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Ortega, Pennywell rescue Falcons ATLANTA (AP) - Line backers Ralph Ortega and Rob ert Pennywell came to the res cue of quarterback Steve Bar tkowski and the sluggish At lanta Falcons offense in the waning moments Sunday, turn ing the fans’ boos into deafening cheers of “defense, defense,” The Falcons, trailing until midway in the final quarter, got a pair of touchdowns from the defense to gain a 17-6 National Football League victory over Detroit, their first-ever defeat of the Lions in 10 tries. The Falcons, 5-4, have allowed only 62 points in nine games while scoring but 90. Ortega made the game-winn ing play when he picked up a Rick Kane fumble and raced 14 yards for a touchdown with 8:02 left to play to give the Falcons a 10-6 edge. Pennywell then added icing when he picked off a Greg Landry pass and went into the end zone with 55 seconds left to play. Soccer Devils, Blazers battle to tie The Red Devils and the Blue Blazers battled to a 3-3 tie Saturday in the Pee Wee Soccer League. The Suns defeated the Green Machine 2-0 in another Pee Wee match. The Indians and the Rangers battled to a 1-1 tie and the Scouts topped the Chiefs 5-1 in the Junior Soccer League. The Rebels defeated the Rookies 4-1 and the Pioneers and the Hunters battle to a 2-2 tie in the Senior Soccer League. Richie Newton and Trey Manley scored for the Red Devils. Mark Wilson scored 2 goals and Richard Davenport Tarkenton’s season, perhaps career ends Sunday with broken ankle bone By The Associated Press On a day when he suffered the first disabling injury of his fantastic 17-year National Foot ball League career, Min nesota’s Fran Tarkenton set still another standard for quar terbacks. Tarkenton’s season and per haps his career almost certain ly ended Sunday when he was sacked by Cincinnati’s Gary Burley and suffered a fractured bone in his right ankle during the third period of the Vikings’ 42-10 victory over the Bengals. But before he got hurt, Tar kenton dazzled the Bengals, completing 17 of 18 passes for 195 yards and the most accurate performance an NFL passer has ever produced. Call it something to remem ber him by. It seemed almost fitting that the fabulous scrambler’s pass ing accomplishment should nearly overshadow the grim aftermath of a day that was dotted with serious injuries around the league. Tarkenton was one of four NFL players to suffer broken legs Sunday. 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I'm human with human emotions,” said Bart- scored one for the Blue Blazers. Bob Stephens scored 2 goals to give the Suns their victory over the Green Machine. Gavin Lannan scored for the Indians in their game with the Rangers. Jeff Wilson scored 4 goals and Brett Brickies scored one for the Scouts. Rodney Harris scored for the Chiefs. Terry Lee scored 2 goals for the Rebels. Paul Guillaume and Felix Guillaume scored one each. Mark Freeman scored for the Rookies. Keith Lynch and Tracy Ellis scored for the Pioneers. Finley Steele and Cameron Fisher scored for the Hunters. Diego’s Bill Munson, injured on the only pass he threw in a brief backup appearance as Denver topped the Chargers 17-14, and San Francisco tackle Cas Banaszek, who was hurt early in the 49ers’ 10-7 overtime victory against New Orleans. Two other quarterbacks, Brian Sipe of Cleveland and Pittsburgh’s Terry Bradshaw, also were injured in their game, won by the Steelers 35-31, as defenses zeroed in on signal callers. The league’s stingiest defense also turned into an offense with Atlanta scoring a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns on a recov ered fumble by Ralph Ortega, and an interception by Robert Pennywell to whip Detroit 17-6. Oakland and Denver both re mained tied for first place in the AFC West. The Raiders held off Houston 34-29 and the Broncos rallied to beat San Diego 17-14. Pittsburgh’s victory over Cleveland moved the Steelers into a first-place tie with the Browns in the AFC Central. Baltimore stayed one game in front of Miami in the AFC East, beating Buffalo 31-13 while the Dolphins were downing New England 17-5. Minnesota’s romp over Cincinnati moved the Vikings two games in front of Detroit in the NFC Central and Los Angeles stayed one game up on Atlanta in the NFC West by beating Green Bay. St. Louis plays at Dallas tonight. Bears 28, Chiefs 27 Walter Payton scored three touchdowns and rushed for 192 yards in 33 carries, pushing his season’s total to 1,129. He be came the first running back in Bears’ history including such Hall of Famers as Red Grange, Bronco Nagurski and Gayle Sa yers to gain more than 1,000 yards in two consecutive sea sons. kowski, who was one of eight for four yards and two in terceptions in the first half be fore finishing six of 16 for 81 yards. “We want to be as good as the defense,” said the No. 1 