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6-B THE MIAMI NEWS Jan. 2,1971 Notre Dame's plan mirrors Longhorns' past successes 4. gave them an easy touch down. You can't give the do-, fense credit for that one." Whatever the reason, All. CJUo I 5 American fullback Steve Worster was limited to 42 yards on 16 carries and Bertelsen carried eight times for a scant five yards.

Only on an 18-play, 84-yard scoring a i i r. drive in the, second period --A I V-- did Texas look like the machine that chewed up 30 secutive opponents, 10 this season. Meanwhile, All-American quarterback Joe Theismann sparked the Irish to a 21-3 after only 16 Va minutes with a 26-yard touchdown pass to Tom Gatewood and scoring runs of three and 15 yards. The second TD allowed. Danny Lester fumble of a kickoff at the Texas 14.

COTTON BOWL Tht Auocliltd Prill DALLAS For 32 games, the last 30 of them victories, jTexas had lived by its effective Wishbone offense. Yesterday the top-ranked Long-horns lost 24-11 in the Cotton Bowl at the hands of Notre Dame and an innovative Wishbone defense. The Longhorns must have been embarrassed no end at seeing Notre Dame line up in the first half behind its defensive line exactly the way Texas did behind its offensive line. It was like looking in mirror and there was nothing they could do about it. I In the Wishbone offense, the'three deep backs form almost a straight T-formation, but.

the middle man the fullback is set a couple of feet ui front of the halfbacks, resembling a Y. When that happened, Notre Dame linebacker Jim Wright assumed a position directly opposite the fullback the two lines separating them with linebacker Tim, Kelly and defensive back Mike Crotty several feet be-hind him on either side opposite the Texas halfbacks. After a fruitless first period which saw them trailing 14-3, the Longhorns, the nation's top rushing team but only 102nd among 118 major college football teams in passing, did what Notre Dame wanted. They broke up their Wishbone and went to more of a passing attack by flanking halfback Jim Bertelsen. Notre Dame simply moved Crotty out to cover him.

After quarterback Eddie Phillips rocked them with a 63-yard gallop to the Notre Dame 10 on Texas' first the Irish stiffened. They limited Texas to. a field goal and a mere 3-0 lead at that point Associated Press Wlrpholo Irish's Ara Parscghian gets victory ride Statistics Cotton Bowl at Notre oama Texas I 16 Ml 511 210 1 261 First downs Rushing yardagt Passing yardagt Return yardagt Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalised 11,11 jf" Cl 146 213 0 M9-1 1-45 1 52 10-27-1 I f-3il 5 1 331 14 10 3 I 0-HI t-ll Notre Oamt Texas most points gained against Texas in two years and they all came in the first half. After they unveiled the Mirrored Wishbone at the start, in the scoreless second half the Irish returned to their normal defense a 4-4 or split-6, with two linebackers moving up to form a six-man forward wall. "They didn't win by confusion," insisted Darrell Royal of Texas.

"They won because of their fine football team. They're big and strong and they played better than we did. We hadn't anticipated their defense and it surprised us a little bit. But we fumbled a kickoff at our 14 and Ik-FG Feller 23 and held the Longhorns to 216 yards on the ground, compared to their 374.5 season average. "We learned a great deal here a year ago," said Coach Ara Parseghian.

"We even adopted some Wishbone of-fense last spring for the very purpose of knowing more about it." Notre Dame also showed, some power-I, full house and pro sets and even used corner back Clarence Ellis, voted the game's outstanding defensive player, to catch a 37-yard pass. Notre Dame scored the ND Gatewood 26 pass from Theismann Hempei kick ND Theismann 5 run Hempei kick NO Theismann 16 run Hemoel kick Tex Bertelsen 1 run Lester pass Phil. lips ND Fg Hempei 36 Individual Leaden Rushing-otr Dame, Cieszkowskl 13-52, Parker 13-41. Texas, Phillips 23-164, Wooster 16-42. Passlng-Notrg Dame, Theismann t-16-1, 176 yards.

Texs, Phillips 9-1 7-0, 1W, Wig-ginglon 1-10-1, 11. Receiving Notra Dame, Yoder 2-96, Gatewood 1-43, Ellis 1-17. Texas, Comer 67, Bertelsen 3-85. CLUTCH CATCH: Bob Moore of Stanford makes Rose Bowl. The Buckeyes' Tim Anderson, left, and a fingertip catch of a 35-yard pass from quarterback Mike Sensibaugh are all over Moore but can't pre- Jim Plunkett on Ohio State's two-yard line to set vent the catch, up the Indians' go-ahead touchdown in yesterday's Associated Press Wlreehots Questionable calls bug McClendon Continued From Page IB fense of minus one yard on 25 Dlavs.

Ohio St. finds Indians like running over Sande ROSE BOWL "They stacked people up on our split end (left) side," McClendon aid. "We just couldn't run. They have tremendous size. They kinda engulfed us a little bit.

