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1 Saturday, December 10. 1983 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER SPORTS B-3 Today's College Games Central State Bids For Palm Bowl Title College Football Miami before he become a runner in the NFL. Darrell Smith played quarterback, runningback and defensive back in high school and started out as a runningback in college. Xavier vs. Miami TlpoH: 2:05 p.m., Millett Hall, Oxford, Ohio.

Records: Xavier 3-1, Miami 3-1. Favoritt: Miami by 6. TV: WXIX (Channel 19). Radio: WPFB (910), WHKX (101-FM). Tickets Available: Approximately 2.000.

What To Look For: Two ambitious teams risk their respective conference's pride and neighborhood bragging rights in this early-season attention grabber. Xavier, the favorite in the Midwestern City Conference, hasn't impresssed so far, but the Musketeers somehow find a way to win. Miami, recently everyone's punching bag in the Mid-American Conference, impressed no one until the Redskins stunnned Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers two weeks ago. Millett Hall on the campus hasn't quieted down since. Both teams return with veteran squads and both like to mix defenses.

With Ron Harper, the Redskins boast perhaps the region's most spectacular individual. In this long series, too, they cling to an unusual jinx: the Redskins have not lost to the Muskies in Millett in eight games. Miami regular Chuck Dahn still is gimpy and probably will yield to Cincinnatian Billy Lewis at the baseline. John Marx, the Redskins' 6-foot-10 center, and Jeff Jenkins, the Muskies' agile baseline player who is trying to make up for some serious injury problems in the middle, offer an interesting match when the teams play man defenses. Kentucky vs.

Kansas TipoH: 9:05 p.m. at Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas. Records: Kentucky 2-0, Kansas 3-1. Favorite: Kentucky by 5. TV: None.

Radio: WCKY (1530). Tickets Available: None. What To Look For: Parts of "The Day After" were filmed inside Allen Fieldhouse the nuclear fallout shelter last summer. Knowing Kentucky's potential and the history of this series, the fieldhouse could look just as ravaged tonight. Kentucky is 14-1 all-time versus tradition-steeped Kansas, including nine straight victories and an 83-62 thrashing last season in Freedom Hall.

Kansas, at least, will not be dwarfed by Kentucky's 7-1, 6-1 1, 7 6-9 front line, what with 7-1 center Greg Dreiling and two 6-8 forwards 1 Kerry Boagni and Kelly Knight. Plus, 6-5 guard Carl Henry, a tranfer from i Oklahoma City and the leading scorer, matches up well with UK's 6-5 shooting guard, Jim Master. Master, with 988 career points, could become the 28th Kentucky player to score 1,000. Pro Football Recycled NFLQBs On Spot FROM ENQUIRER WIRES Terry Bradshaw, the quarterback who guided four Pittsburgh teams to Super Bowl victories, is scheduled to play his first game of the season today when the stumbling Steelers play the Jets at New York. The game is the first of two on today's National Football League schedule as the league goes to a regular schedule of Saturday games.

In the other, the Miami Dolphins, 10-4 and champions of the AFC East, will host the Atlanta Falcons, with Don Strock starting at quarterback in place of sensational rookie Dan Marino, who suffered a strained knee' in the Miami's 24-17 title-clinching victory over Houston last Sunday. The Falcons (6-8) are out of the playoff picture. Bradshaw, who had off-season elbow surgery, will start in place of Cliff Stoudt, who has started every game this season, as the Steelers (9-5) try to snap a three-game losing streak and clinch at least a wild card playoff spot. "We needed to do something," said coach Chuck Noll of the decision to activate and start Bradshaw. "Our offense just hasn't been functioning." PITTSBURGH HOLDS first place by one game over the Cleve- FROM ENQUIRER WIRES Darrell Smith ranks as Central State's big play performer, scoring 17 touchdowns as a wide receiver this season for the NCAA Division II football finalists.

The 6-foot-2, 180-pound senior from Youngstown, Ohio, the kid brother of San Diego Chargers' running back Sherman Smith, has scored 102 points in 1983, tying him for the national Division II scoring lead with Clarence Johnson of North Alabama. Smith will be one of the seventh-ranked Marauders' main weapons today when Central State (12-0) of Wilberforce, Ohio, faces No. 4-rated North Dakota State (11-1) In the Palm Bowl In McAllen, Texas. Smith's scoring receptions are the most for any receiver at any level of college football this season. "Darrell has the ability to come up with the big play when we need It," saia coach Billy Joe of the small school from southwestern Ohio, appearing in its first Division II playoffs.

"So when we get into scoring situations, he is naturally the guy we look for," Joe said. "He's the senior receiver and has the most experience." Smith has caught 47 passes for 814 yards, an average of 17.3 per reception in 12 games this season. The younger Smith has bounced around positions just as his older brother did at Miami of Ohio and in the National Football League. Sherman Smith was a quarterback and wide receiver at INDEPENDENCE BOWL: Once a perennial powerhouse which expected a bowl bid each year as its birthright, Mississippi's football program had fallen on hard times. Ole Miss hadn't been to a bowl since 1971, and hadn't had a winning season on the field since 1975 (although forfeits gave the Rebels 6-5 records in 1976 and 1977).

