Super Bowl XIII: Dallas vs. Pittsburgh
Dallas 28, Los Angeles 0
LOS ANGELES (AP) Charlie
Waters intercepted two passes, setting
up a pair of Dallas touchdowns, and the
defending champion Cowboys charged
into Super Bowl XIII with a 28-0 victory
over the Los Angeles Rams in the
National Football Conference cham
pionship game Sunday.
Waters, who also recovered a fumble,
led a Dallas defense that completely
frustrated the Rams, forcing seven
turnovers five . of them interceptions
by Los Angeles, which was hoping to
qualify for. its first trip to the Super
Bowl. .
It was the fourth NFC title game loss
in the past five years for Los Angeles.
Cowboys tackle Randy White wiped
out two-thirds of the Rams' 'starting
backfield with jarring tackles that
knocked running back John Cappelletti
and quarterback Pat Haden out of the
game.
Cappelletti suffered a dislocated right
shoulder after being hit by White at the
end of a 15-yard pass play in the first
quarter. Haden suffered a compound
fracture of his right thumb when tackled
by White near the end of the third period.
The injury to Haden came on Waters'
second interception of the game and set
up Roger Staubach's 4-yard touchdown
Pittsburgh 34, Houston 5
PITTSBURGH (AP) Terry Brad
shaw passed for two touchdowns just 19
seconds apart in the final minute of the
first half, blowing apart a rain-soaked
American Football Conference cham
pion game Sunday and sending the
Pittsburgh Steelers past the Houston
Oilers 34-5 and into Super Bowl XIII.
In Los Angeles later in the day, the
Dallas Cowboys swamped the Los
Angeles Rams, 28-0, to win the National
Football Conference victory, and will
face Steelers in the post-season classic.
• The driving rain and near-freezing
temperature in
‘ Three Rivers Stadium,
helped , turd I/vitt was expected to be , a'
close, hard-nosed game into 'a debacle.
The Steelers and Oilers combined for
seven interceptions, five by Pittsburgh,
and a whopping 12 fumbles, the latter an
NFL championship game record.
Houston committed six of the fumbles,
including two by Johnnie Dirden and
Ronnie Coleman, that served to turn the
game into a rout just before halftime.
Bradshaw, who completed 11 of 19
passes for 200 yards and whose passing
had paved the way to first-quarter
touchdown runs of seven yards by
Franco Harris and 15 yards by Rocky
Bleier, made it 21-3 with a 29-yard
scoring pass to Lynn Swann with 52
seconds left in the second period.
Dirden then took the kickoff, and
trying to avoid an approaching tackler,
Gymnasts deal Springfield a double dual meet blow
By DARLENE HROBAK
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
There was no bone-chilling, fingernail
biting finish' to Saturday night's
women's gymnastics meet. In fact, there
wasn't even a hint of one.
After the first few moments of the
meet, nary an observer in the Rec Hall
crowd could have doubted that the Lady
Lions would soundly trounce Springfield
and they did, 139.40 to 122.45.
Penn State so dominated the meet that
all four of its all-around competitors'
scores topped those of the Springfield
all-arounds, and the first three places in
each event went to State.
"Normally it's hard to compete irr a
meet like this," Lady Lion Debbie Alston
said. ',Tut we trained for this meet to
beat ourselves. It really wasn't to beat
Springfield. We were trying to beat our
own scores."
But Penn State, now 2-0 in dual meet
competition, came just shy of surpassing
the 139.85 it scored in its first win against
East Stroudsburg. However, there were
consolations.
Sophomore Lisa Ingebretsen took the
all-around title with a score of 35.25 and
was the recipient of the Gene Wettstone
outstanding performance award for her
balance beam (9.15) and parallel bar
(9.1) routines.
The freshmen duo, Marci Levine and
Margie Foster, followed her in all
around scoring and Alston took fourth
place.
But, according to Lady Lion coach
Judi Avener, all wasn't rosy.
"Generally I was a little bit disap
pointed with our lack of consistency,"
she said. "If we are going to win some
big meets, we are going to have to be a
lot more consistent."
It looked as if State was getting a foot
on the wayward path when Foster and
Pat Spisak performed sub-par balance
beam routines, but it was not to be.
"Specifically I was pleased with
Debbie Alston's beam routine (8.7)
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pass to Scott Laidlaw. Earlier, Waters
intercepted a pass' from his safety
position and set up 5-yard touchdown
sprint by Tony Dorsett, breaking a 0-0
halftime tie.
