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RAMS START TRAINING MONDAY One Last Chance to Win One for L. A. BY TED GREEN Tlmat Staff Wrlltr The L.D, Rams (for Lame Duck) begin preparing for their last season in Los Angeles today with the start of training at Cal State Fullcrton. Forty -six hopefuls from what the Rams are calling one of their best talent harvests ever rookies and -players who have been to NFL camps before but didn't catch on-report along with 18 veterans, including quarterbacks Pat Haden and Vince Ferragamo. The first of six weeks of practice begins Monday.

The other 47 veterans check in next Saturday. So, for the next five or six months, the business of football takes precedence over the business of relocation. But the move to Anaheim, the club's new home in 1930, will rarely be far from anyone's mind. The Rams are moving their offices there next month and the team will practice at the new facility (instead of in Long Beach) during the regular season. The Rams go into the 1979 season in a familiar role-favored to win the NFC's Western Division, as they have the last six years.

And, as always, some of their fans will not let them forget that they haven't yet been to the Super Bowl. By and large this is the same Rams team that sloughed off the abrupt firing of George Allen after two exhibition games last summer and finished 12-4 under new head coach Ray Malavasi, who got his National Football League break after many years as an anonymous assistant coach. Twenty of Malavasi's 22 starters are back. Yet, in several important respects, the Rams have a different look. Carr to fill gaps they feel do exist or will exist shortly.

Indeed, there has been seme concern that the Chargers will be hurt by the lack of a breakaway threat in the back-field, "How many teams have breakaway runners?" Fouts asked. "How many are there? Dorsett? There aren't that many running around. I think we'll do Just fine with what we've got." There is also concern about the quality of the backup quarterbacks. Tune in a talk show in San Diego and the question is asked with regularityi "Wha' the Chargers do if Fouts gets hurt?" Much of the concern stemmed from the 23-0 loss to Kansas City, the only loss in the last eight games last year. Fouts was hurt, and James Harris did not have a good day as his replacement.

"I think we're in good shape," Fouts said. "Kansas City played awfully well, and you'll remember that that was a' miserable day." Fouts had to answer such questions every time he ventured out of Indian Ford last winter. He made a number of speaking appearances in Oregon, California-and Elko, Nev. "The better you get and the more you win," he said, "the more you have to do. People are starting to become more aware of the Chargers.

We've had some good TV games and there's getting to be more interest in us nationally. People want to know about us." Fouts and teammates like Louie Kelcher have undoubtedly been hurt in terms of national exposure by the fact that the Chargers, in the past, have been mediocre. Does he feel his situation is at all parallel with that of DaveWinfield? "Winfield's deserving of everything he's gotten," Fouts said. "It's been a long time coming. I think it was great that he led the outfielders in All-Star votes.

Guys like that help bring recognition to the city. Our recognition will come when we win." Fouts is gaining recognition from' his peers, however. When Don Meredith threw a golf tournament and party for quarterbacks, Fouts was one of only three active quarterbacks invited. He was there with guys like Bobby Layne, Otto Graham, Sonny Jurgensen, Charlie Conerly and of course, Meredith. Was Howard Cosell there? "No," Fouts said, laughing, "but I think his name might have come up a few times." Fouts has obviously come a long ways since his days as a lightly recruited quarterback at St.

Ignatius High in San Francisco. His high school team preferred to run with the football, so the quarterback got a few feelers from small colleges in the Bay Area. "I went to Oregon," he said, "because it was the only major college offer I got-and I wanted to play in the Pac Eight." He went to Oregon and encountered an offensive coordinator named John Robinson, who liked to put the football into Oregon's rainy skies. He was to set 19 Oregon records. Fouts went to Oregon with scholarship in hand intent mainly on getting an education.

