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Bill Toland's Other post-season pairing listed Penn State, 'Bama to play in Sugar Bow Sports Sputterings By Herschel Nissenson AP sports writer As usual, Alabama is in the forefront of the postseason bowl spotlight. And as a result of the Crimson Tide's decision to play in the Sugar Bowl against Penn State, either Nebraska or Oklahoma will be shut out of the five major bowls. The surprising beneficiary of affl the weekend's wheeling and dealing, which saw 20 of the 22 major berths unexpectedly Med, could be' the newest of them the five-year-old Fiesta Bowl, wh'ch m'ght have a Top Ten match-up of unbeat- en and eighth-ranked Arizona State provided the Sun Devils defeat Arizona for the' West against 16th-ranked Miami of Ohio and another in the Peach Bowl against North Carolina State. With some pairings still to be announced officially, the AP has come up with' the following bowl line-up: Big Ten champion (Ohio State or Michigan) vs. Pacific-8 champion (UCLA, California or Stanford).

Grange Bowl: Nebraska-Oklahoma winner vs. Ohio State-Michigan loser. Sugar Bowl; Alabama vs. Penn State. Cotton Bowl: Southwest Conference champion (Texas Texas or Arkansas) vs.

Georgia. ern Athletic Conference title against the loser of Saturday's Big Eight Conference show-' down between second-ranked Nebraska and No. 6 Oklahoma. The Alabama-Pemn State Sugar Bowl paking was reported by The Associated Press Sun-, day night and was to be officially announced in New Orleans, at 1 p.m., EST, today. With one game left for fifth-ranked Alabama has a 9-1 record following a 27-6 triumph over Southern Mississippi, to 8-2 for llth-ninked Penn State, idle over the The only vacant bowl berths are one in the Tangerine Bowl make the Orange Bowl before its meeting with Oklahoma but the Sooners, after blowing a 20-0 halftime lead, rallied to nip No.

18 Missouri 28-27 on Joe Washington's 71-yard fourth- down touchdown dash and two-po'mt conversion run with 4:20 remaining. The three Southwest Conference challengers all remained in contention third-ranked Texas with a 33-14 victory over Rice; No. 7 Texas which turned back winless Christian 27-11. despite the of star quarterback Marty Akins with an early knee jury, and which thumped Southern Methodist 35-7. lina State vs.

opponent to be se-, lected. The rash of bowl invitations and the cries from the powerful Big Eight Conference that Alabama is ducking a match vIth a Big Eight opponent overshadowed a weekend in which nine of the Top Ten teams posted victories while the npter, ninth-ranked Notre Dame, dropped out of the bowl picture by losing to Pitt 34-20 as Tony Dorsett romped for 303 yards and scored twice; On the field. No. 1-ranked Ohio State pounded Minnesota 38-6 and fourth-rated Michigan downed IUinosi 21-15, setting up next week's annual showdown. Nebraska thougt it might Gator Bowi: Florida vs.

Maryland. Liberty Bowl: Southern California vs. Arkansas, if the Razorbacks don't win the Southwest Conference title and thereby go to the Cotton Bowl, or Texas A o-Bluebonnet Bowl: Colorado vs. Texas or Texas. Fiesta Bowl: Western Athletic Conference champion Arizona State or Arizona) vs.

Nebraska-Oklahoma loser. Sun Bowl: Pitt vs. Kansas-Missouri winner. Tangerine Bowl: Miami of Ohio vs. opponent to be.

selected. Peach Bowl: North Caro Nebraska NEW YORK (AP) Penn State has been chosen to play Alabama in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Eve. The development, which was learned. Sunady night by The Associated Press, blocks the coach raps loser of next week's Nebraska- Oklahoma Big Eight showdown out of the five major bowls. It is bound to lead to a re- newal of charges that Alabama Coach Bear Bryant is ducking the powerful Big Eight Confer- Sports 1 7 1975 iunbury, Nov.

17, two Sports-oriented Danville continues to sing the praises of Coach Bill Wolff's gutsy Danville Ironmen today. And for mighty good reason, as any sports understands. Kingpins of the Class section of the southern Eastern Football' Conference the Ironmen well-named will take a seven-game winning skein into the battle for the overall division championship vs. Lakeland High in the Scranton Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon, Nov. 22.

