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— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 20,1976
Page 14
Steelers destroy
Baltimore, 40-14
By United Press International
The Pittsburgh Steelers were
such a destructive force on the
football field Sunday they sent
the fans home early — and
thereby ended up saving the
lives of hundreds of people.
The Steelers, methodically
marching toward a record third
straight Super Bowl title,
crushed the Baltimore Colts, 40-
14, in an American Football
Conference semifinal and, for
tunately, sent people heading
for the exits well before the end
of the contest.
Because the stadium emptied
early a major tragedy was
averted when a small engine
Cherokee plane, piloted by 33-
year-old Don Kroner of Bal
timore, crashed into the upper
deck of Baltimore’s Memorial
Stadium about 10 minutes after
the game had ended. Police
said that if the game had been
close there would still have
been many people in the stands
and that several of them
probably would have been
killed.
Griffin JV
wins pair
The Griffin JV (Junior
Varsity) beat County
twice Saturday.
Griffin won the first game 40-
17 and took the second 42-39.
John I jndsey was high scorer
in the first game with nine. Tom
Barrett had nine rebounds and
Daryl Jester and Ron Taylor
had seven.
Ricky Tucker scored 14 points
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“If it had been a close game
there would have been people
up there and they would have
been falling out of the
stadium,” said Maryland Gov.
Marvin Mandel, who attended
the contest and inspected the
accident site.
There were no injuries
reported to spectators, but two
policemen were struck by part
of the plane’s wingtip and were
injured. Kroner was hospital
ized with cuts and bruises and
was reported in fair conditition.
The game was supposed to
have been a closely-contested
affair, but the Steelers dominat
ed it from the opening whistle.
Terry Bradshaw, injured for
much of the regular season,
saw a weakness in the Colts’
secondary affair, but the Steel
ers dominated it from the
opening whistle.
The Steelers’ famed defense
also was awesome, holding the
high-scoring Colts to just 170
yards total offense.
“We were ready,” said
Bradshaw. “They said they
in the second, 10 of them in the
fourth quarter when he was
three-for-three from the floor
and four-four-three from the free
throws line. Andre Reid scored
10 points and Randy Wimbush
made nine rebounds.
The Griffin JV, which has a 4-
2 record, will play the Henry
County “B” team tomorrow.
were ready, that they were at
their peak. They said this and
they said that. We said very
little and did a lot.”
Colts’ Coach Ted Marchi
broda admitted the Steelers
were a far superior team to his
club.
“We’re not a Super Bowl
team,” Marchibroda said. “We
need more ability and a few
more top players on our club to
become a Super Bowl team.
You saw one out there today in
everything they did—passing,
running, defense and specialty
teams.”
The victory sets up a
rematch between the AFC
finalists of the past two seasons
—Pittsburgh and the Oakland
Raiders. Oakland, which lost to
the Steelers 16-10 last year,
earned its shot by edging the
New England Patriots, 24-21,
Saturday. Pittsburgh has been
installed a four-point choice for
next Sunday’s game.
There will be a couple of
familiar faces in the NFC final
as well. Minnesota reached the
finals for the third time in the
last four years by walloping
Washington, 35-20, Saturday
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Alex Tatum scored 12 points Friday in Griffin Academy’s
62-52 loss to Gatewood. (Photo by William Wilson)
Academy
drops pair
The Gatewood Gators beat
the Griffin Academy boys and
girls Friday.
Gatewood beat the Academy
girls 51-48 and stopped the boys,
62-52.
Janice Gilstrap scored 22 points
for Griffin Academy’s girls.
Durae Fenner made 12, April,
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and Los Angeles downed
Dallas, last year’s NFC cham
pion, 14-12, Sunday to gain the
finals for the third straight
year. Minnesota is a three-point
choice to defeat the Rams next
Sunday.
Oakland needed a last second
one-yard touchdown run by
quarterback Ken Stabler to
defeat the Patriots, but it was a
controversial roughing-the-pa
sser penalty called on Patriots’
middle guard Ray Hamilton in
the final minute that kept the
winning drive alive. The
Patriots felt the call, which
gave the Raiders a first down
at the New England 13, was
unjust.
“He (Stabler) was throwing
the ball and I went for it and
tipped it,” said Hamilton. “You
can’t call that roughing the
passer.”
Minnesota had surprisingly
little trouble with Washington.
The Vikings got a pair of 100-
yard rushing efforts from
Chuck Foreman and unheralded
Brent McClanahan in downing
the Redskins. Foreman gained
105 yards and scored two
touchdowns and McClanahan
picked up 110.
