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THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Skins Hope To Run Over' Saints Today i 3 PORTS bench when the game starts but will no doubt see action. Taking Taylor's spot on the field probably will be player-coach Boyd Dowler. The other wide receiver, Roy Jefferson, and tight end Mack Alston complete Kilmer's prime targets. Allen's Redskins need a victory to stay in front in the Eastern Division race. on the ground, good enough for second place in the National Conference's rushing race.

Sixth on the list is Brown's running mate, Charlie Harra-way, with 377 yards. Quarterback Bill Kilmer, a former Saint, will be able to keep his old teammates occupied by going to the air. Although both wide receiver Charley Taylor and tight end Jerry Smith have been placed on the injured list, Kilmer, the National Conference's fourth-ranking passer, will have plenty of targets. Allen manipulated a trade for Clifton McNeil, who won the league's receiving crown in 1968. McNeil, bothered by sore ribs, probably will be on the read the statistics of last week's Falcons Saints game with interest.

The Falcons gained 184 yards rushing and the Redskins have two of the best runners in the league. Larry Brown, the defending NFL rushing king, slipped a bit last week in Washington's 27-20 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. But he has picked up 473 yards WASHINGTON (AP) The Atlanta Falcons may have a hand in Washington's game plan when the Redskins take on the New Orleans Saints today in the National Football League. While most of the talk at the Redskins' office this week has centered on the passing game, Coach George Allen probably THE SUNDAY TIMES C-1 Salisbury, Oct. 31, Mil National Football League Roundup Wage Annual Struggle In West iefs, Raiders To in a 13-game stretch, have now taken two in a row, thanks to a defense that was airtight against the Browns last Sunday.

Rick Arrington, who took over at quarterback in the second period as the Eagles recorded their first victory of the season, is likely to start in place of former Broncos' passer Pete Liske. At one time, the Jets had hoped the game against San Diego would feature the return of Joe Namath, but the quarterback's Injured knee has not healed as quickly as expected. Both New York and the Chargers take 24 records into ths game. The Lions trial Minnesota by a game in the typically rough-and-tumble NFC Central loop while the Packers are the only team among four seemingly out of contention. ry No.

1. They haven't won since last Nov. 1, a 13-game span. Archie Manning has a pulled )pg muscle, which may force tht Saints to start Edd Hargett at quarterback against Washington. The Redskins lost wide receiver Charley Taylor with a broken ankle when they lost to Kansas City but they've still got Boyd Dowler.

And tney've added Clifton McNeil to the ros-ter, although a rib injury may keep him out ii action. Jim Plunkett returns to the Bay Area, where he performed his college heroics for Stanford. But wide receiver Ron Sellers is definitely out and Hubi Bryant may miss the game with a pulled hamstring. The virtually injury-free 49ers are still one-half game back of the Rams in the light NFC West. The Broncos, who hadn't won lanta would put the Steelers back in a tie with the Browns.

Coach Tom Landry will try anything to keep the Cowboys on Washington's trail. This time he plans to call the game from the bench, sending in quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Craig Morton on alternate plays. Bobby Douglass goes again for the Bears after his winning 1971 starting debut against Detroit a week ago. If rookie quarterback Ken Anderson's rib injury keeps him out of action, the Bengals will start with Dave Lewis. The Oilers have added strength to their running game with the acquisition of Dickie Post and Robert Holmes.

JIM HART may have to start at quarterback for the Cardinals if a bruised right shoulder hampers Pete Beathard. The Bills are still looking for victo at Philadelphia, the New York Jets at San Diego and, in Monday night's nationally televised (ABC 9 p.m. EST) game, Detroit at Green Bay. The Raiders have history on their side, winning seven of the East 10 regular season games, ut the Chiefs have the AFC's No. 1 passer in Len Dawson and No.

