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mum Wait Orange Bowl 'Horses' in Starting Gate ifefllliilliiM LINCOLN, THUSDAY, DEC. 31, PAGE 9 By DON FORSYTHE Miami, Fla. The principals, Big Eight champion Nebraska and Southeastern Conference ch ampion Louisiana State, are ready. Orange Bowl ticket holders are ready. The question remains, however, as to whether or not an estimated television audience of over 50 million viewers will be primed for the Orange Bowl battle after having seen the Cotton, Sugar and Rose bowls earlier in the day.

They'd best be ready too. "This will be a knock-down, drag-out affair," claims LSU coach Charley McCIendon of the Orange Bowl match between his defensive-minded Tigers and Nebraska's potent offense. Nobody at the Orange Bowl site expects anything less. Nebraska coach Bob Devaney praises LSU's nation-leading defense against rushing as the best his Cornhuskers have seen. But he's not about to discard the steady Nebraska ground game which has provided the base for an unbeaten season.

"We're going to try to run on them," he promises. With I-back Jeff Kinney back at full efficiency following a late season shoulder injury the Cornhuskers again will rely primarily upon the 1-2 punch offered by Kinney and Joe Orduna at I-back. And despite the fact that the Cornhuskers boast one of the most effective passing attacks in the nation the LSU strategy one which has been successful all season is to first stop Nebraska from running. LSU defensive line coach Craig Randall terms the Nebraska attack as the best LSU has faced this season. "Overall, it is a much better team than we've faced all Cornhuskers first get their hands on the ball.

He started and played most of the way in the concluding 28-21 victory over Oklahoma. The big challenge for the Nebraska offensive line is the task of neutralizing LSU's tremendous tackle tandem of all-American John Sage and Ronnie Estay. "It's hard to handle them one-on-one," claims Nebraska offensive coach Tom Osborne. Defensively, the Nebraska chore is to keep LSU from getting the long gainers. The Tigers were a "big play" team during the season, breaking numerous running and passing plays for long yardage as they drove to a 9-2 record and the Southeastern Conference championship.

"I don't think they can drive on us for a long distance without a big play," says ill S'Z ft) irk season," he says of the Nebraska offense. "They're a little like Texas in that they'll run the ball and run it again even though they might not make a yard. The next thing you know they'll break one for 20 yards. They don't get discouraged." Randall claims it's difficult to get tendencies as to what the Cornhuskers will do in different situations. "We'll try to run and we'll try to throw," says Cornhusker coach Bob Devaney.

The balance between running and passing has been a key to the 10-0-1 season enjoyed by the Big Eight champions. The Cornhuskers enter the game at full strength. The biggest question mark is split end Guy Ingles, whose workouts here have been limited because of an ailing leg. "I'm ready to play," Ingles declares. Devaney hasn't made an official declaration on his starting quarterback, but based on his pattern of the past two seasons it will be Jerry Tagge at the helm when the Jayhawks Spank Cornhuskers 'J Nebraska defensive backfield coach Warren Powers, who is primarily concerned with stopping the long-range LSU passing attack.

While there's been some mention of it here, there's not a lot of talk about the national ratings. The big thing is the Orange Bowl game itself. The Cornhuskers have the attitude that if they don't beat LSU it really doesn't make any difference what they think about No. 1. And they have little control over what happens in Pasadena and Dallas.

The LSU motivation is provided in the opportunity to end Nebraska's long unbeaten string. The Cornhuskers haven't lost since they fell at Missouri in the fourth game of the 1969 season. A 21-21 tie with Southern California was the only blemish in 1970. "We'd like to be the first team to beat them," says Sage. In terms of tradition, LSU has a slight advantage.

The Tigers are 2-0 in Orange Bowl play, having whipped Texas 19-14, in 1944 and defeated Colorado, 25-7, in 1962. Nebraska rs 1-2 with a 34-7 loss to Duke in 1955, a 13-7 win over Auburn in 1964 and a 39-23 loss to Alabama in 1966. The bddsmakers favor Nebraska. The "line" favoring the Cornhuskers has dropped to three points, but Nebraska is still the choice. The Cornhuskers, who played just one night game (Southern Cal) all season, held a Wednesday night workout under the lights in the Orange Bowl stadium.

