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The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 35

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Morning Tiw Wilmington, Dl. 35 August 2, 1969 For Texas title Dallas defeats Houston Bohemias 'Terror' STATISTICS OallM Houston 21 16 7t play NFL Philadelphia, 1-1, at Princeton, N.J., AFL Cincinnati, 1-2, is at NFL Pittsburgh, 1-2, and NFL Atlanta, 2-1, is at NFL New Orleans, 1-2. SUNDAY, NFL San Francis triumphs First Downs Passing Yardage Rushing Yardage Return Yardage Passes Punts Fumoles tost Yards Penal ued 134 35 15-36-2 5-46 0 86 33 12-35-: 1 62 Colts' rush that trapped Buffalo passers seven times for 69' yards and forced three interceptions. THE game between Vince Lombardi's Washington Redskins, led by quarterback Sonny Jurgensen, and Detroit will be: seen on national HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) The1 co, 0-3, is at AFL, Oakland, an-1 AFL, Denver, 1-2, meets AFL Boston, 1-2, at Jackson from Yale carried over on the next play.

Houston took its early lead the second time it had the ball, climaxing a 72-yard surge with a 30-yard field goal by Roy Ger-1 ela. Pete Bethard's passes had the Oilers moving smoothly until Jethro Pugh broke through at the Cowboy 13 to throw Beth-ard for an 11-yard loss and force Gerella's field goal. HOUSTON did not threaten seriously again until Don Trul engineered a 44-yard drive in th( closing minutes, passing the final three yards to Jim Bcirne. Tempers flared briefly several times during this third The American Football League Chiefs of Kansas City, who share the top rung of pre-season play with Baltimore with 4-0, meet the National Football League Cardinals, 2-1, in St. Louis in the second annual Governor's Cup game.

HIGHLIGHTING the action will be Saturday night's annual double-header at Cleveland which will feature two of the sports most established running stars and one of its most promising. In the first game, the Chicago Bears of the NFL, 2-2, and the brilliant Gale Sayers will take on the AFL Buffalo Bills, and rookie O. J. Simpson, last sea- Dallas Cowboys used Craig Morton's passes to put together long, second-half scoring drives Thursday night and overcome the Houston Oilers, 14-11, in an inter-league exhibition game. An overflow crowd of 55,310, the largest ever to see the Oilers play at home, and the sec f1 wAf "ill Holy Terror, a 4-year-old filly owned by the Bohemia Stables of Mrs.

Richard C. du Pont of Wilmington, won the featured eighth race yesterday at Belmont Park in New York. Ridden by Larry Adams, Holy Terror toured the seven-furlong course over the turf in 1.22 4-5. The filly returned $6.40. $4.80 and $3.80.

Multi Play, a 4-year-old filly owned by Delaware Park President Baird C. Brittingham of Wilmington, won the fourth race at Timonium, Md. Ridden by Ben Feliciano, Multi Play payed $10.20, $6.80 and $5.40. ville, Fla. With Jim Hart nursing a jammed right index finger, Charlie Johnson is set to go all the way at quarterback for St.

Louis against the big Chiefs. He hit 15 of 32 passes for 162 yards and one touchdown in the loss to Minnesota. Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson completed 22 of 32 passes for 418 yards ond largest sports crowd for the Astrodome, saw the Cow boys dominate the final two per iods to capture the Governor's Cup, symbolic of the Texas pro isons Heisman iropny winner meeting of the intra-state pro-! fessional rivalry in which the Cowboys have taken earlier games 30-17 and 33-19. fessional football championship. and four touchdowns in 48-14 touncing of Los Angeles.

Johnny Unitas is set to start at quarterback for Baltimore and Miami quarterback Bob Griese is set for a taste of the Trailing 3-0 at halftime, Mor from Southern California. The Green Bay Packers, 1-2, seeking to overhaul the machine ton moved the Cowboys 77 yards fF II Morton completed five of 10 in 12 plays from the second half that rolled through the NFL for three straight years until last season, will take on the Cleve land Browns, 2-0-1, and Leroy the "DOUBLE lOO" passes for 80 yards in the 77-yard go-ahead touchdown driv. that included one Cowboy penalty. ON the second scoring drive he completed 2 of 3 passes for 44 yards and finished the night CBS, starting at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

