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8 Northwest Arkansas TIMES, Jan. 2, K. FAYETTEVIL.LE, A A A New Year Welcomed In By Football Upsets Notre Dame Texas Longhorns By THE ASSOCIATED PICKS' Texas' Darrell Hoyal had Ihe blues a Ara Parscghian of Notre Dame had satisfaction and hope. Nebraska's Bob Devancy had an undefeated season and the inside a to the No. 1 ranking a the major college football teams.

a i Ohio Slate's Woody Hayes could ponder a "mad dog." These feelings were Ihe aftermath of the a a New Year's Day bowl madness lliat saw Noire Dame upset Texas 24-11 in the Cation Bowl, Nebraska withstand Louisiana State 17-12 in the Orange and Ohio Stale get upset by Stanford 27-17 in the Rose Bowl. In Friday's olher action, Tennessee whipped the Air Force 34 13. The Gator Bowl between Mississippi and A and the East-West Shrine Game were on tap today. "1 feel miserable and I know I'll feet even more miserable tomorrow," said Royal after watching his lop-ranked Longhorns lose after 30 straight victories. "Thai's what winning streaks are for to break," said Parseghian.

whose once-beaten, sixth-ranked Fighting Irish still have hopes of being voted the lop spot in the i a Associated Press poll nexl week. However, the first defeats of Texas and second- 49ers Offense Set For Dallas Defense SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A high-slakes test of strength between explosive offenses and shock proof defense unfolds Sunday with (he San Francisco 49 ers making their first run for the big money against Dallas' often-frustrated Cowboys. The- 4'Jers and Cowboys, playing in the football a i Bay area, go at each other at 5 p.m. EST for the National Foot- 'hal Conference Crown in a fight to the i i with a sudden- death overtime if needed. At stake in the game is a winner's share of SB.500 per player--and a shot at Ihe $15,000 winner's share in the Super opposite the victor of Hie "American Football Conference lit)o game between Oakland and Baltimore on the East Coast.

BASIC TEST The NFC finale pits a potent San Francisco attack, led by quarterback John jBrodic, against the conference's toughest defensive club down tlie stretch. Bay Area a aroused by Stanford's Rose Bowl upset of Ohio State Friday and Hie pos sibilily of an Oakland-San Francisco Super Bowl showdown Iwo weeks from a al i a i 'will jam Sfl.Cfifi seal Kezar Sta for the nationally-televised (CBS) duel. Rain fell Friday night on the old sladtum, from which the wil move to Candlestick Park next season, but Sunday's weather forecast was for mostly clear skies with temperatures the 50s. As both learns tapered oft to- following a week of in- ense preparations, the 49ers re- nained slight betting favorites to win the litle lliat has eluded them for 25 years and rcpuls 1 Dallas' fifth championship bid vis many seasons. Green Bay nipped the Cow for the National FooLbal League title in 19C6 and 1967 and Cleveland handed them demoralizing setbacks in the 1968 and 1969 divisional playoffs.

But Ihey proved their mettle this season, winning five straight pressure games to qual ify for tile playoffs and then a i Detroit 5-0 lasl Saturday (o reach the conference fi nai. That shutout extended the Doomsday Defense's no-touch down siring to 21 consecutive quarters. FORMER COWBOY Dick Nolan, who has brough Ihe 49ers lo the Super Bow Ihrcshhold in his third year head coach, appreciates tin Dallas defense more than raos people. He served for six year as the Cowboys defensive macs tro as an aide lo his long-Urn friend. Tom Landry.

National Powerhouses Open Home Exhibitions auked Ohio Slate, tbe inside to Ihe final No. 1 ranking eloitgs to Dcvaney's third- a Cornhuskors who lin- hed with 11 victories and a tie. "We're the only undefeated said Devancy. can't ee how the Pope himsoif could ote for Notre Dame." Hayes, summing up his Buck- yes' setback, observed: "Ei- icr team could have won it un- il we got stopped at their 20' nd lliey hit that maddog pass our two." It was a 35-yard completion a harried Jim Plunkett that ul Stanford on the Ohio Stale and set up the touchdown iiat the Indians a a 0-17. All the Cotton Bowl scoring ook place in Hie first a with Notre Dame's All-America quarterback Joe Theisraan passing 26 yards to Tom Galewood for one touchdown and scoring on runs of three and 15 yards.

