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2 Pittsburgh Press, Oct. 7, 1 979 Steelers' 'Bull' Wants To Beef Up His Conditioning CLEVELAND Jim Brown of the Browns and Jim Taylor of the Packers were heroes of Sidney Thornton when he was growing up in New Orleans. Now Thornton is running like the big league back the Steelers envisioned him to be when they drafted him second out of X's O's Northwestern Louisiana three years ago. He's running hard and with purpose, but he is still not pleased with himself. "I have to improve my conditioning," he said, looking forward to today's 4 p.m.

battle here with the Browns. "I'm not as strong as I want to be. I have to be able to get out of the blocks better, and not run out of gas on long runs." what a great quarterback the New England Patri- ots have, and somebody asked him if he meant Steve Grogan. "No, that kid Matt Cavanaugh," said Rooney. "We should have never let him get out of Rich Milot, a rookie linebacker from Coraopolis and Penn State, is starting for the Washington Redskins.

"Our players have to have strength to hold up," says Redskins Coach Jack Pardee, "and we think Milot has that ability. He's inexperienced, but he's making progress. He really understands what we're doing. He's the type of player who can help us improve as a team." Former Pitt standouts Marty Schottenheimer and Free Hoaglin are coaches with the Detroit Lions. Hoaglin, who played alongside Coach Monte Clark here with the Browns in the late '60s, jt is high on Keith Dorney, an offensive tackle who.

was the Lions' top draft pick from Penn State. Joe Paterno would be proud to know these -things. ALL IN THE FAM-A-LEE: Pittsburgh sports -fans get a treat whichever way they look. Yester- day, Pirate fans were lined up at Three Rivers Stadium to buy tickets for the upcoming Series when the Steelers started arriving to catch their buses to Cleveland. As the Steelers emerged from their cars, they were cheered by the crowd, -and many youngsters swarmed around them had the Steelers signing autographs.

left in 1970 to sign with the Steelers. "I'm taking a course in anatomy and physiology," said Blount, "and I'm learning a lot about myself." He said he still does not understand why the Steelers have suffered so many injuries. There is not any mystery surrounding Dwight White's status with the Steelers. He's simply second-string, that's all, and now he has to wait his turn to get back in the lineup. It's still surprising that he wasn't even used in a goal-line defense at Philadelphia last Sunday.

It's a good bet now that if the Steelers had to do It all over again, they would have retained rookie Dwaine Board as a defensive end. He is now with the San Francisco 49ers. Line coach Rollie Dotsch says that Ted Petersen played Claude Humphrey off his feet in the second half of the game with the Eagles last Sunday. Setting the record Manny Sistrunk of the Eagles is the cousin of Otis Sistrunk, the Steelers' old nemisis with the Oakland Raiders. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were 5-0 going into today's game with the Giants in the Jersey Meadowlands.

Rookie flanker Gordon Jones from Pitt made his first catch in the pros a memorable one, grabbing a 37-yard touchdown pass to put the Bucs in the lead against Baltimore earlier this season. Steeler owner Art Rooney was talking about He is one of the nicest, most easy-going guys on the team. He is very down-to-earth, which one might expect from a farm boy from Tomahawk, Wis. i Sitting next to Webster on a plane, one can learn how to plant and grow potatoes, which is what Mike's family does, or get a strong recommendation on "The Muppet Movie," which Mike and his 3-year-old daughter, Brook Winter, enjoyed so much. Loren Toews, who will be on the injured reserve list with a neck injury for at least the next three weeks, was talking about how popular football is in his neighborhood in McMurray.

"It took my wife and I about, a month to come up with a name for our new daughter this summer," said Toews. "My son (Aaron Joseph) heard us talking it over one day, and said, 'Hey, how about naming her Franco? I'm telling you, the little kids in. my neighborhood are all fired up about the Steelers. John Banaszak, the bubbly defensive end of the Steelers, is still looking for his second interception. He bad his first, of course, against Dan Pastorini of the Oilers in the home opener at Three Rivers Stadium.