Dorsett finished with 101 yards most
of them in the fourth quarter as the
Cowboys drove for the first of three
touchdowns they scored in the final
period.
Los Angeles was working on its second
series of downs in the second half after
Pat Thomas picked off a Staubach pass
at the Rams' 3-yard line. Los Angeles
moved out to the 21 most of the yar
dage on a facemask penalty against Too
Tall Jones.
Then Haden, throwing for tight end
Terry Nelson, was intercepted by
Waters at the 30. The veteran defensive
back returned the ball 20 yards to the
Rams' 10 and after a penalty against
Thomas kept Dallas' drive alive, Dorsett
went into the end zone for the touch
down.
Later in the third quarter, Jackie
Wallace's 23-yard punt return gave the
Rams possession at the Cowboy 23.
Three plays gained 9 yards and now,
facing a fourth-and one at the 14, Los
Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi had to
decide whether to take the field goal or
lost the ball. Rick Moser recovered for
Pittsburgh on the Oilers' 17-yard line.
Harris was stopped for no gain, then
Bradshaw hit John Stallworth; who
bulled his way for the final yards, and
the TD that made it 28-3.
There still were 33 seconds left in the
half when Steve Furness tackled
Coleman, he forced another fumble and
recovered it. This time, though, they
settled for Roy Gerela's 37-yard field
goal with four seconds to go in the half.
Things failed to improve in the second
half when Houston quarterback Dan
Pastorini, hampered by the weather and
the Steelers' swarming defense, had a
pass picked off by linebacker Jack Ham
at the Oilers' 15-yard line. This time,
Pittsburgh stalled and Gerela's 22-yard
field goal made it 34-3.
Pastorini completed only 12 of 26
passes for 96 yards and was sacked four
times by the Steelers. Bradshaw,
keeping Houston off guard with repeated
first-down passes, never was trapped by
the Oilers.
Houston's only points in the first half,
on Toni Fritsch's 19-yard field goal,
came after a Harris fumble, recovered
by linebacker Robert Brazile. But it
came after the Oilers, with a first down
on the Steelers' 4-yard line and trailing
14-0, gained only 1 yard in three plays.
The Oilers got their other two points in
because we had quite a few breaks right
before her," Avener said. "When
everybody right in a row has problems,
sometimes it's difficult to perform. I was
glad to see Debbie pull herself, and the
team, out of that syndrome."
And when the Lady Lions did get out of
that temporary syndrome, it seemed
very probable that the Springfield
gymnasts were wishing they had stayed
home in Massachusetts. First year
coach Terry Pasqua, though, said that
wasn't the case.
"It's an advantage to face Penn State
in our first meet," she said. "It gives us
a chance to go against someone that has
a lot of experience. I was satisfied with
our performance, but we have room for
a lot of improvement."
Pasqua can take heart because the
Springfield line-up is heavily laden with
freshmen, and freshmen are bound to
improve with age.
All-around champingebretsen, too, is
looking toward improvement.
"I think I did okay, but I still have a lot
of work to do," she said. "I need a new
vault, a double twist on the floor . . ."
Teammate Levine echoed her sen
timents: "We're starting in pretty good
shape, but we're not quite there yet.
We're still going to get a lot better."
BACK FLIPS: Saturday's meet marked
the first time that Anthony, who com
peted in the vault and the parallel bars,
was not in all-around competition. . . .
Avener commented on the absence of
Ann Carr, who has been out eight weeks
with a badly sprained ankle: "The team
is picking up the slack in Ann's absence.
We'll be a lot stronger team when Ann
comes back because everybody has been
working harder to make up for her
absence."
SCORES: (All gymnasts from Penn State) Vaulting
I, Margie Foster, 935 2, Marci Levine, 90. 3, Jan
Anthony, 8.75. Bars —1, Lisa Ingebretsen, 9 1. 2,
Anthony and Levine, 8 75. Beam I, Ingebretsen,
9.15. 2, Levine, 9.1.3, Debbie Alston, 8 7. Floor ex —l,
Joanne Beck, 8 85.2, Ingebretsen, 8 75.3, Levine, 8.55.
All-around I, Ingebretsen, 35 65 2, Levine, 35 40. 3,
Foster, 32 85, 4, Alston, 32.80.
try fora first down.
