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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVlLLE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1971 Ara Used Nine-Man Line Mew Defense Held Texas SECTION PAGE TWO By Jim R. Johnson (Town Talk Sport Writer) DALLAS, Tex. Notre Dame wanted revenge of last year's 21-17 loss to Texas in the Cotton Bowl game, and the big and tremendously strong Fighting Irish got it on New Year's Day when the defense stopped the very thing which beat Notre Dame a year ago the Wishbone-T of-lense. The Irish, whose only outside chance for winning a National Championship was for the LSU Tigers to upset Nebraska in the Orange Bowl (but didn't, losing 17-12), made the mighty big defensive plays on second and third down. The Notre Dame defense, on 19 occasions, stopped Texas with no more than a one yard gain, and sometimes for even as much as a nine-yard loss.

And when that awesome defense, an alignment Notre Dame hadn't used in two years and was especially designed for this game, shut off two of the Texas backs, the Irish were confident of an upset. In this year's Cotton Bowl rematch, the defense got credit for upsetting Texas 24-11, stopping the Longhorns' winning streak at 30 games and killed all Texas hopes for winning iecond straight Na- tional Championship. Quarterback Joe Theismann of Notre Dame ran for two touchdowns and passed for another and Scott llempel kicked a 36-yard field goal for the Irish as they did all their scoring in the first half, just as Texas did with Happy Feller kicking a 23-yard field goal and Jim Bertelsen scoring a touchdown from the two. Notre Dame's defense removed the Longhorns from tfie'-goal line 'throughout the game, and the Longhorns' ball control offense had gone down the drain. I Texas' inability to blow out those big, bad Notre Dame onds left in the half.

The Cotton Bowl crowd, most of whom had been so accustomed to wooing for their Mr. Steve Worster, an ail-American fullback who is the greatest offensive back in Texas hLstory, must have been a little disappointed with the No. 1 team in the country. Even the sports writers covering the Cotton Bowl game were a little dismayed at the awesome attack by the Irish. Royal, shared their sentiments.

Texas' ball control did nothing for them, because only once during the first half did the ball control type offense the Longhorns had shown against Arkansas do any good. That was when Texas scored its first touchdown, as Phillips pitched wide to Bertelsen, the kid from Wisconsin who, out of necessity, was having to make the big plays for Worster. The Longhorns, without a defense of honest merit, marched 84 yards in 18 plays and consumed seven minutes' and two seconds of the clock defensive linemen on the option during the first half came as no big surprise, even to Coach Darrell Royal, whose Longhorns must have felt the pressure of such a winning streak. Notre Dame came out with a few surprises of its own, in addition to bringing nine men up close to the line. "After seeing how Arkansas couldn't stop the Wishbone with an eight-man line," said Coach Ara Parseghian, "I knew then we couldn't do it." Texas quarterback Eddie Phillips was the only effective runner for the Longhorns, and he impressed the Notre Dame defense until he came out of the game with an injury with nine minutes left in the game.

Phillips gained 164 yards on 23 carries, 63 yards on his very first, and garnered 363 yards in total offense for a new Cotton Bowl record when he completed nine of 17 passes for 199 yards. Theismann, who ran three and 15 yards for touchdowns and passed 26 yards to Tom tcIm iTM tnss Bowl Extravaganzas Wiped Out Jinx and Bad Reputation i WkwMi--- -MM TJt AS. i4k By Joe Canicelli (upi sport writer) New Year's V0 mmtt- mmM? a r.i a football's annual extravaganza, saw a winning streak, a jinx and a bad reputation get wiped t. -vamimm- vmimismmmm 'mmmm m. a rr w.

5 i if (AP Wirepnow) spins to either hand off or fake; tcp right: gets set to throw a pass; bottom right: keeps the ball and runs from a Texas tackier behind him. Joe Theisman, Notre Dame's All-America quarterback, displays the talents which make him top in his class during Friday's victory ovr Texas in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. At left, Joe Irish Coach Believes Tackling Made Difference This Year I SmA (AP Wirephoto) Quarterback Jim Plunkett of Stanford, field. Beyond Stanford's Mike Lasater a hero in Friday's Rose Bowl upset (on knees) is Ohio State safety Mike over Ohio State, sprints through the Sensibaugh. Two fourth-quarter touch-Buckeyes for a 22-yard gain to mid- downs gave the Indians a 27-17 win.

3jl out and thus opened floodgates for a sea of controversy. imat know because I don't think about milestones, just winning." Third-ranked Marquette, winner of the Milwaukee Classic, travels to Detroit; fourth-ranked Southern California, the Trojan Invitational winner, hosts No. 18 Louisiana State and No. 5 Western Kentucky plays at East Tennessee. Eighth-ranked Kentucky takes on Mississippi and Johnny Neumann, college basketball's top scorer; ninth-rated Jacksonville plays at the Virgin Islands; No.

