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fMAKUSf-TKIIWMK. LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, SUNDAY, JAM'ARY 19112 PAGE 17 Clemson Claims Orange Bowl, Finishes 12-0 MIAMI (UPI) Lucky for University a college ball game lasts just 60 minutes. "I'm very proud and glad," said Coach Danny Ford after his top-rated Tigers' parlayed an defense and the iquarterbacking magic of Homer Friday night into a 22-15 victory over No. 4 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. "But if the game lasted much longer I don't know if we would still be standing up.

I thought the heat bothered -them a little more than us but they were a whole lot quicker than I "thought." The 48th Orange Bowl, which drew a crowd of 72,748 that turned the stadium into a sea of orange and red Clemson and Nebraska's colors was played in temperatures approaching 80 de" g'rees and the humidity hovering around 80 percent. Clemson's victory, which capped aiperfect 12-0 season, coupled with losses by No. 2 Georgia and No. 3 Alabama sets the stage for the Tjgers' first national cham- pionship. United Press International will release its final ratings today at 6:30 p.m.

EST. While there have been many doubters to Clemson's claim as the team in the nation, Ford thinks that will change. we No. Are we the best team in the country?" asked Ford. "We're the only team in the nation 1 beat the No.

2 team (Georgia), Jthe No. 8 team (North Carolina, actually ranked No. 9), and the No. '4 team (Nebraska). "I don't care what anybody says in the East, Midwest or West.

Nobody in the country has done what we've done." Ford's first backer is Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne. "They deserved to win and they deserve to be the national champions," said Osborne, whose Big Eight champions finished the season with a 9-3 record," but it's the most disappointing loss I've ever been associated with. "Clemson is a great football team and I congratulate them," said Osborne. "I thought they were great defensively, the best we've played all year. Offensively, they dominated the line of scrimmage and I didn't think they could do it against us, and Jordan was just great.

We tried to contain him and keep him inside, but we couldn't." Jordan, the skinny, sprintout quarterback that makes the Tigers' offense click, was so drained by the heat, he spent an hour recovering from heat exhaustion. But during the game, Jordan kept the Cornhuskers guessing with his rollouts. He ran for 46 yards, including a key 23-yard run for a first down with 2:20 left after Nebraska had narrowed the margin to seven points, and completed ll-of-22 passes for 134 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown strike to wide receiver Perry Tuttie in the third quarter. But before the Tigers' offense began rolling, it was the defense that helped produce 9 first-half points. In fact, Clemson held the nation's second best rushing offense, which averaged 330.5 yards per game, to just 256 total yards.

"We wanted to take control in the first five minutes and we finally did in the second ten minutes." said Ford. "I thought we played perfect defense. We made only one mistake on that touchdown pass in the first half." After Clemson nose guard William Devane recovered Roger Craig's fumble on the third play of the game, Donald Igwebuike gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead with a 41-yard field. Clemson took a 12-7 halftime advantage after All America linebacker Jeff Davis recovered a fumble by Phil Bates at the Nebraska 27. Seven plays later, tailback Jeff Austin cruised in for the score on a 2-yard run with 3:56 left in the half.

A 2-point conversion failed when Jordan's pass to Tuttie fell incomplete. The Tigers' offense took over in the second half as Jordan connected with Tuttie on a 13-yard TD pass to cap a 75-yard, 12-play drive in the third period to give Clemson a 19-7 lead. Igwebuike added a 36- yard field goal before the period ended. Nebraska scored its final points on Craig's 26-yard run in the fourth quarter and added a 2-point conversion on Craig's 8-yard run. "We had it in our hands.

We could nave been national champions," said Craig, shaking his head as he thought about Georgia and Alabama both losing. "But we let it slip away." Tuttie said all the praise should go to the defense. "They played one heckuva game and gave us field position the defense did it for us," said Tuttie. "In the last two weeks we've been in Florida, I'd say 95 percent of the people didn't believe in us but we're No. 1 now." Tiger quarterback Homer Jordan (3) breaks away from Nebraska's Henry Waechter (75).

Senior Bowl South Team Chosen UPI Dave Paffenroth of Penn State (33) blocks a punt by USC's Dave Pryor (17) to register a safety Penn State Downs USC, 26-10 TEMPE, Ariz. (UPI) If-'any doubt ever existed that Penn State's Curt Warner is in the same clags as Marcus Allen of Southern California, it should be gone now. In what turned out to be a rather one-sided battle of two of the country's best taUbacks, Warner easily oijidueled Allen and in the helped the Nit- Mifcy Lions to a 26-10 Fiesta victory over the Tro- jinfe Friday. the Heisman "firjphy winner," Warner sJKl of Allen. "He received ajtpf the publicity but I'm notTgoing to cry about it.

