The Journal Herald from Dayton, Ohio • 5

is rows (ellogg free uckeyes get I It i 'a past IU I Journal Herald Sports 13t Friday, Jan. 4 bound, but was called for fouling Kellogg, who was crashing the board. Normally, OSU Coach Eldon Miller couldn't ask to have a better man at the line because Kellogg was 13-for-15 going into the game. But on this night he had been cold, missing his first five field goal attempts and three of his previous five free throws. HE WAS SO COLD, in fact, that Indiana sagged its defense around Williams most of the game and conceded the kid they call Super all of the 15-to-20 foot shots he wanted.

"The strategy worked," he said. "My shooting was horrendous." But when it came down to the nitty gritty, the two crucial free throws went in. They enabled Kellogg to lead OSU in scoring with 14 points which is exactly his average for the last six games. His total for OSU's first three games was only 17. Indiana got one last crack at the basket when Grunwald took a long, hurried baseline jump shot that went in and then popped out at the buzzer.

It wasn't as good a shot as Butch Carter would have had if Coach Bobby Knight hadn't called timeout with one second remaining, just as Carter was ready to take an By Bucky Alters Jural HtrtM SmtH WrMr COLUMBUS Clark Kellogg came up with the perfect remedy for a Rose Bowl hangover last night at St. John Arena. Kellogg, the gifted freshman from Cleveland, sank two free throws with seven seconds remaining to give Ohio State a thrilling 59-58 victory over the crippled, but game Indiana Hoosiers in the Big Ten basketball opener for both schools. A packed house of 13,591 watched Kellogg's first shot of a one-and-one opportunity hit the back of the rim, bounce high in the air and fall through the hoop to tie the score. Then the 6-foot-7 forward swished the next one to decide the issue.

"I wasn't really nervous," the baby-faced Kellogg said after the game. "I was confident that they'd both fall." Even that first one? "Lshot it soft and got the shooter's roll," he said. "You didn't see me back away from the line, did you?" KELLOGG GOT HIS opportunity because Ohio State's Kelvin Ransey had gotten his hand in front of an Indiana inbounds pass by Glen Grunwald under the OSU basket. He batted the ball back to Grunwald, who still had one foot out of bounds, thereby giving possession to Ohio State. His team trailing 58-57 with nine seconds to play, Kellogg took the ball out for the Bucks and intended to pass to 6-foot-10 center Herb Williams, who was covered.

But Ransey got loose underneath the basket, received the pass and tried in vain to lay the ball in through the taller players who crowded around the basket. Grunwald slid into position for an Indiana re- Iowa nips Illinois. College round-up, Page 16. OSU box OHK) STATE FG FTREBPFTP Smith 3-4 0-1 7 2 Kellogg S-14 4-7 4 4 14 Williams 4-1 5-1 1 I 13 Scon 4-11 2-2 3 14 Ranwy 5-10 2-2 5 3 12 Penn 0-1 0-0 0 10 EHinghausen 0-0 0-0 10 0 Huggms 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Team Dead Ball 4 Totah 23-50 13-20 14 INDIANA FC FTREBPFTP Turner 5-7 0-0 3 10 Bouchia 0-2 0-0 0 3 0 Tdoerl 7-11 1-1 4 4 15 I.Thomas 6-10 3-4 5 2 15 Carter 3-5 1-3 2 3 7 Rislev 1-1 0-0 I 0 2 J. Thomas 0-10-0 10 0 Grunwald 4-0 1-3 2 2 9 Team a.

Dead Ball 3 Tata 24-45 4-11 24 17 50 Halfhmt score: Indiana 32, Ohio Slate 27. Attendance: 13,591. Field goal percentage: Ohio Slate .460, Indiana .570. Assist leaders: Ohio State; Ransey 4, Scott Indiana 1. Thomas 6, Tol- oert 5.

v'- r-' fr (V I '1 ft K- (.. -J AP Laserpbotv Indiana's Butch Carter tries to drive on the Buckeyes' Carter Scott LA's Youngblood wont let bad break stop him 18-footer from the circle. "This was a great basketball game," said Ransey, whose 12 points gave him 1,602 for his career and put him in second place ahead of Robin Freeman on the all-time OSU scoring list. KNIGHT, WHO HAD five injured players sitting on the bench beside him In street clothes, was proud of the effort from a team that was without starters Mike WoWson and Randy Wittman. "We played against as much talent as you'll find on any college basketball team in the United States," he said.

