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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1970 2- Section 2 San Diego Charge nto Bears 1st 'American9 In the Wake of the News Foe in Wrigley -By David Condon- 'w inurmm- im y-awntya HP" "g'y' mmmmamm mm iiui Jr THE RASPING VOICE of Casey Stengel, once baseball's miracle manager and today an alert youngster of 81, commanded the attention of a gang discussing THAT most controversial play in the first game of the recently completed World Series. Casey was advancing an idea to avoid such controversy in the future. You remember how the play went: The Orioles and The Big Red Machine were tied, 3 to 3. The Reds had runners on first and third. Ty Cline, a Red pinch-hitter, chopped at the ball as tho he was a tennis player.

While the ball was suspended in mid-air, trying to determine if it would fall fair or foul along the third base line, Baltimore Catcher Elrod Hendricks grabbed for it. Elrod had notions of trying to throw to first to mow down Cline. Casey Stengel be honest, brief But Baltimore's pitcher, the alert i SnaMMm rurlir.liiii'iriii'iiiiiirlli Wliir'TiWwnw UPI TelephotcJ Nebraska's Van Brownson finding going too tough even for a yard against Kansas yesterday. Brownson later ran and passed the Cornhuskers to a 41 to 20 victory. Huskers Shuck Kansas, 41-20: Brownson Stars BY COOPER ROLLOW, Sports Editor For the first time in history, an American Football League team will invade Wrigley Field today.

Technically, it's no longer the American Football League-it's the American Football CONFERENCE. But that's merely a matter of semantics. The point is that the San Diego Chargers, today's guests of Halas and Company, are the first representatives of the "bad guys' league" to challenge our Chicago Bears in championship competition. The Bears find themselves in the unusual position of being tabbed as slim favorities in some quarters, but there is little chance they will take the Chargers lightly. Coach Charlie Waller's club beat them, 14 to 9, in a pre-season game in San Diego.

The Chargers have managed only a tie in four league outings so far, while the Bears are 2-2. "But we're the best 0-3-1 team you'll see," a San Diego spokesman said yesterday. "Look at the people we've had to play so far Baltimore, Oakland, Los Angeles and Green Bay." Waller's club had the Packers on the ropes last Monday night before Green Bay salvaged a 22 to 20 victory. The Bears, after beating New York and Philadelphia, have succumbed to Detroit and Minnesota. San Diego is a team which, like the Bears, has trouble running with the ball and, like the Bears, has an erratic passing attack.

So Coach Jim Dooley's local troops would appear to have a good chance to move out on the plus side of .500 in this one. Particularly if Jack Concannon's pass receivers buy a little mucilage and hang on to his passes this week. They dropped three potential touchdowns last Sunday. Charger Quarterback John Hadl has been led to believe his future in San Diego is in jeopardy. Hadl's relationship with General Manager Sid Gillman has never been like father and son, and the rumors haven't helped his peace of mind.

Marty Domres, an intelligent sharpshooters from Columbia, will start today in place of Hadl. San Diego's running backs will be Russ Smith and either Gene Foster or Jeff Queen. Foster has been suffering with a sprained ankle, but probably will be ready. It will be fun for fans who have game tickets to anticipate getting to see Mike Garrett, the former Kansas City Chiefs running back who came to the Chargers only last Thursday by trade. But the likelihood is that, if Garrett plays at all, his duty will be limited to kick returns.

To make room for Garrett, the Chargers put Rolin Moss on waivers. One member of the Chargers is a Bear who got away, Defensive End Steve DeLong of Tennessee. DeLong, drafted in 1965 in the first round after the Bears already had tabbed Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers, brought his pregnant wife into Chicago on a zero day in January. Presumably, the Bears were to show the DeLongs a good time and the big lineman was to sign a contract. But DeLong stepped out of the La Salle Hotel for a stroll, took one lungful of the frigid Chicago air, and immediately placed a phone call to the Chargers, who had made him their first draft choice.

Last year, DeLong set a Charger record with 17 quarterback sacks. Only last Monday night, he dumped Bart Starr of the Packers twice for losses. The Bears have activated veteran Fullback Ron Bull, who has been on the move list for the last two weeks, and Don Shy, a running back who was picked up as a free agent from the New Orleans Saints. Shy was the No. 2 draft choice of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1967.

