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THE VANCOUVER SUN: JUNE 13, 1877 27 Some cuts shocking as Lions reach limit COURTENAY Cornelius Greene was shocked, Pele Pele was resigned and Larry Sherrer couldn't believe it. For the rest of the nine players chopped this morning by B.C. Lions, disappointment was the common denominator. Greene and Pele were the two major surprises as head coach Vic Rapp whittled the roster to 50' to meet the noon Canadian Football League deadline, but figure on Sherrer's release to spark the most reverberations. "I can't believe they'd pull such a low-level thing," said the former Grey Cup star, whose career has been a frustrating series of ups and downs.

Sherrer suffered a back injury in a drill here June 4 and has been unable to practice since. The club, however, claims the injury is a result of Sherrer's hang-gliding accident two yearss ago and thus disclaims responsibility. "But I passed the physical and I was running all right and doing everything fine until I got hit," counters Sherrer. "The doctor told me it could be quite a while before it gets better and no one's going to pick me up when I'm injured. Sherrer plans to contact attorneys for the CFL Players' Association during the next few days to challenge his release.

CFL rules state no team can release a player suffering from a football-related injury. But Rapp insists club doctors have designated Sherrer's injury as "non-football related." Joining Sherrer, Greene and Pele on a solemn plane ride to Vancouver, were Canadian receivers Bob Hogan and Larry Giles, Canadian offensive tackle Al Cameron and three imports guard Don Buck, safety LeRoy Hughes and running back Bill Ziegler. "It's probably the most shocking thing of my footbll career," said Greene, who was shifted to wide receiver from quarterback a week ago but didn't run the crisp patterns that Rapp was hoping for. "Sooner or later, he was going to be the odd man out," explained Rapp. "He's got Golf Scores DANNY THOMAS-MEMPHIS Geiberger, $40,000 72-59-72-70-27S McGee, $18,500 70-70-SM7 276 Player.

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"I had a lot of learning to do," Pele acknowledged. "But I'm going to be back here next year. And I'm going to make this team." Other than Greene, Rapp said Ziegler's release was the toughest decision. "He works harder than anyone but he just doesn't have the speed we need," was Rapp's assessment. As for the rest, they were pretty much anticipated.

Cameron, after a fast start, tailed off badly over the last week, while Hogan and Giles never really discovered the knack of holding on to the football with any consistency. Buck showed little even before suffering a bruised calve last Thursday, while Hughes couldn't compete with Grady Cavness or Rocky Long at safety and didn't possess the speed to make it on the corner. Having scheduled only one workout here Sunday, Rapp spent much of the day huddled in the dark with his assistants, grading the films of Saturday afternoon's scrimmage. Corner Ken Hinton, linebacker. Rob McLaren and defensive end Don Ratliffe stood out on defence.

Hinton snared two interceptions, McLaren had one and was dominating, even when switched to the middle briefly as Sam Cvijanovich sat out with a muscle spasm in his back. Ratliffe was credited with all four sacks. Quarterbacks Jerry Tagge, who will start Thursday's opening exhibition game against Saskatchewan Roughriders at Empire Stadium, and Gary Keithley looked competent, but John Sciarra had his diffi-' culties. He managed seven completions in 11 attempts, the trouble being that three of them were to the defence. 71-73-144 71- 73144 72- 73145 72-73-145 71- 75146 72-74146 76- 71147 74-73147 72- 76148 73- 75-148 72-77149 72-78150 79-71150 74-76150 74- 76150 75- 75-150 73- 78151 77- 74151 76- 75-151 77- 75-152 73- 79-152 74- 78-162 74-79-153 79-74153 78- 75153, playoff.

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Well, you're not going to get the. firm, definitive opinion from this prose corner, as you once did when the flying wedge and the leather helmet were in vogue. Like the rest of those old instant experts, your 'agent has gone soft But here's a tip. Saskatchewan is in town Thursday for an exhibition game. Ron Lancaster likely will play a quarter, maybe even two of them; Check on how the Lions look when the old magician is in there, conducting the Roughrider orchestra.

And remember that two of the Lions' first three league games will be against Ronnie conducting for all four quarters. 3 they couldn't have said it better them-selves. Inasmuch as they weren't offering any other opinions, either, he stepped right in to initiate all offerings. Grabbed the tape recorder by the microphone, so to speak. The much publicized late arrival, Duane Thomas, did not run with authority.

