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Ohio State Buckeyes Remain Favored In Rose Bowl (fy ri ri in ir fty w- .4 Page 2-B Wednesday, January 1969 its Orange Coaches See High Score Dallas Tuesday where they prepared for their New Year's Day clash with Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl game. (AP Wirephoto) TEXAS' BIG FOUR Texas' hard-charging backfield, left to Tight, Ted Koy, James Street (kneeling), Steve Worster and Chris Gilbert pause a moment during a practice session in Texas 'Flying Foursome' Covered 2 Miles In Season dead'y serious on the eve of the battle that could project one of them into the No. 2 spot in the final rational football poll, behind the winner of the Rose Bowl struggle between No. 1 Ohio Stats and No. 2 Southern California.

Paterno wouldn't even discuss it, but there was for him a faint hope of something even better. A Southern California win over Ohio State Wednesday afternoon would leave Penn State (10-0) the only major perfect-record team in the nation going into the night-time confrontation with Kansas. Thus, a decisive victory for Penn State in the Orange Bowl might persuade voters to go for the Lions for No. 1. Penn State, with an apparent edge over Kansas on defense, keyed its pre-gamj planning on Douglass, the powerful 6-foot-4 southpaw who broke the Jay-hawk total offense record for a career with 3,832 yards.

"He's a quarterback in the class of Roger Staubach 1963 Heisman Trophy winner from Navy," Paterno said. "He's a strong, squirming runner, a team leader, and a pass like a bullet." Fullback John Riggins, 220-pound sophomore and tailback Donnie Shanklin teamed with Douglass to give Kansas an explosive attack and the third highest scoring average the nation. Penn State's hopes rest on a defense that may be the most rugged the Jayhawks have encountered and an attack led by Charlie Pittman, who broke the Lions' seasonal scoring record with 14 touchdowns, and All-American tight end Ted Kwalick. Game To Decide Champs PASADENA. fAP Oh.o State and the University of Southern California clash Wednesday for the national college football championship in the first game between two unbeaten teams since the Big Ten Pacific-8 signed their postseason bowl pact in 1947.

The Buckeyes from the Midwest remain favored by points of a touchdown or less in the 1969 Rose Bowl battle. Southern Cal, whose lone blemish was a 21-21 tie with Notre Dame, is the defending National Champion and is making its th.rd straight appearance in the Rose Bowl. Trojan Coach John McKay is 2-1 in the bowl while Woody Hayes, coach of Ohio State, is a winner in his two appearances here, the last in 1958. The prospects of a wild struggle involving All-American O. J.

Simpson and his tal-e quarterback, Steve Sogge, and an exciting sophomore-studded squad from Columbus, has created more interest than any of recent years. Quarterback Rex Kern, a sophomore, is the leader of the attack. More than 100,000 will jam the bowl and the nation can look in on television via the National Broadcasting Co. Kickoff time: 2 p.m., PST. Dry skies were forecast, the temperature a snappy 60 degrees or better.

Hayes and McKay were lavish in praise of the coaching abilities of the other when they appeared at the annual luncheon staged by the Tournament of Roses for the football writers Monday. Hayes credited McKay with opening up college football offenses as much as any coach in the country, and frankly said he borrowed heavily from McKay strategy in fashioning this team. "We know Ohio State has a fine football team and is deserving of its No. 1 ranking. We'll play our hearts out to win," McKay declared.

"They've got real cool operators at the quarterback and tailback positions," Hayes said, referring to Sogge and Simpson. The Buckeyes generally compared Southern Cal to Purdue, a Big Ten rival they mastered and shut out, 13-0. In the process the Buckeyes throttled Leroy Keyes to" 19 yards rushing. Can they bottle up Simpson, the nation's leading rusher in 195S? "Ohio State is comparable to Oregon State in our conference," McKay commented. In that key game, L'SC prevailed, 17-13, and Simpson gained 238 yards in 47 carries.

Notre Dame, however, contained Simpson but a second half surge earned the Trojans a 21-21 tie. CrancIellNew NM Dodder AFTER THE BALL Lew Alcindor (33), UCLA center, leaps under the basket for a loose ball in the second period of the game with St. John's at Madison Square Garden Monday night in New York City. In on the play for St. John's are Joe DePre (55) and Bill Paultz (11), directly behind Alcindor.

The Bruins from Los Angeles won the title 74-56. (AP Wirephoto) Georgia, Arkansas Hogs Clash In Sugar Bowl Texas, co-champions of the Southwest Conference, averaged 34 points and 331 yards per game on the ground. Gilbert gained 1,132 yards for a 6.2 average. He became the only player in the major college history to rush for more then 1,000 yards in each of his varsity seasons. Koy ran for 601 yards, Worster for 806, and Street for 340.

