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" -- , get scare . top Irish From oar wire services Alexander, the NCAA's second leading rusher and the game's most valuable player, came up From cur wire services with 123 of his yards in the first half and went on JPeaels Hwl to break the Sun Bowl record of 183 rushing Guard Kyle Macy scored 18 points and ATLANTA Johnny Evans riddled the Iowa yards by Walter Packer of Mississippi State in sparked a late second-hal- f rally Saturday to lead State secondary for two touchdowns and 202 1974. undefeated and top-rank- ed Kentucky to a 73-6- 8 yards and ran 32 yards for another score win over third-ranke- d Notre Dame in a Saturday to lead North Carolina State to a 24-1- 4 nationally televised game in Louisville. victory. EastiW'$ The Wildcats, now 8-- 0, led throughout the 21-- Gate 86-6- The Wolfpack jumped to a 0 halftime lead first half, but were down 5 with 2:57 left to

STANFORD, o behind Evans and junior running back Ted Calif. - California's Jim play when Macy pumped in a one-han-d jumper-t- Gram-bling- fourth-quart- booted 's 67-6-6. Brown and then weathered a er Breech, three field goals and put Kentucky back on top, Cyclone scoring spurt. Carlos Pennywell grabbed two scoring Then, with 1:46 to go, Macy canned another

Mth-ranke- passes 23--3 The d Cyclones saw three drives Saturday in leading the West io a jumper and added two free throws to give victory over in 71-6- 6 ; thwarted by turnovers before scoring on a one-ya- rd the East the 53rd Shrine game. Kentucky a lead that sealed the game.; sweep by freshman John Before a crowd of more than 65,009, Breech The 6-foo- t-3 sophomore was voted the 'most 10-ya- booted field goals of 41, 44 32 Quinn and a rd pass from Quinn to tight end and yards while valuable player of the game, which was played Greg Meckstroth in the final period. Pennywell scored on a 4-y- ard grab from in Lousiviiie's Freedom Hall and was the 40th Evans was named the game's outstanding teammate Doug Williams and 21-ya- rd reception matchup between the two basketball powers. Nevada-Ren- o. offensive player. Wolfpack defensive back from Jeff Tisdel of Kentucky leads the series 2S-1- 4. Richard Carter was named the defensive The victory was the third in a row for the 10-- TOLEDO MICHIGAN 84 (OT) Ann standout. West, which jumped to a 0 lead and never 91, at Junior tailback Dexter Green bore the brunt trailed. Arbor Ted Williams fired in 32 points as Toledo upended Michigan in the Wolverines' of the Cyclone attack with 172 yards on 29 game before opening Big Ten competition. carries. Brown gained 114 yards on 25 carries final for North Carolina State. Michigan held a 77-6- 5 lead with just 6:46 remaining, lost its poise the Rockets held HOUSTON Southern Cal quarterback Rob but as Wolverines to just six points for the SlUB Hertel threw a Bluebonnet Bowl record four the Bowl remainder of regulation time. All-Ameri- touchdown passes and Dwight Ford set a school EL PASO, Texas ca quarterback record with a 94-ya- rd TD run as the Trojans held passed for a record 269 yards, ARKANSAS S5, MEMPHIS STATE 70 at off a fourth-quarte- r Texas A&M comeback and including two scoring strikes to James Loftin Memphis Ron Brewer scored 26 points as whipped the Aggies 47-2- 8 Saturday night. and another to halfback Darrin Nelson, to lead unbeaten and fourth-ranke- d Arkansas over- 24-1- Trojan tailbacks Charles White and Ford, and Stanford to a 4 victory over Louisiana State. powered Memphis State to avenge its onjy Aggies'-- Mike Mosley and George Woodard each The Benjamin passing show offset a brilliant regular-seaso- n loss last year". Alexan- rushed; for more than 100 yards in a wild of- effort by LSU junior tailback Charles UPlteSep&sto The Razorbacks, hitting 69 percent of their der, who ran for a Sun Bowl record 197 yards on fensive display highlighted by Hotel's throwing ng field goal attempts in the first half, jumped to'a 31 and the game-breaki- touchdown run by Ford. a record carries. 14--4 ll-of-- lead five minutes. They pushed the 15 after 14--10 The senior quarterback completed Hewlett over The Tigers took a halftime lead and a score to 44-2- 4 at the half as the Tigers made-- 1-y- 246 and of on ard pass from Steve Ensminger passes fgr yards fired scoring tosses Iowa State fullback Cal Cummins, 32, turvy Curnrnins is North Carolina scored a dismal 24 percent of their shots. 7-y- 29 25 ard 4 yards to Calvin Sweeney, to to Mike Quintela and a run by Alexander. and yards cleats-over-helm- et takes a tumble State defensive back Richard Carter. 10-- 0, White and 14 yards to Randy Simmrin. Arkansas, now padded its lead in the But Stanford's defense came up with three 24-1- 4. during Saturday's Peach Bowl in North Carolina State won, second half and was ahead 76-4- 6 with eight turnovers in the second half to kill a trio of Tiger Statistics on page ?A Atlanta. Trying to avoid the topsy-- minutes remaining when Coach Eddie Sutton scoring threats. relieved his starters. Devine is too mortal

