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onl y « > ASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Phil
list Smms and the New York defense
■;>. overcame a one-man show by John
iphej Elway as the Giants won their first
Sts St Sop er Bowl by scoring 30 points in
the second half Sunday to beat the
hi Denver Broncos 39-20.
se . ® $imms, considered the lesser- of
un C: the two quarterbacks in this game,
i calt ,completed 22 of 25 for 268 yards, in-
t e ,, eluding three touchdown passes,
! S(1 and was unanimously voted the Most
„p Valuable Player.
i nct J »Te also set a Super Bowl record
with 10 straight completions during
New York’s second-half tear. His 88
percent completion rate was an NFL
playoff record.
^B'This ought to dispel any myth
—^about Phil Simms,” Giants Coach Bill
, ||B-cells said. “He was absolutely
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magnificent today. It might be the
best game a quarterback has played
in all games this year.”
Simms said he had an inkling the
day would be his.
“When I was warming up I told
everyone, ‘I’ve got it today.’ I was
throwing real well,” he said. “Our of
fense had a lot to prove coming in
here. Nobody said anything about us
all week.
“In the first half we moved it (the
ball) every time. I just had a couple
of breakdowns. We stayed with the
same stuff (in the second half).”
Most of this came after a first half
in which Denver outplayed the heav
ily favored Giants, going off with a
10-9 lead that easily could have been
20-7 or 20-9. Early in the second
quarter, New York held Denver
without a point after the Broncos
had a first-and-goal from their 1 and
Rich Karlis missed field goals from
23 and 34 yards for Denver, one af
ter that goal-line stand.
So dominant was Elway in that pe
riod that he accounted for 200 yards
on his own — 187 passing and 13
rushing. That was 13 yards more
than Denver’s total offense when
sacks are figured in.
Then came the third quarter, in
which the Giants outgained the
Broncos by 163 yards to 2, scoring
17 points. From the time the Bron
cos led 10-9 until the Giants led 33-
10, Denver was held without a first
down, going out 1-2-3-punt on two
occasions and Elway threw an inter
ception on the other.
New York’s second-half surge
started innocently enough.
Three plays netted 9 yards, and
the Giants’ punting team ran onto
the field to punt from its own 46.
Suddenly, the Giants shifted out of
punt formation, and Jeff Rutledge,
the second-string quarterback, came
up behind the center.
The ball was snapped, and Rut
ledge sneaked for 1 yard and a first
down.
Six plays later, Simms hit tight
end Mark Bavaro for 13 yards, the
Giants led 16-10, and the rout was
Denver, which went the entire
third quarter without calling a run
ning play, went 1-2-3-punt, and the
punt was returned 25 yards by Phil
McConkey to the Denver 36. Eight
;i Simms’ record-setting day
^results in win, MVP honors
^‘■PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The
New York Giants vs. John Elway?
How about the Denver Broncos vs.
Phil Simms?
ter( l“^BThe Giants won their first NFL
championship in 30 years Sunday,
Httring 30 points in the second half
tofbeat the Broncos 39-20 in their
' first Super Bowl.
■The Giants’ victory was earned
pijimarily in two areas: the highly
publicized defense and the under
publicized Simms, who ran a distant
second to his blond Denver coun
terpart in the pre-game hype.
■All Simms did was complete 22 of
his 25 passes — a Super Bowl record
88 percent. He threw for 268 yards
and three touchdowns to be named
MVP of the game.
1 ^ fBSirnms also set a Super Bowl re-
enis: C ord with 10 consecutive comple
tions during the third and fourth
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i' 10- ( .) half time deficit into a 33-10
kena: without allowing as much as a
fifst down to Denver.
M“Our offense had a lot to prove
;i ( l ® coming in to it,” Simms said.
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New York’s second-half surge
started innocently enough.
Three plays netted 9 yards, and
the Giants’ punting team ran onto
the field to punt from its own 46.
Suddenly, the Giants shifted out of
punt formation, and Jeff Rutledge,
the second-string quarterback, came
up behind center.
The ball was snapped and Rut
ledge snuck for 1 yard and a first
down.
Six plays later, Simms hit tight
end Mark Bavaro for 13 yards, the
Giants led 16-10 and the rout was
on.
“It was about two feet,” Giants
Coach Bill Parcells said of the
fourth-down play. “You know,
you’re trying to win the game. This
is for the world championship. It’s
not for faint-hearted people. He’s ei
ther going to go for it or take a de
lay. If it’s not there, I’ll take the de
lay. He looked over at me. I nodded
my head to him, and he went for it.”
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mented: “We just didn’t have
enough to make it interesting. They
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plays later, Raul Allegre’s 21-yard
field goal made it 19-10.
