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— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 28, 1975
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Ram’s Cullen Bryant (32) follows his blocker, Tom Mack
(65) as he picks up 5-yards during the first quarter of the
Detroit-Los Angeles game Thursday. Reaching out to
grab Bryant’s jersey and the eventual tackle is Lions’
Rams, Vikings
clinch crowns
BY JOE CARNICELLI
UPI Sports Writer
Two playoff berths were
wrapped up Thursday and
another should be Sunday but
the jockeying for the five
remaining post-season berths
should be something else.
The Los Angeles Rams locked
up the National Conference
Western Division title Thanks
giving Day with a 20-0 victory
over Detroit. It also gave the
Minnesota Vikings the NFC
Central title, dropping the Lions
4% games back.
Oakland can clinch the AFC
West title Sunday but other
than that, the races are wide
open. The Buffalo Bills added
to the excitement Thursday
when they upset the St. Louis
Cardinals 32-14 to throw two
more races into turmoil.
Buffalo’s victory left the Bills
at 7-4, a half-game behind
Miami in the AFC East. Also
close are the Baltimore Colts at
6-4.
In the AFC Central, Pitts
burgh holds a one-game advan
tage with its 9-1 record but
Cincinnati and Houston are just
behind at 8-2 and 7-3.
The Cardinals, who looked
like they might just walk off
with the NFC East title, now
are again locked in a three-way
struggle. St. Louis is 8-3, just a
half-game ahead of Dallas (7-
3), with Washington just behind
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Thus there are six clubs
battling for the three remaining
playoff spots in the AFC and
three teams struggling for the
two left in the NFC.
The key games Sunday are
Atlanta at Oakland, Houston at
Cincinnati, Kansas City at
Baltimore, Minnesota at Wa
shington, the New York Giants
at Dallas and Pittsburgh at the
New York Jets. Elsewhere,
Chicago is at Green Bay, New
Orleans at Cleveland, San
Diego at Denver and San
Francisco at Philadelphia. Mon
day night, New England is at
Miami.
On Thursday, James Harris
threw for three touchdowns,
connecting with Harold Jackson
twice and Ron Jessie, and the
Rams clinched their third
straight NFC West title by
whipping Detroit.
Harris threw an 11-yard TD
pass to ex-Lion Jessie in the
first quarter and connected
twice with Jackson on throws of
17 and 38 yards.
At St. Louis, Jim Braxton
picked up the slack for O.J.
Simpson and ran for 160 yards
and three TDs to lead the Bills
over the Cardinals. It was the
best day of Braxton’s five-year
career.
“It was a good win for us,”
said Rams Coach Chuck Knox,
“especially since it came in a
Paul Naumoff (50). Rams won, 20-0, to win the Western
Division title of the National Football League with a 9-2
record. (UPI)
short work week. It was a great
tribute to our team. They came
in to play, to wrap up the
championship, and they did it.”
Braxton credited his defense
with his stealing the show from
two of pro football’s most
exciting backs, teammate O.J.
Simpson and the Cardinals’
Terry Metcalf.
“The defense gets much of
the credit,” he said. “Their
effort is what gave me a
chance to get the ball so
much.”
The Cardinals “held” Simp
son to 85 yards in 23 carries.
He had 1,394 yards prior to the
game.
“I don’t mind letting someone
else get the spotlight as long as
we win,” Simpson said.
NCAA PLAYOFFS
SHAWNEE MISSION, Kan.
(UPI) — Ithaca College of New
York will host Widener College
of Chester, Pa., in a battle of
unbeatens next Saturday in a
semifinal pairing of the NCAA
Division 111 football champion
ships.
Ithaca, which lost to cham
pion Central College of lowa in
last year’s final, has a 9-0
record and Widener is 10-0.
In the other semifinal,
Wittenberg of Springfield, Ohio,
with a 10-1 record, will host
Millsaps of Jackson, Miss., 8-1.
One more shot
for Joe Torre
NEW YORK (UPI) — When you’re 35 going on 36, when
people forget you were MVP only four years ago and when
some of them cut you up inside by paying you what they
think is a compliment, then you know you’d better take
one more good look at yourself and if you don’t like what
you see, you’d better quit.
That’s pretty much the course of action Joe Torre has
lined up for himself. He’s giving himself one more shot
next spring with the New York Mets. He isn’t imposing
any deadline or cut-off date and he isn’t saying he will
finish the year or he won’t. It all depends, he says. If next
year turns out to be anything like this year, that’ll be it for
Joe Torre, the National League’s MVP in 1971. He’ll quit.
The pitchers won’t have him to kick around anymore.
For Joe Torre, this past season was an embarrassment.
That’s the word he uses himself.
He started the year with a .300 lifetime batting average
and ended it sitting on the bench, reduced to an almost
forgotten part-timer with the worst batting average of his
career, .247, along with only 35 rbi and six home runs. The
deepest indignity came when he set a National League
record by hitting into four double plays in one game with
Houston.
“The idea of quitting crossed my mind toward the end of
the season when it looked like my bat was slowing up,”
says Torre. “I knew I was losing confidence. When you
stop doing things well, you start doubting yourself. Then I
talked to Bob Gibson. He told me he started losing
confidence in himself in 1974. That made me feel a little
better.”
Generally, though, there wasn’t anything to make Joe
Torre feel good about last season. He had made the
National League’s All-Star team eight out of 14 times
before playing with the Braves and Cardinals, but there
was no danger of him making it again this time. He looked
as if he was all through, especially toward the end of the
year.
“I suppose the most embarrassing part was when I’d
run into people who were friends of friends I happened to
be with,” says Torre. “I’d be introduced as ‘Joe Torre of
the Mets’ and the people I was introduced to would say
‘you’re doing great!’ That really made me feel bad
because I knew these people telling me that didn’t know
anything about baseball.”
Once in the $150,000 range, Torre’s salary has been cut
by 30 per cent the past two years. Moreover, Joe
McDonald, the Mets’ general manager, says he’s looking
for a right-handed hitting third baseman and it so happens
that Torre, who plays first base as well, is a righthanded
hitting third baseman.
Still, he has embarked on an ambitious physical
conditioning program, he’s in excellent shape and he
believes he can win a job with the Mets next Spring.
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Islanders
By United Press international
The Montreal Canadiens fi
nally beat the New York
Islanders with a 2-1 win.
“We checked well against
them,” said Montreal Coach
Scotty Bowman. “I reminded
the guys we hadn’t beaten them
in two years. We proved we can
play wide open or a tight
defensive game. I used Pierre
Bouchard a lot on defense
because he is strong physically
and that fit into the hitting
game they play.”
Bouchard helped the Canadi
ens when defenseman Don
Awrey of Montreal got into a
fight with Garry Howatt of the
Islanders in the first period.
Referee Wally Harris gave both
five minute majors but Awrey
requested permission to leave
the penalty box. He had been
scratched in the eyeball and
had double vision.
“They checked me at the
hospital. I’ll try to practice
tomorrow and see how it is,”
said Awrey.
Montreal opened the scoring
in the second period when
Larry Robinson lined a 30-
footer past Billy Smith in the
Islander net.
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