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Contra Costa Times from Walnut Creek, California • 23

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Walnut Creek, California
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CONTRA COSTA TUNIS Sports The first round ended with the Kansas City Chiefs the Super Bowl champions nicking offensive tackle Sid Smith of Southern California Of the first 10 players selected five were defensive linemen and two were quarterbacks The teams -draft in the inverse order in which they finished the season Pittsburgh and Chicago tied for the first pick but the Steelers won the coin flip A total of 17 rounds of drafting are planned which figures out to 442 players ir tin AnkIiM Pnn The Oakland Raiders drafted a wide receiver Raymond Chester of Morgan State as their first pick in pro draft of college players Tuesday in New York City The Raiders were 24th in the order of drafting players The San Francisco 49ers who were granted two first-round choices selected Ced-rick Hardman 6-3 246pound end from North Texas State and Bruce Taylor a defensive bade from Boston University Quarterback Terry Bradshaw a rifle-armed quarterback from Louisiana Tech Wallace A Winner Don Zupan Sport EdHor was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers as the No 1 choice hi the draft The Green Bay Packers with No 2 pick in the draft chose huge Mika McCoy All-American defensive tackle from Notre Dame The Pack got the No 2 pick from the Chicago Bears a trade Min Phipps All-American quarterback from Purdue was taken by the Cleveland Browns as Na 3 choice The Browns obtained their high pick from Miami One fellow overlooked in the early drafting was Steve Owens the 04 215-pound All-American running back from Oklahoma who won the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college player He by the Detroit choke Two of teammates were chosen ahead of him Tight end Steve Zabel was the Na 6 choice and was taken Ity the Philadelphia Eagles Linebacker Jim Files was 13th and picked by the New York Giants LET THE PROS DO IT SAVE WITH SAFETY Bradshaw To Steelers Reno Awarded Ski Event RENO Nev (AP) Rem has been named to host the 1971 Junior Jaycee National Ski Championships an FAST 15-MIH SERVICE expected to attract 300 young people from as many as 30 This year's meet is being held in Denver SHREVEPORT La (AP) hope and pray I can live up to everybody's They were among the words uttered shaw when informed had been the No 1 selection in the annual draft of college football players Bradshaw was picked by the Pittsburgh Steelers He was named as the Little All-American quarterback after completing a brilliant career at Louisiana Tech Bradshaw threw 29 touchdown passes and gained yards during his career at Tech He had an accuracy mark of 52 per cent As the 21-yearold youngster put it really proud and the rate he's going hell end up being third best in all-time scoring and rebound- Tom Blackwood Miramonte Matador basketball coach took time out from a busy schedule to discuss one of his favorite people Dave Wallace Wallace a 6-5 senior beat Del Valle last week with a field goal in the final four seconds of play It kept Miramonte undefeated in the Foothill Athletic League and handed the Trojans their first league loss Wallace scored 10 points and picked off nine re bounds He was named Parker-Robb Super Sport of the Week for Ms clutch performance He is the FAL's eighth leading scorer The Super Sport is a lad of many talents' Blackwood points out that this is third season of varsity basketball He also played two years of varsity footbair at Miramonte In addition to his athletic prowess Wallace carries a 38 grade average and ranks sixth scholastically in the Miramonte senior class Wallace is averaging 126 points per game in FAL action He's averaged 10 rebounds per contest this season His field goal average is a nifty 55 per cent while his free throw percentage is a respectable 77 per cent The Miramonte athlete is affectionately referred to as by his teammates Miramonte 7-0 in FAL competition has but one game this week that against a formidable Aca-lanes Don squad on Friday night in the Matador gymnasium Although Miramonte is perched atop FAL standings Blackwood and his squad about to become overconfident had to scrap for everything won so Tom explained a smaller than most of the clubs in this Oleague and we have to compensate with aggressive-mess and hustle It looks like the FAL race will be between ourselves Del Valle and Acalanes right down to the Blackwood emphasized that team balance has been responsible for success thus far have five guys who can score We rely on one or two boys to carry our The Miramonte coach ended his basketball conversation by lauding his entire team boys' attitude has been he emphasized Sounds as if Miramonte has esprit dp corps "GET YOUR HANDS ON A TOYOTA Contra Coita Times Page 1C Wednesday Jan 28 1970 Seals Skate Against St Louis Breathing hard down the necks of third-place Minnesota and fourth-place Pittsburgh the Oakland Seals open a difficult four-game home stand Wednesday at 8 pm at the Oakland Coliseum Arena against the NHL West Division's top team the St Louis Blues In their last six games the Seals have but one loss and appear to be at last making a move toward the upper reaches of the West Division They trail Minnesota by two points and Pittsburgh by one Coach Fred Glover and General Manager Frank Selke are far from bubbling over with optimism however are grateful for been accomplished in the past few days but we are also aware that had a few breaks plus some outstanding individual performances There are good signs such as the way been moving the puck on the power play but to be honest we still aren't getting a consistent effort from cautioned Selke Glover elaborated on some of the individuals who have been playing well: In-gariield has been doing everything asked of him and has done It as well as anyone in the game played center both wings killed penalties and been a factor in our power In the last 20 games Ingarfield has scored 12 goals and 13 assists tar 25 scoring led Bill points and has joined IN WALNUT CREEK" TOYOTA WALNUT CREEK INC NEXT TO THE NEW POST OFFICE 21 00 BROADWAY 933-7440 Famous 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