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Giants hang on edge KC 33-27 INDEPENDENT (AM) PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM) lq tcn cm mm wv 4 Fouts fires 4 TD passes clips Browns SAN DIEGO (AP) Ray Wersching booted a 40-yard field goal with 55 seconds remaining and Dan Fouts passed for 333 yards Sunday to spark San Diego to a frantic 36-35 victory over Cleveland The Browns were in position for the victory on the San Diego 13-yard line with 22 seconds left when quarterback Brian Sipe a former San Diego State star fumbled the snap from center and Charles Anthony recovered to preserve the second victory of the season It was third down and one yard to go for a first down at the Giant 49 Morton playing in only his second game for New York since his acquisition from Dallas took a step backward and lofted the KC 19 29 41-94 42 139 252 265 117 32 17-33-0 29-41-1 5-39 6-44 4-0 00 8 85 4-37 First clowns Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penaltles-yards field goals of and 35 yards Dawson came off the bench and threw two touchdown passes for the Chiefs an eight-yarder to Morris Stroud with 12 second left in the first half and 23 yards to Brunson with 638 remaining in the game Kamo City 7 7 13-77 NY Giants 7 11 3 16-11 KC Green 1 run (Stenerud kick) NYG Gillette 7 pass (rom Motron (Gogolak kick) NYG Johnson 1 run (kick blocked) NYG Johnson 1 run (Gogolak kick) KC Stroud 8 pass from Dawson (Stenerud kick) NYG FG Gogolak 33 KC FG Stenerud It KC Brunson 23 pass from Dawson (Stenerud kick) NYG Dawkins 51 pass from Morton (Gogolak kick) KC FG Stenerud 42 A -61437 KANSAS CITY (AP)-Craig Morton surprised the Kansas City defense by floating a third down-and-one pass for 51 yards and a touchdown to Joe Dawkins to give the New York Giants a 33-27 victory over the Chiefs Sunday The Chiefs had the ball on the one-yard line when the game ended after veteran quarterback Len Dawson engineered a 77-yard march in eight plays Larry Brunson had caught a 15-yard pass sixth completion of the drive to inside the one where safety Chuck Crisp made a game-saving tackle as time ran oqjt The clinching touchdown came with 4:13 to play in the tense struggle played before a crowd of 61437 After the Chiefs had pulled to 26-24 the Giants were trying desperately to keep possession pass to Dawkins who caught it on the 26 and ran unmolested to the goal Earlier in the game Morton tossed a seven-yard pass to Walker Gillette that wiped out the early lead Ron Johnson stabbed into the line twice from one yard out for touchdowns and the Giants took a 20-14 halftime advantage Pete Gogolak who had an extra point blocked after the second touchdown made good on three others and booted INDIVIDUAL LEADERS PASSING New York Morton 17-33 256-0 Kansas City Livingston 4-8-554) Dawson 25-33-238-1 RECEIVING: New York Grim 4-70 Gillette 4-38 Tucker 3-45 Rhodes 2 35 Dawkin4 3-57 Johnson 1-11 Kansas City Podolak 7-51 Wright 3-32 Brunson 5-82 Pearson 6-79 Stroud 5-36 Green 3-13 RUSHING: New York Johnson 25-66 Dawkins 12-19 Morton 2-2 Kotar 2 7 Kansas City Green 30-66 Podolak 12-73 First oowns Rushes yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Steelers shackle Gabriel PITTSBURGH UR defense allowed only three drives beyond the 50-yard line and Mel Blount dealt the coup de grace with a 52-yard interception return for a touchdown as the Steelers crushed the Phi-ladephia Eagles 27-0 Sunday Philadelphia managed just 142 net offensive yards and Eagle quarterback Roman Gabriel completed only five of 17 passes for 29 yards when he was lifted late in the Tumble