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At? HEW Mfisfisirs Tm Mmh Peach Bowl Snow Fails To Cool Devils' Offense VS. iv. SB By ABE CHANIN Star Sports Editor .77 football game, the cactus country kids frozen to the marrow, made a series of errors that-helped North Carolina score 26 points. So at hahlime, Arizona State trailed, 16-21. But, in the locker room, then master of the tongue-lash, Frank Kush, quickly warmed his Sun Devils.

They came back with a 27-0 second half to run up the biggest scoring total in the three year history of the Peach Bowl. This was a victory Kush and his Sun Devils had wanted to prove to the nation that football in Arizona is not a joke, that their No. 8 na-, tional ranking was not only deserved but lower than it should have been. A snowstorm is not exactly a perfectly-suited condition for an Arizona football team. But Xj)jj) Peach Bowl Ground Battle 0 I 3 yards as Prentice McCray watches.

In the photo at the right, Devil halfback Monroe Eley goes for short yardage as he is tackled by Lou Angelo. Other UNC players are John Bunting (43) and Eugene Brown (83). (AP Wirephotos) It was tough ground battle on th muddy turf of Atlanta's Grant Fiold last night as Arizona Stat sloshed to a 48-26 Peach Bowl victory over North Carolina. At left, Tar Heel tailback Ike Oglesby (24) leaps over ASU linebacker Joe Connolly to pick up six Rams' Owner Won't Renew George Allen's Contract Allen's defense. Several publicly threatened to quit football if the firing stuck.

Ironically, it was Reeves who gave Allen his first NFL head coaching job. The Rams' president wooed him away from his position as defensive coach with the Chicago Bears, triggering a lawsuit from the Bears' owner, George Halas, for breach of contract. At trial time, however, Halas abruptly withdrew his action and Allen came on to then-losing Los Angeles. He took over in 1966 and began to rebuild a team that had a 25-65-4 record in the previous seven years under three coaches. The policy was in direct contrast to old Ram custom and, it was said, was the founda ATLANTA.

a. I will now relate for you you who sat comfortably in your Arizona homes witching on TV the story of the frozen frolic they called the 1970 Peach Bowl. Peach Bowl? Not even a canned peach would have peeked out on this icy night. But in snow, rain and mud, the Sun Devils of Arizona State survived by elements so strange to them and crushed North Carolina, 48-26. In the second quarter of this post-season ght Arizona ailji $tf PORTS PAGE TWO SECTION THURSDAY.

DECEMBER 31, 1970 Snow Storm Helped ASU, Says Kush By STAR STAFF WRITER ATLANTA The snow made for a sloppy Peach Bowl playing field, but Arizona State University coach, Frank Kush credited it with the Sun Devils' best running game of the year, and most of the players were more than happy to see snow for the first time in their lives. "Because of the snow," said Kush after his team beat North Carolina last night, "we had to go to more of a ball control game than usual. Naturally, it hurt out passing, but it really helped our running game because our boys had to be a lot more careful with the ball." Considering the bad weather, Kush said he was, "surprised we weren't fumbling a lot more." Kush also said he told quarterback Joe Spagnola to, "stay away from the option. We told him that in no uncertain terms." Throughout the ASU dressing room, players were ecstatic over "showing everybody" they deserved the Bowl game and their national ranking. "We went out and showed them," said end J.D.

Hill, "And now it is up to the public to decide if we are great." Over in the North Carolina dressing room, head coach Bill Dooley was lamenting a broken down kicking game. "I can't understand what happened to our kicking game, but it sure hurt us." About ASU, coach Dooley said, "We've played against better individuals, but I have never seen a better team overall They are explosive and they've got the speed. "The trouble is, they have so many players who can break loose on you. It's hard to defend against a team like that." Junior Ah You, the ASU defensive end named the outstanding defensive player of the game, was out on his feet in the dressing room, and had been since he was hit on a tackle early in the fourth quarter. Leaving the field, Ah You asked his coaches, "Did I get that (Don) McCauley?" The answer was, "That's what they gave you that trophy for.1' Looking at the MVP trophy in confusion, bacause he.

couldn't remember the end of the game, Ah You explained, "What did they give me this thing for?" Spapola, who was hampered in the number of plays he could use because of the snow, had a good word for the weather. "It may have been sloppy," he commented, "but wasn't it pretty?" North Carolina's Dooley pointed out that his team had never played in the snow before either, and he added, "I'd sure like a rematch on a dry field." State in doubles in the championship win over Mississippi State. Warner, by the way, was picked on the AI1-Toomament team at the Poinsettia. Others on the team are Lisco Thomas of Furman, Jack Bouldin of Mississippi State, Russ Hunt of Fur-man and Steve Niles, the 'short seven-footer (he's shorter than Arizona's (-11 Eddie Myers), from Texas A. ft M.