Theisman's three-yard touchdown run was set up following Notre Dame's first touc down when the Irish recovered a fumbled kickoff on the Texas 10. II was one of five fumbles the Longhorns lost. Jim Bcrlelsen ran two yards for Texas' touchdown and Happy Feller of the Longhorns and Scott Hempel of the Irish traded field goals. Trailing 12-10 in the fourth quarter, Nebraska marched to its winning touchdown over tough LSU, quarterback Jerry T-aggc scoring from the LSU had gone ahead with nine points in the third quarter on a 25-yard field goal by Mark Lumpkin and a 31-yard touchdown pass from Buddy Lee to Al Coffee. Nebraska built a 10-3 halftime lead on a 26-yard field goal by Paul Rogers.and Joe Orduna's three-yard run.

Lumpkin booted a three-pointer for LSU's first- half points. Obio Slate fell behind 10-1, fought to a 14-10 lead but then wilted under the passing of Plunkett, the Heisman Trophy winner as the outstanding college player of the season. Following the "mad dog pass." Jackie Brown scored from a yard out to put Stanford ahead. Plunkett, who completed 20 of 30 passes for 205 yards. then clinched the victory with a 10-yard scoring strike to Randy Vataha.

Stanford built a 10-0 first- quarter lead on Brown's four- yard touchdown run and Steve Horowitz' 37-yard field goal. Ohio State rebounded on a pair of one-yard touchdown runs by John Brockington. Fourth-ranked Tennessee had little trouble beating the Air Force behind the passing of Bobby Scott, who threw for 288 yards and a touchdown. Don McLcary scored two Tennessee touchdowns on runs of five and 20 yards and Bobby Majors returned a punt 57 yards for another. Bob Parker passed for one Air Force touchdown and Darryl Haas recovered Scott's fumble in the end zone for the other.

COLLKGE FOOTI3ALT, QUESTION ANSWERED Nebraska football Jans at the Orange Bowl proclaim their (earn Number One in the nation after learning oj bowl losses by Ohio State and Texas. Nebraska went on to down LSU 37-12 and finished itie year undefeated. After Super Success In Old NFL Baltimore Looking For A FC Title BALTIMORE Baltimore their ticw Conference The Colts, spurned by By THE ASSOCIATED 1'RESS UCLA and South Carolina bring their smash road hits home tonight and Good news for UCLA and South Carolina and bad news for Davton and Clemson. Top-ranked UCLA, the Steel Bowl tourney winner, hosts Dayton and second-rated South Carolina, the Holiday Festival champ, entertains Cleinson in a big night of post-holiday basket- bail games. While UCLA and South Caro Una arc doing the entertaining.

it's doubtful that Dayton and Clemson will enjoy their visits. Both the Bruins and Gamecocks are tough at home. ONLY FOUR UCLA lias lost a total of four games overall in five years an( Coach John Wonden isn't usec to losing anywhere--home 01 away. In 24 years, he's won over 500 games for a 77.4 win ning percentage. Forwards Sidney Wicks ant: Curtis Rowc are reasons for UCLA's success of late.

"Sidney is doing it a say? Wooden, "and Rows has never jlayed a bad basketball game his three years here." The a have been ayerag ing a little under 1(1(1 points a game this year and have held opponents less. to about 25 points Along with Adolph Rupp of cntucky and Wooden, Coach i''rank McGuire is the only ac- ive major collage coach win- i more a 70 per cent of lis career games. In 21) seasons, McGuire has a 71.1 percentage, ncluding a 25-3 a lasl year ind fl-0 this season. McGuire doesn't think about though. "They told me the other day I won my 100th game al South Carolina in the Holiday Festival," said McGuire.

