The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 64

et A 111 's lk Reprinted from late Saturday editions Reprinted from late mummy editions 2-F THE MIAMI HERALD Sun Jan 3 1971 z-k- 1HE MIAMI HERALD Sun San 3 1971 ti 0 I1Jk moo gam 1101 ram 117 10 c) 1''t 1f 4 14'4'- 's 1 -------mik yil A FN 1 IN t47 CI) IN '77 11 0 111 Ce5: 0 e7: A KT i 0 -A------ I ll tt1 I prlatoRan JI i i- 't il t11 i 11i 1 ti 4 1 it)'' 1 4 lik ot tt '''1k'Xl c- Ite "444471113441 (7:1111111711411 11111 sminoZ4001 it A0- -011 i lc itORSWORTHY (LSU1 BURNS (LSU EMmE I CASCIO LINEStttMNI4tOt TAGGE (N (LIST (N) 14nommoitAlmmoonniv-Al ----747glinit-- r- 1 ixio'Ilv- TAGGE (LIST (N) I -A l'' ye -7---: trY -4- w'k iiii 4-: 4 4'r 0'tiO47'4''''-' 4000 1114 PF-1---- i I- CANPflitSON- LSU 4' '4' ''4 4'''' 1' '''1' CA 5 C9 -LSI) I tee i' '--ii L7 Av'' oRswORTHY (L ie: i i '1714-LfyFlIVI11 IFF ft 0-'i' LINEnali1C1kM k11t1 '14tv 3 ail ::0 :4: IF 1 414 ii4L44xr 7 I 1: it 1k4---- --t 4::: 4 're A 4w 4 A Acillonmmwommir-A r''''''' '4'Z' i M4'-' sf--- i i10' I Jerry Tagge Tosses 14-Yard trike to Tight End Jerry List Who Rumbles for First Down at LSU 8-Yard Line flu Even the 'ope Couldn't Vote ND No Reprinted from late Saturday editions By LUTHER EVANS 4SLA 44 it It COACH I 44 Fl 1: Al viAi iii 41MMINIIIMEIMININIIMPI anummoull "THE REFEREE (Vance Carlson) explained to me that one of our linemen was holding He said our guys grabbed a LSU lineman and tugged him forward so it was illegal use of hands "I'm not arguing the call now I'm sure he was right Officials know more about the rules than I do I'd certainly never seen such a thing before" The first three times Nebraska had possession quarterback Jerry Tagge threw on first down "That was part of our game plan to throw on first down out of the option "We figured we might loosen them up and then hit 'em with screens draw plays and other delays "LSU is truly a fine club Their defense is just as tough as everybody said" one (United Press International) coaches vote in that and coaches don't know anything about ratings" Herald Snorts Writer "I don't see how even the Pope could vote for Notre Dame as No 1 after tonight" said Bob Devaney Friday night after his Nebraska football team defeated LSU in the Orange Bowl Classic 17-12 Of course a few million Irish fans may think that Devaney is all wet Matter of fact he was all wet when he said it His undefeated athletes had just thrown him in a shower "We certainly should be No I after winning this game the biggest one of my life" he said "We're the only team left after today's bowl games that is undefeated I don't see how it could go any other way" TRYING to shake water out of his thinning hair Devaney said that his Big Eight champions got an extra shot in their incentive when they learned Ohio State had followed Texas into the ranks of beaten "Just before we went out for the kickoff I told them that they had a chance to be recognized as the best football team in the country "It psyched them up even more "And they are the best" Kidding on the square Devaney said "I hope that you astute writers who vote in the Associated Press' final poll will cast your vote for us "That poll's more authoritative than the other DEVANEY grinningly admitted "after more than 20 years of coaching I learned a new rule tonight I found out that a defensive team can hold on a field goal" Bob looked as if he was going into angry orbit with 49 seconds left in the half when a penalty was called on Nebraska as LSU's Mark Lumpkin kicked a 36-yard field goal That carved Nebraska's advantage to 10-3 but then the Tigers were given the option of taking the play and having a half-the-distance-to-the-goal penalty levied against the Huskers As the Nebraska coach raged on the sideline officials measured and informed LSU that the 10-yard fine would leave inches short of a first down with-fourth down coming up again LSU decided three points on the scoreboard were worth more than taking a chance of getting a first down at that late stage of the second quarter LSU refused the penalty SOMEBODY asked Devaney what his feelings were when he saw No 45 (Bob Terrio) intercept quarterback Bert Jones' pass with 45 seconds left in the struggle "I felt great I think I'll go out to the dog track tomorrow night and bet a 4-5 quiniela" Was LSU the best the Huskers met this season? "I think that