Myers has a 14.1 average and leads the "Cats in rebounding with a 10.6 average. Bruce Anderson is at 13.8, Tom Lee at 12.6 and Walt McKinney at 10.0. There will te no radio coverage of tonight's game, but coverage win resume at the Jan. 4 De Pauw game and continue for the remainder of the season. Arizona was the only team radio coverage in the Poinsettia Classic Haywood Jumps ABA Aril.

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Pass Intercepted By fumbles Lost Punts Average Penalties Yards ASU, going over, around and through the At- lantic Coast Conference Tar Heels, prevailed anyway. The Devils left no doubt about how the sport is played in Arizona, in the Western Athletic Conference. There will be no. more poor-mouthing of WAC football and the Sugar Bowl people who passed up Arizona State must have twitched before their television sets last night. The record crowd of 52,126, including deep- -ly-iced Southerners and some 2,000 purpled Arizonans, were convinced of Sun Devil in-vincibility as Carolina took its worst defeat in 18 games.

And so must have been the estimated 10 million TV viewers across the country. The TV fans were the most fortunate watchers. in Grant Stadium huddled under snow-laden. umbrellas and the al fresco press box (that means open to the elements) was a trap for the -frozen air. So in spite of frozen pens and typewriters, stiffened fingers and a runny nose, here is Arizona State completed its first 11-0 season in 73yearsoffootbaD: The Sun Devils, anxious to make the big showing, scored the first time they got the ball.

Thomas scored the first of his three touchdowns by. going in from the eight 11:35 left in the first quarter. The Devils boxed the North Carolina attack as the rain started. Before the first quarter ended, the snow came Less than three minutes after the second quarter started, Thomas scored on a 33-yard run, and it was 14-0. McCauley, Carolina's All-America back, got the first of three touchdowns on a one-yard plunge.

But then Joe Spagnola and J. D. Hill combined for a Peach Bowl record 67-yard ae-J rial touchdown and it was 21-7. North Carolina came back on a 36-yard pass play from Miller to Tony Blanchard to make it 21-14. Then two quick errors helped the Carolinans take the halftime lead.

Steve Holden, a great kick returner, fum-a, bled in the slosh and John Anderson for the Tar Heels at the ASU 22. Two plays, later McCauley drove in from the 17 and it was 21-20. Then Lou Angelo intercepted a Spagnola pass and with 58 seconds left in the half, McCauley went in from four yards out for the Carolina halftime lead. While the teams were in the locker room, the snow fall turned into a snow storm, but the Devils came out as if it were a warm, pleasant Arizona evening. In the third quarter they scored 20 points as Monroe Fley, voted the outstanding offensive player of the game, got two touchdowns and Holden added another on a 14-yard sprint.

In the fourth period, Thomas got his third touchdown on a two-yard charge. The game ended in a quagmire and only when Kush sent in fresh players could numbers be deciphered. In the second half, the players slipped and slid and the sliding would have drawn praise from ASU national championship baseball coach Bobby Winkles. RUSHINO att fai" toss Monroe Eley, ASU 23 173 Bob Thomas, ASU 22 124 Steve Holden, ASU 1 13 Joe Soaonoia. ASU 1 Don McCauley, NC 36 14a 3 Geof Hamlin, NC 4 17 PASSINO att cme kite Joe Spasnola.

ASU 23 2 Grady Hurst, ASU 1 1 Paul Miller, NC 5 3 0 Mike Mansfield. NC 12 3 1 173 124 13 -11 143 17 155 -10 2 1 0 KCIE'VINB J. O. Hill. ASU 3 Joe Petty.

