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FOR SEMINOLES IN PEACH BOWL Thomas, Thompson Winning Combination Coach Bobby Bowden. Thomas kept Florida State on the ground Jlaili Abufrliscry, for eight consecutive plays in the opening Sports drive before lofting the scoring toss to Thompson after only 3:59 expired. Greg Allen, who rushed for a game-high 97 yards on 17 attempts, had 30 yards on Tour rushes in the drive. The Seminoles scored only 3:55 later after stopping North Carolina on downs and Lofqyette. Dec.

31, 1983 7 By TOM SALADINO AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) Florida State Bobby Bowden called Friday's 28-3 Peach Bowl victory over North Carolina a "great win" but still not enough to erase the Seminoles' debacle against arch-rival Florida. Florida State sophomore quarterback Eric Thomas, making his first collegiate start, ignited the victory by tossing a pair of first-quarter touchdown passes to Weegie Thompson and running for another score. "This was a great win for us, but there's no way we could have redeemed ourselves from that Florida game (a 53-14 loss in the final regular season game)," said Bowden. "It did help, though, to do it today on national television. Those people out there watching the game don't remember that Florida game like we do.

They don't hate the Gators like we do," he said. A disappointed North Carolina Coach Dick Crum said he was not surprised by Florida State's defense, which had allowed 311 points during the regular season. "They have outstanding personnel. They've had some injuries ana that hurt them, I know," he said. "In the first half, we just self-destructed.

In the second half, we had opportunities, but we didn't take advantage of them, "he said. Thomas hit Thompson on an 18-yard toss NorttiCrollni Ml 1- 3 Florida St 14 717-a FSU-Thompson 15 pasjfrom Thomas (Hall kick) FSU-Thompson pass from Thomas (Hall kick) FSU-Snipes 1 run (Hall kick) NCFG Barwick 34 FSU-Thomas 1 run (Hall kick) less than four minutes later. Florida State, making up somewhat for its 53-14 embarrassment to Florida in its season finale, made it 21-0 at the half when Roosevelt Snipes dove into the end zone from the 1-yard line following a fumbled punt that was recovered by the Seminoles on the North Carolina 16. North Carolina's only scoring came on a 36-yard field goal by Brooks Barwick early in the fourth quarter after the Tar Heels marched 71 yards to Florida State's 20 before stalling. Thomas closed out the scoring by sneaking over from the 1 with only 31 seconds remaining in the game.

The Tar Heels of the Atlantic Coast Conference managed only 85 yards in offense in the opening 30 minutes of the nationally televised contest played under sunny skies and temperatures in the low 20s before a crowd of only 25,648. Florida State, an independent, had finished its season 7-5. North Carolina, 8-4, penetrated beyond the 50-yard line only once in the opening half. But the 40-yard drive fizzled at Florida State's 26 and a 42-yard field goal attempt by Barwick failed wide to the left. Thomas of Vaidosta, who was named the game's most valuable offensive player completed seven of 13 passes for 99 yards and rushed 13 times for 41 yards.

He was playing in place of injured started Kelly Lowery and backup Bob Davis, who was passed over in favor of Thomas by NC If 26-33 1M 0 11-40-0 645 4-1 7 60 24:15 FSU 23 59 245 99 9 713-1 439 3-0 6-34 33:48 forcing a punt. Florida State moved to the 18 on the ground before Thomas beat a Tar Heel blitz to find Thompson on the 10. Florida State made it 21-0 midway in the second period when North Carolina's Walter Black fumbled a punt which was recovered by the Seminoles' Pete Panton at the North Carolina 16. Five plays later, Snipes dove over for the touchdown. Thomas capped an 88-yard drive in 11 plays to score Florida State's final touchdown in the closing seconds.

He completed two of three passes for 40 yards in the drive. North Carolina, held to 182 yards in offense, managed only 32 yards on the ground in 26 attempts. The Tar Heel tailback duo of Ethan Horton and Tyrone Anthony were held to 30 and 27 yards respectively. Horton led the ACC in rushing and Anthony was third. First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penalties-yards Time of Possession INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING North Carolina, Horton 9-30, Anthony 9-27, Littleiohn 2-5.

