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Covering West are Dave Cowens (18) and Tom Sanders. Times photos by Joe Kenned the Bos QUARTERBACK VS. COACH IN SUPER BOWL 1 Staubach. 'I'M STILL KING' ''v "sa IaV At A Russia's Boris Spassky, the world's best chess player, comes off poor effort to face Fischer's challenge BY HARRY TRIMBORN, Times Staff Writer MOSCOW The man with the penetrating- green eyes and the neat reddish-brown sideburns sat soberly as an official read off the final standings in the Alekhine Memorial Chess Tournament. He appeared disappointed, and a bit annoyed at a knot of spectators staring at him with curiosity and awe.

Some of them seemed disappointed too. Small wonder. The man was Russia's Boris Spassky, the world chess champion, and he had finished but sixth tied with another player in a competition among 18 grandmasters. The disappointment with his performance stems from the circumstance that Spassky carries the hopes of the chess-happy Soviet Union when he defends Football coaches are the Xerox machines of sport They follow fashions as slavishly as Long Island dowagers. They grovel to ape success.

Let some coach win with the power-I or the wishbone-T or the Statue of Liberty and, the very next season, every coach in the country has installed it. For years, thanks to a legacy of success by types like Walter Camp, Howard Jones, Earl Blaik, Frank Leahy, Vince Lombard! and Woody Hayes, the game has been played as a paramilitary activity, complete with curfew, mess hall, lights-out, reveille, forced marches, inspection, uniform, battle decorations (stars on the helmet for interceptions, fumbles recovered, etc.) and even dishonorable discharges for non-conformity. There were dress codes, espionage intelligence, even separate But now Stanford has shown that permissiveness, insurrection or mutiny, defiance of orders from GHQ and even outright rebellion and a kind of carefree volunteer-Army attitude can lead to the Rose Bowl victory. We wonder if we might expect the following colloquy some day between coach "Cat" Crunch and his star quarterback, 'Touchdown" Tannenbaum. As we ''tune in, Touchdown is in bed in his penthouse suite at the university.

Coach Crunch is calling him from the lobby: Touchdown (sleepily): "Hello?" Coach: "Touchdown? Is that you? Thank Heaven! The operator told me you had an unlisted phone and a 'Do Not Disturb' order put on it. Touchdown, do you think you could come down and run through a few plays with the team?" Touchdown (angrily): "Crunch, for heaven sakes, it's only My God! I didn't get in until The damn girl kept wanting to do the cha-cha! Have you ever done the cha-cha after 17 bottles of champagne?" Coach: "But, Touchdown, I wouldn't bother you, only the game's tomorrow!" "Touch down (suspiciously) "What game?" Coach: "San Jose State, T.D." Touchdown (furiously) "Coach, how many times d6 I have to tell you? FORGET San Jose State! Those games bore me. Wake me up when we play Michigan. Or Arkansas. Or Ohio State.

You KNOW San Jose State puts us to sleep." Coach: "I'll get some champagne for you." Touchdown: "What year?" Coach: "Touchdown, we've got 40 per cent of the squad here! They're having breakfast." Touchdown: "Crunch, I've been meaning to speak to you about those breakfasts. I mean, squab two mornings in a row! And domestic caviar! Really! Where'd you get that chef? Out of a truck stop? He singed the cherries jubilee, too." Coach (desperately) "But, T.D., we might lose the Rose Bowl vote if we lose to San Jose State again this year that'll make 20 years in a row! We were the only game they won in the last seven years!" Touchdown: "The Rose Bowl! Ye-e-ech! Coach, that town went out with the Bunny Hug. And New Year's Eve in Long Beach! All you can do is go out and watch the city sink. And another thing, Crunch. This year, the team wants to get rid of those icky card tricks showing little animals scoring touchdowns.

We want some meat in our slogans. 'Legalize 'Empty the 'Give China 'Free Rudolf 'Shoot Standard 'Union Now with Oh, yes, instead of uniforms, the band wants to play Please Turn to Page CoL 1 reollv. but the Lakers Dldvbook really, but the Lakers pldybook Tommy Prothro's Ram a strike Shula Keys runs up the middle for first down. Wlrephotot to as "auartfirback" Gail "wide receiver" Jerry West against to Title BY BOB OATES Tlmt Staff Writer Of those who played. and coached championship football this season for the Dallas and Miami Dolphins," it can be said that two men in particular put them in the Super Bowl.

