Bob Devaney finally gets deserving honor NEW YORK (AP) Nebraska won college football's national championship in 1970 by defeating LSU 17-12 in the Orange Bowl. Coach of the Year honors were shared by LSU's Charley McClendon and Darrell Royal of Texas, a Cotton Bowl loser to Notre Dame. Nebraska repeated as No.1 in 1971, only the sixth team to win consecutive national titles. The Cornhuskers mangled Alabama 38-6 in the Orange Bowl, but Bear Bryant was named Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association. "It was an ironic situation," says Devancy. "The years 1 had the best opportunity they voted before the bowl games." Nebraska was third in the final Associated Press 1970 regular season poll before winning the national championship when Texas and Ohio State lost earlier in the day. And in 1971, Devaney recalls, "Rear Bryant brought a team along that hadn't been very good the year before (6-5-1) and they won 11 games (11-0 before losing to Nebraska)." The AFCA changed its voting to after the bowl games a few years later, too late to help Devaney, who gave up the coaching reins following the 1972 campaign to concen- THE CHUCK Editor and WM. H. PLUMMER Assistant to the Publisher CHRIS COX Advertising Director coached a few more years, but I was pushing it. I was holding two positions and I didn't think I was doing a very good job either way." This will be a warm New York December for Devaney, different from the bitter cold of Dec.15, 1962, when Nebraska beat Miami, Fla. 36-34 in the second - and last - Gotham Bowl. The Chillicothe Owned and Chillicothe Newspaper, Chillicothe, Phone Second Class Postage Daily Constitution-Tribune the following holidays: New Labor Day, Thanksgiving carrier per year $32.00: monthly and adjoining counties per year $37.00: outside U.S. $47.00. MEMBER OF THE The Associated Press is reproduction of all the local well as all AP news dispatches. trate on his duties as Nebraska's athletic director. Devaney, was hurt more than he will admit publicly by the slights of the past, but the pain will be eased a bit tonight when he is inducted into college football's Hall of Fame. - His coaching record fairly glitters - 35-10-5 and four Rocky Mountain Conference titles in five years at Wyoming, 101-20-2 and eight Big Eight crowns in 11 seasons at Nebraska, 136-30-7 overall for a winning percentage of .806. "Sure this helps make up for the past. This is the greatest honor I've ever received in the field of athletics," Devaney says, Devaney has no regrets about leaving the sidelines when he did and turning Nebraska's program over to Tom Osborne. "I coached a long time," he says. "I had a young guy on the staff who would have gone somewhere else if we didn't keep him at Nebraska. One thing I've been able to do is evaluate people, coaches and athletes. 1 felt Tom was a great coaching prospect. "Rather than struggle on for another year or two, I had a chance to turn the job over to him. I felt I'd be a smarter athletic director with him as head coach. I could have•
