The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 5

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1971- -THE SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL-5 In Struggle For No. 1 -Nebraska To Settle College Football Supremacy The Selma Times Lournal SPORTS Sunday afternoon contest here between American Conference finalists of the National Football League defending Super Saturday's 38th Bowl; game will match two of the nation's most exciting football teams, the Crimson Tide and its back Jerry Tagge, Johnny Rodgers and I-back Jeff Kinney, who between them own 27 school records. Bowl champion Baltimore Wishbone offense featuring And while the offense is the Miami has really created a Johnny "Italian Stallion" Mus- thing that pleases the spectacramped situation in this South so, the Cornhuskers and their T- tors, defense is what makes Florida resort metropolis. formation, triggered by quarter- coaches smile, and Alabama Alabama -Nebraska By SAM EZELL the Armed Forces Radio NetTimes Journal Sports Editor work. MIAMI Undefeated Nebras- Tickets to this "dream" ka and Alabama fooball teams game of the century have been with President Richard Nix- gone for weeks Alabama and on watching clash 1 here Sat- Nebraska boosters snapped up urday night in a contest that those ducats available to them will settle at least temporar- the first went day they, on sale, Ily collegiate gridiron supre- and Orange officials remacy port greater interest in this Kickoff time for the national- year's game than at any time in the 38-year history of the Miby televised (Alabama (NBC) game is 7 ami-based post season event.

pm. time), and the matchup of the nation's No. 1 Nothing but nothing could pos(Nebraska) and No. 2 (Ala- sibly steal the spotlight from the bama) teams is likely to attract 12-0 Cornhuskers and 11-0 Crimthe largest viewing audience son Tide. However, fans have ever.

The game will also be found its extremely difficult 1 to broadcast around the world by locate hotel accommodations. ALABAMA LINEBACKERS MAY HOLD KEY TO CHAMPIONSHIP ROOM Tides' Jeff Rouzie (56), Wayne Hall (50), Chuck Strickland (36) and Tom Surlas (42) in Miami. (AP Wirephoto) Orange Bowl Matchup Could Be Forerunner: Of Future College Football Playoffs By TOM EMORY Associated Press Sports Writer The Nebraska-Alabama meeting in the Orange Bowl could be a forerunner of college football playoffs to determine a national champion. But for now de it's just the best game fate and the bowl makers arranged for New Year's Day. There are other bowls in the holiday week, including the Sugar, Rose and Cotton bowls, also Jan.

1. None have the flavor, however, of the match-up between the No. 1 Cornhuskers and the No. 2 Crimson Tide. Nebraska is a deadly efficient offensive and defensive ma-42 chine which earlier this year defeated then No.

2-ranked Oklahoma. The Huskers are not as colorful a team as Alabama but under Coach Bob Devaney have a 31-game unbeaten streak, including 22 straight victories. The team also is ing for its second consecutive national title. Coach Bear Bryant of Alabama has won three national championships A Tide victory over Nebraska would give him a fourth. He's relying on slashing running back Johnny and the Wishbone-T to make up in speed what hhis team lacks against the Cornhuskrs' strength.

Oklahoma passed on and it appears Alabama may try to do the same with Terry Davis at quarterback Davis threw only 66 times during the season, but completed for 452 yards and eight touchdowns. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, Oklahoma and Auburn are preparing for the Sugar Bowl. The Sooners use the Wishbone-T, an offense Auburn saw in its game against Alabama. The Sooners had the most Alabama Season Alabama 11-0-0 Nebraska 12-0-0 Southern Cal 10 Sou. Miss.

6 Florida 0 Ole Miss 6 Vanderbilt 1 0 Tennessee 15 Houston 20 Miss. State 10 La, State 7 Miami 3 Auburn 7 Alabama 17, Alabama 42, Alabama 38, Alabama 40, Alabama 42, Alabama 32, Alabama 34, Alabama 41, Alabama 14, Alabama 31, Alabama 31, Nebraska 34, Oregon 7 Nebraska 35, Minnesota 7 Nebraska 34, Texas 7 Nebraska 42, Utah State 6 Nebraska 36, Missouri 0 Nebraska 55, Kansas 0 Nebraska 41, Okla. St. 13 Nebraska 31, Colorado 7 Nebraska 37, Iowa State 0 Nebraska 44, Kansas State 17 Nebraska 35, Oklahoma 31 Nebraska 45, Hawaii 3 Issel Consistant Against Squires By THE ASSOCIATED For American Basketball Association consistency, try the Virginia Squires and Kentucky's Dan Issel. The Squires topped Carolina 124-120 Thursday night-the third straight victory for Virginia over the Cougars in as many nights.

