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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1 985 ttjoi-RXAL-aftooitscr PAGE 3C 1 Ohio State interceptions smother Cougars in Florida Citrus Bowl State Coach Earle Bruce said. "Our defense did all we could expect Johnson and Kolic were outstanding." In front of an Orlando Stadium crowd of 50,920 and a national television audience, te Buckeyes kept heavy pressure on Bosco with a relentless pass rush that played havoc with BYU's offense, which had been averaging 500.2 yards and 33.5 points a game. Bosco completed 26 of 50 passes for 261 yards.

The Cougars' defense kept things close, stopping an Ohio State drive that consumed the final 7:13 of the third quarter and ended at the BYU 4 when tailback John Wooldridge, filling in for injured Keith Byars, was tackled for no gain on fourth down. BYU, embarrassed by Ohio State 47-17 three years ago in the Holiday Bowl, also turned back another threat to give Bosco a chance to bring the Cougars back with just over six minutes left The Cougars moved from their 13 to the Ohio State 37 before William White leaped high in the rear of the end zone to intercept a pass intended for Mark Bellini. BYU got one more shot at the Ohio State defense in the final minute. Bosco moved the Cougars to the Buckeyes 30 before Terry White Intercepted him. Ohio State, which fell out of the Rose Bowl and national championship picture when it lost its final two games, finished 9-3.

BYU, defending national champion, finished 11-3. Ohio State quarterback Jim Karsatos, who completed 19 of 35 passes for 196 yards, hit passes covering 12 yards to Vince Workman and 17 yards to Chris Carter to help Ohio State move from its own 20 to the. BYU 38 in the closing seconds before halftime. Spangler's 55-yard field goal attempt fell short as time expired. Kolic, who didn't have an interception during the regular season, picked off Bosco's second attempt of the third quarter and got a push in the direction of the end zone from a teammate as he scored untouched.

Byars, who missed eight games with a broken bone in his right foot, started Saturday. He carried twice for 5 yards on Ohio State's first possession of the game, but did not return after that 'I J1 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) After a week of hype as a potential offensive shootout, Saturday's Florida Citrus Bowl turned into a defensive battle In a game that may have provided a glimpse into the Buckeyes' future. "We wanted to start a new tradition of Ohio State's defense being strong," Johnson said after the 17th-ranked Buckeyes intercepted four Robbie Bosco passes and stopped ninth-ranked Brigham Young 10-7. Linebacker Larry Kolic intercepted two of Bosco's passes, returning the first one 14 yards for the Buckeyes' only touchdown 1:08 into the second half.

Kolic's score wiped out Brigham Young's 7-3 halftime lead. He also picked off a Bosco pass midway through the third period and returned it 9 yards to the BYU 14-yard line, only to see the Buckeyes' offense which got a 47-yard field goal from Rich Spangler in the first half lose its second fumble deep in BYU territory. "With the offenses these two teams had, I'm surprised there weren't more points scored," said Kolic, a senior who earned honors as the game's most valuable player. "But with all the talk about the offenses I think the defenses played much harder." The seven points was BYU's lowest point-total in seven years. "And I hope it's another seven years," Cougars Coach LaVell Edwards said.

"We've always had a bit of a problem in bowl games, in getting our timing down, mainly because we don't have a large enough area at borne to workout indoors." "The difference was turnovers. BYU had six and we had two," Ohio Georgia tailback Lars Tate (32) picks up a first down against Arizona 11 Bulldogs held on to tie the Wildcats In the 52nd Sun Bowl 'Dogs, 'Cats miss field goals late to leave Sun Bowl tied A JIM WILSON DEVELOPMENT nm service F.lonth recovered at the Wildcats' 23. Jacobs' 45-yard field pulled Georgia within 13-6 at 1:53 of the final period. Steve Crumley, whose 38-yard field goal had given Georgia 3-0 lead early in the second quarter, was set to attempt a 40-yarder but the Bulldogs were penalized for illegal procedure. Jacobs, Georgia's long-range kicker, took over and brought the Bulldogs within 13-6.

