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i.mmU.n..v. i2. (reat Falls Tribune 13 Jimmy the Greek USC might still go to a bowl game 3Sf vfiv ii OAKLAND (AP) The University of Southern California Trojans' Rose Bowl hopes are virtually dead, but "other major bowls still have a glimmer of Interest in USC," Pacific-8 Conference Executive Director Wiles Hallock said Tuesday. "The Sugar and Cotton bowls still are considering Southern Cal, I think," Hallock added. The Trojans, 3-2 in the conference, will be eliminated from Rose Bowl contention Saturday if Stanford, 4-1, beats Oregon, 1-4, in a' game at Stanford Stadium.

Southern Cal would get the berth in the Jan. 1 game at Pasadena only if it winds up in a four-way first place tie with UCLA, California and Stanford. Although the Trojans are the only possible runner-up apt to be playing in another major bowl, "other bowls definitely are interested in four of our teams," Texas All-Pro team would be contender LAS VEGAS Francis Tarkenton has never won a Super Bowl. In fact, he's never won the unofficial but prestigious citation as No. 1 quarterback in all of pro football, But his odds on reaching those goals are better now than they've ever been in his 15-year career.

This is the year they rate playoff teams by won-lost records, so it's in Fran's favor that Minnesota will probably be home in the first playoff round to the wild-card team in the NFC. As of now, that means Washington, St. Louis or Dallas. Against any of them the Vikings figure to be a 6-point choice on their own soil. The same holds for the finals.

Minnesota should be up by 4. At this juncture, the Vikes are the top choice to win the Super Bowl despite the setbacks 1 of the last two years. Right now it's only 5-2 against their winning a championship. As for being No. 1 QB personally, Tarkenton is definitely the frontrunner.

He's thrown 15 TDs in eight games, which leads everybody, and he needs just 10 in the six remaining games to break the all-time record of 290 held by John Unitas. He's a slight favortie at 7-5 to do it, because (A) he avoids injury like the plague, and (B) Minnesota can shoot for personal records, being under no pressure teamwise. Other NFL frontrunners: Coach of the year Don Shula of Miami, with Ted Marchibroda of Baltimore and Bum Phillips of Houston pushing him hard. Top runner 0. J.

Who else? Rookies of the Year Mike Thomas of Washington and Don Hardeman of Houston, both runners. Best Lineman Curley Culp of Houston and Wally Chambers of Chicago, head and shoulders over the field. Best Wide Receivers Pittsburgh's Lynn Swan over Buffalo's Bob Chandler and Oakland's Cliff Branch in AFC; Drew Pearson of Dallas over Mel Gray of St. Louis in the NFC. Punt Returns Oakland's Neal Colzie, St.

Louis Terry Metcalf. Kickoff Returns Billy Johnson of Houston, Terry Metcalf. Kickers Roy Gerela, Pittsburgh, im Baaken, St. Louis. Punter Ray Guy, Oakland, in a class by himself.

Most Improved Team Baltimore. The champion Pittsburgh Steelers aren't out of the woods, but having won back-to-back games against their two divisional rivals, Cincinnati and Houston, they look like a quality team all over again. THE MASTER'S SON With his sale price showing in the background, this bay son of Triple Crown winner Secretariat set a record for auction of a weanling Tuesday when he was sold for $250,000 at Keeneland. Ben Walden of Midway, and Wells Hardesty of Chicago were the buyers and said they plan to syndicate the colt. (AP Photo) Hallock said, referring to such games as the Fiesta Bowl, Sun Bowl and Bluebon-net Bowl.

Under National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, bowl invitations can be issued starting Saturday evening. So Southern Cal Coach John McKay's phone may start ringing quickly if Stanford beats Oregon as expected. Hallock discussed the bowl situation at the weekly meeting of Northern California football writers. "We'd go to any bowl if we were invited," said Cal Coach Mike White, who conceded that UCLA has the best shot at the Rose Bowl. The Bears, 5-1, will at least tie for first if they beat Stanford Nov.

22 in their one remaining Pac-8 game. But if UCLA also finishes 6-1 by beating Oregon State and Southern Cal, the Bruins would get the bowl bid because of their 28-14 victory Oct. 25 over the Bears. was given to another former TCU star who was the only former Cowboy on the team. Bob Lilly.

The biggest landslide winner on the team was Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, who starred in the 1940s for the Chicago Bears after a college career at Hardin-Sim mons. Commenting on today's brand of pro football, Turner said, "From what I see, the biggest change nowMS the passing game. The coverage and the passing is more elaborate. Of course, there's the artificial turf. I can't say I like that.