They are quarterback Roger Staubach of Dallas and coach Don Shula of Miami. Without Staubach's unique contributions as a running quarterback, Dallas might not have made the finals Jan. 16 in New Orleans. Without Shula's. coaching, the Dolphins might have finished third in their division instead of first in the conference.

In fact, they couldn't have finished third, in the bpinion of Miami place-kicker Garo Yepremian. "If Don Shula hadn't come down from Baltimore," says the southpaw Cypriot, "I would still be making neckties for a living and the Miami Dolphins, would still be in last place." Worst Team Prior to 1970 Last season when Shula moved to Miami the Dolphins were four years old and the AFL's worst team Now they're best (12-3-1). As for Staubach, he's the key to Super Bowl VI, in the view of most NFjL critics including Mike Curtis. The Baltimore linebacker was the first to state the premise of the game, making a point that will be repeated hundreds of times in many forms this week and next, "They (the Dolphins) should be able to move the football against the Dallas defense," says Curtis, "but you've got to question whether they can stop Staubach and those guys." It is not Miami's offense, in other words, that is on the spot and not Dallas' offense or defense but Miami's defense. And Staubach is the principal threat.

Says San Francisco coach Dick Nolan of his 14-3 defeat Sunday: "Staubach's scrambling was the difference. We couldn't contain him." Staubach Made Difference San Francisco linebacker Dave Wilcox, noting that the quarterback was Dallas' leading ground gainer (8 carries, 55' yards), says the. 49ers stopped everything else. "You take away the yardage Staubach made against us and we did pretty darn good out there," Wilcox says. "The only trouble is, you can't take away Staubach's yardage." Eight other teams could make similar statements the eight Dallas defeated consecutively with its running quarterback in the weeks after Staubach was promoted to the first team Nov.

7. Scrambles by Roger the Dodger knocked out both the Redskins and Rams. His 29-yard run scored the only touchdown against the Redskins Nov. 21 (13-0). And on Thanksgiving Day, breaking a 21-21 tie in the fourth quarter, Staubach set up the winning touchdown of a 28-21 game with three scramble passes and an 11-yard scramble run to the Ram 11.

The essence of the Staubach prob-Please Turn to Page 4, Col. as "quarterback" Gail Goodrich (right) Boris Spassky VCj ft.A "A 1 1 It'-' i 'fA- iA" a a a vjA P' fact. Apparently in, a black mood, Spassky discouraged the interviewer. "I refuse to give interviews," he said. He relented, however, and speaking easily in explained: "I have very much work to do.

I have many problems at the moment." He declined to spell out the problems, or even assess his Alekhine performance. But he indicated his poor showing was due to illness. "I was not feeling very well." Yet in the controlled Soviet press he was quoted as saying he Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 7 his title next spring against a volatile and imperious challenger, Robert J. (Bobby) Fischer of the United States.

Fischer, 28, of New York City, known for his brash comments and daring play, is the first non-Russian challenger since 1948. The match date and location still undecided obviously weighs heavily on the' mind of Spassky, a handsome Leningrad-er who will be 35 Jan. 30. "I'm still king, you know," he reminded a reporter who interviewed him after the mid-December Alekhine tournament, named fbr the late Russian world champion. The remark seemed to lack conviction, and the inflection made it more an attempt at self-assurance than a statement of "Mr.

Nixon said he didn't get a chance to see the whole game Sun day," Shula said later at the Dol- phins training "He talked technical football and asked me to recreate Dick Anderson's 62-yard interception return." The Nixon Shula conversation lasted about 10 minutes. The Pres. ident also had called the Dolphin coach a week earlier to congratulate him on a first-round victory at Kansas City. "I think he said it would be impossible for him to make the Super Bowl' in New Orleans," Shula said. "He also warned that Dallas had a pretty fair coach in Tom Landry I i A' Nixon's Tip to Dolphins' Shula: 'Quick Slant Pass to Warfield' MIAMI (5) President Nixon phoned Don Shula, coach of the Super Bowl-bound Miami Dolphins, at 1:30 Monday morning with a scouting report on the Dallas Cowboys.

'lie alerted me that the Cowboys were a great football Shula said. "But the President said he thought the quick slant pass to Paul Warfield would go against Dallas." Shula was wide awake anyway. He stayed up to watch a midnight televised replay of the Dolphins' 21-0 victory, over the Baltimore Colts Sunday and got only three hours sleep before attending a 7 a.m. Monday Mass. ROGER THE DODGER The key to Dallas' win over San Francisco for NFC title.

Sunday was the scrambling of quarterback Roger Staubach (12L Under a rush by Hart (53) and Cedrick r-lardman (top photo), Staubach.