either LSU or Southern California (which tied Nebraska) is the best They're about on a par Fine football teams" Devaney savored the thought when he was reminded (as if he had to be) that the Huskers scored two touchdowns on LSU by rushing as many as Tiger opponents got on the ground all season "Our game plan was to run on them when we got down near the goal We've got a big strong line and we've got big powerful backs I thought we could run on them I think we can run on anybody" HE FELT the Huskers lost momentum after striking for 10 points within a 34-second span late in the first quarter "We sort of dominated the first quarter then lost the ball on a fumble and an interception LSU had made mistakes early and we began making mistakes in that second quarter" Devaney paused to try and wring out his Nebraska-red coat He sighed "We sure gave LSU a lot of opportunities to catch us in that last quarter We were very kind about giving them chances to beat us "But they didn't beat us And nobody else did" Devaney heard one of his athletes yell "Get N1xon on the phone" and smiled like he thought it was a good idea i 3 44 ''''V41PaSOP15e5T" 4i4AS 0 1 itt lid 1 AAk It 1114 --'11)40CW-- Curd Gets Nebraska-Notre Dame Hassle All-City Another Case for Playoffs QB Baker Colonels Floridians Square Off SATURDAY'S RESULTS California at Montreal incomplete Detroit at Toronto incomplete New York at Pittsburgh incomplete St Louis at Vancouver incomplete Chicago at Philadelphia incomplete Minnesota at Los Angeles incomplete FRIDAY'S RESULT Boston 9 Buffalo a TODAY'S GAMES Montreal at New York Boston at Philadelphia Caifornia at Detroit Chicago at Buffalo St Louis at Los Angeles Edwin Pope i tfr ol 16! A i i zo 11 Basketball American Association EAST DIVISION Pct GB Virginia 28 12 700 Kentucky 24 15 615 3i2 New York 16 20 457 10 Floridians 16 22 421 11 Pittsburgh 16 25 390 1212 Carolina 15 24 385 1212 WEST DIVISION Utah 24 12 667 Indiana 22 15 595 212 Memphis 21 18 538 41i Denver 14 23 378 1012 Texas 14 24 368 II FRIDAY'S RESULTS No games scheduled SATURDAY'S RESULTS New York at Carolina incomplete Pittsburgh at Virginia incomplete Texas at Utah incomplete Indiana at Kentucky incomplete TODAY'S GAMES New York at Pittsburgh Kentucky vs Floridians at Jacksonville Carolina at Virginia Texas at Denver at American League EAST DIVISION I Pts GF GA Quebec 15 14 4 34 108 108 Springfield la 18 1 29 117 130 Providence 11 16 5 27 112 128 Montreal 11 18 5 27 105 123 WEST DIVISION Baltimore 19 8 4 42 117 96 Cleveland 17 11 4 38 124 96 Rochester 14 14 3 31 107 119 Hershey 12 14 6 30 96 96 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Quebec at Baltimore incomplete Rochester at Cleveland incomplete Providence at Hershey incomplete Montreal at Springfield incomblete FRIDAY'S RESULTS Providence 4 Baltimore 4 tie Rochester 5 Quebec 1 TODAY'S GAMES Hershey at Cleveland Montreal at Providence Baltimore at Quebec Wingfield at Rochester Sports Editor Special To The Herald JACKSONVILLE The Floridians open a drive to get back into the thick of the American Basketball Association's Eastern Division title race tonight against the Kentucky Colonels The game is the first of 11 in 14 days for the Floridians They slipped to six games below 500 after a five-game losing streak that was broken in their last outing a 91- 90 victory over New York Tuesday at Miami Beach The Floridians and the second-place Colonels have battle evenly through six games thus far each winning three with all three Floridian losses coming by three points The Colonels' $14 million rookie star Dan Issel has been valuable against Coach Hal Blitman's club averaging 33 points six over his average By LUTHER EVANS Herald Sports Writer Fran Curci's determination to build a winning football team at the University of Miami on a foundation of South Florida athletes paid a three-star dividend Saturday Two weeks to the day after being named the Hurricanes' head coach Curd landed three more of the city's top prep players The 32-year-old persuader signed: Kary Baker 6-foot 2-inch 185-pound Herald All-City quarterback for Edison High's state championship team Johnny Williams 5-foot 9- inch 175-pound Herald AllCit running back from Southwest High Rod Huffman 6-foot 1- inch 200-pound kicking specialist for Southwest who averaged 35 yards punting the past season and hit field