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Page2C Panama City, Thursday, December 4, 1975 BIG DAYS i TODAY I THRU SATURDAY Wed A SUBSIDIARY OF WEST BROTHERS SAVINGS BY THE TRUCK LOAD Leroy Named For Outland 898 W. 11th STREET OPEN 9-9 WEEKDAYS OPEN 1-6 SUNDAY THE CARPET TRUCKS HAVE ARRIVED! BRING YOUR ROOM SIZES AND SAVE SPECIAL PURCHASE 9x121st QUALITY CARPETS HUNDREDS OF ROGS ON SALE! MANY ARE ONE OF A KIND. SAVE ALL NEW COLORS for 1976 ARE SHARP, BRIGHT, LIVELY, GREAT COLORS AND A DISTINCTIVE AND UNIQUE DESIGN. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma defensive tackle Leroy Selmon, a probable No. 1 pro draft pick this season, was named Wednesday as the 1975 winner of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) Outland Trophy.

The trophy is awarded annually to the outstanding interior lineman in college football. It was started in 1946. Notre Dame's Steve Niehaus was runner-up to Selmon for LEROY SELMON Sooner the trophy. The FWAA made the announcement when it released its 1975 All-American team. Selmon led the list of 26 players named to the team, which included four members of the top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes.

The four Ohio State players were running back Archie Griffin, the 1975 Heisman winner; offensive lineman Ted Smith, defensive back Tim Fox and punter Tom Skladany. Selmon was joined on the team by fellow Sooner Joe Washington, the star running back, who had a disappointing senior season after a brilliant junior year. He was named to the team as a kick return spe- cialist. Besides Griffin, other backs in the FWAA All-American backfield were Ricky Bell of Southern California, Tony Here is the 1975 Football Writers Association of America All-American team: OFFENSE Receivers: Don Buckey, North Carolina State, ami Larry Selvers, Tennesse. Center: Rlk Bonness.

Nebraska. Offensive linemen: Randy Cross, UCLA: Ken Jones, Arkansas State: Tom Rafferry, Penn State, and Ted Smith, Ohio State. Running backs: Ricky Bell, USC; Archie Griffin, Ohio State: Chuck Muncie. California, and Tony Dorsett. Pittsburgh.

Quarterback: Marty Aklns, Texas. DEFENSE Linemen: Leroyt OboR, Alabama: Steve Niehaus, Notre Dame; Ken Novak, Purdue, and Leroy Selmon, Oklahoma. Linebackers: Greg Buttle, Penn State; Sammy Green, Florida, and Ed Slmonini, Texas A4M. Backs: Don Dufek, Michigan; Tim Fox. Ohio State; Chet Moeller, Navy, and Wonder Monds, Nebraska.

Placeklcker: Bob Berg, New Mexico. Punter: Tom Ohio State. Kick returner: Joe Washington, Oklahoma. 76ers Dump Jazz PHILADELPHIA (AP) George McGinnis scored 27 points as the Philadelphia 76ers rallied in the fourth quarter to defeat the New Orleans Jazz 102-94 in a National Basketball Association game Wednesday night. Ron Behagen paced the Jazz with 23 points, while McElroy and Aaron James each had 20.

Dorsett of Pittsburgh and Chuck Muncie of California. Quarterback for the team was Marty Akins, Texas' wishbone magician. Nebraska put two men on the team, center Rik Bonness and defensive back Wonder Monds. Penn State had offensive lineman Tom Rafferty and linebacker Greg Buttle. Selmon Rates As No.

1 Pick NORMAN, Okla. (AP) The baby of Oklahoma University's Selmon brother act, 256-pound LeRoy, has become the school's third winner of the Outland Trophy, awarded annually to the top collegiate lineman in the nation. The school's first two winners were Jim Weatherall, in 1951, and J. D. Roberts in 1953.

LeRoy is the youngest of the three Selmon brothers who played for Oklahoma. Lueious was an All-American noseguard who graduated after the 1973 season. Brother Dewey is a senior like LeRoy. Dewey, 6-foot-l, 257 pounds, played this season at Lueious' old stand of noseguard while LeRoy, 6-2, 256, played defensive tackle. All three brothers were Associated Press All-Americans.

LeRoy, who pro scouts say may be the No. 1 draft pick this year, admits he didn't exactly grow up thinking about the Outland. In fact, he didn't even grow up thinking about attending Oklahoma. "Really, about the first I heard of it (the Outland), the intensity of it, was when Lueious was a senior here," LeRoy said. "He was in contention for it losing to Ohio State's John Hicks." "That's when I first noticed it.

Since then, I've heard about it and knew what it was. "But all season, I hadn't heard anything about it. I didn't even know I was in contention or anything. What I'd read in the paper was all I knew. They'd say possibly I might be an Outland Trophy candidate.

"This is something." LeRoy said he and his brothers didn't think much about playing college football until Lueious went to Oklahoma. "No, we really hadn't been following Oklahoma before that," he said. "We didn't know football had the advantages of going to college. We thought when high school football was over with, that was it. "We were thinking of other means of going to college or doing something else for a living.

