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SECTION APACE TWELVE ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PI NEVILLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1970 Lions 28-23 Winners Defeated Rams Regroup, Hope successively San Francisco, Oakland, St. Louis and now the Rams, dropped Los Angeles a game behind San Francisco-8-4-1 to the 49ers 9-3-1 in the Na 22-yard keeper scamper by Landry, Steve Owens, the 1969 Heis-man Trophy winner, went in from the four to sew it up, 28-16. Los Angeles did travel back 66 yards for a touchdown but at that stage it was meaningless. The Ram coach blamed a tripping penalty called on the Rams as the key mishap. On fourth and three, Detroit had to punt from its own 25.

The penalty not only advanced the ball to the Lion 40 but cost the Rams badly needed possession of the ball midway through the final quarter. Owens got his chance when It wasn't as close as the score indicates. Quarterback Greg Landry skillfully directed a well-balanced offense and the defense checked the Rams on two field goals through three quarters. Roman Gabriel and the Rams came to life in the final period and threatened with 17 points. With 3:07 remaining and trail-ing 21-16, Los Angeles launched a rally from its own 17.

It ended abruptly when middle linebacker Mike Lucci intercepted a Gabriel pass and ran it back 12 yards. Three plays later, following a tional Conference West. Coach Joe Schmidt's Motor City wreckers kept themselves alive in the National Conference Central with 9-4-0 and a chance to make the playoffs. They host Green Bay Sunday. The largest Ram turnout of the year, 79,441, packed Memorial Coliseum to see their heroes go down in the nationally televised contest.

I 6l ihuitl. kws-te lii ir iif1y I TOGETHER AGAIN Head Coach game against Mississippi Southern. Johnny Vaught returned to the prac- With Coach Vaught is his ace quarter- tice field Monday for the first time back Archie Manning. Archie still since suffering a heart attack after the wears his cast on his broken arm. Blue-Gray Under Arcs; Dietzel Has the Stars MONTGOMERY, Ala.

(AP) When the lights come up in Montgomery's Cramton Stadium for the first nighttime playing of the Blue-Gray football classic, Dec. 28 South head coach Paul Dietzel of South Carolina will be fielding a team liberally sprinkled with Ail-Ameri Los Angeles Rams Joe Scibelli (71) is grabbed by the face mask by Detroit Lions Paul Naumoff (50), hidden by teammate Bill Triplett (38) during NFL game at the Coliseum in Los Angeles Monday night. Schibellie was making a path for Larry Smith (38). No penalty was called on the play. By Bob Myers LOS ANGELES (AP) just have to get ready for the New York Giants Sun- day-and hope Oakland defeats the San Francisco 49ers." Coach George Allen of the Rams had this observation to day following their 28-32 loss to the Detroit Lions on Monday night.

The Rams are at New York Sunday and the 49ers are at Oakland as the NFL regular season campaign goes down to the wire. The Lions, having devoured Coin Flip May Decide NFL Berths By The Associated Press Brother, can you spare a dime? Or whatever kind of coin Pete Rozelle wants to flip to settle the National Football League's playoff picture. What hath Rozelle wrought? A state of confusion in which a coin flip could send a team to the sidelines while the winner of the toss goes after the $25,000 a man Super Bowl plum. Only three teams-Minnesota In the National Conference Central, Baltimore in the American East and Oakland in the American West-have clinched their division titles. The other five playoff participants will be decided will they? The simplest way of explaining the mess is this: If there is a two-way deadlock either for first place in a division or the best second-place record in a conference, the first tie-breaking formula is the season's games between the two teams involved.

If they broke even or did not play each other, the next step is intradivision records for settling division races and in traconference records for determining the best second-place team. If a comparison of to tradivision races still leaves a tie, then intraconference records are used. Finally, comes a coin toss. Still alive and kicking are the New York Giants and Dallas, both 9-4, and St. Louis, 8-4-1, in the NFC East; Detroit, 9-4, in the NFC Central; San Francisco, and Los Angeles, 8-4-1, in the NFC West; Miami in the AFC East; Cincinnati, 7-6, and Cleveland, 6-7, in the AFC Central and Kansas City, 7-4-2, in the AFC West.

