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COURIER-POST, Comd.n, N. Tuesday, Nov.mb.r 17, 1970 28 Kicker Begs for Chance Rod Blaik 60-Yard Field Goal Also Long in Drama Have Colleges Failed Athletes? 7 I believe that the coaches, athletic directors, faculty representatives and all of us who have been concerned directly with the administration of college football, do have a responsibility to the player for his academic welfare. I also believe we have not faced up to it. We have spent too much time debating the nuances of McClard once kicked a 56-yard field goal In high school (without any wind), and he kicked a 53-yarder earlier this year against Wichita State. "I don't think the long one will do all that much to increase my confidence," said McClard, who already has so much confidence it is easy to see how he couldn't get any more.

"Where I get my confidence is when I consistently hit those 35 and 40 yarders. "And I think maybe the coach will let me try some more of those long ones. After all, I've tried two from past the 50 and I made them both." Perfection is kind of hard to beat. NCAA field goal kicking record last week against SMU. He ought to get an Oscar for his efforts on the sidelines.

The scene is Razorback Stadium, and it is late in the first half, and the ball is on SMU's 43-yard line, and the wind Is blowing briskly at Arkansas' back and this is the way McClard tells it. "I definitely knew where the ball was, and I had to beg to get into the game. "I was standing right by the coach (Head Coach Frank Broyles). I said, "let's try a field goal, coach, "But he said, 'No, we're going to "I told him, "Come on, please, let me try it. I can make it." "But he still told me, "No, we had better punt it.

It is better that Then McClard got an ally. Offensive Coach Mervin Johnson told Broyles: "Aw, Frank, let him kick it." "Well," said Broyles, "OK." So McClard dashed In and set the record just like he knew he could all along. He even hit the ball on the laces, which ht figured robbed him of three or four yards of distance. New Orleans Tom Dempsey set the professional record of 63 yards the week before McClard's boot, and people have been kicking field goals from long distances with alarming regularity across the country this year. Why Is that? "Well, I think people are beginning to figure out the value of field goals," McClard said.

"That long one I kicked the other day was my third of the first half. That gave us a 15-0 lead. If we had just been going for touchdowns we would have had only a 6-0 lead. "And, then, too, I think people are working in practice more on field goals. My line Is great.

I have not had one blocked all year, and my center Terry Hopkins and my holder Gus Rusher have done wonder-ful jobs." Bill McClard's 60-yard field goal Saturday the longest ever by a collegian and the second longest ever by anyone, anywhere, anytime In competition was admittedly quite something. But the tableau enacted on the sidelines Just before that boot was worth an Instant replay all by Itself. It was downright dramatic. Hollywood might be calling right now. Unless the pro scouts have the lines tied up.

McClard, is the Arkansas Ra-zorback who has scored more points than any other place kicker in the country and who used a favoring wind to set the acceptable recruiting and aid. There still is much work to be done in these areas but the emphasis has not been where it should be on the academic side. In considering the academic welfare of the player, the entrance requirements should insist the boy have not only the latent ability, but also the desire to do acceptable work in a legitimate course. By a "legitimate course," I mean one that will be of assistance to him after graduation in some pursuit other than partici Indians Lambert CL 'A Spinning Wheel Stops At Texas in Ratings RED BLAIK Leaders NEW YORK (UPI) -College football's spinning wheel points toward Texas again. while Louisiana State, headed for a Southeast Conference shootout with Mississippi, walloped Mississippi State, 38-7.

Air Force, stunned with its first loss in nine games last NEW YORK (UPI) For the fourth time In the record to 8-0 with a 37-14 triumph over Utah. Mississippi showed little effect from the loss of star quarterback Archie Manning, romping past small college Chattanooga, 44-7. Auburn went down to its second loss in nine games, being upset 31-17 by Dartmouth, one game away last four weeks, college football's No. 1 ranking has from completing a perfect undergone a change. This time Texas, tied for the No.

1 spot season, was namea me week, came back strong to beat Rose Bowl-bound Standford, 31-14, and grab a Sugar Bowl berth unanimous choice for the third with Notre Dame last week, while Arizona State ran its1 straight week yesterday in the ranks as undisputed leader Georgia. after gathering 20 first place voting for the Lambert Trophy, votes and 318 points today from symbolic of major college football supremacy in the East. the 35-member United Press International Board of Coaches. The Big Green blanked Notre Dame slipped to second after a narrow victory over Cornell, 24-0, last Saturday for Falcon QB Cited Air Force Accepts A Sugar Bowl Bid its third consecutive shutout and fifth of the season, running its unranked Georgia Tech and high-scoring Nebraska eased past sluggish Ohio State into third. Michigan remained In the No.

