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Tigers 22-15 Orange Bowl winner Clemson stuns Huskers, critics to claim No. 1 title

By MALCOLM MORAN c. 1982 N.Y. Times Newsservice MIAMI With a defense that set up three scores, a punt return unit that positioned another, and an offense that scored often enough to win, the Clemson Tigers, unranked at the start of the season, guaranteed themselves a No.l ranking when they held off a Nebraska rally for a 22-15 victory in the 48th Orange Bow l game Friday night. Clemson’s top rating is expected to be upheld when United Press International issues its final coaches’ poll of the season Saturday evening and The Associated Press releases its final rankings by the writers Sunday evening. The Tigers unbeaten, untied, and, in their minds, unappreciated outside of Clemson, S.C., until Friday night scored tw ice in the third quarter to take control of the game. A looping. 13-yard touchdown pass from the junior quarterback Homer Jordan to his senior wide receiver. Perry Tuttle, gave Clemson a 19-7 lead at the end of a 75-yard drive, its most impressive of the game. Then, a 36-yard field goal by the Tigers’ sophomore kicker. Donald Igwebuike, following a 47-yard punt return by Billy Davis, turned a close game into a Clemson celebration. A 26-yard touchdown run by Roger Craig, Nebraska’s junior tailback, and a 2-point conversion run by Craig brought the Cornhuskers within 7 points with 9 minutes 15 seconds to play. And w hen the Tigers were then forced to punt, and Nebraska took the ball at its 37 with 7:49 to go, it had a chance to ruin Clemson’s celebration. But the Tiger defense did not allow a first down, Nebraska was forced to punt, and Clemson kept the ball for all but six seconds of the last 5:24. The Tigers (12-0' were the only major unbeaten team in the country, but a 4-point underdog despite their top ranking. They won the first championship of any kind in school history after the team had a 6-5 record in 1980. Nebraska (9-3), which was ranked fourth in the last wire service polls but first in The New York Times computer rankings, had a chance to disrupt the race for the top spot one last time.

Late TPs claim Cotton crown 'Bama bows to Longhorns, 14-12

By NEIL AMDUR c. 1982 N.Y. Times DALLAS Who says wishbone teams don’t pass? Texas stunned Alabama with two fourth-quarter touchdown drives Friday and registered a 14-12 Cotton Bowl victory that eliminated the Crimson Tide from any chance at being ranked No. 1. Outfoxed for three quarters by Walter Lewis, Alabama’s versatile sophomore quarterback, the Longhorns marched 60 and 80 yards for touchdowns. with passes from Robert Brewer supplying the key yardage and a faked pass providing one touchdown. Texas then repelled two Tide possessions in the last two minutes. The victory, before a crowd of 73,243, preserved Texas’s unbeaten record against Bama (now 7-0-1). It also ended Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant’s six-game bowl winning streak and finally may have taken Fred Akers, the Longhorn coach, from behind the shadow of Darrell Royal, whom Akers succeeded at Texas after thel976 season. “I think this was the greatest win of my coaching career,” Akers said. Texas, beaten only by Arkansas, finished with a 10-1-1 record. Alabama was 9-2-1.

N ASCAR's good ol' boys dominate earnings totals

Seven-time NASCAR champion Richard Petty earned $389,214 in 1981, boosting his career earnings to more than $4.4 million, tops among American race drivers. Prize earnings for the 1981 racing season were announced this week. Petty has won 195 races since 1958. FOUR-TIME Indianapolis 500 winner A. J. Foyt is second on the money-winnings list, which includes the International Motor Sports Association and the Sports Car Club of America, as well as NASCAR, Championship Auto Racing Teams and the United States Auto Club. Foyt, who surpassed the $1 million mark in 1969, has earned nearly $4 million in race winnings and post-season awards. Three more drivers passed the $1 million plateau in 1981. They were NASCAR'S Dale Earnhardt of Dooley, N.C., CART’S Rick Mears of Bakersfield, Calif., and Pancho Carter of Brownsburg, Ind. EARNHARDT, NASCAR’s 1980 Grand National champion and 1979 Rookie of the Year, became the youngest driver to pass the $1 million mark. He reached that milestone April 26 at Martiasville, Va., in his 76th Grand National race, three days before his 29th birthday. The second-generation driver ranks 16th among the all-time top money-makers. Mears, CART’s 1981 PTG Cup champion, needed only 58 Indy car starts to reach the figure He topped $1 million by winning the Copa Mexico 150 last October. , Carter, third in the PTG Cup standings, captured his initial Indy-car victory last summer

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Both teams utilized the wishbone offense, which is best known for ball-control tactics, but they were more effective with the pass than the triple option. Alabama gained 144 yards passing and Texas 201. Trailing by 10-0 early in the fourth quarter, Texas had no choice but to throw. Brewer, the Longhorns’ junior quarterback, passed for 26 yards to Herkie Walls on third down and 16 from the Texas 44. Two plays later, after having called time out to talk strategy

