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Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel, Sunday, July 30, 1978 Griese's Charity Goes Further Than Intended By Brian Biggane Staff Writer CANTON, Ohio Bob Griese arrived at the Hall of Fame with a pair of his famous spectacles, his personal donation to the collected memorabilia of professional football. The Miami Dolphin quarterback continued the charity longer than he intended, however. During yesterday's game with the Philadelphia Eagles, Griese played IS minutes and threw two interceptions. In all, four Miami quarterbacks combined for four interceptions. The Eagles, taking advantage of these mistakes and Miami's defensive lapses, stung the Dolphins, 17-3.

"The offense can make mistakes too," said Griese, who completed 10 passes for 66 yards. "We stopped ourselves with interceptions and tipped balls. "We've just got to eliminate them. It's something you come across every training camp. It's just timing." Coach Don Shula, anxious to test his team against outside opposition after weeks of training camp, was none too happy with the result.

"The best way to measure a program is how you do against somebody else," he said. "We got shut out offensively, and defensively, we gave up one touchdown. "The special teams had a couple of bright spots early, but when it came down to it, the Eagles put the points on the board and we didn't. "There's not too much that we can be happy about at this stage. We didn't get much out of anybody." Eagles Coach Dick Vermeil was restraining his happiness, however.

"This is just a preseason game," said Vermeil. "It doesn't mean a thing. I said we'd be a better team this year and I think this (victory) demonstrates that." Shula found two bright spots Jimmy Cefalo and Terry Anderson. "Cefalo did a good job handling punts," said Shula. "We're looking for a guy in that position." i i It was a 29-yard punt return by the rookie flanker that set up Miami's only scoring opportunity of the second half.

Garo Yepremian, who made a 22 yarder to give the Dolphins a 3-3 tie at halftime, missed a 35-yarder attempt. Anderson, a second-year receiver, caught a pass, then added a run on a flanker reverse, before the Yepremian field goal, "You don't ever like to lose," said middle linebacker Steve Towle. "It's hard to tell yourself it's a pre season game. We should have been more ready than they were, we should have been more aggressive than they were, because we've been working so hard In camp. "The thing I found to be disappointing, defensively, was that we weren't following through on our hits." 8C 1 Dolphins Journey Into Past Eagles Beat Dolphins If i i.

I 1 I i Continued From Page IC "It felt good getting in a real game situation. The score doesn't make that much difference. You try a lot of, different things at this point, do a lot of experimenting." Miami's Guy Benjamin, the third quarterback working the third quarter, set up the go-ahead touchdown, throwing an interception to linebacker Jerry Dandridge. Dandridge intercepted at Miami's 33-yard line and returned 14 yards to the Miami 19. The Eagles No.

2 quarterback, John Walton, embarrassed the Miami defense on the next play, with a scoring pass to wide receiver Vince Papale in the end zone. Covering was Miami veteran Charlie Babb, but his back was turned to the pass. With the point after, Philadelphia went up 10-3 with 2:25 left in the third quarter. -The first draft choice of the Dolphins was set up royally when he entered the game in the second half. Second year man Terry Anderson returned a kickoff 58 yards to Philadelphia's 36.

After three plays Miami was still there and was forced to punt. Benjamin did not move the team, generating only 44 net yards during his stay. No. 4 quarterback Bill Ken-ney did little better in the fourth quarter. The Dolphins were burned once more midway through the final quarter when Wally Henry took a Mike Michel punt on his own 28, bounced off Charlie Cornelius and then outran Miami's pursuit for 72 yards and a touchdown.

Miami's only scoring opportunity of the second half was a 35-yard field goal attempt by Garo Yepremian, which sailed wide left. That was set up by a confused, back-and-forth 29-yard punt return by Miami rookie Jimmy Cefalo. Cefalo and Anderson were the two players to whom coach Don Shula gave a grudging nod of approval. Anderson caught two passes for 32 yards and gained 13 on a flanker reverse. The game's final stages were acted out In mostly neutral territory as young players trjed to prove something to their coaches.

Shula stuck to his promise of replacing his regulars after the first quarter, regardless of the circum-, stances. The first offense left after a frustrating 15 minutes, in which they moved the Eagle defense but then fell victim to their own mistakes. The defense left after being victimized on an opening 85-yard drive but stiffening toward the end. Philadelphia took the opening kickoff and looked as if it were never going to stop. Running back Mike Hogan began the Eagles' thrust with a 16-yard run through the heart of the Dolphins' defense.