Denver 28-1 7 Raiders win again clutch field goal had appeared to have the Chargers in control but Greg Pruitt returned the ensuing kickoff 61 yards to the San Diego 31 to give the Browns field position Sipe then moved his team to the 13 Fouts had put his team in position to win the game by throwing four clvlnf Santiago 20 16 40-1-8 37-103 186 321 45 52 16-23-1 12 21 1 5-39 3-44 2-1 3-2 touchdown passes The scoring pitches were for 43 and 75 yards to rookie Don Woods and two others for one and 70 yards Trailing 21-7 at halftime the Chargers bounced back with two quick touchdowns in the third period to make it 21-19 as one extra point was blocked and another failed Fouts hit Woods with a 43-yard scoring pass and Glen Bonner with a one yard roll out for another score The teams then traded two pair of touchdowns in the first six minutes of the fourth period to make the score 35-33 Cleveland The Browns scored on a six-yard run by Hugh McKinnis and sec-' ond one-yard rojllqn touchdown of the game while Fouts hit Harrison Davis with' a 70 yard bomb and Woods with a 75-yarder The Browns had received new life when Davis fumbled on an end-around and Nick Roman recovered on the 17 late in the third quarter Six plays later McKinnis scored to make it 28-19 yards but it put him ahead of Bill Brown on the NFL career rushing list the ball Oakland took over on downs Stabler hit 10rof-14 passes in the first half for 148 yards After missing awAaaaaaaaawaaaaaaaIn Raiders Broncos 14 -7 7 0-28 7 0 10 0-17 from Stabler from Stabler trom Johnson from Stabler trom Johnson from Stabler Oakland Denver Oak Biletnikoff 23 pass (Blanda kick) Branch 9 pass (Blanda kick) Armstrong 48 pass (Turner kick) Biletnikoff 19 pass (Blanda kkiojf Fflt Turner 27 Den-Van Heusen 73 pass (Turner kick) Branch 61 pass (Blanda kick) 51706 his first three attempts in the second half he wound up with l2-of-19 for 217 yards The Marv Hubbard carried 22 times for 107 yards but fumbles Denver running back Floyd Little had only 25 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Oakland Hubbard 22-107 Davis 15-49 Banasrak 7M Denver Armstrong 20-88 Lifrit re fa Oakland Branch 5-108 Biletnikoff 4-58 Moore 1-32 Denver Armstrong 3-57 Odoms 3-49 Van Heusen 1-73 Oakland Stabler 12-19-0 217 yards Denver Johnson 13-24-1 240 arm spurs Bengals third quarter in favor of John Reeves Reeves hit two quick passes before the interception by Blount the Steeler comerback who was convoyed down the sideline for a touchdown that gave Pittsburgh a 27-0 lead waa'tiicTmn Win ih row for the Steelers while Philadelphia suffered its third successive and most lopsided loss this season Pittsburgh took a 17-0 halftime lead against an Eagle defense that had allowed the fewest points 123 per game in the NFL Terry Bradshaw made his second start of the season at quarterback for Pittsburgh completing 12 of 22 passes for 146 yards Philadelphia 0000-0 Pittsburgh 7 10 10 0-27 Pit-liwis 8 trom Bradshaw (Gerela y-G Gerela 35 Pit-FG Gerela 28 Blount 52 Interceptioh return (Gerela kick) A 47996 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Philadelphia Sullivan 16-35 Bailey 5-23 Pittsburgh Harris 20-70 Bradshaw 4-48 Pearson 7-47 Bleier 9-37 Philadelphia Sullivan 3-38 Young 3-30 Carmichael 1-29 Pittsburgh Brown 4-70 Shanklin 4-40 Lewis 3-28 Philadelphia Gabriel 5-17-1 29 yards Reeves 4-14-1 75 Pittsburgh Bradshaw 12-22-0 146 Watch the bouncing ball Camera action Sunday catches football suspended in mid-air on two 'unproductive plays Top Bob Gresham (right) of Houston Oilers dives for ball he fumbled in second quarter of