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Riggins skins Dolphins, 27-17 PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — "Ron is the president, but I am the king,” big John Rig gins said after his record rushing perfor mance carried the Washington Redskins to a 27-17 victory over the favored Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII Sunday. "Aw, I was just joking,” Riggins added. The joke, though, was on the Dolphins, and President Reagan was willing to go along. "Last week, I was thinking of asking John Riggins to change the spelling of his name, add and e’ and an a’ to it," the president said in a congratulatory telephone call from the White House to Coach Joe Gibbs anbd the Redskins. "Now, I’m thinking of asking him if he’d mind if I changed the spelling of my name to put an ‘i’ and another ’g' in it." Riggins certainly was Washington's hero of the day and the unanimous choice is SuperBowl Most Valuble Player. The almost unstoppable fullback set two Super Bowl records by carrying 38 times for 166 yards, including a breakaway 43-yard run on fourth-and-one in the fourth quarter for Washington's winning touchdown. Riggins said it was a very punishing game and praised the defensive work of both the Redskins and the rival Dolphins. "Those guys gave me a good working over. They were tough. I can’t praise the guys on the offensive line enough. They were fantastic." From the start of the playoffs — the so called Super Bowl Tournament climaxing a turbulent, strike-shortened season — Riggins had demanded the Redskins give him the ball. They did, and he was unstoppable with it. In three playoff games he rolled up 444 yards, and he capped that Sunday with a Super Bowl record 38 carries and the Most Valuable Player award. Washington put the game out of reach with 1:55 left when Joe Theismann tossed a 6-yard touchdown pass to Charlie Brown. Before Riggins' run, it appeared the hero of the game would be a most unlikely and overlooked one, Fulton Walker, the Dolphins' kick-return specialist. He burst through Washington's special team for a record 98-yard touchdown, the only kickoff ever returned all the way in a Super Bowl, giving the Dolhpins' a 17-10 halftime lead. He also sprinted 42 yards with another kickoff to set up Uwe von Schamann s 20-yard field goal. But David Woodley, the Dolphins' young quarterback and heir to the position Bob Griese occupied when the Dolphins won their two Super Bowls in the early 1970s, was no match for the Redskins' defense the rest of the way. Woodley, who completed four of six passes in the first half, one of them on a 76-yard touchdown play to Jimmy Cefalo, failed to complete even one of his nine passes in the second half. And when Miami, down by three points following Riggins' touchdown, failed to move the ball out of the shadow of its end zone and punted. Theismann applied the coup de grace The ebullient Washington quarterback, who had passed four yards to playoff hero Alvin Garrett in the second period, drove the Redskins 41 yards in a time consuming 13-play drive that chewed 6:54 off the clock, the most ever eaten up in a Super Bowl touchdown march. It ended when Brown, so instrumental in the Red skins' return to glory this year, caught the scoring pass in the right corner of the end zone The Dolphins, who gained 142 yards in the first half, picked up a mere 34 in the se cond half and only had two first downs as the Redskins outplayed the league's top ranked defense Washington, meanwhile, was amassing 211 total yards after the intermission. Washington became the fourth team ever to win a Super Bowl game after trail ing at halftime, and coupled with San Fran cisco's victory a year ago gave the Na tional Conference consecutive Super Bowl victories for the first time The Green Bay Packers won two straight for the NFL before the merger with the old American Football League. Lang moves up as Ducks keep pace By Doug Levy Of th# Em#raId Alison Lang moved into second’place on the Oregon career scoring list, and the Ducks remained tied for first in the NorPac Conference after beating San Francisco 81-69 and Santa Clara 88-49 this weekend at McArthur Court Lang clicked for 24 points against USF and 30 more against Santa Clara to up her career point total to 1,431, surpassing the 1,412 accumulated by Duck assistant coach Debbie Adams Still ahead of the 6-3 junior center is Bev Smith with a lofty 2,063 points "I didn’t realize that," said Lang when told of her scoring record. When told that she had just passed her coach, Adams, on the scoring list, Lang replied "Good” with a laugh Besides Lang, senior Mary Ann Stoican was a major factor in the Ducks’ sweep of the Bay Area schools. When the scrappy Dons closed to within 30-27 late in the first half, it was Stoican who hit three con secutive jumpers to push Oregon into a 38-29 lead. That, combined with some early outside shooting by Heather McDuffie — 16 points — and the inside play of Lang kept USF at bay. "I though that Mary Ann and Heather played very well tonight,” said Heiny. "Mary Ann’s job is to calm us down and hit some shots, and she did that tonight.” But the Ducks had their hands full with San Francisco After establishing a 44-35 halftime lead, Oregon watched USF forward Lisa Daughtrey lead a 10-4 Don spurt that cut the lead to 48-45. But Oregon surged to a 58-46 thanks to a three-point play by Helen Higgs off a re bound basket, and five points and two block ed shots by Lang Again USF came charging back The Dons eschewed their hefty leading scorer, center Linda Walsh (“We needed a quicker line-up. and she hadn’t been doing much on offense," explained San Francisco coach Sue Rojcewicz) in favor of a quicker, press ing team, and Daughtrey led a 10-0 USF spurt that sliced the Duck lead to 63-59 Again Lang came to the rescue, this time with a block and two steals, and Oregon had the game in hand. "I'm really proud of the way we played," said Rojcewicz after the Dons dropped to 3-3 and 116. "We never gave up." On the other side of the locker room, Heiny agreed with a reporter's statement that the days of the blowouts are over. Well, not quite Against a smaller Santa Clara team, the Ducks, with the knowledge that the Broncos had been blitzed 89-46 by co-NorPac leader Oregon State, breezed to an easy victory. For all intents and purposes, this one was over after Ducks took a 4-2 lead early in the game. Santa Clara should be the last patsy Oregon faces, as the Ducks will now go on the road for three of their next four games, meeting San Jose State and Cal (“The two best league teams in Calfornia," says Heiny) in California and Oregon State in Cor vallis. All this sandwiched between a home game against second-ranked USC on Feb.6. "We have to be ready,” said Heiny. "We have no choice." Cash For Textbooks Mon.- Fri. Smith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 1 Bl. From Campus 345-1651 DIAMOND BRIDAL SET & $12950 This lovely bridal set features an ex quisite solitaire diamond. You get both engagement and wOdding rings at this exceptional low price. Student’s Accounts Invited VALLEY RIVER CENTER DOWNTOWN Da<iy 10 to 9. 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