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SPORTS tamtx Cajyrleht, 175, Di Moines RMiitir nd Tribune Company Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday Morning, Dec. 27, 1975 Father (coach), son (kicker) lift Arizona State in Fiesta Bowl, 17-14 nn yy Statistics By MAURY WHITE RMltttr Staff Writer TEMPE, ARIZ. Dan Ariz. St. Nebraska 20 20 37-162 57-198 173 90 in First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 15-37-2 12-31-1 7-39 5- 37 0-0 6- 54 2-2 4-38 with the shouts and happiness of victory.

Dan did as directed, producing a third field goal with 4 minutes 50 seconds left in the game. This one was for 29 yards and it was the margin of victory over a team ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press poll. What did Dad say when Dan trotted off the field? "He just smiled," reported the kicker. "So did I.

Everybody was smiling. But I'll tell you, I was shaking on the last one. The others were just regular kicks." Sun Devils Unbeaten The official name of this production was Fiesta but it has been popularly, spoken of around here as the "Credi bility Bowl," a chance for a Western Athletic Conference team to beat a titan with national TV exposure. The undefeated Sun Devils were two-touchdown underdogs despite finishing 11-0, and were ranked No. 7.

No question it will be higher than that when the final poll is taken after the full round of bowls. a touchdown pass to John Jefferson and a two-point conversion to Larry Mucker Kush the father beckoned again. 'Keep Head Down' "All he said was to keep my head down and follow through," said Dan, trying to be heard in a dressing room where the walls almost bulged the Kush family were very big here as the Sun Devils upset Nebraska, 17-14, in a Fiesta Bowl with more twists and turns than your average belly dancer. Kush the son furnished 27-and 33-yard field goals early. Much later after reserve quarterback Fred Mortensen came in long enough to throw The Huskers, who first said they didn't want to go to a bowl unless they defeated Oklahoma for the Big Eight title, might have been better off if they hadn't changed their minds.

They erred much too frequently, suffered from con- FIESTA Please turn to Page Two Kush is a small, swarthy junior who place kicks for Arizona State, a football team coached by his father Frank, Despite that, or maybe because of it, Dan has just started getting a tuition scholarship. Friday, two generations of SCORING Arizona Stat 3 10 1117 Nebraska 0 7 7 014 ASU FG Kush 27 Neb Anthony 1 run (Coyle kick) ASU FG Kush 34 Neb Anthony 4 run (Coyle kick) ASU Jefferson 10 pass from Morten-sen (Mucker Dass from Mortensen) ASU FG Kush 29 Attendance: 51,396. LASER PHOTOS (AP) "5 'T''' BEDEVILING KICK Dan Rush's kick heads for goal posts Sun Devils' Coach Frank Kush, kicked three field goals to help and game-winning three points in Arizona State's 17-14 upset Arizona State extend its victory string to 13 games longest victory over Nebraska in Fiesta Bowl Friday. Kush, son of among major college football teams. tnumohs- (-State Hawkeyes go for 8-0 in Hawaii Pitt stops E(an SOS in Sun Bowl, 33-19 now 0-8 Cyclones Probable Lineups IOWA HOLY CROSS CRAIG CATCH Nebraska wingback Curtis Craig of Davenport, leaps to grab short pass in Fiesta Bowl game Friday against No.

7 Arizona State. Sun Devils upset sixth-rated Cornhuskers, 17-14, on Dan Rush's 29-yard field goal in fourth quarter. Arizona State linebacker Larry Gordon (left) closes in for tackle. Statistics By JIM MOACKLER rrobi, ov hotter, Parker. 44 Virens.

Staff Writer King, K-8 Halsev, 4-9 EL PASO, TEX. (AP) -Pittsburgh, behind the fine performances of quarterback vvuiiauerH, o-j uoran, Thompson, 6-3 McAuley, i-2 Tourney Facts FRIDAY'S GAMES Kansas State 81, Iowa Statt 67 Missouri 81, Oklahoma State 79 TONIGHT'S GAMES 7:05 p.m. Colorado (2-5) vs. Oklahoma (2-5) 9:05 p.m. Kansas (5-3) vs.

