St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 101

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1978 SECTION 1-12G I A 1111 1A 1 1 I I M-M-Mmm Mizzou MISSISSIPPI 7 t-M MISSOURI I IT 7J1-45 Mtu Garner 10 run (Lonoley klcfcl Mo EMU77run IBrockhovsMdO MIm Winslow ooss from Brodlev I Brock hous kick) Miss Gomcr 1 run Longlev kick! Mo FGBrockhous3l Mo Lewis 25 pass from Brodlev Rrockhous kick) Mo wilder 29 run Brocknous klij Mo Mc Bride 1 1 pass from Jeffrey Brocknous kick) Mo Meyer 43 run (Gle kick) A 60.787 Mississippi Missouri Flrsl downs is 22 Rushes-yards 5141 45-327 passlngvards 111 207 Return yards 0 57 Posses 13-24-0 16-21-0 Punts 12-39 3 4-45 5 Fumbles-lost 1-1 5-5 Penalties vords 949 9-12 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Mississippi. Williams. 14- 73. Perry 10-36 MIssourl.EIMs, 9-1 14, wilder 7-75.

Brodley t-34. Meyer 2-47. PASSING Mississippi, Garner 7-13-0- 52, Colemon 4-11-0-66. Missouri, Brodley 14-19-0-171, Jeffrey 2- 2-0-29, RECEIVING Mississippi, Williams 4- 35, Seowrloht 3-27, Klmbrouert2-t9. Missouri, Winslow, 3-3S.

Owens 2-45, Lewis 2-40. tociy tK'-' Vnl yv $J43 field goal. Being ahead at the half is a big thing." That points to the chronology of the game and that did not begin in promising fashion. The feeling-out process had not yet finished when Leo Lewis, determined to regain his sophomore form as a punt returner, took a towering shot off the toe of Rebel standout Jim Miller in traffic and returned it 15 yards but was stripped there. The Rebs had the ball on MU's28.

The Rebs lost no time in taking the ball into the end zone. Ole Miss got an automatic first down on a pass-interference call at the 22 and tailback Freddie Williams, a 177-pound bundle of deception, picked up the first down at the 10 on two carries. Then quarterback Bobby Garner dropped back to pass. Considering that Garner had tied an Ole Miss record with 11 consecutive completions two weeks ago in a 14-7 victory over Memphis State, the well-drilled Tigers dropped off in pass defense in haste. That left the middle wide open.

And Garner didn't bother cocking his arm. He scampered straight up the vacuum to score. Hoppy Langley converted and the Rebs led, 7-0, in a game that suddenly resembled last week's loss to Alabama. The resemblance would become even stronger. Langley kicked off and freshman kick returner Terry Hill couldn't find the handle on the low twister, batting it forward so that specialty team member Mike Fountain could claim it for the Rebs at the MU 19.

Here, the Tigers unveiled a secret. Russ Calabrese came on a cornerback blitz as end Wendell Ray came from the other side.They reached Garner at the same moment, wham! It was an eight-yard sack. Linebacker Billy Bess dumped fullback Leon Perry for minus 2 and then big Ken Bungarda careened in from his tackle post to flatten Garner for another minus 6. Suddenly, the Rebs were in a punting situation where only moments earlier they had been sniffing around the end zone. The Tigers took over at the 20 and had reached the 43 when Ellis, taking a first down shot at tackle, dropped the ball See MIZZOU, Page 6 By Bill Beck Of the Post-Dispatch Staff COLUMBIA, Mo.

Coming into Missouri's 1978 football season, Phil Bradley, the sepiatone, 170-pound sophomore quarterback from Macomb, 111., was the question. Saturday, he was the answer, as the Tigers demolished the hopeful, previously unbeaten Rebs of Mississippi, 45-14, before a crowd of 60,287 at sun-splashed Faurot Field. Through two previous games, a 3-0 victory over Notre Dame and a 38-20 loss to Alabama, the Tigers appeared to be circling, uncertain of the direction they eventually might take. Saturday, they saw that direction clearly and with Bradley pointing the way, they set out firmly and with seeming confidence for bigger and better things. Bradley completed a career-high 14 passes in 19 attempts for a career-high 178 yards and two touchdowns as Tigers spotted Ole Miss five turnovers and a touchdown before taking control of the game.

