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DETROIT FREE PRESS Mondav. Dec. 21. 1964 1-D ft? to Be Fired! SSIS A tan ts A Full Story 3 4th -And Cogdill Of Revolt By Lions Schmidt May Fill Vacancy Nussbaumer, Doll, Bin Hit 3-1 infill? WINGS WIN, Ted's Goals BY JOE FALLS Who were the Lion players who put the rap on the assistant coaches, costing three of them their jobs? Only William Clay Ford knows, and obviously he won't tell. But Gail Cogdill, the brilliant pass catching end, threw a surprise into the sensational situation Sunday by naming Aldo Forte as one of the coaches with whom the players were dissatisfied.

FORTE IS ONE of the assistants Ford is keeping. Cogdill himself said he was so unhappy with the way the Lions have been using him that he'd "just as soon be traded." Cogdill declared: "I feel dead around here. I used to enjoy playing football, Beat Leafs BY JACK BERRY There's still plenty of dash in Ted Lindsay, still some defense in the Red Wings. The combination gave the Wings a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs Sunday night before 13,695 fans at Olympia and it was a victory they needed. Lindsay scored his sixth and IDS from the Lions' stereotyped offense.

Forte is one of the offensive coaches. "WE NEVER try anything new," said Cogdill. "We run the same plays every week and the other teams know just what to expect from us. "It's not George (Wilson) himself. We'll go to the other coaches and suggest things, different plays, but they don't listen to us.

"In fact, one of our linemen is so fed up that he says he won't come back next season if Forte comes back." When contacted for his side of the story, Forte's only comment was: "I'm not surprised that this lineman made such a statement." Cogdill made his comments after the Free Press learned that three of the Lion assistants Les Bing-aman, Don Doll and Bob Nussbaumer will be fired by Ford. DEFENSIVE END Dar- ris McCord said he knew that some of the players had gone to Ford to express their unhappiness with the assistant coaches. "I can only say I wasn't one of them," said McCord. "I don't have any complaints at all." McCord said he thought the fired coaches were "victims of circumstance." "It started as a joke among the guys about five or six months ago and then the thing began to snowball," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, I think we had the best defensive team in the league.

The injuries are what hurt us." ROGER BROWN, the giant defensive tackle, ex-Turn to Page 2D, Column 5 sf 4 Aldo Forte but not anymore. I've lost all my incentive. "I don't have too many years left in this game and I'd rather play someplace else. I'm not the only one who feels this way. Some of the other players do, too." Cogdill said the dissatisfaction with Forte stemmed Grown Don Doll Les Bingaman Bob Nussbaumer llWW.j''WM'WllWWfWM.liy seventh goals of the season and the second one, with only 2:38 to play, was the winner with Gordie Howe scoring the clincher with 69 seconds left.

After being raked for 27 goals in their last six games, 10 of those in that rout at Toronto the last time the clubs met, there was great concern and a drop from first to third place although the point separation was small. BUT THE WINGS tightened up against the Leafs, tightened up from goalie Roger Crozier on out through the forwards. Crozier atoned for the 10-2 shellacking with one of his best games although the Leaf goal by Andy Bathgate was a little embarrassing. Bathgate was hurt later, in the third period, and went to the hospital with a broken left thumb. The Leaf star was rolled along the hoards in the Detroit end by defenseman Pong Barkley.

That hurt the Leafs the most but there were some other damaging blows like the Wings first victory over longtime teammate Terry Sawchuk since he was drafted by Toronto. Sawchuk beat the Wings twice and had a tie in his three previous starts and it looked like he was going to get another deadlock until Lindsay, playing with the energetic third line, scored his second goal. LJTNDSAr BANGED a 30- footer which changed directions front of Sawchuk, deflecting! high into the net. The Leafs said it hit defenseman Carl Brewer. That was the 372nd of Lind say's career, moving him ahead) of retired Bernie Geoff rion and I 1 BY GEORGE Pl'SCAS Lion assistant coaches Les Bingaman, Don Poll and Bob Nussbaumer will be fired and veteran linebacker Joe Schmidt may be named as one of their replacements, the Free Press learned Sunday.

Ouster of the three aides of head coach George Wilson has been ordered by club President William Clay Ford. Their departure will leave only Wilson and assistants Aldo Forte and Sonny Grandelius remaining from the six-man staff. Bingaman and Doll were in charge of the Lion defense. Nussbaumer was offensive line coach. THE CHANGES stem from player complaints to Ford that they were not getting the proper kind of coaching from the assistants.

Ford decided on the changes despite Wilson's objections in two meetings held between them and Lion general manager Edwin J. Anderson last Wednesday and Friday. Neither Wilson, Ford nor Anderson was available for comment. But the Free Press learned that Lion players had been pressing Ford for a major coaching change, having repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the assistajits. Wilson is in no position to battle Ford's move.

YVILSON's own contract has only one more year to run and he is pressing for renewal of his original three-year pact. In the two meetings with Turn to Pase 2D, Column 1 go all out give him a wool stadium coat ivr i Free Press Photo by ED HAUN didn't make it this time, but he scored on his old teammate late in the third period as the Wings won, 3-1, Sunday night. KNOCKING ON THE BACK DOOR is Red Wing Gordie Howe (right) as he tries to slip around Iaf goalie Terry Sawchuck and defenseman Bob Baun. Howe 0 Richard on the all-time lists, LOS ANGELES BilL Geoff rion passed Lindsay dur- Barnes announced his resigna-j ing the Detroit star's four-year. tion Sunday as head football, retirement.

coach at UCLA. i t- He said he resigned "because Lmdsav first one, at 4:42 they were not going to renew of the second period, came on a flip over the fallen Sawchuk. lZt 47, has been head1 Gail Cogdill to AP Photo VICTORY MASSAGE Coach Lou Saban anrl his jubilant Buffalo Bill players whoop it up in the dressing: room Sunday after winning the Eastern Division title in the American Football League. for Elliott to the punch by saying that the Wolverines "are delighted to have such a worthv opponent as Oregon gave them a few words along the same lines and introduced his 44-man squad. THE QUEENS tossed some oranges to the players, a couple girls were promptly asked for dates and that was it.