But Tennessee's rugged de er se anchored by All-American linebacker Steve DALLAS, TEX. (AP) The 33rd annual Cotton Bowl battle Wednesday is a classic confrontation of Texas' high-powered offense against the stingy defensive muscle of Tennessee. Texas' "flying foursome" of All-American Chris Gilbert, Ted Koy. Steve Worster and quarterback James Street covered almost two miles of grass in bscrm.ns the hVies: scoring Longhorn machine in 50 years. respective conferences a "sophomore of tha i a 's Mike Cavan, described by Dooley as having "great confidence and poise for someone so young," threw nine touchdown passes, completing 116 of 207 tossets for 1,619 yards.

Bruins Show Strength In Holiday Festival Fuller's Lawyers File Suit Kiner and rugged Jack Reynolds allowed only an average of 11 points per game and meager 93 yards per contest on the ground. Fifth-ranked Texas and eighth-ranked Tennessee, a Southwest Conference titan, completed the season with identical 8-1-1 records. A capacity crowd of 72,000 is expected although temperatures in the high 30s at game time may keep some spectators home. The Weather Bureau said there should be little or no wind. Kickoff is 1 p.m.

CST and CBS will televise the game nationally. Tennessee and Texas have met twice before in the Cotton Bowl with the Volunteers prevailing 20-14 in 1951 and the Longhorns gaining revenge 16-0 two years later. Texas Coach Darrell Royal has indicated the Longhorns will stick to their unique "Wishbone-T" or formation. The Volunteers operate from the I formation built around the passing and running of fiery quarterback Bubby Wyche, rugged fullback Richard Pickens and swift tailback Richmond Flowers. Vol Coach Doug Dickey has promised a "new wrinkle or two" for the game.

Texas is a touchdown favorite the first time in 17 games that Tennessee has been an underdog. The Longhorns have a more impressive bowl record than the Vols. Texas has a 9-4-2 bowl mark while Tennessee is 6-8. The Vols were stung 26-24 by Oklahoma in last year's Orange Bowl and preparations for this game have been intense. "In a game like this one with both teams so evenly matched, the kicking game just might decide the winner," said Royal.

"Both teams have good kicking games," said Dickey. Soccer-style kicker Karl Kremser has converted 28 of 29 extra points and 6 of 19 field goals for the Vols. Punter Herman Weaver has an excellent 40.4 average. Happy Feller, who got his first name because he smiled a lot as an infant, kicked 30 of 32 extra points and 8 of 16 field goals. Punter Bill Bradley averaged 40.3.

Both teams went through light limbering up exercises Tuesday. MIAMI (AP) Quick-striking Penn State and Kansas, a pair of go-for-broke football teams ambitious for higher national rankings, clash in the Orange Bowl Wednesday night in what could be the most free-scoring of the bowl games. "Let's face it," said Coach Pepper Rodgers, who brought the Kansas Jayhawks from obscurity to No. 6 in the nation in two years, "we can't stop Penn State. Nobody can.

And nobody can stop us. either. "We only hope that we can slow them down enough to win." Coach Joe Paterno, whose Nittany Lions were the class of the East and No. 3 in the nation at tti close of tha regular season, agreed. "If I had to make a prediction," he said, "I would predict a lot of scoring.

Bobby Douglass, Kansas quarterback, is going to give us a lot of anguish." Outwardly, attitudes in the two training camps differed sharply. Paterno worked the Lions in secret, introducing new formations to meet the Kansas threat. The happy-gc-lucky Rodgers threw the gates wide open to all comers. But both coaches were Hitting Is Name Of Game BALTIMORE (AP) "Hitting is the name of our game," says Jerry Logan of the Baltimore Colt defense. "Our idea is to contain and to hit," explains the safety on a crew which posted its fourth shutout this year Sunday while taking the National Football League championship 34-0 over Cleveland.

"The idea is based on intimidation of the other team, forcing them to make the first mistake," said the 190-poun-der. "If you keep hitting them hard enough and often enough, they're going to lose that concentration and, eventually, the ball." Logan declares it's going to be awfully hard to beat the Colts if we ever get ahead. "We'll make the other team suffer for whatever they get." He also said the Colts try to make the other team use a lot of time even though it may manage to score. "We will give them a few things, but never the bomb and never the long ganer," asserts Logan. He played offensive back at West Texas State and his 110 points were the most scored by a collegian in 1962.

