Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 24

D-4 THE STATE JOURNAL July 29. 1977 Itim from Qtmond Am cr jsy 84 LUMBER 6121 AURELIUS RD. PH. 393-8400 Daily tltl 9 St. MB 6 Sum.

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Robert "Turf Kauffman is head coach of the Capitals and has tryouts at 2 p.m. Saturday and next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. All workouts will be held at Lansing Catholic Central High's field. Lansing will be one of four teams in the MFL this season. The other teams are Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, and a team from Detroit.

FLINT, PONTIAC and Cleveland, Ohio, three teams that started the 1976 season, are not operating. Kauffman is assisted by Tom Slade, former University of Michigan quarterback, as offensive coordinator and Tom Drahnak, defensive coordinator. Kelly said the Capitals their theirs season Aug. 20 at Detroit. Atkinson to stay aggressive SANTA ROSA, Calif.

(AP) George Atkinson, who says he's aggressive but not criminal, doesn't plan to change his style of play just because he lost his slander suit against Chuck Noll and the Pittsburgh Steelers. "I'll go on being an aggressive player, the type of player I've always been," the veteran defensive back says. 'That's how I've lasted 10 years in this league, by being aggressive." Atkinson was the loser in the two-week trial of his $2 million slander suit when a federal court jury returned a verdict for the Steelers and Noll, their coach since 1969. The Bears, in the mind of Coach Jack Pardee, already are a bona fide challenger and should challenge the Minnesota Vikings in the National Football Conference's Central Division. "Our team has come to a point where we can make a real run at the Vikings," said Pardee, 7-7 in his second Chicago season last year.

PARDEE WILL start Bob Avellini at quarterback against the Jets. He figures, to use Mike Phipps, obtained from Cleveland, as Avellini's alternate. At other NFL training camps, veteran quarterback Bob Berry of the Minnesota Vikings retired after 12 seasons in the league. Star running back Del Williams admitted to some uneasy feelings about his unsigned status with the San Francisco 49ers. "I just go out and try to play but always in the back of my mind is 'What if I get Then what happens?" WILLIAMS, THE fourth-year pro from Kansas who gained 1,203 yards last year, wouldn't say just what the problems were in settling on a contract.

But he clearly expects more than he's been offered to date. By GEORGE STRODE CANTON. Ohio (AP) Quarterback Richard Todd replaces his boyhood hero this season as the New York Jets try to climb back into National Football League contention. "Joe Namath always had been my idol since the eighth grade," said Todd, who takes his first step as full-time successor to Namath Saturday when he starts for the Jets against the Chicago Bears in the year's first exhi: bition, the Pro Football Hall of Fame game. BEFORE THE exhibition, Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, Gale Sayers, Bill Willis and Frank Gifford will be inducted into the shrine.

They represent the largest class since 1971 and bring the hall's immortals to 93. "I'm no Namath," said Todd. "Joe is the greatest quarterback that ever played the game. I've got to do it my own way." Todd alternated with Namath in the Jets' 3-11 season last year. Namath, who became a free agent, signed with the Los Angeles Rams in the off-sea-.

son. WALT MICHAELS, the Jets' new coach, is making no predictions this fall. "I will have the team ready to play, but I'm making no promises on a winning season," he said. TUNE-UP NOW! Let our mechanic put your car in top condition before you start out on your vacation. Steve Bartkowski Falcons in about-face GREENVILLE, S.C.

(AP) Steve Bartkowski says the "internal strains" that left the 1976 Atlanta Falcons with a 4-10 record are gone and most of the credit goes to the new coaching staff. "It's been a total about-face from the end of last year," said the Falcons quarterback, who has been plagued by serious injuries during his first two National Football League seasons. "There's a good atmosphere here now." MOST OF the credit goes to a new coaching staff headed by former Los Angeles Rams' assistant Leeman Bennett, he said. "The coaching staff really has direction," said Bartkowski, who missed three games his rookie year with an elbow injury and sat out nine last year with a knee injury that required surgery. "It's the best organization since I've been here, and I know that hasn't been very long, but some of the veterans are saying the same thing," he said.

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