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Pigc 10-E THE EL TASO TIMES, Suadiy, November 6, 1W7 Guy Makes Difference Cowboys Glad He Stayed Cooper Key Hanger-On COOPER Dallas Cowboys file mmmm.wwwjmxm Seahawks' second victory of the season. Elsewhere Sunday, unbeaten Dallas plays the New Vork Giants, Buffalo, without O.J. Simpson, visits New England. Miami plays the Jets at New York. New Orleans is at Philadelphia, St.

Louis at Minnesota, San Francisco at Atlanta. Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, San Diego at Detroit and Green Bay at Kansas City, with new coach Tom Bettis in charge of the Chiefs. Washington plays at Baltimore Monday night. After seven games, Dallas is the last NFL club with a perfect record. The Cowboys are off to their best start ever and lead the NFC East by a comfortable three games.

Minnesota is two games up in the NFC Central and in the West, Los Angeles and Atlanta are tied for the top at 4-3. The races are tighter in the AFC. Besides the Oakland-Denver tie in the West, just two games separate the four clubs in the Central. And in the East, Baltimore, 6-1, is one game in front of both New England and Miami, both 5-2 and tied for second place. By HAL BOCK AiiKiaud Fmt Spodi Wrtur If you want to know about a baseball pitcher, ask the guy who has to swing against him.

If you want to know about a hockey goalie ask the guy who has to shoot against him. And, if you want to know about a football punter, ask the guy who has to kick against him. If you ask Bucky Dilts, who punts for the Denver Broncos, the best in his business is Oakland's Ray Guy, who'll be doing his thing this week against the Seattle Seahawks as the National Football League heads into the second half of its ssason. Dilts watched Guy consistently pin the Broncos as Oakland handed Denver its first loss of the season last week and moved into a tie for first place in the American Conference West. "Ray Guy is fantastic," said Dilts.

"He discourages offenses with his punts. They hang up there 4.8 seconds or longer and they climb toward the third deck." Guy averaged 49.1 yards for eight kicks against Denver and leads the league in his specialty. Dilts is not surprised. "He's the best!" the Denver kicker said. Included in Guy's performance against the Broncos was a 72-yrd kick, longest in the NFL this season.

"We wanted to keep their backs to the wall and have them staring at 80 yards each time they got the ball," said John Madden, coach of the Raiders. The Seahawks, coming off a 56-17 thumping of Buffalo, will have to deal with Guy's punts and the rest of the Raiders Sunday while Denver faces Pittsburgh in a key AFC game that will affect the standings in the Central and West Divisions. The Steelers are one game back of Cleveland in the Central race with the Browns hosting Cincinnati, two games off the pace. Houston, also two behind in the AFC Central, is at home against Chicago. Seattle set NFL highs in points and net yards (559) in destroying the Bills last week for the come back here," Cooper says.

His exile thus was brief and, just as Brandt suggested, temporary. But as Brandt remembers from a similar case from the past, different endings are possible. "We told Jim Zorn the same thing because we had an idea of his ability. So he got a job here and worked for a few weeks. But when it got down to the sixth game of the season, the last time you can activate a guy who's been cut, we knew there wasn't hope for him any more.

"We're just not a bus stop-type team. We don't make many changes. In Cooper's case, it worked out. In Zorn's, it didn't." QUARTERBACK ZORN remained unsigned in 1975 the Cowboy player who squeezed him out was Preston Pearson and was signed by Seattle the next season. He's been throwing touchdown passes for the Seahawks ever since.

Cooper has returned to the background of Sunday's countdown against the New York Giants. With the interior of the Cowboy offensive line almost healthy again, he anticipates reserve duty. Of course, he expected the same thing a month ago in St. Louis until injuries struck. Suddenly, he was playing half of the game at left guard and almost as much the following week against By FRANK LUSICA Dillat Timet Htrld FOR AWHILE there, the subject of rookie offensive lineman -Jim Cooper threw the Dallas Cowboys into a spasm of indecision.

