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6 Atwood-Hammond 35. Rosevfle 34 Granite City S. with grace wins state again Paged (Chicago (Tribune Sunday, November 16, 1980 ports Section 4 CLASSIFIED ADS Sugar Bowl gets No. 1 matchup Notre Dame, Georgia Bowls at a glance Page 4 Garden State Bowl, and Arkansas will play Tulane 7-3 in the Hall of Fame Bowl. AFTER THE MAJOR bowl games Sugar, Rose, Cotton, and Orange, the best matchup could be the Gator Bowl.

South Carolina 8-2 and heralded running back George Rogers will meet Pitt 9-1 and the best defensive lineman in the nation, Hugh Green. The teams played ins the first Gator Bowl in 1946. For the third consecutive year, it appears that Brigham Young 9-1 will be going to the Holiday Bowl. But BYU must first beat Utah Saturday to win the Western Athletic Conference title. pack.

The Bears earned their second Cotton Bowl trip and will meet Alabama 8-2 which Baylor faced during the regular season last year, losing 45-0. 'Bama is 1-3 in the Cotton Bowl. Baylor Coach Grant Teaff will be well dressed in Dallas. His team presented him with a black T-shirt saying "Eat the Worm," referring to a game during the team's losing 1978 season when Teaff ate a worm to inspire the squad to a come-from-behind victory over Texas. There could be a team or two with a losing record in a bowl.

Houston and Arkansas, both with two games left, are 5-4; Houston will face Navy 7-4 in the The Irish received their Sugar Bowl berth after beating Alabama 7-0. HERE'S WHAT the rest of the bowl lineup looks like: The Big 10 will have three teams in bowls. The winner of next Saturday's game between Michigan 8-2 and Ohio State 9-1 wins the Big 10 title and goes to the Rose Bowl to. face Pac-10 winner Washington 8-2; the loser gets the Fiesta Bowl and State 9-1. "We've got one of our.

best games ever," said a Fiesta Bowl selection com- mittee member. "We sat around 10 years ago, looking at 'No-Name State' and hoping Arizona State would come and bring a good crowd. We've come a long way." Purdue 7-3 has accepted a bid to play in the Liberty Bowl against Missouri 7-3. i The Orange Bowl will match Florida State 9-1 against the Big Eight champ, eijher Nebraska 9-1' or Oklahoma 7-2, who Imeet next Saturday. Last year the Seminoles practically had to beg the Orange Bowl committee for an invitation and.

then lost to the Sooners 24-7. FSU defeated Nebraska' earlier this season for the Cornhuskers' only loss. The Southwest Conference will send five teams to bowl games, with conference champ Baylor 9-1 leading the From Tribune Wire Services IF YOU watch only one college football bowl game New Year's Day, make it the Sugar Bowl. Top-ranked Georgia 10-0 will be facing unbeaten Notre Dame 8-0-1 in the New Orleans Super-dome; as long as neither team stumbles the rest of the regular season, the victor should be able to claim the mythical majcr-college championship. Georgia must still get.

by Georgia Tech, the team that tied the Irish. Notre Dame has two regular-season games left with tough Southern Cal and not-so-tough Air Force. Southeastern Conference champi-' on Georgia, the invitation after beating i Auburn 31-21 was especially sweet. -Au- burn kept the Bulldogs out of the Sugair' Bowl the last two years, tying them 22- 22 in 1978 and routing them 31-13. last year.

A sign in the Bulldog dressing room read: "Payback, two years no. sugar." "Auburn ruined it for us the last two years," quarterback Buck Belue said. "There was no way they were going to do it again." ot Irish defense abama co stops David Israel First tackle sets tone for Notre Dame By Bill Jauss Chicago Tribune Press Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. From the time little boys start playing football, they hear their dads and coaches preach the need to "show 'em who's boss right on the first play." Scott Zettek of Notre Dame put that old adage to practical, bone-crunching use here Saturday as the Irish beat Alabama 7-0. Zettek showed Bear Bryant's team on the game's first play that this was going to be a fierce, punishing, old-fashioned defensive battle.