It djdn't bother me that njiich. I just wanted to go otrtand play well." priced, Warner reached goal before a record crfiwd of 71,053. He rushed yards on 26 carries ajw scored twice to win Pfjensive Player of the Game honors for the second straight Fiesta Bowl. 7 Allen, on the other hand, held to 85 yards on 30 and lost two fumbles that cost the Trojans 10 points against a torrid Penn State defense led by tackle Leo Wisniewski and linebacker Chet Parlavecchio. Allen, whose previous low output this year was 147 yards against Notre Dame, didn't have much to say about his lack of success, but admitted the seventh-ranked Trojans were not ready for the sixth-ranked Nittany Lions.

"For some reason I don't think we were prepared to play," Allen said. "I thought we were but for some reason we definitely came up short. We never gave up but there were too many mistakes and too many penalties." USC Coach John Robinson, who saw his Trojans lose for the first time in five bowl outings, explained Allen's problems simply. "We didn't block very there were not a lot of holes," Robinson said. Wisniewski.

a 250-pound senior who took game defensive honors, was rightly proud of the Penn State effort. "Marcus Allen is a fine back," he said. "But we just did a great job physically against them. We owned the line of scrimmage." With the victory, Penn State finished the season with a 10-2 record. Southern Cal completed its season at 9-3.

The tempo of the game, played on field dampened by a morning rain, was set on the first play of scrimmage when Alien fumbled. Penn State defensive back Roger Jackson recovered on the USC 17 and two plays later, Warner scored on a slant over the left side. So. just 15 seconds into the game, Penn State was ahead 7-0. It was the Southern Cai defense that kept the Trojans in the game at all as All-America linebacker Chip Banks intercepted a Todd Blackledge pass and returned it 20 yards for his team's only TD in the game.

Penn State built a 17-7 halftime edge on a 52-yard pass from Blackledge to Gregg Garrity and a 21- yard field goal by Brian Franco. The lead would have been even more had it not been for the Trojan defense that stymied three other Penn State drives, including one that reached inside the 1-yard line as the half ended. Penn State wrapped up the game after taking the second-half kickoff and marching 80 yards with Warner scoring on a 21- yard sprint. The only other points came later in the third period on Steve Jordan's 37-year field goal for USC and a safety for Penn State when Dave Paffenroth blocked a punt and the ball rolled out of the end zone. Myer Leads League In Scoring Sadler's is leading the A division with a 6-0 record, and Bungalow and Happy Burger are tied for the division lead with 4-1 records in the Adult Basketball League.

Following Sadler's perfect A division record are Myer Roofing at 5-1, Bob-0-Link at 4-2, Hawk Tire at 2-4, Moose 'at 1-5, and Fulton at 0-6. Bunge stands at 3-2 in division, followeu oy Herd Insurance at 1-3 and Overway Petroleum at 0-5. Tom Myer of Myer Roofing is the A division's top scorer with a 23.5 average. Joe Hiatt averages 15.0 for Overway to lead the division. Completing the top five scorers in the A division are Mike Platt of Hawk Tire (19.2), Brad Darche of Bob-0-Link (18.5), Ken iiuii oi Sadler's U7.0), and Tim Schlick of Hawk Tire (16.8).

Other high scorers in the division are Randy Kitchell fo Bungalow (14.8), Stan Zelinski of Bunge (14.3), Doug Warner of Overway (13.8), and Randy Pryor of Bungalow (13.0). League play will resume on Monday, Jan. 4, at the Y. MOBILE, Ala. (UPI) Alabama and Auburn landed four players each on the Senior Bowl's South team, announced Saturday by bowl officials.

The south squad will be coached in the Jan. 16 game by Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll and his staff. The north team will be named early next week, officials said. Quarterbacking the south team will be Mike Kelley of Georgia Tech and John Fourcade of Ole Miss. Among the running backs is Barry Redden of Richmond, the nation's third-leading ground gainer this season.

Sammy Winder of Southern Mississippi, Baylor's Dennis Gentry, Auburn's George Peoples and VMI's Floyd Allen are the other setbacks. Orlando McDaniel of LSU, Cedric Jones of Duke and Mike Whitwell of Texas make up the wide receivers corps. Robert Hubble of Rice and Jerry Bell of Arizona State will share the tight end spot. Clemson's Tony Berryhill and Tennessee's Lee North will play center, while Frank Frazier of Miami of Florida, Ken Hammond of Vanderbilt, Chuck Slaughter of South Carolina and Keith Uecker of Auburn will man the other offensive line posi- tions. Keith Baldwin of Texas Warren Lyles of Alabama, Miami's Bob Nelson.

Auburn's Edmund Nelson and Booker Reese of Bethune-Cookman make up the defensive line. Thomas Boyd of Alabama, Brian Ingram of Tennessee, Jeff Roberts of Tulane and Auburn's Danny Skutack will play linebacker. Defensive backs include Vance Bedford of Texas. James Harris of Florida State, Alabama's Jim Bob Harris and Benny Perrin and Miami's Fred Marion. Texas Tech punter Maury Buford will represent his school, and SMU's Eddie Garcia will handle the placekicking duties.

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