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toft Ml GB boil hoi no comment about coach COLLEGE BASKETBALL SAY, Wis. (AP') bomihic Oi'ejfiiezak, president of the Green Bay Packets, declined comment Sunday on reports the National Football League club's executives voted tn retain Coach Bah tievihe. Me was asked about a cast report that he had polled the seven members of the executive committee Friday, and had then told placers the committee Voted to honor the remaining 'years ih bevihe's contract. "i have nothing to talk about," Olejhiczak said Sunday. "1 am going to Chicago tomorrow, and have no press release tit all.

Maybe by the middle of the week I will." The report by a Milwaukee television station said some members of the committee were upset by the poll attribufc ed to Olejnlczak, and that Olejniczak had asked that the vote be kept secret. Two committee members, asking that they not be dentified, said they knew nothing about a meeting between players and Olejniczak. "I am very surprised about the whole thing," one of them said. "If he did have a meeting, he did it on his own and nobody polled me." Another said: "I have my opinions, but I can't say anything now. I just wish the whole thing" about Devine's status "would come out." Devine concluded a third season with the Packers Sunday, having been under increased fan censure because the club plunged from title contention in midseason by losing five of six games.

City cage schedule MONDAY, 5:30 P.M. Rrownwood ninth grade at Comanche. TUESDAY, 7 P.M. Rrownwood varsity i vs. Vernon in Lion Gym.

THURSDAY, 4 P.M. Brownwood junior varsity vs. Abilene Cooper in Brownwood Coliseum. THURSDAY, 6 P.M. Brownwood varsity vs.

Abilene Cooper In Brownwood Coliseum. THURSDAY, 8 P.M. Howard Payne vs. Southeastern Oklahoma in Rrownwood Coliseum. FRIDAY Brownwood junior varsity In Abilene tournament.

SATURDAY Brownwood junior varsity in Abilene tournament. Sir THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Esslerft Atlantic ttfittmtti Division 18 13 Boston New VorR Buffalo Philadelphia 10 51 Central Division d. 6.ft. 581 i II Milwaukee ni, PoMisnd Phoenix 111, Seattle 10? Monday'5 Game Now York Houston Tuesdays Games Cleveland at Bulfaio Atlanta at capital Seattle at Chicago Milwaukee at Los Angeles PhoeniS at Portland Capital 15 Atlanta 13 Houston 11 20 Cleveland 11 Westerh conference Midwest Division Milwaukee 11 5 Chicago 25 Detroit 20 13 C. Cimaha 9 it Pad lie Division Golden State 14 11 Los Angeles 18 15 Portland 13 Phoenix 12 20 Seattle 12 74 Saturday's Games New York 114, Kansas Omaha 107 Detroit 99, Philadelphia .554 .448 3 .355 i .344 .644 ..758 2'j 606 7'J .593 1 .404 5'j .375 .333 8' 7 City 89 Chicago 104, Houston 100 Milwaukee 116, Atlanta Phoenix 121, Boston 120 Capilal 106, Golden State Sunday's Games Kansas City Omaha 10S Iroit 104 Boston 115, Los Angeles 82 93 De 110 Boston at Golden Slate ABA East Division Pel Kentucky 20 10 447 Carolina 22 12 '447 New York 21 13 4)8 1 Virginia 9 9 3,, Memphis 9 25 245 13 West Division Utah 15 53, San Antonio 18 14 .539 Indiana 14 14 ,500 i Denver 15 .483 1'j San Diego 19 424 3'j Saturday's Games New York 99, Carolina 95 Kentucky 120, Denver 114 San Antonio 92, Indiana 81 Utah 112, Virginia 102 Sunday's Games Kentucky 104, San Diego 101 San Antonio 85, Memphis 80 New York 129, Utah 109 Monday's Games No games scheduled Tuesday's Games No games scheduled Houston closes on hopeful note By MICHAEL A.