"Scott stopped Major Ogilvie for that two-yard loss on the first play, and that set the tempo for the whole game," said BlRI 'Jill Dan Devine likens Notre Dame's 7-0 victory over.Alabama to "a big chess match Bear and I were making moves and counter moves." Page 2. is AP Laserphoto Notre Dame's Scott Zettek hangs onto Alabama's Major; Ogilvie. and brings him down in the first period Saturday Michigan's six-back defense fells Purdue VenturVs season painful to the end NOW THE, SEASON was finally over, this Reason that was probably finished before it even started. The last plays had been run, the last mistakes had been made, the last of the 11 defeats of ,1980 had been completed, the last questions of the last press conference had been answered. Rick Venturi, the head coach, of a Northwestern University football team that had been beaten 39-19 on this Saturday by Wisconsin, Lleft the conference room in the complex beneath the stands of Dyche Stadium and limped to hisoffice.

There, he tcfed to get comfortable. He could not. It was not i the burden 20 consecutive defeats or a 1-31-1 record in three seastins at Northwestern that was discojnforting him. Nor was it the uncertainty of his future as "coach the -pressures of a revolt by black players that had jsimmered for month and exploded in the last week. RIGHT NOW, Rich Venturi most pressing problem was the pain in his left leg.

He tried resting it on a coffee table, but that did not help. He tried draping it across the leg of a chair, but that did not help. It hurt when he stretched it. It hurt when he bent it. "My knee's really Venturi said.

"Ligaments torn?" someone said. "I think it's to'rn cartilage," he said. "If it wafe ligaments, I wouldn'tbe able to Injury had been added to insult. -f. In the first quarter, Wisconsin quarterback Josten rolled out of bounds and slammed into Venturi, knocking the coach to the ground.

1 Venturi stayed down for a minute, was helped to his feet, and went back to work, limping up and down the sidelines as Northwestern took a short-lived 7-0 lead before ldsing three tumbles, snapping the ball through the end zone on a punt play to give Wisconsin a safety, giving up 370 yards rushing, gaining 18 on the ground, and squandering a virtuoso performance by quarterback Mike Kerrigan, who completed 22 of; 33 passes for 237 yards, with one touchdown and no 'interceptions. I "I THINK was our worst casualty of the Venturi said. "I told the doctors I'd call them if it still hurts tomorrow. But this won't stop me for a long time. I ptill can recruit with it." "i What Rick Venturi did not know now, though, was whether he would have to recruit.

Three years ago, when he was 31 years old, Venturi accepted a five-year tofltract and agreed to take over a football program that had stagnated under John Pont, his predecessor as coach and still his boss as athletic director. i Little tangible progress has been made in the effort to achieve victory; controversy has caused pain and left figura-: tive SjCars that seem every bit as awful as the pain caused by an injured knee and the scars that will be left by surgery, and now Venturi does not know if he will be allowed to work the final two years of his contract. "If you had to make odds on your return, what would they be?" someone asked. "I don't know," Venturi said. "I really don't know But I've kind of had to make an investment here, and I'd like to see it through to fruition." The investment has been an expensive one.

UNTIL FIVE WEEKS ago, there was the constant frjistra. tion caused by effort unrewarded, the self-doubts that result from incessant defeat. i Since then, the problems have been much more profound. An organization of black players issued lists of grievances and demands. White players banded together and defended their coach.

The team was polarized racially. Some peopje at Northwestern feared that if contact were allowed in practice a racial carnage might result. i Echoes of the protests of another era were heard. There a lot of the rhetoric familiar in the 1960s. 1 One of the grievances was that Venturi made injured black players clear the field of garbage.

i It was not mentioned that at Northwestern players and Continued on page 6, col. 1 Irish linebacker Bob Crable, who contributed a key fourth-down, fourth-quarter tackle that stopped an Alabama ball carrier for no gain. "Scott got us off right. He just stuck that Ogilvie." Crable spoke in the winners' locker room a few moments after joyous shouts of "4-0!" and "Sugar Bowl!" had died away. The 4-0 represents Notre Dame's record against Alabama.

