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ST.L0UIS POST-DISPATCH 1973 5c Pasadena: Its Santa MS works 2 Days YAV ear Bowl View From Hi lltop: Winners Ran-And Passed PASADENA, Jan. 3-Gabe Cooper i was dressed In a Santa Claus outfit which he Maimed he hadn't taken off since his trip around the globe a week earlier and 'he was hustling automobile drivers, offering them "the best damned parking place for the parade in the entire metropolitan area-of Pasadena." For $10, you could park on Cooper's-front lawn, which is on a bluff overlooking rado Avenue here. Cooper does not have an' bob broeg sports editor V) jeff meters i ifkLiifo i I I i Ifi No one locally fastened his eyes more hungrily on television for the holiday football feast than Don McCright, who makes a living making the "Xs" and "Os" work on a classroom blackboard at Washington University. As first-year varsity football coach on the Hilltop, the 37-year-old McCright found the bowl games' to be both a seminar and clinic for a coach as well, as a pleasure for other 1 viewers. "Southern California and Nebraska obviously were the best football teams, the most overpowering," said McCright, "and USC and Oklahoma were the fastest." The Bears' coach put a finger on an important factor in measuring success when he emphasized, "Almost without exception, the winning teams had balanced offenses, the ability to pass as well as run.

Ohio State, when it fell behind in the Rose Bowl, couldn't play catchup football with ball control." McCright, who fashioned a neat fl-3 record at Washington University his first fall as football headmaster, wasn't being critical of Woody Hayes, the controversial Buckeye coach. In fact, Hayes, Alabama's Bear Bryant and Penn State's Joe Pa-lerno are the coaches who have influenced him the most. McCright has respected Hayes for "his ability to speak his mind," Bryant for "his ability to get the job done in difficult situations wherever he goes (Maryland, Kentucky, Texas and Alabama)" and Paterno for "his ability to put priority on education and yet be successful on the field, too." McCright, priding himself on his concern about academics as well as athletics, now is in the midst of to attract St. Louis-area players to Washington U. "We proved last fall we could do what some felt Washington couldn't do," he said proudly.

"That is, come from behind, which we did three times, and win on the road, which we also did three times. "We're winners and with our ability to provide an excellent education and financial help for qualified students with a need factor, I believe we've got more to offer young men than even some of our friends and alumni realize." It is a fascinating mixture of people who are attracted to for the, parade and the fbotball game and' the chance' to raise a little hell' There were Mexicans from Tijuana and Chicanos from West Covina. There were freaks and jet-setters, college types and just plajn ol' working folk.o Pat Nixon was there. So was the Duke, John Wayne, who was the parade's grand marshal. The rollicking goes on all New Year's Eve.

Most of the participants get involved with wine, women and song. Others look for 'trouble. A man was murdered by a youth because he accidentally stepped on the youth's toe. "It. was the worst crowd I'd seen in the past four or five years," said Pasadena Police Lt.

Tom Oldfield. "After sitting on the curb all night long, drinking booze out in the cold, their tempers flared." torn Winders, deputy police chief, said, "They (the crowd) more hostile toward each other and toward the police this year." After the parade, Pasadena i becomes the world's largest parking lot. Cars cannot budge. There were 'persons trying to leave Pasadena and then were persons trying to get into town for the Southern California-Ohio State game. A normal 10-minute drive from the outskirts of the city to the 'Rose Bowl took nearly two hours.

After surviving the bash on New Year's Eve, the parade and the drive'to the stadium, it is difficult to really enjoy the game because you're contemplating the horrendous tie-up later. Most fans prepare for the three-hour wait in their car by finishing1 off their New Year's Eve flasks during the game. The Rose Bowl is used only once a year, and it looks it. Tropical vegetation overruns walkways and ramps. You almost have to hack your way through vines to get into the men's room.