We didn't know football had the advantage of maybe getting an athletic LeRoy said he and Dewey decided to come to OU because Lueious was there. Lueious once said he chose Oklahoma because the coaches there were honest and told him he wasn't good enough to play fullback, his high school position, but that he might make it as a lineman. COMMODORES (Continued from Page 1C) Panama City stretched the lead to five points before Mike Nuff, who wasn't expected to play because of an ankle injury, tried to bring the Pirates back. Muff, who was sent into the game after six minutes because Daly said he needed his offensive punch, hit two shots to bring the Pirates within one point, but that's when the Commodores finally found the range at the free throw line. After going into the game with a free throw percentage of "between 50 and 60 per cent," according to Rachal, the Commodores hit only three of 15...

until the final 15 seconds. Dave Washington hit two, then Danny Duncan grabbed a defensive rebound, was fouled and hit two for an insurmountable margin. "Our free throw shooting has been atrocious," said Rachal. "Right now we may be the worst free throw shooting team in the nation high school, junior college, college or professional. "But we do work at it," added the GC mentor.

And the Commodores hit them when they counted the most, giving Gulf Coast an all-important jump in the Division One race which will be over 16 games (four games with each team) this season. "We are very, very pleased when we win on the road against anybody," said Rachal, "and it's got to give you an it's got to give you a lift when you do win on the road, especially against the top-seeded team going into the conference." And Rachal wanted to point out: "Pensacola was not flat. They played an inspired game. They got after it. They played a good ball game.

They were far from being flat." But the Commodore coach was quick to add: "We've got Chipola here Saturday night and our thinking right now is if what you did yesterday still looks good to you, then you have not accomplished much today." And Daly was left saying' "The key to the mference is winning those at home. That's why I hated to lose this one. It was a heartbreaker.It's going to be tough for us now. Another key is someone winning on the road and I'll tell you what, Gulf Coast has got one. Wesurecan't let anybody else come in here and win one." Injuries Mount On NFL Teoms By HAL BOCK AP Sports Writer Pass the crutches.

The National Football League regular season still has three weeks to go, raising the possibility of all kinds of new injuries to be tacked onto one of the longest lists of disabled players in professional football history. At the moment, there are 151 players on the NFL's injured reserve list, very close to the most ever in the league's 56-year history. At least one team, the Kansas City Chiefs, has so many players on injured reserve that it has stopped adding to the list and is merely playing out the schedule with as many healthy bodies as can be assembled each week. For example, Kansas City's active roster for Sunday's game against San Diego will include quarterback Mike Livingston and cornerback Jim Marsalis, both out for the year with knee surgery. Actually, the Chiefs will probably have no more than 35 or 36 players physically able to play against the Chargers.

The hesitancy to add players to the injured reserve list can be traced tp the NFL's stocking plan for its new Tampa and Seattle franchises. Teams will be allowed to protect only three players from reserve lists and teams out of the playoff running, like the Chiefs, are probably better off leaving injured players on the active roster where they at least can be placed off-limits to the new teams. Kansas City leads the NFL in one respect with 11 players on injured reserve including wide receiver Otis Taylor, defensive end Marvin Upshaw, guard Ed Budde and rookie quarterback Mike Nott. Since the start of training camp 15 different players have been used at left guard for the Chiefs. The position has been as dangerous as a mine field.

Coach Paul Wiggin greets visitors to the Chiefs' camp with a hearty, Welcome to Medical But really, it's not funny. The Chiefs' secondary Sunday will include Jim Lynch, listed on your scorecard as a linebacker but filling in for Marsalis. Players out of position is nothing new for the Chiefs this year. Their defensive line, ordinarily composed of two tackles inside and two ends outside often has had four ends and no tackles. Things got so bad last week that punter Jerrell Wilson hurt his leg while kicking and will be out indefinitely.

Wiggin was flabbergasted by that injury. "Ever heard of a punter kicking his leg out?" he wondered. "Neither have But then, a lot of strange things have been happening to the health of NFL players this season. That's why the Chiefs current offensive line now includes Gery Palmer, who start ed the football season by selling used cars, and Mike Wilson, who was working for a boys club when the first football was kicked in anger this year. Then, there is the case of Jim Del Gaizo, who was rather enjoying himself selling insurance when, presto-chango, he suddenly turned into an instant insurance policy for the quarterback-thin Miami Dolphins.

Del Gaizo was signed by the Dolphins this week as a backup for Don Strock, the third string quarterback who moved up to first string following injuries to Bob Griese and Earl Morrall. Griese was finished for the season two weeks ago by a torn tendon in his toe. Morrall, his 41-year-old replacement, did fine in Monday night's game before tearing a ligament in his knee. That made Strock the instant No. 1 and Del Gaizo no longer an ex-NFL player.

Elsewhere, the swarm of injuries has presented playing opportunities to men who might not have had a chance otherwise. In Detroit, for example, Joe Reed became the No. 1 quarterback when Greg Landry and Bill Munson both were injured in the same game and sidelined for the season. The same thing happened twice in New England when injuries kayoed Jim Plunkett. First, Neil Graff took over for Plunkett.

When he failed at the job, Plunkett was rushed back and Steve Grogan inherited the backup job. Then Plunkett was hurt again and Grogan became No. 1. Atlanta lost its quarterback, No. 1 draft choice Steve Bartkowski for awhile with a dislocated'elbow.

The same injury sidelined New Orleans' quarterback Archie Manning late in the exhibition season. Then there are players like Atlanta defensive end Claude Humphrey, Miami linebacker Nick Buoniconti and defensive back Dick Anderson, place kicker Chester Marcol and defensive back Willie Buchanon of the Green Bay Packers and nerback Robert James of the Buffalo Bills. All of were All-Pro selections within the last few years and all have spent all or most of this season on the injured list. Last season, the NFL reported 156 players on injured reserve. That is five more than the total reported for this season.

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