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The Lincoln Star II Tuesday, Jon. 5, 1971 devaney Issues Challenge To Irish iSPOOT SIGMIS 4 i By Hal Brown Sporti Editor, The Star A but we won the bowl game," said Devaney whose team defeated Orange Bowl opponent Louisiana State 17-12. "Notre Dame Is a fine team," Devaney added Monday morning. "I think they should be among the top two or three maybe, but I don't see how they could be first." Devaney's remarks followed a statement made Sunday by Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian who said his team "accepted a greater challenge by playing No. 1-ranked Texas in the Cotton Bowl than Nebraska did in going to the Orange Bowl." "He's full of R.S.

to. make statements like that," said Devaney. "Notre Dame was only able to score a field goal against LSU on their own field. And I don't think Notre Dame would like to have another go round with LSU." Parseghian feels his team should be strongly considered in the final Associated Press polls this week which will determine the nation's national collegiate football champion. Including their 24-11 Cotton Bowl victory over Texas, Notre Dame's record is 10-1.

But Nebraska is the only major undefeated team with a 11-0-1 showing. "We also had an Invitation from the Orange Bowl," Parseghian said. "But we knew we couldn't be No. 1 by going to the Orange Bowl. Someone else then would have had to beat Texas." Devaney said Texas wasn't the team to beat Nov.

14, when Nebraska got the Orange Bowl bid. Notre Dame was ranked No .1 at the time. "When we made our choice, Notre Dame was No. 1 In the country. They were unbeaten.

The boys took a vote and they all said they wanted to play the team that was the highest ranked at the time. They wanted to play Notre Dame. So I called Parseghian to try to find out where they were going to play but he couldn't tell me. He just didn't know at the time." Notre Dame received its bids the following week. Nebraska accepted the Orange Bowl bid Nov.

15, and Devaney said, "it was later that week that the polls came out and Texas was No. 1." "You can't say we were running away from the top team in the country," Devaney said. Devaney noted that the only blemish on his team's record was a 21-21 tie with Southern Cal early in the season. And it was Southern Cal which finally beat then undefeated Notre Dame 38-28 on Nov. 28.

"Parseghain is overlooking the two most important facts," said Devaney. "We did better against our two common opponents LSU and Southern Cal and we are undefeated. They are not. It's as simple as that." By HAL BROWN Star Sports Editor Miami Nebraska's snow-bound Huskers, forced to spend the past two days In sunny Miami by blizzard conditions in Lincoln, will try to get home again this morning. A decision was made Monday noon by University adminls-trators and Regents to keep the team here through Monday night.

The Orange Bowl winners are now scheduled to leave Miami at 9:30 this morning, arriving in Lincoln at 11:30 a.m. Before departing for Tampa, where he is due to coach in an all-star game Saturday, Husker head coach Bob Devaney extended an invitation to Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian, whose two teams are awaiting the outcome of the final Associated Press poll. "We're Just laying around down here," Devaney said. "You can tell Ara that if he wants to bring his team down here, we'll play them." Defensive line coach Monte Kiffin also went to Tampa Monday to be interviewed for the head coaching vacancy at Tampa University. Tampa officials also were Interviewing other candidates this week and said they hoped to make a decision by this weekend.

"I can't see how The Associated Press could vote for anyone but Nebraska. We were No. 3 when we went in, uyi Proell Leads Team To Wins U.S. GAL MISSES GATES McClendon Gets New Contract From LSU Baton Rouge, La. Coach Charlie McClendon of Louisiana State University will get a new contract with a raise and other benefits, the university announced Monday.

The university board of supervisors was expected to approve the new five-year pact, giving McClendon a salary of $31,5000 and rights to LSU game films. With the TV rights, McClendon can use films in personal enterprises. McClendon's present contract had four years to run, but the university apparently made the new offer amid specula-tion that McClendon -would be offered new coaching jobs in the Southeastern Conference. LSU finished with a 9-3 record last season, including a 17-12 loss to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. World Cup slalom event, the first of this year," included Susi Corrock, Seattle, 10th; Patty Boydstun, McCall, Idaho, Nebraska's Best You can aIwavs Eet an argument when EX athletes of one era with those of another fw -fP T5 Wuter has not stifled such arguments, but SSm.

littIe doubt that the 'WW Nebraska football team was the greatest in Husker history. For openers, it didn't lose a game and no Husker team could boast of that feat since 1915 and with aU due respect to those Huskers of 1915, there can be little argument that, as a group, today's athletes are superior to those of 55 years ago. To this writer, who has covered closely, traveled with and sometimes lived with all but the first of coach Bob Devaney teams at Nebraska, this one has to be our favorite, slightly edging out his 1963 outfit. There are many similarities between those two outfits, not the least of which is an abundance of talent. And both teams had the utmost confidence in that ability.

