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Suinidy, Ni'M-HitKf 16, J'ty THE CHOWI.KY I'UST SIGNAL Third aaofite Explosion Blows Moirooims By LSU LSU Lang 7 run Johnston kick MSU Young 100 kkkoif return Morgan kick MSU King 1 run Morgan kick MSU McDole 69 pass from Bond Morgan kick MSU King 1 run Morgan kick MSU FG Moore 37 LSU Lang 10 run Johnston kick and 10 yards, David Johnston kicked a 3H-yard field goal in the losing effort. MSU halfback Michael Haddix ll the Bulldogs in rushing with 95 yards on 10 carries, while Bond completed six of nine passes for 142 yards and rushed for 49 yards. LSU 7 17 0 7 -31 Miss.SUte 21 3 2 3 -55 MSU Ellis 50 pass fromB ond Morgan kick MSU Young fumble recovery in end aone Morgan kick LSU Wallace 18 pass from Hisher Johnston kick MSU McDole 11 run Morgan kick LSU FG Johnston 28 LSU Porter 32 pass from Hisher Johnston kick MSU FG Moore 23 crow of to its feet to start the second half when he took the LSU kick oil four yards deep in the end eluding a sw arm of Tiger tacklers, and sprinted all the way for the longest kickoff return in MSU history. MSU fullback Donald Hay King plunged over from one yard out twice in the third period. Other Bulldog touchdowns came on an 11-yard run by McDoleanda fumble recovery by Young in the end zone in the first quarter, Dana Moore kicked field goals of 27 and 23 yards for Mississippi State, Sophomore quarterback Alan Hisher connected on passes of 18 yards to Lionel Wallis and 32 yards to Tracy Porter for tw LSU touchdowns.

Freshman running back Gene Lang rushed for 117 yards and scored twice for the Tigers on sprints of seven JACKSON, Miss. (UPIi Freshman quarterback John Bond hurled two lung touchdown passes and split end Glen Young raced too yards on a kickoff return Saturday to lead 17th ranked Mississippi State to a wild 55 31 Southeastern Conference victory over Louisiana State. The Bulldogs, 8 2 and hoping to clinch a Sun Howl bid, exploded for four touchdowns in the third quarter after LSU had fought from behind to tie the score at 24 24 at halftone, It was the most points anybody has scored against LSU since Texas AAM crushed the Tigers 639 In 1914. Bond completed a 50-yard scoring pass to split end David Ellis on the Bulldogs' first play of the game, The talented Valdosta, rookie fired 69 yards to senior wingback Mardye McDole in the third period for another touchdown. Young, a fleet 205-pound sophomore, brought the Green ies Get Bowl Bid 6 i 1 1 9 turnovers, two by each team The winning score came midway through the final quarter when Lewis, who dived over the middle for his first touchdown, scampered easily around right end to cap a seven-play, 35-yard drive.

Tulane took possesion at the Tigers' 35 on a pint and a 15-yard penalty against Memphis State for interfering with a receiver. The other Green Wave score came on a 2-yard run by quarterback Nickie Hall. Tulane, unable to mount any offense in the first hah, managed to score when Memphis State was called for pass interference in we end zone on Robert Griffin. givhgthe Wave the ball on the Tigers' 1. Hall of Fame bowl officials tendered the invitation to the Green Wave before the game, contingent on a victory.

The on the game winning point in ND's bi-district win over ED White. "(Post-Signal Staff Photo). WHAT A DIFFERENCE A KICK MAKES The scoreboard telfs the story as the 6-6 count switches" to 7-6 at the 2:53 mark after Stephen Voitier split the uprights Hermann Upstaged Of Purdue NEW ORLEANS t'1'PH -Halfback Marvin Lewis scored two touehdowns on 1-yard runs ai the fourth quarter Saturday to lift Tulane to a 2116 victory over Memphis State and give the Green Wave an invitation to the Hall of Fame bowl Birmingham. The Dec. 27 bowl will be TU lane's second consecutive postseason appearance, the first time In the history of the Green Wave for back-to hack bowls.