And therein hangs the tale of the caliber of the Danville eleven. The Ironmen, who gave their head coach, Bill Wolff Sr. one of the. finest hours of 25-year career with, the triumph over a pre-game favored Minersville club Friday night, Nov. 14, dropped the -first three games of tiie.

current season, and5 later were forced to be a road show when flood waters inundated their home field, the' F.Q. Hartman Memorial the second time in four years. "Did the Ironmen permit the successive losses to Class A schoolboy teams Shikellamy, Shamokin, and Berwick get them down? The answer is the current 7-3 mark, a tribute to the determination, esprit des corps and just plain ability of the Orange and Purple. 'As Coach Wolff, a graduate of Kutztown and builder of many fine teams in St Clair High School before beginning his career at DHS five years ago, points out, "we don't have any individual stars on our club, it's just a group of young men that loves to play football and Is -willing to pay the price to achieve maximum results." Needless to say the Ironmen will work harder than ever this week to be razor-sharp for the title game with Lakeland High, pride of Lackawanna County and the northern division of the Conference. Lakeland admittedly has a fine team but the prediction from here is that, the momentum from the 18-0 triumph over the Battlin- Miners of Minersville High will propel the Ironmen to another school first, and give the inhabitants of the Montour County community the opportunity to 'really" blow Its stack' in appreciation for the all-out efforts of the Komeback Kids who overcame adversity (losses in their first three outings) to hit the jackpot in the division of the far-flung Eastern Conference.

Congratulations, champs. It's a tinch the Ironmen will take a lesson from the' Shamokin Mount Carmel game of last Friday night and won't make the mistake in underestimating Lakeland as the Indians did their arch rival, Mount Carmel. On the intercollegiate level, Bucknell's Bisons (54), Head Coach Bob Curtis and members of his coaching staff are the toast of both gown and town in the Lewisburg area. A great team victory over highly-favored Lehigh Saturday afternoon in Bucknell's Memorial Stadium concluded the first winning season since '72. The momentum of the four-game and end-of-the-season winning skein, featuring the triumphs over Colgate and Lehigh on successive weekends, should have definite carryover' value In 76.

And the record in Coach CurtisMirst season at the helm should help when the coaches hit' the recruiting trail in the tear The Lewisburg Touchdown dub will roll out the-red carpet for the remarkable Bisons and their coaches tonight in Larison HalL Sporta a la carte Danville High's Ironmen open their basketball season at home Friday night, Nov. 21 against Williamsport High's Millionaires in the new Fred W. Diehl School gym. Miff linburg's. Tim Dutrow a TD pass to help Clarion State College upend Juniata's Indians over the weekend.

Don't be surprised if the ABA is the next pro sports wheel to become a memory. The financial burdens, primarily the outlandish player salaries, are just too great for the owners to bear. in- vr 1 tf'1 day afternoon in Memorial Stadium, Lewisburg. No. 70, and Don Reh, No.

64, were not fooled and Bucknell upset Lehigh, 32-25, FOLLOWING THROUGH Lehigh quarterback Jm Sterrett, No. 9, is without the ball, after handing it to fullback Rod Gardner, No. 41, as he fakes handoff to halfback Mark Weaver, No. 42, in game against Bucknell Satur- Bucknell stuns By Jeff Ranck team and was also the reason LEWISBURG "You gotta 'for the preseason exodus that believe" is a phrase made saw 14 players turn in their popular a few years ago by equipment because they former New York Met pitcher refused to "pay the price." But Tug McGraw in reference to Curtis and his staff looked ad- his team's rags to riches story versity in the eye and almost in winning the National League magically gave the Bisons pennant. their first winning season since But that simple phrase also 1972, winning their last four in.

antiw rfpwrihps the ineredihle a row and five of their last Lehigh, finishes 5-4 lead. Lehigh bounded right the air as they scored on their play in their final contest. back on thier first possession first possession of the third The other seniors who played of the second period with a stanza. Two more fourth period their last game were: Ralph Joe Sterette pass to running touchdowns brought Lehigh to Turri, Chuck Bagdy, Dennis back Rod Gardner to put the within 26-25 with about seven Damaschke, Kevin a Engineers ahead, 7-6. minutes remaining.

Andy Kisiday, Steve Luce, Bob But with 9:51 gone in the But Bucknell was not to be Magee, Tom Murray, Dave second quarter, quarterback denied when on third and six Ogden, Mark Pursley, Tom Kerry Snow started the Bison from their own 46, Snow hit Rickey, Rich Schiebel, Daron magic once more as he hit Larry Brunt on the left sideline Shepard and Mark Strzelecki. Mike Penasabene with a five- and Brunt used a brilliant Summaries: Bryant ence, which had five teams in The AP Top Twenty last week. "The Sugar Bowl told us we're not going. The Big Eight is definitely out of it," Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne said. Earlier, Osborne had called Bryant a "son of a buck" sharply criticized him for influencing bowl bids.