He chose to run the ball, perhaps
because rookie placekicker Frank
Corral the NFL's leading regular
season scorer had missed field goal
tries of 39 and 45 yards in the first half.
Jim Jodat, replacing the injured
Cappelletti, tried the middle of the
Cowboys' line but was stopped with
rookie Larry Bethea making the first hit.
The next time the Rams had the ball,
Waters intercepted Haden again, and
returned the ball 29 yards to the 20 and
five plays later Staubach took the
Cowboys into the end zone for a 14-0 lead.
Vince Ferragamo replaced Haden at
quarterback for the Rams, and con
nected on a 65-yard pass play with Willie
Miller that gave Los Angeles the ball at
the Dallas 10-yard line midway through
the fourth quarter. But on the first play
after that, Harvey Martin recovered a
Cullen Bryant fumble for the Cowboys.
Dallas then moved 89 yards 70 of
them produced by Dorsett and scored
on an 11-yard pass from Staubach to
Billy Joe DuPree.
Linebacker Thomas Henderson
completed the Dallas devastation when
he intercepted a Ferragamo pass in the
final two minutes and returned the ball
68 yards for the wrapup touchdown.
the third quarter when Bleier was
tackled in the end zone for a safety.
The dozen fumbles by the Steelers and
the Oilers ',woke the NFL championship
record of 10 set in 1934 by the Chicago
Bears and the New York Giants.
Bradshaw showed almost im
mediately that he did not intend to let the
rain bother him. Four plays after the
Steelers got the ball the first time, he
combined with Swann on a 34-yard pass
play to the Oilers' 9-yard line. Harris
punched out 2 yards, then slanted off
right behind a Gerry Mullins' block for
the remaining 7 yards and his 13th
playoff touchdown, extending his own
record.
The 57-yard, five-play drive gave the
Steelers a lead they never would
relinquish with only 4:58 played.
It went to 14-0 with 1:09 remaining in
the first period after Campbell had
fumbled a handoff and Ham had
pounced on the ball at the Houston 17.
Harris fumbled but Mullins recovered
for a 2-yard gain, then Bleier followed
blocks by Harris and Swann on the right
side for his 15-yard scoring sprint.
Bradshaw's touchdown pass to Swann
capped a 69-yard, three-play drive
highlighted by Bleier's screen pass
reception, good for 13 yards and a 19-
yard pass interference -penalty against
Houston safety Bill Currier.
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Paul Simon won the all-around title with 55 points the highest total in his du - al
meet career Saturday night. Ile and his Lion teammates combined to score
216.80 points the second highest total any team in the nation has scored this
year.
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Franco Harris, 32, eludes the outstretched arms of lions- to crush the Oilers, 34-5, and earn a berth in Super Bowl •:_;
ton's Gregg Bingham enroute to a seven-yard touchdown XIII. '- 1 %
run which put Pittsburgh on top, 7-0. The Steclers went on t.! il
Barber: I'm gonna get him
PITTSBURGH (AP) Houston Oilers tight end Mike
Barber, cut down by a knee injury early in Sunday's playoff
loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, had an angry postgame threat
for the player who hit him, safety Mike Wagner.
"He won't play in the Super Bowl," the fuming Barber said
as he limped into the Oilers' locker room.
"What's he gonna do, wait for me in the driveway?"
Wagner calmly responded later after saying his hit was done
only in self-protection and purely part of the game.
The threat wasn't made personally to Wagner. Barber
shouted it to Pittsburgh captain Joe Greene, who was outside
the Oilers locker room offering handshakes after Houston's
34-5 loss in the American Football Conference title game.
Barber was so angry that he mistakenly referred to
Wagner as "Webster."
"You tell that Webster that he's a cheap shot ...," said
Barber, continuing the sentence with a string of un
printables.
"I'm gonna get him," Barber told Greene
Barber was hurt on the first play of the second quarter on a
long, incomplete pass over the middle. He and Wagner both
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By CHUCK RUSS
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Forget the fact that the Lions beat a
weak Springfield College team Saturday
night. Forget that Penn State won all the
individual events and had the top three
all-arounders. Forget, too, that the
gymnasts yawned through two and one
half hours of a long gymnastics meet.
