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Dolphins Loss tough By Astociated Prow STANFORD, Calif. ? Miami's Bob Baumhower paused a moment and then reflected on the road to Super Bowl XIX. He recalled all the hard work, the thrill of going 16-2 to reach Sunday's National Football League's championship game, and the disappointment of losing. "It's tough. It's the last game of the year and very hard to swallow," the 265-pound nose tackle said after the San Francisco 49ers whipped the Dolphins 38-16 in Stanford Stadium. THE LOSS was the Dolphins' second in three vcars in the Super Bowl and Coach Don Shula's fourth in a record six appearances. "It's a sad thing for a team to end the season this way," Shula said. "When we get home, we'll look at areas where we need to improve. We're a young team that's going to get better." Quarterback Dan Marino also looked ahead. "I hope we get another chance. You don't get here often," he said. "Emotionally, we had a great year as a team overall, but this kind of takes away from it," Marino added. "It's a shame we can't be the world champs because we did play well." "IT'S HARD to describe what I'm feeling ... I don't think a physical injury could hurt as much," guard Roy Foster said. "Everybody wants to be No.l and this time it's them. We're going to have to put this on the back burner, come back and try to be No.l next year." intra aiiii xmm UMmmi ' Davison's Super Saver Salon products, plus fine service b stylists?for the same low prl< OUR SPECIALTIES FOR WOMEN fc CHILDREN Precision haircut Shampoo/condltlonlng/flnisl Permanent wave (with either or both services < No appointments. Located c i siqh, 49 to take The 49ers, capping an 18-1 campaign with their second Super Bowl title in four seasons, outplayed Miami offensively, defensively and on special teams. San Francisco amassed 537 total yards against the Dolphins' Killer B's defense and held Marino, who averaged three touchdown passes a game during the regular season, to only one TD pass. Miami used a no-huddle offense during its only touchdown drive of the day, a 70-yard march that gave the Dolphins a 10-7 lead late in the first quarter. BUT THE 49ers then shifted to a f- * u luui-iiuiii uciciimvc iiuiii wuii ma defensive backs and eventually forced the Dolphins out of their game plan. San Francisco's defense took away the Dolphins' deep passing game, holding the Marks Brothers ? Clayton and Duper ? to seven catches between them. "I felt wc^were doing good things, but we just did not execute the right way," Duper said. "Give them all the credit in the world. They won." The Dolphins, who got Held goals of 37, 31 and 30 yards from Uwe Von Schamanw, trailed 38-16 at halftime. "OFFENSIVELY, IT was our poorest game of the year. We didn't ir.aks things happen," Shula said, also pointing out that punter Reggie Roby was not up to par. Roby, whose high, long punts frustrated returneis all season, had a disastrous stretch in the second quarter when the 49ers took charge. Three times his low kicks beat his coverage downfield, and three times San Fran [R SALON CE EVB1YDAY! ces everyday. Visit us today! I MEN, I: $6 t $6 additional $6 above) >n upper level. D279. EBflEEB ers boasi J Facts and Figures I Qianor RniRfl1 UU|?OI WU WW PAID ATTENDANCE ? 84,059. PLAYERS' SUPER BOWL SHARE ? Winners: $36,000 per man. L-osers: $18,000 ^ per man. (Apprdximalcly $3.2 million f total for personnel of both clubs). PLAYERS' TOTAL POSTSEASON SHARES ? San Francisco total $64,000, (Conference semifinals $10,000; Conference championship $18,000). Miami total $46,000 (Conference semifinals $10,000; Conference championship $18,000). ATTENDANCE ? To date 1,557,190 have supported Super Bowl games. Super Bowl XIX was the fifth largest crowd and the sixth to be staged in California. MOST VALUABLE PLAYER ? Montana is the 10th quarterback to win the Most Valuable Player Award. Montana is also the third player to win Most Valuable Player for the second time (Bait Starr and Terry Bradshaw also won twice). TEAM VICTORIES ? San Francisco is the first NFL team to win 18 games in a season. The previous record was 17 games held by Miami in 1972 and Pittsburgh in 1978. COACHES Bill Walsh is undefeated in Super Bowl competition wiih a 2-0 record. Don Shula is 2-4 overall, 2-3 with Miami, 0-1 with Baltimore. cisco started touchdown drives nea i midfield. ...... i in uiaa^jn;iiiicu 111 uic way iua we played," Shula said, "but I'm no : going to let it take away from the yea we had." Know how to avoid a hangover? ?j r? ?|jg RELIVE I PHOTO BUTTON wit jj PHOTO PRINT beaut CASSETTE "BLACK RECORD "NEXT VE1 | PRINTS Signed & N 1 HBHHHh B 2909 Plait I E Spring] Rd t after Bowl 1 Keys to 49ers' win were broken Dlavs f By Awociaf d Pre?? ~ i_ STANFORD, Calif. For the San Francisco 49ers, the key play in the Super Bowl was the broken play. I It was Joe Montana creating something from nothing, scanning the field for a receiver, finding none free and taking off on a dash of his own into wide-open spaces. . It was running backs Roger Craig, Wendell Tyler and Carl Monroe drifting into gaps to wait for check-off passes from a patient Montana. IT WAS an offense so filled with options that there was ? r>! ~ ? D n ....ilnkU Dion A .l/m.l/lr.1* aivraya a x laii u ui v. ui vj avanauiv. w.ivii i tan n vtuuiuii i work. Montana didn't have to match the bombs Miami quarterback Dan Marino was so famous for this season. Instead, the ^ N 49ers' quarterback riddled the Dolphins' with a machine-gun "barrage of short passes and stinging runs. The San Francisco quarterback, who won the most valuable player award with a record-shattering show in a 38-16 triumph Sunday, seemed at times to be just making up plays as he went along. In fact, he was. "NONE OF it's by design," Montana said of his scrambling and checkoffs. "Most of the time it's just something that happens. A play breaks down, a hole opens in front of me and I just take off." It was all part of the general strategy drawn up by Coach Bill Walsh to give Montana four or five options. Montana looks first for his two wide receivers, then one of his running f , backs, then considers running himself. Montana's speed was first displayed on a 19-yard dash in the second quarter, before he threw an 8-yard TD pass to Craig. Montana did it again five minutes later from the 6, when he pump-faked to Clark in the corner, saw him covered, -I then tucked the ball in and dove over the goal line. "We told Joe to make it when he sees it," Walsh said. One r of the most spectacular plays of the game was the last touchdown. Both wide receivers were covered on the thirdt quarter play, so Tyler and Craig drifted into the middle just t past the line of scrimmage at the 16 and criss-crossed. Craig r took the pass from Montana on the run and high-stepped untouched for a touchdown. f FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL THE USC CAMPUS ALCOHOL | PROJECT 777-6688. 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