ByJohnSchulian conference audience thought he was preparing ' From our Chicago Daily News Service for when he said, "I might have something to wire services Woody," said Bryant. "Way too much. Neither '-- . ;sayi week or two after the game Monday." one of us will play. Once ihejgame starts, dpjj't -- .c Heisman will DALLAS When the subject! Noire D&ie2 Yhere were visions of his telling Notre Dame Trophy winner think Woody or I will even know who is coaching top-ranke- d, football and you have discussed all the great to take his five-ye-ar contract, which has two lead his undefeated Texas team into across the field." i the 48th Cotton Bowl in Dallas Monday against teams and all the great players, you can always years to run, and make a paper airplane of it. Alabama, 10--1 with an early season loss at fifth-rank- ed Notre Dame, in game will : fall back on all the great pep talks. They started After all, that was what he was hinting none too a which Nebraska, is ranked No. 3 nationally while Ohio '. decide whether the Longhorns capture their with Knute and ended with Ara, and if you think subtly when the alumni were grumbling that the State, 9-- 2 after a one-poi- nt loss to Oklahoma and to school should to fourth national championship. that is an affront Parseghian's successor, beat him it. But if Devine ever a season-endin- g loss to Michigan, is ranked ' , think again. Devine couldn't had a sense of the dramatic, he put it in cold A Texas victory will assure the 11-- 0 Longhorns eighth. deliver a rousing speech if Abe Lincoln came storage before he came to South Bend. of the No. 1 spot, but an upset by seven-poi- nt back to life and wrote him a 20th-centu- ry ver- "I just meant that I wanted to back off and see underdog Notre Dame will give a number of "We played some pretty good football teams sion of the Gettysburg Address. where I was," he said. "I don't really think that teams the chance to knock Texas out of the top this past season," said Bryant, "but Ohio State His locker-roo- m orations are so bad that Ken has as much significance now as it did then. berth. will be the best team we've played. MacAf ee and , who put the fight in Actually, I've been more happy at Notre Dame In addition to the Irish, the other clubs with a "They have outstanding talent, are ex- the Irish offense, admit they have all they can do than I have sad. I don't feel the least bit like chance to become No. 1 are Alabama, Michigan ceptionally coached, and I doubt if we have ever to hide their laughter. Such candor makes one giving up coaching. ' ' Notre Dame's Dan Devine and Oklahoma, all playing Monday. Alabama played against a quarterback-quicke- r and more wonder what is going to come out next about the And yet he is fully aware that no time in his If the moccasins fit, wear teem will face Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl at New explosive than Rod Gerald." coach who took the job that is supposed to be the life may be better for doing so. He named the old Orleans; Michigan takes on Washington in the Gerald, closest thing there is to heaven and wound up friends and foes who have "made the break," as Rose Bowl at Pasadena; and Oklahoma and a slender junior, completed 60 of 97 passes 913 catching nothing but hell. he put it Darrell Royal, , Eddie Arkansas clash in the at Miami. for yards and added another 445 yards rosining for tin; Surprisingly, the best bet to savage Devine Crowder, Ben Martin and, of course, Ara. should win. "You can say things at other schools Buckeyes. be 197-pou- "We'd certainly in contention for the Ohio nd All-Ameri- State may be MacAf ee, the ca tight end with "We're all in the same age bracket," he said. and not get the publicity you do at Notre Dame," also boasts junior national championship," said Notre Dame tailback Ron the Dean's List mind. A publishing house has "May I ask your age?" asked a man in the he said. Springs, who ran for 1,092 yards. Coach Dan Devine. "When the results are in I Alabama asked him to write a book about Devine, and front row who was as old as he was tiny. is led by junior quarterback Jeff He has might state it stronger, but right now I don't Rutledge, who completed 64 of 107 though he is still hedging on whether he will do "Fifty-two,- " Devine replied. "No, 53. I never trusted the press. Just the other passes for just want to get into any cross-countr- y exchanges." 