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1 See. Page 1 The Reporter, Sunday, Dec. 30, 1981 battle Badgers drop FG 49ers spotty, but top Giants HPF f. .1 1:1 line against the smaller Wildcats, quickly moved Wisconsin into position. He hit tight end Bret Pearson with a 17-yard completion, giving Wisconsin a first down on the Wildcat 31.

Another big play in the drive was a 10-yard run by Marck Harrison, who had gained 611 yards in the last four regular-season games for the Badgers. Following off-setting penalties, which wiped out a Howard interception, the badger quarterback hit Thad McFadden in the end zone on a third-down play to make the score 10-0, Wisconsin, in the first quarter. Kentucky had trouble moving against the bigger Badgers, but did miss a 42 yard field goal in the first quarter. The Badgers effectively muzzled Kentucky's star running back, George Adams, who had been an outstanding running and receiving threat for the Southeastern Conference team this season. Both teams appeared to bog down in the second quarter, but McFadden ignited the Badgers again with a 67-yard punt return, which took the ball down to the Kentucky 10-yard line.

Wisconsin was unable to cash in on the long return, but Gregoire responded again to give Wisconsin a 27-yard field goal to give the Badgers a 13-0 lead. Calhoun, who had saved a touchdown by pushing McFadden out on the return, then turned in another big play late in the second quarter. He intercepted a Howard pass on the Wisconsin 44 to set up Kentucky's only first-half score. The Wildcats finally hit paydirt when Mark Logan ran 9 yards for a touchdown and Kentucky added the extra point to slice the Badgver lead to 13-7. Wisconsin responded with a long drive, with Joe Armentrout ripping off some long gains.

The Badgers had the ball on the Kentucky 3-yard line with six seconds left in the first half when Gregoire entered the game to kick his third field goal, A 20-yard shot to give Wisconsin a 16-7 halftime lead. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -Freshman Joe Worley kicked a 52-yard field goal and Steve Mazza intercepted a pass off a fake field goal to give Kentucky a 20-19 victory over No. 20 Wisconsin in the 8th annual Hall of Fame football game Saturday night. Kentucky, finishing at 9-3, rallied from a 16-7 halftime deficit behind Bill Ransdell's passing for its victory over the slightly favored Badgers, who ended their season at 7-4-1.

Worley's 22-yard field goal cut Wisconsin's edge to 16-10, but Todd Gregoire scored his fourth field goal to make it 19-10 Wisconsin. Kentucky, of the Southeastern Conference, moved 82 yards late in the third period to score on Ransdell's 27-yard pass to Mark Logan, who had scored Kentucky's other touchdown on a 9-yard run in the first half. Worley's 52-yarder midway in the final period ended the scoring. However, Wisconsin of the Big Ten moved from its 16 to fourth down on the Kentucky nine. The Badgers lined up in field goal formation, but instead Bob Kobza passed into the end zone where Mazza intercepted for Kentucky.

Logan and Gregoire were named their teams' most valuable players. Wisconsin dominated the first half, with Gregoire, a freshman from De Pere Abbot Pennings, kicking his first of three first-half field goals, a 40-yarder, to cap the Badgers' first offensive possession. The Badgers marched 49 yards on 10 plays to set up the Gregoire field goal. Wisconsin appeared to be driving for a touchdown and had second-and-one on the Kentucky 21-yard line when they were called for the first of two delay-of-game penalties in the first half. Kentucky was unable to move following the Gregoire field goal and a 29-yard Paul Calhoun punt set up Wisconsin's first half touchdown.

The Badgers got the ball on the Wildcat 48-yard line. Howard, who was given considerable time by his big offensive Giants' Ali Haji-Sheikh missed a 33-yard field goal attempt. The Giants, who were 9-7 In regular season play and beat the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC wildcard game last weekend, trailed 14-0 Saturday before getting their first points on Haji-Sheikh's 46-yard field goal in the second period. Ray Wersching of the 49ers missed his only two field goal attempts, from 39 and 34 yards. The first was blocked and the last miss came with 3:15 remaining in the game.

The Giants moved from their 20 to the San Francisco 20 on their final scoring threat, but running back Joe Morris was stopped short of a first down as he went into the middle on a fourth-and-1 play with 1:24 left. The 49ers' offense netted 117 yards in the first period, but their opening TD drive, which went 71 yards, was kept alive with the help of Currier's drop. A Montana pass went off the hands of fullback Roger Craig and bounced cleanly to Currier, who reacted in disgust after failing to hold on. On the first play of the opening drive, Montana threw toward the right sideline to Clark, who latereled to Solomon on a play which gained 13 yards. Wendell Tyler made a 13-yard gain on a run the drive.

