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Stye Has Rbtiif 4 mm Section SaU Dec. 31, 1983 BUSiliESS! DEGSI1S ON PAGE GS lifcoi rDQQf Cito Photo by WARREN TAYLOR Turnovers prove costly in 'Gator' at the Gator Bowl Statistic stwa 14 16 40-114 147 33 13-30-4 2-40 J-l 7-44 First downs Rusnts-vardi Passing yards Return yards Passas Punts Furoblas-losf Penalties-yards 44-148 34 9-23-1 7-31 0-0 12-105 0-14 JCOHINO Itwl Florida Fla N. Anderson I run (Raymond kick) Iowa FO Nichol 32 Fla Drew recovered fumbled snap bv Iowa punter in and lone (Raymond kick) Iowa FG Nichol 31 A INDIVIDUAL LEADIRS ftusNr Iowa: GUI 10-13, Granger -37; Florida: N. Anderson 17-14, L. Williams 10-41 Pesslrw Iowa: Long 13-W-4-I67, Nichol 0-1-0-0; Florida: Peace -22-2-2, Dixon 0-1-0-0.

ReceMn Iowa: R. Harmon 4 0, Granger 2-22, Florida: Dixon 5-55 BY BUCK TURNBULL Rf ffitw Sttff Wrflvr JACKSONVILLE, FLA. It may go down as a memorable Gator Bowl game here Friday night but for all the wrong reasons. Certainly no one in a record crowd of 81,293 will forget the bitterly cold, subfreezing weather, nor will Iowa and Florida forget all the chilly and rainy days leading up to the 39th annual classic. But the game itself will not be long remembered, mostly because the teams did not have the practice preparation they needed, and they played like it.

Florida walked off with a 14-6 victory but had a record 12 penalties in the process. And Iowa was penalized seven times in the ragged contest. The Hawkeyes came here with one of the nation's most powerful offenses, yet could not even score a touchdown. They had the country's No. 2 passer in Chuck Long, yet he surrendered four interceptions after throwing only eight throughout the entire season.

The biggest play of the game was a fumbled snap from center. And that tells you what kind of game it was for the shivering fans. Florida seemed headed for a 7-3 half time lead, and thus it figured to be anybody's game in the second half before a national TV audience. But then Iowa's Tom Nichol failed to catch the ball while standing in his I 'w J1 fi I vti 1,1 I Ni -n, "lilHf -1 Dun rii iix.Wi fi jiwub. wuuu' i uttuMarMMlil where Nichol received the ball from center Joel Hilgenberg.

"Tommy missed it," explained Fry, "and then he made a very bad mistake. He tried to pick it up instead of falling on the ball. If he'd fallen on it, Florida would have gotten only two points and not a touchdown. "The Florida guy came in from the back side to recover it. The sad part was, Florida had a return on and he (Drew) was the only player rushing the kicker." The Hawkeyes also got a bad break as Nichol sought to retrieve the ball.

Fullback Norm Granger was back as a blocker and it rolled between his legs, allowing Drew to make the recovery. "But we just didn't play well enough to win," added Fry. "We have no alibis, no excuses. Florida did a heck of a job against us, and I'm sure Charley Pell is shaking his head that he was able to win with a high-powered offense that scored only one touchdown. "We have a high-powered offense and couldn't even score a touchdown." Nichol's two field goals from 32 and 31 yards accounted for Iowa's only-points.

Florida tailback Neal Anderson was the game's leading rusher with 84 yards in 17 carries, and more than half came on a stunning 47-yard after the first of Tony Lilly's two interceptions GATOR BOWL Please turn to Page 2S GATCRBOWL end zone ready to punt with a little more than 1 minute left in the second quarter. Compounding the error, Nichol didn't fall on the ball for a safety after it bounced off his helmet. And suddenly Florida linebacker Doug Drew was there to fall on it for the decisive Gator touchdown. "It was my fault," said the disheartened Nichol afterward. Asked if he taken his eye off the center snap to cause the fumble, he just repeated: "It was my fault." Iowa Coach Hayden Fry held his hands in front of his face in describing HARMON DOES IT AGAIri Iowa wingback Ronnie Harmon makes another of bis tremendous circus Bowl.

He snared this Chuck Long aerial at the Florida 8-yard line between Tony Lilly (18) and another catches in first-half action of Friday night's Gator Gator defender. Respite 'poor game', Huskies rally, upend Drake JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Hayden Fry issued the warning earlier this week. Never had he brought a team into a game any game so unpre-s pared. No one was arguing after Florida's 14-6 Gator Bowl victory Friday night.

Who knows whether the foul weather that wouldn't cooperate with the Hawkeye practice schedule had any-f thing to do with shrinking the big-play offense that had served Iowa so well this season? It certainly didn't help, but that's too easy. "I've never had this kind of layoff," he said. "last year before the Peach Bowl we got in four workouts at home before we came to Atlanta. Fortunate-l ly the weather was a whole lot better then. No way we could have done that i this year." It was a rationalization, of course.