1,207 227-pou- nd tape-record- day, a Dallas newspaper yards and for 311 it, MacAfee allows feat he has ed had a birthday a couple days ago." quoted one of his ran more, and seme of his leader's verbal pearls. "Well, you're a very young man," the players grumbling about the team's 11 o'clock senior fullback Johnny Davis, who rushed for said "Why does everybody talk about what will 931 self-defens- e, curfew when the curfew has been no than yards. Half in half in the interest of septuagenarian. earlier happen if we lose," Texas midnight. The blunder was duly noted by said Coach Fred public enlightenment, MacAfee adds, "I don't "Thanks," said Devine. He stepped down Akers, who in his first year as chief of the No. 2 Oklahoma will take on an Arkansas only who Devine. think I'm the player may have from the speaker's stand and shook hands with Longhorns has brought them further than even team torn by controversy over the suspension of something to say about coach Devine after the his admirer three different ways, according to "Maybe I don't understand press relations," loyal Texas fans thought he could. "All I know is three players. season." current custom. Never before had he showed so he said. ''There are a lot of things you don't that if we win we are national champions and The Razorbacks have lost running backs Ben f The should love Devine soul. alumni that. has been much learn in school. Even after you take first aid, that is what we plan to do." Cowins and Micheal Forrest and wide receiver ; too Day One. mortal for their taste since Now One usually expects bile from Devine and bile you really don't know what to do when you're Donny Bobo to suspensions resulting a : Texas is led by fullback Campbell, the from: they need something to help them overlook the is usually what one gets, particularly after coaching in a high school kid dormitory roam somewhere and a nation's top rusher and leading scorer, Outland incident involving a coed. They fact that he has brought the Irish back from a suggesting that Notre Dame is winning with All-Ameri- ca ; gets a concussion or a broken leg." also lost guard Leotis Harris with 10-- Award winner , wide receiver dreadful start and taken them to a 1 record Parseghian's recruits, which it is, or that Texas The press is his his leg. an ankls injury. ' concussion, broken Johnny : top-- 10 Jones and a stingy defense which did not and Monday's Cotton Bowl brawl with will beat the Irish by points, which it should. When he comes face to face with it, he is by allow second-ranke-d sixth-ranke- d Devine Oklahoma or Despite all Holtz optimistic. . . ranked Texas. knows exactly where he But Devine is by no means the only coach in turns this, remains imperious, abrupt and nasty. He knows he Arkansas a touchdown. stands. the country to let his job get the best of his brain. doesn't have to be. Not always. "I feel extremely good about the attitude of ; our football players "The Chicago alumni association gave me a It has taken just one year at Texas, for example, When a TV cameraman filming him last week Notre Dame, also a strong defensive team right now," Holtz said. nice pair of moccasins for Christmas," he said for young Fred Akers to become a monomaniac "This is a team that is used to adversity; For blocked two reporters' views of him. Devine with the likes of end and cor-nerba- ck example, we lost 22 athletes , recently. who wants to keep his athletes on a short leash.' snapped, "Get out of the way." He didn't realize , will rely a great deal because of injury of water moccasins." during the season so this football team is not "A nice pair There is no defense for that. At least Devine can until it was too late that the reporters were in- offensively on the skills of quarterback Joe With told the world only used to having things run smoothly." that, he that his