The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 197

1 2-C bro THE MIAMI HERALD Sunday Nov 28 1976 Zones Blitzes Aid NFL Pass Rebirth White is one of four players with 200-yard-plus games this season with a 210-yard showing against Detroit Roger Carr also had 210 yards against the Jets Frank Grant rolled up 200 yards against San Francisco and Ron Jessie produced a 220-yard game for the Rams against Miami are throwing at different times than they used explains Kansas City offensive coordinator Bob Schnelker whose Chiefs rank first in the AFC in passing used to be you had to establish a running game before throwing Now they are throwing in run situations catching defenses off guard You catch them in zones in first down like you do at other were paramount with the zones for so long but I think teams are adjusting to playing against adds Kansas City Coach Paul Wiggin one time quarterbacks were afraid to throw into zones but now they are starting to pinpoint their passing getting a little more comfortable working against Kansas City quarterback Mike Livingston is a member of this 300-yard club with a 332-yard performance against Washington Ken Stabler Roger Staubach Joe Theismann Dan Pastorini Greg Landry Lynn Dickey and Bert Jones have had 300-yard games season by a makeshift pass rush and an injury-riddled linebacking crew is tied with New Orleans in being-victimized for an NFL-high of four 100-yard games by receivers this season New Orleans and San Francisco follow St Louis in the NFC with three 100-yard games against while Denver Kansas City Miami Pittsburgh and San Diego have been victimized three times for the co-lead In the AFC Atlanta is the only team to escape without a 100-yard game by an Opposing receiver but the Falcons are one of just eight teams who still have not had a 100-yard game turned in by one of their own receivers NFL receivers who have caught passes lor 100 or more yards this season listed with the number of games which they have accomplished the teat and passers who have thrown tor 300 or more yards in a single gemc RECEIVERS 4 Charlie Joiner (San Diego) Cliff Branch (Oakland) 3 Dave Casper (Oakland) Mel Gray (SI Louis) 2 Bob Chandler (Buffalo) Frank Grant (Washington) Isaac Curtis (Cincinnati) Sammy While and Chuck Foreman (Minnesota) Steve Largent (Seattle) Roger Carr (Baltimore) Nat Moore (Miami) 1 John Holland (Butlalol Biky Joe Dupree and Drew Pearson (Dallas) Jim Robinson Doug Koter and Walker Gillette (NV Giants) Reggie Rucker (Cleveland) WiKie McGee (San Francisco) Ken Burrough (Houston) Ray Jarvis (Detroit) Ken Payne (Green Bay) Ahmad Rashad (Minnesota) Sam McCullum and Steve Reible (Seattle) Raymond Chester and Lydell Mitchell (Baltimore) Russ Francis (New England) Howard Twiiley (Miami) Larry Brunson and Waller White (Kansas City) Ike Harris (St Louis) Ron Jessie and Harold Jackson (Los Angeles) PASSERS James Harris (St Louis) 436 vs Miami Fran Tarkenton (Minnesota) 347 vs Detroit Jim Hart (St Louis) 344 vs Dallas and 324 vs Los Angeles Ken Stabler (Oakland) 342 vs Pittsburgh Roger Staubach (Dallas) 339 vs Baltimore Me Livingston (Konsos City) 332 vs Washington Dan Pastorim (Houston) 329 vs San Diego Greg Landry (Detroit) 310 vs New Orleans Joe Theismann (Washington) 302 vs San Francisco and Bert Jones (Baltimore) 301 vs Cincinneii are blitzing more and more this Dallas assistant Ermal Allen per cent against us for instance and Chicago Buffalo have blitzed a lot Teams are more hit a bomb against a blitz you can hit the bombs against the zone too teams instead of sending one man deep the zone will try to split the seam with two deep the deep routes the best this season have receivers