They plan a brief afternoon drill in the stadium Thursday for their final pre-game workout. Cornhusker Roster 9 Wes Mabin, DB 10 Bob McFarland, DB 11 MaxLinder, SE 12 Van Brownson, QB 13 Steve Runty, QB 14 Jerry Tagge, QB 15 Bob Jones. QB 16 Tom McClelland, DB 17 Bill Pogge, DE 18 Jim Anderson, DB 19 Frank Vactor, HB 20 Johnny Rodgers, HB 21 John Decker, DB 22 Dan Schneiss, FB 23 Bob Schmidt, HB 24 Bill Kosch, DB 25 Dave Mason, DB 26 Jeff Hughes, HB 27 Joe Blahak, DB 28 Dave Goeller, HB 29 Gary Hollstein, DB 30 Paul Rogers. DB, 31 Joe Orduna, HB 32 Woody Cox, SE 33 Mike Peetz, DB 34 John O'Connell. DB 35 Jeff Kinney.

HB 36 Randy Butts, HB 37 Monte Johnson, MG 38 Henry Jennings. DB 39 Steve Yanda. LB 40 Pat Morell, LB 41 Ralph Powell, FB 42 Jerry Murtaugh, LB 43 Dave Morock, DB 44 Bill Olds, FB 45 Bob Terrio, LB 47 Jim Carstens, FB 48 Bruce Hauge, LB 49 Jon Strong, LB 50 Doug Jamail. 51 Jim Branch, LB 52 Joe Duffy, OG 53 John Kinsel, 54 Doug Dumler, 55 Bill Janssen, John Sage LSU defender THE LINEUPS Offense LSU (9-2) NEBRASKA (10-U-U No. Name Ht.

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Name No. 81 Michaelson 6-1 223 Jr. TE So. 210 6-0 List 85 77 Alexander 6-5 260 Sr. LT Sr.

248 6-4 Newton 74 60 Elkins 6-2 220 So. LG Jr. 216 6-2 Rupert 77 50 Jaubert fi-1 214 Jr. So. 230 6-3 Dumler 54 62 Demarie 5-10 218 Jr.

RG Sr. 255 6-1 McGhee 70 76 Wright 6-4 252 Sr. RT Sr. 248 6-4 Winter 67 34 Keigley 6-3 213 So. SE Sr.

160 5-9 Ingles 88 18 Lee fi-4 205 Sr. QB Jr. 215 6-2 Tagge 14 24 Cantrelle 5-11 197 Jr. HB Sr. 196 6-0 Orduna 31 80 Hamilton 6-3 195 Jr.

HB So. 171 5-10 Rodgers 20 43 Benglis 6-0 207 So. FB Sr. 222 6-2 Schneiss 22 Defense Nebraska Shooting Average Tumbles By RANDY YORK Kansas City, Mo. When a team shoots poorly and rebounds poorly against another team with superior defense and more height, rarely does a basketball game even stay close.

That is why Nebraska reached its most catastrophic point of the season here at Municipal Auditorium Wednesday night in a 72-52 loss to Kansas in the 25th Big Eight Conference tournament. "We just didn't adjust to their 1-3-1 zone defense," Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano said in explaining how the nation's best percentage snooting team completely collapsed. "And they really hurt u's on the boards as they've hurt everybody in that respect." For all practical purposes the usually reliable Cornhuskers, who shot only 28 percent from the field, were never in the game. Nebraska was in a 15-5 hole 11 minutes into the game and never really recovered. Dave Robisch and Roger Brown, KU's towering 6-10 front line tandem, combined for 40 points and 25 rebounds.

But Kansas coach Ted Owens also believes his club's zone defense was the key to shutting off Nebraska's 55 percent 11-game shooting average. Good Defense Stopped Huskers "We didn't play particularly well on offense," Owens said. "I can't judge how Nebraska played, but a good defense will usually keep a team from shooting well. I felt our defense kept them from moving as well as they have in some other games. "We changed around to keep them off balance," Owens added in explaining how the 12th ranked Jayhawks successfully mixed man-to-man and zone defenses.

"We wanted to use a zone because Nebraska has been running its offense so well against the man-to-man." The pressuring zone, however, was no big surprise, according to Cipriano. It just caused a "lack of execution." Nothing they did surprised us," Cipriano said. "We knew what to do. We had practiced it, but against much smaller players. We lacked patience and hurried our shots." Even Cornhusker guard Marvin Stewart, who carried a 22 point average into the title game, couldn't find the range.

