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Inside Sports Bill Hajt and Jerry Korab combine for seven assists in the Buffalo Sabres' romp over the New York Rangers, 2D; pro basketball referee Richie Powers is the subject of this week's Time Q-A, 11D, and Mark Cox upsets Jimmy Connors in the Stockholm Open tennis tournament, 12D. Mark Cox Morning Scoreboard NHL Buffalo 6, NY Rangers 2 Los Angeles 3, Detroit 3 Pittsburgh 1, Philadelphia 0 Montreal 3, Colorado 3 Aianta 5, St. Louis 3 Toronto 3, Vancouver 0 NY Islanders 3, Minnesota 2 Bishop Kearney 33, Monroe 8 Mendon 38, Sutherland 8 Schroeder 5, Thomas 0 Mynderse 14, Waterloo 6 Schroeder 5, Thomas 0 Rush Henrietta 41, Aquinas 6 Penfield 27, Brighton 8 Irondequoit 20, Eastridge 0 East Rochester 14, Fairport 9 Red Jacket 28, Victor 8 East 19, Franklin 0 Olympia 8, Athena 7 Complete Scores, Standings, 2D Sportscasts 2D Race results, entries 8D Sports Calendar 9D Speak Out 10D Outdoors 10D Democrat tmb (Cbraturlf to ROCHESTER, N.Y.. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1976 High School Football 7 ports i I Th is one was uevine Irish coach savors win over Alabama Top 20 How they fared 12. Houston was idle.

13. Arkan. lost to Tex. 31-10. 14 Okla.

def. No. 11 Missouri. 27-20. 15.

Florida lost to Kentucky, 28-9. 16. Texas def. Arkansas, 31-10. 17.

Okla. def. Kansas 45-21. 18. Notre Dame def.

Alabama, 21-18. 19. Colorado def. Kansas, 40-17. 20.

S. Carolina lost to W. Forest, 10-7. Details begin on 5D. 1.

Pittsburgh def. W. Virginia, 24-16. 2. UCLA def.

Oregon 45-14. 3. USC def. Washington, 20-3. 4.

Michigan def, Illinois, 38-7. 5. Texas Tech. def. SMU, 34-7.

6. Maryland def. Clemson, 20-0. 7. Georgia def.

Auburn, 28-0. 8. Ohio St. def. Minnesota, 9-3.

9. Nebraska lost to Iowa 37-28. 10. Alabama lost to Notre Dame, 21-18. 11.

Missouri lost to No. 14 27-20. SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Dan Devine has won 160 games in 22 years as a head coach in the college and professional ranks but none of them was any bigger or sweeter than No. 160.

It came yesterday, a scary 21-18 triumph that enabled Notre Dame and Devine to continue their mastery over Alabama and Bear Bryant, which probably put them in a college football class by themselves. "This is it, there aren't any others," Devine said emotionally as he toweled himself dry from a soft drink one of his players poured on his head. "I'm a little bit limp." Notre Dame and Alabama, two of the grandest names in college football history, have now met three times with the Fighting Irish winning them all by one point, by two points and now by three points. And Devine is 2-0 over Bryant after Saturday's triumph plus a 35-10 Gator Bowl victory over Alabama when he coached at Missouri. "It's getting worse with age," sighed the 63-year-old Bryant, the third winningest coach ever with 260 victories.

"One, two and three points I doubt very seriously I'll make it PSTATE Cornell rises up, soli's ws (iimtrrtiniiiiiiiTiiMi-fr pioto by Jim Sheehan Victorv-bound "There was a point in the season when it looked like we might fall apart," said senior defensive end and co-captain Charlie Payne. "But after that Dartmouth game (a 35-0 loss) we got together and decided what a bunch of hypocrites we were when we'd practice hard and not give as much as we could in a game. "This has been the most rewarding of my four years here," said Payne, a Victor Central School graduate. "Everybody did stay together. I can't say enough about our coaching staff.

They really worked and worked and worked. "I think the general attitude is that coach Seifert should be given another year. The coaching isn't the problem. The problem is that we haven't had enough winners. There have been too many players who didn't care enough whether they lost." The players' actions after the game indicated they wanted Seifert back.

They lifted him to their shoulders and carried him across the field to meet Penn coach Harry Gamble. "That's something that I'll always remember," Seifert said. "The reason you're in coaching is the associations Turn to Page 6D By LARRY BUMP Sportsuriter ITHACA George Seifert may have saved his job as Cornell football coach yesterday. But it's more likely the Cornell players saved it for him by whipping Penn, 31-13, before 9,000 spectators at Schoellkopf Field. The victory was the second in nine games this season for Cornell and only the Big Red's third in 18 games under Seifert.

He hadn't coached a winner at home before yesterday. The loss knocked Penn (3-6 overall) into a Jast-place tie with Cornell. Both finished with 2-5 Ivy League records. "There's been some talk that this would be my last game," Seifert said, "but I'm not going to quit. Cornell will notify you if they're going to make any change.

This isn't the time to talk about it, for me or for the players. I'm just happy we won." Seifert isn't going to quit and neither did his players yesterday. They fell behind, 7-0, early in the second quarter but came back behind sophomore quarterback Mike Tanner to, score more points (24) in the middle two quarters than they'd scored in a game this season. The Little Brown Jug was the helped East Rochester land it Fairport's Dan Enright (71), prize and Tom Rosati (left) yesterday. Rosati, pursued by gains ground Details, 4D.

