COLLEGE FOOTBALL: DAILY REPORT : ACROSS THE NATION : Cowboy Scout Sought Tapes

Larry Lacewell, first year director of college scouting for the Dallas Cowboys, acknowledged that he tried to circumvent new scouting restrictions imposed by some college programs by offering to buy videotapes from an unidentified assistant coach at the University of Nebraska.

“I was wrong . . . I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. Maybe it is,” Lacewell told The Dallas Morning News.

Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne, who reported Lacewell’s actions to the College Football Assn., said that other NFL scouts have attempted to circumvent Nebraska’s restrictions, which limit pro scouts’ campus visits to October and April.

Danny Ford, who led Clemson to the 1982 national championship and then resigned in 1990, has been added to the Arkansas coaching staff. . . . Mississippi freshman wide receiver Cooper Manning, the son of Archie Manning, ended his football career because of a congenital problem and a bulging disk in his neck. . . . Wright Mitchell, South Carolina’s starting quarterback, said that he would give up his scholarship and leave the team.