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Cards bring back
cardiac finish
By DENNE H. FREEMAN
AP Sports Writer
DALLAS (AP) - The St.
Louis Cardinals, back to their
old cardiac finishes, unearthed
15-year veteran Jackie Smith
for his first touchdown pass
since 1975 Monday night to
share heroics with Jim Hart and
bury previously unbeaten
Dallas 24-17 in high fourth-quar
ter drama.
“I think it’s obvious we’ve
t Sports World
An AP Sports Analysis
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
Blunted weapons
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Hey, says Big Ben,
what are they trying to do to pro football, anyhow —turn it
into a patty cake game?
If they keep on inhibiting players the way they’re doing,
argues the Deacon, people will quit paying to see it — fans
will be turned off by the millions.
Two of the game’s most notorious head hunters of
another era relaxed under the palm trees of the pic
turesque Bahamas and deplored what they called the anti
violence panic that has set in with Commissioner Pete
Rozelle.
“If the commissioner keeps calling in and disciplining
every guy who gives another a shot in the head with a
forearm, he will make everybody so cautious there won’t
be any game left,” said Ben Davidson, the Oakland
Raiders’ towering defensive end of a decade ago.
“There has been violence in football since the first ball
was put on the ground 100 years ago,’’ contended Deacon
Jones, the tank-like anchor of the Los Angeles Rams’
“Fearsome Foursome” of the 19605.
“Football is a violent game. We are taught violence
from the time we start playing in grade school. Now they
turn around and want to penalize us for using the
techniques we are taught all our lives.”
Davidson and Jones were two of the athletes competing
in the veterans category of Superstars, filmed at the
Bahamas Princess Hotel complex over the weekend for
showing later over the ABC national television network.
Both men said they felt the game was less rough than 10
years ago and that the concern over violence has been
raised because of the increased exposure on television.
“People see it on television and Rozelle feels he has to
react," said Davidson, a 6-foot-8 giant with a mustache
that once curled out of the protective bars of his head
gear.
“I think he is over reacting and the result can work to
the detriment of the sport. This is a contact sport. Once
you start trying to ease up on the contact, you don’t have
football. You have patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man."
Jones was sharply critical of rules changes which he
said blunted the weapons of the defensive linemen and
swung the pendulum in favor of the offensive unit.
Jones is now vice president of a health care firm in Los
Angeles. Davidson, father of three teenagers, lives in
Oakland, races motorcycles and gets periodic roles in the
movies. Neither is a football fan.
Ernie and Bernie gone
Vols given little chance
to retain SEC cage title
By MATT YANCEY
Associated Press Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Its Ernie & Bernie show dis
banded, Tennessee is given
little chance of retaining the
Southeastern Conference bas
ketball title it shared with Ken
tucky last season.
The Vols have nary a senior
on their squad after All-Amer
ica forward Bernard King, the
SEC’s leading scorer and re
bounder last season, gave up his
final year to turn pro under the
hardship draft.
As a rookie, King is now the
leading scorer for the hapless
New Jersey Nets and his Ten
nessee teammate, Ernie Grun
feld, is playing for the Mil
waukee Bucs.
But their success in the pros is
little consolation to the star-
IP’s top 20 I
By The Associated Press
The Top Twenty teams in
The Associated Press college
football poll, with first-place
votes in parentheses, season
records and total points. Points
based on 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-
54-3-2-1:
1. (58) 9-0-0 1,214
2. (1) 9-1-0 983
3.Oklahoma (1) 9-1-0 962
4.0hi0 St. 9-1-0 819
5. 9-1-0 655
6. Dame 8-1-0 639
turned our season around,” said
Hart, who rifled a 49-yard
touchdown pass to Mel Gray
and lobbed a 3-yard scoring
pass to the 37-year-old Smith
with 3:10 to play for the game
winner.
Dallas’ record dropped to 8-1
and St. Louis put some suspense
back in the National Conference
Eastern Division race with its
fifth consecutive victory for a 6-
3 ledger.
depleted Vols, who will now
have to rely more on teamwork
and defense instead of their
traditional run-and-gun ap
proach.
Tennessee also will open its
basketball season for the second
year in a row without head
coach Ray Mears, who again is
suffering from what his phys
cian terms mental exhaustion.
