Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • 49

Sunday, December 17, 1978 5D Drmorrat Indiana upsets UK in OT The 'other' Hall of Fame By ALEX SACHARE Associated Press writer SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A replica of the gym in which basketball was first played the size-22 sneakers Bob Lanier wore at St. Bonaventure a pair of Pete Maravich's shaggy socks an 1892 photo of the first basketball team organized by Dr. James Naismith the boxscore of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game. ty The Basketball Hall of Fame is a fan's dream, three floors of memorabilia guaranteed to delight anyone who has ever dribbled a ball or hit a turnaround jumper.

The Hall, in the planning stages for 30 years, opened its doors in 1968 and now attracts more than 50,000 visitors a year. "We are a shrine for the whole game," said Lee Williams, former coach and athletic director at Colby College and now executive director of the Hall. "Every level is represented amateur and professional, high school, college, NBA, AAU, Olympics. It's all here. That makes us different from baseball or football." I ft i I -fll I I "zl aw J- I tr I lt jZ- i I BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

(AP) -Steve Risley, a former high school quarterback, came up with a quick audible in overtime Saturday, helping Indiana score a 68-67 college basketball upset over sixth-ranked Kentucky. Risley's three-quarter court pass to Randy Wittman on an inbounds play, following a 3-point play by Kentucky's Kyle Macy, led to an easy la-yup by Butch Carter. That gave the Hoosiers a 66-63 advantage in the final minute of the extra period. The play was an unusual one for Indiana, which usually brings the ball down court to set up its shots. "It wasn't a set play," said Indiana Coach Bobby Knight marking his first post-game meeting with the press in more than a year.

"It was a Risley play." Risley, who made three crucial free throws in the overtime, had a simple reason for the play: "He was open, why not throw it?" Knight said he met with the media at the request of his players days after three players were dismissed from the team and five others were placed on probation. Knight did not, however, discuss the incident which one player said involved the use of marijuana. Junior forward Mike Woodson, one of the five players placed on probation, scored 27 points to lead Indiana's victory over the defending NCAA champions. His 3-point effort, which tied the game at 58-58 and sent it into overtime, was mentioned by both coaches as one of the game's biggest plays. Indiana took the lead for good at 62-60 on a pair of Wittman free throws with 3:08 left in the extra period.

The Hoosiers then opened a 64-60 advantage on free throws by Woodson and Risley. Macy's 3-point play followed and then Risley's big pass. North Port 78 JU 68 JACKSONVILLE (AP) Center Mike Harper scored a game high 29 points and pulled down 14 rebounds to lead defending national Division III champion North Port College to a victory over Jacksonville. North Port took an early 10-6 lead and never relinquished it. Harper scored 15 points in the first half as North Port took a 38-34 half-time lead.

North Port is now 7-2, Jacksonville falls to 4-4. Forward Dwayne Smith was high for Jacksonville with 16 points. Southern Cal 75 Niagara 63 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Steve Smith and Cliff Robinson combined for 29 points to lead Southern Cal over winless Niagara. Robinson won the battle of the boards against Niagara's Garry Jordan to score 14 points and Smith added 15 as the Trojans held off repeated rally efforts by the Purple Eagles.

N. Carolina 70 Michigan St. 69 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) Mike O'Koren scored 18 points to help 13th-ranked North Carolina build an early lead and survive a last-minute Michi- Hi! Calm, cool and collected as usual Bobby Knight imparts 'advice' Indiana player Scott Eells during Saturday's game with Kentucky gan State rally for an upset triumph over the No. 3 Spartans.

With his team trailing 70-65 and 1:24 remaining, Michigan State sophomore Earvin Johnson made a 15-foot shot. The Spartans then scored two field goals while North Carolina's Al Wood and Dudley Bradley each missed free throws in one-and-one situations, and the score was 70-69 with 15 seconds left. Georgia 83 Hofstra 70 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Walter Daniels and Lucius Foster combined for 45 points to lead Georgia to victory over Hofstra the consolation round of the Utah Classic. Daniels broke open a 14-14 deadlock midway through the first half, scoring 12 of his team's next 16 points to give Georgia a 30-20 bulge. Louisville 106 WVU 60 LOUISVILLE, Ky.

(AP) Freshman forward Derek Smith paced six double-figure scorers with 22 points to lead fourth-ranked Louisville to a rout of West Virginia. Cardinals Coach Denny L'rum substituted freely most of the game as Louisville won its sixth game in eight starts and West Virginia dropped to 4-2. Michigan 104 W. Michigan 73 ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Mike McGee scored 36 points and Alan Hardy added 16 to lead No.

