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DETROIT FREE PRESS Friday, Dec. 7. "62 Win Late oar GfiXL, XVS.GtfT YOU AN OFFSEASON OOBWlTrtTHE MAKING THOSE CACHES. 4-Goal Spree In 15 Minutes AFL GETS BEHRMAN Bills Sign MSU Star Small Turnout for Bruins Sees Detroit Climb to 2nd 3 Hi NEW YORK Uft The Buffalo Bills of the American Football League signed Dave Behrman, Michigan State center, Thursday. He was their top draft choice and also the No.

1 pick of the Chicago Bears of the National Foot BY JACK BERRY For 45 minutes Thursday night, the Red Wings fought themselves, the puck and the cellar-ridden Boston Bruins. Then, they wiped out all the frustration. In the final 15 minutes, they scored four unanswered goals to chop down the Bruins, 5-3, and climb back into second place and only one point ball League. Dave Behrman signed Daryl Sanders, the two Ohio State tackles. "And the Dallas Cowboys signed Sonny Gibbs of TCU, one of the top backs in the out of first.

Behrman was the second No. 1 NFL pick to be grabbed off by the newer rival AFL. But an NFL spokesman said here that the league isn't worried yet. "We've also signed two of our first-round choices," the spokesman said. "It's too early to forecast a trend." Intensity on Ice country.

He was a future George Halas, owner-coach of the Chicago Bears, said in Chicago he was sorry to lose Behrman. "He is a very defi nite pro prospect. All we can do is wish him well." Behrman from Dowagiac, is 6-foot-5 and 254 pounds. Ralph C. Wilson, owner of the Bills, signed him personally.

"It was plain he was interested in a no-cut contract, but EARLIER the Dallas Texans had signed Ed Budde, Michigan State tackle, who was the top draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles. "Both Baltimore and Detroit have signed their No. 1 choices," the NFL spokesman said. "The Colts signed Bob Vogel and the Lions with all our veterans it was dif VCk. AbKA ficult to see how we could have made that concession," Halas said.

None of the Lions tops Gail Cogdill in the art of acrobatics LION A WIZARD AND GETTING BETTER Boston's Guy Gendron wrapped it up for them, throw-0 lng his stick at a 130-foot shot A that's right, 130 feet by Marcel Pronovost toward the empty Boston cage with 49 seconds left to play and Detroit a man short. That calls for an automatic goal, whether the puck was headed toward the net or not, and it killed the Bruins who had built a 3-1 lead earlier in the period. Parker MacDonald, Gordie Howe and Bruce MacGregor collected the other third-period markers as the Wings shook themselves out of a scoring doldrum and ran up their highest total In 14 games. THE FIRST 40 minutes were something else. The studio audience 7,761, smallest in 11 years and held down by the winter's first snow storm and the gate attraction, Boston started booing loudly in the second period at the Wings' ineffectiveness.

And with only 7,71 in th building, the boos rattled around pretty good. It wa a good thing the Wings were playing Boston or else they might have be-n so far behind they couldn't have caught up. It wasn't that the Wrings didn't have the chances they Turn to Tajfe 6F, Column 5 Only Defense Thinks CogdilVs Real But don't believe it. Gail Cogdill is not for real. He's on tape.

BY GEORGE PUSCAS It has become a Sunday habit Gail Cogdill starring on television. Nobody can make the kind of pass catches Cogdill has been making with growing regularity for the Lions. a NOT EVEN the Lions really Real live football just doesn't happen that way. end anywhere," the coach says. "If he were with some other team, he might have double the catches he has for us (44 this season).

"But we don't concentrate on one receiver as some other teams do say as Baltimore used to concentrate on Ray Berry." COGDILL IS a tall, handsome fellow who is sometimes Turn to Page 4F, Column 1 1 JLyall Smith 1 BLOW TO LIONS? i Pre-Scason Polls Arc for the Birds i 49er Star Hurt In Auto Crash Sawchuk Out Another Week The early reports on Terry Sawchuk's shoulder injury were too optimistic. The Red Wings announced Thursday night that their veteran goaltender will be out at least another week and possibly longer. Sawchuk was hurt in practice last Tuesday. Fl-M Pr Photo bv ED HAUN IT'S A DEMANDING CAME" they play in the National Hockey League and the strain shows on the face of Bobby Terreault, the 31-year-old goalie of the Boston Bruins. Perreault, a study in determination, turns aside this shot but the Red Wings bombed him for fonr goals In the final 15 minutes to pull out a 5-3 victory at Olympia.

Pr Prwt Wlr Itrvlcn SAN FRANCISCO Halfback Bill Kilmer, the 49ers star runner-passer, was in the "intensive care" ward of a hospital here Thursday with a fractured leg and severe believe it. The word is that only two people can stop a Lion practice head coach George Wilson, and Cogdill. Wilson does It by authority. Cogdill does it with one of his seemingly Impossible catches, leaving his mates standing about stunned, gaping, wondering how he managed it. "People talk about that fingertip catch he made in San Francisco," nays Wilson.

"Or the one against the Giants, or any of the several he's made here. 1 "Nuts. None of those can touch maybe a half-dozen we've seen him make in practice. The guy's terrific. He's almost impossible." The Lions still talk about a Cogdill catch on the practice field at Stanford, where they were preparing for the San Francisco game.

COGDILL CAME streaking up the sideline, leaped forward, snaring the ball on his fingertips, then falling hard in a bellysmash at midfield. The ball bounced up and away from his hands, Cogdill bounced with it, grabbing the ball again while stretched out. flat in midair. Everything stopped. Dick Le-Beau, who had been guarding facial cuts.

