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Business. Friday, Jan. 2, 1987 Santa Cruz Sentinel Sports To dad: "This (Rose) bud's for you' Bv The Associated Press to Pasadena. Rose Bowl, and also gave Coach John "I'm not making any excuses, we come out here every year and lose by seven points," Schembechler said. "You guys can have fun talking about that.

"We just didn't play a very good second half. We've been a second-half team, that's why it's disappointing." Schembechler said one of the keys was the Sun Devils' defensive pressure on Harbaugh, commenting, "How can you play quarterback if you don't have any time? "If you want to be critical, be critical of the offensive line. Our offense didn't have a chance, and when it did, it didn't do anything." Please see Page B3 PASADENA The 73rd Rose Bowl provided a dream come true for Jeff Van Raaphorst and Arizona State, and a continuing nightmare for Bo Schembechler, Michigan and the Big Ten. Van Raaphorst, whose father had been denied a chance to play in the Rose Bowl 25 years earlier, threw for 193 yards and two touchdowns to lead seventh-ranked Arizona State to a 22-15 victory over No. 4 Michigan Thursday's Rose Bowl.

The victory continued the Pacific-10's domination over the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl, and handed Michigan Coach Schembechler his seventh loss in eight trips Pac-10 teams now have won the last six Rose Bowls and 12 of the last 13. "It's a dream come true," said Van Raaphorst, who rallied the Sun Devils from a 15-3 second-quarter deficit. "My father never got a chance to do it and I'm just glad I was able to. This is for him." Dick Van Raaphorst was an All-Big Ten kicker for conference champion Ohio State in 1961. But the faculty, wanting to show that football was not overemphasized at the school, voted to prohibit the Buckeyes brom participating in the Rose Bowl.

Dick was in the stands Thursday as Arizona State won its first appearance in the Cooper his first bowl victory. "This is the biggest danged victory of my life," said Cooper, in his second year at ASU after spending eight years at Tulsa. "I'm on cloud nine. "We beat an excellent football team. We had to play our best ball game to win.

You can't say enough about our defense, particularly in the second half." After giving up 15 points early, the Sun Devil defense turned stingy and finished the game with three interceptions off Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh. The Arizona State offense, meanwhile, did not turn the ball over a single time. AP Lascrphoto ASU's Bruce Hill breaks free. Key to Fiesta: pressure Vinny The bowl games ROSE: Arizona State 22, Michigan 15 ORANGE: Oklahoma 42, Arkansas 8 SUGAR: Nebraska 30, Louisiana State 15 COTTON: Ohio State 28, Texas 12 CITRUS: Auburn 16, USC 7 PEACH: Virginia Tech 25, North Carolina State 24 BLUEBONNET: Baylor 21, Colorado 9 ALL-AMERICAN: Florida State 27, Indiana 13 By The Associated Press Huskers not just big talk No more quibbling left to do By The Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. Miami and Penn State, both 11-0, meet tonight in the Fiesta Bowl to settle college football's national championship, but some off-field bitterness has developed between the second-ranked Nittany Lions and top-ranked Hurricanes.

The needling between the two teams began Sunday night, when Miami defensive tackle Jerome Brown led the Miami players in a walkout from a dinner hosted by Fiesta Bowl organizers. Brown took exception to a skit performed by Nittany Lions players, during which punter John Bruno joked that Penn State's black players are allowed to eat at the same table with white players. "All of this isn't relevant to the football game," Penn State linebacker Trey Bauer said. TEMPE, Ariz. Penn State defensive tackle Pete Curkendall says the Nittany Lions will try to do to heralded Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde exactly what they did to Alabama's Mike Shula way back in October.

Top-ranked Miami meets No. 2 Penn State tonight in the Fiesta Bowl, a game that will decide the national champion. Penn State defenders ran roughshod over Shula and Alabama in Tuscaloosa last October in turning what had been a much heralded game into a 23-3 rout. "It's hard to tell (if Testaverde has any flaws) because he's never been pressured that much this year. I know Shula, he was all-everything before he was pressured," said Curkendall, a junior.

Nittany Lion defenders surprised many when they held the touted Shula to 14 completions and 172 yards in 30 passing attempts. They intercepted him twice and tossed Shula for minus-32 yards in six rushes. Alabama also had five fumbles, three of which they lost, in the 23-3 rout. "We're going to go after him like we went after Shula," Curkendall said of Testaverde, Miami's Heisman Trophy winner. "We'll try to hopefully make him panic a little, make him get rid of the ball a little faster, let our (defensive backs) get an interception, just make something happen, that's what our defense tries to do create turnovers." Penn State's defense has forced 35 turnovers and its offense has given up only 17.

But Miami ranks second nationally in turnover margin with 44 forced turnovers and 21 giveaways. Curkendall, a native of Elmira, N.Y., is not dazzled by the Miami offense and finds a chance at getting a shot at the player voted college football's best a tantalizing challenge. "It gives me more (incentive)," he said. "I think we can take off a few times and try to bull rush them. Tim Johnson's a really good pass rusher and I'm sure he'll do the same," Curkendall said.

"(But) I think more important than sacks, we're going to have just pressure, you know get in his face, have guys on him." Curkendall noted that Testaverde "takes a deep drop, a lot deeper than most quarterbacks." Cincinnati quarterback Danny McCoin "didn't take that deep a drop and we were having problems with that because we rush wide," he said. Curkendall said the Penn State "They have the talent, obviously. They have some great players, so we're not going to pregame remarks about LSU was uncharacteristic. "I'm just glad we backed it up," Noonan said. Coach Bill Arnsparger, coaching his final game at LSU, said, "I think the story of the game was evident.

