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NA 4e FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM LI SATURDAY DECEMBER 23 1978 Missouri LSU ready Ivussoun Lau reaay Horses not hors 3wer sports scene for Liberty Bowl clash 's future Vancouver into a year-round resort: Bob Bishop of Whistler Cay Estates said the new course will be designed as a recreation layout with the ability to expand to a tournament course when needed Clearing of the 130 acres began in May and Ed Fey a partner in Arnold Palmer Enterprises Inc already has started a preliminary design Bishop said Palmer personally view the site sometime in the new year The course which is expected to be completed in 1981 will play to about 6350 yards and will incorporate the present nine-hole course at Whistler 4 44 1 7 '01A 41( 71 i ii 1 I i4 i if 1' It Il k- e' 14 1 qtm0: 4) i r- -1 rn r' 4 i i)r 41 I 371 psr :) 1 1 tti cl qt O' 'i'TznVt4 'it 't tt ''44 )''''41 I' -''u4s 0 4 SA i 7 I MEMPHIS Tenn (AP)--Tiger faces Tiger when the Big 8's Noun takes on the Southeastern Conferences Louisiana State University in Saturdays 20th Liberty Bowl football classic The oddsmakers made the Tigers from Missouri a seven-point favonte but the choice hasn't upset many folks from the Bayou Country I love it" senior linebacker Thad Minaldi said "We're a little looser If we win well surprise everybody but ourselves" But some of the Missouri players weren't too happy with their role as the favored team "We're giant killers" Billy Bess a senior linebacker said Missouri prefers the underdog role Nlizzou 'IA opened its 1978 season with a shocking 3-0 victory over Notre Dame and closed with another upset over Nebraska 35-31 Saturday's contest matches ISU long an offensive powerhouse in the SEC with a traditionally defensive-minded team with anew coach and new philosophy Missouri's Warren Powers at 37 one of the youngest head coaches in big-time football brought some new ideas on offense to the Tiger lair where defense had been the byword "We try to be balanced on offense and not be predictable" Powers said this week as he drilled his team at the Memphis State University athletic complex "We want to be fundamentally sound It is a precision offense" Mizzou's chief threat is running back James Wilder a 0-pound sophomore who gained 873 yards although he didn't start a game until the Tigers fifth game Teamed with Wilder is 210-pound Earl Gant a senior who carried 138 times for 798 yards this year Missouri's passing game uses the talents of consensus All American tight end Kellen Winslow who scored six touchdowns this year Quarterback Phil Bradley said of Winslow "He catches it w-herever you throw it" Louisiana State under Coach Charlie McClendon has traditionally emphasized offense And 1978 was no different The Bayou Bengals quarterbacked by juniors David Woodley and Steve EnsmInger rolled up 2636 net yards rushing and 1449 yards in the air while winning eight of 11 games duhng the 1978 season Leading the complex 1-SU attack is Charlie Alexander a two-time All American tailback known as "Alexander the Great" in Tiger land Alexander carried 281 times for 1248 yards and 14 touchdowns this year He also caught 28 passes for 263 yards and two more TDs The Liberty Bowl game which has been played on Monday night since it moved to Memphis in 1965 moved to Saturday afternoon this year because of the expansion of the National Football League schedule and the addition of one week to the Monday Night Football series on television Kickoff for the nationally televised game is at 2:30 pm in Tony Foyt am-Telegram News Services Like father like son? Not where AJ Foyt III son of the famous Indy driver is concerned The younger Foyt called "Tony" is a horse trainer working at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans "I never was interested in auto racing at all" said young Foyt 22 "He never wanted me to be a driver never encouraged me at all And I was never interested" Instead the younger Foyt got hooked on show horses at age 7 He showed them through high school ranging out from his home base in Houston through the South In Kentucky one year he captured honors at the Kentucky State Fair From there it was quarter horses and thoroughbreds with trainer Bob Schultz at Louisiana tracks Evangeline Downs in Lafayette Delta DOWTIS in Vinton and Louisiana Downs in Shreveport Then on to Oak lawn Park in Hot Springs Ark with veteran trainer James Keefer It was Keefer who pushed his protege out of the nest telling him "Go out and go on your own I've taught you everything I can The rest is experience The rest you gotta learn by yourself" At Churchill Downs this spring Foyt was one of the top conditioners saddling 13 winners At the Fair Grounds he has charge of 18 horses who race in his father's name or those of a friend of his dad's HC Tindall of Houston The Foyt horses race in the familiar Coyote orange colors initials AJ on the silks and the black and white blocks of a checkered flag on the sleeves Tony said his millionaire father 43 loves the horses and goes straight to the track "whenever he can get away" He said he never discavies the hazards of his dad's profession with him and would never encourage him to get