Hogan was the game's leading rusher with 53 yards on nine carries. Stopped on their 12, Philadelphia attempted and made a 29-yard field goal but an atypical Dolphin mistake (12 men on the field), gave the Eagles a first and goal from the seven. There the defense took its stand, with linebacker Bob Matheson stopping Hogan with a one-on-one tackle at the two-yard line to stop the Eagles for a second time. Nick Mike-Mayer came on again and converted an 18-yard field goal. Dolphins tight end Andre Tillman reaches high for a Bob against Philadelphia.

Miami's offense was lackluster in a Griese pass in the first quarter of the Hall of Fame game 17-3 loss. After 35 Years 'Tuffy' Leemans Inducted Into Hall By Steve Hammer Staff Writer CANTON, Ohio Coach Don Shula and his 13-year-old son Mike were alone in the crowded film room, chauffered back to some sweet memories by the flickering images on the screen. They sat quietly and close in the dark room at the heart of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The room is football's cinematic eternal flame and the subject for this special audience of Miami Dolphins Friday was Super Bowl VII, or the denoument of a perfect season. The voice, that trumpeting, strong voice behind all National Football League films, told of an ingenious Shula who in three years changed a 3-10-1 team into a 17-0 team.

These Dolphins of 1972 would never be for-gottea Shula of 1978 squirmed a bit and began his nervous habit of playing with the lobe of his left ear just a bit self-conscious. He then settled back, chin in hand, to watch again as the Dolphins defeated Washington, 14-7, in Super Bowl VII. Once again, Manny Fernandez was so strong on the line and Jake Scott such a talented thief. Bob Griese's passes were still on target. Garo Yepremian still attempted a pass after a blocked field goal and the ball still fell limply from his hand into the arms of Mike Bass.

The Dolphins can laugh now. There was no form or structure to the team's tour of this modest building Friday. The Hall was kept open for them since they arrived here late in preparation for the Hall of Fame game but no guides led them they were like any other group of tourists. Proper respect was paid to the bronze busts of the men who made their game and passing interest shown to the memorabilia scattered about buckshot randomly. They only stopped when the display touched them.

They crowded about a board display honoring the 1972 season, with pictures telling the story of each of the 17 victories. "I remember this game," Shula-said, pointing to Miami's 24-23 escape from Buffalo, "How about you, Larry Little nodded and smiled. Shula lingered once more, when he came to the glass case containing Tom Matte's special wristband with all the Baltimore Colts' plays scrawled on it. He called Griese over and said, "I think that's my writing." And immediately it was 1965 and a young Shula had just lost his two quarterbacks, Johnny Unitas and Gary He called on running back Matte to quarterback, attaching the crib sheet to his wrist. Matte led the Colts to a co-championship.

"You read some of the plays, Mike, Bob can't see them," Shula said, referring to Griese's celebrated myopic condition (his glasses will be encased here). And the young man managed to call out some numbers and significant words, most of the plays involving Matte running somewhere with the ball. "We had to get as many of those kind of plays in as possible," Shula said. If nothing else, the tour gave one player a more keen sense of belonging. When the glorious film had reached Its end and the players boarded the buses for the trip back to their motel, running back Gary Davis turned to Delvin Williams, a Dolphin of three months, and asked what he thought of it all.

"I believe It's that time," Williams said. "It's time to play football." By Brian Biggane Staff Writer CANTON, Ohio For Alphonse "Tuffy" Leemans, the conclusion of his football career arrived 35 years after his last play. "For them to remember me 35 years after my career ended is the greatest honor I can imagine," the 67-year-old Hillsborough Beach resident said yesterday upon his induction into the Pro Football Hall of 'vjpw me. A Leemans was one of five former pro greats 1 honored in annual induction ceremonies held before the Miami Dolphins-Philadelphia Eagles exhibition game, me others were Lance Alworth, Weeb Ewbank, Ray Nitschke and Larry Wilson. "Of the five of us," Leemans admitted, "I was the D.C., who made the journey to Canton to mark his induction.