Angry UR players, coaches fall short againsf Buclcnell to the four-pointer." Barring a bowl matchup, the two schools won't tangle again until 1980. Notre Dame scored all its points in the second period and then held on. Quarterback Rick Slager riddled Alabama's proud pass defense for 203 yards in the first two periods, including a 56-yard touchdown bomb to Dan Kelleher on the first play of the second quarter to begin the scoring. "This was the greatest game of my life," said Slager, who sat out the final 10 minutes with a shoulder injury and was scheduled for X-rays today. "The touchdown pass was a special play we put in this week.

We tried to sucker the linebackers in and I. winged it to Kelleher. He came under it and was gone." Alabama fell behind 21-7 at the half and a second half rally fell short. However, Notre Dame's triumph wasn't secured until Jim Browner intercepted Jeff Rutledge's pass in the end zone with 4:17 left and halfback Pete Cavan all alone and waving for the ball across the end zone. Rutledge never saw him.

"I tried to force it," Rutledge said. "I didn't see Pete. Everyone's told me he was wide open. It was my fault. What hurts is that we came back so hard and let it get away like that." "You know what they say about almost," said tackle Charles Hannah.

"It doesn't mean anything." The triumph gave 18th-ranked Notre Dame a 7-2 record and kept its hopes alive for a major bid. Alabama, which was ranked 10th, had a five-game winning streak snapped and dropped to 7-3 overall, the most losses for the Crimson Tide since 1970. Bruno Mr Sniders Colgate tripped up UR never bothered to announce theirs before or during the game. Badowski and O'Connor were simply not listed on the starting lineup sheet. No explanation.

But even the usually evasive and secretive coaching staff began to loosen up and explain what had happened. Badowski and O'Connor had been ruled out of the Bucknell game for overexhuberant celebrating during a pep-rally before the Washington University game four weeks ago. Aslo unexplained was why the suspension was invoked one month after the fact. "They should have been punished," said one coach, who asked not to be identified. "But why this? "We are always told here that our people are students first and athletes second.

In this case," the coach added, "they punished them because they were athletes." Ronald Jackson, the dean of student Turn to Page 6D John Vitone is a loyal servant. He usually lets the head coach do all the talking for the University of Rochester football. But Vitone, who is Stark's defensive assistant, was red faced with anger yesterday. And it wasn't over the 21-7 defeat to Bucknell at Fauver Stadium, which could have been UR's finest effort of the season, losing or winning. The Yellowjackets had to play without two starters, tight end John Badowski, the offensive co-captain, and tackle Chris O'Connor.

They were suspended by the school for disciplinary reasons. With them in the lineup it could have been an even closer game. The Yellowjackets played well enough to scare the daylights out of the Bisons, who failed last week in a gallant upset bid against Colgate. In fact, UR jumped to a 7-0 lead in the first period on a one-yard plunge by Mike Corp. Bucknell fought back with a tying touchdown in the second period and pulled away with two more TDs in the last half.

"Why don't you ask why the university made this team play without two of its starters?" Vitone snapped at the post game interview. Vitone hung around long enough to deliver a few more jabs and thus unraveled the case of the Missing Two, the pair of starters whose presence could have made it a difference. "I guess they conducted themselves unbecoming of the geniuses they turn out from this place," Vitone said. While big time schools make no secret of suspensions for any reason, Army rushed to a 16-0 lead on an eight-yard pass from Hall to Don Briggs, a 29-yard field goal by Joe Castelli after a Colgate fumble, and a 59-yard scoring pass from Hall to Jim Merriken. The Red Raiders, winners of eight straight and shooting for their first undefeated season since 1932, scored in the second period.

They marched 44 yards in eight plays with Bob Relph tossing to Keith Rolito for the final 15. Jerry Andrewlavage missed the conversion. WEST POINT (AP) Quarterback Leamon Hall set two more Army records and threw three touchdown passes yesterday, leading the Cadets to a 23-13 triumph and ruining Colgate's bid for an undefeated season. Hall connected 14 of 31 passes for 185 yards, raising his career completions total to 262 and his touchdown passing total to 15 with one game remaining. The performance broke the record of 257 career completions set by Kingsley Fink from 1971 to 1973 and the season touchdown standard of 13 set by Arnold Galiffa.

(f 1 The action's af OTB race tracks VS. Th limt FINGER LAKES KSA RACETRACK WESTERN REGIONAL OFF-TRACK BETTING CORR bet are missing a Track officials claim people are betting the horses at the OTB parlors spread throughout the state rather than traveling to the tracks themselves. And they charge that OTB's share of the handle is out of line. Some are even predicting the ultimate demise of Finger Lakes and other tracks if some kind of solution to the OTB controversy isn't found and fast. Simply put, Finger Lakes officials contend they are losing money because OTB is making it.

Finger Lakes isn't along in its crusade for OTB reform and financial stability. "People from East Rochester and Fairport," said a track of ficial, "used to come here to bet the double. Now they have parlors in town. They don't have to spend 50 cents to park, $1.25 for admission and 30 cents on the Thruway. OTB is killing us.

It's a definite threat to our existence." Turn to Page ISO By GREG BOECK Sportswriter CANANDAIGUA Western New York Regional Off Track Betting Corp. is not interested in "killing the goose that lays the golden egg," according to Fred A. (Bud) Herman, OTB general manager. Nonetheless, the goose the state tracks that gave OTB its reason for existence is fighting for survival. Finger Lakes Racing Association is one of them.

4 In the two years since OTB first introduced wagering on Finger Lakes in its parlors, the Sportsystems-owned thoroughbred horse track in Canandaigua has steadily lost profit, attendance and handle, the amount which people bet on the races, while OTB profit has risen. It's no coincidence, say track officials, who have resorted to cutting back from five days of racing weekly to four to stop jje downward trend. Both OTB and Finger Lakes are tugging at the bettor, who can wager at track or in local parlors.