SDSU Will Face Hawaii in Melbourne, Australia

San Diego State’s football team will play the University of Hawaii at Melbourne, Australia, probably on Nov. 30, promoters of the game announced.

Barry Shawyer, director of Promoters Frontline Communications of Sydney, confirmed a report from Honolulu that negotiations for the “Australia Bowl” were progressing satisfactorily.

“If the match goes ahead it will be the only official college football match played outside the United States with the exception of the annual Mirage Bowl in Japan,” he said.

Shawyer said discussions with the schools had been in progress for a number of months.

Frontline Communications had agreed to pay the estimated $800,000 cost of the game, according to Hawaii athletic department spokesman Ted Livingston.

Frontline would attempt to get commitments from other sponsors to underwrite the game and might try to arrange for live television coverage in Hawaii and San Diego, he said.

Offensive lineman Andrew Gissinger, who suffered a ruptured disk while weightlifting last week, will probably miss the entire 1985 season for the San Diego Chargers after undergoing surgery. Gissinger started at center and tackle and filled in at tight end last season.

Gary Kranz, the Tulane University student accused of supplying money and drugs to basketball players involved in a point-shaving scandal, pleaded not guilty in New Orleans to multiple charges of sports gambling, cocaine dealing and conspiracy.

An indictment says Kranz, a 21-year-old business major from New Rochelle, N.Y., sold cocaine to Tulane starting forwards Clyde Eads and Jon Johnson. Eads and Johnson have been granted immunity to testify for the prosecution against teammates, Kranz, two other students and two bookmakers.