PUBLISHFD AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT \ALBANY BY THE ALBANY STUDENT PRESS CORPORATION The women cagers fell to a team north of the border in exhibition play Sports Tu See page 27 Friday ALBANY NOVEMBER 19, 1985 STUDENT November 22,1985 PRESS NCAA rejects Albany Bad news from VOLUME L X X II NUMBER 40 Danbury kills Fuller Rd. dorms By Krlstine Sauer SPORTS EDITOR 9 The Albany State football team's inability to control Danes chances part of expansion their own destiny turned out to be the fatal blow to their dreams of an NCAA playoff berth. By Marc Berman CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Despite winning their last four games, including a 15-0 blanking of 11th ranked Wagner College on Staten Island Staten Island envisioned in '64 on Saturday, the NCAA Committee predictably gave Albany State football coach Bob Ford leaned against away the four eastern playoff bids solely on the basis of the concrete wall outside the Wagner College's visiting lockerroom. His team had just pulled out a gutsy 15-0 By Jim Thompson season records to undefeated Union, 9-1 Ithaca, 9-1 STAFF WRITER Montclair State and 10-1 Western Connecticut. victory over the 11th ranked school in the country. But Coach Ford appeared glum. SUNYA in a few years will look a little different as Instead of facing one of these teams, the Danes travel the campus begins expanding to land purchased years In Danbury, Western Connecticut to New Hampshire this weekend for the one-shot ECAC ago abive Fuller Road. A 6 million dollar apartment- was beating Hofstra, Sports tournament, where they are pitted against Plymouth style dormitories and accompanying road im­ State, another 8-2 team.. Ford spoke quietly to reporters provements are to be the first step of the makeover. about his team's marvelous defensive "If you give it (NCAA bid) to W. Connecticut, you Column Widening and repaying of the access road to Fuller performance. He talked about the don't have to explain anything," said senior John Don­ Road will be accompanied by new sidewalks and a nelly. "If you give it to us, there's a lot of explaining. I rain, the mud and how sometimes the modern lighting system, said Dennis Stevens, assistant guess they didn't want to explain." where Albany's chances fell to pieces. best team doesn't always win in sloppy conditions. He vice president for plant facilities. praised Wagner's star freshman running back Terry After the loss to Cortland, the Danes knew they had to Montclair held onto its playoff slot by narrowly "After this road is completed it will look just like win their next four games, then pray that one of the teams beating Glassboro by one point. In the game's final Underwood, who someday might wind up on a Divsion Perimeter Road on campus," he said. "The lights that with one loss would be upset. When that didn't happen, seconds, a Glassboro player dropped the ball on the two- I team. But his answers were brief, his voice was will be installed will make this area of new housing the the Danes went into last week hoping that all of their if's point conversion that would have won the game. In Dan- somber. Not once did he smile. safest and best lit; The whole campus is undergoing an would turn into realities. bury, Western Connecticut held off Hofstra in a 17-12 In Danbury, Western Connecticut was beating upgrading of the lighting system." The plan outlined four things, three of which had to victory. Hofstra. Stevens said the land to be developed was purchased happen for the Danes to get their bid. "We found out that Western Connecticut won on the Like most coaches, Ford is usually a chatterbox after in 1964 to be used to expand the campus, along with First of all, Albany had to knock 8-1 Wagner out of the ride home," said quarterback Mike Milano. "Still, we a Danes victory. After beating a good team, a reporter the land the main campus was built on. playoff picture, which they did despite having to go up were hoping that somehow we'd get it; 1 guess you can't can sit back and let Ford do most of the talking. Few "Universities are around for a longer time than you against the 11 th ranked team under rainy conditions. do that." questions are required. Even after a tough loss, the and I, and the need for expansion was thought out Ithaca had to beat Kings Point, which they did, ensuring "We were just hoping that they'd look at the weight of amiable Ford tries his best not to show his personal beforehand during the original design of this college. them a spot in