I just don't think the game should be played on carpet and tennis shoes." Others chosen for the squad are receivers Raymond Berry and Kyle Rote of SMU and Del Shofner of Baylor; offensive linemen Jim Ray Smith of Baylor and Harley Sewell of Texas; running backs Doak Walker of SMU and John Crow of Texas defensive linemen Bud McFadin of Texas and Charlier Krueger of Texas linebackers Bill Forester of SMU, E. J. Holub of Texas Tech and Jack Pardee of Texas and defensive backs Yale Lary of Texas and Bobby Dillon of Texas. DALLAS (AP) Texos' oil-time professional football team, as selected by public ballot, was honored Monday niaht at halftime of the Kansas City Chiefs-Dallas Cowboys National Football League game. The ballots, which were certified by the Texas Sports Writers Association, included: OFFENSE BACKS Dock Walker, Southern Methodist; John David Crow, Texas RECEIVERS Raymond Berry, Southern Methodist; Kyle Rote Southern Methodist; Del Shofner, Baylor.

TACKLES-GUARDS Forrest Gregg, Southern Methodist; Jim Roy Smith, Baylor; Harley Swell, Texas; Gene Upshaw, Texas CENTER Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, Hardin-Simmons. OFFENSE ENDS-TACKLES Bob Lilly, Texas Christian; Joe Greene, North Texas State; Bud McFadin, Texas; Charlie Krueger, Texas Bill Glass, Baylor. LINEBACKERS Tommy Nobis, Texas; Bill Forester, Southern Methodist; E. J. Holub, Texas Tech; Jack Pardee, Texos BACKS Yale Lary, Texas Bobby Dillon, Texas; Ken Houston, Prairie View, Bill Bradley, Texas.

IB starts at Plentywood today. At 2 p.m. Antelope plays Flaxville, followed by Medicine Lake-Westby at 3:30. The evening games are Froid-Peerless at 7 and Culbertson vs. either Bainville or Brockton at 8:30.

Outlook and Scobey both drew byes. 3B opens at 7 tonight with Frazer (0-7) meeting Opheim (7-0) and Lustre (5-2) taking on Hinsdale (3-4) at Nashua. Thursday Saco (6-1) faces Whitewater (1-6) at 7 p.m. and Dodson 5-2)-Nashua (3-4) follows at 8:30. Eliminations in all the tournaments will start Friday.

Saturday games will also be loser-out with the championship games Saturday night to be preceded by the consolation finals. The top two teams out of each district will advance to the divisionals next week. The state tournament will be in Glendive Dec. 4-6. NLRB is told Coryell agitated against strike Handle should thrive practices leveled against the NFL Management Council and the 26 team owners it represents.

On Monday, Wilson testified Coryell had told the in-camp rookies and free agents they were free to visit the picket line and meet with veterans if they wished to. But on Tuesday, under cross-examination by union attorneys, Wilson acknowledged that, in his opinion, Coryell was "fiery and excitable" and that the coach had warned rookies and free agents they could only make the team by performing on the field, not on the picket line. Wilson, asked if he had ever supplied the names and numbers of players in camp to team player-representative Dan Dierdorf, said he had not -but explained he was never asked to do so. DALLAS (AP) Most of them are well past their playing days, but few would argue that in their prime the 25 players of the Texas All-Pro football team would make a pretty good nucleus for a Super Bowl squad. The team, made up of professional stars who once played college football in Texas, was chosen by fans in statewide balloting and was introduced at halftime of the Kansas City-Dallas game here Monday night.

Five of the players still are active. All of them, as well as Forrest Gregg, the current Cleveland Browns' coach and former Green Bay and Southern Methodist lineman, were present although their respective teams are in the middle of the National Football League season. The five are offensive lineman Gene Upshaw of Oakland and Texas defensive lineman Joe Greene of Pittsburgh and North Texas State, linebacker Tommy Nobis of Atlanta and Texas and defensive backs Bill Bradley of Philadelphia and Texas and Ken Houston of Prairie View and Washington. The only Texas All-Pro player missing the festivities was defensive end Bill Glass of Baylor and Cleveland, who was preaching at a religious crusade in Hawaii. For the active players, it was a chance to be honored alongside players who were their childhood heroes.

For the oldtimers, it was a chance to reminisce. "You take O. J. Simpson and you take Bobby Layne," said former quarterback Layne, of Texas and Detroit. "You take them all and that man right there is the alltime greatest.

He's got more class than any of them." Layne was pointing to quarterback Sammy Baugh of Texas Christian and Washington, who beat out Layne by only 402 votes out of 69,381 cast. Layne made the team as one of the three wild card selections. But the biggest applause at halftime Hingham winner at 7:30 Thursday night followed by Turner and the Joplin-Big Sandy winner. The District 12B tournament begins in Fairfield tonight. Sunburst (14-0) meets Valier (1-13) in the opener, followed by Brady (7-7) and Power (7-7).

