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ifterTheBatt Cardinals Close PAGE ONE SECTION I Grid Safety Changes Sou ght by Doctors Season, Trim I By Bob Barn? THE AMERICAN Medical Association has called for an end to football "spearing" and below-the-I waist blocking and has recommended soft outer cov-! ering for helmets and shoulder pads. Redbirds, 18-7 Also in Jliis Section: Business, Lively Arts. Markets Stringer four. Irelan and NORMAL. HI.

Ball State's, and resurgent Cardinals closed out their best season in seven years here Saturday, trimming Illinois State, 18-7. Titans Nip Carmel in Jim Eggemeyer teamed up early to nail ISU's Scott for a 13-yard loss that halted a Red-bird drive. BLAKE RUSHED 26 times for 103 yards, giving him a single-season final total of 1,125. Fullback Jeff Harrison added 47 in 12 carries'. Clark caught all four of The win was Ball State's sixth of the year against four Spearing is a tactic which a blocker uses his head as a battering ram.

The AMA has condemned the devastating techniques of "spearing" or "stick-blocking" and insists that the practice can lead to serious injury or death resulting from damage to brain areas of the spinal cord. The AMA's Committee on the Medical Aspect of Sports doubts that recent rules changes in the losses, best finish since the 1967 team went 7-2. After a Remonals sluggish 1-3 start, Coach Dave McClain's team came on strong to win five of its last six games. Scott's completions for 72 yards, giving him a record sin By RON LEMASTERS Assistant SporU Editor The loss was Illinois State's gle-season total of 643 yards on receptions. West set the old record of 609 two years ago.

NEW CASTLE Muncie fifth in 10 games. The Red- birds finish next week at North made it to the finals of Scott hit only four of 14, but Southern Illinois. the IHSAA girls' volleyball it was barely enough to give THE CARDINALS, playing him the career pass completion tourney for the second year In a row, but the Titans had to survive an unsettling experi percentage record. He has hit on 110 of 203 for a .54187 nearly errorless offense, capitalized on ISU mistakes to turn a defensive battle into a walk ence to win the regional cham average. Old record was .54182, pionship game at Parkview away.

set by Willard Rice on 289 of Junior High here Saturday night. A fumble recovery by Art Stringer and a pass intercep 550. Ball State set a single-season North will participate in the record for most points for both eight-team finals next Saturday tion by Shafer Suggs opened the door to Ball State's two touchdowns. Another fumble at Ben Davis High School. spearing area will solve the 'problem and calls for I decisive action on the part of coaches and other officials.

I The "committee points out that the hard plastic covering i of football equipment, particularly the helmet and shoulder pads, is a major source of injury in terms of its impact absorp- tion characteristics. It recommends soft covering for helmets, I shoulder pads and all other equipment used in sports in which there is hard contact. The association, which has maintained a long-standing I commitment to the athletic community, lists among its other concerns adequate medical care at games and practice ses- sions, proper physical conditioning, well-defined conduct of the sport to insure greater player safety and adequate shock- absorbing protective equipment. It also calls for well-main- I tained facilities and-careful grouping of athletes according to I "weight, size, skill and maturity." Surely no sensible man can argue with these aims but that last "careful grouping" goal appears to be out of reach. As all doctors know, people just don't come in identical sizes and there is a great difference in the "weight, skill, size and maturity" of young men of high school and college ages.

I Just the same, all of us in sport appreciate the fact that the American Medical Association is watching the games 4-d pointing out the trouble spots. The world of athletics would be in bad shape without doctors, including those dedicated men who try so hard to put back together one of nature's most sorry contraptions, the human knee. The Titans topped Carmel, 15-8 and 16-14 to successfully recovery by Garnie McEwen set up the second of two Larry Shirah field goals. The first defend its regional cham pionship in a match that saw North's boys' cheerblock eject came after a nifty 57-yard kic koff return by Mike Andress. ed from the gym by game of Stringer's recovery came at ficial Gail Jean early in the the Redbird 15 and it took teams, 442.

