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2-B THE TAMPA TIMES, Saturday, December 23, 1971 Kansas Dolphins by City over Elinor Kaine Football broadside they're emotionally drained. Washington was playing it looser 1 and they'll be ready. Dallas Cowboys 13 Minnesota Vikings 10 at Minnesota. The bubble bursts for Bud Grant and his three-quarterback offense. Yes, he might actually go with punter Bob Lee again, and whatever happened to Norm Snead who some said would be Piayer of the Year in 1971? And Gary Cuozzo? It's the mystery of the North, and the Cowboys are too strong to be flimflammed by that Viking defensive mystique.

Tom Landry will remind his boys that the last time they played the Vikings a year ago October Minnesota won, 54-13, but here's the funny thing. The Vikings ran up that big count on only 258 yards wortn of offense. Four interceptions did it. Dallas is showing everybody you can get by with a halfback nobody talks to Duane Thomas even though it didn't work with a quarterback nobody liked, which is why Craig Morton is on the earphones these days. Roger Staubach is far from the all-pro CBS-TV is trying to build him into, but he's enough of a QB to keep things together and score about 13 points, more than enough against the punchless Vikings.

Landry knows one thing. As cold as it will be in Blooming-ton, it can't get any worse than that frostbite game against the Packers four years ago. But they win games they're not supposed to. They went down to New Orleans and beat the Saints after they'd already clinched the title. Then they beat the Redskins.

They've already beaten the Colts this season, but they had to get Norm Bulaich and Mike Curtis out of the game to do it. Eight Baltimore turnovers helped too. They gave the Colts their worst passing day 3 for 10, with John Unitas an embarrassing 0 for 5 with two interceptions. And if Bulaich is still hamstrung Sunday, Unitas will have to go back to work against that tough man-to-man defense. He prefers zones.

Eiggest thing the Colts have going for them is that the game is played in Cleveland. Baltimore's record there is 3-1, including that 34-0 championship thing three years ago. In Baltimore, the Browns hold a 3-0 edge. Washington Redskins 20 San Francisco 49ers 17 at San Francisco. After conquering Los Angeles, George Allen moves up the coast to make it a clean sweep over California, the land that gave birth to buddy Richard Nixon.

Allen hasn't lost in San Francisco since 1966, ad he knows as much about John Brodie as any coach in the business. He's faced him 26 times, starting with his Bear assistant days. Frisco had to struggle against Detroit last week, and Kansas City Chiefs 23 Miami Dolphins 10 at Kansas Cuy Poor Miami. Somehow Don Shula convinced them that the only sensible thing to do was beat Green Bay last week and win the Eastern Division title and earn the right to go out to Kansas City to lose to the Chiefs. They won't make a dime out of that title, either.

Winner and runner-up (Baltimore) collect the same purse for the first round of the playoffs a single game check. The big money starts coming in next week. So while Baltimore was losing to New England and setting up that comfortable match with the Browns in the other AFC playoff, Miami vis fnv day's work out of their wounded Griese, Czonka, Warfield, etc. And what were the fat-cat Chieis ooing vmie ail its cS going on? The only thing that made sense in a meaningless game resting people. Len Dawson, Ed Podolak, Wendell Hayes they all sat down and let the junior varsity mop up Buffalo.

So crippled Miami meets rested KC, a team they've never beaten in six tries. They haven't met since '69, the year before the Dolphins got good. The Dolphins didn't even bother to scout the Chiefs last week. They sent Carl Taseff to look at Cleveland, so can you blame them for being mad at Carroll Rosenbloom's Colts for them? The Dolphins are built for Kansas City. No one runs on that Buchanan-Culp-Lanier defense when it's rested and trying hard.

And if you stop Kiick and Csonka, you kill off 75 per cent of their offense. They'll make Griese throw long, and he'll be playing with a separated left shoulder which has been getting worse, not better, during the last three weeks. Baltimore Colts 17 Cleveland Browns 16 at Cleveland. It will be closer than people think. No one's taken Cleveland seriously this year except the people who have bet on them.

They've beatn the point spread nine times in 14 tries, the best record in the NFL. Nothing about the Browns -sits right. Their division is the worst in football. Their coach, Nick Skorich, hates sideburns and long hair. Their quarterback, Bill Nelson, has worse knees than Namath.