2 receiver in Otis Taylor. Since 1967, Oakland and Kansas City finished 1-2 in the West usually going down to the wire to decide the race although in 1969 the Chiefs beat the Raiders in a playoff en route to the Super Bowl. And this year's race will apparently be no different. A tough ground game appears in store at Los Angeles as the Dolphins go with Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, who piled up 258 yards against the By BRUCE LOWITT Associated Press Sports Writer The National Football League's annual face-to-face meeting for ownership of the American Conference West gets under way today In Oakland as the Raiders take on the Kansas City Chiefs. The two powerhouses, who won't meet again until Dec.

12 in Kansas City, have each reeled off five successive victories following season-opening setbacks and, as usual, have left the rest of the division in the dust. The rest of the slate today has Miami at Los Angeles, Atlanta at Cleveland, Minnesota at the New York Giants, Pittsburgh at Baltimore, Dallas at Chicago, Cincinnati at Houston, St. Louis at Buffalo, New Orleans at Washington, New England at San Francisco, Denver Jets a week ago, while the Rams counter with Willie Ellison and Les Josephson. With Bob Berry still out with a hamstring pull, the Falcons again go with Dick Shiner, who quarterbacked them to victory over New Orleans. The Browns, blanked a week ago for the first time since 1950 a 275-game stretch are trying to retain their one-game AFC Central Division lead.

Injuries have wrecked the Giants' running game but help appears on the way with the possible return of Ron Johnson and Tucker Fredrickson. But they'll be going against a Vikings' defense that is No. 2 in the NFC. The Colts are at full strength and raring to get back on top in the AFC East, the spot they lost by losing to the Vikes. Victories by Pittsburgh and At- Len Dawson if Kick SBQ rlrensive sss aim yir'-i FIT! --yirW- Colts To Host Young Bunch Of Delaware Bows To Temple As Loughran Stars NEWARK.

Del. (AP)-Junior Steelers Today BALTIMORE (AP)-The Bal-i Paul Loughran took a punt 71 timore Colts, with an offense that has sputtered in two losses to division leaders, look for more yards for a touchdown with 6:56 left to play Saturday to give Temple a 32-27 upset over previously unbeaten Delaware, the nation's No. 1 ranked small college team. 4 4 The touchdown, Loughran's second, capped a game in which the versatile fullback rolled up 306 yards 103 rushing, 41 in pass receptions, 128 in punt re scoring punch in today's game against the youthful Pittsburgh Steelers. The Coils have allowed only 34 points in six games, but lost 14-13 to Cleveland and 10-3 to Minnesota in last Monday night nationally televised game.

On offense, the Colts have been stopped 11 times inside the opposition's 20-yard line even while scoring 135 points. In the two losses, Baltimore has scored three field goals and a lone touchdown on Don Nottingham's 20-yard run with a blocked punt. The Colts, 4-2, go into today's turns and 34 on a kickoff to lead the Owls to their fourth victory in six games. 4 it Delaware had won six going I T.v f.Vif a into the contest, and nine straight over a two-year span. Ahead 14-12 at hautime on touchdowns by Gardy Kahoe and V' Uj IWifcifMW ifcn i TmiT nan i ir i ib iriniw wi titititi i utwwwuMW hi tmi, mm mm ttommtr aMtttaui Glenn Covin, Delaware fell be hind in the third quarter when Loughran ran 70 yards for his first TD.

game trailing first-place Miami by one-half came in the Ameri I Delaware regained the lead at the end of the period on a one- can Conference East. Pittsburgh, bott during second quarter action Saturday at College Park. (AP Wircphoto) DROPPED AFTER SEVEN YARDS. VMI tailback Mac Bowman is brought down after a seven-yard gain by Maryland's Bob AIi- yard Kahoe run and stretched 3-3, trails Cleveland by one game in the Central Division. the margin to 27-19 at the be ginning of the fourth quarter Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh's Terps Rack-Up Largest Point Total Since '62 Against VMI when Kahoe raced five yards for his third score of the game.

