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Falcontrcoacl. DanHonnina to 141 f(SW? Is Cyc J. mi sips 101, COMPLETE COVERAGE 8D. 9D By Mark Bradley Staff Writer play, slicing MSU's lead to 14-10. i s.

Needing to move the chains and burn the clock, the Spartans gave the ball to tailback Lorenzo White, the nation's leading rusher, on three consecutive toss sweeps. The third gained enough yards for a down, but White, who rushed for 158 yards on 33 carries, fumbled after a hit by TecB's Riccardo Ingram. The Jackets' Pat Swilling recovered at the State 42 with 5:32 to An illegal procedure penalty on second down pushed Tech back to the 44, and Rampley nearly gave the game away pn the next snap when his pass for Tim: Man- night at Legion Field. King's run capped a fourth quarter of Yellow Jacket heroics and sent some 25,000 Tech fans in the chilled stands into the New Year on a golden natural high. "This is the finest experience I've ever had in athletics," said Tech coach Bill Curry.

"I really don't have words to describe this group of players we have. They've overcome an awful lot of things. I've never been so proud." Curry's pride was warranted. Without three starters quarterback John Dewberry and receivers Gary Lee and Toby Pearson and reserve fullback Charles Mack, all suspended for breaking curfew Saturday morning, the Jackets didn't figure to beat State with offense. But they did, outgaining the Spartans 281 yards to 233 and fashioning two heroic fourth-quarter drives to rally from a 14-7 deficit First among the heroes were King, who gained 122 yards on 16 carries, his finest game as a Jacket, and Rampley, the sophomore quarterback who completed 12 of 23 passes in his first collegiate start Taking possession at the Tech 20 with 13 minutes left, Rampley guided the Jackets 57 yards in 14 plays, completing three of five passes and gaining a vital first down on a pass-interference call against State cornerback Keith Fisher.

When the Tech drive stalled at the Spartans' 23, David Bell kicked a 40-yard field goal with 7:08 to BIRMINGHAM, Ala. After a week of upheaval and suspensions, after a night of mostly frustration, finally Georgia Tech burst into the light. Malcolm King, the smallish fullback, took the handoff, cut behind tackle John Ivemeyer's block and pranced into the end zone, and into Yellow ticket lore King's five-yard run with 1:50 to play gave Tech a 17-14 victory over Michigan State in the All American Bowl Tuesday See TECH 8D HAPPY JACKETS: Tech Ted Roof (left), Mark Pike celebrate. EIjeAlIanla Sfounral the Atlanta constitution WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 19S6 SECTION nnn DDDdltdu: fr 5 V4 4 'if: fir Bon COMPLETE COVERAGE 4D. 5D By Karen Rosen StaH Writer I 1 The Army wishbone kept Illinois' defense in splinters, but it was two wobbly touchdown passes both from halfbacks that launched Army to a 31-29 Peach Bowl win Tuesday.

Illinois had a chance to tie in the closing moments, as Illinois quarterback Jack Trudeau completed a 54-yard touchdown pass to David Williams with 34 seconds left, but the two-point try, another pass from Trudeau to Williams, failed. A 40-yard field goal attempt by Chris White, Illinois' all-time leading scorer and the coach Mike White's son, hit the crossbar with 3:20 left, and that proved to be the losing margin. Army (9-3) is undefeated in bowl games, winning last year's Cherry Bowl in its only other appearance. Illinois (6-5-1), is 0-3 in bowl games in six years under coach Mike White, 3-3 overall. Befitting an Army win, the day wore dress gray.

Rain drizzled or poured with the temperature in the 40s most of the game, which was completed under the i 4 VVv" a mm ib 1 JOHNSPINKStall 5D See PEACH FORWARD MARCH! Army's Leighton Drisdale (left) and William Lampley cheer gain by the Cadets. Under Atlanta's weather vane, a bell tolls for 'unsinkable' Army i Furman Bisher A van towing the University of Illinois Navy ROTC bell, which is rung after each score, sloshed along the freeway around Moores Mill Road, Just arriving from Champaign. Above the bell was the boastful pledge, "Unsinkable Team," right fitting for the kind of day-ahead in Atlanta. An army of high school bands, maybe as many as 20, sloshed onto the playing field in Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium awhile later. They bore banners unfamiliar to the locals Olentangy (Ohio), Belding Amsterdam (N.Y.), Holland (Mich.) and raindrops dripped from the tips of their noses.