"I didn't low--because I don't i about milestone, just winning." THIRD TEAM Third-ranked Marqnette. win ner of the i a Classic, travels lo Detroit; fourth ranked Southern California, the Trojan Invitational winner, hosts No. 18 Ixniisiana Slate and No. 5 Western Kentucky plays at East Tennessee. Eighth-ranked Kentucky takes on Mississippi and Johnny Neumann, college basketball's top scorer: ninth-rated Jacksonville plays al the Virgin Islands; No.

10 Tennessee is at Mississippi Stale and Minnesota is at Noire Dame, (he No. 15 ranked club. Virginia Tech. a two-point los er lo mighty Soulh Carolina plays at Wake Forest, i sel' Jacksonville for Ihe Gold Coasl Classic, in top game. American Football colleagues throughout (he season, meet Ihe Oakland Raiders Sunday in a (inference championship game hat contains the lingering bit- erness of the old AFL NFL ri- "alry.

Coach Don McCafferly of Ihe Colls, whose learn moved from he old NFL to join 10 former teams in the American Conference this season, has Hiietly tried to squelch thoughts -hat the clash of former rivals contains the ingredients inner- Alabama Sees Moral Victory In Bluebonnef Bowl Deadlock HOUSTON (AP) Alabama, coming into the 12th a a Bluebonnet Boul will) a 6-5 record, may have felt their 24-24 lie with Oklahoma Thursday right was a moral victory. But then. Tide Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant has been quoted in the past as saying a moral victory is "like kissing your sister." "We'll he a lot stronger next year." Oklahoma linebacker Gary Baccus said alter the game. "In the long this game will help next a We're a very young team and we've come this far already. We feel we have no way to go hut up tven higher." The entire OU offensive backfield will be hack next season.

They have speed to burn in Joe Wylic and Gregg Pruitl. and in Leon Crosswhitc Ihey have power nmning up the middle. Johnny Musso, a junior, was the Tide's most effective run nor. gaining 138 yards on 27 car ries. a after he sprained his right ankle.

iMusso put the Tide ahead 24 21 with seven minutes left in tbe game with a wobbly, low, left Handed 25-yard touchdown pas lo quarterback Scott Hunter. With just over a minute re maining, Ihe Sooners tied it 24- all on Bruce Deer's 42-yard field goal. Alabama then moved to the 1 in three plays but missed a 32- yard field goal attempt with one second remaining. With 24 seconds remaining. Bryant ordered his team to let the clock run i five seconds showed, then call a time out and go for the three-pointer.

The kick was wide. "We had time to score," Bryant said, "I should have lei them try it. It was my decision. not the boys." ent in previous bat. AFL-NFL com- Bui John Madden, the young coach of the Raiders, has proudly waved the AFL banner and insisted: "This will be just like the American Football League against the National Football League." And center Bill Curry of the Colts all but agrees: "We came into a new league this season and nobody wanted to see us win the champio-n- ship." Curry said.

"And tbey still don't." McCaffei'ty, meamvhile, has tried to tone down that aspect of a garnc-lo foe televised nationally by NBC at 2 p.m., EST-- which will send the survivor I into the Super Bowl, a 17 against the winner of the national Conference i game between Dallas and San Francisco. "AFL NFL it doesn't mean a thing," McCaffcrty said. "The only thing we'll be i i about Sunday is beating another team-nothing else." The Raiders arrived in snow- covered Baltimore Friday night and were scheduled for a final workout in Memorial Stadium Ibis afternoon after the Colts finished their preparations in a morning drill. A 200-man work crew, aided 50 trucks, had cleared th eld by toiling throughout Ne 1 'ear's Day to remove the si ncbcs of snow that had fallen i all-night snowstorm, Mo fur her snow was expected befor lime. There were, however, sti cveral thousand tickets naming for the clash in 62,001 eal Memorial Stadium, wher is expected the battle bein Irawn along league lines dissolve into a test betwee quarterbacks Johnny Unita nd Daryle Lamonica.

