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the the Mitchell Daily Repubite 10 Monday, 29, Kapp Leads Vikings Past Rams For Western Title By MIKE RATHET MINNEAPOLIS-ST. "PAUL (AP) Joe Kapp, Minnesota's mighty Mexican, drives a 1939 black LaSalle sedan-and nothing For may Joe be Kapp more is a fitting. throwback to another era, an anti-hero in this day when only charisma seems to command, national tention. Joe doesn't have that. He doesn't have shaggy hair like Joe Namath.

He doesn't have a name that rings like Roman Gabriel. And doesn't have the talent of either. But Joe Kapp, 31, of Mexican-German descent, scarred from a barroom brawl, an import from Canada, has lived life with enough depth to develop a mental attitude which rejects defeat. That doesn't command the national attention. It does, however, provide leadership.

And Kapp's leadership was the catalyst for the Vikings' come-from-behind 23-20 victory over Angeles Rams Saturday that sent them into the National Football League championship, the game Cleveland next Browns. Sunday against Kapp's leadership asserted itself in the fourth quarter after his own mistakes had enabled the Rams to build what seemed to be a commanding 20-14 lead in controlled on a frigid 21-degree day by the opposing defensive forces. Los Angeles had taken a 17-7 halftime behind Gabriel, but Kapp's 41-yard pass to John Henderson was the key in a third quarter touchdown drive capped by Dave Osborn's oneyard smash that made it 17-14. Then, later in the quarter, Kapp drove the Vikings toward the goal line again only to have Ed Meador intercept a pass on the four-yard line. On the ensuing series, Kapp again was intercepted, by Rich Petitbon on the Vikings' 36 and Bruce Gossett's field goal made it 20-14 in the fourth quarter.

But, remember, Kapp doesn't know defeat. "He stood on that sideline," said linebacker Wally Hilgenberg, "And he was yelling at the defense-'get me that seed, get me that That seed is the football with which Kapp can't throw a perfect spiral. But then Joe Kapp, according to the people who are supposed to know, can't do a lot of things with the football -except win. When the Vikings got that seed back, Kapp was ready, Three imperfect spirals for 40 yards helped bring the ball to the Los Angeles 19. Then, following a three-yard gain by Osborn, Kapp took matters into his own feet.

He proceeded to scramble for 12 yards. and, one play later, bootlegged around left end for the final two yards and a touchdown. Fred Cox added the extra point and the Vikings led for the first time 21-20 with minutes left in the battle for the Western Conference title. The fired-up defensive unit then took over. Carl Eller nailed Gabriel for a safety and Alan Page intercepted a pass to cut off the last threat and the Vikings were pounding backs in a deliriously happy dressing room, There Kapp circled the room in his usual post game ritual, congratulating every member of the team in his role as leader, throwing punches at their stomachs and yelling: "We are going to be the best.

Two more. The best!" Kapp, of course, was referring to winning the NFL championship and the Super Bowl. Vikings Put 6,000 Tickets On Sale MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL (AP) The Minnesota Vikings announced Sunday they will put more than 6,000 tickets on sale Monday for Sunday's National: Football League, championship at Metropolitan Stadium. Tickets are priced at $12 each.

Met Stadium seats 47,900 city. The ticket windows will open at 8:30 a.m. at the Vikings offices in Bloomington. Browns Trounce Cowboys 38-14; Will Meet Vikings For NFL Crown By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer DALLAS, Tex. (AP) "Rubber band defense, huh?" The Cleveland Browns shouted the phrase in derision Sunday as they trudged up the ramp in the Cotton Bowl after thumping the Dallas Cowboys, 38-14, to win the Eastern Conference title in National Football League.

Tom the coach, Intended' to he said, compliment after the Browns when a 42-10 defeat in November, the Browns defense is stretches "like but a does rubber band that The Browns jumped on the not break." "rubber band" phrase as a battle cry for their rematch with the favored Cowboys. In big white letters the blackboard in the Browns' locker room, it was printed for all to read: "Rubber How about steel The held the Dallas club to 39 yards in first half as Cleveland rolled up a 17-0, lead while Bill Nelsen picked apart the vaunted Cowboy defense. At the end of a dreary, rainy afternoon some of the 69,321 Dallas fans were booing Craig Morton, their regular quarterback, and cheering Roger Staubach, his replacement, in one-sided game that deteriorated into a duel between Staubach and Jerry Rhome, an ex-Cowboy who backs up Nelsen at Cleveland. If the Browns were concerned about their NFL title rematch Sunday with the Minnesota Vikings who annihilated them Nov. 9, 51-3, they didn't show it.

