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ports Reports From Our Area Bureaus, Correspondents, Wire Services News-Press i 2K SECT ION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1973 Gators Survive Late Miami Scare, 14-7 next Saturday while Florida closes its regular season in Gainesville against winless rival Florida State. The Gators will then prepare for their Dec. 22 matchup with Miami of Ohio in the Tangerine Bowl. Yardstick By KEN PICKING News-Press Sports Writer MIAMI If thin hair is a sign of blowing leads, Florida's Doug Dickey would be bald. For the second straight week, Florida saw what seemed to be a comfortable lead dwindle and was forced to hold on to dispose of the Miami Hurricanes, 14-7, Saturday night in th Orange Bowl.

After holding a 14-0 lead for most of the game, Florida was struck by the passing of Ed Carney and the running of Johnny Williams late in the fourth period. Miami cut the lead to 14-7 on a 29-yard scoring toss from Carney, who Florida Mioml drew boos from the Miami fans at the close of the third period, to wide receiver Phil August with 11:11 left. The fired-up Miami defense stopped the Gator offense cold and got the ball back with 5:24 remaining. Paced by the slashing running of Williams, who on this night overshadowed All-America candidate Woody Thompson, pushed the ball down to the Florida seven. Carney, who had trouble finding his receivers all night because of the heavy Gator rush, had his fourth down pass knocked down by Wayne Fields and Ralph Ortega with 33 seconds left to end the comeback threat.

Just last week in Gainesville, Florida blew a 20-3 lead over Kentucky and had to hold on to eke out a 20-1S victory. Florida played opportunistic from the start as Thompson fumbled on Miami's -first series and Gator linebacker Glen Cameron, who is back after an injury in the Kentucky game, jumped on the ball at the Florida 49. On third down, quarterback Don Gaffney rifled a 29-yard completion to slanting Joel Parker. Three plays later, the 19-year-old sophomore hit Jimmy DuBose with a pass to the Miami 12. From there, Vince Kendrick took a Gaffney pitchout and bulled his way in for the score.

David Posey kicked the extra point for a 7-0 Florida lead. Florida's second touchdown came on their first series in the second quarter. Hurricane return specialist Larry Cain fumbled Florida's punt and Gator reserve Tony Anderson recovered on the Hurricane 17. After three plays, Gaffney rolled left and hit Parker at the three and the 6-5 wingbaek sprint-Miami's deepest penetration in the first half came on an interception by Paul Horschel and the Canes took over at the Gator 34. ed into the end zone.

Posey added the extra point. Miami coach Pete Elliott chose to go to the air with just over a minute left but Carney's passing was pathetic, under and over-throwing open receivers. Miami ended up punting into the end zone. Williams ended the night as the game's top rusher with 87 yards while Kendrick led the Gators w'ith 59. Carney, who was chased in the pocket all night, completed seven passes for 8G yards and one touchdown.

Little Gaffney, who has now led Florida to four straight wins in his four starts, completed five passes for 40 yards and one touchdown. The Gators, now 6-4 on the season, go one-up in the 35-game Miami-Florida series, winning their 18th game. Miami, now 5-5, hosts the fifth ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish 17 40102 411 33 5100 941 10 1-12 34-104 Mm I 41 5-3 3 25 First Downs Rtishevvord Pcmma yards Rrlurn yards Pmses Punts Fumbles-lost Pcnoltics-vords Florida Minim Fia-Kmdrlck II run Flo Porker 7 DOiS lev kick) Mio August 29 poss riser kirk) 7 7 0 014 0 0 0 77 (Posey kick) trom Goltnev (Po- trom Carney (Stl- Roses For USC; Thorns For Bucks? Trojans Run Past UCLA With Davis Wolverines, Ohio St. In 10-10 Tie ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler insisted that his team "deserved to go to the Rose Bowl after the Wolverines 10-10 tie against top ranked Ohio State Saturday.

"I'm not predicting anything," he said of Sunday's vole in Chicago by Big Ten Conference athletic directors that will decide which of the undefeated teams will represent the league in the New Year's Day football classic. "But if they vole to send Michigan, Michigan deserves to go," said Schembechler. When asked why, Schembechler growled: "If you have to ask that question, you didn't see the game." Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes declined to predict the outcome of the Rose Bowl vote. "1 have no opinion," he said. "As long as I have coached in this league, I have nothing lo say about it.