Thursday Fairfield (12-2) meets Dutton (1-13) and Augusta (10-4) takes on Simms (5-9). In 11B at Stanford, Belt has a buy while all other teams begin Thursday. Geyser (7-5) and Highwood (3-9) start the tournament at 5 p.m. At 7, Centerville (10-2) plays Geraldine (1-11) and at 9 Cascade (9-3) meets Stanford (2-10). Belt (10-2) plays the Geyser-Highwood winner at 7 Friday night.

Lewistown's Civic Center is the site of 9B. The tournament opens tonight at 7 with Winnett playing Denton, followed by Winifred-Roy at 8:30. St. Leo's and Judith Gap play at 7 Thursday night, with Grass Range-Moore to follow at 8:30. in Virginia position The big thing about Pittsburgh this year is that Terry Bradshaw is getting out from under that rep as an unintelligent quarterback.

Last Sunday, for instance, he backtracked after crossing the line of scrimmage to a point where he could legally get the ball off, and It developed into a TD for tight end Larry Brown. And as a prelude to the winning TD to John Stallworth, Bradshaw persuaded coach Chuck Noll that his own judgment call, a down-and-outer, was the play to make. It worked. I make the Steelers choice against Kansas City on Sunday, and if they win it there'll be extra pressure on Cincinnati against Buffalo Monday night. Here's the line on all pro games this weekend: Sunday Detroit 6 over Green Bayt Los Angeles 13 over Atlanta, Dallas 6 over New England, NY Giants 3 over Philadelphia, Minnesota 17 over New Orleans, Baltimore 6 over NY Jets, Miami 4 over Houston, Oakland 21 over Cleveland, San Francisco 9 over Chicago, Denver 6 over San Diego, St.

Louis 3 over Washington, Pittsburgh 13 over Kansas City. Monday night Cincinnati 5 over Buffalo. Now the line on Saturday's major college games: Maryland 17 over Clemson, Dartmouth 14 over Cornell, Michigan State 20 over Northwestern, Brown 8 over Harvard, Colgate 8 over William Mary, Pennsylvania 7 over Columbia, North Carolina State 6 over Duke, Purdue 7 over Iowa, Ohio State 30 over Minnesota, Notre Dame 3 over Pittsburgh, Yale 2 over Princeton, South Carolina 10 over Wake Forest, Syracuse 12 over Virginia, Georgia 7 over Auburn. Florida 17 over Kentucky, Georgia Tech 6 over Navy, Michigan 20 over Illinois, Wisconsin 13 over Indiana, Arkansas 10 over Souther Methodist, Vanderbilt 17 over Army, Colorado and Kansas even, Nebraska 22 over Iowa State, Oklahoma State 16 over Kansas State, Tennessee 6 over Mississippi, Oklahoma 11 over Missouri. California 11 over Air Force, Texas Tech 4 over Baylor, Texas A 17 over Rice, Texas 34 over Texas Crhistian, Stanford 20 over Oregon, UCLA 27 over Oregon State, Southern CAL OVER Washington, Miami (Fla.) 1 over Florida State, Memphis State 6 over Houston, Mississippi State and Louisiana State even, Tulane 6 over North Carolina.

poken, dynamic Randle is under fire not for losing but for wanting to win and the way he goes about it. Battle lines were drawn when Virginia lured Randle away from East Carolina on Dec. 5, 1973, admittedly to restore some -long-lost football respectability. And Randle's homecoming has been far from the best of times: "I think I'm something special," he said cockily when his appointment was announced. He instituted the team-family concept, established an in-season curfew, told the players to put football ahead of their social lives from August to December and ruled out facial hair or hair over the collar.

"A very small sacrifice considering the one I was going to ask for later on," he says. He made the players schedule their laboratory periods on Mondays so they could attend Monday night practices. "There is no cure," Joann Herring, John's mother, says. "They are not even sure what causes it. All they know is that it is hereditary and one in 80 persons carries the genes.

"He knows what is in store. Yet he is cheerful and bright. He is a fantastic kid." John comes by his love for football from his uncle, Jerry Rhome, a former University of Tulsa great who is now an assistant coach there. Herring plays a good game of foot i I CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) "I thrive on adversity.

1 have a tough time living with success." Coach Sonny Randle, who authored those words recently, has come to the right place for adversity. The academically prestigious University of Virginia has a 1-8 football record, which assures the school its 22nd non-winning season in the last 23. Randle's first year, 1974, produced a 4-7 mark that could easily have been 7-4. Things have gotten worse this year. Three games ago, the Cavaliers were shellacked 66-21 by Wake Forest, the most points scored against Virginia in 42 years and the most ever run up against the Cavaliers at home.

