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SECTION A PACE EIGHT ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1970 umDs econd in CARTER'S COLUMN to srion Replace LSUNO Rag'sn Cajuns Third Ranked By The Associated Press Southwest Louisiana, buoyed by an impressive victory over Big Eight, power Oklahoma State, slipped into the No. 2 spot in the Associated Press weekly rankings of the nation's college division basketball teams. The Ragin Cajuns pushed their record to 9-0 with the 88-71 triumph over the Aggies that impressed the nation-wide poll of sports writers and broadcasters sufficiently to boost them past neighboring LSU-New Or How to Have Fun and Still Win ft if 1 leans. Puget Sound tied for 13th, Eau Claire, Indiana State, Eastern New Mexico, Central State of Ohio, Fairmont State and Central Washington. Here are the top college division basketball teams with total points on a 20-18-1(5-14-12-10-8- etc.

basis. First place votes are in parentheses: LSU-New Orleans, second a week am. won two games the pj'il includes only games through last Saturday for an 11-3 mark but slipped to third place. Only four points separate the two. with Southwest Louisiana leading Another close fight developed in the balloting for the fourth through seventh positions with only nine points separating four teams No.

4 Stephen F. Austin, No. 5 Howard Payne, No. 6 Ashland and No. 7 Chcyney State.

Idle Kentucky State retained the No. 1 spot, gaining half the 14 first place ballots cast and 25:1 points. LSU-New Orleans took four first place ballots, with Southwest Louisiana, Stephen F. Austin and Howard Payne each picking up one. Oral Roberts gained two positions to eighth place, Philadelphia Textile dropped one to ninth and Tennessee State fell one to 10th.

The second ten, in order, are Kentucky Wesleyan, Louisiana Tech, illinois Wesleyan and 1. Kentucky State (7) 250 2. SW Louisiana (1) 211 3. LSU-New Orleans (4) 207 4. Stephen F.

Austin (1) 139 5. Howard Payne (1) 136 6. Ashland 131 7. Cheyney State 130 8. Oral Roberts 98 9.

Philadelphia Textile 79 10. Tennessee State 71 11. Kentucky Wesleyan 61 12. Louisiana Tech 57 13. (tie) 111.

Wesleyan 26 Puget Sound 26 15. Eau Claire 24 16. Indiana State 23 17. Eastern New Mexico 22 18. Central State Ohio 21 19.

Fairmont State 19 20. Central Washington 18 ward (35), foreground, and Tom Jasper (53). UCLA won the game 90-71 to share first round lead with Pitt in the 20th annual Steel Bowl Tournament. UCLA's Curtis Rowe (30) and Steve Patterson (32) come down with defensive rebound in first half action Tuesday night in Pittsburgh in action with William and Mary forwards Steve Se- Jotre Dame's Carr on Scorina Sore AcjGill 9 broke a Maryland mark by hitting his first 10 field goal at Irish ran its lead to 18 points at one time and the Wildcats were too far behind to catch them. tempts as the Terps lashed Mi lrCLA forged its victory over ami, 111-77.

Arizona came from behind for stubborn William Mary be hind Sidney Wicks' 23 points and a 77-75 victory over Mississippi Texas has already lost to Notre Dame by that time. Nebraska, unbeaten but tied once, is ranked No. 3 for its Orange Bowl test with No. 5 LSU in the Orange Bowl. This game will start after all the others have been completed.

For that reason, it could very well be for the national championship. But only if Texas and Ohio State have been upset. Tennessee, ranked a spot ahead of SEC champion LSU for reasons unknown, has hopes, too. If the Vols beat No. 11 Air Force in the Sugar Bowl, as expected, they could expect to vault to No.

1 if Texas, Ohio State and Nebraska all lose. GUESSING THE WINNERS Assuming that all the bowl teams, due to so much being at stake, willb at their peak, here's my guess at the winners: Sugar Bowl Tennessee 21, Air Force 13. There is a feeling that this is a mismatch because the Falcons were so inconsistent. But there is proof that Air Force is capable of playing a tremendous football game on a given day. Stanford and Missouri will agree to that.

So, quarterback Bob Parker and Ernie Jennings will give the Vols some trouble with their aerial act, but the Tennessee defense is too tough to allow much damage. The Vols have a pretty potent attack of their own, led bv all-conference running back Curt Watson, and the Air Force defense is hardly awesome. Cotton Bowl Texas 28, Notre Dame 14 If Notre Dame's defense could get up one more time, like it was for LSU, this could be a tossup. But that isn't likely. Even LSU was able to run inside on Notre Dame, which means Texas should have a picnic, with its big backs and powerful offensive line.

