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HERE'S HOW THE END CAME FOR AUBURN a. v- i IA- 1 Griffith (A)r; Griffith (A)jy WY-V 1 i 4- With Only 31imitos Left In Game, Sidle Passes From IVebraska 11 On Fourth Down, Three Yards To Go MORRIS McLEMORE 'Lame9 Guy's Toe Kicks Nebraska No Post-Season Activities For Mailon Kent O-So To 0 Victory Maybe another 15 degrees of humidity would have done it for Auburn, perhaps a cleat mark in the South sideline would have made the narrow victory a wild rout for Nebraska the whereases and whyfors will use up many a frozen night's conversation about this 30th Orange Bowl Classic. But the 13-7 margin for the 'Huskers will remain in the books, the majestic floats made of dream stuff and silks will be rented by promoters Miami News PASS BATTED DOWN, (GRIFFITH KNOCKED DOWN It Was Auburn's Fina Play Of lhe Day Other Highlights Of Day of other fiestas before they fade and fall away and Mailon Kent will wonder if he could have made the difference. He was lhe difference against Alabama. He gave Auburn that sweet victory, 10-8, when he came off the bench to replace lhe great Jimmy Sidle on the second play of the game and passed for the winning touchdown.

MM) ROSE By TOMMY FITZGERALD Miami rs sport Wrltpr The race is not always to the swift. This pearl of wisdom from the old poet's lips is the unusual song of victory Nebraska partisans are singing today after heating Auburn, 13-7, in the Pearl Anniversary Orange Bowl Football Classic yesterday. In this "game of the runners" matching Nebraska's top-rushjng team in the nation and Auburn's champion-running quarterback Jimmy Sidle it was a lame guy with a pulled groin muscle who hadn't been able to run for four days who decided it, This damaged Dave Theiscn, a senior from Milwaukee, derided it for Nebraska in this 30th Orange Bowl Classic to end the Southeastern Conference's mastery over the Big Eight in this post-season spectacle. Until yesterday in six pre- 1 1 Januarv 2, 11 2C Yesterday as a busy day -in the world especially here in Miami. The Orange Bowl football -game was the biggest attraction but there were other noteworthy events, too.

For instance. Bob Hayes (on the left) ran a 9.1 100-yard dath and a 20.1 200-yard dash. The first tied his nun world record and the second is only one-tenth of a second off the world mark. This story on page, 8-C. A roundup of the other howl games is on page 3-C.

Texas beat Navy, 28-6 in the Cotton Bowl; Illinois whipped Washington, 17-7, in the Rose Bowl; and Alabama defeated Mississippi, 12-7 in the Sugar Bowl. And all the horse racing news is on Page 4-C, includ-' ing a story of the sale of race horse for a quarter of- a million dollars. A Ik. views classes a Rig Eight school had never won over a rival from the Southeastern. Theisen kicked two field goals the most and the longest -tf wuasxitjisa iJIFIELD GOAL 131 yards and 36 yards' ever kicked in an Orange Bowl Classic not only by a single player but also by both teams.

These first-half kicks, equalling Theisen's seasonal output of two 1 for 27 and 32 yards', provided Nebraska's final margin of victory before the sellout crowd of 72,647 assembled on yesterday's bright, colorful afternoon and in comfortable, 68-degrce football weather. Sidlc-led Auburn, behind 13-0 at the half and by a dizzying 10-0 at the end of the first nine minutes and 34 seconds of play, dominated the second half as thoroughly as Nebraska did the first. This gallant second-half comeback was frustrated 11 yards short of a second touchdown, a certain tie and a most likely victory with a minute and 30 seconds left to play. So the six points from the leg of a larne kicker ironically won this stalemated touchdown-touchdown strggle between the running giants of football. Actually, Theisen contributed seven points because he kicked the extra point following quarterback Dennis Claridge's electrifying 68-yard run for a touchdown on the second play after the opening kickoff and with I just a minute and 13 seconds gone.

This brilliant, fooling dash also is an Orange Bowl Classic record, surpassing by a single yard Ned Peters' sprint of 67 yards for Old Miss against Catholic U. in 1936. Theisen was a strange, unfulfilled hero. He had a tear in his eye and a sob in his voice in the locker-room afterwards. "I guess I'm just all keyed up because I wanted to play so bad," he explained, seemingly unmindful of the magnificent fact he had scored seven points and had won the game on three brief kicking appearances.