game with New York Jets No 22 is Burgess Owens of Jets Gresham managed to beat Owens to the ball Below Levi Johnson of Detroit looks up in time to see sure touchdown pass intended for Joel Parker of New Orleans being dropped by open Saint receiver -Ow telephotos arkenton nasses Vikings to 17-0 win DENVER (UPI)-Ken Stabler threw four touchdown passes two to Fred Biletnikoff and two to Cliff Branch to lead Oakland to its seventh successive win a 28-17 decision over Denver in an NFL showdown played in near freezing temperatures and a steady snowfall Sunday The win places the Raiders games ahead of second place Denver in the AFC West vhe Raid ers to a 21-7 halftime lead hitting Biletnikoff with 23 and 19-yard touchdown passes sandwiched around a nine-yard toss to Branch as Oakland ran its all-time record against Denver to 23-1-1 Stabler added a 61-yard bomb to Branch on a fly pattern with five seconds left in the third quarter as Oakland took a commanding lead in the AFC West with a 7-1 record 'Denver is 3-4-1 and Kansas City 3-5 in the battle for second place first half Oakland had a 14-0 lead when Charley Johnson threw a swing pass to Otis Armstrong and Armstrong raced 48 yards down the right sideline for the score Denver cut the Oakland lead to 21-17 in the third quarter on a 27-yard Jim Turner field goal to cap the opening drive of the second half and a 73-yard pass from Johnson to Billy Van Heusen on a quick slant on a third-and-three Oakland held Denver on the one with 5:17 to play when Jon Keyworth trying to bull his way through the middle on fourth down fumbled short of the goal and although Johnson recovered score on Lydell five-yard run over tackle Following a scoreless first period Anderson fired two touchdown xoklS COitS 17 24 38-125 33-153 279 157 II 38 17-22-0 19-32-1 3-43 3-30 1-1 5-3 6-56 6-49 Cleveland 14 7 0 14-35 San Diego 0 7 12 17-34 Holden 6 pass from Sipe (Cockrott kick) Pruitt 3 run (Crockrott kick) SD Matthews 1 run (Partee kick) Sipe 1 run (Cockrott kick) SD Woods 43 pass from Fouts (kick blocked) SD Bonner 1 pass tailed) 'Y McKinnis 6 run (CcfKronW SD Davis 70 pass from Fouts (Par-t66 kick) Sipe I run (Cockrott kick) SD Woods 75 pass from Fouts (Par-tee kick) SD FG Wersching 40 A 35683 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Cleveland Pruitt 17-47 McKinnis 11-48 San Diego Woods 18-51 Matthews 11-37 RECEIVING: Cleveland Holden 6-85 Pruitt 3-38 Thaxton 3-37 San Diego Davis 4-142 Woods 3-119 Garrison 348 PASSING: Cleveland Sipe 16-23-1 186 yards San Diego Fouts 12-21-1 333 yards First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penaltiesyards New Orleans Saints 19-14 for a 4-4 mark The Bears who now have gone 11 consecutive quarters without a touchdown made their best showing in a fourth quarter advance to the Viking BALTIMORE (UPI)-Ken Anderson threw three touchdown passes Sunday two toispeedy wide receiver Isaac Curtis to Jead Cincinnati to a ry over Baltiitfore The victory was a must win in the pursuit of Pittsburgh in the AFC Central Division and gave head coach Paul Brown the 200th regular season victory of his career The final score a 45-yard Anderson-to-Curtis pass came with 1:35 remaining in the game The TD placed Cincinnati safely beyond the reach of the threatening Colts who trimmed a 17-0 Cincinnati lead at the' half to three points during the last two quarters The Colts now 1-7 came back on their first series of downs in the third period to march 79 yards in 12 plays and Surprise: Oilers are on a winning -streak 11 on a pass interference call as time ran out Chicago dropping to a 3-5 Central