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POST TRIBUNE, Jefferson City, Thursday, December 2, 1976 13 Tony Dorsett tops AP Ail-American team NEW YORK (AP) Tony Dorsett, Pitt's fabulous running back who made the team as a freshman four seasons ago, was named to The Associated Press 1976 All-America college football team today along with three other great runners in a unique five-man backfield. Joining Dorsett and riflearmed quarterback Tommy Kramer of Rice in the offensive backfield were running backs Ricky Bell of Southern California, Rob Lytie of Michigan and Terry Miller of Oklahoma State. Bell, Lytle and Miller were considered so even that it was impossible to separate them. The only repeaters from 1975 on the lirst team were Bell and split end Larry Seivers of Tennessee. Dorsett made first team in 1973 the first freshman so honored in 29 years third team in 1974 and second team a year ago.

The AP All-America team wili be seen on Bob Hope's Comedy Christmas Special on NBC-TV, Monday, Dec. 13 from EST. Coaches Bo Schembechler of Michigan and John Robinson of Southern California, the rival Rose Bowl coaches who each have two players on The AP All-America team, also will appear. The only other first-teamers from last year's first three teams were linebacker Brian Ruff of The Citadel, up from the second unit, and defensive back Bill Armstrong of Wake Forest, elevated from the third team. Joining Seivers at end was Michigan's Jim Smith, a clutch receiver and gifted kick returner.

The offensive tackles were Georgia's 253-pound Mike "Moonpie" Wilson and Oklahoma's 275- pound Mike "U.S.S." Vaughan. The guards were a pair of 250-pounders, Ted Albrecht of California and T.J. Humphreys of Arkansas State, and the center was 245-pound John Yarno of Idaho, who beat out all the backs and was named Offensive Player of the Year in the Big Sky Conference. The defensive line consisted of 247- pound Ross Browner of Notre Dame and 224-pound Bob Brudzinski of Ohio State at the ends, tackles Wilson Whitley of Houston, 268, and Eddie Edwards of Miami, a 250-pounder, and 225- pound noseguard Al Romano of Pitt. The linebackers were Ruff, Robert Jackson of Texas and Jerry Robinson of UCLA, while the deep backs were Armstrong, Gary Green of Baylor and Dennis Thurman of Southern Ca'l.

Top-rated Pitt, runner-up Michigan and third-ranked Southern Cal were the only schools to place two players on the first team. All but four members of the 23-man first team are seniors. Miller, Browner and Thurman are juniors while Robinson is a sophomore. Dorsett finished the regular season with an NCAA single-season record of 1,948 yards. His 6,082 career yards was another mark, along with his 356 career points.

Bell, who missed setting a single-season record last year by six yards when he finished with 1,875. settled for 1,417 this year although he missed one game and played hurt in a couple of others. He carried 51 times against Washington State for an incredible 347 yards, just three short of the ali-time record. Miller rushed for 1,541 yards, second best ever by a Big Eight Conference runner. He was sensational in league games, gaining 81 against Kansas, 137, against Colorado, 159 against Oklahoma, 228 against Missouri, 149 against Nebraska, 221 against Kansas State and 199 against Iowa State.

He had two other 100-yard games outside the conference and was named Big Eight Offensive Player of the Week four times in a five- week stretch. Lytle, who played both tailback and fullback, is rated by Schembechler as the best running back he has ever had. Lytle was remarkably consistent and went over 100 yards eight times, including 180 against Michigan State, 175 against Indiana, 172 against Northwestern and 165 against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl showdown. His per- carry average of 6.9 yards was the best of the four All-America running backs. Kramer led the nation in total offense and passing.

Although, opponents knew Rice was going to throw the ball most of the time, Kramer still completed 269 of. 501 passes 24.5 completions per game for 3,317 yards and 21 touchdowns. He threw only 19 interceptions, just one in every 26.3 passes, and finished his career by connecting on 27 of 52 for 409 yards against Southwest Conference champion Houston. NEW YORK iAPI Here is The Associated Press college football All- America team for 1976: First Team Offense Seivers, Tennessee. 6-4.

204, Senior, Clinton. Jim Smith. Michigan, 6-3'v, 198. Senior, Blue Island, III. Wilson, Georgia, 6-5.

