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PORT Boston Sunday Globe November 28, Bruins, Blues tie, 6-6; Boston in 3-way tie for first School football finales-tlie complete story, Pages 79-82 There was some of this on the first by Murphy, who got a long, low slider through a screen after a shot pass inside the blue line from Brewer. A wall of defenders screened Cheevers when Unger scored the first of two goals in that period on his own rebound at 8:02. Later in the period, with the Bruins short-handed, Unger intercepted an ill-advised clearance by Cheevers and whipped it back into the net vacated by Gerry. There was an exchange of power play goals in the much more mild-mannered second period. Orr got the first of these with a low 45-footer at .1:17 before Bennett had completed his penalty time.

The other was a back-hander slipped by Egers between Cheevers right side and the post at 9:42 while Bailey was out for slashing. There was an unusual penalty to Boston in that second period. It was a delay of game violation called against Orr following the Egers score when Bobby fished the puck from the net and lifted it over the glass into the crowd. Summary in Scoreboard. By Tom Fitzgerald, Globe Staff ST.

LOUIS The Bruins couldn't take advantage of their brightest opportunity of the season last night as they were caught in a 6-6 tie by the Blues in an oddly-patterned game. As a consequence, Boston failed to gain sole possession of first place in the East Division. Instead, the Bruins were lodged in a triple tie at the top of the division with New York, which was upset at Detroit, and Montreal, which defeated Pittsburgh in Montreal. The guy who frustrated the Bruins' ambition was tall Curt Bennett of Cranston, R.I., who scored the tying goal for the Blues, the first of his NHL career, less than three minutes from the buzzer. The game was spiced by a miniature melee early and was jampacked with thrills throughout.

The scene of wide-spread brawling midway through the first period was set off in a tangle between Esposito to three for four minutes, but then made up this advantage in the completion of the second major assessed, against Bennett. The burden on Boston was greater because Dallas Smith got a hooking minor while the others were crowd- ing the box. Two of the Boston goals in that period were on typical power play maneuvers completed by Esposito, for Phil's 17th and 18th markers of the year. Bucyk had gained a 1-1 tie with a sharp finish in close after a pass up to the front from Ricky Smith, who had swept the puck ahead after he was brought, to the ice. There were some Boston errors and lack of precise timing contributing to the first three St.

Louis goals. and Curt Bennett, the big St. Louis rookie, a Brown University alumnus and son of Harvey Bennett, one-time goaltender for the Boston Olympics and the Bruins. Curt was checking Espie perhaps a little too zealously and as they went up ice he swung and grabbed the Boston player's shirt. Bennett and Espo did some swinging, and eventually the young player was hammered pretty soundly by Cashman.

There was another bout, between Orr arid Floyd, Thomson, who was brought up here with one scout's designation as "the toughest fighter in 'the pro hockey." Floyd had a little edge in the early going, but Orr evened things up in the later part of the exchange. The upshot of this was the Bruins played four men Celts bow, share top with N.Y. MARVELOUS MEL BRIGGS (22) AND GORDIE BROWNE (88) LIVE IT UP AFTER BRIGGS CAUGHT TOUCHDOWN PASS AGAINST HOLY CROSS YESTERDAY (Frank O'Brien Photo) EC's bombs trip up 'soft touch' HC, 21-7 By Bob Ryan Globe Staff COLLEGE PARK, Md. The Celtics dropped the seventh of their last 10 outings, last night, losing 125-120 here to Baltimore. The defeat, combined with New York's 100-99 squeaker over Chicago, also dropped Boston into a tie with the Knicks for first place.

The Celtics don't need practice. They don't need more players. They just need to be shown what they must do to get back where they were about three weeks ago. Somebody has got to tell them they can't scare anybody by just showing v.p. Only the Celtics would squander an 11 -point first quarter lead and turn it into an 18-point deficit entering the fourth quarter, and only the Celtics would actually make it a baligame, forcing Jack Maria (37) to hit one last turnaround with one second left to get a three point play and preserve a wild 125-120 Baltimore victory before 5894 patrons, including the Maryland squad, which is supposed to be better than either of these other two teams.