We weren't a sound football The Asiociited Press PASADENA, Calif. John Sande smiled and spoke with such softness you'd never have guessed he had just dismantled an All-American in the Rose Bowl. "I guess it was the best game I've ever played," said ed on him and prepared just for him for weeks. We all did a great job." The "him" was Jim Still-wagon, the 6-foot, 225-pounder who plays middle guard for Ohio State and terrorizes rival quarterbacks. "We figured if we could Stanford's senior center.

"Well, after all, I concentrat- lloiv sweet it is Statistics Rose Bowl at Pasadena 10339: Ohio St, First downs 22 Rushint yardage 364 Passing yardage IS Return yardage 6 Stan 21 143 265 give Jim Plunkett time to pass we could beat them," said the muscular 6-foot, 225-pound Sande. As it was, Stanford's Heis-man Trophy-winning quarterback was protected well as he completed 20 of 30 passes for 265 yards and was dumped for losses only twice as the Indians whipped the favored Buckeyes yesterday 27-17. Plunkett, who commanded most of the attention in the dressing room after the upset, commented first, "John Sande did a great job on Stillwagon." The star Buckeye lineman made only one unassisted tackle and helped on a half-dozen others. "I studied films of Still-wagon," Sande said. "He's quick, fast, strong and I couldn't find a single weakness in his play.

We didn't use many trap blocks or angle blocks because he can recover so quickly. 0 Passes 7-20-1 20-31-1 Punts Fumbles lost 0 2 Yards penalized 64 46 Vols bury 'jinx' in Sugar Bowl Ohio Statt Stanford 7 7 3 0-17 10 0 3 14-27 Stan-Brown 4 run (Horowitz kick) Sran-FG Horowitz 37 OSU-nBrockington 1 run (Schram kick) OSU Brockington 1 run (Schram kick) Stan FG Horowitz 4t i OSU FG Schram 32 Stan-Brown 1 run (Horowitz kick) Stan Vataha 10 pass from Plunkett (Horowitz kick) Individual Leaders Rushing-Ohio State, Kern 20.129, Brockington 21-101; Stanford, Brown 10-41, Shockley 10-35. Passing Ohio State, Ktrn 4-13-1, 40 yards, Macieiowski 3-6-0, 35. Stanford, Plunkett, 20-30-1, 265. Receiving-Ohio State, White 4-28.

Zell-na 2-27; Stanford, Moort 5-113, Washing, ton 6-80, Vataha 6-51. I ff 4 A i 1 'i 1 i vv 4 Wit I SO FA HS v' I I vi jCl I -i I f' 11 i ii 1 1 'W' 1 I SUGAR BOWL The Associated Prist NEW ORLEANS Tennessee won the Sugar Bowl and it couldn't have been any sweeter for Bobby Scott. "I thought we had to prove we had a good team and that we were capable of winning a bowl game. that it's not Just a jinx," the Vols' quarterback said after the 34-13 New Year's Day triumph over Air Force. "What we tried to do was watch which way he wanted to go, then try to move him out of the way.

I tried to match his quickness and I got a lot of help." team, the first half. I don't know why." LSU wasn't a sound football team, when it was over. The Tigers lost Arthur Cantrelle, their best runner, on the second play of the game. Ankle Injury. Tommy Casanova, the all-star cornerback, and quarter-b a Buddy Lee were knocked out temporarily.

"Casanova got buzzed several times," McClendon said. "That is why we had to take him out from time to time. Lee got buzzed, too, Lee didn't practice much this week. Out at practice, he threw a ball and hit his thumb on a headgear. It hemorrhaged.

The last two days he didn't throw a ball." McClendon said Nebraska's winning 67-yard, 14-play drive that consumed 6 minutes, seconds, hurt his team just as much as Lee's throbbing thumb. "That one drive took an awful long time," he said. "Your offense is sitting on the sidelines getting cold and also your defense is getting an awful lot of punishment. I felt like our offense was going to have to have the ball more than it did." The most deflated Tiger was Bob Jones, the sophomore quarterback who took over for Lee. Jones fumbled away LSU's last drive of the night.

When Buddy Millican recovered a Jerry Tagge pitchout at the LSU 40 with 52 seconds remaining, Lee gave the ball right back with an interception on the next play. In the dressing room, Jones' eyes matched his red shirt. His teammates couldn't stop him from crying. "Don't press him," one of his teammates said. "He's kind of down." He wasn't alone.

Statistics Tennessee had lost three Susar Sowl at New Orleans Tennessee Air Force First downs 2 15 Rushint yardese -12 Pissing yardage 3D 239 Return yardage l4t 53 Passes 24462 JJ 46 Punts i 31 135 Fumbles lost 3 Yards penalized 74 0 Tennessee 24 0 7 334 Air Force 7 00 13 Air Force 7 0 6 0 11 Tenn-WoLeary 5 run (Hunt kick) Tenn FG Hunt 30 Tenn-Mdeary 20 run (Hunt kick) Tenn Theller 10 pass from Scott (Hunt kick) AF Haas fumbto recovery (Barry kick) Tenn-Waiors 57 punt return (Hunt kick) AF Basse 27 pass from Parker (kick failed) Teiw-FG Hunt 33 Individual Leaders Rushint Tenntssee, Watson 14-57, McLeery 14-39, Wold 7-16; Air Force, Bream 16-16. Passing Tennessee, Scott J2-40-2. 281 yards; Chadwick 2-5-0. It Air Force, Parker 23-46-4, 239. Receiving Tennessee, Thomoson 9-155, McLain 3-31, Theilen 4-36.

