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"I 1 rl Probe Off NEIL" ims Today Miry given a tryout by any other gome other club officials were team asked to appear Tuesday n. mo wa The only other club confirm-ZL rnthri. Ja tag that its officials had been discussed, Guthrie said be Zoa tnr thi wwk was tht IjnniB Ordinal whose Others getting subpoenaes included the Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers, Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, New York Giants and New York Jets. A Detroit Lions spokesman said only "documents" have been subpoenaed. violations tn the NFL merger with the American Football Conference will be considered.

Wooten said he was questioned a year ago by an agent the justice Department. They- were interviewing players all over the country," Wooten said Questions concerned player conditions, possible violations of players' constitutional rights and racial CLEVELAND, Ohio (API One guess is that the Justice 'A federal grand jury investiga- Department lawyers want to tion involving most if not all quiz officials of the 20 or more the teams of the National NFL clubs from coast to coast Football League opens today in about possible anti-trust viola-Cleveland tions The Department of Jus-, Former Cleveland Browns tice has maintained absolute linemen John Wooten, who on the investigation, presently is executive vice and NFL officials say they are president of the Black completely in the dark on the Economic Union, says he nurpose of the probe thinks possible antitrust Qeveland for the investigation. Guthrie identified the witnesses as Bernie Parrish, Ross Fichtner and Walter Beach-Beach, currently a student at Law School, says he filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission two years ago against the Browns Beach was waived prior to the 1967 'season and was not aspects. Bill Guthrie, sports editor of the New Haven Journal Courier and president of the Professional "Football Writers Association, said possible antitrust violations were to be investigated. He quoted a reliable source as saying three-fourths of the defensive backfield of the Browns' 1965 title team was to io learned, is the-question of re- imbursement for a player who plays out his contract option and is siped by another team Cleveland Browns head coach Blanton collier was called to testify today, and Browns' owner Art Modell and McCauley-Led Jar Sports 8 -Indox-Joumol, Greenwood, S.

Knights Trounce Rebels For City Junior High Title Wj I officials were called for Wednesday Several other clubs including the Minnesota Vikings, Pittsburgh Steelers, Boston Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles had subpoenaes for Dec 7 Clemson after end Wayne Baker recovered a second quarter McCauley fumble to put the Tigers in business at the Tar Hell 21 Passing to tight end John Mc-Makin for 14-yards and sending Ray Yauger over left guard for two, quarterback Tommy Kendrick moved his team to the five. From there, he faked a hand-off into the line, dropping back to pass to tight end Oscar Carter for the score. Carter had slipped into the open on a cross-pattern and took the five-yard aerial with 4:50 to play in the half. Eddie Seigler booted his 13th extra point of the season without a miss to narrow the Tar Heel lead to 21-7. Stiffled by a Tar Heel defense that limited his team to 77 yards rushing and 95 air yards, Kenrrick suffered three inter- Erskine Eliminated a nl XX If) rlQyOTTS BUIES CREEK.

N.C. Er-skine's soccer team was eliminated from further action Saturday as Campbell College tripped the Flying Fleet 3-2 in the championship game of the Area Five NAIA playoffs. Erskine had beaten Lynchburg, on Friday to advance to the finals. The Fleet jumped out front in the opening period when Kiki Ojeda scored the first goal, but Campbell came back and tied the score later in the same period. Ojeda put Erskine ahead again, 2-1, but Campbell tied it again, 2-2, with one minute left tn the first half.

Campbell's winning point came with 17:30 left in the fourth quarter Erskine's Dave Junker, Memo Suarez, Charles Mc-Ginty and Ojeda were named to the All-tournament team. The Fleet finished the year with a 12-1-1 record. Knights Win City Title Northside head coach Gary Roper, left, had a few problems at first but managed to get to the' middle of the crowd that surrounded the winning Knights Saturday night as he accepted the trophy presented the Greenwood city junior high school champions from Joe E. Adams, right of Greenwood Supply Company. The Knights won the title by defeating Southside 33-0 on the Phoenix Street atheltic field.