The team also tied the single-season record of 14 TD passes, same as the 1968 squad. Suggs' interception and returned tied the record of eight set in 1965 by Nick Baker. The Cardinals had injury problems early. Freshman tailback George Jenkins was knocked unconscious on the opening kickoff, but returned to see limited second-half action. Kyle West turned an ankle and Mills picked up a hip pointer.

Shirah did the kicking for Mills and senior second game. Dave Blake only three plays to NORTH WAS LEADING at and Bill Atkinson (right) for a nine-yard gain in the second quarter at Blooming-ton Saturday. (AP Wirephoto) the time, 6-0, and Ms. Jean SURROUNDED Michigan State's Richard Baes (23) plows his way through Indiana defenders Donnie Thomas (53), Willie Jones (15), Mike Winslow (90) score a record-tying 10th rushing TD. Blake's six-pointer tied the 1967 record of Amos Van- awarded Carmel a side out and two points in the process of Pelt.

warning, then removing the first three rows of the North Suggs picked off an Eric Scott pass at the Redbird 46 and returned it to the 34. From cheering section. Her only explanation for or there, Ball State's Rick Scott Hoosiers Scare Spartans, Nick Young filled in at safety. dering the boys, most of them hit Rick Clark with a sideline BSD ISO Titan athletes, out of the strike for the score on the first First Down 14 ID crowded gym was "they were Yards Rushing 179 91 Yards Passing 72 124 but Lose Heartbreaker play. The TD reception gave Clark seven for the season, Passes (A-C-I) 14-4-1 22-9-1 Fumbles Fumbles Lost 0-0 4-3 Yards Penalised SO 38 erasing Kyle West's two-year Punts Av 9-39 BALL STATE S-U old mark of six.

After Shirah, making derogatory remarks to the other team." Pressed by North principal Owen Lemna and athletic director Bob Car-michael, Ms. Jean failed to cite specifically the remarks of 474 yards and 286 of these 111. State 7 7 get the ball down and Neilsen was unable to kick. B3 Blake Zmn (Shirah kick blocked) BS Clark 34 oass from Scott (Scott subbing for the injured Paul Mills on the first extra point canie in the last two periods. A VERY SERIOUS MATTER Normal City, Indiana Dear Mr.

Barnet: Let me tell you about the great Irish Potato Disaster also known as The Decline and Fall of the Irish Potato. Also known as the Great American-Irish-White-Potato Famine of the 1970s. Some of us have Irish ancestors who came over here to this country because of the great Irish potato blight of a century ago. Today we may have to go back to Ireland to be assured of a properly-cooked white or Irish potato. With the exception of one chain of family style restaurants in our town, I can't seem to find a restaurant with a good potato.

Incidentally, I link myself with the Irish because I am 115 Irish myself. Also because my wife is 12 Irish from both try, had his kick blocked, Scott pass faired) IS Falls 47 psss from Scott (Hoemnagl kick) B3 Shlvab 22 fleldgool The Spartans, now in com- that she termed derogatory. tried a pass after the second Craig Brinkman led Indiana's defensemen with solo tackles and seven assists, with Donnie Shaken by the incident, the B3 Shlvab 43 fieldgool mand, put together an 86-yard scoring drive early in the TD, but it was batted down. By BOB BARNET' Star Sports Editor INDIANA UNIVERSITY STADIUM Michigan State wore down Indiana in the last 17 minutes and beat the courageous Hoosiers here Saturday in a game that almost produced a major upset. Final score was 19-10.

North girls lost the next six points to a strong Greyhound The Redbirds then went 73 Thomas getting 11 and third, with Haes going over Hoosiers Take Volleyball Win yards in five plays to score on four assists. Otto Smith, with team before regaining their poise. From the 6-6 tie, they Scott's 47-yard toss to Bob from the six. Neilsen got his extra point this time and it 10 solo tackles and three as Falls in the third period. went ahead, 8-6, on Carole Ha-gen's block and Sandy Sch- sides of her family.

