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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 40

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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1969 SECTION PAGE SIX LSU Misses 'Top Twenty' Ohio iaie Picked to Repeat as National Grid Champ 10-1; 7, Kansas, 9-2; 8, Georgia, 8-1-2; 9, Missouri, 3-3, and 10, Purdue, 8-2. In the picking for the new sea 1 and No. 2 teams and both unbeaten, because nine of the Top Ten were involved in the postseason spectacles. The final order (with won-lost records in parentheses; then became: 1, Ohio State, 10-0; 2, Penn State, 11-0; 3, Texas, 9-1-1; 4, Southern California, 9-1-1; 5, Notre Dame, 7-2-1; 6, Arkansas, Then came: 5, Southern California, 290; 6, Oklahoma, 264 7, Houston, (one first place), 231; 8. Georgia, 219; 9, Mississippi 211 and 10 Missouri, 109.

The Associated Press' final poll for last season was taken after the Bowl games because of the matchup of Ohio State and Southern California, the No. Ohio State piled up 611 points. Arkansas, with two first place votes got 420. Penn State, with three first placers, collected 390 and the Texas Longhorns, with one first placer, accumulated 343., Then came: 5, Southern California, 290 6, Oklahoma, 264; 7, Houston, (one first place), 231; 8, Georgia, 219; 9, Mississippi 211 and 10, Missouri, 209. son, Kansas didn make the Top 20, Notre Dame was picked for 11th and Purdue for 18th.

battery of Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour, Arkansas, 16-2 conqueror of unbeaten Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, was picked for second. Penn State, unbeaten now in 19 straight games and 15-14 winner over Kansas in the Orange Bowl, was the third choice, and Texas, which blasted Tennessee 36-13 in the Cotton Bowl, was the No. 4 selection. example of what's coming up in the new season. Ole Miss walloped Virginia Tech 34-17 in the Liberty Bowl but still didn't make the Top 20.

But the Rebels, like Ohio State, have 40 lettermen back for another campaign. Southern California will miss O. J. Simpson, the Heisman Trophy winner, while Notre Dame will be minus their stellar Picked to move up were Okla homa, 11th last season, Houston, 18th and Mississippi, which was unranked. Mississippi is an outstanding AP Pre-Season Top Twenty' Arkansas, Penn State and Texas in what shapes up as one of the most exciting seasons in years.

Top pre-season honors went to the four winners of New Year's Day Bowl games. Now they'll have to prove it on the playing field. It won't be easy. Arkansas, 16-2 conqueror of unbeaten Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, was picked for second. Penn State, unbeaten now in 19 straight games and 15-14 winner over Kansas in the Orange Bowl, was the third choice, and Texas, which blasted Tennessee, was the No.

4 selection. Ohio State piled up 611 points. Arkansas with two first place votes got 420. Penn State with three first placers, collected 390 and the Texas Longhorns, with one first placer, accumulated 343. By Murray Rest (Associated Pro Sport Writer) Ohio State's loaded Buckeyes are favored to roll on to a second straight national collegiate football championship.

With 40 lettermen, including 18 of the starters in the 27-16 victory over Southern California in the Rose Bowl, back and battling for positions, the Buckeyes are so deep that they had to be an overwhelming choice to be No. 1 again in the Associated Press' annual pre-season poll. Twenty-six of 33 sports writers and broadcasting experts in the national panel picked Ohio State riding a 14-game winning streak, for the championship honor in college football's centennial season. The Buckeyes are deep and talented and so are the teams picked to finish right behind When You Buy Your New Color TV 13. Alabama 120 14.

Indiana 98 15. Tennessee 67 16. Stanford 53 17. UCLA 52 18. Purdue 42 19.

Minnesota 40 20. Auburn 37 Other teams receiving votes, (listed alphabetically); Air Force Academy, Arizona State, Colorado, Florida State, Kansas, Kansas State, Kent State, Louisiana State, Memphis, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina State, Ohio Oregon State, Richmond, South Carolina, Southern Methodist, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wyoming. The Top 20. with first place votes in parentheses. (Points awarded for first 15 picks on basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-43-3-21): 1.

Ohio State (26) 611 2. Arkansas (2) 429 3. Penn State (3) 390 4. Texas (1) 343 5. Southern California 290 6.

Oklahoma 264 7. Houston (1) 231 8. Georgia 219 9. Mississippi 211 10. Missouri 209 11.