Mears, who underwent elec
tric shock treatment this time
last year for mental depression,
was ordered home just prior to
the first day of practice because
of a recurrence.
Taking over in his place, at
least for the time being, is Cliff
Wettig, a former fraternity
brother and teammate when the
two men attended Miami
University in Ohio.
“I don’t know what’s going to
7. (1) 9-1-0 548
8. 8-1-0 529
9. St. 9-1-0 458
10. 8-1-1 377
11. 8-2-0 306
12. Arizona St. 8-1-0 165
13. St. 8-1-0 162
14. Texas A&M 6-2-0 111
15. 7-2-1 86
16. Tech 7-2-0 59
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18. Carolina 7-2-1 28
19. 6-4-0 24
20. 7-3-0 21
“I never thought something
like this would happen to me
again,” said Smith, who was
catching only his third pass of
the season. “It’s great to be part
of it.”
Hart said “We usually throw
that pass to the halfback and I
think it surprised them.”
Dallas, off to its best start in
the 17-year history of the club,
appeared to have the Cardinals
well caged, building a 14-3 half
time lead on Tony Dorsett’s 1-
yard touchdown run and a 2-
yard scoring pass from Roger
Staubach to tight end Billy Joe
DuPree.
All St. Louis had to show for
the first half of the nationally
televised match was Jim Bak
ken’s 26-yard field goal.
But Dallas muffed a chance to
blow the game wide open when
Randy Hughes intercepted a
Hart pass at the St. Louis 17
only to see DuPree return the
favor with a fumble on an end
around.
St. Louis’ Wayne Morris
scored on a 1-yard touchdown
run after Benny Barnes was
flagged on a 43-yard inter
ference call and the Cardinals
trailed only 14-10. Efren Her
rera’s 21-yard field goal set the
stage for Hart’s fourth-quarter
heroics.
He found Gray wide open be
hind Aaron Kyle and Cliff Har
ris for the game-tying touch
down, then burned the jittery
Cowboy defense with the pass to
Smith.
“We had the best feeling
coming in here that we’ve ever
had,” said Hart. “The Cowboys
were riding high and we had
never won here so we turned the
negative points into positive
points for us.”
Cowboy Coach Tom Landry
agreed.
“We haven’t played good for
the last three or four weeks and
a loss was inevitable,” said
Landry. “The Cardinals have
made things interesting again
in the division, particularly with
us going to Pittsburgh next
week.”
Landry sounded like there
might be some changes in store
for the sputtering Cowboy of
fense — like rookie Tony Dor
sett moving into a starting posi
tion.
“We have to use Tony more
because he is running good,”
said Landry.
St. Louis Coach Don Coryell,
who had seen his team lose a 30-
24 heartbreaker to Dallas on
Oct. 9, was euphoric.
“I’ve never been as happy
about a win like I was tonight,”
said Coryell. “This was a great
victory. We wanted it bad.”
St. Louis intercepted Stau
bach twice, and the Cowboy
happen,” Wettig said of Mears.
“He’s making slight progress,
no more than that. Last year
when this happened, we had
several experienced people
coming back. We don’t have
that this year.”
The Vols have two returning
starters from last season, 6-9
sophomore Reggie Johnson at
the high post and 5-10 point
guard Johnny Darden, the play
maker on Tennessee’s fast
break.
“Reggie’s going to be our next
great, great player,” Wettig
predicted. “He’s improved
immeasurably from last season
and I think he’ll make All-
Friedlander
bowls 218
James Friedlander bowled a
218 game Monday night in the
Moose 1503 Bowling League.
Other high game bowlers
include:
Dannie Hudgins 202, Leo
Rothbauer 205, George Holmes
207, Bobby Folds 216 and Earl
Cox 204.
The Governors defeated the
Outer Guard 3-1, the Junior
Governors blanked the
Sergeants at Arms 4-0, the Past
Governors defeated the Inner
Guard 3-1 and the Trustees beat
the Prelates 3-1.
quarterback said, “I can’t
blame my injured hip or thumb.
I threw well in practice. We just
missed some big third-down
plays and when we got up 14-3,1
guess we really got too con
servative.”