A 4l-yard touchdown pass from Doug Shobert to Randy second year quarterback who set a personal high of 21 completions and 279 yards last week, will be facing a veteran defensive unit which has yet to yield a touchdown pass this season. The Steelers have 11 rookies SUSTAINING A DRIVE. Notre Dame quar quarter touchdown drive alive. Navy defend- terback Cliff Brown (8) keeps the ball and ers Pat Virtue (44) and Jim Carban (79) breaks through the Navy line Saturday for can't get to Brown. twelve yards to keep Notre Dame's second (AP Wirephdto) Bob Minnix Scores Two Touchdowns For Irish Stout Notre Dame Defense Too Much For Na vy, 21-0 Grossman brought Temple to within two points of Delaware, Neville, Seymore Spark Maryland To 38-0 Romp setting the stage for Loughran 's punt return.

The Blue Hens drove deep in on their 40-man roster and four of them start on defense. Baltimore, with Earl Morrall to Temple terrtiory in the closing minutes but lost the ball at the eight on a fumble by Roger Mason with about one minute left. starting at quarterback and John Unitas in reserve, has the AFC's top rusher in Norm Bu- SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) time the Irish did all their laich with 503 yards. The first touchdown came at COLLEGE PARK, Md.

(AP)-Al Neville tossed two touchdown passes and Art Seymore ran for two more scores as Maryland walloped out-classed VMI 38-0 Saturday in a battle of have-not football teams. In running up their largest point total since 1962, the Terps the end of a 78-yard drive in But the Colts have had minimal results passing to their wide receivers. Eddie Hinton and Ray Perkins have caught only eight passes apiece, for just two Morgan State the first period which took 15 scoring pass from Neville for a 17-0 half time lead, and Floyd White gathered in another for 21 yards in the third period. Seymore, back in full-time action for the first time in four weeks, gained only 32 yards but tallied on runs of two and eight yards as Maryland ran its record to 2-6. Jeff Shugars, Neville's replacement, hit Dennis O'Hara with a four-yard TD pass in the fourth period and Kambiz Behbahani plays all of them on the the ground, picking up four or five yards at a clip with Gulyas, Minnix, Larry Parker, Andy Huff and John Ciesz-kowski doing the ball-carrying.

Minnix scored twice in the first half to stretch the lead to 21-0 before Navy could manage to get across midfield after 5:30 of the third period. Navy's only scoring threat came late in the Bob Minnix ran for two touchdowns and Ed Gulyas added one as Notre Dame shut out Navy 21-0 in an intersectional college football rivalry Saturday. Notre Dame's powerful defense pinned the Midshipmen in their own territory for the entire first half, during which touchdowns. ground. Gulyas, who missed Notre Dame's last five games due to injury, ran it in from the ended a five-game losing streak Ohio State Has Wins To Clinch Tie For Title one to put the Irish ahead 7-0, and extended VMIs to six in a The Irish moved steadily on row.

To Fight Back To final period when they moved Dan Bungori caught a 74-yard Nip Minnesota BALTIMORE (AP)- Morgan Sullivan Beasley Work Their Magic added a fifth extra point to his 36-yard first quarter field goal. Neville finished with seven completions in 10 attempts for 176 yards and Tom Miller carried 14 times for 101 yards. Vern Beitzcl of VMI, now 1-6, completed eight of 21 passes for 65 yards and had two intercepted. Mac Bowman, who carried 18 times in the first half, finished with 38 yards on 20 rushes. MARYLAND ROLLED UP 484 total yards, including 298 on the ground after penalties stalled them in the first quarter.

VMI managed just 69 yards on the ground and 65 in the air. A pass interception by linebacker Bob Abbott, who later recovered a fumble, set up Maryland's first period field goal and Bob Tucker's 28-yard return of a VMI quick-kick launched a 48-yard scoring drive in the second quarter. VMI had a scoring chance in the fourth quarter, when two Maryland interception were nullified by penalties, but the drive MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. (AP) State withstood a late rally by The Ohio State Buckeyes.

