Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 17

CORPUS CHRISTI CAI1ER Tues Dec 24 1974 3B Cougars Wolfpack tie ltay sends iVorti Carolina State roaring back Statistics HOUSTON (AP) An electrifying rally by North NC St 20 41-144 700 10 18-30-2 6-36 5-1 Ml First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 24 6343 179 40 8-14-2 2-45 5-3 3-035 Houston tied it 10-10 going 80 yards in 13 plays with the sec-ond-galf kickoff Housman plunged over for thr final yard But North Carolina State regained the lead the next time it got the ball going 75 yards in nine plays with David Buckey passing seven yards to Stan Frittz for the touchdown The big plays in the march were Buckey's passes of 37 and 14 yards to Pat Hovance moved 66 yards in 10 plays to set up the kick with running back John Houseman picking up 42 of the yards on four carries Houston had a chance to go ahead midway in the period when it moved to the Wolfpack eight-yard line but Eddie Pool blocked Colpin's field goal attempt The Wolfpack held a 17-10 lead going into the fourth quar- ter Each steam scored third-period touchdowns to end long drives Bb wi Green Bay expected to name Starr today WOLFPACK'S RALPH STRINGER RETURNS INTERCEPTION SIX YARDS IN FIRST QUARTER moving up to make the tackle for Houston is Bert Schupp (55) (AP Wirephoto) Embezzlement Carolina State including a one-yard touchdown plunge by Dave Buckey and a two-point conversion by Stan Fritts carried the Wolfpack to a 31-31 tie with Houston Monday night in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl Only moments earlier Houston had jumped to a 31-17 lead on a record 73-yard touchdown pass from Bubba McGallion to Eddie Foster and the second of two short scoring plunges by fullback John Housman Houston's two touchdowns came over a 3:43 span in the fourth quarter But the Wolfpack a slight underdog in this nationally televised game despite a No 13 ranking in The Associated Press college football poll stormed back with its tying points in a 1 21 stretch Substitute running back Tommy London burst nine yards with 3:38 to go in the game to cut the Cougars' lead to 31-23 An attempted two-point conversion then failed on an incomplete pass The Wolfpack got the ball right back though when Louis Alcamo recovered an on-side kick at the Houston 47-yard line Dave Buckey completed a key 27-yard pass to tight end Pat Hovance that put the ball on the Cougar one then Buckeye belted over on the next play North Carolina State took a 10-3 halftime lead when Roland Hooks raced 11 yards for a touchdown to cap a 70-yard 13-play drive Houston had tied it 3-3 on the first play of the second period in a 22-yard field goal by Len-nard Coplin The Cougars Cards buy Kelleher ST LOUIS (AP) The St Louis Cardinals said Monday that the team has purchased the contract of infielder Mick Kelleher from Houston for the Cards' Tulsa farm club Kelleher 27 who originally signed with the Cardinals as a free agent in 1969 appeared with the team in parts of the 1972 and 1973 seasons before being sold to Houston in October 1973 A team spokesman said Kelleher appeared in 19 games for Houston last year batting 158 with two runs batted in WFL ousts Blazer official GREEN BAY Wis (AP) -The Green Bay Packers scheduled an 8:30 am (CST) news conference Tuesday moming apparently to name former all-pro quarterback Bart Starr the new coach and general manager of the National Football League team Starr one of only two candidates interviewed for the post by the club's executive com-mittee met with the committee again Monday in two separate sessions After the second meeting Packer president Dominic Olejniczak said he would have an announcement Tuesday morning He would not comment further The other man interviewed for the job was defensive coach Dave Hanner But Hanner has said he would only be interested in coaching and would like to stay on as an assistant if Starr were named coach The committee had reported head football coach at Notre Dame Starr who makes his home in nearby West De Pere returned to Green Bay Monday morning from Los Angeles where he had been a television commentator for Sunday's NFL playoff game between the Rams and Washington Redskins Within two hours of his return he was meeting with the executive committee in the law office of Fred Trowbridge the committee's treasurer Olejniczak emerged from the meeting shortly before noon to say it would resume later in the afternoon He revealed the scheduled news conference after the second session On Saturday Olejniczak had expressed hope for an announcement by the end of this week on a successor to Devine Devine was both coach and general manager in his four troubled years at Green Bay BART STARR Packers' coach? receiving applications from about a dozen men interested in the vacancies created when Dan Devine quit to become The indictment involved failure of the financially-troubled Florida Blazers to pay up to $40000 sales taxes on tickets a spokesman for State Atty Robert Egan said The spokesman