It comes in the Brst year for Coach Vince Gibson, who had never had a winning season as coach before. Lewis scored early in the fourth quarter on a six-play, 31-yard drive that started late in the third quarter when Tulane linebacker Jeff Roberts recovered a fumble by Memphis State quarterback Oarrell Martin. The go-ahead score followed a series of four MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -John Fourcade threw two touchdown passes to Ken Toler and Todd Gatlin added a pair of field goals Saturday to give Oe MSU 41-151 C8-327 143 142 9 62 11-240-1 6JKJ 6-40 6 4 2 3 2 5 47 9 87 before last week's game Tulane will mwl the S-4 Arkansas. Rarorbirks Ui- 27 in the Hall of Fame Game at Birmingham, Ala.

bowl off! dais announced Saturday. Tulane. which lost last year in the Liberty Howl, received the invitation beore its 21-16 win over Memphis State, but theinviation wascontingent on a victory. The surprise Arkansas invitation was announced after the game by bowl officials "Our team played hard all year," said Green Wave coach Vince Gibson, who said the Greenwave was flat against Memphis State Tonight should not take away from that. We were deserving of a bowl." The appearance will be the first time in the history of Tulane football that the Green Wave will be in back-to-back bowls.

20 9 field goal from Alan Duncan and a 1-yard touchdown plunge from quarterback Steve Alator-re. Ole Miss took the opening kickoff and drove to a field goal, thanks to a Tennessee roughing the kicker penalty Gatlin's three-pointer came with 8.11 remaining in the period. Tennessee evened the count early in the second period driving 69 yards in 18 plays. Duncan's field goal came with 12:06 left in the half. A short Vol punt set up the Rebels at the Tennessee 27 late in the period.

Toler's first touchdown catch made him the third all-time Rebel pass receiver and Ole Miss held a 10-3 advantage at intermission. The Rebels, turned back at the Tennessee 1-yard line on a fumble, struck quickly after a Vol punt in the third period Fourcade threw to Toler who evaded the Vol secondary for a 32-yard score. Tennessee got its touchdown on a 58-yard, 12 play drive to cut the lead to 17-9. Freshman Randall Morris provided much of the punch, catching a pass and rushing for 15 yards in the drive. Alatorre sneaked over for the score, but a poor snap led to an incomplete pass on the extra-point attempt.

The Rebels took the Vol kickoff and marched 51 yards in 11 plays. Gatlin's second field goal came with 3: 18 left to end the scoring. LSU 18 ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) -Sophomore wide receiver Anthony Carter upstaged Heteman trophy candidate Mark Herrmann in the first half and senior fullback Stanley Edwards outdid the Purdue quarterback in the second Saturday to lead 12th-rated Michigan past the Boiler makers, 26-0, and set up yet another Big Ten title showdown with Ohio State next week. Michigan unproved to 7-0 ki the conference and 8-2 overall in recording its thk-d straight shutout and keeping the heralded Herrmann without a first down through the entire second half.

The Wolverines were using six defensive backs and four down linemen, a wrinkle the 16th-rated Boilermakers, now 6-1 in the Big Ten and 7-3 overall, had not seen before. The combination limited Herrmann to just three passes First downs Hushes -yds Passing yds He turn yds Passes Punts Fumbleslost Penalties-yds win gave Tulane a 70 record Memphis State, now 19. took a 10-7 lead early in the thrd quarter on a 30-yard field goal by Rusty Bennett after fullback Mike Dion put Uie Tigers up with a 2 yard touchdown in the first quarter. Flanker Jerry Knowlton caught a 15-yard scoring pass from Martin late in the game to bring the Tigers within five points but missed out on a final scoring opportunity when Tulane punted with about two minutes left and Memphis State roughed the kicker, giving the ball back to Tulane The game was the last home appearance of the season for Tulane, which meets Louisiana State in Baton Rouge next week. It was the second to last game for Tiger coach Richard Williamson who has compiled a 30-35 record in his six seasons at Memphis State but was fired Zap Vols 32-yard effort in the final quarter.

Gatlin hit field goals of 35 and 34 yards for Ole Miss, now 3-7. Tennessee, 3-6, got a 28-yard On ND Mauro, who hails from Notre Dame's home, South Bend Ind said losing to Notre Dame was the biggest disappointment of his career. "It hurts," said Mauro. "The reason I came to Alabama was for a chance to play Notre Dame. It hurts when you have to go home and hear 'Go Irish I guess its more personal with me than with Just any game." Lamar opened the scoring with its only assault on the final figures when Jamie Harvey booted a 40-yard field goal.

After that, however, it was McNeese. all the way, pushing along by the Cowboy's running game. McNeese finished the night with 358 yards on 57 rushes, while holding the Cardinals to only 66 yards on the ground. Lamar 3 0 0 0 3 McNeese 0 14 0 21 35 Miss Rebs Steelers View Today's Encounter As Crucial To Championship Bear Can't Walk Mississippi a 20-9 Southeastern Conference victory over Tennessee. Fourcade hit Toler, a senior split end, with a 14-yard payoff pass in the second period and a the Alabama 4-yard line when sophomore Phil Carter carried the ball over in two lunges up the middle.