The 49ers' offense had to move only 12 yards, on two plays, for the second touchdown. Free safety Ronnie Lott returned an interception 38 yards to set up the touchdown. Lott intercepted a pass by Simms which was deflected by charging linebacker Dan Bunz. The ball went downfield, hit Ellison on the back and bounced to Lott. San Francisco moved into Giants' territory late in the first period, but the first New York interception, by Reasons, ended the drive.

The 49ers beat the Giants 31-10 during the regular season. By ERIC PREWITT AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Joe Montana threw for three touchdowns in the first half, and the San Francisco 49ers later got big defensive plays from Riki Ellison and Dwaine Board to escape with a 21-10 National Football League playoff victory over the New York Giants Saturday. The 49ers, whose 15-1 regular season record was the best in the league, won their 10th straight game and earned the right to host the National Football Conference title game on Jan. 6. They will play either the Chicago Bears or Washington Redskins, who meet on Sunday in Washington.

Montana hit on TD passes of 21 yards to Dwight Clark and nine to Russ Francis the first two times the 49ers had the ball. Late in the second quarter, he tossed a 29-yard scoring strike to wide receiver Freddie Solomon, who scored a touchdown for the ninth game in a row. But Montana was victimized for interceptions in a spotty performance, and another of his passes was dropped by Giants defensive back Bill Currier early in the game. Linebacker Harry Carson scored on a 14-yard interception return in the second period. The final interception against the 49ers quarterback was made by linebacker Gary Reasons near the New York goal line in the third period.

Montana had run 53 yards, to the Giants' 14-yard line, giving the 49ers an opportunity to build on their 21-10 lead. Reasons returned the ball 33 yards, and the Giants moved to the San Francisco 19 before linebacker Ellison killed the scoring threat by intercepting a pass by Phil Simms. A New York scoring threat early in the fourth quarter was snuffed out with the help of a quarterback sack by Board. The defensive end dropped Simms on a play from the 11, and three plays later the AP Laier Photo Badger touchdown Wisconsin's Thad McFadden hauled in this pass from quarterback Mike Howard for a touchdown early in Saturday night's Hall of Fame Bowl against Kentucky at Birmingham, Ala. Badger placekicker Todd Gregoire booted the extra point and three field goals to give Wisconsin a 16-7 halftime lead over the Wildcats.

Marino does niual thin By DAVE GOLDBERG MIAMI (AP) Dan Marino did his usual for the Miami Dolphins Saturday, with the expected three touchdown passes. But the 31-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, which put the Dolphins within a game of their fifth Super Bowl, was as much the work of a nearly extinct species the "Killer Bs" of Miami's maligned defense. Marino, who averaged three TD passes a game in setting a National Football League record of 48, threw a 34-yarder to Jimmy Cefalo in the first half, then connected with Bruce Hardy on a 3-yarder and Nat Moore from 33 yards in a two-minute stretch of the third quarter that turned a tense four-point lead into a comfortable 28-10 margin. But as much of the credit went to the defense nine of whose 11 starters have last names beginning with the letter that had allowed almost 25 points in each of the last seven games of a 14-2 season. It shut down Seattle, which beat the Dolphins 27-20 last season at the same stage of the playoffs, holding the Seahawks without a first down on four of its first five possessions- and eight possessions overall.

The Seahawks finished with only eight first downs and 267 total yards. "I'm so proud of the defense," said Coach Don Shula. "They struggled for a while, went through some difficult times. It was outstanding out there today. We made so many big plays on third down." Said rookie linebacker Jay Brophy, a key to the Dolphins' effort: "The whole attitude in the last five or six weeks was not to make mistakes.

The attitude now is to accept that we're going to make some mistakes. So we just have to go out there and play aggressively and make up for the mistakes. "It's hard to pinpoint, but the difference was intensity." Marino, who completed 21 of 34 passes for 262 yards, also gave credit to the defense. "The defense played very well. When the defense is playing so well, it really helps us," he said.

"We had some problems on offense in the first half, but we just had to keep going out and doing it." Seattle had hoped to mix the running game, which picked up more than 200 yards in last week's American Conference wild-card triumph against the Los Angeles Raiders, with Dave Krieg's passing. But it could not really establish either. "We wanted to have some balance today, but when we got about 14 points behind, we had to throw the ball," said Coach Chuck Knox, whose team was stopped twice on third-and-1 and once on fourth-and-1. "The Dolphins are an excellent football team. They have an excellent chance to go all the way." The victory puts Miami in the AFC championship game on their home turf at the Orange Bowl against the winner of Sunday's game in Denver between the Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Led by ends Kim Bokamper and Doug Betters and linebacker Mark Brown, Miami's defense shut down both the "Ground Chuck" and the "Air Knox" phases of Knox's Seattle attack. That's where Marino took over. First, he moved the Dolphins 76 yards in 13 plays, capping it off with the short touchdown toss to Hardy. Then, after Seattle's Jeff West squibbed a 7-yard punt, Marino's 33-yard pass was tipped in the air by Seattle's Keith Simpson and deflected right to Moore, standing alone in the end zone. Uwe van Schamann's 37-yard fourth-quarter field goal, his first successful kick since Nov.