North Carolina to edge the Aggies 21 20 Saturday and Mitchell, Harris Display Power Running Penn State Easy Victor, 35 To 7 down 6-0 and badly outplayed at the half, roared back on Don clinch at least a tie tor the the ball to the Notre Dame 15 before losing the ball on downs. Tom Gatewood caught two passes for 36 yards for Notre Dame, raising his career yardage total to 2,121 yards, a school record. The old Notre Dame standard was the 2,113 yards registered by Jim Seymour. MINNIX SCORED his two second quarter touchdowns on Lamka's fourth down touch football championship in the new Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. down pass and Rick Galbos' Auburn Dumps Florida, 40-7 Morgan's Bears, now 4-0-1 in league play with one game to go, led 14-0 at halftime and 21-6 tour-yard run to defeat inspired Minnestota 14-12 Saturday in the rain for their fifth straight Big Ten football victory without a loss.

going into the final quarter. MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (AP) Freshman quarterbacK Paul Power runners Lydell Mitchell runs of one and 10 yards. The Minnesota scored in the final McKibbins then threw two TD passes for six yards to Al West Virginia had controlled the pace of the first half until Hufnagel led the Lions on a 88-yard, 12-play scoring drive in less than three minutes.

and Franco Harris bulled their way through the heart of an injury-riddled West Virginia de AUBURN, Ala. (AP)-Pat Sullivan, coming back strong after a shakey first half, threw two touchdown passes to Terry Beasley as fifth-ranked Auburn the first half, but picked up only 70 yards the rest of the game. He left the field with a record of 18 out of 37. Sullivan missed six passes in Holland and 50 yards to Charles fense here Saturday for 112 sec first climaxed an Irish drive that covered 64 yards in 11 plays, the second wound up a drive of 36 yards in seven plays. Ralph Stepaniak set up Minnie's second score by recovering a kickoff fumble by walloped Florida 40-7 Satur The Mountaineers took the second half kickoff and went 70 stalled on the Terps' 10.

yards to score in ten plays and a row before he finally completed one but during that time he had scored once on an eight yard run and again on a keeper day in a Southeastern Conference football game, Sullivan ran the ball across twice in a first half which saw Florida's passing sensation, seemed to have the momentum minute on a two-yard run by quarterback Craig Curry to cam a chance to tie the Buckeyes, but Curry's run on the conversion attempt was stopped just short by a Ohio State defensive wall led by end Tom Marendt. Lamka, with a fourth down on the Gopher four, rolled to his left and fired to the back edge of the end zone to a leaping Dick Wakefield with 7:42 left in the third period to tie the game. Fred Schram kicked the extra point. Navy's George Berry on the Midshipmen's 36. Notre Dame, upset last week by Southern California on the ond half yards that sparked Penn State to a 35-7 football victory and a certain hold on the Lambert Trophy.

Penn State broke the spirit of an inspired West Virginia team midway in the third quarter when the Nittany Lions, backed up deep in their own territory with the scored tied at 7-7, recovered a fumbled punt on the Mountaineer 45. Mitchell, the nation's leading John Reaves, take the measure going their way again until back John Billetz fumbled the punt. Four starters on the West Virginia defensive unit left the game with injuries by the midpoint of the third quarter. same summer-green turf, pushed its record to six victories of the flashy Auburn quarterback. A standing-room-only crowd Middleton.

The Aggies failed with a two-point pass attempt after the first and fourth quarter scores, but Holland ran in a two-pointer after his TD to pull his team within a point of Morgan. now 3-1-1 in the MEAC, got the ball again with 58 seconds left, but couldn't move. The Bears, who gained 257 of their 334 total yards in the first half, scored in the second period on one-yard runs by Jimmy Joe and Jeff Freland. The Aggies scored in the third period on a 10-yard return with a blocked punt by Osceola Hicks, but Timothy Herdon's 13-yard interception return put Morgan ahead 21-6. Counting losses attempting to pass, the Aggies wound up with three, yards on the ground and of 63,500, the largest ever as and one defeat in a bid to improve its No.