5 slot, followed by pation in professional sports. I have no objection to the exceptionally gifted college athlete playing his sport professionally for a reasonable number of years, especially if it will help him pay for postgraduate work or provide the flnan-cia springboard for a solid business investment. My point is that if the college has prepared the boy to do nothing but play a sport professionally and some still are doing only that then the college has failed him and has indicted itself as an educational fraud. The responsibility of all concerned for the welfare of the player does not end with academic screening. They should see to It he Is integrated, into the student body.

This should be done in two ways. First, don't have him room in an athletic dormitory; mix him with the other students. Second, between sport seasons, get him interested in such extracurricular -ctivities as debating, glee club, student government, and the dramatic society. I appreciate the fact the growth of the game at many schools has made the athletic dormitory the most feasible investment economically, and that not every campus is blessed with a hall or dormitory setup. But I believe the athletic dormitory has made the athlete a displaced professional in the eyes of many undergraduates.

It is mainly by emphasizing such integration that we can defeat the propaganda of the pseudo-intellectual that football is for those who lack intellect and all-around ability. record to 8-0. Dartmouth winds up its campaign at Pennsylvania on Saturday with Arkansas and Louisiana State. Air Force, rebounding from shot at its first unbeaten season since 1965. its first loss of the season with The eight-man selection com a smashing upset of Stanford, jumped back to No.

8, with mittee of writers, broadcasters and athletic directors awarded Dartmouth all first-place votes Tennessee and unbeaten Arizo na State completing the top 10. Stanford slipped to 11th, Martin, have a 9-1 record after upsetting Stanford, the Rose Bowl candidate, 31-14 last week. Their only loss was to Oregon University, 46-35, two weeks ago. The Falcons are led by quarterback Bob Parker and flanker Ernie Jennings. Parker, a brilliant student majoring in engineering mechanics yesterday was NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -Once-beaten Air Force accepted an invitation yesterday to play in the Sugar Bowl Football Classic New Year's Day, the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association announced.

The Falcons' opponent has not yet been named but speculation here that it would either be Tennessee, for a perfect score of 80 points. Penn State, with a 6-3 record, followed by Mississippi and Auburn, another upset victim was second with 66 points, followed closely by Boston Dartmouth and San Diego UPI-Otrurler-Post Telefax ARCHIE MANNING, with help from his fiancee, Olivia Williams, packs before leaving Baptist Hospital in Memphis yesterday following surgery on a broken arm. Manning, Mississippi's standout quarterback, is in the running for the Heisman Trophy. State, a pair of unbeatens, were tied for 14th and Alabama and College with 63 points, Yale (57) and West Virginia (53). Southern California, a pair of Completing the first 10 were named the winner of the Villanova (38), Syracuse (28), Louisiana State or Arizona State.

Air Force was ranked 12th in Temple (23), Harvard (21) and oft-beatens, tied for 16th. Toledo, unbeaten in 10 games, ranked 18th and last. Texas annihilated Texas Pittsburgh (9). the latest United Press Interna Christian 580 as Notre Dame At Marshall University struggled past Georgia Tech and Ohio State squirmed past Rochester Retains Lambert Cup Edge tional Coaches Poll. It will be the first appearance in the Sugar Bowl for the Air Force.

The invitation was extended by Sugar Bowl President A. B. National Football Foundation senior college graduate fellowship. Parker, who has a 3.76 academic average and is a Rhodes Scholar candidate, has had a sensational year on the gridiron, sparking Air Force to its best year ever while becoming the most prolific passer in the school's history. Parker has thrown more touchdown passes than any NEW YORK (UPI)-Roches- Purdue by identical 10-7 scores.

Nebraska made it 105 points In the last two games with a 51-13 rout of Kansas State while Michigan, with 97 points in its Cotton Bowl Eyes Powerhouse Irish ter retained a narrow lead over Remainder of Club Hears Acting Pilot Delaware in the eighth week of Nicholas Jr. and was accepted by Lt. Gen. Albert P. Clark, superintendent of the Academy, voting for the Lambert Cup, awarded to the outstanding last two games, scored its second straight shutout, 55-0 over Iowa.

according to a Sugar Bowl announcement. middle sized (Division II) other quarterback in the country this season. DALLAS (UPI)-The Cotton sentiment for such a contest. Eastern college football team The Falcons, coached by Ben Arkansas continued to roll HUNTINGTON, W. Va.