Four days before the game, Theisen, a defensive back as well as a kicker, had pulled a groin muscle in practice and Nebraska coach Bob Devaney had declared him out of combat except for possible kicking duty. "L'ntil today I couldn't run and it pained me even when I -4 i f' Yesterday, when Sidle neared exhaustion and the powerful Nebraska forwards crashed into him and hedged in his receivers, it was natural that the 15,000 Auburn faithful in the stands should wonder why Shug Jordan didn't call upon Kent again if not to open a full blown air attack, at least he might spell the splendid junior field general. Kent was on the Auburn bench, fully iressed and ready for combat. But he wasn't eligible to play and Coach Jordan knew it but Kent's teammates didn't know it and Shug thought Kent, too, was ignorant of a curious ruling that kept his throwing hand idle. It turned out Kent knew he was caught in a blind switch but the coaches didn't know this It was a gentle little demi-tragedy.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has the sensible rule that a student of a member school may participate in athletics in any 4 of 5 consecutive seasons hut with a less sensible footnote that he cannot participate in any postseason activities that 5th year. This is what kept Kent on the bench when Jordan needed him. Kent graduated last June but enrolled again last fall for additional study and that last season of football. But it finished that day he made a major contribution to the defeat of the Alabama team that won the Sugar Bowl game yesterday. He made the trip to Miami like all the other Auburn players, worked out, went to skull sessions with the other quarterbacks he did everything except play, because the coach didn't want to take away from the hoy the excitement and vibrant challenge of a bowl game.

It's a small thing, perhaps. But it could happen only in college football and to a bny like Mailon Kent and a coach like Shug Jordan. Fear Of Another Disaster Nebraska's beautifully contrived attack in the first five minutes gave old hands in the stands the awful fear that this would be another disaster, the like of which we haven't seen since Alabama pulverized Syracuse. 61-6, in 1953 and created the climate for the Orange Bowl pact with the Big Eight that took effect the following New Year's and has continued, with alterations. When Dennis Claridge slipped behind a trap block thrown by the mighty Bob Brown after only a couple of minutes of action and sped fi7 yards to a stunning touchdown the longest scrimmage scoring run in OB history it electrified Ne FINAL NIGHT TONITE 37th BISCAYNE DERBY Racing Thriller of the Year! 1.

1 jT I braska and further contused the Tigers: contrary to the opinion of THEISEN FIRST OF TWO YESTERDAY C.laridsr IIoKIs For Kick some, they were the victims of too rk tension, rather than lack of Continued on Page 5C, Col. 5 THE MASTER OF THE CUBAN SANDWICH concern anoui ine nusiness ai nana. In a steady, superbly competent scries of maneuvers, Nebraska smashed to a 13-0 lead, with more than 13 minutes still to be played in the first half. BEFORE or AFTER THE FOOTBALL GAME i KENT 11 I Ill I I II 'MtJH GET THE BEST N.S. X-WAY DOGTRACK AT II 5th ST.

CUBAN Exits to track N.W. 103rd and N.W. 119th Streets Nightly, except Sundays, Thru Jan. 2 Rain or Fair More than 5,000 Grandstand Seats (3,000 Unreserved) Admission 50c Sorry, No Minors (State Law) Reservations PL 4-3484 Broward Direct 524-0747 New Coral Terrace Gourmet Res Mmmm SANDWICH Then George Kose got ofr the wholly improbable, frantically courageous pass to Sidle that changed the rhythm of the war, that suddenly gave Auburn reason to believe it wasn't heved, doomed to destruction without a whimper Kose threw the 10-yarder while falling flat on his back with hundreds of pounds of prhne, western beef driving him into the grass. That brief flurry went for nothing, in a sense, for Nebraska soon had the ball again and trundled forward but not to any more points.

And, after the half, Auburn took over. If bowl games are won Continued on Page 5C, Col. 4 taurant (Reservations Suggested) Smart Clubhouse Bever IN MIAMI and Snack Bars New Simplified "Tote" Board Buses 1 ag Dii age Direct to Track. HEGHVIEW DRUG STORE 13th AND FLAGLER CLOSE TO THE ORANGE BOWL.