253, Senior, Gainesville, Mike Vaughan. Oklahoma. Senior, Ada. Okla. Guards-Ted Albrecht.

California, 6-4. 250, Senior, Vallejo. T.J. Humphreys. Arkansas State, Senior, Pine Bluff.

Ark. Yarno, Idaho, 6-5. 245. Senior, Spokane. Wash, Kramer.

Rice. 62.190. Senior. San Antonio, Tex. Running Dorsett, Pittsburgh, 5-11, 192, Aliquippa.

Ricky Bell, Southern California, 6-2. 218. Senior, Los Angeles. Rob Lytle, 6-1. 195.

Senior. Fremont, Ohio: Terry Miller, Oklahoma State. 6-0, 196. Junior. Colorado Springs, Colo.

Defense Browner. Notre Dame. G-3. 247, Junior, Warren, Ohio: Bob Brudzinski. Ohio State.

224. Senior. Fremont. Ohio Whitley. Houston.

6-3, 268, Senior, Brenham. Eddie Edwards. Miami of Florida. 6-5. 250.

Senior. Fort Pierce. Fla. Guard-Al Romano. Pittsburgh.

Senior. Solvay. N.Y. Jackson. Texas Senior, Houston.

Brian Ruff. The Citadel, (i-1, 225. Senior. Mountainside. N.J.; Jerry Robinson.

UCLA, 6-3, 208, Sophomore." Santa Rosa. Calif. Armstrong. Wake Forest. 64.205.

Senior. Randolph. N.J.; Gary Green, Baylor, 5-11, 182, Senior, San Antonio, Dennis Thurman. Southern California, 5-11, 170, Junior, Santa Monica. Calif.

Second Team Offense Ends-Jim Corbeti Pittsburgh; Billy Ryckman. Louisiana Tech. Bryant. Kentucky; Chris Ward, Ohio State. Bnoza, Pitt; Steve Schindler.

Boston College. Center-Billy Bryan, Duke. Nielsen, Brigham Young. Running Backs-Scott Dierking, Purdue; Tony Reed. Colorado: Mike Voight.

Xorth Carolina. Defense McCoil. Stanford; Nate Toran. Rutgers. Campbell, Maryland; Gary Jeter, Southern California.

Middle Don Johnson. Baylor. Howard. Texas Tech; Calvin O'Neal. Michigan: Cletus Pillen.

Nebraska. Black. Mississippi State; Zac Henderson. Oklahoma: Jimmy Stewart. Tulsd.

Team Offense Blue. Iowa State: Wes Chandler. Florida. Tackles-Steve August, Ttilsa; Marvin Powell. Southern California.

Parrish. Georgia: Mitch Hoban. Ball State. Georgia Tech. Quarterback Vince Kerragamo.

Nebraska. Running Backs-Andre Herrera, Southern Illinois; Derrick Jensen, Texas- Arlington; Jerome Persell. Western Michigan. Defense Cole, New Mexico: Gary Godeite, East Carolina. Tackles-Philip Dokes.

Oklahoma State: Wilson Faumuina, San Jose State. Middle Sapp, Navy. Allerman. Penn State; Ray Costict, Mississippi State: Scott Studwell. Illinois.

Butterfield. Nebraska; Bob Jury. Pitt; Jeff Nixon. Richmond. Honorable Mention included: Offense Tight Ends Hasselbeck, Colorado: Hatley.Tulsa.

Wid'e Receivers Stewart. Missouri: Webster. Tulsa. Tackles Lingenfeiter. Nebraska: Towns.

Missouri. Guards Greenwood. Iowa State: Schmidt. Nebraska. Centers Gofourth.

Oklahoma State: McDevitt, Missouri. Quarterbacks Hickerson. Tulsa: Stanley. Iowa State. Running Smith.

Kansas. Defense Ends Butler, Oklahoma State: Phillips. Nebraska. Tackles Alexander, Tulsa: Butler. Kansas: Fultz.Nebraska; Wilson.Tulsa.

Guards Johnson. Colorado. Linebackers Hunt. Oklahoma; Spam. Kansas State.