goals of 41 and 38 yards All three said the decided to attend Miami because of their respect for Curd as a young coach their desire to play against college football's finest teams and to perform before hometown fans -6 ::5 5: p'' rA''''''0 1 41 I 1'1lifs IL''''''' If Nebraska and Notre Dame thought things were thick on New Year's they haven't seen anything yet The Irish will scream bloody murder if the Corn-huskers are voted No 1 Nebraskans will holler from here to China if Notre Dame gets the ballot I happen to think Nebraska deserves it That doesn't matter It's only an opinion What does matter is that the team that is finally recognized as national collegiate champion will get that way from nothing more than the opinion of many others who take part in the Associated Press poll It's flaky It makes about as much sense as having writers vote on a heavyweight prizefighting champion with the principals never fighting each other Now wouldn't that be a dandy way to settle the Cassius Clay-Joe Frazier argument? But that is how the football championship will be settled And that is why college football needs a playoff system to determine a champion THERE are tons of drawbacks to such playoffs so many that the idea probably never will be approved They would further extend a long season They would foul up the bowls because only one bowl could wind up with that final title game and all the others would be pouting And who finally would choose say the eight teams in those playoffs? Would each conference champion qualify and what if the whole conference happened to have a lousy year? And how do you figure out the representatives from the independents? Still it is incontestable that college football needs a playoff to stand off the monster competitor that grows more monstrous each year pro football PRO FOOTBALL is dynamite It has several advantages over college football but one that overrides all others identification You finally develop a favorite player in college and whoosh! he's gone Where has he gone? Why to the pros of course College attendance is increasing Yet in many cases this is simply a matter of rising population and constant jumps in the numbers of students and alum 37th Orange Bowl Classic was I think made by Bill Bondurant sports editor of the Ft Lauderdale News As we left the Orange Bowl around midnight Bondurant said: "The interest in this game was generated from without not from within" Remember now that this was a match-up of the third and fifth-ranked teams TEXAS and Notre Dame was a natural because of the national character of the institutions Ohio State and Stanford commanded appeal because of the-Buckeye tradition and the presence among the Indians of a Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett But who could get interested in Tennessee and Air Force? It proved nothing Zilch That's it in the altogether Unless by an incredible stroke of luck some bowl can come up with two opponents rated 1-2 nationally and far ahead of other team there is no dreaming way to prove College Friday as? Johnson Smith 106 Cheyney State 103 two overtimes South West Georgia 89 Huntington Ind 72 Southern iiiinois 103 Tennessee-Martin 76 Midwest Hnne Ohio Dominican 78 Harvard 121 Washington Mo 65 Wheaton 82 Bethel 53 Far West Western Washington 64 UC Davis 57 Columbia 71 San Jose State 68 Seattle Pacific 91 Humboidt State 61 Eastern Michigan 99 Azusa-Pacific 85 Tournaments WinstonSalem State Holiday Festival First Round Winston-Salem State 127 Fisk 88 Howard 53 NC Central 50 Magic City Tournament First Round Eastern Montana 83 Rocky Mountain College 71 Great Falls 64 Eastern New Mexico 62 National Association EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION Pct GB New York 31 11 738 Pndelphia 24 IR 571 7 Boston 22 17 564 712 Buffalo 11 31 262 20 CENTRAL DIVISION I Pct GE Baltimore 22 16 579 Cincinnati 16 21 432 51-2 Atlanta 13 27 325 10 Cieveiand 5 40 111 201'2 WESTERN CONFERENCE MIDWEST DIVISiON Pct GB milwaukee 29 7 806 Dal reit 26 14 650 5 Chicano 23 16 590 71I2 Phoenix 23 19 548 9 PACIFIC DIVISION Pct GB Los Angeles 22 16 579 San Francisc0 23 19 548 I San Oleg() 22 20 524 2 Seattle 19 22 463 anli Portland 12 29 293 1112 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Cleveland at Milwaukee incomplete Atlanta at New York incomplete Los Angeles at San Diego incomplete Phoenix