The game was a rough-and
tumble affair, with both Barnes
of the Cowboys and St. Louis’
Lee Nelson being ejected for
fighting.
“I just lost my cool and I
shouldn’t have let my temper
run away from me,” said Barn-
es.
Cardinal offensive tackle
Conrad Dobler said, “We’re
moving now. Dallas has some
tough ones coming up ... If they
have happen to give us the
championship we’ll take it.”
St. Louis halfback Terry Met
calf said “The rest of the season
looks good. We were just higher
than Dallas. You know they
were 8-0 and they weren’t up
like the first game.
“Beating them down here was
great since it was the first time
since I’ve been here that we’ve
done it. We thought we got
robbed in the first game.”
Landry admitted St. Louis
was hungrier. “We were asking
for it because we hadn’t been
playing well,” said Landry. And
the Cardinals gave “it” to the
last of the National Football
League’s unbeaten teams.
Rutledge and Plasketes share SEC
‘Player of the Week 9 honors
ATLANTA (AP) - Alabama
quarterback Jeff Rutledge to
day was selected as the South
east Back of the Week by The
Associated Press, and defensive
end George Plasketes of Mis
sissippi was honored as the top
lineman.
Rutledge, a 6-foot-2, 200-
pound junior, connected on nine
of 14 passes for 165 yards and
two touchdowns, adding 57
yards on nine rushed to guide
the second-ranked Crimson
Tide to a 36-0 triumph over
Miami of Florida.
Plasketes, a 6-foot-2, 218-
pound senior, was the ringlea
der of the Ole Miss defense that
turned four fumbles into three
touchdowns and a field goal in a
43-14 thrashing of Tennessee.
Plasketes was in on 11 tackles
and had eight solos, including
two quarterback sacks, for 28
yards in losses and recovered
two fumbles.
Rutledge narrowly edged Au
burn’s William Andrews for
Back of the Week honors. An-
American before his senior
year.”
Starting at the low post this
year will be 6-6 sophomore
Chuck Threeths. Terry Crosby,
a 6-4 junior, and Bert Ber
telkamp, a 6-3 guard will start
at the two wing positions.
“If we want to win big, a
couple of our freshmen are go
ing to have to move into the
starting lineup,” Wettig said.
“But we haven’t had anybody
yet who really wants to take
somebody else’s place from
them.”
Being groomed for one of the
wing positions is James Ratiff,
a highly touted 6-8 freshmen
from Washington, D.C. Kevin
Nash, a 6-11 freshman from
Trenton, Mich., is behind
Threeths at the low post.
Wettig said his returning
players have shown a lot of
maturity since last season but
he agreed with other SEC
coaches that Kentucky is the
team to beat.
“We’ve still beat them five
games in a row and we’re not
about to roll over and give them
a win now,” Wettig said of the
Wildcats. “I think we’ll suprise
a few people.”
Tennessee plays an exhibition
game against at national team
from Czechoslovakia in Knox
ville on Nov. 23. The Vols open
their season Nov. 28 in Knox
ville against Samford and play
their first SEC game Jan. 2 in
Knoxville against Florida.
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St. Louis Cardinals running back, Wayne Morris (24),
lunges over the Dallas Cowboys’ defense in third period to
drews, a 5-foot-11, 196-pound
junior from Thomasville, Ga.,
ran for 142 yards on 25 carries,
including touchdown runs of 32
yards and one yard in the Ti
gers’ 33-14 route of Georgia.
Others who drew support for
back honors included:
—James Storey, Ole Miss,
who ran for 88 yards and scored
three TDs on runs of seven, two
and one yards.
—Derrick Ramsey, Kentucky
Yanks remember to share
Series wealth with batboys
NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty
New York Yankees are
$27,758.04 richer for their win
ning efforts in the World Series.
And this year, they shared the
wealth with their batboys with
out being reminded.
According to figures released
Monday by baseball Commis
sioner Bowie Kuhn’s office, a
full share for the losing Los An
geles Dodgers was $20,899.05.
The full shares for both teams
set World Series records.
The Yankees voted 30 full
shares and 20 of those went to
personnel who had received los
er’s cuts of $19,935.48 after the
1976 Series.
That two-year total of
$47,693.52 went to 15 players, in
cluding Ron Blomberg, who
spent most of the period on the
disabled list.