Florida beat Iowa plain and simple in a dreadful game. But if Fry didn't at-t' tribute the uninspired offensive play to the uninspired weather, he'd proba-i bly go mad wondering why the No. 3 offense in the land couldn't escape its 1 shadow for 60 minutes. I "It must have been the layoff," Fry said. "I can't believe we're that bad a team." And all those penalties.

Florida had a Gator Bowl record 12 of them and Iowa had seven. If this were basket-: ball both teams would have been shooting free throws all night. It would have been the one-and-bonus before any of the 81,283 eyewitnesses had a chance to catch Florida frost-' bite. It was far from the artistic success it was supposed to be. Fry had an inkling of that afterward when he asked a mob of fact-finders what they thought.

That was a first. "I don't know what that national au-ij dience thought about it," he said. "It was good defensively, but that's about it. Thank goodness that defense is back next year. You probably saw two of the better defensive teams in the nation out there tonight." Before the kickoff, all the hype and buildup added up to the best of the bowl games.

Somebody must have ad-ded wrong. The only things that added up once the game started were the penalties. Even the battle between two of the best quarterbacks in the land started slow before fizzling out altogether. When everyone was talking scoring, scoring, scoring the past two weeks, Fry was shaking his head. Watch for a defensive game, he said.

Right again. This is going to be like starting over, he told us. The defense will be ahead of the offense. As it turned out, the race wasn't even close. Why, Chuck Long, the second most ef ficient passer in the country, had nev- er thrown four interceptions in his life.

"I'm sure Charlie's shaking his head," Fry said. Sure enough. Charlie was doing exactly that. "Things like this happen," he said. "It's just too bad it had to happen when it did on national TV and every-; thing.

"We didn't execute and I forced the ball a few times. It's the first time I've ever had four interceptions and I hope it's the last. This was one of the most frustrating games I ever had." "Frustrating" seemed to be the by-I word late Friday night. Without a doubt, the word graced the Top 10 in Fry's vocabulary. Usually, it was coupled with the word "extremely." Believe it.

Maybe THE most frus-' trating. The last time Chuck Long threw as many as three interceptions, the phrase "destined for greatness" was only a prediction. The opponent was Arizona, the season was 1982 and the week was No. 3. A while back, in other words.

But even that game had a happy ending; From Iowa's standpoint, it wasn't much to look at, unless you're a de-' fense freak. Wayne Peace, the second most prolific passer in Southeastern Conference history, completed nine of 22 passes for 92 yards. He never hit for fewer passes in any of Florida's previous 11 games. "I didn't expect a high-scoring game," Long said. "I thought Florida's defense was better than Illinois'.

Our running backs weren't healthy against Illinois, and tonight they were. That '1 No. 88 linebacker Wilber Marshall is really a great player." And there was nothing sophomoric about the play of sophomore running back Neal Anderson, who almost had the run of the place. Anderson rushed Ifor 84 yards and overshadowed the fact that Peace wasn't having the best of games. There were dropped passes and de- lay penalties that slowed Iowa down once it was gaining speed.

Long and Fry will tell you the man on the 25- second clock was living in fast-motion the first half. Time wasn't on Iowa's side, but neither were the Hawkeyes. Sharp Hawk cagers tame Memphis State Cyclones roll, 72-64 K)WA STATi (72) MIN FG-A FT-A RB A FF TP 2 21 5-7 16 1-20 29 1-6 34 4-12 31 1-11 31 3-5 1 2 2 0 4 12 1 0 20 4 1 13 1 0 4 0 1 0 -01 4-1 4-4 7-1 2-2 0-0 Slovens Ro.Harrls Moss Allen Hornacek Virgil Culberlson Team Totals 1-3 0-1 19 6 By PAUL ROWE Rtflfttor Staff Writer Terry Hairston's driving layup with 2 minutes 42 seconds left to play gave Houston Baptist the lead for good, and the Huskies hit seven of eightfrom free-throw line down the stretch to rally past Drake, 57-53, in a non-conference game Friday night. The game was played at Veterans Auditorium in Des Moines before a crowd of only 1,984. Hairston's shot capped a second half rally that saw the Huskies overcome a DRAKE Please turn to Page 5S 200 25-51 22-30 14 12 72 two championships will be much' tougher to get." Steve Carfino, Greg Stokes and Michael Payne of Iowa were named to the six-man all-tournament team.

