The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 22

22 THE KANSAS CITY STAR PridGy Novwbor it Geoffrion Is Still Booming trouble Most of what the Boomer has to say be printed unless as he puts it so quaintly want to swim So you tuck away the golden gems for use at the proper time and you go on from there Power His Baby What the Boomer was willing to talk about the other night was a subject near and dear to his the power ilay And on that subject he is an expert For it was Geoffrion and into mind that indeed the nickname might well have been in honor of that booming voice of his Unlike some scouts the visits to the Royal never are cloaked in the slightest secrecy You know in the house the minute he walks in the door To say that Geoffrion is a fun-loving throwback to pre-expansion days in the is putting it mildly The Boomer not only knows all or most of it at least but willing to tell all or most of it at least And the By Dick Mackey A Member of The Str' Soorti S'ta tt His name is Bemie Geoffrion but Boom-Boom or better still just Boomer will do very nicely It's a tagline the stubby French-Canadian picked up during hts 16 years in the National Hockey league most of them with the Montreal Canadiens It derived from that booming slapshot of his But the other mght as the now New York Ranger scout fully decked out in a mod blue pinstriped suit walked down an aisle at the American Koyal arena the question popped Too Much Almost Sooner Cuts In On John's Action we worked on he went on a little but not too much In hockey the toughest thing to practice Players seem to like practicing the power play hard work and seen it wind up in fights with your own players I know 1 like it (practice) myself not becoming a lost art though The team going to win has got to have a good power play Omaha has a good one Anyone who skates and moves the puck around is going to have a good power play If the puck moves the defending player has to move we have a good power play now But work on that soon Maybe my philosophy is wrong But I want to do one filing at a time If you give them (team) four things to do at once that's too much Right sow doing a good job at keeping the goals (against) down and our defense is playing well what been working on Henry also said he has been concentrating matching Ms best line against the best line And when you do that you run the danger of getting caught short if your top line also serves as your power-play unit And that is the case with the Blues right now But Henry left no doubt the old 5-on-4 advantage very much is on his mind The Boomer undoubtedly is happy to hear that After all Henry made his living at it for 13 years in the Doug Harvey at the points with Dicky Moore the Rocket Richard and Jean Beliveau up front for the Canadiens that rewrote the rule governing the duration of power-play situations That was in 1956-57 Up until that season penalized players were required to sit out the full two minutes But the Canadiens were so devastating on the power play that a 2-minute advantage to them was more than enough time to score two sometimes three goals Thus the rule was altered to allow a player serving a minor penalty to return to the ice when a goal was scored by the opposing team got to practice and practice and said theBoomer regarding the power play stay out after practice to practice half an hour sometimes an hour on different plays different But later as Geoffrion sat back and saw the Blues come up empty on one power play aftrt another he must have wondered to himself whether he called a halt to his playing days too soon Had he been told the Blues have scored only two power-play goals all season he might well have taken it as an insult to Camille coaching ability considering the closeness of their friendship that too could have spelled trouble Henry of course would have laughed As an old power-play specialist himself Henry knows the value of the power play he said it get any worse But right now not too Then he explained Close Call For Blues Noel Picard (4) St Louis Blues' defensemen flinches es Bryan Hextall (7) of the Pittsburgh Penguins cuts loose a shot and misses from tno blue line The Blues' goalie is Ernie Wakley in this first period action of their National Hockoy game in Pittsburgh (Wirophoto) Years of Integrity Backs Every Any Make Any Model THE MAJOR CADILLAC LEASING CO 1K1 Mc6ee Trfwy (Fsrmrly6rMfilas) TeL 471-2480 Wofford Gains Play-off Spot Wofford College and Platte-ville State of Wisconsin were chosen yesterday to play in the Division I semifinal football games in the National Ass tion of Intercollegiate Athl national play-offs Two other teams will be en Sunday No pairings been made for the playoffs track alliance The A A cross-country meet will be Monday in Williamsburg Va Both Kansas and K- State will stage their annual freshman-varsity basketball games Monday night Bowl gossip reveals this sort of line-up (x denotes teams already accepted bid): xNebraska vs Notre Dame Sugar xAir Force vs Texas vs Tennessee Mississippi vs Arizona State Arkansas (must beat Texas Tech) vs Auburn Oklahoma (must play Nebraska respectable) vs Alabama xTexas Tech (unless it upsets Arkansas) vs Colorado Houston vs Florida away from the Big Eight kickoff return record of 599 yards Pepper Rodgers of Kansas is 0-4 against Oklahoma and three of the losses have been 4-pointers George Amundson Iowa 6-foot -3 210-pound quarterback has :048 in the 40 according to Coach Johnny Majors He looked it on his 77-yard touchdown run against Missouri Amundson could speak Greek before English His father George sr is in the Health service and the family moved to Athens when George jr was a baby A Greek maid