Unilas. the 37-year-old, 1 ear veteran who has taken tl Colts lo the NFL title befor. his best year in the la: hree as he produced 2,213 yart nd 14 touchdowns in an aeria ittack keyed to Eddie Hinto nd Roy Jefferson. But he trailed Lamonica, Ih ornb throwing Raiders, passe both categories, and might landicapped by a lingering le njury that has slowed tight en John Mackey Worster Sauce For Stew University of Tesns fnlllmck Steve Worsler i himself in an Irish slew as a host of Noire D.imc lacklcrs lei! by Jim i (40), i i i Tliomann (98) and If.llph (21) converge for gang Inckling op crnllnns. Broken Arm Slows Rebel Snap Count JACKSONVILLE.

Pla. (AP)- icre's one person who didn't ind Archie Manning's broken rm in today's Gator Bowl foot all game. Wimpy Winther. the 6-fool-5, i5-pund center who snaps Ihe all to the Mississippi quarter ack, says the break had inv his play. "Since Archie's been wearing cast, we've gone to a slow- count, which means I don'l ave to snap the ball so fast tc quarlerback," Winlhcr saic efore today's clash with Au- urn.

"Before, when I snapped the all real fast, my back ivus ris- when Archie got Ihe ball nd I was losing a split sc-couc getting it back down again. "Now. I get set low and ome out low, so I'm actually aster coming off the line," the ig center explained. Wimpy, who got his name bj ating 27 hamburgers one da; junior high school, addeil ve heard Erom a lot of pro and I've got a lot riding this game. The word sraiu be that they're watching (t ee if 1 have a good game ii he Gator Bowl." While Manning's broken lef rm may bold down his playing me, Auburn wasn't hoping so Bobby Strickland, the Tiger.

efensive captain, said, "We ever have faced Ole Miss since 've beer, at Auburn and il's a hallenge to play them and Ar hie Manning." Auburn acting coach Paul Da is, who filled in for the ailin; lalph "Shug" Jordan, said "i vould take excellent defensi igainst Archie." if he's operating will me arm. he'd be tough to Davis said. Motorcross Races Start Sunday Motocross races are on la Sunday afternoon as the Razo jack Riders continue to sponso series of winter motorcyc races. Aclion will include to riders from Ihe Northwest A kansas area along with son rugged competition from Okl homa, Missouri and Kansas. Race time is sel for 2:00 wil admission one dollar.

Complete Bowl Picture THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Reults of major college fool- all bowls for the 1970-71 seaon: Liberty bowl at Memphis, Dec. 12: Tulane 17, Colo- icio 3. Sun Bowl at El Paso. cc. 10: Georgia Tech 17.

Tex- Tech 9. Pasadena Bowl at Pasadena, Dec. 19: Louisville 24, ong State 21, tie. Tangerine Bowl at Orlando, Dec. 28: Toledo 40.

Wilam Mary 12. Peace Bowl at Atlanta. Dec. 0: Arizona State 48, North Car- 26. Astro-Bluebonnel Bowl at louiston, Dec.

31: Alabama 24, iklarioma 24, tie. Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, an. 1: Tennessee 34, Air Force 3. Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Jan 1: Dame 21. Texas 11.

Kose Bowl at Pasadena, Jan. Stanford 27, Ohio State 17. Orange Bowl at Miami, Ian. 1: Nebraska 17. LSU 12.

College Scores Friday's College Basketball Py THE ASSOCIATED PRESS East Johnson C. Smith 106. Cheyney Stale 103 (2 oO South Southern Illinois 103, Tennessee-Martin 7fi Far West Columbia 71, San Jose St. 68 Tournaments Winston-Salem Stale Holiday Festival Winslon-Salem State 127, Fisk SB Howard 53. N.C.

Centra! 50 Magic City Tournament First Round Eastern Montana 83. Rocky Mountain College 71 Great Falls 64, Eastern New Mexico 62 Hockey By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday Night Boston 9. Buffalo 4 Only game scheduled. V. I.

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