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i aw- HiiTTini g'lifiitBTn inn mfiwYW frm Getting Caught By the Defense seem to get loose of defenders in Sunday's National Foot- "1 ball League game at Yale Bowl between the Jets and Joe Dawkins (28) of the New York Giants (left) and New York Jets' Emerson Boozer (32) (right) couldn't a hold on Boozer. Jets won in overtime 26-20 (Coarant Photos by John Long). Giants. John Ebersole puts a stop to Dawkins' move in left photo while Roy Hilton (78) of the Giants tries to get The Bowl ibe itoftfrfft team! JSfiee Day For A Walk- At MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 11.

137d with a combined record of three wins and 11 losses, was sure the great No. 12 would hand off to Emerson Boozer or maybe flip a pass to somebody or other. Broadway Joe faked to Boozer, pulling the defense right, and then walked at a brisk clip to the left and into the end zone. Soccer player Pat Leahy kicked the extra, point that sent the game into overtime. The Jets won it in 6:37 of the extra period 25-20.

The Jets behaved like winners of a world's championship rather than a city championship after the struggle-was over. BOY, DID WE NEED THIS ONE 4 Bob Burns, a rookie from Georgia who is playing because John Riggin3 is injured, turned in a glittering job of running the ball. The youngster picked up 101 yards in 20 carries and also took down two ot Namath's 31 passes. "This is the most emotional experience I've had as a pro," he said later. "Boy, we needed this one.

Things have been going badly for us." He looked around at his exuber- ent team mates in the packed, incommodious dressing room. "You expect this kind of excitement in college, bu up here it's a little different. Well, we wanted this one badly, you know. We realized we'd have to look at ourselves in the mirror again Tuesday. And, we realized, I think, that things couldn't keep going the way the.p were." 1 Burns came, out of the University of Georgia, where he played wide receiver as a sophomore and junior and mostly blocking back as a senior.

When he ran in college, he it was mostly straight-ahead stuff. It was mostly straight-ahead for him Sunday, too, but i he got his hands on the ball a lot more than he used to in his college days. THE FEELING WAS THERE fc Burns played a good deal a week ago, when the Jets lost to Houston, but that was only because Mike Adamle i was injured. Against the Giants he got his biggest shot, and didn't flub it. 1 "I know I'm a rookie and I've got a lot to learn," he disclosed, "but I think I can do it.

It's great to be Burns and another rookie, place kicker Pat Leahy, were both on the spot for this one. Both were inserted to play vital parts in the Jet offensive. And both got A in their biggest test to date. "We never lost hope," Burns declared. "We were sure we'd win.

The feeling was there all day. Even after our last field goal try (blocked by the Giants from easy range with :16 to play) it was there." Leahy is a soccer player who was a member of three NEW HAVEN Let the record show that Joe Namath of the New York Jets has scored six career touchdowns rushing and one walking. Let it also be noted that New York City belongs today to the AFC team because Mr. Namath decided to take that stroll Sunday. Well, it was a nice day for a walk.

Conditions were right, too. Here were the Jets, trailing 20-13, on the Giants' three yard line with a third-and-goal and just over seven minutes to play. A crowd of over 67,000, who had come to see two teams national championship teams at St. Louis U. The Jets signed him to do their booting Friday.

Leahy is a sidewheeler who hits line drives. He booted field goals of 34 and 22 yards and two extra points, not bad for a guy who never played football before. "He's going to be one of the best," said Greg Gantt, who holds for field goals. "I haven't had the chance yet to really work with him, but I'm very impressed. His range? Oh, fifty yards." LONG AND LOW Leahy's first field goal flew like an arrow, on a low trajectory, over the bar.

"There's a lot of bad turf out there, a lot of clods. He might have hit one of those, but he really got into the ball," said Gantt. The crowd, largest by far of any to watch the Giants in The Bowl this season, also saw one of the finest pro games ever played there. Namath and Craig Morton of the Giants put on a marvelous air show, tossing a total of 63 passes and completing 41 of them. The game for the "bragging rights" of New York brought out the best in both squads.

Namath has been around a while and had his share of big tingles in football, but he seemed as hopped up about the Jets' thrilling win as any of his rookie mates. "Is this as big a thrill as you're super Bowl win?" somebody asked Broadway Joe. "Well, I won't go that far, but I've got to say it ranks emotionally with our win over Oakland in the 1968 AFC playoffs. Really, this is one of my biggest thrills. Things have not been going very well Joe flashed a broad grin.

