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section NFL Today 6 High schools 15 Horse racing 18 Obituaries 21 Sunday, November 11, 1984 Wild Again, at 31-1, wins the Breeders' Cup Classic Mt Mabelpftrc Inquirer sports one-half length. After the long steward's inquiry, Slew o' Gold was moved up to second because of interference by Gate Dancer, the Preakness winner. Just six months ago, Gate Dancer, who was dropped to third, had become the first horse to be disqualified, dropping from fourth to fifth, in the Kentucky Derby. A $360,000 supplemental entry into the Breeders' Cup Classic after his runaway Meadowlands Cup victory, Wild Again went off at 31-1 and paid $64.60 to win. He ran the 1 14 miles immediately.

Cordero said the early jousting rather than the squeeze play near the end had hurt his horse the most. "It was the bump, bump, bump at the top of the stretch when the horse on the inside Wild Again was coming out and got my horse twice on the shoulder," he said. Gate Dancer swooped into contention at the eighth pole and almost immediately lugged onto the Seattle Slew colt, laying on his right flank for the final eighth of a mile. Near the wire, a head-on patrol videotape showed, Gate Dancer gave Slew o' Gold a solid bump. But Wild Again was trying to bear out into Slew o' Gold, the videotapes showed.

"I knew my horse was hanging on the left rein and wanted to get out the whole way," Day. said. "I was afraid my horse had intimidated Slew o' Gold." Day, the nation's leading rider in races won, got the mount on Wild Again when Eddie Maple switched to fourth-place finisher Track Barron on Wednesday. Day said he believed that Slew o' Gold, who had a fiber in a slow 2:03 25 over a hard but dull track. Slew o' Gold, who sustained his first defeat of the year, went off as the 3-5 favorite with entrymate Mu-gatea.

The gripping stretch battle began at the head of the stretch when Slew o' Gold and rider Angel Cordero Jr. hooked Wild Again from the outside. Running on the hard surface that he prefers, Wild Chip Stable's Wild Again dug in and never allowed Slew o' Gold to gain the advantage. The bumping match-began almost By Don Clippinger Inquirer Stall Wriler INGLEWOOD, Calif. In a thrilling conclusion to the richest race in history, long shot Wild Again survived both a wild bumping match in the stretch with Slew o' Gold and Gate Dancer and a steward's inquiry to win the $3 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Hollywood Park yesterday.

Wild Again, ridden by substitute jockey Pat Day, ended up in front by a head over Gate Dancer. Slew o' Gold sandwiched between the two for the final furlong was third by glass patch placed on a new crack In his right heel on Friday, was not quite at his best. "Slew o' gold had every opportunity to run by me from the quarter pole to the wire. I have to say that, he hung a little bit," Day said. "When Slew o' Gold came to me and didn't go by like I thought he would, I was confident all the way to the wire;" The $3-million Classic was the centerpiece of the seven-race, SlO-mil-lion inaugural Breeders' Cup.

The other races had three short-priced (See BREEDERS' CUP on 19-E); Penn rip Harvard to clinch tie for title zJ? -JiA lii e' i gi- xs3f S3-I4 --1' "Vv fill Eagles hope the rush is on Aiming to force Marino mistakes By Jere Longman Inquirer Stall Writer The Eagles will try to find a little Miami vice in Dan Marino today. Prospects are not encouraging. The Dolphins are 10-0 and trying to become the second unbeaten, untied team in NFL history (the 72 Dolphins were the first). Marino has oeen almost equally periect, witn a 65 percent completion rate and 29 touchdown passes, seven short of the In 10 games, Marino has been sacked but five times. Usually, his pass protection has been bulletproof.

When pressured, Marino has been an artful dodger, sidestepping the pass rush and whipping passes to Mark Clayton and Mark Duper, who own 17 touchdown catches between them. Kickoff at the Orange Bowl is set for 1 p.m. (TV-Channel 10). If the Patriae A. CI Ana trt intftrrunt Mi.

ami's best start since 1972, when the Dolphins finished 17-0, they must somehow contain, however temno- rarily, the NFL's No. 1 offense (33.6 points and 446.8 yards per game). "We've got to hold them to the fewest possible points, and we're going to have to score a lot of points Mifcalirao Pgftloc nnarh Marinn Campbell said. mi i jti i i np krv (in fiHiHnsfci ne sacking Marino but pressuring him to throw before he and his receivers are ready. "We need to rush him," said Chuck Clausen, the Eagles' defensive line coach.

