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12 Doily Herald nnmroAY, dec U1h County, Uth Holiday Tournaments Swing Into Action FOR HIM WHO WAITED nti-6ion has come 4p Top Ranked Teams Vie For Tournament Hoop Titles Cougars Tip-oft Far West Classic In Underdog Role Stand-in quarterback iorlmg fW now his successor to -the AmmM Mo. Kansas, with a 7-1 record tinA f.i tUrt Vsi 0 rtinlrinl By United Press International Five of the nation's top-ranked teams, including unbeaten Santa Clara and Wyoming, will see action Thursday night In the opening rounds of six tournaments which mark the start of college basketball's annual Christmas week tournament schedule. a tiiu iwi MIC w. itiimuig nationally, is favored in a good field which also has Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Far West Classic at Portland, Ore: Competing teams are all unranked Arizona State, Brigham Young, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Syracuse, Washington and Yale.

Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Boston College, Florida, Georgia and Northwestern all seek national stature. East Carolina Classic at Greenville, N.C.: Air Force, Baylor, Cornell, Delaware, East Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech and William and Mary are unlikely to affect national rankings but somebody will take home a gleaming winner's trophy. The Big One The most prestigious of all the tournaments this year, however, will be the 17th annual ECAC Holiday Basketball Festival starting in New York Friday. Three of the nation's top five teams-first-ranked UCLA, se last weekend in a fiel dthat included California, PurdJe, and Nebraska. The Devils downed Purdue in an upset to win the title.

Syracuse is also coming on strong as verified by their upset victory over BYU in Provo. The 3 are not many teams that win in Provo other than BYU, and so Syracuse must be considered a title possibility. Oregon's sophomores also could pull some surprises. The Webfoots are 3-3 and gave second ranked North Carolina a By JOE WATTS Herald Sports Editor Brigham Young University, playing in an underdog role, tips off the 13th edition of the Far West Classic tonight at Memorial Coliseum in Portland, against the pre-tour-ney favorites, the California Bears. The game gets underway at 8 p.m.

MST and will be followed by a contest matching Oregon against Yale. The Friday night lineup has Washington State playing Syracuse and Oregon State battling jj I THORPE All College Tourney Has Top Teams OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -Undefeated Duquesne takes on Texas tonight in the first game of the 33rd annual All-College Basketball Tournament, the nation's oldest holiday clas No fewer than 10 other tournaments, riot classified as major, also will start Thusday night. Twenty-two major tournaments and 27 others of lesser begin Friday when the tournament "madness" reaches its peak. Santa Clara, the country's lixth-ranked team and unbeaten In six games, is competing in th Rainbow Classic in Honolulu. The Broncos are favorites but are faced by a strong field which includes Purdue, Arizona, Columbia, Hawaii, Stanford, West Virginia and the U.S.

Marine Base. Wyoming, whicl. is 7-0 and battle before losing. cond-ranked North Carolina and fifth-ranked Villanova are sic. competing in the ECAC along The nine-team lineup also features undefeated and 14th-ranked Wyoming, 7-0, and St.

with a fourth unbeaten team, Holy Cross (3-0), and Michigan State (4-2), Princeton (3-3), Providence (4-2) and St. John's (6-1). Bullets, Lakers Lead NBA Bonaventure, 5-1, ranked 13th by Arizona State. The Classic will then continue Saturday and will wind up on Monday. Thore will be no Sunday action.

The title, won last year by North Carolina, could go to any one of several teams this year, but California has been established as the early favorite. The Golden Bears have giant center Bob Presley, 611, along with soph sparkplug Jackie Ridgle who has averaged 23.3 points per game. The BYU Cougars, running By United Press International. The Baltimore Bullets sudden ranked No. 14 nationally, and St.

Bonaventure, 5-1 and No. 13 nationally, are the highest-rated teams in the All-College tournament et Oklahoma City. Also competing in the All-College Tournament are Duqucsne, Louisiana State, Oklahoma City, Pacific, Texas and Tu-lane. Other Tournaments The other major tournaments tarting Thursday night are: -Big Eight at Kansas City, UPI's coaches rating board. Rounding out the tournament lineup are Louisiana State, 4-1, University of Pacific, 6-2, Tu-lane, 5-3, and defending champion Oklahoma City, 4-3.