at San Francisco IncomPlete Chicago at Portland incomplete Cincinnati at Buffalo incomplete Boston at Philacielohia incomPlete Baltimore at Detroit incompiele FRIDAY'S RESULTS Baltimore 126 Cleveland 105 San Diego 117 Los Angeles 106 Seattie 121 Portland 118 TODAY'S GAMES Roston at Atlanta San Francisco at Phoenix SOUTH FLORIDA ans can see the club play four games this week twice on television and twice in person Floridians games from Indiana Monday (9 pm) and from Carolina Wednesday (8 pm) will be televised live over WAJA-TV Channel 23 The Floridians then return to Miami Beach to meet the Eastern Division-leading Virginia Squires Thursday and Memphis Friday Thursday is Dollar Night with every seat at the Convention Hall South excluding season ticket seats available on a first-come first-served basis for $1 Friday the Floridians honor Miami's littlest sports hero It's "Garo Yepremian Night" in honor of the Dolphin placckicker Garo will put on a football kicking show at halftime Garo who can also handle a basketball with his feet because of his soccer background will give ciutt ties and T-shirts to some lucky fans Sadly but truly colleges are meshed in mortal combat with the pros for dollars which keep going 1: down in value and therefore up in the quantity need ed to keep college football programs going (The pros also have this great collegiate factory out talent at no development cost to the pros which is something that drastically needs ad- justing in the way of compensation for the colleges: But that is a subject for another day) THE SUPER BOWL overshadows any college: bowl to a pathetic degree Even the first pro playoffs: overreach college bowls in general interest Colleges need a glamor showcase A national: championship game would balance off the Super: Bowl It would hypo the season from September on This will not fit the concepts of idealism held by: many administrators Well how much idealism is left: in college football anyway? Ask a high school star: who is not left alone for more than moments at a thin': until he makes a final decision on college Ask the Notre Dame players who wanted to come to the Or- ange Bowl but were coerced by pride and possible prestige (ihich was realized) and heir coaches to play in the Cotton Bowl instead? ni CURCI NOW has signed five of the city's best prospects within a week He led off last Monday by grabbing Herald All-City defensive end Rick Schubert of Jackson and split end Steve Marcantonio of Coral Gables "The caliber of players we're recruiting now will have to play against the teams of the future" Curci said "We've got awesome schedules ahead but they're the schedules these athletes want to play "We're working to establish a pride within the South Florida athletes who come to the University of Miami We've got to convince them that playing beiore hometown fans is beneficial to them their school and qe community" Hockey at imml Lenzue 'FBA Founder Dies at 79 sEtirrn (AP) Joseph Gottstein 79 president of Longacres Race Track died Friday night Gottstein was a founder of the Thoroughbred Racing Association of the United States and was one of its directors until he resigned last month In 1933 he campaigned to legalize horse racing in Washington State Long acres near Seattle then became the first Pacific Coast track to use the larimutuci system of wagerinl The Dolphins' steady advances at the gate have been documented They sold 600 new season tickets for 1971 new ones not renewals the three days after the Dolphins LOST their playoff to Oakland Now zero back in on the college bowl games Nebraska's 17-12 victory over Louisiana State was a splendidly played contest But I question the over-all interest in it here or any other place outside of Nebraska or Louisiana until Ohio State and Texas got themselves whipped and the Cornhuskers were in a position to fire all barrels toward he No 1 rating The most precise assessmenttof the appeal of the Pt Gr FA 57 174 9 SI 124 78 40 14 95 31 117 1n9 31 104 130 26 104 137 20 71 1i7 EAST DIVISION LT Pntton 26 6 5 NrW Yn-k 24 7 6 MontrPal 16 11 8 Toronto 16 19 1 Vancouver 14 7n 3 IletroFt 11 20 uttele 22 6 WEST DIVISION Chicano 24 6 5 St Lou! 16 8 11 A4nnesote 13 17 6 atstsurult 10 17 11 PtuledeqJnia 12 17 Los Anoeies 10 18 5 California 11 22 2 53 159 76 63 89 84 :22 76 95 31 109 109 29 610 93 25 98 122 24 83 119.