out as long as his competitive juices are flowing "I don't worry about him" he said "I figure he's smart enough to know when he can't do it any more" As is the goal of most trainers Foyt would like to win the Kentucky Derby Back on the farm is a yet-unnamed yearling colt sired by the great Damascus His dad paid $80000 for the colt at the Keeneland Sales hockey The San Francisco Shamrocks of the Pacific Hockey League found a buyer Friday a few hours before a threatened walkout by players who haven't been paid this month David Peterson owner of the Golden Gaters of World Team Tennis Press Laserphoto LOVE American tennis queen Chris Evert and British tennis pro John Lloyd announced their engagement at her 24th birthday party Thursday in Fort Lauderdale Fla The couple met at Wimbledon's Tea Room last year and formalized the romance at a posh Fort Lauderdale restaurant Pitt NC State boasting good-but-different OBs Announcement of D'Errico's release Thursday in Boston came the same day the players' association announced an antitrust suit against the NASL D'Errico is one of 75 present and former NASL players who signed the suit D'Errico captain of the US National Team and one of only two Americans on the league's all-star team this year said the New England club told him it expected to bring in some new international stars who would cut in on his playing time Reached in New Jersey D'Errico said he was happy the Tea Men released him -making me a free man" golf US golfing great Arnold Palmer has been hired to design and supervise construction of an 18-hole golf course at Whistler BC a spokesman for the development company said Friday The golf course is part of a plan to turn the community 100 miles north of reached an agreement in principle to purchase the Shamrocks and said he'd pay the players due about $13000 before Friday night's game against Phoenix at the Cow Palace Peterson's office said he had 10 days to reach a purchase agreement with Dennis Murphy current majority owner of the PHL team It the proposed sale falls through the league will pay the players The two-week paychecks due last Friday were not received The Shamrocks lost a reported $80000 last season first for the MIL and have been averaging barely 2000 fans per game this year while losing 14 of their first 19 games soccer Dad D'Errico the New England Tea Nlen's top American star was dropped by the North American Soccer League team in an apparent dispute over its plans to hire more international players said Eckwood a 6-0 I99-pound senior "They've got some real skilled defensive people such as Jerry Robinson" Meanwhile Robinson an All-America linebacker for the 15th-ranked Bruins expressed concern about the Razorbacks' speedy backfield "I turned on the Texas Tech game" said Robinson "I just watched the first half and that was all I needed to see" Arkansas met Texas Tech in its final game of the season waltzing to a 49-7 Southwest Conference victory Terry Donahue UCLA coach said that game proved to him that Arkansas had a quality team "and one that can beat anybody on any given day" Lou Holtz Arkansas' coach agrees saying "in the last three games of the year we could have beaten anybody" Robinson said he was very impressed by Arkansas running back Ben Cowins the Razorbacks' all-time rusher "He has good feet" said the 6-3 214- pound Robinson "Ile picks his feet up the ball to 200-pound halfback Brown who racked up 1350 yards this year to run his four-year rushing total to 4602 fourth best on the NCAA'S all-time rushing list Brown's primary blocker is Hitcher a 6-3 242-pounder Pitt will try to counter Smith Brown Hitcher and company with All-American defensive end Hugh Green second-team All-American safety Jeff Delaney linebacker Al Chesley and other defensive stars BUT REIN and his quarterback don't think they'll do anything really different against the Panthers also 8-3 during the year Smith pretty well expressed his teams philosophy and game style by saying "Coach Rein has always told as the team that outrushes the other will win That's the way it was all year for us When we were outrushed we lost" Brown says he expects Pitt to use "a lot of blitzes and stunts" and try to keep him from running outside But he says a bad leg that bothered him most of the year is better now and "I will use more jukes and moves than I did during the year Sherrill expects a high-scohng game in the Saturday night battle to be televised by the Miztou network But Rein believes it will be a defensive struggle Pitt has been rated a one-touchdown favorite son on Star team Wayne Gretzky Edmonton Right wing Real Cloutier Quebec Blair MacDonald Edmonton: Gordie Howe New England: Peter Marsh and Mike Gartner Cincinnati Left wing Marc Tardif Quebec Mark Howe New England Morris Lukowich Winnipeg Rick Dudley Cincinnati Razorbacks bearing down for heavier Bruins in Fiesta ORLANDO Fla two opposing quarterbacks in Saturday's Tangerine Bowl football game are as different as Pittsburgh is to North Carolina State Pitt's sophomore signal caller Rick Trocano is a red-haired flamboyant take-charge guy who throws as well as he runs North Carolina States unassuming quarterback Scott Smith is "an unpretty quarterback" who gets things