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MM-PAP -a 1141-ALP 1 Parseghian Asks Playfully I( 4C THE CHARLOTTE il ii 1 i I 1 "1 1 1 1 i tiipe 1 kr I 1 1 )r f'''' i -forr-7fr cr 4w-60k- jk1 4 'i- loge 4' V- OBSERVER lktnri Dee 71470 ill What By HARRY LLOYD Wmrow Sports Writte If Notre Dame can shock Texas the way its coach Ara Parseghian stunned an ABC- Tv executive Saturday a lot of Longhorns may try to bury 'What By HARRY LLOYD Wmro Sports Writte If Notre Dame can shock Texas the way its coach Ara Parseghian stunned an ABC-TV executive Saturday a lot of Longhorns may try to bury ed something like 53 per cent in favor of the Orange over the Cotton He Figures 14-111an Defense Will Stop Wishbone '''-7: I when you win nine and lose One than when you lose one and win nine" The coach said he had been angered by printed reports that he vetoed a player prefer once for the Orange Bowl rather than to Dallas "That was all mixed up" he explained "What happened was about three weeks ago we had the players fill out A goes we sere to work on" He would like to take his team to Texas or somewhere with a similar climate the week before Christmas but the NCAA allows only one trip to the bowl site That trip can be as long as the team likes The upset loss to Southern Cal he said could cause a big letdown The psychological factors are a lot different his own teams difficulty in getting ready "The northern teams time problems people never think about" he noted "Last year the weather was so bad here we didn't have a field in condition to work on And then when we went to Dallas a week before the game it was so cold there the tarp was frozen to the high school field ALSO TAKES LSU Goes To Orange Bowl I I I 1 1 1 ''Then after we beat LSU (3-0) and were invited the players vote almost 98 per cent in favor of going to the Cotton I have to admire them because Miami is a lot more pleasant for them but they wanted a chance to play for No 1 Since Nebraska has tied a game there was no way we could be No 1 by playing them' has been on old Mac's shoulders I felt like the stadium was on me" "This has to be the greatest" McClendon said "We wanted to win it so bad We wanted to go to the Orange Bowl but we wanted to earn our way there" blirdORE I With Unbelievable Victory tionnaire We asked them which bowl they preferred the Cotton against Texas or Arkansas the Sugar against Air Force or the Orange against Nebraska "We asked them if they still wanted to go to a bowl if we lost to LSU and if a game would interfere with their academics We just wanted to get their opinions before we received any bids and they vot SEC TITLE Ole Miss quarterback Archie Manning his left arm encased in a special cast played a good part of the game The arm had been broken against Houston on Nov 7 and this was his first game since then The Rebel superstar made it a ball game for the first quarter tossing nine yards to Jim Poole for a touchdown Manning got the Rebels deep in LSU territory in the second period and Poole put them ahead 10 7 with a 22 yard field goal but that was it for the Rebels LSU moved in front to stay in the second quarter on Buddy Lee's 46-yard pass to Andy Hamilton Touchdown then repoated the play tale In the fourth onacter when he took a punt at the LSU Art Cantrelle scored on a 55 yard run snd Craie Burns returned a punt 61 yards for a 'touchdown "You can't imagine what this means" McClendon said as he hugged his wife who held a plastic bag filled with oranges "You don't know what a load Ara Parseghian Shocker Longhorns 'Awesome Near Perfect' Associated Press AUSTIN Tex Perhaps ArkansRs monster man Bobby Field summed it best: "It was kind of awesome the way they fired out and came at us" Top-ranked Texas playing its most inspired game of the year indeed was devastating Saturday in