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71 i III Coo Pliinke toe crTinRER By BILL ANZER Enquirer Sports Reporter PASADENA, Calif. Will boredom catch No. 2-ranked Ohio State napping in the Rose Bowl? If it does, It will result in the biggest upset in the history of the much-storied post season spectacular. Coach Woody Hayes, not one to hide his emotions, flatly predicts victory over Stanford today before 102,000 on-the-scene fans and millions more on nationwide television. Woody, when asked his feelings about the impending battle, said profoundly: "We expected to win against Southern California in 1969 and we expect to win now." The Bucks seem to harbor a certain ho-hum attitude in the are favored to win anywhere from nine to 13 points.

This in itself has instilled in the Bucks a casual attitude, but if Woody, the great master of fiery speeches, can stimulate his squad they could whale the tar out of the Indians in the match that begins at 5 p. m. (C i i a i time). The outcome of the battle between No. 1-ranked Texas an Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl may have an influencing factor in OSU's attitude when taking the field against Stanford.

If Notre Dame whips Texas, OSU would be king of the nation with a victory over Stanford. This could arouse Woody's crew to snap them back out of their doldrums. Actually, the Indians, while not as awesome on the ground as the Bucks, possess the kind of team that is capable of upset, a team with a good passer and some jack rabbit backs. Ohio State hasn't faced a quarterback of the caliber of Plunkett since Mike Phipps of Purdue. Piunkett will send everybody out and defend himself from the rush alone No.

1 Texas Formidable Foe mj. mmm nrmmK hi iipum jS ill RflfFU i l-i I rlfl I For Irish Aim 1 ripie newar McDermott against scoring) making them as nearly as can be determined the only team in recorded history to rank among the top 15 nationally in all these categories. Texas' defense stood 25th nationally, giving up 281 yards per game. The Longhorns were fourth in total offense, almost all of it afoot, where they led the land for the second straight year with a 374.5 yard average. The UT passing game, accounting for just 93.6 yards per outing, ranked 102nd.

Theismann and wide receiver Tommy Gatewood are the most-heralded Irish offensive hands. Texas' big guns are fullback Steve Worster, quarterback Eddie Phillips and halfback Jim Bertelsen. "The thing that just jumped out at me in the to stopping this one of Texas'. Irish Quarterback Joe Theismann bluntly says he wants to win in order to repay coach Ara Parseghi-an for the unbeaten season lost in the 38-28 defeat by Southern California. "Plus," adds Joe, "we've got a chance at finishing No.

1 if we beat Texas and if Ohio State and Nebraska lose in their bowl games. But we're not sitting around talking about that because it won't matter if they lose and Texas beats us." Notre Dame has been here since Saturday, practicing daily in good weather. Last year, the Irish had snow, mud and cold both in their South Bend and Dallas preparations. Texas completed its Cotton Bowl preparations in Austin, 200 miles to the south, and 1 Friday, January 1, 1971 35 match against Stanford's passing whiz and AH-American Jim Flunkett. The OSU players as a whole agree that Plunkett is great, but they do not hold his team in the esteem of O.

J. Simpson and his Southern Cal team. This predominately senior starting squad of Bucks Texas films I saw," said Parseghian, "was how good Phillips is. He runs that triple option- to perfection, which is a tribute to Texas' coaching staff." Each team lists six offensive and six defensive starters who answered the kickoff for last year's Cotton Bowl game. That doesn't include Notre Dame All-America Larry Dinardo at offensive guard, where Cincinnati's Jim Humbert is the replacement.

Dinardo has undergone knee surgery. Nor does it include Texas' big-play specialist, Cotton Speyrer, who has a broken arm. After mid-week rain, the weather reverted to previous standards of excellence Friday, and sunny warmth is expected to continue through today's 2 p. m. kickoff.

yards. That's pale indeed alongside Bream, but Watson averaged 4.3 yards. The Tennessee offense is overshadowed somewhat by the defense that looks to Bobby Majors and Tim Priest. Majors intercepted 10 passes, Priest nine. "Majors is the kind of player who makes ladies stand up and holler," says his coach, Bill Battles.

Battles, too, makes the ladies jump. He's 28 and doesn't look a day over 19 in hitting the jackpot in his first season. Despite the high powered attacks (Air Force 353 points, Tennessee 333 points), Martin of the Academy has a suspicion the game will be "a low-scoring affair. Check that medium score, something maybe three-touchdowns-to-two." Martin reasons offenses, Inactive for more than a month, must be used constantly to be tactically sharp. Defenses necessarily don't need all those IN HI a Surprise Tennessee Air Force Could Heavily Favored By JIM MONTGOMERY Assistant Sports Editor DALLAS, Tex.