"My players played extremely hard. I was proud of the way they kept coming back and the way they played when they were down." Indiana, now 7-3 overall, outscored the home team 1 1-2 over the last four minutes of the first half to take a 32-27 lead into the dressing room. It took Ohio State eight minutes to tie at 42, setting up a dramatic 12 minutes of basketball that was punctuated by some chess-like moves by coaches Miller and Knight. Indiana, playing deliberately, outfoxed the Bucks on numerous occasions and actually appeared to have control down the stretch when Grunwald, a senior substitute, twice broke away from Kellogg. WITH THE SCORE at 55-55, Grunwald had an opportunity for a three-point play when Kellogg was called for goaltending.

But he missed the free throw. On the other end, Williams sank two free throws with 45 seconds to play, tying the score at 57. Again Grunwald got away from Kellogg, but this time the freshman wisely fouled him before he could shoot. With 29 seconds left, Grunwald made his first shot, but missed the second. When OSU's Carter Scott missed a baseline jumper with 11 seconds left and Indiana was awarded the ball out of bounds, the Buckeyes were all but dead.

But Ransey and Kellogg combined to change ail that and give the 8-1 Buckeyes a rousing start in the Big Ten race. Lot Angeles Times Washington Pest Service LOS ANGELES When the Los Angeles Rams' defense lines up Sunday at TJampa Stadium, scene of the National Football Conference championship game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, chances are that Jack Youngblood will be out there, as usual, at left end. This is one good, ol' Florida country boy who ain't gonna let no ol' broken leg stop him, if he can help it. Youngblood, a perennial All-Pro who fractured the fibula bone about four inches above his left ankle early in the second quarter of the Rams' 21-19 playoff victory over Dallas last week, says he plans to play with the Injury if it's physically possible if he can move well enough to play his familiar role in the Rams' rugged defense. Apparently it Is possible because Youngblood, limping noticeably but still running faster than a lot of guys his size, shrugged off the pain and played most of the last three quarters against the Cowboys.

His injury is a hairline fracture and was taped rather than put in a cast. YOUNGBLOOD, team doctors, the trainer, and Coach Ray Malavasi all say that they probably won't know for sure whether Youngblood will be able to play until just before the game, when the team warms up and he tests his leg. But no one who knows him is betting against it. Said Fred Dryer, who bookends the other side of the Rams' defensive line: "It would take a straitjacket to keep Jack out Sunday. Or Bruce Lee (the late martial arts legend), and he's dead." "Jack is cut from the same cloth as (retired Ram lineman) Merlin Olsen," said Dr.

Toby Freedman of the Rams' medical staff. "Merlin would dislocate a finger in several places, stick his hand in an ice bucket and go back but there while the doctors were fainting. Hell, the tee bucket is too cold for most guys. Jack is like that." INDEED, PART OF Youngblood's willingness to put up with the pain, a very big part, is that he and a lot of other veteran Rams have waited seven frustrat ing years to reach the Super Bowl. And now they're a win away.

Tampa Bay, the Central Division winner in its fourth year as an NFL expansion team, is obviously strong enough the Bucs beat a battered Ram team, 21-6, earlier this season In Tampa. But this appears to be the Rams' best chance yet to make it to pro football's biggest game. Playing on the road, they are nonetheless favored by three points. And Youngblood, the kind who'll play if he can walk probably out of pride and the feeling he owes it to teammates doesn't want to miss it. Youngblood said Dr.

Robert Kerlan, the Rams' chief orthopedist, assured him he can't further the damage by playing. Youngblood who has played before with painful nerve pinches, not to mention a chronically sore elbow said that never in his nine-year NFL career has he taken a pain-killing injection. Would he Sunday if it was the difference between playing and not playing? "That's a decision I'll make later," he said. Jack Youngblood Wilberforce 1 0th victim 82-58 'Rattle-skattle' WSU manages win with 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds, three less than teammate Rodney Benson's game-high 12. "It wasn't hard for me to get up.

