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Can't Leave Job Unfinished McCoy Out To Rebuild Hurricanes AP Wirephoto MAINSTAYS When (he Pittsburgh Steelers meet the Miami Dolphins Sunday in Pittsburgh to decide the American Football Conference crown, these three mainstays in the Steelers backfield are likely to play important roles in the outcome. From left are Franco Harris, quarterback Terry Bradshaw and John (Frenchy) Fuqua. The winner of contest will gain right to face National Football Conference champion in Super Bowl. AP Wirephoto FLEET FEET FROM MIAMI Miami Dolphins running backs, from left, Mercury Morris, Jim Kiick and Larry Csonka go into the American Football Conference playoff game with top ground-gaining performances during the past season. The Dolphins meet Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday for the crown in Pittsburgh, vying for a slot in the Super Bowl Jan.

14. The AFC champion will meet the winner of the National Football Conference playoff game between Washington and Dallas. Tide's Offense Potent Wishbone Gives Longhorns Most Trouble On Defense DALLAS (AP) Texas defensive coach Mike Campbell says he know why, but Wishbone offenses give the Longhorns more trouble than any other formation. be that way be- Oate December 27 28 29 30 31 January 1 TIDES Eastern Standard Time Naples Outer Coast High AM 5:18 5 18 654 6:04 8:49 6:58 10.05 7:58 11:04 8 58 11:36 9 54 10:52 12:19 1:37 2:45 3:41 1:01 2:17 3:26 Add one hour for Naples Bay Bridge one hour for Marco 27 28 29 30 31 January 1 27 28 29 30 31 January 1 Date Phase Dec 27 Last Quarter Jan. 12 First Quarter Jan 18 Full Moon Jan 26 Last Quarter Dec 31 Apogee Jan.

16 Perigee Southwest Coast Tides For Dec. 27, 1972 High low High lew cause we look at the offense every says Campbell, who is in charge of stopping high-powered Wishbone in the 37th Cotton Bowl New Day. Campbell says from the films he ha? seen of the Crimson Tide Wishbone, a potent bulldozer with an excellent pass-and-run quarterback in Terry Davis. "Davis reminds me a lot of Eddie Phillips and James Street, who ran our Wishbone to Campbell says. Davis probably can pass better than either James or Eddie.

Alabama can throw the ball, but they really run their Wishbone much different than we The Wishbone as now used in college football originated at Texas under Coach Darrell Royal and former assistant Emory Ballard, now head coach at Texas Alabama Coach Paul after extensive talks with Royal, switched to the offense in 1970. The Crimson Tide opened with a victory over Southern California and have only lost twice since-to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl and to Auburn in the last game of this regular season. Texas has compiled a 9-1 season record and its fifth consecutive Southwest Conference title. The Longhorns intercepted 21 passes, with Tommy Keel leading the team with four. Alabama is ranked fourth and owns a 10-1 record as it enters its 26th bowl its 14th straight since Bryant became coach.

Alabama is 1210-3 in bowl games. Texas, making its 20th postseason appearance, is 11-5-2. The Longhorns are 5-0-1 against Alabama. A Bryant- coached team has never beaten a Royal-tutored outfit. Bryant is 0-2-1 against Royal.

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1 16 pm 3 00a 1:57 p.m. m. 231pm 4 44 a rn MIAMI (AP) University of Miami Athletic Director Ernie McCoy is 68 years old, an age where many men yearn to enjoy retirement by spending idle hours hunting and fishing. exactly what McCoy has in mind returning to his beloved Pennsylvania hills with his wife and enjoying the change of seasons. He admits the always-warm Miami climate is not adjusted to and only trouble is he stand to leave a job unfinished.

He wants to leave Miami with the football program back on solid ground. He retired once as athletic director at Penn State University. But when Miami asked him in 1971 to serve temporarily as athletic director until order was restored following the resignation of football coach-athletic director Charlie Tate, McCoy accepted. Whatley To Replace Walls As Quarterback Southern Cal Coach Thinks Team Greatest PASADENA, Calif. (AP) How good are the Southern California Trojans, the top-ranked college football team? Their coach, Jim McKay, said Tuesday: O.J.

Simpson team of 1968 had some good athletes but there were some athletes on that team who would not suit up on this Otherwise, rival Rose Bowl coaches McKay and Woody Hayes of Ohio State reiterated superlatives at the annual Southern California Football Writers Association pre-Rose Bowl luncheon. Speed of the 11-0 Trojan team was a primary topic. has a lot of said McKay of his team, and for the umpteenth time he judged is the greatest team had at The 1968 Simpson-led Trojans lost only Ohio State 2716 in the Rose Bowl. Of the speed, Hayes said, question about it. They are faster than Michigan, faster than we are, faster than The Buckeye squad, 9-1 and ranked No.

3 in the nation, is not the best Ohio State team under Hayes. He said his Rose Bowl team of two years 27-17 loser to more comparable to the 1972 Trojans. Ohio State this year have the big name players, such as Rex Kern, John Brockington and Jack Tatum, Hayes noted. The Trojans are two touchdown favorites. hope to go out there and play well enough to win.

