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TT" a tt a a liicnetski shows I ate: 6This is our team now' 4 JOIIil CRITTECDEN Sporft Editor Charlie Tate telephoned Walt Kichefski yesterday to request the University of Miami's new head coach to deliver a message to the football squad before last night's game with Maryland. Kichefski decided not to do it. "This is a new unit," explained Kichefski. "It is our unit OUR unit, it belongs to all of us and we want to keep it that way. "I'll give them the message Saturday." If fate, who resigned as Miami coach Wednesday and left town immediately, listened to last night's game on radio, it must have been hard on his nerves.

Four times, Kichefski ordered the Hurricanes to go for first down yardage on fourth down against Maryland, instead of making the conservative kicking play. Four times, the Hurricanes didn't make it. "What do the people come to the stadium to see?" asked Kichefski. Quickly he answered his own question. "Offense," he said.

Tate's image was that he regarded defense as more important than offense, although that was not entirely true. Kichefski Jias spent most of his coaching life on the defensive field at Miami. But he understands that the fans identify with offense more than defense. "Why should I hold back? I let it go," he said, explaining his daring decisions to go for the first downs even if failing meant giving up the football. "I'm going to do everything In my power to improve the offense.

You have to give the offense some opportunity to make it. How else can they gain confidence?" Kichefski didn't just move up into the head coach's job last night. He took charge. His pre-game speech wasn't 'Win One for Charlie' or 'Wine one For "Basically," said quarterback David Teal, "he told us not to let the University down." That might sound like a theme out of the leather helmet days, but coming from Kichefski co-captain of the 1939 Hurricanes and in his 27th year as a University of Miami coach it had a ring of sincerity. "A kid doesn't realize how important his university is until he gets a little older," said Kichefski.

"It's our job to teach him." Kichefski points out that he is unfamiliar with some of the offensive details, since he was involved largely with defense until Tate's unexpected resignation. Neil Schmidt, LeRoy Pearce and Larry Wilson, of the offensive coaching staff, participated in the decisions when Miami had the football last night, and Walt Corey the defensive director made the calls when Maryland had the ball. "I hate to keep quoting oP Gus," said Kichefski, refering Continued on Page 4B, Col. 7 Faces tell story: Lester a loser, Kichefski a winner Hurricane shuffle produces 18-11 win iwiwwffiiai The Miami News i -Afternoon Oct. 3, 1970 Section mm i 1 nn in i i "-A (: b- I jty rw I 'Mf iiiii 1 s1, l.i.mu new TTtuturByWgTtlMKUS By CHARLIE NOBLES Miami Ntwi Raporier Walt Kichefski thought of an exciting variation to Russian Roulette last night.

It's called Spin The Quarterback. "Right now," the new University of Miami head football coach said, "we don't have a No. 1." That is a bit mind-bending to Kelly Cochrane, who has been the No. 1 quarterback in Miami's last 10 "I'm not going to change anything I've done in the past," Cochrane said last night. "I'm going to work as hard as I always have." David Teal, a six-year man at Miami, is an old-hand at being caught In a quarter-backing shuffle.

"It doesn't faze me," he said. And sophomore John Hor-nibrook, the newest Miami quarterback, was just glad to get to play last night against Maryland. "Now that I've gotten a chance to play," he said, "I'd like to play as much as I can. The only way to learn is to play." Kichefski, who replaced Charlie Tate on Wednesday, was able to walk away with a smile from last night's risky experiment. He got just enough production from his three quarterbacks for Miami to beat winless Maryland, 18-11, before 30,190 confused people at the Orange Bowl.

And Kichefski maintained he's in no hurry to choose a No. 1 quarterback. "Sooner or later we'll pick one," he said, "but we're not in any hurry about it. We have two experienced quarterbacks and a young man (Horni-brook) who is a fighter. And we're looking for fighters." Kichefski wasn't saying that Hornibrook will get the starting job just that he likes his approach to the game.

"They will all play," Kichefski said, some will just play more than others." The new head coach, a Miami assistant for 27 years, apparently is not worried that he's thrown the quarterback job into a state of limbo. "I think our quarterbacks ought to be happy and content with winning. This is a team the team wins and the team loses. We're all playing to win for the University of Miami. "I'm not trying to make individual stars out of people Continued on Page 4B, Col.

1 Game-saver: U-M's Jerry Maynard (28) intercepts Maryland pass, kills last drive May hold up Viking deal Now Colts want to talk to Mir a akHiaMt' 1 "Iiih Jr and Dan Conners, Oakland players who were teammates of Mira at Miami. When the half ended Mira started to walk out with his buddies. He said he had not seen them for some time. He stopped. He had a minute, anyway, and Banaszak and Conners proceeded him out of the Orange Bowl.

The next time Mira saw Banaszak and Conners it was on the run. He told them not to wait. George Mira, the ex-San Francisco, ex-Philadelphia second-stringer was in demand. And George Mira, 28, free-agent quarterback, was totally confused. When Mira learned Klosterman had called Gustafson, Mira said, "What?" Mira turned his head, left-right, front-back, as though Klosterman would come out of the shadows of the corner of the end zone, a contract in his hand.