Bump left to take his team out to Brookside Park for some dampened running around in sweat clothes and exercise that was really a setback. The picture taking scheduled for Sunday had to be postponed to Monday morning there to take up-some of the time the Wolverines need in their two-a-day workouts to regain football sharpness after end-of-term exams and four weeks gone by since the Ohio State game. Another workout will be lost Tuesday afternoon when everybody from both teams is supposed to tour i 1 Roll i Center Eddie Joyal, football coach since the middle played a strong game, dug thejof the 1958 season after serving puck away at the boards, side-'as an assistant for eight years. Turn to Page 2D, Column 1 FIRST PERIOD: Sawchuk No scoring. Penalty SECOND PERIOD: 1-Detroit, Lindsay (Joval, MacGregor) 4:42.

Toronto, i (Mahovlich, Douglas) 10:06. Penalties-Lindsay Horton THIRD PERIOD: J-Detroit, Lindsay (Joyal, MacGregor) 17:22. 4-Detroit, Howe (Smith) 18:51. Penalty Brewer. SAVES: Croiier, --10-25; Sawchuk, 7-13-10-30.

RAINY IN CALIFORNIA Bills clans' Grid Boss Resigns I'CLA won four games and lost six last season. The Bniins also allowed more points 236 than any other major team in the country. Barnes' aides, Johnny John son, Bob Bergdahl, Dan Feter-son, Johnny Hermann, Dick Mansperger and Lew Stueck, also were reported out. Another assistant, Sam Boghosian, resigned Wednesday. hack his hair ln front of the queen and her attendants and said that he really hadn't been here with Michigan's first Rose Bowl team in 1902.

Then Crisler beat Bump Ex-Spartan Hurt in Fight Special to the Free Press KANSAS CITY A doctor here expressed optimism Sunday that Fred Arbanas of the American Football League Kansas City Chiefs, will retain the sight in his injured eye. Arbanas, a Detroiter who starred at Michigan State, was hurt in a street incident Dec. 10. He underwent surgery Dec. 13 and is still in the hospital.

ACCORDING to Kansas City coach Hank Stram, Arbanas and a teammate were walking 4 along a street when an alter cation developed with a stranger who made a remark about "big football players." The assailant struck Arbanas in the eye with his fist, then fled and has not been AFL QB Kemp's Passes Do It, 24-14 BOSTON WPP Buffalo quarterback Jack Kemp, picking his receivers out of dense snow flurries, Sunday passed and ran the Bills to the American FootbaJl League's Eastern Division championship in a 24-14 victory over defending king Boston. Kemp scor ed two touchdowns for the Bills on one-yard quarterback sneaks. He passed 56 vards to Elbert Dubenion for the other touchdown. The victory moved the Bills into next Saturday's AFL championship game with the San Diego Chargers at Buffalo. BUFFALO kicking specialist Peter Gogolak scored the other points on three conversions and a 12-yard field goal before a record Patriot home crowd of 38,021.

Kemp, ignoring slippery turf, temperatures in the 20s and almost continuous snowfall, put on a one-man aerial show in the final regular season game for both teams. Kemp completed eight of his first 14 passes for 210 yards and wound up with 12 completions in 24 throws for 286 yard: The Buffalo victory was only the" second for former Patriot coach Lou Saban in the seven games they have played since he shifted from Boston to Buffalo. BUT IT REVERSED the outcome of a special 1963 playoff in which Boston defeated Buffalo, 26-8, in a post-seson Eastern Division title game. The Patriots, needing a vic- Turn to rage 2D, Column 7 Guyle Scores 900th Assist SEATTLE Guyle Fielder, the Gordie Howe of minor league set a record Saturday night that even Howe hasn't come close to attaining. Fielder set up all the goals in the Seattle Totems' 4-2 victory over Portland in a Western League game and they bumped his assist mark to, 902.

He's the first player to ever reach that figure. Howe has 734. Wet Reception tii? He'll applaud a classic favorite 'f'SlLII SUtC4'J the all-wool stadium coat. It's styled in the V'ff fjfS'A 38" length with a bulky knit shawl collar, y'S- two slyih Podeh, and a fold-back wool I (f i i It CViih4fs-rv plaid hood that zips off. It's lined in I Timme Creslan acrylic pile, and a hand- I some wool plaid kicker.

In clay or brk. regular 3BAb- BY BOB PDLXE Frea Presi Staff Writer PASADENA, Calif. The University of Michigan football team, which departed from snow-covered Detroit, landed Sunday in a rainstorm on its arrival for the New Year's Day Rose Bowl game with Oregon State. And it wasn't one of those drizzles they dismiss in these parts as dew. It was an honest-to-good-ness 36-hour rain that back in the midwest in July they would call good for the crops.

THE OFFICIAL greeting committee wasn't able to function alongside the swimming pool at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, where the folks from chillier climes stand around and blink in the sunshine while the Rose Bowl queen tosses them oranges. The ceremony was shoved Into a hotel ballroom with a band, Michigan coaches and players, and assorted drifters herded in where they usually have the Rotary Club for lunch. Athletic Director Fritz Crtsler, the first U-M representative introduced, slicked OPEN TUES. WED. TO THURS.

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