Bradley netted another 36 yards rushing (47 yards before sacks) for total offense of 214 yards to help Mizzou establish order in a game that was still teetering uncertainly well into the third quarter. Clearly pointing for Earl Gant, the Rebs shut down the senior running back who had been Mizzou's premier threat in two previous games. But in denying Gant the outside, they opened the. door inside and power backs Gerry Ellis and James Wilder couldn't have been happier. Ellis, a 220-pound junior performing in his home town, thundered up the gut for 114 yards in nine carries, including an electrifying 77-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter that enabled the Tigers to climb into a 7-7 tie with their obstreperous guests from the Deep South.

Wilder, a 217-pound sophomore running back from Sikeston, blasted 75 yards in seven attempts, including a 29-yard touchdown romp, the key to a 21-point Missouri explosion in the fourth quarter. With the Ole Miss middle bruised from all this pounding, Mizzou's reserves found that almost anything would go- Backup quarterback Jay Jeffrey hit fourth-string fullback Tom McBride with an 11-yard scoring pass and then Bobby Meyer, freshman running back from St. Louis McCluer North High, took an option pitch from third-string quarterback Paul Miller and raced 43 yards for a score. "They beat us every way you can get beat," said Steve Sloan who left a 10-year contract at Texas Tech a year ago to take the Ole Miss job. "They out-coached us and out-played us.

I'm sure glad you guys are writers because I sure wouldn't want to be around any alumni right now." Overstatement? Well, Mizzou did beat the Rebs like a drum. The Tigers won the battle of first downs, only 22-18 but won the yardage tug o' war, 534-186, and in the all-important time of possession, it was Missouri, 33:01 to 26:59. Powers praised the defense that kept Missouri distantly in the game during a first quarter in which the Tigers fumbled away the ball three times. But he'd seen the defense function brilliantly before. What he saw in this game was a consistent offense for the first time this season.

"I feel we showed today that we have some explosive people. Our style is big-play. We showed that on Ellis' 77-yard run. But I really think the turning point was our drive just before the half. We got the ball into good position and got a pass from quarterback Phil Bradley and turned it into a 14-yard scoring play in the second quarter.

Blocking is center Pete Allard (55). (Post-Dispatch photo by Scott C. Dine) KELLEN THE KILLER: Missouri tight end Kel-len Winslow brushing by Joel Stewart of Mississippi and heading for the end zone Saturday at Columbia, Mo. Winslow took a 'Bama Sales, Spirits Tumble Wiih Sf. Louis Teams White Rips Tide UCLA Rally Fails I mm mSsm Bruins Rick Bashore capped a 59-yard UCLA drive with a 1-yard quarterback sneak to tie the score at 7-7 late in the first quarter but the Jayhawks then buried the Bruins with a three- touchdown avalanche in a 2:56 span midway through the second period.

A 51-yard pass from Hines to Kevin Murphy to the UCLA 1-yard line set up a scoring punch by Sam Smith to put the Jayhawks ahead 14-7 and freshamn Roger Foote fell on Brown's fumble on the ensuing kickoff at the Bruin 19. It took Kansas five plays plus a 13-yard UCLA pass interferece penalty to make it 21-7 on Criswell's second touchdown. The Jayhawks held on downs in UCLA's next possession and Jimmy Little stunned the Bruins with a 66-yard punt return to give Kansas the ball three yards from the goal line. Hines took it in on the first play as Kansas claimed a 28-7 halftime lead. UCLA began its comeback bid on a 1-yard touchdown run by Brown and pulled to within a touchdown on a 20-See KANSAS, Page 6 LAWRENCE, Kan.

