White, Sanders and Robinson in Football Hall

Charles White, former USC running back and winner of the 1979 Heisman Trophy, and the late Red Sanders, who coached at UCLA from 1949 to 1957, were among a group of 12 selected to the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in Larchmont, N.Y., on Thursday.

Sanders, whose 1954 team went 9-0 and won the national championship, was the only coach selected. His overall record at Vanderbilt and UCLA was 102-41-4, and he won three straight Pacific Coast Conference titles from 1953 to ’55.

Also named from UCLA was linebacker Jerry Robinson, who played from 1975 to ’78.

Other players were Oklahoma center-linebacker Jerry Tubbs, 1954-56; Ohio State fullback Bob Ferguson, 1959-61; Pittsburgh defensive end Hugh Green, 1977-80; Army tackle Frank Merritt, 1940-43; Tennessee guard John Michels, 1950-52; Maryland center-linebacker Bob Pelligrini, 1953-55; Wisconsin end Pat Richter, 1960-62; Texas running back Jimmy Saxton, 1959-61, and Brigham Young quarterback Marc Wilson, 1977-79.

Boxing

A Feb. 29 rematch in Madison Square Garden between former heavyweight champions George Foreman and Michael Moorer is off, the victim of a dispute between promoter Bob Arum and Time Warner Sports.

Arum said that conditions demanded by Time Warner Sports President Seth Abraham for the bout were unacceptable, and said he was trying to reschedule the fight for April without the company.

Winter Sports

A British woman hoping to break into an all-male sport has been barred from racing in next month’s world skeleton championships in Canada. Skeleton competition is head-first sledding; luge competitors descend feet first.

Cecilia Mason, a lance corporal in the British army, who was the only woman in Sunday’s World Cup skeleton race in Altenburg, Germany, was disqualified for the rest of the World Cup season.

Mason finished ahead of nine men in 39th place in Altenburg. Unlike the related disciplines of bobsled and luge, no female divisions exist in skeleton for World Cup and European Cup events, thus Mason’s disqualification. She had raced in the Altenburg event without clearance of officials.

The decision knocked the 20-year-old out of Saturday’s World Cup race in La Plagne, France.

The German team of Cristoph Langen and Olaf Hampel won the next-to-last event of the two-man World Cup bobsled competition at Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, and moved closer to the 1996 title. Their third consecutive victory in the six-round competition lifted the Germans to 174 points in the standings, 12 points ahead of the second German team of Sepp Dostthaler and Thomas Platzer.

Motor Racing

Officials of the U.S. 500, scheduled May 26 in Brooklyn, Mich., the same day as the Indianapolis 500, announced that their CART-sanctioned race will begin at 11 a.m. PDT time, two hours after the start of the Indy 500. Indy will be shown on ABC, the U.S. 500 on ESPN.

“We want to give our fans--all fans--the best chance to see both products,” said CART executive Andrew Craig. “When they do, they will realize that the Indy 500 has become “a second-class attraction.”

Championship Auto Racing Teams announced plans for the U.S. 500 in December in protest of a new Indy 500 qualifying procedure awarding 25 of the 33 starting spots to regulars of the fledgling Indy Racing League backed by Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Didier Auriol, former world rally champion, whose Toyota team was banned for a year for using illegal equipment, joined Subaru for the first race of the upcoming season. Although the Toyota team was found to be illegal, Auriol was not included in the ban.

Miscellany

Cameroon defeated Egypt, 2-1, in a Group A African Cup of Nations match in Johannesburg, South Africa. The result left South Africa the only undefeated soccer team in Group A. In Group B, Algeria’s 2-0 win over Sierra Leone, coupled with an opening 0-0 tie with Zambia, gave the northern Africans four points after two matches. . . . The new Western Professional Hockey League will start play in October with teams in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

Names in the News

Larry Murphy, Toronto Maple Leaf defenseman, was named to the Western Conference team for Saturday’s NHL All-Star game, replacing Gary Suter of the Chicago Blackhawks. Suter suffered a knee injury Wednesday against the Washington Capitals. It will be Murphy’s second all-star appearance, having played in the 1994 game. . . . Catcher Jim Leyritz agreed to a two-year contract with the New York Yankees, avoiding arbitration.

Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Thomas Muster have entered the field for the Newsweek Champions Cup, to be held March 8-16 at Indian Wells. Also in the 56-player draw are Michael Chang, Thomas Enqvist, Jim Courier, Stefan Edberg, Goran Ivanisevic and Todd Martin.