After scoring 11 points in the first half, he failed to connect again. Stewart was the third high vote getter for the all-tourney team with 52. Robisch led the voting with 64, and Colorado's Cliff Meely had 63. Oklahoma guard Scott Martin (31) and KU's Brown (28) also gained first team berths. Nebraska's Chuck Jura, who hit 18 points against the Jayhawks, just missed a first team spot with 27 votes.

He was joined by Pierre Russell of Kansas with 23, Bobby Jack of Oklahoma with 16, Gene Mack of Iowa State with 13 and Henry Smith of Missouri with eight. NU's Leroy Chalk, who snagged 13 rebounds and scored 10 points against Kansas Wednesday night, received honorable mention with three votes. He and Jura helped the Cornhuskers avoid suffering the biggest title game loss in the history of the tournament. (26 points when KU bombed Colorado 80-56 in 1956). Efforts Came Too Late But their efforts for the most part came in the second 'half when KU actually did own a 26-point cushion at 68-42 with about four minutes remaining.

"We had a little better penetration in the second half because we worked harder," Cipriano noted, "but I think we showed signs of being tired as we did at SMU after playing TCU the night before." Cipriano had little opportunity to use his bench in a 10-point semifinal win over Colorado. Owens, however, had the opportunity to shuffle Robisch and Russell in and out of the KU lineup. Russell scored 12 points and played the biggest role in handcuffing Stewart. "I wanted everyone to play as hard as he could," Owens said, "and when he got tired I wanted him out." The Cornhuskers, after an opening 5-2 lead, managed only one serious first half threat at 24-19 with 5:47 left. In other tournament action here Colorado beat out Iowa State, 70-64 for third place while Oklahoma topped Kansas State 83-52 for fifth place.

Missouri turned back Oklahoma State 72-60 for seventh spot. Pos. CI. LE Jr. LT Jr.

MG Sr. RT Sr. RE So. LB Sr. LB Jr.

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222 6-3 247 6-6 201 5-9 238 6-2 205 6-3 212 6-3 208 6-2 199 5-10 175 5-10 180 6-0 175 6-0 Name Nn, Adkins 57 Jacobson 75 Periard 56 Walline 76 Harper 81 Murtaugh 42 Terrio 45 Morock 43 Blahak 27 Anderson 1" Kosch 21 No. Name 93 Davis 73 Sage 78 Estay 86 Millican 45 Anderson 48 Cascio 88 Picou 37 Casanova 39 Earley 15 Norsworthy 30 Burns nt. wt. a. 5- 191 Sr.

6- 3 220 Sr. 6-1 233 Jr. 6-0 215 Sr. 6-3 225 Sr. 6-0 195 Jr.

5- 11 193 Jr. 6- 1 191 Jr. 6-0 188 Sr. 5-10 180 Sr. 5-11 175 Sr.

Jr. Kickoff 7 p.m. (CST), Orange Bowl Stadium. Telecast-NBC-TV: KMTV (3) Omaha and KHAS-TV (5) Broadcast NBC Radio: KFAB (1140) Omaha. AP WIREPHOTO Louisiana State Roster Nebraska's Chuck Jura (54) fires over Kansas' Roger Brown for two points in the Big Eight tourney finale.

KU won 72-52. Prodigy Haywood Prefers Seattle 1 Jimmy LeDoux, HB 3-A1 Coffee, SE 7 Bert Jones, QB 11 John Staggs, DB 12- Mike Riley, QB 15 Bill Norsworthy, DB 16 Paul Lyons, DB 17 Frank Racine, DB 19 Buddy Lee, QB 19 Don Addison, DB 21- Del Walker, FB 22 Allen Shorey, FB 24 Arthur Cantrelle, HB 25 Mark Lumpkin, 26 John Nagle, DB 30 Craig Burns, DB 31 Wayne Dicksinson, SE 32 Christ Dantin, HB 34 Gerald Keigley, SE 35 Doug Bland, FB 36 Joe Winkler, DB 37 Tommy Casanova, DB 38 Greg Bickham, DB 9 James Earley, DB 40 Boyd Perry, LB 41 Pepper Rutland, LB 43 Jim Benglis, FB 45 Mike Anderson, LB 48 Louis Cascio, LB 50 Jack Jaubert, 51 Logan Killen. 52 Lynn Foret, 56 John McCann. OG 57 Steve Egge, 58 Phil Murray, OT 59 Tom Besselman, OT 60 Jim Elkins, OG 61- Bobby Joe King, DT 62 Mike Demarie. OG 66- Lloyd Daniel, OG 67- Gene Callais, OT 69 Steve Streete, OG 70- Stewart Thibault, OG 72 Steve Martin, OG 73 John Sage, DT 74 Charles Stuart, OT 75 Greg Gonda, DE 76 Mike Wright, OT 77 Glenn Alexander.