"They haven't thrown in my area since then," kids Banaszak. Mel Blount is going to night school at Allegheny Community College, taking a course he needs to get his degree from Southern University, which he "Then people started talking about 'The Bull' and I could see for myself that he was a good back," said Hawthorne. "Maybe I can put some heat on him. I pick up some things from him and he knows he has to stay on the job. It makes competition a little stif er for me, with Sidney here.

It makes me know I have to work that much harder to get more action. He's good and he's going to get better." The Steelers came here here yesterday by bus, but normally they travel by airplane, when they do, J.T. Thomas and Lynn Swann always sit together in the next-to-the-last row on the left-hand side of the plane in what Swann calls "our superstition seat." Swann always sits by the window and Thomas on the aisle, and the seat in between is off-limits toanybody else. When Thomas wasn't traveling; the team last' season, because he was sidelined by a blood disorder, Swann "retired" his seat for the season, and kept it open for his return. Earlier this season, the two even chased big Mike Webster out of their reserved seats.

Thomas sells insurance, and he says his customers' monthly payments always seem to lapse during the football season. "I think they lose too much money betting on football games," he reasons. Webster wasn't hard to chase oat of the seat. By Jim O'Brien At the same time, the Steelers' scouting department doesn't believe we have seen the real Greg Hawthorne yet "He still isn't exploding the way we know he can," says Dick Haley, the head of player personnel. "But he's coming along." Hawthorne, the No.

1 pick from Baylor, said he knew about Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier when he was drafted, but did not know much about Sidney Thornton. Maryland Cures Penn State's Ills How Penn State Opponents Fared ARMY tied Duke, 17-17. SYRACUSE beat Kansas, 45-21. WEST VIRGINIA beat Kentucky, 10-6. N.

C. STATE lost to Auburn, 44-11. MIAMI lost to Florida 16-11. TEMPLE beat Rutgers, 41-20. PITT beat Boston College, 28-7.

ifJ v'' Vw-HvJ 0' tr'v -t v' lt a '4 it: ik 'i But the soreness didn't stop him. Millen and Co. sacked Tice and Co. six times. The only consistentoffense for the Terps was their punting game.

Dale Castro, who is 10 for 10 in field goals this year, punted 11 times to tie a school record. In fact, Giuseppe Harris ruined the record by partially blocking a Eunt in the second quarter. Partially locked kicks are considered team punts. Harris, a converted linebacker, inter-. cepted two of the three passes for the young defensive secondary.

"Our secondary played a solid game," Paterno said. And the Terps didn't Fumbles at their 1 two, 13 and 39 set up scores. In the third quarter, dark grabbed Tice as he tried to hand off and jerked him at the right moment to free the ball. Linebacker Lance Mehl recovered. Suhey broke a 30-yard run and Moore scored his second short touchdown, a one-yard dive.

(Continued from Page D-l) thoughts. If we lose here, where do we I was thinking about my freshman year when we lost three of four and finished 7-5. We don't need that" So Millen and Clark lined up side by side, Clark handling double and triple team blocking. Millen took running backs. And end Larry Kubin took the quarterback, sacking 6-7 Mike Tice three times.

Against this alignment, Maryland gained only 35 yards rushing, Tice com- Eleted only three of 20 attempts and lilback Charlie Wysocki, ranked third in the nation in rushing, produced only 51 yards on 19 carries. "It's awful tough double-teaming Millen and Clark when they're next to each other," explained Paterno. "But overall we just played better. All I told the team is that we needed a solid, no-nonsense game." And his team responded quickly. fore two minutes had elapsed, the Lions had a 7-0 lead.

Punter Ralph Giacommarra booted a high, long punt Maryland freshman Mike Lewis fumbled after a Grover Edwards hit and Matt Bradley recovered at the Maryland 14. The next play, Matt Suhey danced through a big hole for a 14-yard touchdown. "It was a new play we installed this week which gets the ball back to the fullback like he was a tailback," Suhey said. Dayle Tate, Paterno's struggling quarterback, hit three straight completions to set up the next first-quarter score, a 36-yard field goal by Herb Menhardt The Lions had a 10-0 lead and were on their way to evening their record at 2-2. Penn State also had field position.