"I want to make it clear that we want to piny in the best bowl against the best team," Osborne said. "Any team t'1nt doesn't feel that way doesn't belong in competitor, athlnir. I know that's a pretty strong statement, but it's time this thing is brought out in' the open." After Nebraska defeated Iowa State 52-0 Saturday, Osborne told Sugar Bowl executive secretary John Barr, "Tell that son of a 'buck (Bryant) not to duck us." On Sunday, Osborne said he had "no quarrel with Cp 'h Bryant, but It seems to me the bowl people let him have much say in the selections. My quarrel is with the bowl pontile. If I were in Coach Bryant's po-sit'on.

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"The Evolution of a Football Team." Physical conditioning and aidCipiuie la uie upon which Curtis built his six contests. Lehigh not only boasted a seven-game winning ill con uiu an 8-1 record, but led the NCAA i.ricinn tt in nffonca with 9 uifuiuii 4. iu vitviuv 38.2 points per game average and was atop of the balloting for the Lambert Cup and a likely recipient of an NCAA post-season bowl bid. But a a 1 1 the Bucknell eleven was too busy with their course work to read the newspapers as tney jam- med if down the Engineers throats, erupting for four touchdowns in the first half and took a 26 7 lead into the locker room at intermission. An inside counter play that sprung Rick Wardrop up the middle and the debut of a halfback pass took the Engineers totally by surprise, Freshman tailback Mike Cosamano skirted left end for .1 .1...

ure iiiav iiwu wimj them a short-lived first quarter move to shake loose from the lone Lehigh defender and raced joiui ivi uic a i. i Homing's kick failed, but the Riwins wATTp ahpad to stav. 32- 25. Bucknell never breathed eaSjiy umn the final buzzer however as they survived the final five minutes that seemed more uke days. In the final fjve minutes.

Lehieh drove to lne Bucknell eight and 23-yard ijnes. gut the BucneI defense came up wiLh the big play yen they needed it, twice in- trcepting Lehigh quarterback sterrett to end their threat. additon ms 3 touch- down Saturday, Snow completed 17 of 27 passes for was 33 for 52 ms tw0 outings. jt WjU ms eacershjp that the Bjgons wm look KXi year team effort might be a bit cli- che, but In this case Is so true in a game that had so many heroes. Curtis gave each of his 15 seniors an opportunity to (Daily Item Andrew Neff) The Bisons' Clyde Stroman, have their sights on Gardner.

0 7 6 1275 6 20 632 BucknjfT" Statistic! LU 28 i "aia, IU 119 17 77 227 4 0 0 66 276 19-39 310 0 0 90 Yoidt aoind Doitinq Paui uitfcpld fumblet fumblM loit Bindley named INDIANAPOLIS Jim Bind ley, assistant to Indiana Pac- ers' President Thomas Binford, was named general manager of the American Basketball Assc- elation club. Blazers waive Lee PORTLAND The Portland Trailblazers of the National Baskethall Association placed former tjcla guard Greg Lee on wavers. Strikeout high jfnrw nia Angels registered a 1975 American League high In strikeouts when he fanned 17 Texas Rangers in Texas on June 21, "The situation was so com- plex and the prognosis so grave that further treatment was un jusiuiaDie, saia ur. jaincs Roberts, head of the New Bol- ton Center of the University of Pennsylvania's veterinary school where the horse was op- erated upon. Rohrbaugh's scores of 246-634 and Catherine Egbert's 210 and 521 triple marked the Sun Bowl Sunday Night Mixed Couples League play.

The Hunt-Lundquist and Smith-Hetrick teams share first place in the close knit league. Weller Vending and Wise Chips are lied for the lead in the Sun Bowl Monday Night Men's League. Lee Botts had individual highs of 237-627 for his team. Steininger's Maytag (22.5-9.5) leads the handicap wheel. Sylvia Hendricks and Maryta Corbett converted splits for their teams in Sun Bowl Thursday night competition.

Wickes Lumber leads the handicap wheel. The team of Attlg-Faust-Martin-Wojcbehoski has moved atop the standings In the Sun Bowl Sunday Night Mixed Couples League with a 24-4 record. Paul Sheesley and Bill Snyder totaled 597 and 585. respectively, for their teams. Kurt Shaffer's highs of 255-675 sparked his team Goldie's Diner to a J-l victory over the pace-setting North'd Moose in the Moose Wednesday night loop.