And Issel scored 21 points in the first half and then hit the same number after intermission for a game total of 42 points, leading Kentucky to a 111-89 victory over the Floridians. In other ABA action Thursday night, Dallas topped Memphis and Utah downed Denver 103-98 doubleheader played at Denver. Two of the ABA's prize rookies- Julius Erving McDaniels of Virginia and Jim of Carolina--put on spectacular shows against one another but in the end it was the extra help Erving got from teammate Charlie Scott that made the difference against the Cougars. and Nebraska both excell in this category. Leading the Nebraska defense will be middle guard Rich Glover, defensive tackles Larry Jacobson and Bill Janssen, defensive end Willie Harper, line backer Bob Terrio and safety Bill 1 Kosch.

Defensive captain Robin Parkhouse leads the Alabama defensive charge from his end position. He gets plenty of helping from a linebacking crew that includes Jeff Rouzie, Tom Surlas, Chuck Strickland and Wayne Hall. Steve Higginbotham, who stole seven enemy passes during 71, tops in the Southeastern Conerence, guards the deep secondary for the Tide. Perhaps the strong point of the Alabama team this season, has been the blocking of the offensive line, the secret to a successful Wishbone-T offense. Center Jimmy Grammer and guards John Hannah and Jimmy Unlikely Laker Will Get Bored With Winning SEATTLE (AP) It is altogether unlikely, Jim McMillan says, that he will become bored with winning, though the Los Angeles Lakers' string is 30 games long now and is timed by months.

Spencer Haywood of the Seattle SuperSonics had expressed some concern about ennui gently settling over McMillan and the rest of the Lakers. He had mentioned it to McMillan Thursday, night as the Lakers the Sonics 122-106 to continue their major league winning streak. "Haywood asked me during the game, 'Don't you get tired of McMillan recalled. "I told him no, because we beat teams differently every night." This version called for Wilt Chamberlain to pull down 24 rebounds, Jerry West to assist on 11 baskets, and the Lakers to go off on scoring streaks of 12 and 10 straight points and a 26-9 rout when pressured by the Sonics. "Jim was outstanding tonight," Coach Bill Sharman said.

"He's the complete player. He does all the intelligent things. We didn't try ti go to him in the first half, but we did in the second." Even without the Lakers looking for him, McMillan scored 16 points in the first half, 12 of them in the last four minutes of the second period, including six during the Lakers' 12-point streak. His scoring helped the Lakers come from the low end of a 43-42 score to lead 56-45 at halftime. Seattle charged back to take an 83-82 lead with just over 10 minutes left in the game.

But before McMillan, Chamberlain and West, who had 28 points, sat down for the night, the Lakers outscored Seattle 26-9 in one streak and had taken a luxuriant 111-92 lead. Elsewhere, in the NBA Thursday, Baltimore defeated New York 110-102, Golden State ripped ed Detroit 128-122, Chicago whacked Portland 117-92, Houston whipped Atlanta 129-115 and Phoenix downed Buffalo 123- 102. Elvin Hayes poured in 42 points and Rudy Tomjanovich grabbed a career-high 23 rebounds as Houston ripped Atlanta. Hayes hit 25 points in the first half and then he and little Calvin Murphy pulled the Rockets into a comfortable lead in the final period. Lou Hudson had 28 for the Hawks.

Jack Marin's 33 points led Baltimore past New York, ending the Knicks seven-game winning streak. Archie Clark added 24 for the Bullets, who led by as many as 30 points before standing off a late New York rally. Ex-Bullet Earl Monroe led the Knicks with 21 points. Chicago won its seventh straight, beating Portland easily. Norm Van Lier scored six points in a 13-0 Chicago spurt that put the Bulls in control in the second period.

