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STORTS Section THE SUN, Sunday, November 21, 1982 A kf Terps' next stop is Aloha Bowl 14 Maryland romB By Bill Free Sun Staff Correspondent seven minutes gone. The Maryland defense, which intercepted four Virginia passes and didn't allow a first down until the second quarter, set up the third Terp touchdown when Howard Eubanks picked off a Gordie Whitehead pass and returned it 19 yards to the Cavalier 14-yard line. Three plays later, Esiason rolled left and threw right, hitting Greg Hill deep in the end zone for a 8-yard touchdown pass with a little more than 5 minutes left in the first quarter. Maryland continued to pour it on later in the first quarter, driving to the Virginia 17-yard line as time ran out. The Terps had a touchdown pass from Esiason to Darryl Emerson called back because of holding, but Atkinson kicked a 28-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter for a 24-0 lead.

That was the signal for some of the 20,002 spectators at Scott Stadium to get up and walk out on the Cavaliers, who were well on their way to a 2-8 record this year. It was one of the smallest crowds in many years here, and many of those fans were long gone before Wayne Scbuchts came in to replace Whitehead at quarterback midway through the third quarter. Schuchts lit a fire in the Virginia offense against a sprinkling of Mary-See MARYLAND, B7, Col. 1 "We tried to get emotion out of this game," said Ross. "We wanted to bring concentration in, and that's what we were doing in the first quarter.

We were stepping with the right foot and things like that we were executing." Esiason, who completed 16 of 24 passes for 198 yards and three touchdowns in less than three quarters of play, added, "It was a good thing we played today yesterday because we might not have had any players left if we had had any more practices. The guys were kind of mad in practice over what happened in the Clemson game." Maryland went 57 yards In three plays the first time it had the ball, with junior Willie Joyner bolting 42 yards for the TD with less than three minutes elapsed in the game. Joyner, who gained 171 yards on 25 carries yesterday for 1,039 yards this season, rammed into the middle of the Virginia line for 3 yards and then bounced outside for wide open spaces down the sideline for the touchdown. The second time Maryland had the ball, the Terps drove 59 yards in 10 plays, with Esiason tossing a perfect strike to Mike Lewis over the middle for a 23-yard touchdown play. Jess Atkinson, who has kicked 51 straight extra points over two seasons, hit the extra point after the Esiason-to-Lewis TD to make the score, 14-0, with barely more than Charlottesville, Va.

Boomer Esiason and the Maryland football team charged through Virginia, 45 to 14, yesterday on the way to a Christmas "vacation" on the warm, sandy beaches of Honolulu. With a damp mist hanging over Scott Stadium, the Terrapins quickly brushed aside the outclassed Cavaliers by striking for three touchdowns in the first 10 minutes of the game and then settled back to drool about the surf and sunshine of Hawaii. Minutes after the Terps completed the destruction of the Cavaliers, they were officially invited to the Aloha Bowl and accepted amid a scenario of Hawaiian music and a hula dancer. Maryland coach Bobby Ross, the man who has made football fun again in College Park, was in the middle of the wild scene in the Terp locker room, and he told his players, "I'm proud of you, and I'm happy the way things turned out for you. You've played hard for me." There were some fears of a major letdown by Maryland for lowly Virginia yesterday after last Saturday's emotional loss to Clemson in a game that virtually decided the ACC football championship.

But the Terps came out and played their best first quarter of the season, driving downfield for touchdowns the first two times they had the ball. Associated Press McDaniel during first-half action. to break hold of Virginia's Charles Arkansas, wins SWC title SMU ties From wire services Irving, Texas-Arkansas forced undefeated Southern Methodist to come back in the last three minutes to gain a 17-to-17 football tie in Texas Stadium yesterday. Although it ruined the Mustangs' chances for a perfect season, the tie did not prevent them from getting to the Cotton Bowl as Southwest Conference champions. Southern Methodist, which finished its season at 10-0-1, will go to the Cotton Bowl for the first time since 1967, playing Pittsburgh (9-1).

But the tie was disappointing to SMU, which, for the first time since 1947, had been undefeated and untied into Razorback territory in the opening 15 minutes. The closest SMU came to Arkansas territory was the Mustang 48 after a 21-yard run by Dickerson. James bad bad a gain of 20 yards earlier in the period. But Dickerson, after his run, was stripped of the ball by Keith Burns, and Billy Ray Smith, the All-America defensive end for Arkansas, fell on It at the Mustang 48. Dickerson made up for the turnover when he and James shared the running in a drive of 65 yards to SMU's first-half touchdown, which Dickerson scored on a fine run.