Neill seven, Ann Tatum four,
Jan McKneely two and Lydia
Acton one.
Alex Tatum and Randy Ford
made 12 points for the boys.
John Stovall scored 10 and Bart
Leary and Mark Smith made
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Trouble dogging Kentucky
By United Press International
The Kentucky Wildcats better
straighten out their home front
if they want to conquer the
world of college basketball.
Trouble dogs Kentucky ath
letics. The football team,
plagued by personal problems
in 1975, Sunday was slapped
with NCAA probation and the
Wildcat eagers were limited to
three new basketball scholar
ships for each of the next two
academic years.
The latest problem at Ken
tucky arose last week when
coach Joe Hall handed “in
definite" suspensions to three
basketball players, including
starters Mike Phillips and Jay
Shidler, for “training viola
tions.”
Those suspensions quickly
haunted the Wildcats this past
weekend when a 70-68 loss to
Utah cost them the Kentucky
Invitational championship,
ended their longest-in-the-nation
winning streak and kept them
from moving up to No. 2 in the
national rankings.
The 3rd-ranked Wildcats (6-1)
won their 16th straight Friday
night, a 77-59 decision over
Bowling Green, without the 6-10
Phillips and sharpshooting Shid
ler. But the absence of those
two was too much to overcome
against Utah. A 15-footer with
one second to play by Utah’s
Earl Williams ended Kentuck
y’s bid for its 17th straight win.
The Wildcats probably would
have moved up a notch in the
standings if they had won
Saturday because 2nd-ranked
Marquette lost to Kentucky’s
neighbor, Louisville.
There’s no word on how long
the “indefinite” suspension will
last, but the Wildcats next
game is Dec. 30 when they
meet 4th-ranked Notre Dame in
Louisville.
Four other Southeastern Con
ference teams won tournament
championships this past week
end:
— Seventh-ranked Alabama
(6-0), paced by sophomore
Reggie King, beat Oklahoma
State, 70-61, and Virginia Tech,
108-78, to win the Dayton
Classic;
— The Florida Gators (4-1),
led by junior Richard Glasper,
beat South Florida, 70-53, then
edged previously unbeaten
Memphis State (6-1), 84-83, to
win the Big Sun Tourney at St.
Petersburg;
— Ole Miss (5-2) nipped both
Marshall, 65-63, and Toledo, 67-
64, to win the Toledo Invita
tional;
— and the Tennessee Vols (5-
2), getting 111 points in two
nights from the “Bernie (King)
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fourth period to give the Rams a 14-12 victory over the
Dallas Cowboys in the NFC playoff game. (UPI)
and Ernie (Grunfeld) Show,”
beat LaSalle, 92-85, and St.
John’s, 86-81, to win the
Volunteer Classic.
Independent Florida State (4-
3) lost, 93-87, to sth-ranked San
Francisco in the finals of the
Cable Car Classic.
In non-tournament action
Saturday, Georgia (4-1) outdef
ensed Fairleigh-Dickinson, 58-
44; Louisiana State (5-0) beat
Oklahoma City, 89-77; Georgia
Tech (5-1) beat East Tennessee
State. 62-54. and South Carolina
(2-3) beat Furman, 77-71.
6 B’ team girls
win 6th game
The Griffin High “B” team
girls won their sixth game
Saturday, stopping Jonesboro
21-15.
“We played a good defensive
game,” Coach Joe Grubbs said.
It was the third time in a row
Griffin has held an opponent to
16 or less points.
“Anytime we do that we
should win," Coach Grubbs
said.
Last Thursday, Auburn (5-0)
turned in a 109-59 rout at
Virginia Commonwealth. Mis
sissippi State (7-0) and Vander
bilt (1-4) were idle this past
week.
Grunfeld, the defending
Southeastern Conference scor
ing champ, scored 24 and 27
points in the Vol classic to raise
his average to 24.7 ppg and
maintain a slim lead over LSU
freshman Jordy Hultberg, who
had 25 points Saturday and
stands at 24.2 ppg.
The coach wasn’t satisfied
with Griffin’s offense. “We
missed 17 free throws,” he said.
Phyllis Ballard was high
scorer with six points. Michelle
McMichaels made five, Lisa
Jackson four, Dianna Johnson
two and Mickie Jackson,
Tracey Perdue, Nancy Grant
and Phyllis Price one.
The girls, who now are 6-1,
play Henry County tomorrow in
McDonough.