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1 1 December 12, 1976 31 2 1976 ST LOUIS POST-DISPATCH OSS' it wir Wi The Records WASHINGTON DALLAS (11 1) 19 NY Giants 17 27 Philadelphia 7 31 Seattle 7 24 New Orleans 6 20 Philadelphia 17 30 Baltimore 27 7 Chicago 33 28 Seattle 13 30 Kansas City 33 24 NY Giants 14 20 Detroit 7 17 Cardinals 21 20 Cardinals 10 31 Chicago 21 7 Dallas 20 20 Washington 7 24 San Francisco 21 NY Giants 3 9 NY Giants 12 17 Buffalo 10 16 Cardinals 10 10 Atlanta 17 24 Philadelphia 0 19 Cardinals 14 37 NY Jets 16 26 Philadelphia 7 264 203 282 Totals 167 Individual Leaders RUSHING Washlnoton Thomas 234-1035, 4.4 yards per carry; RiggtriS 139-477, 3.4; Hill 76-277, 3.6. Dallas Oennison 135-466, 3.3; Newhouse 106-427, 4.0; Laidlaw PASSING Washington Kilmer 94 completions, 176 attempts, 1053 yards, 10 TD, a Interceptions; Thelsmann 79-163 tor 1036 8 TD, 10 Interceptions. Dallas Staubach 203-347, 2624 yards, 13 TD, Interceptions. RECEIVING Washington Grant 41-787, TD; Fugett 24-280, 5 TD; Jefferson 26-344, 2 TO. Dallas Drew Pearson 56-787, 6 TD; DuPree 42-480, 2 TD; Laidlaw TD.

i By Doug Grow Of the Post-Dispatch Staff DALLAS, Dec. 11 They left Washington and the throng of their faithful who had journeyed to a parking lot at Redskins Park to send them off the way a George Allen-coached football team should be sent off: With a wish and a prayer. The Redskin Fans Bicentennial Committee had seen to it that the sendoff to Dallas was a proper one. The committee is chaired by George Morse and when Morse does anything, he does it big. It was Morse, you remember, who went to court over a Mel Gray pass reception a year ago.

The committee and Morse had the blessing of Allen, as anything associated with the Washington Redskins must. The sendoff had the blessing of Washington's mayor, who issued a proclamation proclaiming Dec. 12 as "Redskin Day." And the Redskins had the blessing of a minister, who offered an invocation and a benediction. Amen. At the sendoff, members of the Redskin Fans Bicentennial Committee collected scrolls that had been distributed all over the D.C.

area during the week. The scrolls, signed by fans, implored the Washingtons to beat the Dallas Cowboys here Sunday. And the scrolls, along with films from 40 years of Redskins football, were to be placed in a time capsule and buried. The committee said that the time capsule would be dug up and the contents studied on July 4, 2000. But it's a good bet that if the Redskins lose to the Cowboys, the time capsule and the Allen, "we're going to make his wish come true by winning against him Sunday." But Staubach also said that emotion runs deeper than logic.

"They've said a few things about me I know I'll play hard," said Staubach, whose intelligence, courage and ability all have been questioned at one time or another by the Redskins. For the first time in memory, Allen has been trying to take back many of the things his players have said about Staubach and the Cowboys. He gushed that Staubach is having his best-ever season and that the 1976 Cowboys are one of the best teams he's ever seen. On paper, at least, it would seem that the Cowboys, who defeated the Redskins in Washington earlier this year, 20-7, are considerably better than Allen's team. And as the playoffs near, Dallas seems to be enjoying near perfect health.

Staubach, who has been bothered much of the season by a finger injury (suffered in a victory over the Chicago Bears), is playing without tape on his hand and reports he's never felt better. The Cowboys' best running back, Robert Newhouse, also is feeling well for about the first time this season. There are practical reasons, Staubach said, for the Cowboys to want to play well Sunday. "It's been a funny year for us," he said in a telephone interview earlier this week. "We're 11-2 and still not satisfied and that's because we've been inconsistent.

