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use the Run. 24-14 Ho. Has ama on White Lays the Groundwork 199 Yards for Upset BY MAL FLORENCE Tim! staff wrtttr BIRMINGHAM. Robinson said at the start of the season that USC would become a great football team some day. He just wasn't sure when.

The Trojans are a lot closer to the coach's expectations after upsetting top-ranked Alabama, 24-14, Saturday before a national television audience and a record Legion Stadium crowd of 77,313. USC, a lOVi-point underdog, beat 'Bama with a time-tested offensive staple the running game. It was student body left and then right for tailback Charles White as he rushed for 199 yards on 29 carries, including a 40-yard touchdown run. "We were just out to physically dominate them," weakside tackle Anthony Munoz said. "It was nothing fancy just our basic offense." White was particularly effective on pitches to the weak side, following Munoz and guard Pat Howell.

That wasn't the case last year when USC made only 120 yards rushing as Alabama upset the Trojans, 21-20, at the Coliseum. White was restricted to 63 yards in 15 carries in that game. 1 USC was the nation's No. 1-ranked. team at the time and riding a 15-game win streak.

So the Trojans figured turnabout was fair play as 'Bama will lose its No. 1 ranking along with its 12-game winning streak, longest among the nation's major college teams. It was one of the most significant victories in Robinson's three-year career as USC coach-rating with wins over UCLA the past two years and the 14-6 upset of Michigan in the 1977 Rose Bowl game. Although the Trojans beat the No. 1 -rated team, Robinson wasn't claiming the top spot for his team.

"We're still a young team," Robinson said, "but I'm not sure we're a great team yet. Perhaps we will be six or seven games down the road." 'Although the temperature was 85 1 Dodgers Wrap Up at Least a Tie for Title A'' rAi 1 1 1 1 JJiujjJijiiuiiini ii.i. r. HIGH STEPPER USC's Charles White (12) eludes a couple of Alabama tacklers in the first quarter Saturday on the way to a 1 99 -yard day as the Trojans scored a 24-14 upset victory. AP Wlrephoto Flat UCLA Gets Serious Too Late, Loses, 28-24 Kansas Scores 3 Touchdowns in 3 -Minute Span and Then Hangs On to Upset 17-Point Favorite BY MARK PURDY Tlmtt SUII Wrlttr degrees at game time with humidity to match, the weather didn't seem to bother the Trojans.

And it got cooler as the day progressed. USC never trailed, moving in front 7-0 on White's 40-yard touchdown run, on which he cut back behind a devastating block by pard Brad Budde on linebacker Rich Wingo. It was 10-0 at halftime and 'Bama seemed subdued. So was the crowd. Bear Bryant's men couldn't sustain anything offensively against Robinson's quick-pursuing defense.

Alabama's only serious scoring threat in the second quarter was aborted when it couldn't score on two downs from Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 1 Lacy's Pinch Homer Brings L.A. to Life Against Padres, 5-3 BY SCOTT OSTLER TimttSttHWrlttr After taking most of the week off, mentally, to celebrate the Western Division title they haven't won yet, the Dodgers got back to business Saturday. Lee Lacy's pinch two-run homer in the seventh was the key hit as Los Angeles beat the San Diego Padres, 5-3, after trailing, 3-0, as late as the fifth inning. The win, coupled with the Cincinnati Reds' loss, assured the Dodgers of at least a tie for the division title, which they can clinch this afternoon, in their final regular-season home game.

With seven games remaining, the magic number is one. On one of the warmest and clearest afternoons of the season at Dodger Stadium, Burt Hooton won his 19th game; Terry Forster saved his 22nd; Steve Garvey moved within nine hits of the 200 mark, and the Dodgers, at least temporarily, regained some life and some momentum after losing four of their last five. Lacy's homer in the four-run, seven-hit seventh inning game's was the dramatic highlight, as it gave the Dodgers a 4-3 lead. But the real drama of the homer went unnoticed by all but two people in the ballpark. The Dodgers had already scored once in the inning, on Dusty Baker's leadoff double and Rick Monday's RBI single, when reliever Rollie Fingers was called in to try to register his 36th save.

As Fingers supervised some repair work on the pitcher's mound, Lacy, batting for Hooton, knelt in the on-deck circle. Preston Gomez, Dodger third base coach, walked over and shook Lacy's hand. "It was a strange experience," Lacy said. "I couldn't understand why he was shaking my hand. Then he said, 'Hit this one over the wall for Ju-nior.