Van Lier finished with 24 points and Bob Love had 21 for the Bulls. The Golden State Warriors, down by 20 points at halftime, ran off a 17-2 spurt in the fourth period and overtook Detroit. Nate Thurmond hit 42 points, one shy of his career peak, to lead the Warriors. Dave Bing, recently returned after eye surgery, had 30 for the Paul Sils and Dick Van Arsdale hit 19 points, apiece, leadsix Phoenix shooters in double figures as the Suns deI feated Buffalo, Rosser head up the wall for Alabama, with tackles Buddy Brown and Jim Krapf the real unsung heroes. Actually it took a great deal of desire, dedication, determination and likely lot of luck to get the Crimson Tide to the Orrange Bowl unbeaten.

Only Grammer and Rosser are seniors among the interior line men, and only Grammer is playthe same position he was a year ago. In addition to the numerous changes to the interior line, the swich to the Wishbone-T also meant the Tide must abandon the style attack it had lived (12 wins) and died (10 losses) by in the past two seasons, the forward pass. By comparison, Alabama attempted 84 passes in '71. In '69 and '70 Alabama passers attemped 650 passes. Krapf, Rosser and Brown making the position changes and the entire Alabama squad switching its offense, the Tide launched '71 with a 17-10 win over Southern Cal and appeared to get better as -the season progressed.

The year was capped by a 31-7 win over previously unbeaten Auburn. Nebraska, carrying the albatross of, a national championship about its neck, broke from the starting game in fine fashion, holding its first six oppobama's, on Thanksgiving Day, points per game while scoring 393 per outing. The Cornhuskers' big moment came two days earlier than Alabamas, on Thanksgiving Da against then unbeaten Oklahoma. Nebraska came from behind to nip the Sooners 35-31. Alabama then completed the "Super Bowl" pairings with its win over Auburn.

Saturday's winner in the Orange Bowl will surely have undisputed claim to the college football's national championship at least until '72 pre-season practice begins, SLim SHAPE UP tent scoring team during the season and Coach Ralph Jordan of Auburn admits his team's defense must be extremely sharp to stop the likes of quarterback Jack Mildren, and running backs Greg Pruitt and Joe Wylie. Auburn has a top scoring threat of its own in Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan, a quarterback, and his favorite target, wide receiver Terry Beasley. Stanford faces another highscoring offense in Michigan in the Rose Bowl, and Coach John Ralston says the Pacific-8 champions will lose if the defense must play 75 per cent of the game. He says the team must cut down the Wolverines running and force more passing. Coach Bo Schlembechler of Big Ten champion Michigan says Stanford is the best Jordan Taps Tide Fairbanks Neb.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Coaches Ralph "Shug" Jordan of Auburn and Chuck Fairbanks of Oklahoma briefly turned their attention Thursday to the Orange Bowl showdown between No. 1 Nebraska and No. 2 Alabama when asked for their predictions on the outcome. "I'm going to ride with Alabama," said Jordan, whose only defeat this year was by the Crimson Tide 31-7. I'd chose Nebraska," said Fairbanks, wino's Sooners lost their perfect record in a 35-31 loss to the Cornhuskers.

"It ought to be a very close type game," Fairbanks added. "It might not be all that high scoring. Both teams can play defense." SLAUGHTERING SALMON NEW YORK (AP) One of the major feeding grounds for Atlantic salmon was discoverled in the Davis Strait off West Greenland less than 10 years ago. In 1965 Danish fishermen took 36 tons of salmon from this high seas feeding area. Last year about 300 Danes in 35 trawlers took more than million pounds of salmon in nets which stretch for 10 miles.

American sportsmen say this type of netting is preventing the feeding salmon from returning to Canadian and Norwegian rivers and streams where they spawn ing team his players faced all season, but the can't be content to just worry about the pass. He warns the Indians run well, and would not hesitate if Michigan was concentrating too much on defending against a passing attack. Quarterback Eddie' Phillips has been chosen as the starting Texas quarterback against Penn State in the Cotton Bowl after being out with mi u'ltiple injuries this season. The Nittany Lions now must worry, Phillips engineering the Wishbone the Longhorns also will have their problems with the Penn State offense which features such runners as Lydell Mitchell and Franco Harris In tonight's Gator Bowl, or for this year, the Brother Bowl, Georgia, coached by Vince Dooley, plays North Carolina, coached by his brother, Bill. Georgia, No.