The Bears also deactivated Craig Baynham, the trade acquisition from Dallas, who has a "dislocating tendon." Shy has been assigned jersey No. 35, Rick Casares' old number, and is expected to play a prominent part in the Bears' offensive battle plan today. Big Eight then scored 23 straight points to lock up the game. The key to victory came in four pass interceptions, one that went for a 60-yard touchdown by Geoff Nordgren, and three fumble recoveries by son scoring from the 15 on an option keeper. Nebraska Kansai 1" 14 7 10-41 i 14 0 0-20 uKianoma.

Nebraska: Sdimlji, 1 yard run (Rosen kick) 7-0 Nebraska: Roiert, 51-yard field oal 10-0 Kansas: O'Neil, 94-yard kickoff return (kick failed 10-t Kansas: Riggins, 2-yard rwt (Helm-becher kick) 10-11 Kansas: Heck, 1-yard run Helm-backer kick) 10-20 Nebraska: Ingles, SO-yard past from Brownson (Refers kick) 1710 Nebraska: Brownson, IS-yard nil (Roiert kick) 14-20 Nebraska: Rodtert, 5-yard pass from Brownson Rogers kl(k) 11-20 Nebraska: Brownson, yard) twi Roeert kick) M-20 Nebraska: Rogers, 12-yard field 41-20 Attendance, 50,200. State line for two touchdowns today, one a snort drive and the other a 42-yard punt return, as the Wildcats dumped the Cyclones, 17 to 0, in Big Eight play. Iowa State was never in contention, posing its only scoring threat midway thru the second half when the Cyclones were stopped inches short of a first down on the Kansas State 1-yard line. A 61-yard run after a pass interception by Clarence Scott set up the first score late in the first half. Scott was hauled down on the Iowa State 1, and Hawthorne went the last yard.

A Cyclone fumble on the Iowa State 23 set up Max Arreguin's 25-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter. Unable to move the ball, Iowa State punted from its own end zone. Hawthorne grabbed the punt, weaved thru Iowa State defenders and ran 42 yards for the final touchdown of the game: Ward Walsh put Colorado in the lead in the second quarter on a 1-yard plunge, but Sooner Quarterback Jack Mildren tied the game up with his first two passes of the game. He hit Albert Chandler on a 32-yarder, and then connected with Halfback Joe Wylie for a 38-yard touchdown. Oklahoma 17 0-11 Colorado 0 7 1 0-15 1-yard run Hanty kick) 0-7 Oklahoma: Wylle, 10-yard past from Mildren (Durr kick) 7-7 Oklahoma: Mildren, 5-yard run tOurr kick) 14-7 Oklahoma: Durr, 27-yard field foal 17-7 Oklahoma: Nordgren, (O yard past inter- ceotlon kick failed) 21-7 Colorado: Tamer, 1-yard run Oil Portia MS from Bratten 23-15 AfteTKSct 47,700.

Sooners Beat Colorado BOULDER, Oct. 17 (ITU Oklahoma used seven Colorado errors and just enough passing in its Wish-bone-T offense today to shock the Buffaloes, 23 to 15 in a bruising Big Eight Conference ground battle. The Sooners spotted Colorado a second-period touchdown and Kansas Start 0 7 0 10-17 low Slate 0 0 0 00 Kansas State Romps AMES, Iowa, Oct. 17 IUPD-Kansas State Wingback Henry Hawthorne ripped thru the Iowa Hawthorne. 1-yard run (Arrtiuln.

kick 7-0 Aggreguin 25-yard field goal 10-0 Hawthorne, 42-yard punt return Arretuln kick) 17-0 LAWRENCE. Oct. 17 (UPI) Mighty Nebraska, stung by a three-touchdown explosion by upstart Kansas in the first half, rallied behind the passing and running of Quarterback Dan Brownson today for a 41 to 20 Big Eight Conference football victory. Brownson, making his first start of the season, passed for two touchdowns and ran for two more. It was Brownson's 80-yard bomb to Guy Ingles that turned the game around in the second quarter after the Jayhawks had erupted for a 20 to 10 lead.

The Cornhuskers took command in the second half after a wild offensive outburst by both teams in the first 30 minutes. Brownson took Nebraska 80 yards midway thru the third quarter, passing five yards to Johnny Rodgers with 3:08 to go for a 31 to 20 lead. Early in the fourth quarter, Brownson, starting in place of Jerry Tagge, guided the Cornhuskers 53 yards and scored from the 3. Paul Rogers later added a 32-yard field goal. Nebraska escaped the first half with a 24 to 20 lead after both teams, overcame 10-point deficits.

