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1 J. OO.iiD 4 I I 'a By GEORGE ROSS SAN DIEGO Jim. Otto started it and then Wayne Hawkins and Tom Flores caught it from him and soon all three were bawling, like oversized babies the littered corner of the Raider locker room at Balboa Stadium, sobbing and grinning sheepishly at each other and at the other hallooing Raiders who ran: over, tousled their hair, slapped' them on the back and hollered: "Way to go, Big Jim," and "How to take it to 'em, Wayne-baby." It was a good cry, a long time coming. For three and a half bitter seasons these three the last of the original l960 Raiders-had been ridiculed, tormented and humiliated by the San Diego Chargers, a team infinitely richer in money and talent and size and depth and usually speed. This was the "Class Team" of the American Football League, so styled even by the sobbing trio's own coach, who had helped to build it from its infancy, who takes proud looks back at it, and who hopes that his three-year building program for Oakland will produce another like it, or better.

For those three bitter years, for down after down, quarter after quarter, the insolent Chargers had smashed unprotected Tom Flores into the grass and mud and man-handled his blockers, sometimes even Jim Otto and Wayne Hawkins, though they went last, less routed than overrun like rear guard soldiers in combat. -The Chargers, more than the Broncos or the BiilS or- the Patriots, treated the Raiders like a semi-pro ragtag outfit and who was to say they were not? In 1961 the huge San Diegans crushed the stumble-bum" Raiders 35-0 in "an exhibition game and again 44-0 in league competition after a 55-0 Raider loss to Houston, and Eddie Erdelatz said, "I don't know, what to do? and was fired. Through 1962, now scrambling but getting on the scoreboard with an improvised "Runnin Gun" formation, half an offense, and an of ten-gutty defense, they survived another mid-season coach firing and ran out a M3 season. They were, and Jim arid Wayne and Tom were, still the. rag-tail poor folks of a prospering league.

v. There was a day coming; Ironically, the Mayor of San Diego proclaimed Sunday, October 27, 1963, "Charger and 30,188 turned out to celebrate, He and', the Chargers made one horrible mistake. They invited the poor relations, including Messrs. Otto, "Hawkins and Flores, who stayed to win and to cry and laugh at the same time over an exhausting, punishing, crippling but so-satisfying 34-to-33 victory that rocks pro football and sends new blood coursing through the veins of the American Football League. What a win.

What a win. A Continued Page 27, Col. 1 0 0 0) A if. 49f nsiv Charger Hoodoo Ended Trio' Side ined By SCOHY STIRLING They took the mayor's official proclamation declaring it rharatr Dnv" in San Dieffo By BILL DUNBAR Ailing from more than the festering pain of another loss, the San Francisco 49ers today are in dire trouble defensively for their game with the Detroit Lions at Kezar Stadium Sunday. Three defensive men-tackle and rewrote it in sweat and blood in shocked Balboa Stadium Sunday and plastered a new proclamation high for the sports Charlie Krueger.

halfback Abe GEORGE ROSS, Sports Editor MONDAY, OCT. 28, 1 963 35 world to see, "HAIDUH uax," a totally new kind of day never 4 before Who did? The Oakland Raiders, a broad-shouldered football team marinated in pride and steeped in get-up-and-fight-back spirit. Ten times in the past the Raiders had taken the field against the mighty Chargers and ten "toes they were crushed, Jay scores ranging up to 44-0. burn said the three will have to wait out a "cooline off" ne- riod with their injuries, but Woodson, and end Waiter Rock -are in St. Mary's Hospital today as the anxious 49ers await word on the seriousness of their injuries.

All three picked up injuries as the 49ers were downed 28-21 by the Rams in the Los Angeles Coliseum yesterday before a smog-coated bat cheering crowd of 45,532 fans. Krueger, probably one of the best in the business, hurt a knee late in the first period. Woodson suffered a possible Waters will have to be switched to a defensive halfback spot, a place he has worked in the past. "Krueger is a great defensive lineman and it will be a big loss if he is ruled out," coach Jack Christiansen sighed on the flight home. "When he went out we had to shift Roland Lakes from right to left tackle and send Leo Nomellini in at right tackle.