Fourteen 200-plus singletons went Into the record books. vard touchdown strike. The attempted two-point conversion laneu aim duimicu iru Three and a half minutes later, Poncnhorut hit (Ipt unH Tnnard Bucher on the halfback pass that went off the fingers of slotback Karl Meyer in the endzone five plays earner. This time, Bucher made a brilliant catch off the hands of a Lehigh defender for the score, Riving the Bisons a 19-7 ieaa. me unai Bucuneii score of the half came on another Snow touchdown pass to Vince Woody with 20 seconds re-, maining.

That score was set ud by an intercepted pass by Charlie Hagafl at the Lehigh 47 and returned to the 16. The second half saw the powerful Lehigh offense live up to its reputation as they pushed the Bucknell defensive rubber band principle to the hilt. The mi ni.nn in. noil easily on the ground a in (Daily Item Andrew Neff) Pro Football Standings BU harriers win IC4A race NEW YORK CITY The breezed to another team a trademark of Bucknell teams victory-happy Bucknell triumph in the 1 1 the Bisons copped the IC4A University cross-country squad university division of the IC4A crown with 27 points. Lehigh (14-0) put another layer of ic- meet in Van Cortlandt Park placed second with 52 markers, ing on an already very sweet here.

while the other entries, includ- cake here on Saturday. The all-conquering Bisons 'n8 West Chester, Colgate and Following a triumph' in the will compete in the United -jute, Y' wre annual East Coast Conference States Track and Field behind the champs, meet in Philadelphia the pre- Federation-sponsored meet in A junior, Bob Braille, fini-vious weekend, Coach Art Charleston, West Virginia on shed first for the Bisons. He Gulden's Bisons, unbeaten In Saturday, Nov. 29. finished in 25:22, the best time regular season competition, Using excellent grouping ever for a Bucknell runner in Van Cortlandt Park compcti- Prince Thou Art destroyed dm.

Davis, who took first place for the Bisons in the KCC KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. day, an hour after he tried to race a week ago, placed second (AP) Thoroughbred colt stand in his stall and broke the in 25:26. Prince Thou Art has been de- bone below his left front knee. Bucknell's Ixu a 1 a Central Division Pitt. 8 1 0 .889 252 105 Cine.

7 1 0 .875 169 116 Hous. 7 2 0 .778 190 122 Cleve. 0 9 0 .000 99 267 Western Division Oak. 7 2 0 .778 241 141 K.Ctty 4 5 0 .444 190 196 Denver 4 5 0 .444 172 221 S.Diego 0 9 0 .000 97 221 Sunday's Results Los Angeles 16, Atlanta 7 Detroit 13, Green Bay 10 Dallas 34, New England 31 Philadelphia 13, New York Giants 10 Pittsburgh 28, Kansas City 3 Baltimore 52, New York Jets 19 Houston 20, Miami 19 Minnesota 20, New Orleans 7 Oakland 38. Cleveland 17 By The Associated Press National Football League National Conference Eastern Division W.

L. T.Pd.PFPA S.Louis 7 2 0 .778 216 188 Wash 6 3 0 .667 228 136 Dallas 6 3 0 .667 230 186 NYGntS 3 6 0 .333 145 194 PhU 2 7 0 2 145 199 Central Division Minn. 9 0 0 1.000 250 103 Dot. 6 3 0 .667 173 159 Chic. 2 7 0' .222 87 241 G.

Bay 1 8 0 .111 128 205 Western Division L.A. 7 2 0 .778 208 110 Fr. 4 5 0 .444 177 169 Atl. 2 7 0 .222 100 170 N. Orl.

2 7 0 .222 105 243 American Conference Eastern Division W. Pis. PF PA Jstroyed because he broke his leg, five days after undergoing Bucknell team (S-4) lo a 32-25 upset victory ever favored Lehigh University (-2) in Memorial Stadium, Lewisburg, Saturday surgery to repair a shattered anme. The year-old, said to be in- sured for million by his own- er, John Galbreath of Colum- bus, Ohio, was destroyed with a drug injection at 3:15 a.m. Sun- .778 268 138 .625 251.197 .556 269 210 .333 157 195 .222 171 293 St.

Louis 20, Washington 17, OT Denver 27, San Diego 17 San Francisco 31, Chicago 3 Monday's Game Buffalo at Cincinnati oi niu w.jj. The Bisons will begin training for the U.S. Track and Field Fcdera-. tinn-sponsored event in West Virginia. TOT INSPIRES BISONS Brendie Hale, two-year-old daughter of Danny E.

Hale, Bucknell's offensive line coach, and Mrs. Hale does her "thing" with the regular BU cheerleaders and helps inspire the underdog 7 5 5 3 2 Miami Buff. Bait N. Eng. NY JetJ.