Although the big numbers will go down as Division I records for Long Island-Brooklyn, NCAA statistics coordinator Gary K. Johnson said the records book will continue to list all-time marks against Division I opponents in each of those categories.

Long Island-Brooklyn's fortunes took a turn for the worse three nights later when the Blackbirds traveled to the University of Iowa. Iowa won, 101-69.

Not for sale

Corporate money can be found throughout intercollegiate athletics, but one place that it has not been welcomed is the annual Army-Navy football game.

To be sure, the gate from the game is a good one -- $2 million, according to a recent Associated Press story. However, no one doubts that the take could be much bigger if the two institutions were willing to enlist corporate help.

But Jack Lengyel, athletics director at the U.S. Naval Academy, told AP not to expect such an approach. "This is a game that goes for everything," he said. "The pride in each one's service, the pride in its own institution. They will fight for 60 minutes, shake hands, allow each group to sing its alma mater and then go forth and serve their country as a team. That's what this game is all about....

"If this was a money game, we would have accepted sponsorship and you would have seen motocross signs. We just don't do that, and the reason we don't do that is we think the Army-Navy game is the great classic, the last of the great amateur football games."

-- Compiled by David Pickle

Division III notes

Facilities: A new athletics complex at the University of Southern Maine will be named for Richard A. and Melissa H. Costello, a couple who taught and coached thousands of Maine citizens over four decades. The Costello Sports Complex will include a new field house and ice arena, in addition to the existing Hill Gym. Dick Costello is a former director of athletics at the institution. He retired in 1990 after 37 years of service at Southern Maine. Work on the new structures is to be completed by early 1998.

The University of Dallas dedicated a new baseball field in ceremonies conducted October 5. Crusader Field was designed and developed by Jim Anglea, who created the Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers. Dallas will resume varsity college baseball February 14 after a 16-year hiatus.

Milestones: Joe McDaniel, Centre College, 100 victories in football .... Julie Jenkins, Trinity University (Texas), 300 victories in women's volleyball .... Jill Firstbrook, Colby-Sawyer College, 100 victories in women's tennis.

Conferences: Five Midwestern schools, all with varsity teams developed within the past five years, have formed the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association, which will begin a conference schedule in 1998-99. The MCHA includes Division III members Benedictine University, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Marian College of Fond Du Lac. Also in the conference are Northland College, an NAIA school, and the University of Findlay, a Division II school. Officers of the new conference are Dan Harris, Milwaukee School of Engineering director of athletics, president; Pat Hessenauer, head coach at Milwaukee School of Engineering, secretary/treasurer; and Kate Loritz, graduate assistant athletics director at Benedictine, publicity director.

-- Compiled by David Pickle