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10 1.im-oluK'venig louniul Nebraska State iWnV Saturday, Dec. 26? 1970 P.M. ITU 11 1 I i I Hum roijieiii iui Double Protests Filed In NBA, r- inn ii-ii. JiMiiiigwBBni wfTiiin ii iiiimiiii anna a inn jiu iiihj Hi unm ifi'i a wm i nir n-mwr-p -L 3 i Atlanta 127-115 in a nationally televised contest, Baltimore blasted Chicago 128-112, New York defeated Buffalo 115-102, Philadelphia won its sixth straight with a 105-1GO conquest of Detroit and Los Angeles trimmed Boston 123-113. In the American Basketball Association it was Memphis 107, Utah 102; Virginia 145, Texas 131.

and Pittsburgh 136, Carolina 121. Cousy didn't think much of Fitch's protest. "If I were Cleveland, I wouldn't have the guts to protest," he said. "But I guess he does have a legitimate protest. I did, too." Cousy protested because Cleveland was permitted a field goal after the horn sounded.

Tom Van Arsdale and Norm Van Lier each scored 23 points to pace the Royals while Dave Sorenson led Cleveland with 20. Phoenix took an early 17- By Associated Press 'A horn is a horn is a horn. Or is it? Friday night's Cleveland-Cincinnati game in the National Basketball Association was played under protest because the 24-second clock signal a horn sounded different, at least to Cavalier coach Bill Fitch, than most other 24-second clocks. Cincinnati coach Bob Cousy, whose Royals won 117-100, also filed a protest because the referees, who apparently didn't the sound made by the 24-second timing device in Cincinnati, let Cleveland continue with the ball after the signal. Fitch said the signal for the 24-second clock was the same as the scoreboard signal and that's an NBA rule violation.

"If the rule book means anything, our protest is right," the Cav coach, whose expansion team has a 3-37 record, said. Jerry West scored 32 points, Happy Kairston 29 and Wilt Chamberlain 24 to lead the Lakers past Boston. John Haylicek paced the Celtic offense with 25 points. Chamberlain sat out the first 10 minutes of the game because he missed coach Joe Mullaney's team discussion at Friday's practice. The victory snapped a two-game Lakers' losing streak.

Mullaney said he told his players they would be benched for not producing. He said Chamberlain was not reprimanded but did not start because, "I did not feel it right to Wilt to start him tonight, then pull him out, inasmuch as I had not had a chance to explain." Chamberlain and Mullaney met for a long talk before the game- and Wilt was unable to participate inpregame warmups. '-'It was riot i his fault," Mullaney said of Chamberlain's missing the practice. within one point late in the third quarter. Lou Hudson, the game's leading scorer with 33 points, led the Hawk rally.

Rookie Pete Maravich scored 28 points for the Hawks while Dick Van Arsdale was the high Sun scorer with 32. Baltimore's i victory over Chicago came despite a 42-point performance by the Bulls'. Bob Love. The Bullets, paced by Earl Monroe's 25 po'nts and Wes Unseld's 22 rebounds, jumped to a 6842 halftirne lead and waltzed the rest of the way. Love canned 16 of 28 from the floor and was 10-for-ll at the free throw line, Willis Reed returned from a three-game absence occasioned hy the flu and scored 20 points as the Knicks whipped Two crucial free throws in the waning minutes by Hal Greer, who wound up with 28 points, helped Philadelphia outlast Detroit.

Dave Bing was Detroit's top scorer, with 28 points. i yttj 'ifr-Ta )tMi- fee point lead but had to stave off a In other Christmas Day NBA late Atlanta rally to beat the games, Phoenix downed Hawks. The Hawks pulled Allen Worries Yankee Driver Enjoys Faster Racers of South anyonev who would listen that Los Angeles UP) Exactly two years ago George Allen answered the telephone and got fired as head coach of the Los Angeles Rams. "I'm considering leaving my phone off the hook," Allen said Friday. His five-year contract with the National Football League team expires next Wednesday.

Allen was rehired by owner Dan Reeves two weeks after the Dec. 26, 1968 dismissal, after Ram players demonstrated strong support of their coach. Reeves, who resides in New York, says he will save any statement on Allen until after the contract expires. "No, I haven't heard from anyone," he said Friday. "But I don't intend to resign.