Nine games Sunday will involve playoff contenders, with the clash in New York between Los Angeles and the Giants the only, one matching two pretenders head-to-head. The other key games find Houston at Dallas, St. Louis at Washington, Green Bay at Detroit, San Francisco at Oakland, Buffalo at Miami, Boston at Cincinnati, Cleveland at Denver and Kansas City at San Diego. Detroit's 28-23 triumph over Los Angeles Monday night boosted the Lions' hopes and dampened those of the Rams, but really did nothing to assure the winners a playoff berth or eliminate the losers. All it means is that the Rams must win or tie Sunday to have any chance at the Super Bowl.

The Giants would win any two-way tie for first in the NFC East while a St. Louis-Dallas deadlock would go to the Cardinals. The Rams would come out on top in a standoff with San Francisco in the NFC West. In the AFC Central, a Cleveland-Cincinnati tie would to to the Browns. Victories by the Giants, Cowboys, 49ers, Dolphins and Bengals would-believe it or not-make any tie-breaking formulas unnecessary and put those teams in the playoffs, no matter what the Cards, Lions, Rams, Browns anl Chiefs do.

Seaver Is NL Leader In Strikeouts, ERA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Although the New York Mets dropped in the standings in 1970, pitcher Tom Seaver led the National League in both strikeouts and earned run averages, official league statistics showed i Louisiana Sports Briefs SAINTS RECORD NEW ORLEANS (UPI)-The underdog New Orleans Saints have one thing going for them in Sunday's final game of the season against the Chicago Bears. The Saints have never lost a season-ending game. New Orleans beat Washington in its last 1967 game and beat Pittsburgh in both its 1968 and 1969 finales. The Saints, now 2-10-1 and on a five game losing streak, will finish with their worst record ever if they lose to Chicago. LSU CAGERS BATON ROUGE (UPI) -Louisiana State makes its home basketball debut Wednesday, taking on arch-rival Tulane.

LSU opened its season last week with a 109-103 victory over Loyola at New Orleans. The Tigers hold a 100 to 80 edge in the 57 year old rivalry with Tulane. TIGERS RETURN BATON ROUGE (UPI)-Lou-isiana State's Tigers returned to the practice field Monday to prepare for Nebraska, their opponent in the Orange Bowl in Miami New Year's night. The Tigers did not workout the week following their Dec. 5 game with Mississippi that gave them the Southeastern Conference championship.

"It was kind of good to get back on the field," Coach Charles McClendon said. "The boys seemed to have great spirit and they plunged right in as if they had not had a few days off." LSU will practice through this week then break for Christmas. The Tigers will leave for Miami Dec. 26. Jim Rooker proved again a pitcher can help himself in more ways than one when he collected three game-winning hits in 1970 for the Kansas City Royals.

i "VI TROUBLE FREE tv regular running back Mel Farr was injured on his second carry of the young went to the pits with a shoulder dislocation. Schmidt said later he didn't know how long Farr would be sidelined. Owens was more than adequate. He scored two touchdowns and gained 66 yards-which was 19 yards more than the entire Ram rushing output. Gabriel gained 323 yards via the air and threw two touchdown passes.

It was the most yards Gabe had ever gained but it went for nothing. Soph Keeps New Mexico Slate Clean By Uniited Press International With two seconds left in an overtime period, New Mexico's unbeaten record rested on the shoulders of sophomore Mike Stewart. Stewart weaved through the Texas Tech defense for a layup Monday night that gave the Lobos a 73-72 victory, their seventh straight of the season. In another game involving a rated team, No. 10 Villanova got 34 points from Howard Porter to crush Xavier of Ohio, 84-62, for its fifth consecutive victory.

With 35 seconds left in the overtime, New Mexico Coach Bob King decided to go for one basket. The plan was to give the ball to Pete Gibson, let him spread the defense and then pass to anybody in the clear. "We decided to go for the one shot either win it or lose it right there," King said. "Stewart looked like an old pro out there instead of a sophomore." The Lobos almost watched their unbeaten record ruined at the end of regulation time. On the final play of regulation time, Gibson "drove in to tie the score, 66-66.

