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Scoreboard 4 NFL Today 6 Colleges 9 High schools 15 Horse racing 17 fw ftlabelpltrc Inquirer sports section Sunday, November 23, 1980 Eagles seek respect in 'waif with Raiders By BILL LYON 3. And that's a good season. But it won't mean anything unless we win the division. Right now, there's no way to let up." LeMaster says he senses that the image of the Eagles is that of a scuffling, hungry team that doesn't have championship personnel. "I imagine our image around the country is that we're overachievers," he said.

"That we don't have much player talent except for a few superstars. That's so much bleep. Obviously, it's the press that's doing this. I don't go out and tell people that we're not a good team. That we're overachievers.

I know we've got some good athletes here." With the 8-3 Raiders in the same stadium, the Eagles (six-point favorites) won't be hearing any of those "soft schedule" lines. The Raiders, except for an inconsistent placekick-ing game, are a big, solid contender, with a hot quarterback, Jim Plunkett, who has led them to six straight wins. They have receiving speed outside, with Cliff Branch and Bob Chandler; a Pro Bowl tight end in Ray Chester; a huge, if aging offen sive line; a terrific collection of defensive linemen, including pass rushers Cedrick Hardman and Willie Jones; a big-play linebacker in 6-foot, 7-inch Ted Hendricks, who always has had superb games against the Eagles; a ball-hawking secondary that has picked off 26 passes, and pro football's best punter, Ray Guy. "Sure, this is a chance for us to prove something," said LeMaster. "Now the eyes are on us.

We've got a 10-1 record. So we can sort of force the issue. There's no other place that (See EAGLES on 6-F) By Gordon Forbes Inquirer Sutl Writer The pro football analysts call it the stretch run, that crucial five-week period of pressure games and unpredictable weather in. which a championship team truly achieves greatness. For the Eagles, it begins today at Veterans Stadium (Channel 10, 1 p.m.) against the Oakland 'Raiders, a hulking, physical team that once was considered too old and thin to be making its own run for first place in the AFC West.

For weeks, it seems, the Eagles have been hearing feedback from every part of the country, notably from the Seattle area, concerning their so-called "soft schedule." For proof, critics offered the 4-7 Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks, the 3-8 New York Giants and Washington Redskins, and the dreadful 0-11 New Orleans Saints. Against those losers, the Eagles (10-1) are 7-0. "After a while, you feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of the NFL," grumbled linebacker Frank LeMast-er. "But we're 10-1. This is it.

This is the drive. We could end up 14-2, or 13- Old foes fall oners. toS Wolverines JXff'x Vs; '4 MwiintmwrrrwirmimfwaiifrriiiiMiiOTimniiaimiiiiiiaiiiiiiimiiiiiiwfliriaiwii Michigan stops Ohio State, 9-3 By Danny Robbins Inquirer Stall Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio The typical score, 9-3, was there. The usual crowd, in Ohio State's old horseshoe of a stadium, was there. The regular prize, the chance to lose another Rose Bowl, was there.

But the Ohio State offense was missing yesterday. It was not present, nor really accounted for. It was even booed. And so Michigan, living on defense and tailback Butch no Woolfolk, pressed on to the Rose Bowl with a 9-3 victory and the Big 10 title as credentials. The positive side of this Michigan-Ohio State game, which determined the Big 10's Rose Bowl representative for the 12th time in the last 13 years, was the Michigan defense a young and quick unit that has produced some telling numbers in the last month.

With yesterday's win, the Wolverines have not allowed a touchdown in their last 18 quarters. The entire string (dating back to an Oct. 25 game with Illinois) is 274 minutes, 8 seconds, which is the best prolonged Michigan defensive effort since 1931. "We have played against five Heis-man Trophy candidates (California's Rich) Campbell, (Purdue's Mark) Herrmann, (Illinois' Dave) Wilson, (South Carolina's George) Rogers and now (Ohio State's Art) Schlichter and we've shut 'em all down," said Michigan linebacker Andy Cannavino. "I'd say we can play with anybody." Ohio State (9-2) should have provided the acid test.

The Buckeyes, who now will face Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl, entered this finale with an offense that had averaged 498 yards and not scored less than 40 points in the previous three games. Schlichter, the junior quarterback and Ohio folk hero, had made it go with his option work and his passing (See MICHIGAN on 12-F) College football Baylor 16, Texas 0 Brigham Young 56, Utah 6 Clemson 27, South Carolina 6 Cornell 31, Penn 9 Delaware 20, Youngstown 13 Lehigh 32, Lafayette 0 Maryland 31, Virginia 0 Mississippi State 19, Mississippi 14 North Carolina 44, Duke 21 'Crazy9 Duran exploits hatred "I speak the facts. 1 was in there with that crazy man for IS rounds. Duran is really crazy." Ray Leonard "It is better that he thinks I am loco. That means he is afraid.

