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St. Petersburg Times, Wtdnesdoy, Dec, 30, 1970 3-C Poll illf'dppers Make Biggest Strides asketball In iiocitt4 prui The deluge of holiday bas- ketball tournaments, and the Usual quota of upsets, contin- ued t() jumijie the national rankings with Western Ken- tucky making the greatest strides. The powerful Hilltoppers, ranked 10th In the nation a week ago, used the forum of Madison Square Garden and the ECAC Holiday Festival to vault Into fifth place. The unbeaten Hilltoppers stunned previously unbeaten Jacksonville In a pre-tournoy warmnp last week, knocked off Cornell and then St. John's of New York to gain the finals against second-ranked South Carolina.

The poll of sports writers and broadcasters across the country was taken through games of last Saturday only, Only the top three teams in the poll UCLA, South Caro- Una and Marquette re- talned their relative positions" with all others in the top 20'' moving around. Una, St. John's and New Mex I1 Sarasota Leads 2,983 To 2,955 Bowl Roundup Color Orange Bowl Red: For The Coaches' Faces Sr. I (11 I MM AP TV; 7:45 p.m., Ch. 8 MIAMI Nebraska Coach Bob Devaney swished around the room in a mini-skirt.

Louisiana State's Charlie McClendon kicked his bare and hairy legs like a rock-ette and waved two pom-poms with a girlish giggle. It's all a part of coaching In the Orange Bowl. "Gracious, I hope my players don't hear about this," said McClendon. "They'll kill themselves laughing." The college football geniuses were conned into the pregame frivolity Tuesday at the Orange Bowl coaches stag luncheon. Deva-, ney and McClendon, who meet in a much more masculine, affair in- New Year's night's Orange Bowl game, were sitting at the head table Peach TV: 8 p.m., Ch.

10 rATLANTA (PI Eighth-ranked Arizona State, an explosive undefeated power, tangles with North Carolina and Hey, Coach, Your Slip Is Showing Devaney (L), McClendon Join in QB Luncheon Fun Three teams North Caro- ico State dropped out of the rankings altogether. They were replaced by No. 17 Louisville, No. 18 Louisiana State and No. 19 Utah State.

UCLA scored two victories last week in preparation for. its appearance against W11-. liam and Mary In the Steel Bowl in Pittsburgh and re-, tained its customary spot atop the rankings. The Bruins gained 25 of 28 votes cast for 545 points. Second-ranked South Carolina got one first place ballot and No.

3 Marquette got the other two. Southern California jumped two places to fourth, followed by Western Kentucky and Penn, which dipped one place to sixth despite winning two games en route to the finals of the Quaker City tournament. Drake advanced two places to seventh and was followed by Kentucky, Jacksonville and Tennessee. The 11th through 16th places were held by Villanova, Kansas, St. Bonaventure, Indiana, Notre Dame and Oregon, with the three newcomers fol- lowing.

Purdue was 20th. Basketball Poll Here are the top 20 teams and records through last Saturday with total points based on 20-18-16-14-12-1O-9-8-7-6-M-3-2 basis with first place votes in parenthesis: 1. UCLA (25) 64) 2. S. Carolina (1) 6-0 3.

Marquette (2) 6-0 4. USC 7-0 5. Western Ky. 7-0 6. Pennsylvania 6-0 7.

Drake 8-0 8. Kentucky 6-1 9. Jacksonville 5-1 10. Tennessee 6-0 11. Villanova 8-1 545 486 439 347 339 278 220 215 182 162 108 105 63 47 40 23 22 17 14 13 12, Kansas 7-1 13.

St. Bonaventure 6-0 11. Indiana 15. Notre Dame 16. Oregon 6-2 3-2 6-1 5-1 17.

Louisville 18. Louisiana State 5-0 19. Utah State 6-2 20. Purdue 6-3 Other teams receiving votes in alphabetical order: Colorado State, Georgia Tech, Houston, Kansas State, Long Beach State, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Carolina State, St. John's N.Y., Utah, Virginia, Washington State.

fi TAX-FREE INCOME with safety. See today's business section J. MILTON NEWTONhc TAX FREE BONDS EXCLUSIVELY Vs. Ball Steve Holden, 9.8. Coach Bill Dooley of the Tar Heels acknowledges the Sun Devils' speed and says, "We have to control the ball, grind it out and keep the ball out of their hands.

We don't do anything fancy but we don't feel the game wiU be mismatch." McCauley, a 208-pound se-noir, has the ability to provide the baU control Dooley wants. The Ail-American ran for SARASOTA UP) Sarasota High led Riverview High in a basketball game Tuesday, 2,983 to 2,955 and it wasn't even halftime. Junior Varsity Tourney Starts At Northeast The first annual Northeast Junior Varsity basketball tournament involving high school jayvee teams from the Pinellas County Conference will begin this morning at 9 a.m. Bishop Barry of the Sunshine Conference has been named to take the place of Seminole and the Barons, along with Lakewood, are 6-0 and highly-rated in the two-day event. Largo (1-4) will meet Dixie Hollins (1-5) this morning at 9, followed by Boca Ciega and Dunedin, both 2-3, and Gibbs (3-1) and Northeast (4-2) and finally Clearwater (5-1) against St.

