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MAJOR HOOPLE'S FOOTBALL FORECAST
Nebraska number one again; Colorado, Oklahoma close
By
MAJOR AMOS B. HOOPLE
Peerless Prognosticator
Egad, friends, it seems
like only yesterday your fav
o r i t e correspondent jour
neyed to Miami to watch the
brilliant Nebraska Cornhusk
ers decimate Bear Bryant’s
'Barna Boys in the Orange
Bowl, and here we are on
the threshold of another
challenging collegiate pig
skin season.
You will allow me, I trust,
to take a modest bow for
having pegged Nebraska’s
rout of Alabama which
clinched the Cornhuskers’
second straight national
crown—har-rumph!
In 1972, just as last year,
the Big Eight elevens appear
to be the powers. Rated No.
1, 2 and 3 at the end of the
’7l season, Nebraska, Okla
homa and Colorado, respect
ively, are loaded again this
year.
Having made it two in a
row, a feat heretofore ac
complished by only the great
Notre Dame teams of 1946-
47, can Bob Devaney’s boys
make it three in a row? It
will be difficult, but—kaff
kaff—your Peerless Prognos
ticator sees the Cornhuskers
repeating with talented slot
back Jolly Johnny Rodgers
leading the offense and All-
America end Willie Harper
spearheading the defensive
forces.
The Oklahoma Sooners,
with Greg Pruitt and a host
of other talent, are bent on
giving Eddie Crowder’s Col
orado club a stiff battle for
the runner-up spot in the Big
Eight and second place in
the national ratings. Our pre
liminary surveys indicate
the Buffaloes are a shade
better than the Sooners.
Lest you be mislead by the
foregoing, let me hasten to
add all the great talent isn’t
Expos
take
Braves
ATLANTA (UPI) - Relief
pitcher Mike Marshall is an ex
traordinary man. His manager,
Gene Mauch, says so.
With the Montreal Expos
mired in fifth place in the Na
tional League East and unlikely
to climb higher, Marshall is
about the only bright spot in a
lackluster season.
The right - hander came on
with one out in the ninth inning
Wednesday night and the tying
run on base, trying to save a
3-2 victory against Atlanta for
starter Emie McAnally, who
needs all the help he can get
this year.
Marshall got Mike Lum to
pop out and then walked Henry
Aaron. With two runners on
base, Atlanta Manager Eddie
Mathews sent up pinch hitter
Rico Carty, one of the finest
hitters in the game.
Marshall got Carty to hit a
screwball into the ground and
shortstop Tim Foli made a bril
liant play for the final out. He
streaked in, picked up the slow
bouncing ball with his bare
hand and fired, catching Carty
by an eyelash.
The save was the 14th for
Marshall and he also has won
14 games, all in relief. His ERA
is a skimpy 1.58.
“He saved us again, as
he has many, many times,”
Mauch said later. “He’s an ex
traordinary man. There’s a lot
of depth to him, aside from
baseball.”
Marshall, 29, played shortstop
in the minors. He was the all
star shortstop in the Carolina
League and in the Southern
League in the early 19605, but
switched to pitching after four
minor league seasons. He
struggled to the majors mainly
as a relief pitcher, and last
year had 23 saves, second in
the National League.
Off season he is working on a
Ph.D. in education at Michigan
State University. He received a
masters degree from MSU five
years ago.
Mauch said Marshall’s screw
ball is his best pitch.
“He throws a lot of them,”
said Mauch. “When he gets the
hitters thinking ‘screwball,’
then he’s extra tough.”
Marshall said, “It’s no fun
facing “The Hammer” (Aaron)
and Rico (Carty) back-to-back.
I threw almost all screwballs—
Carty grounded out on a screw
ball.”
The Old Boy Himself
confined •to the Big Eight.
No, not by any means!
The Pacific Eight duo, the
Southern California Trojans
and Stanford’s powerful In
dians, winners of the last
two Rose Bowl encounters,
figure to be top-notch again.
And ready to move into the
throne room should the Tro
jans or Indians falter are the
Washington Huskies with
Cherokee passing wizard
Sonny Sixkiller at the helm.
In the powerful Southeast
ern Conference, your corres
pondent sees little difference
between Alabama, Georgia,
Tennessee, LSU and Missis
sippi, with any one of them
capable of grabbing the
crown. One club that could
pull away from the pack
right from the start is
Charlie McClendon’s LSU
eleven led by versatile quar
terback Bert Jones, son of
the great Dub Jones who
helped my —a-hem—protegy
Paul Brown write pro foot
ball history with his Cleve
land Browns some zu years
ago. Bert looks every bit as
good as his daddy — um
kumph!
In the rugged Mid-Amer-
1971 Season
BASEBALL
Major League Standings
By United Press International
National League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Pittsburgh 77 46 .626 -
Ctticago 67 57 .540 10»4s
New York 63 58 .521 13
St. Louis 60 63 .488 17
Montreal 57 65 .467 19te
Philadelphia 44 78 .361 32Ws
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Cincinnati 78 46 .629 —
Houston 71 54 .568 7%
Los Angeles 65 57 .533 12
Atlanta 57 69 .452 22
San Francisco 56 70 .444 23
San Diego 46 78 .371 32
Wednesday’s Results
Chi 9 Los Ang 8, 11 inns
Cincinnati 4 New York 2
Montreal 3 Atlanta 2
Houston 5 Philadelphia 3
San Fran 3 St. Louis 2
Pittsburgh 11 San Diego 0
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Los Angeles (Osteen 14-9) at
Chicago (Reuschel 6-6), 2:30
p.m.