Joing them on the squad were Keith Lee of Memphis State, who was an unpopular choice as the tournament's IOWA BASKETBALL Pleose turn to Page 3S BALL STATE (44) I FG-A FT-A RB A PF TP 20 0-1 2-2 3 1 1 2 1 3 21 1 1 10 37 7-14 32 5-11 23 2-11 34 5-9 1 4 7-0 0-0 0-0 0- 0 1- 2 0-0 0-0 LaFeve Rowray Lamy Funin Jones Shelton Clark Chaster Team 5-7 4 10 3 II I 4 4 2 2-4 1-1 -A RB A PF TP 11 1-1 10 1-2 I II 4 4 1 12 HOUSTON BAPTIST (57) 200 27-42 10-12 7 25 44 40 71 Totals Iowa MIN FO-A FT-A RB A PF TP 4-5 2-3 2-2 2-3 2-2 30-64 0 0-0 1-1 INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (AP) It was a victory that Coach Johnny Orr wasn't giving away, because the 72-64 Iowa State decision over Ball State gave the Cyclones consolation honors in the Hoosier Classic basketball tournament Friday. But, Orr said, "I think that was our poorest game of the year." Terrence Allen and Barry Stevens scored six points apiece during a 20-2 scoring spurt that gave Iowa State a lead it never lost late in the first half. The 6-foot 5-inch Stevens, who was named to the all-tournament team, had 13 of his team-high 21 points in the second half, including six in the final 4 minutes when the Cyclones had to hold off a late comeback bid, and Allen tied a career high with 20 points. "Our spurt (in the first half) helped us tonight like it hurt us last night," Orr said, referring to a 2 -minute dry spell that allowed Boston College to take command of their first-round game with the Cyclones.

"We got some good steals, but we could have stolen the ball more if we had put some real pressure on them." "I guess you might say we lost our concentration," said Ball State Coach Al Brown. "We made some turnovers on the half -court pressure, but not on the press." Ball State was down by 14 after a Sal State 2a A 16,92 ByRONMALY Rtfitfir Staff Writer LOS ANGELES, CALIF. There were some National Basketball Association scouts in the audience Friday night, and Iowa showed them some all-pro stuff en route to an impressive 73-66 victory over 17th-ranked Memphis State in the championship game of the Winston Tire Classic. The Hawkeyes, pushing their season record to 7-2 while winning their fourth straight in-season tournament, will go into the Big Ten season next week with much more confidence after turning in an awesome performance before 6,227 fans more than half of whom were cheering for Iowa. Without a doubt, this was the Hawk-eyes' best game of the season.

Frankly, they were less than brilliant in some of their earlier December games, but they operated on all cylinders here against an opponent that now has a 7-3 record and was as high as 10th in some national rankings. "Before the season started," said Iowa Coach George Raveling, "we set a bunch of goals, and one was to win four championships. "We won our own tournament (the Amana-Hawkeye Classic), and got this one tonight. Now we want the Big Ten and National Collegiate championships. It's two down and two to go and I feel good about it but the next 00 5-4 0 FC-A 5-1 5-12 1-5 5- 5-11 0-0 O-l 0-1 O-l 0-0 0-0 0-0 O-l 4-1 MIN 31 31 23 .8 2 4 4 1 4 1 5 21 IOWA Anderson Payne Stokes Banks Carfino King Fullard Fort Slango Berkenpas Ursery Snedecker Boyle Lohaus Team 0-0 0-0 1 0-1 2- 2-7 4 21V 16 31' 3 12 32 34 I 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 2 5 1 0 0 0 3 4 1 3 20 0 1 0 0 4 5 1 2 17 0 0 2 7- 0- 2 1- 5 7- 1-1 4-4 5 0-0 1 3-4 2 3-4 2 0-0 0 1- 4 1 t-i 1 2- 2 4 3 200 It-M 19-37 21 4 15 57 Totals 2 25-0 23-11 41 4 17 71 MEMPHIS JT.

MIN FG-A FT-A RB A 1 12 0-9 4 Parks MIN FG-A FT-A RB A FF TP Goporo Jones Blgott Lavo1rema England Kongawoln HoHlns Halrslon Lewis Totals DRAKE (S3) Nauman Kreklow Henderson Weathers O'Sh'nessy Kendrlck Jones Johnson Mathls Lloyd Totals How Drake 0-0 0-1 1 31 2 4 2-2 1 35 1-1 Stevens shot from the corner with 10:47 remaining in the game. Rick Rowray, who had 21 to share game scoring laurels, pulled Ball State to within five points three times in the final 5:00. But the Cyclones were able to hold off the threat by connecting from the free throw line hitting 10 of their last 12 as Ball State was forced to foul in a bid to regain the basketball. The Cyclones (8-2) trailed, 20-14, when Stevens hit a jumper from the free throw line with 8:50 left in the IOWA STATE Please turn to Page 3S 3 4 10 2 5-13 0-0 12 1-2 0-0 2-13 5-11 1- 3 5-1 5-11 4-4 0-1 0-0 3-7 0-2 2- 7 35 2 17 20 33 I 15 4 12 5 23 2 1 1 1- 3 15 O-l 4 0-0 0 0-0 1 0-0 0 0-0 1 2- 2 1 0-0 4 0- 0 1 1- 3 7 3 Lee Phillips Turner Haynes McCoy Albright Wilfong Holmes Becton Bedford Team 0 1 4 12Vl 0 0 0 0 2-2 0-0 0-1 0-1 7 1 1 0 1 3 17 2 16 33 6-14 27' 5-t 200 20-43 11-14 24 II S3 20 17-57 25-51 Totals HO 27-4 12-11 45 4 22 44 Iowa 44-71 Moments Slat 22 44-44 Technicals Bedford, Memphis Slate bench. A 4,227.

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