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Hard-Luck Era Was Past Nearly w' mi 4 1. "We've begun to turn our program around," Tolley said two weeks ago. "We're heading in the right HUNTINGTON, W.Va. U1 An end of a hard-luck era born out of scandal, losing streaks, probations, coach dismissals and conference rejection had appeared on the horizon this year for Marshall University's football team. With help from concerned citizens, the West Virginia Legislature and a "gritty bunch of boys," Marshall's belea-guered football program showed signs of coming alive.

There was hopo that a team which bad suffered a near all-time losing streak the past two years could bounce back and become a winner. That hope crashed here Saturday night with the chartered airline that carried to their deaths most of the school's football squad and coaching staff. When the DC9 jet smashed into a hillside and burned, killing all 75 persons aboard, the final chapter was written to a nightmarish era of football competition at Marshall. Dead are head Coach Rick Tolley, five of his assistants, Athletic Director Charles Kautz and Sports Information Director Cene Morehouse. Dead too, are 38 football players who had suffered through some of the chapters of adversity.

Last fall, any hopes for football future at Marshall looked bleak. The school had not won in 21 straight contests. An investigation had documented charges of a recruiting For former coach, a nightmare: 7-C scandal and the head basketball and football coaches were reassigned In the wake. An assistant football coach was fired. The athletic director resigned, The Mid-American Conference suspended Marshall for the recruiting Irregularities and for what It termed, "woefully Inadequate facilities." The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) placed the school's football program on one year's probation.

Tolley was named Interim head coach three days before fall practice started. Tolley had a limited staff, and fewer than 40 players reported when drills opened. Less than 10 freshmen had been signed to grants-in-aid. Marshall's wlnless string soon extended to 27 games, and the Thundering Herd meekly edged within one game of setting a national standard for major colleges. Then a Renaissance began to take hold.

Behind scrambling quarterback Ted Shot-bridge, Marshall rallied to win three of Its four remaining games. Shoebridge, a sophomore, established a handful of school records and ignited boosters' hopes for better days. Tolley launched a heavy recruiting program and pro-(See MARSHALL, 7-C) RICK TOLLEY head coach. o'us! srojcyl i SIC maa sj it Bys t.Pftfrsbur0iTimp3 tty ti Mi 1 More Pro Football: 3-C DENVER (UPI) Oakland's miracle worker, 43-year-old George Blanda, did it again Sunday he threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Fred Biletnikoff with 2:28 left to give the Raiders a 24-19 win over the Denver Broncos. The win kept Oakland in the Western Division lead in the American Football Conference with a 5-2-2 mark.

It dropped Denver to 4-5. Three weeks ago Blanda in his 21st year of pro ball, filled in when starting quarterback 1 i Monday, November 16, 1970 CLASSIFIED Nebraska Picks An MIAMI (UPI) The Orange Bowl Committee announced Sunday night the Nebraska Cornhuskers had unanimously voted to accept their Invitation to meet an undetermined opponent in the Orange Bowl Game New Year's night. i Jack Houghteling, publicity director of the annual Orange Bowl Festival, said Nebraska director of athletics Jim Llewellyn had sent the committee a telegram formally notifying Orange Bowl officials of the routine player vote. The committee had extended its invitation Saturday night. The committee will send scouts to South Bend, Saturday to watch Notre Dame take on LSU, with both teams possible opponents for Nebraska.

The Irish, tied with Texas for first place in the UPI rankings last week, are also being courted by the Cotton Bowl for a possible showdown with the Longhorns. Other teams eyed by the Orange Bowl are Tennessee, Air Force and Mississippi. The Cornhuskers are 9-0-1, their record marred only by an early season 21-21 standoff with Southern California, and face Oklahoma Saturday in (SceOKANGE, 7-C) 1 ti iTtli 1 Darjle Lamonica was Injured and directed the Raiders to a 31-14 win over Pittsburgh. The next week he kicked a 47-yard field goal with three seconds left to tie Kansas City 17-17. Last week he pulled the Oilers into a tie with Cleveland with a touchdown pass, then booted a 52-yard field goal for a 23-20 win, again with three seconds left.

V- r- If Vilces Dust Off Lions; Polish Division Title vl CLINTON JONES three TD runs. jl UPI Minn. (UPI) Clinton Jones scored his third touchdown of the game with 1:23 to play to give Miami Dolphins' Mercury Morris Riding High and so are the, Dolphins once again: Story, 3-C He replaced Lamonica according to coach John Mad-den's script after Denver quarterback Pete Liske had dived across the goal line to put Denver in the lead for the first time, 19-17 with 4:01 left. Liske also passed 10 yards to Jim Whalen for a touchdown and Bobby Howfield kicked field goals of 47 and 44 yards for Denver. Lamonica, shaking off the sore shoulder which made him a questionable starter all week, threw 36 yards to Warren Wells for a touchdown and tossed a short, looping screen pass to Hewritt Dixon which turned into a 46-yard score.