Philadelphia (Fritchell 3-6) at
Houston (Dierker 13-7), 8:30
p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Friday’s Games
San Fran at Pittsburgh, night
San Diego at Chicago
Los Ang at St. Louis 2, twi
night
Phila at Atlanta 2, twi-night
New York at Houston, night
Montreal at Cinci, night
Sports Briefs
By United Press International
BOUT SCHEDULED
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
Bennie Briscoe, a tough left
hooker in the Philadelphia
tradition, and the second
ranked middleweight in the
world, signed a contract
Wednesday to challenge world
champion Carlos Monzon of
Argentina in Buenos Aires on
Oct. 7.
Monzon and Briscoe fought to
a draw in Buenos Aires five
years ago in a bout that
Monzon described as “one of
the toughest” of his career.
PACERS SIGN THREE
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI)
—The American Basketball
Association champion Indiana
Pacers signed three players
Wednesday, including free
agents John Sutter and Bill
Deheer, both 6-feet-9.
Also signed to a contract was
6-foot-3 Wally Rice of Penn
ica Conference, Toledo,
sporting the nation’s longest
winning streak — 35 straight
—is in for some tough sled
ding. My scouts see both
Miami’s Redskins and the
Bowling Green Falcons fin
ishing ahead of the Rockets
in the league competition.
This, I believe, will be a very
close race.
The Ivy League chase
should be a humdinger—
heh-heh — with my beloved
alma mater Yale — Boola-
Boola—bouncing back from
a disappointing season to
challenge Dartmouth, Har
vard and Columbia for the
crown. It’s a chase any one
of the four could win.
I look also for Woody
Hayes' Buckeyes to rebound
from, for them, a dismal 6-4
performance in 1971. The
Bucks are talent-heavy at all
positions and should give de
fending champion Michigan
and rejuvenated Michigan
State a run for their money.
Bob Blackman’s Illini boys
may be a year or two away
but they will pull some sur
prises and may be a good
long-shot bet for the Big Ten
title.
Watch for Arizona State to
spread-eagle the field once
again in the Western Athletic
Conference and for Louis
ville to completely dominate
the Missouri Valley Confer
ence. My scouts report
Louisville has its best team
ever and will rate high in the
national rankings.
Among the independents
we see Penn State and Bos
ton College as the powers in
the East. Georgia Tech, with
flashy Eddie McAshan run
ning the show, and Florida
State are the class of the
South. In the Midwest,
Notre Dame towers above
all and if quarterback Cliff
Brown lives up to his poten-
Right Wrong Ties Pct.
387 167 7 .700
American League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Detroit 67 57 .540 —
Baltimore 67 57 .540 —
Boston 64 58 .525 2
New York 65 59 .524 2
Cleveland 58 66 .468 9
Milwaukee 48 75 .390 18%
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Oakland 73 51 .589 -
Chicago 71 52 .577 1%
Minnesota 61 60 .504 10%
Kansas City 60 62 .492 12
California 56 67 .455 16%
Texas 49 75 .395 24
Wednesday’s Results
Boston 4 Chicago 2
New York 3 Texas 1
Kan City 6 Milwaukee 2
Minn 7 Baltimore 1
Oakland 2 Cleveland 0
California 4 Detroit 1
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Detroit (Fryman 3-1) at
California (Ryan 14-12), 11 p.m.
Kansas City (Jackson 1-0) at
Milwaukee (Lockwood 6-10),
8:30 p.m.
Texas (Hand 10-9) at New
York (Peterson 13-13), 2 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Friday’s Games
Chicago at New York, night
Kan City at Boston, night
Milwaukee at Texas, night
Cleveland at Minn, night
Baltimore at Calif, night
Detroit at Oakland, night
Military, the club’s 12th-round
draft choice.
PITTSBURGH (UPI)-Ken
Schinkel, the all-time scoring
leader of the expansionist
Pittsburgh Penguins, Wed
nesday signed a contract with
the club for the 1972-73 season.
Schinkel, who scored 15 goals
and 30 assists last season, has
collected 215 points as a
Penguin since joining them in
the 1967 expansion draft.
FATAL INJURY
MASSILLON, Ohio (UPI)-
Brian Coleman, a 16-year-old
Sandusky High School football
player who suffered a severe
head injury during a scrim
mage against Massillon High
School on Aug. 26, died
Wednesday at Massillon City
Hospital.
tial, the Irish could make a
strong run for national hon
ors. The Air Force and Utah
State give the Rocky Moun
tain area two top teams
capable oi iiuiaing their own
in any competition. In the
Southwest, the always dan-
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So you see, dear readers,
it will not be an easy season
for the football forecasters,
but, as usual, the Hoople
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ready to give you their flaw-
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less predictions on the up
coming tussles.
Getaway day, Sept. 9,
finds most of the top clubs
on the schedule. Slated to
see action are Georgia Tech
playing host to rugged Ten
nessee. Arkansas entertain-
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 31,1972
ing Southern California
under the lights in Little
Rock, Colorado welcoming
California, Temple visiting
Syracuse, and mighty Ne
braska journeying to UCLA
for a nocturnal encounter.
For the authentic line on
what’s going to happen in
these contests and the other
34 major attractions opening
day, watch for our first fore
cast coming soon on these
pages. The predictions will
amaze you!
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