My other ancestory for those who might ANDRESS TOOK the kickoff sists, was Michigan State's was 16-7 with 8:43 remaining. From Cardinals HUNTINGTON Ball State's women's volleyball team lost to Indiana University in the neiter's service ace. most successful defender. at his 13 and zigged his way 57 yards to the Hlinois State 30. HOOSIER BACKERS had Indiana led the team that CARMEL RALLIED to claim had toppled mighty Ohio State one more tnmi when btavroif The hosts held Ball State to a Indiana coach Lee Corso the next five points and take by a 7-3 tally until Michigan single first dwn and Shirah an 11-8 lead.

called Baggett and Levi Jack kicked a 32-yard field goal with 5:35 to play. The drive went 73 State scored its first touchdown came on to kick a 22-yard field It was at that point that the son "the difference between be Interested is as follows: 215 Swiss, 215 German, 315 Indian, 15 is Scotch (no pun intended), 215 English and 215 Hungarian Eskimo (one of my predecessors was a Hungarian gypsy who sold Eskimo Pies from a vendor's cart in Redkey, Indiana, at the turn of the century). I might add that my mixed ancestory has caused me to grow up totally without racial prejudice, except that I hate anyone of pure unmixed single racial ancestory. Us hybrids are better! But, back to the potato. Bob, a potato can be a simple enough thing to fix and it can be any of the following: yards and the Hoosiers were with only 1:02 remaining in the goal.

our two programs." within touchdown reach of On the second play following third period. Then the Spartans, operating smartly against finals of state competition here Saturday. The loss ended the Cards win streak at 15, but the Hoosier victory mey not have been as damaging as it was helpful. Ball State disposed of Indiana 15-0 in the first game of their tormentors at 1640. veteran North team finally got together and played cham-pionship volleyball.

Carmel failed to return a Sandy Louns- "We played as well as we battle-weary foe, stuffed 10 can defensively in tne nrst But Michigan State respond points into the cash register in bury serve, Debbie DeWitt half," Corso said. "I couldn't ed with chilly finality, largely a final quarter that broke a lot dinked one to the floor and through the efforts of the pes of hearts. the finals, but dropped the next Melissa Merefith's service ace ask them to do any more. We couldn't stop Baggett on the big play. We found that they tiferous Baggett, whose 44-yard two 9-il5 and 13-15.

The loss tied the game at 11-11. Mere THE VICTORY gave Michi run from the option gave the however won't keep the Cards dith got another service point gan State a Big Ten mark of 5- are physically stronger than Spartans first down on the Indiana 22 and made possible the Ball State kickoff, McEwen recovered a fumble at the 35. Again the Cardinals got only one first down and Shirah trotted out again and hit a 43-yard field goal that struck the left upright and bounded the right way. His boot was two yards shy of the Ball State record. The Cardinal defense put forth a good effort.

Tim Irelan had three tackles for losses against the Redbirds. Linebacker Toddy Harvey had seven solo tackles, McEwen six before the Greyhounds picked 1-1 and an all-game mark of 6- 1) Boiled in the skin. 2) Boiled out of the skin. 3) Mashed. 4) Baked in foil.

5) Baked in the skin. 6) French fried. 7) Souffled. 8) Stuffed and twice baked. 9) Au gratin.

10) Creamed. 11) Diced. 12) Riced. 13) Hash browned. 14) American fried.

15) Potato chips. 16) Lyonnaise. 3-1. It was the ninth defeat in up three points on a pair, of Neilsen's 44-yard field goal for we are. we didn change our defense after the first half but their strength got us.

Neilsen hit a great clutch field goal. the final points of the game ten games for the Hoosiers, out of the Midwest Regional at Western Michigan next weekend. Two teams from each of the six states represented make the trip and four at large with 2:51 to play. The scoring service aces by Lynn Aurelius and a Titan ball-handling error to go ahead, 14-12. who have beaten only Minneso drive covered 69 yards and the ta.

Their Big Ten record is now 1-6. Spartans needed only six plays With their revamped cheerb Before that I thought we had a chance to win. (Continued on Page C-3) teams are also selected for the lock urging them on in a man An audience of only 25,492, 16 team total. Michigan State gained total smallest in years, rattled ner apparently acceptable by the officials, the Titans came around in the big stadium in Bullock Gains 124 back for the final four points of the match. cloudy, 44-degree weather.

