The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 31

Victory Over Redskins BLOOMINGTON Minn down passes of 28 and six yards (UPI) Frantic Fran Gilliam within a 65-second ton the daring scrambler who jPaa as chilled crowd of 45475 roared Tarkenton in the first playoff is finally living down his Cats Enter ID Standard-Examiner Sunday Dec 23 1973 reputation for being a loser tossed a pair of fourth-period touchdown passes to John Gilliam Saturday sparking the Minnesota Vikings to a 27-20 NFC playoff triumph over the fired-up Washington Redskins Stymied for most of three game ever of his controversial 13-year career will now direct the Vikings in the NFC championship game on Dec 30 against Dallas-Los Angeles winner for a berth in the Super Bowl first touchdown quarters by George pass to Gilliam who solid defense Tarkenton led the hold on to a pair of important Oakland ieelers 33-14 fourth-period rally with touch- By RANDY HOLLIS Weber Wildcats! appear to be it just in time The which open defense of their six straight Big Sky cage crowns next month rolled to a 96-64 over outclassed Rocky Mountain College Saturday night in the Wild- 'XX4 catgym- PRO CAGE RESULTS N3A Phoenix 121 Milwaukee 112 New York 99 Detroit 88 Capital 98 Houston 89 Cleveland 108 Atlanta 98 Chicago 110 Golden State 86 KC-Omaha 122 Buffalo 112 ABA Utah 86 Kentucky 82 San Diego 129 San Antonio 123 Virginia 107 Indiana 100 Denver 113 Carolina 108 (Only games scheduled) HOCKEY RESULTS tosses in the first half climaxed a brilliant 71-yard drive in eight plays to wipe out a 13-10 Washington lead PICKED OFF PASS On next offensive play Nate Wright picked off a pass by Billy the Washington quarterback who played an excellent game considering the fact that he got out of the hospital on Thursday Wright returned the ball 26 yards to the Washington 8 and two plays later Tarkenton came up with the kind of patented play that has given him his reputation Trapped behind the line of scrimmage he darted to his left reversed his field and! then started running to his right as his receivers moved frantically in the end zone Tarkenton then hit Gilliam in the right corner of the end zone for the touchdown That made it 24-13 and proved to be the difference after Ken Stone blocked a punt and Kilmer fired a 28-yard touchdown pass to Roy Jefferson with 5:28 remaining in the game Fred Cox kicked a 30-yard field goal with 1:40 remaining to give the Vikings their final victory margin of seven points OAKLAND Calif (UPI) rarely had a chance to set up Old George Blanda booted four on passing plays However ht field goals and Willie Brown accounted for all the Steelcr ran 54 yards with a pass points with a four-yard throw to 1 homa city and t' Aliiollege Saturday as the Barry Pearson with 1:53 left in Tournament lacing powerful i0aUand Raiders defeated the the second quarter and a 26L SpV" Oral Roberts University S'eelers 33-14 in the yard toss to Frank Lems with hursday night at 6 pm UtahlKl AFC 9:12 remaining in the game Hubbards first touchdown Three of Blanda field goals came in the second half when and Blandas lnltial fleld Soal the Raiders scored 23 points 1 staked the Raiders to a 10-7 two of them after pass lead at the half and Blanda interceptions as Oakland ad-! followed with two more field vanced to the conference js an(j grown ran 54 yards championship for the fifth time running away from the now 4-6 since 1967 The Raiders will i 'V1b bls Pass intercePhon the Rocky Mountain crew play the winners of third quarter for a 23-7 margin Cincinnati-Miami game for the! FIELD GOAL conference championship on: Blanda his fourth Md Marv Hubbard whose run-'E03 lldrd minute of the ning inside kept numarous final quarter and then with the Oakland drives rolling scored Raiders conceding short passes 0 twice on one-yard smashes Bradshaw passed to Lewis to center position two games PSiUp "IS! close the gap to 26-14 but that added 19 points to the