(Index-Journal photo by Jim Joyce) IS1 Nebraska First To Accept Bid To Bowl Game Heels Tigers ceptlons and had five passes batteddown. North Carolina's second touchdown was set up when a McCauley punt of 30 yards was fumbled by Clemson's Don Kel-ley and the Tar. Heels Ron Grzybowski covered it at the Clemson 35 Five plays later McCauley bulled his way around right end for eight yards and the score. Ken Craven, who upped bis season total to a school-record tying and ACC mark of 33 conversions, booted the extra point to make the score 14-0 with 6:44 left in the initial quarter The Tar Heel defense turned in the third score as a Kendrick pass was batted down by tackle Flip Ray. The ball was caught on the fly by left end Bill Bradford who lumbered 31 yards for the score with 40 seconds left in the first quarter Following the kickoff after Kendrick's scoring pass to Carter, quarterback Paul Miller drove the Tar Heels 64 yards as his runners followed large holes opened by an all-senior line.

Eight plays after the drive started, Miller hit wingback Lewis Jolley with pass over the middle. Jolley cut to the left sideline after catching the aerial and scooted 33 yards for the Tar Heels fourth touchdown. Carven's extra point with 1:15 left in the half, gave UNC a 28-7 lead at intermission. Qemson's closest penetration in the second half came when Seigler missed a 52-yard field goal attempt in the third quarter, while the Tar Heels managed to tack a pair of fourth quarter scores on the board. Moving 64 yards on a drive that started in the third period, McCauley dove over left guard from a yard out with 13:37 left in the final period for his third tally of the day.

At Oat point, with the score reading 34-7, Dooley turned the rest of the game over his second offensive unit. In other upsets, the Buffalo Bills held the Baltjjmojs to a 17-17 deadlock; the Philadelphia Eagles played to a 13-13 tie with the Atlanta Falcons and the Cincinnati Bengals edged the Cleveland Browns 14-10 The New York Giants had to rally to overcome the Washington Redskins 35-33, the Green Bay Packers nipped the Chicago Bears 20-19, and the San Diego Chargers got by the Boston Patriots 16-14 In other games, the Minnesota Vikings virtually wrapped up the National Conference's Central Division title with a 24-20 victory over the Detroit Lions; the Kansas City Chiefs clubbed the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-14; the Miami Dolphins upended the New Orleans- Saints 21-10 and the San Francisco 49ers belted the Houston Oilers 30-20 The Dallas Cowboys play host to the St Louis Cardinals the nationally televised monday night game MONDAY TUESDAY. mm Iring Your Family No RsMmfions sen surf Mmboo77-22I0 -I 'Step On' CLEMSON North Carolina's Tar Heels, led by the running of halfback Don Mc-Cauley, pounced the Clemson Tigers 42-7 Saturday afternoon before a rain-soaked crowd of 27,000 at Death Valley. McCauley's performance keyed a powerful Tar Heel running attack that proved to be the day's best offensive weapon the soggy field, producing 353 yards and 27 first downs. With the defense harrassing any efforts by the Tigers' offensive troops, the Tar Heels scored their seventh win in 10 starts and fourth win against two defeats in the ACC.