Again Denver went 1-2-3-punt,
and again New York scored, going
68 yards in four plays with Joe Mor
ris running over from 1 yard out fol
lowing a 44-yard flea-flicker pass
from Simms to McConkey.
Elvis Patterson intercepted an El
way pass the next time, setting up a
6-yard scoring pass from Simms to
McConkey. The ball bounced off
tight end Mark Bavaro’s hands and
helmet, right into the hands of Mc
Conkey, who did a victory dance and
ran off the field with the ball.
This was the fifth time in six years
that an NFC team has won the Super
Bowl. The last AFC team was the
Los Angeles Raiders in 1984. The
Giants won their three postseason
certainly are a great football team
and they played a great game. In the
first half, we should have scored
about 10 more points,at least.
“We knew going into the game if
we didn’t take advantage of every
opportunity, we’d be in tough
shape,” Reeves said. “The field posi
tion in the third quarter really killed
us. We were backed up to our 15-
yard line the first three times we
touched the ball. We felt going in we
couldn’t get in a scoring contest with
them.”
In the third quarter, the Giants
outgained the Broncos by 163 yards
to 2, scoring 17 points. From the
time the Broncos led 10-9 until the
Giants led 33-10, Denver was held
without a first down, going out 1-2-
3-punt on two occasions and Elway
throwing an interception on the
other.
After Simms’ third-quarter TD
pass to Bavaro, Denver, which went
the entire third quarter without call
ing a running play, went 1-2-3-punt.
Arkansas blasts A&M
with Huery’s hot hand
What a difference losing to
Rice makes.
The Texas A&M basketball
team, which was trying to shake
off the effects of the upset to the
Owls last Wednesday, dropped
an 87-69 decision to the Arkansas
Razorbacks Sunday at Barnhill
Arena in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Aggies fell into trouble
early in the game as Arkansas’
Ron Huery hit three 3-point shots
in the first four minutes of the
game to give the Razorbacks a
comfortable 17-4 lead.
A&M later went on a 20-7 run
to close the gap to within seven
points at 31-24. And Darryl Mc
Donald cut the lead to 39-36 with
less than a minute and a half to go
in the half on a reverse layup, but
the Aggies would come no closer
in the remainder of the game.
Arkansas’ Mario Credit then
scored on a dunk, and Huery hit
a free throw to lift the Hogs to a
44-38 halftime lead.
In the second half, the closest
the Aggies would get to the Ra
zorbacks was five points at 47-42
with 17:42 left in the game.
Winston Crite led all Aggie
scorers with 23 points and had 12
rebounds. Keron Graves had 14
points, while McDonald added
11.
But it was Huery who led all
scorers with 25 points, many of
which carqe from 3-point land.
Tim Scott added 15 points for
Arkansas and Andrew Lang
scored 13 with five blocked shots.
The loss, which was A&M’s sec
ond consecutive defeat, dropped
the Aggies to 12-6 overall and 4-3
in Southwest Conference play.
A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf
said his game plan was to force
the Razorbacks to shoot from the
outside.
“We planned to pack it in in
side and make them beat us from
the outside,” Metcalf said. “But
they really were on a roll shooting
the ball early in the game.”
The Aggies return home to
take on Baylor Wednesday night
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
games by a total score of 105-23,
beating San Francisco 49-3 and
Washington 17-0 en route to their
first NFL title since 1956.
From then on it was garbage time.
Ottis Anderson had a 1-yard TD run
for New York. Karlis had a 29-yard
field goal for Denver, and Elway
threw 46-yards to Vance Johnson
for a consolation TD late in the
game.
It didn’t start that way.
Denver took a 3-0 lead on the first
possession of the game on Karlis’ 48-
yard field goal.
Elway was the prime mover on the
drive, scrambling 10 yards for a first' *
down on the first play, then hitting!
Mark Jackson for 24 yards on a ;
third-and-7 from his own 39.
Razorbacks
power by
Lady Aggies
The Lady Aggies lost to Arkansas.
86-69 Saturday night, but there were,
a few positive notes.
Sophomore forward Veronda
Roundtree scored a career-high 1^
points and A&M’s offense lookecK
like it had finally gotten over the loss J
of Donna Roper.
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Coach Lynn Hickey said. “We had a ^
better effort. We had people concen- *
trating, paying attention to things. j!
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“I think that even though we had
a loss tonight that maybe we got a ?
little bit over the hump.”
Arkansas, recently upset by Bay- i
lor, and struggling with a 6-10 re-;
cord, 3-3 in the SWC, went on a 22-6 \
run early in the second half to puC
the game out of reach.
The Lady Aggies fell to 6-10 and £
2-5.
Arkansas’ Monica Brown led all ?
scorers with 23 points, while Evelyn ;
Sanders chipped in 17 for the Ag—£
gies.
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