Only three times in three quarters did Maryland have the ball outside of its 30-yard line. Giacommarra set up the next touchdown with a punt inside the five. Tice, rolling to pass near his goalline, was pulled down by Millen. The ball squirted loose and was recovered by Kubin at the Maryland two. Two plays later, Booker Moore scored from the two and Penn State led, 17-0, before halftime.

Millen was a question mark for the game. He injured his back in practice three days before the Nebraska game and practiced very little this week. "On Thursday, I couldn't get out of bed, Leo Wisniewski. had to carry me out," Millen explained. "I didn't know until before the game if I could play until before the game.

But my back is sore now." Prtu ptiote by MfclMtf CMkirM Pitt's Bill Neill grabs Jay Palazola, the Boston College quarterback, for a four-yard loss during the second quarter yesterday. Pitt 28-7 Win Stirs Up Great QB Debate quarterback who can stop doing that will also be okay. PITT NOTES To avoid a conflict with the World Series, which will be played at Three Rivers Stadium next Saturday, Pitt has moved up the starting time of its game with Cincinnati. The game will begin at 10:30 a.m. instead of the usual 1:30 p.m.

starting time Bowles had the best day of his career with five catches for 79 yards. How Pitt Opponents Fared CINCINNATI lost to North Carolina, 35-14. WASHINGTON beat Oregon State, 41-0. NAVY beat Air Force, 13-1. SYRACUSE beat Kansas, 45-21.

WEST VIRGINIA beat Kentucky, 104. ARMY tied Duke, 17-17. PENN STATE beat Maryland, 17-7. (Continued from Page D-l) said Sherrill, who is refining the art of being evasive about bis quarterback situation. "Ricky has done everything we've asked of him.

His record speaks for itself. Danny is still young. I hope we don't have to put him into pressure situations." When asked if the statement about Marino indicated Trocano was definitely still his starter, Sherrill answered with this beauty: 1 "Ricky is our quarterback until other changes are made." Sherrill then chided the media. "You guys are making too much about who 0 77 01421 Pmiburgh Menhardt, who was two of four in. field goals, completed the scoring with a 38-yarder in the fourth quarter.

Mary- land's meaningless score was a 24-yard pass from reserve quarterback Bob Milkovich to Mike Lewis in the fourth quarter. "They did a good job and we dropped a lot of balls," said disappointed Mary- C-. land Coach Jerry Claiborne. "I thought we were doing something in the second half. We got a little anxious and fumbled rv again." Offensively, the Lions finished with 218 yards rushing and 100 yards passing.

Freshman Curt Warner left the game in the second quarter with a hamstring pull. He had pulled it earlier in the week. Warner had 35 yards on seven carries. As for Clark's switch to nose guard, "I'm not going to comment on it until I know more about the position," he said. "But how would you like me to beat on you all?" LION ROARS Suhey upped his career rushing total to 2,069, passing Franco Harris for fifth on the team's all-time rushing leaders Tom Wise started in the defensive secondary despite a swollen knee A representative from the Hall of Fame bowl in Birmingham, was present.

Freshman offensive guard Greg Gogal is out for the season with a knee injury Veteran defensive backs Stu McMunn and Bill Meade did not make the trip Maryland was missing seven starters because of injuries Next week, the Lions begin a four-week homestand by hosting Army. put-McMillan 1 run (Schubert kick) PHf.Merlno 2 run (Schubert kick) BC-Gamble 1 run (Cooper kick) Pltt-McMlllen 2 run (Schubert kick) PItt-McMlllen 1 run (Schubert kick) plays quarterback. They both complement each other. We have two fine quarterbacks." Nor were Trocano and Marino eager to comment on the situation. Trocano, who completed eight of 12 BC -First Downs.

21 11 10 191 122 69 renany-. Total I Vards Rushing. Yards Passing AttsComo 0 3W ISO 4-1e 4- 34.31 10-103. 5- 3 Hod Intercepted- Penalties Yard! 2-17 Orioles Defeat Angels To Clinch AL Pennant -FumblesBall Lost- 4-4 DIVIDUAL STATISTICS AL Playoff Box RUSHING BOSTON COLLEGE: Gamble 21 carries for yards and 1 TD, Conway 10 for 15, Palaiola 19 for ml-nus-20, Benlamln 2 for a. PITT: McMillan 17 for 75, 3 TDs, Jacobs 0 for 24, Trocano for minus-2.

