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Halas Charges Fischer
Gouged Morris In Eye
By JOE GERGEN
UPI Sports Writer
Pat Fischer finally picked on
someone his own size—to his
everlasting regret.
Fischer, the 5-foot-9 bantam
who mans a cornerback spot on
the St. Louis Cardinals* defen
sive unit, has gained a
reputation for aggressiveness
during his seven-year National
Football League career. On
Sunday he went a step too far,
at least as far as George Halas
was concerned.
Halas, the coach of the
Chicago Bears, charged that
Fischer gouged flanker Johnny
Morris in the eyes on two
successive plays In the first
quarter. Morris stands 5-10 and
weighs 180, the same as
Fischer.
But neither Halas nor the
Bears took that blow lying
down. They reacted with a
vengeance to roll up a 30-3
victory and, in the process, they
made Fischer the unwitting
’‘victim.”
‘‘We killed them with the
bomb,” said Halas, “and we
exploded it right on Fischer.
After he gouged Morris’ eyes
twice in a row, we took it out
on him. He could have
destroyed Johnny’s eyesight
with those tactics.”
Avenging Angel
Quarterback Jack Concannon
was the avenging angel for the
Bears. He threw three long
distance touchdown passes over
Fischer, Including a 93-yarder
to Dick Gordon, the longest in
the NFL this season.
Concannon, given a vote of
confidence by Halas earlier in
the week after seemingly losing
his job to Larry Rakestraw in
last week’s triumph over the
New York Giants, connected
with Gordon on a 67 yarder and
threw 51 yards to rookie Bob
Jones, making his first recep
tion in NFL competition. He
also scored the Bears’ TD on a
aix-yard rollout.
Chicago made life miserable
for young quarterback Jim
Hart, harassing him into seven
Interceptions, three by Curt
Gentry, and limiting the Cards’
high-powered offense to a 37-
yard field goal by Jim Bakken.
The loss dropped St. Louis out
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Monday, Nov. 20, 1967
of the Century Division lead.
Chicago, in scoring its third
successive victory, raised its
mark to 5-5.
Cleveland took over first
place in the Century by edging
Minnesota 14-10 while New York
moved back into contention with
a 28-20 victory over Pittsburgh.
Baltimore and Green Bay
continued to roll on top of the
Coastal and Central Divisions,
respectively, as the Colts routed
Detroit 41-7 and the Packers
beat San Francisco 13-0.
Washington, however, sliced
into Dallas’ lead in the Capitol
; Division by handing the Cow
boys a 27-20 defeat, Philadelphia
moved up by wallopping New
Orleans 48-21, and Los Angeles
smothered Atlanta 31-3.
Leroy Kelly rammed into the
end zone from the one yard line
with 28 seconds remaining to
salvage the victory for Cleve
land. Kelly, who gained 123
yards rushing and scored the
Browns’ first TD on a one-yard
plunge, set up his own last
minute score with a 30-yard
dash to the Vikings’ 11 after
Walter Johnson recovered a
Dave Osborn fumble.
Randy Mlnniear, rookie re
placement for injured fullback
Tucker Frederickson, scored the
first two touchdowns of his NFL
career in sparking the Giants
past the Steelers. A minor
leaguer until three weeks ago,
Minniear caught a six-yard pass
from Fran Tarkenton, one of his
two TD throws, and plunged ne
yard for the Insurance score.
Frederickson suffered tom li
gaments in his left knee and
will be sidelined for the
remainder of the season.
Ran Back Punt
Jerry Logan ran back a punt
43 yards for a touchdown in the
first quarter and the Colts
rolled over the Lions. Tom
Matte ran for two scores and
set up another as Baltimore (8-
0-2) moved closer to the first
unbeaten season in the league
since 1942. Matte gained 110
yards rushing as the Colts
remained one game ahead of
Los Angeles in the Coastal.
The Packers, leading the
Central Division by 2y 2 games
over the Bears, overcame the
loss of quarterback Bart Starr
and linebacker Leroy Cassey
with a tight defense which
handed the Forty Niners their
first shutout in six years.