(UPI) Quarterback Jeff Hines threw a pair of first half touchdown passes to Kirby Criswell and rushed for another to give heavy underdog Kansas a 28-24 upset victory Saturday over 8th-ranked UCLA. Kansas scored all of its points in the first half, then withstood a furious UCLA rally that netted 17 points over the final 30 minutes. The Bruins rolled up 15 first downs to just one for Kansas and limited the Big Eight Jayhawks to 26 yards total offense in the second half. Freshman Buford Johnson made two tackles on first half UCLA kickoff returns forcing fumbles that set up a pair of Kansas' touchdowns. His first hit came on the opening kickoff on Anthony Edgar, setting up a 3-yard scoring pass from Hines to Criswell, and the second came in the second quarter on Theotis Brown, setting up a 1-yard Hines to Criswell scoring pass.

They were the first touchdown passes thrown by the sophomore Hines and the first scoring receptions by the junior Criswell in their careers at Kansas. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Tailback Charles White ripped No. 1-ranked Alabama's highly-touted defense for 197 yards Saturday in leading the University of Southern California to a 24-14 upset over the Crimson Tide. White, who has gained 526 yards in three games, scored the Trojans' first touchdown on a 40-yard run midway through the opening period.

Although he did not score again, the threat of his presence keep the Alabama defense off-balance and enabled quarterback Paul McDonald to throw two touchdown passes to flanker Kevin Williams as USC broke the game open in the final period. The Trojans led 10-0 at halftime on White's TD and a 40-yard field goal by Frank Jordan. Alabama was held on downs at the USC 1-yard line early in the scond quarter. The Crimson Tide closed the gap to 10-7 early in the third period on a 41-yard run by Major Ogilvie, but Alabama's hopes for a comeback were dashed when McDonald threw a six-yard TD pass to Williams with 11:15 left in the game and then, with 8:34 left, connected with Wil ByTJoug Grow Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Filled with optimism, the man in charge of post-game parties at the Breckenridge Hotel hired all sorts of bartenders. "We wanted to make sure we could easily sell from 3,000 to 5,000 beers in about two hours after the game," he explained.

Final score: Redskins 28, Cardinals 10. Final beer sales: 1,700. "This could be a financial disaster," the man in charge said. "When the football team loses, it puts everybody in a mellow mood. We had enough people, but nobody wanted to drink.

They sat around and every once in a while they told Bill Bidwill jokes. That was about it. They just got up and went home." At a department store, a purchasing agent checked the scoreboard and said a prayer of thanks. "This year," she said, "I just happened to buy some extra Dallas Cowboy merchandise and that's moving very well. It seems like people either buy the home town team or a winner.

The Cowboy things are moving very well." Neither the man in charge of parties nor the woman in charge of purchasing NFL trinkets wanted his name used. The purchasing agent didn't even want the name of her store used. She feared sounding treasonous. "You don't want people to think that you're knocking the home town team," the purchasing agent said. But, contrary to Grantland Rice, it sometimes doesn't matter how you play the game but whether you win or lose.

Losing can be a downer for an entire city. And no "major league" Major Football Scores Leach, Wolverines Defrock Irish, 28-14 liams on a 40-yard scoring pass that was tipped by defender Don McNeil. Alabama got its final touchdown with 7:10 left on a 41-yard pass from Jeff Rutledge to Bart Krout, but two later Alabama scoring attempts were thwarted by Southern Cal fumble recoveries. Alabama's final chance, which came after a blocked punt gave the Crimson Tide the ball at the USC 17, was ended with the Trojans' fourth pass interception of the game. USC improved its record to 3-0.

Alabama lost for the first time after scoring a 20-3 victory over Nebraska and a 38-20 triumph over Missouri. The Trojans gained 257 yards in the first half, 149 of those by White, a 183-pound junior. The first time it had the ball, USC drove 73 yards to the Alabama 2, but lost the ball on a fumble by White. After Alabama punted, White redeemed himself with his 40-yard scoring run. Kenny Moore had two interceptions against Rutledge, both in the second quarter.

The other thefts were by Tim Lavender in the third period and by Dennis Smith on the final play of the game. long situation when he hit Marsh with a 14-yard pass for a first down. Moments later, he found Marsh for five yards and a touchdown that tied the game. "That was the big play," said Notre Dame Coach Dan Devine. "We had enough of a rush on but Leach still got the pass away, give him credit." "We broke down in the second half," added Devine.