The announcement jolted San Francisco's hopes of an upset victory over the league-leading Green Bay Packers here Sun day. It also brought long faces to the Detroit Lions, 2,500 miles away, who were hopeful that the 49ers could defeat the Packers who lead them by one game with only two more to play. H-H-S BUDGET BUY THE 23-YEAR-OLD Kilmer, whose consistent ground-gain ing has bright ti i'jfn ened an otherwise so-so sea-son for 49er fans, was hurt ednesday night when his car went out of control on the Bayshore Freeway near Bel- -A i Cogdill on the play, helped him to his feet. "I'm not sure I saw that right," LeBeau said. "Do it again, will you?" "THERE'S NOBODY like him," says Wilson, who had 9 -mo 1 Kilmer mont.

i The California Highway Pa trol said the vehicle left the touted Cogdill as a coming star from the day he first stepped into a Lion uniform three years ago. "He's got wonderful hands, speed, great fakes, and I think all he lives for is to catch a football." The pity of it, says Wilson, Is that Cogdill may never be a league leader in number of catches, and that's where most receivers make their reputations. "I don't think there's a better ONE OF THE MORE DELIGHTFUL bits of nonsense connected with the sweat sox set is an annual sports fixture called "The Pre-Season Poll." This is a harmless, if foolhardy, thing which finds men who should know better gazing into crystal balls and predicting how many games the nation's collegiate football teams will win in their campaigns for conference and national championships. The most charitable thing that could be said for the 1962 PSP would be to talk about something else like the war in India, the common market or the price of cigars in Afghanistan. For now that all the results are in, the No.

1 team In the land is undefeated, untied Southern California. And the No. 2 team is once-defeated Wisconsin. It is reasonable to assume that they surprised everybody. It's a cinch they surprised the pollsters.

Wisconsin didn't even get a call to win the Big Ten title, let alone grab the nation's runner-up crown. USC was just as much of a darkhorse. One survey ranked 'em 15th on a list of 20. The others didn't even list them. Same thing for the Badgers.

But here they are, a couple of up-from-nowheres, who are eyeing each other at a distance of several thousand miles right now while awaiting their head-to-head clash on New Year's Day in the Rose Bowl. Two Strikes on Rndgers Aov THIS WILL BE THE BADGERS' third trip to Pasadena. They're hoping it will be the charm that will permit them to do some cheering when it's all over. They first went out there for the 1953 game. By that time, six other Big Ten teams had blazed a trail and it was a mighty impressive one, too.

All six had trounced the best the West could offer as opposition in the Big Ten-PCC Rose Bowl series. Fact is, it was so lopsided that the combined score stood at a whopping 185 to 41. Wisconsin changed that in a hurry. Their opposition then, as now, was Southern Cal. The Trojans dumped them, 7-0, and while it gave Pacific Coasters a chance to thump their chests, it also provided the Badgers an extra long trip home.

They didn't get an opportunity to go out there again until six more Rose Bowl games had been played. And when they did go in 1960, they again found the Big Ten carrying a second six-game winning streak. The point difference wasn't as sturdy in this one as It was in the first string only 148 to 69. But it still put Wisconsin on the hot seat and man, did they get burned." Washington murdered lem, 44-8, to give the West Coast only its second victory in 14 consecutive Rose Bowls both at the expense of the Badgers. Victory Figures NOW THEY'RE GOING OUT AGAIN in an attempt to redeem themselves and it should be interesting.

Coast teams flexed their football muscles in surprisingly effective fashion when they met Big Ten teams this reason. So effectively that they won six of nine games and tied the seventh one. That 6-2-1 record against a conference where football supposedly is strictly Grade is the best since grown men were of the age where they were kicking slats out of their cradles. USC and the Badgers bumped into three common opponents this fall Iowa, Illinois and Notre Dame. Each was 3-0 against the trio with USC winning by a total count of 60-16 while Wisconsin came off on the long end of a 94-28 score.

If you're one of the yardstick-set it means that Wisconsin was 66 points better against the common foes while the Trojans topped them by 44. That's why I'm picking the nation's No. 2 team to beat the nation's No. 1. Unless, of course, the pollsters feel the same way.

road, went 435 feet through a field and overturned into a ditch filled with water. The doors of his car had to be pried open before the football star could be extricated. He was taken to San Mateo Community Hospital and then transferred to St. Mary's Hospital here. 49er coach Red Hickey said he had visited the former UCLA star and found him in good spirits.

Bobby Gaiters, obtained from the New York Giants in a trade early this year, was expected to start in Kilmer's place. ONE ESCAPES in 1 FRI. SAT. ONLY! PURE WOOL SUITS TOPCOATS 3770 The two clothing items you're most apt to be looking for this month at a very special Budget Buy price. There are suits in wool worsteds, tailored to our exact specifications, in this season's important shades and patterns.

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But one apparently has escaped. Iowa State guard Dick Walton, a fourth-round pick, indicated to the Lions that he probably will sign with Montreal of the Canadian Football League. Meanwhile, talent scout Bob -4 TWO VOIDS in the Canaliens' lineup when Nussbaumer reported from they meet the Red Wings in Montreal Saturday, will be rightwing-er 1 (Boom. Boom) Geoff rlon (above) and nspman (left). Geof- Stockton, that he has signed Roy Williams and John Gamble of the University of the Pacific.

Williams, a 6-foot-7, 255-pound offensive tackle, was the Lions' No. 2 draft choice. Gamble, a 6-foot-4, 240-pound guard, was a seventh-round Tom Johnson OPEN EVERY NIGHT 'TIL CHRISTMAS TO 9 P.M. ism, w. m.

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