But while that 1963 team had a quiet confidence, this team's confidence was a brash confidence. They didn't mind telling you how good they were and they didn't mind telling you they could beat anyone. The confidence of this year's team bordered on cockiness. But it was a cockiness that was refreshing even if it did cause the coaches some anguish upon reading some of their comments ahead of a game. Murtaugh, Schneiss Leaders The squad selected two "tough" guys to be their leaders when they picked linebacker Jerry Murtaugh and fullback Dan Schneiss.

Murtaugh set the tone for the season when he told Big Eight Skywriters, "We're going to beat hell out of Southern Cal," and after the 21-21 tie, he figured just that had happened. And when a writer asked Murtaugh after a game what made the NU defense so great that particular day, he responded by asking, "What do you mean today? We're always great." While Husker defensive coaches were worrying about the LSU offense for the Orange Bowl, monster Dave Morock told them, "Don't worry. All LSU runs is the draw play and we can stop that." And when Nebraska's coaching staff was worrying about what to do with LSU's walking end, who shifts out of the backfield just before the snap, a maneuver Kansas City used against the Minnesota Vikings in last year's Super Bowl and brought Chiefs' coach Hank Stram's now-famous comment on the sidelines, "Look at them running around out there. It looks like a Chinese fire drill," Murtaugh had the answer ready: "We'll just send our monster man out to cover him," he told the coaches. This confidence showed up again after LSU had gone ahead of the Huskers by 12-10 with one quarter to play.

As the Husker offense took the field after the ensuing kickoff, a Husker lineman told quarterback Jerry Tagge, "Just call anything you want and we'll make it work." Clutch Performances This final drive that led to the winning touchdown with the Husker offensive line coming through on their promise to Tagge was typical of so many clutch drives that Devaney-coached teams have made since his arrival in Lincoln nine years ago. The Huskers hadn't been able to put much of a drive together against a tough LSU defense in the second and third quarters after taking a 104) lead and to anyone, who hadn't been there before so to speak, there was little reason to think they could do it now when they really needed it. But Husker teams under Devaney have done the same thing before. They did it against North Carolina State nine years ago. They did it at Minnesota.

They did it at Colorado. They did it at Missouri. They did it in Lincoln against Kansas a year ago. When they had to do it, they did it. Seeing all the things his Husker players had been saying down here, defensive line coach Monte Kiffin, a member of that 1963 team, decided he ought to talk to the team.

"We've got a lot of talkers," he told them. "Now, we've got to find out if we've got some doers." This Husker team has talked a good game all season. They also have proven all season that they can play a good game. They've been always able to put their actions where their mouths were. 12th; Linda Cochran, Richmond, 22nd, and Janet Turner, 24th.

Only 30 of the 74 skiers who started the race finished. A r. fvvv 1 1 tJC jji Restic New Coach Maribor, Yugoslavia UP) Annemarie Proell led Austria to a sweep of the top two places of the World Cup slalom event Monday and took the lead in the women's Alpine World Cup standings. The 17-year-old freckle-faced salesgirl moved from fifth to first place in the standings with 53 points, displacing two French girls, Francoise Macchi and Isabelle Mir, who were disqualified in the first run. Mis3 Proell zipped down the 480-meter course, negotiating 51 gates on the first run and 54 on 54 on the second, in a combined time of 99.95 seconds, followed by Bernie Rauter in 101.01.

Barbara Cochran of Richmond, Vt.j finished third in 101.23 on her 20th birthday to place eighth in World Cup standings with 23 points. Her sister, Marilyn, was clocked at 100.89 but was disqualified for missing gates, as were Rosie Mit-termaier of West Germany, who won the first run, and Michele Jacot of France. At Harvard Cambridge, Mass. W) Joe Restic, coach of the Hamilton Tiger Cats in the Canadian Football League the past three years, was named football coach at Harvard Monday and im the Nebraska blizzard to clear up enough to allow them to return. At left are Dick Rup-pert and Monte Johnson, center.

