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Friday. Jan. 9, 1970 THE SUN D-3 K.C.'s Varied Offense Worries Eller Sports Views Chieftain Of Chiefs iftllllllllllil prepare just as hard for what's coming." What's coming for him and all the other Vikings Sunday is the Super Bowl game in which pro football's world championship will be settled, and although the Kansas City Chiefs are 13-point underdogs, a surprisingly large number of people are beginning to feel they might pull off an upset. Eller is here to see that they don't. Rated the finest defensive end in the business, the strong, aggressive six-year veteran of the Vikings, bulwarks their defense the same way quarterback Joe Kapp does their offense.

Eller sees where the Chiefs' shifting offense could turn out to be a problem. "Len Dawson doesn't stand still," he says of K.C.'s quarterback. "I don't mean you'd necessarily describe what he does as scrambling, but his pass protectors move with him all the time. Anytime you have a quarterback who moves, you got to adjust your pass rush." Around the NFL, they claim the agile 27-year-old Eller, NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -Quit worrying. The Secretary of Defense will come out of this all right.

Right now, he's trying to figure out the best way the United States can expand its Anti-Ballistic Missile System. At the same time, he's hoping to adjust sufficiently so he'll be able to read and cope with all those diversified offenses Kansas City is a cinch to use Sunday. If this has you a little confused, maybe an explanation will help. Back in the Pentagon, Mel-vin R. Laird is the Secretary of Defense.

He's in charge there. Down here, Carl "Moose" Eller, Minnesota's 6-foot-6, 255-pound defensive end does so many things and does them all so well, they call him the Secretary of Defense. "It sounds fine," Eller laughs about the nickname. "And I don't mind being complimented, but that doesn't really make my job any easier. I've still got to Stenerud KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(UPI) Jan Stenerud proved this season beyond a shadow of a doubt what Kansas City Chiefs' fans already knew: That he is one of the, if not THE, best kickers in professional football. The personable native of Norway, by way of Montana State University, shattered an age-old pro field-goal kicking record. He toed 16 straight in a seven-game span, eclipsing the record of 12 straight set by Cleveland's Lou (The Toe) Groza in 1953 and equalled by Detroit's Bobby Layne in 1956-57. There was nothing easy about Stenerud's feat. He had to deliver a 52-yarder against Buffalo Dec.

7 to tie the record. He broke it with an eight -yarder when a Chiefs' drive stalled, then added three-pointers from 47, 29 and 25 yards the same day. Chief K.C. Weapon Carl 'Moose Eller new secretary of defense Purdue Appoints New Coach who can't remember the last time he wasn't double teamed, is so good he can get to any quarterback alive. If he has any "secret," it could be his very first move.

"I try to get the offensive tackle off balance on my first move," he says. "Actually, there are three moves involved with the man I work against. He reacts to my reaction and then I have to react to his. Sometimes I try to get by him with quickness and sometimes with strength." The offensive tackle slated to play against Eller is fj-foot-5, 260-pound Dave Hill. He's good, too, but not in the same league with Eller, regarded the best there is.

"It's not good enough just to be the best for one day," Eller says, brushing aside the accolade. "You have to try to be the best every day. Different problems come up all the time." No sweat, though. The Secretary of Defense should be able to come out of this one all right. coach's eye and he became the Bobcats' kicker.

The Chiefs picked him as a future choice in 1966, a year before he was graduated. "I thought field-goal kicking was fairly easy in college," says Stenerud. "But it's a lot different in the pros. There's a lot more pressure. "I never had a bad experience in college.

There, a kick seldom meant the difference in a game. In college, 8,000 was our maximum attendance. I had done some ski jumping before big crowds, but I had never kicked before a big crowd." Stenerud was jolted by the realities of pro football almost immediately. "Those first exhibition games were hard to concentrate on," he says. "All of a sudden, kicking a field goal became very important." Coaching originated the Coaches' Ail-American off-season game and twice coached in the Shrine East-West game at "San Francisco.