Pitcher Ken Clay and desig
nated hitter Cliff Johnson, who
joined the team at mid-season,
got $20,818.50 three-quarter
shares. Outfielder Dell Alston,
who shuttled between the Yan
kees and their Syracuse farm
club, received a two-thirds
share of $18,505.33. Veteran
Jimmy Wynn, released in July,
received a half-share of $13,879.
Basketball
sign-ups
scheduled
The Griffin-Spalding County
Recreation Dept, will begin
Youth Basketball sign-ups
Saturday and continue until
Dec. 3. Sign-ups will be Monday
through Saturday from 10 a.m.
until 5 p.m.
Three leagues will be offered:
Tom Thumb, Rick Barry, and
Junior League.
The Tom Thumb League is for
boys and girls ages 7-10; Rick
Barry League for boys and girls
ages 11-13; and Junior League
boys 14-16 and girls 14-17. The
age cut-off date is Nov. 30.
To sign up for basketball, a
parent must be present and the
player must have a birth cer
tificate.
Registration fee will be $3.
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quarterback, who ran one yard
for a touchdown and ran for a
two-point conversion while
rushing for 55 yards and passing
for 57 in the Wildcats’ 14-7
triumph over Florida.
—Charles Alexander of Loui
siana State, who ran for 136
yards, including a 43-yard
scamper that set up the winning
field goal in a 27-24 win over
Mississi-i State.
—Mike Wright of Vanderbilt,
Elrod Hendricks, Mickey
Klutts and Gil Patterson, who
spent almost all season at Syr
acuse, got one-third shares of
$9,252.67.
Six players, including Dave
Kingman, who joined the club
for the final three weeks of the
season, received cash grants of
S2OO apiece.
The Yankees also voted
$1,982.71 each to their seven-man
ground crew, SI,OOO each to
their two clubhouse boys, SSOO
apiece to two special policemen
and S2OO each to their two
batboys.
The Yankees neglected to pay
their batboys after their run
nerup finish in the Series last
year, saying later that there
had been a mixup. They
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score. The game, played at Texas Stadium, was won by
Cards, 24-17. (AP)
who connected on 19 of 37 passes
for 204 yards and one touchdown
and ran for two others in a 34-28
loss to Air Force.
—Larry Key of Florida State,
who rushed for 110 yards on 24
carries as the Seminoles whip
ped Memphis State 30-9.
Others nominated for linemen
honors included:
Kem Coleman, Ole Miss line
backer who had seven individ
ual tackles and three assists.
coughed up the shares even
tually from a special players
fund, only after considerable
hue and cry early this year.
The Dodger cuts included a
five-sixths share of $17,415.87 to
Boog Powell, who was released
in August; a three-quuarters
share of $15,674.29 to pitcher
Lance Rautzhan, who came up
in mid-year, and a two-thirds
share of $13,932.70 to outfielder
John Hale, who left the club at
about the same time.
Al Downing and Stan Wall got
$10,449.53 half-shares, while
Jerry Grote, Vic Davilillo and
Rafael Landestoy, who all
joined the club in late August,
received one-sixth shares of
$3,483.18. The Dodgers also
voted cash grants of $250 to SSOO
—Barry Krauss and Rich
Wingo, Alabama linebackers.
Each had nine individual tack
les and Krauss also picked off a
pass.
—Martin Cox, Vanderbilt
split end who had 10 catches for
105 yards.
—Willie Jones, Florida State
defensive end who had seven
individual tackles, including
one quarterback sack, four as
sists and two fumble recoveries.
share
to seven other players.
The three Los Angeles bat
boys each received SIOO.
Kansas City’s American
League West champions re
ceived $9,797.73 apiece for a full
share while the National
League East champions
Phillies got $9,661.37 apiece.
Baltimore and Boston, tied
for second and third place in the
American League East behind
New York, received a $41,674.51
total per team.
Texas, second in the AL West,
voted 34 full shares of $1,774.60
each. The Cincinnati Reds got
$2,011.35 NL West second-place
shares, a big drop from the
$26,366.68 full shares the year
before when the Reds won the
series.