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by winning the inaugural Michigan 500. He has also won 42 sprint car, 23 midget and five dirt car events in 11 years with USAC. CALE YARBOROUGH remains third in money winnings with $3.6 million, while Bobby Allison stands at $3.3 million and A 1 Unser at $3.1 million. Other drivers surpassing the $2 million mark are Bobby Unser, $2.8 million; Darrell Waltrip, $2.6 million; David Pearson, $2.3 million; Benny Parsons, $2.3 million and Buddy Baker, $2.1 million. Rounding out the top 24 are Gordon Johncock ($1.9), Andretti ($1.9) Roger McCluskey, who has retired, ($1.4), Tom Sneva ($1.3), Dave Marcis ($1.2), Gary Bettenhausen ($1.2) and James Hylton ($1.1). Wally Dallenbach, Donnie Allison and the late Mark Donohue all stand at $1 million even

Path to top clear, but Nebraska stumbles

MIAMI (AP) Nebraska got two-thirds of its national championship trifecta, but the Cornhuskers’ offense, plagued by penalties and turnovers, couldn’t cash in Friday night. The Cornhuskers, entering the Orange Bowl ranked fourth nationally, had the path to the top cleared by third-ranked Alabama’s loss in the Cotton Bowl and No. 2 Georgia’s Sugar Bowl loss. But the favored Cornhuskers could do little right against top-ranked Clemson’s rugged defense in a bitter 22-15 loss. Two lost fumbles, both leading to Clemson scores; eight penalties and an interception helped stop Nebraska when Clemson couldn't. “Our goal was to beat Clemson and let everything fall into place. Everything fell into place for us, but we couldn’t take it. That’s what hurts,” said center Dave Rimington, winner of this year’s Outland Trophy as the nation’s top collegiate lineman.

The Tigers failed to take advantage of all the chances they had in the first half. But after one controversial call disallowed a possible Clemson touchdown and another helped lead to one, the Tigers took a 12-7 lead at halftime. Nebraska gave Clemson its first opportunity before the game was two minutes old. Three plays after the Cornhuskers took the opening kickoff, on third and 2 from their 33-yard line, Mark Mauer, the senior quarterback, was hit as he made a pitch back to the tailback, Roger Craig. The loose ball was recovered by William Devane, the sophomore nose guard, and Clemson had the ball at the Nebraska 28. The Tigers moved to the 17, but Jordan, the junior quarterback, slipped as he set up for a third down pass. Igwebuike, the sophmore kicker from Anambra, Nigeria, kicked a 41-yard

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with Akers, Brewer took three short steps back Apparently expecting another pass, Warran Lyles, the middle guard, took the pass-block fake of Mike Baab, the Texas center, and rushed the quarterback. The Tide defense widened on the perimeters, but Brewer alertly sprinted back through the pocket for a 30-yard scoring run. “We were just trying to mi> up their defense,” Akers said. “Their quickness was really keeping our traps and outside runs under control.” “I have to give all the credit to coach Akers,” said Brewer, who was named the game’s most valuable offensive player. “He called the play.” Brewer was equally as impressive on the game-winning 11-play drive that began with 5 minutes 59 seconds left. On

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third and 10 from the Longhorn 20, he lobbed 37 yards to Lawrence Sampleton, a tight end, on a play that Akers called “one of the big keys in our winning.” Another 19-yard completion to Sampleton and a 10yarder to Donnie Little, the wide receiver, positioned the ball at the Alabama 8. Terry Orr broke several tackles over left guard for the touchdown and Texas took a 14-10 lead with 2:05 left. Alabama, which entered the game with a No. 3 ranking, had a good chance to regain the lead when Joey Jones returned the kickoff 61 yards. Lewis, who has a strong arm to match his running skills, threw deep on first down. The pass was intercepted inside thel-yard line by William Graham, a defensive back. Fearing the consequences of

Sugar Bowl loss ruins Bulldogs' hopes Pitt knocks off No. 2 Georgia

By GORDON S. WHITE Jr. c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service NEW ORLEANS - Dan Marino, the leading passer in the nation this year, threw a 33yard touchdown pass to John Brown with 35 seconds to play Friday night, giving Pittsburgh a 24-20 triumph over Georgia in the 48th annual Sugar Bowl game. The defeat spoiled any chances second-ranked Georgia had of repeating as national champion. The winning drive started on the Pitt 20 with less than four minutes to play. The winning play came on a fourth down and five situation. Buck Belue, the Georgia quarterback who plays in the shadow of Herschel Walker, threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Clarence Kay with 8 minutes 31 seconds left to give the Bulldogs a 20-17 lead. Before a crowd of 77,224 in the Superdome, Belue took his team on an 80-yard drive after Marino had thrown a 6-yard touchdown pass to put the Panthers in front, 17-13, with 11:40 left. Walker, who scored the first two of Georgia’s three touchdowns, gained 23 yards on one run in the winning drive to put