Petersburg (2-2). That is the first session. The second begins at 6:30 with two games. The same morning schedule will be followed Thursday, but the consolation game will be played at 4:30 followed by the championship contest at 6 p.m. Charlotte Banquet Is Scheduled Jan.

6 PUNTA GORDA The annual Charlotte High School football banquet, postponed due to the Fighting Tarpons' participation in the state playoffs, has been re-scheduled. The banquet will be held Wednesday, Jan. 6, in the high school cafeteria, starting at 6:30 p.m. All interested football fans are invited. Solomon Repeats In Junior Tennis MIAMI BEACH iP) Defending champion Harold Solomon overcame Brian Gottfried's challenge Tuesday to become the first boys-18 titlist to repeat as champion of the Junior Orange Bowl Tennis Tournament.

Solomon, of Silver Spring, called on accuracy to offset Gottfried's power service. He beat the Fort Lauderdale player 6-3, 11-9, 6-1. Solomon and Gottfried teamed to win the boys-18 doubles title by defeating South Africa's Bryan Bertram and Ruan Kruger 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. had that "what're we doin' here?" took. Toastmaster Joe Garagiola stared at Devaney's somewhat shapeless legs and said, "I didn't know If he had a bad case of varicose veins or if Bob's pen was leaking." Back in their normal apparel, the coaches spoke briefly after the laughing died down.

"We'll try to stay in the game with LSU," mused Devaney, "so people won't turn off their TV sets too early." McClendon, equally kind to his opponent, said, "Nebraska has a crushing team one that does a few more things than anyone we've faced in 1970." The battle between the 10-0-1 and third-ranked Corn-huskers and the fifth-ranked Tigers, 9-2, is expected to draw about 81,000 fans. It will be a record crowd, thanks to 4,000 new bleacher seats) primarily installed for the Jan. 17 Superbowl game here. Speed and ranked fourth in scoring with a 35.7 average. Veteran coach Frank Jush has assembled what many call the fastest college football team in the country.

Four of his starters run the 100-yard dash in 9.8 seconds or better split end J. D. Hill, 9.3, halfback Monroe Elcy, 9.5, quaterback Jim Spanola, 9.7, and wingback sumed workouts for this game." Worster had an injury problem prior to the Arkansas game, but he played and gained 126 yards in 21 carries in the 42-7 Texas victory. To Wear elbow must remain immobilized. Acting coach Frank Kinard said Manning is in much better condition now than he was for the Louisiana State debacle three weeks ago.

The Rebels were bombed, 61-17, by Louisiana State Dec. 12. In that game, Manning wore the same protective de From l-C I' "ILIliaffijlIWjBiUJtf)WUIWIli'IHMWWWIW The two teams started playing basketball at noon Saturday, in the' Sarasota High School gym. They hope to set a world record of 177 hours of continuous basketball when they finish next Saturday evening. They say the existing record is 150 hours.

Each team has 24 players who work in shifts of two hours on and six hours off. Thursday, they will introduce a new play the long break. That's when they will leave the gym and dribble three miles across town to a sports arena where they will play out the final hours. Sebring Zips To 3rd Place Af Palmetto By BOB BENDER Of Thl Timet Stiff PALMETTO Sebring High School won third place in the first annual Palmetto Invitational basketball tournament by beating a scrappy underdog Cardinal Mooney quintet from Sarasota 62-48 in the consolation contest Tuesday night. The championship game matched Clearwater Catholic and host Palmetto.

The much smaller Mooney team stuck with the favored Blue Streaks until Cougar sparkplug Chip Bifano was whistled out of the game via the foul rout with 4:52 remaining and Sebring ahead 41-40. Until that time, Mooney had lead most of the way but the lead exchanged hands frequently in the second half. SEBRING CARO. MOONEY 6 OFT Dutcn Barr Travers Se'under Walker Gill 4 14 Bifano 4 3-4 11 7 0-1 14 3 2-3 8 a i-i 17 Difley 1 Perry Leverone 7 Oresn Kaustan 1 0-0 1-2 3 3 1-5 4 2-3 10 5 2-2 0 0-0 1 0-0 Total! 24 14-25 2 Totals 21 i 40 Sebring Mooney 13 15 2-2 ii a Total Fouls: Sebring 11, Mooney 19. Fouled Out: Bifano, Green (Mooney).

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Devaney and McClendon, with the other eight victims, rolled up trouser legs and stripped themselves of expensive blazers. The coaches were then adorned in red and white miniskirts and pom-1 poms were stuffed in their strong hands. A not-so-curvy old gal appeared to lead the fellows in a cheer and the audience of 1,100 roared. Devaney and McClendon Pairings: AU-American tailback Don McCauley tonight in the third annual Peach Bowl game. The game, set for an 8 p.m.