The Oklahoma All-Sports Association, tournament sponsor, calls this year's entries the strongest collection of teams in any holiday tournament. The total won-lost record of all teams entered, 41-13, lends credibility to the statement. UCLA, featuring 7-2 Lew Alcindor, is a heavy favorite to win the tournament and solidify its No. 1 ranking but there could be surprises in a field with so many sound and experienced teams. Davidson, the nation's No.

3 team, is in the Charlotte Invitational at Charlotte, N.C., along with Maryland, Texas and ly are threatening to make a runaway of the Eastern Division race in the National Basketball Association. The Bullets tied a club record of nine straight victories and Wichita State. moved into a 3'4-eame first- hot and cold, are capable of dumping the tournament favorites in the first round of play. The Cougars have six standout players and if they could each turn in a strong game at the same time they would be tough to contain. The starting BYU forwards will be Kari Liimo and Marty Lythgoe and the guards will be Lynn Parsons and Doug Howard.

The starting center post has been divided between Paul Ruffner and Scott Warner. TVio firct osmo will he the place lead Wednesday night when they defeated the Seattle Supersonics 118-112 and the New York Knicks beat the second- Earl Morrall Wins Jim Thorpe Trophy place Philadelphia 76ers 110-109. Smth ANNIVERSARY spectacular monsy saving By MURRAY OLDERMAN Giants as a stop-gap Tom Matte lunged over on the tnlmhpet fnr the rniirars and a Newspaper Enterprise Assn. "I had a chance to get a1 next play to tie the score. Then I surprise victory against the NEW YORK (NEA) of other 8uys in the lea-' Earl Morrall threw two touch-! Bears would zoom the Cougars 7W7 Earl Morrall's second official admitted Shula, "but the oown passes ana drove the the tournament spotlight reason I took Earl was that I witnin range tor two field goals, Oregon State is a tournament and a 27-10 triumph.

i darkhorse. simply because the Beavers won the title the f'rst It was the third straight loss for the 76ers. Earl Monroe scored 25 points and Wes Unseld had 23 points and 20 rebounds for the Bullets, who played without injured Gus Johnson. The Bullets' 63-48 halftime lead dwindled to 115-111 with a minute to go, but two free throws by Jack Marin and another pair by Ray Scott settled matters. Bob Rule and Len Wilkeni scored 27 points each for tht Sonics.

The Knicks ran their winning streak to five games before a crowd of 19,171 in New York when Cazie Russell scored a field goal with five seconds to play. Willie Reed had brought ten years in a row. Washington broke the Oregon State stranglehold on the title in 1966. remembered when he had opportunities to win football games at Detroit (where Shula was an assistant coach), he produced." But Shula also remembered that when Morral had starting opportunities, he wasn't a consistent quarterback. Now with pass of the 1968 season, a huge San Francisco 49er tackle nam.

ed Roland Lakes rose up and batted the ball into the air before it crossed the line of scrimmage. The ball nestled in the arms of Stan Hindman, a 49er end, who galloped 25 uninterrupted yards to the end zone. That -as the debut. Earl Morrall, who doesn't Oregon State's road losses to After that, it was all elation for Morrall this fall of 1968. As the Colts won 11 of their next 12 games, Earl threw 23 more scoring passes.

In the only game they lost, to Cleveland, he was removed at halftime, and Unitas, his arm still bad, completed only one nass out'nf Utah and BYU have taken a little lustre from their record. Arizona State is a strong title contender. The Sun Devils won their own Sun Devil Classic the Colts, who had champion- show emotion, let his dimnled shhj aspirations, he was ajhad three intercepted, and put a chin droop slackly. It was, he starter in their most sensitive tne game beyond salvation said later, one of the most mis-1 position. "The tiling this guy (Morrall) 'threat for the Jim Thorpe the Knicks to within 109-108 with eraoie moments oi nis tooioau in me i rsi quarier oi is oone, said Shula, "was fit; Trophy.