Florida State, Allen 7-97, C. Jones 20-79, Thomas 13-41. PASSING North Carolina, Stankavage 17-39-0150, Anthony 1-1 0-16. Florida State, Thomas 713-1-99. RECEIVING North Carolina, Winfield 4 55, Franklin 3-34, Anthony 3-17.

Florida State, Panton 3-48, Thompson 2-33, Allen 218. SEMINOLE TD Florida State's Weegie Peach Bowl in Atlanta. Trying to break up in the end zone to cap a 69-yard drive in nine Thompson (18) pulls down a pass from the pass for North Carolina is Steve plays following the opening kickoff. He then quarterback Eric Thomas for 15 yards and a Hendrickson (5). (APLaserphoto) connected with Thompson on a 15-yard score TD during the first quarter of Friday's Florida Gators Hold Off Iowa FOR MIAMI, SEATTLE Marino, Krieg Are Unlikely Heroes 5 45 remaining in the first half.

Nichol soon went from field goal to touchdown but the touchdown was Florida's. Nichol, back to punt from his end zone, bobbled Joel Hilgenberg's slightly high, but catchable, snap. It hit the ground and, as Nichol tried to pick it up, rolled between the legs of Iowa's Norm Granger before Drew, a reserve linebacker, pounced on it with 1:08 left in the half. Bobby Raymond's conversion made it 14-3. "It was a very frustrating game for us," said Iowa Coach Hayden Fry.

"We did not make the critical plays on offense. Our defense certainly gave us a chance to win by holding a fine Florida offense to one touchdown. You probably saw two of the better defensive teams in the nation out there. "Nichol did the wrong thing in trying to pick up the muffed snap on the punt. He should have fallen on the ball." Nichol added a 31-yard field goal four minutes into the third period, six plays after cornerback Devon Mitchell intercepted a pass by Florida's Wayne Peace at the Gators' 48 and returned it to the 29.

But he missed a 40-yard attempt late in the quarter and the game ended as the lowest scoring Gator Bowl since Maryland defeated Florida 13-0 eight years ago. A record Gator Bowl crowd of 81,293 turned out in 35-degree weather to see Florida boost its bowl record to 7-8. Iowa lost for only the second time in five bowl games. By ANNE S.CROWLEY Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) Neither Dan Marino nor Dave Krieg was supposed to be his team's top quarterback when the National Football League season began. Yet both will be calling the signals Saturday when Marino's Miami Dolphins meet Krieg and the Seattle Seahawks in the playoffs.

They're the American Conference's top two Quarterbacks, and the winner will go to the AFC championship game next week. Marino, returning to action after a four-week layoff with a sprained knee, was touted as the Dolphins' quarterback of the future when Miami drafted him out of Pittsburgh in the first round. But Coach Don Shula benched David Woodley after his team got out to a 3-2 start, making Marino the quarterback of the present. He led the Dolphins to seven victories in nine outings as a starter. "Dan has exceeded everybody's expectations.

Nobody expected a rookie quarterback to come and do the things he's done," Shula said Friday. Krieg was the guy "nobody wanted" until Coach Chuck Knox made the unpopular decision to yank Jim Zorn. "It was one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make," Knox said. "But we were down 24-0 against Pittsburgh and Dave came in and brought the team back. We lost 27-21, but he put us in a position to win.

"I started him the next week and he beat the Raiders. He has done much more than we expected." The Seahawks, 9-7 and winners of last week's playoff game against Denver, are in the American Football Conference playoffs for the first time in the franchise's eight-year history. Krieg finished the season with 18 touchdowns and 2,139 yards, rated second in the AFC behind Marino, who had 20 TDs and 2,210 yards. "In the last few weeks, he's been excellent," Shula said Friday. "He hasn't made any mistakes.