Pro football began to interest him more and more as his collegiate career progressed. Pro football has since become his career, and now, of course, there are more heights to be attained. He has seen his team go from rags to respectability and maybe riches and recognition are right around the corner. Like all teams, the Rams have question marks going into their exhibition opener against Oakland Aug, 4 at the Coliseum. The one everyone talks about is at running back, where a halfback who had been a star (Lawrence McCutcheon) and two young thoroughbreds who'd like to be (Elvis Peacock and Wendell Tyler) are all coming back from leg injuries.

If any one of the three comes back strong, the Rams won't figure to have as much trouble scoring from inside the opponents' 20-yard line, an Achilles heel last season. Other potentially questionable areas include wide receiver, where last year's starters, Ron Jessie and Willie Miller, are both 31; the defensive line, where Fred Dryer, (33), Jack Youngblood, (29), and Larry Brooks (28, coming off knee surgery) aren't getting any younger, either! and punter, where Glen Walker faces a challenge from Ken Clark, a veteran who led the Canadian League in hii specialty. Haden begins his fourth Rams season (second as No. 1 quarterback from the season's start) with perhaps a stronger endorsement than he's ever had In a city that once thrived on Ram quarterback controversies. When Oak-land's Kenny Stabler last week received permission to talk trade with other teams, Steve Rosenbloom said the Rams weren't interested.

He added that he wanted Haden to "have the reins" and that the Rhodes Scholar from USC deserved "not to look over his shoulder" anymore. Ferragamo, who has thrown only 34 passes in two pro seasons, remains Haden's backup. Rookie quarterback Jeff Rutledge, a ninth-round draft choice from Alabama, may be good enough to command extra attention at camp. What the rookies lack in publicized college backgrounds, they make up for in more important ways, the club The two No. 1 draft choices, outside linebacker George Andrews of Nebraska and tackle Kent Hill of Georgia Tech, might play some immediately.

Hill (6-5, 260) in any event won't have too long to wait because Dr. John Williams, starting tackle on the right side, is nearing 34 and has a dental career waiting when he hangs 'em up. The Rams are also high on running back Eddie Hill, a second-round pick from Memphis State. Rookie Hill No. 2 also played flanker in college and comes in with a reputation for catching the ball out of the backfield.

To further confuse things, there is a rookie Hill No. 3. And, like Kent Hill, he is from Georgia Tech. This one is Drew Hill, a return specialist drafted in the 12th round on a lark. Drew, a mere footHill at 5-9, 170, led the nation last season in kickoff returns, averaging 30 yards.

The Rams are looking for someone who can run them back like that. Among the rookies, Rutledge and Drew Hill are the "sleepers," the Rams hope. Another might be Jerry Wilkinson, a 6-9 defensive end drafted on the fourth round out of Oregon State. 1 0 Part III July 15, 1979 j- flo AnQe0 QlimeB 2 FOUTS RETURNS TO HIGH PROFILE Continued from First Page phatlcally that the 1977 Chargers were not Super Bowl contenders and equally emphatically that he was capable of being a Super Bowl quarterback, His blunt answers were greatly embellished and quite a stir ensued. He has steadfastly refused to discuss the "real reasons" behind his holdout, "Some time you guys (writers) will have to all tie me down," he laughed, T'and get it out of me.

To me, it's in the past." Has he felt any hard feelings from his teammates? "Not overtly," he said. "I think they realize that when you raise your right hand and put your left hand on the Bible, you're supposed to tell the truth. I had to do that. I didn't attack anybody personally. The truth these days would be that Fouts, now 28, feels rather good about the 1979 Chargers, though he exercises some caution conversationally.

"There's so much optimism," he said. "You have to be afraid of getting overconfident. If we get off to a bad start, we would be in trouble. I think caution is the safest posture and stance to take." Indeed, the top four teams in the AFC West-Denver, Oakland, Seattle and San Diego-were separated by one game a year ago, and there is optimism in each of those cities this year. "You talk to the players," Fouts said, "and they know how tough the division is.