Charlie Joiner of San Diego and Cliff Oakland the only two men with four 100-yard games Joiner got his on consecutive weeks Louis Denver Oakland and Houston while collected his over a five-week period OAKLAND also tops the NFL with seven 100-yard receivers getting three from tight end Dave go with the four by Branch Casper is one of ends with 100-yarders to their credit joining Joe DuPree of Dallas and Raymond Chester is tops in the NFC with five 100-yard getting two apiece from Chuck Foreman and White and one from Ahmad Rashad Foreman three running backs to hit the century mark during a game The others are Doug the New York Giants and Lydell Mitchell of By RICK GOSSELIN United Prt International NEW YORK The zone and the blitz are two defensive mechanisms used in football to try to destroy concentration of a quarterback in obvious passing -Situations The zone floods the secondary with defensive backs and linebackers while the blitz is a sneak rush "by a linebacker designed to either sack the quarterback or make him hurry his throw (i( They are supposed to give the defense the edge in 'the battle of brawn but instead have triggered a re- birth in passing efficiency this season the likes of -Which the pro game has never before seen Through 11 weeks of the season defenses have-been singed for 1 1 300-yard passing games by National Football League quarterbacks while receivers have posted an incredible 53 100-yard-or-more games S' Jim Hart of St Louis is the only passer with two 300-yard performances (346 vs Dallas and 324 vs Los Angeles) while Jim Harris of the Rams owns the best "single game 436 yards on just 17 completions against the Dolphins a team blitzes the offense runs a man on "a post pattern and hits says Detroit Coach Tommy Hudspeth when you put double on a wide receiver they are hitting the tight end up the Notre Dame adds blitzed 60 and likely to and some through men running Running been Branch of against St Branch games by Casper to three tight Billy of Baltimore Minnesota games Sammy is one of in receptions KOtar of Baltimore USC Passes ST whose defense has been hampered this PH iwj juiiMiwwt ftm- 4 A Vs 9 7 tS 4 Vi 'V i TV'S ge 4 AX vjyJZSiw: a A a v- HI ti 1 i a V' a I pS -vj 1 A i to Clips Terps In Overtime To Victory Over Irish CFROMPAGEIC ed six of 14 passes for 106 yards and Hertel hit six of nine for 61 yards and a touchdown in the two series he played The first two fullbacks were ailing and Bell was used at that position frequently against the Irish with freshman Charles White moving into tailback spot But Notre Dame keying on Southern highly regarded ground attack held White to 47 yards on 14 carries and the Trojans managed just 106 yards rushing The Irish missed numerous scoring opportunities including four chances in the first half Trojan cornerback Ron Bush stopped two Notre Dame threats in the first half picking off a Rick Siager pass at the Southern Cal 17 and recovering a Hunter fumble at the Trojan 10 Linebacker Clay Matthews halted another Irish drive when he-re-covered a Lisch fumble at the Trojan 28 Another threat ended when the Irish failed to convert on a fourth-and-one situation at the Trojan 33 Notr Dime U6C f-irsf downs IS Rushes-yards 55 200 45106 Passing yards 152 167 Passes 10 29 3 12 231 Punts 6 43 9 33 Fumbles lost 6 2 6 1 Penalties yards 8110 0 0 0 13 13 0 7 7 3 17 Notre Dame USC 7 Ay An' USC Diggs 6 pass from Hertel Waiter kick) USC Simmnn 63 pass from Evans (Walker kick) ND Ferguson 17 pass from Lisch (Reeve kick) USC FG Walker 46 ND Lisch one run (run failed) A 76 561 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Notre Dame Hunter 7M15 Ferguson 17 49 Lisch 13 43 