(5-3) KANSAS CITY, MO. Iowa State's basketball team fell so far behind here Friday night Pitt 53-32 60 18 8-13-2 5-35 1-0 10-95 Kansas 19 47-342 76 4-142 5-37 6-2 5-25 First downs Rushes-vards Passing vardt Return yard Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Robert Haygood and running that it couldn't make it back backs Tony Dorsett and El SCORING Pittsburgh 7 12 Kansas 0 0 liott Walker, rolled to a 33-19 victory over Kansas Friday In Washington State hires Sherrill, ex-Cyclone aide 0 14-33 7 1217 and sagged to its eighth straight loss, 81-67, to Kansas State in the opening round of 49ERS FIRE DICK NOLAN the Sun Bowl. Time and place-1 1.09 p.m., time: Honolulu International Cwter. Broadcasts WMT, Cedar Patiiits. Special Dispatch to The Rofj'i HONOLULU, HAWAII -Unbeaten Iowa puts a seven-game winning streak on the line tonight against Holy Cross in the first round of the Rainbow Classic basketball tournament.

The game starts at 11:09 o'clock (Iowa time). The last time the Hawkeyes came to Hawaii for the Rain the Big Eight tournament at Haygood's direction of the offense allowed Pitt to roll up Pitt Waker 40 run (Long kick) Pitt Dorsett 8 run (kick failed) Pitt Dorsett 2 run (pass failed) Kan Smith 55 run (Swift kick) Pitt Waker 2 run (Long kick) Kan Smith 17 run (kick failed) Pitt Jones 7 pass from HaysoOd (Long kick) Kan shjrp pass from McMlchael (run failed) A 33,240. Kemper Arena. Missouri withstood a late Ok SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF, 372 yards rushing, including lahoma State comeback to escape with an 81-79 victory in (AP) Dick Nolan was fired 142 by Dorsett and 123 by Friday as head coach of the the second game before a rec San Francisco -v. ord opening-night crowd of Walker.

Dorsett and Walker also got two touchdowns 10,142.. ston tallied six points in a surge that pushed the Wildcats, one of the tourney favorites, into a 50-37 lead. Iowa State never crept closer than five points after that, the last time, 54-49, with about 10 minutes left. By then, scoring whiz Ivy was operating with four fouls. Johnson Scores 21 Johnson led the Cyclone scoring with 21 points.

Ivy tal- CYCLONES Please turn to Page Three apiece. PULLMAN, WASH. (AP) -Jackie Sherrill, an assistant coach under Coach Johnny Majors at Pittsburgh and Iowa State, Friday was named head football coach at Washington State. Sherrill, 32, former Alabama star, succeeds Jim Sweeney, who resigned last month after eight seasons at the Pacific Eight Conference school. Sherrill's appointment was The Cyclones (0-8) are now bow Classic in 1969 they finished seventh.

But that was the year Iowa won the next 16 games en route to the Big Ten championship. off to their worst start ever. and two yards, each coming after Kansas mistakes. The first occurred after a Kansas defender had slammed into a Pitt player, who had signaled for a fair catch on a short punt. The Until two days ago, Coach Johnny Majors wasn't even sure if Haygood, who had The school's previous worst start was in 1908-09, the first year Iowa State competed in Holy Cross (5-2) returns been injured, or Matt Cav- 49ers, Louis G.

Spadia, president and general manager of the National Foot-ball League club said. Nolan had served eight seasons as 4 9 ers head seven of the top eight players from last year's 20-8 club that basketball, when the team lost anaugh would be the starting quarterback. Haygood had -fey Lad A' ju penalty gave the Panthers iSllilfiiliiliil its first seven games. was votea tne top team possession on the Jayhawk 29, started the first seven games The amazing fact was that disclosed by Washington State The second occurred after a this season before suffering Coach Ken Trickey's squad IOWA STATE FO-A FT-A RB PF TP Jackie Sherrill Majors' Assistant Kansas fumble, one of six by DICK NOLAN resident ulenn Terrell on the recommendation of Athlet was able to make a contest of the injury. Majors Confident Art Johnson Bo Peake 1-5 Dale Smith 0-2 Hercle Ivy 10-14 it after lagging, 32-12, midway ic Director Ray Nagel, former the Jayhawks, gave Pitt the SUN through the opening half.

coach longer than any pre vious San Francisco coach ex Roman Butkus 1-2 1- 3 0-0 0-0 2- 2 0-0 0-0 2-2 "It was kind of like flipping New England. This year, the balanced Crusader squad has dropped decisions to No. 19 Kansas State and Vanderbilt. Seventh-ranked Cincinnati is the tournament favorite, facing Arizona in the other first-round match tonight. St.

