University Daily Kansan, January 21, 1985
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SPORTS
Super Bowl XIX belongs to San Francisco
By United Press International
STANFORD, Calif. — Joe Montana taught Dan Marino lesson after lesson Sunday, the most valuable of which was that it takes more than one man to win the Super Bowl.
In his second year as quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, Marino produced records as well as overwhelming publicity for himself.
But during the course of a chilly afternoon and foggy evening at Stanford Stadium, it was Montana and the San Francisco 49ers demonstrated they were the best team in football.
montana established records both throwing the ball and running it in leading the 49ers to a 38-16 romp over the Dolphins in yet another thriller to be a thiller but instead turned into a rout.
"The word 'congratulations,' doesn't seem to be a big enough word," President Reagan told San Francisco coach Billy Walsh in a telephone call moments after the game. "But congratulations is the word I will use. If you want me to deal with Congress it would be all right."
Walsh declined the presidential invitation, but made it clear what he thought about his football club.
"I think this is one of the best teams of all time," said Walsh. "Mario is a great young
quarterback. But Joe Montana, to me, is the greatest quarterback in the game today, maybe of all time.
"There is no doubt this is the best team in football today."
Montana completed 24-of-35 passes for 313 yards and three touchdowns, thus breaking the Super Bowl record of 318 yards set by Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw six years ago.
The San Francisco quarterback even ran for a touchdown, his 49 yards on the ground established a Super Bowl mark for rushing yardage by a quarterback and for the second time in four years, he was named the Super Bowl's Most Valuable Player.
"It was not surprised we handled them so easily," said Montana. "It wasn't said, but I know our offense resented all the excitement about the Miami offense."
son francisco running back Roger Craig scored three times to set a Super Bowl record of his own as the 49ers became the first NFL team to win 18 games in a season.
The 49ers' victory was established with a near-perfect second quarter that brought them a 28-16 advantage. During the first two periods Marino was pressured into uncharacteristic poor passes and during the second half the 49ers intercepted Marino twice and sacked him four times.
Marino set NFL records for completions, yardage and touchdowns during the regular season, and even though his 29 completions
for 318 yards were good numbers he had no supporting cast.
"Montana had an awful lot to do with what happened today," said Miami coach Don Shula. "Every time we seemed to have been he him he seemed to scramble for a big game.
"He hurt us in every way and brooke a lot of records. When you get beat the way we did you take your hat off to the victors and that is what we are going to do.
"Our offense played the poorest game we have all year and defensively we never stopped them. They have a heck of an attack on the baseball team and we didn't have the answers."
Said Marino: "I'd like to have another chance. We had a great year but it really hurts that we can't be world champions."
President Reagan joined the Super Bowl hoopla on his inauguration day, flipping a coin in Washington to determine the kickoff. Then, before a Stanford Stadium crowd of 84,059, the teams combined for a Super Bowl-record 44 points in the first half.
Neither team scored in the fourth quarter. Super Bowl XIII, in which Pittsburgh defeated Dallas 35-31, is the highest scoring Super Bowl.
Miami's 16 points also marked the low total for the Dolphins this season. Until Sunday, Miami had scored at least 21 points in each of its games.
The day did not exactly begin the 49ers' way as Derrick Harron fielded the opening kickoff and stepped out of bounds at his 6-yard line. It was another pass that carried a pass right in his hands.
Southern dropper a pair, "We were nervous to start," Walsh admitted. "But once we got rolling we were all right."
The 49ers got rolling only after Miami had taken a 10-7 lead at the end of the first quarter with the Dolphins scoring on a 37-yard field goal by Uwu von Schamann and a touchdown throw of 2 yards from Marino to tight end Dan Johnson.
San Francisco managed a first-quarter touchdown on a 33-yard throw from Montana to Carl Monroe and then, in the second period, the 49ers became dominant.
Meanwhile, Montana was leading the 49ers on three scoring drives which resulted in an 8-yard touchdown throw to Craig, a 6-yard scoring run of his own and, finally, a 2-yard run by Craig that made it 28-10.
Thanks to a San Francisco mistake the Dolphins were able to score two field goals in the final 12 seconds of the second quarter, but not even that bit of good fortune helped create a Miami spark.
While Marino's frustrations were reaching
their peak in the third quarter. San Francisco finished off the scoring with a 27-yard field from Ray Wersching and Craig's third shot of the day — a 16-yard pass from Montana.
The 49ers were so overwhelming in the critical second quarter that during their three touchdown drives they faced only two third downs.
Miami, which lost for only the third time all season, thus fell in the Super Bowl for the third time. Slaus had his fourth Super Bowl, tying him in that negative statistic with Minnesota's Bud Grant.
The various statistics demonstrated the surprising one-sidedness of the game.
San Francisco, which four years agi
whipped Cincinnati in the Super Bowl, gains
their 2015 World Series title.
The 49ers controlled the ball for 15 more minutes than did Miami, ran 13 more plays and averaged 7.1 yards per play to Miami's 5.0.