The Irish will have to pin all their point hopes on Joe Theis-manii (pictured) and Tom Gatewood, who were completely ineffective against LSU. But Texas, despite its overall strength, is no LSU on defense. Rose Bowl Ohio State 24, Stanford 14. Any team with an athlete like Jim Plunkett is capable. He must control the ball if Stanford's defense is to hold up under the pounding from the big, deep Buckeyes.

Ohio State's best defense is its ball control, too, and the guess here is that the Buckeyes will have the ball too much for Plunkett to do enough damage. Orange Bowl LSU 14, Nebraska 10. It need not be said that you have to throw not only pretty good but awfully good to beat LSU, Notre Dame being the exception. There is no reason to expect Nebraska's defense to even measure up to Notre Dame's defense on the day the Tigers played in South Bend. Nebraska has a powerful running game, but nobody is apt to run against LSU.

Nebraska's defense is stronger than its statistics, as most of the points yielded were harmless, after the games had been decided. Gator Bowl Auburn 35, Ole Miss 21. This is only if Archie Manning is back close to normal. I am guessing that he has his legs back (he didn't have them against LSU) and that he probably won't have to wear that cast. As far as I am concerned, Auburn was the best football team I saw LSU play all year.

Pat Sullivan and Terry Beas-ley are enough, but the Plainsmen have more. Manning at his best is the very best, but he is with an ordinary team, so at a disadvantage against Sullivan. If both teams are at their peak, this will be the spectator game of the holidays. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Predicting the performance of a college football team in a bowl game, a month or so after the regular season has been completed, can be pretty difficult.

Bowl trips are a reward for a job that took more than three months. Everybody involved wants to win, of course, but in some instances victory doesn't seem quite as important as it did during the season. Contributing to this attitude is the coach's sincere determination to show his players a good time in the trip. Enjoyment is part of the reward. A lot of college coaches, perhaps a majority of them, have trouble finding that happy medium, when to play and when to work.

There are some coaches who are so determined to win that they take all the fun out of the trip and drain incentive from their grumpy charges. Others get similar results from the opposite extreme. The coach who can arrange for his players to have a good time without ever losing sight of the purpose, a peak performance in the actual game, is the coach who has an impressive bowl record. Such a coach is LSU's Charley McClendon. He has won five bowl games in six trips, and has never lost a game on New Year's Day.

Mac's Tigers kinda whistle while they work. They are not denied enjoyment on a trip. In fact, they are toasted as real celebrities all the way, going first class the complete route. Somehow, though they almost always play their very best football on the day of the game. This is especially true when the Tigers are decided underdogs, as in the Cotton Bowl games with Texas in 1963 and with Arkansas in 1966.

He seems to have a knack for retaining pride while having fun. When the Bengals take on favored Nebraska in the Orange Bowl here Friday night they will have been on Miami Beach for a full week, working out twice daily and enjoying the climate in between. You can't tell until game time how much the long stay on the beach has affected the players' football. History tells us they will be able to put good times behind them for a couple of houkrs Friday night, knowing their return to the beach after the game will be much more enjoyable if they return as champions. ADDED INCENTIVE It's understandable if teams in the early, so-called "minor" bowl games don't always play up to their potential.

As a rule, there's nothing at stake, except personal prestige. For the New Year's Day games it's a different story, especially this year. The mythical but official national championship will be decided in the final Associated Press poll, which will be conducted after Friday's games. And six, count 'em, six of those New Year's Day bowl teams still have a chance at the national title. There is every reason, then, for all these teams to be at their peak.

If Texas, ranked No. 1 most of the season, beats Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl, the Longhorns are national champs for the second straight year. A Notre Dame victory, combined with circumstances, could net the Irish the title, although they go into the game rated sixth. Ohio State is in the best position to overhaul Texas. The Buckeyes are undefeated, like Texas, and ranked No.

2. A victory over underdog Stanford (No. 12) in the Rose Bowl would give the championship to Ohio State if 20 by Steve Patterson. State to win the Poinsetta Classic at Greenville, S.C.; Old Do Dean "The Dream" Memin- ger put Dartmouth to sleep with 22 points as Marquette ran its record to 7-0. The Warriors Paul Westphal led Southern California's second-half surge as the Trojans, leading only 49-46 shortly after the intermission, opened a 21-point margin late in the game.

Poo Welch stole the ball and passed to Larry Brown, who hit the field goal and a succeeding free throw for Houston. Harold Fox scored 19 points to lead Jacksonville to its sixth victory in seven games. Twelfth-rated Kansas subdued Iowa State 59-56 and advanced to the finals of the Big Eight Conference Tournament and 13th-ranked St. Bonaventure beat Georgia Tech 70-68 on Paul Hoffman's field goal for the Gator Bowl championship at Jacksonville, Fla. Oregon, the nation's 16th-ranked power, held Washington State to five points in the final 11 minutes for a 64-48 victory and a berth in the finals of the Far West Classic at Portland, Ore.