USC Bctl 21 75 White 14 47 RECEIVING Notre Dame Hames 247 KeHeher 3 50 MacAtee 3 32 USC Simmnn 6 121 Diggs 328 Gay 1 27 PASSING Notre Dame Lisrh 7 2 120 yards Stager 3 71 32 USC Evans 614 I 106 Hertel 6 9 0 61 I 1 p- a' yu TIM CHAPMAN Miami Herald Staff Cross Coimlry imirr Ailccii Timl Hut I la mother Comh ip Giant comfort junior AAl! tlioniion Merrill Triumph In Cross Country FOOTBALL SCORES College From Htrald Wire Services It Don (Duck) best day as a collegian but it ended well Williams a six-foo three-inch junior from Washington DC hit a Dorsett-Led 20-foot shot with 20 seconds re- TFI maining in overtime Saturday to ff 11 1 1 a lift Notre Dame to an 80-79 victory over ninth-ranked Maryland at Col- lege Park Md missed some he usually JJ I ft said Irish Coach Dig- 1 ts ger Phelps was psyched to be back printed From Late Saturday Ed on Williams hit only eight Of 22 From Htraid wtr services shots from the floor and missed a PITTSBURGH Tony Dorsett 30-footer just before the buzzer -iid Pittsburgh Coach Johnny Ma- that could have ended the game in Jjors back away from a regulation time rghallenge been up for this for two For that reason Majors thought weeks I had to tone them fe could give Dorsett a tough sec- said Phelps here in Cole Wnd-half assignment in an effort to Field House is beautiful We were jfireak the No 1-ranked ranked 29th by someone and -7-7 deadlock with Penn State Ma- all they had to hear that Notre asked Dorsett to switch to full- Dame was dead We have four back a position he had played in games with top 10 teams All we gajnes for no more than a handful want is an NCAA -of plays Toby Knight led the Irish with Dorsett responded to the dial- 19 points 14 of them in the second lenge rushing for 224 yards and half Lawrence Boston had 15 for two touchdowns leading Pitt to a the Terps who tied it 71-71 on a 24-7 victory and its first unde- rebound basket by Larry Gibson feated season since 1929 in a with five seconds left in regulation nationally televised game play In the process the leading candi- Maryland Coach Lefty Driesell date for the Heisman Trophy be- watched the game with his right came the first collegian to crash foot propped on a pillow He tore the 6000-yard rushing mark and an Achilles tendon on Friday in a added five more NCAA records to pickup game with his son and un-lus name derwent surgery immediately after clash with the Irish MORE can I say said a jn other games: choked-up Majors the going gets tough this guy Michigan 94 Kentucky 70 back away from a Rickev Green scored 25 points and Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Phil Hubbard had 22 and 10 resaid he was surprised to see Dor- bounds to lead top-ranked Michi-sett change positions gan at Ann Arbor Dorsett is some kind of Paterno said a Indiana 110 Dakota 64 Ju-great back They ran him up the nior guard Wayne Radford scored middle we ready for 8 points and Kent Benson added 17 as defending national champion Dorsett said he was neither Indiana rolled to an easy victory at aware nor cared about his new rec- Bloomington Ind ords 11-0 means more to me Providence 78 Stonehill 58 than he said Guard Joe Hassett scored 20 and Second most important to Dor- Bob Cooper hit IS to lead host sett was beating Penn State Providence wanted to beat Penn State more than anything" said Dorsett Duke 84 NC State 82 Duke Friday night Penn State led by Tate 23 points was the only opponent that we had withstood a last-minute rally by had not North Carolina State for a victory But reasons went deep- over the 15th-ranked Wolfpack in er than that the consolation game of the Big years ago when I was in Four basketball tournament at high school I wanted