9 Michigan in a rout of Western Michigan. Five Wolverines wound up in double figures. Phil Hubbard hit for 15, Mark Lozier added 11 and Johnny Johnson chipped in with 10. Kansas 71 SMU 64 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Center Paul Mokeski led all scorers with 19 points, powering eighth-ranked Kansas over Southern Methodist.

Mokeski, who scored 11 points in the first half, established a season high for himself in leading the Jay-hawks, 5-1. VPI9101d Dominion 88 NORFOLK, Va. (AP) Dale Solomon, a 6-foot-8 freshman, scored a career-high 33 points as Virginia Tech's Gobblers overcame missed free throws down the stretch to beat Old Dominion. It was the fifth straight victory for the unbeaten Gobblers and the first defeat in five starts for the Monarchs, who cut a 91-85 deficit to three points in the final minute before missing free throws of their own. Syracuse 67 Penn State 50 STATE COLLEGE, Pa.

(AP) -Tenth-ranked Syracuse, led by forward Dale Shackleford and center Roosevelt Bouie with 19 points each, pulled away in the final minutes to beat Penn State. Oklahoma 86 S. Florida 73 ST. PETERSBURG (AP) Junior center Al Beal scorched the nets for 23 points and led Oklahoma over South Florida. Beal, having the finest offensive production of his Sooner career, dominated under the basket offensively and defensively to push the Sooners' season mark to 5-3.

He grabbed eight rebounds in the game. ABC still owes the Rattlers one Walk into the museum area and you find an exact replica of the Armory YMCA gymnasium where the game was first played. There is an open oval area upstairs which represents the indoor running track from which Naismith, an instructor in the physical education department at Sringfield College, hung the famous peach basket back in 1891. "He originally asked for boxes 18 inches square to serve as the goals," said Williams. "But the janitor only had peach baskets, so that's why we have round goals today." Four baskets are hung from the upper area a peach basket, a peach basket with a retractable bottom so the janitor didn't have to climb up a ladder to retrieve the ball, an early metal rim with net and a modern rim which folds away from the fiberglass backboard so as not to be broken on slam dunks.

Around the perimeter are exhibits of photographs, balls, uniforms, equipment and other memorabilia. "We try to show how players, equipment and the game itself have changed, in a chronological way," explained Williams. ss The first 24-second clock uniforms worn by some of the sport's great rivals: Wilt Chamberlain's Warriors vs. Bill Russell's Celtics, Bill Bradley's Princeton vs. Cazzie Russell's Michigan a photo of the 1901 Ware Wonders, the first pro team tickets, stubs and press credentials from NCAA and NBA championship games and other major events one of Western Kentucky Coach Ed Diddle's crying towels, faded, naturally, from the tears.

i The heart of the Hall is the Honors Court, where 108 of the game's greats are enshrined Red Auerbach, Hank Iba, Adolph Rupp, Clair Bee, Ned Irish, Abe Saperstein, Bob Cousy, George Mikan, John Wooden, Elgin Baylor and yes, James Naismith. Each has his portrait and a brief biography set in a floor-to-ceiling panel of hand-painted lucite. "Is he a great basketball man? That's the only criterion we have for admission," said Williams. He later amended that by saying, "Women are also eligible, although none have made it yet." A unique thing about this Hall of Fame isthat anyone can nominate someone for induction. You don't have to be in basketball or the press or on some committee.

If a fan feels a certain person deserves to be enshrined, all he has to do to start the ball rolling is write a letter to the Hall. "We would send back a nominating form which he would have to fill out and support with information on his candidate," Williams explained. "We would present that to our screening committee, and if 75 percent agree then the name would be passed on to the full honors committee." If 12 of those 16 basketball experts feel the candidate is worthy, he (or she) is in. Players and referees must be retired for five years before they become eligible. Coaches with 25 years experience are eligible and there is also a category for contributors.

Four "Great Teams" are also represented: the first team organized by Naismith in Dec. 1891, the pioneering Buffalo Germans from the turn of the century, the Original Celtics of the 1920s and the New York Rens, the great black team organized by Bob Douglas in 1922 which compiled a 473-49 record during the 1930s. Two NBA teams play an exhibition game each year at the Springfield Civic Center for the benefit of the Hall. The Portland Trail Blazers beat the Seattle SuperSonics 110-109 in this year's game on Dec. 3, and the following morning the Blazers toured the shrine.