Weber1 ln a thls sonre Droved academic when State attack 1 season against Pittsburgh score proea acaaemic "nen NHL Detroit 4 Boston 2 Montreal 7 Buffalo 1 Rangers 4 Pittsburgh 1 Vancouver 6 Toronto 4 Philadelphia 4 Chicago 2 Islanders 4 St Louis 2 WHA Winnipeg 2 New England 0 Cleveland 2 Minnesota 1 Toronto 6 Quebec 4 Houston 8 Los Angeles 3 WHL Seattle Salt Lake 2 a 4 1 WEBER Steve Fleming leaps high to bring down a rebound in game against Rocky Mountain College Jimmy Watts (32) backs up Fleming on the play COLLEGE CAGE RESULTS 87-86 CAGE THRILLER Aggies Defeat Cougars Rockv Tvree Da-' The score not even begin' Hubbard carrying the ball on ziocKy mo niain lyree Do muci the Raiders everv other plav marched the I vis a slick 6-4 guard who does much the Haiders to the Pittsburgh one everything well was virtually dominated the 8ame- Hubbard Riders The Vikings had been favored PROvo Utah was fouled He sank the' ielmont Anderson led BYU a one-man show for the Bears his first TD the first less than lwo minutcs remaining He then dived over State forwards Tim Moore andfree throw to give USU an o7-85 with 28 points 21 in the second 'as he finished with 24 points by eight TARKENTON SCRAMBLE A Tarkenton scramble on his despite being saddled with four half lead with 58 seconds left i Chris Williams brought Jim Boatwright combined for 1 TTCTT BYUi TT 1 personal fouls for more than second touchdown nas? was leadmg to within one point at 87-86 on a Boatright led Utah State hal the game ES of Zv Zt used to dr free throw- 22 points- addd 20 1 Weber started out slowly and Coach Norm Van Brocklin wild ovrf Bgham Young Utah State blew opportunities and Dan Dressen chipped in 14 the Bears kept pace with the Coach Norm Van Brocklin wild University Saturday to put the game out of reach in The vict0ry snapped a five-j Wildcats in the early going But USU Oot off to a quick start the last 23 seconds missing on' nf RYU tf I Fleming caught fire midway and budt a 9-0 lead and took a'one-and-one situations forY Utah i rough the first half and th ROCK MISSES 'J in first stint with the Vikings It was Van Brocklin who first hung the tag 46-35 reading at the half on Tarkenton as an exciting Doug Richards who finished State at Provo since 1969 player who would blow as the game with 27 points brought BYU back from the 11-point halftime deficit to give many games with his unorthodox play as he would win with Sophomore Mike Rock missed Box score: a nnp and nnn with five gpnnndg UTAH ST Boatwright 22 Reed 6 a one ana one wun nve seconas Dressen 1dj Haws B( Moore 2o Tenhoeve'ond session where they left off left and BYU got the rebound jlO Rock 0 Thompson 5 Owens 2 I lf 1 Handy 16 Snow 4 Jones 2 An- Uie IirSt Halt running and But now Tarkenton has the Cougars its 'first lead at 85-1 Richards tried a 25-foot jump cheesman i eunnlngtheirwav 7M3 led the Vikmgs to 13 wins in 15 84 with 1:36 remaining shot that rimmed the hoop at: a Nieisen wins 3 JriwaVr0nnh games this season Moore then scored on a lay-m the buzzer Tarkenton who was only morain final half time the Raiders got the ball in the game and with the Oakland bna score defense completely bottling up the Pittsburgh offense the I closest the Steelers got was a OKGS DCOTG 10-7 deficit at halftime RAIDERS SCORE VictOrV The Raiders scored a touch-' down and two field goals on! LARAMIE Wyo (UPI) three pass interceptions and did Ron Crowell scored 30 points not make a single mistake Saturday night to pace the route to the victory which Wyoming Cowboys to an 86-79 atoned for a loss to the Steelers victory over the University of in the opening round of the 1972 Iowa AFC playoffs Crowell was joined in double I Blanda who celebrated his figures by Larry Crowe with 18 1 46th birthday last summer Stan Boyer at 12 and Jack booted field goals of 25 31 22 Adams with 11 Neil Segebank and 10 yards and the only time was the leading he missed was on a 49-yard try! scorer with 20 