What you should remember is the score:
216.80-184.50
216.80. That is more than they scored
in last year's NCAA finals. More than
any team has scored this year, except
No. 1 Nebraska. And more than anyone
expected them to score, even their
coach.
"We are a little ahedd of what we
thought we would be," coach Karl
Schwenzfeier said.
• "We wanted to score somewhere
around 215," he said, "but I really didn't
expect this. I'm of course pleased with
the score, especially since we milked
down the routines. The most exciting is
yet to come."
"We had a lot of mental lapses," top
. all-arounder Paul Simon said. "The
competition wasn't really good and the
meet did drag on, but we are building up
to the Indiana State meet."
For the Lions, Simon had the first 55
point score in his dual meet career. He
was followed closely by teammate Bob
Desiderio who finished with a 54.70. Both
men dominated the individual events
with Simon winning three and Desiderio
winning two.
The highlight of the meet came on the
floor excercise when the other individual
event winner, Vic Trivino, performed
two outstanding moves in a row. The
first was a layout summy that landed in
a split.
The second was a press handstand
with his arms spread two feet from his
head. For this the crowd gave him an
ovation in the middle of his per
formance. The judges appreaciated it to
the tune of a 9.35.
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raced for the ball. It sailed over Barber's head, then WagVer l ,
lowered his shoulder and chopped Barber down at the kneo
He did not return to the game. ,•_,
"I'll get him back," Barber repeated inside the Oilf;rs
locker room. "And when I do, he won't play a game again.!:':
About a half hour later, Barber was approached agairi!.by
other reporters.
"I don't want to say anything," Barber said more calmAy.
"I'm so filled with anger right now that anything I salip
wouldn't be the real me. I just don't want to say anything."
After he was helped off the field, Barber pointed a finger:at
Wagner and yelled at him. He also yelled at him several
times during the game.
"That's really smart. If that's his mentality, fine," said
Wagner. "I can't worry about that."
Wagner said it wasn't a dirty play. He said he was *l v
protecting himself. i . '.
"We were both running full speed. It was a collision course,
and I was just hitting the dirt," said Wagner. "On a play like
that, I'm not going to stand up and just take a shot ... all I
could do was buckle and go down." Ir
much," Trivino said. "I used to Pay,.
attention to the crowd and then lose m - yk
concentration. I'll definitely scdre
higher later in the season."
. Springfield, however, came to lie
meet unheralded and performed that
way. Not one of their gymnasts recieved
a score higher than 8.9 and the outcome
of the meet was never in doubt. It miqt
be the last time we see the Springfidld
gymmen for quite a long time.
Still, the big story of the meet was the
score. 216.80 may be just a number to the
layman, but to a coach the score tells
just how good a team is.
"Comparative scoring has ;4
psychological effect," Schwenzfeier
said. "Some teams see how we ha'e
done and see our score and wonder hd,w
good we are."
How good the Lions are will be
determined as the season goes on, Olt
for now a feeling of optimism
something the Lions can afford. WiA,
Pittsburgh and Temple the next t‘lo
opponents this is especially true. Ttle
only problem with optimism is com
placence and Schwenzfeier is not aboitt
to let that happen.
"We will get better," he said em
phatically. "We don't want to peak y'ett
and that is why we milked the routines
down for this meet."
But are the Nationals and Easterqs,
which are still over two months away, I n
the minds of the gymmen? i
"We are practicing one day of ob
tionals and one day of compulsarit , s 01
every two weeks," Schwenzfeier sail.
"We want to be ready." • E
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With a score of 216.80 in their firpt
meet they are off to a great start. (
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SCORES: (All gymnasts from Penn Slate) Floorzl. 11 1
'l'rivino, 9 35. 2, Simon, 9 1. 3, Gray, 8.95. Horse — 1 , ,, ,";
Besting and II Desiderio, 8.9 3, Simon, 8 8 Itlng:tr 1,
B. Desiderio, 9.15. 2, Besong, 9.05. 3, Muffoletto it.o
Vaulting —1, Simon, 9 55 2, B. Desiderio, 9 5 ti D
Demilen°, 94. Parallel Bars —l, Simon, 9.3 4
Desiderio, 905 3, D. Desiderio, 8 85. High Bar.. ,
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Simon, 9.35 2, B. Desiderio, 9.3 3, Weissend, 8 8. lllaroundI II
around I, Simon, 55 0 2, Desiderio, 54 7. 3, Besot g,
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