They were observing the wettest AU-American Band Festival ever measured. Those members of the Army cadet corps present came down out of the stands and sloshed across the squishy field just before kickoff to form two thin lines of gray as an escort for their football team about to engage in combat with the aforementioned Iliini. As one might suspect, the Peach Bowl, 18th in number, was about to be played. This sporting event has become Atlanta's most reliable weather vane. Hear it scheduled and know that on that day the city will be visited by (1) rain, (2) snow, (3) sleet, (4) the Alberta Clipper, (5) fog, or (6) a combination of the above.

The 1 i J. meteorological menu for this one was rain and fog, with the promise of chilblains. i Monday was beautiful. Wednesday will be beautiful again. Tuesday the Peach Bowl was played.

What America would see by television was Atlanta weather at its miserablest, reconfirming the suspicion that the sun never shines here, that we live in perpetual gloom and should grow sensational mushrooms. Through sunny days of barbecues and teas, parades and luncheons, evenings of banqueting and dancing, the Sir Jr it; See BISHER 5D MISERY IN THE MUD: Illinois' Mike Giddings sits dejectedly after Army's Peach Bowl win. i t- i i. i V. ate AViSM 1 pionship ii f-r to Pern St Cy bowl coverag3 on PcgeG 10D and 11D but lock l.d it.

con." .1 with a solid victory over No. 8-rawd Tennciee in the Sugar Bowl tonijht nurht get the Hurricanes at least one national trophy, maybe both And then there is F'g 10 champion Iowa (rated No. 3 by LTI and No. 4 by AP) which faces Pac-10 champion UCLA in the hose Bowl. For the Hawkeyes, with a 10-1 record, to win a national championship, they first must beat UCLA'c'wttvincitigiy in the Rose, History isn't on Iowa's side.

The Pac-10 champion has won 14 of the last IS Rose Bowls, and the last time coach Hayden Fry took a team to Pasadena, he was sent home a 28-0 loser. Iowa would like nothing better, than for Okla NEW ORLEANS Who's No. Perm State, the only nwjor unbeaten and un tied team in the nation, claims that distinction in both the Associated Press and United Press International polls today, but in order for.collece foot- ball's 1235 national championship voting to be automatic the Nittany Lions must beat formidable Okfoknm!) ji) (Vqilnn tAw The fnal polls will te made Friday moaning. Of the fooners (10 1) have ajiirations of their own. They are rated" No.

2 by the UPI board of coaches, No. in the AP's poll of writers and broadcasters, So Pcnn State's second national championr-hip in four years is by no means a cinch. "If I was Penn State, I'd be a little embar-. rassed to go into a bowl game ranked No. and be a 7-point ur.dcsdog," saic linebacker Bruce Flemiiig of Miami, which alio is entertaining national title hopes.

The Ilurricanf-s are rated No. 2 by AP, No. 4 by LTI. Hurricanes coach Jimmy Johnson, who learned nut to Lke Oklahoma long ago while coaching at Oklahoma State before succeeding Howard Schnel-J. gcr St Us riO kcatl of his feelings concerning Use Sooners position going into Uie final leg of the national championship M.aml is the, only team to beat Oklahoma this season, a 27-14 mldseason win at Norman, Ckia.

"I don't see how a team we beat could end up ranked ahead of us," Johnson said, "That doesn't make a lot of sense." If the situation arises, however, voters are likely to be mindful that Miami's victory came be-. lore Jametle Holieway emerged as iiie Soonen' No. 1 quarterback, 'making OkMorna a devastat-. Injj offensive team. Miami's best chance to win the national cham-) homa and Penn State to tie In the Orange, or at least for the Sooners to look bad a narrow vie- I NS- tory, and for Tennessee to upset the Hurric the 1 That uniikely combination of events might be the Hawkeyes' only chance to win the national championship, 'and even that likely would not.

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