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Bear burns ’em in cold
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) — Alabama had something to
prove in the Liberty Bowl, but not even Bear Bryant *
dreamed the Crimson Tide would do it so decisively.
Unhappy over a subpar 8-3 season that prevented them
from winning the Southeastern Conference championship,
had them out of the top 10, and kept them out of one of the
more prestigious bowls—all for the first time in six
years—the Tidemen were determined to make amends in
the Liberty Bowl.
They did it in spades. Scoring the first four times they
had the ball and, at times, humiliating the nation’s fourth
best college offense, the underdog Crimson Tide trounced
6th-ranked UCLA, 36-6 — the largest margin in Liberty
Bowl history.
“...Yes, I was surprised by the score,” said Bryant. “I
would have settled for one point. I thought we could beat
them, but I didn’t know for sure.”
“We have done a great job of coming back from being a
nothing team at the start of the year to what we were
tonight,” he added. “We beat a pretty good football
team.”
UCLA did not look like the 9-1-1 team it was.
“I wanted to play tonight, but I think we felt it wasn’t a
game that would make our season,” said UCLA quar
terback Jeff Dankworth. “I think maybe we felt it was
kind of a consolation game for us. We didn’t have intensity
or fire.”
UCLA Coach Terry Donahue disagreed. “I think we
took this game serious enough. To say otherwise would
detract from an outstanding Alabama effort. I thought,
very frankly, that we would play very well. Most of our
problems were due to Alabama’s play.”
The Crimson Tide scored 17 points in a 4:31 span late in
the first period and, for all practical purposes, the game,
played in subfreezing weather with a strong wind that
lowered the wind chill factor to zero, was over.
In that first-period outburst, Bucky Berrey kicked his
first of a Liberty Bowl record three field goals; Barry
Krause, voted most valuable player in the game, scored
on a 44-yard return of the first of three Tide interceptions;
and Johnny Davis scored on a two-yard plunge.
Then, adding insult to injury, Alabama made it 24-0
early in the second period when the Tide caught the
Bruins by surprise with a 20-yard touchdown pass from
Nathan, the tailback, to quarterback Jack O’Rear.
Two more Berrey field goals had it 30-0 early in the final
period before UCLA, held for downs on three occasions,
got its only points on a 61-yard run by Theotis Brown, a
touchdown Alabama got back in the closing seconds when
Rick Watson’s one-yard plunge capped an 82-yard march.
Major colleges
forming new group
DALLAS (UPI) - Major
college football powers have
protested for years their fate
was being decided by NCAA
schools who knew nothing about
the problems they face.
Now those football-playing
schools are going to organize in
hopes of convincing the rest of
the NCAA institutions that what
is good for big-time football is
good for the them, too.
And what they want most of
all is a reorganization of the
NCAA so that only the top
football-playing schools in the
country are in Division 1.
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Representatives of 58 schools
met Monday as a next-to-last
organizational step in forming
the College Football Associa
tion, a sort of lobby group that
will carry the sport's message
to the NCAA. Some of the most
well-known figures in college
football were present—including
Nebraska Athletic Director Bob
Devaney and Arkansas Athletic
Director Frank Broyles.
Spokesmen said formation of
the group was not intended as a
threat to the NCAA.
“If anyone interprets our
organization as being intended
at lessening the present restric
tions and trying to write a
blank check for what we want
to do and turn us into pro
football teams, they are incor
rect." said Father Edmond
Joyce, vice president of Notre
Dame.
Earl Ramer, faculty re
presentative from the Universi
ty of Tennessee, said the group
would work within the frame
work of the NCAA.
But, no matter how unified
the major college schools are
when they go to the NCAA
convention in Miami next
month, they will still be in the
minority. There are more than
700 voting NCAA members.
“We will have to win our
points through rational ar
guments," said Joyce.
The final organizational meet
ing for the CFA is set for
February and discussions have
been going on for 18 months.
“What triggered this action is
the obvious fact that the
divisional concept in the NCAA
needs refinement," said Joyce.
“The NCAA has failed to come
to grips with the problem."
