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i i- (0 SiMJK UfiiSK lr-X ill LaLO i By TOMMY DEVINE Miami ivi gpnrta Editor NEW YORK The University of Miami's appearance in yesterday's Gotham Bowl marks the final time the Hurricanes will be permitted to participate in a post season game of questionable standing and secondary importance. The University's top policy making body the Board of Trustees shortly will advise President Henry King Stanford, Athletic Director Jack Harding and Football Coach Andy Gustafson, the Hurricanes' post season competition must he restricted to five major bowl contests. The games to which Miami will be permitted to accept an invitation are the Orange, Gator, Sugar, Cotton and Bluebonnet Bowls. Operation of the Gotham Bowl looked bad from a distance. From close hand inspection, officials of both Miami and the University of Nebraska have found it worse.

Bob Devaney, the Nebraska coach, summed up the general feeling shortly after arrival Friday. "We're here but I wish we weren't," Devaney said. Nebraska had been cast in the sucker's role even longer than Miami. The Cornhuskera had to delay their departure for more than two hours while another frantic search was made for funds to cover a $35,000 check which had been given Nebraska ticket manager James Pittenger 12 hours earlier. The financial shenanigans of Bob Curran, the Gotham Bowl Director and hi3 associates, remain an absolute puzzle to both Miami and Nebraska officials.

Funds for the guarantees to the two teams did not come from the Gotham Bowl nor were the escrow deposits made in the name of promotional organization. Miami's check for 530,000 was signed by a public relations firm with offices in Rockefeller Center. Nebraska's original check, for which the sign-Continued on Page SC, Col. 1 i ft. --vs; ornhuskers Thornton (N); Out I 7 Vic) mira 'X, 9 l).

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jLiiVw ,4. By TOMMY FITZGERALD Miami Mrwt Sport Writer NEW YORK University of Miami and Nebraska staged a pro-type football game in the home of the professional New York Giants yesterday, with the Corn-huskers winning; 36-34. An estimated 6,166 frozen fans in this city of 8 million watched Die exciting Gotham Bowl game in 20 degree weather. In the end it was a 2-point conversion run by Bill Thornton after Nebraska's last touchdown that proved to be the difference. It was billed as a college football game, but this was pro football they were playing in Yankee Stadium.

THE DIFFERENCE. BETWEEN-A TIE AND VICTORY FOR NEBRASKA Bill Thornton Powers Way For Two Points After Fifth Cornhusker Touchdown U-3I FINAL BID IS BATTED AWAY 0 tar Hi It ri JMj The Big City Gives Birth To Huge Flop By TOMMY DEVINE Miami Stt hpnrtu fcdttnr NEW YORK Hilarious yet tragic. That is the epitaph which must be engraved on the tomb-itone of the Gotham Bowl. Blunders, confusion and ignorance all were parlayed to make this one of the worst promotions in big-time athletics. The only thing that possibly could compared with it were the heavy, weight championship enter- 1 i i It i 1 A Mira Heads To Left From 10 prises handled by Bill Roscn- McCloughan (N) MIRA'S PASS FKOM U-M 13 HITS WRONG HAM)S Kent MoCloiiphan Deflects Ball rom Sims It 2 Brown (N) McCloughan (N); Brown (N) The Gotham Bowl was New York's best-kept secret.

A newspaper strike brought publicity to a standstill. New Yorkers hardly knew anything about the game. Some may think the Gotham Bowl a myth. lc George Mira, Miami's All-American quarterback, is no myth, though, although his passing performance here was unbelievable. Over the cold, bleak, barren wastes of Yankee Stadium, Mira realized a life-long ambition to be a major league pitcher.

Where the boys had hammered fame with their bats, Mira made It yesterday. He completed 24 of 46 pass-es for 321 yards, breaking his own all-time l'-M mark of 21 completions for 288 yards against Maryland last Oct. 19. He threw for two touchdowns, and was named the game's most valuable player. When you mentioned Gotham Bowl, New Yorkers on the street looked at you puzzled.

Here college ball is dead and when you say football the citizens think only of the Giants. The delusion that this was a pro football game was further woven when a glance at the Miami bench showed the Hurricanes were wearing the borrowed capes with "Giants" across the hack of the National Football League team. 10-20 HALFTIME It was spectacular from the start. The score at the half was 20-20, largely because an error on number of downs remaining hurt Miami and led to a Nebraska score. The bigger, physically stronger Cornhuskcrs seemed to wace a war of attrition and wore thn Hurricanes dnwn in the second half.

Miami took the lead by 27-20 in the early minutes of the Continued on Page S-C, Col. $10 V. RECORDS: SOME GOOD, SOME BAD NEW YORK-Miami foot-ball set some records both on the glossy and the dismal side in the Gotham Bowl game yesterday. The new marks: Most first downs 34. Old mark was 28 made against Elon in 1941 and Richmond in 1952.

Most points made in defeat Thirty-four. Old record as 26 scored in 37-26 loss to Houston in 1958. Individual and single game Miami passing records George Mira's 24 completions in 46 passes for 321 yards, surpassing the old record of 21 completions for 288 yards, made by Mira against Maryland. His 46 passes were the most ever thrown by the Hurricanes in one game, the old mark being 40 against Kentucky in 1939. Mira also shattered his record of 294 yards, total offense against Maryland, by picking up 327.

9 If 3 'HI; Throws To Rizzo On Right i -if AND BOB BROWN IS IN RIGHT PLACE AT RIGHT TIME Only 53 Seconds Were Remaining In Game sohn and William D. Fugazy. The climax of the week-long comedy of errors occurred at half-time of the I'niversity of Miami-Nebraska game. Into the press box at the Stadium stormed a husky gentleman, stylishly outfitted. "What is going on?" he demanded.

"I put up the guarantee to get Nebraska here. I sign the check and then you forget to leave me tickets so I can get into the park." The speaker was a young New York restaurant owner named Roy Moriarity, who it develops was the 11th hour angel who saved the game. His angry remarks were directed to Bob Curran, the harrassed and thoroughly whipped Gotham Bowl game director Curran could find no humor In the situation. There's nothing funny in the world to him after the week he went through trying to keep the game to-gehter. Curran was bitter about what he charged were pressure tactics used against him by one of the nation's major television networks, some National Athletic Association officials, and the rival Liberty Bowl at Philadelphia.

"I have a folder which would make your eyes pop," Curran said, "but I can't re-': veal the things that happened now. If I did I would destroy all hope of the Gotham Bowl surriving. I don't want to do that. But If people begin to question my honesty, my In-. tegrity and my motives as a result of all the things which happened, then I II talk." Curran belatedly concedes the Gotham Bowl was not financed properly and that it's management was guilty of numerous major blunders.

I asked Curran why he had reneged on his promise to for- ICUCHDO'iVM1, More On The Game Pages 3, 5C v. tv, I. i STATISTICS Miami eh. 34 RQMhtng Yardfticv Pftahlng Tardae raKMpft attf-mi trd Fatn rnmplHad l'aKias intercepted by Punt Av. yard ptinti lumhtea InM ards penalized brak 11 321 4 14 1 35 3 14 I 14 1M 144 14 1 1 l-M J-34 i.m.

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T.cr it pasa I 0 ra Johnson kirk MIA. Bennett (3 run) Wilaon lick EB, Thornton (1 run) Clarlrlft run NEB. Rom (1 run) Thorotoii run MIA. Ryder (I rua) Wilson kick Attenrtanc mem. game contracts to either jack Harding of Miami or wii- MY GOSH, DON'T THE GIANTS KNOW THAT THEY DON PLAY HERE TODAY? i Continued on Page 4-c, Col.

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