And Saturday's shutout earned the Irish a New Year's Sugar Bowl date against No. 1-ranked Georgia, the only team in the nation with a perfect record. ZETTEK. A 245-pound defensive end from Elk Grove Village and St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights, went on to make 9 tackles, second among the Irish only to Crable's 11.

Zettek also pounced on an Alabama fumble to set up the game's only score, which came after a second-period Irish "drive" of four yards and two plays. A few feet from Crable in the defenders' half of the locker room, Zettek remembered and relished that tempo-setting first tackle. "I got rid of my man 244-pound Eddie McCombs," Zettek said. "And I saw all three Alabama backs coming right at me. I thought 'So this is what it's going to be like." I managed to stop the one with the ball." "I don't know now if one play can set the tempo," said Ogilvie after the game.

"But that first play showed me that Notre Dame was really ready to play football." Bryant's wishbone attack isn't fancy. It showed Zettek "absolutely nothing I didn't expect. Alabama just comes right at you." There was no doubt in Crable's mind that the first shutout of an Alabama team since 1976 had been forged by Notre Dame's defensive front four John Hankard, Joe Gramke, Tom Marshall, and Zettek. ALABAMA'S WISHBONE attack, Zettek said, caused the Irish defense to adopt new wrinkles. "Usually our defensive line tries to Continued on page 4, col.

3 backs but they can all run and get to the ball. We never shut anyone down like we did in the second half today." MICHIGAN SCORED with Its first two possessions for a 13-0 lead. John Wangler completed key third-down passes to Anthony Carter of 19 and 23 yards and Stan Edwards got the TD on a 3-yard run. Minutes later, Wangler hit Carter on a 22-yard scoring maneuver. The Wolverines completed the scoring with two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, Wangler and Carter hooking up on a 20-yard pass.

That enabled Carter to set a Big 10 record of 10 TD passes in one season. Edwards rushed for a career high 164 yards, but it was the Michigan defense that held the spotlight. "When you play on defense, you always go into a game thinking shutout," said Jackson, a junior free safety from Cleveland. "But we knew that would be tough because Purdue has such a potent offense. "We put the six-back defense in this week.

They hadn't seen it before and we thought it would screw them up. We felt if we could put pressure up front, Herrmann tends to put it the ball up there He has a soft touch, he doesn't have a lot of zip on his passes." LINEBACKER ANDY CANNAVINO led the Wolverines with 10 tackles; 8 were solos. He also came up with an interception that resulted in the final touchdown. In addition to the regular secondary of Jackson, Marion Body, Keith Bostic, and Brian Carpenter, Michigan also used Evan, Cooper and Gerald Diggs to complete the six-back alignment. "I couldn't get anything done," said Herrmann.

"I'd drop back and not see anybody open." "Herrmann played a bad game today," said Coach Jim Young. "But the blame can't all be lodged on him." By Roy Darner Chicago Tribune Press Service ANN ARBOR, Mich. Michigan broke out a six-back Saturday and Purdue suffered the hangover. The Wolverines used a new defense featuring six defensive backs and throttled the passing of Mark Herrmann in a 26-0 whipping of the Boilermakers before 105,831, the third largest crowd in Michigan Stadium history. Michigan ran its Big 10 record to 7-0 and will face Ohio State next Saturday for the title and Rose Bowl assignment.

The loser of that game will go to the Fiesta Bowl. The Boilermakers, losing their first conference game of the season, accepted a bid to the Liberty Bowl. Coach Bo Schembechler and his staff had worked out a strategy to stop Herrmann's passing. "The way to harass him," said Schembechler, "is to cover-his receivers and have four active men up front trying to get to him. We made him move and he's not as effective a passer when he's on the move.