We haven't finished the job here, yet." "I feel I've done everything I could, and with the exception of a few things, I wouldn't have done anything differently. I'm proud of our achievements. Just look at the record." Chicago Daily News Special Fellow named Peter Goodwill Hamilton just has to hail from some straight-laced New England community like Dedham, Mass. But Pete, as everybody calls him these days, couldn't take the up-tight way of life and headed south where folks move a mite slov and would rather smile than wn. Besides, race cars are er and faster in the south the stockers he had been iving on the small, NewEng' nd tracks.

That explains why Pete, now 28, makes his home in Charlotte, N.C., -the hub of big-time stock car racing, where he's been house hunting the last couple of months. He's got to find a place to stay after he marries Sue Kuckstorf of Schiller 111., next, month. After the Jan. 30 wedding, it'll be back to the races for Pete, -starting with the annual speed week af Daytona International Speedway in mid-February. -1 It was at Daytona a year ago that Pete made his.

first big splash in major stock car racing. He had joined up with the Lee Petty outfit as the number two driver in the Plymouth-backed operation. Lee directed the program, his son Richard was the top driver and Maurice, another son, was the chief mechanic. Strictly a family thing until Pete was, signed. Pete had been named the National Assn.

for Stock Car Auto Racing rookie of the year in 1968 and came back in '69 with an impressive, but not spectacular series of efforts. Southern fans, surprised by the. Petty team signing a newcomer and a northerner at that, were skeptical of his ability. Pete, a good-looking, 6-2 blond smiled at the stir and in his articulate fashion, told UPI TELEPHOTO Connie Hawkins of the Bill Bridges (left) and Walt Hazzard of Phoenix Suns snatches the ball from Atlanta Friday. he expected a tough go.

"The biggest problem," he said before the race, "is running at more than 190 miles an hour. You've got to accustom yourself to that. "It's a problem that confronts everybody, but it's a psychological one that every veteran driv has told me he had to go 1 "You've got to get it through your head that you can run through the turns without letting off the throttle. It's a complete reversal of the type of racing that a driver has done before. "The reason is simple.

The track is banked so steeply (31 degrees) that the tires will stick despite a full throttle and force will actually 'slow down the car a bit." He convinced himself so successfully that the logic made sense, that he won the Daytona 500, went on to pick up two more super speedway victories and finished 1970 with $130,000 in prize money. "I think stock car racing has a great future," he said not long ago. "That's why I camie down south from New England and didn't try Indy-type racing. I think it has greater spectator appeal than any other kind of racing." 1 Soccer Star Dies at 70 Buenos Aires (tf Ludovico Bidolgio, one of Argentina's greatest soccer idols in the 1920s, died Friday after a long illness. He was 70.

Bidoglio formed parts of the Boca Juniors team which showed Argentina's football for the first time to Europeans in a long and successful tour. He also played on the Argentine team which ended second in the 1928 Olympics as well as in the national teams which won the South American 49ers Expect to Freeze in Viking-Land Playoff Minneapolis-St. Paul () Frigid weather is in store for the National Football League playoff game Sunday between the San Francisco 40ers and the Minnesota Vikings. The weather bureau says the temprature at gametime in Metropolitan Stadium will be about 12 degrees and will rise no higher than 14 during the afternoon. Westerly winds of about 15 miles per hour are expected under fair to partly cloudy skies.

The Vikings, 12-2 and the 49ers, 10-3-1, clash at noon in a National semifinal playoff with the 49ers determined to demonstrate anew their transformation from a doormat into a powerhouse. The winner meets the winner of the Detroit-Dallas other semifinal for the NFC title on Jan. 3 and the right to play in the Super Bowl Jan. 17. The 49ers rise to power this season has been as much a surprise as the Vikings in 1969.

The 49ers, in Dick Nolan's third season as head coach, were 7-6-1 in 1968 and 4-8-2 last year before this year's rapid turnabout. San Francisco officials gave these primary reasons Strengthening of the special teams, notably the trade that gave the 49ers 102 points for the second straight year and intercepted 28 passes. -The Vikings' front four of Carl Eller, Alan Page, Jim Marshall and Gary Larsen will be teeing off against the 49ers' touted offensive line in the most physical aspect of the game. Both teams planned early workouts Saturday, so that the players could watoh the games in Dallas and Baltimore. on Bruce Gossett's kicking and the return work of rookie Bruce Taylor.