Parking lots are patroled by motorcycled yahoos who send you in circles and keep screaming, "Move it!" The press box is at the very top of the huge stadium and an elevator' is used to transport the out-of-shape press corps. Unfortunately, the one day of the year it picked not to work was the only day of the. year anybody really cared if it did. Reporters who creaked up the stairs with their tongues hanging down to their belts were not comforted by the box-luhch surprise they received sandwiches that DON McCRIGHT Washington U. coach has bowl feast.

Harvard Climbs Past Wisconsin In Hockey Poll HANCOCK, Jan. 3 (TjPl) Harvard has broken Wisconsin's strangle hold on first place in the national collegiate hockey poll by winning the championship in last week's Great Lakes Holiday Tournament. Harvard slipped into the top spot by the margin of one point on the strength of its 8-3 victory over Michigan and its 4-2 decision over Michigan Tech. Wisconsin dropped into second place in the ratings conducted bp radio station WMPL despite its sweep of the St. Louis Firemen's Holiday nament.

Michigan Tech maintained its tight grasp on the No. 3 spot by outscoring fourth ranked Boston University, in two quarterback to carry more than some coaches want to see. Fear of injury, you know. "So they use a preconceived handoff, which makes the Wishbone all the more like its predecessor, Don Faurot's Split-T formation. And they break their basic formation with a secondary offense the belly play, power sweep, flannker reverse, etc." McCright noted that bowl games offered a forerunner of what can be expected in the following season.

"A year ago in the bowl games, a few used the Tennessee-type defense," he said, referring to a basic 4-3 with a com' bination 5-2, as a result of the nose man or middle guard jumping into the line and then out to become a linebacker. "You could see what a year's influence had meant," McCright said, smiling. "This time just about every bowl used the Tennessee defense at least part of the time." Referring to the pro playoffs, McCright pointed out, as observed by former star ball-carrier Jim Brown in a television special, that the new emphasis on running was 'obvious. "It's the Dan Devine philosophy," the Washington U. coach said of the former Missouri field general now at Green Bay.

I "Big a strong running game, ball control, few mistakes and i a strong defense, all of which prove that great coaches win consistently even when they don't have a great quarterback. "A football1 team doesn't' win football grimes. Winners avoid losing." Don sounded the way George Allen must have talked whe.n Allen was head coach of Whittier College, President Richard M. Nixon's alma mater. Allen made thoe- meticulous old men in burgundy and gold at Washington, believe in coaching cliches, too.

As McCright said admiringly. "The Redskins put on a textbook performance for players and. coaches. They just didn't make a mistake 'Dallas." And if you wonder, friends, what the Washington U. coach knows about pros, he'll tell you he had one as a prospect, meaning.

East St. Louis's Shelby a Little All-America linebacker iwho is plenty big 6-7, 270 pounds. ordinary front lawn. It is the ize of a football field, making it terrible for' mowing but great for accommodating cars. "I get about 3000 of them in here," said Cooper, tugging at his phony beard.

"That comes to about $30,000 for me. That's not all clear profit, you realize. I go to the expense of setting up bleachers and providing porta-johns. But I get some of that back by selling food." Cooper works if you can call it that only one day a year counting Christmas Eve," he said, cackling). He is among the hundreds of little old ladies and men from Pasadena who capitalize on the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football game on New Year's Day.

Some Pasadena entrepreneurs are less money-hungry and more practical on Rose Bowl Day. i On Colorado Avenue, the 'main route of the parade, some stores are boarded up and menacing warnings will be hang from every shop. Many residents don't venture beyond their driveways, and others simply leave town. The parade is -seen, by nearly 1,000,000 per-, sons, many of whom arrive the night before and camp out. Cooper's parking lot, for instance, resembles a tailgate party at a Minnesota Vikings' football game, only this party lasts about IS hours.

Being there on New Year's Eve, a lot of Cooper's are smashed when they pull in. i "Some of those guys can't even get into the parking space without help," Cooper said. "By the time the parade rolls around, a lot of them have passed out, so they miss But it doesn't really seem to bother them." College Trends overtime periods. As a coach who uses the formation, McCright noted the trend in the televised, college games for user of. set plays rather than options.

