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First Team All-State Lynn Davis, the 222 pound noseman for the Wortham Bulldogs this past season, will be graduating in May. He will be leaving with something different from the rest of the seniors as the Texas Sports Writers selected him to the first team defense All-State team. Coach Carl Peters, standing above Davis, is coach of the Bulldogs and stated that Davis has been striking attention at Tulsa University and Texas Christian. (Daily News Staff Photo by Billy Patterson) New Dolphin Team Began First Day Don Shula Came MIAMI AP Offensive tackle Norm Evans says the job of rebuilding the Miami Dolphins from a perennial loser into a championship team began the first day of practice under Coach Don Shula in 1970. The Dolphins had a 3-10-1 record in 1969 and a 15-39-2 record in their first four years of existence.

Under Shula in 1970, the record zoomed to 10-4 and a wild card playoff berth. They'll be making their third straight appearance in the Super Bowl on Jan. 13 against the Minnesota Vikings. No other team has ever repeated three straight times. Shula began with four-a-day workouts and Evans recalled that Shula rode him and center Tom Goode especially hard.

"I guess they figured we were among the leaders," said Evans. "They wanted to see whether or not we meant business. "To amuse ourselves and keep from going crazy, Tom and I kept score every day to see who got chewed out the most. We came out about even. "I can see the wisdom of Don Shula in all that now," Evans Tonite Last Nite RATEP SIAMESE TWINS AT BIRTH-- asunder! added.

"Truthfully, I guess I saw it early, on our first practice day. "Shula started hollering, at Bob Griese. I said to myself, 'Well, well, what is this. He's Shofner Names Thomas To TCU Staff FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP) New Texas Christian University football Coach Jim Shofner completed a nine-man staff Monday by luring from retire-; ment Jimmy Thomas of the San Francisco 49ers, the team Shofner left last month to come here.

The school signed Thomas, 26, a five-year 49er veteran running back and receiver, to an assistant coaching post for the offensive backfield. He becomes the first black coach in TCU's history, and completes the nine-man staff hired for Shofner since the former 49er assistant coach was hired to replace the fired Billy Tohill last month. "I've got five years in with the 49ers and that's enough to qualify for my pension," Thomas said of his retirement from playing. "I just decided I wanted to see that other end of the yelling at the quarterback. If this is way it's going to be nobody's immune." Evans began his career in 1965 as a rookie with the Houston Oilers and was claimed by the New Miami franchise in the 1966 expansion draft.

Evans says he was happy to leave the Oilers and recalled, "Sam Baugh was the offensive backfield coach in 1965 and Lou Rymkus was the line coach. Lou was a stickler for details, a lot like Miami's Monte Clark. "Rymkus would draw up these complicated assignments all week. Then, the day of the game, Sam would come in spitting tobacco juick and erasing all of it. "Sam changed everything around.

He'd say, 'Okay, you block here and you block there. I'd get so upset and nervous, I'd go hide in the showers, "I figured I was better off not knowing what was going on than trying to absorb all those changes Baugh made." it, I 1971 triitf Police Monitored Burglar Alarms WACO COMMUNICATIONS 772-H550 WACO, TEXAS Sports Briefly By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Irish Mike Baker of Portland, a middleweight, will meet former New England AAU champion Reynaldq Oliveras in the 10- round feature bout Thursday, Jan. 10 at the Exposition Building. XENIA, Ohio (AP) Two- time national unlimited hydroplane champ Dean Chenoweth is retiring to take over a beer firm distributorship in Florida. Chenoweth, 35, won the 1970 and 1972 national championships in "Miss Budweiser." He also won Gold Cup championships in 1971 and 1973.

Now, he said, the brewery doesn't want him driving. Chenoweth said he will select and train his successor in the hydroplane, but has no prospects yet. I sports iailg I PAGfcB'fUfcSbAY, JANUARY MEXIA.fEfcAS Six Miami Dolphins Named To All-Pro Team Wortham's Named To Lynn Davis All-State Lynn Davis, the six foot-four inch, 222 pound nosettian for the Wortham Bulldogs not only made himself known around the area, but also around the state. The senior from wortham was selected to the first team offense this past week by the Texas Sports Writers Association. After placing on the all-district team for three straight years, including the first team offense and defense this year, the Wortham product led the team in tackles this season with 96 stops in a season which ended 9-1-1 at the hands of Big Sandy for the bi- district title.

Davis is not only known for his athletic abilities, but is also a great leader in the classroom. Over the three and a half years he has been in high school, he holds an average of 87 on the grade sheets. Tulsa University and Texas Christian have already shown interest in Davis and Tim Gordon, another great athlete from the Wortham squad. Southern Placed On Methodist Probation SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Southern Methodist University was put under a one-year probation Monday by the Southwest Conference, but at the same time SMU President Paul Hardin was praised for exposing the violations by his school that led to the probation. The penalty was announced by the SWC in conjunction with the meeting here of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

It places SMU on one year's probation for giving cash bonuses of up to $25 to members of the football specialty units for making big However, the penalty does not include sanctions such as bars from postseason competition or television appearances. At the same time, the conference also endorsed the move by Hardin in which he relieved Coach Dave Smith of duties as athletic director and reduced his head coaching contract from four years to one. Dr. Hardin last month had disclosed the cash payments for players to conference officials and also revealed that members of the athletic staff overpaid players for selling football tickets back to the athletic department. "SMU appreciates the consideration and understanding of the Southwest Conference in de- Williams To File Law Suit Against Finley RIVIERA BEACH, Fla.