Tom Heinsohn doesn't know what's the matter with his team. Sample: "I don't know. You tell me. They played well in the first and the fourth quarter, but the other two Ah, the fourth quarter. "We played basketball in the fourth quarter," explained Artie Williams.

"That's the way we played in the beginning of the season. We played good defense, and hit the open man." From a 103-85. three quarter deficit the Celtics exploded, first cutting the lead all the way to seven (107-100), then holding a bit, next falling back to 12 (115-103) and then staging a last ditch effort which actually reduced the score to 122-120 as Steve Kuberski (22) made a fallaway with 26 seconds left. The Bullets ran the clock down as far as possible, until they went to the bread-and-butter man, Marin. Jack, whose sensational 8-for-10 third quarter shooting evoked memories of Wally Jones's memorable 1967 playoff heroics, swished a turnaround, and got fouled in the process.

He made that, too, and that was the baligame. By Jerry Nason Globe Staff FOXBORO It was hastily-arranged new and neutral site for the 67th game snow-free Schaefer Stadium and even the script was rewritten when Boston College ran into a lot of Holy Cross emotion and had to struggle all the way Saturday to a 21-7 win to conclude a P-2 season. Tom O'Connor, veteran spy in the sky for the pro people, put it in perspective. "That fellow at Holy Cross (Eddie Doherty) has done a remarkable coaching job. When we saw last spring what they had at Holy Cross for material, I'd have said anybody was crazy who predicted BC would beat them by only two touchdowns." Doherty had hoped to recapture some of the Crusaders' early-season emotion, when they unexpectedly won three of their first four games but then were, he said, "psychologically second quarter when his associates were penalized for holding.

It was a big day for the runners. Wilson who's played the last half of the season with an ailing leg went on to an all-time Holy Cross record of 973 yards on the season. Tom Bougus, in his 11th game, accumulated 103 yards to careen to an all-time BC record of 1056, breaking Fred Willis's year-old mark of 1007 in 10 games. And the BC fullback, Bill Thomas, made his last game a zap job. Thomas led everybody on the field with 123 yards and made some real big yards on third and long yardage draw plays when the Eagles drove from their 15 to the Holy Cross 46 to set up Rippman's fourth-quarter TD pass to Marvelous Mel Briggs.

The Holy Cross defense, keyed to linebackers Dan Harper and Kevin Frawley, emoted all over stadium. They bent a lot, but gave up relatively little on the scoreboard. Boston College waxed 'em for 468 offensive yards, but only three touchdowns. What beat 'em was the "bomb." Rippman hit them instantly for 40 yards to the elusive Rideout, after linebacker Jack McElgunn had filched a Holy Cross pop fumble and the come back a dozen yards with at to the Crusader's 40. The BC passer's second bomb, to Briggs in the final quarter, for 46 yards, was his first pass in a series of Thomas Bougus power runs at the tackles from BC 15 down to the Holy Cross 46.

It was in this series that Thomas kept the fire burning with two big fullback-draw plays when BC faced long yardage on third down. When he was third down, four at the HC 46, Ray the Ripper went to the air to Briggs, split wide to the right. The sophomore from Nashua had the burners wide open as he jetted down to make a clean catch on the 10 and flash into the end zone. Hily Cross scored first, of course, throwing up the challenge on a four-yard look-in pass from Vaas to Neary, split right, for four yards. -But the play that that set it up destroyed at Syracuse (63-21)." He got it yesterday.