followed by Jim late in the game when the i Collins with 19 and Scott Raiders were merely playing: Thompson at 14 out the clock Wyoming led throughout the BRADSHAW HARRASSED with the of the i first three minutes enroute to Pittsburgh quarterback Terry lthc wi wfcich the Bradshaw harassed throughout Pokes season record 0 lhePaklani? i Iowa which trailed 47-36 at the Tony Cline Otis Sistrunk Art haIf to 24 Thoms and Horace Jones CLEARED BENCH Coach Gene Visscher then began clearing his bench and the reserves after letting the Bears gnaw the Weber lead down to 80-57 it down the stretch to boost th Wildcats to their biggest lead of the evening 96-64 at the final gun A1 DeWitt despite an icy shooting night helped the to a 56-40 rebounding advantage the forward Weber State 96 Rocky Mountain 6a Utah Stale 87 BYU 86 UCLA 111 St Bonaventure 59 Arizona 88 Texas Tech 64 Wyoming 86 Iowa 79 Colorado 73 Creighton 68 Southern Cal 80 Ohio 68 Oregon St 88 Portland 67 Nev-Las Vegas 110 Cal Poly-Pomona 61 Gonzaga 70 San Jose State 68 Long Beach St 74 Indiana St 45 San Francisco 80 St Joseph's 63 Maryland 53 Santa Clara 52 (champion-shop of Cable Car Classic) Kentucky 78 Stanford 77 Boise St 77 Athletes in Action 63 Arizona State 119 Tulane 70 Idaho 98 Washington 74 Rhode Island 68 Los Angeles St 66 Montana St 82 Portland St 72 Vanderbilt 83 Kansas 72 Wisconsin 73 Wisc-Milwaukee 46 Indiana 84 South Carolina 71 Purdue 114 Illinois St 85 Drake 66 Georgia 60 Texas 86 Northwestern 84 Furman 85 Niagara 79 Fordham 88 Yale 72 Alabama 70 Columbia 43 Ohio State 85 Dartmouth 80 Colgate 82 Kings 66 Toledo 91 Michigan 64 LaSalle 76 Kentucky 65 Louisville 74 Bradley 65 Ball St 98 Michigan 94 Virginia Tech 85 Florida 74 St Mary's 91 Youngtown 71 Pitt 86 Army 56 Fairfield 77 William Mary 57 Virginia St 81 Va Union 70 Cincinnati 82 Washington 80 Texas St 70 Fullerton St 63 Syracuse 110 Boston College 88 Detroit 73 Michigan St 71 Centenary 97 Texas 94 Louisiana St 105 tons 71 Texas-Arllnoton 85 Fresno St 70 Akron 81 Buffalo St 65 Minnesota 70 Butler 68 Providence 93 DePaul 75 Mississiopi 90 Illinois 77 Memphis St 101 Samford 69 SMU 97 Oklahoma City 80 TCU 70 Colorado St 65 Michioan 70 Bowling Green 66 Caoital 70 DePauw 59 SW Texas 80 Tarleton St 78 Oklahoma 74 Central St 57 Roanoke 86 Norfolk St 83 St John's 68 Jacksonville 60 Dayton 66 California 62 Marshall 81 Geo Washington 62 Auburn 88 Lamar 78 Brown 102 Buffalo 84 Canlslus 127 Scranton 88 Michigan 7i St Peter's 73 Miss St 85 Houston Baptist 74 Illinois 86 Wichita St 77 Florida St 66 Wake Forest 48 Oral Roberts 86 Murray St 83 Texas-EI Paso 60 Evansville 57 (championship in Sun Bowl Classic) New Mexico St 85 Oklahoma St 56 (championship of Roadrunier Invitational) Weist's 42 Points Pace Idaho Win Broncos Dump Athletes in Action eight for 18 in the first half came back in the second half to hit eight out of 10 to wind up1 with 16 of 28 for 220 yards and two touchdowns Oscar Reed the unsung halfback who got a chance to see daylight because the Vikings were concentrating on Chuck Foreman rushed for 96 for Christ Inter- as 6-8 sophomore hauled down 13 boards Fleming pulled in 12 more caroms for the Wildcats while Scott Gardner hit a dozen points for Weber after coming off the bench in MOSCOW Idaho Chuck Price with 16 points Cruscade Guard Steve Weist tallied 42 for the game and Jack yards in seven carries includ- to set an Idaho single- q1 with 12 helped give West-! Mke fdAtJpfrd ine a sensational 4fi-varri scoring record and lead 6e Lester Madison led an Athletes early in the third period thatllh school to a 98-74 nonconfe- Washington to a 46-36 haU- aily early in the second half to set up a two-yard touchdown lrence basketba11 victory over time deficit bring the visitors within six run by Bill Brown over Western Washington State BRONCOS ROLL 1 Faints at 41-35 Curt Knight the oft-maligned Satarday nighVu Ui(l BOISE Idaho For- BOZEMAN Mont (AP) Redskin field eoal