draft pick three years ago. “Obviously, it’s embarrassing to go on the field and get booed while the defense gets cheered.” The defense has been superb all year, and after allowing the Lions the touchdown drive of 59 yards in 11 plays, gave Detroit only 38 yards in the second half, all but seven in the final 50 seconds. “If we take care of our end we feel like we’re going to win,” said Ortega. “We have a chance to set an NFL record for least points given up and we don’t want to let up.” Ortega said he never saw the ball he recovered and ran in for a TD “until it fell into my hands.” “We do our jobs,” said Law rence, who also intercepted a pass. “They can’t win if they don’t score. It really is nice to win, especially when you do it on defense. Every game we talk about scoring. It was in our game plan,” Lawrence said with a smile. Detroit Coach Tommy Hud speth, whose club fell to 4-5, thought the Lions should have won. “But we fumbled the ba11... that was the big play, the turn ing point when we fumbled. We should have had the game 6-0 or 6-3. We controlled the game until the fumble.” More sports See page 10 Payton’s accomplishment was almost overshadowed by the Bears’ dramatic victory constructed on a 37-yard pass from Bob Avellini to Greg Latta with only three seconds left in the game. Just 21 seconds earlier, the Chiefs had taken the lead on a 14-yard run by Ed Podolak. Vikings 42, Bengals 10 Tarkenton’s performance topped the NFL accuracy record of 20 completions in 22 attempts by Cincinnati’s Ken Anderson in 1974. He was scrambling away from Burley when the 265-pound defensive end hit him. “He tried to plant his leg and spin,” said Burley. “He was going down on I Winners and losers Atlanta 17, Detroit 6 Baltimore 31, Buffalo 13 Pittsburgh 35, Cleveland 31 Miami 17, New England 5 NY Giants 10, Tampa Bay 0 Seattle 17, NY Jets 0 Washington 17, Phlla. 14 San Fran. 10, N. Orleans 7 OT Chicago 28, Kansas City 27 Los Angeles 24, Green Bay 6 Denver 17, San Diego 14 Oakland 34, Houston 29 Minnesota 42, Cincinnati 10. a spin when I hit him. I had my weight on him when he went down. There was no way I could stop and let his leg out.” The injury overshadowed a three-touchdown performance by Chuck Foreman, who rushed for 133 yards. Broncos 17, Chargers 14 San Diego led throughout and it took a pair of second-half TD passes from Craig Morton to Haven Moses to pull the victory out for the Broncos. Morton hit Moses with a 33- yarder midway through the third period and then again on an 8-yarder with just 96 seconds left in the game. “We always try to find away to win, one way or another,” said Denver Coach Red Miller. “This was the other.” Raiders 34, Oilers 29 Four interceptions halted Houston threats and Oakland hung on to whip the Oilers in an offensive shootout. The Raiders came from behind three times, taking the lead for keeps on That’s the way it was Georgia quarterback Randy Cook (18) lies crumpled on his face as Auburn linebacker Mike McQuaig (52) hops over him at Athens Saturday as Auburn beat Georgia 33- 14. Georgia began the game without regular quarterback Jeff Pyburn, who is injured, and the next two quar terbacks suffered injuries. (AP) Saban on ’Bama: ‘They’ve just got too much for us’ TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - “They’ve just go too much for us, that’s all,” Coach Lou Saban said after Alabama’s second ranked football team blanked his Miami Hurricanes 36-0 Saturday. Too much on offense, with Clarence Davis’ 3-yard TD run in the third period. “Field position killed us,” said Houston Coach Bum Phil lips after the Oilers lost regular place kicker Toni Fritsch with a hamstring injury and had to use substitute kickers throughout the second half. Rams 24, Packers 6 Dickey’s injury on the last play of the game cast a pall over the Rams’ victory, which kept Los Angeles one game in front of Atlanta in the NFC West. The Packer passer, booed all day long, completed 18 of 36 for 276 yards while LA’s Pat Haden, directing a ball-control offense, hit on 10 of 17 for 146. Falcons 17, Lions 6 Trailing 6-0 after three peri ods, Atlanta rallied for the vic tory behind its dominant de fense. Ortega took a recovered fumble 14 yards for the winning score and Pennywell’s 20-yard return of the interception for a last-minute TD clinched it. Steelers 35, Browns 31 Bradshaw threw three touch down passes before being knocked out of the game with a shoulder injury. Playing with a cast on his broken left wrist, he finished with 13 completions in 21 attempts for 283 yards. Cleveland backup Dave Mays threw three TD passes to Larry Poole as the Browns staged a late rally. Mays was replacing Sipe, who also left the game with an injured shoulder. Colts 31, Bills 13 Lydell Mitchell scored a pair of touchdowns and Bert Jones piloted Baltimore to its eighth victory in nine