"It's frustrating," said Kim Bokamper, a member of the Miami linebacking corps that was picked apart by Montana's short passes.
Stopping Tisdale isn't enough. Kennedy's 34 points bury Kansas
"We needed turnovers and didn't get them. We knew they were a high powered offense and we needed to strip their runners and are not dispositions. We didn't. They are a back of a team."
By United Press International
People are finding out there is more to Oklahoma than just All-America Wayman Tisdale.
A trio of Kansas defenders succeeded in keeping Tisdale to a career-low 6 points Saturday afternoon, but the Jayhawks learned, as Missouri did last Wednesday night, that it takes more than stopping Tisdale to beat Oklahoma.
While Danny Manning, Ron Kellogg and Greg Dreiling were preventing Tisdale from reaching double figures for the first time in 84 games at Oklahoma, forward Darryl Kennedy scored a career high 34 points to pace the Sooners' 87-76 victory.
"Kansas did a good job on Tisdale," Tubbs said. "We didn't see anything different, though. If our other guys hadn't been hitting we could have got the ball in to him."
"I think the opposition is going to have to guard all of our guys and not concentrate just on Wayman. Oklahoma coach Billy Tubs says, "Oklahoma is like a war game; how they defense us the rest of the season."
Oklahoma, 13-4, remains undefeated in
oklahoma with two wins. Kansas,
Michigan and the Big Ten all
Oklahoa, ranked No. 10, built a 35-29 halftime lead. The No. 8 Jayhawks fought back in the second half and overtook the Sooners 45-44 with 11:08 remaining. The lead jump shot by Anthony Bowie gave the Sooners the lead for good.
"Even though we lost I think if we can continue to play like we did we will do all right," said Kansas coach Larry Brown. "Oklahoma is a great team."
High-scoring Barry Stevens and Iowa State helped put Missouri in an early-season hole in the conference race as the Cyclones went on the road to beat the Tigers.
In other Big Eight games Saturday, Iowa State trimmed Missouri 71-64, Oklahoma State nipped Nebraska 68-66, and Colorado dumped Kansas State 74-63.
Stevens scored 19 of his game-high 28 points in the second half as Iowa State, 13-5, evened its league record to 1-1. Missouri, 10-7, fell to 0-2.
Missouri scored seven of the first half's nine points but still trailed 35-32 at halftime. The Tigers opened the second half by outsourcing Iowa State 14-2. A free throw by Greg Cavener gave the Tigers a 46-37 lead —
their biggest lead of the game — with 15:54 left.
Stevens then scored 10 points in less than six minutes, while Iowa State retook the lead for good.
The Tigers led 54-50 before Stevens hit three straight jump shots. Guard Ron Virgil then hit two free throws and Stevens added a three-pointer. The Knicks mounted 59-44 lead with 48 remaining.
"I thought our comeback was terrific," Iowa State coach Johnny Orr said. "Down by nine in the second half in an opponent's building, you generally get blown out."
Orr praised Stevens.
"When he gets it going, there is no stopping him," Orr said. "He is a little too quick for Cavenger and during our comeback, he was the man."
Missouri coach Norm Stewart admitted his Tigers 'are not playing real well right now.' (AP)
Oklahoma State guard Win Case and center John Nielson combined for six free throws in the final 29 seconds, as the Cowboys held off visiting Nebraska. The Cornhuskers, now 11-4 and 1-1 in the Big Eight conference, trailed 62-38 with 1.54 remaining after a 5-footer by Joe Akins hit a running 5-footer, and had two chances to close the gap.
But Husker center Dave Hoppen missed the front end of two one-and-one free throw opportunities with 1:41 and 56 seconds left
Case also missed the front end of a one-and-one free throw with 39 seconds left, and the Huskers pulled within two, 62-40, on the forward Curtis Moore with 32 seconds left.
But Case hit two free throws with 29 seconds to go and Nielson hit two free throws with 23 seconds left, offsetting another layup by Moore.
Hoppen hit two charity tosses with 15 seconds left, pulling Nebraska to within two, 66-64, but Case drilled two more free throws in 3 seconds to go to seal the Cowboy's victory.
Center Randy Downs had a game-high 18 points to guide Colorado to a victory over visiting Kansas State. Colorado evened its conference record at 1-1 with the win and is 7-8 overall, while Kansas State remained uninformed in league play and 9-6 on the season.
Atkinson led the Cowboys' attack with 15 points to impress Rangers' record to 2-6 in the first half.
29-24 on a pair of Ben Mitchell free throws.
II/KANSAN
Delplantis finished second to KU's Scott Huffman at Satur day's meet in the Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Women lose to OU 90-69
By TONY COX
Sports Writer
"With just seven minutes left in the game, we would have been in it, if we had hit our free throws, having played only fair," head coach Marian Washington said.
Inconsistency was the key problem Saturday for the women's basketball team, as they fell 90-69 to Oklahoma in Norman, KU's head coach said yesterday.
After falling behind 40-33 at the half, KU came back to tie the game 44-44 with 14 minutes remaining.