Before moving to Stanford in 1958, after coaching at West Texas State, Texas Western and Utah, Curtice had the best coaching record in the Skyline Conference. In eight seasons at Utah his teams had a 33-10-2 record, winning four champinships, finishing second twice and never worse than fourth. Curtice has authored numerous textbook chapters on football as well as a book, "The Passing Game." WW WW WW WW WW By ARTHUR DALEY New York Times News Service NEW ORLEANS It was a day that had to make the Minnesota Vikings feel perfectly at home. It was raw, cold and miserable. As the Kansas City Chiefs began preparations for Sunday's collision with the Vikes in the Super Bowl, their manifest distaste for the lousy weather was obvious to a shivering handful of expert observers.

But one Chief gloried in it. He was Jerry Mays, captain of the monstrous Kansas City defensive platoon. Although born in Dallas, he loves the cold so much that he was tempted to accept an offer from the Vikings when they drafted him in 1961. But he resisted that temptation and has not regretted it while enjoying great success as an all-league end and as the steadying influence on the Chiefs' ferocious front four. They weren't quite that ferocious when they squared off against the Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl four years ago.

The incident that remains most sharply etched in Jerry's mind came when the Chief's braced for a goal-line stand during the smothering 35-10 Packer victory. As Green Bay lined up, Jerry Kramer called out loudly to Forrest Gregg. Said he: lie Can Smile About if, Noiv "I'll block out 58 and you can take care of the guy whose idol you are." They did it, too. Mays still smiles at the recollection. "When I was a kid in Dallas," he said.

"I was a halfback and my idols, naturally enough, were two of the greatest I every saw, Doak Walker and Kyle Route. But as I grew older and bigger, I became a lineman and had to find a new idol. "I still look toward Southern Methodist University and I picked Gregg. When I went to SMU, I asked for his number, 75, and ifs still my number wilh the Chiefs. Oddly enough, though, I never met him either socially or professionally until we met head-on in the Super Bowl.

My admiration for him increased. "But the biggest single difference between our first Super Bowl game and this one is that our fear of the unknown is gone. We've been there and have played teams that have been there. We've played exhibitions against seven or eight National Football League teams. Now we have a basis for comparison, the common ground we lacked in the first one.

Besides, we've matured in four years into a better team in a stronger league." Strength for Great Comebacks Only last Sunday the Chiefs made an astonishing comeback to wrest the assignment from the Oakland Raiders after it seemed in the opening periods that the Raiders might win by a landslide margin. "Sure, it looked grim," said Jerry, "but that's what I respect about this team. When things went as wrong for us in the past as they did for us in that first quarter, there would be questioning looks as if everyone was thinking, 'Oh, oh, is this one of those "But now we never question any situation but dig in harder. We've adopted Vince Lombardi's Packer philosophy that we'll win if time doesn't run out on us. Hank Stram smiles a lot but he's really a pleasant Lombardi, a tough taskmaster and strict disciplinarian.

Ill tell you one thing. He's made us the best-conditioned team in pro football. That's why we can come on strongly in the last period when others tire." Stram has even honed down weights. Mays ('Tm he says) was once 255 but is a solidly muscled 242. Jim Tyrer went from 300 to 275 and Buck Buchanan from 299 to 280.

And Kansas City is still the biggest team on the hoof in the sport Maybe Sherman Plunkett of the Jets would have lasted longer under such a regimen. His weight was normally up near 350. The Legs Tell in the End "In his prime Sherm was the toughest pass blocker I ever encountered," said Jerry. "Getting around him was like getting around a mountain. It was funny but he had no power even though he was surprisingly quick-footed.

Twisting him was like twisting a building. It couldn't be done. His legs eventually went on him. Legs are so important. If you're properly conditioned, you can get nowhere against a blocker for three-quarters; then his legs tire and he can be had.