Maturity of an offensive line that set an NFL league record by allowing quarterback John Brodie to get dumped only eight times this year. Brodie himself. The 14-year veteran passed for 2,941 yards and 24 touchdowns, with Gene Washington on the receiving end of 12 TD strikes. The 49ers led the NFL in scoring with 352 The Vikings stunned the NFL in 1969 with a 12-2 record, in Coach Bud Grant's third year and matched that total again this season. Grant attributed it to discipline and improvement in every area from 3-8-3 in 1967 to 8-6 in 1968 Minnesota's best weapon is its defense, which allowed the fewest points in the league, 143, Leafs' Ullmaii Joins Elite NHL Club I Woody Look Ma, No Hands! By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Norm Ullman had a double reason to celebrate his 35th birthday Saturday.

The veteran center for the Toronto Maple Leafs scored two goals against the Minnesota North Stars Christmas night and joined the select 400-goal club in the National Hockey League. NHL records list only four championship in 1925 and 1927. Cornhusker Red Is Set In 16 Sections of Bowl Pershing Auditorium Saturday, Dec. 8:30 p.m. 26 Nebraska's sea of red will splash over 16 of the 64 sections in the Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami New Year's night.

Neither participating school got many choice seats among their 12,500 allotted tickets, but a few lucky Cornhusker fans have seats between the 40 and 50-yard lines. The bulk of the Nebraska seats stretch from the 25-yard line into and around the East end zone. Half of the end zone seats in the Nebraska block were obtained by ticket boss Jim Pittenger from LSU The Orange Bowl seating layout (Nebraska tickets in the shaded areas): No Foe Of Rule PASADENA, Calif. j(AP) -You would think Woody Hayes would be a staunch opponent of the Big Ten's no repeat rule to the Rose Bowl. The Ohio State football coach isn't.

"I have mixed emotions about it," Hayes said of the rule that prohibits a Big Ten champion from making two straight trips to the Rose Bowl. "Coming out here causes a definite disruption of classwork. Ask your dean," Hayes said before an Ohio State practice Saturday for their Rose Bowl date Jan. 1 with Stanford. "It might throw the league out of balance, too," he said.

The Pacific-8 permits its champion to go Rose Bowling every year in its pact with the Big Ten. Ohio State and Stanford resumed practice today after both squads took Christmas off. The Buckeyes had a couple of parties at their hotel; Stanford players spent the holidays in private homes of parents and friends. Hayes said Ohio State's game plan it is expected to emphasize a running attack has been completed. The Bucks went through heavy hitting in the single practice at East Los Angeles College.

Stanford Coach John Ralston was busy installing a game plan, obviously featuring Jim Plunkett's passing, and pondering, the Ohio State scouting reports. The Indians whipped through a pair of practices at Long Beach State. players with 400 or more goals at the start of this season. They are Gordie Howe of Detroit, Maurice Richard and Jean Beliveau of Montreal and Bobby Hull of Chicago. Ullman's two goals were in a losing cause, however.

The North Stars snapped Toronto's seven-game winning streak 6-3 with three goals in the last period. The Boston Bruins whipped the Pittsburgh Penguins 8-4 for their 10th straight victory in the only other NHL game scheduled. The Bruins thus regained sole possession of first place in the East Division over the idle New York Rangers. Ullman, born in Provost, on Dec. 26, 1935, helped tie the score for Toronto at 3-3 before the North went ahead for good on Danny Grant's second goal after five minutes of the third period.

Barry Gibbs and Tom Reed added Minnesota's last two goals later in the third period. Phil Esposito, Johnny Bucyk and Don Marcotte each scored two goals for Boston as the Bruins rallied to overcome a two-goal deficit and extend their unbeaten streak to 11. Esposito, the NHL leading scorer, added an assist to his two goals and now has 68 points in 34 games. Greg Polis scored twice for Pittsburgh in the last period after Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice had given the Penguins a 2-0 lead in the first five minutes. Eagles Slay Bald eagles migrate to Nebraska beginning in early December, and many winter here, leaving in early March, LiJ p.

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