Some fans questioned whether the glory days of Johnny Vaught could ever be recaptured. Billy Kinard, Ken Cooper and Steve Sloan had failed to revive the Rebel program. When Billy Brewer, a former star player under Vaught, took the head coaching position last December, he was asked what made him think he could succeed where the others had failed. "Because I love Ole Miss," was his answer. In his first season, Brewer has done the unthinkable.

His team won its last five games, including upsets over Louisiana State and Tennessee and a come-from-be-hind triumph over archrival Mississippi State, to finish at 6-5 and gain a berth in the Independence Bowl at Shreveport, tonight against Air Force (9-2). TERRY BRADSHAW pressure on today land Browns In the American Conference Central Division. The Jets (7-7) have won three straight games and still have a mathematical chance of making the playoffs. AT MIAMI, Strock, the man Miami coach Don Shula likes to have on his bench in case of emergency, will make his first National Football League start In two years against the Falcons. Strock hasn't throw a pass this season.

He took his first snap in the fourth quarter of last Sunday's 24-17 victory at Houston and pitched to running back Tony Nathan, who scored the winning touchdown. It came one play after Marino hurt his left knee. "Although we have clinched the AFC Eastern Division championship, our last two games are as important as as any we've played because of what they could mean as far as homefleld advantage (in the playoffs) Is concerned," Shula said. Local Sports Soccer Berth At Stake A berth In the regional playoffs of the U. S.

Amateur Cup competition sponsored by the United States Soccer Federation is the prize when the Kolping Seniors and Fairfield Thorlans meet at 2 p. m. Sunday at Kolping Field on Winton Road in Finneytown. Kolping is led by All Kasamall, former Clarkson College All-American from Tanzania, and Mike Whiting, University of Cincinnati's all-time leading scorer from Greenhills. Fairfield Thorlans entered the Cincinnati Amateur Soccer League in 1982 afater taking the Junior title two years in a row in the Tri-County Youth Soccer League.

Fred Hibbs, formerly of West Virginia, leads Fairfield, which is 9-1-0 in the league this year. USFL Signs Mike Fuller Former Cincinnati Bengal safety Mike Fuller has signed a multi-term contract with the Birmingham Stallions of the United States Football League. Fuller, a former Auburn star, played six seasons with the San Diego Chargers and two with Cincinnati before being cut by the Bengals before this season. With the Bengals, Fuller also returned kicks. Stallions coach Rollie Dotsch said he may use Fuller at another position in the defensive secondary.

Neither Dotsch nor Fuller revealed the terms of Fuller's con U.S. Hockey Team Beats Russians Again, 5-4 tract. ii -if ii Ski Clinic On Thursday Miltord senior Honored he fell to the ice during a scramble in front of Tyzhnykh. On the next American rush, Chelios, a defenseman, Journeyed to the front of the net and scored on a rebound against Tyzhnykh. Then the Soviets solved the American goaltender Marc Behrend twice in 2:42 to make it 4-4.

Greeted by a raucous, flag-waving crowd of 9,110 chanting "U-S-A U-S-A," the Americans seemed tense in the first period, perhaps trying too hard to rekindle memories of 1980. The Soviets also were sloppy in the opening 20 minutes but managed to take a 1-0 lead. third period, found some extra energy and tied it on goals by Anatoli Stapenischev and Mikhail Varnakov. Varnakov tied it, 4-4, only 21 seconds before Verchota scored his dramatic goal. Verchota and Ed Olczyk also scored in the second period for the Americans.

IT WAS the first meeting between a team from the Soviet Union and an American squad here since the Americans stunned the Soviets, 4-3, in the 1980 Olympics. The game was not played at quite as frantic a pace, but still featured some scintillating action. With the game seemingly headed for a 2-2 deadlock, Bjugstad knocked in a loose puck as LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP)-Phil Verchota, the only member of the 1980 United States gold medal-winning Olympic hockey team skating Friday night, scored on a breakaway with 1:18 remaining to lift Team USA to a wild 5-4 exhibition victory over the Soviet Select. Verchota, the American team captain, took a pass from defenseman Tom Hirsch, broke in on Soviet goaltender Alexandr Tyzh-nykh and put in a short wrist shot for his second goal of the game.

The Americans had grabbed a 4-2 lead on goals 29 seconds apart by Scott BJugstad and Chris Chellos late in the third period. But the Select players, who appeared to tire in the Cincinnati Recreation Commission will conduct a free cross country ski clinic at 7:30 p. m. Thursday at the Avon Woods Outdoor Recreation Center, 4235 Paddock Rd. For more information, call 861-3435.

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