the NCAAs and dropping the Mariners to the schedule," said junior Wayne Anderson. "I guess we anguish. The Danes had just beaten a very good team Now we are simply using it for the purpose it was Reagan meets Soviet leader Gorbachev earlier this week 8-2. Then Albany needed Classboro to upset Montclair were waiting for a miracle." Saturday. At a time when he should'vc been bought," said Stevens. celebrating, Ford's spirits were at a low. State or Hofstra to upset Western Connecticut. That's 27*- "We're at least heading in the right direction" "This new construction will look nothing like the 7n Danbury, Western Connecticut was beating dorms we have now — they will be of an apartment Hofstra. style. This construction should be completed by the fall Ford's emotions were understandable. He woke up Pres. sums up Geneva parley of 1987," Stevens said. Grapplers exhibit Ic form on Saturday morning and read in the newspaper that "Right now we are in the preliminary stages and Montclair State had hung on to a one point victory Fri­ have no blueprints as of yet," he said. "The decision of Washington, D.C. be allowed to happen again," Reagan said in reference to By Cathy Errig we could beat Syracuse or Spr­ the 190 lb. class by forfeit, and day night because a Glassboro State player dropped a choosing a contractor has not been discussed since the (AP) President Reag. n, back home from the Geneva a Korean Air Lines jet shot down by the Soviets in 1983. STAFF WRITER ingfield, and I thought Boston Tironi narrowly defeating Katz, 1-0, pass on a last-second two-point conversion. He looked construction is so far off. The problems of student ac­ summit, told a joint session of Congress Thursday night —He said he looks forward to welcoming Gorbachev University would be tough, too." out his hotel window only to see rain droplets blocking cess and the possible re-routing of buses is not yet Much to the delight of the Albany at heavyweight. he had a "constructive meeting" with Soviet leader to the United States in 1986, and said he has accepted an Boston University was tough as his view. under consideration," said Stevens. State wrestling team, head coach Joe In addition, junior co-captains Mikhail Gorbachev and that together the two made a invitation to Moscow for the following year. DeMeo was proved wrong last they sent, according to DeMeo, their Shawn Sheldon and John Balog He knew that three things had to happen for his 16*- "measure of progress" on arms control. "While we still have a long way to go, we're at least Saturday. strongest team ever, scoring 46 placed third at 118 and 142, respec­ Danes to clinch a NCAA playoff berth. His team had But the President said, "I can't claim we had a meeting heading in the right direction," Reagan told the national­ Prior to Saturday's Great Dane points to finish fourth out of the 22 tively, and senior co-captain Marty to beat Wagner in the mud; the Danes' arch-rival, of the minds" generally, and his description of the arms ly televised session. "I gained a better perspective; 1 feel Classic, DeMeo had predicted that te teams. Syracuse, scoring 34 points Pidell finished fourth at 177. Ithaca, had to topple Kings Point; Hofstra, losers of understandings included only the modest provisions car­ he did too." Danes would finish fifth, due to was third, Springfield was second "What really won the match for three straight, had to come through against Western ried in a joint statement issued from Geneva. • Back home after the first U.S.-Soviet summit meeting their lack of returning champions. with 78, and Albany first, with 85. us was the way the guys performed in Connecticut. In his 20-minute speech, the president also listed several in six years; Reagan declared that he, as well as everyone, As it turned out, however, the "During the finals I knew that their wrestle-backs," said DeMeo. In Danbury, Western Connecticut was beating agreements to emerge from the talks: was "impatient for results" in the drive to improve super­ Danes didn't need them, for after we'd won it," said DeMeo. "I was "Shawn and John both lost heart- Hofstra. —A new agreement for cultural exchanges bet <een power relations. But he quickly cautioned that "goodv.:;; Dane junior Chris Tironi edged out shocked, 1 thought we could be third breakers in the semis, and then they The word that Ithaca had defeated Kings Point, the United States and the Soviet Union, involving auists, and good hopes do not always yield lasting results. Quick teammate Ivan Katz for the or fourth.