"We might hurry 10 passes, but we're not going to get 10 sacks." The difficulty with Marino is that he is quick to read defenses and even (See EAGLES on 8-E) Mmege iooiDan The top teams Southern Cal 16, Washington 7 Nebraska 41, Kansas 7 Houston 29, Texas 15 Brigham Young 34, San Diego St. 3 II jl II south Carolina 38, Florida State 26 Maryland 42, Miami (Fla.) 40 Oklahoma State 31, Missouri 13 Florida 27, Georgia 0 Oklahoma 42, Colorado 17 Other scores Louisiana State 16, Alabama 14 Boston College 45, Army 31 Penn 38. Harvard 7 Rutgers 23, West Virginia 19 Delaware 27, Massachusetts 14 Yale 27, Princeton 24 Detailed coverage begins on Page 9-E. BBHBBBBi Surges to a 38-7 Ivy win By Chuck Newman Inquirer Stall Wriler It ended on one of the most emotional notes since the days when guys like Bednarik and Bagnell and Minisi played here against teams like Notre Dame and Army. The game ended with Penn at Harvard's 1-yard line and the Quakers trying to get a timeout so they could add a touchdown that would make their 38-7 victory even more definitive.

But time expired, and Penn coach Jerry Berndt, who has resurrected a dying football program, left Franklin Field on the shoulders of his players. Penn graduates in the crowd of 38,810 rushed to the dressing room, tossing cigars to the assistant coaches. When the players exited the jammed Penn dressing room, Berndt greeted each one with a handshake or a hug. Penn's team, unbeaten in the Ivy League, spawned all the emotion with a demolition of the Crimson (5-3, 5-1). The Quakers earned at least a share of the Ivy title for a third straight year and put themselves on the threshold of their first outright league title since 1959.

Also, with a victory against Cornell next week, Penn could become the first team to go through the league unbeaten since Dartmouth in 1970. It was Harvard's worst defeat at the hands of Penn. Tom Murphy's 41-yard field goal in the second quarter broke a 7-7 tie and put Penn ahead to stay. It was Murphy's 11th field goal of the season, tying him with Eliot Berry (1968) for the school mark. Murphy's five extra points gave him 30 for the season, without a miss, erasing the record of 29 by Tim Martin in 1973.

The game was actually decided in a 16-second span at the end of the second period and the beginning of the third. Harvard's Rob Steinberg, given a second opportunity after a 37-yard miss was canceled by a penalty for running into the kicker, missed wide left from 32 yards with 2 seconds left until halftime. That left Harvard's deficit at 10-7. Fourteen seconds in playing time later, Penn's Steve Ortman hauled the second-half kickoff back 92 yards for a TD. Penn's defense took it from there, limiting the Crimson to three first downs, 42 yards in total offense and 7:22 of possession time in the final 30 minutes.

"We kept it close in the first half, and then they returned the kickoff for a touchdown, and that really put us back," said Harvard coach Joe Restic, nursing his worst defeat since a 35-0 loss to Yale in 1973. "We couldn't sustain anything after that. We had to put the ball up, and that (See PENN on 13-E) The Oilers, who will oppose the Flyers tonight (7:05) at the Spectrum, are a marvel of astute planning and clever manipulation, and yet the hockey world has paid little mind to the mastermind. Perhaps Sather prefers it that way. In the last few months, at the height of an eight-year career as a coach, Sather has found time between celebrations to criticize Canadian hockey fans, cast aspersions on his brethren in NHL front offices and antagonize a legion of writers and broadcasters.

As recently as laot Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, he became embroiled in a dispute over the condition of the ice at the Civic Arena and threatened to boycott the game. His reaction was vintage Sather. "It was filthy when I played here, and it's still filthy," he declared after a 3-3 tie. "The guys who are in charge of the ice should be fired. They (See SATHER on 14-E) The Philadelphia Inquirer CLEM MURRAY Penn running back Steve Ortman goes flying after a hit by Ken Tarczy; in the 3d quarter, Ortman returned a kickoff 92 yards for a TD Tweed league gets down and dirty thing that stirs the juices in South Bend and Tuscaloosa and Lincoln and other intercollegiate football foundries.

