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DATE: Friday, January 31, 1997               TAG: 9701310054
SECTION: SPORTS                   PAGE: B-3  EDITION: METRO 

IN SPORTS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS

ETC. College hall names class of 1997

Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers and two-time Outland Trophy recipient Dave Rimington headed a list of 12 players elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Rogers won the Heisman as a running back for South Carolina in 1980, and remains the Gamecocks' career leader in several offensive categories, including yards rushing with 5,204. He was an All-American in 1979-80, was the first-round draft choice of New Orleans in 1981, and played seven seasons in the NFL with the Saints and Washington Redskins.

Rimington is the only player ever to repeat as winner of the Outland (1980-81), given annually to the best interior lineman in college football.

Also selected by members of the National Football Foundation on its 50th anniversary were Ray Beck, Randy Duncan, Dave Elmendorf, Charlie Flowers, Alex Kroll, Ken MacAfee, Bob Reifsnyder, Dave Robinson, Danny White and Ricky Hunley, who is from Petersburg, Va.

They will be inducted along with Don James and the late Wally Butts and Bowden Wyatt, selected as Hall of Fame coaches earlier this week. The ceremony will be held Dec.9 in New York.

* Former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe, who knows about training camps, is headed for the toughest one of his life - the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C.

The 29-year-old Bowe, saying he will fight again, announced at a news conference that he joined the Marine Corps Reserve on Monday in Washington and will go into 12-week recruit training at Parris Island.

* Nancy Lieberman-Cline and Lynette Woodard, two of the brightest stars in the formative years of women's basketball, signed on as players with the WNBA, which begins its first season in June.

Lieberman-Cline and Woodard will be assigned teams later this month. The WNBA already has assigned 16 players, including 1996 Olympians Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes and Rebecca Lobo, to teams.

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