It Was a tough assignment change for both of them." the man the Continued Page 38, Col. 7 there should be word tonight or tomorrow on the seriousness of the wounds. If all three are ruled out of action, linebacker Bill Cooper will be the only spare man on the entire defensive unit. There are only four men left for the forward wall and Dale Messer is the lone replacement available for all four halfbacks. If the problem reaches this stage, there is a good chance reserve quarterback Bobby sprained shoulder at the start of the second half.

Rock collected a knee injury midway in the final period. Team physician Lloyd Mil- 2unaay, as inousanas oi inlanders watched on TV, and 150 shouted in person, the Oakland, ers earned a cliff-hanging, nail-biting, 34-33 triumph over San Diego in what has to be the most shining day, for an embattled, football team that has seen few bright days. But Sunday they were a team that refused to lose. Three times they led the AFL's most powerful club and three times the big, fast and tough Chargers roared back to regain the advantage before 30,182 fans, all but 150 of them rooting for San Diego. -But there's no quit in this CLEM GRINDS IT OUT Oakland Raider halfback League rushing lead during the Raiders' stirring 34-33 Clem Daniels picks up tough yardage against San upset victory over the huge Chargers in San Diego "Diego as he nets 125 yards and the American Football Sunday.

Raiders play Kansas. City, here next. Affi BAKE FRONT END RAY HAYWOOD GnRM.fl.ffMSlI Raider club and, with just 1:52 remaining in the Cotton Davidson, a great player this day, get off a 10-yard pass that found reserve fullback Glenn Shaw in the end zone with the six points that brought Oakland from behind for the fourth time and cinched Fans It-. "C-U7 their biggest win of all time Stillness at San Diego earn The victory was Oakland's fourth of the year and evened the record at 4-4, which puts the Raiders a game-and-a-half ft behind the Chargers (5-2) in the Western Division and one game ing autographs. Even the eight newsmen (a new record for Raiders) who made the trip were signing scraps of paper- I front of the Kansas City i i The Oakland Raiders' following may not be the largest in pro football but it is becoming one of the most rabid.

More than 150 Raider Rooters made the trip to San Diego for Sunday's big battle with the Chargers and that small group At approximately 4:20 p.m. PST yesterday San Diego, that southern monument to the fact Balboa was a notable explorer, was gripped momentarily by an emotional Ja era rcpscK and enjoying it. When the Diane landed, -the Chiefs, (2-4-1), who will be Oak-Continued Page 37, Col. 4 crowd started chanting, 'We want and the smiling phenomenon known as a "stunned silence." Aiiga frest end A made more noise in Balboa The silence fell with all the impact of a tremendous dull thud as the final gun signified that the Oakland young coach was mobbed when he came down the ramp. 0 0 I Stadium than the 30,000 Charger fans.

And when the Raider charter 1 X. I Davis, who has a houseful of souvenir game balls, had Ollie's Lino Buoyed Up By Pride WOST AMERICAN MADE CARS turned down a couDle from his this year, asking in touched down -at Metropolitan Oakland International Airport there were 1,000 fans waiting, armed with air horns and banners, the most striking of stead mat they go to someone else. But he accepted yesterday's trophy from Jim Otto, the big center who had suf which proclaimed, 'Davis Raiders, for the first time in 11 games and four years, had defeated league-leading San Diego, 34-33. For a few minutes the crowd acted as if some kind of a highly unfunny practical joke, a dirty trick had been perpetrated. They sat quietly almost until the two, teams had left San Diego's compact but very adequate Balboa Stadium, as if believing there would be an apology complete with retraction of score.

But, no apologies were forthcoming. The Raiders hadn't been joking when they scored the winning touchdown with 1:52 remaining in the game. They were only sorry they hadn't done it earlier and oftener. The Raiders had hoped to win this particular game Downs fered through three previous Even Mayor John Houlihan I Estate front I wheels A was there, in a white evening jacket, which probably meant years of absolute frustration in Charger games. Big Jim, one of only three remaining Raiders from the orig- Continued Page 37, Col.