Most of them had watched on television as the Vikings beat the Los Angeles Rams Saturday 23-20 in snow-bound Minnesota. The winner of their game Sunday in Minnesota will go on to the Super Bowl Jan. 11 in New Orleans against the American Football League champion. "We got off time against Minnesota," said Leroy Kelly, the game's top rusher with 66 yards on 19. carries.

"We'll all right next week. We believe the East is just as good as the West, and we want to make believers, just like the Jets and the Mets did." "Last time whole roof fell in," said "Nelsen, the quarterback who made good on eight of 11 third-down situations and completed 18 of 27 for 219 yards and one touchdown with a slippery ball. "We've just got to go get them." The Browns' game for the rematch with Dallas-a team they have now beaten three straight times with big money on the line-called for quick slant passes to Paul Warfield and assistant coach Nick Skorich called "our old bread and butter plays -the sweep, quick trap and power stuff." "We ran at them on first down, trying to set up a second and four or five," said Skorich. "Then they'd still have to fear the rush on second down. Sometimes we'd throw on first down to counteract them playing the run." Bo Scott scored twice on twoyard runs, Kelly, plunged home from the Nelsen hit tight end Milt Morin with a six-yard scoring pass and Walt Sumner, a rookie cornerback, went 88 yards with an interception, Don Cockroft kicked a 29-yard field goal, after missing two.

That PAPA PLAYS AT 31 fensive guard Donald N.M. Abbott of LAS (P OfNew Mexico Stale is 8 bit upset about those who claim to be the oldest major college player. Abbott, a 5-foot-9, 212-pound senior from Anaheim, is 31 and the father of three chil. dren. They call him "Papa Aggie" and he is only six months younger than head coach Jim Wood.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! from the drink with the happy taste NEVER AN AFTER-THIRST SQUIRT THE SOVIET COMPANY. Sioux Fall To Duluth Bulldogs By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Minnesota- Bulldogs waited almost a month to return to action after losing in the finals of its own hockey tournament Nov. 27-28. But the wait proved worthwhile as the Bulldogs swept the North Dakota Sioux 5-2 and 5-4 Friday and Saturday nights in the Duluth Arena. The double victory moved the Bulldogs into a second place tie with Minnesota in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings.

Ater beating the Sioux with relative, had ease to Friday pull out night, the Sat. the urday night game with 44 seconds left to play. Freshman Walt Ledingham slapped in a goal, his second of the game, to break a 4-4 tie and insure the Bulldogs victory, In the only other weekend game, Denver swept nonconfer-1 ence opponent Boston College 6-2 and 7-6. Eight teams will be involved in conference games next weekend. Wisconsin plays at Michigan State, Michigan at North Dakota, Colorado College at Minnesota and Denver at Duluth.

Michigan State starts play tonight in Boston Arena Invitational, North Dakota entertains U.S. Nationals Tuesday night. Wisconsin defeated Michigan 5-3 in the opening round of the St. Louis College Hockey Tour- Kentucky Nips Notre Dame 102-100 By HERSCHEL NISSENSON Associated Press Sports Writer Today should be anything but Blue Monday for the nation's college basketball set. No less than 17 of the Top Twenty teams in The Associated poll, including the first six, will be in action from coast to coast after weekend in hardwood ranked and teams nine mcame through unscathed.

Top-rated Kentucky, 7-0 after squeaking by Notre Dame 102-100 Saturday, night, entertains Miami The Wildcats shaded the Irish on Dan Issel's layup with 40 seclonds-Issel scored 35 points and Mike Pratt 42-and were saved fro movertime when ND's Austin Carr missed a jump shot at the buzzer. Unbeaten runner up UCLA made it six In a tow by walloping Georgia Tech 121-90 behind Henry Bibby's 25 points and Sid Wicks' 22. The UCLANs face Princeton. an 82-76 winner over Indiana, in the finals of their own Bruins Classic. The teams- South Carolina, North Carolina and Ohio U.

