Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, December 3, 1993 TAG: 9312030257
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press and staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
O'Brien met with Duke athletic director Tom Butters last week and, sources said, will be interviewed by an 11-person selection committee composed of assistant athletic director Joe Alleva, three faculty members, two current players and five former players.
Cincinnati coach Tim Murphy will be in Durham, N.C., today for an interview with the committee. Butters also has talked with Howard coach Steve Wilson, Notre Dame offensive coordinator Skip Holtz and Bowling Green coach Gary Blackney, who removed his name from consideration.
Gary Tranquill, a former Virginia assistant who has been the Cleveland Browns' quarterbacks coach since 1991, also has been linked to the position.
\ TAYLOR WINS LOMBARDI: Notre Dame offensive tackle Aaron Taylor, accustomed to beating defensive linemen, did it again when he won the Lombardi Award as the nation's top lineman.
He beat out three defensive players for the honor - nose guards Sam Adams of Texas A&M and Rob Waldrop of Arizona and linebacker Derrick Brooks of Florida State.
Taylor, 6 feet 4 and 299 pounds, didn't play football until his junior year of high school, but he showed enough to be recruited by Notre Dame and was starting by his sophomore year.
A superb run-blocker, Taylor helped Notre Dame average 429.5 yards a game this season. He's started 29 straight games dating to 1991. Taylor is the fourth Notre Dame player to win the award and the second in three years.
\ PAQUIN DIES: In Rutherford, N.J., Leo Paquin, 83, part of Fordham University's "Seven Blocks of Granite" in the mid-1930s, has died. He played on a line that included Vince Lombardi and All-Americans Al Babartsky, Ed Franco and Alex Wojciechowicz.
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