took care of him The Amundson family has also lived in Tripoli Pierre Aberdeen and now Kansas City at 5229 North Wayne avenue Bob Timmons the Kansas track coach is the new president of the Central Collegiate conference a Mid-Western VISIT GATEWAY'S SKI CHALET ON THE COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA CHIEFS ON KCMO OS KFMU lyiMrtF is Sari by MARK LINCOLN MERCURY 1212 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Where Else But UNITED SUPERS RUSHING OFFENSE A Aft Yds 542 Colorado Nebraska 10 Oklahoma 9 Missouri 10 TEAM offense American Conference Avg Avg Yards Rushing 3429 1479 3028 1094 2897 1133 2877 2832 Jets L1 2832 City 2729 Avg Passing 2150 1931 1827 1818 1743 lfsi 1724 1373 Dift6NSYV 10 392 1446 142 Oakland Cleveland Houston Buffalo Miami Baltimore Kansas San Diego 2721 Denver 2709 Cincinnati 2447 Pittsburgh 2442 Boston JOOt National Conference tlfnUco Giants 3220 Washington 3000 tffl it Green Bay -2441 Minnesota 2598 Atlanta 2S70 New Orlgns 2499 Chicago 2102 778 Nebraska Missouri Kansas State Colorado Oklahoma Oklahoma Steto Kns Come Atf In Pet -State 175 370 28 Nebraska 140 225 10 Okla State 120 250 17 -480 I Iowa State 117 262 18 447 1 Missouri 1JS JS 1Z -5? Colorado 80 198 12 404 1 80 185 15 52 109 432 477 1790 2192 1892 1574 1494 1774 1344 1394 1344 1457 1417 1122 805 DEFENSE Iowa State 97 204 9 471 fflj 1534 1324 S3 If i ll 1 1 1 Colorado Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska Missouri TEAM DEFENSE American Oenterence Avg Yards Rushing 2514 1142 Avg Passing By Fritz Kreisler A Member of The Star's Snorts Staff Steve of Oklahoma came away with a busted lip and a spinning head in a couple of head-to-head collisions with John Riggins of Kansas but the Sooner defensive back shook the cobwebs loose in time to land the knockout punch against the Jayhawks His pass interception in the end zone with 2:24 remaining choked off last major threat in the 28-24 victory last Saturday Only three plays before the interception was flattened by Riggins on 24-yard run to the Oklahoma 19-yard line He suffered through a similar experience in the third quarter when Riggins was spearheading a touchdown drive Riggins hit me going full blurted in staccato fashion as he gently rubbed ice on his fat upper lip after the game he ran over me it felt like I have my helmet on It knocked me Dizzy? how the Jay-hawks felt too Food for thought: After what happened to Kansas last year and Missouri this season the Big Eight might have a budding Orange bowl jinx going something Nebraska fans might keep in mind next August when figuring the Huskers will be better than ever Rumblings are heard that the Big Ten is considering taking another look at its bowl policy Already on the surface is the possibility of throwing out the no-repeat clause Something else to keep in mind is to allow the runner-up to go to another bowl Quotable quotes: Chuck Fairbanks of Oklahoma allow himself to think that super game against K-State might mean the Huskers will have a letdown this week well never hurt he says Steve Conley Kansas running back on his first child a son born two weeks ago: so little he looks like have to be a Notes from all over: Nebraska received no first place votes in the United Press International poll of coaches last week but got six this week Nolen Ellison the former Wyandotte high and Kansas basketball star now is assistant to the president at Michigan State Colorado established a season attendance record of 219521 in five games Henry Hawthorne of K-State is only four yards Judy Cook Hits 633 in Masters Judy Cook slumped to a 176 final game but she still turned in 633 to lead the Masters league at Lucky Strike lanes and Fred Miller to a pair of victories over Lucky Strike Alice Warger added 593 and Marsha Arr 584 Mitzie 586 helped Electro Bumper Plating dent Italian Gardens twice Jo Ann 578 led the loser StS- 1720 939 iltf ft 1354 1444 1760 Nebri itaSrf' 10 Kansas- 10 8la State? 1 Kansas City 2 Denver 3 NY Jets 4 Boston 5 Buffalo 4 Houston 7 Pittsburgh 8 Baltimore 9 Oakland 10 Cincinnati jl Miami Cleveland 1619 1827 644 2822 449 2858 2920 3013 3014 3092 3129 3133 1382 1234 1102 1388 OTA1 DEFENSE 812 29 1444 2777 3180 Kansas State -Nebraska 10 Colorado 9 Missouri 10 Oklahoma 9 Iowa State Oklahoma State 9 10 1010 1482 1008 937 1440 1504 1504 ffi i21 72 13 San Diego National Conference fiK 2492 2738 2800 2820 2844 2940 2980 3171 3391 I Minnesota Los Angeles Detroit 4 Atlanta 5 Philadelphia 4 St Louis 7 Dallas 8 San Francisco 9 Giants 10 Green Bay II Washington 12 Chicago 13 New Orleans 1331 1158 1324 1234 1191 1450 1495 1043 1407 1341 1580 1474 1584 1510 Nebraska Colorado Kansas Okla mom a Missouri 1490 2128 1984 Iowa State Oklahoma State Kansas State DEFE SCORING ft over Star Want Ads Many otters will Interest Adv Will IlllCt Pal 7W nu 9 10 11 -U Nebraska Kansas State Colorado Oklahoma Missouri Kansas Iowa State Oklahoma State Last Week's Missouri 19 tVliGGUVfl IT 241 Iowa State 31 bg SAVINGS 2 New Goodyear Suburbanite Snow Tiros -fc HBWiowvg 71 iaa 13 Colorado 30 Oklahoma State 4 Oklahoma 28 Kansas 4 This Week's Games: Iowa State at Jklahoma State Kansas af Missouri klahoma at Nebraska Kansas State at lorida State Colorado at Air Force PICK UP A WOODY'S WLD guaranteed Money-back Leakage protection LIMIT IN ALL TNB WORLD THERE'S ONLY JS BAWSAI mm 42nd NOLAND ROAD EXIT ON SOUTHEAST FREEWAY (1-70)14 MILE NORTH OF 40 HIGHWAY Wt Rtiirvt tm RiM Limit Quantities Fcllowing Do(t8 OpGn Sunday 1 0sOO to 6:0 Ptfi ttflitnHM a 4 aa fellow! ngDoptia Opn Sunday ICtOO to 6:0 Plp A and GardBrGrotrits-SooMitii Goods- Jj I NO PLACE LIKE CHROME! 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