Marino, 22, the first rookie QB ever voted to start a Pro Bowl, will become the youngest quarterback ever to start an NFL playoff game. Woodley was Jie youngest at 23 when he started against San Diego two years ago. Saturday's 12:30 p.m. EST game also features the AFC's top two rookies in Marino and ex-Penn State star Curt Warner, who was the conference's top rusher with 335 carries for 1,449 yards. "He puts a lot of the pressure on the defense and takes a lot of pressure off our other people," Knox said, noting that his back could run, catch passes and even is "an excellent blocker.

Defensively, Miami allowed fewer points 15.6 points per game than any other NFL team and was ranked seventh overall. Seattle was 27th in yardage allowed and gave up nearly 25 points a game. Shula said safety Lyle Blackwood, who hurt his ankle two weeks ago against the New York Jets, is healthy enough to play and that Marino has had two good weeks of practice. The quarterback will play in a knee brace. In looking at the Seahawks, Shula said he couldn't help being reminded of the Dolphins' AFC rivalry with Knox when Knox was coach of the Buffalo Bills.

In fact. By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Sports Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) The "hamber of Commerce may not like it, but as far as Charley Pell was concerned the iveather in Florida was just perfect Friday night. "For some strange reason, it's not quite cold as it was three hours ago," the Iniversity of Florida coach said. Actually, the reason wasn't strange, at all.

was relatively simple Pell's 11th-anked Florida Gators had bogged down on iffense most of the evening but still nanaged to defeat No. 10 Iowa 14-6 in a Gator Bowl game. Neal Anderson's one-yard touchdown run apped an 87-yard drive in the first quarter, Joug Drew recovered a fumbled snap by owa's punter for a second-period score and he Gators held on in the second half thanks i a sturdy defense. The victory enabled Florida to equal the chool record of nine victories in a season, ccomplished four times previously. The ators' 9-2-1 mark is their best since 1969 nd may have assured them the first Top "en finish in Florida's football history.

The Hawkeyes, who were bidding to come the first Iowa team to win 10 games a a season, wound up 9-3. Iowa's Chuck Long, the NCAA's No. ranked passer and ringleader of the nation's third best offense, was intercepted four times after throwing only eight interceptions in 236 passes all season. "Iowa is an excellent football team, Pell aid, "and if anyone had told us we would lold them to two field goals we would not have believed it. I think our defense measured up tonight as well as any group we've ever had." The Gators turned the first interception, one of two thefts by free safety Tony Lilly, into their 87-yard touchdown drive.

Anderson started it with a 47-yard burst and finished it by taking a pitchout the final yard for a 7-0 lead at 14 20 of the opening period. An interception by Florida linebacker Mark Korff at his 23-yard line stalled an Iowa drive on the Hawkeyes' next possession. But Tom Nichol's 32-yard field goal after an 88-yard march made it 7-3 with FLORIDA SCORES FIRST TD Florida running back Neal Anderson pushes off an Iowa tackier and later dives into the endzone to make Florida's first score in the Gator Bowl game here Friday night. (AP Laserphotoi IN CLASH WITH DETROIT 49er Defense Focuses On Sims, Danielson the conference with 70 catches for 840 yards L'raig finishing 10th and 13th, respectively, and eight touchdowns. in the conference, combining for 1,581 yards But the 49ers will play without Clark, also and 12 TDs.

sidelined by a knee injury. San Francisco, the Super Bowl champion "We won't know the impact until we have two vears aco and the NFC Western Shula pulled out old films from Knox's a series of third-down plays and see what Division champion at 10-6 this season, is a five-year reign in Buffalo to prepare for the iu "owji. iic uccn gicai uii uiic-iuutuuuwu idvuiue over uic Liiuns, wno iiiajvu game 4.1 i-i i i 4 1 0-4 7 0 0-14 a tvM aowns. finished 9-7 for the NFC Central crown, their "The man who's replacing him (Mike first title of any kind since 1957. Walsh Wilson) is a very fine player, but we just thinks all those numbers go out the window can't be sure.

