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Em Tunnel I Made Giant Footsteps as Punt Returner By Bob Broeg hadn't forgotten fellow melting-pot members of all sizes, flavor? and denominations from the wrong side of the railroad, tracks Post-Dispatch Sports Editor When Emlen Tunnell joined New York's football Giants back Jn 1948, the former bookmaker who owned the team, the late Tiro Mara, gave him advice the long-time star repeats now in his autobiography. it never should be sacrificed just because a guy wants to make himself look good. "My point is that I'd never stick up the hand just to save myself from being shaken up by about a half-ton of If I could see daylight, I would go because the next most important thing after possession of the football is the gaining of ground. "Every yard I made on a punt return was one less yard that my teammates would have to make from scrimmage." Like a lot of other people, "The way you feel about a man in your heart, that's the SpOTlS way you should feel toward him fnm nt reSar'ess what anyone else comment savs mm saici Mara That's the credo of Tunnell, an articulate, outgoing man, a reformed nightspot swinger who went from one of the best defensive backs and punt return artists in the history of the National Football League to become the first Negro assistant coach in the NFL. Tunnell, who serves on the staff of Allie the white one from the South is one of the warmest things about a bright book.

The Not-So-Fair Fair Catch Emnell, as Conerly called him, is very good, too, when he talks about technical football, including his unorthodox method of catching the ball. Rather than cradle the football to him, as prescribed, Tunnell caught it the way an outfielder does. Before coach Sherman sends his punt receivers down to work under Em, he tells them, "Listen to what he says, but don't try to do what he does." Tunnell loved to run back punts and points out that when he came up in 1948, opportunities were greater because kickers weren't so far -behind the line of scrimmage and defensive teams were using a single safety. "The punters tried to kick the ball away from the single safety," he recalled, "instead of kicking it as high as possible. The punt coverage didn't have as much time to get downfield." Even so, Tunnell disdained the fair catch to the point that the tough Owen urged him to take the easy way out to retain possession.

The New York safetyman promptly was booed by the crowd. "To hell with those fair catches," the rookie snapped. "If you want somebody to make a fair catch, put another guy in there. I'm not going to have those people thinking I'm gut-less." Owen, who liked toughness even more than he disliked insubordination, understood and stayed with Tunnell, who used the fair catch sparingly, explaining: "If some guy was close enough to jar that ball away from me, I'd raise my arm. Possession of that ball is everythina and in suburban Philadelphia's Main Line.

A Man's Likes and Dislikes Tunnell, the triple-talented star of Garrett Hill, starred in football and basketball briefly at Toledo University, where, he played for the late Dr. Clarence Spears. He played for another medical man, Dr. Eddie Anderson, at Iowa and then turned to pro football. He idolized old man Mara and worshiped Steve.

Owen, the old-school roughneck for whom he played the longest, and he certainly respected Vince Lombardi, for whom he helped win a championship in a comeback at Green Bay. But Tunnell was far from enchanted with Owen's successor at New York, Jim Lee Howell, now in the Giants' front office, and with the Giants' former backfield coaching assistant, Tom Landry, who became head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. As the man who intercepted the most passes end returned the most punts for the greatest distance in his 14 years in the NFL, in the course of which he played a record 158 consecutive games despite a case history of a broken neck and temporary loss of sight in one eye, Tunnell certainly is entitled to his opinions and he has them. As basically a blithe spirit, at home anywhere from the Red Rooster nightclub in Harlem to Holzer's drug store in Green Bay, Tunnell is at his best when he's talking about his coaches and his fellow players, most certainly Charley Conerly of Mississippi. The mutual respect of the Negro man from the North and Bob Broeg Tunnell said he thinks the fair catch is one of the few dull plays of a tremendously exciting sport.

How to eliminate it and be fair to all? "The only logical solution I have thought of," writes Em- len Tunnell with brother Gleason assisting, "is to make the punter kick from 10 yards or less behind the line of scrimmage. If punters to get the ball away from 10 yards back, instead of 13 or 14, they couldn't afford to wait until their coverage men were far upfield. There would be a lot more punt return." And, as the colorful old Giant suggested, at least a few more punts blocked, too. SMI, Emlen Tunnell Sherman with the Giants, the Big Red's foe today, pulls few literary punches in "Footsteps of a Giant." He was fortunate to have William Gleason as his collaborator for the new book by Doubleday. Gleason, sports columnist of Chicago's American, is a gifted writer who recently turned out an absorbing book, "The Liquid Cross," which covers the Chicago Skid Row area about which Dick Terry recently wrote so interestingly in the Post-Dispatch.

In Tunnell, Gleason found a fellow sentimentalist with a touch of disrespect, too. They got along just dandy, the book indicates, even if they did seem to spend too much time in Em's boyhood, showing that the assistant coach of the Giants Big Red Risk Lead Against Giants La try Wilson: Big Gainer on Defense OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY for Service Representative with leading TV manufacturer By Robert Morrison helped his golf game, however, and his primary business is football. Elks Club Award Balloting nte tiutsundinc St, Loui The balloting for the Elks Club's award A year ago, When Bobby sports celebrity of lflfifi (with points award on 14-9-S-7-6 oasis for first- Layne filled a term as Cardinal "-'-p 1st 2nd 4lh LARRY WILSON tfootball) quarterback coach, Layne re JOHNNY ROLAND I football) lated that former Pittsburgh webkr jbowiinsi Mil 0 2 4 4 1 1 Steeler coach Buddy Parker richie gukrin i baskets had his squad watch films of Wilson in action to show thp RILL WHITE baseball) vvnson in acuon 10 snow me DAVE PUDDINGto.n (football) Steelers how extra effort makes ken holtzman baebaii i. ARNOLD KNEPPER (auto racing) a great player. mike shannon i baseball) CLIFF HAGAN (basketball) Larry and his wife have three gary lane (foottmui young children, one of whom is If your background is in electronics and you enjoy traveling, this could be a great opportunity for you.