"Boy I'm glad it turned out this way," he said. "We'd, have to take an awful lot of bull in New York if we hadn't won." GIANTS LOST MORE THAN THE GAME The Giants lost some key people along with the game they wanted most. Running back Doug Kotar, middle guard John Mendenhall and tight end Bob Tucker were all hurt and forced out of action. Ron Johnson, ace back, didn't play. He broke a bone in his hand earlier in the week.

The fact that they played a commendable game, possibly their best of the year, won't sooth the pain when the Giants are reminded that the New York Jets are the NFL champions of New York. With only three wins between them coming into The Bowl, that was all that was left for either team. Sudden Death Jets Whip Giants In came midway in the fourti quarter when the gimpy-kneed Namath bootlegged one for a three-yard score tying the game at 20-20. The New York crowd roared its approval whent Namath faked a handoff to-Boozer and literally limped untouched across the goal; line. It was his first touchdown by rushing since Oct.

11, 1969 against Cincinnati play, he hit tight end Rich Caster with a 42-yard strike to the Giant 33. On the next play, he faked right and whirled left to hit wide receiver Jerome Barkum at the 20. Boozer carried twice to the nine and reserve running back Clarence "Jazz" Jackson swept down to the five. Then, Namath rifled a bullet to Boozer coming out of the backfield. It was the first sudden and only the seventh of his pro career.

"Joe called it. He called it," emphasized Jets' coach Charlie Winner. "That's why he's the greatest. He came up with the unexpect-ed." Namath not only called the play but he intentionally forgot to tell any of his teammates. "He called a 34 wham trap in the huddle which is supposed to be a death decision in regular season play in NFL history.

Earlier this year Denver and Pittsburgh battled scoreless for 15 extra minutes for a 35-35 tie. If Namath received the game plaudits, he certainly deserved them. Most of the Yale Bowl fans came as Giant rooters but they left as Namath boosters. The one play that swayed their allegiance 7 1 ft running play for Boozer," said rookie back Bob Bums. Namath, surrounded by at least two dozen writers in his private dressing area, said he thought a lot about the play after it happened.

"If it works, it's good but if it doesn't people might say what is this guy running a bootleg for when he can't even run across the street?" Namath smiled and the reporters howled. If Gogolak's missed field goal loomed big in the eventual outcome so did rookie Pat Leahy's blocked attempt with 16 seconds left in regulation. Leahy, wto was a soccer player at St. Louis University last year, only signed with the Jets Friday and made good on his first two field goal tries and extra point attempts earlier in the game. His three-point try for the clincher was blocked by reserve corner-back Jim'Stienke after the snap from center was low.

See Jets, Page 56 Browns Shock 2144 BY GEORGE SMITH Courant Sports Writer NEW HAVEN "It's a crazy thing. I've got good eyes. I've been kicking all my life," said a dejected Pete Gogolak Sunday after his 42-yard field goal try was ruled wide three minutes into sudden death. The miss opened the door for Joe Namath and the Jets to score a thrilling 26-20 victory over the New York Giants before a drained throng of 67,740 at Yale Bowl. The Jets, who had a 23-yard field goal try blocked with just 16 seconds left in regulation, rode the play calling and passing of Namath 75 yards after Gogo-lak's miss to claim the championship of New York, the winning score coming on a five-yard reception by Emerson Boozer.

But Gogolak thought the Giants should have won. "Its a shame, a damn shame: Either he (the referee) did it purposely or he didn't know what was going on. It curved after it went through. I have never ever disputed a call. It wasn't even that close.

That's how strongly I feel," Gogolak told reporters. It took Namath only 3 43 and six plays to get the winning touchdown. On the first 9 Ait mx-' By BRUCE BERLET Courant Sports Writer FOXBORO, Mass. History repeated itself at Schae-fer Stadium Sunday and Jim Piunkett wished it hadn't. For just the second time in his four-year National Football League career, Piunkett suffered four interceptions in a game and for the second time it came against the Cleveland Browns, who used the aerial thievery and an 83-yard return of the opening kickoff for a touchdown by Greg Pruitt to upset the New England Patriots, 21-14.

