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THE TIMES HERALD RECORD Sotwdoy, Nmnkv 11, NM, wVA esson learned, set for Clarkstown South By LENI MUSCARELLA Assistant Sports Editor NEWBURGH The Newburgh Free Academy Gold-backs, a team without a country since losing their citizenship in the defunct DUSO Leauge, will travel to Clarkstown South Saturday to play a member of the league where NFA soon will be applying for political asylum. However, the Goidbacks cannot be expected to behave with diplomatic decorum between whistles. Coach Rip Fornal is still livid about his team's poor performance against Bishop Gibbons of Schnectady iast week, which resulted in a 6-6 tie. "I think the team took Bishop Gibbons too lightly," Fornal learned a lesson. They won't take anyone lightly again." The temptation to take South lightly will be difficult to suppress.

The Vikings are 6 in the Rockland County Public School Athletic League (RCPSAL), where Newburgh is expected to apply for membership in the near South began the season by dropping its first four games and has been outscored by its opponents 54-141. In their last outing, the Vikings were blanked by Nyack 20-fl. Clarkstown South coach Mo Scro would like nothing better than to have Newburgh take his team lightly. He believes the Vikings are much better than their record indicates. "We were in every game we lost but one," he said.

"I thought we'd be better in the beginning of the year, but I had to lose some players who weren't keeping the rules. "I've been coaching 18 years," he added, and on my teams everyone toes the line." Although he thought the Goidbacks' last performance was "disgraceful," Fornal was understanding of outside circumstances which might have affected his team. A racial erruption at the school early in the week disrupted classes and the practice routine. "There were a lot of inward tensions, although nothing was outwardly displayed," Fornal said. "I thought we'd have a bad game, but not that bad.

It just wasn't a good week for us." With those troubles cleared up, Fornal is looking for a fitting close for his 4-2-1 Goidbacks. Scro has a good deal of respect for Newburgh, which he will be facing for the first time. "Newburgh is very strong and loaded with talent," Scro said. "And their quarterback (Robbie Petrillo) knows what he's doing." Scro, who has gone the entire season with a young team, said the key to a victory will be heady play. "We call all of our plays from the line of scrimmage," Scro said, "and only huddle for a rest.

We know New-burgh's defense and what we'll try to do is read the de- fense and exploit its weaknesses. "That's my kind of football." Whether Scro feels the same way after the game remains to be seen. A loss certainly wouldn't hurt New-burgh's chances of acceptance in the league when its time comes. And as much as Fornal wants a victory, you can bet he won't be running up the score. College football Bowl rush is on for Pitt New York Times News Service NEW YORK Pittsburgh is No.

1 and the target of a whole bunch of people who want to pay the undefeated and untied Panthers about $1 million, give or take a few thousands. But Pitt wilt only be allowed to accept payment from one group of these eager big spenders the representatives of the Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowls. They landed in Pittsburgh Friday and continued their courting of coach Johnny Majors and other Pitt officials. These bowl folks have traveled north to see Pitt for the last few weeks. But now the pace quickens because Pitt has moved into the top-ranked spot in the nation in the weekly polls.

Since Pitt is an independent Eastern team, it is free to go to any bowl that wants the Panthers. They all do. This puts Pitt in a position that few teams have enjoyed since conferences and bowls began making pacts that tie up league champions to certain bowls. As it is, if Pitt goes to the Orange Bowl, it must play the Big Eight champion. If the Panthers accept the Sugar Bowl bid, the opponent will be the Southeastern Conference titlist.

And the Cotton Bowl host is the Southwest Conference champion. Incidentally, Pitt also has a football game today. Tony Dorsett and company meet West Virginia at Pitt Stadium. Of course, the Panthers are highly favored to beat the Mountaineers, who have won only four games and lost five. But Purdue, which also has a 4-5 record, proved last week what can happen to undefeated teams as the Boilermakers beat Michigan to enable Pitt to move into the No.

1 spot. Majors, who obviously relishes the top spot in col lege football, said, "I might send Purdue a Christmas card." While Pitt has what appears to be a fairly easy assignment, the other two major undefeated and untied Eastern teams Rutgers and Colgate seem to be facing the most difficult assignments so far. Coach Frank Bums' Scarlet Knights, strong on defense and good on offense, play Tulane at the Superdome in New Orleans tonight. Colgate goes to West Point to play Army, another team with a 4-5 record, but a team that moved in faster company than most of Colgate's opponents this season. If Rutgers and Colgate manage to escape with perfect records intact, they will set up a big season finale because they play each other next Saturday at New Brunswick, N.J.

Meanwhile, the Ivy League concludes another typical season with the championship being decided on this final day of action. Brown will win the title outright if Harvard beats or ties Yale in "The Game" at Cambridge while the Bruins beat Columbia at Baker Field. Yale will win the Ivy crown outright if Carmen Cozza's team beats Harvard while Columbia beats or ties Brown. Yale and Brown will tie for the Ivy title if they both win or both tie.There will be a three-way deadlock if Harvard and Columbia win. The Harvard-Yale game will be televised in New England; the Pitt West Virginia game with Dorsett setting more rushing records, will be televised through Western Pennsylvania and other parts of the East, and the Alabama-Notre Dame game also will be shown regionally.

