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v. itrVlv1feVVvvv vvvvv 7V A v' i e-31 5C A 3 A 2 1 LA; Blunders Way to Defeat Too Many Mistakes---Protliro BY MAL FLORENCE, Times Staff Writer BY BOB OATES, Times Staff Writer As a token of their with three big ones in the second1 DALLAS If' ft DALLAS Deacon Jones was muttering that "we should have put them away when we had the chance." Coach Tommy Prothro said "we simply made too many mistakes against a good team." This was the tenor of the somber Rams' locker room here on this not so joyous holiday for Prothro's team. The Rams believed that they beat themselves in the 28-21 loss to the Cowboys at new Texas Stadium. There were many mistakes missed field goal, fumbles, broken plays but the turning point errors occurred back-to-back early in the third Roman Gabriel, on 'one of his finest passing days (20 of -35, 234 yards) reached Lance Rentzel with a pass that carried to the Dallas 15 when the teams were tied, 14-14. But All-Pro guard Tom Mack was detected holding and the gain was nullified.

On the next down, from the Rams' 36, Gabriel threw his first and only Interception of the afternoon. A pass intended for Les Josephson was tipped by safety Charlie Waters into the hands of linebacker Chuck Howley. This provided the Cowboys with a first down on the Ram 34 and scrambling Roger Staubach delivered a touchdown two playS later on a 21-yard pass to Lance Alworth. The Rams were playing catch-up the rest of the way and they didn't quite make it. "That's the first holding penalty called on me all year," said Mack.

"I didn't think I was holding but that's what they said." As for the pass to Josephson, Gabriel said his halfback "ducked" just when it appeared that he was in position to catch it. Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 1 Yi 'i half: '-On a drive from the opening kickoff in the third quarter of a 14-14 fight, Gabriel passed, to Lance Rentzel for 34 yards to the, Dallas 13. But Tom Mack's first' holding call this year erased it. On the next play, -Gabriel was intercepted by Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley when the intended receiver, Lester Josephson, ducked under the ball thinking it was meant for Jack Snow.

This, set up Dallas' third Dallas' fourth and winning touchdown was scored by Duane Thomas on a 5-yard end run when Gene Howard missed an easy tackle after other Rams missed an. audible and played the wrong defense. It was that kind of dumb day for the Rams. And you might have expected it Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 5 regard for the citizens of Texas, perhaps, the Rams gave them a Thanksgiving Day present Thursdaya football game.

The score of this bizarre meeting was 28-21, and the Cowboys won it because quarterback Roger Stau-bach was too much to handle while running the ball or threatening to run it on the 77-yard drive that broke a 21-21 tie in the fourth quarter. But long before that, the Rams blew up and skidded crazily to their fourth defeat this year in 11 weeks. On the ice-hard, slippery floor of Texas Stadium, they fell back to 6-4-1 in the standings, all even with San Francisco, which can to go 7-4 Sunday and back into first place in the NFC West by beating the Jets. It happened before a capacity here in a new park when the Rams climaxed a day of blunders TOUCHDOWN Ram halfback Larry Smith heads through a for 1-yard and. first touchdown in 28-21 loss to Cowboys.

No. JIM MURRAY Like Indy With Bumps Kinnes 4th TD With Vi Minutes Left Ruins Oklahoma Bid for Top BY JEFF PRUGH Tlm Stiff Writer NORMAN, Okla. The king lives! So does the wishbone-T. It was No. 1 over No.

2 Nebraska's thunder over Oklahoma's lightning "Kinney the Killer" over "Mildren the Magician." And it was as tantalizingly close as just about everybody figured it would be 35-31 here Thursday in a marvelously played college football game that was really a "Game for All Decades." Fittingly, the knockout blow came in those last, dramatic minutes with tailback Jeff Kinney crashing 1 Game of Decade: Nebraska it i I rv T' 1 4" BUSINESS FINANCE CC PART III 2f FRIDAY, NOV. 26, 1971 Auburn's Pat Sullivan Wins Heisman Trophy Story on Page 2 two yards over left tackle for his fourth touchdown of the game. But it had been a shoot-'em-up thriller from start to finish amid the gathering darkness of a cold, blustery Thanksgiving Day afternoon. the teams swapped the lead four times and enthralled a record crowd of 63,385 plus an estimated 80 million more on television by unleashing just about every kind of daring, go-for-broke weapon imaginable. When it was over, up went the Did he really believe after the Sooners had leaped in front, 31-28, with seven minutes left that his Cornhuskers could win? "Yes," he said.

"I thought we could score because our offense had been moving the ball in the second half. But then, I was sort of hoping we "Devaney for President" signs amid a delirious mob of red-clad Nebraska wouIdn fc score to quickly. The Nebraskans now unbeaten rooters, including Gov. James J. Exon.

And into the showers fully-clothed went the coach, Bob Devaney, with plenty of shoving from his in 30 games did exactly what their coach was hoping for. With senior quarterback Jerry Tagge guiding them brilliantly, they promptly marched 74 yards in 12 players. "this," he said, his face sopping plays to the winning touchdown. wet, "is the greatest victory of my career This is a great Oklahoma team we beat." down with a punt return in first quarter of battle for No. 1 Thursday at Norman, Okla.