Our offense didn't do anything to move the football and score points. We were physically whipped by their defensive line." About leaving coaching, Arnsparger said, "I'll miss the association with the players." Taylor, voted the game's most valuable player, capped a nine-play, 72-yard drive that required only 63 seconds by scoring on a 2-yard keeper to give the Cornhuskers the lead for good 10-7 with only 39 seconds left in the first half. The Nebraska quarterback then completed three passes for 28 yards in a 78-yard drive to start the second half with Tyreese Knox, who had a pair of 1-yard touchdown runs, scoring one play after his 34-yard run to the LSU 1. The Tigers had a chance to cut the lead when Henry Thomas blocked a field goal attempt that eventually gave LSU possession at the Nebraska 17. The Tigers never had a chance.

Thomas sacked Hodson for a 15-yard loss on the first play and Noonan followed with a 9-yard sack on the next play, with LSU eventually being forced to punt. Taylor's scoring pass put the game on ice, a 3-yard toss to Todd Millikan with 6:02 left in the game that made it 24-7. Knox scored on another 1-yard run with 3:26 remaining before LSU scored with only 2:01 left on Hodson's 24-yard pass to Tony Moss. Nebraska, 10-2, got its other score on Dale Klein's 47-yard field goal in the second quarter. By The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Sixth-ranked Nebraska ran its mouth for more than a week, and backed it up on the field Thursday.

The Cornhuskers smashed No. 5 Louisiana State 30-15 in the 53rd Sugar Bowl football game behind an offense led by Steve Taylor and a swarming defense that that shut down LSU's offense most of the After arriving in New Orleans two days before Christmas, Nebraska players continually cast aspersions about the Tiger attack and their redshirt freshman quarterback, Tom Hodson. "Pressure on the passer was the difference in the game," Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne said. "The turning point came on those two big sacks." The key sacks came from Broderick Thomas and All-American Danny Noonan on the last two plays of the third quarter after LSU, trailing 17-7, had taken over on the Nebraska 17 following a blocked field goal. Defensive tackle Neil Smith, a New Orleans native, said the turning point came on the first night Nebraska was in town, when nine players and two graduate assistants were arrested in the French Quarter for disturbing the peace, charges which were later dropped.

"A lot of guys say they were mistreated and didn't want to come back," Smith said. "I felt like we needed to give them a bonus to get them to want to come back." Noonan, one of those arrested, said it was very influential in the Huskers' performance. "I think that only helped us," Noonan said. "We got fired up. The people treated us like dirt." Noonan said Nebraska's worry about what they say in the media, or how they act "I don't think that's going to have anything to do with the game.

We're going to have to worry about them as football players, not as I don't know, whatever you call them, clowns?" Bauer scoffed at the odds favoring Miami. "I'm not going to sit around and sit and pout. I don't know how they figure it out. It's not a factor at all." Bauer said Penn State wanted to win this national championship to prove to a legion of doubters that the Lions are a great football team. a defenders will also have the same kind of pressure waiting for Miami's fullback Alonzo Highsmith.

"I think we'll hit him a few times. We did that to (Craig) Heyward at Pitt and he kind of slowed up at the end of the game." Heyward rushed for 254 yards in Pitt's 37-10 loss to Miami. Penn State, ranked third nationally in stopping the run, held Heyward to 27 yards rushing and 82 yards AP Laserphoto Huskers' Tyreese Knox runs up against Nicky Hazard (48). 49ers (shhh!) gear for Morris By ED VYEDA Sentinel Sports Editor Mi EVER, NEVER wake up a sleeping Giant, particularly when he is New York Giant Meadowlands where the Giants also happen to be 8-0 this season. He had back-to-back 181-yard games, against Washington and Denver, and also went for 179 against St.

Louis. The 49ers, however, have handled virtually every star running back they have faced this season. Check it out: Twice they've gone up against the Los Angeles Ranis' Eric Dickerson and he's come away with dismal figures: 19-for-78 the first game and 18-for-68 the second. Atlanta's pounding back, Gerald Riggs, managed games of only 29-for-74 and 10-for-25 against the 49ers. Tampa Bay's underrated James Wilder was 18-for-81.

The New York Jets' Freeman McNeil was 12-for-35. The only runner who found success against the 49ers was Washington's George Rogers, carrying 24 times for 104 yards. One note, which may not mean a thing: All those games were played on natural grass. And that's still Please see Page B4 running back Joe Morris. And the San Francisco 49ers have taken the approach this week that maybe if they don't talk too loud, Morris might not wake up and remember the miserable 14-yard performance on 13 carries he had when the the teams played Dec.

1. "We don't want to make any brave remarks this week," 49ers Coach Bill Walsh said. "We still have to stop Morris," he said, referring to Sunday's 49ers-Giants NFC playoff game in New Jersey. Morris, Walsh surely remembers, ran 28 times for 141 yards in the Giants' 17-3 win against San Francisco in last season's NFC wild card game on the artificial turf at Giants' Stadium, where Morris has had his biggest games, like a 202-yard explosion last season against Pittsburgh. This year, Morris is averaging 130.5 yards a game at The Bill LoveloySentlnel file Usually in the middle of things, Riki Ellison (50) will be a key to 49ers' run defense against Giants' Joe Morris..