"I never before let anyone call me Alphonse," he smiled, "but you can all call me Alphonse today." Later, Leemans posed for pictures with his fellow inductees. "This is the way to go," he smiled. "After 35 years, I've made the first team. "The atmosphere here is Just tremendous," he added, noting a morning parade in which the inductees were ushered through the crowd-lined streets of typically mid-America Canton. "It made me forget every kick and every knock I got down the years." Alworth became the first vintage product of the American Football League to join the select group of inductees, which now numbers 98.

He was presented by Oakland Raiders' managing general partner Al Davis, who signed him in 1963 when he was San Diego's receiver coach. Among those thanked by Alworth In his acceptance speech was what he termed, "The so-called Foolish Club," the original owners of the AFL. Former Baltimore defensive tackle Art Donovan presented Ewbank, the only coach to guides teams to championships in both the AFL and NFL. "The only thing that could top this," said Ewbank, "is admittance into that other shrine to which we should all aspire Heaven." Nitschke, the crowd favorite among the Inductees who was presented by former Green Bay head coach Phil Bengston, spoke warmly of his All-Pro playing days with the Packers "Just being a part of the Green Bay Packers for 15 years was enough credit for Ray Nitschke," he said. "What a privelege it was." The final inductee was Wilson, the former St.

Louis Cardinals' free safety. Jack Curtice, Wilson's first college coach at the University of Utah, told of how Wilson had requested $80,000 raised for a statue of himself to be erected In Busch Stadium be used instead to build two rooms in a children's hospital. only one most of today's fans couldn't identify with. But when I look back and see the four. or five thousand guys out there still waiting to be picked, I have to realize I'm in pretty select company." Leemans was presented for induction bv Peter Leemans Guzy, his 76-year-old former high school coach in Superior, Wisconsin.

"This is the final step in a dream which began in 1929," Guzy told an attentive crowd of over 3,000. Guzy told how Leemans was the outstanding athlete at East High School for three years, was named All-Pacific Coast as a freshman at Oregon and went on to complete his college career at George Washington University. He then went on to stardom as a two-way player for the New York Giants before having his career ended by a head injury in 1943. Leemans made mention of two of his former Giant teammates In the audience, Mel Hein and offensive lineman Leland Schaefer. "We ran from a single wing in those days and Leland was my top blocker.

I needed somebody like him badly," He also thanked 25 members of the Touchdown Club in Washington, More Lincicome Dolphins-Eagles Statistics DOLPHINS EAGLES lt NT AyI. Lit TO Art NY An. II ii 14 31 II 1 a it ii i in I I I I I i II I.I II II 4t 10 10 It AH Cm Tk-YiH TO LP HI III II II I tv I 04 I tm Tli YiH TO LP I 44 I II 10 II I a 1ft II I i a ildWntj MnntojomirY Nooan JWMIWtkl Baron Prarauin linn uiiivn tordnva. Total Pan in Jmworiki Waimn Tstalt Panivint Carmtfhaat Uriilft Mooan Mofiiojofwry Papnia Parwlarm PranMIn link wtjiabf tnl Tavna TataM Outm 0n6r igi Continued From Page tC Eagles 17, Dolphins 3 MMn, with every team now having Its version of the Dallas Cowgirls, Is tha slogan this year going to be Super Bowl or bust? Br Pmtint I Harm Will Delvin Williams make Miami Dolphin fans forget about Stan i-ii i MitUKU Ntl vr dmhln III two Avtrmt Yrdl 0lnnJ It li Total! Can the Tampa Bay BuoS lose without Anthony Davis? Ill Hi Pnt" Will the Dallas Cowboys become the first team to win three Super Bowls or the second team to lose three? mtwcwtm i i Tlmn Throw Vdt Lot 14) I TrtH With the addition of two extra wild card teams and 10 clubs now li qualifying for the playoffs, why don't we skip the preseason and the 1 regular season and go right to the postseason? Purm-H pZZZ'ZZ AvtriKW it 9 Ut Woort Does Fred Silva, the official who blew the Bert Jones call last year, XZfSiXZx still have a job? Vrrll PurnwJ 4 14 MffrMry KrttM-No. Hturnd 4 Nnttlnqtiam Can the New York Ciants lose without John Hicks? 1 Can Bob Griese see clearly now? dZZZZZ 1 1 Which will Bud Wilkinson get first, a championship for St.

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