dukes are say the job tougher than his is the air traffic terested in his words, not his profile. Montana. ;, . ' No. 4 Michigan ' still up, that he isn't going to be lulled off guard controller's at O'Hare during a snowstorm. He looked at Roger Valdiserri, the Notre is heavily favored over by gestures that have suddenly become Ke needed week The Sugar Bowl will feature the first con- "Washington as coach Bo Schembechier no ether excuse last to refuse Dame publicist, and smiled weakly. triesfpr' "I'm sorry, -- ' frontation between the two winningest . pleasant. What he was trying to accomplish at to discuss the seven points by which the bookies Rog," he said. "I didn't know any other way to living the fourth time to win his first Rose Bowl. coaches, Alabama's Schenr-bechle- r. the same time was a celebration of his triumph. are favoring Texas and Notre Dame's chances say it." Bear Bryant (272) and Ohio "We're glad to be back here," said State's Woody Hayes (231). It was a far cry from the Bronx cheer his press of vaulting from fifth to the top of the polls if it And he never will learn. "We're going to keep doing it until we "A lot is being made over my meeting' get it right." pSprtiigltts flWIIIIIWIllMai IIIIWIIBIMlii miBimi Tourney action fast om off the court : The following night in first-ye- ar Nebraska's 6940 loss two guys working this game? It luncheon Wednesday afternoon: "1 got a scorer with 78 points. He was followed by IEyRegerShulerBflssoariaa sports writer to Kansas Jack State, weak -- a McPipe accounted for means something to our kids." Hartman doll and a doil for Kansas State's Curtis Reading, 72; Nebraska's only 10 pointe eight below his season Then Bliss opened the door to the locker room wind KANSAS CJTY Christmas. You thtm up and they shove Brian Banks, 64; arid Oklahoma's Aaron Carry , j For most reporters, average. Attribute that subpar effort in part to only to hear some of his players laughing. "You .each other." and Colorado's Bobby. Rutledge with 57. each. . players and devotees of Dr. James Naismith's the K-Sta- te defense; but certainly his bout with S (expletive deleted) just lost a ball game. Missouri's Clay Johnson finished with 56. , most' memorable offering, last week's Big the minerals contributed to his "watered You're having a lot of fun," Bliss shouted and Johnson finished with 23 rebounds -- j. Eight Holiday Tournament here was much down" perf The location and format cf holiday' for the ormanee.tob, slammed the door. the. -- tournament. Iowa State's Dean Uthoff led . . mMcthanfourdayswall-to-wallbaskctbal- l. tournament will probably stay the same for that ' category withSJ. ' People who coach for a living sometimes ' - some time. WiSs the final three night sessions For- everyone involved, was fill-tournam- learning ent it 'a first-yea-r, ' become enraged when officials cross It is a good thing for Nebraska coach Jos &SI obvious Jc&hmVm3de. th second:' ! experience. sellouts it is that the tournament is a - ' 75-6- 8 team for the seccrai consecutive year. ; . their paths. After Oklahoma's less to Cfpriano that his team is off to an 114 start. . i For instance, Nebraska center Car! McPipe moneymaker. As Stewart said, "This place third-plac- e - Nebraska in the game Friday, One report is that Nebraska administrators , learned a valuable, if strength-sappin- g, lesson ' (Kansas City) is great for college athletics." ' Sooner coach Dave Bliss lambasted Cipriano Tbare was a definite Columbia flavor to the to? virtues of miners! water of two the choice fed must at least reach the serctifinals or which first-ye- ar Stewart admitted 8 n with two tournaments -. of two referees for the game. of Big-- 5 Post-Seaso- that tournament Alex Pickard, director of March- bottles were provided in each room of the the Tournament to keep ' plus regular conference games, ,"We are ing Mizzou, directed the All-Bi- g 6 j ar bJajob. band; .which have never' twd-.flrst-ye- i Alameda Flaw, Hotel, ' the tournament's "I seen officials beating ourselves a lot, played - ' at each session. There ,were 89 band1'! fessiSquartera.. ' ' aasigned.to a Big8 game fcfefcre," ,. . Bliss said. "But economy i, - man's is' always going to bs a .'members' frsm Ave conference schools, in-- I ' "They didn't even have enough courage to give , No cm will let Kansas State coach,. Jack Wg factor," he said. . .. 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