its 42-7 victory over the fourth-ranked Razorbacks The victory put the Longhorns in good shape to seek their second consecutive national championship New Year's Day against Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl It was no secret going Into the Southwest Conferenee title game before the national television cameras that Texas was emotionally ready t': -41kerytg '''-A' -c 'v-A 44 4: 0 411 7 44 iulti 4 1464-0 1 a 5- 4 e''' xX 5 T'A 601:4 '''''r' 4' ''''i 4 l' '0''' '1 017f" 5 ''''1 t''''': '7)Ci1''l ti1 fi''' '-141ii 't'f i il '1417 '''4 1- -4g: Iiiii7 iirb ii: le 4' 1: et :1 :7 ie Pf: Y' '1(4'1'-'7--: 1 l's'S 4f r'leni --t- S-00 'a 4 40: f-t 17i notmlacf k'i --14 1 t'''' ilt iilt 14' til i 4 i :4 4to ti) if ki 1::2:: 4 Ai 3 i 'f pt- 71 Ili 4'' ti Ai' si-144: 1 WS 1Z The time where! here" a Andy Bruce Box TICKFTS 1 ti r-- NI AP Photo 'Oh Why Did I Ever Try To Archie Manning Is In Misery On Sideline 1 zi r--! 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"Gee I forgot all ahout it" said Parseghian "You see our quarterback 0 Tbeismann got married today and he has meant so much to our team that I wanted to go to his wedding I forgot all about the game Who won anyway?" "You mean you didn't even watch it? Even with your team playing the winner?" "No I had meant to but I was just too busy" "Well Arkansas won real big 48-7 Does that surprise you?" "No not really We knew Arkansas has a real good passing attack and they're dangerous Parshegian led the shocked TV man a little further before admitting that yes he had watched the game after attending his quarterback's wedding and knew that Texas was a 42-7 winner The revelation brought great relief to Boda just as watching the game had Made Parshegian shudder a bit "Texas is really something" he said Sunday at O'Hare Field in Chicago as he waited for a flight to carry him to Miami on a speaking and recruiting trip for himself and a brief vacation away from the snow for wife Katie "They're a es om both ways and I mean offense and defense" The Irish had four scouts watching the game Parshegian will of course study films and reports for hours and hours before deciding on a game plan But he already has a plan for stopping the Wishbonel offense: Use 14 men" Then he got serious Very serious "We knew last year what you have to do to defense a four-hack attack" he said "It's like playing against the single wing The end can't play 'soft he's got to come like hell to force the play" Notre Dame almost heat Texas in last year's Cotton Bowl before the Longhorns connected on a fourth-down pass at the finish and won 21- 14 "That pass" said Parseghian shaking his head "If (Street) throws it up chest-high we intercept it Instead it goes low and I didn't think anybody could catch it I hear a big roar from the crowd and I couldn't believe it Then I with the worst view in the house realize that (Cotton) Speyrer has caught it" Parseghian says he still thinks the Iris4) who lost their final game to Southern Cal can he ranked No I He listed the ifs: "If Stanford upsets Ohio State "If LSU takes Nebraska "If we somehow beat Tex" as He said that last one will be "a difficult chore" not only because of the Longhorns' great offense and defense but Sun Devils Whip Arizona 10-6 Balteo The Longhorns edged Arkansas 15-14 last year in the "Game of the Decade" and many thought the Razorbacks outplayed Texas This irritated the folks in burnt orange "We were really high" said Texas offensive tackle Bobby Wuensch "This makes up for everything" Texas coach Darrell Royal said he believed the Longhorns were even more fired up than they were in 1963 in a 28-7 Cotton Bowl defeat of Navy "I've never told any writer this before but one of the rea' Sons we looked so good against Navy was that we had their defensive signals" Royal said