The Cornhuskers scored on a 2-yard run by Dan Schneiss, after a pass interception by Davie Morock that set up the Cornhuskers on the Kansas 17. Rogers added a 28-yard field goal late in the first quarter for a 10 to 0 lead. Vince O'Neil changed the momentum when he raced 96 yards with the ensuing kickoff for Kansas' first score. Kansas took advantage by recovering an onside kickoff and whipping 43 yards for its second touchdown, John Riggins barreling over from the 2. The Jayhawks made it 20 to 10 with a 68-yard drive minutes later.

Steve Conley made the big play, a 35-yard run to the Nebraska 4. And Quarterback Dan Heck pushed over for the touchdown from the 1. Nebraska struck back, Brownson hitting Ingles for an 80-yard touchdown on the first play after the kickoff. Ingles caught the ball on the Kansas 45 and outran defender Willie Amison to the goal. Nebraska went ahead with 3:23 left in the half on a 73-yard drive, Brown- Carroll Rips Elmhurst, 30-0 Midwest Jim Palmer, shouted at Hendricks to attempt to tag the Reds' Bernie Carbo, streaking from third to home plate.

Ken Burk-hart, the home plate umpire, moved along the base line to view the play. No one can tell for certain what happened in the electric split second that followed. Burkhart was sent toppling as Carbo's foot groped for the plate and as Hendricks groped to tag Carbo. Burkhart finally signaled an emphatic O-U-T! Carbo was the ringleader of the Cincinnati crew arguing that he had not been tagged. Burkhart stood his ground.

No other umpire disputed the call. Unfortunately, there were those who claimed that Hendricks had touched Carbo with his gloved hand while holding the ball in the other. Baltimore argued that even if this were true, Carbo's foot never had touched the plate. Burkhart's call stood. Flame was added to the controversy when photographs indicated that Burkhart was in no position to see the play completely and that Hendricks apparently did not tag Carbo.

So everyone interviewed everyone, and finally some people talked to Stengel. NOW CASEY WAS saying: "Hummmmph. Now they ask me an' I'm not sitting on home plate but in one of the cheap seats an' so they ask me. "How come they ask me? They got six umpires and none of 'em know for sure. So they ask me an' I ask you how am I to know? Why don't they ask the commissioner what is sitting there in the high priced seats an' he can see everything? "I mean the commissioner he runs these things and if you don't think so, whose name is printed on the tickets? That's right, it is the commissioner.

So they ask me was he out or safe how do I know? "I say why don't they look at the pictures? Today with the cameras they can do marvelous things simply marvelous an' look at what they do at the race tracks. They take all sorts of pictures of this play which is controversy. But they don't look at the pictures instead the umpires don't know and some of you fellahs ask me an' the umpire called the runner out he stays out. You don't win nuthin' from the umpire, see. "Well, now, I say they got six umpires what don't know for sure is he out or ain't he out.

So I say why don't they do a photo finish like the race track? I mean they could call a 15-minute recess to look at the pictures which they call an instant replay. "Like in horse racing they look at the photos. Meanwhile everyone has a chance to get a beer and it makes more money for the Jacobs see. Then they see the pictures and the six umpires vote and maybe the runner is out and maybe he ain't. That's up to the vote.

But it looks honest. See." CASEY SAID: "I was thinking when I saw that we was playing a World Series in 1922 it's at the Polo Grounds. I am with McGraw's Giants we are playing the Yankees. The Giants we lead with three runs in the first. "Then after 10 innings it is tied and the umpire, George Hildebrand, he's the umpire, calls the game on account of darkness.

They was no lights in those days he call the game on account of darkness. "Judge K. M. Landis he's the new commissioner is there an' fans are booing there's maybe one-half hour daylight left and the game is called a tie because of darkness. "Now you know what? Well, now, the big argument ain't that he called the game a lie that's the umpire, Hildebrand.

It is what do we do with that day's receipts? Give 'em to the players, huh, that's what they want. Which is maybe $120,000. Oh, it is a good argument, and we don't have no lights or the photographs. "Well it is up to Judge Landis he says what about the umpire calling the game on account of darkness. The Judge says the game is supposed to be honest we don't have no tote boards like horse racing so what will the public say? I mean, you can't give the players an extra day's receipt it looks like they was some funny business.

"So the Judge Landis he says baseball is honest it ain't running a tote boaid an' I'll tell you what we do with this, day's receipts, what is $120,000. We give them to charity. The judge he did that an' they finish the series. The Giants won but the players don't get the money for the suspended game it went to charity. "Well, now, that was being honest.