"We missed three front ends of a one-and-one situation that would have kept us in the ball game. That drought at the free throw line hurt us.
"I just was not pleased with the way we played defensively. We allowed too many second shots. When you're not shooting well, obviously you have to limit your opponent to only one shot at the basket, and we didn't. It was just an overall subpar performance."
Greg Depliantis, Louisiana State pole vaulter, makes an attempt to clear the bar at the Jayhawk Invitational track meet.
Vickie Adkins led KU's effort with 21 points and nine rebounds.
"We just have to really cite Vickie Adkins and her performance again," Washington said.
Adkins leads the Big Eight in scoring with 22.6 points per game and ranks third in the league in runs batted in.
The Jayahawks had little success stopping the Sooner attack, which was led by
Jacquetta Hurley's 25 points and 14 rebounds.
"Our defensive effort, when that goes down, we're very vulnerable." Washington said. "We just have to work on being consistent.
"We're going to work on defense and rebounding. We just have to work on some basics."
"Their inexperience leads to inconsistency," she said, "and in this Big Eight, we're going to have to be much more consistent."
For the second game this season, KU had Barbara Adkins and Phililia Allen back in
Allen had been absent from the courts since the beginning of the 1983-84 season. Adkins did not attend school last semester because of a family tragedy.
The Jayhawks' lack of experience caused problems for the team, Washington said.
"It will give us a big boost in experience to get Philicia Allen and Barbara Adkins back." Washington said.
The Jayhawks will face Missouri Wednesday at Allen Field House.
"I think it will be another tough ball game," Washington said. "We're going to have to play much better than we did against Oklahoma if we want a shot at Missouri."
Oklahoma now stands at 13-2 overall and 2-0 in the Big Eight, while KU fell to 10-5 overall and 1-1 in the Big Eight.
Coaches pleased with first meet
By DAVID O'BRIEN
The Kansas women's track team finished third in a five-team field, and the KU men's team lost in a dual with Louisiana State Saturday in the Jayhawk Invitational track meet at Anchutz Sports Pavilion.
Sports Writer
Texas won the women's meet with 91 points, followed by LSU with $70_{1/2}$ I, Kansas with 38. Rice with $62_{1/2}$ Arkansas with 26.
"It was a very good meet, not only for us but for all the competition," said women's head coach Carla Coffee. "We taught we did well. We were specially underdogs we had a few girls out with the flu."
Stine Lerdahl finished second in the shot-put with a 50-foot, 7-inch toss. That mark was good to qualify Lerdahl for the indoor national championships March 8-9 in Syracuse, N.Y.
KU's Denise Buchanan finished fifth in the event with a put of 45 feet.
"That was one of the' best shot-put competitions in the nation," Fcoife said.
KU also scored well in the three-mile run, taking second, third and fourth in the event. Tracey Keith finished second in 17 minutes, 16.7 seconds, while Trish Allaire took third in
17. 40.7 and Heather Sterbenz finished fourth in 17.43.6.
Arizona finished second and third in the high jump. Ann O'Connor cleared the bar at 5 feet, 8 inches and Rose Wadman cleared 5-6 feet. Alexandra Holder jumped a triple jump with a mark of 36 feet, 74 inches.
Coffey also noted the individual performances of Cindy Blakely, Angela Helmer and
Blakely finished third in the mile run in 5 minutes, 23.8 seconds, while Helmer finished third in the 800-meter run in 2:16.42 in the long jump in the long jump with a 19-foot, $ _{3} $ inch leap.
The LSU men's team downed the KU men 81-50.
Clint Johnson won the men's shot-put and qualified for the national championships with a 81-foot 4-inch toss.
Kansas finished first and second in the mile run. Greg Leibert won the race in 4:12.2, and
"Clint did a good job." Timmons said. "He was throwing farther in the warm-ups than he did during the event, so we'll have to get that changed around."
"I thought it was a pretty good meet," said men's head coach Bob Timmons. "We did a little better than we thought we would in our first collegiate meet of the year."
In the pole vault, Scott Huffman defeated LSU standout Greg Depliantis. Both vaulters cleared 17-21%, but Huffman won the event on fewer misses at that height. Both vaulters qualified for the national championships.
Joe Manuel came from last place to finish second in 4:13.
"Scott did a heck of a job to win the pole vault against a very tough opponent," mused a reporter.
"Greg ran really well in the mile," Timmons said. "And I was real pleased with Joe."
Kansas grabbed first place finishes in three other events in the meet.
Fred Lewis jumped 48.7 to win the triple jump, Kelly Killcrease won the 300-yard dash in 32.1 seconds, and Dan Wenns won the two-mile run in nine minutes, 22.6 seconds.
The Jayhawks scored well in the high jump and long jump events, finishing second, third and fourth in both events.
Raymond Mitchell finished second, and Sharriff Hazim finished fourth in the high jump, while Mitchell took third and Hazim second in the long jump. Craig Branstrom picked up three in the high jump, and Enoch Hays finished four in the long jump.
KU also picked up second and fourth place finishes in the 1,000-yard run.