Resolute Notre Dame turns its gunsights on the No. 1 ranking and 30-game victory streak of the Texas Long-horns today in the 35th annual Cotton Bowl game. For the Fighting Irish a triple reward awaits if they can quell Texas' triple option ground game. A Notre Dame victory would exact retribution for a 21-17 loss to the Longhorns in last year's Cotton Bowl, remove some sting from a regular season-ending defeat by Southern California and put the South Bend ramblers in possible position for a No. 1 ranking of their own.

For Texas, a win would give the Longhorns rare back-to-back national titles, a feat not accomplished beyond dispute since Oklahoma did it in 1955-56. It would also stretch the string to 31, second longest in the last 50 years and exceeded only by Oklahoma's 47 straight, 1953-57. Not incidentally, it was a Notre Dame team which sheared that Oklahona streak, and the Irish both look and sound dedicated NBA Roundup (NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION) EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Club Won Lost Pet. G.B. BALTIMORE 21 16 .568 CINCINNATI 16 21 .432 ATLANTA 13 27 .325 Vh CLEVELAND 3 .114 Wh Atlantic Division Club Won lost Pet.

NEW YORK 31 11 .738 PHILADELPHIA 24 IS .571 BOSTON 22 17 .564 BUFFALO 11 31 .262 G.B. 7Vi 20 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division Club Won lost Pet. MILWAUKEE 29 7 .806 DETROIT 26 1 4 .650 CHICAGO 23 16 J90 PHOENIX 23 J4B Pacific Division G.B. Club Won Lost Pet. G.B.

LOS ANGELES 22 15 .595 SAN FRANCISCO ..23 1 9 .548 l'i SAN DIEGO 21 20 .512 3 SEATTLE 18 22 .450 3V PORTLAND 12 28 .300 11V4 WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS DETROIT 119. CINCINNATI 115. NEW YORK 111, SAN FRANCISCO 103. PHILADELPHIA 119, MILWAUKEE 107. BALTIMORE 106.

BUFFALO 90. SEATTLE 128. CHICAGO 109. PHOENIX 132. LOS ANGELES 114.

(Only Garnet Scheduled) THURSDAY'S RESULTS SAN FRANCISCO 144, BOSTON 106. ATLANTA 114, CLEVELAND 85. (Only Games Scheduled) TODAY'S GAMES SAN DIEGO AT LOS ANGELES, PORTLAND AT SEATTLE. BALTIMORE AT CLEVELAND. Only Games Scheduled) sebqwi: back there with his scrambling.

He's been in jams and knows how to get out of them. He better because the Bucks have a tough secondary, the second best in the country with the likes of All-Americans Jack a and Cincinnati's Mike Sensibaugh, the freewheeling safety. Plunkett's biggest problem is how to elude the Bucks' tough Ail-American middle guard, Jim Stillwag-on, who leads the powerful Ohio State rush. Plunkett, the Heisman Trophy winner, is the all-time NCAA total offensive champ with 7887 yards. Plunkett vs.

Ohio's Rex Kern is quite possibly the best quarterback matchup in Rose Bowl history. Kern's no slouch, either. Rex, acclaimed the most valuable player in the Bucks' win over O. J. and S.

Cal in 1969, is considered the best quarterback in Buck history and holds the school's total offense record with 3990 yards. Paired with Kern in the OSU backfield will be halfbacks Leo Ilayden and Larry Zelina and fullback John Brockington, who leads the Bucks in rushing with 1010 yards in 240 carries. The power boys on Stanford are fullback Hillary 1 and running back Jackie Brown while flanker Randy Vataha is the Indians' top pass receiver. Besides Sensibaugh, who is now recovered from a right foot bruise suffered Monday while practicing punting, offensive right guard Phil Strickland and defensive left halfback Harry Howard are other Queen City players on the Bucks' starting lineup. End Of Year Clearance J.

WALTER KENNEDY, the alleged commissioner of the National Basketball Association, could lose his Job over the Spencer Haywood fiasco. The commissioner's stay in office is marked by indecision or no decision. This time his authority is being flaunted. After Kennedy and the NBA's Board of Governors instructed him otherwise, Sam Schulman, the owner of the Seattle Supersonics, signed Haywood to a contract. Spencer always seems to be doing this sort thing.

The American Basketball Association signed him as a sophomore at the University of Detroit, claiming a hardship case. Theoretically, Schulman can not use that ploy. At any rate the NBA rule on the matter is clear. Haywood can not play in the league until his college class graduates and he is duly drafted by a NBA club. It is time for Kennedy to make a decision, if he has not forgotten how.