Now he relishes defense. "I'd rather get in a good, hard-hitting tackle than an interception, and I mean that," he said. His defensive teammates feel the same, according to Logan. "Check the list, and you'll find every one of our people are hitters. "The front line likes nothing better than to nail that quarterback with all they've got.

"The linebackers well, everybody knows Mike Curtis and Dennis Gaubatz and Don Shinnick will also put it to you. "In the backfield, I know every one of us, myself. Rich Volk, Lenny Lyles and Bobby Boyd, really enjoy the intimidation of the other club." The "other club" remaining for the Colts is the New York Jets, the American Football League champs, in the Super Bowl Jan. 12 in Miami. Elias Offered Assistant Job At Notre Dame BALTIMORE (AP) Bill Elias.

deposed Navy football coach, has been offered a post as an assistant at Notre Dame, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The Baltimore Evening Sun said that Elias would replace John Ray who left Notre Dame to become head coach at Kentucky. Ray was in charge of the defensive line and linebackers. Elias had been an assistant at Purdue and head coach at George Washington and Virginia before being hired by Navy in 1965. The Academy announced his dismissal Dec.

18. NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) Georgia's balanced offensive attack and stingy defense collide Wednesday in the 35th anniversary Sugar Bowl football classic with Arkansas, a sophomore-dominated team that surprised even its coach, smooth talking Frank Broyles. The game, which gets under way at 2 p.m. EST, matches the Southeastern Conference champion agains tthe co-titil-ist from the Southwest Conference.

Georgia, 8-0-2 under Vince Dooley, captured the SEC crown and earned the No. 4 ranking in The Associated Press poll. Arkansas finished 9- 1, rewrote its record book with a high-powered offense and shared the SWC championship with Texas. A record crowd of nearly 85,000 will witness the Sugar Bowl match along with a nationwide NBC-TV audience. The oddsmakers have made Georgia's Bulldogs a seven-point favorite a role that Dooley doesn't relish.

Broyles hopes the old maxim about the third time being the charm will hold true for his Razorbacks. This is his third visit to the Sugar Bowl and he has yet to taste victory. The Razorbacks bowed 10- 3 to Alabama in 1962 and 17-13 to Mississippi the following year. Broyles played in the 1944 Sugar Bowl as a fullback for Georgia Tech, which beat Tulsa 20-18. Georgia's last visit to the Sugar Bowl was for the 1947 game which matched the Bulldogs' Charlie Trippi and North Carolina's Charlie "Chco Choo" Justice.

Georgia wen that thriller 20-10. The BuHdogs have a pair of All-American defensive performers in tackle Bill Stanfill, a 6-foot-5 senior, and safety Jake Scott, a junior speedster who led the SEC in pass interceptions 10 and punt returns 440 yards. Senior offensive guard Jim Barnes, a superb blocker, is Arkansas' All-American. Both teams are quarter-backed by sophomores and both earned accolades in their Ysleta Crushes Parkland Ysleta's Indians grabbed a 22-4 first quarter lead and then coasted to a 90-51 basketball win over the Parkland Matadors Tuesday afternoon at the Ysleta gym. The Indians, sparked by Ralph Palomar's 23 points and Albert Beltran's 20, increased to lead to 46-18 at halftime and led 70-28 going into the last quarter of play.

Other players in double figures for the Indians were Luis Gil with 12 points and Jim Greggerson with 10. High point man for the Matadors was David Morales with 17 points followed by Mark Blair with 15. The win brought Ysleta's seaicn mark to S-8. YSLETA 90, PARKLAND 51 Parkland 4 18 28 51 Ysleta 52 44 70 Parkland Terry Baker 2, David Morales 17, Charles Quknby 8, Mark Blair 15- Fred Shelton 8, Charles Barrera 1. Vsieta Ralph Palomor 23, Albert Bel-tran 20, Jim Greggerson 10, Art Mociaft 4, Danny Beltran 2, Ed Campa 8.

George Duchene 3, Luis Gil 12, Paul Tims 8. King, Casals Win 1st Round HOBART, Tasmania (AP) B'llie Jean King and Rosemary Casals, the favored American professionals, scored easy victories over Australians Tuesday in the first round of the Tasmanian Open Tennis Championships. Mrs. King, the top seed from Long Beach, beat Cynth-hia Sieler, 6-1, 6-1. Miss Casals, the No.