You leave that to others." It is expected that Michigan will go to the Rose Bowl because Ohio Slate was the conference's representative in Continued On Page 3-C itiftwtir-tif i'mMijmmm'hii-'i'' imm Jr jfcjw vA LOS ANGELES (AP) Southern California's Anthony Davis romped for 145 yards, scoring one touchdown and setting up a field goal, to lead the Trojans over arch rival UCLA 23-13 Saturday and into the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. The ninth ranked Trojans, 91-1, playing near perfect football, captured the Pacific 8 Conference championship for the sixth time in the last eight years. Davis, who carried the ball 28 times, shared the hero role before 88,037 in Memorial Coliseum and a national television audience with 5-foot-5, 135 pound placekicker Chris Limahelu, who kicked field goals of 35, 32 and 28 yards. The eight ranked Bruins, finishing 9-2, turned the ball over to the Trojan defense four times in the second half, including an interception by Ted Roberson of a John Sciarra pass that set up Limahelu's last field goal with 1:07 to play that clinched the victory. The Trojans' I formation attack, directed by quarterback Pat Haden, drove 68, 80 and 74 yards for 17 first half points the first three times USC had the ball.

Davis capped the first drive with a four yard touchdown run and set up Limahelu's 35 yard field goal late in the second quarter. The Bruins, their Wishbone stopped the first time they had the ball, moved 42 yards for a 42 yard field goal by Efren Herrera to trail 7-3, then drove 84 yards on nine plays to trail 1410 after Kermit Johnson's three yard scoring run. The Trojans, plagued all season by numerous penalties and fumbles, had gone ahead 14-3 on a 16 yard pass from Haden to Jake McKay 4:30 into the second quarter. Associated Press Wircphoto Buckeyes' Archie Griffin (45) Goes For Five-Yard Gain Against Wolverines Coach's Son Shakes Polio, Becomes Star Dan McDonald Nawi-Prai, Sporti Wrltr strengthen my leg, and the Florida weather seems to help. "Also I've been wearing special shoes.

My right foot is size lO'i- My left is 91.. The Converse company gave me a special shoe with one heel built tip an inch so my two legs are even. They have helped a lot." Bui even without the shoes he played and knew he could handle college ball. The only thing he worried about when he came to Edison was playing under his faiher. "At first it did bother me," young Thimlar said.

"I was nervous. But it has always been a dream of mine to play for him. "Now I enjoy it. It helps me a lot too. I can talk to him as a player to a coach and as a son to a faiher.

He is aways helping me and giving me instructions. It's a good thing to go through." And he almost is through. Now in his last year, Terry is glancing at a future which he hopes will include playing at a four year college. But he hasn't made plans yet. Not until this season is over.

Terry Thimlar knows that time can change an awful lot of things. Even just one week. on the Pike High School team which finished lfilh in Indiana. And enough so that his father, by then head coach at F.CC, felt no excuses were needed for signing his own son to the Buccaneer team. "He's a good player and I knew he could get the job done," coach Thimlar said.

"At first I was just worried about whether he'd ever be able lo walk, not how well he could play basketball. "But I watched him and knew what he could do. As he grows older he slill might find he'll have trouble with the leg. But right now, he's doing a fine job." The 20-year-old guard's job lasl year earned him recngnition as the best free-throw shooter in Florida. Terry won an award for hitting 52-of-fi0 free throws for an 88.2 percentage.

And he averaged 10.4 poins per game as Edison went through a 12-14 season. In the first three games of this season, he has scored 31 points. He is also one of the team co-captains, has been on the Dean's list every quarter since arriving at Edison, and is currently vice president of Phi Theta Kappa, the school's honorary fraternity. "I feel I'm playing pretty good now," Terry said. "I've been working on weights which When Terry Thimlar was 12 months and one week old, Dr.

Jonas Salk made history with his cure for polio. It came one week too late. When Terry Thimlar was a year old a polio epidemic swept through Indiana. "He just got sick and we didn't know what it was," his father, Hugh Thimlar, now head basketball coach at Edison Community College said. "We took him to a doctor and found out it was polio.

