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Sugar Protest Planned NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Dr. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will lead a demonstration against the Notre Dame- Alabama Sugar Bowl game New Eve, according to black community leaders. Protestors said Monday they would be aiming for national attention with the demonstration. since would be virtually impossible to shut down the They also said they would probably not ask black football and basketball players participating in the games to boycott Sugar Bowl activities. Tyrone Brooks of SCLC headquarters in Atlanta said, lines will be set up around the stadium and at various events Also we are urging all the concessionaires not to go to work on that day.

We are urging all businesses that have committed themselves to sell there not to Dr (iuy Gipson, president of the New Orleans NAACP, said the protests would be peaceful. He also said the civil rights leaders warned the Mid-Winter Sports As.sociation. which runs the bowl games, to add four blacks to the groups executive committee. From Your CinrolR JpRraal Department Tuesday, December 25, 1973 51 Randy York Vini Dave Sillier And Parl-limern Jim Tom llafemeisler, Dave Lucas and (Ihuck Sinclair McAdoo Leads Scoring NEW YORK (AP) Bob McAdoo of the Buffalo Braves needs only an average game against the Boston Celtics Wednesday night to pass the OOP-point scoring mark this season. Of course, for McAdoo.

an average National Basketball As.sociation game represents 29 1 points, so there be any problem in passing the plateau. The ft-foot-IO center, who also has alternated at forward with Bob Kauffman, continues to lead the NBA in scoring, according to league statistics released Monday night McAdoo. who has scored the most field goals in the league, is second to Milwaukee center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in field goal per centage. Abdul-Jabbar. the eighth-leading scorer, connects on 54 3 per cent of his shots to 53 4 for McAdoo Pete Maravich of the Atlanta Hawks holds down second place in scoring with 28.1 points per game.

The Korifig leaders McAdoo Buf Marawich. All. Hudson All coft Phoe Goodrich A Petne. Porf Tomianovich, Hou Abdul Jabbar, Mil Haywood, Sea Carr, Cle eo rr ph. JW 193 29 I 339 193 359 126 3i 1 268 124 26 2 142 212 906 25 9 335 141 811 25 3 .146 362 120 24 6 216 950 23 8 362 216 950 23 8 363 145 821 23 5 Joins Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame Football Fan Sayers Receives Honor By VbrgU Parker Journal Sports Editor Gale Sayers, the newest inductee into the Lincoln Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame, says been a lucky man.

few men in this world enjoy going to work every Sayers reasons. get channeled into some line of work which they necessarily like because a living. 1 got to (rfay football every day for 20 years, and I loved every minute of Sayers, the 54th former great from the work! of sports to bec'ome a member of the Hall of Fame, is also the first black to be so honored. Playoff Renews Rivalry BL(X)MINGTON. Minn.

(AP) Only 4,954 fans were on hand and the of the National Football League, as well as profes.sional football fans, probably pay much attention when the Minnesota Vikings and Dallas Cowboys met for the first time. It was August 1961 when the Vikings took the field At Sioux Falls S.D.. for their very first exhibition contest against the Cowboys, a one- year old expansion franchise without a victory in its first year in the NFL The Cowboys, under Coach Tom Landry, took advantage of a raft of Vikings mistakes to run up a victory. That was more than 12 years long before the Super Bowl was invented to help settle the bidding war between the old NFL and the emerging American Football League. The first two NFL expansion teams of the 1960s meet Sunday at Texas Stadium, before a national television audience and a crowd of more than 60,000, for the National Football Conference championship and a berth in the Super Bowl.

Landry is still around and has the Cowboys into a record eight straight piayoffs and a Super Bowl title. Quarterback Fran Tarkenton and offensive tackle Grady Alderman are the only Vikings left from that 1961 team. Coach Bud Grant has his team in the playoffs for the fifth time in his seven years with the Vikings. In contrast to that first game more than a decade ago, both have veteran teams long accustomed to winning. The Vikings outlasted the Washington Redskins 27-20 in the first round of the playoffs Saturday, then watched on television as Dallas eliminated the Los Angeles Rams 27-16.

game reinforces your impressions of Roger Staubach, the (Dallas) said Grant. is a confident guy, a big-piay guy. He an especially good day but when they needed it the most, in the second half their lead was down to hit that big touchdown pass. He began his outstanding career as a prep star at Omaha Central High, went on to earn collegiate honors at Kansas University where he is now an assistant athletic director theti gained his greatest fame during a seven-year career as an all-pro halfback with the Chicago Bears. miUFAME really did love every day of Sayers insists, I mean just game days.