Jones 11 for 79, DiBarM 1 for 7, Marino 3 for 4, 1 TO. PASSING BOSTON COLLEGE: Palazola 6 completions In 1 attempts for 69 yards and 2 Interceptions. PITT: Trocano 0 tar 12 for 17, 2 Int, Marino I for 12 for 102, 1 Int. RECEIVING BOSTON COLLEGE: Rlker 3 catches for 34 yards, Sherwln 2 for 37, Benlamln 1 for mlnus-2. PITT: Bowles 5 tar 79, Still 2 for 23, McMillan 2 tar 22, Jones 4 for Is, Jacobs 1 tor 16, Pryor 1 for 24, Don browskl 1 for 6.

Indiana Wins, 31-24 INDIANA, Pa. Running back Jeff Heath scored touchdowns of three and four yards yesterday to highlight a 22-point fourth-quarter explosion by Indiana which produced a 31-24 victory over Shippensburg in a Pennsylvania Conference game. abrhM 4 0 10 4 0 10 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 CALIFORNIA-abrhM Cerew lb Lanslord 3b Ford rt Baylor If Downing Grlch Retlnmnd Miller cf Anderson ss 4 0 10 4 111 10 0 0 4 11! 1 9 BALTIMORE Bumbry cf Gird ss Bclimoer ss Singleton rl Murray lb Lowensten If Roenlcke It Kelly Oh DeCinces 3b Smith 2b Dauer 2b Dempsey Baltimore 2 a passes for 87 yards, was asked if it both-' ered him to sit down for the freshman. "Sure I like to play," he Coach Sherrill says we'll both play. But he never says when.

I guess he can't." Concerning Marino, Trocano said, "I thought he played well. When he was in there we were doing what we should have been doing all day." Marino, who completed nine of 13 passes for 112 yards, wanted no part of getting involved in a controversy. After all, he's only a freshman even if he doesn't play like one. "I've been In competition with Rick all along," he said, "but right now I can't say anything about that. The pressure of major college football doesn't seem to be 'bothering Marino.

"I'm more relaxed now than at the start of the season," he said. "That's the main thing. Just be relaxed and keep your head together." The Pitt defense was together all afternoon. It limited the Eagles to barely more than two yards a carry rushing, even though freshman Shelby Gamble Eicked up 121 yards on 21 carries. Gam-le had a 51-yard run in the first half.

The strength of the defense was in its ability to make up for the frequent turnovers by the offense. Time and again BC had good field position in the first half thanks to two fumbles and two interceptions. But Pitt always held. BC did get close enough three times for John Cooper to try field goals, but he missed all three, from 31, 27 and 52 yards out As Sherrill put it, "Hugh Green was Hugh Green." The All-America defensive end had nine tackles and created a fumble. But what was more important to the Pitt defense were cornerback Terry White and strong safety Carlton Williamson who are not Hugh Green but who were playing like him.

Williamson led Pitt with 11 tackles and White had eight. He twice broke through to sack quarterback Jay Palazola, who had a miserable day. "We knew we had to stop their quarterback from scrambling and that's what we did," said White, a junior from Georgia. Palazola, who went into the game averaging close to seven yards a carry, finished with minus-20 yards on 19 carries. Through the air he could complete just six of 16 attempts.

Only following Doug Alston's interception of Trocano's pass late in the third quarter on the Pitt 45 was BC able to move. And even then it took the Eagles four tries from the six to score. The defense operated with a consistency that the offense simply can't muster. "The offense could have had a good day if we didn't keep stopping ourselves," said Trocano. "Once we stop doing that we're going to be okay." Trocano might have added that the M7 7 3-17 1 7-; Maryland Football Scores MIUI Totals 31 0 4 0 001 100 500 I O00 0O0 0O0I taMomia PS-Suhey 14 run (Manner kick) PS-FG Menhardt 30 PS Moore I run (Menhardt kick) PS-Moore 1 run (Menhardt kick) PS-FG Menhardt 3i Mary-Lewis 34 pass (Tom Milkovich (Castro kick) A-524 -Garcia.