He was named on 214'a field goal with 46 seconds to 1 fo I limn nnonino oamp aoainet thp 1 intn the fntKnll a lu wal lul 55 fewer ihano0 and thp Knicks unt thp halt player ballots This is the denouement: Earl49ers, Morrall notched his first as a player, but as a leader." Morrall's 269. The Cleveland back after Matt Guokas of tht Morrall, a substitute in nine of: claim to the Jim inorpe iro- And rhnt'c tho Kirtftnn 1 runninit hanlr had his third 7ers missed an easv shot with wm 1 "'KKCai ua.n 22 seconds remaining. pny. ineuuis iramng all because Morrall had straight season, driven deep into San Francisco made a carefcr out In third was Gale his first 12 years as a professional quarterback, was today acclaimed the outstanding play- MntUnl UVtntknll itmltmn imprtl PniNT SCARF 2 1or78t Reed led the Knicks with 25 i A-io oiVnl m.t I meawcre quarterback, phleg- ers, the Chicago speedster wno points and 28 rebounds and CI 111 UlC iiauuimi uuiuau, um UH lire irvmu lure. ma aA tu.

Ik ninll, nrD 11 u.j mauc ana rail called for Ray Perkins, Colts were his fifth team in the of the season and yet made a Greer scored 34 Doints for the flattering fashion accessory fa assorted band printed designs on nylon. 28 square. League the recipient of the 14th annual Jim Thorpe Trophy. He was chosen for the honor through a poll taken by Newspaper Enterprise Association of all the players in the NFL. In his 13th season, the 34-year-old quarterback of the Baltimore Colts was new both to his joi and his teammates when he split left, to run a post pattern cutting toward the goal post in the middle of the field.

As Morrall dropped back to pass, the 49er middle linebacker, Ed Beard, blitzed in without a hand touching him. The center was held up by another assignment. "Right then," said Shula, "Earl showed me something. Beard was in his fac. iNrL, and almost everywhere he played he had been supplanted as a regular by Bobby Layne in Pittsburgh, Jim Ninowski and Milt Plum in Detroit, Francis Tarkenton in New York.

In San Francisco, which had drafted him originally in 1956 as an Ail-American at Michigan State, he never got a chance behind Y. A. Tittle. it. tai hi Perkins hadn't made his move Now he has taken over for tremendous impression.

Year by year rundown of Jim Thorpe Trophy winners: 1955- Harlond Hill, Chicago Bears 1956- Frank Gifford, New York Giants 1957- John Unitas, Baltimore Brown, Cleveland 1959 Charley Conerly, New York 1960 Norm Van Brocklin, Philadelphia 1961 Y. A. Tittle, New York 1962 Jim Taylor, Green Bay 1963 (tie) Y. A. Tittle, Jim Brown 1964 Lenny Moore, Baltimore 1965 Jim Brown, Cleveland 1966 Bart Starr, Green Bay 1967 John Unitas, Baltimore 1968 Earl Morrall, Baltimore a At.

i. j. 17 Lw, lw prlcrl 45RPMHEC0RDS SemmleB meth QUAUT I1YL0HS irew tnat cosuy interception in the opening game. The Colts needed convincing this was the man who could lead them instead of the great John Unitas, ailing with tendonitis in his throwing arm. So did Coach Don Shula, who two weeks earlier had picked up Marrall from the New York ro me posi yw "jthe man gent-rally recognized forced to release the ball.

He the greatest of the modern really didn't know his receiver. quarterbackSi Unitas He Yet the ball was right on target, th. inh whj, Tohhnv'S arm im. CIU $Ucrt0me EAR FASHIONS $1 and Perkins made a diving Drovcd. fln(1 hp surrPP Ttni.

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Jerry West scored 26 points and Elgin Baylor tallied 22 for the Lakers, who scored their sixth straight victory and opered up a 5V2-game lead in the Western Division. The Lakers outscored the Suns 37-18 in the third period to overcome a 12-point halftime deficit. Dick Van Arsdale paced the Suns with 27 points. Happy Hairston scored 24 points and Eddie Miles and Dave Bing had 22 each for the Pistons, who pulled away from a 64-64 halftime tie to lead by 10 points after three periods. Guy rtodgers scored 24 points and rookie Greg Smith had 22 rebounds for tiie Bucks.

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