12 national ranking. Navy was left with a 2-6 record. sembled at Auburn's Cliff Hare Stadium, saw Sullivan come The Keydets reached Maryland territory three times in the first half, once when Mike Dug-an returned a kick-off 68 yards to the Maryland 27. After VMI gained just one yard. Neville hit Bungori for 74 yards and a Maryland TD.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) Statistics of the VMI Maryland football tiame. VMI Maryland First downs 12 23 Rushes-yards 39.69 62-298 Passing yardaqe 65 1B6 Return yardage 8 17 Passes 0-21-2 9-15 0 Punts 7-38 5-39 Fumbles lost 1 0 Yards penalized 19 105 VMI 0 0 0 00 Maryland 3 14 14 738 Marv FG Behbahani 36 Mary Seymore 2 run (Behbahani kick) Mary Bunqorl 74 pass from Neville (Behbahani kick) Marv Seymore 8 run (Behbahani kick) Marv White 21 pass from Neville (Behbahani kick) Marv O'Hara 4 pass from Shusars (ben-ba anl kick) A 22,300 Flit dowm Rushes.yardt Passlna vardaaa Ohio St. Minnesota WVU 20 40-155 177 128 15-321 6-42-1 1 Penn State 21 JI-250 153 82 1215-0 -34 1 roaring back in the last half and wind up ahead of Reaves. It 14 First downs from the one.

After the intermission, Sullivan hit Beasley with a 19-yard scoring pass and again from 14 yards out. Florida Auburn First downs 21 26 Rushes-yards 38-86 44-135 Passing yardage 204 241 Return yardate 0 26 Passes 22-42-2 15-30-1 Punts 7.42 30 Fumbles lost 1 1 Yards penalized 54 60 Florida 0 7 0 07 Auburn 12 0 7 2140 Aub Sullivan 8 run (run failed) Aub Sullivan 1 run (run failed) Fla Jackson 10 pass from Reaves (Franco kick) Aub Beasley 19 pass from Sullivan kick) Aub Unqer 4 run (Jett kick) Aub Henley 1 run (Jett kick) Aub Beasley 14 pass from Sullivan (Jett kick Rushes-yards Passina yardage Return yardage Return yardaga Passei Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Penn State Sullivan, third best passer in the nation before the kickoff, NAVYNotri Damt 9 20 27-45 M-281 66 45 81 80 10-224 5-10-1 8-3? 6-37 1 2 0 55 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yardaqa Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Ohio State 51-135 63 41 7-15-0 11-45 1 49 47 25 40-149 124 23 t-241 9-40 0 53 7-14 raises Punts Fumbles lost 0 7 14 14-35 0 0 7 07 West Virginia completed only four passes out of 14 for 65 yards before half- PS Parsons 1 Dass from Hufnaoel (VI. scorer who broke a Penn Mate season record with his 16th touchdown, and Harris took the ball to the seven yard line in nine carries. From there quarterback John Hufnagel, who had hit tight end Bob Parsons with a one-yard scoring pass on the next to last play of the first half, found Harris in the end zone. Yards penalized navy 0 0 6 0 0 0 0-0 Minnesota 6-11 Mln Kinqsrlter 31 pass from Curry time but he connected on 11 out of 15 in the second half to run his total to 241 yards.

Reaves hit his receivers 11 plello kick) WVU Nelson 7 run (Nester kick) PS Harris 7 pass from Hufnagel (VI-plello kick) PS Mitchell 1 run (Vlplello kick) PS Mitchell 2 run (Vlplello kick) PS Herd 24 past from Joachim (Vlplello kick) A 37,000 Notre Dame 7 14 0 021 Notre Dame Gulyas 1 run (Thomas kick) Notr Dame Minnix 1 run (Thomas kick) Notra Dame Minnix 10 run (Thomas kick) (kick failed) OSU Wakefield 4 pass from Lamka (Schram kick) OSU Galbos 4 run (Se ram kick) Min Curry 2 run (run failed) A 36,261. 141 in the air with 11 completions times out of 19 for 115 yards in in 35 attempts. A W.075.