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He definitely came aglow with the latest and largest of honors accorded him. 'This is probably the greatest thrill of my life," Wilson said in commenting on his being voted St. Louis's outstanding sports celebrity of 1966. The results of the sports-writer and broadcaster poll conducted by the St. Louis Elks Club were announced before the Cards departed for Sunday's National Football League game against the Giants.

"I've had other honors but this tops them all," said the Big Red's defensive safety man who will be the central figure of the Elks dinner at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel Nov. 17. "I've been to that dinner before and always enjoyed it, but now it frightens me," he said. That probably is about the only thing that could frighten the guy who came to be known as the Wildcat in a game here. That contest was five years ago when the Cardinals first sprang him in the safety blitz to beat the Giants and their aging quar.

terback, Charley Conerly. When both of his hands were broken last year, Wilson not only finished out that game against the Giants but also played in the next two games with casts on his bands. He eiren intercepted a pass under that handicap. In last week's game against the Chicago Bears he reached NFL Standings '4 KASTLRV CONFKRENCE tor tne awara their 6-1-1 set out to improve Elks Dinner Tickets record against the 1-5-1 Giants. Season Records calling JE.

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Actually, the Elks balloting was conducted before Wilson's brilliant performance against the Bears, but there wasn't any doubt about the results. Wilson received 15 first-place votes, 12 more than any of the others under consideration, and his total of 264 points outdistanced the man in second place, teammate Johnny Roland. Roland gathered poll support also for his performance at the University of Missouri a year ago. He had 167 points and was just ahead of bowler Dick Weber, who had 162 points. Wilson, a 190-pounder who has been a defensive back since he came from Utah University to join the Cardinals in I960, is no newcomer to pro honors.

He was named on the East team for the Pro Bowl game in 1963, 1964 and 1966. When he returned the interception for a touchdown against the Bears, it was his fifth such feat in his career and tied him with others for that NFL record. The 28-year-old athlete works for Hamiltonian Federal Savings and Loan Association in the off season, and sometimes by KMOX-TV and KMOX radio. Dallas Is Preparing For Feast From Post-Dispatch ire Services NEW YORK, Nov. 5 If the Dallas Cowboys Sunday come anywhere close to their performance in their first meeting with the Philadelphia Eagles, they should have no difficulty staying on the Cardinals' heels in the eastern division race of the National Football League.

Dallas, which begins a string of three road games by visiting Philadelphia, will take a 5-1-1 record against the Eagles (4-4), whom they crushed earlier, 56-7. In that runaway Don Meredith threw five touchdown Pet. Pl. CARDINALS 1 I 19'! Dallas 1 inn V-vrland 5 2 .714 Washinston 3 0 174 rhilnrfpliihla 4 4 0 liiil rttiMiumh 1 5 1 York 1 li I inn Atlanta, 0 8 0 .0110 93 OP 1:10 10K 124 1K4 184 218 214 299 Getting to Meat Of Crow Hunting By Tim Renken "How can you be such a beast, killing all those lovely crows?" he asked, turning his fork over and pointing it accus-singly at his friend. "If 1 didn't know you, I'd say you were a psychopath or something." WESTERN CONFERENCE Pot.

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Atlanta has the bye this week. edge that I am a killer, but I plead 'with Man is a meat-eating animal he requires meat. I have no quarrel with hunters who shoot deer or rabbits because they can claim they must have meat to eat. But you, you kill crows for fun. That's why I say you are the lowest of beasts, even though you are so fat you have to eat nothing but lettuce." Trap Is Set The salad man smiled at his old friend, but the smile had a glint that hinted of a trap about to be sprung.

He glanced about, appearing to take note of the patio where they were dining. "How many times do you eat out here in a year?" he asked, pouring another dollop of diet dressing on his salad. "Oh, 20, 30 times?" The other man, his mouth full of meat, nodded in the affirmative. "I imagine I myself eat here four or five times a year," the salad eater continued. "I don't think we've ever started a picnic here that you haven't first sprayed the place for flies and mosquitoes." said the meat man, chewing, "but "Then how, said the salad man, "can you say I am a beast for killing for sport when, just so you can have a picnic, you EMPLOYMENT MANAGER GENERAL CABLE CORP.

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The other man's attitude softened too, and he said, "Really, pests or not pests, liked or disliked, that's not the point. Crow hunting isn't hurting species crow any more than steak eating is hurting species cow. The number of crows taken by hunters is insignificant to the number killed by natural causeshunting just doesnt matter in the long run. "Anyhow," he continued, "I don't mind it when people don't like to do the things I like, but I'm upset when they want to keep me from doing them." "Go ahead and eat your lettuce," said the steak eater facetiously. "See if I care." Dallas Sends 500 More Tickets Here Another 500 tickets to the Cardinal-Dallas game Dec.

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