INCIDENTALLY A LOT of people wish the Royals were Just as unscrupulous as Schulman, or as generous with their fortunes. Signing Haywood, if he plays, should make Seattle an instant contender next year when injured Bob Rule returns to the team Norm Van Lier, the fiery Royal, was not fined for throwing a basketball at official John Parker a couple of months ago. Apparently Parker, whom Norm claims used abusive language towards him, did not file a report on the incident Six free agents are playing in the NBA. They are Bill Dinwiddle, Connie Hawkins, Mike Rlordan, Adrian Smith, Art Williams and the Royals' Moe Barr Speaking of Van Lier, other teams want him, badly. One of the league's better clubs called and offered its coming first round draft choice and any player, outside of two untouchables, for Norm The Storm.

The Royals said forget it. BOB ARNZEN PLAYED on an AAU team in New last year while he was a benchwarmer for the ABA's New York Nets. Arnie played under an assumed name, and even has a trophy for it. His team won a Christmas tournament. Bob played in only 14 games with the Nets The Milwaukee Bucks, maybe the best team in pro basketball, also are the highest paid.

Oscar Robertson gets $233,333.33 a year for the next three years while Lew Alcindor has a five-year $1.4 million package And talking about dollars, it is rumored that Artis Gilmore, the Jacksonville University star, has put a figure on what he as the top college player in the country expects from the pros. Artis has informed the two leagues that it will take $540,000 each year for five years to satisfy him. Although they sound like it, these are not fairy tale numbers Charlie Paulk was fined $100 for coming off the bench and participating in the fight between Johnny Green and Seattle's Tom Meschery a month ago. It is a standard league assessment IT IS A rare NBA player who plays his entire career with one team. For example Len Chappell has played with eight teams and for 11 coaches in nine years.

Dave Gambee, now mercifully retired, played with eight teams and 10 coaches in 12 years. And Jim Fox, a relative newcomer to shuffleboard, has been with four teams in five years. Then there is George Wilson. George has been included in every NBA expansion, playing with six teams in seven years. He's only had six coaches though.

Expansion teams never fire their coaches the first year. Through it all George has managed to maintain mediocrity. He has a 5.2 points a game career average Then there is Walt Bellamy, the curious center who seems to play basketball as if he were has held no-pad drills since arriving in Dallas Tuesday night. The game will match two excellent defensive teams, both using a 4-4-3 alignment, but there the similarity stops. Notre Dame has a balanced attack, ranking second nationally in total offense (510.5 yards a game) based on standing eighth in passing (252 yards per game) and 14th in rushing (257 yards a game).

The Irish also stood fifth nationally in total defense (fifth vs. rushing and sixth maestro of the-Air Academy. Martin was an assistant at Navy Canoe he laughs in press conferences) when the Midshipmen stunned Mississippi, 21-0, 15 years ago in what still is regarded as the biggest upset in Sugar Bowl history. He is in position to force history to give football a carbon copy. The passing combination of quarterback Bob Parker to All-America flanker Ernie Jenkins is the big reason for the Falcons' exhub-erence.

Parker, only 5 feet Upcoming Prep Basketball Card FRIDAY NIGHT NON-LEAGUE GAME Hindman (Ky.) it Wyoming. SATURDAY NIGHT NON-LEAGUE GAMEI Carr Creek (Ky.) at Wyoming. Oak Hill at LaSalle. Fayetteville at Country Day. Purcell at Mason County (Kv.V Roger Bacon at Covington Catholie.

Walnut Hills at Hamilton Garfield. TUESDAY AFTERNOON PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE Hughes at Woodward. Courier Tech at Taft. By BILL FORD Enquirer Sports Reporter NEW ORLEANS There is a smattering of intrigue behind the naked story that already proclaims a victory for Tennessee over the Air Force Academy in the 37th annual Sugar Bowl football classic today. To be sure, everything on paper points to a rather comfortable exercise for the Volunteers (10-1) in the nationally televised smash with the Falcons (9-2).

The Vols had the best offensive record in the storied history of the university (396.5 yards per game), the top rushing attack in the rugged Southeastern Conference (4.2 yards every time an Orangeman ran with the football) and a ball-hawking defense that intercepted 36 enemy passes, returning four for touchdowns. Still, the Vols have a comparatively lousy record lost 10 of the 16 postseason affairs in which they've played the last three (Orange, Cotton and Gator) In a row. And then there is Ben Martin, the energetic tween Nebraska's Bob De-vaney and LSU's Charlie McClendon, who has won five of six bowl appearances and lost only three games in the last two seasons by a total of only eight points. "We'll have to score at least three times to win, and that's an a 1 minimum," Devaney said. McClendon countered that "we'll just kind of play it by ear." Nebraska's balanced running and passing attack which produced better than 306 yards per game average, throws two passers and seven runners at the opposition.