They play in an old tomb of a stadium that's built on Lake Erie, a body of water you can set fire to. For 'Skins, 49ers another work day have some new plays for the Redskins. Allen, on the other hand, plans to go along with the plays that have brought his team success this year. i is all that counts," said Allen. "This is no time to try something new.

We'll win or lose with what we have been doing right along." The Redskins finished the regular season in the NFC East with a 9-4-1 record' and made it to the playoffs for ayf jay i jg) the first time since 1945 as the NFC's best second place finisher. The 49ers took the NFC west by winning nine of their 14 games. Earlier in the week Allen said he preferred playing the 49ers (over the Los Angeles Rams) in the playoffs. "Beating a team twice in three weeks is a pretty tough assignment," he said. Two weeks ago the Redskins knocked the Rams out of the playoffs with a 38-24 upset.

US TO ALL OF YOU MARINE SERVICE PH. 247-1146 II are very basic on offense. Both quarterbacks John Brodie and Billy Kilmer are drop pack passers; Larry Brown runs outside for the Redskins and Vic Washington does the same for the 49ers, and Charlier Harraway is the straight, up-the-middle runner for Washington and Ken Will-ard does the same for San Francisco. Roy Jefferson is Washington's primary wide receiver and veterans Clifton McNeil and Boyd Dowler share the other wide receiving post. Jerry Smith and Mack Alston are the club's tight ends.

Brodie, whenever he can, looks for Gene Washington on long passing plays and Ted Kwalick for shorter throws. He also likes to throw to Will-ard and Vic Washington coming out of the backfield. Offensively, the clubs seen evenly matched, and probably on defense, too, but the odds-makers have installed the 49ers as from 4 to IVz point favorites. The Washington defense, Allen's baby, is veteran while the San Francisco defense is a fine mixture of experience and youth. Allen thinks tomorrow's game will be decided by the defense while Nolan thinks offense will make the difference.

With a wet field, Nolan may be closer to what eventually transpires. "SLIPPERY FOOTING can change things all around," said Nolan, who also suggested his coaching staff may FIBERGLASS DUCT INSTALLERS Permanent Job with fringe benefits THE ALERT COMPANY 5236 Florida Ave. A pply between 8 A 9AM Weekdays Three collegians join American Bowl ranks Brezina, left, and Branstetter, center, and Virginia's Selfridge Lbns Bowi yyerr-er Christmas Majors on the prowl for South MIAMI W) Although still nursing a bruised shoulder, Tennessee's All-American Bobby Majors will be prowling the South's defensive backfield during the 2Sth annual North-Scuth Shrine College All-Star game' in the Orange Bowl Monday night. Majors and South Carolina's Tyler Hellams will start as safeties for the South, pitted against Purdue teammates Charlie Potts and Scott Laug-heed for the North. Both squads announced their starters Friday.

Majors had been listed as' doubtful after bruising his shoulder during the Volunteers' 14-13 Liberty Bowl victory over Arkansas last Monday night. But he was ready to play when he arrived in Miami late Thursday after undergoing treatment in Chattanooga. JOINING Majors and Hellams in the South's defensive backfield will be cornerbacks Ernie Jackson and Rich Seal, both of Duke, and linebackers Joe Federspiel of Kentucky, Ray Nattles of Tennessee and Sam Key of Elon. The South's defensive line will include Tennessee's Mike Crangle, North Carolina State's Dan Medlin and Arkansas' -Ronnie Jones. In the North defensive back-field, the starting linebackers will be Stan White of Ohio and Keith Schroeder of Iowa State.

Missouri's Lorenzo Brinkley and Temple's Rich Lee will start at the corner-backs. Goff SUN CITY Low gross and low net tourney. Class low gross, Catherine Stevenson, 87. Low net 1. Pearl Weir, 67; 2.

Esther Nash, 71. Class low gross, Alta Lausmann, 93. Low net 1. Opal Moore, 69; 2. Alice Loeb, 70.

Class low gross, Win Mitchell, 96. Low net 1. Doris Stark, 63; 2. Virginia Thatcher, 72. Class D.

low gross, Jane Kropp, 104. Low net 1. Holly Haley, 63; 2. Marie Frank, 71. Nine hole, low gross minus putts, class A 1.