10 Tennessee is at Mississippi State and Minnesota is at Notre Dame, the No. 15-ranked club. Virginia Tech, a two-point loser to mighty South Carolina, plays at Wake Forest, which upset Jacksonville for the Gold Coast Classic, In another top game. College Cage Scores East Johnson C. Smith 106, Chcy-ncy State 103 (2 ot) South Southern Illinois 103.

Tennes see-Martin 78 Far Weit Columbia 71, San Jose St. 68 Tournaments Winston-Salem State Holiday Festival Winston-Salem State 127, Flsk 88 Howard 53, N.C. Central 50 First Round Eastern Montana 83, Rocky Mountain College 71 Great Falls 64, Eastern New Mexico 61 IViM Uh Hi Gatewood for a first quarter touchdown, completed nine of 16 passes for 176 yards. "This was the greatest feeling since I got married," said Theismann, whose game plan was to force Texas out of its running game to make the Longhorns go to the air. The surprise runner for Notre Dame, however, was a big fullback, 225-pound John Cieskowski, who had replaced starting fullback Bill Barz in the Southern Cal game which Notre Dame lost 38-28.

Ciesz-kowski rushed 13 times for 52 yards and caught two passes for 11 yards. Texas, which showed that it can be a dangerous passing team, ran into trouble with Clarence Ellis, a junior cornerback already a pro prospect who did an excellent job on the Longhorn wide receivers. When Ellis began knocking down passes to guys like Danny Lester and Deryl Comer, quarterback Phillips, the outstanding offensive player for Texas, had to go to his backs as receivers. He hit Bertelsen three times coming out of the backfield for 85 yards. What had to cause the Longhorns misery came during the last minute of the first half, when a third string quarterback and a cornerback (Ellis) set up the final three points for the Irish.

Jim Bulger, a sophomore from Pennsylvania, came in to replace Theismann on the fourth play of Notre Dame's last drive of the half. Theismann, who called a beautiful first half for the Irish, injured his hand on an attempted pass to halfback Larry Parker, who carried 13 times for 48 yards. Bulger, used very sparingly by the Irish this season, threw 37 yards to Ellis, the outstanding defensive player for Notre Dame, who had lined up as a flanker. The reception by Ellis, of Grand Rapids, set up Notre Dame at the 27 of Texas. Ara, who hasn't had to play many minutes without Theismann in at quarterback, then went to second string quarterback Pat Steenberge, another sophomore from Pennsylvania.

It was Steenberge's pitch-out to Gulyas for eight yards to the 19 that set Hempell up for his field goal with 24 sec passes for 182 yards, including a 31-yard touchdown aerial to Al Coffee on the last play of the third quarter to give LSU its first and only lead, 12-10. Field goals by Mark Lumpkin produced LSU's first six points, a 37-yarder with 49 seconds left in the half and" a 25-yarder three minutes deep into the third quarter. With Cantrelle sidelined, sophomore Dantin had to shoulder practically all of LSU'S ground burden and he responded brilliantly, leading all rushers with a net 79 yards In 20 carries. Full back Dei Walker, who also gave Dantin a breather at tailback, had 30 yards in five carries. Because Lee and Jones were dropped a total of eight times for 89 lost yards, LSU wound up with only 51 net yards rushing.

The Tigers did add 227 through the air, and trailed Nebraska only 293-278 in total offense, LSU, which chosed with a 9-3 record, had a 20-18 edge in first downs. he'll jump out at you and pitch out if you do. I just misjudged my speed. This was the sweetest victory I've ever had. I was impressed with the way Texas never quit.

"I was all keyed up for this game, and just misjudged my own speed and let Phillips get by me. I turned too quick on him. This turf (artificial) is tough to get adjusted to. Regular turf will move with you, but this stuff doesn't give a bit." Worster, who only gained 42 yards, said: "They were stacking up good in the middle. They took away all of my plays, it seemed like.

But we were having success outside. But when we did they would put to me and I'd fumble. They were hitting well and tackling the ball some. "They got their hands on the ball real well. I don't know how I lost it so much.

Twisting thru the line and getting hit. It seems like we were driving enough to win. We just couldn't follow through. I knew we could win in the second half if the defense shut them out. There was no doubt in my mind.

We've had a great three years a great career. I'm real proud to be a part of it. I'm just disappointed I couldn't do better in this last game." for Dayton, Clemson UCLA, S. Carolina Tonight Texas' 30 game winning streak the longest in the nation came to an end In the Cotton Bowl as Notre Dame avenged its defeat of a year ago with a 24-11 upset of the Longhorns. The jinx belonged to Tennessee, which had lost its last three bowl games.