An' I say like the play we had in Cincinnati why don't we look at the pictures? It removes all doubt. See, the umpires don't know for sure and they ask everyone including me. "Pictures is great things. At my banks in Glendale I got five or six we take pictures when we cash checks. It keeps banking honest just like the race tracks.

Why not baseball? "So they ask me was the runner out or safe who knows I tell 'em look at the pictures. Anyhow, it gives more time to sell beer." THE OLD PROFESSOR said: "This Is all very fine an' all of that but we have to keep baseball honest. Like if it is over in four games which is all the players share who loses the money but the owners and the leagues. So there is a great temptation to maybe play five or six games an' I say get it over with. "I mean like this.

I was managin' at Toledo we play Buffalo in the playoffs we have a helluva party. How about that? Everyone thinks we put on a helluva party. The sky is the limit, how about that? "So with my genius I lead Toledo to an amazing victory we don't lose a game to Buffalo an' it is a very short series. I say Hurray! Hurray! Then the bills for the entertainment and such they come an' the owners of the Toledo club they say 'Hurray! Hurray! Hurray, nothing, because we lost money you ended the series too See, they got a point. "But evcrytime you let a scries go extra games the fans lay you did it for the money so say let's get it over with very fast.

We are honest this ain't no game where you have a tote board. Which is why I say why don't they look at the pictures on that play why ask me? "Now where is my wife Edna she's 40 minutes late she thinks they hold the airplane just for her. Look at the pictures." RIFLES CLINCH SECTION TITLE; WIN, 41 TO 0 The Lake County Rifles, sparked by Fred Custardo's four touchdown passes, ripped Delavan, 41 to 0, in Mundelein last night and clinched the South Division title in the Central States League. The Rifles put the clamps on Delavan's Bob Berczowitz, the league's leading passer, who was held to six completions in 22 attempts and was intercepted three times. Custardo, completing 14 of 25 passes, threw two scoring aerials to Gerry Sandberg and one each to Ron Jurewicz and Bill Potter.

The Rifles, now 7-2, will face Madison of the North Division in the title game Nov. 7. Dan Sherman scored two touchdowns on a 17-yard pass reception and a 4-yard run yesterday to lead Carroll College to a 30 to 0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin victory over host Elmhurst College. The victory pushed Carroll into a second-place tie with Elmhurst. Both have 3-1 records.

Paul Munn and Mike Gadigan also scored for Carroll. a 33 to 26 homecoming victory over Lake Forest. Eades broke a 26 to 26 deadlock with 3:44 left in the game when he ran 53 yards for the final touchdown. 111. Wesleyan Wins Illinois Wesleyan scored 37 points in the second half for a 44 to 7 victory over North Central College in College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Football action yesterday in Naperville.

Wesleyan's offense clicked in the second half as the Titans rolled up 14 points in the third period and added 23 more in the final quarter. Millikin vs. Carthage DECATUR, Oct. 18 Special Curt Whipple and Craig Deaton helped Carthage roll to its fourth victory without a loss in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin with a 35 to 7 drubbing of Millikin to spoil the Big Blue's homecoming this afternoon. Halfback Whipple, threatening to become the Redmen's all-time leading rusher, ran for 200 yards and scored two touchdowns.

He now has totaled 840 yards in four games to lead the N. A. I. A. District 14 Wisconsin in that category.

Quarterback Deaton passed for 19- and 13-yard touchdowns to Jim Williams. Maroons Beat Marquette Larry Wooddell sped 85 yards with the opening kickoff of the second half yesterday to give the University of Chicago a 13 to 6 decision over Marquette at Stagg Field. It was Maroons' first victory this season after two losses. Marquette 0 4 0 04 Chicago 0 4 7 0-11 Marouettei Mayo, 30-yard pass from Spahn. (kick failed I t-0 Chicago: Sullentrap, 1-yard run.

(kick failed) 4-i Chlcaeo: wooddell, 15-yard kickoff return. Wooddell kick) 413 North Park Falls BIG RAPIDS, Oct. 17 Special Halfback Willie Bouyer carried the ball only twice today, and scored both times on runs of 9 and 52 yards as Ferris State beat North Park, 35 to 0, in collegiate football. North Park 0 I 0 Ferris State 7 7 7 1415 Ferrit State: Bouyer, f-yard run. Johnson, kick.

