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GTO THE SUPER lEAMS MIMt t' til mum nyimi Jil- yHM HUW.VWMilnmii I Hi' i imillwiliiiiApy 1 lwsx 'A Cowboys Roped and Tied by Kilmer's lira BY MAL FLORENCE Tim Staff Wrlttr j' WASHINGTON Billy Kilmer, often maligned as a journeyman quarterback with a weak throwing arm, passed George Allen's Washington Redskins into the Super Bowl Sunday afternoon at Robert J' I w-' 4 Kilmer as the Redskins whipped Dallas 26-3 in the NFC championship of Washington Redskins steps second touchdown pass from Billy makes flying tackle, but it too late. Wl WlrephQto 21-17 Execute Big Plays eelers, Redskins, 26-3 CC PART III 2f MONDAY, JANUARY Landry Furnished Billy Kilmer With Personal Pep Talk Exeluilvt to Th Tlmit from Staff Writir WASHINGTON Dallas coach Tom Landry inadvertently gave Washington's Billy Kilmer a pep talk and the 33-year-old Redskin quarterback responded. 2 "I had read earlier in the week, where Landry said that we were a good team, but didn't have a. great quarterback and that theirs was better," said Kilmer, who led the Redskins to a 26-3 win over Dallas here Sunday in the NFC title game. "That really fired me up the past week.

Right now, I'm mentally exhausted. I couldn't even sleep this week thinking of the game." The Cowboys will be losing sleep for months to come thinking about Kilmer, who completed 14 of 18 passes, including two touchdown throws, in the Super Bowl qualifying game. "What a way to go home," said Kilmer in his high-pitched, squeaky voice. "I'd like to sleep for a week, but I may not do it tonight." Kilmer, the former UCLA star, refers to himself as a wobbly-armed passer, but he doesn't really believe it. "That's stuff I've picked up from you newspaper guys," he grinned.

"I really don't know what kind of passer I am. I just try to get the job done." Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 4 i game. Mark Washington of Dallas knocked out Pittsburgh's quarterback, Terry Bradshaw, in the first quarter, forcing the Steelers to bring in second-stringer Terry Hanratty for the second and third periods and all but the last 7 minutes of the last period. Bradshaw was leading when he departed, 7-0, and on the first series after he returned in the fourth quarter, he moved the Steelers 71 yards on four passes to their only other touchdown; Nobody will ever and St toow'what TAYLOR MADE Charley Taylor into the end zone as he catches Dolphins BY BOB OATES Tlmti Staff Writer PITTSBURGH Even when it was over, there was no way of telling which was the better team.

But three things seemed clear enough here Sunday, In; this game the Miami Dolphins outsmarted, outlucked and, at times, outplayed the Pittsburgh Steelers, Coached cleverly by Don Shula, the Dolphins made three big fourth-down plays one on each their three touchdown drives to win by 4 points, 21-17. The two decisive decisions were contributed by Shula1 and his punter, Larry Seiple, on the afternoon when Pittsburgh's Cinderella team ran out of miracles: Seiple's 37-yard run from punt formation on fourth-and-6 in the second quarter set up Miami's first touchdown after the Steelers had ROSE BOWL COACHES (42) Miami led by only 14-10. So this singularly lucky season for the Dolphins continues. First they won 14 straight playing the weakest 1972 schedule in the league. (Their opponents won a composite 36 of their starts this fall.) Then Miami drew the weakest playoff team, Cleveland, in the first round last week.

Finding themselves in a tough rramo at laot tViP TVilrihina uriPY' me departure vi me omcr teams quarterback Sunday. By the fourth quarter this led to the brief demoralization of Pittsburgh's fine defense which gave up when Hanratty couldn't move the ball. More experienced players might not have quit so soon. And the Steelers lived to regret the cheap points they gave up on Miami's easy, Please Turn to Page 8, Col. 1 Sot Plover with Kennedy Stadium.

Kilmer's accurate passing combined with the Redskins' smothering defense made -shambles of what was expected to be a close National Football Conference title game be- tween Washington and Dallas. The Redskins breezed, 26-3, and will meet Miami, the AFC champion, Jan. 14 at the Coliseum in Su per Bowl VII. Kilmer completed 14 of 18 passes, including touchdown throws of 16 and 45 yards to wide receiver Charley Taylor. Allen's "Over-the-Hill" defensive gang did the rest, limiting the defending NFL champions to a measly field goal.

So, it will be homecoming for both Kilmer and Allen. Billy is a South-, era California native and former UCLA star. George, who was fired as Rams coach at the end of the 1970 till has a home in Palos Verdes. Sharp as a Tack Kilmer, cast off by both San Fran- cisco and New Orleans before joining the Redskins last season, might as well have been a Joe Namath or Sonny Jurgensen the injured quar- terback he replaced. He was that sharp.

And, he also threw a 51-yard bomb to Taylor to set up Washington's first touchdown on a warm for December afternoon in the East. The temperature was 60 degrees and, although it rained before the game, the field was dry. The Cowboys couldn't capitalize on what few opportunities they had, while the Redskins played a near-perfect game. They never trailed, opening up a 10-3 half time lead and then adding 16 points in the final quarter. Kilmer and Taylor supplied the touchdowns, while Curt Knight kicked 4 field goals two arching 46 and 45 yards.

Cowboys Corraled Roger Staubach, the scrambling Dallas quarterback who was reinstated to No. 1 over Craig Morton after leading the Cowboys to a comeback playoff win over the 49ers last was frustrated by Allen's de- fenders. Dallas didn't make its initial first down until 5:21 remained in the second quarter and it came as the result of a penalty. In the second half, the Cowboys were pinned down in their own territory and didn't cross their own 38-yard line until the final seconds of the game. "I think it was a mistake for Tom Landry to start Staubach over Morton," said Redskin defensive tackle Please Turn to Page 9, Col.