The Volunteers wiped that out convincingly with a 34-13 rout of Air Force in the Sugar Bowl. And the bad reputation belonged to Stanford, which put down a 19-year-old "playboy" image with a stunning 27-17 Rose Bowl upset of Ohio State. The controversy was stirred by Nebraska, a 17-12 conqueror of Louisiana State in the Orange Bowl. Stanford Stuns OSU Stanford, with Heismann Trophy winer Jim Plunkett leading the way, handed Ohio State only its second loss in three years. Stanford had met with the school's last Rose Bowl team the 1952 squad that was swamped 40-7 by Illinois and had to live with a "playboy" reputation for its training techniques before that game prior to Friday's game and used that as an inspiration.

Plunkett passed 35 yards to set up one fourth-quarter touchdown and threw 10 yard to Randy Vataha for another to rally the Indians past Ohio State. Ohio State led, 17-13, going into the final period before John Brockington, who scored both Buckeye TDs, was stopped on a fourth-and-one on the Stanford 19. That lit the spark for Stanford as Plunkett marched the Indians downfield, throwing 35 yards to tight end Bob Moore to set up Jackie Brown's TD plunge. Jack Schultz' interception on the Ohio State 25 set up Plunkett's pass to Vataha. Plunkett is Difference "Jim Plunkett was the difference," said Stanford Coach John Ralston.

"I don't think they ever saw a quarterback like Plunkett before because there's none like him in the country. He allowed us to keep the ball moving toward the goal line." Plunkett hit 20-of-30 passes for 265 yards and ran for 26 more. Texas, unbeaten during the regular season, has been declared national champion and Ohio State, also nnhpat.n during its nine-game schedule, was ranked second. The No. 3 team was Nebraska, winner of 10 games with only a tie with Southern California marring Its record.

Both Texas and Ohio Stale lost and the controversy rage through until next season as to who should have been No. 1 -Texas, Ohio Stale, Notre Dame or Nebraska. "We were just loose enough," said Theismann. "Yesterday I started to feel It building and I knew wo were going to win," Bowl action continues today with Mississippi meeting Auburn In the Gator Bowl. Archie Munnlng lends OI Miss while Pat Sullivan will quarterback Auburn.

Colorado' Eddie CrowaVr will couch the West and Indiana's Johnny Pont will handle the East In the Mtth Shrine Eaat-Weat game at Ouklund, By Jim R. Johnson DALLAS, Tex. One reason why Notre Dame lost to Texas last year in the Cotton Bowl, 21-17, said Coach Ara Parseghian, was because the Fighting Irish tackled poorly. One year later, this wasn't the case, because on New Year's Day, the fired up Fighting Irish upset defending National Champion and No. 1 Texas, 24-11, in the hottest bowl game of the day.

The Irish came out with a new defense, and that intricate Wishbone-T offense that Texas had won 30 games in a row with had been stopped and Darrell Royal was glum. "To quote Grantland Rice, one of your famous writers, I've learned something that victory cannot bring, to wipe the blood from my face and smile so none can see the sting," said Royal, whose chances for winning two straight National Championships was far removed. Horns Helped Irish Texas helped Notre Dame pull off the upset, the first of two that came on New Year's Day. The Longhorns fumbled nine times, and All-American Steve Worster had his worst day of college football when he fumbled four times and Notre Dame got three of them. "It's kind of freaky, isn't it," said Worster, who was battered tremendously by that big front defensive line of Notre Dame.

"Basically, we tried to mirror their wishbone with the same type of defense," said Parseghian. "We wanted Texas to pass and (quarterback Eddie) Phillips did and we can throw the ball. We broke their consistency pattern we forced them to go their air. "We learned a lot a year ago from Texas about the wishbone and even adopted the offense in the Spring so we could learn more about it. We used a new alignment.

There's no way you can cover them with the typical defenses. "Actually we used an eight man front but we camouflaged this real well with different adjustments. We had out people in the middle of our defensive unit to line up just like the offensive players in the wLshbone. "Ever since our last game and after the Texas-Arkansas game, I spent idle time just messing around with different defenses. We used man-to-man coverage in the backfield and I was pleased with our con sistency in stopping their rushing attack.

"I've said all week that I was impressed with Phillips and he was great today he a fine runner. I told Royal after the game that he should be proud of his record (30 straight victories) It's hard to understand how a team can compile a streak such as that the way college football is today." Royal said: "It wasn't the defense they've played for the two years now. But that wasn't the main element. Give them their ability that made their defense stand up. I thought (cornerback Clarence) Ellis was tremendous, especially early in the game.

