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Montana keys dramatic win
MIAMI (AP) — Joe Montana
hit John Taylor with a 10-yard
touchdown pass with 34 seconds
left as San Francisco staked its
claim as the Team of the ’80s
Sunday with a 20-16 victory over
Cincinnati in the most dramatic
Super Bowl ever.
The winning score came at the
end of a 92-yard drive, engi
neered by Montana, whose touch
down pass gave him a Super Bowl
record with 357 yards passing.
Twelve of his completions were to
Rice, who finished with 12
catches for 222 yards, both also
records.
The victory gave Coach Bill
Walsh his third Super Bowl win
in 10 seasons as the 49ers coach.
It would be a fitting climax to a
career that may end this week
when the 57-year-old Walsh
could announce that he will step
down as San Francisco’s coach.
The winning drive began after
Jim Breech had kicked his third
field goal of the game, a 40-
yarder with 3:20 left, to give the
Bengals a 16-13 lead. A holding
call on the kickoff forced the
49ers to start from their own 8
with a little more than three min
utes left.
But Montana, who was 23 of
36, made himself the quarterback
of the decade on the winning
drive. He passed for 8 yards to
Rice, 9 yards to tight end John
Frank and 17 more to Rice.
Then, he hit Roger Craig for 13
yards and hit Rice 27 yards over
the middle on a second-and-20
play.
After an 8-yard pass to Craig,
he hit Rice for 10 yards to set up
the winning score to Taylor.
The game that was supposed to
be a shootout went 44 minutes
and 26 seconds without a touch
down.
After Mike Cofer’s 32-yard
field goal tied the game 6-6 for
San Francisco with 50 seconds left
in the third quarter, Stanford
Jennings took the kickoff 93
yards for a score. San Francisco
answered with a 14-yard pass
from Montana to Rice to end a
four-play, 85-yard march and
tied the score at 13-13.
Aggies have mixed results at Rice
From Staff and Wire Reports
Guard David Willie sunk a pair of
free throws with four seconds re
maining Saturday to lift the Rice
Owls to a 79-77 victory over the
Texas A&M Aggies in a Southwest
Conference basketball game at Au
try Court in Houston.
Willie’s free throws ended a three-
game losing streak for the Owls (7-9;
2-4) and dropped A&M to 8-9 over
all, 1-4 in the SWC.
The Aggies were unable to get off
a shot following the free throws.
Two tall freshman forwards were
critical to the Owls’ success as they
effectively compensated for the loss
of starting center Andy Gilchrist.
Gilchrist missed the erame with the
flu.
Kevin Rourke (16 points and
eight rebounds) and Dana Hardy
(18 points, 7 assists) played a crucial
role for Rice as the Owls overcame
the Aggies late in the game.
With A&M trailing 73-70, Aggie
forward Donald Thompson (15
points, 8 rebounds) hit a three-point
play with one minute, 44 seconds to
play in the game.
After the Owls moved ahead 75-
73, A&M’s David Williams tied it
with a follow shot at the 41 second
mark. A&M’s Freddie Ricks fouled
Hardy and sent him to the line.
Hardy connected on both shots to
give Rice a 77-75 advantage.
With 19 seconds to go, Thompson
tied it again at 77 to set up the dra
matic ending.
04105402Willie got the ball for
Rice and drove down the court. As
Willie reasched the baseline, he was
fouled by A&M’s Doug Dennis with
four seconds remaining. Willie made
good on the free throws and ended
the game.
Willie said he was confident he
would make the game winning free
throws.
“I didn’t feel any pressure on the
free throws,” Willie said. “We shoot
100 free throws a day without hav
ing any pressure on us and we make
them in practice so there was no rea
son I could not make them in a
game.”
“Their shots went tonight. They
are the same shots they get all the
time but on their road trip they
didn’t hit them. Tonight they were
falling,” Metcalf said.
A&M returns home to G. Rollie
White coliseum to continue SWC ac
tion Wednesday evening as Houston
visits for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.
Lady Ags slam Rice, 71-65
Donna Roper scored 14 points to
lead the Lady Aggies to a 71-65 vic
tory and hand Rice its fourth consec
utive defeat.
Nette Garrett added 12 points
and had 12 rebounds for Texas
A&M, which improved its season re
cord to 12-4. The Lady Aggies are 4-
1 in Southwest Conference play.
Rice is 9-6 overall and 1-5 in con-
ferenre action.
Rice’s Amelia Cooper and Charity
Shira scored 18 and 17, respectively,
in the losing effort.
The Lady Aggies trailed for al
most the entire first half and trailed
38-35 at halftime.
The Aggies took the lead on a
five-point run early in the second
half and hung on to at least a two-
point advantage the rest of the way.