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Mike Ditka, currently with Dallas, and Ron Kramer of Green Bay and Detroit; at guard Jerry Kramer made it over Danny Fortman of Chicago and Jim Parker of Baltimore, and at center Bednarik was voted tops in competition with Mel Hein of the New York Giants and Alex VVojciechowicz of Detroit and Philaldelphia. Groza, the leading scorer in NFL history with 1,349 points during his 17-year career, led the defensive unit. He edged two oldtimers, Ernie Nevers, who dates back to the Duluth Esko-mos in 1926, and Ken Strong, who played from 1929 to 1947. On the line, Marchetti nosed out Len Ford of Los Angeles, Cleveland and Green Bay and David "Deacon" Jones, Los Angeles' current pass-rushing specialist, and Nomellini got the nod over Ernie Stautner of Pittsburgh and Art Donovan, who is best remembered at Baltimore. Nitschke was voted tops at linebacker over Joe Schmidt of It went to Sayers, the Chicago comet whose fantastic breakaway ability has propelled him to the top in just four seasons, over Red Grange and Hugh McElhenney.

The runners-up to Brown, were Bronko Nagurski of Chicago and Joe Perry, whose best days were spent with San Francisco. Hirsch, the first of the legitimate flankers as a member of the Los Angeles Rams, grabbed 343 passes for 6,299 yards and 53 touchdowns during his career, gaining recognition over Boyd Dowler of Green Bay and Lenny Moore of Baltimore. Hutson, the prototype of the modern wide receiver who first refined the use of pass patterns, beat out two pass grabbers of more recent vintage, Raymond Hubbard, one of the first big lineman with speed and currently supervisor of umpires for baseball's American League, got the nod at tackle over Forrest Gregg of Green Bay and Joe Stydahar of Chicago. At tight end, Mackey edged From 8 Home Entertainment Centers, 2 Color Slide Theaters and 48, yes 48 different console models, you can choose a Sylvania Color TV that will be perfect for your home. See them all at your dealer's Split End Don Hutson, 1935-1945, Gren Bay Packers.

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By Mike Rathet NEW YORK (AP)-Quarter-back Johnny Unitas, running backs Jimmy Brown and Gale Sayers and flanker Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch formed the backfield on the alltime National Football League team selected Saturday in commemoration of the league's 50th anniversary season. The 16-man squad reflected in the opinion of the Hall of Fame selectors from each of the NFL cities the superiority of the modern ball player to the oldtime pioneer, all but three of the all-stars having played in the last 20 years. The only oldtimers to make the squad were Jim Thorpe, the legendary Indian, in a special category "as the star that never tackle Cal Hubbard, who played with New York, Green Bay and Pittsburgh, and split end Don Hutson of the Packers. Others selected as No. 1 at their positions offensively were John Mackey of Baltimore at tight end, Jerry Kramer of Green Bay at guard and Chuck Bednarik of Philadelphia at center.

Top Defenders The top defenders were Gino Marchetti of Baltimore at end, Leo Nomellini of San Francisco at tackle, Ray Nitschke of Green Bay at linebacker, at "Night Train' Lane of Detroit quarterback, Emlen Tunnell of the New York Giants at safety and Lou Groza of Cleveland as the kicking specialist. The entire team, as were the I IB II' I I I in I 1 III HI v1-' 1 I 1 fv HI 1 1 I I I til YOU'LL WANT TO SEE ALL THESE NEW SHOWS IN THE RICHEST COLOR ABC "Uit' Father" "Room 222" "Th New PeopU" "Marcus Welby, M.D." "The Brady Bunch" CBS "The Governor and J.J." "Medical Center" 'The Jim Nabors Hour" "To Rome With Love" "The Leslie Uggams Show" NBC "The Bill Coby Show" "The Bold Ones" "My World and Welcome to It" 'The Debbie Reynolds Show" "Then Came Beonson" Everybody Goes Crazy On Chi's North Side By Charles Chamberlain CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Cubs, who in the past dripped with red ink, are now in the flow of the black like a wildcat gusher. "If you put colored feathers on sale they would be snapped up," quipped one Cub executive. mm Baseball culture reaches HELP us i i We still have some 1969 models left and they've got to go. So, we've reduced prices as much as 1 5 Come see them, and save money by buying now.

There won't be any more. fanaticism on the northside where the Cubs are proving beyond imagination that nothing succeeds like a winner. Home attendance has passed 1.5 million, an all time record. The yellow helmeted leftfield bleacher bums, psychological outgrowth of the hysteria, have attracted national acclaim and Philadelphia GLES. DEFENSE End Gino Marchetti, 1953-1964, Baltimore Colts.

Tackle Leo Nomellini, 1950-1963, San Francisco 49ers. Linebacker Ray Nitschke, 1958-present, Green Bay Packers. Corner back Dick (Night Train) Lane, 1952-1965, Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lion.s Safety Emlen Tunell, 1948-1961, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers. Kicker Lou Groza, 1946-1967, Cleveland Browns. The runners-up: OFFENSE QUARTERBACKS Sammy Baugh, 1937-52, Washington Redskins.