We've had a couple of games where we've really been off and that means we'll play hard, very hard. We're anxious to play well against a good team. WARMING TO THE TASK. Chicago Bears star Walter Payton, the National Football League's leading rusher, has a large order in front of him if hopes to win the championship. Entering Sunday's final day of play Payton leads O.

J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills by just nine yards, 1341 to 1332. (UPI Telephdto) "Last year was very satisfying because we sort of came out of nowhere and went to the Super Bowl. This year we've been doing what we were expected to do we expect ourselves to do well, we expect ourselves to do better than we've been doing. We want to go into the playoffs playing as well as we can." The difference Sunday between the Cowboys and the Redskins, though, is an obvious one: The Redskins are desperate.

They must defeat the Cowboys in Dallas for the first time since 1971 if the Cardinals beat the Giants if they are to be in the playoffs. Are desperate teams more apt to win than potentially complacent opponents? The oddsmakers say no, and the Cowboys have been installed as five-point favorites. In two previous cases of desperation versus a playoff-bound opponent, desperation finished with a 1-1 record. The desperate Cardinals defeated the Baltimore Colts last weekend. The desperate Cincinnati Bengals were defeated by the Oakland Raiders on Monday night.

The Redskins? "Our destiny is still in our own hands," said Allen. "This could be our most rewarding season since I came here." Meanwhile, back in Washington, Carol Randal, a spokesperson for the Redskin Fans Bicentennial Committee, was saying: "The Redskins are one of the only positive forces that brings Washington together." Chairman Morse was straddling the middle of the road. "I want everybody in St. Louis to know that the Cardinals are my second choice for the wild card," he said. Payton's pace.

The Bills' major job will be stop Bert Jones, the league's No. 2 passer who has thrown for 21 touchdowns. The Pats-Bucs game is a mismatch of mamouth proportions. Tampa Bay is the league's worst offensive team, averaging 210 yards a game. New England is averaging 338 and quarterback Steve Grogan has thrown 18 touchdown passes and run for a record-tying 11 touchdowns to account for 29 of the club's 42 TDs.

If anything could salvage this disastrous first season for Tampa Bay, it would be a victory or a tie. No other NHL team ever lost all of its games in its-first season, and never has a team lost 14 games in a season. BRONCOS-BEARS: Chicago needs only a victory to finish with its best record in 11 years, but coach Jack Pardee doesn't expect to have an easy time of it. "Denver's record is better than ours," Pardee said, "8-5 against our 7-6. They've scored 287 points and we've scored 239 and they have the best field goal kicker in the league (Jim Turner)." To place your Post-Dispatch WANT AD dial 621-6666 A New The Coming KNOX DOBBS CHAMP current Redskins will remain buried.

Nothing is so dull, nothing so quickly forgotten as yesterday's loser. If the Redskins lose to the Cowboys and if the Cardinals defeat the New York Giants, it's over for Allen and his players. Maybe just for this year or maybe until the year 2000, which is about the time Allen again will have a No. 1 choice in the National Football League draft. And if the Redskins lose this nationally televised game (in St.

Louis, Channel 4 at 3 p.m.), it may well be because of choking on their own words. There's no real reason for the Cowboys, champions of the National Football conference's Eastern division, to be much interested in anything other than the cheerleaders who will strut on the sidelines of Texas Stadium. In fact, earlier this week, Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach was quoted as saying he'd rather see the Redskins in the playoffs than the Cardinals because he thinks the Cardinals are a superior team. "If that's what Roger said," responded FROM PAGE ONE recently, though. During McVay's six-game tenure, only one opponent has scored as many as 16 points and opposing teams have averaged less than 12.

Only one team managed more than 150 yards rushing in that span. By comparison, the Big Red are AVERAGING 159 rushing yards for the season. If there is a particular strength in the New York defense at present, it is the aroused line and linebacker Brad Van Pelt. Together, they landed six quarterback sacks on Detroit's Greg Landry last week. The weakness at present is in the secondary, where cornerbacks Henry Stuckey and Bobby Brooks have been sidelined for the year with injuries.

