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22 Post-Star ani Times. GUm Foil, N.Y. Wednesday. Dcmbr 1972 Outrun ffi Image Heisman Cops The into trouble a couple of years ago and is paying the price, but there's nothing in the Heisman rules that says a violation makes a man ineligible." The Nebraska coach called Rodgers "a fine kid and a great football player. Any voter thinking about the best player.

in America had to vote for Johnny. This could restore his faith in human beings a little bit. I don't believe there has ever been a more exciting player to see or work with." Perhaps the most spectacular Rodgers statistic was that he averaged 13.8 yards grandmother, who stuck besidi me in some bad times." Several sports columnists, noting that Rodgers was jailed for a 1970 gas station holdup and had brushes with police over traffic violations, had campaigned against his selection. Indians Look I I 1 -1, 1- I yv: t' I Li ll NEW YORK (APJ Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska's triple-threat dynamo, outran his badboy image and was awarded the Heisman Trophy Tuesday as college football's premier player of 1972. Explosive Oklahoma running back Greg Pruitt finished second and Rodgers' teammate from the Cornhuskers, middle guard Rich Glover, third in a 12-3 sweep for the Big Eight Conference.

"Give Coach Bob Devaney a lot of credit for this," said the 175-pound wingback who dazzled opponents with his pass catching, running and punt returning. "I never knew my real father and Coach Devaney has been like a stand-in father to me. I'm sort've an 'old; 21, but a much better man than when I was 17. I had my scratches with the law, but I'm not a bad guy." Pruitt showed up prior to the announcement at the Downtown Athletic Club of New York, which awards the prestigious Heisman Trophy. He was openly disappoin "I'm upset at losing," said the Sooner speedster.

"Johnny won because of two things he does more than one thing on the field and he had more publicity." Tough Pruitt and Rodgers each said they were close friends, but the Heisman frontrunners from Nebraska and Oklahoma passed without speaking when Johnny arrived 30 minutes after the announcement "He won, I lost," said Pruitt, "that's life." Rodgers polled 301 first-place votes from 934 selectors, piling up 1,310 points. Pruitt had 966 with 117 firsts and Glover received 652 with 99 for the No. 1 spot. Only two linemen, including the 234-pound Glover, placed among the top 14 vote-getters. John Hannah, a 275-pound offensive guard from Alabama, was Uth.

He was on hand for Tuesday's ceremony. Notre Dame end Leon Hart, Heisman winner in 1949, was the last lineman to be honored. Only two men other than offensive backs have been named in the award's 38-year history. Auburn's Pat Sullivan was the 1971 Heisman winner, the seventh quarterback in 10 ears to carry away the 50- pound trophy named for former Georgia Tech coach John Heisman, a late member of the sponsoring club. Louisiana State star Bert Jones was the top man among ,1972 quarterbacks, finishing season he may go -without linebackers.

Running back Johnson is an incredible 5-foot-9, 170-pounder Jim Youngblood Makes Little All-America Team Glens Falls has experience and desire this year to turn in another good performance by its grapplers. The Section II Class A champs open their season today with a non-league match home against Johnstown. Coach Bob Carty has tri- captains this year with Vince Fragassi, John French and Chris Cardinale holding the horiors. In the 98 pound class Steve Scarselleta a junior holding this class down. John Askew defending Section II 98 pound champ is wrestling out of the 105 class.

Inexperience may hamper John Morrison at the 112 class. Morrison is only a freshman. At 119 is Fragassi who is a senior and runner-up in the sectional at this weight class last year. French will work out of the 126 class. French was hurt most of last year.

Cardinale grapples in the 132 class and he is a senior. Jim Smith will wrestle in the 138 weight class and he is a junior. Carty has Pat Celeste working in the 145 class this year. A sophomore Tom Herbold will hold down the 155 class. Scott Batt a junior will be competing in the 167 class.

Kim Hopkins who wrestled heavy weight last year will move down a -class to the 177 division. In the heavyweight class will be Leonard Roberts a senior who has little experience in that class. Jim Duggan will wrestle out of the super-heavy class. Last year Duggan was Section champ in the super division. Carty looks for Saratoga to be tough in the Foothills Council.