-were idle Saturday, but start nament at St. Louis, Mo. Goals 20 seconds apart by Bert Behate and Al Folk gave the Badgers the victory, SAVE NOW ON TOP 50 STEREO LP'S TEMPO AND AND A MONO HUGE LP'S BY SELECTION ALL THE OF STEREO GREATS YEAR'S END RECORD SALE! TOP 50 BEST SELLERS! BUCK TALL DARK OWENS STRANGER added up to five and a field goal and 38 points. Morton scored on a keeper for Dallas' first touchdown when they trailed 24-0 in the third period. Staubach, who took over with about eight jutes to go, threw a five-yard pass to Lance Rentzel for the other score.

The Cowboys, trying to cover up a hole at right cornerback, alternated rookie Otto Brown and free safety Mel Renfro at the position, how Warfield lined up. It didn't work because Warfield caught eight passes for 99 yards. In the final analysis right down to the quarterback. Nelsen had it and Morton didn't! Nelsen completed 18 of 27. and was dumped only once behind protection of the Browns' offensive line.

Morton eight of 24, was intercepted twice and smeared three times. From the moment Don Cockroft's punt hit Rayfield Wright of the Cowboys and was recovered by Cleveland's Bob Mateson after the first series of plays, it was a Cleveland day. game speech in locker Warfield said "the a preroom, "We've worked hard to get here. We have a great plan. Don't let adversity shake you." Capitol THE BEATLES ABBEY ROAD Steve Miller "Your Saving Grace" that all Buck Owens "Tall Dark Stranger" Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" GRAND FUNK RAILROAD ON TINE 16 1 Grand Funk Railroad "On Time" Lou Rawls "Your Good Thing" "Sgt.

Save! tournament play today. The Gamecocks face New Mexico in the Sugar Bowl Classic at New Orleans, the Tar Heels go against Harvard in the Carolina Classic -at Greensboro, N.C., and the Bobcats meet Texas in the Hurricane Classic at Miami, Fla. Sixth-ranked Tennessee, which trounced 82-59, opposes Niagara in the semifinals of the All-College Tournament at Oklahoma City; Davidson, No. 9, plays Holy Cross in the Charlotte, N.C., Invitational and Washington, No. 10, faces Oregon State in the semis of the Far West Classic at Portland, Ore.

The Huskies won their opener from 12th-ranked Southern California on Friday 90-86. Elsewhere, Notre Dame tackles West Virginia in the Sugar Bowl event; Southern Cal meets Temple in the Far West losers bracket with ranked Illinois playing Michigan in the other half. The previously unbeaten Illini lost to Washington State Louisville, No. 14, is at home against Southern Methodist and 16th-rated Kansas, a 68-64 overtime loser to Oklahoma, faces Oklahoma State in the Big Eight losers round. In the only game matching members of the Top Twenty, Penn tangles with No.

18 Purdue in the semifinals of the ECAC Holiday Festival in New York while the other semi has 19th-ranked St. Bonaventure against St. Joseph's, Pa. Villanova, No. 20, is paired with unbeaten Columbia in the semis of the Quaker City Tournament in Philadelphia.

In New York Saturday, Penn stopped Boston College 86-65, Purdue downed Manhattan 89.79 as Rick Mount returned to action with 30 points, St. Bonaven. ture's 6-foot-11 Bob Lanier poured in 33 in a 107-60 rout of NYU and St. Joseph's beat cinnati 109-92. Philadelphia, it was Villa.

hora 89, Connecticut 71 Wake Forest 78; La Salle 76, Georgia and Cornell 68, Brigham 62. State, Seventh ranked captured New its Mexico 10-1, own Roadrunner Invitational over Creighton and Jacksonville, rated 13th, won the ville Invitational by defeating the host team 100-74, In other weekend action, Minnesota took the Motor Classic with a 65-64 squeaker over. Detroit; Canisius beat St. Peter's, N.J. 91-84 for the Queen City crown; North Carolina State won the Lafayette Classic from Northwestern 98-75 and Marquette crushed Wisconsin 64-63 to gain the championship lof the Milwaukee Classic.

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