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NEW YORK — On his eighth carry of the game against
the N.Y. Jets here Sunday Buffalo Bills' 0. J. Simpson
(32) breaks out of the clutches of Mark Lomas (84) of the
Jets and goes for seven yards on the snow-covered turf of
O.J. credits linemen
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
New York (UPI) — 0. J. Simpson’s finest moment came
after he left the field, not while he still was on it.
To my way of thinking anyway.
He had just reached the Promised Land. He had only a
few minutes before accomplished what no other
individual in professional football history had by rolling
up 2,003 yards rushing in a single season breaking Jim
Brown’s 10-year-old record of 1,863 yards.
Buffalo’s unbelievably gifted running back had done it
the hard way, too, on a hard, unyielding, bone-punishing,
snow-frosted field in damp, miserable weather.
The Bills had numbed the New York Jets, 34-14, in a
game that marked Weeb Ewbank’s farewell to coaching
and possibly could have been Joe Namath’s last one also—
“I honestly don’t know” — but in light of O. J. Simpson’s
superlative performance, everything else took second
place.
He carried the ball 34 times for 200 yards at Shea
Stadium Sunday, becoming the first player in pro ball
ever to accumulate 200 yards three different times in a
single season as well as the first man ever to crack the
2,000-yard barrier.
Shares Limelight
Now, it was after the game, and naturally everybody
wanted him.
Television first, naturally.
When it comes to obliging people, O. J. Simpson
could’ve given Dale Carnegie lessons. O.J. doesn’t forget
anyone. He makes sure everybody is taken care of, but
EVERYBODY.
Sure, he’d be happy to go on television and talk to the
radio men and the press also but he had to take care of one
little detail first.
He had to make sure the rest of the Bills’ first-line
offensive unit came with him. All of them. Nor would he
leave this to chance. One by one, he sought them out and
persuaded them to come with him. This was no hot-shot
buttering up the men who blocked for him. This was,
instead, an individual who genuinely intended for 11
others to share the limelight with him.
In 30 years of covering sports, I have never seen
anything like it before.
“C’mon, fellas,” O.J. called to them, smiling, as he
entered the room specially set aside for the more than 150
members of the media eager to question him.
Introduces Teammates
The offensive unit came with him.
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Shea Stadium. The run was enough to break Jim Brown’s
mark of 1,863 yards for one season. By game’s end, O. J.
had amassed 2,003 yards. (UPI)
O.J. didn’t merely have them take a bow and then forget
them either.
The media people began firing questions at him, but he
interrupted to say:
“Before I do anything else, I want to introduce our
entire offensive line. They’re the ones who did it for me
and they should get the same credit.”
O.J. began with Joe Ferguson, Buffalo’s quarterback.
“He’s a rookie, and did he do a job! ” Simpson said.
He had something to say about each of them and they all
ate it up. What made the whole thing so impressive, is that
O.J. did it so naturally and you could tell he really enjoyed
sharing his success.
Modest Correction
I-ater on, someone started a question to him by saying,
“you are now the greatest football player ever...”
“Running back...” Simpson corrected gently.
In the glare of the TV lights, a small cut on the bridge of
O.J.’s nose trickled blood. His right thumb also was
bleeding and his right eye was slightly bloodshot.
“I got tagged a few times,” he said, smiling, when
asked about the eye. “Phil Wise (the Jets’ right safety)
got me with a forearm, but it wasn’t his fault, I wear only
two bars on the front of my helmet.”
“You and Phil had words, didn’t you?” some asked.
“No,” said Simpson. “It was friendly talk. He came
flying up a couple of times and caught me. I told him ‘good
play,’ and he said, ‘you’re a good runner.’ He’s an
excellent player. The eye is nothing. He didn’t mean it.”
Flim-Flam Man
Over in the Jets’ quarters, Phil Wise said:
“Man, if I touched his eye with my finger or forearm it
was the only thing I touched on him all day. He just used
me up. You know how a streetcar conductor punches your
ticket. He just punched my ticket and waved to me in the
end zone.
“He lets you stay with him awhile, then he cuts and he’s
gone. He’s like a slim-slam man. All my life I thought Jim
Brown was the greatest runner, but O.J. broke his record.
I don’t see how anybody could be better. Even Jim
Brown.”
Phil Wise then talked about the Bills’ offensive unit, the
unit O.J. made sure to take with him after the ball game.
“They wanted him to have the record,” said Wise, “and
they got it for him. What’s more beautiful than for them to
say it first, and then go out and do it the way they did? O.J.
Simpson has to be one fine fellow.”
He is every inch that.
WHL
I standings
By United Press International
East
w. 1. t. pts gs ga
New Eng 18 11 1 37 114 96
Cleveland 14 12 4 32 96 97
Quebec 15 15 3 33 121 108
Toronto 14 17 3 31 119 114
Chicago 13 13 1 27 91 92
Jersey 11 18 2 24 76 110
West
w. I. t. pts gs ga
Edmonton 18 11 0 36 102 88
Houston 15 10 4 34 107 89
Minnesota 16 13 1 33 112 101
Winnipeg 14 15 3 31 110 108
Los Angels 13 19 0 26 97 120
Vancouver 11 18 0 22 95 117
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year for Falcons
... By DAVID MOFFITT . . .
. . . UPI Sports Writer . .
ATLANTA (UPI) - For the
Atlanta Falcons, and for Dave
Hampton in particular, it was a
frustrating season.