"They had the best defense we've played," said Alabama running back Joe Jones. "They stopped us in about every phase when we tried to get to the goal. We're fortunate to be going to the Cotton Bowl." Alabama defensive end John In Shutout in the third quarter and he wound up with just 25 yards passing in the second half, completing six of 11 passes with one interception. He completed 15 of 23 in the first half for 106 yards but three of his soft, generally short passes were picked off by Michigan defen-dere. Carter caught touchdown passes of 21 and 20 yards from senior quarterback John Wan-gler and made two key receptions that led to Edwards they've played all year.

"I think our team got. a great deal confidence when we beat them earlier" But you' can't beat Pittsburgh unless you put pressure on There "are 'a lot of other" factors involved but principally, you're not going to beat them unless you pressure Bradshaw. Whether" or we can do it the "entire 'game "is tough. They're "a good football team. We can't let them do what they did to us last year, when they virtually controlled" the football." Steeler Coach Chuck Noll realizes" he may have a critical decision to make on Bradshaw.

"There's no question he's not playing his best," Noll said. "Terry is a very good quarterback and we "would like him to regroup and come along. If he can get it come along and function, it's okay. But if he's just going to be another guy, we have to do something. We have to get that part of our game functioning." If the Browns are to succeed, Rutigliano feels that Sipe's maintaining his current level "of play will be the Sipe leads all AFC quarterbacks in com Cowboys Romp Late LAKE CHARLES, La.

(UPI) expbded for three touchdowns in the final period to leave listless Lamar in the dust Saturday night, downing the Cardinals 35-3 in a Southland Conference game. The McNeese victory, mirrored by Southwestern Louisiana's 27-9 win over Louisiana Tech, sets up a showdown here next week for the conference title and a berth in Shreveport's Independence bowl scoring on a 3-yard run the first time the Wolverines had the ball. Senior tailback Butch Wooh oik scored on a 2-yard run tn the fourth quarter. Carter, who caught eight passes for 133 yards In the game, set a new Big Ten record with his ninth and 10th touchdown receptions of the conference season He is already Michigan's all-time scoring receiver with 19 TD catches, 12 this season. pletions .208, passes 345,.

yardage 2,671 and TD passes "He's the "kind, of quarterback who needs to be surrounded by Cadillacs. He can't throw a football through a brick wall. He's more a guy like Marnt quarterback Bob Griese," said. Rutigliano. "Without question, Brian Sipe ob-.

viously has all the qualities' of an outstanding. quarter back. He "exceeds our expectations every week. "He's got a good. enough arm and he has tremendous concentration.

He's extremely bright and he. has great mental toughness. It takes a tremendous degree of mental toughness to stand in the pocket and pass with a guy right on top of him and he does it every week." In other games today, Philadelphia is at Washington, Houston at Chicago, Los Angeles at New England, Kansas City at San Diego, St. Louis at Tampa Bay at Minnesota, Buffalo at Cincinnati, New Orleans at Atlanta, the New York Jets at Denver, Green Bay at the New York Giants, Baltimore at Detroit and San Francisco at Miami. Oakland is at Seattle Monday night.

Leading 17-7 at the half, Georgia recovered an onside kick at the Auburn 34 to start the second half. Belue scrambled 26 yards to set up his 1-yard touchdown run The Bulldogs came back on a 54-yard drive that ended on an 18-yard touchdown gallop by Walker that was set up by a block by Belue. Belue had to shoulder much of the Bulldog offense after Auburn ganged up on Walker, the freshman sensation who leads the SEC in rushing Walker gained only 77 yards on 27 carries. Auburn, 5-5, marched 91 yards in nine plays for a touchdown at the start of the second quarter. Charles Thomas passed 34 yards to Byron Franklin for the score.

all 10 games during that span. Pittsburgh is faced" with stopping Browns, quarterback Brian Sipe, "who has been spectacular against them in the last two years. Three weeks ago in. their first meeting, Sipe "completed" a club-record 28-of-46 passes for 349 yards and four touchdowns, including an pass to Ozz'ie Newsomewith 5:38 left that lifted the Browns to a 27-26 victory over" the Last week, Sipe was 22-of-29 for 212 yards and two TDs in helping Cleveland to a 28-. 27 victory over" Baltimore.