LUTZ Associated Press Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) The Gin- cinnati Bengals didn't use steamroller tactics in beating the Houston Oilers 27-24 Sunday to win the American Football Conference Central Division championship, out they got the job done anyway. "He won the game, the divisional title and you can slice that anyway you want to," an obviously ired Bengal Coach Paul Brown said after Ken Anderson's three touchdowns passes salvaged the Cincinnati victory, "We caught a team that was emotionally aroused because of those two guys we traded but that's just normal," Brown said. Brown referred to Houston running backs Paul Robinson and Fred Willis, who came to Houston last year in a trade with the Bengals. Robinson, inactive much of this year, gained 100 yards on 20 carries in one of the Oilers' best offensive showings of their season, which ended with a 1-13 record. Willis, an Oiler spark all season, gained 85 yards rushing and caught three passes for 51 yards to win the AFC receiving title with 57 catches for the season.

The Bengals' answer was Anderson's touchdown passes, in- eluding bombs of 77 and 67 yards to rookie Isaac Curtis and a 10-yard TD to tight end Bob Trumpy. Cincinnati also scored on field goals of 18 and 40 yards AFTER CLOSE CALL Chomp Bengals subdued By MICHAEL LUTZ Associated Press Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) For a team that had just won the American Football Conference Central Division title, the Cincinnati Bengals were a subdued lot following their narrow 27-24 victory over the Houston Oilers Sunday. It was a marked contrast to last week when the Bengals, sang, danced and hugged each other following a convincing 3417 victory over the Cleveland growns. But Sunday the Bengals were most beaten by the team with worst record in the NFL and re was little cheer about. "We did all our celebrating ast week after Cleveland, said Cincinnati tight end Bob Trunv py, who caught a 10-yard touchdown pass.

"We just went into the game for all the wrong reasons, We should have been beaten but we weren't. We were just lucky." Linebacker Ron Pritchard, traded to Cincinnati by the Oil- ers last season said "We almost had to learn a hard lesson. If we can just take this now as a lesson Cincinnati Coach Paul Brown emerged from a meeting with the team following the dose call and he was obviously still angry. "We won the game, the divisional title and you can slice that anyway you want to," he said. "We had some great plays, Then a guy gets hit and he wants to fight.

That reflects a team that is not ready to play, Cincy's Tim Kearney and Houston's Al Jenkins were ejected from the game for fighting in the third quarter. Cincinnati travels to Miami Sunday to play defending Super Bowl champion Miami in the AFC championship playoffs, "We weren't ready to play today," said rookie fsaac Curtis, who caught touchdown bombs of 77 and 67 yards against the Oilers. "But we'll sure be up by the time we get to Miami," Bengal receiver Charlie Joiner, also traded to Cincinnati by the Oilers last year, also said the team wasn't ready to play. "I don't know what was," he said, "I guess you could say were complacent." Uclans withstand adversity, Pack By JOHN NriljSON WaltOfl. Whn Sfif ri'h fnt- ilist tittfi it tKrmrrrl, on cpnf frnm I'hin flfinr irt tkti fincf km Press Sports Writer the UCLA story: If one man do'csh't beat you, the other one will.

"1 was just happy that the players could withstand adversity," said UCU basketball Coach John Wooden after his Bruins had defeated North Carolina State 84-66 Saturday and captured their 79th straight Victory. The one man is 6-foot-ll Bill Walton, who sat on the bench for 21 minutes after he was called for four fouls early in the first half "adversity" in Wooden's words. The other man is fi-7 Keith Wilkes who scored 27 points and held his opposite number, 6-4 All-Americah David Thompson, to just 17 points, including seven of 20 from the floor. "I don't like his shot at all," said Wooden of Wilkes' stlf- farm, over-the-head jumper. "I I million no-shows of NFL gomes In 73 by Horst Muhlmann.

The determined Oilers, closing out a dismal season on an encouraging note, led the Ben- gals 10-3 in the second quarter and rallied with two late touchdowns to make it close after Cincinnati had taken a 27-10 lead. Willis scored two touchdowns, Robinson added another and Skip Butler kicked an 11-yard field goal for the Oilers. Willis and Robinson each scored on one-yard plunges in Houston's fourth quarter surge. "I guess we took them for granted," Trumpy said of the Oilers. "Once the Oilers all get pointed in the right direction, they'll be a good football team.