If we he joked, have to go into the lockerroom and think of some JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Auburn, first on the Gator Bowl scene today, is putting out the word that Wade Whatley is just as good a quarterback as the injured Randy Walls. Cleveland Rehires Skorich As Coach CLEVELAND (AP) The Cleveland Browns have rehired head Coach Nick Skorich with a three-year contract extending through the 1975 football season. expect the entire staff to be back, and we can concentrate on getting the job Skorich said Tuesday. a contract of this length is helpful in dealing with players.

very happy with both the financial arrangements and the length of the Skorich, an assistant Browns coach since 1964, was named head coach in 1971 after Blanton Collier retired. In two seasons, he has stretched his record to 19 victories and nine defeats. During his professional football career, he played as a guard for the Pittsburgh ers. Skorich spearheaded the metamorphosis this year from a near-patsy to a title contender. After losing six straight exhibition games and three out of five regular season games, the Browns roared back with a six-game winning streak, finishing with a 10-4 record for the season.

The Browns took the National Football Conference berth, but the team lost its playoff match with the Miami Dolphins last weekend, 20-14. only have five plays joked sports information director Buddy Davidson, a new quarterback have to learn Whatley was expected to be the top quarterback in 1972, but a spring practice injury put him behind Walls in the battle of sophomores and he never got back on top. Whatley played less than 19 minutes all season. At 6-foot-3 and 202 pounds, with a Redshirt year behind him, Whatley is not exactly an unknown package as Auburn prepares to meet Colorado in the Gator Bowl football game Saturday. anything happened to him, Davidson said with a cringe, have to turn to two freshmen who played one bit of varsity football-Clyde Baumgartner and Rick Colorado coach Eddie Crowder, putting his Buffalos through drills at Daytona Beach, made no changes in his plans because of the injury to Walls in practice.

He was all set to retire again next June. He had the football coach he wanted in Fran Curci and the man he wanted to succeed him as athletic director in Pete Elliott. Then, Curci suddenly pulled up stakes last week to take the head coaching job at Kentucky and McCoy immediately tabbed Elliott, coach of Rose Bowl teams at California and Illinois, as the new coach. That left a hole in the athletic line of succession, and McCoy agreed to serve another year. place is going to be back in business in insisted McCoy in an interview late in the football season.

no question about this being a challenge, a lot of McCoy calls a football program front window for a but the professional Miami Dolphins have pulled the shades down on the school. The Hurricanes drew only 110,000 fans this year, an average of about 22,000 a game. a far cry from the 29,000 average of last year, the 48,000 a game who saw the team play in the mid 1960s and the 40,000 who watched games as late as 1969. had no said McCoy of this attendance. had a very poor home schedule this True, small college Nevada of Las Vegas stimulate the turnstiles, but as it turned out, neither did Tulane, Houston or Maryland.

Next year should be the test of what a schedule can do, although McCoy thinks winning is more important. Miami opens with Texas and also hosts Notre Dame, Florida, West Virginia, Houston and Boston College. McCoy thinks college ball game is far superior to the pro and talks of more offensive plays, more scoring than in the pros But he admits a big problem of association with the fans. people are going to see the Dolphins games every Sunday, whether home or he said. next year the same team is going be they graduate in four he added.

(pros) around so long, people can name the defensive teams, offensive Athletic departments at big state institutions such as Ohio State University have had financial in recent years and the problem is compounded for private schools such as Miami. "Your biggest coast is said McCoy, estimating the cost of a full scholarship at the school at $5,000 and placing the cost factor "among the top in the U. He hopes for the National Collegiate Athletic Association to help through proposals such as scholarship aid on only a need basis, one-year aid grants only and a national limit on the number of grants in any sport. Miami currently doles out 120 full scholarships for football every four years, but cannot do the same for secondary sports as can the Southeastern Conference schools it competes with. possible in present conditions to be equal to McCoy admits.

had a hell of a McCoy thinks he can master the problems and get back to the fishing and hunting he loves. But he admits, especially private universities, have had to give it (football) up because they have tax By The Associated Press Football CLEVELAND Cleveland Browns Coach Nick Skorich was given a three-year contract, extending through the 1975 National Football League season. Horse Racing PHILADELPHIA Loyal Subject, $7.20, survived a foul claim to win the Penllyn Purse by a neck over Miss Bee Hope at Liberty Bell. Price, $3.80, won by a length in the seven- furlong feature at Calder Race Course. LAUREL, rallied in the stretch to capture the feature at Laurel Race Course.

