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7S1 ST AW JL ar 2 WM Team All-A Maw uwcwiiUL meriea It New York (UP!) Ohio State, led by returnees Jack Tatum and Jim Stillwagon, placed four players and Notre Dame and Texas three each on the 1970 United Press International College Football All-America team named Tues- day: Nebraska, ranked No. 3 in the nation, didn't land a spot on the first team, but put offensive tackle Bob Newton, defensive tackle Dave Walline and linebacker Jerry Murtaugh on the second team. v- Tatum, a cornerback who rates as one of the most feared defensive players iir the coun-try, was the leading vote-getter in earning selection for the second straight year. He received 170 votes from the 247 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the nation who Mike Sensibaugh, a defensive back and running back John Brockington Dame placed wide receiver Tom Gatewood, offensive guard Larry Dinardo and defensive back Clarence Ellis on the team while Texas, the nation's top-ranked team, contributed running back Steve Worster, offensive tackle Bob-by Wuensch and defensive end Bill Atessis. Dinardo, also repeating on the All-America squad, was the leading vote-getter on offense with 151 votes.

Jim Plunkett, the Heisman Trophy winner from Stanford, was the overwhelming choice at quarterback. Cornell's Ed Marinaro, the first Ivy Leaguer to make the squad since Dick Kazmaier in 1951, joins Worster and Brockington in the backfield. Others on the second team offense included wide receivers Terry Beasley of Auburn and Elmo Wright of Houston; tackles Newton and Larron Jackson of Missouri; guards Gary Venture of Arizona State and Mike Sikich of Northwestern; and center John Sande of Stanford. The second team defense was composed of ends Herb Orvis of Colorado and Jack Youngblood of Florida; tackles Walline and Tody Smith of Southern California; linebackers Marty Huff of Michigan, Murtaugh and Jackie Walker of Tennessee; and defensive backs Tommy Casanova of Louisiana State, Bobby Majors of Tennessee; Windlan Hall of Arizona State and Dave Elmendorf of Texas joins Dinardo at guard and Colorado's Don Popplewell was the choice at center. Defensively, Charlie Weaver of Southern California's "Wild Bunch" joins Atessis at end while Rock Perdoni of Georgia Tech and Joe Ehrmann of Syracuse were selected at tackle.

Mike Anderson of Louisiana State and Jack Ham of Penn State are with Stillwagon at linebacker while Auburn's Larry Willingham teams with Tatum, Ellis and Sensibaugh to form the defensive secondary, Don McCauley, the North Carolina running back who smashed 0. J. Simpson's single season rushing record, headed a second team backfield composed of Joe, Theismann of Notre Dame, Mike Adamle of Bob Newton participated in this year's balloting. Tatum was joined by team-, mates Stillwagon, earning selection as linebacker for the second consecutive Dave Walline 1 Northwestern and Joe Moore of Missouri. Moore missed most of the season with a shoulder separation, but was among the nation's leading rushers for his five games played.

Jerry Murtaugh Ernie Jennings of Air Force moves in with Gatewood at wide receiver and Michigan's Dan Dierdorf teams with Wuensch at tackle. Chip of Tennessee, the fourth, returnee, Flayoft Fov. Berrv on AL Trade Block Huskers Solid No. 3 SystsTit Unfai? As Senators, Angels Go Dealing Big Eight Kiyals Applaud Dfevaney Kansas City, Mo. (UPI) Very little serious business was discussed Monday when the Big Eight football coaches gathered for their post-season meeting, but they did get around to nominating Nebraska's Bob Devaney for national coach of the year.

"The way this conference is, if you cannot produce a com Compiled from News Wires It was Texas, Ohio State and Nebraska in both wire service nnllotio frutthall nnllc Tunc day. which has a Saturday plete team in every game you're likely to lose," said Colorado's Eddie Crowder. "To do it for seven weekends, like Nebraska did, borders on the unbelievable. It makes Bob most worthy of national coach of the year. I think he's done it against tougher competition than others with similar records." Devaney's Orange Bowl-bound Cornhuskers finished the season with a 10-0-1 record.