6 in national rankings, has an offense sparked by strong running quarterback Andy Johnson, and scatback Jimmy "'The Greek" Poulos. North Carolina, the Atlantic Coast Conference champion, has three 500-plus yar rushers in Lewis "Green Giant" Jolley, George Hamilton and Ike Oglesby. Houston's triple-option offense takes on Colorado's strongcharging Buffalos in the Bluebonnet Bowl in another New Year's Eve game. The Cougars have led the nation in offense for five years and have in the backfield Robert Newhouse, who averaged 159 yards per game. Colorado has sophomore Charley.

Davis who rush ed for 1,386 yards last season to become the school's best- in history. Tide-Husker Starters The starting lineups: Middle linebacker Chuck NEBRASKA OFFENSE Strickland Split end Woody Cox Left tackle Daryl White Left guard Dick Rupert Center Doug Dumler Right guard Keith Wortman Right tackle Carl Johnson Tight end Jerry List Quarterback Jerry Tagge I-Back Jeff Kinney Slotback Johnny Rodgers Fullback Bill Olds NEBRASKA as DEFENSE Left end John Adkins Left tackle Larry Jacobson Middle guard Rich Glover Right tackle Bill Janssen end Willie Harper Weakside linebacker Bob Terrio Strongside linebacker Jim Branch Monster Dave Mason Left cornerback Joe Blahak Right cornerback Jim Anderson Safety Bill Kosch ALABAMA OFFENSE Split end David Bailey Left tackle Jim Krapf Left guard Jimmy Rosser Center Jimmy Grammer Right guard John Hannah Right tackle Buddy Brown Tight end Jim Simmons Quarterback Terry Davis Left halfback Johnny Musso Right halfback Joe LaBue Fullback Steve Bisceglia ALABAMA DEFENSE Left end Robin Parkhouse Left tackle Terry Rowell Right tackle Jeff Beard Right end John Mitchell Weakside linebacker Tom Surlas Strongside linebacker Jeff I Rouzie WITH Cloverlect. SKIM MILK ONE QUART LIQUID SEALED -b PASTEURIZED SKIMMILK PROTEIN 1. WILY SOUPS 10H IN CALORIES CLOVERLEAF DAIRIES, INK SELMA ALA. GET SOME TODAY AT YOUR DOOR or AT THE STORE CALL 874-6663 FOR HOME DELIVERY Left cornerback Steve Higginbotham Right cornerback Steve Williams Strong safety Lanny Norris Safety Steve Wade Clemson Winner In Poinsettia Erving fired 33 points and grabbed 22 rebounds for the Squires while McDaniels hit 38 rebounds and blocked six shots for Carolina.

Charlie Scott, who finished with 31 points, dropped in a pair of free throws with six seconds remaining to clinch the victory for the Squires. Virginia beat Carolina in Roanoke, Raleigh and Norfolk on consecutive nights this week. Issel led Kentucky to its eighth victory in nine games, a romp over the Floridians. He had help from another outstanding ABA rookie, big Artis Gilmore, who had 25 points and 19 rebounds. Issel and Gilmore combined for 12 points as Kentucky ran off to a 16-4 lead in the first five minutes.

Steve Jones stung his former teammates with four straight free throws and then Joe Hamilton hit three in a row as Dallas defeated Memphis. Jones led all scorers with 25 points while Johnny Neumann's 23 paced the Pros. GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) The Atlantic Coast Conference Tigers of Clemson are the Poinsettia Basketball Classic champions today, holding a 77-67 victory over Auburn's Southeastern Conference Tigers. Dave Angel scored 27 points and pulled down 22 rebounds in setting the pace for Clemson and he was honored 1 by being voted the tournament's most valuable player.

The Holy Cross Crusaders, led by three players with 25 or more points each, won the consolation game in Thursday night's windup, downing host Furman, 104-88. Denny Odle scored 21 points and Terrell Suit provided 11 as Clemson pushed its season mark to 4-2, while dropping Auburn to a 4-4 record. Henry Harris led Auburn wth 13 points and Dan Kirkland and Al Leapheart added 10 points each. Holy Cross was led by Gene Doyle who had 26 points and 21 rebounds. He had 25-point helping from teammates Buddy Venne and Stan Grayson Cloverleaf DAIRIES, INC.

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