(UPI) Bowl will send Its top officials as both teams scored impres sive victories. Rochester, with 78 points Red Dawson, named acting toward its Southwestern Conference showdown with Texas, ripping Southern Methodist, 36-3, to South Bend, Saturday with the obvious hope of setting Not only could a Notre Dame-Texas game bring together the top two teams in the UPI Coaches Poll, it would give the Irish a chance to revenge its 21-17 loss to last season's national coach of Marshall University in the wake of a plane crash that up the first half of a potential but we won't stay wiped out." Dawson, an assistant, escaped death because he was on a scouting trip. "We've been through a lot of tough times together," he said. "You know what they say about tough times making men out of you. closed out its season by routing Tufts, 54-26, for an 8-1 mark while Delaware, with 73 points, "dream game" for the first day 1.

Texas r201 fS-0) J1 wiped out most of the football of 1971. 2. Noire Dame (6) (M) 290 team and staff, told 44 smashed Boston University, 51 If Notre Dame bumps off ELUSBURG CltCll t. 70 Kings Hwy Chtrry Hill, N. J.

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Louisiana State University Sat remaining freshmen and varsi There is a risk involved, of Delaware, 7-2 and co-holder 5. Michigan (2) (8-1) 243 6. Arkansas (8-1) 112 7. Louisiana St. (7-1) 120 8.

Air Force (9-1) 91 9. Tennessee (7-1) 84 course, if the Irish decide to of the cup last year with urday, and maybe even if they do not, Cotton Bowl representatives will invite the Irish for a There is absolutely no way that accept a Cotton Bowl bid, ty players yesterday there was "absolutely no way that anything worse can happen to us." 10. Arizona M. (8-0) 45 11. Sanford (8-2) 19 Wesleyan, closes out its schedule Saturday with Bucknell.

Not only could Arkansas gain XXT 12. ss SSDDl (7-11 17 BROTHERS Dawson met with the -14 The closest competitor to the host role in the Cotton Bowl with a win over Texas Dec. 5, anything worse can happen to us." Marshall's final football game with Ohio University Saturday has been cancelled. varsity and 30 freshmen Rochester and Delaware was 13. Auburn (7-2) 10 14.

(tie) Dartmouth (8-0) 8 (tie) San Diego St. (9-0) 8 10. (tie Alabama (6-4) 5 Hie) Southern Calif (5-3-1) 5 18. Toledo (10-0) Dlavers shortly after he was return trip to Dallas. The Orange Bowl will be well represented at South Bend as well, and so the choice will be up to Notre Dame.

Will the Irish agree to a Dallas trip and take a chance but if Texas Tech should defeat Arkansas Hids Saturday and the Trinity with 61 points. Bowdoin with 58 and West Chester with named acting coach by assistant athletic director Ed Sterling. 49 closed out the top five. The second five includes Razorbacks should turn around and beat Texas the next weekend, Tech would be the Southwest Conference represen Dr. Donald Dedmon, acting Springfield (33), Central Con necticut (31), C.W.

Post (21), Marshall University president, told the players the 36 players that the University of Texas will indeed, reach the Cotton Bowl safely by defeating potent Arkansas Dec. and Bucknell and Wesleyan MIDGE tative Jan. 1. Despite such risks, however, killed when the team's char with 8 apiece. THURS.

ONLY! MUFFLER'SALE! tered DC-9 jetliner crashed Notre Dame no doubt remem Or will they- opt for a trip to short of Huntington's Tri-State PERKINS SELECTED glittering Miami, an engage bers the case of Penn State during college football's 100th airport were a choice group and our university is better for MILLERS VILLE, Pa. year. ment with Nebraska and perhaps as much as $100,000 more than a Dallas trip would Penn State, when it appeared William Perkins, son of Mr. and having had them." In addition to the players Ohio State would reign as Mrs. William Perkins, 52 Valley bring them? The Cotton Bowl folks Coach Rick Tolley, Athletic national champions last year.

Road, Pine Hill, has been Director Charles Kautz, and selected as a member of the snunnea a cotton jjowi trip for taking no chances. Millersville State College the sun of Miami. Then, when Ken Dowell, president of the sports information director Gene Morehouse were among Ohio State was knocked off by 75 persons killed in the crash. wrestling team this season. Perkins is a freshman at MSC and is a graduate of Overbrook High School.

Michigan and Texas assumed the No. 1 spot, the chance was "We're wiped out," Dedmon Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, will be on hand for the Notre Dame-LSU game. So will the association's vice president Field Scovell. And so will be Wilbur Evans, told the remaining players," lost for a 1-2 showdown. administrative assistant to the Southwest Conference.

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