I wanted to get off on a good foot," said Manning, who scored 10 of his points in the first 4:41 to get WSU ahead 16-6. "I felt like there was a lot of pressure, too. You know, if I had messed up, people would be saying, 'Well, he SHOULD be the sixth man. I proved I could start." For that matter, maybe Wilberforce's Anthony Peasant proved he could start, too. The senior from Jefferson High School came off the bench to get a team-high 16 points, 12 in the second half, and a team-high 10 rebounds.

Still, not much went well for either team. "It was a win." WSU senior Steve Hartings said, "and that's about it." WSU box score halftime. They shook hands well after the game. And they did manage to play well in enough spurts to hand a Wilberforce team that started four freshmen and a sophomore its 16th loss in 18 games, 16 of which have been on the road. But in between those spurts, it was, as Underhill said, "rattle-skattle basketball" which resulted in 57 turnovers, 29 by Wilberforce.

FRANKLY, PART of the reason for WSU's unin-spirirational play had to be that the Raiders had a difficult time getting "up" for Coach Ben Waterman's Bulldogs, who are willing, but too short and too inexperienced. "I'm not going to take anything away from Ben's team," Underhill said. "They hustled, and he's done a good job with them. But no matter what you say, the kids read the papers. They see the records." "It was hard to get up," senior Bill Wilson said, "but I think we probably should have been up a little higher than we were.

But you'll see a different game Monday night. We'll be fired up for that." "They've got a very fine basketball team," Waterman said of WSU. "They're tough, tough, but not as good as Winston-Salem (another strong Division II team). They'll beat Central. They've just got more bench than Central." AS PROOF, YOU could cite junior Leon Manning's performance.

The 6-foot-6 forward started in place of Roman Welch, WSU's leading scorer and rebounder who was suspended by Underhill for one game because of a missed practice. Manning led all scorers By Paul Meyer Journal Herald Sports Writer Wright State remained unbeaten last night, stumbling its way to an 82-58 victory over outmanned Wilberforce, but that wasn't much of a congratulatory post-game speech Raiders' Coach Ralph Underhill gave his team. After the largest Physical Education Building crowd (2,325) of the season watched WSU move to 10-0, Underhill spent 10 minutes enumerating for his team just how many basketball sins it must correct before Monday night's game with Central State and standout Mel Crafter. In no particular order of importance, Underhill covered: Too much dribbling. Too little dribbling.

Forcing shots. Not looking for passes (although at times it didn't seem to matter if the Raiders did look for passes). And, finally, lazy defense. "How many times tonight did we 'open the door' and let somebody go for a layup?" Underhill asked. "If we play defense like that Monday night, Crafter might break the NCAA scoring record.

He might get 80 (points)." LATER, WHEN reporters talked to Underhill, the coach softened his criticism somewhat. "I was pleased with our club at certain times," Underhill said. He said that with a straight face and maybe the Raiders did have their impressive moments. For example, they looked sharp in the pre-game warmup. They didn't trip going down the stairs at WRIGHT STATE WILBERFORCE FG F6 FTREBPFTP FTREBPFTP 1-2 2 0 5 3-1 2-6 10-10 Jones Movers Douglas Lawrence Williams Peasant McCeH Manm 1- 11 1-2 2- 7 0-0 7-15 0-0 4-12 0-0 0-17 0-0 0-0 0-0 Benson Manning Hartings Wilson Crowe Bragg Milter Holiaofel Petering Fitioatricli C-N 13 tW.Wf nmwn ill NSaW 1-2 0-0 1-4 0-0 Team A Dead Ball 0-3 3-3 0-0 43 0-1 0 Zimmermen atari 24-74 2-4 40 23 SO Team I Dead Ball 2 Tents 32-40 11-24 50 1C .12 2,325.

Wright Slate 43, Wil Staff photo by Bill Garlow Wilberforce's David Lawrence (right) deflects pass From grasp of Wright State's Rodney Benson (24) Field seal percentage Wright State 470, Wilberforce .371. Assist leaders: Wright Stele: Wilson WiiMrlorce: Meyers 2, William 2, McNeil 2. berforce 23. Officials: Jim Van de Grltt, Larry Williamson. Eddie Biles nother controversy for Ik Jfc.rf;-:.f I I Eddie Biles Once upon a time there was a very keen college football rivalry between Dayton and Xavier, back when the Cincinnati Jesuit school along Victory Parkway fielded a team.