Devaney listened to Crowder's LINCOLN, TUESDAY, DEC. 1, PAGE 19 of mm Los. Angeles UP) California and Washington, baseball's most active wheeler-dealers since the end of the 1970 season, have set the early pace at the winter meetings, the Angels by swinging another 3-3 trade and the Senators with the acquisition of another controversial player. The Angels, who had obtained; slugger Tony Conigliaro from a six-player trade during the World Series, dealt for defense Monday and landed veteran outfielder Ken Berry from the Chicago White Sox in a 3-3 swap. Ted Williams' Senators, who have taken on Denny McLain and Curt Flood in the past two months, rescued third baseman -Joe Foy from minor league exile during the draft session batting average last season was a six-year career high.

The White Sox also sent in-fielder Syd O'Brien and pitcher Billy Wynne to the Angels, receiving center fielder Jay Johnstone, pitcher Tom Bradley and catcher Tom Egan in exchange. "We needed a center fielder with range between Conigliaro in right and Johnson in left." Walsh said. "We feel that with Berry, our lineup is set all around." "We're giving up an outstanding center fielder but we're replacing him with a a fine, young center fielder with great potential," said White Sox general manager Roland Hemond, former chief of the Angels' scouting and farm "And we feel Bradley can win in the majors in 1971. He'll be one of our starters." Bradley, called up from the minors in mid-season, had a 2-5 won-lost record with the Johnstone and Esan that kicked off the annual conclave. Relief pitcher Hoy Wilhelm, 47-year-old elder statesman of the major leagues, returned to Atlanta after a brief fling with the Chicago Cubs and Moe Drabowsky, another, veteran reliever, departed the I world champion Baltimore Orioles for the second time within two years in other early trade developments.

With Conigliaro and American League batting king Alex Johnson set at the corners of the California outfield, Angels' general manager Dick Walsh went shopping for a standout middle man. After failing to lure Paul Blair from Baltimore or Mickey Stanley from Detroit, he came up with Berry, an exceptional glove man whose .276 showdown with once-beaten Arkansas to decide the Southwest Conference championship, drew 24 of 33 first place votes in the United Press International poll and 23 of 42 tirst place ballots in the Associated Press poll Notre Dame, third in UPI and fourth in AP a week ago, dropped to No. 6 in both polls Tuesday following its first loss-of the season at the hands of Southern California. Arkansas moved up to No. 4 and Tennessee to No.

5 in the AP poll while Tennessee nipped Arkansas for No. 4 in the UPI rankings. Michigan, LSU, Arizona State and Auburn completed the top ten in each poll. Nebraska got five first place votes this week in the AP poll and four in the UPI poll as compared to six and five, respectively, a week ago. compliments, then added, "Eddie, I think you've said it all.

I'm certainly Devaney -not going'to argue with you." Vince Gibson, whose Kansas State team was squashed, 51-13, by the Cornhuskers, said, "Bob convinced me they're the best football team in America. There's no doubt in my mind of that." Iowa State's Johnny Majors agreed, "I don't think Texas and Notre Dame and people like that played the kind of schedule Nebraska did." Dan Devine, whose Missouri team lost to both Nebraska and Notre Dame, added, "I think Nebraska is the best football team I've seen in a long time. I honestly feel Bob should be the national coach of the year. If there's a better team around, I'm glad we didn't have to play it." Lincoln Loses Swim Trials Bid Mercury Rushes Silence Golden ep Miamir20-7 For Ten 7 Statistics each batted .238 for California. O'Brien had a .247 average and Wynne was 14 for the Whtta Sox.

Washington picked up Foy, Dolphins Falcons AP 16 15 788 1. Texas (33) Ohio Slate (12) 752 First downs Rushing yardaqi Passing yardaq Return yardag Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Nebraska (5) 10f new nwi 218 86 63 I 11 1 1-47 1 41 111 160 15 18-24-1 3-43 0 43 4. Arkansas 495 438 415 372 5. Tennessee 6. Notre Dame J-' 7.