DP-Bmnwe 3, California I. LOB Baltimore 6, California 5. 2B DeCinces, Dempsey, Sln-jjleton. HR- Kelly. SB-Kelly, Dempsey.

SF-Sln-gle- ER BB SO 0 0 0 0 14 TEAM KHH STATE MARYLAND 10 McGregor (W) California Knapp ft.) LaRocht Frost Montague Downs 11 ii-i Hit 4 4 11 110 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 mt low i WP-Froit. T- M4. 35 111 nl LU-42J 5-34 Yards Yards Rushing Passing Had Intercepted TackledLost -FumOlesBall Lost 311 -318 -100 31-10 1 a (Continued from Page D-l) porter, he would yell O-R-I-O-L-E-s with the rest of them. Meantime, what did he think of matching wits and talent with the Pirates' Chuck Tanner once again? "Who, Smiley?" asked Weaver. "Greatest guy in the world.

The difference between me and him is that Chuck can smile right after a loss. It takes me an hour." Weaver said he hadn't given much thought to the specifics of playing the Pirates just yet. His pitching rotation is not yet decided but it doesn't mater too much, because he is especially deep in starters. "I have to talk to (scout) Jimmy Russo first before we decide on the rotation," said Weaver. "I don't know if we'll go to left-handers or right-handers.

We've got a nine-man staff and we might go with a six-man bullpen. just aren't enough words in Webster's dictionary to say how good McGregor pitched today. It was just fantastic." was overkill, really, because this was a day when the Orioles didn't need their 13th shutout of the year. Ken Sin-, gleton batted in two runs and had three hits his six hits in the four-game playoffs were second to Rod Carew's seven for the Angels and designated hitter Pat Kelly came up with the biggest single hit, a three-run homer off Dave Frost, freshly arrived from the bullpen, in the five-run seventh that destroyed the Angels. That hit and DeCinces' play were the individual factors that prevented Jim Fregosi from making a triumphal return to Pittsburgh.

Fregosi, primarily a pinch-hitter with the Pirates last season until he left to take over the Angels June 1, led California to its first division INOIVtOUAL RUSHING Penn State Suhev 1 carries tor 5 yards, I TO: Warner 7 (or 35; Moore 14 for 3, 7 TDs; McClelland 4 tor 45; M. Maade 5 for 23; Rakowsk) 1 tor minus 3: Tate 3 for minus 10. Maryland Wvsockl 19 carries (or 51 yards: Carlncl 1 for Lewis 1 for minus Rodenverger for Milkovich for minus Wlngflekl I for Tice 8 for minus 17, PASSING Penn State Talc 10 rnnoMlm of IS W.Va. Wesleyan 42. W.Va.

Tech 0 Win. Mary 31. J. Madison 0 MIDWEST Adrian 2 Alma 0 Albion 27 26 Capital 21... Muskingum 12 C.

Michigan 28 Ohio U. 0 Drake 41 Missouri 6 Evansville 30 DePauw 6 Indiana 3 Wisconsin 0 Indiana Central 14... Butler 13 Iowa 13 Illinois 7 Manchester 27 Earlham 20 Michigan 21 SL 7 Minnesota 31 Purdue 14 Nebraska 57 New Mex. a 0 Notre Dame 21 Ga. Tech 13 Ohio Northern 21...

Findlay 21 Ohio SL 16 Northwestern 7 Pacific 24 Iowa SL 7 S. Illinois 7 Illinois SL 0 Syracuse 45 21 Toledo 23 Bowling Green 17 Tulsa I Kansas SL 6 Wayne SI 17.Crand Valley 14 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 16 TCU 12 Houston 10 Oklahoma 49 Colorado 24 Texas 26 Texas Tech 21 20 WEST Boise SL 37 Montana 35 Oregon 19 14 San Diego SL 35 New Mexico 7 Southern Cal 50 St. 21 Stanford 27 UCLA 24 Utah 21 Colorado SL It Washington 41 Oregon St. 0 Wyoming 23 Texas-El Paso 1 College LOCAL Ciroegie-Melloo S3 14 Pitt 28 CoUege7 DISTRICT Clarion 11 10 Grove City 12 Westminster 7 Indiana 31 24 Lock Haven 24 Edinboro 7 Hiram 14.. Wash-Jeff 13 Penn State 27 Maryland 7 SL Francis 41 Jiutgers-Newirk 6 Slippery Rock 0 Thiol 21 7 Waynesburg 27 Geneva 21 West Liberty It W.