Flack's fumble recovery came two plays later. Arizona had built its lead on the two field goals by Zendejas and nickel back Martin Rudolph's 35-yard return of an intercepted pass. The tie, played before a Sun Bowl-record crowd of 52,203, gave Arizona an 8-3-1 record and also prevented the Wildcats from matching the school single-season record of nine victories set in 1974 and equaled in 1975. Georgia wound up 7-3-2. Zendejas, whose first field goal tied the score in the second period, snapped the 3-3 deadlock at 4:49 of the third period.

The senior place-kicker drilled a line drive through the uprights from 52 yards out with a brisk breeze at his back. It came after Arizona had a second-and-one at the Georgia 30 but was penalized twice on successive snaps. Later in the period, Arizona tackle Stan Mataele sacked Georgia quarterback James Jackson for a 7-yard loss at the Bulldogs' 9-yard line. On the next play, tackle Lee Brunelli hit Jackson as he threw the football and Rudolph, who entered the game on the passing down, stepped in front of Tim Worley, the intended receiver, and weaved his way for a touchdown to give Arizona a 13-3 lead with 3:17 left in the period. But Georgia marched from its 20 to the Arizona 28 to set up Jacobs' field goal.

The drive included runs of 11 yards by fullback Keith Henderson and 12 by tailback Worley and a 9-yard pass from punter Cris Carpenter to Henderson on fourth-and-four from the Georgia 45. EL PASO, Texas (AP) For the second year in a row, Georgia got a tie for Christmas. They weren't the same. Last year's 17-17 tie with Florida State in the Florida Citrus Bowl came three days before Christmas. Georgia's Kevin Butler barely missed a mammoth 70-yard field goal attempt on the final play.

On Saturday, three days after Christmas, the Bulldogs settled for a 13-13 deadlock with Arizona in the Sun Bowl as both teams missed field goal tries in the final 69 seconds. "I feel a little different this year than I did last season," Georgia Coach Vince Dooley said. "Last year, I felt we should have won the game. This year, I'm more proud of the team for hanging in there and fighting hard throughout the game. On the other hand, if (Arizona's Max) Zendejas had made that field goal, I might be feeling a little bit different right now." Georgia's Davis Jacobs was wide left on a 44-yard attempt with 1:09 remaining and Zendejas, the third-leading field goal kicker in NCAA history who had connected from 22 and 52 yards earlier, sent a 39-yard attempt wide to the right with four seconds left.

The misses came after Georgia erased a 13-3 deficit in the first 5:34 of the fourth quarter on a 45-yard field goal by Jacobs and Lars Tate's 2-yard touchdown leap with 9:26 left. "I was thinking of the many times that he had been in this type of clutch situation and how many times he'd come through," Dooley said of Zendejas. "I was also thinking, 'Well, maybe he's due for a Arizona Coach Larry Smith said, "Max had a great four years here (79-for-107 in field goals, 123-for-125 extra points). I told him. 'You're a great kicker and you're going to be a great pro.

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This game will be at i Giants Stadium, where any winter game can be an adventure. For another, the earlier games featured an upstart New York team coming off wild-card wins over 1 Philadelphia the first time and the Los Angeles Rams the second and going up against 49er teams favored to go all the way. This time the two teams have remarkably similar personalities. i Both the Giants and the 49c rs fin- ished 10-6, and each may have a better chance at beating the 15-1 Chicago Bears than either the Rams or Dallas Cowboys, winners of the NFC West and East, respectively. "I don't see that much difference between this year's 49ers and last year's," Giants Coach Bill Parcells said.

