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The Indiana Pacers defeated the Atlanta Hawks 103-95 last night at the Omni and Billy
Knight (25) and Lou Hudson, who is guarding him closely, were the game’s high scorers.
Knight pumped in 41 for the Pacers and Hudson scored 30 for the Hawks.
Outcome didn’t surprise Brown
ATLANTA (AP) — It’s a mir
acle the Atlanta Hawks weren’t
beaten any worse than they
were Thursday night, said
Hawks’ Coach Hubie Brown.
Super shooting by Indiana
guard Billy Knight, who got 41
points, plus an intimidating de
fense led the Pacers to their
fourth consecutive victory by a
103-95 score.
“Knight is quite a player,”
conceded Pacer Coach Bob
Leonard, whose star guard has
80 points in his last two games.
“You aren’t going to do much
better” than he did.
“The outcome was no sur
prise,” said Brown, whose
Hawks lost their ninth game in
10 outings. “What we prepared
for, Indiana did.”
“We had 14 turnovers inside
the dotted line of the lane and
we were intimidated eight
TV networks
in super battle
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The
Minnesota Vikings and the Oak
land Raiders won’t be the only
ones having at it this Super
Bowl weekend.
NBC and CBS square off Sat
urday night in a battle of preg
ame comedy-variety specials.
This gets complicated, so
maybe you’d better take notes.
CBS aired the Super Bowl
last year and the night before
the game put on a show called
“Super Night at the Super
Bowl.” NBC has the game this
year and decided it would also
like the pregame variety show.
NBC asked the producer,
Pierre Cossette, to ask CBS if it
could borrow the title and con
cept. Perhaps they could alter
nate it, as they do the Super
Bowl game. CBS said nothing
doing, it was their idea and
they wanted to keep it, espe
cially since they air the game
next year from the Superdome
in New Orleans.
So NBC called on Norman
Rosemont to come up with a
show. He did. It’s called “The
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times, causing us to change our
shots and not score,” moaned
Brown. “Any time you’re zero
of 22 inside the dotted line and
give up 18 points on second shots
(by not getting the rebounds)
and still not get beat any worse
than we didn, it’s a miracle.”
“Summed up, it was our lack
of execution inside of six feet,
and the intmidation factor at
both ends,” Brown said.
He still had some praise—but
not for the Hawks.
“For the fans of Atlanta, who
may not have known about Billy
Knight, let me tell you he’s a
super player. He’s an all-star
performer. You can’t use the
word ‘potential’ in describing
him. He executes,” Brown said.
Knight executed well enough
to get 14 points in the third pe
riod-matching the Atlanta
team total.
In that period, the Pacers
the Super Bowl” — and it’s up
against the CBS show. I told
you it was complicated.
“It tees me off a little be
cause it was my idea to begin
with,” said Cossette, “but
what’re you going to do.”
NBC's “Mad” show, at 9 p.m.
EST, is all football-oriented
comedy. The show was taped in
a studio. CBS’ “Super Night,”
at 9:30 p.m. EST, offers music,
dancing and comedy live from
outside the Rose Bowl.
“Most of the comics are real
ly doing the attitude and style
that made them famous,” said
Rosemont in a telephone inter
view from the NBC stage
where he was taping the show.
“Take Pat Cooper. He always
plays the angry Italian. He
talks about his mother and how
he visits her every Sunday.
What we’ve done is make him
a rabid football fan torn be
tween seeing his mother or the
game.”
Norm Crosby, noted for his
mixed-up words, tries to ex
plain the game of football.
built a 51-47 halftime margin to
a 79-61 lead.
“We moved the ball real well
in the third period and were
able to open up the game,”
Leonard said. “But we aren’t
the type of team that is going to
run away from anybody.”
Siiner Bowl $lO5-mil lion business off field
By KEN PETERS
Associated Press Writer
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - It
may only be a game, but Super
Bowl XI is serious business off
the field — $lO5 million worth,
promoters say.
The trappings of the Min
nesota-Oakland pro football
championship, the banquets,
the cocktail parties, the endless
string of press conferences, are
straight out of Ringling Bros.,
Barnum and Bailey.
Knight moans Hoosiers 9 plight
By KEN RAPPOPORT
AP Sports Writer
After sitting on top of the
basketball world last season,
Bobby Knight seems to be car
rying it on his shoulders this
year.
“We just aren’t getting the
job done,” said the troubled
coach of Indiana University.
“We have a lot of areas where
we need considerable improve
ment.”
With markedly less talent
than last season’s NCAA cham
pions, the Hoosiers are losing as
much as they are winning this
season. Thursday night’s 80-63
Big Ten loss to Purdue marked
Indiana’s fifth setback in 10
games this season —a dramatic
turnabout from last year’s 32-0
record.
“We are not a great team,”
says Knight, “and teams that
aren’t great are going to get
hurt some time.”
There has been internal strife
on the defending national
champions as well. Some play
ers have walked off the squad
and even All-American center
Kent Benson has not been
spared Knight’s acid tongue.
Purdue Coach Fred Schaus,
had a revenge motive Thursday
night. He remembered a 104-71
beating from Indiana two sea
sons ago.