He had hoped for better, even on such short notice, but did note that when he thrusts forward he's hard to bring down. He noted 'that the Lions' running this year will be tailback-oriented, but he thought the quarterbacks overdid the emphasis on this facet of the game. The tailback candidates got to carry the ball 35 the fullbacks only: two or three times. So he wouldn't be rating the running of Lou Harris or the designated baby bull, 240-pound Jim Harrison, off these films. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN one of the old reliable guessperts pointing out that the pass attack suffered from a few flagrantly THE BEST SPORTS BARGAIN IN TOWN W.L.A.

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He didn't need to have it rushed to Vancouver for processing and returned first thing Sunday morning. There was no necessity for studying it all that afternoon and evening, Such a waste of time and technology, of effort and money, to choose the nine guys who had to be cut by noon today in order to get the pre-season roster down to 50 bodies. If only he'd asked, the media would have gladly done the trimming for him in the first five minutes of the post-practice press conference. Bob Ackles, the general manager chap, has been delinquent in his duties if he didn't get around to telling Rapp about Cana- da's second most comprehensive service in this regard. Only the Toronto press- radio-TV corps offers more advice in the choosing and discarding of prospects.

And look at what this has done for the Argonauts. Verily, in a league of their own for two decades. Indeed, the most surprising part of the bull session following the scrimmage is not that the coach didn't ask our advice, but that it wasn't freely offered to him. Once upon a single wing this was standard procedure. And illustrated with diagrams.

vv -( A BROADCASTER or writer was con-' sidered a timid fellow, indeed, if by this stage of training he hadn't named the 32 guys who were certain to start the season; hadn't told the coach exactly why this had to be, and hadn't stepped up to the blackboard to chalk in all the Xs and Os he needed to prove out his selections. Some of those guys are still around. Indeed, they were lurking on the sidelines Saturday, making the usual comments on NEW YORK (AP) BONG! and all of a sudden the defensive lineman is seven yards behind you, dancing on your quarterback's That, in essence, is what your less-than-lucky offensive lineman experiences. It comes compliments of the head slap, a crisp pop delivered to the side of the helmet by the defensive lineman. That trick may become a thing of the past in the next few days.

The National Football League owners begin meeting Tuesday with the head slap one of the primary topics of discussion, along with the site of 1979's Super Bowl 13 and possible free agent compensation. It's almost a letdown from previous years, when rike fears, contract hassles and name-calliitB cluttered the agenda. Dull agenda uncus ics IMHiS log Boy carts, popular it mm such esoteria as the 24 counter trap, the efficacy of the sock block as compared with the brush block and the usefulness of the kamikaze pass rush on second and 13 centimetres. But not once did they grab a piece of chalk or press their views on Rapp. They must be getting old and tired, As for the new young chaps on the beat, they don't have that old-fashioned go-to- hell confidence.

They sit around with the coach and ask intelligent questions, for. gawd's sake, and dutifully record the replies. Not one of them has gotten around to giving the coach some guidance qn, for instance, the pecking order at quarterback. And only three days to the opening exhibition game. This won't do.

The coach needs their help and they're letting him down. Instead of telling him what's happening and why, he was having to tell them. And without having seen the film. Now, that is one hell of an imposition. Coaches never have the answers until they see the movies.

Reporters don't need to watch the films to know what's what and who's who. On good days they don't even need to see the scrimmage or the game. SO RAPP HAD TO RATE the quarterback performances for them. He thought Jerry Tagge and Gary Keithley did a good job, that John Sciarra had an off day, but that generally the defence dominated. In explanation, he pointed out that in only 10 days the coaching staff had installed 20 formations or variations thereof, 17 pass plays and 18 running plays.

Add to this the necessity for reading defences, because the defensive teams in this scrimmage were jumping around and showing them different alignments, he was not surprised that the quarterbacks were -getting, in his words, "stuffed up." The old reporters nodded knowingly. They agreed for NFL That's why such less-than-momentous issues as the head slap will have football observers less-than-breathless this time What the league owners hope to do by eliminating that defensive tactic if they, in fact, vote that way is to open up the offence just a bit more by keeping the on-charging linemen away from the passer for a fraction longer. Super Bowl XII is going to the Super-dome in New Orleans next Jan. 15. That city is bidding for the next one, too, as are- Dallas (Cotton Bowl), Houston (Rice Stadi-um), Los Angeles '(Memorial ColiseumX Miami (Orange Bowl), Seattle (Kingdome) and Pasadena, Calif.

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