Carty, when asked how the Indians will fare in the coming year said, "We'll know more after the Johnstown match. They're a tough school and should give us a good match." Meeting Slated The Glens Falls Little League will hold a meeting for all managers and board members Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the of CHall. The purpose of the meeting is to elect board members. SLPflDffiTTS He Deserves It Nebraska's Johnny Rodgers flashes a grin Tuesday after receiving the Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding collegiate football player of 1972.

Rodgers is an all-purpose back and led the Cornhuskers to championships in 1970-71. USC Riding High Atop AP Poll fourth behind the Big Eight heroes with 351 points and 61 first place nominations. Alabama quarterback Terry Davis was fifth, followed by Penn State quarterback John Hufnagel, Iowa State quarterback George Amundsen, Purdue runner Otis Armstrong, Virginnia Tech quarterback Don Strock and Florida State quarterback Gary Huff. Hannah was No. 11 and the three other players announced, in order, were Utah State quarterback Tony Adams, Michigan State safety Brad Van Pelt and Louisville runner Howard Stevens.

Rodgers, an English major from Omaha, set 19 Nebraska records in leading the Cornhuskers to national championships in 1970 and '71 and an 8-2 record this year, good enough to get them to the Orange Bowl against Notre Dame. In three seasons, he caught 147 passes for 2,667 yards and 26 touchdowns. His dazzling punt returns averaged 16 yards and Rodgers also ran the ball 133 times for 838 yards. "He is the only man who should get the Heisman Trophy," said Devaney. "He's the greatest football player in college today.

Sure, the kid got who was the leading rusher in all of college football this season with 1,556 yards in just nine games for a 172.6 average. varsity contest, 71-29, with Joe Gallagher pacing the winners with 25 points. The Maroon travel to Fort Edward for a Northern Conference battle Friday night. Ticonderoga (46) Whitehall (60) (9 fp tot fg fp tot Duncan Gordon Layden Greco Nichols Irving Shouah Hughes Rafterty Shumaker White Mattison Phinney Totals it 10 44 Totals 26 I 60 ..8 18 6 1446 15 12 24 60 Ticonderoga Whitehall Bullets Edge Cavs, 103-100 CLEVELAND (AP) Phil Chenier scored nine of Baltimore's last 11 points and fed Wes Unseld for the tie-breaking basket as the Bullets nipped the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-100 in a National Basketball Association game Tuesday night. Cleveland had battled from a 15-point deficit to take a 93-92 lead with 2:53 remaining when Chenier went to work.

He fired in three baskets and a pair of foul shots as the two teams swapped the lead down to the 37-second mark. Then Lenny Wilkens hit a foul shot to tie the game. After a Baltimore time out, Chenier dribbled toward the lane, then passed to Unseld, who laid the ball in uncontested. Eight seconds later, Chenier stole a pass from Wilkens and was fouled: His free throw added the insurance point to the margin. Chenier had 23 points, Unseld 19 points and 22 rebounds and Elvin Hayes 27 points for the Bullets.

Cleveland was paced by Austin Carr with 31 points and Lenny Wilkens with 23. Whitehall Whips Ti by 60-46 but I didn't make this decision." Rodgers wore a natty brown suede suit, shiny black boots and dark glasses. Glover came "along, his muscle bulging from a white turtleneck sweater. "Other than Coach Devaney, I'd like to thank my mother and Voting Leaders NEW YORK (AP) Here are the lead ers in the voting in the 1972 Heisman Tro phy award (three points tor first, two tor second and one for third 1st 2nd 3rd TP 1. Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska 301 151 105" 1310 2.

Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma 117 223 169 966 3. Rich Glover, Nebraska 99 125 105 652 4. Bert Jones, LSU 61 61 46 351 5. Terry Oavis, Alabama 62 50 52 338 6. Hufnagel, Penn St.

62 28 7. George Amundson, Iowa St 41 31 8. Otis Armstrong, Purdue AA OA 50 292 34 219 28 208 9. Don Strock, Va. Tch 12 33 42 144 10.

Gary Huff, Florida St. 20 24 30 138 11. John Hannah, Alabama 13 8 20 75 12. Tony Adams, Utah St. 12 14 9 73 13.