Air Force, Bas-sa 10-114, Bream 4-1, Bolen 6-60. Stanford won the game through the air, but first took a quick 10-0 lead by running the ball. The first touchdown followed shortly after a 42-yard run on a reverse by wide receiver Eric Cross. A four-yard smash by Jackie Brown brought the touchdown. Six minutes later, Steve Horowitz booted a 37-yard field goal.

THe Buckeyes came roaring back to a 14-10 halftime edge. OSU quarterback Rex Kern guided his team to position for a pair of one-yard touchdown runs by John the third period and drove to Stanford's 19. On the next play, the game's entire complexion changed. On a fourth down with inches to go, Stanford linebacker John Kadziel threw Brockington for a one-yard loss and Stanford took over. Plunkett promptly marched his club upfield to the Ohio state 37.

With a third down and 15, Plunkett sent wide receiver Randy Vataha wide to the left with tight end Bob Moore lined up on that aide, too. "Randy was the No. 1 target, but Jim was forced to run," explained Moore. "On that kind of broken play, my instructions are to run to the flag at the end zone. Moore leaped high for a spectacular catch, falling down at the two.

Three plays later Brown went over from the one, and the Indians were ahead. Defensive back Jack Schultz capped matters by intercepting a Kern pass at the OSU 25. Two plays later, Vataha caught a 10-yard touchdown throw from Plunkett. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes commented, "Either team could have won it until we got stopped at their 20, and then they hit that 'mad dog' pass on our two. "They deserved to win.

We moved the ball enough, but our players weren't as high as they were in the last game against Michigan. We let this one get away. Stanford put drives together and we didn't. straight bowl games before yesterday's resounding victory. The Vols jumped to a 24-0 first-quarter lead, then let the defense do the rest eve; the stunned Falcons.

"We got the hot hand there early and threw and caught a little bit and put some points on the board," said Coach Bill Battle of fourth-ranked Tennessee. "Defensively I thought we played pretty well all day and offensively we 1 a well in spots, but we made a lot of mistakes and played poorly at times," he added. "Fortunatc'y, when we played poorly we were usually in their bad: yanl and it didn't hurt us tea much." Battle said "execution went down a little bit" after that explosive first quarter, "but I'm sure the Air Force had a lot to do with that." Coach Bei Mmirt of Air Force said Tennessee's pass defenders were the best his Falcons had ever against. The Falcon coach said his own defense "recovered very nicely in the second half, but you can't win a game on defense when you are behind 24-7 at the half. Air Force had come into the game with one of the na- Miami News Photos by CHARLEI TRAINOR He has instructions for players; why is he standing? McClendon picks Nebraska Brockington.

The first capped a 65-yard drive, including a 37-yard scamper by end Bruce Jan-kowski on an end-around play. The second advance featured Kern's expert handling of the option rollout. He contributed a 32-yard run to the advance. Stanford cut the margin to a single point early in the second half on a 48-yard field goal by Horowitz, a Rose Bowl record by four yards. OSU promptly stretched the lead to four points on Fred Schram's 32-yard field goal in this 37th Rose Bowl.

The Buckeyes mounted further momenluii) late in tion's most productive offenses and quarterback Bob Parker completed 23 of 46 passes for 239 yards Friday. But the Falcons lost 12 yards rushing, had four passes lost four fumbles. Tc nessee. meanwhile, geneieted 32 yards offensive 306 passing and 88 rushin Scott completed 22 of 40 passes for 288 yards and was named the game's outstanding player. Earlier in the week Battle had sjiu he didn't know whether hs team was ready emotionally to play, but that donht vanished shortly before iiic kickoff.

Louisiana State came within three points of Metre Dame, Louisiana Slate came within five points of So who's No. 1 in Coach Charlie McClendon's poll? "Nebraska's gonna be Number One," the LSU coach said, referring to the wire service polls. "They've got a real tough offense. Their quarterbacks were just unbelievably strong to pull down. They had sonic real line protection.

"The best thing about Ntbraka is their overall strength and size. This is how they're able to t'i? I hnd been saying all week that I was airaid ef their leverage, Hicy had height over our linebackers. Some of their counter plays to the tailback our linebackers couldn't see. Wt tried to take a peck over the line and the tailback would run the other way." So who's No. 1, already? McClendon said, "Nebraska's a real good football team.

I hey beat us. They got more points. i) r. Sac comparisons between Nebraska ai "I ploy Dame next year." "iney just outlasted us,.