Assocloted Prost BATON ROUGE La one would have believed Louisiana State would crush Mississippi's Rebels 61-17 in LSU's hid for the Southeastern Conference football title and an Orange Bowl berth against Nebraska But that's what happened Saturday night before 67590 fans who pelted the field with oranges in symbolic approval as the Tigers whipped their old antagonists tor the first time in five years in the nationally-televised game Keith Phillips a top official of the Orange Bowl stood on the LSU bench in the game's accepted the invitation to meet Nebraska in the New Year's night game in Miami LSU had been told two weeks ago the berth in the Miami game was theirs if the Tigers won their last two games against Tu lane and Ole Miss And win both they did The game marked the worst beating LSU ever posted over Ole Miss and the 61 point are the most scored agoinst the Rebels since Alabama trimmed them 64-0 in 1930 Despite the rout Mississippi will go to the Gator Bowl for the Rebels' 10th bowl appearance in as many years LSU coach Charlie McClendon was in a world of his own after the game He ran through the locker rooms pounding his players on the back 'r beautiful you're great" he shouted We knew we could do it didn't we" Be said he had some anxious moments in the first quarter "Manning sure didn't look like he was hurt did he?" McClendon asked an interviewer "He came out there throwim the ball down onr throats We had snme jitters in the first quarter and I wondered if it was going In happen again if we were going to lost to Ole Miss again Brown Stops Cornell Associated Press Brown Beat Cornell 32 in hockey Saturday night snapping the 35-game winning streak of the Big Bed in Ivy League hockey competition Colleze Football Texas 42 Arkansas 7 Westminster (Pa) 21 Anderson 16 Tennessee 20 UCLA 17 Tulsa 26 North Texas 20 Houston 36 Miami (Fla 3 Arizona St 10 Arizona 6 LSU fit Mississiool 17 DAVIDSON COLLEGE BASKETBALL AT CHARLOTTE COLISEUM 3 BIG EVENTS IN DECEMBER! rkETBALL SEUM ABER! United Press internationat TUCSON Ariz Peach Bowl-bound Arizona State University fought off a tenacious Arizona defense and scored a touchdown and field goal in the second half Saturday night to sneak by the Wildcats 10-6 and preserve its undefeated season It was the first time this season the ninth-ranked Sun minutes left in the game to as-Devils were held to less than sure ASIJ's victory 27 points Arizona State fin- The leading rusher for th( ished with a 10-0 record while Sun Devils was halfback Mon Arizona was 4-6 roe Elev who carried the bat minutes left in the game to assure ASIJ's victory The leading rusher for the Sun Devils was halfback Monroe Eley who carried the ball I i I 0 1 Lila qt it? 1 r4 poi4y i 11 LIV ktt dt ilvi M144 001 i 0404 et Iv i one to Golf Shop AMITY GARDENS HOPPING CENTER 144 INDEP BLVD irge Says i non wonder a long No finer buys any Buy your golf clubs PACE 0 Sir is 3 clY 8ontous co Steel Corporation 15781 arlotte NC 28210 5 ne: 7045231557 'o s3 $2 50 kill 50 I 000 voo ssnn 1 LIEGE TICKET OFFICE 28036 WhutA q41 gene to Golf Shop AMITY GARDENS SHOPPING CENTER 3844 INDEP BLVD George Soya 'Roman' wonder a long No finer buys any Buy your golf clubs Pontious Steel Corporation 15781 Charlotte NC 28210 Phone: 7045231557 OF TICKETS $3 50 $2 50 SI 000 I $700 Si nti At Akosoo plop 10-4 reti 4P COLLEGE TICKET OFFICE 28036 DEC 9 EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Lcc) DEC 22 STATE UNIVERSITY LOOKING FOR AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT? DEC 29-30 CHARLOTTE INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT 1 NO DAVIDSON BOSTON COLLEGE GEORGIA LASALLE TWO NIGHTS FOUR GAMES 35 times for 135 yards Statistics ASU Arizona First downs 23 12 Rushind yardsae 243 43 rescind yarriane 136 203 Poturn yardape 51 3 PA SP5 14-232 