"It takes a very skilled quarterback to be able to read the defense and react," he said, "and when defenses can take away two of the three options' off the triple option' taking away the 'fullback play and the pitchout 'they 'force the: 7-0 R5 13-3-1 ,84 11- 3 60 9-2 64 9-3 54 10-3-1 44- 12- 4 39 10-2 28 12-4 20 4-2 13 1. Harvard CB1 2. Wisconsin (3) 3. Michigan Tech 4. (tie) Boston.

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everything else that wild day, It provided another excuse for another drink. i Inlayes Ds Charged In Camera Incident mm." From Post-Dlspatrb Wire Servient LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 -Art Rogers, the Los Angeles Times photographer who says Ohio Qtata TTnii7Arciftr fnnkall nnank Woody Hayes pushed a camera against bis eye, says he is being supported by many fellow newsmen in taking action against Hayes. 1 Rogers filed complaint that led to a charge of battery, a misdemeanor, being filed yesterday against Hayes. The incident, 20 minutes be- fore the Rose Bowl game "is being blown all out; on steal Tw 25 (MFIF nf nrnimrtinn Wsivp saiH.

Art Rogers The Pushed Woody Hayes The Pusher Police said the next step would be to hand deliver a let- ter to Hayes asking him to appear for arraignment Jan. 15 in rr f--- "I've gotten a lot of phone calls," Rogers said. "And not jjust from photographers, either, but from newsmen. "The 're happy I filed the complaint because they feel that If he can get away with this, maybe coaches will feel they have carte blanche to treat newsmen any way they want Rogers filed a citizen's c6m-plaint with police, saying he was taking pictures of Hayes with his team when the coach "came screaming out 'of the huddle and jammed the camera into my face and knocked me down." Rogers spent the second half of the game in the Rose Bowl infirmary and was sent to an eye specialist, who said there i was some damage to the right Pasadena Municipal Court. Hayes and his team, which lost the bowl game to Southern California, 42-17, weres d- eye but said it did not appear to be permanent.

The battery complaint waj. signed by Pasadena City Prosecutor Byron Gentry, who. said he did so reluctantly and believed the case "could far more appropriately be resolved in a civil proceeding." Gentry said he had no alternative but to sign the complaint because of the "insist ence of the victim and his em plovers." He said he believed that there were insufficient grounds for criminal action. uled to return to Ohio today, j. After Hayes was told of Rog ers's action, the coach was quoted as saying: "I never pushed him or hit him.

"This photographer kept pushing in arid trying to get a picture or me at close range Guaranteed to wear for a I turned my back on him and he went around on the other 1 lSl side and stuck the camera in Troians Unanimous my face again. "This time I pushed the cam Full 40 Months era away and made some re jnark, but I did not hit him. www -vr "There were several photog raphers there on the field. was huddling with the coaching staff, we were discussing im portant things and we had only the strength of steel! The two steel belts put the tread flat against the road to. help reduce squirm and wiggle you get excellent traction and' long mileage.

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I As Top Grid Team NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (AP) Southern California's Trojans today capped a season-long stay in first place in the Associaated Press rankings when they were named college football's national champions for, the third time 11 years. The vote? was unanimous. Southern Cal, the only undefeated team in the country, capped a 12-0 season and nailed down the Associated Press Trophy on Monday with a 42-17 Bowiof State the Rse. Final AP Rankings The Trojans received all 50 new tork, 3 (ap The final Associated Press major college first-place VOteS from a board football rankings for the 1972 stint tnnrti writpr? anrl snorts.

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Texas 10-1-O 67 4. Nebraska 9-2-1 665 5. Auburn 10-1-0' 601 6. Michigan 10-1-0 502 7. Alabama 10-2-0 453 8.

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