Gomez was referring to Dodger coach Jim Gilliam, still in critical condition after a brain hemorrhage. "I told Preston I'd do my best," Lacy said. Lacy lined Fingers' first pitch into the left-field pavilion. It was his fifth pinch homer of the season, ninth hit in his last 20 at-bats and 11th extra-base hit (out of 13) against the Padres. The homer gave Hooton his career-Please Turn to Page 11, Col.

1 ANGELS BEATEN; RED SOX GAIN The Angels lost to the Chicago White Sox, 5-4, and fell further behind in the American League West, but the Eastern race tightened as the New York Yankees were beaten by the Cleveland Indians, 10-1, and the Boston Red Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-1. This cut the Yankees' lead to one game. In the National League East, the Philadelphia Phillies swept a double-header from the New York Mets, 1-0 and 6-3, while the Pittsbrugh Pirates were losing to the Montreal Expos, 3-2. The Phils' lead is now three games. Stories on Page 2.

TIMES GRAND PRIX Six -Hour A series of prestigious long-distance sports car races next year the World Challenge for Endurance Drivers will include a six-hour race at Riverside International Raceway sponsored by The Los Angeles Times. The Times Grand Prix of Endurance April 22 will be one of at least 10 races in the United States and Europe which will count toward the world championship and a $100,000 payoff. The race will also be part of the Winston GT Series operated by the International Motor Sports Assn. (IMSA). Otis Chandler, publisher and chief executive officer of The Times, announced the signing of contracts with IMSA and Riverside Raceway.

Chandler said the six-hour race will climax a race-filled weekend which will include vintage sports car racing and a UPSETTING EXPERIENCE Dodgers' Rick Monday sends San Diego shortstop Ozzie Smith flying in an unsuccessful steal attempt in the seventh inning at Dodger Stadium Saturday. The Dodgers scored four times in seventh to overcome early Padre lead and win, 5-3. Times photo by Andy Hyl JIM MURRAY The Little Red Wagon say we were flat would not be giving Kansas enough credit. They played pretty well on offense and defense, and their kicking game won it. Perhaps.

But the Bruins certainly gave the Jayhawks some help. After the Jayhawks scored their first touchdown just one minute into the Please Turn to Page 14, Col. 3 The Big Ones OKLAHOMA 66, RICE 7 Quarterback Thomas Lott directed Oklahoma's wishbone offense to a score in every series he played as the Sooners raced to an overwhelming 52-0 halftime lead. Story on Page 9 OHIO ST. 27, MINNESOTA 10 Ohio State's Art Schlichter, who was intercepted five times by Penn State last week, threw only seven passes, completing three, as woody Hayes got his Buckeyes back on the ground, Story on Pago PENN STATE 26, SMU 21 Penn State, stunned by the pinpoint passing of sophomore Mike Ford, rallied for two touchdowns in the third quarter to remain unbeaten.

Story on Page 8 LAWRENCE, the time UCLA became serious about its game with Kansas Saturday, it was too late. Taking advantage of Bruin mistakes, including two fumbled kickoff returns, Kansas scored four first-half touchdowns and held on for a 28-24 upset victory. "I think we might have been a little complacent coming into the game," said UCLA safety Kenny Easley. The first time the Bruins touched the ball, on the opening kickoff, freshman Anthony Edgar fumbled. The last time they touched the ball, quaterback Rick Bashore threw an interception.

And in between, there were plenty of other errors. Evidently, the Bruin players did not heed what coach Terry Donahue had told them after a decidedly unspectacular workout here Friday. "He told us that we were being lackadaisical, and that there were too many mental busts (mistakes)," Bashore said. The Bruins' attitude was partially; understandable. Kansas had been outscored in its first two games, 68-12, and was winless.

And UCLA, a 17-point favorite, came here with a 2-0 record and a defense that had allowed only one touchdown. Did Kansas coach Bud Moore think UCLA had taken his team too lightly? "Well," Moore said somewhat sarcastically, "I'm sure that they probably thought they had a chance to beat us." And what did Donahue think? "When you get beat," he said, "you can think of 1,000 reasons why. But to OF ENDURANCE Michigan Turns 3 Irish Mistakes Into 28-14 Win BY BOB OATES Tlmu StaH Writer SOUTH BEND-Bo Schcmbechlcr, the Michigan coach whose team has specialized in running the ball in one losing bowl game after another, told Rick Leach to throw it Saturday and the result was an impressive 28-14 win over Notre Dame. A left-handed option quarterback with a powerful and sometimes accurate arm, Leach threw three touchdown passes after three turnovers in the second half to overhaul the Fighting Irish, who had led at the break, 14-7. The Wolverines marched 71, 34 and 42 yards to the decisive touchdowns in a strange sort of game in which the Irish dominated the first half and threw away the second.