EST kickoff in Georgia Tech's Grant Field, will be televised by Mizlou Productions Inc. The Western Athletic Champion Sun Devils, a one-touchdown favorite, led the nation in total offense this year, averaging 514 yards, Friday's Cotton Bowl duel against Notre Dame amid coach Darrell Royal's fretting about the condition of his workhorse fullback, Steve Worster. "I'm' concerned about Worster," Royal said. "He hurt a knee and shoulder in the Arkansas game and he's just not getting around like he should. You know, he couldn't work out with us when we first re- Archie MEMPHIS, Tenn.

(9) Mississippi quarterback Archie Manning must wear a protective sleeve over his broken left arm when the Rebels meet Auburn in the Gator Bowl Jan. 2. Physicians here told Manning Monday they aren't fear-j ful of a blow to his arm, but to insure proper healing the Sports Workhorse Worster Ailing Chickens, Jackets Roasted ATLANTA (UPI) Sen. Barry Goldwater day in a symbolic roasting of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets decked out in a chef's hat, pan-fried two small chickens Tups-who allegedly refused to meet Arizona State in a bowl game. "I understand Arizona State wanted to play Georgia Tech but Georgia Tech didn't want to play, them," said Goldwater who is in town for tonight's Peach Bowl game between Arizona Stats and North Carolina.

Georgia Tech, sent a dozen chickens by Arizona State students in an implication that the Yellow Jackets were "chicken," beat Texas Tech 17-9 in the Sun Bowl. Control 1,720 yards in 324 carries this year, breaking the single season NCAA rushing record of Heissman Trophy winner O. J. Simpson of Southern California. The Sun Devils rode to 10 straight victories this year, including an early season 35-13 triumph over Kansas State.

North Carolina had an 8-3 record. Sleeve tional Football League teams gather in New York next month to select the top college players. 4J i I AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) The University of Texas Long-horns wrapped up their on-campus workouts Tuesday for We Bet Irish Can't Pass bn This Street ausi.iim, j.ex. un Residents of Notre Dame Drive in northeast Austin showed their true colors Tuesday.

riqase, they asked Mayor Travis LaRue in a special petition, change the name of their street to "Beat Notre Dime Drive" for one day only Jan. 1 when the University of Texas plays Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl. LaRue took the request tinder consideration. 1 TTCtmwmr in Time For IE Protective vice. Manning says he is becoming more adjusted to playing with the cast on his arm.

But he admits he is throwing the football without the proper follow-through. This will be Manning's final game for Ole Miss. He is expected to be high on the list of draft choices when the Na- FIGHTING ACTION! prize money in the world end-of-season bonuses personal pride make for keener competition, hard-foueht olav and vou can it! 51M 1 Nf Vf The outstanding trainer and jockey of the 1970 race meeting at Florida Downs both met with tragedy later in the year. II. Dean Montgomery, leading trainer at the Oldsmar track last winter, died of a heart attack at the age of 36 last summer at Finger Lakes, N.Y.

Jockey Jose Olivares, who broke Mike Manganelio's Florida Downs record with 62 winners lasts season, was badly hurt in a summer spill at Finger Lakes and is paralyzed from the neck down. Cliff Pennington, one of the few Jacksonville Rockets ever to inspire cheers from a St. Petersburg crowd, still is having his ups and downs in professional hockey. Pennington played for the Rockets in 1966-67 and averaged two goals a game in Bayfront Center appearances. Now he's launching his slap shots for Des Moines of the International Hockey League and ranks third in the IHL in scoring with 29 points.

But Cliff, who was the league's most valuable player last season, was benched last week for lackadaisical play. ond-season statistics with the Los Angeles Rams were 388 yards gained on 77 rushing attempts for an average gain of 4.38 yards (and one touchdown) and 24 pass receptions for 164 yards and another TD. Smith was hampered all season by a pulled hamstring muscle he suffered in training camp. Tyner also learned that Jim Yarbrough, a former star at tight end' for the Gators, now is playing offensive guard with the Detroit Lions and is expected to be a star of the future. Tyner had no luck on another request.

He asked for the pros scouting reports on 1970 defensive star Jack Youngblood. Neither the Rams nor the Lions would confess, but Youngblood already has been named to two All-America teams picked exclusively by pro scouts those of TIME magazine and The Sporting News. New York Mets' pitcher Jim McAndrcw now is a resident of St. Petersburg. The yrjng right-hander recently purchased a home in the city's northeast section.

No. 1 ranking last year by beating Notre Dame here. The Longhorns are still No. 1. TEXAS by 10.

ROSE BOWL at Pasadena: Ohio State doesn't make mistakes. Stanford does. OHIO STATE by 14. ORANGE BOWL at Miami: Louisiana State's splendid defense doesn't get enough help from its offense. Nebraska has enough balance to restore Big Eight pride after two straight flops in Miami.

NEBRASKA by seven. GATOR BOWL at Jacksonville (Jan. 2): Mississippi has Archie Manning but Auburn has a whole lot more offense. AUBURN by 10. Tom Tyner, a lieutenant with the busy St.

Petersburg Fire Department, likes to follow the careers of former University of Florida football players. Tyner doesn't hesitate to fire off letters to professional clubs to learn about former Gators and he usually receives detailed replies. Tom reported Tuesday that Larry Smith's sec- S. Dale Mabry it Gandy Blvd. 447-0685 Res.

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