"Where's Gus? Mira said. "Where's Gus? I've got to talk to Gus." Mira started for the press box. How did he feel? "I don't know." How close is he to signing with the Vikings? "Straighten out the papers. That's all." He paused. "I've By JEFFREY DENBERG Miami News Extcutlv Sporti Editor The pay tPlephone in the Orange Bowl press box rang a few minutes before the Miami-Maryland game last night.

The call was from Don Klosterman, general manager of the Baltimore Colts. It was for Andy Gustafson, former head coach at the University of Miami. The message was simple: find George Mira; convince him that he should not sign a contract with the Minnesota Vikings until the Colts have had a chance to talk with him. After that it got complicated. Mira was sitting in the first row behind the Miami bench with Pete Banaszak got to get in touch with my lawyer." He walked into the press box elevator behind a Miami assistant coach.

"How are things, George?" "I don't know. I just heard the Colts want to talk to me." Mira went to the fourth level and learned Gustafson was on the third. He went down to the third floor. And then he disappeared to ponder his situation. Mira was cut by the Eagles 2Y2 weeks ago.

The decision came so suddenly Mira said he never even asked why. Sports Illustrated came out two days later and said in its pro football preview, "Exit (Norm) Snead and enter George Mira, the aggressive Miami scrambler." Si was caught almost as flat-footed as Mira was. Mira came bacl to Miami and waited. And the Vikings called. And then the Colts called.

Assuming the contractual offers are essentially the same, Mira must choose from a position of who needs him most. Gustafson said last night he thinks the Colts do. He is probably right. Gary Cuozzo seems to have matured, into a class quarterback at Minnesota. Bob Lee and Kim Hammond are behind him and both are young men.

But the situation in Baltimore is almost disastrous. John Unitas, in his 15th year, has a bad knee and, some suspect, a bad arm to go with a bad hand. Earl Morrall, also in his 15th season, hangs passes that he would no longer be throwing had the QUARTERBACK ROULETTE is played by the University of Miami as new coach Walt Kichefski went with all three of his men at the position. Top left is Kelly Cochrane, who started and finished the. game.

John Hornibrook (No. 18) and David Teal (17) also saw considerable action. Kichefski on the critics: see no eviL hear no evil GEORGE MIRA watches last night's U-M, Maryland game from the stands. Wichita survivors in shock He says he can bear to have his mail filtered, too. "I did it for Gus (Andy Gustafson, Tate's predecessor as head coach) for years," said Kichefski, "I took his bad mail and threw it in the bucket." The telephone calls? Kichefski can request that the telephone company give him an unlisted number, perhaps and then he can arrange to have it changed often.

Tate did that, however, and it didn't help the cranks kept getting his number and dialing it. "We have been around the game for a long, long time," "The criticism just got him, it's as simple as that," one of the University of Miami's assistant coaches said last night. "It wasn't losing the Georgia Tech game that really wasn't a factor. It was a lot of little things, and finally it took just one more to be the straw that broke the camel's back." Walt Kichefski, Tate's successor, is trying hard to keep that kind of pressure from building up on his back. Kichefski says he is cancelling his newpaper subscriptions today.

"I've made a vow not to read the papers any more until the season is over," he said. By JOHN CRITTENDEN Miami Ntwi Sport Writtr There were no newspaper editorials calling for Charlie Tate's resignation and presumably no physical threats on his person, but when the former University of Miami coach comes back to Coral Gables to explain why he quit last Wednesday, if he is candid, he will cite: viciously critical mail. obscene, telephone calls to his home. Media criticism, some of it between-the-lines stuff, but especially criticism attributed to unidentified sources. "I don't know why we are alive right now," he said.

He was in satisfactory condition, suffering from a concussion and head cuts. Four others were brought to Denver's St. Anthony's Hospital. One of them, Mike Bruce, 21, of Sherman, said, "I was lucky." The offensive tackle was listed in good condition, although his feet and one leg had been burned. "We took off from Denver and the stewardess brought us lunch," Bruce said.

"Everyone was looking at the mountains," the grey-eyed, brownhaired lineman said in a faltering voice. "We kept getting closer and closer. We were enjoying ourselves laughing. The plane took a dip or something. Continued from Page IB Tht AfMciated Prtu DENVER "We kept getting closer and closer," said a Wichita State football player from a hospital bed.

"It all happened so fast I didn't really think about it until we got out," said a teammate. They were among about a dozen who survived the fiery crash of an airliner carrying part of the Wichita State football team, coaches and team supporters to Logan, Utah last night for a game today. Thirty-one persons were believed killed when the plane crashed near Loveland Pass. Another plane, bearing other players and coaches, landed safely in Logan. Glen Kostal, 20, of Chicago, a linebacker, was among seven injured brought to Lutheran Hospital here.

He said was in the rear of the twin-engine plane. Continued on Page 4B, CoL 1 Continued on Page 2B, Col. 2 rVt'ji'rVi'i.