“What a difference in two
years!” Schaus exclaimed. “It
was a real juicy win for us, es
pecially when we think of the
way they rubbed it in two years
ago.”
Elsewhere in college basket
ball, top-ranked San Francisco
blitzed Portland 95-73; No. 5
Michigan routed Northwestern
102-65; No. 11 Arizona edged
SPORTS
Lawrence
bowls 623
Larry Lawrence had a 623
series and a high game 231
Thursday night in the
Commercial Bowling League.
Ed Thompson had a 604 series
and a 254 high.
Ray Jackson posted a 615
series with a 245 high.
Other individual scorers
were:
Billy Bevil 211, Melvin
Whidby 213, Leo Rothbauer 212,
Ray Robbins 219, Craig Sharpe
221, Jimmy Wilkerson 211,
Horace Phillips 214, Tony
Vaughn 202, Tony Ellis 200,
Mickey Cochran 217, Tony
Strickland 215 and Jack Jones
201.
Team scores were posted as
follows:
Oliver Sewing Machine 3,
Cedrics 1; Speir Insurance 3,
Drug and Surgical Shop 1;
Capri 4, Highland 0; Shelby
Electric 3, Spalding Square 1;
Mayfield Motors 3, Pro Sports
1; Hjllhouse 3, Cole’s Drug 1;
Sigman-Buick 4, Tommy’s Used
Cars of Griffin 0; Commercial
Bank 4, Tommy’s Used Cars of
Thomaston 0.
Roy Mansir
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -
Funeral services were held
Tuesday for Roy Mansir, a top
authority on running facilities
for thoroughbreds. Manir spent
the last 45 years as track su
perintendent of Agua Caliente
race track.
“You saw what happened
tonight,” he said. "We had a lot
of turnovers late in the game
when they were trapping us.”
Atlanta rallied to cut the
margin in the fourth period, but
never led. Lou Hudson paced
the Hawks with 30 points.
The most impressive num
bers are neither the passing
statistics of Raiders quarter
back Ken Stabler nor the rush
ing totals of Vikings running
back Chuck Foreman.
The big statistics are people
and dollars.
“We estimate a total econom
ic impact — using a multiplier
of five —of between SBS million
and $lO5 million,” said Chris
Hills, an official with the Los
Angeles Convention and Vis-
San Diego State 80-77, and No.
20 Memphis State beat Okla
homa City 82-72.
A 16-point scoring burst in the
first half, sparked by Walter
Jordan and Bruce Parkinson,
was the impetus Purdue needed
to put away Indiana. The loss
snapped a 37-game winning
streak in Big Ten play for the
Hoosiers.
Winford Boynes scored 20
Coral Gables golfer leads
By The Associated Press
SEBRING, Fla. (AP) - Deb
bie Raso of Cape Coral, Fla.,
had a three-under-par 145 total
for 36 holes and was the leader
in the 54-hole women’s inter
national amateur golf tourna
ment at Halder Hall Golf Club.
The Cape Coral, Fla., golfer
fired a three-under-par 71
Thursday on the 6,062-yard
course. At 146 was first-round
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PASADENA, Calif. -
(NEA) — This is going to be
the Super Bowl that will prove
decisively, once and for all,
that either the Oakland
Raiders or the Minnesota
Vikings deserve to be called
winners.
Both have been to pro foot
ball’s biggest jousting before.
Both have lost. The Raiders
were beaten by the Green Bay
Packers in Super Bowl II back
in January, 1968, and though
they have sought solace by
pointing to the fact that they
boast the best record in the
game over the last 14 years,
there has always been the
rankling accusation they
never win the "big one.”
The Vikings have been turn
ed back three times — in
Super Bowls IV, VII and IX -
though they, too, try to
assuage critics by noting that
Coach Bud Grant has produc
ed eight division titles in a
decade.
Only four of the Oakland
Raiders bridge the gap
between the team’s Super
Bowl appearances and, un
iformly, they feel this is a
better equipped group to
prove that they are Number
One.
“We got so much heart,”
said survivor Pete Banaszak,
the 32-year-old running back,
after the Raiders had
qualified for the forthcoming
itors Bureau.
More than 103,000 fans are
expected for the game at the
Rose Bowl.
About 75 million more — from
Japan to Turkey — will watch
on television.
“It’s Super Bowl fever at its
highest pitch,” said Hills.
The National Football League
expects to gross $5.5 million
from broadcast revenue and
ticket sales, but that is before
expenses, which are consider-
points, leading San Francisco
past Portland. The Dons, open
ing their West Coast Athletic
Conference season, shot 55 per
cent from the field and had a 46-
38 rebounding edge.
Rickey Green scored 20 points
and John Robinson 18, leading
Michigan over Northwestern. It
was a onesided game
throughout as the Wolverines
leader Laney Smith of Snyder,
N.Y., who had a second-round
74.