11, cap yard strike from Krieg to Largent, who caught the ball on the Miami 33, broke a tackle by Don McNeal and Lyle Blackwood and raced in for the score that cut it to 14-10. The Seahawks drove 41 yards to the Miami 24 to start the second half but Johnson's 41-yard field goal attempt was wide to the left. That was their last gasp. From there, Miami trudged 76 yards in 13 plays to take a 21-10 lead on Marino's 3-yard TD toss to Bruce Hardy. It was a grudging score, made possible by a holding call on Simpson in the end zone on a third-down incompletion from the 3.

As was the case throughout the game, Seattle couldn't move on its next possession and West sliced the ball off his foot out of 'bounds on the Seahawks' 35. On the next play, Marino bounced it off Simpson to Moore and that was it. Roth, Olson lead Badgers ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Forward Scott Roth and guard Rick Olson punched holes in New; Mexico's match-up zone defense to lead Wisconsin to an 83-74 win in the championship game of the Lobo Invitational college basketball tournament Saturday night. In the consolation game, Texas rode the 26-point scoring of sophomore forward Winston Crite to an easy 81-54 romp over Alaska-Anchorage.

Roth and Olson proved too much offensively for New Mexico. Olson, a slick point guard with a shooting eye to match, led the Badgers with 27 points and finished with 47 for the two two-night tourney. Roth, who didn't score until nine minutes into the first half, hit 10 of 11 shots and poured in 26 points as the surprising Badgers ran their record to 9-1. ped Miami's scoring. The Dolphins started strong, driving 35 yards to the Seattle 26 off the opening kickoff.

But von Schamann's 43-yard field goal attempt, his first try in five games, was wide right. But the next time they got the ball, the Dolphins needed von Schamann only to kick the extra point. Starting at their own 32, they drove 68 yards in eight plays to take a 7-0 lead with 4:09 left in the first quarter. Tony Nathan ran 14 yards for the score, sweeping right then cutting inside against a six-back Seattle alignment on a second down and 10 play. Seattle, held to only 4 yards and no first downs in its first four possessions made it 7-3 on Norm Johnson's 27-yard field goal 1:24 into the second period.

The score was set up by Harris' first interception, which he returned 32 yards to the Miami 39 and a 25-yard pass from Dave Krieg to Steve Largent that put the ball at the 19. But Miami came right back to make it 14-3 on Marino's 34-yard TD pass to Cefalo, who beat Paul Moyer after the Dolphins picked up a Seahawk blitz. The score came one play after Kenny Easley's interception of a Marino pass was nullified by an offside call against Mike Fanning. Meanwhile, the Dolphins' defense continued to dominate, shutting down the Seattle running game that had picked up more than 200 yards in last week's wildcard win over the Raiders and forcing Kreig, who finished with 20 completions in 35 attempts for 234 yards, to throw underneath. Held to only one first down in the first 25 minutes, Seattle got its second on its sixth possession, which began with just over four minutes left in the half.

On the next play, the Seahawks had their only touchdown, on a 56- 01 AP Lr Photo Helmetless Harrison Wisconsin tailback Marck Harrison (34) lost his helmet on theis play but continued to surge toward a good gain as Kentucky's Barry Alexander (37) tries to stop him during action in the Hall of Fame Bowl Saturday night. Gonzaga stuns MU for Classic crown of overkill? Bowls a case Recommended for a IWomhsr voxotinn ic than 53-48 on Johnson's two free throws with 2 07 left in the game. McPhee led the Bulldogs, 7-4, with 19 points, while Van Nort and Jeff Condill followed with 12 points apiece. Marquette. 6-3, and losing its tournament for the first time since 1979, was topped by Hall with 17 points and Tom Copa with 11.

Consecutive mid-court steals by Michael Sims and Benny Moore during an 8-0 spurt gave Marquette a 28-20 lead with 3:52 remaining in the first half. Gonzaga cut the margin to 30-24 on McPhee's spinning rebound basket two seconds before the horn. In the third-place contest, Drake broke open a close game by scoring the last 11 points of the first half to take a 38-32 advantage. Demetrius Henderson hit two baskets during the flurry. l.ehigh, 3-7, could get no closer than 13 points the rest of the way, the last time on Daren Queenan's layup with 13: 16 to go.