Norm Van Brocklin, 1949-60, Los Angles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles. FULLBACKS Bronko Nagurski, 1932-37, 1943, Chicago Bears. Joe Perry. 1948-63, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts. HALFBACKS Harold (Red) Grange.

1925-27, 1929-34, Chicago Bears, New York Yankees. Hugh McElhenney. 1952-1964, San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, Detroit Lions. SPLIT ENDS Raymond Berry, 1955-67. Baltimore Colts.

Ante Lavelli. 1946-56, Cleveland Browns. TIGHT ENDS Mike Ditka, 1961-present. Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys. Ron Kramer.

1957, 1959-67, Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions. FLANKERS Boyd Dowler, 1959-present, Green Bay Packers. Lenny Moore, 1956-67, Baltimore Colts. KICKERS Ernice Nevers, 1926-27, 1929-31, Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals. Ken Strong, 1929-47, Staten Island Sta-plfions.

New York Giants, New York Yanks. TACKLES Forrest Gregg, 1956, 1958 present. Green Bav Packers. Joe Stydahar, 1936-42, 1945-46, Chicago Bears. GUARDS Danny Fortman, 1936-43, Chicago Bears.

Jim Parker, 1957-67. Baltimore Colts. CENTERS Mel Hein. 1931-45. New York Giants.

Alex Wojciechowici, 1938-50, Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles. DEFENSE LINEBACKERS Joe Schmidt, 1953-65, Detroit Lions. Clyde (Bulldog) Turner, 1940-52, Chicago Bears. ENDS Len Ford. 1948-58, Los Angeles Dons, Cleveland Browns.

Green Bay Packers. David "Deacon" Jones, 1961-present, Los Angeles Rams. TACKLES Art Donovan. 195041. Baltimore Colts, New York Yanks, Dallas, Texas.

Ernie Stautner, 1950-63, Pittsburgh Steelers. HALFBACKS Herb Adderley, 1961-present, Green Bay Packers. Jack Butler, 1951-59, Pittsburgh Steele rs. SAFETIES Jack Christiansen, 1951-58, Detroit Lions. Larry Wilson, 1960-present, St, Louis Cardinals.

live uecaue squaus iiuiiuung players from each period of NFL history, is featured in a book The First Fifty Years, published by Simon and Schuster in conjunction with the NFL. Unitas, the Baltimore passing SEE HOW (sYfvSNif AT THESE DEALERS during the night. Prices are $1.50 for adults and $1 for children under 14. There are bleacher seats for $1 each. Reserve seats are $3.50.

A man and his wife and three kids, for instance, will spend $6 to get in at the lowest rates and upwards of $10 more on concessions. The cheapest thing in Wrigley Field costs five cents. You've guessed it a package of gum. Gum, like tobacco, is listed as an accomodation item. Standing unique in the money stream is the players' pool.

The players decided early in the season to pool all money received from indorsements, appearacnes and so forth. The kitty will be divided equally at season's end among coaches and players alike. The slogan "Cub Power," dreamed up by a young merchandising agent, is seen on store windows, bumper stickers, T-shirts, drinking mugs and just about everything. A Cub Power record album, featuring players Willie Smith and Nate and Gene Oliver, is going great guns. ALEXANDRIA Discount Furniture 319 Murray St.

even make road trips with management shouldering the freight. A free autograph booth below the stands is a mob scene where different players rotate daily to scrawl their signatures on everything from programs to toilet paper. On big days, 60.000 soft drinks are downed at prices from 15 to 25 cents; 40,000 bottles of beer are swigged at 45 cents per; 50-, 000 hot dogs are consumed at 30 cents each. And then there are the souvenirs, taking in about everything from the cheapest item a 10-cent pencil to a $10.50 jacket. There are about 70 separate souvenir items.

Each morning at 10 o'clock, the ticket stands open to sell 22,000 unreserved seats. Lines start forming for some series genius who has become the epitome of what a pro quarterback should be, beat out two of his contemporaries Sonny Jur-gensen of Washington and Bart Starr of Green Bay-plus a host of other standouts. But his record 33,160 yards gained passing almost 20 miles and record 254 touchdowns gave him the edge over the quarterbacks he is still playing against and the two players voted the runners-up, Sammy Baugh of Washington and Norm Van Brocklin of Los Angeles and Philadelphia. The selection of Brown, who set one-game, single season and career rushing records while with Cleveland, came as no surprise but during the preliminary phase of selections the other berth appeared to be wide open. Jimmy Moreau Appl's.

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