The Falcons beat New Orleans
Sunday, 14-10, to wind up with
a 9-5 record, their finest of eight
seasons. But, they came up
short again of winning a play
off berth.
After back - to - back upset
losses to Buffalo and St. Louis,
the Falcons lone hope Sunday
was that Washington would lose
while they were winning — but
the Redskins, refusing to co
operate, beat Philadelphia 38-20,
to take the wild card berth.
Dave Hampton’s story is a
Dream game was a
nightmare for State
By DONALD BERNS
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPI) - The
dream game betwen the
nation’s two top college basket
ball powers turned into a
nightmare for North Carolina
State.
The high-riding Wolfpack
waited for more than a year to
play UCLA’s reigning National
Collegiate Athletic Association
champions, then became just
another victim of the Bruins
and big Bill Walton, 84-66.
“Their team just played
better than our team,” North
Carolina State Coach Norm
Sloan said. “I hope we’re better
than this.”
UCLA handily won its 79th
straight game, an amazing
streak dating back to 1971. The
Bruins also brought an abrupt
end to North Carolina State’s
29-game win streak, which
included an undefeated season
last year when the Wolfpack
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real tear-jerker.
Last year, Hampton reached
the 1,000 - yard rushing mark
late in the season finale against
Kansas City. The game was
stopped long enough to present
him the ball — and he promptly
lost six yards the next time he
carried, winding up with 995.
Hampton went into Sunday’s
finale needing 87 yards to reach
that coveted 1,000-yard goal this
season, but got only 84 — even
though he gained 58 (on 16
carries) in the fin al period—and
wound up three yards shy at
997.
“It’s going to be another long
off season,” said the 190-pound
running back. “I haven’t for
gotten last season at all. This
was ineligible for post-season
tournament play.
The game was even for about
three quarters. For North
Carolina State, 6-foot-4 David
Thompson was leaping above
the basket and rebounding and
scoring. Little Monte Towe was
dribbling and moving fast. For
UCLA, Keith Wilkes was hitting
from outside and going inside
for rebounds. Dave Meyers was
clearing the lane and grabbing
loose basketballs.
The duel between the two
centers, UCLA’s 6-foot-ll Wal
ton and N.C. State’s 7-foot-4
Tommy Burleson, was short
circuited by early fouls. Walton
drew two in the first two
minutes of the game and left
with four when the game was
eight minutes old. Burleson left
about three minutes later with
three personals.
Burleson started the second
half against UCLA center
— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 17,1973
sort of thing, you live with all
your life.
“The whole offensive line
wanted me to get it,” Hampton
continued. “I haven’t had a
chance to think about missing
that 1,000 again. I haven’t had
a chance to sit at home and let
it happen to me yet. But, it
will.”
The Saints, who wound up 5-9,
gained a measure of pride in
that 14-10 loss. Last time they
played the Falcons, three
months earlier, Atlanta won by
a 62-7 margin.
“That’s a 51 - point improve
ment,” said quarterback Archie
Manning whodidn’tplay Sunday
because of a bruised elbow.
“We’ve come a long way since
that first game with Atlanta. We
Ralph Drollinger with Walton
still on the bench. UCLA Coach
Johnny Wooden said, “I knew
that I could always bring him
back in.”
Wooden and Walton sat side
by-side until 9:49 remained in
the game. Then the red-haired
senior lumbered onto the court.
The Bruins led by only two
points and Steve Nuce quickly
hit a 15-foot jump shot to tie the
game for the Wolfpack.
Walton went to work. He laid
the ball through the hoop for a
two-point UCLA lead. He raced
to the other end and grabbed a
rebound. Tommy Curtis hit a
jump shot, converted a free
throw, Wilkes hit two straight
baskets, Curtis scored again,
then Walton, and the Bruins
outscored N. C. State 17-2 over
a four-minute period to show
once again, this time to a
national television audience,
why they are No. 1.
won five we should have won
three more.”
They looked like the Saints of
that first game in the first half
when Eddie Ray put the Falcons
ahead 14-0 with two short touch
down runs and New Orleans
gained a total of only 54 yards.
Bobby Scott, filling in for
Manning, hit on only two of nine
passes the first half — one for
no gain and the other for only
two yards.
But, the Saints outgained the
Falcons the second half, scoring
on a Scott pass with 3:30 left in
the third period and closing to
four points nine seconds before
the end of that period on a Bill
McClard field goal.
However, they never got be
yond midfield again.
“We had two seasons in one,”
said Falcons Coach Norm Van
Brocklin. “Before (quarterback
Bob) Lee we were 1 and 3 and
after Lee, we were 8 and 2.
“The moral of the story is
don’t lose three of your first
four,” said Van Brocklin. “If we
hadn’t lost the first three, we
wouldn’t have had any worries
about the last games. We could
have afforded to be human, like
Miami and Minnesota.”
“We have nothing to be
ashamed of,” said Lee. “We
don’t have to take a back seat
to anyone. There’s nothing
wrong with 9 and 5. But, I’m
very disappointed that we didn’t
get into the playoffs. We had it
right there (before the losses to
Buffalo and St. Louis) and all
we had to do was take it.”
Ray’s touchdowns were his
10th and 11th of the season and
broke a team record set last
year by Art Malone. Ray took
over at fullback for the Falcons
in midseason this fall when Ma
lone was hurt.
It (the scoring record)
doesn’t really matter,” said the
235-pound Ray. I just wish some
how or other I could give it to
Dave Hampton.”