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i FSM Eyes A burn A ide '1 'We talked at Montgomery, No commitments uere made.9 -Paul Davis JACKSONVILLE Interim coach Paul Davis of Auburn became a prime candidate for the head coaching job at Florida State today after admitting he had talked with FSU officials about the job. Davis, Southeastern Conference coach of the year in 1963 as head man at Mississippi State, is in charge of the Tigers for tomorrow's Gator Bowl game in the absence of Ralph Jordan, who is hospitalized because of an appendectomy. "I talked with FSU people on Wednesday," Davis said. "No com- i were made. We just talked." Davis is primarily a defensive coach for the Tigers, who haven't given up many points this season despite a rash of injuries.

"I feel defense is' football," he said. "I hate to see too many points." This is practically the reverse of the philosophy of Bill Peterson, who quit at FSU to take the head coaching and athletic director positions at Rice. Peterson emphasizes a high-scoring offense, with defense almost incidental at times. Davis was projected into a prominent position for the FSU job when it was announced that Lee Corso had signed a three-year contract at Louisville this week. Corso had been considered a prime contender for the Seminole job.

Others in consideration for the post include Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr and members of the staff of assistants left behind by Peterson. Davis has 24 years of coaching experience. He has been an assistant to Jordan at Auburn for the past four years. News Wirt Service S3 OB Matches Big 8, SEC Champs nn dan Put Ti Its in an ger A. MiiiiwMiuuiii "w''yIWHK -r 'n Paut V1VJ.

Lauderdale News PPHk Jllk. WWW UJ UJ Friday, Jan. 1, 1971 ID DOUBLE TROUBLE Louisiana State quarterbacks Bert Jones (7) and Buddy Lee, who combined this past season for 2,026 yards and 11 touchdowns, ponder Orange Bowl meeting with Nebraska tonight. The Huskers are the nation's No. 3 team, while LSU is rated No.

5. (Staff photo by John Foster) By CHRIS SMITH Sports Staff Writer MIAMI The 37th annual Orange Bowl game tonight between unbeaten Nebraska -and Louisiana State figures to be unique for ive.reasons. will be Nebraska's last hope for winning the national championship. It may be Charley McClendon's last as the LSU coach. Nebraska and LSU are liable to play to a scoreless tie.

A stadium and Orange Bowl game record crowd of 81,000 is assured. The game will not be blacked out on TV locally for the first time since 1962. Nebraska, 10-0-1 and ranked No. 3 in the Associated Press poll, has only a 21-all tie with Southern Cal to mar its record. The Huskers, who won the Big Eight title, however, need help from Notre Dame and Stanford to emerge No.

the AP holds its final poll after the New Year's day games. Notre Dame would have to upend Texas, currently No. 1, in the Cotton Bowl, and Stanford would have to beat No. 2 Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. And of course, the Huskers would have to win.

They are five-point favorites. Nebraska's only other hope would be close games or ties in the other bowl games and a thorough thrashing of LSU. Say 70-0 or something similiar. But stranger things have happened. The 1966 New Year's day bowl games saw No.

2 Arkansas lose to LSU, 14-7; No. 3 Nebraska lose to No. 4 Ailabama, 39-28, with the Crimson Tide passing up previously No. 1 Michigan State for the national championship. McClendon, who will complete his ninth session as the Tigers' head coach tonight, has been rumored to be going to Alabama.

"Charley hasn't done anything to squash the rumors about him leaving," said an LSU official. "And he has had plenty of opportunity to stop them if he wanted to." McClendon, who has run up a 70-23-4 record in nine seasons, including the Southeastern Conference title this year, talked with current Alabama coach and Athletic Director Bear Bryant last spring. Bryant is apparently read to step down. LSU re-negotiated McClendon's contract last year, but Charley, who played for and coached under Bryant at Kentucky, may be ready for a move. and defensive back Tommy Casanova.