Steeler quarterback Terry Bradshaw, meanwhile, "has had problems passing since injuring his hand two weeks ago and there is a possibility he may be replaced" by Cliff Stoudt. Stoudt went all the way in the "earlier" loss to Cleveland, hitting 18-of-37 passes for 310 yards. "We know that this week" they're going to come back," said Cleveland Coach Sam Rutigliano. "You will see" "the Steelers play the "very best football 4 4 The Super Bowl won't be played until Jan. 25 but as far as the Pittsburgh Steelers are "concerned, It might as welf be today.

The Steelers, who have, won the last two Super" Bowls and a record four of the." last six, are In a desperate "situation in their quest for an unprecedented" third straight Super" Bowl, They are 6-4 and trail AFC Central co-leaders Cleveland and Houston by a game." The "Steelers play host to the "Browns today knowing a loss, would put them, two games behind with five to play, an almost insurmountable." deficit considering the "quality of Pittsburgh's future opponents. Also, with New England and Buffalo both at 7-3 in the AFC East and Oakland at 7-3 and San Diego at 6-4 in the AFC West, a Pittsburgh loss today might even" make a "wild, card" or best runnerup slot doubtful. Cleveland has won five games' in a row but the Browns haven't won in Pittsburgh since 1969, losing I M. i If 4 3 1 1 In-- 9 BIRMIGHAM, Ala. (UPI) -Bear Bryant is the winningest active coach In college football with 304 victories to his credit, but the Alabama mentor has come up short all four times he's faced Notre Dame.

Bryant's fourth straight loss to the Fighting Irish came Saturday, a 7-0 upset that gave seventh-ranked Notre Dame the Sugar Bowl berth opposite top-ranked Georgia that Alabama had coveted, and forced the fifth-ranked Crimson Tide to settle for a Cotton Bowl match with lOth-ranked Baylor. The three other times a Bryant-coached Alabama team has fallen to the Irish were in the 1973 Sugar Bowl, (24-23) in the 1975 Orange Bowl (1311), and in the only previous regular-season game between the two in 1976 (21-18). "I don't know what it looked Hke from the stands," said Notre Dame Coach Dan Devine, "but on the field it was what college football is all about. "I felt good about this game," said Devine "I predicted Tuesday we were going to win. I just had a feeling You have to take a pas itive attitude and I knew we'd play well against Alabama." Alabama never really threatened Saturday.

The Tide didn't get past midfield until the final play of the first half and was never closer than when it drove to the Notre Dame 20, midway through the third quarter and then Peter Kim was wide on a 37 -yard field goal attempt. Saturday was the first time in 54 games that the Crimson Tide had been shut out and the first time it had happened on Alabama soil in more than 22 years going back to 1958 Bryant's first season as coach at Alabama when Vanderbflt played a scoreless tie with the Tide. "It is an understatement to say that the best team won," said Bryant. "We are not used to playing against a team that strong They never let us establish anything offensively." Notre Dame got withki scoring distance only once on its own that effort failing when the Tide blocked a field goal, but Alabama gave the Irish the only scoring opportunity it needed when quarter back Don Jacobs lost two fumbles deep in Alabama territory in a three-minute span of the second quarter. The Irish capitalized on the second recovery, that one at Georgia No.

One i LiL .45 hv Mi AUBURN, Ala. (UPI) -Scrambling Buck Behie passed for one touchdown, ran for another and threw a key block on an 18-yard touchdown 9camper by Herschel Walker Saturday to give topranked Georgia a 31-21 victory over Auburn, clinching the Southeastern Conference champion ship and a Sugar Bowl bid. The victory by the Bulldogs, 10-0, avenged a tie in 1978 and a bss to Auburn last year that kept Georgia from claiming a share of the SEC crown and a trip to the Sugar Bowl. The Bulldogs fell behind 7-0 early in the second quarter, but they used some breaks and big plays to score 31 points in the second and third quarters to gain control. CONGRATULATIONS FOR MECHE Notre Dame linebacker, Jeff Meche (75), receives" congratulations from his teammates after he "blocked his second ED White punt of the fourth quarter! The second block set up ND's tying and winning Staff Photo).

ANXIOUS FACES ON THE SIDELINE Three ND football managers (that's ripht managers) experienced some anxious moments in Thibodeaux Friday night in tho 7 fi Pioneer win. The three yound ladies (L to R) Paula Abshire, Jackie 7aunbrerprr'npr Annie Williams have made ND history by becoming the first female foothill managers. (Post Signal Staff Photo)..