Utah State, No. 19, turned back Wichita State 84-78 in the first game of the semifinals of the All-College Tournament at Oklahoma City and No. 18 Louisiana Slate took the nightcap from Montana State 89-77. Elsewhere, Baylor crushed Mississippi 132-113 in the Palmetto Classic despite a 60-point performance by Johnny Neumann, the nation's leading scorer. The point total was an Ole Miss record.

Hot-handed Barry Yates By Ken Rappoport Associated Press Sports Writer) Here comes Austin Carr oops, there goes Austin Carr. Notre Dame's point-dealing wizard is the same model as last year, running and gunning as good as new. The runaway Carr hit eighth-ranked Kentucky with a 50-point performance and led the 15th-ranked Irish to a 99-92 victory in college basketball Tuesday night. Carr helped Notre Dame accelerate to a 15-4 spree late in the first half that gave the Irish a never-topped 53-39 lead at intermission. The Wildcats climbed to within five points three times in the second stanza but Notre Dame's freeze-ball tactics killed the comeback trv.

were never headed, scoring the first nine points and building first-half leads of 22-7 and 43-17. Dave Wohl, one of the little minion routed Tulane 91-76, East Tennessee slammed Virginia Tech 83-74; North Carolina swept by Penn State 73-57; Duke toppled Northwestern 93-87; Fordham knocked off California 84-63; Kansas State beat Oklahoma State 67-64; Oklahoma defeated Missouri 70-63; Illinois whipped Army, Hawaii, 124-70; Boston edged Davidson 72-67 and LaSalle of Philadelphia whipped Georgia 50-42 in some of the night's other games. guys on Penn's rangy Quakers, scored 25 points in their Quaker City success. Temple got to within six points in the second half, but Penn scored 15 of the next 20 points to pull away. Guards Dennis Layton and Top-ranked UCLA walloped Mary 90-71 in the Steel Bowl Tournament at Pittsburgh: third-ranked Marquette brushed off Dartmouth 98-55 in the Milwaukee Classic and No.

4 Southern Cal bombed Michigan Stale 88-63 and Houston stunned No. 10 Tennessee 68-65 in the Trojan Classic at Los Angeles. Sixth-rated Penn downed cross-town rival Temple 76-55 to i If I If win the Quaker City Classic at 41- 4 snAi if, Philadelphia and No. 9 Jacksonville turned back Creighton 94-85 in the Gold Coast Classic at West Palm Beach. in the night's other top games.

Notre Dame, which lost to two other ranked clubs South Carolina and Indiana by a total of c'ght points didn't take any chances with Kentucky. The 1 COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE Dial 442-1331 TOWN TALK photography Section 1 SssiwJfcsi. toiyiS)i" i fM 3i! wSiii (AP is Craig Burns. Casanova says he likes to hit but enjoys running back kicks even more. Jordan, Vaughf Benched for Bowl Tommy Casanova, Louisiana State defensive back, carries in practice at Miami for the Orange Bowl game New Year's night with Nebraska.

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Both coaches have been benched for the game by their doctors. Vaught suffered a heart attack recently. Jordan is due to be released today from Chambers County Hospital in Lafayette where he underwent an emergency appendectomy last week. Dr. Nick Wheeler said Tuesday night he and Jordan had decided it would be best if Jordan did not go to Jacksonville.

The doctor said the trip and the game might hamper a normal recovery. "I have to miss the game, but I will keep in touch the team," Jordan said. Meanwhile, the contest is shaping up as a battle between assistant coaches Paul Davis of Auburn and Frank M. Kinard of Ole Miss. 1 For VA TUX Tl yards in 9.3 seconds or belter.

"After thinking about their speed, I'm a more firm believer in tradition now than ever before." said Doolcy, whose Tar Heels are a six-point underdog. While Doolcy frets about speed. ASU Coach Frank Rush, possessor of the second winning-est record by percentage in college football, says that speed won't mean much if the Sun Devils can't get the ball. Doolcy's game plan is simple, he says. "We have to control the ball, grind it out and keep the ball out of their hands," Dooley says, Arizona Slate trimmed 10 straight foes, averaging 37.5 points per game.

Led by Joe Spagnola, the Sun Devils led the nation in total offense, averaging 514 yards per game. ATLANTA (AP) Undefeated Arizona State, the nation's No. 8 power, and ball control-minded North Carolina collide tonight in the third annual Peach Bowl football game, a postseason event that has been plagued by rain the last two years. A day-long rain Tuesday soaked Georgia Tech's Grant Field, site of the 8 p.m. EST kiekoff, but the weather bureau forecast fair and cool weather for the game.

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