Jeanne-Marie Boylan of Key
Biscayne, Fla., was at 147,
Marcia Dolan of Danbury,
Conn., at 148, Barbara Barrow
of Chula Vista, Calif., at 149,
Susan McClellan of Leeds,
Mass., at 151 and Susan Keeney
of Springfield, Va., at 153.
game in the Rose Bowl by
winning the American Foot
ball Conference title. “If
heart was money, we’d own
the world.”
“We are a physically better
team,” said guard Gene
Upshaw, another survivor.
“Ken Stabler is better. I’m
better than I was. I was a
rookie then. We’ve had so
much adversity. This team
doesn’t say ‘uncle.’”
“This team wants it more,”
added Fred Biletnikoff, the
wide receiver who has been a
regular since 1965. “Green
Bay was unbelievable when
we played ’em in ’6B. Now we
got the team to beat
anybody.”
“Then,” noted Willie
Brown, the 35-year-old corner
back, “we were just happy to
get into the game. We knew
Green Bay was a super team.
This time? Hey, there ain’t no
way we can lose.”
Ten Viking regulars are
veterans of all three
Minnesota losses in the Super
Bowl — Carl Eller, Alan
Page, Jim Marshall, Wally
Hilgenberg, Bobby Bryant and
Paul Krause of the defensive
unit; Fran Tarkenton, Mick
Tingelhoff, Ed White and Ron
Yary of the offensive unit.
They won’t need to be jack
ed up for this game. Bud
Grant, the super stoic, even
concedes that there’s a new
dimension to the Vikings’ per-
able.
The NFL is throwing a $75,-
000 cocktail party. It is paying
$112,000 in rent for the Rose
Bowl. The cost of incidentials
such as plane tickets and lodg
ing for the teams, and players’
shares, run the total to some
$2.5 million in expenses.
Not to be outdone, the Nation
al Broadcasting Co., which will
televise the game, is throwing a
breakfast for 1,000 — featuring
10 varieties of omelettes. The
won their 14th straight over
Northwestern, dating back to
1969.
Herman Harris scored 22
points and Gary Harrison’s bas
ket in the last two minutes put
Arizona ahead to stay in the
Wildcats’ victory over San
Diego State.
Dexter Reed and James
Bradley each scored 24 points,
pacing Memphis State’s
triumph over Oklahoma City.
Reed and Bradley combined for
eight points in the first four
minutes of the second half as
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sonality this year —
emotionalism.
So the basic motivation, vin
dication of self, is there for
both teams.
In style, however, they
differ.
The Vikings are older, more
traditional in playing concept.
Their offense is probably
better balanced between the
run (featuring Chuck
Foreman) and the pass (with
Fran Tarkenton, the most
prolific passer in pro history).
Their defense shuns frills,
although it’s a little more
elastic than it has been with
age beginning to slow down its
Front Four.
The Raiders are the closest
thing to a one-man team since
Norm Van Brocklin and the
Philadelphia Eagles of 1960.
Ken Stabler is the indispen
sable man. Put him out of the
lineup and the Raiders look
ordinary, though they are cer
tainly gifted in several
departments — the receiving
corps, the offensive line, the
defensive secondary.
Though Mark Van Eeghen
gained more than 1,000 yards
on the ground this year, the
emphasis on offense is the air
attack, with Stabler the most
accurate southpaw passer in the
history of the game. Their
defense, because of early in
juries, converted to an
“orange” alignment — which
means three men up front and
four linebackers. It was sup-
tab may hit $75,000.
A Japanese firm is flying in
120 of its executives from Tokyo
for the game.
An American company,
unable to find suitable lodging
for its corporate officials in Los
Angeles, is billeting them in Las
Vegas and flying them in for the
game.
While corporate budgets are
on loose rein for the Super Bowl,
there also are plenty of free-
the Tigers moved into a 56-46
lead and Oklahoma City could
get no closer.
In other games, Audie Mat
thews scored 28 points as Il
linois beat Ohio State 89-72;
Greg Keiser’s 20 points led
Michigan State over Wisconsin
84-61; Mike Schultz scored 21
points as Houston whipped
Houston Baptist 111-79, and
James Edwards scored 15
points in the first six minutes of
the second half, leading
Washington to an 85-75 victory
over California.
posed to be vulnerable agains
the run, but it held in key
games. I
A season brimming with con-,
troversy — accusations of
violence, hairline officiating
calls which decided a couple ol
key games — probably pulled
the Raiders closer together as t
unit. And firmed up their 1
resolve to shed the label of
losers.
"The big talkers from the East
counted us out,” said Banaszak,
with an edge of bitterness.
The Vikings are more com
fortable with their winning
mantle, seem less prone to have
to apologize for past failures.
Confidence has always beenl
their forte.
In the final analysis, the ver
dict on Jan. 9 before the 106,000
people converging on the Rose
Bowl through the clogged
Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, will
be decided on the performances
of the two key men in the cast
— Tarkenton and Stabler. Both
have been uncanny in the
palpitating situations when a
game hangs in the balance on
one or two key plays.
It comes down to a duel |
between two of the finest
passers and headiest field
generals in modern football
history.
My prediction is that Stabler
will trigger another of his sen
sational closing bursts and that
Oakland will defeat Minnesota,
20-17.
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