Backs Hill. Oklahoma: Sharp. Kansas: Spivey. Colorado: Stewart. Tulsa Toledo stuns defending notional champs Indiana 59-57 TOLEDO.

Ohio (API Bobby Nichols described his victory in terms employed by coaches at every level, every day of the year. "It was." said the Toledo coach, "a case of being ahead when it ended." It was a very ordinary phrase for an extraordinary victory. Nichols' unheralded team had just pulled off the upset of the young basketball season, beating Indiana's defending national cham- pions 59-57 Wednesday night. The Hoosiers had won 33 consecutive games and 67 of 68 over a two-year period. Bobby Knight, a man whose very intensity seems to preclude the possibility of defeat, was his usual intense self after the stunning loss.

"We got outhustled and 1 don't like to be outhustled." said Knight. "It was their game from beginning to Onlv one other coach whose learn had gone against the Hoosiers since the spring of 1974 could possibly have made the comment Nichols made. And then the circumstances were unique. Scott May. a junior at the time, sat restlessly on the bench, his left arm wrapped in a cast, when arch-rival Kentucky beat Indiana by two points in the NCAA Mideast Regional final in 1975.

The Hoosiers had won 34 straight going into that game. They had not lost since, their victories including two lopsided decisions over perennial champion UCLA last season and a rout of Michigan for the NCAA championship. II was a championship team built on its ability to outdefense and outhustle its opponents, a disciplined team that always managed to win the close ones. t'ntil Wednesday night, when a younger, less poised Bruce earns Big 8 laurels AMES, Iowa (AP) Pop Warner left Iowa State for greener football pastures not long after Teddy Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill. Warner and just three other early Cyclone coaches left with winning records all before the doughboys came home from World War I.

Iowa State teams had won eight or more games just three times this century, and this year were picked to finish near the bottom of the Big Eight Conference. But Earle Bruce brought back a secret ingredient from a winter trip to Hawaii, where he coached the East squad to the first shutout victory in Hula Bowl history. That ingredient was confidence. Instilling it in the Cyclones resulted in an 8-3 vear and Associated Press Earle Bruce Big Eight Coach of the Year honors for Bruce. "This was probably the most rewarding and interesting season I've ever put in." Bruce said when lie was told of the award.

"And I've had 24 of them good ones.too." In id prep campaigns. Bruce was named Ohio Coach of the Year three times. He later spent six years as an assistant to Woody Hayes and went with Ohio State to a Rose Bowl, and was Florida Coach of the Year his one season at Tampa when the Spartans won the 1972 Tangerine Bowl. "I guess I'm happy that we were able to have an 8-3 season because I know how hard the kids worked for it. We were successful because the efforts of a great team coaches and players made it a super season.

"I'm very pleased with the honor because there are a lot of great coaches in the Big Eight. It's a compliment to the entire Iowa State program. Anything like this is a Fulton, Osage grab wins in Tipton meet The winners of today's games wit! meet in the tournament finals Friday at 9:15 p.m. while the losers meet at 7:45 p.m. to decide third place.

In two runaway games Wednesday night at the Tipton basketball tournament, Osage High School downed Eldon 82-52 and Fulton overturned host Tipton 74-42. The wins will match Osage and Fulton i I I -J-at 6:15 p.m., Friday, for the consolation UnCOIll giflS 6QQ6 bracket championship. met high 33 points and teammate Zawislak with 20 counters. Bob For the Fulton Hornets, Ray Henderson and John Galbreath were the leading scorers with 18 points and 15 points respectively. On the losers end of the rope Gary Routon tossed in 15 points for Eldon and teammate Stan Green accounted for 13 points.

Tipton's Rick Martensen was good for 15 points and Brent Kelsay scored 10 points in the losing effort. Today the Jefferson City High School Jays will meet cross-town rival Helias High School Crusaders. The contest is slated for 6:30 p.m. with another winners' bracket game between Fatima High School of Westphalia and Versailles kicking off immediately after. by Central Methodist The Lincoln University girls basketball team nudged by the girls of Central Methodist College, Fayette, 53-46 Wednesday night at Fayette, boosting (he undefeated season mark of the LU tea into 2-0.