8 he ducked out of a previous engagement to greet his ball club. A hundred kids were there, ask- for numerous reasons haying to do with personal pride pm, ntt4t4 and knowledge that upsetting San Diego would do much to advance the cause of increased attendance at home- YATandComp any beginning this Sunday when Kansas City visits Youell new. But, admittedly there were numerous problems to be Dismantle Browns solved if the odds-makers were to be proved mistaken. inese pessimistic experts had predicted San Diego NEW TREADS Applied on sound tires bodies By The Associated Press It was a long, hard, hot day for Ollie Spencer, the Raiders' 31-year-old player-coach who had to throw himself into action against the Chargers when first right guard Wayne Hawkins was kicked in the stomach and then left guard Sonny Bishop was whacked on a knee. But for Spencer, the 34-33 victory over San Diego was the most satisfying for him in his two-year association with the Oakland club.

It was a game in which his offensive line, criticized and maligned by press and fans for so long, had its finest moment. That line didn't always make the big block against San Diego, but it made the big one often enough for victory, and in this day of pro football, when almost all teams are equal in size and speed, that's what it takes. "We've got something going on this club," Big Ollie offered during the happy air trip home. I've seen it once before, when I was with the great Detroit team in the 50's. "It's a thing called pride.

Not all pro teams have it to the degree we had it at Detroit. Some never get it. But we're Continued Page 38, Col. 1 nr nr bfttir Own tlfCS would win by 10 points, which in football is spreading the points with a thickness having to do with realism, not generosity. Ro, Lo, Mo, Ko, YAT and a COMPLETE SET A AfHQ I OPEN 'TIL 9 p.m.

4 I Mon. thru Fri. lc i A Store marked 3 toe. OF TUBE LESS WHITEWALLS A 10-pomt spread indicates the experts don't be That spelled victory for New lieve the other team can win unless it resorts to illegal York Sunday, a 33-6 walloping tactics, like using concealed weapons. i the splendid defense led by the Ro, Lo, Mo, Ko boys to the offensive Tittle, the balding quarterback who's YAT to his and Don Chandler, the man with the toe that kicked four field goals.

But the biggest single factor had to be the defense, led by the fearsome front four of Ro, Lo, Mol Ko-Andv RobustellL STORES On paper, as Coach Al Davis briefed the sauad. noth ing seemed insoluble. of the previously unbeaten Cleveland Browns in a National Football League game so completely dominated hy the Giants that even Coach Allie Sherman had to admit: r. vw. The X's on the play charts indicated that the Raider OAIiLAND factors could at least equal, if not cancel the Chargers' carefully balanced geometric equations.

"Maybe, we made some mis John Loveters, Dick Modzelew- But, preparation is one thing, a mechanical sort of takes out there, but I didn't see any." 30h It Bdwy TI 2-4928 11th 1 Harmon TE 2-8044 CASTRO VALLEY 20579 Snt Maria, JE 8-5151 EMERYVILLE 47th San Pablo, Ph. OL 8-2902 WALNUT CREEK i 1556 Mt. Diablo Ph. YE 5-1546 2288 N. Main, 935-8220 matter and execution is another, a business of sweat, blood, bruises and emotions.

BERKELEY Univtnity I Milvia, Ph. TH 3-5454 SAN LEAISDRO 1495 E. 14th Ph. NE 8-8900 IIAYWAItD 24019 Miuion Ph. LU 2-2292 As for beaten Coach Balton ski and Jim Katcavage, who conforms to Ko because "Kat don't go." Neither did Jimmy Brown, nor Frank; Ryan.

Brown, the The Raiders gave prodigally of sweat and blood and Collier, he agreed: ignored the bruises because of the high emotional state "They) simply outplayed us in every single angle of the game." r. ix Continued Page 38, Col. 1 And that the Giants did, from Continued Page OL.