record mustered only 53 rushing yards against the rugged Viking defense as the Vikings Bears First downs 17 10 Rushesyards 52 193 17-53 Passing yards 79 100 Return yards 31 61 Passes 10-191 15-21-2 Punts 7 33 8 33 Fumbles-lost 3-1 2-1 Penaltiesyards 4-48 6 49 swnnMwwuuwwwuuuuuwww Bear ground attack became hapless after running back Carl Garrett was carried off with an ankle injury in the first quarter The Bears also lost quarterback Gary Huff with an ankle injury early in the fourth quarter and Bobby Douglass took over but able to generate a real threat NEW YORK (APi -Dan Pastorini heaved a 51-yard pass to Ken Bur-rough setting up Willie one-yard touchdown plunge with 1:56 to passes in the second quarter and Horst Muhlmann added a field goal The first Bengal scoring drive began from their one after Ken Riley intercepted a Bert Jones pass Anderson ran 19 yards to his 23 and on the next play he connected with Curtis for a 77-yard touchdown pass Four plays later the Bengals had the ball again on the Baltimore 48 and Anderson passed three 23 yards to Charlie Joiner He then tossed a 27-yard scoring 'pass to a wide open Essex Johnson Cincinnati 17 Baltimore 0 0 7 Curtis 77 pass from Andersot (Muhlmann kick) Cin-Johnson 27 pass from Andersoi (Muhlmann kick) Muhlmann II Bal-MItcttell 6 run (Llnhart kick) BaF-MItchell 2 run (Llnhart kick) Cin-Curtls 45 pass from Anderson (Muh Imano kick) A-36110 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Cincinnati Anderson 6-62 Pavis 4 Dressier 6-15 Clark 15-14 Bal hmore Mitchell 16-47 Domres 4-30 done: 4-28 Cincinnati Cuflls 5UA Myers 3-32 Johnson 2-30 Joiner 2-27 Battimore Mitchell 7-64 Carr 2-41 Old: 3-33 Chester 4-32 Cincinnati Anderson 17-21-0 var0fi Dtarfr 0-1-0 Baltimore Jones 9-18-1 108 yards Domres 10-14-0 Combined News Services Fran Tark-enton hurled two second-half touchdown passes Sunday as the Minnesota Vikings methodically defeated the error-prone Chicago Bears 17-0 and maintained a two-game lead in the Central Division The Vikings snapping a two-game losing streak took a first-quarter 3-0 lead on Fred 23-yard field goal and then wrapped it up on 35-yard scoring pass to John Gilliam in the third quarter and his four-yard touchdown flip to Stu Voight in the fourth quarter Both Minnesota touchdowns resulted from Bear mistakes The first touchdown came after the Bears failed on a fake field goal try in the third quarter and the second after a fumbled pass reception early in the fourth quarter The triumph boosted record to 6-2 for a two-game divisional lead over the Detroit Lions who remained in contention by beating the HOME TV JUST FINE FOR 22410 CHICAGO -The comfort of home television over foul weatherviewing at the stadium was demonstrated vividly Sunday when 22410 ticket-holders failed to show up to see the Minnesota 17-0 victory over the Chicago Bears The Bears announced that 55753 tickets capacity for Soldier Field had been sold for the game which was preceded by a heavy downpour The local televison blackout had been lifted earlier in the week Actual attendance was 33343 dived over the right side for the touchdown that gave Houston its second victory in a row Joe Namath who had passed for two touchdowns in a wild first half was intercepted by safety Bob Atkins with 1:40 remaining and that snuffed out the hopes Houston 14 3 3 New York Jets 13 6 0 3- 22 Hou-Moore 22 interception return (Butler kick! NYJ-Jackson 20 pass from Namath (kick failed) Hou-B Johnson 29 pass (rom Pastorini (Butler kick) NYJ-Boorer 12 run (Howtield kick) Hou-FG Butler 45 NY Knight 42 pass trom Namath (kick (ailed) FG