We overlooked that fact. Cincinnati now advances into the AFC playoffs against defending Super Bowl champion Miami. "We can't go down there sitting on our heels," said Bengal running back Essex Johnson, who missed a rushing season by three yards. Oiler General Manager Sid Gillman praised Houston's effort in the finale. "It would've been awful easy to go out there and lay down today," Gillman said, "but they played their hearts out.

I've never seen as many things happen to a football team as have happened to this team this year, but that's all in the past now and I'll guarantee we'll surprise some people next year." NEW YORK (AP) More than 1 million ticketholders stayed away from National Football League games this season, the first under the lifting of the television blackout, a league spokesman said Sunday night. This final weekend of the season had an estimated 190,000 no- shows, according to the NFL. The highest number of no- show this season occurred at Kansas City Sunday where 35,793 ticketholders did not turn nut in 20-degree weather to watch the hometown Chiefs and San Diego Chargers. Both teams were out of the running for playoff berths. Federal legislation this year lifted the NFL's television blackout of home games sold nut 48 hours beforehand.

More than 20,000 no-shows were reported at Miami, Chicago and Atlanta this weekend. An an estimated 20,000 stayed away from the Minnesota-New York Giants game at New Haven, Conn. The spokesman said the no- show figure for the season represented 10 per cent of all season tickets sold. just like the way it goes through the hoop." But Wooden didn't feel Wilkes' performance was a surprise, even though the 20-year- old grandson of a Baptist minister has played in Walton's shadow most of his college basketball career. Both teams came out visibly tight UCLA putting its 78- game winning streak on the line and No.

2 N.C. State playing what it must have figured its toughest game of season. At one point, North Carolina State took a 23-20 lead and at lialftime led 33-32. Walton finally came off the bench ih the second half with the score tied 54-54. And behind the shooting and rebounding of Walton and Wilkes, the Bruins took a 73-56 lead in five minutes.

tn other games involving the Top Ten Saturday, No. 3 Indiana beat Ball State 86-62, No. 7 Marquette defeated Minnesota 68-50, No. 8 Providence edged Austin Peay 94-92, No. 9 Louisville dropped Florida State 90-78, and No.

10 Memphis State breezed past East Texas State 99-76. No. 12 Long Beach State beat Long Island University 60-46, Seaton Hall dropped No. 17 San Francisco 89-83, 15th-ranked Kansas State beat Brigham Young 95-85, No. 19 Jacksonville defeated Oral Roberts 91-86, find No.

20 Southern California got by Arizona State 79-70. Wilkes' shot from underneath opened a 42-35 wedge early in the in the final half, and two more baskets by the forward made it 50-44 with less than 13 minutes left. "You don't have a great basketball team like UCLA's if you are a one-man team," said North Carolina State Coach Norm Sloan. "They did not wilt under pressure. They have been there before and they know what it is like.

"i hope we're better than this, but we'll have to wait and see," Sloan said. John Ijaskowski and Steve Green had 15 points each to lead an Indiana team that shot 62 per Texoma chart By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEASON Pcf. Midwestern 10 0 1.000 Bethany-Nazerene 8 I 087 Tex Wesleyan 7 McMurry 6 4 .600 Dallas Baptist 5 ,455 Wayiand Baptist i 5 .444 Lubbock Chrsln 3 5 .375 LAST WEEK'S Midwestern 77, East Texas Baptist 66, Lamar 83, Wayiand 76; Edwards 60, Texas Wesleyan 55, Lubbock Christian 70, Ft. Lewis State, 62. Friday-Texas Wesleyan It, LeTourneau 56, Pethany-Nazarene104, Ojarks College Saturday-McMurry 97, Hardin Simmons n.

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Marquette Coach Al McGuire was charged with a technical for kicking the official scorer's table early in the game. Marvin Barnes scored a school record 52 points to lead Providence over Austin Peay. The former school record, 50 points, was set by All-American Jimmy Walker. also grabbed 19 rebounds. Bill Butler scored 27 points and Junior Bridgeman had 22 and grabbed 17 rebounds to lead Louisville.

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