Lincoln, paced by Brenda Nelson's 16 points, took a slim, two-point lead at the half. 27-25. The LU females poured it on in the second half, outscoring the Fayette girls by five 26-21. Also contributing to the Lincoln victory-were Debra Hunter with 15 counters and Yolanda Williams with 11 points. Topping the scoring category for Central Methodist was Nancy Bloss with 12 points.

The contest was the season opener for the Central Methodist squad. plus for the o1c program." Bruce. 20-2-1 in four years al Iowa State, has brought the Cyclones from among the alsorans to become con- lenders. His offense. led by Wayne Stanley and Buddy was the second most potent in the nation this a r.

and IS at everybody on the schedule except league co-champions Colorado. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, "The most important thing we've developed this year is Bruce said. "I hope next year we can take (hat to greater heights." Before the season started, he related to Big Eight Skywriters the tale of his Hawaiian enlightenment. "I rode on the team bus to and from practice. 1 wanted to find out what made them the best football players in the country.

And I found out. You know what it Those kids believed they were the best. "They really BELIEVED they were better than anybody else. That's what we've got to do to win at Iowa State. We've got to believe we're better than anybody else." The Cyclones believed, eventually.

A played Oklahoma so close, some of the things Coach Bruce had been saying really began soaking in," said one Cyclone just before Iowa State upset Nebraska. "We started believing we could play with anybody. And we were right." Bill Mallory of Colorado and Oklahoma State's Jim also received voles for coach of the year. Miller, Cowboys' great junior running back who led the league in rushing, scoring and all- purpose running, was a unanimous choice on all ballots received as offensive player of the year. Clele Pillen, Nebraska's senior linebacker, was named defensive player of the year.

The offensive and defensive newcomer awards went to Oklahoma quarterback Thomas Lotl and freshman linebacker John Corker of Oklahoma State. team bearing the same name finally lost. Fittingly, the star of the game, Toledo's senior guard Jell Seemann, played the kind of game Knight most admires. He did not score a point, but was awarded the game ball by Nichols after a brilliant defensive effort. It was just enough to hold off the Hoosiers.

Trailing 46-33 with 12 minutes to go. Indiana rallied and tied the score 4949 with six minutes left. The Rockets ran off the next six points, gave four back, then won it with four free throws in the final minutes. Stan Jophn led Toledo with 21 points and Hick Miller had 13 rebounds. All- American Kent Benson topped Indiana with 17 points and rebounds.

Elsewhere in college basketball, games went according to form. Second- ranked Marqiiette opened its season with an 80-39 rout of SI. Leo of Florida. No UCLA walloped Jacksonville 1 99-68; No (i Nevada-Las Vegas defeated Oregon 7867: No. 7 Louisville tripped Vanderbilt 81-76 in overtime: No.

8 Notre Dame outscored California-Poly 93-67; No. 9 North Carolina turned back Marshall 90-70: 121 li a Cincinnati humbled Wright State 12052; Kith-ranked Alabama smashed South Carolina 9066: No. 14 Wake Forest blasted East Tennessee State 94-63; No. 18 Del'aul nipped Northwestern 75-73 in overtime, and No, 20 North Carolina-Charlotte ran over Eastern Kentucky 104-62. Marquelte held St.

Leo to two points in the last 12 minutes and got points Bo Ellis and 16 from Butch Lee in defeating outclassed St. Leo. Marques Johnson's 20 points led -UCLA to victory over Jacksonville. The Bruins had a 27-point halftime lead and lengthened it lo 37 wiih two minutes left in the game. Nevada-Las Yogas whipped Oregon behind a 21-point performance by Glen Gondrezick.

Phil Bond scored nine of his 21 points in over- lime, helping Louisville beat stubborn Vanderbilt. Dun Williams connected on his first six shots from tin- floor and finished with a game-high 2-1 points, leading Notre Dame past California Poly. Veterans Walter Davis and Tommy LaGarde combined for 33 points in pacing North Carolina over Vanderbilt. Brian Williams pumped in 21 points, leading Cincinnati over Wright State. A1 a a a beat ou Over the top Lincoln University's Robert Mclntyre arches a shot over the top of Missour-Kansas City defender Ed Nickols during first half action in Wednesday night's home opener for the Blue Tiger cagers.