Butler 46 NYJ-FG Howtield 35 Hou-Rodgers 1 run (Butter kick) 47218 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Houston Willis 8-48 Rodgers 1335 New York Jets Jackson 6-37 Booier 9-30 RECEIVING Houston Burrough 145 Johnson 4-50 New York Jets Knight 4-93 Brlster 4-69 Burns 4-18 PASSING Houston Pastorini 18-28-1 221 yards Dickey 110 10 New York Jets Namath 19-30-2 256 3 0 7 7-17 0 0 0 0-0 Minnesota Chicago Minn-FG Cox 23 Gilll Mlnn-Giillam 35 BOO-BIRDS CAUSE 12-MINUTE DELAY BALTIMORE (AP) Booing Baltimore fans caused a 12-mlnute delay in game between the Colts and the Cincinnati Bengals The crowd reaction began with two minutes remaining in the first half when officials ruled that quarterback Ken Anderson had not fumbled on a bootleg play which picked up nine yards deep in Colts' territory When Anderson brought his team up to the line of scrimmage to run the next play the booing drowned out his signals and officials called time out After three more attempts to get the play off the officials ordered play Sunday giving Houston a 27-22 victory over the New York Jets The Jets had gone ahead 22-20 with 3:57 remaining in the game before Pastorini who had passed for one touchdown earlier unloaded the bomb that Burrough caught before being hauled down on the three-yard line Rodgers belted into the line for two yards then pass trom Tarkenton (Cox kick) Minn-Voigt 4 pass trom Tarkenton (Cox klckl 33343 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Minnesota Osborne 24-98 Foreman 21-80 Chicago Garrett 4-23 Grandberry 9-17 PASSING-Minnesora larxemon vih 80 yards Chicago Huft 11-24-1 74 Douglass 4-17-1 46 Minnesota Voigt 4-9 Gilliam 1-35 Klngsriter 1-21 Chicago Grandberry 9-33 Kelly 2-38 Rather MB DOLPHINS BURY FALCONS 42-7 Tinker at the Atlanta 38 eventually resulted in scoring run and an interception of a Bob Lee pass by Dick Anderson at Falcons Dolphins 0 7 0 0-7 0 14 2) 7-42 (Yepremian kick) pass from Griese (Mike-Mayer kick) 1 run (Yepremian pass from Griese 2 run (Yepremian 1 run (Yepremian Atlanta Miami Mia-Malone 4 run Mia-Wartleld 4 (Yepremian kick) Att-Hampton 2 Mia-Nottingham kick) Mandkh 18 (Yepremian kick) Mia-Nottingham kick) Mia-Nottingham kick) 64399 place tie with New England in the East Division at 6-2 Buffalo leads the division with a 7-1 mark Malone who gained 102 yards against Baltimore last week ran for 106 yards against the Falcons and scored one touchdown on a four-yard burst The Dolphins moved into a 14-7 halftime lead with the aid of two errors by the Falcons now 2-6 A fumbled punt by Gerald IAMI Fullback Nottingham plunged hree touchdowns Sun-and Miami behind passing of Bob Griese the running of rookie ny Malone buried nta 427 iese completed 10 of asses for 152 yards two touchdowns and ne rushed more than ards for the second sive week victory moved the tins into a second- Firs! downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penaltigs-yards The two-time Super Bowl champions turned the game into a rout in the third period with three touchdowns A 51 -yard pass play from Griese to Warfield prime receiver playing his first game since he suffered a hamstring injury against San Diego on Sept 29 put the Dolphins on the Atlanta one from where Nottingham scored I INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING-ANanta Hampton 14-71 A Malone 1027 Miami Malone 24-108 Nottingham 2547 Atlanta Burrow 1-27 A Malone 216 Miami Warfield 4-71 Moore Ml Kllck 214 Mandlch ML Atlanta Lee 8-15-1 65 yards Sullivan 5-11-1 59 Miami Griese 10-15-1 158 32 set up a four-yard touchdown pass from Griese to Paul Warfield.