"When we fumbled, they took advantage and their aggressive defense forced our interception. Michigan forced those turnovers and they were opportunistic enough to capitalize. That's the sign of a good football team." Schembechler also had praise for the Irish and said, "When you beat Notre Dame, that's something. But our guys stayed close and I knew if we stayed, close, we could beat them. We are in great physical condition.

The key was to get back in the game." Devine, however, had one complaint. "I complained rather vehemently in the first half about the bobbing of the quarterback's head, but that didn't beat us," Devine said in reference to a pair of motion penalties called against Notre Dame's defense. "Michigan beat us fair and square. MICHIGAN NOTRE DAME A ND-Grlndlnoer 7 pass from Montana (Unlsklck) M-Leocti 4 run (winner kick) ND-Ferguson 4 run Unls kick) M-Marsh pass from Leacti (Winner kick) M-Morsh 17 pass from Leach (kick failed) M-Clavton 40 pass from Leach (run tolled) Safety. Montana tackled In end rone byGreft 7 14-M city has had more losing than St.

Louis. Of the 21 North American cities with three or more major league franchises, Cincinnati and St. Louis were the only cities without a playoff team in any sport within the last year. And Cincinnati, at least, was competitive in baseball and football. How important are winning teams for a city? Can constant losing create a second-division image for a metropolitan area? "I think it's an internal type of a thing," said Sharon Salyer, a representative of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

"From an overall economic development point of view, winning doesn't mean that is important is to have the availability of sports teams to attract people to your city. For instance, as soon as people move to your city one of the first things they want to know is whether you have the sports teams. Then, for the residents, it's important that the hometown team is a winner." Salyer works for a city that long has had little, except futility, from its pro franchises the baseball Braves, the football Falcons, the hockey Flames and the basketball Hawks. "It let people down when they were losing," she said. But in the last year, the Falcons have shown dramatic improvement and the Flames and the Hawks each See LOSERS, Page 6 major leagues by Hank Aaron in 1959.

INDIANS 10, YANKEES 1: Rick Manning blooped a bases-loaded, two-run single to highlight a four-run second inning as Cleveland dealt New York its third loss in five games. After spotting the Yankees a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Lou Piniella's run-scoring single, the Indians erupted after two out in the second against losing pitcher Jim Beattie. Gary Alexander singled, Dan Briggs walked and Tom Veryzer was hit by a pitch to fill the bases. Manning then singled to left and Jim Norris followed with a two-run triple. TIGERS 4-1, ORIOLES 34: Oriole righthander Jim Palmer pitched a four-hitter in the second game at Baltimore to become just the third pitcher in the 78-year history of the American League to record eight 20-victory seasons.

Detroit won the opener of the twi-ee Page 3 Red Sox Cut Yankee Lead To One Game BIG EIGHT Missouri 45, Mississippi 14 Arkansas 19, Oklahoma St. 7 Kansas 28, UCLA 24 Oklahoma 66, Rice 7 Iowa St. 31, Iowa 0 Tulsa 24, Kansas St. 14 Colorado 22, San Jose St. 7 BIG TEN Ohio St.

27, Minnesota 10 Wisconsin 28, Northwestern 7 Stanford 35, Illinois 10 Indiana 14, Washington 7 Michigan 28, Notre Dame 14 Michigan St. 49, Syracuse 21 Purdue 24, Ohio U.O AREA Southwestern (Tenn.) 25, Washington U. 14 Southern Illinois 17, West Texas 3 Concordia (III.) 21, Principia EAST Texas 37, Boston College 2 Virginia 21, Army 17 Yale 21, Brown 0 Navy 30, Connecticut 6 Princeton 14, Cornell 14 Dartmouth 31, Penn 21 Columbia 21, Harvard 19 Penn St. 26, SMU21 Pittsburgh 20, Temple 12 -William Mary 21, Villanova 17 MIDWEST Miami (O.) 7, Western Michigan 3 Ball St. 20, Toledo 0 Bowling Green 49, Grand Valley 3 Kent St.