said the club paid taxes for the first month of operation but sent the state a $13J00 check that bounced for the second month and failed to make any other payments Once the tax money is collected by a business it is considered state money and failure of the state to receive it makes it an embezzlement the spokesman said Embezzlement carries punishment of a $10000 fine or up to 15 years in prison or both he said In Newport Beach Calif Grandi said the WFL decided Loudd forfeited his right to appeal the ouster by not attending a hearing on Friday "What we have done is remove all ownership of the team in Orlando" Grandi said "New ownership will have to meet the same criteria that we are setting up for next escrow of funds and assurances that the club will be adequately financed next year" But in Orlando Loudd attorney Ronald Sims contended that the league vote was contrary to its by-laws and forbidden by an injunction he obtained earlier this year "We don't know just what they they haven't told us" Sims said Monday night "But whatever it was it won't hold up We feel the injunction though it has been modified is still in force" Loudd when asked about the franchise said "Right now I'm worried about me I can't worry about the franchise "But the status of the franchise as far as I'm concerned we supposedly have an injunction against anything happening to the franchise" ORLANDO Fla (AP) -Rommie Loudd who the World Football League voted to oust as managing general partner of the Florida Blazers was arrested Monday on charges of embezzling'state tax money Meanwhile WFL attorney Tim Grandi said in Newport Beach Calif that Loudd has been stripped of his right to appeal his ouster from Blazers management But Loudd contends he is still a management official with the team Loudd 41 surrendered to authorities at the Orlando airport and was booked into jail He was freed within an hour after Circuit Judge William Gridley reduced bond from $25000 to $5000 Loudd who lost control of the franchise in a WFL meeting last week said he wanted advice from his Sanford attorney Roger Berry before commenting on the charges "We have to sit down and have a confab about it" Loudd College poll ROMMIE LOUDD embezzlement indictment said "Actually I'm in doubt as far as the legal situation is concerned" He was named in a secret indictment handed down Friday by the Orange County grand jury Texas Javelinas finish season third were Nevada-Las Vegas 12-1 Grambling 11-1 Western Carolina 12-1 Tennessee State 8-2 and Texas-Lutheran 11-0 Henderson State 11-2 is 11th followed by Youngstown State 8-2 Slippery Rock 9-1-1 Alcorn 9-2 and Elon10-2 The top 15 in 14 Exit Mud Hens Enter Chippewas Central Michigan winding up the campaign with a 12-1 mark earned the No 1 spot in a runaway The Chippewas picked up 32 of 34 first-place votes cast by a nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters and collected 658 points Louisiana Tech 10-1 Joe Kapp case could kill NFL draft By The Associated Press Central Michigan is the national college division football champion for 1974 and if you don't believe it ask the shattered remains of the last Associated Press poll The Chippewas were sixth in the final poll of the regular season behind such titans as No 1 Lousiana Tech No 3 Delaware and No 4 Boise State Then the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II playoffs began and the mighty began to fall On Nov 30 it was Central Michigan 20 Boise State 6 Exit Boise One week later it was CMU 35 Louisiana Tech 14 Exit top-ranked Tech And then in the championship game against mighty Delaware it was Central Michigan 54 mighty Mud Hens finished second with 477 points controversial questions for a regular trial The ruling termed the player draft "patently unreasonable insofar as it permits virtually perpetual boycott of a draft prospect even when the drafting club refuses or fails within a reasonable time to reach a SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -Unless rules are changed or a stay order is obtained it appears likely that Joe Kapp's antitrust court victory over the National Football League will make the league's Jan 28 player draft meaningless US District Court Judge William Sweigert last Friday struck down as illegal many of the NFL rules which bind a player to one team His action came in a partial summary judgment leaving the matter of damages to be awarded the former quarterback and some other small colleges lem" he went on "As to whether it could be longer that's uncertain" Since the judge's ruling was not a final judgment the NFL could seek a stay of his order and certification of an interlocutory appeal If granted the NFL would not be bound by the judge's order pending an appeal to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals If the judge should deny such motions the NFL then could go to the appellate court asking for a stay and appealing from the denial Texas winners of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship got the other two first-place