1 Penn State coach Joe Paterno who will end up singing Lang Syne the New England Patriots have offered to make him a millionaire if he will take over their downtrodden fortunes it was Oklaho-X ma's Chuck Fairbanks who did the celebrating. Actually, the Sooners' superiority over the Nittany Lions was greater than the two-touchdown margin (which exactly matched the pre-game odds) because it took five lost Oklahoma fumbles two of them inside the Penn State two-yard line-to keep the score down. Penn State lost four fumbles, but It was Kiick's the Dolphins a to score, but opened a 7-0 lead on their first series. Shula's decision to bench Earl Morrall for Bob Griese at the start of the second half probably won the game. One of football's finest quarterbacks, Griese, who had spent most of the season on sick call, drove the Dolphins 80 and 49 yards to the touchdowns that extended their remarkable winning string, to 16..

They are now only 60 minutes away from a 17-0 season that may or may not come in the Super, Bowl Jan. 14 in Los Angeles against the Redskins, who won the National Conference title Sunday by beating Dallas, 26-3. To win the American Conference championship in Pittsburgh, the Dolphins parlayed their usual quotas of skill, finesse and good fortune the things that have identified them all season. The lucky play was the one that AGREE Channel 4) against Hayes' Ohio State Buckeyes before upward of 106,000 fans and millions more on national television. Of course, hardly, anybody took McKay's earlier pronouncement to the contrary very seriously.

And nobody, really expected the Trojan coach to tell his players they could rest smugly on their MacArthur Bowl, their perfect record final No. 1 ranking in the UPI poll and not worry about, how AP poll- Trojans, Buckeyes Battle for No.1 4 ''O- shaw might have accomplished if he hadn't missed half of the game with a head injury, a souvenir of collisions with Miami safetyman Jake Scott and the Tartan turf. But you know what Hanratty accomplished. With splendid field position twice in the third and fourth quarters at the Steeler 47 and then the Dolphin 48 Hanratty never made a first down at a time when sters will vote after today's bowl games. Perhaps middle guard Monte Doris said it best the other day for most of, if not all, his Trojan teammates.

"To lose to Ohio State," he said, "would give us an empty feeling. What it really amounts to is, if we don't win THIS game, people are always going to say to us, 'You're not really the national champs. And McKay himself had admitted, "Everybody says we have nothing to gain, but i believe we have everything to gain. We'll be 12-0." So, the nation's only major unbeaten team has one last chance to prove itself, to convince the skeptics Gusty Winds Expected Gusty winds of up to 50 m.p.h. were forecast Sunday for today's Rose Bowl game.

The predicted high is a sunny 62. 1 once and for all that it belongs among the' pantheon of history's finest collegiate teams. If the oddsmakers are right, the Trojans will win by at least 14 points over the Buckeyes (9-1). And few observers will be surprised if they turn the game into a victory resembling Richard Nixon's. Certainly the Trojans have the in-; gredients to make it one-sided: Vicious front-line blocking.

A quick, devastating defense that shuts off the outside and dares you to run up the middle. Speed all over the place. And an explosive, diversified attack. The latter, in fact, figures to keep the Buckeyes' highly regarded defense guessing all afternoon. Do they key on stopping Anthony Davis? If so, then what about those run-pass options by quarterback Mike Rae? And the fullback draws by Sam (Bam) Cunningham? And, of course, Rae's vast repertoire of passes the sideline strikes to J.

McKay, the crossovers to Lynn Swann and Charles (Tree) Young, the deep post patterns to speedy Edesel Garrison? Please Turn to Page 7, Col. 1 BY JEFF PRUGH Timet Staff Wrlttr Well, the college football world can stop arguing about who will be No. 1 after today's Rose Bowl game. Woody Hayes says the winner will be national champion. So does John McKay, who reversed his field the other day Woody came to by declaring that, yes his USC Trojans' top ranking will be very much at stake today (2 p.m., MIAMI'S GOT A KIICK COMING Crashing over Pittsburgh's Glen Edwards for winning down Sunday is Miami's Jim Kiick on 3-yard gain.

second score of the game and gave 21-10 lead. The Steelers came Miami won AFC title.by 21-17 edge. (1 WIrphot Fumbling Sooners Down Lions, 14-0 whereas the Oklahoma bobbles only kept the Sooners from scoring, the Lions' kept them from winning Their last chance for getting back in the game ended when quarterback John Huffnagel, back to pass, was hit and jarred loose from the ball on the Sooners' 19 with 6:30 left. Oklahoma thus ends its season with an 11-1 mark while Penn State finishes at 10-2. In addition, it was the first time in 68 games going back to 1966 that the Lions had been shut out.

Both of Oklahoma's touchdowns Please Turn to Page 4, CoL 4 BY RON RAPOPORT Timn Staff Wrlftr ORLEANS Oklahoma's fooi.oall team saw out 1972 the same way it had rung it in, by winning the Sugar Bowl. Its 14-0 victory over Penn State Sunday night came on the last day of a year it had started by beating Auburn on Jan. 1. For this tiny bit of immortality, the Sooners can thank the Sugar Bowl Committee which went to a New Year's Eve contest so it wouldn't have to share the spotlight with Roses, Oranges and Cotton. And though it may have been MAN ON THE GO Anthony Davis of USC, here running for one of 6 touchdowns against Notre Dame, will lead the Trojan runners against Ohio State's tough defense today in the Rose Bowl game.

Time photo by Art Rogers.