Roberto Duran NEW ORLEANS Sanity is not the issue here. The welterweight boxing championship, plus $15 million, is. But it is understandable if Sugar Ray Leonard thinks maybe he was in the ring last June with a man who temporarily had stepped over the and will be confronted by the same frightening specter again Tuesday night when Duran-Leonard II unfolds here in the Superdome. For Roberto Duran fights like a man possessed, driven by terrible fury and fierce rage. get the feeling that Duran could take a .357 magnum slug and 30 seconds after he was dead he would still be throwing punches, like a rattler will twitch convulsively and still try to strike even after it has been beheaded.

That is not a comforting thought to take into the ring, knowing you may need an elephant gun to stop that Scowling, menacing, obsessed Panamanian who takes your best shot and only sneers, pointing to his chin as though to say you have not even made a dent. Calm, but then In October, almost four months after they had stood toe-to-toe in Montreal and battered each other, Duran taking the title on a close but unanimous decision, Duran and Leonard were together for two days, filming a commercial. They said nothing to each other. But once, Leonard fell over the ropes, and Duran bent to pick, him up, and Leonard remembers at least he doesn't hate me "He was fine, no problem that whole time," Leonard said. "Then 1 1 saw him two days later and someone asked him if he had changed his mind about me, and he said, 'No, I still hate And then he turned to me and said, 'I'm gonna kill "This guy has so much confidence, such a desire to win, he's unbelievable.

I lost to a great fighter. I'm not trying to be humble. But I'll tell you, that man is really crazy. "He understands three things in English Sugar Ray Leonard, money and fight. And if you call him crazy, he'll understand that, too." Just hype? A skeptic might dismiss all this as so.

much hype, just another shill job to pump the gate. After all, ringside seats are going for a cool $1,000 apiece. There are 1,300 of them. This rematch could be seen by as many as 3 million people and could gross $50 million, making it a box office and receipt record-setter. The purse is already assured of being the largest ever $8 million for Duran, $7 million for Leonard.

Don King, the flamboyant promoter who has a patent on hyperbole, suggested, in one outrageous burst, that "this rematch is too big for this planet. We need to hold it somewhere else in the universe." Uh, how about just off Bourbon Street, instead, Don? "Yeah, that'd be fine." If Leonard believes that Roberto Duran loses control of his faculties when he is in the ring, he is not alone in his opinion. But it also seems to be an image that Duran and his camp carefully cultivate, knowing it can be a significant psychological advantage. Hey, who wants to fight a crazy man? Public ferocity Duran has made a public show of his ferocity during training, in one session attacking his sparring partner with such unrelenting frenzy that vthe partner was knocked through the ropes to the concrete apron; 4'j feet below the ring. When he climbed back in, Duran promptly assaulted him so furiously that the sparring partner's headgear was ripped loose.

rage is very big in the ring," Duran snarled. He has a very good snarl, one that would make a killer Doberman whimper. He first learned anguish and poverty growing up in the slums. He was a street urchin scrounging through garbage cans. Only a man with an empty belly can appreciate the kind of rage this produces.

And it was this rage that fueled Duran, drove him. For a long time now, though, he has been a wealthy man, but he will not allow himself to surrender the memories of that earlier deprivation. "Every time I jump into the ring, I see the whole picture of how it was," (See LYON on 18-F) Frank Dohon is on vacation. His column will resume tomorrqw. Temple running back Sherman Myers is stopped by Frankford grad Chris Yurkow of Villanova Villanova cashes in errors by Temple for 23-7 victory Oklahoma tops Nebraska, 21-17 By Herschel Nissenson Auoctoted Prett LINCOLN, Neb.

Nebraska r-jach Tom Osborne might have sensed what was coming. "When we went ahead, 17-14, 1 took our offense aside and told them to get ready to score again. Oklahoma has the potential to score quickly." Osborne's fourth-ranked Corn-huskers had gone in front when quarterback Jeff Quinn plunged across from less than a yard out with 1 minutes, 16 seconds left to play yesterday. When the ensuing kickoff went through the end zone, Oklahoma was 80 yards away with a stiff breeze in its face. But Osborne's words were prophetic when the ninth-ranked Sooners stormed the length of the field, capped by freshman Buster Rhymes' one-yard run with 56 seconds remaining, for a dramatic 21-17 triumph.

Rhymes set up the touchdown with a 43-yard run to the Nebraska 14 five plays earlier. It was Oklahoma's ninth victory in the last 10 meetings with Nebraska and gave the Sooners at least a tie for their eighth consecutive Big 8 championship with a 6-0 record. However, they are 8-2 overall to 9-2 for Nebraska, which finished its regular season. The Sooners must defeat Oklahoma State next week to represent the Big 8 against Florida State in the Orange Bowl. That would send Nebraska to the Sun Bowl against Mississippi State.

"I'll tell you what, this may be the best one yet," said Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer. "We don't have any jinx on Nebraska. I've never believed in that. But we came up here, everyone said we were the underdogs, and we just made so many big plays. "This is one of the great, great victories.

Oh, boy, this is sweet. We played great defense the entire ball game. We almost killed ourselves in the third quarter with two fumbles, (See OKLAHOMA on 12-F) Notre Dame 24, Air Force 10 Princeton 27, Dartmouth 24 Rutgers 35, Colgate 13 UCLA 20, Southern Cal 17 Washington 30, Washington State 23 Widener43, Bethany 12 Yale 14, Harvard 0 Complete coverage begins on Page 9-F. Complete scores are on Page 14-F. The Sixers now lead the NBA's Atlantic Division by 4'2 games, after Boston lost to Cleveland.