His score was much like Anderson's, coming on a wide pitch left after excel Maryland's Dave D'Addio tries Colts begin new season against Jets By Rick Ostrow Sun Staff Correspondent New York Back in the darkest hours of the 57-day players' strike, when it looked as if baseball would beat football back into the nation's stadiums, the questions began to be asked: What would NFL games be like when they finally resumed after such a lengthy layoff? Would the talent gap between the haves and the have nots be heightened or lessened? Would the strike force teams back to basics, on the theory the team making the fewest blunders would prosper, or would it accelerate the league's burgeoning big-play tendencies, on the theory that on the playgrounds, everybody-go-deep is always the quickest way to score? Would teams find It easier to run the ball or simply chuck it 60 times? Back when Ed Garvey and Jack Donlan were the names dominating the football news, the questions threatened to remain academic. But today, with play resuming around the country following the eight-week hiatus, we'll get to see the answers. Frank Kush, of course, fears the worst. "Touch football the way the Kennedys used to play it" was his original prediction. Perhaps.

But a more likely possibility is that the 13 NFL games today, including the one here between the 0-2 Colts and the 1-1-Jets, may send coaches and other purists scurrying for their headache remedies, but it may send the fans home happy. All the talk about out-of-sbape players huffing and puffing and limping to the sidelines clutching their hamstrings overlooks one important The prep championships It's official; Sugar takes Penn State going into its final regular-season game. Texas Christian tied it in 1947. Gary Anderson, a senior running back, stole much of the limelight from SMU's Eric Dickerson and Craig James by scoring both Razorback touchdowns. Arkansas (8-1-1) has one game left against Texas Dec.

4. The Razorbacks got a consolation prize yesterday. They will go to the Bluebonnet Bowl. Arkansas was the first to score, getting a touchdown at 10 minutes 55 seconds of the first period on a 3-yard run by Anderson off a wide pitch left by quarterback Tom Jones. Southern Methodist was not able to get its tandem tailback offense working well, and the Mustangs did not get the ball it tapped third-ranked Penn State to play top-ranked Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.

But the three other major bowls also could have national championship overtones. Southern Methodist, for could be in line if Georgia slips either this week or next. The Mustangs clinched a Cotton Bowl berth by taking advantage of a pass interference penalty and scoring with 2 minutes 51 seconds left to tie Arkansas, 17 to 17. The Mustangs will take a 10-0-1 record against 9-1 Pitt, which crushed Rutgers, 52 to 6, yesterday and will play Penn State Friday. The Rose Bowl picture, seemingly clear a week ago, clouded when Washington State downed Washington.

That eliminated the Huskies, who See BOWLS, B10, Col. 4 By The Associated Press The Sugar Bowl officially set up what could be a national championship New Year's Day matchup when the top 10 No. Team Played 1 Georgia Open date 2 SMU 17 Arkansas 17 3 Penn State Open date, 4 Nebraska Open date 5 Wash. 20 Wash. St.

24 6 Pitt 52 Rutgers 6 7Fla.State21 LSU55 8 Ariz. State Open date 9 Arkansas 17 SMU 17 10 Clemson 24 S.Car.6 Details on pages B8.B9 lent faking by the quarterback into the middle. And it was the quarterback, Lance McHhenny, who at the Mustang 40 made the key play in the drive. He had been sacked for a 10-yard loss by Milton Fields on a second-down play, leaving SMU with third-and-18. The next play obviously was a pass, but SMU does not do much of the obvious.

McHhenny worked the veer option well and went along the line, then kept the ball and turned upfield. Arkansas had spread Its defense in expectation of a pass, and McHhenny ran for a 22-yard gain. That run got the drive moving, and coach Bobby Collins sent in Dickerson See SMU, B9, Col 1 Mount Hebron wins in Class C. Field hockey MPSSAA Tournament Details on page B12 Volleyball MPSSAA Tournament Details on page B12 Inside Towson State beaten James Madison survives Towson State's last-half rally to triumph, 42 to 24...... B9 Fourth straight title Catonsville High School captures Class A volleyball championship for fourth straight year.

B12 Whole new ball game The ACC prepares for new rules in 1982-1983 basketball season B16 Shriver gains finals Baltimorean Pam Shriver triumphs over Alycia Moulton to reach final round in Australian tennis BIS Northrop easily wins Northrop goes ahead quickly in taking Japan Racing Association Handicap at Laurel Race B22 Index NFL B2 Boating Goldstein B4 Golf B21 Prep soccer Racing B22 Auto B18 Letters B23 The Colt Hotline will resume with today's Colt-New York Jets game. The Sun will accept telephoned ques tions on the game tonight Selected Questions and trie answers by Colt coach Frank Kush will be published Tuesday morning in The sun. Please be specinc and Dnet. Questions will be accepted trora 6 p.m. until midnight Sunday at iw 6200.

fact: Football is a relative game. You play against the team across the line of scrimmage, not against a computerized replica of the 1967 Packers. All that is required to complete an 80-yard TD pass is that the out-of-shape receiver be one step faster than the out-of-shape cornerback. And running backs turning the corner will not suddenly be hit by the 1978 Jack Lambert; they'll be hit by an equally uncertain and tired linebacker. These are, after all, professional athletes.