done without any fanfare according to his coach Smith it has been said is a useful conduit between the Wolipack's flashy runner Ted Brown and center Jim Ritcher both All-Americans But Coach Bo Rein assures that he's much more than that "Scott is a leader" Rein says "lie did the best job I've ever seen of getting things done on the third-and-three and third-and four plays" during the Wolf-packs 8-3 season TROCANO WHO PLAYED half the season as a freshman last year when Matt Cavanaugh was hurt has developed into "a fine quarterback" says Pitt Coach Jackie Sherrill In 1978 the 6-1 195-pounder passed for 1486 yards fourth most productive passing season in the Panthers' history And he ran the option for another 275 Smith doesn't pass as much but he hit for 741 yards on 50 completions and ran the ball 130 times for 304 yards his primary job though is handing off Howe 50 and his 'AINN1PEG Gordie Howe and 18-year-old Wayne Gretzky will be among the 22 World Hockey Association players who will face Moscow Dynamo in a three-game sehes in Edmonton next month WHA Executive Director Ron Ryan announced Friday that the New England Whalers venerable hght wing and his 23-yearold son Mark were among 20 players voted to the all-star team in a poll by the fans Gretzky the young Edmonton Oilers' center and left wing Mike Gartner of the Cincinnati Stingers were supplementary choices Named to the starting lineup were goaltender Dave Dryden and defense-man John Hughes of the Oilers de enseman Barry Imng of the Winnipeg Jets Cincinnati center Robbie Ftorek and Cloutier and of the Quebec Edmonton Winnipeg and Cincinnati apiece and three Ramage is of the Bulls on the The games played Jan The team: Goal Edmonton Mattsson Defense Winnipeg Paul Schmyr Alexander Rob Ramage Rick Center Ftorek Bernier Keon New Sullivan He's hard to tackle around the ankles To me he's one of the best running backs I've seen" Manu Tuiasosopo UCLA's outstanding nose guard said he was impressed by the quickness displayed by the entire Razorback backfield "I guarantee you that their quickness off the ball is much much better than I've seen or played against in past games" Faced with such an impressive attack is the UCLA defense going to do anything different? baseball 1 Former Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson said he thinks he knows why he was fired "He (Reds president Dick Wagner) wanted to have his own man" Anderson explained from Dayton "I've just been thinking it all over When I came (to Cincinnati in 1969) I got rid of all the coaches And when I go again I'll want to get rid of all the coaches want my own coaches so I'll know them "I have to think basically that's what he wanted I don't know if that's the reason but I'd like to think that's the reason I can understand it and if I can understand it I have nothing to be upset about That's the reason I don't have any madness I'm so relaxed now it's unbelievable" Wagner who was unavailable for comment succeeded Bob Howsam as the team's president last March Anderson in a telephone interview from his California home said the number of calls he has had since he was fired last month proved one thing: People have grown to respect him "I might have talked stupid but I talked honest" he said "You don't find too many like that" Anderson is hoping his speaking ability ill get him a job as a commentator on television next season He is scheduled to discuss a possible series of previews of major league teams with a Los Angeles television station in a few weeks he said "I think I could do a good job even though I don't talk good Wish" Anderson said "People don't care about that I think I could add some humor and pull people out" Anderson emphasized his possible TV career would last only one season "I will be back in 1980" he said "I'll give you a 110 percent promise on that" He declined to elaborate on that promise but said there is a "good chance" he will be back with a National League team "Nope" says Tuiasosopo a 6-3 252- pound senior "Defensively we set out to hold the opposing offense to one kw point than our offense scores mats what we plan to do against Arkansas" Fiesta Bowl officials said Friday they expect around 50000 persons to be on hand for the nationally-televised game Christmas Day which has a 2:45 pm CST kickoff time The game will be played in 70000-seat Sun Devil Stadium located on the campus of Arizona State University in suburban Tempe Sal I Ridg lea Mort-Fri 9313-6 Sat I Arlington 9-8 Mon-Fri 9-6 Sat PHOENIX tAP i--The University of Arkansas whose Razorbacks are ranked No 8 in the country averaged 3879 yards total offense per game en route to a 9-2 regular-season record But in Fiesta Bowl opponent UCLA they may find the going a little bit tougher "We've really been putting an emphasis on conditioning became UCLA is a big strong physical team" Dan Hampton Arkansas stellar defensive tackle said Friday "I figure that they outweigh us maybe 20 to 30 pounds per man So we're going to really have to be in good shape "Without a doubt UCLA's offensive line is the biggest we've played all season" Hampton who is 6-foot-5 and weighs 259 pounds had 98 tackles this season 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