The long-awaited Arkansas-Texas game will be televised nationwide. ni LsH ti In PPfi 1 Italy will play in Davis Cup final On his way It said the nlavers would travel to Santiago Dec. 2 and be joined Sam Lacey of the Kings is on his way out of bounds as War-Dec. 6 by non-playing captain Ni- riors' Clifford Ray, right, oafs down a shot in tho first poriod of VSSLT' ThYW Oakland. At loft is tick BarrTZgs won 94-86.

-UH photo eration had to boycott the Santiago final, but it would have avoided this penalty if the boycott had been the result of a government order. The federation announcement did not mention the dispute at all. It merely said Paolo Galgani, federation vice president in charge of international activities, selected Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Berto-lucci, Adriano Panatta and Tonino Zugarelli for the final against Chile. ROME (UPI) The Italian Tennis Federation, ignoring boycott demands by enemies of the Chilean regime, announced Friday its team will play Chile in the Davis Cup final. The federation announced the decision after waiting in vain for eight weeks for a government decision.

Under Davis Cup rules, Italy would have faced exclusion from next year's competition if the fed Orr sef to fest knee iuuy earned me rigni meet Chile for the final by defeating Australia 3-2 in an interzone semifinal in September. Chile won the other semifinal by default when the Soviet Union refused to play it. The Soviets were excluded from next year's Davis Cup as a result TORONTO (UPI) Bobby Orr will soon lace on a pair of hockey skates, test his permanently damaged left knee, and, if he doesn't collapse, could be back playing for the Chicago Black Hawks in a week to 10 days, his agent, Alan Eagieson said Friday. ot mat gesture. Tii.n n7c rn iav mni Jieson sajd his multimduon dollar client was returning to Chicago tained all along that they wanted to play Chile.

"Politics should be kept separate from sports," Panatta said after winning the decisive singles match against Australia. Pietrangeli said "We all want to go to Chile and if we are prevented (by the Italian government) from going, Italy will never play in the Davis Cup again." A majority of Italian newspapers, a numoer of sports organizations, political parties and groups of Chilean exiles urged Italy to either demand that the final be shifted to neutral grounds or refuse to play at all. me sweiung is an uuwn ma me xnee seems to be reasonable shape. He could play in the next week to 10 days, but he's gong to have to be careful." Orr last played Oct. 24.

On Nov. 1, be checked into Toronto General hospital for a re-examination of the left knee that's been operated on five times. On Nov. 2, his physician. Dr.

John Palmer, performed an arthroscopy on the knee, flushing out cartilage and tissue and observing substantial chips from the lining of the bone. Palmer said at the time that Orr was suffering from "degenerative arthritis" caused by the various injuries to the knee and warned: "The knee now has only a certain number of miles left in it and it's up to him to decide how he's going to use those miles." Orr was released from the hospital Nov. 3. Palmer ordered Orr to rest the knee for two weeks and then have it re-examined. But Eagieson said Orr had no immediate plans to return to the hospital in Toronto.

He said that Orr wants to rejoin his team but wouldn't rush back into action if the knee fails to hold uo. Hagey in Hong Kong semi HONG KONG (UPI) Chico Hagey, an unranked and unseeded American who turned professional just two years ago, used his big serve and deep passing shots Friday to pull off yet another upset in the Hong Kong International Tennis Classic, defeating sixth-seeded Hans Poh-mann of Germany in straight sets. The San Diego, youngster ousted Pohmann, the sixth of the eight top seeds to be eliminated from this tournament all by unseeded players 7-6, 6-3, to win his way into the semifinals after surviving a match in which he was down 5-2 in the first set. Joining Hagey in the semifinals were top-seeded Die Nastase of Romania, Gene Mayer of Wayne, N.J., and veteran Australian Ken Ro-sewall, the No. 3 seed.

Nastase toyed with his Mexican opponent, Emilio Montano, en route to a 6-1, 6-1 triumph. Mayer, who almost failed to make the qualifying round, bested flashy Paul Kronk of Australia, 6-3, 6-1. Rosewall came from behind after being down 3-1 in the first set against Steve Krulevitz of Baltimore, to win 6-3, 64. The Hagey-Pohmann encounter was a drama of long rallies in which the German veteran proved less patient than his American opponent. The first set saw the more experienced Pohmann rushing into a 5-2 lead.

Hagey then began using his power game and held his service to bring the score to 5-3. The semifinals will see Hagey pitted against the formidable Nastase in one match and Rosewall will draw on his vast experience in the other against Mayer, who has dazzled all bis opponents with bis booming double-handed drives. U.S. takes 1-U lead "Even if the Black Hawks are faltering, as they are (the team is in second place in the NHL Smythe division with a 74-2 record), it's CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI) Bobby's and the Black Hawks' opinion that they won't press nan back Dick Stockton got the United because it would only be a short term benefit States off to a 1-0 lead in the Davis Eagieson added: "it's my feeling that if he can play 50 games (this Cup zone elimination Friday night, season), he and the Black Hawks will be happy. defeating Jorge Andrew of Vene- Before re-injuring the knee, Orr played nine games for the Hawks, zuela in the opening singles match, scoring three goals and 12 assists.

Thus far, the Hawks have played IT 6-2. 6-4. 8-7. games in the AO-game NHL schedule..