Brad Van Pelt, MSU 12 11 13 71 14. Howard Stevens, Louisville 6 15 18 66 Bell Fired By Pats FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) -Upton Bell, son of a former pro football commissioner who rose to the upper echelon of the sport after starting as a $65-aweek dressing room attendant, was fired Tuesday from his post as general manager of the lowly New England Patriots. The Patriots, in a statement, announced they had decided to seek "the best available coach in America," and said since that coach would be given full authority to run the team, Bell must go. The team with the second worst record in the National Football League did not say who they had in mind for the job as coach and declined comment on a published report that interim head coach Phil Bengtson had the inside track on the job.

Bell, 34, who had one year remaining on a reported rich three-year contract, was a center of controversy in his nearly two years as general manager of the Patriots. The Patriots said: "Since the type of new coach being considered will be given full authority to run the football operation, the Patriots directors made their position known to Upton Bell. The Patriots executive with Upton today and in view of the directors' posture on this matter it was mutually decided that Upton Bell will no longer continue in the employ of the New England Patriots." Feeling the Ax 4 I hi i I JV 1 I if I I I i in Minimi mil i-iii ma everytime he put his hands on the football, not counting pass receptions. "I was hoping, wishing and imagining," Rodgers said Tuesday. "I was in Rich Glover's house when the call came.

I'm not saying I'm that much better than Greg Pruitt, Roots In the Ghetto LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) His roots were in Omaha's ghetto. At 5-feet-9, with weight to match, he was really too small for big time football. Brushes with the law, sometimes blown out of proportion, tarnished his image. Pressures of the game and life in general gave him a nervous stomach that sometimes had him retching on the sidelines.

But Johnny Rodgers played' football at the University of Nebraska with determination and talent. He caught passes that seemed uncatchable. His darting runs were likened to the action of a ping pong ball in a wind tunnel. In three varsity seasons he returned nine punts or kickoffs for touchdowns. He has set or equalled four NCAA records, seven Big Eight Conference records, and a batch of school records.

His football heroics helped Nebraska to two consecutive national championships and an 8-2-1 season this year. For it all, Rodgers Tuesday was awarded the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding collegiate football player of 1972, the first Cornhusker ever to receive the honor. If Rodgers, 21, a 173-pound senior, earned the award on the football field, he almost blew it off the field, and there had been questions as to whether the Heisman balloters would be deterred from making Rodgers their choice by the adverse publicity attending his problems with the law. In May, 1971 he was placed on two probation for participating with companions in a $91 filling station holdup a year earlier. Bur gers Triumph BOLTON-Warrensburg broke the game wide open midway through the second period and breezed to an 82-56 non-league victory over Bolton last night.

The Burgers held a slim three-point lead but pulled away at the 2:45 mark of the second stanza and took a 41-29 lead into the locker room at halftime. At the start of the second half, Warrensburg sank three quick baskets and was off and running, never to be headed the rest of the way. Peter Redf ield led the attack with 22 points. Terry Kollman, who broke the Bolton press with his slick passes, tanked 16 points and Pete Davis netted 12. John Moosbrugger burned the nets for 31 points for the Eagles and Mike Snyder came off the bench and turned in a fine game for coach John Nassivera's squad.

Warrensburg (82) fg fp tot Ovitt 2 Kollman 7 R.ConverseO 1 Alger 2 0 Redfield Brainard Muratori Brown Jordan Davis B. Con'se 10 2' 22 Totals 34 10 82 Warrensburg Bolton Hoosiers Beat Van Renssalaer HOOSICK FALLS-Bob Hall tanked 14 for Hoosick Falls as the Hoosiers beat Van Rensselaer in a non-league game 40-36 last night. Tom Bubniak hit for 10 and John Smith netted nine for the losers. Good defense was the key to the victory for Hoosick Falls. Hoosick Falls won the Jayvee game 39-38.