Reserve quarterback Zeke Brat
kowski guided the Packers into
Mickey Wright
Boost Earnings
To $233,168
PENSACOLA, Fla. (UPD —
Mickey Wright, the blonde Tex
an who won the SIO,OOO Pensa
cola Women’s Open Sunday,
said her win ‘‘was probably the
most consistent three rounds of
golf I have ever played in my
life.”
Records fell as the 32-year-old
pro breezed to a three-day
score of 209 and pocketed $1,500
first place money to bring her
career earnings to $233,168.
Sandra Haynie, who began
the day two strokes behirtd, fin
ished nine behind, but took the
second prize of $1,200.
Miss Wright blasted five
birdies and one eagle on her
way to victory.
It was her 76th career win,
a record in the Ladies Profes
sional Golf Association. Her ca
reer earnings set another LPGA
mark.
It was Miss Wright’s fourth
win of the year.
The Pensacola Open, last on
the 1967 LPGA tour, was played
on the Scenic Hills Country
Club course.
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position for two field goals by
Don Chandler and a one-yard
touchdown run by Donny
Anderson.
Sonny Jurgensen passed for
four touchdowns, two to A. D.
’ Whitfield, and survived a late
Dallas rally engineered by
’ reserve quarterback Craig Mor-
BETWEEN YOU’N’ME
Veteran Insider
Has His Problems
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
NEA Sports Editor
©
i NEW YORK—(NEA)—In a recent issue of Life, a discon
certing reference was made to a couple of “veteran insiders”
of professional football. One of them was Tex Maule, the
oracle of Sports Illustrated. Modesty inhibits identification ol
the other.
This label of veteran insider creates immediate problems.
People expect you to know what’s going on.
So you’re sitting in the press box—well-heated, of course
enjoying the sight of Johnny Unitas throwing a touchdown
pass to Willie Richardson and a guy yells over, “What’d they
. catch ’em in, a rotating zone?”
The impulse is to answer the way coach Don Shula would:
“I’ll have to wait until I see the films.”
Listen, football’s complex enough without trying to figure
the patterns of 22 men involved in Intricate maneuvers like
fold blocks, line slants, posts and drops. When Frank Gifford
retired from active play, he scouted opponents one year for
the New York Giants and found out it was the toughest way
to watch a football game.
“You’re supposed to know what’s going to happen,” he said,
“by checking the guards, whether they’re pulling or setting t
up to block. Hell, I was watching the quarterback—like every
body else—to see where the ball went.”
Gifford’s comments are apropos because he’s out with a
tome that is the latest prose to watch football by, replete with
diagrams and all sorts of inside revelations. At the same
time, that other “veteran insider,” Tex Maule, has just pro
duced a document called “The Players” which must be one
of the most unique ever published on pro football.
Among the 238 pages (coated stock) of pictures (32 in color,
100 in black and white) and Maule expertise, there is not a
single diagram of xs and os intersected by 'arrows and
dotted lines. For that alone, it probably belongs on the living
room coffee table—if you can afford the $12.95 at your near
est book store.
The intrigue of pro football is in both the strength and
frailty of the performers. You could appreciate Vince Cos
tello, the 35-year-old middle linebacker of the collapsible
Giant defense, if you could hear him gush enthusiastically at
a Monday luncheon run by Fran Tarkenton of the combust
; ible Giant offense. Costello, a refugee from the Browns, has
lasted more than a dozen years because of his effervescence.
Still, he was impelled to explain that a touchdown was
scored against his unit “because we were in a weak side
L zone and I didn’t give ’em underneath protection.” And 200
. guys in business suits who had just been poring over invoices
were expected to understand.
It was like Don Shula explaining a touchdown was scored
, against the Colts by Green Bay “because the corner back was
sucked inside and forgot to roll back to double with the comer
backer on the man coming out of the backfield.”
Football was a lot simpler when all teams lined up in a 7-4
defense (called 7-diamond) and everything was predictable.
It was also much duller.