Trade him? Cut him? Play him? Eventually, they did all three. Luckily, Cooper wouldn't stay gone. He almost went to Denver, and he did go home. But in capsule, there have been so many turning points the result has been a large, eventful circle. Cooper has been with the Cowboys since the season opened despite: being traded to the Broncos, who changed their minds.

being cut by Dallas, which did likewise. Cooper, fifth-round draft choice from Temple, had his positive moments during training camp as a tackle candidate. Just not enough to unseat fellow rookie Andy Frederick and another young but more advanced lineman, Jim Eidson. So, during the period of final preseason cutdowns, telephones ran, waiver lists grew longer and deals were made. In one such transaction, Dallasscnt fullback Jim Jensen to Denver.

Cooper was included in the original deal in an effort to better the undisclosed dra ft choice the Cowboys were receiving. "I thought I'd done it. but they (Denver) changed at the last minute," recalls Cowboy exec Gil Bra ndt. WIrtowhr to itort? Moving? By jut wont to rtnt? Stort by finding Snjfili in fH Clotsified Section. INSTEAD OF being traded, the next worst thing happened to Cooper.

The Cowboys asked for his playbook. But he left with a hint to remain on stand-by status. "It was one of those numbers things," Brandt says. "We thought he was a pretty good player. Jim Myers (line coach) liked him from the first day of camp.

But we had Eidson, Frederick, Tom Rafferty, a bunch of linemen, and we couldn't keep all of them. "I told him not to sign with anybody. There was a good chance we'd get him back. I told him sometimes this was a temporary thing." Sure enough, Eidson hurt his knee in practice. A roster spot opened and Cowboy scout John Wooten was dispatched to personally retrieve Cooper.

Meantime, Denver had called offering a contract. The New York Jets made contact, too. Stubbornly, the rookie sat tight awaiting a ring from Dallas. "The Cowboys had called earlier and said there was a possibility of coming back. I was looking forward to that.

The thing was that being with the Cowboys all through training camp, I knew what was going on. That's why I wanted to tTup those rrr--v. NSf IT SHm WANT )S SUNSHIILD PATIO A AWNINO CO. ATIO COVIS CAK 0TS ALUMINUM MXIA SOMIT SIDING CALL 773-243 Sit LADGIII AO ON 4 Streaking 'Pokes At NY League season, the Dallas Cowboys place another (AP) Perfect EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. through the first half of the National Football if GENERAL LI II MO FOOTUIMftlTtAU I -V NFL IV NBA ATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Current ranking: 1286 124.7 1234 1233 1.

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St. Louis 117.5 12. San Diego 116.7 SIR I streak on the line Sunday when they face the New York Giants. The Cowboys, with a 7-0 record and their best start in the 18-year history of the franchise, have won six consecutive games against New York and have not lost to the Giants on the road since 1970. The last time New York defeated them was in 1974 at Dallas and overall, the Cowboys hold and impressive 21-9-2 edge in the series.

Their fast start has propelled the Cowboys into a three-game lead in the NFC East and their 37-0 shutout against Detroit last week was the first one for the club since 1974. Roger Staubach completed 16 of 25 passes for 179 yards and throe touchdowns in that game and Tony Dorsett led the ground game with 13 carries for 48 yards. Staubach leads all NFC passers, completing 60.2 of his attempts. He has thrown eight touchdown passes and has been intercepted only onse all season. Dorsett, who pushed his season rushing yardage total to 433, started for the first time in the second half against Detroit.

Cowboy Coach Tom Landry has insisted that he would not rush the former Heisman Trophy winner in his rookie season in the NFL. "Tony will be a starter when I have the feel," said Landry. "I think we have been very effective in the way we havs been using him. This has been a learning phase for him." The Giants come into Sunday's vame off their own shut out, but they were on the wrong end of a 28-0 score Monday night in St. Louis.

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