Wait Omen Hope touchdown and a 10-3 lead as the first quarter ended. Landry hit Mel Fan with a five-yard scoring pass five minutes into the third period. Detroit made it 20-10 five minutes later when Mann kicked his second field goal of the game, after Lem Barney returned a punt 24 yards to the Minnesota 38 to set it up. With the full house of 47,900 fans watching the clock, Cuoz-zo drove Minnesota close again, and Jones scored his second touchdown on a one-yard run with 10:15 to play. the Minnesota Vikings a 24-20 victory over Detroit that all but guaranteed the Vikings their third straight Central Division title.

The scoring play was set up by Gary Cuozzo's pass to reserve tight end Jim Lindsey to the Detroit five, and Jones swept left end for the score on the next play. Liens Vikinsi First downs .15 17 Rushing yardage 132 85 Passing yardage 5 204- Return yardage 48 28 Passes 10-17-2 13-30-1 Punts 3-37 Fumbles lost 0 1 Yards penalized 20 Detroit 10 0 10 020 Minnesota 3 7 0 1424 Det FG Mann 28 Minn FG Cox 19 Det Williams 85 kickoff return (Mann kick) Minn Jones 3 run (Cox kick) Det Farr pass from Landry (Mann kick) Det FG Mann 17 Minn Jones 1 run, (Cox kick) Minn Jones 4 run (Cox kick) A Peach 0 A Time For Gators? Seminoles Seek Place In The Sun The victory, which left Mb ncsota 8-1 for the year and history and some $300,000 at three-year brought in By TOM KELLY Times Sports Editor Detroit 5-4, with five games to play, was the Vikings' sixth ft v. TAMPA The University of Florida's 1970 football sea' straight over the Lions. Blanda added the other three points on a 32-yard field goal. Blanda entered the game with 3:54 left and passed to Rod Sherman for 27 yards and then hit Wells for 35 before completing the touchdown throw to Bilitnikoff.

son has come down to a matter of waiting for the tele DOUG DICKEY feels Gators are bowl material. Jones also scored on three- yard and one-yard runs, but phone to ring. shared star honors with Lions The Gators made their final quarterback Greg Landry, appeal to the minor bowl com' who almost brought off an upset in his first start of the mittees Saturday with a 24-: Today's go-anywhere, do-anything Hush Puppies Ride herd on soft style. With this active-fashion boot from Hush Puppies, in Natural Brushed Antiqued Pigskin. $J99 year.

Raiders Broncos 16 30 80 11a 258 196 55 70 15-29-1 14-39-3 6-47 6-44 1 0 28 84 First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized After Detroit's Errol Mann the The game came off with hardly a hitch. There were no massive traffic jams and the unreliable electric scoreboard functioned perfectly. The only drawback was a brisk south wind that influenced the passing and punting of both teams. Florida continued its improved offensive line play that began in the upset of Georgia a week ago. Although the Gator forwards weren't able to push Kentucky's front four around, they did manage to protect Reaves admirably on his passes.

Given time to wait, get set and look before throwing, Reaves found Yancey for two and Minnesota's Fred Cox had swapped field goals, Bobby Williams ran Cox' kickoff back 85 yards for a 7 7-24 3 13-19 Oakland Denver Oak Wells 36 pass from Lamonica victory over Kentucky at Tampa Stadium. It gave Florida a 7-3 record with only Miami remaining to be played on Nov. 28. Despite the fact they suffered three severe beatings in mid-season, Florida is under consideration by Atlanta's Peach Bowl and El Paso's Sun Bowl for three main reasons: 1. Florida is in position to end with an 8-3 record.

2. Quarterback John Reaves and flanker Carlos Alvarez are nationally known a Doug Dickey said in response to a question. "We have some things that are exciting when we do them well and we have a lot of people who follow our football Dickey was proven accurate on counts Saturday. Reaves threw three touchdown passes two to tight end Jim Yancey and one 70-yard bomb to split end Willie Jackson as the Gators struggled past Kentucky. The crowd of 44,312 paying fans was the third largest attendance in Tampa Stadium's (Blanda kick) Den FG Howfield 47 Oak FG Blanda 32 DEN FG Howfield 44 Oak Dixon 46 pass from Lamonica (Blanda kick) Den Whalen 10 pass from Liske (kick failed) Den Liske 1 run (Howfield kick) Oak Biletnikoff 20 pass from Blanda (Blanda kick) A 50,959 By FRED GIEARD Of Tht Timts Still The time has come for the Florida State Seminoles to sit down and take a long, hard look at what a month ago was only a dream a possible bowl bid.

Back then, the Seminoles had a 2-3 record and the two victories were entirely unconvincing. The team had no quarterback to speak of, their spirit and pride were being questioned and coach Bill Peterson was playing a game of human checkers with his personnel in an attempt to find the answers. Apparently he found them. The Seminoles have streaked out to four straight victories since then, the last one a very convincing 34-8 trouncing of Virginia Tech Saturday at Doak Campbell Stadium. The Seminoles showed flash and verve in everything they did their passing, their running, their returns, their defense.

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