mediately promised Crimson Sports Menu SNOWED OUT Susy List smears sun-tan lotion on the chest of her husband Jerry, Nebraska tight end, as the Cornhuskers bask fans a wide open style of play. "I believe In the passing game I like to see the football in the Tuesday BASKETBALL Big Eight: OKIahoma at "I did not expect to the elated Miss ProeU, "but I in the Miami Beach sun while waiting for Common Foes Rate Huskers Top Arkansas; State Colleges: Prhlrtg at air," the 44-year-old former Villanova and Philadelphia Eagles performer said at a news conference at which his ap Bellevuoj Northeastern Colorado at Platte; am happy that I won and I hope Montana Tech at Hiram Scott; NBA: Cln cinnatl vs. Lot Angeles. Omaha Civic to win tbe giant slalom tomor UCLA Still Tops Cage Poll UCLA, South Carolina, Mar pointment was announced. Auditorium.

7:30 p.m. row Tuesday and retain the lead SWIMMING Lincoln High at Lincoln in the general standings of the World Cup. Our coach warned "We expect to throw the football," he added. "We want to make it wide open. We want to make the offense as pleasing as us for the dangerous spot down on the course in the second run and thanks to that I avoided the possible to the fans even though I know that defense wins foot fate of others who have slipped quette and Southern California each survived three games last week and retained the first four Northeast, 7 p.m.

WRESTLING Lincoln East at Lincoln High, 7 p.m.; Beatrice at Lincoln Northeast, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday BASKETBALL Big Eight: Colorado at UC-lrvlne; Stats Colleges: Crelghton at Houston; Washburn at UNO; Sacred Heart, at Wahoo JFK. BOXINO: Golden Gloves Smoker, Pershing Auditorium, 8 p.m. Thursday BASKETBALL State Colleges: Sacred Heart at Bellevue; Falrbury JC at Cloud County Tournament; North Platte at Cen there." ball games." Restic was given a three-year The Austrian teen-ager won the giant slalom last year and is Press major college basketball contract at an undisclosed the pick of experts to repeat the poll announced Monday. salary to succeed John Yovicsin, who retired for health reasons at feat Tuesday on Porhorje However, Drake, Kentucky mountain near here.

and Tennessee all plummeted the end of last season to become In addition to Miss Cochran, out of the Top Ten with a com- the school's director of physical tral Nebraska Tech; York at Prairie, Tournament; Platte at Cloud County Tournament. other Americans placing in the bmed total of five losses in sev training and recreation. en games last week, and mov-: In assuming the post, Restic praised the "outstanding job" done by bis predecessor, who mg up to replace them were Kansas, Notre Dame and St. Bonaventure. Drake, 8-2, dropped from sev.

produced teams that won 78 games in 14 seasons to make enth to 16th by losing to un-' YOUNGEST MENTOR IN IVY HISTORY Crouthamel To Succeed Boss Blackmail As Indian Coach him Harvard's winningest coach. ranked Niagara and Cincinnati. Restic, a native of Hastings, Kentucky, 7-2, fell from eighth has been coaching football to 11th after losing to Notre the last 16 seasons. Before joining Hamilton in 1962 as Dame, and Tennessee, 7-2, i slipped from 10th to 17th by los-! ing to unranked Houston and Mississippi State. backfield coach, he served as an Dallas W) If three of the four coaches whose teams played both Nebraska and Notre Dame this past season have anything to say about it, the national college football champion will be Nebraska.

"After we played Nebraska, I thought they should be Number One," said Dan Devine, Missouri's coach, "and after we played Notre Dame, I thought they should be Number One. But Ithink on the basis of their record now Nebraska deserves to be Number One. I didn't think anybody would get though our league undefeated this year. "I think Nebraska's backfield personnel are better than Notre Dame's although Joe Theismann is just a great back," Devine continued. "But Nebraska has more physical strength.

Those are two great football teams, but the thing about Nebraska is that they got through the Big Eight without being beaten." "This team Nebraska beat us by five points," says Charlie McClendon of Louisiana State, which dropped a 17-12 decision to the Cornhuskers in the Orange Bowl. "The other team bnly beat us by three." Notre Dame edged the Tigers at South Bend, 3-0. The Irish joined the race for No. 1 by dumping top-rated Texas 24-11 in the Cotton Bowl. The final Associated Press poll will be published Tuesday afternoon.

