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4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Page 4 Statesville Kecord Landmark riday November 22 1974 Vikings LA Rams rom The Crystal Ball Collide On Sunday Sounds Predictions '4 Carolina Duke Clash Saturday By TO BUY OH SELL A Don Daniel Representative JAMES 'BOOM BOOM' BETTERSON Leads Tar Heels Against Duke Jack Marin and Randy Smith added 16 points each for the Braves and Bob White chipped in with 12 In addition Martin had 14 rebounds Austin Carr scored 14 points in the third quarter as Cleve land trounced Golden State Earl Monroe scored 28 points triggering New Knicks By BRUCE LOWITT AP Sports Writer Monday night was very good to the Oakland Raiders The Los Angeles Rams hope be good ways been a tough team for them having won 46 of the 64 games played The Redskins hoping to ex tend nosedive to six games are coming off a hard fought 28 21 victory over Dallas their sixth triumph in seven games and are in a strong position to take the wild card playoff spot The Cowboys are all but out of the playoff picture If they fail outcome to be the same as a year ago The Vikings stayed unbeaten edging Los Angeles 10 9 and ran their perfect string to nine in a row before losing to Atlanta played against James Harris Grant said of the quarterback from what seen he certainly has a strong The Vikes have one too of course in ran Tarkenton the No 5 passer in the NC just behind Harris But both teams will probably rely more on strong legs The Rams have Lawrence McCutcheon the rush ing leader with 887 yards also caught 26 passes for 278 yards bringing his total yard age for the year to 1165 The Vikes have Chuck oreman No 3 in the NC with 667 And oreman has caught 39 passes for 455 yards bringing his total yardage to 1122 The Cardinals meanwhile are in a dogfight in the NC East leading Washington by one game The Cards are seven i point favorites to beat the needs 344 yards in game with Duke to set a still another league record North Carolina State established the record two years ago with 4758 yards Virginia had the record for the top average with 4394 set in 1969 Maryland also can move ahead of the Wolfpack Saturday with 442 yards in its finale at Virginia Additionally North Carolina is within reach of a new ACC scoring record The Tar Heels have 326 points which is 39 shy of the re cord 365 posted by State last year If Clemson beats South Caro lina and Wake orest downs urman Saturday the league will finish with its best record ever against outside opponents The current record is 19 wins and 14 losses And in the dubious record de partment if Wake orest loses to urman the Deacons will be come the first team to lose all 11 games in one season Wake orest finished 0 10 in 1957 and 1962 to hold this unwanted dis tinction would be nice to close out i on a winning says Wake coach Chuck Mills play ers have given a tremendous effort through some difficult situations and I think they de serve a victory to show for the progress they have made know urman (5 5) will want this game very badly be cause it will mean a winning season for them and the South ern Conference teams always get up for a game against an Atlantic Coast Complete Beal Estate Service DAY: 873 5286 NIGHT: 872 7267 By MIKE OWENS Sports Editor or the second week in a row I held the upper hand in my per sonal battle with Hugh in the predictions and I have moved back into a considerable lead with only four more weeks of predictions to go I led by only one prior to last week and then blitzed by 5 0 on the disagreements to move into a six game lead With four disagreements last week I pulled off a 3 1 edge to increase the lead even more I finished with a 14 7 record for the week including a correct prediction on the professional game of the week came in with his second consecutive sub 60 per cent week with an 11 9 mark barely above the 500 percentile mark Last record gives me an overall record of 169 71 9 for the season That keeps the percentage right at 70 for the season We need to have a couple of good weeks to get the percentage back to the hoped for 74 per cent level for the season dismal 11 9 mark for last week gives him an overall record of 153 76 9 and a percentage of 657 for the year now trails by eight full i games and he has no chance of catching up this week We will predict the games from football contest again this week and I will make my weekly selection of the Monday night professional game I shall at least maintain a four game margin following this games as we only have four disagreements on the 20 games listed for this week With an increase in the comfortable margin department I am going to start picking a