OT 78 Ronnie Estay, DT 79 John Wood, DE 80 Andy Hamilton, SE 81 Jay Michaelson, TE 83 Randy Toms, TE 86 Buddy Millican, DE 88 Richard Picou, LB 89 Ken Kavanaugh, TE 91 Mike Doyle, DE 92 Lloyd Frye, LB 93 Arthur Davis, DE 96 Tommy Smith, LB 98- Jack Kimmitt, DE 99 John Weinstein, DT Creighton Sneaks To Victory West Palm Beach, Fla. UP) Creighton staved off a furious Georgetown rally to edge the Hoyas, 80-79, Wednesday night in the consolation game of the Gold Coast Basketball Classic. Ninth-ranked Jacksonville was upset by Wake Forest, 78-77, in a later game for the championship. Cyril Baptiste hit 26 points and 5-10 Mike Caruso got 22 to lead the Bluejays, who won their eighth game in 10 starts. Art White made 20 for Georgetown and Tim Mercier followed with 21.

Creighton led 45-35 at halftime and was on top by as much as 15 in the second half. 56- Ed Periard, MG 57- John Adkins, DE 58- John Hyland, DE 59- Bob Grenfell, OT 61 Bruce Weber, OG 62 Mike Beran, OG 63 Dan Anderson, 64 Doug Johnson, DE 65 Keith Wortman, OG 66 Bob Pabis, MG 67 Wally Winter, OT 68 Tom Robison, DT 69 Dan Malone, DT 70 Donnie McGhee. OG 71 Carl Johnson, OT 72 Daryl White, OT 73 Joe Henderson, OT 74 Bob Newton, OT 75 Larry Jacobson, DT 76 Dave Walline, DT 77 Dick Rupert, OG 78 Al Austin, OT 79 Rich Glover, DT 80 Johnny Pitts, DE 81 Willie Harper, DE 82 Phil Harvey, TE 83 Rex Lowe, SE 84 Dale Didur. SE 85 Jerry List, TE 8S-Bob Wolfe, TE 87 Phil Righetti, DT 88- Guy Ingles, SE 89 Frosty Anderson, SE 90- John Dutton, DT 91- Brent Longwell. TE 92 Tom Deyke, DT Floroin Cuts Jensen Lead mm iii mtmHtuC mm SEATTLE (AP) Spencer Haywood, child prodigy with the Denver Rockets, wants to play his basketball for the Seattle Supersonics and Sonics president Sam Echulman is ready to fight off two leagues to let him do it.

U.S. District Court Judge Warren J. Ferguson, refereeing the tug of war over the American Basketball Association's 1969 Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player, said Wednesday he will decide who has a valid contract with Haywood. Schulman announced Wednesday Haywood signed a contract "for many, many years" with the Sonics. Ferguson barred the National Basketball Association from preventing Haywood from playing with the Sonics.

NBA commissioner Walter Kennedy has refused Sonics' pleas to waive a rule barring any club from signing a man until his college class graduates. Ferguson set Jan. 8 as the date he will decide whether Denver has a valid contract with Haywood or, if not, whether the NBA can stop the Sonics from playing Haywood. "At this point," Ferguson said, "Mr. Haywood could wind up playing for Denver or Seattle.

There has been no final determination." Television Footballitis To Go On And On CREIGHTON GEORGETOWN Baptst Brgmn Brshn Cruso Tylor Tourney Boxes Page 10 Fighters Will Get I 10-13 26 White 12 it 4 16 Laughna 7 4-5 IS 1-1 SAArchH 0 1-1 1 12-13 22 Mrcr I 5-5 I 5-4 7-Weber 10-0 7 McNmra 1 2-4 4 Edwds 2 O-T 4 21 3M5 MTotalt 11 17-25 7 Totals .5 Million Each Spencer Haywood SuperSonics' Now? Haywood, 21, dropped out of the University of Detroit after his sophomore year to sign a $350,000 contract with the Rockets. After Haywood become the league's all-everything, the contract was superceded by another for six years and $1.6 million. "I don't doubt that he (Haywood) might have signed with Seattle," Rockets owner J. W. Ringsby said, "but I don't think there is anything he can do legally about our contract.