Michigan I. Louisiana State Arizona State (2) 367 287 237 10. AUDurn m. 1 Jt. 2 New York UD Under' pro football's new playoff system it is possible for teams tied for first place at the of the regular season to find themselves on the sidelines when post-season action i -y, 'i That beeame a strong possibility following last week's games in which Kansas City tied Oakland in the American Conference West with a 6-3-2 record and Los Angeles tied San Francisco for the lead in National Conference West at Under the new playoff system, four teams from each conference will qualify for post-.

season action the winners in the East, Central and West divisions plus the second-place with, the best won-lost percentage. 1 In the event of ties for first place, several methods will be used to determine a winner among the teams tied. The loser then becomes a second-place team and must qualify in that derby. A co-champion thus could find itself eliminated by another second-place team with a better record. Ties for first place will be determined by the following: Head-to-head competition vs.

each other. Total won-lost record within the division. Total won-lost record within the conference. Point differential between teams involved. Coin If two or more runners-up have identical won-lost percentages, the second-place spot will be determined by the following: Head-to-head competition, if applicable.

Won-lost record within the conference. Coin flip. The first set of playoffs will be held Dec. 26 and 27, the AFC and NFC championship games will be played Jan. 3 and the Super Bowl will be played Jan.

17 at Miami. New England's Deer Season Claims 11 Lives Hampton, N.H. A 15-year-old New Hampshire boy has become the 11th rifle accident victim of the New England deer hunting season, which closes this week. Harold K. Avery II of Ashland, N.H., was killed in an accident Monday after a member of his xvn hunting party mistook him for a deer and shot him at 70 yards.

Denton Hartley of the New Hampshire Fish Game Commission said he is distressed that negligence and "almost unbelievable stupidity" continue to chalk up a dozen human "kills" in the six-week New England season. "The only explanation I can think of is that a hunter looking for deer will see deer," Hartley said. "A guy in the field straining all his senses to find a deer is going to imagine ears and a white tail on everything he sees. He's not going to recognize another hunter until it's too late because he wants the damn thing to be a deer." Second Ten: n. wr JoA', Stanford (130); 13.

Georgia Tech (95 )l 14. Tnliio (47); 15. Dartmouth (62); l. WH 17. Southern California 3BVj); 18.

Penn State (32); 19. Northwestern (24) 20. Oklahoma (23). Others receiving votes: Boston College, California, Colorado, Howl. Kana State, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Oregon State, San Diego State, Syracuse, Texas Tech, Tulane, UCLA, Washington, West Virginia.

upi 1. Texas (24) (9-0) JIT' 2. Ohio Slate (5) () JM 3. Nebraska (4) (101) 4. Tennessee (9-1) 5.

Arkansas (9-1) 144 e. Notre Dame (9-1) 7. Michigan (9-1) 8. Louisiana State (8-2) 9. Arizona Slate (M) 10.

Auburn (8-2) Second Ten: 11, Stanford (19); 12. Air Force (15); 13. Dartmouth (12); 14. Houston (8); 15 Mississippi (7)1 16. (tie) Colorado, Oklahoma, UCLA and Toledo (3); 20.

Georgia Tech (2). Others receiving voten Washington. NOTE: Only 33 of 35 coaches participated In this week's balloting. week, in the American Football Conference's Eastern Division. The Dolphins, who led, 13-0, at half time and matched fourth-period touchdowns with the Falcons, had a e-pronged offense for Monday night's nationally televised game the inside power of Larry Csonka, the outside speed of long-injured Mercury Morris and the passing of Bob Griese, when needed.

Morris, who had missed 2lA months with a thigh injury and who claims he isn't as fast as his college days, showed his stuff early. He returned the opening kickoff back 49 yards, ripped off a 27-yard end sweep two plays later to help set up the Dolphins first score, a nine-yaird field goal by Garo and set up their first touchdown midway through the second period with a 40-yard sprint. "Atlanta is a tough team," Griese said. "We knew we had to come out and beat them in the line. It was one of the best games for our running attack." Miami 3 10 0 7-20 Atlanta 0 0 0 77 Mia FG Yepremlan 9 Mia Kiick 1 run (Yepremian kick) Mia FG Yepremian 43 Atl Gipson 5 pass from Berry (Vin-yard kick) Mia Csonka 1 run (Yepremian kick) Fort Worth, Tex.