Ag swimmers drown Cougars
Led by Suzanne Fiori and Susan
Habermas, the Texas A&M women’s
swimming team defeated the Uni
versity of Houston women 77-61
Saturday at the University of Hous
ton Natatorium.
Fiori, a senior from Clearwater,
FI., collected wins in the 200-yard in
dividual medley, the 500-yard free
style and a second place in the 1000-
yard freestyle.
Fiori swam a tactical race to edge
out Houston swimmer Jennifer Mel
chior for second place in the 1000-
yard free. Melchior tried in vain to
overtake Fiori, an effort which left
the Cougar swimmer tired and inef
fective for the rest of the meet.
Habermas won the 200-yard free
style and backstroke in addition to
contributing to a win in the 200-yard
medley relay and a second place in
the 400-yard freestyle relay.
49ers have many weapons, but Montana’s sharpest shooter
Finaflyl A Super Bowf that ffved up to it’s
name.
Super Bowl XXI11 was the most dramatic
Super Bowl game ever and lived up to the
pre-game hoopla.
When the game was on the line all the
talk about the coaches and the teams was
proved meaningless. One man made the
difference—Joe Montana.
This game was like a drama which
started slow and gradually built to a
dimactic ending.
The first half was unusually boring
relative to Super Bowls of years past.
The 49ers had dominated the game
statistically but couldn’t translate their
dominance into points. San Francisco was
the team with the experience.
After all, it was the 49ers, not the Bengals
who had been to two Super Bowls in the 80s
and won both of them.
It was the 49ers, not the Bengals, who
had been in the playoffs each of the last six
years.
And it was the Bengals, not the 49ers
who had not been to the playoffs since the
1982 season.
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Doug
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Sports editor
The Bengals were prohibitive
underdogs. However, they gave the 49ers
all they could handle and very possibly
would have won had they not lost Tim
Krumrie, a defensive lineman, to a broken
leg early in the game.
Krumrie, one of the best defensive
players in all of professional football, was
the emotional leader of the Bengal defense.
Without him, the Bengals had to rely on
guts and emotion to contain the potent 49er
attack.
They did a great job but couldn’t stop the
49ers when k counted most.
Football is an emotional game. But
emotion can only carry a team so far.
With under three minutes remaining the
49ers found themselves backed up at their
own 8 yard line trailing 16-13.
This is where experience and leadership
made the difference.
San Francisco had both — Cincinnati
didn’t.
Joe Montana embodied both
characteristics.
There is probably no better quarterback
in pro football under pressure than
Montana. Montana has been leading
dramatic comebacks since his college days
at Notre Dame in the late 1970s.
Montana used the weapons that got him
there when it counted most — wide receiver
Jerry Rice and running back Roger Craig.
Rice was voted the game’s Most Valuable
Player, but Montana would have been just
as good a choice to take his third Super
Bowl MVP Award.
Working in the two-minute of fense,
Montana snowed why he’s a future Hall-of-
Famer as he directed the 49ers on a 92-yavd
drive to glory.
He started by hitting Rice for eight yards.
He then connected with tight end John
Frank for nine yards and teamed with Rice
for 17 more to enter Bengal territory.
Under two minutes remained now and
Montana kept his cool.
The crowd was roaring, the excitement
was building and Montana seemed
oblivious to it all.
Play resumed with Montana throwing to
Craig for 13 more. After losing 10 yards on
a penalty, Montana made probably the *
biggest play of the game as he hit Rice for
27 yards on second-and-20. An eight-
yarder to Craig and a 10-yarder to Rice set
up the 49ers at the Cincinnati 10. Less than'
a minute remained in the game.
Everyone in the stadium and the millions
watching on television probably expected
the 49ers to continue going to Rice or
Craig.
The Bengals aren’t stupid. They double-
teamed both Craig and Rice.
But Montana and the 49ers had a
weapon the Bengals had forgotten — wide
receiver John Taylor.
With the Bengals all over his two main
weapons, Montana threw over the middle
to Taylor for the winning touchdown. It
was Taylor’s first catch of the day.
You can chalk up the 49ers’ win to many
factors. The coaching of Bill Walsh, the
versatility of Roger Craig, or the incredible
ability and explosiveness of Jerry Rice.
A strong case can be made for each of
them as being the difference in the game.
However, none of those factors would
have mattered had it not been for the
leadership and cool of Joe Montana.
With his three Super Bowl titles and his
excellent career statistics, Montana is a
shoe-in for the Hall of Fame. But the thing
I’ll always remember about Joe Montana is
his ability to rise above all the pressure to
come through in the biggest football game
there is.
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