And last Saturday, East Carolina, the school Randle led to Southern Conference titles in 1972 and 1973, poured it on 61-10. The intense, emotional, brash, outs Girls district play to begin Class high school girls district basketball tournaments begin this week in Montana. Most begin today but 10B tournament play began Tuesday in Havre at the Northern Montana gym. Three games were played to determine the sixth, seventh and eighth finishers for the eight-team tournament which begins tonight. Eleven teams compete in 10B.

Tuesday's games were between Hays-Lodgepole and Box Elder, Harlem and Hingham and Joplin and Big Sandy. The order of finish for 10B in conference was Rudyard (13-2), Inverness (12-3), Turner (10-4), KG (10-5), Chester (10-5), Joplin (8-7), Harlem (7-7), Hays-Lodgepole (5-9), Box Elder (2-12), Hingham (2-13) and Big Sandy (1-13). In tonight's action, Rudyard plays the Hays-Lodgepole and Box Elder winner at 7 and KG squares off against Chester at 30. Inverness plays the Harlem- 8: Herring plays it by touch NEW YORK (AP) Larry Wilson, St. Louis' director of pro scouting, acknowledged Tuesday that Cardinals' Coach Don Coryell took a subtle swipe at striking National Football League veterans in 1974 when he spoke to rookies and free agents at the team's training camp.

Wilson, an All-Pro safety during his 13 years with the Cards, was cross-examined at the New York offices of the National Labor Relations Board to rebut a charge by the Players Association that the team illegally denied the striking veterans free access to rookies and free agents and conducted illegal surveillance of veterans at that time. The NLRB is hearing testimony on 16 charges by the union of unfair labor McGilPs condition good LOS ANGELES (AP) Ralph McGill, the San Francisco 49ers' defensive back who was kicked in the helmet last Sunday, remained in good condition Tuesday at St. Vincent's Hospital here, a spokesman said. McGill, 25, who suffered head injuries when he attempted to block an unsuccessful field goal try by Los Angeles Rams' kicker Tom Dempsey, was taken to a hospital where he was listed in stable condition. He was transferred to St.

Vincent's on Monday and continued to improve. John doesn't have to ask for help. "They don't mention my eyes," he says, "but they help me on the bus at night and they guide me around after the games." John cannot see at night or under dark conditions. He can see when he is on the field of a well-lighted stadium, but not when he leaves. "The hardest thing I've ever had to do was stand back after a game at night and not reach out my hand to him," his mother says.

"1 know he cannot see. But he has to grow up. He has to learn to ask for help if he is in trouble. "Some boy has always come up to him to help, though. And it never has been the same boy.

They don't make a big thing out of it. They don't lead him by the hand. They just guide him by touching his shoulder or his elbow. That really makes you feel good." "I don't know if I could be like John if life had cheated me," says his coach, Bill Risenhoover. "His outlook has been a lift to every person on our team.

There is not one of our players who won't reach out to help him when he needs it. "I'd, never put anything past him, though. I never thought he would play, but he has." And he will continue to play, Risenhoover said. "If he continues to progress he'll be able to play even more next season. We have been thinking about moving him to center so he won't have to be downfield, blocking so much." John, a 6-foot, 240-pounder, says his handicaps in the classroom are also a problem.

"I think I need books with bigger type," he says, "and I can't take notes off the blackboard. I have to get them from someone." But he is doing all right. "One semester last year John made three As one and one says his mother. "He almost made the honor roll, and this is a boy who can't see." He hopes to attend college so he can work with other other handicapped TULSA, Okla. (AP) John Herring plays offensive tackle on his high school football team largely by feel.

He tackles what he can feel, because he can't follow the ball. Johnis going blind. In eight or 10 years he will be totally blind. The junior at Tulsa's Memorial High School has retinitis pigmentosa, a disease which eats away at the retina of the eye. "That's a heck of a name, isn't it?" asks John.

ji lit iSkmmmietsM BLINDNESS COMING John I I I MGSL WICK Basketball ml Basketball is for The Meadow Gold Sports League 9 jj (MGSL) sponsored by the Meadow Gold Dairy and administered U0 VL jj by the Great Falls YMCA wants all boys and girls in grades 3 JL 1 I thru 6 to join this city-wide basketball program. 1 I The deadline for registration is November 19th. Come to the I II II I YMCA, 101 1st Avenue North, Monday through Friday from I II II 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to register.

II III SPECIAL LATE REGISTRATION AT THE YMCA jl November 13th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. An hveslmerit In Youtfi for our Community's Future I hr i ball for his Tulsa, high school lootoaii leam aiuiougn ne is going blind and in eight to 10 years will have lost his vision. (AP Photo) i A.