assists for Purdue, which has won eight straight. Melvin McCants and Todd Mitchell added 12 points each. Sam Ivy scored 19 points, Robert Siler 15, David Carlyle 12 and reserve Cal Boyd 11 for Wake Forest, 3-5. Ralph Kitley grabbed 14 rebounds for the Deacons, who had a 42-28 rebounding advantage. In Toledo, Tike Branch scored only one basket in the Blade Classic championship game, but it was the last shot of the game and the winner. Branch’s driving layup with one
“I have all the confidence in the world in Steve,” Air Force coach Fisher Deßerry said. “We perceive ourselves as a strong family, and when we face adversity it brings us closer together. Everybody will do their best to rally around Steve. That’s why I feel as positive as I do.” Arizona State, 6-4-1, could be playing its final game under coach John Cooper, who is rumored to be one of two finalists for the Ohio State job. Cooper said, “I will let you know more in the next few days.” "I think it will be a high-scoring game,” Cooper said. “Both teams will move the ball.” Holiday Bowl lowa may be undermanned because of the suspensions, but the Hawkeyes are deep enough not to be handicapped, Wyoming coach Paul Roach said. Hess, a fifth-year senior, was
nose tackle Michael Carter and safety Ronnie Lott Nineteen of the NFL’s 28 teams had players on the 26-man first team. San Francisco had four and the Washington Redskins, New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears two players each on the team. Not on the team, for the first time in his seven-year career, is linebacker Lawrence Taylor of the Giants, last year’s league MVP. Taylor, who made the second team, was edged by two votes by teammate Carl Banks. Andre Tippett of New England is the other outside linebacker. The rest of the offensive first team includes wide receiver Gary Clark of Washington, tight end Mark Bavaro of the Giants, tackles Anthony Munoz of Cincinnati and Gary Zimmerman of Minnesota, guards Bill Fralic of Atlanta and Mike Munchak of Houston, center Dwight Stephenson of Miami, placekicker Morten Andersen of New Orleans and kick returner Vai Sikahema of St. Louis. The rest of the defense includes ends Reggie White of Philadelphia and Bruce Smith of Buffalo, defensive tackle Steve McMichael of Chicago, inside linebackers Mike Singletary of Chicago and Fredd Young of Seattle, comerbacks Hanford Dixon of Cleveland and Barry Wilburn of Washington, safety Joey
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second left lifted Toledo over Butler, 52-50, Tuesday night Fred King scored a career high 19 points for the Rockets, 7-1. Butler is 5-4. Sixteenth-ranked lowa State defeated Navy, 83-61, in the consolation game. Branch, a junior guard, made the winning basket after Butler had bottled up Mark German, who had 15 points for the Rockets, all on 3pointers. Branch’s shot was his second of the game. Butler tied the game at 50-all with 1:02 remaining, and following two turnovers, Toledo got the ball for good with 36 seconds to play. Toledo wasted a 36-25 halftime advantage but hit 10-of-23 from the 3-point range to offset Butler’s 50 percent from the field. Butler was 21-of-43 while Toledo was 18-of--44 from the field. “We waited too long to start playing, said Butler coach Joe Sexson. “They arc better from the perimeter than I thought. We thought they were questionable shooters, but they weren’t tonight.” Toledo coach Jay Eck was humble after beating the team that upset lowa State. “They (Butler) did a nice job in the second half, changing their defense and keeping us out of sync,” he said. “They switched from a 2-3 matchup zone to a 1-3-1 with full-court pressure, and we did a poor job of attacking the press,” he said. Darren Fowlkes led the Bulldogs with 18 while Chad Tucker added 13. Jeff Grayer was voted the tournament’s most outstanding player as he scored 29 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead lowa State, 10-2. Navy dropped to 1-6. Grayer became the ninth player in Big Eight Conference history to top the 2,000-point career scoring mark. He has 2,001 and needs 189 to tie the school record set by Barry Stevens in 1985.
switched to defensive back last spring after he couldn’t make it as a quarterback and wide receiver. “It’s more or less a dream that’s turned into reality. Starting in the Holiday Bowl makes up for five years of frustration," said Hess, who missed most of the year with a knee injury after seeing no action in 1986. He’ll be at strong safety while Kerry Burt, who usually starts at strong safety, shifts to free safety in place of Sistrunk. “I’m just really starting to feel the pressure now,” Hess said. “But I’m a person that really doesn’t get nervous. When the pressure is on, that’s when I’m at my best.” Wyoming, making its first bowl appearance since the 1976 Fiesta Bowl, ranked fourth nationally in total offense, while lowa was 11th in passing. The Hawkeyes also were 16th in defense.
Browner of Minnesota and punter Jim Arnold of Detroit. The second team includes wide receivers Steve Largent of Seattle and J.T. Smith of St. Louis, tight rad Kellen Winslow of San Diego, tackles Jim Lac hey of San Diego and Jackie Slater of the Rams, guards Ron Solt of Indianapolis and Tom Newberry of the Rams, center Ray Donaldson of Indianapolis, quarterback John Elway of Denver, running backs Herschel Walker of Dallas and Curt Warner of Seattle, placekicker Dean Biasucci of Indianapolis and kick returner Dennis Gentry of Chicago. The defense includes ends Chris Doleman of Minnesota and Charles Mann of Washington, nose tackle Tim Krumrie of Cincinnati, tackle Keith Millard of Minnesota, outside linebackers Taylor and Duane Bickett of the Colts, inside linebackers Karl Mecklenburg of Denver and rookie Shane Conlan of Buffalo, comerbacks Frank Minnifield of Cleveland and Dave Waymer of New Orleans, safeties Keith Bostic of Houston and Dave Duerson of Chicago and punter Ralf Mojsiejenko of San Diego. AP also has named its offensive and defensive Rookie of the Year winners as Miami running back Troy Stradford (Boston College) and Buffalo linebacker Shane Colan (Penn State) were honored, respective^.
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