"If I have to commit myself, I'll go with Nebraska strictly on their record (10-0-1) to Notre Dame's (10-1)," says Army's Tom Cahill, although the Cadets lost 28-0 to Nebraska and 51-10 to Notre Dame, both on the road. "In my mind," said McClendon, "there's no doubt who's No. 1. It's Nebraska. Nebraska did more things against us offensively than Notre Dame did, although defensively Notre Dame probably is stronger.

"Nebraska is awfully strong on offense. They have real good running backs and that Tagge boy (quarterback Jerry Tagge) is something else. We were hanging onto his leg and he still threw the ball 45 yards. What it comes down to, though, is that they tied Southern Cal and Notre Dame lost to them." "Nobody ran against us the way Nebraska did," echoed LSU defensive tackle John Sage. Cahill needed a few moments to mull over his choice.

"Nebraska has a little more speed offensively," he finally decided. "Joe Theismann probably gives Notre Dame an advantage from the point of view of the aerial game, but those Nebraska guys Tagge and Van Brownson throw well, too. Frankly, I'd hate to bet on a game between them." assistant coach both at Brown and Colgate under Alva Kelley. conference held far from hte Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., to accommodate greater Boston and other sports writers. "Dartmouth football and Bob Kansas, 8-1, rose from 12th to eighth after beating Nebraska.

Notre Dame's conquest of Ken-tucky moved the Irish, 6-2, from Lincoln Boxing Smoker Set For Wednesday win to ninth and the Bonnies, 8-0 climbed from 13th to 10th with Blackman have become synon-mous," he said. "Coach Black-man developed a great winning Husker Cagers Fall To Second In Statistics The University of Nebraska basketball team has dropped to second nationally behind Louisiana State in the latest team field goal percentage statistics released by the National Collegiate Sports Services statistics bureau. The Huskers deadeyes have hit 295 field goals in 533 tries for a .553 percentage, while Louisiana State owns a .567 mark on 199 fielders in 351 attempts: i The Huskers' 6-10 senior Chuck Jura is ranked third in the nation in the individual field goal percentage department, hitting at a .670 clip through nine games. Jura has 77 field goals in 115 shots. Nebraska's Big Eight preseason basketball tournament games with Colorado and Kansas were not included in the latest figures compiled.

The Lincoln Boxing Smoker viwunes over ueorgia Teen and Bradley, the latter in double ov-. ertime. will be held on Wednesday instead of Tuesday as previously tradition, both on and off the field. I've been part of that tradition and hope to continue it for appeared in the Star. UCLA rolled on with 24 first the' next two years." place votes from the stwrts Indians' second choice.

Joe Yu-kica, a former assistant to Blackman, was offered the job, but elected to remain as head coach at Boston College. Despite Blackman's 104-37-3 record, including 17-1 the last two season, in 16 years at Hanover, Crouthamel emphasized "we are not going to try to mold this team into a Blackman image." "You adapt a system to your personnel," he said. "Our defense, which had six shutouts last fall, was developed on a trial and error basis. It was done almost exclusively by assistant coaches. We expect to keep a great deal of our defense intact.

On offense, we'll certainly keep a lot of things run by Bob Blackman, but we'll run an offense we think will be successful with what we have." The smoker will be held at ershing Auditorium at 8 p.m. NEWTON, Mass. (AP) -John J. "Jake" Crouthamel, 32, one of Dartmouth's all-time running greats who later became the chief architect of one of the nation's thoughest defenses, was named Monday head coach of the Indians, succeeding Bob Blackman. Crouthamel, an assistant coach under Blackman since 1965, was elevated to the No.

1 position as the youngest head mentor in Ivy League history. The selection of Crouthamel, who set Dartmouth's rushing record of 1,763 yards from 1957-59, was a big surprise as he had been set to go to the University of Illinois with Blackman, who accepted the challenge to rebuild the Illini last month. 'This is a tough act to follow," Crouthamel told a news When Crouthamel mentioned with weighins slated to -start at writers and sportscasters from throughout the country polled 526 points; 6:30 p.m. Deadline for weighins two years, Athletic Director Seaver Peters interrupted a question to say "we have not talked contract or salary." Pe is 7:15 p.m. fcouth Carolina, which smp ters said that Dartmouth had Game 'Postponed Omaha The Doane College- vived a scare from Western Kentucky before winning the New York Holiday Festival title by two points last week, polled one top vote and 478 points, gaining 11 points on the Uclans.

planned on inviting "four or five" possible candidates for in terviews, but did not after de Nebraska at Omaha college basketball game scheduled for Monday night here was ciding on Crouthamel last Marquette also had one first postponed due to the blizzard which has hit the state. Actually, Crouthamel was the place vote and 426 points, while Southern Cal attracted 362 i points. The top three teams are 9-0 Big Hight Title Chase To Begin On Saturday and USC 10-0. The other unbeat-en teams in the top 10 are Penn, 8-0, No. 5, which switched places with Western Kentucky aner winning twice, and the Bonnies.