J4, Illinois St. 3 Louisville 28, Cincinnati 14 Eastern Mich. 27, Indiana St. 8 SOUTH USC 24, Alabama 14 Georgia Tech 27, Tulane 17 Kentucky 25, Baylor 21 Florida St. 31, Miami (Fla.) 21 Duke 16, South Carolina 12 Georgia 12, Clemson 0 27, Marshall 23 Maryland 21, North Carolina 20 Vanderbilt 17, Furman 10 Auburn 18, Virginia Tech 7 Appalachian 24, Richmond 19 Eastern Kentucky 49, East Tennessee 6 Maryland 21, North Carolina 20 Alcorn 24, Central Michigan 16 Citadel 14, VMI 3 Oregon St.

13, Tennessee 13 W. Carolina 17, Elon 7 LSU 13, Wake Forest 11 N. Carolina St. 29, West Virginia 15 Grambling 21, Morgan St. 0 E.

Carolina 38, SW Louisiana 9 Miss. St. 44, Memphis St. 14 SOUTHWEST Arkansas St. 10, Drake 0 Texas 17, Wyoming 3 Houston 42, Utah 25 Texas Tech 41, Arizona 26 WEST Brigham Young 32, Colorado St.

6 Holy Cross 35, Air Force 18 California 24, Pacific (Calif.) 6 Utah St. 45, Fresno St. 22 Washington St. 51, Arizona St. 26 MISSOURI, ILLINOIS E.

Illinois 29, Northeast Missouri 12 Missouri-Rolla 38, Pittsburg St. 21 Fort Hays St. 36, Northeast Mo. 22 Central Methodist 37, 21 Elmhurst 21, Illinois Wesleyan 0 Delaware 35, Western Illinois 7 Tarkio 43, Iowa Wesleyan 7 Augustana (111.) 30, Carthage 21 Knox 19, Grinnell 0 Lakeland 13, 111. Benedictine 7 Eureka 9, Olivet Nazarene 0 Illinois College 28, Chicago 26 Wheaton 40, North Park 6 Monmouth (III.) 30, NE Illinois 14 Benedictine 27, William Jewell 17 SOUTH BEND, Ind.

(AP) "We stayed in there and we didn't fall apart, that's what pleased me," said Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler Saturday after his fifth-ranked Wolverines came from behind in the second half to slug Notre Dame, 28-14. "The story of the game was the second half," said Schembechler. "We didn't play well at all in the first half. Rick Leach was a little tight in the first half, and I told him, 'Loosen up, we'll keep coming to you, we'll keep coming to Leach, held to three completions in 14 attempts for 21 yards in the first two quarters, responded with five completions in the second half including three for touchdowns. "No one play makes a game, but we could have played better in the first half if it hadn't been for that fumble," Schembechler said of Russell Davis's bobble on the first play from scrimmage which the Irish turned into a quick touchdown and a 7-0 lead.

But the Wolverines got their share of turnovers in the second half and converted a fumble recovery and two interceptions into Leach's three touchdown passes two to Doug Marsh and a 40-yarder to Ralph Clayton. "Things started to click a little better in the second half," said Leach, who revealed he had a bruised ankle and didn't practice Tuesday or Wednesday. "I was a little rusty." Schembechler said the key was for the Wolverines to get back into the game and.each remedied that on a third-and- Compiled From News Services Jim Rice slammed his 43rd home run in the fifth inning and collected his 387th total base tops in the American League in 40 years Saturday to power Boston to a 3-1 triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays at Toronto and move the Red Sox to within one game of the American League's Eastern Division leading New York Yankees, who suffered a 10-1 setback at Cleveland. Jimmy Foxx had the previous total base high in 1938 when he hit 50 home runs for the Red Sox. Boston veteran Luis Tiant, 11-8, spaced seven hits, struck out six and walked five, while stranding 12 base runners.

With one out and Boston ahead 2-0 in the fifth, Rice blasted the first pitch from loser Jesse Jefferson, 7-15, into the left field seats. Rice needs 13 total bases in Boston's seven remaining games to reach the 400 markast attained in the.