to go to Penn Greensboro NC Dorsett said I recruited the way 1 wanted to be Navy 50 Dartmouth 43 Leo by basket 14 seconds into running mate Flliott second half gave Navy the lead Walkeh from Jackson 800d anc ibe Middies went on High also scored on a 12-yard run t0 capture third place in the Spider and Carson Long kicked a 47-yard Classic at Richmond field goal to give the Panthers their first victory since 1965 over the 111 80 Brown 65 20th-ranked Nittany Lions who Bill McKinney scored 18 points to are headed for the Gator Bowl lead Northwestern to third place in the Lapchick Memorial tournament DORSETT who pushed his ca- in New York City reer total to 6082 yards carried 38 times Friday night He scored on runs of six and 40 yards and dur- ing the game he broke two more llo all NCAA records and tied three more It enabled the leading Heisman 1 Trophy candidate to end his regu- 111 viai iv II1S lar season four-year career holding or sharing 14 NCAA marks LAS VEGAS Nev (UPI) nut pnnsut ohn Talc representa- FK-it down 70 17 tive at the Montreal Olympics re- i4i 'as versed a TKO loss to Russian Evgeni? MU ny Gorstkov Saturday but the So- 1 eumbiM-iojt 2 i 3 i viet Union notched a 6-4 victory JS0 over the United States in an all- pmburoh 7 mTm heavyweight boxing card Ptnn Start 7 0 0 0 -7 PSU Torrey 21 pass from Fusme (Capozolli kcK) kLck2 Knocked down in the second PITT Dorset! 40 run (Long kick) PITT -Walker 12 run (Long kick) fOWld Tate ft lOSer 10 GOrStkOV T--XLt7 Cincinnati last year rallied in the individual leaders third round and repeatedly stunned RUSHING Pann Slate Gaiw 13-60 Goman Soviet fighter With rights tO 10-33 Torrey 7 30 Suhey 4-24 Pitt Dorwtt 38-224 llnnnimnii rterUinn wution 2 waiKer 29 earn a unanimous Decision RECEIVING Penn State Torrey 2 28 Shuler 2 14 Mauti 1-27 Fltihee 1 25 Donovan 1-23 Cetalo 1-15 Gena 1-3 Pitt Jonet 4-111 Corbett 3-20 Taylor WOOdy Clark Of Miami W8S i-io awarded a split decision over PASSING Penn State FuUna I I4VJ 120 yards fL pm cavanaughi it 2 i4i David Kvadchadze East Boston College 59 Holy Cross New 38 Army 10 Michigan 28 Deleware 1 Towson SI 38 St Lawrence 36 Sooth Alabama 38 Auburn 7 Florida 19 Miami Fla IB Georgia 13 Georgia Tech 10 Grambling 10 Southern 2 Morgan St S6 Md-E Shore 10 Dakota St 10 Kentucky 7 Mististippi 21 Texas-Arhngton 10 Tennessee 13 Vanderbilt 10 Midwest Akron 27 Nev Las Vegas 6 Cincinnati 20 Louisville 4 SI John's Minn 41 Buena Vista 0 Smith tul Baylor 24 TCU 19 Houston 42 Rice 20 Oklahoma St 42 Texas-Et Paso 13 Texas Tech 30 Arkansas 7 Texas St 17 Tulsa 17 (te) By RAY SHARKEY Herald Writer Ask any runner competing in the 1976 National A AU women's cross-country championship about the 80-degree heat which blanketed Melreese Golf Course Saturday and most would have told you that it was nice for sunbathing but not for running IT omen's Championship TEAM Los Angeles Track Club 92 2 Iowa State University 104 3 San Fernando Valley Track Club 124 4 Falcon Track Club of Washington 149 5 Klub Key stone Pa 183 6 Portland Track Club Oregon 190 INDIVIDUAL 7 Jn A errill 16 37 2 Julie Brown 16 52 3 Donna Valaitis 16 55 4 Sue Kinsey 16 57 5 Dons Heritage 17 14 6 Peg Neppel 17 19 7 Eryn Forbes 17 31 8 Kathy Mills 17 34 9 Kathy Prosser 17 36 10 Debbie Vetter 17 41 pound high school sophomore never broke her smooth stride as she quick-stepped her way across the Melreese fairways was thinking about that snow we left in Washington two days ago and somehow the heat bother said O'Connor fact after I got out fast and started pacing myself I was able to go all out I would have even preferred some hills to run over like we have at has another trophy she can add to her recent