Iowa State goes to Northern Illinois, and Colorado continues its tour of the West Coast by stopping off at San Diego State. Only Colorado has seen action since the tournament ended last Wednesday night. The Buffs lost at Long Beach State I. UCLA 24 9-0 32 i. South Carolina 1 -o 4)1 3.

Marquette 1 424 4. Southern Calif lo-o 362 5. Penn 8 0 293 t. Western Kentucky 274 7. Jacksonville 7-2 168 8.

Kansas 8-1 155 9. Notre Dame 6-2 140 10. St. Bonaventure 8 0 137 II. Kentucky 7-2 130 12.

Indiana 7-2 78 13. Louisville 6-1 Si 14. Villanova 1-2 53 15. Utah State 9-2 49 16. Drake 1-2 44 17.

Tennessee 7-2 37 18. Fordham 114 3a derson as "thj youngest club I've ever luJ," upset Oklahoma and lost to Kansas in overtime. Missouri, 8-4, may get better as John Brown rounds into form. Brown missed the team's first eight games because of an injury. Coach Norm Stewart says the Tigers haven't really "adjusted to having Brown in the lineup." Stewart adds the Tigers "know what they're faced with.

It's an awfully strong league, awfully strong." Two eamsKS3 Monday guard problems and not much depth, and coach Jark Hart-man says the Wildcats "would like to be a little quicker." Oklahoma State, 4-7, and Iowa State, S-8, both nave small teams. Oklahoma State didn't win a game in the Big Eight tourney but new coach Eight tourney but new coach Sam Aubrey found out that the Cowboys have sume excellent reserves in Steve Uthoff, Jerry Merida and Donnie Wheeler. Iowa State proved a troublemaker in the tour-n a The r.yites, Kansas City UP) Big Eight Conference basketball teams, except for favored Kansas and Colorado, start playing for keeps Saturday when the chase -for the league title gets under way. Oklahoma State and Iowa State will raise the curtain on the conference campaign in an afternoon contest at Ames, Iowa. The game 1 1 1 be televised.

In the other openers, Nebraska is at Kansas State and Oklahoma at Missouri Saturday night. Kansas, ranked No. 12 in the we've been inconsistent. A lot of this can be ironed out by Jan. 18.

"I think the team which wins the Big Eight championship Is the team which improves the most in the weeks ahead." Nebraska, 10-2, is expected to give Kansas the most trouble in the race for the conference crown. Coach Joe Cipriano admits the Cornhuskers "are the best shooting team since I've been at Nebraska." Oklahoma, 8-2, won the tournament's consol atlon looms as the dark-horse in the conference race. The Sooners, although lacking a big star, have tremendous balance in scoring and Clifford Ray's brilliant rebounding. Colorado, 6-4. has Cliff Meely, and he alone makes the Buffs a big threat although coach Sox Walseth says Colorado is "not real strong After these four clubs Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado there isn't too much difference in the teams.

Defending champion Kansas wUh action Jan. 18 against Iowa State at Lawrence, and Colorado makes its debut Jan. 16 at As the conference season approaches, coach Ted Owens of Kansas still isn't satisfied with his team even though the Jayhawks have a 9-1 record and have won both the Jayhawk Classic and the Big Eight Conference pre-season tournament in which they knocked off Nebraska 72-52 in the finals. "We have a long way to go to be an outstanding basketball Owens says. Saturday night 84-62.

Meely scored 28 points but got little help from anyone else. The rest of this week's schedule: Tuesday Oklahoma at Arkansas. Wedntsday Colorado at California. 19. Purdue -J 13 20.

North Carolina 8-2 13 Other teams receiving votes In alphabetical order: Creighton. Davidson, Georgia Tech, LaSalle, Louisiana State, Marshall, Mis. slssippi Staa. V-'aTBi, Haw Mexico State, North CJrXrt4 irate, Ohio, Oregon, rtrftnnn UtJilM. Jnh Vlrnn- Irvinft.

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