The players were especially interested in the photos of recent NCAA, NIT, NBA and Olympic champions, as well as uniforms worn by their contemporaries Marvin Barnes' Spirits of St. Louis; Moses Malone's Petersburg, High School; Earl Monroe's Winston-Salem College. Tom Owens peered at the boxscore of the ABA game in which Larry Miller scored 67 points until he found his name. The line of agate type showed he had attempted a three-point goal and missed, but that didn't bother Owens. "I told you I was in the Hall," he reminded teammates.

There is a room devoted to Maurice Stokes, the college and pro great whose career was cut short by encephalitis, a disease which eventually took his life. Several of the Blazers listened to the moving Stokes story on a recording made by Jack Twyman, his teammate who devoted so much time, money and effort to the care of his stricken friend. NBA Commissioner Larry O'Brien, a native of Springfield, was on hand for the Hall of Fame game. He was honored at a pre-game cocktail party and took part in half-time ceremonies along with the mayor of the city. The following day, at a downtown restaurant, groups of wellwishers stopped by his table to say hello to the popular local boy who made good.

"It pleases me to no end that the game is here because this is my home," he said. "Anytime I'm afforded the opportunity to come home, well, here I am. "I used to play a lot of basketball at the on my street. I was known as the Mattoon Street Gunner. I never gave up the ball.

I just loved to shoot." There are sections of the Hall devoted to the NBA, the NCAA, the NIT, the NAIA, the NABC, the junior colleges, the high schools, the Olympic teams every level at which the sport is played. There is a Cartoon Corner that shows how the game and its players have been depicted by cartoonists through the years. There is a section for officials. There is a section for America's Greatest Teams; UCLA has a section of its own. The Hall also has a library that can be used for research as well as a movie room where basketball films are shown on a scheduled basis.

By BRIAN RICHARDSON Democrat staff writer ABC's broadcast of Florida football game with Southern University earlier this season was poor enough that the Rattlers should have demanded equal time. Well, it probably won't matter much to FAMU fans now that the Rattlers are the NCAA Division I-AA champions, but after watching ABC's telecast of the Rattlers' victory Saturday, the debt still hasn't been repaid. It didn't look as if ABC believed the game was as important as announcers Bill Flemming and Frank Broyles were saying it was. ABC's treatment of the game would have been understandable earlier in the season, when ABC had to split its people among several Division I regional broadcasts and one national broadcast each Saturday. But in the gap between the end of the regular season and the major bowl games, there were only a few games Saturday.

You might have expected that ABC would have put the first string in. Broyles, the former Arkansas coach who now handles analyses of major col much better. Camera operators lost receivers, kick returners and a running back or two during the game. Worst of all was the deal handed the splendid Rattler Band. After Broyles and Flemming bragged on them all during the first half, the band was shown performing exactly one number at halftime and that was plagued by poor microphone placement.

The rest of the time the band was on the field the TV audience was treated to commercials and a boring rehash by Flemming and Broyles of everything they said during the first half. It was especially maddening because the first part of half-time was devoted to a rah-rah film for the NCAA and a terrible segment about the local Chili-making Championships. Why couldn't ABC have shown the commericals and recapped the first half instead of showing that foolishness, so that the Rattler Band's performance could have been shown in its entirety? Florida deserves better than to play second fiddle to a bowl of chili. lege games for ABC, was on hand. But even he had an occasional slip.

During the telecast, he called FAMU Florida and once called it Texas He later said FAMU was offside on two successive plays, when it was Massachusetts that was offside both times. But Broyles' analysis was plenty perceptive. He gave you a good idea of how hard it was to play a game with a 25-mile-an-hour wind blowing. The second stringers weren't as effective. Flemming, who usually does sideline reports during ABC games and meaningless halftime interviews with coaches, was assigned the play-by-play for this game.

He was competent enough, but dull as dishwater even though he seems to think he's in the running for the Chris Shenkel Saccharine-In-Broadcast award. The sideline duties were assigned to Dave Diles, who conducted a couple of gee-I-bet-that-smarts interviews with injured Massachusetts players. The visual aspects of the broadcast weren't figures 3 35 3 125 Heyworth Totals Daniels Knight Totals 1 -4 1 -9 76 470 MASSACHUSETTS -4 -9 65 Punting No. Yds. Avg.