We split with everybody but Seattle, and we could well have split with them. We'll have to do better than that if we're going to win the division." The Chargers' optimism is based to a considerable extent on the turnabout of 1978, when the club stumbled early but won seven of its last eight games. Don Coryell, who became coach after a 1-3 start under Tommy Prothro, has received much of the credit for the Chargers rise. "I think he deserves all of the credit he's gotten," Fouts said, "but credit should be given to Tommy and Ray Perkins and the coaching staff for the smooth transition." Prothro, of course, has since become the director of player personnel in Cleveland. And Perkins is now the head coach of the New York Giants.

"I really think Ray Perkins should get a good deal of the credit," said Fouts, who, as quarterback, worked quite closely with the man who was then offensive coordinator. "He was an excellent play caller." Most quarterbacks would like to call their own plays. In fact, the subject is often a source of considerable contention. "I'd like to call my own plays," Fouts shrugged, "but I don't begrudge the coaches running their own system. It's not that big deal to me.

I like to win and that is a big deal." Much of the Chargers' 1978 turnaround was caused by work that took place in previous years. Fouts, a 1973 draftee from the University of Oregon, was with the Chargers through some very lean building years. His statistics have gotten better each year as the team around him has matured. "An interesting year was 1975," he said. "We lost 1 1 in a row but we really weren't blown out of any of them.

There were a lot of close games. We lost 6-0 to Oakland and 13-10 to the Rams in overtime." Fouts suggested that the 1975 draft merited inspection. Seven current Chargers all of whom start-were acquired in that draft. "These were young guys who got a chance to play early and mature together, Fouts said. "I can't tell you how important that has been." The Chargers have gone from needing anyone who could play to being able to choose selectively.

They can acquire a Willie Buchanon or a Kellen Winslow or a Fred Lopez and Seaver Neighbors MASON, Ohio (JR-Nancy Lopez and her husband, Tim Melton, have bought a condominium near the home of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Tom Seaver. "Nancy's probably a drive and a five iron from the Seavers," said Burch Ribert, general chairman of the Ladies Professional Golf Assn. Championship which is held here at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Center. The couple moved to the area when Melton landed a job with a local television station. They are living nearby until their home is ready.

"We like it mainly because of the privacy and because it's very convenient for Nancy," Melton said, "and I'm used to the drive. When I worked in Harrisburg, I lived in Hershey, which is about 20 miles away." Melton's drive to downtown Cincinnati is about 25-30. The most obvious is in the front office, where Georgia Rosenbloom is now the NFL's only female owner. She became president and majority stockholder after her husband, Carroll, drowned in a swimming accident in Florida April 2. Mrs.

Rosenbloom says she plans an activist role. Her stepson, Steve, continues to oversee operations on a day-to-day basis. On the field it will be strange not to see No. 65 steam-rolling tacklers like a Mack truck. Guard Tom Mack retired after 14 All-Pro seasons, leaving quite a hole to fill in the offensive line.

Jackie Slater andor Ed Fulton are the likely replacements. Gone, too, is a star from the league's top-rated defense. Bill Simpson was traded to Buffalo in a deal that remains hard to figure. The Rams got only a third-round draft choice for a player regarded as one of the NFL's premier safeties. The club's explanation was that Nolan Cromwell was ready to step in for Simpson, who was said to have slipped a bit.

At any rate, both Mack and Simpson were team leaders, so it remains to be seen who will assume those roles. The Rams last week made another major personnel change, trading Isiah Robertson-the disgruntled outside linebacker who lost his starting job to Bob Brudzinski last season after seven years as a free-spirited AU-Pro-to Buffalo, where he joins Simpson and former Rams' coach Chuck Knox. Auction Sales mm HELP WANTED AIRCRAFT Mq part in an ACC r.louio of the rJccli. ABC Circle Films invites you to watch a live recreation of the Rocky MarcianoJoe Walcott Archie Moore heavyweight title bouts. Join the fun and excitement on Monday and Tuesday, July 16 17, from 9:00 a.m.

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