Gervin was magnificent amid the mania, scoring 39 points. Julius Erv-ing scored 26 for the Sixers. And, against the Spurs' bench the hostile heart of Texas' best team, the fellows who had bruised their eight previous opponents, scoring an average of 18 more points than foes' stitutes the Sixers' reserves held a 38-25 lead. The Sixers scored the final eight points of the game; forced The Iceman to miss his final three shots and commit a turnover in the final 2 minutes, and, admitted Spurs coach Stan Albeck, "made all the crucial plays." The two biggest plays were made by Lionel Hollins, one of six double-figure scorers, who sank six of his eight shots. It was Hollins who raked a rebound from John Shumate's grasp as he was a near-cinch to score the Spurs' third straight rebound basket in the final 1 minute, 15 sec- (See76ERSon8-F) Philadalpba Inquirw VICKI VALERtO Villanova won its third game in a row, ending the season at 6-5, its first winning record since 1976.

The win marked the Wildcats' first win ever over Temple in Villanova Stadium, and it was only the eighth time in the last 25 years that they won their final game. Villanova now leads the series, 13-12-2. Temple ended its first losing season since 1976 at 4-7, the most losses for the Owls since 1960. "This is my happiest moment in sports," said Wildcat senior quarter-(See VILLANOVA on 12-F) OUT, for sure, is Fred Shero, who resigned yesterday as coach of the New York Rangers. In, perhaps, is Herb Brooks (below), who coached the U.S.

hockey team to the Olympic gold medal. Story on Page 3-F. 'tPllf Vr Sixers subdue Spurs for sixth straight win ter to humiliate their hated cross-town rivals, 23-7, yesterday before a crowd of 10,800 at Villanova Stadium, "I respect Temple immensely, and (Wayne) Hardin is a great coach, but I don't like them and they don't like me," said senior defensive tackle Howie Long, headed for the Blue-Gray All-Star Game. "I know that and they know that. We shake hands after the game, but I don't like them.

It's a vicious rivalry, and it gets nastier every year." Nastiness withstanding, it was a sweet win for coach Dick Bedesem. dominate Flyers, 7-3 turned on some speed, backed the Flyers into their own end and, after the first period, took over the game. The issue was settled late in the first period when the Canadiens tied the game, 1-1. There was less than a minute left when Rejean Houle slapped the puck past Flyers goalie Pete Peeters. "If we had come out of that period behind," Canadiens left wing Steve Shutt said, "it might have been a whole different story." The goal was set up when Rod Langway, the catalyst in the Canadiens' entire attack, blew down the right side, past Frank Bathe, and threw a pass to Mario Tremblay behind the net.

Paul Holmgren crashed into Tremblay, but, just before the collision, Tremblay fed a pass to Houle in front. Houle slipped by Norm Barnes and pumped in the shot. That goal leveled the Flyers. For most of the period they had (See FLYERS on 8-F) By Gail Shister Inquirer Stall Writer For three years, they were a team on the precipice, one game away from calling themselves winners. For two years, Temple was their nemesis, stopping them cold and ending their dreams of a winning season.

Not this time. This time, the Wildcats of Villanova took no prisoners. This time, they unleashed two years of frustration with a vengeance. Getting their pound of flesh, they jumped to a 17-0 lead in the first quar Canadiens frustrated By Al Morganti Inquirer Staff Writer MONTREAL Maybe it's not the players within them, maybe it's just the Canadiens' uniforms. Ever get the feeling that even if the Washington Capitals, who have never beaten the Flyers, exchanged their red, white and blue for rouge, blanc et bleu that they too would cause the Flyers unending grief? You could have started a franchise with the people missing from the Montreal lineup: Larry Robinson, Pierre Larouche, Doug Risebrough, Yvan Lambert and, of course, Guy Lafleur.

But, after taking the play to them for almost all of the first period, it turned into a mess for the Flyers. By the end, the Canadiens had run the Flyers ragged on their way to a 7-3 win. The largest crowd to come into the Forum this season, 17,142, saw a familiar game plan. Even with those guys missfhg, the Canadiens just By Bill Livingston Inquirer Staff Writer SAN ANTONIO With apologies to Jake and Elwood Blues, the San Antonio Spurs say everything that needs to be said about their new team personality in the nickname for their bench: The Bruise Brothers. Once a finesse team led by George Gervin, "The Iceman," the guy who's built like the swizzle-stick in one of the margaritas served in every tappy down here, the Spurs are now water bugs who can bench-press the basket support.

"But the Bruise Brothers," observed Darryl Dawkins, the powerful poet laureate of the 76ers, "were Lose Brothers tonight." The Sixers won a brilliant basketball game, 108-101, over the Spurs before 15,362 fans at HemisFair Arena, running their winning streak to six games, their road streak to a club record nine games and their continuing regular-season mastery over the Spurs in their own madhouse backyard to six games over three seasons. It was also thai 18th win in the last 19 games. Je iA Ja A. A 0.