We had passes perfectly on target, but he was so active and fast he just got back there and knocked the ball down." Mike Kadish, the Notre Dame defensive tackle, who recovered one Texas fumble and was in on five tackles, said: "Texas has fantastic backs, just fantastic. But this game was keyed on the tackles. We knew that if we could control Worster up the middle, we could win. If we couldn't contain him, they'd control the game. Texas still did a fantastic job of blocking.

N. D. Balance Texas had never faced a team that was as balanced as Notre Dame. The Longhorns have played against teams that were strictly a passing or running team, but never this year had Texas come, upon the likes of a team like Notre Dame. Quarterback Joe Theismann, who ran for two touchdowns and passed for another in the first half, said: "I haven't been so happy since I was married and that was only three weeks ago We had a great game plan.

We knew that after the narrow wins over LSU (3-0) and Georgia Tech (10-7). that wp didn't have onough running. We were trying to get a balanced auacK ana today we did." Defensive halfback Jim Crot- ty was assigned to cover Phil lips, who went out of thp p.imp with nine minutes left, He was the Notre Dame defender who made the mistake allowing Phil- lips to gain 63 yards on the first Texas rush of the game, I lust came ud too nulck." said Grotty. "We did not want to go after Phillips, because Nebraska Defeats LS.U. Bad News Must Face By Ken Rappoport (Associated Pri Sports Writer) UCLA and South Carolina bring their smash road hits home tonight and that's news.

Good news for UCLA and Cotton Bowl Statistics Notre Dams Rushlnr Ovkowskt TC Td, TD 1.1 52 Parker Gulyas Theiamann Notre Dam Pmlnt 13 48 9 24 18 22 PA PC Yd. HI TD Thelfimann 16 176 1 1 Buliier 2 1 37 0 0 Steenberger to 0 0 0 Notre Dame No. Vd. TD Yoder Kill Parker Creaney Cieazkowakt 43 1 1 10 2 teiai Runhlnf TC Vdn. TO Phillip Wiiratrr WlKiinton Bfrtflwn Dal Letter 23 0 18 42 0 10 0 8 SO 1 2 0 1 7 Teiai Famine PA PC Ydi.

Ill TD 17 1 0 10 1 Hit Trial Rerelvlng No. Tda, TD Phillip Wimitnfton Comer Hertelaen l.lor Dale 87 17 41 Pontlrif No. At. 4S.7 I llil 22.1 Vodrr, Notre Damt Kelthely, Traaa PENGUIN REGATTA SET MANTOLOK1NG, N.J. (AP) The 2Tith annual penguin regatta of the Mantoloking Yacht Club will be held here next May 22 23, reports F.

Gardner Cox, a former U.S. Olympian In 5,5 meter boats. Entrants will be drawn from the Midwest, Chesapeake Bay and Long Island areas, South Carolina and bad news for Dayton and Clemson. Top-ranked UCLA, the Steel Bowl tourney winner, hosts Dayton and second-rated South Carolina, the Holiday Festival champ, entertains Clemson in a big night of post-holiday basketball games. While UCLA and South Carolina are doing the entertaining, it's doubtful that Dayton and Clemson will enjoy their visits.

Both the Bruins and Gamecocks are tough at home. UCLA has lost a total of four games overall in five years and Coach John Wooden isn't used to losing anywhere home or away. In 24 years, he's won over 500 games for a 77.4 winning percentage. Forwards Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe are the reasons for UCLA's success of late. "Sidney is doing It all," says Wooden, "and Rowe ha3 never played a bad basketball game In his three years here." The Uclans have been averaging a little under 100 points a game this year and have held opponents to about 23 points less.

Along with Adoloh Runn of Kentucky and Wooden, Coach rrank Mcuuire is the only active maior college coach win ning more than 70 per cent of his career games. In 20 seasons, McGuire has a 71.1 percentage, including a 25-3 mark last vear and 8-0 this season. McGuire doesn't think about records, though, "They told me the other day I won mv 100th came at Smith Carolina In the Holiday Festi- vai, said McGuire, "I didn't (Continued from Page B-l) drive. Nebraska made some errors, too. Strong safety Bill Nors-worthy intercepted two passes, one from Tagge and the other from Van Brownson, but LSU could cash in on neither one.

The Cornhuskers also lost three fumbles, but got away with these turnovers, too, as the Tigers couldn't get the proper protection for their passers. Then, too, the ground attack was severely damaged when on the second play of the contest star tailback Art Cantrelle suffered on ankle injury and watched the rest of the action from the sidelines, LSU quarterbacks were dumped five time in the first half, Lee three timet and sophomore Bert Jonet twice, with middle guard E. Periard doing most of the damage. Despite the dumps, Lee had an excellent game, when given proper time. He hit on 12 of 23.