Van Rtmlar (Ml HMSlck Falls (40) '1 tot Bill'ey Bubniak Cavanugh Hoiloway Smith 1 Wright Hall Fogert Kaukas Harrison 7 9 4 1 I 2 I 1 5 Wtktman Tatalt 14 Tatalt II 14 tl 1tf ...,4 ir Vm mihIk Hwwcl Falls 8 Synder 0 0 0 6 Root 20 4 7 Lee (JO 0 D.Smith 2 I 5 M'bru'er 11 9 31 Huck I'l 4' Pfau 2 0 4 Synder 3 2 8 Totals 21 12 $4 18 21 21 20 II 14 II 12 NEW YORK (AP) Jim Youngblood, a 235-pound linebacker from Tennessee Tech, was named to The Associated Press College Division All-America football team for the second year in a row Tuesday along with a quartet of super backs. The dynamite-packed back-field includes two sophomore runners Billy "Blazin' Billy White Shoes" aJohnson of Widener College and Jimmy Edwards of Northeast Louisiana. The Little All-America quarterback is Bob Biggs of the University of California at Davis, while the other back is bruising Mike Deutsch of North Dakota. State is the tight end, with Roger Carr of Louisiana Tech, the second-ranked College Division team, the wide receiver. The tackles are 260-pound David Taylor of Catawba and 248-pound Robert Woods of Tennessee State, while the guards are 235-pound Gary Kipling of South Dakota and 245-pound Curtis Wester of East Texas State.

In the middle is center Bob Daigle of Southwest Texas State. Joe Carbone of Delaware's two-time small college national champions holds down one 1 ueieiisive enu uusiuun, wun 250-pound Barney Chavious of South Carolina State at the other flank. At the tackles are 260-pound Gary Johnson of Grambling and mammoth 280-pound Alex Price from Alcorn The other three linebackers, besides repeater Youngblood, are Waymond Bryant of Tennessee State, Stan Cherry of Morgan State and Brian Kelley of Cal Lutheran. The secondary consists of defensive backs Mike Amos from Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, Grambling's Steve Dennis and Bruce Polen of William Penn. Youngblood, leading tackier on Tennessee Tech's 10-1 team, "was great in 1971 and great in 1972," according to Coach Don Wade, who jests that next Ski Conditions HIDDEN VALLEY, Lake Luzerne to five inch base, six inches new powder, skiing excellent, open 9:30 a.m.

1 to 4:30 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. HUNTER MT. 10 to 40 i base, 8 man-made, 1 wet, skiing good. new i powder, 8-20 base, good to excellent.

STOWE, new, 20-24 base, good. WHITEHALL Whitehall held a slim 35-32 lead after three quarters but exploded for 24 fourth period points to defeat Ticonderoga, 60-46, in a non-league battle last night. The Maroon, now 1-1, capitalized on some poor passes and turned them into points via fast breaks in the final stanza. Doug Irving was the big gun for the victors with 16 points. Bill Greco hit for 15 and Tim Layden netted 12.

Frank Hughes was the games' high scorer for Ticonderoga with 25 markers. Whitehall also won the junior Horses On Top SCHUYLERVILLE Mike McCarthy paced the black Horses of Schuylerville to a non-league victory last night over St. Mary's of Hoosick Falls, 72-61. Albowicz and Bromiski lead the St. Mary's attack with 17 points apiece.

Schuylerville opened a quick lead and never lost it but St. Mary's threatened in the second half. St. Mary's came out and pressed which held the Horses short on offense. Schuylerville won the JV game 59-26.

Randy Stover hit for 16 and Steve Coulter sank 11 for Schuylerville. St. Mary's 411 Schuylerville tg (72) Ip tot 6 34 (g ip tot 2 0 4 Baker Lynch Delvrey Albowicz Bromirski McCarthy 14 4 2 2 0 7 3 10 Canzer Bnen Ti O'Brien DeGr'gy Derby Robinson Derby 8 1 17 3 McDonoughl Peroy Totals 14 i St. Mary's Schuylerville Totals 11 12 IS 17 20 18 12 72 2 72 2441 It THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Southern California sits atop the college football world, but the Ohio State Buckeyes could rock the boat by upsetting the Trojans in the Rose Bowl. Although unanimous No.

1 in Tuesday's final regular season Associated Press Roll, the 11-0 USC team must risk its top-rated neck one more time. Post-bowl balloting in the infant hours of 1973 will determine the 1972 national champion since most leading teams have post-season duty ahead. Southern Cal grabbed all 50 first-place votes from sports writers and broadcasters in final regular season voting in a runaway decision over No. 2 Oklahoma, Sugar Bowl bound with a 10-1 record. Ohio State, 9-1, was third and retained hope of overtaking the Trojans in the post-season poll showdown if it spills Southern Cal on New Year's Day at Pasadena.