"I've been saying the same thing about us all year. The difference between a 15-1 team and one that's 10-6 is one or two plays in a few games." What makes the teams even more similar are their habits of dominating games, then finding ways to lose late New York outgained 15 of its 16 opponents; San Francisco 13 of 16. The Giants, the only team in the NFL in the top 10 in all six offensive and defensive categorys, lost its six games by a total of 20 points. In a 30-29 loss to Dallas, the Giants were running out the clock when quarterback Phil Simms fumbled a snap deep in New York territory. The Cowboys recovered and Rafael Sep-tien kicked a winning field goal.

In the second Dallas game, with the NFC East title on the line, the Cowboys scored two touchdowns in 46 seconds on a deflected interception and a botched punt play. The same kind of things happened to the 49ers, who lost four of their first seven games. In Denver, for example, they lost 17-16 to the Broncos in a game in which a snowball thrown from the stands ruined a field-goal attempt and a questionable pass interference call set up Rich Karlis' winning field goal for the Broncos. "I think we're starting to play like we did last year," says Coach Bill Walsh, whose 49ers trailed Dallas 134 last week before beating the Cowboys 31-16 to clinch their playoff spot. "It's been particularly evident the last two weeks.

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O'Brien went out after completing 13 of 17 for 149 yards, and Ryan completed 10 of 16 throws for 64 yards. NEW ENGLAND took a 3-0 lead 9:20 into the game on Franklin's 33-yard field goal after the Patriots had moved 28 yards from the Jet 44-yard-line to the 16. The Pats got their field position when Rocky Klever was called for a 15-yard face-mask penalty as Irving Fryar returned a Dave Jennings punt to his own 41. The Jets drove 72 yards in 10 plays to take a 7-1 lead, scoring on the first play of the second period on an 11-yard pass from O'Brien to Hector. The key play of the drive was a 21-yard connection from O'Brien to Shuler on a second-and-22 play to the Patriot 36 after O'Brien had been sacked by Verii.

Franklin's 41-yard field goal on the next series cut New York's lead to 74. The drive was marked by a 39-yard Eason-to-Fryar connection that put the ball at the Jet 21 The Jets moved the ball well on each of their next two possessions but were stopped each lime by turnovers. continued from 1C "You take away points that we might have been able to get out of a drive and give them seven, that can 1 really get you down when you're on Ithe bench watching," New York defensive tackle Marty Lyons said. "WE MADE THE turnovers and they didn't," Jets Coach Joe Walton 'said. "We got into a hole and we couldn't get out.

They got four turnovers and we didn't get any and that always spells trouble. It became a game where we had to throw the ball." The Jets were limited to 58 rushing yards in 21 attempts The Jets made things reasonably close following those quick 10 points, moving the ball 57 yards in 10 plays to cut the New England lead to 23-14 behind Ryan, who came in after O'Brien went out with a concussion. Ryan's 12-yard scoring pass to Mickey Shuler capped the drive, i But Franklin's fourth kick, with 13 left, sealed the game. Eason, who hit the big plays all day, finished with 12 completions in 16 attempts for 179 yards as New England won the rubber game of their THE FIRST DRIVE was halted when McNeil tumbled and Roland James recovered on the New England 45. The second ended when O'Brien, who had completed 10 straight passes, threw deep from the Patriots 43 and bad the ball picked off by Marion, who returned it 26 yards to the 33.

Four plays later, at the New York 36, Eason caught the Jets in a blitz and hit Morgan, streaking down the left sideline, with a line-drive TD pass over Carter, who was activated for this game after spending almost half the season on injured reserve with back spasms. The play, which gave New England a 13-7 lead, was set up by an 11-yard run by Craig James on a draw from a shotgun formation on third and four. New England extended its lead to 16-7 on Franklin's 20-yard field goal 1:36 into the third period. It came on the end of a 51-yard drive that followed a 27-yard punt by Jennings. Then, on the ensuing kickoff, Rem-bert stripped the ball from Hector, picked it up and raced 15 yards into the end tone to make it 23-7 with just 20 minutes left in the game.

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