MUD IN YOUR EYE Covered with mud Villa Vere, ridden by Bobby Howard, came from behind to win the one-mile opening race at Laurel Race Course in Maryland. Lady Andrea (on the rail), with Terry Barnes also getting a mud bath, was second, one-half length back. Auntie Joan finished third. The winner, timed 1:46 2-5, paid $14.00, $7.60 and $4.60. Naples Golf Digest Naples Golfer Enters PGA Campers Tourney Blue, Gray Look To Offense Stars Boco Grande6 00a IO S5a 6 36p Captiva Island635o 1 46a 7llp 1253p Pine Island 6 53a 2 Oo 7 29p Fort Myers 9 20a 4 28a 9 56p 3 35p Naples SI 7a 1045a 5 17p Mono 6.

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By the same token, the North will use the No. 2 total offense leader in the nation to help it better its position in the series which shows the South leading 18-14-1. Kickoff for the televised clash between the college all-stars from the North and South is set for 8 p.m. EST. The Blues, except for a 6-6 tie in 1969, have been on the short end of the score for the last four years.

The South won last game 9-0. Virginia Tech quarterback Don Strock will call the signals for the Grays. He led the nation in passing and total offense, connecting on 228 of 427 passes for 3,243 yards. Utah State quarterback Tony Adams, who was second in the nation in total offense, pilots the Blue squad. He passed for 2,787 yards and 22 touchdowns.

Blue Coach Vince Gibson of Kansas State and Gray Coach Charlie Coffey of Virginia Tech say their strategy will be to the Among the corps of receivers for the North are Tom Forzani of Utah State, who led the nation with 85 receptions, and the top receiver in the Big Eight, John Goerger of Kansas State. Mike Burnop and Craig Valentine of VPI, Dave Sullivan of Virginia and Jim Hodge of Arkansas are in the Rebel receiving unit. Morton Top Cowboy DALLAS (AP) Dallas quarterback Craig Morton surged from behind and edged Roger Staubach as "The Most Favorite award winner. Morton compiled 16,601 votes from the fans in the balloting to 12,761 for Staubach, last winner. Morton was the regular season quarterback for Dallas after Staubach was injured during the pre-season.

However, Staubach came off the bench to throw two touchdowns in a National Conference playoff victory over San Francisco. A Naples golfer, Vita J. Saputo, of No. 1 Navajo Trail, is one of the early entries in the first Continental Campers Open. The tournament will be held near Wildwood, and is a PGA event on the Florida winter tour.

Designed for the roving kind, the event pairs amateur with pro on the opening day. Ron Hoort, manager of the 864-acre cam per-resort, is still calling for more entries while players from as far off as Nova Scotia, Wichita and Connecticut are preparing to head for the Jan. 12-14 tournament. Co-sponsored by the Florida PGA, the Continental Campers Open is pa-tly an opening celebration for a resort which has set out to give campers a home-away-from-home Those who arrive at Wildwood can rough it if they want the wooded acres include a cypress swamp, one of the prime bird-watching areas in Florida and remnants of an Indian trail from the Seminole wars. The natural terrain is so impressively timbered (with five world championship tiees on the property) that the U.S.

Army used it as the base for training in camouflage tactics during World War II. But campers who like to combine their Nature explorations with golf, tennis and tected nights will find an 18- hole championship golf course designed by Ron Garl, nightlighted tennis courts within sighting distance of an Olympic pool, a major country club which is preparing to make room service available to the campsites. Continental Camper-Wildwood can be reached via Route 44, between Wildwood and Leesburg, and it is close by the top of the Florida turnpike. Those who want to participate in the tournament should obtain an entry blank from the Florida PGA, their present club or immediately call or write Ron Hoort at Continental Camper-Wildwood Palm River Holds Point Tournament Palm River men golfers held a point tournament by class Saturday along with low putts by field play. Alfred Green won class A honors with a 36 while class play ended in a three-way tie with Jonte Bauman, Albert Green and Louis Pope carding John Bitzer was first in class with a 36 while Morris Major took class honors with a 35.

Tied with in low putts by field play were Ben Getzelman and John Havel. Nassau Tournament Held At Moorings Men golfers at The Moorings Country Club held a Nassau tournament Thursday with Milt Kiebler and Jim Carr tying for A class honors with for the best 18. Rea Hearne was first in class with a 58 for his best 18, and Merle Darling topped class golfers with a best 18 of 59. Gene Pratt was second with a 59 for best 18 in A class, and Fred Statts was third with a 60. Hal Aldrich won the best back nine in A class with a 30 with George Losier and Stu Tapper tying for second with 31 and Charles Flowers taking third with a 32.

In best 18 play in class Hal Howden, Sid Lawrence and Frank Fricker tied for second with Bob Harrison was first in class for best front nine with a 29. In a three-way tie for second, carding were Earl Keyes, Joe Sharp and Don Nofri. Ray Andrew and Howard Jones tied for second in best-18 play in class with while Cliff Boyd took third with a 62. Best front nine play in class saw Ralph Wareham and John Wise tying for first with and Si Creech and Bill Bledsoe tying for second with Bill Heil won the best back nine play in class with a 29 and Bill Tanksley was second with a 31. Tied for third were Art Sanderson and John Quinn with.