Clemson's mark fell to 3-7 overall and 2-3 in the league. With McCauley powering his way for large chunks of yardage, the Tar Heels went in for a score on the first series of downs, driving 73 yards in nine plays The bard-charging tailback, who picked up 62 yards on six carries in the drive, went the final 30 yards for the tally Bringing his season total to inging his season total to touchdowns, McCauley A eieht vards for one score 17 bulled eight yards for one score and dove over from the one for another during the game. Clemson's only score came Here Tonight Colly Gault, head football coach at Presbyterian College, will be the guest speaker at the Greenwood Touchdown and Tipoff Club meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Holiday Inn. Gault, since tak ing over at PC, has posted a record of 36 wins, 34 losses and 2 ties over six seasons. He was named South Carolina Coach of the Year in 1964, 1966 and 1968, and was selected as Carolinas Conference Coach of the Year in 1969 Yarborough Wins 500 ROCKINGHAM, N.C (AP) Two drivers who wound up big winners in Dixie stock stock car racing, Cale Yarborough and Bobby Isaac, say they couldn't have had an easier time of it Yarborough drove his red and white Mercury to victory in Sunday's twice-postponed American 500 at North Carolina Motor Speedway and soared past the $100,000 mark in winnings for the third time in the last five years Isaac finished a poor seventh in the race but earned enough points to clinch the NASCAR Grand National Driving, title, worth a bonus of $100,000 this year kick pushed USC in the lead to 10-7 Hart tried to get the Blue Devils going after a short kick-off and in two plays had logged a pair of first downs placing the ball at the midfield strip.

His second down screen pass to Bosetti was good but Jimmy Nash racked the Duke ball carrier so hard be fumbled into the hands of roverback Davis at the USC 43. It took. USC eight plays to march the 57 yards and cross the goal with Suggs passing to flanker Jimmy Mitchell from the five for the tally. Only 43 seconds remained on the half-time clock when DuPre booted the extra point which boosted the Gamecocks' halftime advantage to 10 points, 17-7 a' I i I i Alive Jets Upset Rams; Blanda Does It Again For Oakland Nov. 16,1970 runs of 31 and 10 yards enroute to the score.

Leading 7-0 after the first quarter, the Knights hit the scoreboard again early in the second period as the rain started falling heavily on the field. Southside's Randy Butler fumbled a Jeff Cary punt on the Rebel 27 and Northside recovered. Eight plays later Harvin circled his own left end for the score from the three with 6:32 remaining in the half. Thompson had scored two plays earlier but a penalty put the ball back on the six, nullifying the TD. The Knights' kickoff was fumbled on the Rebel 32 and Northside was back in business again.

Harvin went in from the eight and Charlie Wiggins kicked his third straight extra point to make the score 21-0 at halftime. The third period was score-Jess but Northside added two more IDs in the final quarter With 6:45 left Thompson scored from the three after the Knights took over on the Rebel 30 when Southside was forced to punt. The final Northside TD came late in the game when the Rebels drove to the Northside 19. The Rebels' threat was baited when Miller MeCUntock intercepted a pass and went 80 yards for the final TD. Wiggins' kick was blocked and the score read 33-0.

Southside threatened only twice. Once the Rebels reached the Northside 20 in the second quarter but lost possession of the ball on downs at the 28. The Rebels' only other threat came late but McClintock's interception stopped that one. Fumbles and penalties hurt the Rebels throughout the contest, but it was the tough Northside defense that kept the Rebels' runners cornered most of the time. Southside 0 0 0 00 Northside 7 14 0 1233 Sports Results Pro Basketball NBA Saturday's Results Baltimore 122, Boston 101 Chicago 120, Atlanta 116 Diego 112, Detroit 101 Milwaukee 116, Buffalo 107 Portland 126, Cleveland 116 Only games scheduled Sunday's Results -Milwaukee 105, Baltimore PhoeniX 108, Detroit 104 Only games scheduled ABA Saturday's Results Utah 106, Pittsburgh 102 Virginia 119, Floridians 97 Kentucky 149, Texas 132 Indiana 128, Carolina 119 Only games scheduled Sunday's Results New York 144, Texas 129 Denver 110, Utah 107 i Only games scheduled fourth down DePre booted a 21-yard three-pointer and with 6:34 left in the half the Gamecocks trailed 7-3 Duke got in serious trouble on their next offensive series as Chesson and Hart drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that sent the Blue Devils reeling back to their own 17.