UP) Rookie quarterback Terry Bradshaw of the Pittsburgh Steelers says he's learned one thing about National Football ag defensive players: "They're all big, they're all good, they're all mean and they all hate quarterbacks." He said he's also learned that he talks too much. The Steelers No. 1 draft choice flew into Fort Worth early Monday to spend a few hours with, a Texas beauty, Debbie Patton of Odessa, Miss Teenage America. "The people in Pittsburgh don't like me much," he said with a smile. "I said a lot of things I didn't mean I was real down at the time." He referred to some post-' game comments earlier in the season when he said he would not play behind fellow rookie quarterback Terry Hanratty and if such were the case he preferred to be traded.

"The town went wild," he said. "It really scared me I took my mother and little brother to a hockey game and when I was introduced the fans booed and threw things at me." Bradshaw said he's "really just shut up" since then. Atlanta (UPI) Don Shula doesn't pay much heed to that adage about not playing an opponent at his own game. For that's exactly what the Miami coach had the Dolphins doing against the Atlanta Falcons Monday night and beat them at it too. "Oh man, that was physical," Shula said after the Dolphins outmuscled the Falcons, 20-7.

"We knew they were tough physically and we knew we'd have to play tough and physical too." Atlanta coach Norm Van Brocklin reluctantly agreed with Shula, who switched from Baltimore to quickly build the Dolphins into a winner. "We simply got whipped in every phase of football," Van Brocklin sadly noted. "It was just an old-fashioned whipping." The victory raised the Dolphins, never before better than their 5-8-1 mark in 196S, to 7-4 and left them only Vk games behind the Baltimore Colts, whom they beat last Sports Hriefc Wendell Groth Decision Disappointing be recommended to the U.S. Olympic Committee to hold the meets. Groth said that Lincoln's Woods Park facilities did not take a back seat to any under consideration.

Loss of the trials here is certainly a big disappointment for a number of Capital City water sports enthusiasts who successfully operated the National. AAU Championships here in 1966 and 1968. A local drive was also completed last summer to install a heating system at Woods that would raise the water temperature to competitive AAU and Olympic standards. Groth, although disheartened by the decision to put the swim trials in Chicago said "there is a possibility we could get the national championships again without much difficulty in 1973." He attended a meeting Tuesday discussing that hope. Championship Awards from Tidewater of the International League for the $25,000 draft price in one of the least active selection sessions ever.

A year ago, Foy, a 27-year-; old speedster, was acquired to bolster their defense of the 1969 world championship. But Foy, who cost the Mets "two promising youngsters outfielder Amos Otis and pitcher Bob Johnson in that trade, batted just .236, had troubles in the field and fell out of favor with manager Gil Hodges. He rode the bench in the last two months of the season. The Mets, who fell to a third place finish in the National League East, assigned him outright to their Tidewater farm club in October, thereby exposing him to the draft. "A year ago he was worth two players" said Senators' vice president Joseph Burke.

"We a a shortage of in-fielders and he was the best third baseman. We think it's worth the gamble at $25,000." Only eight players were drafted by major league clubs, compared with 19 selected last December at Miami. The San Diego Padres, with the No. 1 pick, took left-handed pitcher Bill Laxton from Philadelphia's Eugene, affiliate in the Pacific Coast League. Laxton 22, was 1-3 with Eugene and 6-5 with Reading, in the Eastern League.

Wilhelm, who has worked more games than any pitcher in major league history, was reacquired by the Braves in a deal that sent first baseman Hal Breeden, plus cash, to the Cubs. Atlanta sent Wilhelm to Chicago last September during the NL stretch drive. He got into three games with the Cubs, after pitching. in 50 with the Braves, for a lifetime total of 1,042 appearances. Breeden batted .293 for the Braves' Richmond farm in the International League, belting 37 homers and knocking in 116 runs.

The Orioles dealt Drabowsky, 35, to St. Louis for utility in-fielder Jerry Davanon in the day's first trade. Drabowsky went from Baltimore to Kansas City in the 1968 expansion draft and was traded back to the Orioles last summer. The Cubs actually were the most active traders with three deals, but two were of the lower level variety. They sent Willie Smith, a part-time outfielder-first basemen, to Cincinnati for minor league catcher Danny Breeden outfielder Roe Skidmore and pitchers Dave Lemonds and Pat Jacquez for outfielder Ossie Blanco in 3-2 trade with the White Sox.