Drake's biggest lead came at 73-45 on Lloyd's lane jumper at 5:36. Henderson added 14 points and Melvin Ma this had 12 as Drake improved its record to 8-3. Guard Mike Polaha scored 19 points and Mute Androlewicz had 14 for Lehigh. Marquette failed to win the championship for only the seventh time in the 23-year history of the tournament. By MIKE EMBRY AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) Forward Bryce McPhee ignited a second-half surge with nine points during a 19-6 run that carried Gonzaga to a 60-54 victory over Marquette in the championship of the Milwaukee Classic college basketball tournament.

In the consolation game, forward Daryl Lloyd scored 25 points to power Drake to an 81-59 victory over Lehigh. Trailing 36-30 early in the second half, Gonzaga scored 10 straight points to go up 40-36 with 10:56 to go. McPhee, who was named the tournament's most valuable player, and Jason Van Nort each scored two baskets during the spurt. Marquette came back to tie the game at 40-40 on Mike Davis' baseline jumper and Mandy Johnson's two free throws at 9:51. Johnson missed two free throws with 8:33 to go, and Gonzaga went on its 19-6 spree.

Van Nort scored on a goaltending call against Marquette and McPhee followed with a tip-in at 6:50 for a 44-40 lead. Marquette's Robert Hall then hit a short jumper 16 seconds later to cut the difference to 44-42. Gonzaga's Tim Ruff then connected on to free throws and McPhee scored on a three-point play at 5:12 for a 49-42 edge. Marquette could get no closer By TOM KOHL Assistant Sports Editor Remember when going to a bowl game meant something? The alumni were popping at the buttons with pride and the players headed West with stars in their eyes. And you really climbed the top of the mountain if you made it to the grand-daddy of them all, the Rose Bowl.

Well, forget it! The Run for the Roses is still the biggie, but a number of satellite bowls have sprung up in every corner of the country. If you feel "bowled over," you're not alone. You have plenty of company this time of the year. The bowl fantasy started Dec. 15 with something called the "California Bowl." This was only the beginning.

In quick succession, we have been treated to such gourmet specials as the Independence Bowl, Cherry Bowl and Freedom Bowl. And the end is not in sight. Next year, it probably will be the Siberia Bowl. And why not? The Russians claim they have invented everything else, why not football, too? Even Pravda probably would hop on the bandwagon for this one. If you think participation in a bowl was a reward for excellence, you haven't been reading the papers lately.

Unless Michigan and Michigan State's 6-5 records are considered a barometer for excellence. The Spartans had little else to recommend them, but at least this abomination had one silver lining. Army did get its feet wet, or scuffed, by playing in and winning its first bowl game ever. While we're name-dropping, let's not pass over the Freedom Bowl, which graced Anaheim Stadium. That's the one where Iowa's Chuck Long used Texas as a punching bag.

The 1984 Longhorns, who will never bring back memories of Darrell Royal's powerhouses, probably had packed it in long before they were embarrassed by Iowa. For Texas didn't exactly send them into stitches late in the season hen the Longhorns bombed out against Texas But don't expect the bowl impostors to end. College football's demolition derby will give fans another crash course next year. The name of the game is big bucks and the bowl people still haven't realized that what they've really struck is fool's gold. And despite the Big Ten hvpe, wasn't it more refreshing hen the conference sent only one team to a bowl every year, not six as was the case this year? Even Woody and Bo at Pasadena every year were more palatable than the "bowl bellyache" we get today watching so many pretenders ply their trade.

And if you wake up Jan. 2 thinking the hole charadee is over, remember this: The Japan Bowl is less than two weeks away. a trip to Shreveport and the Independence Bowl. This monstrosity even shows signs of outlasting the Cabbage Patch Doll. Imagine basking in Shreveport and being treated to the likes of a Virginia Tech and Air Force.

At least. Air Force's Falcons are used to flying in all kinds of weather, even the damp diet dished up every December by this Louisiana city. So let's hear it for the Garden State Bowl. At least, they were one that knew enough to get out of the business of "bowling" and boredom. But bowls continue to be big business and that's why you try to woo the big names.

Michigan's Wolverines had the pedigree, but not the talent when they limped into Brigham Young's annual post-season production, the Holiday Bowl. Predictably, the Wolverines, who went into post-season play with a 6-5 record and came out 6-6. may have loused things up even worse for BYU, which was thrust into a no-win situation. BYU's crime: La Veil Edwards' team didn't look much like the nation's No. 1 ranked football team in beating the Wolverines.

But while we're passing out plaudits, let's not skip the Cherry Bowl. This dreary affair was orchestrated in the Pontiac Silverdome. And it just so happened that Michigan State was around to provide the hometown folks with a litUe home cooking..