Bulldogs In Bowl Picture
After Smashing Auburn
ATLANTA (UPI) —The Geor
gia Bulldogs, shaking off those
two 1-polnt losses that almost
chilled their bowl hopes, moved
right back Into the post-season
picture today.
Georgia’s defense has seldom
looked better than it did Satur
day when the Bulldogs trounced
old rival Auburn 17-0. That gave
the Bulldogs a 6-3 record and
reportedly attracted the atten
tion of the Sugar Bowl.
It figures Georgia will wind
up at 7-3—not bad in this season
of upsets —for injury-staggered
Georgia Tech comes up next
Saturday and is expected to be
another Bulldog victim.
Tech, apparently headed for
its worst season in 22 years,
lost Saturday to Notre Dame,
36-3. Coming on the heels of a
49-7 loss to Miami, that gives
Tech’s opponents 184 points —
only 23 short of the all - time
high of 207 set back in 1931, the
year Bobby Dodd became an
assistant coach at the flats.
Georgia Tech would need to
upset Georgia to break even this
season and avoid its worst mark
since 1945—Dodd’s first as head
coach. But that sure Isn’t likely
and it looks like Bud Carson will
be 4-6 his first year too.
Consider these facts:
—Auburn was the highest scor
ing team in the Southeastern
Conference and had gained 338
yards per game prior to playing
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while Norm Snead threw four
TD passes as the Eagles
avenged a humiliating loss to
the Saints two weeks ago.
Roman Gabriel hurled two
scoring passes and ran for a
third score as the Rams erupted
for 24 points In the final quarter
to whip the Falcons.
Georgia. But the Bulldogs limit
ed the Tigers to four first
downs, eight yards on the
ground, 89 air yards with only
five completions in 23 passes—
and, of course, NO points.
—Georgia marched 94 and 64
yards in two fourth - period
touchdown drives against the
Auburn defense which was one
of the SEC’s best.
Georgia Tech, on the other
hand, was overwhelmed by the
Irish after taking a 3-0 first
period lead. Notre Dame scored
21 points in the second period
and coasted home. Tech could
hit on only 11 of 35 passes for
55 yards while Notre Dame,
sticking mainly to the ground,
rolled up 360 yards in total of
fense.
—Tech quarterback Kim King
was hurt again and probably
will be unable to run the option
against Georg ia. Linebacker
Mike Bradley is doubtful. Car
son makes no bones about the
fact that with Lenny Snow gone
and King unable to run, Tech’s
offense is only a shadow.
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Georgia In
Liberty Bowl
Picture
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) —
Liberty Bowl officials say they
may pick the 1967 lineup for the
Dec. 16 game by tonight. Geor
gia, Penn State and Missouri
were the top contenders.
A. F. (Bud) Dudley, president
of the bowl, said his selection
committee, after meeting late
into the night Sunday was un
able to confirm the selection of
any team for the 9th annual
game.
“We will have to wait about
24 hours before naming the two
teams,” Dudley said. “Although
we have no doubts about the
validity of some of the larger
bowls being filled, some of the
schools we have contacted want
to wait and see If It Is official.
“We are not going to rush
Into this thing,” he added.
“We’ll abide by their wishes.”
Other teams still under con
sideration included Auburn,
Colorado, Nebraska, North
Carolina State and Syracuse.
In other Liberty Bowl action
today, a panel of judges was
to meet with the 11 finalists for
the Miss Liberty Bowl title to
day with the winner and her
court to be named at a banquet
meeting tonight.
Sports Briefs
NEAR RECORD
PHILADELPHIA (UPD—Cen
ter Jim Ringo of the Philadel
phia Eagles neared the National
Football League consecutive
game record when he appeared
in the 178th straight game
Sunday. Dick Modzelewskl hold
the NFL record of playing 180
games In a row.
LOST GIANTS
NEW YORK (UPI)The New
York Giants lost fullback
Tucker Fredrickson and tackle
Jim Moran for the season
Sunday when they were Injured
during the Pittsburgh Steeler
game. Fredrickson tore li
gaments in his right knee and
Moran broke his left leg.