votes wound up with a perfect 13-0 slate and 461 points Delaware 12-1 finished fourth with 460 points and Boise State 10-2 was fifth with 401 points Rounding out the top ten 1 Central Mich (32) 2 La Tech 3 Texas A 61 (2) 4 Delaware 5 Boise State 6 Nevada-Las Vegas 7 Grambling 8 Western Carolina VTennessee State 10 Texas-Lutheran 11 Henderson State 12 youngstown State 13Slipoery Hock 14 Alcorn 15 Elon 12-1-0 10-1-0 1340 12-2-0 10- 2-0 12-1-0 11- 1-0 9-1-0 8-2-0 11-00 11-2-0 8- 2-0 9- 1-1 9- 2-0 10- 2-0 648 477 461 460 401 381 322 241 180 171 134 118 90 87 84 In Rose Bowl Greene is threat a Finley accused of perjury contract with a player" A source who asked not to be identified said the key section of the judge's ruling states that a rule "imposing restraint virtually unlimited in time and extent goes far beyond any possible need for fair action in the interests of the club-employers or the purposes of the NFL "The draft itself is okay as a system of allocating players" said the source "But what isn't is the matter in which they handle the players The objection was to the restraint unlimited in time and extent "Going through the draft would be sort of an empty gesture if there is no change in the rules" he said "There are no means for enforcing it as the order now stands no means of forcing a player to sign with a drafting club" As to what a reasonable time limit would be the source said "I think the objection could be erased if the NFL passed a one-or-two-year draft rule and said in effect that the drafting club can have full rights to negotiate with the player and put him on the reserve list for that length of time during which no one else could move in "The judge found the one-year option rule was not unreasonable on its face so presumably some period such as one year might solve the prob "Because of those statistics" he said "I don't feel any pressure this year I came out here last year and everybody said I couldn't pass I'm more relaxed this time" One person Greene has convinced is John McKay the Southern California coach "Greene was a new quarterback last year" McKay said "and going into the game he didn't present a threat "This year he's a tremendous threat" added the Trojans' coach Ohio State took its third straight West Coast practice Monday and has another one scheduled Tuesday Coach Woody Hayes is giving his 60-man squad the day off Christmas and will permit the players to go to the beach if the weather warms up Ohio State will resume practice Thursday PASADENA Calif (AP) -Cornelius Greene Ohio State's quarterback flatly predicts the Buckeyes must open up their attack to whip Southern California in the Rose Bowl New Year's Day "We can't be too conservative" the Most Valuable Player in the 1974 Rose Bowl said Monday "Southern Cal is the type of team that can explode any minute But so are we" said the little junior who ripped the Trojans' defense for six of eight completions and 129 yards passing in a 42-21 victory a year ago The Buckeyes went conservative offensively in their last three games falling 16-13 at Michigan State winning 35-10 at Iowa and edging Michigan 12-10 In that 35-point output against Iowa the Buckeyes went up the middle most of the time Because of it Greene's performances tailed off He had accounted for 17 touchdowns in Ohio State's first eight victories He did not pass or run for one touchdown in the last three games "I think the teams actually were scouting me more than Archie (Griffin) in those last games I was averaging more than 100 yards rushing and between 225 and 250 total yards a game" he said relaxing in the team's hotel lobby Greene could complete just seven of 18 passes for 121 yards in the final three starts Even so the Washington product wound up with 50 completions in 83 attempts for 846 yards and nine touchdowns in 11 games attention of the district attorney of New York County where the arbitration hearing was held It will be the decision of the district attorney as to whether Mr Finley will be prosecuted under the criminal laws of New York The facts will also be brought to the attention of the commisioner of baseball who has been given authority by the club owners to rule upon the question" Moss contends that Hunter's contract complete with Fin-ley's hand-written notes shows that the A's owner knew his obligations before the season began even though he claimed he didn't understand them during the arbitration hearing Nov 26 matter before the district attorney of New York County where the arbitration hearing took place and also before baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn Finley could not be reached for comment Moss who tried the Hunter arbitration case and who represents the pitcher in the California lawsuit brought by Finley issued the following statement: "On the basis of the evidence he submitted in Alameda County Superior Court Charles Finley has admitted committing perjury in his testimony before the arbitration panel in the Hunter case PITTSBURGH (AP) Dick Moss general