Rickey Martin, 25V4; 2. Agnes Lawrence, 26Vs. Class 1. N. Vaughan and Marge Karker, 25; Ernie Carpenter, 25Vi.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL OF Doughty practice indoors for the second time in four days, since their arrival Monday. In 1969 on Christmas Eve, as the lanky Detroiter stared at the huge Christmas tree in the lobby of the UM's hotel, headquarters, he moaned: "YOU GET so close and all of a sudden and it's gone. You dream about this all your life." NEED-A-DIVER Just SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Today is Christmas, and a merry yule to all, but for the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers, at least, it's just another day of work by way of preparing for their NFL playoff tomorrow. Workouts were on tap for both clubs, and in the rain, as coaches George Allen and Dick Nolan sought to polish up on the plays and formations they expect to throw at each other starting at 1 p.m. PST tomorrow at wet and gloomy Candlestick Park.

The forecast for tomorrow is gray skies, some showers and a wet and slippery artificial turf. Yesterday, the San Francisco Bay area was pelted by rain for the fifth time during the past week and the rain was accompanied by. gale winds. The artificial turf at Candlestick does away with the prospect of playing in mud but when it rains the water sits on the turf until someone "rakes" it off or the wind blows it away. Since it would require a few hours to get rid of the water by either method, play simply will have to go on as scheduled.

That means cutting will be difficult for ball carriers, pass receivers and defensive backs and there might be quite a few broken or busted plays, a coach's nightmare. "You hate to see a game of this magnitude decided by a broken play," said 49ers coach Nolan. "But the conditions will b3 the same for both sides and we'll just have to play it as we go along." NEITHER THE Redskins nor 49ers employ fancy offensive maneuvers, and in fact OLE ANDERSON NEW FLORIDA TV CHAMPION PUKE MYERS Vs. TOM BRADLEY TAMPA PORT FT. OF GRANT from page one linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons, he is big and tough.

Butch is 6-2 arid 245 and has the pros looking his way because of. his speed and ability to get where the ball is. His teammate there and for the American Bowl is Kent Branstetter, a 6-3, 255-pound defensive tackle from La-Marque, Tex. Branstetter, a two-year veteran in the Houston defensive unit who played end last year, is regarded as the strongest Cougar of them all. The Cavalier representative is Andy Selfridge, 6-4 and 210 pounds, from Cleveland, Ohio.

He led all Virginia linemen in tackles in 1971 and was the defensive captain. Selfridge is tough and aggressive and has distinguished himself in the classroom. He was an academic All-Atlantic Coast Conference team member three straight years and made the Ail-ACC team this year as well as earning All-America honorablrmention. in 71 for PASADENA, Calif, ffl Christmas was a sad, sad time for Glenn Doughty two years ago. On Christmas Eve of 1969 the star sophomore tailback of the University of Michigan football team tore a ligament in his right knee as the Wolverines practiced for their Jan.

1 Rose Bowl encounter against Southern Cal. The day after Christmas Doughty underwent surgery and his life-long dream of. playing in the granddaddy of the bowl games vanished temporarily. "I TOLD a Detroit reporter then that I'd be back," the senior wingback recalled yesterday Christmas Eve 1971. "And here we are." "I knew we had the class that could do it again.

We had a senior class with a bunch of class, and we're here again." Doughty will also be here soon. He'll play on the North squad for the Jan. 9 Lions American Bowl at Tampa Stadium. It isn't often players from the Big Ten get a second chance to play in the Rose Bowl because of the "no repeat" rule barring any squad from playing in the Pasadena classic two years in a row. That rule was rescinded this year and from now on it would be possible for players from Big Ten to compete in three consecutive Rose Bowls.

A I I C-8 Conference teams have had no such rule. Standford, UM's Jan. 1 opponent, was a 27-17 victor last season over Ohio State. And when the Wolverines lost, 10-3, in 1970 to Southern Cal it was the Trojans' fourth consecutive appearance in the big game. "I was telling B.T.," said Doughty, referring to roommate Billy Taylor, "that if I got through this day everything will be cool." It rained heavily yesterday, forcing the Wolverines to Christmas Cheer to Everyone! FROM ALL YOUR FRIENDS AT ALL THE Goodyear Service Stores Television sports menu DICK MURDOCH BOBBY DUNCUM MGD.

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