The Lincoln team climbed to 2-1 for the year with a 97-87 win that gave the visiting Kangaroos their first loss of the season. Mclntyre came in off the bench to score seven points in the game. (News Tribune photo) Lincoln downs UMKC by a full court press that picked the i i a a i basketball team up at the lockerroom door in the second half, the Lincoln University Blue Tigers pulled off a 97-87 win in their home opener at Jason Gym Wednesday. The win came despite 28 turnovers by the I.U club, now 2-1 for the year. The victory was also the iiuuh for coach Don CorbtHt.

12th best in the NCAA Division 11 ranking of active coaches. Corbeti stands at 100-39 in his sixth year al the Blue Tiger helm. Missouri-Kansas City, slipping to 4-1 for the year, grabbed an eight point lead in the first hall' as the Blue Tigers failed to sot any type of offense rolling But. in the second 20- minutc period, the Lincoln crew unleashed junior guard Tim Abney. who struck lor a career high 20 points in the game after scoring just three times in the first half.

The Kangaroos employed a successful zone defense that applied full court pressure to Lincoln through out most of the game In the first half Lincoln hit just 36.3 percent from the field, converting iti of 44 field goal tries. But the club finished with 47,1 percent from the field, hitting -I! out of 87 shots. At the free throw line the team shot a dismal Broyles may quit Arkansas Carolina as Reggie King collected 29 points. Skip Brown's 20 points led akc Forest over outgunned East Tennessee State. Joe Ponsetto sank Iwo free throws with seven seconds remaining in overtime, lift i I) a 1 past Northwestern.

LITTLE HOCK. Ark. The president of the University of Arkansas said today he expects Frank Hroyles will inform him after Saturday's season finale whether he will resign as head football coach. The Arkansas Gazette reported today that Broyles will resign as head coach at the end of the season and retain his duties as athletic director. "That's rumor." Arkansas President Dr.

Charles Bishop said. "All Mr. Broyles' options are open, lie is free to continue his coaching duties. If he wishes lo concentrate on his duties as athletic director, he's free to do that Bishop added that lie expects "Mr Kroyles will tell me alter Saturdav 's game i against Texas' what he plans to do." If Broyles chooses to leave. Bishop added, he will as athletic director-have the power "to screen his successor and make recommendations to the faculty committee on athletics and to me." 453 percent, connecting on just 15 of 33 chances Abney.

teamed with junior transfer Arnold Stone for game-high honors. Stone, a transfer from Jacksonville University, chipped in 20 points and kept Lincoln in game hen A11 American candidate Harold Robertson had scoring difficulties. Robertson entered the game with a 26-point scoring average But first halt he could manage just seven as the Kangaroo defense kept him way outside his accuracy range ami it kept him off balance most of the nigh! He finished with 17 points "When Harold was off. Stone kept us in there both with his scoring and Ins rebounding." Corbett added. "He played aggressively and helped keep them in foul 'rouble UMKC stars Mike and Willie Jones ino relation each totaled three fouls in the first half as the pair teammed in an attempt to stop the 6-5 Stone, who scored 12 in the opening half.

That left both of the big men in trouble in the second half as coach Darrell Corwin was forced to go to his bench early in the period. "Our press kept us in the Corbett acknowledged after the contest. "We kept them bottled up in second we were able to ur.u tie offense and DU; ball ir. the hole UMKC was saddled 28 turnovers as the pressure stripper! basketball four times ir. second give the lead UMKC held a iu-il'ooU a I i outscored the visitors in the second period for the win Senior Barry l.oita:::- ded IS points in the ga Robertson, had 17 as were the only other Tigers to hit the figure mark.

Fresh: John Harper pumped nine points and stoic bounds, high for the a reserve role, Robert Mclntyre added seven points and Theo Barnes chipped 1:1 with six Mike Jones had HI tor the losing cause. Skip Bryant and Willie Jones added 16 points each while center Eii Nickols added six Freshman Michael Trigg of Kansas City l.illis came in during the second half scored eight points 1.1 .1 a a Richard Jenkins added six points, Mark HatfieM and Tom DeMaio scored four points and Gary I.umby added two for the losers UMKC hit 38 of 88 tries from the field for 43 1 percent, the club converted 11 of 13 free throws..