starts. Mitchell rushed for 82 yards and caught three passes for 60 more. Jones completed 12 of 23 for 180. Dolphins 17, Patriots 5 A determined Miami defense bottled up New England’s at tack and helped the Dolphins stay one game back of Balti more. Miami limited Sam Cunning ham to five catches for 28 yards. Redskins 17, Eagles 14 Mark Moseley’s 54-yard field goal with 3:41 to play lifted Washington past Philadelphia. The Redskins rallied for 10 points in the fourth period and then nailed down the victory when Horst Muhlmann missed a 31-yard field goal try with 18 seconds left. Alabama rolling up 472 yards to 172 for Miami, 23 first downs to 8. Too much on defense, with the Crimson Tide turning in its first shutout in 23 games. Quarterback Jeff Rutledge pulled the trigger on the out manned Hurricanes, com pleting nine of 14 passes for 165 yards and two touchdowns and running for’another 57 yards. Rutledge “played probably his best game,” Coach Bear Bryant said. Ozzie Newsome, who has made spectacular catches rou tine, caught four Rutledge passes for 106 yards, giving him 24 yards a catch this season. OZBURN'S J Open 7 Days A Week — All Holidays • • • • mctob js&j • • jCrjSeUmM 1001 (MEDICI * • I -a I J'N’S OIL BURK*. • ■ 11 %UaHAI . x # a 0A95 1 treatment! i^ • J ’o o' l Proves mow* • LHRFORMANtfJ Exchg. ~ 9 A Fits Most Cars __ • ; 99' 1 : A (MJ® : : y .35” fig SHH : • \ Exchange lESHEES • SIDE TERMINAL RlSMKtte ! • . I • < ! J Ji Starters • A ■■ J. 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And following lOth-ranked Pitt’s 52-26 drubbing of Army, Athletic Director Cas Myslinski said he thought an agreement by which the winner of the Nov. 26 Pitt-Penn State game would go to the Orange Bowl and the loser to another bowl “would work out real well.” With fifth-ranked Notre Dame seemingly bound for the Cotton Bowl following a come-from-be hind 21-17 triumph over No. 15 Clemson, the other bowls are waiting for the Orange to make up its mind which way it will go. Everything should then fall into some kind of order. Indications are that the Or ange will invite ninth-ranked Penn State, a 44-7 winner over Temple, even though the Or ange Bowl has often said its policy is to go after the highest ranking available teams. Right now, that’s Arkansas as the opponent for the Big Eight king, but, a source close to the Orange Bowl told The Associated Press, “The prob lem with Arkansas is that it would not be a game of national interest.” Now, that doesn’t mean na tional football interest. In this — Griffin Daily News Monday, November 14,1977 case, national interest trans lates into tourists. “The question is why were the bowls formed,” the source said. “Ours was formed to encourage tourism and most of our tourists are from the East, even though Arkansas has said they’d bring 35,000 people and has guaranteed 22,500 ticket sales.” In addition, NBC-TV, which airs the Orange Bowl, was said to favor a match between Penn State and the Big Eight champ — either third-ranked Okla homa, which trounced Colorado 52-14, or No. 12 Nebraska, which blasted Kansas 52-7. The loser could wind up in the Gator Bowl. “If we invited Arkansas to play, say, Oklahoma,” said the source, “they’re only about 250 miles apart geographically. We’d have to consider that from a national TV standpoint.” Broyles, however, points out that because Arkansas and Ok lahoma are neighboring states and haven’t played since 1919, “It would be one of those blood and-guts games just like Okla homa-Texas, Arkansas-Texas or Ohio State-Michigan. State pride would be at stake and bragging rights would be in volved.” Make Plans To Visit 3-Day Showing Meador Decorative Wood Accessories And Products For The Home. Over 100 Products To Be Displayed Nov. 17-18-19 Hodges and Son Ace Hardware Asked if he would agree to the Nov. 26 winner going to the Orange Bowl, Penn State Coach Joe Paterno would only say, “I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.” He also said — are you listening, Orange Bowl? — that “this could end up being the best football team I’ve ever had.” Meanwhile, it seemed certain that Notre Dame would be headed for Dallas when the bids go out next Saturday at 6 p.m. Unless No. 1-ranked Texas, which trimmed Texas Christian 44-14, stumbles against Baylor, the Longhorns undoubtedly will retain their position in The AP poll. The Sugar Bowl still was re ported “leaning” to the loser of next Saturday’s Ohio State- Michigan Big Ten shootout, the winner of which goes to the Rose Bowl. In weekend action, both teams spotted the opposi tion an early lead but fourth ranked Ohio State whipped In diana 35-7 and No. 6 Michigan clobbered Purdue 40-7. If Ohio State beats Michigan, the Wolverines could wind up third in the Big Ten, provided Michigan State defeats lowa. Would the Sugar Bowl want a third-place team? Stay tuned.