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Tucker Frederickson
May Be Out For Good
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPD—They
didn’t have to tell Tucker
Frederickson how bad it was.
He knew.
He knew from instinct and
from experience. Both told him
what was happening to him now
could be every bit as bad as
what happened to him 14
months ago.
"He was very depressed when
he came In here,” said one of
the few persons who was in the
New York Giants’ dressing
room at Yankee Stadium
Sunday when Frederickson
walked In carrying his helmet
in his hand. ‘‘He knew right
away it was pretty bad."
The hard-luck, 24-year-old
fullback was hit on the left side
by a Pittsburgh defender trying
to go through right guard on the
last play of the first period.
Began Operation
That happened at 2:04 p.m.
By 5:47 p.m. Dr. Anthony
Pisani, the Giants* team physi
cian, already had scrubbed for
surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospi
tal. He then proceeded to
operate for a partial tear of
both cartilage and ligaments on
Frederickson’s left knee.
Before he reached the hospi
tal, there was a press box
announcement to the effect that
Frderlckson was all through for
the season.
What they didn’t announce
was that Tucker Frederickson,
who underwent a similar
operation of his other knee
during September of 1966 and
was out all last season, might
be finished for good.
Nobody felt much like cele
brating in the Giants’ quarters
after their 28-20 victory over the
Steelers. Frederickson wasn’t
the only one hurt. Defensive
tackle Jim Moran suffered a
broken leg and big Francis
Peay, another tackle, folded up
like a suitcase after being
kicked In the back of the head.
No one knew how Frederick
son got his. No one, it seems,
saw It.
‘‘l didn’t even realize what
had happened until I got back in
the huddle and didn’t see him
there,” said his buddy, Ernie
Koy, whose locker is alongside
Frederickson’s.
“I was blocking on the play
and I was down, so I didn’t see
anything. Then when I got back
in here at half time the things
were out of his locker and he
was gone.”
Rookie Randy Minniear, a
graduate of the Giants’ West
chester Bulls’ farm club, took
over for Frederickson, scored
two touchdowns and generally
played so well that he was
given the game ball. But he
wasn't sure what had happened,
either.
“I was standing on the
sidelines and I saw Tucker go
down," he said. ‘‘He shook his
head from side to side, as If to
say he couldn’t run anymore. I
didn’t realize It was so bad
when they sent me In. I feel
awful about It. Tuck’s a great
guy, a great athlete and he
helped me quite a bit.”
Had It Made
In this town, where they say
you have to be good to make it
to the top. Tucker Frederickson
nearly had It made.
He was a fine ballplayer,
young, good-looking, and had all
the girls following him. He had
come back from a serious
operation and gave every sign
of becoming an even better
ballplayer than before.
‘‘Tuck’s a game man,” said
quarterback Fran Tarkenton.
He’ll have that knee operation
and he’ll come back. He did it
before and he’ll do It again. You
don’t know the kind of
determination he has.”
In his private office, Allie
Sherman, the Giants 1 coach,
was talking about all the
injuries and the one suffered by
Tucker Frederickson in particu
lar.
“He’s out for the year and
what If he can’t ever make it
back?” someone asked.
Sherman was silent a
moment. Finally he said:
"I don’t even want to think
about that.”
SEC Standings
Cons All
Team WL T WL T
Tennessee 4 0 0 71 0
Alabama 4 10 7 11
Florida 4 2 0 6 2 0
Georgia 4 2 0 6 3 0
Auburn 3 2 0 6 3 0
Lou. St. 3 2 1 5 3 1
Mississippi 2 2 1 4 3 1
Kentucky 1 5 0 2 7 0
Vandy 040251
Miss. St. 0 5 0 1 8 0
Independents
(Team WLT
Va. Tech 7 2 0
Miami (Fla.) 6 2 1
Fla. State 6 2 1
Chattanooga 7 3 0
Memphis St. 5 3 0
Sou. Miss. 5 3 0
Georgia Tech 4 5 0
Tulane 3 6 0
Tampa 2 6 0
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