Lions battle Tigers in Orange Bowl match
By United Press International
Penn State, undefended in its last 27 games, was selected Monday to defend its Orange Bowl championship against Big Eight powerhouse Missouri.
The Tigers, 8-1, will be seeking to avenge the Nittany Lions' 15-14 victory over Big Eight conference champion Kansas last Jan. 1.
Orange Bowl general manager Ernie Seller earlier called Penn State "every bowls' ton choice."
Missouri assumed the posture of a giant-killer earlier this season with a 40-17 victory over Rose Bowl-bound Michigan.
The winner of the Kansas State - Colorado football game Saturday will be invited to meet Alabama in the Liberty Bowl Dec. 13, a spokesman from K-State announced Monday night.
The spokesman said Bill McElroy of the Liberty Bowl contacted Kensas State coach Vince Gibson Monday night.
Kansas State, loser of three straight in the rugged Big Eight Conference, is now 5-4 for the year. Colorado is 6-3 for the season and 4-2 in the conference. The Sun Bowl, third oldest of the post season football classics, announced Monday the University of Georgia will meet the University of Nebraska Dec. 20.
A Sun Carnival spokesman announced Monday morning Georgia =would make its second appearance at the bowl. Nebraska was selected later in the day and immediately accepted.
Nebraska will make its first appearance in the Sun Bowl and will be the first team from the Big Eight to attend the bowl.
Harriers tune up for NCAA meet
Kansas won the Central Collegeate cross country championships Saturday at Southern Illinois University, outscoring their nearest competitor by 27 points. The Jayhawks won their first Central Collegeiate meet ever in taking another giant step toward the NCAA national championship meet, Nov. 25, in New York City.
Mike Ryan of Air Force won first place over the five mile course with a time of 23:58. Ryan is the defending NCAA champion.
In field of 16 teams and 112 runners, Jay Mason was the first KU harrier to cross the finish line with a 24:34 clocking, good enough to earn him fourth place.
Bunched behind Mason were four more KU runners. Dave Anderson was 10th (24:50), John Callen 12th (24:56), Doug Smith 13th (24:57) and Rich Elliott 21st (25:14).
Bringing up the rear for KU but still ahead of most other runners in the field, were Dennis Patterson with a 26:19 and 50th place, and Glenn Cunningham Jr. with a 26:48 and 64th place.
Coach Bob Timmons was pleased with his team's results and praised them for their continued improvement through the season.
Mason was satisfied with his performance but said he felt there was room for improvement with all the scores.
"We're going to meet a lot tougher competition in the nationals, especially from Villa-nova," Masonsaid. "But this win was a big one for us; it's a good stepping stone for the NCAA."
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The Huskers are 7-2 with Saturday's game against Oklahoma its last game of the season.
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The University of Notre Dame added some luster to the New Year's Day bowl picture Monday when it broke with 45 years of tradition and accepted an invitation to the Cotton Bowl against Texas or Arkansas.
Notre Dame could go to the bowl of its choice but narrowed the selection to the Cotton Bowl or the Orange Bowl. Since the winner of the Dec. 6th Texas-Arkansas game is bound to be rated No. 2 in the nation, the Irish, who are 7-1-1 and face Air Force Saturday, decided to meet the highest-ranked team available. Top ranked Ohio State is prohibited by the Big Ten from consecutive bowl appearances.
The Sugar Bowl selected Mississippi, which upset Tennessee last Saturday, to face the loser of the Arkansas-Texas game. The team left out in the cold was LSU, which had hoped to get a Cotton Bowl bid. Although the Tigers still could take a bid from a minor bowl, coach Charlie McClendon indicated Monday that his team will stay home over the holidays.
The Rose Bowl will have the Pacific Eight champion—UCLA or USC—against the runnerup in the Big Ten—Michigan or Purdue Michigan can clinch the runnerup spot by upsetting Ohio State but will still tie Purdue for second even if the Wolverines suffer the expected loss to the Buckeyes Michigan thus will presumably get the bid since it beat Purdue
during the regular season and Purdue played in the 1967 Rose Bowl. UCLA*meets USC Saturday with the winner gaining the other bid.
Tennessee, knocked out of one of the top four bowls by its loss to Mississippi last Saturday, and Florida will go to the Gator Bowl on Dec. 27th.
The Astro-Bluebonnet bowl at Houston on Dec. 31 will have Houston vs. Auburn.
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