If he can't make the catch in when the playoffs start, heavy traffic, the dropped pass means their ball. We're going to have to see whether the "The Lions are a good team," he said, change dramatically weakens us or doesn't "They've won eight of their last 11 games have any effect." and they've played some incredibly ag- Sims, who is embroiled in a contract gressive, fanatical football. And they've got Fla Anderson 1 run (Raymond kick) lowa-FG Nichol 32 Fla-Drew recovered fumbled snap by lowa punie "There's nothing worse than an Earl Morrall-type guy coming off the bench who's played a lot of good football in his day and having a championship game," Walsh said, reflecting on the former Lion quarterback who, as a reserve with Baltimore and later Miami, came off the bench to lead both the Colts and Dolphins to Super Bowl seasons. "Gary is capable, with his poise and his background, of inspiring his team," Walsh said. "So I'm not so sure we weren't kicked downstairs instead of up with Hippie out.

Besides, he added, "He's beaten us the last two times we've played them (17-13 in 1980, 24-17 the following year). They haven't been weakened. Now I suppose if he came up with a sprained ankle during the game, something would have to give but of course that could happen to (49ers quarterback Joe) Montana, too." Montana finished as the No. 3 passer in the NFC and was second in the league in pass completions with a 64.5 percentage. His favorite receiver was Dwight Clark, fifth in in end mme uie uoipnins ana seanawks are almost strangers Miami has won both previous meetings, in 1977 and 1979 Shula and Knox have met 11 times, with the Dolphins' coach winning eight of their games.

Besides the Bills-Dolphins meetings, Knox once played host to Simla's Dolphins as head man with the Los Angeles Rams. The Seahawks' 31-7 victory over the Broncos last week made Knox the first NFL coach to win a playoff game with three By BRUCE LOWTTT AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The focus of the San Francisco defense in Saturday's playoff game naturally will be Billy Sims, Detroit's elusive runner. But 49ers Coach Bill Walsh thinks the presence of the Lions' reserve quarterback, Gary Danielson, could be pivotal Danielson is starting in place of Eric Hippie, definitely out of the National Conference divisional playoff because of a torn ligament in the left knee sustained during the final game of the season two weeks ago. Danielson, an eight-year veteran and, at 32, the oldest player on the Lions, was their starter all of 1980, but the following two years he and Hippie alternated. Danielson lost his starting job toward the end of '82 and only occasionally relieved Hippie this season.

The game against the 49ers is his first start of the year. "If the backup was a rookie and had to start," Walsh said, "then we. as coaches, mieht sav. Ah-ha, he hasn't played; it's a rone 'ovs FGNicnoui dispute, having signed both with the Lions the one great runner in Sims. If he gets a hot hand, if ne tinas me noies, tinas ways oi breaking loose, then we're in trouble.

amereni teams. "When vnu nlav a Churl- Knnv foam Fla 14 44 148 92 34 9-23-2 738 0-0 12-105 27:30 lowa 14 40-114 147 33 1330-4 240 2-1 7-44 32:30 First downs Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Penalties yards Time of "They also have a good pass rush, and if know you are in for a highly competitive and the Houston Gamblers of the rival United States Football League, was the No. 8 rusher in the NFC in 1983 with 1,040 yards. He scored seven touchdowns. The Lions' No.

2 runner, rookie James Jones, added 475 yards and six TDs. San Francisco's ground game was more balanced with Wendell Tyler and Rocer even one of our offensive linemen begins to came said whose nninhinc oVo i-4 break down and Joe has to start scrambling "You want to know what Knox's trademark for his life, this whole game could change. is? Look at how they played last Saturday Po? session "In championship games, where it's They didn't make any mistakes. "We took out the old Buffalo films because when you think of Knox, you think of Buffalo. You can insert Warner for Joe strictly a win-or-lose proposition, one punt return, a fumble, pass interference can turn a whole game and a whole season around.

playoff game, we've got a great pass rush. INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING-lowa, Gill 10-83, Granger 9 37, Phill.ps 13 33. Florida, N. Anderson 17-84, J.L. Williams 10-48, Hampton 5 24.