A Trojan victory would almost certainly earn USC its third national title in 11 seasons. Southern Cal became the only major unbeaten last Saturday with a 45-23 smashing of Notre Dame. Alabama, stunned by Auburn 17-16 to close its regular season, dropped only from second to fourth with a 10-1 record. The Tide meets Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Penn State, 10-1 and Oklahoma's opponent at New Orleans on New Year's Eve, was ranked fifth and Gator Bowlbound Auburn moved to sixth with a 9-1 mark.

Texas, 9-1, was seventh, followed by Michigan, 10-1, Orange Bowl entry Nebraska, 8-2, and Louisiana State, 9-1-1, in the Top Ten. LSU meets Tennessee in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. Tennessee was 11th in the poll, followed by Orange SETTING THE TONE PRE-SEASON EXERCISE. SOME WHILE IN TRAINING. in, $2 Bowlbound Notre Dame, Gator Bowl team Colorado, UCLA, the Fiesta Bowl's Arizona State and Sun Bowl-bound North Carolina.

The Top Twenty teams, with first-place votes In parentheses, season records and total points. Points tabulated on basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 So. California (50) 11-00 1,000 878 666 606 554 536 484 467 385 273 259 227 174 79 68 60 22 18 10 3 2. Oklahoma 3. Ohio State 4.

Alabama 5. Penn State 6. Auburn 7. Texas 8. Michigan 9.

Nebraska 10. Louisiana State 11. Tennessee 12. Notre Dame 13. Colorado 14.

UCLA 15. Arizona State 16. North Carolina 17. Louisville 18. West Virginia 19.

Washington State 20. Purdue 10 1 0 9-1-0 10 1 0 10 1 0 9-1-0 9 10 10 1-0 82 1 9 1-1 92-0 8 2 0 830 8 30 920 920 910 8-30 7-4-0 650 Sports Today WRESTLING Johnstown at Glens Falls. Salem at Granville. Queensbury at Ballston Spa. Draper at Corinth.

Warrensburg at Stillwater, 4 p.m. REC BASKETBALL GF Industrial Bucks vs. Peronists, 7. Campbells vs. Trotters, 7.

Sears vs. Power Boys, 8. Bomb Squad vs. Misfits, 8. Team vs.

Shoreys, 9. Woodbury Chips vs. Spartand, 9. K.otC. Mad Dogs vs.

Schlitz Slingers, 7. Consolidated Edison vs. Poopies, 8. Irish Mist vs. The Firemen, 9.

FORT ANN REC Firemen vs. Pub, 6:30. Odlids vs. Double Marks, 7.30. Tuekeys vs.

BVR, 8:30. Teachers vs Relyea's Jets, 9:30 Knicks Win By 125-103 NEW YORK (AP) Dave DeBusscher and BUI Bradley led a third-period surge that carried New York to a 125-103 National Basketball Association victory over the Kansas City-Omaha Kings Tuesday night, moving the Knicks into a virtual first-place tie with Boston in the Atlantic Division. The, game was close throughout the first half with the Knicks taking a 55-51 lead into the third quarter. Then DeBusschere pumped in six points and Bradley added four in the opening minutes as the Knicks, winning their eighth In a row at home, out-scored the Kings 12-4. Cage League Meets Tonight The Fort Edward Adult Recreation Basketball League will hold its last meeting before the start of the season tonight at 7 at the Villager.

The rertilar season will begin Sunday night. i A 1 I i 1 BILLY KIDD'S SKI CLASS: i'-yl 3 nm A PRE-SEASON EXERCISE PROGRAM IS ESSENTIAL FOR ANYONE BICYCLING IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST SKIERS RIDE AS MANY AS 50 MILES A DAY "vniMfi tpum VTIiJPS STRFN6TM AND ENDURANCE WHO EXPECTS TO ENJOY AND SUCCEED IN SKIING. I- ii it DOWNHILL SIMULATES Ji SKIING WHILE IT uttuwoNs rums reflexes. 1 Upton Bell stands In hit Milton home today, after being fired from his post as general manager of the lowly New England, Papiots. The Pats are looking for a coach who would also ha ve full control 6t the tam therefore Bell must go..