As if the surprising upset was not enough, the Pats learned 30 seconds before the unhappy enoing that they had just lost an opportunity to climb into a first-place tie in the AFC's Eastern Division with the Buffalo Bills, who were equally stunned by a 21-9 loss to the Houston Oilers. As a result. New England remains one game in back of the Bills and Miami Dolphins, who shackled the New Orleans Saints 21-0. The Pats suffered their second straight defeat and third in nine starts, much to the chagrin of 57,263 fans. Patriots' head coach Chuck Fairbanks had a simple explanation: "It was a poor showing in every phase of the i.

it: -a 7 It was then that the Puts finally began to get tin-tracked, marching 54 yards in ten running plays, with Sam Cunningham going the final yard for the touchdown, making it 14-7 with 6:09 left in tlie second quarter. On their next possession, the Patriots took advantage of a disputed pass interferes call against Darden in the endzone to knot the Herron set up New Fngl nd with a 39-yard punt return, to the Cleveland 35. Two Pii inkett passes fell incomplete and then the Pats' signal-a Jler faded back and heaved long for Randy Vataha. whi the official felt was inter-ferred with by Darden. puttirj the ball at the Browns' one.

Cunningham blasted over on the ensuing play for his 11th touchdown of the seasan, tying a single-season club record, evening the count at 14-14 with 2:35 remaining to intermission, and apparently giving the Pats the momentum needed for the second half. But it was not to be. "I thought we could over come the disastrous start the way we had come back," Fairbanks stated afterwards. "But we missed the opportunities we had, in the second half and ran out of time to pi ill it out of the fire." The first missed chance a ame at the outset of the third period, and would soon develop into little more than a study in futility. Piunkett had a pass inUrrcepted bv Darden, a play which was nullified by one of a series of holding penalties against the Browns.

On thi very next play, Flunkett scrambled 33 yards to the Cli Ireland 23, only to have that effort nullified by a New England holding penalty. The Browns then failed to make a fourth-and-one gamble, but Piunkett suffered I us first interception at the hands of Darden, thwarting a New England march to the Cleveland 17. After an exchange of pun! Steve Nelson pounced on a fumble fcv Browns' quarterback Brian Sipe, setUng up the Pats at the Cleveland 31. Again the New England offense faltered, as Herron was dropped for a five-yard lass and Darden got his second interception, taking the all out of Vataha hands in the endzone. i See Page 55 Vikings' Sunde Named Piccolo Winner NEW YORK (AP) -Milt Sunde, veteran offensive guard of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, will receive the Brian Piccolo Award for humanitarian services.

The award announced Sunday is named in honor of the late running back cf the NFL's Chicago Bears. It will be presented to the 32-year-old Sunde in Los Angeles on Nov. 28. game. NFL ReSUltS New Ergland found itself down 7-0 after only 16 sec- -A- -i" A.

Houston 21, Buffalo 9 ft fi onus inar.ss to rami opeiung-game riia wnicn Jxiw but one Patriot lay a hand on the former Oklahoma speedster. And a mere 1:40 later, Tom Darden, who later got two of the Browns' four interceptions off Piunkett, scooped up a Mack Herron fumble and rambled 29 untouched yards into the endzone to make it 14-0. N.Y. Jets 26, N.Y. Giants 20 (ovt) Washington 27, Philadelphia 20 Miami 21, New Orleans 0 Dallas 20, San Francisco 14 Green Bay 20, Chicago 3 Denver 17, Baltimore 6 San Diego 14, Kansas City 7 Los Angeles 21, Atlanta 0 Cincinnati 17, Pittsburgh 10 Oakland 35, Detroit 13 Cleveland 21, New England 14 Standings on Page 56 "I'm extremely disappointed but take complete responsibility," Fairbanks declared.

"It's obvious I did not have the team prepared right from the beginning." "The offense was inconsistent," the disconsolate Pats' head man continued. "The defense played veil but there was just too much of a burden on them from the very start." While the Erowns could manage only six offensive plays for IS vards and one first down the entire first quart-erthey stiil found themselves on top 14-0 three minutes into the second period. Live Sports On the Air PRO FOOTBALL: Cardinals vs. Vikiners P.M. Chs.

5, 6, 8, 43. WINF (1233) Greetings Craig New York Giants' quarterback Craig Morton (15) gpts a greeting from New York Jets' Carl Earzilaoskas 177) during first quarter in Sunday's Jets-Giants tussle at Yale Bowi in New Haven. Bartikuskas, a native of Waterburr, knocked down the sttempted pass by Morton. Jets on 25-20 in overtime (Courant Photo by John Long). I.