I loved the hard work of practice, the sweat, the pain of losing and the exhilaration and pleasure of One of most celebrated athletic feats came in another sport trMk while a prepster in the CtNmhusker Sute. In the Nebraska high school state track and field championships in the spring of 1961, Sayers was locked in a long jumping duel with Lincoln Williams. lead went back and forth between Gale remembers. last jump he took the lead with a leap of 25 -IOV a the longest of his life. Then, on my last chance, I went than I ever had before to beat him by a quarter of an Sayers record of 25-lOVi been challengea since.

was an unusual year in Nebraska high school Sayers recalls. still hcdd the long Jump record, Kent McCloughan, who went to Broken Bow High and later was a star pro player for Oakland, still holds the 220-yard dash record he set that same spring and Williams was also a super Williams, in addition to coming within V4 inch of long jump mark, was also credited with a :09.5 century dash that year, one of only two recorded in Nebraska prq) history. McCloughan ran a :09.6 tiiat spring and his clocking in the 220 still stands as the state record. Sayers remembers the 0-0 football standoff Central played with Creighton Prep his senior year for the state championship as his top gridiron memory from his high school days, but admits that after I left the state to play college ball, Nebraska wound up providing both the high point and low point of my college career at The high point came hU junior year when he set a Big Eight record by running 99 yards from scrimmage for a touchdown, that was somewhat dimmed by the fact that Nebraska still won the The low point came his senior season. Gale says, when he dropped a game-tying touchdown pass in the fourth quarter against the Comhuskers.

like Sayers reasons. win all in life you catch every pass but have to he adds with a chuckle, one I have Sayers says people are continually asking him what was his greatest thrill in athletics. just repeat what I said earlier. My biggest thrill was just getting the chance to play. I loved playing the game, why still around Sayers went from Kansas to an illustrious career with the Bears in pro ball, a career cut short by a series of knee injuries.

Toward the end of his playing days a poll of sports writers named him the greatest running back in the first 50 years of pro ball. He twice led the National Football League in rushing and was named to the all-pro team five times. Continued: Page 53, Col. 4 Honoree Gale Sayers as a Chicago Bear. Unknowns in Spotlight For North-South Battle UPI TELEPHOTO Montreal Canadiens Frank (left) and Peter Mahovlich take a Christmas break and give their sons, Ted (left) and Peter, Jr.

a piggy-back ride on the ice. MIAMI (AP) Three little- known Eastern players with hopes of moving on to the National Football League get their chance to scouts here tonight in the Mahi Shrine North-South game. The kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m., EST. The Yankee squad will be quarterbacked by Peil Pennington, who passed for 1,802 yards and 17 touchdowns at Massachusetts this year. His backup, Kim McQuilken of Lehigh, completed 55.7 per cent of his tosses and threw for over 7,000 yards in his career.

One of their targets is Freddie Scott of Amherst, who caught 114 passes for 1,726 yards in two seasons. They also have Olympic sprinter Gerald Tinker of Kent State and Tim Berra, son of New York Manager Yogi Berra, as receivers. The passing plans of coaches Dick MacPherson of Massachusetts and Don James of Kent State may be dropped if Isaac Jackson of Kansas State can run with the authority which enabled him to compile 1,137 yards this year. The Yankees will be up against a Rebel team which for the game leisurely with only five hours of workouts. idea of these all-star games is for the kids to have some maintained South Coach Pepper Rodgers of Georgia Tech.

the past four years they practiced for hours and they want to go through it again. Football Bob Dtvonty Prodicts, 7:30 p.m., 0. Basketball Kings vs. Houston, 8 p.m., 0. Friday Football Poach Bowl (Maryland vs.