Peter's and Southern California, Yale and Hawaii played Mike Iowa football coach. Three-Year Pact They came back from that Jim Murony n.n Please turn to Page Two a com," said Majors, a for Julian Butler cept the first one, Buck Shaw, to close to within a point, 36-35, bvan vaniey Sherrill was in El Paso, Sun Devils lose in Spanish final MADRID, SPAIN (AP) just before halftime as Art mer Iowa State coach, of the two healthy quarterbacks. "I Totals 31-3 5-9 25 17 7 who served nine years. No Names Friday where twentieth- KANSAS STATE FG-A FT-A RB PF TP talked to both of them before ranked Pitt defeated No. 18 Darryl 5-13 Bobby Noland Argentina leads Davis match the game and I asked if, Carl Gerlacn Kansas, 33-19, in the Sun Friday night other first- Real Madrid, four-time Eu c.

Williams Mike Evans B-13 9 2 17 3 4 2 1 0 should one of them got a hot 6-6 0-0 0-0 0-O 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 Nolan's record was 54-53-5, but the 49ers were 5-9 this year and- 16-26 in. the last three Bowl. round games. hand, if the other would mind Larry Dassie Dan Droge 0-1 Keith Frazier 0-0 No salary was revealed im BUENOS AIRES, ARGEN if I let him go all the way, Johnson, Hercle Ivy and Julian Butler led the attack. It's 38-37 But the Cyclones came that close only once again, when reserve Mike Benjamin connected from the right baseline to start the second half to make it 38-37.

Right after that, Darryl Win- ropean basketball champions, won the Spanish Christmas tournament Friday by beating mediately, but Sherrill was TINA (AP) Argentina took They said for me to do what I Totals 34-69 9-10 31 15 81 Score at half kantat State 38. Inwa Wake Forest wins years. Spadia said he has "a num given a three-year contract, State 35: thought was right." Nagel said. a 2-0 lead over Brazil in Davis Cup tennis preliminary rounds Friday as Ricardo in Gator Bowl meet Arizona State, 120-95, behind American Walter Szczerbiak's ber of candidates in mind as Haygood, a junior who was After starring at Biloxi, replacements," but he men voted the game's most valu JACKSONVILLE, FLA. High School, Sherrill Cano and Elio Alvarez scored 46 points.

(AP) Unbeaten Wake For played on three bowl teams singles triumphs. able player, rushed for 101 yards and completed eight of est won its sixth game Friday Argentina ace Guillermo Vi lHISTLIUG Veterans Auditorium Des Moines, Iowa TONIGHT, 8 P.M. Real Madrid, winning the tournament for the eighth time, wound up unbeaten and 11 passes and one touchdown. under Bryant at Alabama. He was a fullback and captain of the 1966 Orange Bowl team night with a 107-83 victory over St.

Joseph's of Pennsyl las was sidelined with a groin injury. The Panthers, who had lost two of their last three games vania in the opening round of Cano defeated Luiz Tavares, that defeated Nebraska, 39-28, when Haygood was sidelined, the Gator Bowl basketball 6-3, 6-4, 7-5, and Alvarez beat Defensive Bass topping the final standings with six points. Palmeriras of Sao Paulo, Brazil, was second had a 19-0 lead at halftime tournament. Wake Forest led Carlos Kirmayr, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in the best-of-five series. Sherrill began his coaching Main Event Central States Title Match Ray Candy Easy Ed Wiskoski at halftime, 68-36.

with five, Arizona State was and coasted to the victory. Mistakes Costly career under Bryant following graduation in 1966 and spent third with four and Estu-diantes Monteverde of Madrid Dorsett got touchdowns in one year as an assistant at fourth with three. the first half on runs of eight Arkansas with Frank Broyles before joining Majors at Iowa Texas Death Match Ted Oates Mike George vs State as coordinator of scout The Outlaws tioned no names. He said he hopes to sign a replacement for Nolan "as soon as practicably possible." There was no immediate comment from Nolan. Fans Critical He had come under criticism of fans and some of the media during the season because of the 49ers' uncertain quarterback situation and inability to develop a running attack from what appeared to be an abundance of young talent.

Nolan came to the 49ers in 1968 and piloted the club to division championships in 1970-71-72. In all three years the 49ers lost to Dallas in the playoffs, the first time in the opening round and the last two times for the National Conference championship. ing in 1968. JVC INDUSTRIES. INC.

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