Joe Ortuna and Jeff Kinney, alternating at the top of the Information, are the premium runners. Van Brownson and Jerry Tagge share quarterbacklng, each averaging better than 63 in pass completions, mostly Test For Stingly LSV Defense Nebraska Has 11 inches, was fourth in the nation in total offense (2783 yards) and threw for 21 touchdowns. Parker's payoff passes included three against Stanford in a showdown with Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett. In that one, Plunkett was no match, failing even to complete a touchdown pass as Parker overshadowed him, 229 yards to 176. For running, Parker usually feeds the ball to Brian Bream who this season ran for 1276 yards, even though only 5-9.

Combined with Jennings (1289 yards with 74 pass catches), Bream forms half of a spectacular attack. They scored 39 touchdowns. Tennessee has a pass-run tandem, too. Quarterback Bob Scott threw for 14 touchdowns and 1697 yards. Curt Watson is the ground threat with 791 tion's plaudits in a 3-0 loss to Notre Dame by holding the Fighting Irish to a lone field goal that came after a pass interference call.

The only other LSU loss was 20-18 to Texas in the first game of the season when the Tiger team was mourning the death of one of its players. McClendon's teams have been known as running squads but the Tigers this year produced more yards (2036) passing than rushing (1702). Buddy Lee and Bert Jones are another pair of tandem quarterbacks, each averaging better than 52 throwing success. Top receivers are Andy Hamilton and Ken Kavanaugh. The Tigers' big runner is tailback Arthur Cantrelle but the team leader Is Tommy Casanova whose main forte is defense and kick returns but spells Cantrelle at tailback.

Fire-Power V-INil 'BUT HORNS-Hdi bv' Non.g in ey.t rSl' somehow detached from the game, looking in at it through a glass window. On the floor, Bellamy resembles a lighthouse, his small head rotating back and forth on a massive body. Some people say they hear foghorns around Bellamy. Probably true. Walt's career has been ha2y.

He broke into the league in 1961-62 and averaged 31.6 per game. Since then each season, except one when it rose a half-point, Bells' scoring average has dwindled. It was 11.6 last year in Atlanta, the fifth city to harbor him. REMEMBER BACK TO about 11 months ago when the Royals announced they were trading their cornerstone, Oscar Robertson? At that time all parties agreed there were no personal difficulties involved. Last week in Madison, Robertson was quoted: "I'm glad to be rid of Bob Cousy and I imagine Bob Cousy is gla-1 to be rid of me." Cousy also was quoted earlier in the year on the subject of his then vocal, but now mostly submerged, critics.

"I don't give a damn what people say. Ninety-nine percent of my critics don't know what they're talking about anyway." He's right. You give Cousy lew Alcindor and he would have the best team In the NBA. AND MUHAMMAD ALI was questioned about flying saucers In a telephone conference call before his recent fight with Oscar Bonavena. All, a suspended Black Muslim although still a believer, is convinced that his religion's spiritual head and deceased supporters circle the earth constantly In large space ships.

"I've seen them all the time," he said in answer to the saucer question. "They look way up in the stars. Me, Angelo Dundee and a couple of AP reporters saw them the other night, so you can't say we're crazy. They go all across the sky. I see them a couple of times a week.

You have to be up a lot at four or five In the morning to see them. They tell you that they're a shooting star or a rocket or something. But I don't know, they can't trlclc me." MIAMI (UPI) Nebraska's undefeated big-scoring machine rams against Louisiana State's immovable defense tonight In a battle of conference champions for the 37th annual Orange Bowl football title. Nebraska, winner of the Big Eight Conference championship, is favored by six points on the basis of a 10-0-1 season that saw the Cornhuskers average more than 37 points per game. But LSU allowed opponents less than nine points a game in a 9-2 season which carried the Bayou Tigers to the Southeastern Conference title.

Both teams were pronounced healthy for the 8 p.m. kickoff with the game to be played before a record capacity crowd of 81,000 and a national television and radio audience (NBC). On paper the contest looks like a standoff be to Guy Ingles and Johnny Rodgers. The Nebraska defense, keyed on middle guard Ed Periard, is no slouch either, limiting 11 opponents to little more than 16 points a game scored mostly after the Cornhuskers sent in reserves and grabbing off 30 enemy passes. Louisiana a 's defense, led by All-America linebacker Mike Anderson, emerged tops in the nation against ground attacks and rated ninth overall.

The Purple One and Two Gangs of LSU won the na- -AP Wlrephoto Longhorii Faith Jay Paul, minister of youth at the First Presbyterian Church in Dallas, fixes the display board outside hij church that tells the world exactly how the peace of God has its limits at Cotton Bowl time. 4.