Cornhuskers ran undefeated string to 30 with a 35-31 victory. SO LONG, FELLAS Nebraska halfback Johnny Rodgers (20) speeds away from three Oklahoma pursuers en route to an electrifying 72-yard touch Although Bill Muncey cannot marry people, clap them in irons or put them adrift in a longboat, he is, in a sense, a sea captain. No lifeboats dangle from the davits on his craft, he doesn't have to watch for icebergs, mutinies or periscopes but each of his voyages is as dangerous as Magellan's. He doesn't haul cargo, net fish or run rum but he can get $18,000 for a two-day warm-water voyage this weekend at Lake Havasu a sum Capt. Ahab might well envy for a two-year whale hunt.

Muncey's vessel is not a man o'war, though he sank a Coast Guard cutter once. Muncey's boat never goes out in blue water. Bill Muncey is a racing boat driver, maybe the best. His boat may go as far as 650 miles this weekend at Havasu without ever being out of sight of the dock. A tugboat captain is a world traveler by comparison.

Muncey, 43, won four Gold Cups. The Gold Cup, or the American Power Boat Assn. Challenge Cup, is the summit of mbtorboat racing. The unlimited hydroplanes skim the water as fast as an Indy race car can go over a track. The dangers of the two sports do not balance out, in the opinion of Muncey.

"But if you get flipped out of a race car, you can't swim," protested a dissenter. "Neither can you drown," argued Muncey. "Listen," he continued, "in a race car you have a thing called You stop a boat suddenly only if you hit something. I hit a Coast Guard cutter when I lost my rudder in the chute at Seattle one year and, even though it was built to withstand attack, it sank in 11 seconds. You can't even back off the throttle too fast or your boat will And when you hit the water at a pressure of 450 pounds per square inch, you might be better off hitting in the infield at Indy.

On a race track, you don't have to watch out for floating logs, or bodies. The track doesn't make waves. Our sport is like driving 200 miles an hour on an earthquake." When you view a man like Muncey, who has won the President's" Cup, second most prestigious to the Gold Cup, five times, and is the defending champion in the Atlas Van Lines hydro, you always expect to find he was brought up aboard a ferry. Muncey was brought up to be a flutist in the Philharmonic. Tis father also schooled him in axophone, clarinet and piano.

He Slakes guest appearances with col-ege concert orchestras when he isn't in a cockpit or a hospital bed. Some 'people get seasick. Muncey gets landsick. He takes Dramamine on the Hollywood Freeway. His will be one of a flotilla of 98 outboards at the Outboard World Championship at Havasu Saturday and Sunday.

Payoffs will go to 25 places (for a total pot of $62,750) so people are still putting to sea in search of gold. The object will be to see not how far you can go but how far you can log in two four-hour marathons over a four-mile course. The winner may make 650 miles. The loser will get five fathoms. But if Muncey is shipwccked, he'll be the only one there who can go down playing, "Nearer My God To Thee" on a flute.

Kinney Gets Big Yardage Again and again, they sprang Kinney the game's leading rusher with 171 yards for repititious chunks of yardage through Oklahoma's quick-charging (but sometimes poor-tackling) line. And they got a clutch, third-and-8 pass from Tagge to their skittery flanker, Johnny Rodgers good for 11 yards to carry them to the Oklahoma 35. From there, it was Kinney for 13 yards, up the middle, Rodgers for 7 on an inside reverse and finally, four smashes in a row by Kinney to put the game away. The winning touchdown, a third-down smash, came with 1:38 to play. Please Turn to Page 4, Col.

1 Lakers Rip Sonics for 12th Straight SEATTLE The, Lakers, breaking the game open with a 39-point third quarter, beat the SuperSonics 139-115 Thursday night and ran their winning streak to 12 games, longest in Los Angeles history. After the Lakers took a 12-pOint lead at the end of the first quarter, Seattle played them on even terms into the intermission when Los Angeles had a 61-49 lead. But then, led by Jerry West's hot shooting and even hotter playmak-ing, the Lakers virtually ran the Sonics off the court and by the time the third quarter was over Los Angeles led, 100-73. Coach Bill Shar-man cleared his bench early in the final period. West, who led the Lakers with 26 points, scored 13 of them in the third period, during which time he also had a remarkable 10 assists, tyins; a Laker record (Rod Hundley, 1961) for a period.

Jim McMillian had 21 points while Gail Goodrich and Pat Riley each added 18 and Wilt Chamberlain had 17. Please Turn to Page 8, Col. 4 iMiiiiiiil ill 'M Jmimm- fjllu.Cli'. a jf -Mini i. i nr -tiif-ift tw-irt Wi immii am THE HIGH ROAD Nebraska halfback Jeff Kinney (35) leaps over Oklahoma defenders for second of the four touchdowns he scored.

SOONER STAR Jack Mildren, Oklahoma quarterback, is stopped after one-yard gain by Nebraska linebacker Bob Terrio (45). Iff Wlrephotos.