It was too bad, because several thousand people who didn't come missed an excellent foot SCHNEITER SERVED the first point, Perri Hankins Irish Need Late Rally to Stop Panthers ball game. spiked the second one and Ha gen's block of a Debbie Pack Despite the efforts of an In I have seen all of these ruined in our town except for some that I haven't been able to find here at all. The restaurants here always seem to leave the baked potatoes too long in the oven and they are yellow and their taste is no good. I think they believe that the foil they usually wrap around them will prevent the degradation of the potato, even if the potato is left in the oven from 2 in the afternoon until 11 at night. Tain't so.

The mashed potatoes are all reconstituted and dehydrated. Ditto the hashed brown and the au gratin. The potato chips now sometimes are reconstituted dehydrated potatoes and taste pust like the cardboard container they come in. I say, "Down with Fahgle's new mangled potato chips!" Bob, I ate dehydrated potatoes, and dehydrated eggs, and rations, "and rations and rations on ships' in the Navy three wars back but I never thought that the dehydrated potato would continue to follow me all the days of my civilian life thereafter. If your readers can 'tell me of many restaurants that serve ard spike gave Debbie DeWitt diana defense that played one of its best games, Michigan SOUTH BEND, Ind.

(UPI) or dry, Pittsburgh Coach me serve with the score 14-14 turn DeWitt's first two serves Johnny Majors would like to State sent out three backs who rushed for more than 100 yards The Greyhounds failed to re- and the match was over. each. Sophomore Rich Baes have a fullback like Notre Dame's Wayne Bullock. Bullock didn't score a point for the No. 4-ranked Fighting gained 159 in 27 carries, quar The Titans won the first game, 15-8, as Jane AmHn had her best game in the tourney terback Charley Baggett picked up 151 in 16 rushes off the op Irish in a 14-10 victory over the as a hitter.

The Titans Strug tion piay and fullback Levi Jackson accounted for 127 gled to a 6-5 lead over the Panthers Saturday. But he carried the ball 25 times on the Hounas, out began moving yards in 22 trips to the post. wet and slippery field and midway through the game and gained 124 yards. Indiana best runner again was Courtney Snyder, who gained 125 yards in 25 rushes. put the score at 12-6.

North got four points off the serving of "On a field like this it's great to have a fullback like Meredith with spiking help It was a long drop to Keithf fresh, first class, potatoes in our town I want to know about it Maybe we should open up a "spud-easy" In Muncie; like the secret speak-easy taverns of the prohibition days. A "spud-easy" would be a hidden place where one could sneak in and get a good potato without anybody froin the other regular restaurants finding out about it and notifying the authorities Yours for better Irish potatoes, CHARLES F. COLD WATER, M.D. "He's Bullock," Majors said. from DeWitt.

Calvin with 27 vards in five the finest we've ever played In semifinals play, the Titans carries. bested a good Madison Heights THE HOOSIERS looked like team, la-io ana 13-11 in an the money when thev moved overtime match. Carmel smartly to a touchdown with reached the finals with a 15-3, and he was the difference In the game. It was the same thing last year on a dry field." The Irish, though winning for the eighth time in nine games, were unimpressive and actually had to come from behind to win 8:55 to play in the opening 15-5 rout of Mt. Vernon.

period. The drive carried 60 In Saturday afternoon play, 9 xXiifIW yards in only six plays, with Carmel topped Brookville, 16- the payoff coming on a 20-yard on Tom Clements' three-yard 14, 15-9, and Madison Heights ousted Blue River, 15-11, 14-12, pass from Terry Jones to huge scoring plunge with 2:49 left in Trent Smock. Frank Stavroff to the day's most closely-con kicked the point. tested match. the game.

But Coach Ara Parseghian, conceding that Pittsburgh was a good team, contended the Tense and stiff in their first The Hoosiers dug in grimly action of the night, the Titans 1 then, checked Michigan State's played a drawn-out first game ning, 15-10, with just 21 sec- first senous drive on the In GREAT MINDS AT WORK As if he didn't have troubles enough already, Vice President-designate Nelson RockefeUer recently ran afoul of a goofy Interpretation of the 1973 Endangered Species act. Nelson probably wonders these days if the real Endangered Species is the guy who happened to earn a few bucks or inherit some. Rockefeller recently was required by Customs agents to send back to a London auction house a Victorian cabinet containing 35 stuffed birds that he had bought there: Himself a conservationist, Rockefeller had no idea that birds that did their last twittering in another century are now banned under a Federal Law intended to save live ones. The National Maritime Fisheries Service of the Department of Commerce, in protecting eight species of whales under the act, has ruled that artistic scrimshaw and early American artifacts made of whalebone can not lawfully be sold in interstate or foreign commerce. A Pennsylvania collector of American Indian artifacts was Notre Dame mistakes were as damaging as the Panthers.