Rimington was further frustrated by two holding calls against him. “It’s part of the game. I don’t want to say anything about the officials because they’re not here to defend themselves. They’re just doing their job,” he said. Sorearmed quarterback Mark Mauer, barely audible ( “The crowd was so loud I had to scream in the huddle. I lost my voice ”), agreed that Clemson’s defense was good, but. .. “Yeah, they really were. But I felt it would be a different ball game if we hadn’t stopped ourselves. We helped them. “I would have liked to see how great they really were,” he said. Mauer said the Nebraska players were receiving updates on the sidelines of the Georgia-Pittsburgh game. “We were aware of the score there at the end. It looked like we were in good shape. We needed a touchdown and a twopoint conversion,” he said, then he looked down at the floor and fell silent.

field goal for a 3-0 lead after 3 minutes 21 seconds of play. Nebraska moved quickly on its next possession and reached the Clemson 25 by keeping the ball on the ground for all but one of seven plays. On the first play of the drive, Mike Rozier, a sophomore tailback, took the ball and ran to the right. But this time, Rozier stopped and threw a pass up the middle, where the senior wingback Anthony Steels was behind two defenders. Steels scored on the 25-yard option pass, and Nebraska led, 7-3. More than five and a half minutes later, Nebraska was pushed back to its 5-yard line after Tim Childers, Clemson’s strong safety, blitzed on a third-down play and tackled Mauer for a 12yard loss. The Tigers moved 21 yards after a Cornhusker punt, but 17 of the yards came on a pass interference penalty. Again, the Nebraska defense stopped the Tigers, and Igwebuike’s 37-

a blocked punt from its end zone, Texas ran three safe plays and then let John Goodson, the punter, scramble to use up time and step out of the end zone for a safety. The safety reduced the Longhorn lead from 4 points to 2 points, meaning Alabama could win with a field goal. But the safety also gave Texas more flexibility with a free kick from the 20. “I called it,” Akers said. “We thought it was a hell of a play.” Out of time outs, with only 48 seconds left, Bama’s last possession began at its 41 and ended when Lewis scrambled unsuccessfully after he had been dropped for an 8-yard loss on the previous play. As time ran out, Bryant stood on the sidelines, hands on hips. If a most-valuable-player vote had been awarded after

the ball at the Pitt 10. Two plays before to Walker’s run, Belue went back to pass, found no one free, and took off on his own for a 23-yard gain. Pittsburgh’s obvious plan of attack was possession with a large number of draw plays for both tailback and fullback and short undeneath passes by Marino. This was the best way to keep the ball out of the hands of Walker, the tailback who gained3,so7 yards in two seasons. Georgia virtually gave Pitt the short yardage by placing its defensive backs well off the ball. The safety, Steve Kelly, played 18 to 20 yards from the line of scrimmage when Pitt had the ball anywhere but deep in Georgia territory. Marino picked apart the Georgia defense with those short aerials and draws. For an 8-minute-50-second span that carried well into the second quarter, Marino tossed off to a back, to a tight end underneath, threw over the middle to a flanker coming across and handed off to the backs now and then. This got Pitt from its 27 to the Georgia 8 But toward the end of the drive, Pitt began making

three quarters, Lewis would have won. After replacing Alan Gray, a senior, on the second series, Lewis directed an 82yard drive in the second quarter, passing the last 6 yards to Jesse Bendross. In the third quarter, Lewis quick-kicked 55 yards after one sequence and later scrambled for first downs out of a freshly installed shotgun formation. A 16-yard pass to Bendross and an underhanded 7-yard shovel pass to Bart Krout set up Peter Kim’s 24-yard field goal with 12:27 left. Lewis finished with 79 yards rushing in 24 attempts and completed seven of 12 passes for 122 yards. But as Akers said later in tribute to Brewer, “This shows why you play four quarters.” For three periods, although Texas penetrated to the Tide 30and 27-yard lines in the first half and again to the 30 in the third quarter, Brewer was harassed by the Bama defensive line. On five occasions, he was trapped behind the line, for 37 lost yards. “The Alabama defense was tough and quick throughout,” said Brewer, who completed 12 of 21 passes for 201 yards, "but all along we knew we could move the ball on them. It was just a matter of time.”