"I don't remember getting a good shot at Jo Namath until Sherm's legs were gone. The hardest I ever hit Joe was this year in the regular season game. I'm fond of Joe although I don't approve of his. principles. This time I really racked him.

"Damn, that he said. sorry I hurt you, Joe, I said as I picked him up, 'But I have to do something to slow down that golden arm'." Mays is a civil engineer and operates a branch of his father's Dallas based construction business in Kansas City. Off the field he concentrates on construction. On the field he concentrates on destruction. He does both well.

(Copyright 1970) The 25-yarder with 1:59 to play gave Kansas City a 22-19 victory. "I'm happy as heck to have the record," the personable Stenerud said after the game. "But the last one gave me more satisfaction." Jan will match his talents Sunday against Fred Cox of the Minnesota Vikings in the Super Bowl at New Orleans. Stenerud has been the Chiefs' most valuable offensive weapon since he joined the team in 1967. In that time, he's scored 361 points.

He's kicked 79 of 113 field goals and 124 of 125 extrapoint attempts. Stenerud, who was born in Oslo before moving with his parents to Fetsund at an early age, went to Montana State on a siding scholarship. There, i soccer-style kicking attracted the football WW WW WW WW WW (SPECIAL TRICES GOOD Curtice Ends Long WSSl SANTA BARBARA, Calif, an excellent job. We are (AP) "Cactus Jack" Cur- pleased that he is remaining tice, for many years one of as director of athletics where the nation's most imaginative his work will continue to have and popular college football a great Impact across the coaches, announced his retire- country," Cheadle continued, ment today as head coach at Curtice's 30-year span as a the University of California college coach was highlighted at Santa Barbara. the 1950-60 period when he The 62-year-old Curtice, developed seven different president of the American quarterbacks among the 10 Coaches Association in 1961 best as forward passers in and chairman of the coaches' the nation, rules committee for the past Prominent were Lee 13 years, will remain as Grosscup at Utah and Dick athletic director.

Norman at Stanford who were The coaching reins go to acclaimed as the top col-Andy Everest, Curtice's top legiate throwers, assistant. Everest, 45, starred A man of sparkling but at center under Curtice at homespun humor, Curtice AP Wireohot 0 shutout to Iowa, marking the first time the Hawkeyes were blanked in 79 consecutive games. He was named United Press International "Coach of the Week" for the feat. He was head coach again for the final four games of the 19(18 season and 11it Boilermakers won three of them. The move to the top figures to be challenging.

Mollenkopf, despite an all-time record of 84 wins, 39 losses and 9 ties, felt the hot breath of disgruntled students in when the Boilermakers, rated among the nation's top teams, suffered a 14-10 loss to Michigan State. DeMoss has done some recruiting for the Boilermakers. He will be called on to do more in his new capacity. liie purchase ebizer A Delco Energizer starts your car instant cranking power. WHITEWALL GENERAL JET Famous dual tread design for traction Deep Duragen Tread rubber for long mileage only 14' 95 plus $1.79 Ftd.

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Cheadle expressed delight upon approving Everest's ap- pointment but added, "The university and all of college football are losing a dedicated man and great coach. "We have been privileged to have a man of Jack Cur- tice's caliber head our foot- ball program and he has done Jf I Killebrew to Attend Fete illlllllllHIIIIIItlliQ USUUMNS jiHiiS WHITE WALL TIRES BOSTON (AP) Minnesota Twins' slugger Harmon Killebrew, the American League's Most Valuable Player of 1969, is the latest addition to the list of special gdests who will be honored at the Boston Baseball Adelman Out For SAN DIEGO (AP) -Rick Adelman of the San Diego will be out of action about a month with a severe groin muscle pulL the Na 5 3)(0)95 7.00x14 7.50x14 8.25x14 6.50x13 7.00x13 6.95x14 Writers' 31st annual dinner Jan. 29. Killebrew, who led the majors with 49 home runs and 140 runs batted in last season, stands 13th on the all-time major homer list with 446. One Month tional Basketball Association team announced Wednesday.

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