In fact, it could be a Casanova punt return that settles the issue. Against Mississippi, the 185-pound junior took back punts 61 and 74 yards for scores. LSU's offense is no slouch either. The Tigers have averaged 25 points a game." Art Cantrelle broke the fabled Steve Van Buren's single season rushing record with 892 yards, while quarterbacks Burt Jones and Buddy Lee combined for 11 TD passes and 2,026 yards. Nebraska also has a few calling cards on defense.

The aces are linebacker Jerry Murtaugh, the Big Eight Player of the Year; and defensive end Willie Harper, the Big Eight's Sophomore Lineman of the Year. The Huskers en route to the Orange Bowl allowed the fewest points in the Big Eight, 177. While no one is sure about the outcome of the game, the crowd of 81,000 will break the old mark of 78,282 set last year between Penn State and Missouri. The game will be nationally (NBC) and locally televised on Channel 7 starting at 7:45. It will be the first time since 1962, when LSU beat Colorado before 68,150, the smallest crowd in the last 15 years.

Miami Beach attorney Ellis Rubin through his legal efforts got the blackout lifted under the stipulation that the game had to be a sellout. There is no doubt about that. But the only thing that McClendon has been talking about this week, has been Nebraska. The Huskers represent one of the most potent offensive teams in the nation, averaging 37 points a game and 421 yards.in total offense. "Nebraska is the best team we faced all year," says McClendon, rating the Huskers over Notre Dame, a team that defeated LSU, 3-0, one of only two losers in 11 games.

"It does more things," he says. "And it is a crushing team." It shapes up as the immovable object (LSU) meeting the irrestistible force (Nebraska). The Tiger defense was one of the tough est nationally and stingiest allowing points. They have allowed only 52 yards a game rushing and haven't given up a. score on the ground in 13 games and only an average of eight points per contest.

Against Texas LSU set a modern record when it held the Aggies to minus 42 yards. Most observers" feel that the game will be a low scoring affair and may end up in a tie 0-0. i The Husker offense led by the quarter-backing combo of Jerry Tagge and Van Brownson (who combined for 18 TD passes), and the running of Joe Orduna, should be an equal test for the LSU defense. The Tiger defense is anchored by two All-Americans, linebacker Mike Anderson Bill um, 63,550 are sold on a season basis. Ticket scalping has become such a problem in New York that both police and postal inspectors try to nab offenders, the postal boys in case scalpers are using mails to defraud The Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier title fight March 8 will be the first time in history two undefeated champions battled for the heavyweight title.

Bondur News Sjxktts Editor Sooner Tie Tide, 24-24 Ciemny's Missed Kick: 'Nobody's Fault But Mine' If you're interested in who were the three longhairs you saw playing for Texas against Notre Dame today, they're Steve Worster, Bill Attesis and Bobby Wuensch, all Ail-Americans No football coach is as urbane, as poised and articulate, as Ara Parseghian of Notre Dame The best baseball diary of all could be written by an umpire. Who else sees things as they really are in base-, ball's sometimes fantasy world? Ciemny's counterpart, Bruce Derr of Oklahoma, had tied the game at 24-24 with a 42-yard field goal with 1:04 remaining in the game, but he wasn't happy, either. He blamed himself because a.i attempted onside kick on the ensuing kickoff went awry and Alabama gained possession on the Oklahoma 40. fault, but he wasn't buying that. He actually believed he'd cost Alabama the victory and nothing anybody could say changed his mind.

Not even Sam Bailey, Alabama's assistant athletic director, who slapped him on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry about it, Dick. I missed one myself once." Ciemny, who once kicked a 56-yard field goal in junior college at Butler County, stayed around until everyone was gone, partially under the guise of looking for a missing pair of pants because he did not want to face the Alabama rooters outside the dressing room door. Jimmy Picked Miami Right Shorties Lest we tend to ridicule too much, don't forget that Jimmy The Greek, the sometimes maligned oddsmaker from Las Vegas, hit the Dolphin-Raider's game exactly. Jimmy's opening line was Oakland by seven, and the final score was 21-14. Heavy action on the Dolphins, however, had lowered the spread to 5y2 by game time If I were a betting man, I'd say the Super Bowl teams would be Oakland and San Francisco.