Chesson, back to punt three plays later on fourth and long yardage, saw 10 Gamecocks charging in on him at the 10 and tried to run around them. He was tackled at the Duke 10 and in two plays USC had the lead. Rice notched the eight-yard touchdown by wide and stepping into the corner of the end zone with 4:42 remaining to be played in the half DuPre's By JIM JOYCE Index-Journal Sports Editor Tony Thompson and Bubba Harvin scored two touchdowns each and led Northside to the city junior high school football title Saturday night as the Knights tripped the Southside Rebels 33-0 in the intracity clash on the Phoenix Street athletic field. With the victory the Knights accepted the rotating trophy presented by Greenwood Sup ply and will keep the award for the first year. One of the three junior high teams in the city must win the city title three consecutive years to retire the huge trophy, presented Saturday by Joe E.

Adams of Greenwood Supply Company Northside went to work quickly as Thompson rambled over his left guard position to score from the four yard line after the Knights took the opening kickoff and started from their own 33 Thompson had against Georgia Tech Runner-up Texas, ousted from the top spot last week, overpowered Texas Christian 58-0 as Longfaorn fans chanted. "We're No. 1, we're No. 1." "We took a bad whipping," said TCU Coach Fred taylor "They have a great team." "We just bad something to prove," said defensive end Bill Atessis of the winners, referring to the previous week's listless 21-14 victory over Baylor With fullback Steve Worster nursing an injury for most of the game, Jim Bertelsen took up much of the slack, gaining 92 of the Longhorns' 301 yards on the ground and scoring three times. Notre Dame got a vote to retain its No.

1 ranking from Coach Bud Carson of Georgia Tech. 'Tve been saying all week that Notre Dame was No 1 and nothing happened to change my mind," said Carson, who added, 'Tve never been more proud of a defensive effort in my 27 years in football" The Fighting Irish needed Denny Allan's two-yard plunge with 64 minutes left, the seventh play of an 80-yard drive, to nose out the fired-up Yellow Jackets, who are still in line for a bowl bid themselves BOWL TEAMS NAMED STERLING, Kan. (AP) Hutchinson Junior College will play Wesley College of Dovei in the fifth annual Sterling Silver Bowl football game Thanksgiving Day Selections of the teams were made Sunday by Bowl officials the USC line from a yard out to cap 88-yard, 12-play campaign. Duke got its big break on a face mask infraction against the Gamecocks which moved the ball from the USC 35 to the 18 From there the resistance stiffened and it took Duke seven plays to score. Bosetti lugged the ball on four of those plays.

touchdown dive. Dave Pugh kicked the conversion for the Blue Devils. South Carolina got another sparkling runback from deep return artist Harris on the en- suing kickoff to initiate a drive that put DuPre within jange of a field goairRamming the ball from the USC 15 to the Duke 45, Suggs and worked it further to the four where on 1 College Army 22, Oregon 22 Boston Col. 21, Pitt 6 BuckneU 24, Lehigh 20 Connecticut 33, Rh. Is.

12 Dartmouth 24, Cornell 0 Delaware 51, Boston 19 Harvard 17. Brown 10 Lafayette 31, Vermont 14 Mass. 24, New Eamp. 14 Pennsylvania 21, Columbia 14 Kutgers 37, Holy Cross 7 Temple 21, Buffalo 8 10 Westminster, pa. 13, Geneva College Vale 27, Princeton 22 Alabama 32, Miami, Fla.

8 Duke 42, South Carolina 38 E. Carolina 17, Marshall 14 Florida 24, Kentucky 13 Furman Univ. 28, Citadel 21 Georgia 31, Auburn 17 Grambling55. Norfolk St. 13 Howard U.