With Joe Montana at quarterback, the Irish had six possessions in the second half and turned the ball over five consecutive times on fumbles and interceptions. On their sixth possession they lost two points on a safety. After winning the national championship last year, Notre Dame has now dropped two straight games on its home field for the first lime since 1963. The Irish never have been 0-3. It was Michigan's second win in its last three against Notre Dame.

These are teams that have been playing each other since 1871 but not often and in their only modern series they split two games in the 1940s. On an idyllic afternoon in Indiana, with the temperature in the high 60s, a sold-out crowd of 59,075 watched in some surprise as the formerly ground-bound Wolverines came out throwing. They were plainly following the lead of Ohio State, which had opened up with a passing game against Penn State but reverted to a running game Saturday and gained more than 300 yards rushing against Minnesota. The thought patterns of Schem-Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1 CC When George Thomas Seaver, the pitcher, was traded from the New York Mets to the Cincinnati Reds last year for a mess of pottage, the reaction in the National League was "Well, there goes the neighborhood." You see, it was only a few months before, after they had demolished the New York Yankees in the World Series in four straight, that Cincinnati manager Sparky Anderson stood up and announced solemnly that he was managing "the best team in baseball history-better than the 1927 Yankees." It was really the National League All -Star team.

It had been in four World Series in six years and in five playoff championships. It wasn't going to be a dynasty, it already was. Tom Seaver was on loan to the league from Cooperstown. He was a three-time winner of the Cy Young Award. At the time he came over, he had the second-best earned-run average in the history of baseball (second to Walter Johnson), he was 20th on the all-time shutout list.

He had five one-hitters and he once had a single-season 1.76 ERA. There was only one active pitcher with more lifetime strikeouts and only nine altogether. It was overkill. Godzilla meets Wolfman. Standard Oil merging with U.S.

Steel. God help the Dodgers. God help the league. God help baseball. If the Reds were already the greatest team in baseball history, what were they now? They began printing up World Series tickets in Cincinnati.

For the next five years. But a funny thing happened to Seaver and Cincinnati on their way to baseball immortality. When Seaver joined the Reds, the greatest team in baseball was trailing the Dodgers by 6V6 games. That was in June. As they changed that.

By July, they were trailing by 14 games. What happened? Did everyone else relax? Did Seaver get overconfident with the "greatest team in baseball" behind him? He could be pardoned if he did. He was coming from a team where he used to have to depend on the mighty Al Weis, Ron Swoboda and Art Shamsky to one that had Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and George Foster on it. I mean, who needed a pitcher? When the Reds-Seaver monster didn't eat the game, the league got critical. Seaver had been a better pitcher on a team where he had to throw a shutout to break even.

When Seaver pitched for the Mets, the late Jimmy Cannon observed that "The Mets beat Seaver more than any team in the league." Seaver didn't know how to pitch with a 5-0 lead. He never had one before. And so on. You had to blame somebody when the greatest team in baseball was 14 games behind the Dodgers. They won without him, didn't they? The chorus of condemnation increased this year as the Reds couldn't seem to get a grip on the pennant.

The team batting average plummeted 20 points, the fielding sank from a record mark of only 95 errors last year to 120 by only Labor Day, star hitters were off 30-50 points and everyone asked What's wrong with Seaver?" Well, whatever it was won't show on the charts. Seaver was Please Turn to Page 11, Col. 1 Race Is Set for Riverside of 14 races for grand touring cars. This year's series has been locked up by Peter Gregg of Jacksonville, driving a Porsche 935. Second place has not yet been settled between David Hobbs of England in a BMW and Bill Whittington of Ft, Lauderdale, Fla.

in another 935. There is also a GTU class for cars with less than 2.5 liters engine displacement. That division has more or less been dominated by the Porsche 911s and the Datsun cars. The Champion Spark Plug Challenge is a series of 15 races for racing sedans. This year's series champion is Walt Bohren of Flemington, N.J.

in a Mazda. Rob McFarlin of Sunnyvale, is second in a Datsun 200 SX. Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 2 100-mile Champion Spark Plug Challenge for racing sedans. Chandler emphasized that the Times 500 the next one is Nov.

19-will be continued. "This just adds another dimension to our program and the Southern California motorsports scene," he said. John Bishop, executive director of IMSA, said that the Times enduro race will be an equal -scoring event to the other nine long-distance events on the international schedule, Including the famed 24 hours of Daytona, the 12 hours of Sebring and the LeM-ans 24 -hour race. Others are set at Spa, Belgium! Nuremburgring, Germany! Paul Ricard, Frances Silver-stone, England) Road Atlanta and Talladega, Ala. The Winston GT Scries is a string I.