NFL’s Oldest Former Player Horween Dies at 100

Ralph Horween, a halfback who played under an assumed name to hide his profession from his mother and was the NFL’s oldest former player, died at his home near Charlottesville, Va., Monday. He was 100.

Born Aug. 3, 1896, in Chicago, Horween graduated from Harvard in 1920, the year he played in the Crimson’s only Rose Bowl appearance, a 7-6 victory over Oregon.

Horween and his brother Arnold began playing for the Chicago Cardinals in 1921, one year after the league was formed. Ralph Horween made $40 per week. The brothers used “McMahon” as an alias to keep their mother from knowing they were playing.

Horween played his last NFL game in 1923 and returned to Harvard to get a law degree.

Motor Sports

Tom Kendall of Santa Monica scored his third consecutive Trans-Am Championship victory of the season at Lime Rock, Conn., beating Dorsey Schroeder by 1.362 seconds for his 18th victory overall.

Actors Paul Newman and Jason Priestly also drove in the Memorial Day races. Newman, 72, and his partner finished second in their race and Priestly and his partner finished fourth in the same race.

Midget-car race driver Mike Fell, 32, of Sun Prairie, Wis., died of head injuries when his car flipped and was struck by another car during a holiday event at Sun Prairie.

Jurisprudence

Records show that Stephen Gaines, a former Texas Tech football player who claims the school paid him while he attended Navarro College, received five money transfers totaling $1,000, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The allegation is among those under scrutiny as part of an NCAA investigation of the Texas Tech athletic program.

Sportscaster Marv Albert will be arraigned in Arlington, Va., today on charges he bit a 42-year-old woman up to 15 times and forced her to perform sex acts during a late-night encounter in a hotel room. Commonwealth Attorney Richard E. Trodden is expected to make a short statement about the case.

Horse Racing

Langfuhr, a Canadian 5-year-old who runs some of his best races at New York tracks, emerged from a four-horse stretch duel to win the $400,000 Metropolitan Handicap by a neck over Western Winter. Northern Afleet was third, another three-quarters of a length back, and he was a neck better than Richter Scale. Isitingood, the 2-1 favorite from trainer Bob Baffert’s barn, was fifth. Langfuhr hit the wire in 1:33, missing the stakes record, set last year by Honour And Glory, by a fifth of a second.

At Golden Gate Fields, Exotic Wood, making her first start in 10 months, ran last at 2-5 in the $150,000 Soviet Problem Breeders’ Cup Handicap. Avenue Of Gold won by about half a length over Madame Pandit, with Grab The Prize third in the four-horse field.

College Sports

Freshman Jim Kirkland pitched six innings of solid relief and sophomore Craig Kuzmic hit his 17th home run as Cypress defeated Sacramento City, 7-4, to win the community college state baseball title at Fresno.

It was the third title for Cypress and Coach Scott Pickler, who also won in 1991 and 1994.

Cypress took a 5-3 lead when Greg Jacobs and Randy Case had run-scoring singles in the fifth. Kuzmic had a run-scoring double in the sixth and then scored on an error as Cypress (41-11-1) took a 7-4 lead. Kirkland (3-1) gave up a run and three hits in six innings.

Princeton (28-0) won its second straight NCAA lacrosse championship, scoring the first eight goals and cruising to a 19-7 victory over Maryland at College Park, Md.