SPORTS
Colorado’s Bieniemy should win the Heisman
When the dust settles and the air c lears, the MHH)
Heisman Trophy will la-long to Colorado's super, se
nior tailback. Eric (Public) Bieniemy Or at least it
should.
The Heisman. college football's top prize, is sup
posed to be given out annually to the- nation's lies! col
lege football player, but it doesn't always work out
that way Behind-the-scenes influences always seem to
c rop up and make the final dec ision w rong and < ontro
vended
Is tin- player on television enough? Is he a senior7
Is his sc hool on probation? And finally, does be attend
Notru Dame?
In this wild and i raze, year of college football.
Bieniemy has proven week in and week out he s the
nation's l>est player Other players may have put big
ger numbers on the I man! or played as well as him in
liig games, hut nobody Inis done it every weekend
against one of the nation’s toughest sc hedules
His yards per game and total rushing yardage
numbers arc- tops in the country Impressive numbers
considering Bieniemy and Colorado have faced nation
ally ranked teams such .is Tennessee-. Washington.
Oklahoma. Nebraska. Illinois and Texas The final
three games were all on tin- road
At Nebraska. Bieniemy struggled early, losing
three of his five fumbles, but recovered (pardon the
pun) to rush 38 times for 134 yards and four IDs All
From the Sidelines
by
ROBERT WEBER
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four of Ins scores (a me in the fin.il quarter as Colorado
overcame Bieniemy's five fumbles and a 12-0 Corn
liuskcr lead to win 27 12
The only other person close to deserving the
award is Notre Dame's Kaghib Ishmail Nobody in the
game can break open a game like the Rocket Hut
whilo he has played great in the Irish's big games. Ish
mail hasn't been healthy enough to produce lleisman
like numbers
What about Brigham Young's Ty Detmer and
Houston's David Klinger, you ask? Well, what about
them? Consider these quarterbacks' overall perform
ances in big games you'll have to look closely lie
cause there aren't many big games on either teams'
sc hedules — and both of these guys fall from serious
contention
Detmer. who last weekend became the first junior
to pass the 10.000 career yardage mark, is the latest
thrower to emerge from Quarterback I . but his num
Iwrs are dec uiving Sure, he averages over 4(1 attempts
KM) yards and three touchdowns a gome, but this is
against Western Athletic Conference teams that play
defense about .is often and well as the Denver Nuggets
After dissec ting the Hurricane defense in I’ruvo.
I Mali. Detmer fell on his face before a national televi
sion audience against the Ducks He threw five inter
ceptions and was sacked five times as the Cougars,
then ranked fourth in the nation, lost to Oregon 32- Hi
BYl) Coac h 1-aVell Kdwards said he would never
leave Detmer in a game just to rack up stats, yet
Detmer was still throwing, and chasing a NCAA re
cord for consecutive 300-yard games midway through
the fourth quarter of a 52-0 romp over Colorado State
While Delmer’s obsession with numbers is annoy
ing. Klinger’s have been downright offensive.
As Klinger was busy tossing 11 touchdowns in
Houston’s 84-21 rout of Division I-AA foe Pastern
Washington, sport purists everywhere were tossing
their lunch.
Klinger’s biggest test of the year c ame against Tex
as two weeks ago. and he failed miserably. He- may
lead the- nation in passing, but that’s like- shooting bas
kets by yourself and grabbing the most rebounds.
When the numbers are tallied and the votes cast.
Bieniemy should win the Heisman. but if history re
peats itself. Detmer. Ishmail or even (please say it isn’t
so) K linger will grace the cover of Sports Illustrated
Oregon signs three basketball recruits for next season
Tlii< Oregon men's basketball Irani
lias announced the signings of three
high si hool players to letters of-intent
in the List week
The Dm ks took advantage of the early
November signing period to land ti-foot
H kevinn Robinson from Houston. t>'I
|«>ff Potter from Redmond, Wash . anil
ti-8 Damon Runyon from l-'resno. (laid
Robinson, a t»-H. 185-pound forward
from kashmure High School averaged
1 ri ti points and N I rebounds per game
hist season Coach Don Monson projects
Kohiuson to play small forward for the
Ducks
Runyon averaged 18 points and eight
rebounds [M*r game last season for Red
wood High School in Vista. Calif. Pot
ter. meanwhile, is considered to la* one
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of the top prospects on the West Coast.
Oregon is also expected to sign ti-6
John McFarland from Santa Monica.
Calif McFarland signed with the Ducks
last season hut was unable to enroll in
school at Oregon bec ause* of academic:
reasons
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