counsel for the Major League Baseball Player's Association Monday accused Oakland A's owner Charles Finley of committing perjury during the Catfish Hunter arbitration hearing last month Moss in a telephone interview said that evidence submitted by Finley in Alameda Calif County Superior Court where Finley is trying to nullify results of the arbitration hearing that led to Hunter's being declared a free agent contradicts the A's owner's testimony before the arbitration panel Moss said he is bringing the "In his sworn testimony in the arbitration case Mr Finley stated repeatedly that he never understood he had any obligation to pay over to a designee of Mr Hunter any of his deferred compensation during the 1974 season In fact his whole case was based on that position But in his present court action he introduced his copy of his contract with Mr Hunter which contains in Mr Finley 's own handwriting clear instructions to his payroll deptartment to pay over the deferred compensation during the 1974 season to anyone designated by Mr Hunter" "The complete facts of this matter will be brought to the Congress may seek solutions to pro sports controversies draft choices Judge William Sweigert ruling in the Kapp case called such a rule "unreasonable and illegal" NFL owners contend that such a rule is necessary to preserve the basic structure of the game Since the rule was put into force in 1963 there have been 31 compensation cases four in which the commissioner had to make the decision The last of these cases was the move of wide receiver Dick Gordon of the Chicago Bears to Los Angeles in 1971 There were two in with corner- and unfair The National Football League has what is called the "Rozelle Rule" A player wishing to shift to another team may so advise his employer play another year at 90 per cent of his salary then move But there is one catch The team losing him must receive adequate compensation for the loss If an agreement cannot be reached between the two clubs involved then the this case arbitrarily decides the proper compensation This is a bone in the throat of back Pat Fischer of St Louis going to Washington and wide receiver Dave Parks of San Francisco going to New another in 1971 in which defensive tackle Phil 01-sen went from New England to Los Angeles The National Basketball Association has the most liberal option clause A club retains the rights to the services of a player for one year after his contract at no cut in after which the player is free to go where he chooses Compensation is not demanded The latest such incident in suggested by the Supreme to find an answer to this complicated and inconsistent maze of player-management relations Only baseball which in the past has been found virtually sacrosanct and untouchable is exempt from anti-trust laws Only baseball has a reserve clause which in effect binds a player to one team for life unless traded or sold But the other major pro sports while technically bound by anti-trust restraints operate under option clauses which such as argue are inhibiting the NFL Players Association which sta6ed a strike prior to the 1974 season but failed to negotiate a contract The season was played under the old terms The players' contention is that the "Rozelle Rule" denies them an open market for their services because clubs if they don't actually conspire are naturally inhibited about taking on a player from a rival team The clubs would be inclined to shy away at the thought of being forced to surrender key players or high volving the NBA was the move by Cazzie Russell from the Golden State Warriors to Los Angeles this season The National Hockey League has the one-year option rule as do the NFL and NBA but holds to a compensation arrangement but not exactly that of the NFL The two clubs affected by a player shift try to work out proper compensation If they fail to agree the issue is put to a binding arbitrator on a high-low basis In other words each club submits what it considers fair compensation and the arbitrator picks one or the otier "The commissioner has no arbitrary power in such a situation" says Clarence Campbell NHL president "It is broader and freer But it is necessary We could not survive without it" Club owners fear that if Congress or the courts should wrest from them the power to hang on to player property the foundation of sports would collapse Rich owners would be able to corral all the top players and lopsided competition would result It would be a case they say of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORK (AP)-Former Justice Arthur Goldberg arguing the Curt Flood case before the Supreme Court in 1972 called baseball players "high-priced slaves" Joe Kapp an unemployed quarterback sued the National Football League accusing it of an "illegal conspiracy" to keep him out of work A federal judge in San Francisco last weekend ruled in his favor There are rumblings again among the affluent working classes of pro baseball football basketball and hockey It may fall upon as.