ASU 2 Steve Holden, ASU 2 Rtctcev Lanier, NC 2 Bucky Perry. NC 1 rtf lot 34 13 50 34 Artiena State Hm CareliM 7 7 4 la It ASU Thomas run (Ekstrand kick) Th-mas 33 run kick) NC McCauley 1 am tOaven kick) ASU Hill 47 dass from Stwaroia (Ekstrand tW NC B'ancnartf 34 oass from wmer (Craven kick) NC McCauiev 17 run (kick failed) NC McCauley 4 run (pass fa'led) ASU Eley run Eksre Itt) ASU Holden 13 run (kick failed! ASU I oki (Eksand kk) ASU Thomas 2 (Ekssrand kk) A 52.174. Today In Sports FwbaQ Baesemt Beat. aJams) s. Ok LOS ANGELES (AP) Bossman Dan Reeves of professional football's Los Angeles Rams, acknowledging differences of opinion about how to run the team, said Wednesday he will not rehire head coach George Allen for next year.

Because of the differences, he said, it is "unrealistic to continue. I have discussed this with other stockholders and they are in full accord with this action." The action, non renewal of Allen's contract that expires Thursday, was no surprise. Allen, who had an excellent 49-17-4 record in his five years with the club and was immensely popular with the players, not immediately available for comment. His wife, Etty, contacted at their Palos Ver-des home, said: "This is not bad news for my husband but bad news for the players and the fans of Los Angeles." Reeves, dictating a statement from New York to his staff here, said, "I have no statement concerning a new head coach at this time except to say what I will do everything I can to provide the best possible field leadership for our players and our fans." A source close to Allen said his future plans are yet to be determined and Mrs. Allen declared, "Our house is not for sale." Reeves, 58, brought the Rams here from Cleveland in 1945 and bought majority stock control of the club Dec.

27, 1962. Allen recently said he had not talked to the club president in 11 months. The long-anticipated action was the second parting for the 48 year-old Allen by Reeves. The first came the day after Christmas two years ago, but Reeves reversed himself two weeks later. The only reason given then for the dismissal was a "conflict of personalities." Quarterback Roman Gabriel, defensive stars Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones and other Rams with only two exceptions rallied to UA Four-Game Win ilA Abe Chanin Atlanta, Ga.

Prediction for the new year: Arizona will play an 11th football game in 1971. And the best possibility Is that Arizona will be playing San Diego State, that former small college power turned big school, in San Diego on Nov. 20. Why an 11th game? And why with San Diego State? The story is that Ken Karr, the San Diego State Athletic Director, has offered Arizona a guarantee of some $60,000. For that kind of bread, ol Horace Greeley's admonition to 'Go West, Young Man' has special meaning for the University of Arizona Athletic Department.

It is worrying about the color of ink In its ledger books when they are closed for the fiscal year in July. It is true that nothing is set for an 11th game. The University of Arizona has not officially set forth Us policy on the playing of an 11th football game which was sanctioned a year ago by the NCAA. But the trend from coast to coast is to schedule 11 games per season and, in fact, many schools already have an 11th game scheduled through all the years of the seventies. Approval is expected because even now the University of Arizona athletically is behind the times.

It is also a fact that negotiations between San Diego State and the University of Arizona have been going on for quite a while. Dick Clausen, Arizona's athletic director, has had several talks with Karr. The talks, you can understand, have been very close. Karr was Clausen's assistant athletic director at Arizona before taking the headman's post at San Diego State. Karr had lengthy talks in Tucson when he visited his old stomping grounds during the past football season.

It is also remembered that Don Coryell, the highly successful San Diego State football coach, was within a flicker of the pen of taking the Arizona job a few years back. In fact Clausen was so sure that Coryell was set he had to scurry to pick Darrell Mudra out of the list of left-overs. Mudra, by the way, is reported to have sought both the Illinois and Iowa grid jobs after a second good year at Western Illinois. Clausen, here in the Peach State to back Arizona State's footballers, admitted that negotiations with San Diego State are underway. "We've been talking with Ken Karr," he said, "but nothing has been done finally.

The date Is very interesting because both San Diego and Arizona are open on Nov. 20 next winter. "There is a possibility, that just as this past season, the Arizona-Arizona Sate football game might be picked for the television wild card. That would mean pushing the game in Tempe back a week and would give us two open dates in November. "If I were football coach I wouldn't want two open weekends before playine Arizona State and I don't think Bob Weber would want that either." Clausen paused and then added with a grin, "and none of us would want to pass np the television game money." So Bob Weber in third year at Arizona could have a schedule with USLA, Oregon State, Texas Tech, Utah and New Mexico at home; Washington State.