The Jets, who have played to; about 250,000 people in pre-sea-1 son action so far, go against Minnesota after just a five-day layoff from their loss to Oak-1 land. Quarterback Joe Namathj who played one quarter against! Oakland, figures to see more; action against Minnesota andj will be tested by the Vikings' i front four. Los Angeles, smarting from; the trouncing by Kansas City, should be ready to make things interesting for San Diego, which lost highly-touted rookie linebacker Bob Babich with a knee injury in 19-19 tie with Cleve-; land last Saturday. He could be through for the season. RUNNING back Tucker Fred- erickson is scheduled to make his first appearance for the Giants against Philadelphia which will have fullback Tom Woodeschick back after he missed early games because of a knee strain.

Pittsburgh, which showed an aggressive defense along with a balanced offense in 34-24 victory aver New Orleans will be up against Cincinnati rookie quarterback Greg Cook. Rookie Joe Green, impressed at defensive tackle and defensive end last week for Pittsburgh. kickoff to put Dallas in front to stay. He did it with a 34-yard pass to Lance Rentzel, who had just returned to the lineup after being badly shaken up early in the drive. AFTER another Cowboy threat failed when Mike Clark missed 2 100-MILE CHAMPIONSHIP RACES Kelley in the second game.

In other Saturday action, NFL Baltimore is at AFL Miami, 0-4; NFL Washington, 2-1, meets NFL Detroit, 2-1 at Tarn-pa, NFL Minnesota, 3-0, Tigers stop Oakland 5-3 DETROIT Jim N'orth-rup's second homer and sixth hit of the game with two out in the 13th inning boosted the Detroit Tigers to a 5-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics Thursday night. OAKLAND DETROIT lruiun ii ctad 0 RACING LEAGUE plays the world champion New his third field goal attempt of the night, Morton got a 56-yard drive under way to clinch the with 14 completions in 32 attempts for 218 yards. The Kansas City Chiefs, involved in a get-in-shape and earn-your-job campaign, and the St. Luois Cardinals meet Friday night for the pro football championship of Missouri. Championship tor Modified Stock Cars FOR THE SCHAEFER BEER TROPHY.

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(AP)-Tom Demark, second baseman on the Southern Colorado State College baseball team, is known SB Campaneris. ER BB SO D0V8R DOWnS C.Dobson I 6 3 3 1 4 NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) and Pitts, the Bills' solid de-tense is blessed by experience. have to share the halfback spotlight with Sfmpson. Lindblad 2-3 2 0 0 0 0 Finqers 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Roland 1 10 0 11 Lauzerique .1 2-3 3 2 2 0 2 Hiller 7 1-3 8 3 2 0 6 P.Dobson 2 2-3 2 0 0 1 3 Timmerman 2 2 0 0 2 1 INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAU -Coach John Rauch, assigned the task of bringing the Buffalo Bills back from the wreckage of a 1-12-1 1968 season, has em RON McDole and Tom Day are at the ends, Jim Dunaway RAUCH, speaking of Simpson two weeks after the super-star las "Honker" to his mates be Lasher 2-3 2 0 0 0 Scherman 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 FOLLOW LUCKY 11 Tl DOVER, DEL at left tackle, Paul Guidry, Har ended his contract holdout and cause of his highly audible chatter during a ga.

barked on a partial youth WP-Hiller. PB-Freehan. 3: 48. A 11,638. ry Jacobs and Mike Stratton at reported to training camp, said: "He's corr.ing along fine and the linebacker soots.

Butch Leading the parade of eager youngsters is pro football's News-Journal Want Ads most sousht-after rookie in Bills at a glance 1968 finish-Last In East Division 1968 record-1-12-1 Probahlv 1969 finish-Third "Introductory Special! years, O. J. Simpson, the Heisman running back. Bill Enyart, a 236-pound fullback who has also shown he can be an effective pass receiver, also has an excellent Team's strong points Great potential of rookie halfback O. J.

Simpson; solid, experienced defense, I longtime Bills trademark. Team's weaknesses Shallow reserve strength at several positions, vulnerabili TN no ti ty ot quaneroacKs. Best rookies Simpson and fullback Bill Enyart. chance of cracking the Amer i I i in he's learning every day. He'll see more time as we go along.