I 7-0 Ferrit State: Bouyer, 52-yard run. Johnson, klck.l Ferris State: Niediwieckl, 2-yard ran. IJohnson, klick.) 11 -0 Ferris State: Stulfs, 45-yard run. IJohnson, kick.) 21-0 Ferrit State: Stuits, (S-yard punt return. Johnson, kick.) 15-0 Lake Forest Loses OBERLIN, Ohio, Oct.

17 UP) Sophomore Fullback Jim Eades ran for two touchdowns and set a school rushing record with 212 yards in 38 carries today to lead Oberlin College to Augustana Wins ROCK ISLAND, 111., Oct. 17 (UPD Quarterback Ken Anderson scored all of Augustana's points in a 10 to 7 victory over Wheaton in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin today. He kicked a 26-yard field goal and ran 8 yards for a Bruins Started Fast Against the Leafs The Boston Bruins defeated, the Toronto Maple Leafs by scores of 100- and 7 to 1 in the first two games of their Stanley Cup playoff in 1969. N. U.

's Agase Sees Big Ten at Crossroads SPORTS PATTER BY COOPER ROLLOWSporti Editor-1 THE BIG TEN is at a crossroads, Alex Agase of Northwestern believes. Agase, along with Indiana's Johnny Pont, is a member of a six-man conference committee studyinc means of improving the caliber of football in the circuit. For many years, the Big Ten was the symbol of excellence in college football. In recent seasons, quality indisputably has declined. For awhile, Big Ten coaches, athletic directors and other officials would not admit the deterioration.

Finally, they ore speaking out freely, many of them in outrage and inclination. "We cannot possibly compete with nonconference opponents such as the UCLAs, Southern Cals, Missouris, Nc-braskas and Colorados you name them," Agase declares. "Under out present setup, we are going to continue to be humiliated. It's time the conference faced up to this problem and started thinking about its national image." The N. U.

coach cites three reasons why Big Ten teams often get whipped when they go up against a foe from the Big Eight, Pacific Coast, or the South. All three of the reasons spring from the Big Ten's lofty athletic code, more demanding than the N. C. A. which Is followed by all other conferences except the purist Ivy League.

The reasons are: 1. The so-called "rcdshlrt" rule in which an athlete anywhere except the Big Ten or Ivy League is permitted to stretch out his college curriculum to five years in order to get in his three years of year unless we really needed him. He'd have an entire season to practice and learn and next year he'd still be a sophomore. "Where do you think Jim Plunkett Stanford and Chuck Hi son Southern Methodist would be right now if they had gone to Big Ten schools! They wouldn't bo playing college ball at all. They'd already be graduated and in the pros, since both are five-year men." Altho the matter of freshman practice ranks third on his list of inequities, Agase feels it is significant.

"You need a lot of bodies to hold good practices. It may not seem important to the public that our first year men aren't allowed in camp until two weeks after the varsity reports, but from a coaching standpoint it's a real big shirts or junior college transfers. Missouri has seven guys that are 22 or older. The Big Ten doesn't do much with J. transfers because we're not allowed to bring them in untij September.

It's hard for them to make the team in two weeks. "Around the rest of tho country, they can bring a junior college kid in for spring practice and if he's not good enough they can hold him out for a year." Alex points to one of his own youngsters as an example of the inequity between the Big Ten policy and that of tho N. C. A. A.

"We've got a fine sophomore quarterback named Todd Som'ers. If we followed the N. C. A. A.

rule instead of the Big Ten policy, we wouldn't even play him this his ardent desire to eliminate the ban on rcdshirting. "Nine out of 10 coaches would like to sec this done," Alex declared. "The 10th happens to have the No. 1 ranked team in the country-Woody Hayes of Ohio State. Woody has been successful without rcdshirting, but he sees our point.

"The inequality between our teams and those outside the conference because of our antircdshirt policy is obvious," Agase asserts. "Many of tho seniors on opposing teams have a year of age on our seniors and an entire extra year of practice. "Look at tho Missouri roster. Out of the top 41 players, 24 are either red- varsity eligibility. Big Ten and Ivy athletes must get thru school in the normal four years.

2. The lenient code on athletic scholarships followed thruout most of the country. The average Southern or Big Eight school issues 45 grants-in-aid to football players. The Big Ten limit is 30. 3.

The a rule, which docs not allow Big Ten frosh to report until two weeks after tho veterans have begun reporting. Around the rest of the nation, first year men report along with upper classmen. Agnso says he represents the sentiment of virtually every coach in the Big Ten in 1 i.

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