HpnASSWG-lowa, Long 13 294 147, Nichol 010-0. Florida. Peace 9-22-2 92, Dixon 0 1 0-0. RECEIVING-Iowa, R. Harmon 4 90, Phillips 2 21, Granger 2 22.

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They happen all the time." things he did in Buffalo." Guy Roller Proud Of Brother Mike Dye Sees Changes In South's Athletes JssssflLnraKKKK IEMHk )HNh: what the situation boiled down to, whether we got scholarships or had to walk on." Mike presented the Heisman Trophy to his mother and Guy says that's exactly what he would have expected "All during the season, a lot of guys on the team joked about It. But Mike never took it as a joke. He was always serious. He said he'd give it to our mother if he won. He said winning a national championship meant the most to him.

By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) Why is this Rozier fellow walking around with a grin from ear to ear? It's not because he won the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player for 1983. It's because his brother did. One of the little-known facts about the No. 1-ranked Nebraska team is that it includes two Roziers. One, of course, is Mike, the 5-foot-ll, 210-pound Heisman-winning tailback whose 2,148 yards this season is the second best in the history of college football.

The other is Guy Rozier, a third-string monsterback for Monday night's Orange Bowl date with fifth-ranked Miami. At 21, Guy is a year younger than Mike and somewhat smaller, too, at 5-10, 180. A iunior acariemirallv hut tackles during the season and blocked a punt against Kansas. But there is not a shred of jealousy where his brother is concerned and Guy is probably happier than Mike over having a Heisman in the family. "What's it like being the brother of a Heisman Trophy winner and playing on the same team? I don't know," says Guy, who is outgoing where Mike is introverted.

"I'm a lot prouder of him as the days go by. There aren't too many people walking around who can say their brother won the Heisman Trophy. It's a pretty good feeling." Mike and Guy are the last of the six Rozier brothers from Camden, N.J. "We've always been a little closer because we're the youngest," says Guy. "We came to Nebraska at the same time (Mike spent a year in junior college) and most of his friends are my friends, too.

"We planned on going to school together no matter Dye was recruiting south Alabama when he was an assistant on the late Paul "Bear" Bryant's staff at Alabama in 1969. "I told Coach Bryant that if I was going to recruit that area, I wanted to get the best player, and he happened to be black," Dye said. The first signee was Wilbur Jackson, a running back who earned AU-SEC honors his senior season. Dye sends his third-ranked Tigers against Michigan in the 50th Sugar Bowl battle Monday night. The Auburn coach said that progress made since the integration of public schools in the South has led to better black students in recent years.

"You have black athletes now who are taking engineering, wanting to be doctors and lawyers." he said. "A lot of black athletes are excellent students. The black communities are realizing the importance of an education." Dye said he had no idea how many blacks were on this year's Auburn football team, adding that he didn't want to know. "I'm more oriented toward people and production than I am what color they are," he said. Asked why it took SEC schools so long to begin recruiting black athletes, Dye said, "I think we were just that far behind the times." By ED SHEARER AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) Auburn Coach Pat Dye, who recruited the first black football plaver at Alabama in 1969, says black athletes in the South are becoming more interested in getting an education, not just participating in a sport.

"We've had to take some borderline students at Auburn in the past, but I can see In the near future us not having to take borderline students," Dye said Friday during a Sugar Bowl news conference. Dye began discussing the black athlete when he was asked how eighth-ranked Michigan would fare if the Wolverines played in the Southeastern Conference. "If Michigan were in the SEC, they'd be a winner," he said. "They be up there fighting or the championship every year. But the team would have a different look." Asked what he meant by a different look, he replied: "They'd be more black." He said football was a very demanding sport.

"It's played by hungry p-ople. the majority from hard-working families. Not many doctor's and lawyer's sons turn out to be great players, although there are some exceptions. "Their's is simply a different life style. Most of them got cars at a age.

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