P. San Francisco, Calif. The possibility that Lincoln1 might be the site for the 1972 Olympic swimming and diving trials disappeared here Monday with the announcement that Chicago would be host for selection of the United States teams to compete in Munich, Germany. L. Wendell Groth of Lincoln, a member of the Men's Olympic Swimming Committee, said the Capital City was one of four bidders for the trials Chicago, Los Angeles and Long Beach, being the other three.

Groth explained that Long Beach was eliminated first, then Lincoln. "We just don't have enough members from the midwest on Olympic com- mitteec. We pushed hard and had support from the east, but when Long Beach dropped out, all those votes went for Chicago," Groth noted. Lincoln, getting support from one Iowa representative, two from Kansas City and another in Oklahoma, could not offset the heavy pressure to put the trials in the Windy City, where the last major swimming and diving championship was the 1959 Pan American Games trials. Chicago for swimming and Park Ridge, for diving, will Rentzel Placed On Inactive List Dallas (UPI) Lfince Rentzel, the Dallas Cowboys star pass receiver who was charged Monday with in-? decently exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl, is being placed on the inactive list, according to Cowboys president Tex Schramm.

"Lance Rentzel has requested that he be placed on the inactive list so that he may devote his time to settling his personal affairs," Schramm said. "He will work out with the team as his time permits. "The club will have no further comment." National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle declined comment on the incident. Under NFL rules a player on the inactive list becomes unavailable to the team for a minimum of two games. Neb.

Tech Wins Nebraska Tech of Milford won its first basketball game in three starts Monday night, defeating Manhattan (Ean.) Bible College, 70-61. Randy Stein led the winners with 13 points. Foolball Acting Mississippi football coach Frank Kinard is," encouraged about the prospect of quarterback Archie Manning being ready to face LSU Saturday night. "Medical reports have given us every reason to toe optimistic over the chances of Archie playing," he said. The Baltimore Colts have lost rookie defensive tackle Jim Bailey, who played at Kansas, for the season following knee surgery.

Baseball Chicago Cubs have an nounced that Whitey Lockman, who managed Tacoma in the Pacific Coast League last year, will become supervisor of minor league development for the Cubs. i Basketball Lew Alcindor continues to lead the NBA scoring race with an average of 32.5 points per game. San Diego's Elvin Hayes (28.7), Boston's John Havlicek (28.6), Atlanta's Lon Hudson (28.0) and Los Angeles' Jerry West (27.3) are his closest All event free unleat followed' by all Uhm a.m. uilett bold-(seed foe p.m. "Tuesday State College Basketball St.

Benedict's at Omaha; Northwestern at Wayne; Northwest Missouri at John F. Kennedy; Buena1 Vista at Concordia; Kansas Wesleyan at Doanc; Colby, Kan. at North Platte JC. i Regional College Basketball Nebraska at Wyoming, 9:05. (KLIN-KFOR).

Wednesday State College Basketball College of Emporia at Pershing. Boxing Pro-Am card at Civic Auditorium, Omaha, 8. Feature Races Charges brought against the men who shoot other men are seldom serious. The wording of Maine's charge is "negligent or careless shooting of a human being while in pursuit of wild game." Maximum penalty is a $500 fine and loss of hunting license. Despite the danger lurking in the New England woods, about 400,000 still venture there in pursuit of deer.

College Basketball Friends 75, Sacred Heart 68 Ouincy Colege 64, Rockhurst 81 Peru 84, Mount Marty 65 Platte 119, Cloud County 96 ABA Denver 103, Memphis 93 NBA Boston 109, Buffalo 106 Philadelphia 104, Baltimore 98 Jse Tuesday Lincoln Southeast football captains Doug Deeter (left) and Brad Egger display championship awards presented Monday night at the fifth annual "City Champions" dinner. Egger holds the city champion trophy donated annually by Tony Alesio and Bud Feerhusen and Deeter displays the Sunday Journal and Star plaque honoring Southeast as the No. 1 team in the Class A ratings. At Tropical Park 3.60 2.60 2 0 Crimson Stralt Iowa State Highlights 11:25 p.m. 3.80 3.40 500 Nurses Beau Native Tpnaue.

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