He was called for charging after the ball was released, but after a conference the referees ruled the penalty came after the buzzer and Texas Tech would not get its chance for the winning foul shot. Months Annual Amount Monthly to Total of prcntag of loan payment repay payments rate 51 1.00 $24.00 $720.00 28.47 1502.00 0.00 2M0.0O 25.35 3888.00 20.38 2891.00 108.00 Dial Finance The one for the money 907 Fourth St 442-6655 no extra in J7, V. KOM, lit. 9 today, Seaver's 2.81 ERA beat a mark of 3.02 by Wayne Simpson of the league champion Cincinnati Redlegs. Seaver's 283 strikeouts topped Ferguson Jenkins of Chicago and Bob Gibson of St.

Louis, with 274 each. The New Yorker tied a major league record with 19 strikeouts in one game against San Diego April ,22. He set another record in the same game by fanning 10 consecutive men. The Mets world champions in 1969 were third in the National League East last season. Tying for the most victories in official pitching statistics released today were Gibson, 23-7 and Gaylord Perry of San Francisco, 23-13.

Simpson had the best winning average, however, at .824, with a 14-3 mark. Perry hurled the most shutouts, five; had the most starts, Bowl. Ambercrombie scored two second half touch downs to guide Tulane to a 17-3 victory over Colorado. Quarlerbacking chores will be h.rH'ed by Arkansas' Bill Montr -ry and Tommy Suggs of Soi Carolina. Montgomery heads into the contest with a career offense record of 355 completions for yards.

Offense: Tight end, Doug Hamrick of South Carolina; split end and flanker, Sammy Milner of Mississippi State, Jack Anderson of Clemson and Frank Lewis of Grambling; tackles and guards, John Mooring of Tampa, Dave Thompson of Clemson, Larry McGee of Memphis State and Richard Gardner of Georgia Tech. Also, center, John Bomer of Memphis State; quarterback, Montgomery and Suggs; running backs. Ray Yauger of Clemson and Ambercrombie. Defense; Ends, Ron Wallace of Florida State; Rusty Ganas of South Carolina and Bruce James of Arkansas; linemen, Mike Walker of Tulane, Perdoni and Richard Harris of Grambling. Also, linebackers Rich King-ren of Tulane and Dick Biddle of Duke; cornerbacks, John Cappellano of Duke and Charles Ford of Houston; safety, Bubba Hoafs of Georgia Tech and Bucky Allshouse of Rice; kicker, Jack Simcsak of Virginia Tech.

The Phillies' Dick Selma pitched the last strikeout in Con nie Mack Stadium history and also was the last strikeout vic tim in the old park. 41; the most innings pitched, 329; allowed the most hits, 292, and yielded the most runs, 138. Jenkins pitched the most complete games, 24, and tied with Don Sutton of Los Angeles for the most earned runs allowed 118. Other pitching leaders were Wayne Granger, Cincinnati most saves. 35; Steve Carlton, St.

Louis, most losses, 19; Carl MORTON, Montreal, most walks yielded, 125; Phil Niekro, Atlanta, most home runs yielded, 40, and Ron Herbel of San Diego and New York most appearances, 76. Gibson and Simpson each had 10-game winning streaks, the longest in the league. Tim McCarver of the Phillies is the only catcher ever to lead the National League in three-base hits. He had 13 with the St. Louis Cardinals of 1966.

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Judge Ted Cabot ruled the right of South Florida's 2.5 mil lion inhabitants to watch a live broadcast of a football game did not come within the area of constitutional guarantees. Cabot Monday upheld a motion by the National Football League and the City of Miami to dismiss a suit brought by Miami Beach attorney Ellis Rubin, who had charged the NFL with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Rubin claimed $115,000 of taxpayers' money spent to promote the game made Dade County and the state of Florida co-sponsors of a private enterprise. Rubin said the dismissal of his suit did not mean he had given up efforts to lift the blackout. He said he would go into a state court to ask that spending tax dollars to promote the game be stopped.

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