2 seed from San Francisco, ousted Gwen Bishop, 6-1, 6-2. grabbed 16 rebounds as Minnesota ended the Titans' winning string at 10 games. Ninth-ranked Villanova, beaten by North Carolina in the first round of the Holiday Festival, took fifth place with a 70-65 victory over Holy Cross. But six of the other nationally ranked teams in action, including No. 17 St.

Johns, were upended. South Carolina knocked off 11th ranked LaSalle 62-59 in the final of the Quaker City Classic at Philadelphia and No. 15 Duquesne bowed to Louisiana State 94-191 in the title game of the All College Tournament at Oklahoma City after the host team downed No. 20 St. Bonaventure 81-71 for third place.

Washington topped No. 13 Ohio State 64-59 at Columbus and Butler ambushed No. 18 New Mexico 81-80 in overtime at Indianapols. Of the eight clubs in the second ten who played, only 14th ranked Louisville, which rolled pest North Texas State 86-73 at home for its eighth victory without a loss, and 16th ranked Notre Dame, which smashed American University 92-67 at Baltimore, emerged unscathed. Alcindor, playing in his native New York for the last time as a collegian, dominated the Festival final with his scoring, rebounding and sht blocking as UCLA zipped to its 24th straight victory and 71st in 72 games.

The Bruins' Kenny Heitz limited St. John's ace John Warren to six points before a Madison Square Garden throng of 19,500. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lew Alcindor and the awesome UCLA Bruins made a shambles of their Holiday Festival title game against St. John's, N.Y., while North Carolina's Charlie Scott and Kansas' Jo Jo White, two of America's Olympic basketball standouts, also sparkled in tournament play. But Detroit supersoph Spencer Haywood, brightest of the U.S.

cage stars at the Mexico City Olympic Games, was eclipsed by the Minnesota Gophers and a guy named Mikan. Alcindor, UCLA's amazing, 7-foot-l1 All American, led the unbeaten, top-ranked Bruins past St. John's 74-56 with a 30-point. 22-rebound performance for the ECAC Holiday Festival championship at New York Monday night. Scott teamed with 6-foot-9 Rusty Clark to pace fourth-ranked North Carolina in a 103-76 conquest of Princeton for third place in the Madison Square Garden classic and White, whose college eligibility runs out next month, helped fifty-ranked Kansas trim Oklahoma State 56-45 in the title game of the Big Eight Conference tournament at Kansas City.

At Minneapolis. Larry Misan, the son of former All American George Mikan, a Hall of Famer and the commissioner of the American Basketball Association, led the unranked Gophers to an 85-80 victory over previously unbeaten, seventh-ranked Detroit despite a 34-point spree by the 6-foot-8 Haywood. Mikan put in 29 points and anager FRANKFORT, Ky. AP) Counsel for Peter Fuller has asked Franklin Circuit Court to set aside a ruling denying Dancer's Image first place money in the 1968 Kentucky Derby. The suit was filed Monday against the Kentucky Racing Commission which recently said that the colt was not entitled to the $122,000 because he had phenylbutazone in his system at the time of the race.

The commission's decision upheld stewards at Churchill Downs, who made the original ruling one week after the May 4 Derby. Franklin Circuit Court set no date for hearing the case. Fuller, a wealthy Boston sportsman, has attacked tha validity of a state chemist's report which indicated the presence of the illegal medication in Dancer's Image at the time of the race. The racing commission, after reviewing the evidence, agreed with the stewards that first money should go to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass, who finished second. Second, third, and fourth-place money were ordered to Francie's Hat, TV Commercial and Kentucky Sherry.

The various rulings, however, did not affect Dancer's Image standing as the official Derby winner. Bill Hicks Joins Baylor Staff WACO, Tex. (AP) Former Baylor star Bill Hicks joined the varsity staff of new Baylor coach Biil Beall Monday. Hicks. 28, played for Baylor in 1959-61.

For "the past three years he has been on the coaching staff ct West Virginia. He became the fifth member of BeaU's new staff. At West Virginia, Hicks was a defensive line coach. He will have the same position at Baylor. ALBUQUERQUE (AP) Del Crandall, noted National League catcher, is the new manager of the Albuquerque Dodgers of the Texas League.

Club president Tom Boladc annnounced his appointment Monday. Crandall replaces Roger Craig now pitching coach of the new San Diego Padres. Crandall was a member of the Milwaukee Braves in their 1957 and 19jS World Series games the Yankees. He was the Gulden Glove award winner in 1959, 1900 and 1362. Crandall caught for San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Cleveland and served as a Los Angeles scout in 1967 before retiring last year to manage a restaurant in Fullerton, Calif.

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