Va. State 0 Weat'Virginia 10 Kentucky 6 Youngs town 27 VUlanova 22 EAST Alired 34 SL Lawrence 7 Army 17 Duke 17 American Int'l 42 Amherst 35 Bates 20 Hamilton 13 Bloomsburg 27 Wilkes Boston U. 14 Harvard 10 Bowdoin 20 Worcester Tech 13 Brown 31 Princeton 12 BuckneU 10 Cornell 0 Cheyney 17 Mansfield 10 Colby 35 Union 12 Columbia 12 Penn 7 Connecticut 3 New Hampshire 3 C.W. Post 55 Kings Pt 0 Delaware 21 14 Georgetown 26 St Peter's 15 Gettysburg 50 Dickinson Hofstra 33 Wagner 14 Holy Cross 13 Dartmouth 7 Juniata 21...., Susquehanna Kutztown 20 E. Stroudsburg 10 Lebanon Val.

31... Muhlenberg 22 fnemm Tor loo yaras, 1 intercepted; Rakowsky 0 of Hostetrler 0 for 1. Maryland ce leomoletions of Lycoming 24 Delaware VaL Massachusetts 4S N.C. Central 7 Navy IS Air Force 9 Rhode bland 10 Maine 0 RPI Y. Tech 2 Southern Cor.

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0 Temple 41 Rutgers 20 Trinity 7 Williams 0 Tufts J5 Middlebury IS W. Maryland 12 Moravian 0 Widener J5 Albright 14 Yale 27 Colgate 0 SOUTH Alabama 38... Wichita SL 0 Arkansas SL 24 Richmond i Auburn 44 N.C. SL 31 Citadel 21 W. Carolina It Clemson 17 Virginia 7 Davidson 35 Randolph-Macon 6 Fairmont 14 Concord 7 Fla.

16 Miami 13 Florida SL 27 Louisville Fordbam 27 Wash. Lee 15 Georgia 24 Mississippi 21 Glenville 21 LSU 20 La. Tech 17 Southwestern La. 0 Miss. St.

28. Tennessee I Miami (0.) 28. Marshall 0 Newberry 1 Carson-Newman 6 North Carolina 35 Cincinnati 14 Presbyterian 21 Catawba 0 Salem 23 Shepherd 20 Sewanee 21 Centre 7 S. Carolina 23 St. 16 24 App.

St. 21 Tulane 42 Vanderbilt 14 Virginia Military 24.. E. Tenn. 14 Wake Forest It Virginia Tech 14 W.

Kentucky 28 N. Michigan 21 I attempts for 50 yards, 2 Intercepted; Milkovich 4 of tor 42 yarns, i imercepteo, i iu. RECEIVING -fenn State Donovan 2 catches for 24 yards; Scovlll 3 tor 35; Hettinger 2 (or 11: Moore 2 for 7: Werner 1 for 23. Maryland Corclncl 3 catches for 45; Lewis 2 for 32, 1 TD; Ellis 1 for 20; O'Addlo 1 for 11. championship in its 19-year history.

But for Fregosi and Angel owner Gene Autry, winning the West was not enough this season. "If DeCinces doesn't make that play, it's a little different. But we'll be back. Any time you go through a playoff with all this excitement and coverage it's got to help your club." The Orioles took the playoff, three games to one, and it was not surprising that they did. They were the class of the American League.

PLAYOFF NOTES The win gave Baltimore its fifth Amerivacan League pennant Neither the Orioles nor the Pirates had won a pennant since 1971, when the Pirates won the World Series in seven games. McGregor's shutout was the first in the AL playoffs in five years. The Pirates may have a problem with his breaking ball. Since the All-Star break, McGregor is 11-3, and he led the AL in control pitching with fewer than two walks per game. Sports On The Air RADIO TODAY Steelers vs.

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