"Of course," Rauch added, "He'll share the job with Ander Byrd and Booker Edgerson at cornerback and George Saimes at right safety. Tackles Stew Barber and Paul Costa, guards Billy Shaw and Joe O'Donnell and center Al Bemiller figure to comprise the starting offensive line, although such rookies as Julian Nunamaker and Mike Richey could get a chance. Jack Kemp is listed as the starting quarterback, with Tom Flores his primary backup. Both sat out last season with injuries and will be watched closely. Rookie Jim Harris, bothered by stomach trouble at the training camp, and Marlin Briscoe, obtained primarily for use as a wide receiver, are the reserve signal callers.

LACK of strong back-up strength has hurt the Bills when injuries have struck them, and Rauch as spent much camp time in trying to find a suitable reserve force. The Bills do not figure to be a title contender this vear but ican Football League teams starting lineup in his first year. SEVERAL second and third-year players, including wide receivers Haven Moses and Richard Trapp, tight end Billy Masters and safety John Pitts, son. We're lucky to have two backs who are potential Delivei have a firm erin on their threats." WHILE denying the Bills i in Sort Beer foroiy needed a complete new look, Rauch said. "I do think we have some good prospects and positions.

Earlier this week, sophomore pro Bob Tatarek cemented his hold on the right defensive tackle spot when Tom Sestak retired at 33 to become a Bill's scout. the only way to do it is to give them an opportunity. "My objective is to win, no matter how I must suffer Mini Max Anderson, a 5-foot- through the pain of bringing 8, 180-pounder who was the Bills' leading ground-gainer last year as a rookie, also will see plenty of action, although he'll youth along." Except for Tatarek, who saw only sporadic action last year, their fans have hopes their journey back from oblivion will be reasonably speedy. in 6 pac 12 oz.cans AII-1940 squad includes Bough Words cannot express the joy which a new bike brings to a youngster but a smile can! A smile also expresses pride of ownership and anticipation of the places he can go and things he can do now that he has his own two-wheeler. Behind this great big smile was a very small Want Ad which delivered the bike to its new owner.

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GUARDS Brunp Banducci, 1944-54, Philadelphia Eaqles, San Francisco 49ers. Bill Edwards, 1940-42, 1946, New York Giants. Garrad (Buster) Ramsey, 1946-5', Cht-caqo Cardinals. Bill Willis, 1946-53, Cleveland Browns. Len Younce, 1941, 1943-44, 1946-48, New York Giants.

A feature of the book is the selection of five all-star teams, one for each of the five decades in the NFL's first half-century, that ultimately leads to the selection of an Alltime NFL team covering the 50 years of play. The 1940s team was released Thursday and besides Luckman, Baugh and Waterfield includes five other backs who made T-formation football the explosive weapon it is Bill Dudley, George McAfee, Marion Motley, Charles Trippi and Steve Van Buren. AMONG the linemen selected in the balloting conducted by NEW YORK (AP) Sammy' Baugh, Sid Luckman and Bob Waterfield, three quarterbacks who grew up with the T-forma-tion, were named 'Thursday to an all-1940s team commemorating the 50th anniversary season of the National Football League. The 1940s opened with Luck-man at quarterback for the Chicago Bears engineering a 73-0 victory over Washington. Luck-man worked out of the forma-j tion, revolutionary then, and in the years that followed team after team adopted the system.

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Alex 1928.50, Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eaqles. QUARTERBACKS Sammy Baugh, 1937-52, Washington Redskins. Sid Luckman, 1929-50. Chicaqo Bears Bob Waterfield, 1945-52, Cleveland Rams, Los Angeles Rams. HALFBACKS Tony Canadeo, 1941-44, 1946-52, Green Bay Packers.

Bill Dudley, 1942, 1945-51, 1953, Pitts-burgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins. George McAfee, 1940-41, 1945-50, Chicago Bears. Charles Trippi, 1947-55, Chicago Hall of Fame selectors in NFL' cities were two centers in the Hall of Fame-Clyde (Bulldog) Turner and Alex Wojciechowicz. The NFL a 1 1- 1940s team (name, years played, teams): ENDS tually turned the sport into the highly specialized game it is today and therefore are linked with its amazing appeal. will satisfy your thirst more on the summer days that lie ahead.

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