few more upsets as the season draws to a close The homefield advantage has worked for me to the tune of 8 1 the last two weeks and I shall not stray much from that formula this week None of the four disagreements are on the two playoff games of the Western North Carolina High School Activities Association as and myself foresee Salisbury visiting Shelby for the football title next week picked the Hornets in a 34 14 win over Mooresville with me picking the Salisbury club by 21 20 chose Shelby i by 13 7 over reedom and I picked the Golden Lions in a 27 7 i triumph The first disagreement has choosing Wake orest to continue as the team with the longest major college losing streak in the nation in losing to urman I believe that this is a distinction that the Deacons do not want and I picked Wake orest to end the i season with a victory A Liberty Bowl berth will be at stake when Kentucky plays Tennessee and has selected Kentucky as the Maryland opponent and I have chosen Tennessee picks Arkansas over Texas Tech and Texas A over Texas while I selected the Raiders and the Longhorns in the panhandle battles Among the agreements we both selected Clemson over South Carolina North Carolina over Duke Maryland over Virginia the Citadel over Davidson East Carolina over VMI Richmond over William Mary and Lenoir Rhyne over Catawba Also Ohio State over Michigan USC over UCLA Mississippi State over Mississippi Oklahoma over Nebraska Houston over lorida State Tulane over LSU and Notre Dame over Air orce My pro pick of the week is an upset special New Orleans by four over Pittsburgh On that note we end for the week By The Associated Press i ootball teams of the Atlantic Coast Conference will wind up a i record breaking season Satur 1 day ive of the seven teams are finishing with winning records for the first time in the 20 year history of the league Three teams Maryland North Carolina State and North Carolina are going to post sea son bowl games a feat equaled only once before in the ACC A fourth team Clemson almost was invited to the Tangerine Bowl but lost out to Georgia And the latest record shatter ing feat has three teams finish ing with better than 4000 yards in total offense in the same sea son They are Maryland North Carolina 'State and North Caro lina all among the top 10 in the nation inn total offense Only once before has more than one team achieved the magic 4000 plus mark and that was back in 1968 when Virginia wound up with 4394 yards and Duke has 4233 or North Carolina State this marks the third straight year it has exceeded 4000 yards butit will have to relinquish the top yardage honor to North Caro lina The Wolfpack which has finished its regular season has registered the top total offense for the past two seasons But the Tar Heels who are leading the ACC with a 4415 per game average (another ACC record) need only a mere 52 yards to match the total for this year North Carolina which topped the 4000 mark in 1970 and 1971 to get in it will be the first time in nine years Houston is riding the crest of a four game win ning streak and hopes to knock off Dallas which routed the Oilers 56 10 four years ago in the only previous meeting The Dolphins have won five in a row a run that has carried them to the top of the AC East one game ahead of Buffalo The Jets have won their last two with Joe Namath throwing a pair of touchdowns in each The Bills need a victory to assure temselves of staying within striking distance of Miami and at least a game ahead of new England and Cincinnati in the AC wild card race The Browns are in danger of suf fering their first losing season in 18 years The Patriots are struggling to stay in the playoff picture hav ing dropped three in a row And facing a Baltimore squad which pulled itself to gether last week for its first victory in four games The Bengals invading Kan sas City are in a shaky position having lost two in a row to fall 1 games back of first place in the AC Central Division John Hadi now in a Green Bay uniform faces his former San Diego teammates while rookie Don Woods faces what could have been teammates Woods was cut by the Pack before the season began and with San Diego has rushed for 790 yards fourth1 best in the AC and better than anyone on Green Bay The Bears will try once again to score a touchdown some thing they done in near ly five full games The Lions have won five of their last six to claw their way back into playoff contention The Broncos fell out of the playoff race with their Monday night loss By The Associated Press While Marvin Barnes fiddled around Maurice Lucas made beautiful music with a basket ball Lucas given a shot to start because Barnes has been AWOL for two days