Georgia), 7 p.m., Moot tho Huskors, 10:45 p.m., Pro Football This Wook, 11 p.m., 0. installed a simple offense fairly simple said Rodgers. "That makes it easier on both the players and Rodgers and University of Miami, Coach Pete Elliott will open with a triple-option attack led by UCLA quarterback Mark Harmon and New Mexico quarterback Don Woods, both experienced Wishbone-T players. decision to keep the workouts simple and avoid the complicated Wishbone attack he employed at UCLA was some relief to James, who faced a Wishbone team. Pepper will run out of an I-formation or Veer-T and that option stuff is tough to said James.

must have a specific responsibility or you end up tackling the wrong The right people to tackle are expected to be North Carolina Willie Burden, who rushed for 1,014 yards this year, and North Carolina fullback Sam Johnson. Frosty No Longer Awed by Grid Powers all-Big Eight split end Frosty Anderson grew up in awe of the big names in college football Alabama, Notre Dame, Texas and, particularly, Michigan State. But he never figured Nebraska was in that class. Things have changed quite a hit since his formative years. Now one of the brightest stars in the classroom and on the field and on New Day will play a key role as Nebraska tries to defeat the Texas Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl Classic.

retrospect, I guess I was awed by teams like Texas, Alabama and Notre Dame when I got out of high Forsty said. I knpw that much about Nebraska. never even seen a Nebraska game, even though 1 went to high school in Scottsbluff where my dad was coaching at Hiram Scott College. I grew up thinking Michigan State was the grestest dad, Forddy, was the basketball coach at Michigan Frosty confesses no longer by coUege teams. wiU be my third bowl hg said.

played against Algtema Just a little, but 1 eaught one and Notre Damf (he caught a TD pass from Johnny Rodprs), and now 1 get to play apinst Texas. three years of playing the top teams in the nation, we realize that that caliber, too, and it feels very normal to be going against a fine team like Honored recently by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame as a scholar-athlete. Frosty is quick to point out that the 1974 Cotton Bowl game lacks the glamour of a national championship game like the Huskers played with Alabama in the 1972 Orange Bowl. suppose some people look at the Cotton Bowl and some of the other bowl games as a Non-Consequence Bowl this he said. Texas and us had letdowns this fall that hurt us, hut now simply a matter of pride.

only thing got going is the honor of winning a Cotton Bowl game, but not all bad, you know. Of course, unfortunate that more is not at stake, but winning a Cotton Bowl game is enough to get inspired on. There are only three big bowl games open to most of the teams in the nation and in one of them a big honor and a worthy Dunhg the 1973 season, Forsty caught 26 passes for 504 yards and touchdovms, the latter two marks leading Nebraska and the TD mark lealtng the Big Eight, despite missing three games with a shoulder injury. In the two games before his injury (Missouri, first quarter). Frosty caught 14 passes for 278 yards and four TDs.

think the the thing really got us enthusiastic about playing Texas and, of course, they probably feel the same way is the fact that we have the prospect of going out and showing people on national television what a good team we really are, nuch better than we looked against Anderson said. the past, looked forward to Miami because of the sun, swimming pool and ocean 1 he said. our coaches have impressed us this year with their emphasis on the game and we all feel the same Anderson admits he enjoys bowl games, no matter where located. have a good he smiled. get that many college kids together and not have a good time.

make the Itast of any situation and enjoy themselves, and a good thing about bowl And as an he concluded: just appreciate the opportunity to play in a big, major bowl game against a top opponent a matter of pride. Both Texas and Nebraska will havftt on New Day, and it should be a giMt experience for all of Stabler Worries Shula MIAMI (AP) a championship game. my says Miami Coach Don Shula, thinking ahead to American Conference showdown with the Oakland Raiders. And if Shula needs another slice of motivation, he could turn to the fact that the Raiders halted regular-season and playoff winning streak at 18 games with a 12-7 victory last Sept. 23.

been in playoffs and won them and been in playoffs and said Shula. players know the difference. I have to tell them about Then, turning to that loss to Oakland, Shula commented was one big difference in that The Oakland quarterback three months ago was Daryle Lamonica, known sometimes as the Area He able to get the Raiders into the end zone that although he did get them close enough to set up four George Blanda field goals. Ken Stabler, more conservative and more accurate, took over as quarterback a couple of games later and, en route to becoming the No. 1 passer in the AFC.

directed the Raiders to the West Division title. The Dolphins out of that game relatively injury-free. Tight end Jim Mandich, who caught one of touchdown passes, sufferc-d a broken bone in his left hand and underwent surgery But Shula said he was confident the cast placed on the hand would be replaced with tape to enable Mandich to play against the Raiders. Wide receiver Paul Warfield, who caught other scoring strike, suffered a pinched nerve in his shoulder in the game buliretumed later was pronounced healthy..