diana two and forced the Spar against the Pirates before win "Pittsburgh was a good ning, 15-10, with just 21 sec offensive team," he said. "But our problems with our mistakes onds left in the game. The hit contributed to bad field position ting of DeWitt and Christy Wagner got the final four tans to accept three points on a 24-yard field goal by Neilsen. There was no scoring in the second quarter and Indiana took a 7-3 lead to the locker room. The defense effort was helped mightily by three inter and hurt us a lot.

"We made a lot of mistakes. points. rne second game saw nei Two fumbles, an interception ther team farther in front than Samuel (24) at the line of scrimmage for no gain in the second quarter. (AP Wirephoto) STOPPED AT LINE Pittsburgh's Jinx Johnson (89) and Glenn Hodge (26) get together to stop Notre Dame's Al ceptions, two of them by free two except for a 6-3 North lead that was wiped out in a hurry and a blocked kick a blocked kick is just terrible." It was the sixth straight win charged with violating a 1972 act protecting eagles by selling vJ satety Willie Wilson. WITH BAES and Jackson knifing alternately at the In by four straight Madison Heights points.

kick from the 47-yard line and; ground and 104 passing corn-it was far short, but rolled dead pared to the average of Notre for the Irish, who already have accepted a bid to play in the Orange Bowl against Alabama The Titans erased an 8-7 diana middle and Baggett wandering hither and yon on the on the Irish four. The Pitts yards in eight plays, with Clements passing to Pete Demmerle for 35 yards and then hitting him for three yards and the score. Dame's opponents of 111 rushing and this season 8 passing. Pirate lead with four straight points. Madison Heights came burgh defense held and the option, the Spartans rolled ponderously to their first touch New Year's night.

The victory broke a five- right back and got two points Pittsburgh's Tony Dorsett, down. They went 87 yards in game rmsDurgn winning Panthers took over deep in Notre Dame territory following a 25-yard punt. Nevertheless, Notre Dame's to make it 12-10 with 11 seconds to play. Michelle Guion's two eagle-feathered war bonnets trom me iwws io reaerai undercover agents. His home was raided and artifacts he.

claimed dated back to the Custer massacre were seized. To get back his collection, the man had to plead guilty and pay a $500 fine. This took place, gentle reader, In a nation in which only a small percentage of convicted criminals actually are made to serve time, when a murderer doing life is picked up in Washington, D.C., with a sawed-off shotgun while about to board a train for New York City on "recreational leave," when permissiveness is applauded by many educators and contempt for law is considered funny by show-business big shots and television "stars." streak and left the Panthers with a 7-3 record. 10 plays and it was Baggett who slipped over for the last yard to give the Spartans their spike with one second left defense was able to handle made it 12-11 and gave the who last year ran for a record 209 yards, the highest ever attained in one game against Notre Dame, was limited to 22 carries and 61 yards Saturday. Notre Dame scored the first A Pittsburgh field goal attempt which failed actually nrst lead at 8-7 with 1:02 to SCORING St'MMAST Pittsburgh 7S Noire Dame 1111-11 ND Demmerle 3 pass from Clements (Reeve kick) Pllt Medwld 1 run (Loug kick) Pitt FO Lon 52 ND Clements 1 tun (Reeve kio (Continued on Page C-C) Pirates a chance.

At the end of Pittsburgh's strongest threats. The Irish, the top defensive play in the third. The extra helped, the Panthers to their the eight-minute playing only touchdown. team in the nation, limited the Panthers to 96 yards on the period, rules require that a point got away when spotter team must win by two points. Tyrone Willingham failed to time it had the ball, moving 54 Carson Long attempted the lJ---fTllli-----'''--" J.

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