One of the controversial highlights of this relationship was the great debate of 1968, which centered on Xavier's 12-man goal line defense. The rival coaches at the time were Dayton's John McVay and Xavier's Eddie Biles, and the huffing and puffing erupted following Xavier's 27-25 victory that year. McVay couldn't understand why his team wasn't able to score a touchdown from a first down at the two-yard line until a study of the films provided an Interesting clue for four straight plays, the Xavier goal line defensive unit was made up of 12 player's. With all the bodies packed in so tightly in that situation, an official might possibly be forgiven for failing to make an accurate count. McVay, who subsequently became the head coach of the New York Giants, ranted and accused his rival of having the 12-man goal line defense as a standard In the Xavier play book.

NONSENSE, COUNTERED Biles at the time, Just an honest mistake. He was sorry. It wouldn't happen again. Xavier had a new coach the next season, Biles having moved Into the National Football League with the New Orleans Saints. Which brings us to the current edition of Sports Illustrated mi its coverage of the dramatic 17-14 upset victory the Injury-riddled Houston Oilers scored signalled to Fouts as soon as the San Diego quarterback got it.

Given that intelligence, Biles would flash a prearranged signal to linebacker Greg Bingham, who would call a defensive formation to counter what the Chargers Intended to do. No other Houston players were aware of the espionage, according to Zimmerman's report. In the aftermath of the game, a lot of us who covered it were trying to determine why the Oilers, who Intercepted Fouts five times, had such an easy time covering the San Diego receiving corps. The most logical assumption to make was Fouts was tipping off the secondary with well-scouted habits. During the game, I was sitting in the press box directly In front of some high-level San Diego administrative personnel.

They were assuming the Oilers were reading the head fakes of their quarterback, and at one stage assistant general manager Tank Younger went into the coaches' observation booth to suggest that might be happening. VERNON PERRY, the first-year strong safety of the Oilers who had four of the five interceptions, talked about being warned not to go for Fouts' first head fake. If the SI editors want to assume that Zimmerman, the author of several books on pro football, managed this high level deduction on his own, that's their problem. However, there is one sentence in Zimmerman's story that is an outright fabrication and an insult to the readers. Zimmerman had the gall to write "Neither Biles nor Bum Phillips would discuss the matter." Maybe Bum didn't talk, but I'll guarantee you that the source of Zimmerman's story is Biles himself, and the tip came before not after the game.

Eddie is a capable little guy who would dearly love to get a head coaching job in the NFL. If he wants to use a magazine to advance his chances, that's his business and that of the magazine. BUT THE EDITORS have to be aware that Biles and Zimmerman got very close in the five years Biles was with the New York Jets when the writer was covering that team for the Post There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, or, for that matter, In Zimmerman cashing in his friendship to gain a good story. But let's not try to fool the readers. Zimmerman did refer to Biles as "tricky," which hardly covers his own tracks in the plot.

Curiously, the biggest play of that whole football game was safety Perry's block of an attempted short-range field goal by Mike Wood. That not only prevented the Chargers from assuming a 10-0 lead, but Perry's long return set up a field goal by Ton! Fritsch that got the Oilers who knew they weren't going to score many points on the board. There was no need to crack a code that the Chargers were in kick formation. Alas, nowhere In the Sports Illustrated coverage was that play noted. si-- i over the San Diego Chargers.

The Oilers were playing without quarterback Dan Pastorinl, punishing power runner Earl Campbell and Kenny Burroughs, the swift deep receiving threat all out with Injuries. Paul Zimmerman, the longtime fvew York Post sports writer who joined the SI staff not too long ago, has a "scoop" crediting Biles, the defensive coordinator of the Oilers, with breaking the code the Chargers use to signal plays to quarterback Dan Fouts. According to Zimmerman, Biles managed to Interpret the hand signals used by San Diego assistant coach Jerry Hanifin after Hanlfin got the suggested play on the headphone from the Chargers' press box observers. MEANWHILE, Wade Phillips, an Oiler assistant and son of head coach Bum Phillips, had his binoculars trained on Hanifin and was relaying that signal to Biles. Thus, the Oilers allegedly knew the play being siStf.

It I Dan Fouts i I.