victories at the Road Runners Nationals in New York and the Junior Olympics in Memphis last August ran against her at the Junior Olympics and believe me no one was near her during the last said Moore The Los Angeles Track Club took team honors with 92 points followed by Iowa State University 104 San Fernando Valley Track Club Calif 124: Falcon Track Club 149 Klub Keystone Pa 183 and Portland Track Club 190 II est Montana St 17 New Hampshire 10 Southern Cal 17 Notre Dame 13 But after the two main events had concluded there were a few cheerful faces among those weary expressions which so characterize the strain of cross country competition The cheerful faces belonged to Jan Merrill the AAU women's champion with a 16-minute 37-second clocking for three miles and Aileen O'Conner who captured the Junior Division with a 14:10 time over the 25-mile course MERRILL who holds the American cross country record with a 4:026 time and was eighth in the 1500 meters at the Montreal Olympics completed the course about 100 yards ahead of Julie Brown from the Los Angeles Track Club Donna Valaitis of Ontario Canada was third and Sue Kinsley of Los Angeles was fourth Local favorites Kathy Moore of Southwest High the Florida high school champion and Sue Overbey state runnerup from Hollywood McArthur had a more difficult time than they expected Moore placed 15th in the Junior Division with a 15:73 time and Overbey never finished after collapsing 150 yards from the finish line was a combination of the intense heat the extra distance and a cold which Sue has had for two explained the Southwest Track Club Coach Bob Miller I have to be pleased with time She and the rest of the girls got good exposure to national competition and left this giant classroom with a good NORLAND Stephanie Kuhlman also failed to finish in the junior race but six of eight starters for the Southwest Track Club completed the course and the team captured ninth place with 340 points Perhaps the most impressive victory was achieved by O'Conner who won her division by 27 sec--onds over Lynn Jennings of the Liberty Athletic Club Massachusetts Running for the CYO Trairk Club of Washington DC the 90- Junior IF Championship TEAM Liberty Athletic Club Mass 99 2 Rialto Road Runners Calif 105 3 Tennessee Club 137 4 Long Island Golden Spikes 147 5 Club North of Calif 170 6 Peoria Pacettcs Illinois 207 INDIVIDUAL 1 Ailoen Conner 14 10 2 Lynn Jennings 14 37 3 Lynn Leshley 14 38 4 Doreen Assumma 14 54 5 Joan Benoit 14 57 6 Tenia Wells 15 01 7 Susie Meek 15 02 8 Kelly O'Toole 15 06 9 Linda Broderick 15 08 10 Phyllis Hines 15 10 ears In vitationul 1 Kathy Deni II II 2 KlklLantry 11 17 3 Monica Zepeda 1119 4 Joetta Clark II 21 5 Kelly Cerda II 28 JO-ll )eors In vitationul Here are the Results of Friday's and Saturday's games involving the Associated Press Poll's Top Ten teams 1 1 Pittsburgh (11-0) defeated Penn State 24-7 Regular season concluded 2 Michigan (10-1) Regular Season concluded 3 Southern Cal (10-1) defeated Notre Dame 17-13 Regular sea- son concluded 4 Georgia (10-1) defeated Georgia Tech 13-10 Regular season' concluded 5 Maryland (11-0) Regular season concluded 6 UCLA (9-1-1) Regular season concluded 7 Houston (8-2) defeated Rice 42-20 Next week: Miami 8 Oklahoma (8-2-1) defeated Nebraska 20-17 Regular season concluded 9 Texas Tech (9-1) defeated Arkansas 30-7 Next week: Baylor 10 Nebraska (7-3-1) lost to Oklahoma 20-17 Regular season concluded 7 Laura Craven 7 56 2 Davida Jackson 815 3 Vicky Cook 8 20 4 Stacy Hartsfield 8 24 5 Jeanl Fuller 8 28 Aiip und I oiler Iniitutionol Lory Slusser 34 2 Jan Hale 5 42 JTerkeler Shegog 5 42 1 4 Rosallno Martinez 5 45 5 Tama Fischer 5 46.