1326-7 Punts 6-39 8-36 urphles lost 5 1 Yards penalized 30 98 Arizona State 0 0 7 3-10 Arizona 0 0 0 6 7 pass from UPaitinolis (Ekstrand kirk) Ekstrand 28 ArizMcKee 20 pass from Demorv (kick failed) A-38500 AAU President Proposes Change Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO The new president of the Amateur Athletic Union proposed Saturday night at the AAU's convention to chance its name to the American Athletic Union John Brenden Kelly Jr a former Olympic medalist and Philadelphia city councliman proposed the change in his acceptance speech "Even in our own country the meaning of the AAU initials are hazy" he said "But to all AAU stands for American Athletics And that is the way it should be" TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CHARLOTTE COLISEUM Texas rolled up 464 yards rushing on Arkansas with Jim 13 er telsen running for 189 Steve Worster 126 and quarterback Eddie Phillips for 68 Phillips converted 17 of 17 third down situations looking all for the world like James Street Texas' undefeated quarterhack last year in helping the Longhorns compile their current 30-game winning streak "If you're compared to anybody I guess it's good I'm compared to James" Phillips said "Rut we are different really He was kind of like a rubber band tight and talking it up I am kind of emotional but in a different way" "It was one of those near perfect football games" said Texas defensive line coach Pat Patterson Longhorn defensive backfield coach Fred Akers added: ''Our boys played heads up football with enthusiasm" -It's the greatest game we've put together" said Texas defensive chief Mike Campbell Royal added: "I'd have been delirious to dream we could heat Arkansas this bad I'd hate to go back and try to do it again" The Sun Devils meet North Carolina in Atlanta's Peach Bowl Dec 30 The Tar Heels are 8 3 Quarterback Joe Spagnola hit Hill with a seven-yard touchdown pass early in the third quarter to break a scoreless tie The pass capped a 66-yard Sun Devil drive Don Ekstrand hooted a 2Ryard field goal midway in the fourth period to increase the Arizona State lead to 10-0 Arizona pulled to within striking distance late in the II nal period when quarterback Bill Demory found Charlie McKee with a 20-yard pass in the end zone The extra point attempt failed The Wildcats held ASIJ scoreless in the first half us ing a pass interception and three Sun Devil fumbles two on the Arizona one yard line to stop Arizona State drives It was the first time this year Arizona State had been held scoreless in the first half ASLI's defense also dominated the first half allowing Arizona into Sun Devil territory only twice The Sun Devils stopped a final Arizona drive with a pass interception with less than two NAME ADDRESS CITY AMT ENCLOSED TO: DAVIDSON DAVIDSON fiiv e7 4i 0 i- "----d Ors -3 1 i 1 tl 4 1t l'4'' '1'4 et 3'f-' tt is -i 41 1 1 -A 4 4 t''111 It' 1 ''444 i a '--1' t'k Itstp: NM STATE STILL ONLY s4or ul FIFTH MAIL special engine turteup The Carstairs Crowd They have thejight holiday spirit lid or trit kt 't (- --z I i vti 54:: i i'1 1 "'1 1 tt''4 '041L 'Ifv' -vt3 4 it: if i :4 6 ot 141 r''' 7 ''i '7 4 :4 I '14 'R'ii' I''4 i Ng''' 1: 414 1' ''4 1--0 v041tit ktqi-1' -741441 I tis- 14tZA -i tz 44 $95 Plus PARTS 40-step Electronic Analysis Electronic Carburetor Adjustment 6000 Mile120 day Written Guarantee 30-step Precision Tune-up Extra Clean Under Hood 0:: s144! 4 k'i 1'4') i sm 2 06-r is'I'Al 0 i'' 3- 41 tP 4 CHARLOTTE 1323 Imerywood Drive (North dB of Kmart Shopping Plaza South Boulevard) 3236193 Hours: MonSat I am6 pm yiiiO3 Carstairs Whiskey oin the Carstairs Crowd Crowd RIM SERVICES: BATTERIES HATORS GENERATORS AIR STARTERS I CARBURETORS AMR CONDITIONIN2 I COOLUICI MIDAS FRANKFORT 0 NY DARSTAJRS PLENDED WHISKEY SO PROOF 12 GRAIN NItML srmi TS.