"It was just a week later that we saw Salk on television. He had found a cure." But the young Thimlar found the dreaded disease had settled into his left ankle. It has led to a life of working to overcome it. "The first thing the doctor told us was that we'd have to get Terry swimming if we wanted him to walk," Thimlar said. "We moved to a lake and put him in a life jacket and tied him to the end of the dock.

"He'd stay in the water for hours just kicking around. We'd have to check on him from time to time. At first he didn't even know how to swim." But he learned. And as he grew, found he could, despite his 'slow' leg, play in sports. Which he did until junior high school.

"I never really had too much problem with my leg," Terry said. "But the doctors knew I would have problems in older life. "My right leg was growing but my left one wasn't. They tried to stretch my leg with braces and casts, but that didn't work." What worked was a major operation in his freshman year of high school. "I guess that's the only time I thought I might not ever play sports again," Terry said.

"In the operation they lengthened my achilles tendon and rearranged the bones in my ankle so my leg would grow. "After it was over I remember thinking I might not ever play again. But the doctor said in time it would be all right." Enough so that when he was a senior, he was Yardstick UCLA Southern Col Eirct rtawrt If Rushes-yords 55-249 49-227 94 87 7 5102 1 3 4 4 3-25 4 8-15-0 4 38 1-0 4 28 0 3-13 Passing vords Return yards Posses Punts Fumbles-lost Penolties-vords UCLA Southern Col USC Dovis 4 run (Limahelu UCLA FG Herrera 42 USC McKay 16 pass 3 7 7 10 3 3-23 kick) rt Haden (Limahelu kick) UCLA Johnson 3 run (Herrera kick) USC-FG Limohelu 35 USC FG Limohelu 32 UCLA FG Herrera 27 USC-FG Limehulu 28 JUL 4 (L (vtt Florida College Takes Crown; Edison Bows Inside Today's Sports Football A rrAV 'ft 1-1 If ie 5 rc2 JOHN REAVES, former Florida All-America, hopes to regain his starting job with the Philadelphia Eagles today 5C nament champions, had little trouble in disposing of Edison, last year's low team. The Sea Horses made the first basket and kept the lead throughout the entire game. The Buccaneers suffered 24 turnovers which ruined every offensive surge they attempted.

At one time in the first half, they trailed by 27 points. For Edison, the few bright spots were the performances by the second unit, which cut Broward's lead to 54-40 at the half. Greg Smith led ECC with 15 points, while Len Sanders, top rebounder with 13, added 14 points. "Our substitutes showed a lot of hustle when they went in," Thimlar said. "But they ran out of steam too." In the championship game, Manatee and Florida held a scoring duel which caused the lead to change hands eight times in the final four minutes of play.

The final time it changed came with :27 left, and enabled the Falcons, now 4-0, to hold on for the victory and end the hopes of the scrappy Lancers. Continued On Page 2-C By DAN MC DONALD News-Press Sports Writer Edison Community College laid out a feast in the form of its annual Edison Thanksgiving Classic, then showed perfect host form by becoming the turkey. Playing in the consolation game, ECC wallowed to a last place finish by losing to Broward Central Community College 91-75, while Florida College took the tournament title by beating Manatee Junior College, 64-63 Saturday at the. Edison Field House. "We just couldn't get anything going," Edison head coacn Hugh Thimlar said of his team's efforts.

"We lost a close one in the first game, and that left us flat for this game. "It seems to happen a lot. When a team gives a good effort and loses, they always come back the next game dragging. We didn't look good at anything." Edison, now 1-2 on the year, lost their opening game of the tournament 83-77 to Florida, while Broward 1-1, lost to Manatee 73-56. In their final game, Broward, last year's tour Tennis DAVIS CUP rivals Australia and United States have the old guard on hand for Friday's matches 11C Golf BILL VACH, head professional at Lehigh Acres, hard to identify when off the Eolf course 1 I I News-Press Photo By MIKE SIERRA EDISON'S TERRY THIMLAR (23) FEEDS GREG BOYS Vic Shea (55) of Broward makes try for pass deflection.