If so, it would seem a little ridiculous, two teams living across the bay from each other coming 3,500 miles to settle a dispute over who gets $15,000 a man The University of Florida now explains it wants to play night games only inV early September, when it would vbe too hot to play day games on artificial turf, which the Gators want to purchase. Why the artificial turf? For recruiting purposes, goes the official line. Kids now supposedly want and expect to play on artificial turf, they say. Well, bull. Every professional player complains artificial turf is too hard on the body.

Besides, having never played on it before, why should high HOUSTON. (UPI) One of man's worst predicaments is to be forced to celebrate when he's not in the mood for it especially if he's going to a New Year's Eve Party with a group he feels he has just let down. Richard Ciemny of Anthony, felt that way early That's the reason he was the last Alabama player to dress and leave the clubhouse after his team had tied Oklahoma, 24-24, in the 12th annual Astro Bluebonnet Bowl. Ciemny, a senior kicker playing his final game for the Crimson Tide, missed a 34-yard field goal with five seconds to go that would have won the game. At first, it was reported blocked by Oklahoma's John Shelley, but he said after the game he did not touch it.

"I made him change his angle and hurry the kick," Shelley said, explaining how he rushed Ciemny. "It was nobody's fault but my own," Ciemny said. He was unsmiling, head bowed and talking barely enough to be polite. Teammates came by to encourage him, telling him it wasn't his BURKE FRAZIER ALI New York Yankee president Mike Burke is due in town next Wednesday to announce a new general manager and field manager for the Fort Lauderdale Yankees To my way of thinking, there is no justification for the Dolphins substantially raising ticket prices immediately after their only successful season. Is this the way they reward fans who have hung on through the lean years? One Super Bowl team, undetermined as yet whether it will be the NFC or AFC entry, will arrive Jan.

10 at the Gait Ocean Mile here, using Fort Lauderdale Stadium as a practice base. The other team will stay at the Miami Springs Villas. school kids insist on it now? Two things Florida football doesn't need, and heaven knows the Gators need a lot, are artificial turf and night games ii mm i in miiiimi It fir Jt ri -f ii The World Champion Baltimore Orioles announce they'll open their spring exhibition season against the Yankees here March 6 Ex-Packer Max McGee, Paul Hornung's former roommate, may be next to join the sports broadcasters Counting his three against the Dolphins, George Blanda has now booted 193 consecutive extra points Ala. Okla. 21 19 lit 199 ei 140 92 14-27-1 5-7-66 4-37 t-37 1 2 50 42 First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Pro football owners reportedly still have not signed the contract on pension and other player benefits that caused the strike this year before summer camp opened.

The situation is potentially explosive. The NFL Players Assn. meets for a week here beginning Jan. 10 at the Statler-Hilton to hash over the problems You want to know where George Allen could go after being fired by the Rams? Try Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston, Atlanta and Green all coach shopping to one degree or another.

World Champion season ticket sellers are the New York Giants. Of 64,604 seats available in Yankee Stadi Alabama Oklahoma 7 7 7 14 724 324 The Dolphins' pre-season schedule is tough, enough to qualify them for the Super Bowl. Four of the six Minnesota, Detroit, Cincinnati and San Francisco made the NFL playoffs, and who's to say the 49ers won't be the. world -champions Special to Dan Mul-cahy The reason we don't run more stories during the season on the Baltimore Colts is the same reason the Baltimore papers don't run more stories on the Miami Dolphins A Moore 4 pass from Hunter (Ciemny kick) Wylle run (Derr kick) Pru.tt 58 run (Derr kick) Prultt 25 run (Derr kick) A Bailey past from Hunter (Ciemny kick) A Ciemny 20 FO A Hunter 25 pass from Musso Ciemny kick O-Derr 42 FO A-53-822. (UPI Ttlephoto) OKLAHOMA'S GREG PRUITT GETS FIRST OF TWO SCORES on 25-yard sweep in second quarter.