The replacements are Jim Stienke and Bill Bryant, a pair that figures to have its hands full with Mel Gray and Ike Harris on this last regular-season Sunday. If there is an air of uncertainty surrounding the game, it is understandable. The Big Red have had some long, hard days against the Giants. And on this occasion, even a victory may not be enough to keep their season alive. Before the day's outing can end on a happy note, news will have to be relayed of some Redskin failing in Dallas.

The game broadcast is to be played over the intercom of the Big Red's charter as they return to St. Louis Sunday evening. But Coryell, for one, won't put the buggy in front of the horse. "Before anything good can happen," he said, "we have to win against the Giants. We have to win, so naturally we're going to." BIG RED NOTES With only 146 passing yards Sunday, quarterback Jim Hart will reach the 3000-yard mark for the second time in his career.

The club record is 3280, by Charley Johnson in 1963 The next punt return attempted by Terry Metcalf will give him the club WU Swimmers Breeze The host Washington University Bears defeated the Illinois College Blueboys, 79-28, in a swimming meet Saturday morning. Jeff Roth (500-yard and 1000-yard freestyle), Bob Dalster (required and optional diving) and Larry Doerr (50-yard freestyle and 200-yard butterfly) each won two events for the Bears. Irtape i(3 Steve Bartowski was injured. SEAHAWKS-EAGLES: This will be the first time this season for Philadelphia to go into a game as the favorite (by about a touchdown). And even Roman Gabriel figures to be a winner on his home field.

CHARGERS-RAIDERS: "It's important to keep on winning," said Oakland coach John Madden. "Every time you lose a game, you have to do a lot of work getting things back together." The Raiders have the best record in the NFL and if they make it 13-1 they would match the record of the 1967 Oakland team that went to the Super Bowl. San Diego is coming off a 13-7 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers. record (65), which he currently shares with Chuck Latourette A victory Sunday would be Coryell's thirty-fifth triumph in four seasons, and give him a four-year record of 35-20-1 The Giants own a 46-22-1 series advantage over the Cardinals, but haven't beaten the Big Red since 1973 (24-13) in New Haven, Conn. Compiled From News Services The National Football League's regular season comes to a close Sunday and one of the titles remaining up for grabs is the Eastern Division crown in the American Conference.

The Baltimore Colts, undisputed leaders until upended by the Cardinals in St. Louis eight days ago, will be at home to the Buffalo Bills, who haven't won a game for nine weeks. New England's Patriots now are tied with the Colts, each 10-3, and will face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Tampa and Tampa Bay hasn't won all season period. If the leaders each already assured of a playoff spot by virtue of the championship or a wild card entry win as expected and end the season with 11-3 records, Baltimore would gain the title by virtue of its better divisional The Colts thus would have at least one home game in the playoffs. The Colts lead the NFL in scoring with 359 points, but have split their last four games.

"We may have peaked a little too early," said linebacker Jim Cheyunski. "Hopefully, we'll go back uphill now that the playoffs are coming. We're going to be forced into a good performance." The Colts found out in St. Louis that they couldn't take things easy. At stakes for the Bills is one of those individual things that crop up on the final wekend of the regular season O.

J. Simpson's statistics. He has a solid shot at a fourth league rushing title in five years. Simpson went over 200 yards in his last two contests and trails the Chicago Bears' Walter Payton by just nine yards, 1341-1332. Baltimore's Lydell Mitchell ranks third in NFL rushing but is 175 yards off Coifs lk Statistics prove Turner is not No.

1, but he has connected on 32 of 35 field-goal attempts. The Bears (who beat Denver in an exhibition game, 15-14) have something going for them in Payton's drive for the rushing title and that he has the whole team behind him in his bid. "We want the rushing title for Walter," lineman Jeff Sevy said. PACKERS-FALCONS: Quarterbacks Scott Hunter and Randy Johnson will be matched against each other and their former clubs in this game in which each team will try to improve a 4-9 record. Hunter, who led Green Bay to its last divisional title in 1972, took over Atlanta's No.

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