Saa State, Tex-El Paso, Wyomirg. BYU an1 Arizona State on the Road. OY YEH. tion of the rift that developed between coach and president. Caught somewhere in the midst of the friction was Reeves' chief assistant, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, former playing star who resigned to become athletic director at his alma mater, Wisconsin.

The Rams, with a long history of front-office conflict between Reeves and the former co-owners, wrote new chapters of strife during the brief Allen firing-rehiring in 1968-69. At one player-called press conference, the coach and some of his hardiest warriors wept openly. Finally Reeves changed his mind but insist-. (Continued on Page 3B, Col. 1) who handed down his decision In Los Angeles Wednesday but said it had no bearing on Haywood's agreement with Denver.

"I just issued a temporary restraining order preventing the NBA from taking action against the Sonics over the four-year rule," Ferguson said. "I set a hearing on the temporary restraining order for Jan. 8." In New York, Commissioner Kennedy said he had not received the judge's order officially. "In effect," Kennedy said, "A federal court judge has superceded the constitution of the NBA. The judge's ruling is specific for Haywood and he will be allowed to play." Kennedy said that the Seattle club had attempted to get the four-year rule waived at an NBA owner's meeting Nov.

18 but had received Just three votes. Judge Ferguson said that a lawyer "eminently qualified in the field of negotiating contracts for celebrities." has been appointed by the court to study Haywood's contract with Denver. The Seminoles' big man is 6-10 sophomore Reggie Royals, who has a 15.6 scoring average with 14.2 rebounds per game. The other starters will be Rowland Garrett, 6-6, with a 13.1 average, and the Seminoles' pint-sized point-man, 5-7 Otto Petty. With a 6-4 record Arizona is now averaging 84.9 points a game which is a record high for UA basketball.

But the defense is still giving up 80.7 points a game. Florida State, with its own 99-point average, is allowing opponents an average of S0.6 points per game. After 10 games Bill Warner has 1S6 points and an 1S.6 average. He's down almost two points because Arizona had its most balanced scoring of the season during the Poinsettia Tourney. Six players scored in double figures in the victory over Teias A.

ft IT, five hitting SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) Spencer Haywood, controversial superstar of the American Basketball Association, signed a multiyear contract with the National Basketball Association's Seattle SuperSohics Wednesday but the federal court judge who allowed the action said it might not be the final determination in the case. Haywood, who dropped out of the University of Detroit to sign a $1.9 million contract with the Denver Rockets and was the ABA's rookie of the year and most valuable player last year, has had a season-long squabble over contract terms and has not palyed for the ABA team this year. The Sonics had been after him for some time but had run into problems with the NBA and Commissioner Walter Kennedy. The NBA constitution bars any club from signing a player before his college class graduates.

Haywood's class graduates this spring. The legal barrier was cleared for Seattle by U.S. District Court Judge Warren J. Ferguson, Skein On Line serving the last of a two-year NCAA probation for recruiting violations, started the 1970-71 season with a No. 17 ranking.

They are now 6-3 for the season and unranked. Florida State beat Texas, 80-78; Biscayne, 10fi-7t) and South Dakota, 125-65, before going into tournament competition. In the Gator Bowl Tourney the Floridians whipped Southern Mississippi, 117-84. before losing to potent Jacksonville, 114-108. is one of the nation best.

Florida State then beat Valdosta State. 116-C4, and in the Sun Bowl tourney in El Paso lost to Southern California. J4-S5. and to Miami of Ohio, 67-64. In their last game the Seminoles beat Pan-American, 95-SO, and now are averaging 99 points a game.

Ron King, a 6-4 sophomore, leads Florida State scoring with a hefty 217 averace. Senior Vernell Eilzy, also at 5-4. has a 17i average with 7 rebounds per game. 'Cats IFace Potemift IFSoridla By Star Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The way it shapes up for this New Year's Eve on the basketball scene is that Arizona will have to play its best game of the old year to keep alive a new-found winning streak.

The Wildcats pulled into this Florida city with a four-game winning streak the longest of the season after capturinc the Poinsettia Classic Tournament in Greenville, S.C. But tonicht the 'Cats must face potent Florida State University's Seminoles in a 5:30 p.m. game (Tucson time) in 5.000-seat Tullv Gvm. Florida State. 3-3 last season including" a 87-79 viCiOry over Arizona in Tucson, finished with a ranking of 11th in the nation.

The Seminoles. who have risen rapidly in the sport of basketball, and currenuy are I.