mistakes. Down deep in Bulldog territory, the Panthers were penalized on two of three plays for illegal procedure. Marino, however, got the yardage back plus some more with a little dropoff pass to Wayne Dißartola, the fullback. But he was stopped at the 8 for a fourth down and one. Instead of attempting a field goal, Pitt went for the first down and the touchdown. Georgia’s Dale Williams, a cornerback, reached over the back of Dwight Collins to slap down the pass from Marino in the end zone. This gave Georgia the ball on its 8. Walker, who had only 19 yards on eight carries in the first quarter, did little and the Bulldogs had to punt. Again Pitt made a mistake. Tom Flynn, the safety who had intercepted one of Buck Belue’s passes in the first period, fumbled the ball on the punt return and Georgia recovered at its 49. Belue dumped a pass off to Walker on a third-down play, and Walker was forced out of bounds at the Pitt 15 after a 31yard gain. Then Pitt was penalized again for offsides, and Georgia got the ball at the Pitt 8. Walker went

yard field goal brought Clemson within a point. Nebraska took the kickoff, failed to make a first down, and was forced to punt on the third play of the second quarter. Clemson took over at its 24. A 42-yard pass from Jordan to Frank Magwood, the junior wide receiver, was tipped by Nebraska’s defensive back, Sammy Sims. The pass was not thrown far enough to reach Magwood, but when Sims reached up with his right hand and tipped the ball, it deflected backward to Magwood, who made the catch without breaking stride and reached the Nebraska 12. But two plays later, on second down from the Nebraska 10, the Cornhuskers benefited from a controversial decision. Jordan threw a quick pass toward Tuttle, his senior wide receiver, on the right side of the end zone. Tuttle, the ball, and the Nebraska cornerback, Ric Lindquist, arrived together. Lindquist reached over Tuttle’s left shoulder as they both hit the ground, and then Lindquist came up holding the football. The Tigers argued that Tuttle had made the catch for a touchdown before the ball was taken away. After a short discussion, the officials ruled the play an interception, and the Tigers’ best drive to that point ended without a score. Less than two minutes later, however, the Cornhuskers committed another turnover and the Tigers had another chance. A fumble by Phil Bates, a senior fullback, recovered by Jeff Davis gave Clemson the ball at the Nebraska 27. This time, badly in need of a touchdown that would add confidence to the struggling offense, the Tigers went ahead. Helped by a disputed official’s decision that Kevin Mack, the sophomore fullback, did not fumble at the Nebraska 9, Clemson drove to the Nebraska 2. From there. Cliff Austin took a pitchout to the right, followed a block from the tailback, Brendon Crite, and went into the end zone untouched. After calling a timeout, the Tigers attempted a 2-point conversion that would have given them a 7-point lead. But Jordan, under pressure, threw an incomplete pass for Tuttle and the lead remained at 12-7.

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University of Texas defensive tackle Kenneth Sims, winner of the 1981 Lombardi Award, cheered the Longhorns' victory over Alabama from the sidelines Friday. Sims missed the last two regular season games with a broken ankle. Despite being out those games, he was third on the team with 110 tackles, second in sacks with nine and led the team in yards-loss tackles with 18. The Lombardi Award is made to the outstanding college lineman of the year. (AP Laserphoto)

into the end zone on a thirddown sweep right, going 8 yards. Pitt came right back with a march of 5:19 to get a field goal of 41 yards from Snuffy Everett. The first half ended with Georgia in front. 7-3. Marino started the second half by directing a a touchdown march of 80 yards that ended with 30-yard scoring pass to Julius Dawkins, the split end. This was a drive in which Pitt made no mistakes and Marino was at his best. Coach Jackie Sherrill ordered two tight ends and two wide-out receivers in the early plays of that nine-play drive. Marino established the running game by that set and got Georgia worrying about the rush. Then Marino hit Dawkins three of four times, with the third one a toss right over the middle and between the two deep secondary men Dawkins turned from the 8 and sprinted easily into the end zone. Everett kicked the extra point, and the Panthers had their first lead of the game at 10-7 at 3:01 of the third period. Pitt was holding Walker to short yardage or even losses byswarm tackling around the line

of scrimmage. But once again Pitt erred and suffered On a first down from its 12 after a Georgia punt, Pitt tried a run and Thomas was hit and fumbled. Eddie Weaver, a big Georgia defensive guard, fell on the ball at the Pitt 10. On the first play after the turnover. Walker went right and, ran into the end zone for his second touchdown of the game and a 13-10 Georgia lead at 8:18 of the third quarter. Kevin Butler, Georgia’s usually reliable placekicker, who made the first extra point, missed the conversion. Then Marino, throwing from the Georgia 23, was intercepted at the goal line by Ronnie Harris. It was Harris’s second interception of the game, and he ran the ball back to the Bulldog 18. Walker carried on the first play after the interception and fumbled, with Pitt’s Michael Woods recovering at the Georgia 23. Thomas carried three straight times to the 6, from where Marino tossed a touchdown pass to Brown, floating the ball over a rushing defense. Everett kicked the extra point.