Playing football may not be like riding a bicycle, but it's essentially instinctive for someone who's been doing it since childhood. Teams that come mentally ready to play may be surprised by how quickly the old instincts reassert themselves, "Oh, I think you'd be surprised how quickly the old stuff comes back," Jet coach Walt Michaels predicted earlier this week. "They're getting paid to remember and to learn and to perform. Once the whistle blows and the hitting starts and the fans start yelling, you'll see how quickly that competitive spirit comes back." One likely tendency today will be for teams to throw more than usual. Running, after all, requires a coordinated, 11-man effort.

The timing See COLTS, B4, Col. 4 long layoff can only hurt a young, inexperienced team such as the Colts, and therefore works to the advantage of the more talented, more experienced Jets today. In other words, the Jets will be able to rely on smarts and techniques to overcome the rust and lack of conditioning left over from the strike. The coach sees no reason to expect the young Colts to suddenly start throwing their weight around, and bolt Into the playoff picture. ON THE OTHER hand, some of the young Colts are just as convinced the layoff can, do nothing but improve their chances the next few weeks.

They believe youthful muscles should bounce back faster, and that since they haven't been around the league long enough to develop pronounced adverse reactions to the strike, will probably have a better mental attitude about being asked to go back to work on just four days of preparation. Since football is such a game of emotion, it is easy to be swayed by such logic, especially if you are looking for something hopeful to hang your hat on where the Colts are It a Talent (Jets) vs. Youth (Colts) Football Class AA Oxon Hill Churchill 50, Meade 6 ClaA Northwood 7, South River 0 Clau Oakland Mills 12, Allegany 7 Class Mt. Hebron 14, Northern-G 0 Snow Hill 26, Catoctin 13 Details on page B12 Soccer Class AA Bowie 2, Severna Park 1 Class A Bethesda-Chevy Chase 2, Towson 1 Class Woodward 3, Fallston 2 ClassC Wilde Lake 4, Walkersville 0 Details on page B14 pick 'em teresting, but deals with theory that can't be proved until we see what' happens on the field. What we know for sure is that the Colts are In a better position as far as injuries are concerned than at any time this year.

Lack of a pass rush hurt them early, and with both Leo Wisniewski and Donnell Thompson back at full strength, defensive line play should be improved. WHAT SHOULD WE expect from the Colts the rest of the way? Going' into the season, I thought Improvement was the key word. If they could win 5-6 games, more of them In the second half while becoming more competitive as the season progressed, that's all' a realist could hope for. Improvement is still the key, even though the time to show it has been cut so much shorter. The thing to look for is whether the Colts can become competitive, come together as a team In the weeks remaining, win a few and show promise for next year.

If they dp that, the season won't be a total loss. blitz on every play, because it would have to create havoc with an offense which simply hasn't had time to get the kinks out. The other theory is the defense is better off keeping it simple, staying with the basics. IN BUD CARSON, the Colts have a defensive coordinator who has always been good at adjusting, and you have to suspect be will come up with something not entirely expected today. Actually, this could be a time when coaching makes even more of a difference than during the middle of a normal season.

As with everything else, there are contrasting theories on the best way to utilize such short preparation time. Jet coach Walt Michaels has put at least as much stress on meetings and the mental side, as In on-field, physical work. Kush has had his meetings too, but he has also emphasized the physical, keeping his players on the field as long as he believes he can get away with it without risking overwork that might slow down game reactions today. All of this sort of talk might be in- vv THE FIRST THING on the agenda today is to try to remember whether the NFL puts air in its footballs, or stuffs them. That out of the way, we can take a stab at figuring out who might have an advantage going back to work this soon after such a long layoff.

In other words, thinking specifically about the Colts, does youthful enthusiasm and desire have a better chance of overcoming greater talent and experience, when neither team can possibly be in condition to play at its full potential? Nobody really has the answer to that one, because this is a unique situation created by the strike. Pro football has never been through this before, so there is nothing to use as a gauge. That's one of the things that makes the resumption of play interesting. If the strike itself, and even the settlement hadn't been so poorly handled as to leave a fan with a sour taste in his mouth, he could be downright curious about what is going to happen on fields all over the NFL today. Frank Kush, the realist who refuses to use anything as a crutch in uilding false optimism, believes the Bob Maisel There is even reason for controversy over the best way to approach the game with such little practice time.

Kush has said the thing to do is 1 keep it simple, work hard on some 5 to 6 running plays, as many pass plays, and stay with them, hoping for better execution that way. But, since the defense has been out just as long as the offense, might this not be the time to put In a trick play or two and take advantage of any defensive hesitation that might exist? I'd be interested to see what a flea-flicker, or a fake punt might accomplish today, wouldn't you? What about defense? The day the strike ended, Joe Montana said if he were defensive coordinator he'd.