20, Morehouse 14 Jacksonville St 8. Livingston State 1 Lander Wins 3rd Preseason Game, 76-70 Lander won its third preseason basketball game Saturday afternoon with a 76-70 victory over North Greenville Junior College The Senators travel to Greenville for a rematch with the Furman freshmen tonight at 7:30, a game that will have two of the Senators out of action Jeff May, last year's leading scorer, jammed his jignt thumb in Saturday's game and Tommy Graham, freshman, jammed bis thumb in practice over the weekend Neither player will play tonight Cleo Morris, playing probably his best game, led the scoring with 27 points and grabbed 17 rebounds as the Senators overtook NGJC in the second half Following Morris were David Blevins with 16. Graham, John Davis, Larry Cheatham and Ralph Logan, all with 7 points. Ray Tackett with 3 and Don Clark with 2 May played but had to leave early because of the injury. By DICK JOYCE Associated Press Sports Writer George Blanda did it again and the injury-riddled New York Jets did almost the impossible.

In a Sunday marked by upsets and near upsets in the National Football League, the 43-year-old Blanda, Oakland's backup quarterback, led the Raiders to victory for the third straight week, This time he came off the bench with less than-four minutes to play, replacing Daryle Lamonica, and rallied the Raiders to a 24-19 triumph over the Denver Broncos Meanwhile, the Jets snapped a six-game losing streak by rputing heavily favored Los Angeles 31-20 Quarterback Al Woodall tossed three touchdown passes as the rams suffered their first loss to a former American Football League club The Jets built up a 31-13 lead before Los Angeles scored in the final minutes Scores John Hopkins 16, Dickinson 10 LSI) 38, Mississippi State 7 Memphis Wichita St. 6 Mississippi 44, Chattanooga 7 Morgan St. 24. Jackson St. 21 No.

Caro.42, Clemson7 Richmond 40. VMI 17 Southern U. 40, Fla. 19 SWLa.24,NWLa.St.21 Syracuse 19, W. Virginia 19 Tampa 68.

Idaho St. 7 Virginia 54, Colgate 12 Wake For. 16, No. Caro. St 13 W.Kentucky 14, BuUerO Wm.

Mary 29. Davidson 28 Wofford 37, Appalachina St. 13 S.C. State 24, Morris Brown 7 Johnson Smith 47, Fayetteville 0 Mars Hill 24, Emory Henry 9 N.C. AftT 14.

Virginia State 6 Catawba 42, Guilford 29 Fast Carolina 17. Marshall 14 Shaw 31, Winston-Salem 0 Elizabeth City 8, Livingstones Newberry 35, Samford 21 Western Carolina 33. Concordia 15 Lenoir Rhyne 13, ElonO Presbyterian 27, Carson-Newman 22 North Carolina Central 14. Virginia Union 0 Colorado 30, Oklahoma St 6 Drake U. 21, So.

Illinois 9 E. Kentucky 9, Indiana St 0 Iowa St. 31, Missouri 19 Louisville 28, Cincinnati 14 Miami. Ohio 10, Kent St 8 Michigan 55, Iowa 0 Minnesota 23, Mich. St.

13 Montana 24, So. Dak. St. 0 Nebraska 51, Kansas St. 13 Northwestern 21, Indiana 7 Notre Dame 10, Ga.

Tech 7 Ohio State in purine 7 Oklahoma 28, Kansas 24 St. Olaf 41, Monmouth 32 Toledo 31, Dayton 7 Tex. St. 23, Bowl. Breen 7 Wisconsin 29, Illinois 17 Wittenberg.

14, Ashland 6 Abilene20, Trinity 15 Alcorn 27, Pr View 3 Arkansas 36, SMU 3 Ark. St. 27, Tex-Arlington Houston 28, Wyoming 0 'Rice 18, texas 17 Texas 58, TCU0 El Paso 33, Arizona 17 Tex. Ho. Payne? Texas Tech 7, Baylor 3 Air'Force3I, Stanford 14 Ariz.

State 37, Utah 14 California 35, San Jose St. 28 Colo. St. 17, Pacific Univ Idaho 42, Utah State 14 Long Beach St. 40, L.

