PANTHERS CAPTURE U.S.F.L. CROWN

The Michigan Panthers won the first championship game of the United States Football League before an audience of 50,906 in Mile High Stadium tonight, and the game had enough excitement to inspire some in the crowd to invade the playing field before the contest could conclude. The end was disorderly and bizarre.

The Panthers won, 24-22, by turning back a rally by the Philadephia Stars in the final quarter. The Stars, behind by 17-3 when the fourth period began, scored 11 points to trail by 3.

Then Anthony Carter, the l62-pound wide receiver for the Panthers, who was troublesome for Philadelphia throughout the game, caught a 48-yard touchdown pass with three minutes to play. That gave Michigan a 24-14 lead.

On the game's next-to-last play, the Stars scored a meaningless touchdown as time ran out. Then hundreds of spectators jumped over high fences onto the field. After a five-minute delay, the invaders went to the sidelines, and the Panthers let the Stars complete a 2-point conversion play, which came on an undefended pass from Chuck Fusina to Scott Fitzkee.

That made official the final score of the new league's first championship event, one that exceeded the hopes of U.S.F.L. officials because of the attendance total and the competitiveness of the fourth-quarter play. The U.S.F.L. had set high prices for the tickets, $22 and $14. A blackout of local television had been lifted Saturday night when the advance ticket sale reached 43,000.

The crowd was enthused enough after a long game (it took 3 hours 43 minutes to complete) to try to take down the steel goal posts implanted in cement. Security forces, abetted by Denver police, kept the goal posts intact while fights broke out on the field.