Holy Cross came out with its teeth bare. It jumped the big Eagles with a big Joe Wilson run to set up receiver Joe Neary for a touchdown on a pretty look-in pass from sophomore Pete Vass at 2:51 for a 7-0 lead in the second quarter. The Crusaders yielded two touchdowns within 3:06 of the same period: to Bill Thomas's furious 10-yard power tackle sweep, and to Eddie Ri-deout's capture' of a Ray Rippman pass for 40 yards. Defensive end Jim McClowry converted the HC point, specialist Larry Berridge a pair for BC, and the Crusaders kept the Eagles to that 14-7 lead all the way to the 40th minute of play. Then Rippman torched the fuse to another bomb a 46-yard pass to fleet Mel Briggs at 9:23 of the final period.

Berridge, who is almost automatic, converted the final point of the game. The doomsday predictions of a score mounting into at least the 40s (BC won a year ago by 54-0, scoring on the second play of the game (were buried deep below the slick PolyTurf of Schaefer Stadium, where a throng of 22,205 witnessed Holy Cross's unexpected resistance. The Crusaders Joe Wilson captured the O'Melia Trophy as "outstanding player" with 105 of Holy Cross's 145 rushing yards despite losing six minutes of third-period play when he went to the bench for physical repairs. The junior ball carrier out of Jamaica Plain also lost a 24-yard power jweep beauty to the BC eight inhe John Havlicek (29), Jo Jo White, Williams, Kuberski and Dave Cowens were in there for the comeback effort with Kuberski -(aggressive defense, rebounding and shooting) and Cowens particularly distinguishing themselves. The Bullets, who had shot beyond belief previously, got cold, and everything started to go Boston's way.

But it was, as Heinie used to say when he was on TV "too late." Baltimore played the game from start to finish, while the Celtics only aroused themselves at the very beginning and at the end. While Boston's defense was hardly fantastic, it did fall victim to some impressive Bullet first half shooting. Marin, Archie Clark (getting him to replace Earl Monroe was like exchanging a tuna fish sandwich for a sirloin steak), rookie Phil Ohenier and Westley Unseed shot 26-for-40 in the first half, for instance. And then when Marin embarked on his shooting spree, he was being guarded by Havlicek, hardy a stiff on defense. This Baltimore team ran just as well as the old one, and they do more things, in general.

And so, sports fans, as the Celtics sink into first place tie with the victorious Knicks, the question to be answered this evening is: "Do our heroes want to play ball the right way?" Hark wasn't that the voice of Auerbach saying, they'd better?" named out- JUMPING JOE (84). Wilson was Holy Cross running back Joe Wilson College's Mike Mucci cuts behind block by Eddie Jenkins (44) on Boston standing player of the game. (Frank O'Brien photo) It turned the ball over three times on fumbles at the Holy Cross 31 and its own 31 and 48 but got two of 'em back to set up a touchdown (fumble) and prevent a touchdown (interception). other end of the Mass Pike were again stymied by the long-armed Kirchner. This time they had Scott Lodde apparently free on the BC goal, with Kirchner beaten, on a TD pass.

But Vaas hung the ball just a little, and Kirchner made a brilliant recovery to flash over from the left to stop the ball from the receiver's grasp at the final split second. Boston College is too sound a team to have been victimizsd or get too badly burned by Holy Cross's emotional response to a game in which it' was supposed to have no They had two other real shots the rest of the day. A clipping penalty backfired on them as they apparently were going in to tie it all up at 14-14 at the end of the first half. Wilson, again, shook loose from two tacklers and plugged 24 yards down to the BC 7 on the left power sweep again. The penalty, though, put them back at the BC 46 and Steve Kirchner, BC deep safety, picked off a pass on the next play.

At the top of theythird quarter the aroused people "iVoin up the was a dilly Joe Wilson cracking off a power sweep, left, all the way from the BC 49 to the 21, where he fumbled forward when he encountered contact. The ball spurted all the way to the BC eight with Jim Whalen, Holy Cross runing guard, in solitary, pursuit. He recovered and two downs later Holy Cross had the first points of the game on the boal The story of the game, really, was Joe Wilson being able to run for 105 yards (92, net, in the first half) against such a foormidable dafensive unit as Boston College's. Holy Cross, high as a glider on defensive, keeping the Eagles out of their end zone so frequently. Statistics.

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