Long 8 262 34.0 55 Fontaine UOf MASS 5 1 11 45 140 24 Passing Long No. Comp. Int. Yds. TD Gain 7 0 2 0 0 0 Chester First Downs Rush First Downs Pass.

First Downs bv Penal. TOTAL FIRST DOWNS No. Attempts Rush Yds. Gained Rushing Yds. Lost Rushing NET YDS.

GAINED RUSH No. Passes Attempted Rushing Long No. Yards TD Gain Sareault 16 78 0 22 Dent 15 35 0 7 McFulley 10 2 0 7 Pedrow 2 111 Newell 2 0 0 3 Totals 45 116 1 22 Passing All Returns Punts Kickoffs No. Yds. No.

Yds. 1 7 Receiving Intc'ns No. Yds. 1 19 1 0 2 19 Long TD Gain 0 0 116 24 No. 0 Yds.

0 Dent LeMav McGuire Totals Totals Long No. Comp. Int. Yds. TD Gain Punting No.

Yds. Avg. Long 6 45 9.0 19 All Returns Knight FLORIDA FLA. 19 0 1 20 76 517 47 470 7 0 2 0 83 470 1 5 6 2 9.0 2 36 3 49 5 34 1 1 24 McEvilly 1 125 2 35 Punts Kickoffs Intc'ns No. Yds.

No. Yds. No. Yds. 1 4 Receiving Rushing Long Long No.

Yds. TD Gain No. Yards TD Gain Kurtz 2 46 1 34 Solomon 27 207 3 65 Balboni 1 35 0 35 McFayden 22 177 0 53 Palione 1 18 0 18 Hawkins 8 45 0 49 Sareault 2 14 0 8 Chester 15 29 2 11 Pedrow 19 1 9 Douglas 2 15 '0 14 No. Passes Comp. 8 No.

Passes Had Interc. 1 NET YDS. GAINED PASS. 12S No. Plays Rush.

Pass. 69 TOTAL OFFENSE YARD 241 Number Interceptions 2 NET YDS. INTERC. RET. 19 No.

Times Punted 8 No. Punts Had Blocked 0 PUNT. AVG. YDS. 34.0 No.

Punts Returned 0 NET YDS. PUNTS RET. 0 No. Kickoffs Ret. 3 NET YDS.

KICKOFFS RET. 7 No. Times Penalized TOTAL YDS. PEN. 29 No.

Times Fumbled 2 NO. OWN FUMB. LOST 1 18 17 14 Ramsey Hawkins Knight McGriff Spaulding Totals 3 49 McGrotha (Continued from page ID) BUTCH BENTON, a triple-A catcher for the New York Mets out of Tallahassee's Godby High, is viewed as a can't-miss prospect by the Mets, who think they are so well fixed with catchers that they've been talking of trading starter John Stearns for a good shortstop. Pete Rose, the Philadelphia Phillies' new millionaire, speaks of his academic background: "If I had been a good student, I probably would have gone to college to play football. I flunked a year of high school my sophomore year when they said I was too small to be invited out for football.

I started skipping school. I didn't flunk because I was stupid. I flunked because I wasn't there." OUT OF SIGHT are the cost of 9,500 new football stadium seats at Tennessee that will swell capacity to 89,750 by 1980. The price: $8.7 million What Tennesse actually will do is add 18,500 permanent seats, but they're demolishing temporary ones and will have a net gain of just 9,500. The school will financee it with a $1 surcharge on all season tickets.

A down payment was raised by selling lifetime options for 3,000 of the new seats at $500 each Tennessee this year had to return 5,000 orders for season tickets, at $70 apiece, following renewal by 51,700 of 52,000 ticket holders. With his words frequently drowned out in his own abode, Old Dad nailed up a small sign. It reads: "Opinions voiced by the woman of this household are not necessarily those of the ihanagement." Florida 0 14 7 14-35 Mass. 3 3 9 13-28 MAS FG Vitiello 20 MAS FG Vitiello 20 A8.M Chester 1 run (Coleman kick) Chester 4 run (Coleman kick) MAS Pedro 1 run (pass failed) MAS FG Vitiello 29 Solomon 65 run (Coleman kick) MAS Pedro 9 pass from McEvillv (Vitiello kick) Solomon 28 run (White pass from Chester) Solomon 20 run (pass failed) MAS Curtz 34 pass from McEvilly (pass fjiiled) 7' A 14,000 (est).