A. St 7 Nev South. 38, Mont. St. 36 New Mex.

51, Brigham Yg 8 Oregon St. 28, Wash. St. 16 San Diego St. 64, Cat, SBar 7 Washington 61, UCLA 20 WeberSt.41, BoiseSt.7 Tex St.

23. Bowl Green 7 five in a row Trailing 17-7 at the half, Hart came back throwing strikes and in seven plays the Blue Devils trailed by just three points, 17-14, when he neatly hit Wes Chesson on a 29-yard scoring pass with 12:58 left in the third quarter Then the lead swapping began as USC went 62 yards in 6 plays following the Duke kickoff to boost the score to 24-14 when Tommy Suggs zipped a 31-yard touchdown pass to Jim Mitchell with 10:54 remaining in the quarter As the rain began to fall on the kickoff, South. Carolina went to work at retaking the lead. They did so in six plays, when Simmons moved through By HERSCHEL NISSENSON Associated Press Sports Writer Nebraska has become the first major college football team to accept a bowl bid and now Coach Bob Devaney is shooting for first in the rankings, as well. "I've never said this before, but at the present time I think we have as much right to be No.

1 as anybody," Devaney said Saturday after the fourth-ranked Cornhuskers blasted No. 20 Kansas State 51-13 Sunday night, Nebraska accepted a bid to the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day "It was the only offer we got," Devaney said. "We did not turn down offers from any other bowls." Representatives from the Orange, Cotton and Sugar Bowls watched Saturday's game, but Devaney said he advised his team, now 9-0-1, to accept the Orange Bowl offer "I thought having this thing on our minds about a bowl would have a bad effect on preparing for this week's game against Oklahoma," he said. "The players were enthusiastic about the Orange Bowl, and I thought it was best to get it settled." In Saturday's game, Joe Or-duna scored four touchdowns and Nebraska's pass rush harassed K-State's heralded Lynn Dickey into seven interceptions. Deaney called it "one of our finest wins" and Coach Vince Gibson of the losers said Nebraska "might be the best team in America Nebraska was not alone among challengers for the No 1 throne in' the wake of top-rated Notre Dame's 10-7 scare a hole provided by tackle Dave DeCamilla and guard Bill Boyte with 8:11 to go.

Billy Du Pre's kick made it 38-35, but Hart and the Blue Devils had one more touchdown in them. It came eight plays following the kickoff on Bosettis' crash across the line from a yard out with exactly two minutes left in the hectic fray Duke demonstrated it did not need any help in scoring in the second half and the defense showed it could contain in the USC aerial attack by picking off a Suggs pass with less than a minute remaining to ice the victory The Blue Devils opened the scoring with 12:02 left in the half as tailback Bosetti hurtled Duke Nips USC, Keeps Tiile Hopes SPORTSMAN'S RESTAURANT OVER LOOKING LAKE GREENWOOD from Grunwood Cross Horrii lending Turn Right At Fork, Go 1 Mill For Good Food -SPECIAL etti Spagh COLUMBIA Duke Blue Devils kept their Atlantic Coast Conference title hopes alive Saturday night with a hard-fought 42-38 victory over South Carolina, putting a stop to any title hopes the Gamecocks had left Duke scored five touchdowns mlhe second half, managed to limit the South Carolina Gamecocks to four, and kept their chances of winning the Atlantic Coast Conference football championship alive for at least another week The five touchdowns came on the passing of Leo Hart and the bullying runs of tailback Art Bosetti as Duke extended th Gamecocks', losing streak to ALL YOU CAN EAT tndudos Rolls, French Frios and Colo Slaw diicken livers er Gizzard Dinner 97 WE SPECIALIZE IN WESTERN STEAKS Froth Catfish and Stafoods Tako Out Orders Sa.Til Opsfr.tSolf.Hll30ojn. VI.

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