took command Thursday night and scored 21 points to lead the Spirits of St Louis to a 108 101 victory over the Memphis Sounds in an American Basketball Association game plan to keep him in said Spirits Coach Bob MacKinnon about Lucas stepped in there and done a good job for us all Barnes who failed to show for Wednesday game with the New York Nets was discovered Thursday night in a pool hall in Dayton Ohio ap parently with no intention of re turning to the American Bas ketball Association team A spokesman for the star rookie said: far as Marvin is concerned he has no contract with the St Louis ballclub He is not playing for The team suspended him without pay In the other ABA games the San Antonio Spurs defeated the New York Nets 116 110 and the Utah Stars beat the Virginia Squires 88 80 1 In National Basketball Asso ciation action the Buffalo Braves stopped the Phila delphia 76ers 99 95 the Cleve 1 land Cavaliers trounced the Golden State Warriors 106 74 the New York Knicks stopped the Atlanta Hawks 101 95 and the Milwaukee Bucks turned back the Kansas City Omaha Kings 106 96 Donnie reeman pumped in 35 points and San Antonio held off a late rally by New York to beat the Nets The Spurs opened an eight point lead in the second quarter and then stopped the long range shooting of Brian Taylor Billy Paultz and Julius Erving Utah outscored Virginia 14 0 in an eight minute stretch of the second period and with Ron Boone and Moses Malone leading the way beat the Squires Boone wound up with 26 points and Malone 18 Bob McAdoo scored 28 points and collected 14 rebounds to 960 Davie Ave Brokers Auctioneers All Events Handicap Alton Bryant Mooresville 1873 Doubles Alton Bryant and Don Humphrey Mooresville 1183 Team Wilkes Lanes 3038 Singles Royal Pritchard to their fifth consecutive victo Statesville 660 ry losses by the Packers and Lions to sew it up The Rams and Vikes own identical 8 3 records just as thev owned identical 6 0 records to them too But both teams when they met in 1973 will have to be good on Sunday going to be interesting just like Last Sunday the Raiders de last says Minnesota feated San Diego 17 10 to clinch Coach Brant at least a tie for the American Grant would no doubt like the West Division title then locked it up outright when the runner up Denver Broncos lost to visiting Kansas City on Monday night Now the chance They can clinch a tie for the National Conference West title with a victory over the Min nesota Vikings And if they get past that first big hurdle they can lock it up if the runner up New Orleans Saints lose to vis iting Pittsburgh on Monday night In other National ootball League games St Louis at the New York Giants Philadelphia at Washington Dallas at Houston Miami at the New York Jets Buffalo at Cleveland New England at Baltimore Cincinnati at Kan sas City San Diego at Green Bay Chicago at Detroit Denver at Oakland and Atlanta at San rancisco The Rams be the only team on the Los Angeles Me mortal Coliseum turf with vi sions of titles dancing in their heads The Vikings too can lock up a crown of their own in the Central Division and Giants but New York has al they can do it Sunday but they need a lot more help take a Minnesota victory and down after last first round on Monday and compel lea Buffalo ing keglers this week will have the following scores to shoot at: All Events Scratch Alton Spirits Defeat The Associated Press NL Sunday's Games Kansas City at Cincinnati Buffalo at Cleveland Chicago at Detroit St Louis at New York Giants Miami at New York Jets Philadelphia at Washington New England at Baltimore San Diego at Green Bay Dallas at Houston Minnesota at Los Angeles Denver at Oakland Atlanta at San rancisco Monday's Game Pittsburgh at New Orleans WL PLAYOS Quarter finals Thursday Nov 21 lorida 18 Philadelphia 3 Hawaii 32 So California 14 Semifinals Wednesday Nov 27 Hawaii at Birmingham riday Nov 29 lorida at Memphis national TV Tourney Will End NORTH WILKESBORO The 13th annual Statesville Bowling Association tournament will conclude here this weekend at Wilkes Lanes This action will be the Bryant Mooresville 1772 second weekend of the tourna ment and will feature bowlers from Pla Mor Lanes in States ville Moor Lanes in Mooresville and Wilkes Lanes in Wilkes boro Bob West tournament direc tor released the unofficial run SWICEGOOD REALTY COINC of StATESVILLE World Bowl Site To Be Announced Thursday Dec 5 Semifinal winners Birmingham and Memphis receive first round byes Pigskin wasC 7 fit 3 aH lOOTBALl TANDING AMC Gremlin AMCI Dealers AL STIKELEATHER BankAmericard Al YOUR NOW S3600 to 2O00 Check the sticker prices find our sporty little 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