(AP). Following the hiring of Bill Virdon as manager of the New York Yankees, Dick Williams says he now plans a court battle against the man who kept him from getting the job. Williams, who quit as manager of the Oakland A's to accept the Yankee position, said Thursday he will take Oakland owner Charlie Finley to court. "Whether the Yankee job will become available as a result pf my counter-attack against Finley, I really can't say. But I'm not done yet," Williams said from his Rivlara Beach home.

Williams said the annouce- ment of Virdun's hiring had not taken him by surprise, "I've known of the possioility of them hiring Bill a few days now," he said. "They couldn't wait any 'onger." MOVING? Ray's Transfer Storage Agent For North American Van lines 562-5011 After 5, on weekends and holidays, Cull 874-5362, Corsicana fhf OMtt Ifurmin TEXAS ALMANAC mpyrrfiiAt oyipf wt- ins Yuur Pallas Morning News Distributor, Jimmy Cotton will be to deliver the Texas Almanac to your borne. Call or mail this order form to Bos H-), Tehuacann. J'apur Hound J2 plus Hardbound plus tax termining their appropriate response to the infraction of conference rules," Hardin said in Dallas. "SMU accepts the decision and will do everything in its power to make certain that these circumstances do not occur again." J.

Neils Thompson, faculty representative of the University of Texas and president of the SWC, said the violations normally would lead to sanctions against the offending school, but added, "We adopted Dr. Hardin's action and we feel no further sanctions are necessary." The conference said it would continue to monitor SMU's athletic program during the year's probation, and endorsed an understanding that "further violations" by either Smith or assistant Coach Pug Gabrel "will result in immediate dismissal." By HAL BOCk AP Sports VVHtel- NEW YORK (AP) Recot-d- shaltering O.J. Simpson was a unanimous choice and Miami's dazzling twin safeties, Dick Anderson and Jake Scott, headed six Dolphins named to the National Football League All-Pro team by The Associated Press today. Wide receiver Paul Warfield, running back Larry Csonka, guard Larry Little and place- kicker Garo Yepremian were the other Miami players selected to the 23-man squad by a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the 26 NFL teams. Buffalo's Simpson, the NFL's Offensive Player of the Year, who set a rushing record with 2,003 yards for the season, was named on every ballot cast in the poll.

And the Bills' offensive line, a key part of Simpson's success, was represented by O.J.'s roommate, guard Reggie McKenzie. Joining McKenzie on the offensive line were Little, San Francisco center Forest Blue and tackles Ron Yary of Minnesota and Rayfield Wright of Dallas, all repeaters from last year's All-Pro team. Warfield caught 11 touchdown passes during the season and Csonka churned out 1,003 yards rushing. Yepremian produced 113 points for the Dolphins including 25 of 37 attempted field goals. The only rookie selected to the squad was tight end Charles Young of Philadelphia, who finished with 55 catches in his first pro season.

John Hadl, who led Los Angeles to.a 12-2 record, best in the club's history and threw 22 touchdown passes, was named the quarterback. Minnesota, which will oppose Miami in Sunday's Super Bowl, had two players besides Yary named to the squad, both on the defensive line. They were tackle Alan Page and defensive end Carl Eller. The other side of the defensive line was manned by Atlanta end Claude Humphrey and tackle Mean Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Isiah Robertson of Los Angeles and Washington's Chris Hanburger were selected as the team's outside linebackers with Willie Lanier of Kansas City manning the middle.

Completing the team in the defensive secondary with safeties Anderson, who led the league with eight interceptions, and Scott, were Robert James of Buffalo and Willie Brown of Oakland. On defense, Humphrey, Greene, Hanburger and Anderson, the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year, were repeaters from last year's team. The NFL's two conferences were just about evenly represented on the All-Pro squad with 12 players doming ffotti AFC teams and 11 from the NFC. That was a change from last year when 15 of the 23 players chosen came from the NFC. The voters also selected conference teams.

In the NFC, Dallas and Minnesota placed four players each, while in the AFC, eight Miami players were chosen. Kristynik Named To Staff EL PASO. Tex. (AP) Marvin Kristynik, 30, an assistant football coach at Texas Christian for the past three years, was named offensive coordinator and offensive backfield coach at the University of Texas at El Paso Wednesday. Kristynik will join new head Coach Gil Bartosh on the Miner staff.

Kristynik is a native of Bay City, and was a quarterback for the University of Texas. He was on the 1963 team that won the national title. He was a co-captain on the 1965 Texas team. After graduation, he coached one year at Mississippi State then went to Tulane. From Tulane, he went to TCU.

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