To qualify for membership in
’he CFA, a school must have a
30,000-seat stadium, must have
averaged 20,000 in attendance
per home game for the past
three years and must have
awarded 80 scholarships the
past three years. Members of
seven conferences and 18
independent schools will be
invited to attend, but no
representative of the Pacific
Eight or Big Ten was present
at Monday’s meeting.
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Alabama quarterback Jeff Rutledge, (11), eludes a tackle
by UCLA lineback Raymond Bell, (86), as he scrambles
for short yardage during this action in the Liberty Bowl.
(UPI)
Barnesville
girls win
The Barnesville Academy
girls beat LaGrange 41-23 over
the weekend to win the
Westwood Christmas
Tournament at Thomaston.
The Westwood boys beat
Barnesville 46-42 in the finals.
Penny McCoy scored 11 points
and grabbed 10 rebounds for the
Barnesville girls. Leigh Smith
made 10 points.
Kathy Bates, Gail Hill and
Melodie Harwell were named to
the all-tournament team.
Ricky Ellington scored 16
points and pulled down 16
rebounds to pace the Westwood
boys over Barnesville.
Ronnie Watson scored 13
points and grabbed 17 rebounds
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back Wendell Tyler, (22), lowers his head and dives
through the line for short yardage during this action in the
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Looking much like a bear in his ski mask, Alabama coach Paul
“Bear” Bryant stalks the sidelines as he led his team to a
36-6 victory over UCLA. (UPI)
for Barnesville. Rusty Jackson
scored 11 points and had 12
rebounds.
Seifert
STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) —
Incoming Stanford head football
Coach Bill Walsh Tuesday
named George Seifert, the
former head coach at Cornell
University, to his staff of
assistants.
Walsh also named Doug
Single, currently on the Stan
ford staff, to remain as
assistant coach for offense.
Seifert, 36, was defensive
backfield coach at Stanford
before moving to Cornell in
1974, will be in charge of
defense.
Since pitcher Tom Seaver
broke into the National league
in 1966, the New York Mets
have had six different man
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Liberty Bowl. In on the play for Alabama are Barry *
Krauss, (77), Bob Baumhower, (91), and Charles Hannah,
(51). (UPI)
Majors picked
for coaching honor
PITTSBURGH (UPI) - John
ny Majors, who guided un
defeated and top-ranked Pitt to
the pinnacle of success was
selected United Press Interna
tional’s college football Coach
of the Year.
Majors was chosen by a UPI
panel of sports writers.
“I'm very honored by this.
It’s a pleasure for me to accept
it,” he said.
But Majors, who led the Pitt
Panthers out of the doldrums
four years ago to the Sugar
Bowl against Georgia on New
Year’s Day, and a possible
national championship, said he
wanted to share the honor.
‘Td like to share this with a
lot of people," he said. “You
know, it was so gratifying this
season to see the joy the
players, the fans, the school got
out of winning. This is a great
program here now. It will win
some more, too. But to see
them enjoy winning so much,
it’s one of the rewards of this
job."
Now Majors has his mind
only on the Sugar Bowl, where
the Panthers (11-0) will play for
him for the last time before he
takes over as head coach at his
alma mater, the University of
Tennessee, Jan. 2.
Majors, who led Pitt to
regular-season records of 6-4-1,
7-4 and 8-4 after taking over a
1-10 team four years ago, said
the Panther program will not
falter because he is leaving.
“Well, this will be a fine
football team next year,” he
said, “We’re (Pitt) not gonna
fold our tent, because we have
some of the finest players that
have ever played here coming
back.
“Look at the quarterback,
Matt Cavanaugh—he could be
an All-America,” he continued.
“And Randy Holloway—next
year he's gonna be the finest
„lineman they’ve ever seen
around here, no question about
it. There are a lot of others,
too. This is a very fine football
team.”
Majors said come Jan. 2,
he’ll start looking forward to
going to Knoxville and “to
helping build Tennessee into a
winner,” but only one thing
makes him smile about leaving
Pittsburgh.
“I’ll be leaving a winning
program behind,” he said.
“There’s an established win
ning program at Pitt now ...
and it’s going to stay that
way.”