kicker1 Weist opened the first half by Deadly accuracy from the free goal kicker Wilson scored 26 ward George throw line Saturday including points and helped Boise State five in a row by Tom Kastelitz Ifalf College stave off a second-half helped Montana State Univer-i aer Wright missed a 17-yarder in the first period as the Redskin fans winced He later missed a 49-yarder but he came back in the second half to connect on field scoring 18 of first 28 points then went to the bench with a 28-19 score Idaho led the rest of the way Art Blackwell then came in paced the rally Saturday night to defeat Athletes in Action 77-63 in a sity stem Portland late rush for an 82-72 non-conference college basketball victory The Bobcats hit 11 in a row goals of 52 and 42 yards The'or abo and quickly scored 12 nonconference basketball game 52-yarder tied personally hif 20 points for the game 14 record and also tied the NFLWelst then came off the bench record for the longest field goal and scored 24 more points in ever in a playoff game Wilson scored 14 points in the first half to lead BSC to a 39-23 halftime lead over the Athletes an athletic ministry of Campus the final three minutes of play and had 12 of 13 in the closing 1 minutes in rebounding with 11 and also added 14 points to their scoring attack In a preliminary contest Saturday night Bonneville grabbed a 69-64 non-league win over Ogden High Kurt Moore hit 19 points and former Tiger Rodney Carter added 16 for the Lakers Box score: ROCKY MOUNTAIN i Darts Snare Davis County Cage Crown Davis High captured its own Davis County Tournament title Saturday night with a 75-70 come-from- behind victory over neighboring rival Clearfield Craig Taylor poured in 42 points for the winning Darts including a perfect 18 for 18 from the foul line while Brad Clifford paced the Falcons with 21 points In the consolation contest Viewmont romped past Layton 7440 big man 6-6 Gary Long sat out the game with a leg injury and the Lancers just get going against a tough Viewmont team Rusty McNeil paced the Vikings with 15 points Box scores: Field goal percentage 37 Free throw SO WEBER STATE 2 4 1 3 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 Field goal 44 Free throw 48 Haltime WSC 48 Rocky Moun tain 27 Attendance 2698 CLEARFIELD 7 7-10 21 Clifford 4 0-0 8 Earl 4 1-2 9 Gardner 3 0-0 6 Walker 3-4-6 Adams 4 1-3 9 Johnson 2 5-6 9 Worsley DAVIS GPP Taylor 12 18-18 42 Kennard 3 3-4 Wood 1 7-10 9 Arnell 2 2-3 Johnson 0 1-2 1 Hatch 0 0-0 Starkey 0 2-2 Frazier 3 2-4 Spy BONNEVILl 8 0-2 16 Carter 3 2-2 8 Burrell 3 0-2 6 Tam 4 2-2 10 Baird 9 1-2 19 Moore 0 2-4 2 Gardner 1 1-2 3 Ruple 1 3-4 5 Clement 0 0-0 0 Jones OGDEN Beech 0 2-2 Hoftler 9 1-2 19 Raines 3 1-4 Heslop 1 0-0 Faunce 7 1-3 15 Head 1 0-0 Shaw 3 1-4 Gonzales 0 0-0 Pusey 4 0-0 Cabolla 1 0-0 26 11-27 70 Total 21 33-41 75 Clearfield 15 39 Davis 10 34 50 75 STTJ Sfr -V 29 11-20 69 Totals 29 6-15 64 Bonneville 17 37 55 69 Ogden 11 31 'A 4 2 A 1 £1 LAYTON Egan 1 0-1 2 Call 3 3-6 Washington 3 0-1 Bitner 2 0-1 Mortenson 0 2-2 Kidd 1 1-2 Jensen 3 2-2 Bockwaldl 1 0-0 Barlow 0 2-2 Fairman 0 2-2 VIEWMONT 0 0-0 0 Smoot 5 1-1 11 Lee 4 0-0 8 Nelson 4 0-0 8 Fames 7 1-0 15 McNeil 10-0 4 Thomas 5 0-1 10 Bowman 1 0-0 2 Anderson 5 1-2 11 Palmer 0 1-2 1 Mangus 1 l-O 2 Day 0 0-0 0 Steinbeck 1 0-0 2 Kruger Brock Set Record ST LOUIS (AP) Lou Brock of the St Louis Cardi-nals set a major league record in 1973 by stealing 50 or more bases for the ninth straight year is A 4 V' 4 OAKLAND Mike Siani (dark jersey) goes for eight yards after receiving a pass before being downed by Pittsburgh Jack Ham in first quarter of playoff game In background is Henry Davis (53) SBS off game Minnesota won the game 27-20 to advance to the NFC championship finals Standard-Examiner UPI Telephoto MINNESOTA Roy Winston (60) moves in to stop Washington Larry Brown (43) during first quarter action in pro play- 35 4-8 74 Totals 14 12-19 40 viewmont 14 34 Layton 8 21.