A big part of the problem is that for years Penn had been the obliging, unresisting toxic-waste dump for the Yales and Harvards and Dartmouths, but then the Quakers went out and hired Berndt and stopped turning the other cheek. For the third straight year, Penn is assured of a piece of the Ivy League championship. A win at Cornell on Saturday would make them undisputed champs, and the first 7-0 Ivy team (See LYON on 13-E) Erving silent, awaiting NBA action on fight Fire and ice: Sathefs coaching concoction were assessed. Yellow flags flourished like dandelions on the Astro-Turf, while bile and tempers rose, fingers stabbed emphatically into chests, stares grew hard and cold. And, finally, in the second period there had been a flurry of punches.

Uh-huh. That's right, Fist City in the Ivy League. The conference that is supposed to be tweed and briar pipes and cerebral theorizing got down and dirty. But then Penn and Harvard have managed to work themselves into a fine froth of a rivalry the last three years. On the Passion Meter, Penn-Harvard is right up there with any United Press International superstar pupil, Wayne Gretzky By BILL LYON crowd in the last 12 years, had stayed to the end, savoring, relishing.

The cause of all this riotous ecstasy was Penn pasting Harvard yesterday at Franklin Field, 38-7, in a game that featured, among other things, such heated emotion that 23 penalties Sather (left) confers with his kJ At the end, one set of goal posts was toppled by delirious and determined fans. It would not begin to dawn on them until they were maybe three blocks away from the stadium that lugging around a 20-foot section of metal tubing presents some interesting navigational problems. Not to mention storage. Also at the end, Penn coach Jerry Berndt was carried triumphantly off the field on the shoulders of his gladiators. He thrust the game ball aloft, in the direction of the student section, like Caesar offering up tribute to the partisans at the Coliseum.

Most of the 38,810, the largest Penn responded with an elbow that resulted in an offensive foul against him. Videotape replays showed Erving slip his arm around Bird's waist in what appeared to be a conciliatory gesture, but Bird responded by clipping Erving's arm with a swift, downward movement of his arm. Erving: shoved back and Bird took a swipe at Erving that missed. Erving responded with a series of jabs to Bird's face, at which point both benches emptied onto the floor and chaos spread. The Sixers star said that his first gesture toward Bird in the incident had been conciliatory.

Erving said, "You could say that. I can say that I wasn't mad." But anger erupted elsewhere as Sixers center Moses Malone put a headlock on Bird; the Celtics' M.L. Carr swung at Malone but accidentally hit Boston assistant coach Chris Ford; Sixers guard Maurice Cheeks squared off with the Celtics' Quinn Buckner, and Sixers coach Billy Cun-(See SIXERS on 4-E) By Angelo Cataldi Inquirer Stall Writer EDMONTON, Alberta Glen Sather is known both as a confident man and a confidence man, but the fact that he also possesses one of the best minds in hockey remains strictly confidential. Even now that his Edmonton Oilers are reigning champions of the NHL, Sather who owns the titles of president, general manager and coach is an anomaly in a sport that prides itself on traditional values and casts a wary eye on those who do not conform. Glen Cameron Sather, rest assured, does not conform.

During a six-month period of unprecedented success that included the Stanley Cup, the Canada Cup and now an NHL-record start of 15 games without a loss in the new season, Sather has earned more notoriety for his abrasive style than for his extraordinary record. By George Shirk Inquirer Stall Wriler BOSTON 76ers captain Julius Erving, ejected for fighting with Boston star Larry Bird during Friday night's Celtics victory, had little to say yesterday on his role in what became a bench-clearing brawl. "I don't want to talk about it because I don't know what the consequences of it will be," he said as he checked out of the team's hotel yes- terday morning. "I want to wait." One of the consequences is likely to be a stiff fine against Erving and Bird, both of whom were ejected by lone official Dick Bavetta in the third quarter. Bird and Erving, who have teamed to endorse commercial products such as basketball shoes and a computer video-game (named, appropriately, "One on exchanged words and punches.

Bird, apparently angry after being fouled by Erving with 2:21 left in the quarter and then further angered by an Erving drive for a layup less hn a minute later,.