He had to stand back there a long time looking for a receiver. "Using six backs was defensive coordinator Bill McCartney's idea, but I had to pass judgment on it. My only concern was how we would stop the run, but we did it." PURDUE ENTERED the showdown. leading the Big 10 in total offense with 520.3 yards per game and in passing with 331.2 per contest. The Wolverines chopped those figures down to size.

They intercepted four of Herrmann's passes with Tony Jackson picking off two. They sacked the star quarterback three times, linebacker Mel, Owens doing it twice. And while Herrmann completed 21 of 34 passes, most were of the "dump" variety under the swift Michigan coverage and Purdue gained only 129 yards. Michigan's coverage was so good the Purdue Sir1 Sir Wk. 'Ml 4 i UPI Telephoto Purdue quarterback Mark Herrmann watches time run out on Boilermaker title hopes.

receivers thought they were caught in rush hour traffic. "It was like there were 50 people out there," said Bart Burrell. "I'd turn one way and there was somebody, and when I'd turn again somebody else was always The Wolverines were so dominant on defense that they held Purdue without a first down the final 36 minutes. They now have shut out opponents in the last 14 quarters and the whitewash for Purdue was its first in 41 games. "I can't believe it," Schembechler said of the impressive statistics.

"These are all young Boss ofiNFfy refs can't whistle the complaints dead National Football League officials 8 Average age: 48 Average NFL experience: 9Vi years Average total experience: 23Vi years Pay: $352 to $800 per game. Pro Bowl, $1,000 Super Bowl, $3,000 ing methods are more sophisticated than ever. We are trying to get the best possible product, and we're always searching for better ways." According to Minnesota Bud Grant, the officials are "the only amateurs in this whole sport. Everyone else is a pro." i PENALTIES HAVE decreased over the last two years. The NFL interprets this to mean players are not committing as many infractions.

Page argues that officials are Ignoring violations at an alarming rate. "You should look at a film, run it back and forth, and see what goes on in a game," he said, "You would be amazed." According to Commissioner Pete Ro- By Don Pierson ACCORDING TO Art McNally, Nation, al Football League officiating is "better than ever." McNally is the supervisor of NFL officials. According to the Bears' Alan Page, officiating is getting worse. Page has played 14 years as an NFL defensive tackle.) i According to McNally, official complaints about officiating the complaints that are written by coaches, not spoken In the emotion of the moment have remained about the "There always will be complaints. Too many calls, too many games," said McNally.

"Our officials are as dedicated as any group you'll evejr see. Our train bad marks on his record, he is eliminated from postseason assignments and sometimes fired. COACHES ARE privately fined for publicly complaining about officials. Tampa Bay's John McKay no doubt carries a lighter wallet this week for his comment about officials after last week's loss to Pittsburgh: "These people are a little bit higher than the Pope. When they come out there, they are very powerful.

They will go back to their business and make $12 a week and come out again next week." There are 106 officials in the NFL, none of them fulltime. There is a doctor, a pharmacist, the president of an oil company, an architect, the director of a baseball camp, teachers, salesmen, and businessmen. Officials must have at least 10 years experience, five in college ball or the minor leagues, before they are considered by the NFL. The league scouts from 130 to 150 officials each year in college. There are 500 resumes on file in the NFL office.

FILM STUDY IS the primary source of training, In the offseason, officials take a rules exam and study film of themselves and their position. During the season, they take weekly quizzes developed by former referee Norm Schachter. Officials, who work together all season Continued on page 8, col. 3 i i zelle, officials missed at least two violations against Bear players, Doug Plank and Mike Hartenstine. The officials were told about it; the player were fined $1,000 apiece for "unnecessary violence." 0 Officials are never fined, said McNally.

But if an official accumulates enough.