"As far as I'm concerned we'll have him sitting for six years. We have a contract with him for six years plus a seventh year option." $2 Creighton 45 35 Georgetown 35 447? Total fouls Creighton 19, Georgetown 29. Fouled out Creighton: Lewis, Baptiste; Georgetown: Laughna, Weber. est. Thursday nessee battling Air Force begins on ABC.

The New Year's Day attractions, in addition to the Cotton Bowl and Sugar Bowl, are the Rose and Orange Bowls. The Rose Bowl, oldest of the collegiate post-season classics, follows the Cotton on CBS and matches No. 2 Ohio State against Stanford and the Indians' Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, Jim Plunkett. Saturday's viewing features the Gator Bowl and the East-West Shrine Game. The professionals take over Sunday.

It's the Oakland Raiders vs. the Baltimore Colts for the American Football Conference title on NBC at 1 p.m., and the Dallas Cowboys vs. the San Francisco 49ers for the National Fcotball Con-f rence 4 New York The men around the house if they're football fans are going to be monopolizing the television for the next four days. Nine football games that's close to 30 hours will be nationally televised between Thursday night and Sunday. Included on the television menu are Sunday's conference championship games in the National Football League.

There's only one real conflict. On New Year's Day Friday the affluent have to use their second television set at 1 p.m., p.m., if they want to watch both the Sugar and Cotton bowls. The Cotton Bowl, pitting ton-ranked Texas apainst All-American quartet back Joe Theismann and Notre Dame's Fighting Irish, starts at 1 p.m. on CBS. An hour earlier the Sucar Bowl with No.

4 Ten Rodger Florom has narrowed Max Jensen's lead in the Hamm's Classic by defeating Bob Fillaus while Jensen lost to Stan Tyrrell Wednesday night. Jensen's lead now is 333 pins. Last week Jensen's lead was 716. Wednesday's Results Bill Slraub (656) def. Jim Dill (526), 71; Rodqer Florom (622) del.

Bob Fillaus (559), 30; Stan Tyrrell (603) def. Max Jensen (479), 3-0; John Madsen (586) def. Barry Baver (501), 21; Darrell Vinchow (575) def. Mel Brydl (509), 2 Don Meyer (559) def. Gary Cerny (555), 2-1.

Top Six Total Max Jensen 30 18 11,682 Rodger Florom 32 1 6 11. 354 Gary Cerny 38'i 19vi 11,023 Stan Tyrrell 24 24 10,508 Don Meyers J5 23 1 0 430 John Madsen 25 23 10.463 handle the closed-circuit television and other ancillarics. The fighters each "will receive guarantees of $2.5 million, but neither will partake of any of the ancillary revenues or percentages of the live gate receipts," Harry Markson, director of Garden Boxing, said at a press luncheon following the signing of contracts. The $2.5 million each fighter will receive which Perenchio said is being backed by Los Angeles sportsman Jack Kent Cooke, is the most money ever paid to anyone for a single performance in sports or entertainment. NEW YORK (AP) It will be champion Joe Frazier against Muhammad Ali for guarantees of $2.5 million each and the world heavyweight title in a fight that could bring a worldwide gross of $30 million.

The dream fight and the dreamlike financial figures both definite and possible were announced Wednesday by Madison Square Garden Boxing, and Chartwell Artists. The scheduled 15-rounder for Frazier's crown, the one Ali held before his military draft be held in the Garden March 8. Chartwell will Gillman Hack Al San Diego Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl Alabama v. Oklahoma, 6:30 p.m. (6-10).

Orange Bowl Preview 7:30 p.m. 3. d-E Friday-sugar Bowl Air Force v. Tennessee, 11:55 a.m. (71.

Cotton Bowl Notre Dame v. Texas, 12:45 p.m. (6-10). Rose Bowl Ohio State v. Stanford, 3:45 p.m.

3i. Orange Bowl Nebraska v. Louisiana Slate, 6:45 p.m. (3). Charger president Eugene Klein announced at a news conference that Gillman, 59, will retake the coaching reigns given to Charlie Waller with five games remaining in the 1969 season.

San Diego Sid Gillman returned Monday to the job of head coach of the San Diego Chargers but will drop general manager role with the National Football League Team. -1.