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r-1 "I kJ and tackles represented Hill on was a unanimous choice, Hiil and one vote being unanimous Pete Newell and Henry the conference runnerup file lib 'tyHetf Special to the Free Press CHICAGO The University of Michigan may have finished second to Ohio State in Eig Ten football, but it was on a par with the Buckeyes when the Associated Press got around Monday to naming its All-Conference team. The Wolverines placed three players on the offensive team and three more on the defense for a total of six, the same as OSU. End Paul Staroba, tackle Dan Dierdorf and quarterback Don Moorhead made it on offense for Michigan, while end Phil Seymour two. Bowl-bound Ohio State had unanimous in running back John Brock-ington, linebacker Jim Stillwagon and Jack Tatum. Other Buckeyes guard Phil Strickland, DeLeone and safety Mike v.

If. Lions' Doc Puts Finger On Why All the Injuries Dierdorf Staroba Northwestern, which tied Michigan for second place, had five players on the all-conference team, Rounding out the No. 1 offensive team is end Larry Mialik of Wisconsin, second-leading pass catcher behind Pearson. Michigan QB Has a Date SAN FRANCISCO-(UPI)-Quarterbacks Leo Hart of Duke and Don Moorhead of Michigan lead a 28-man East team in the 46th annual Shrine football game Jan. 2 at the Oakland Coliseum.

Michigan and Northwestern are both represented by three players. Moorhead will be joinqd by teammates Dan Dierdorf, a tackle, and Marty Huff, a linebacker. Northwestern will furnish running back Mike A a 1 guard Mike i i and defensive back RickTelander. from shoulder surgery and Joe Robb and Bob Kowalkowski exited with knee operations. Wright is one of several to be struck down by an Achilles' heel.

Robinson, Snell and Keyes were others in what seemed to be an inordinately high ratio for this type of injury. Doc Thompson thinks this is merely a coincidence. "I can't even remember who was the last one we had before Johnny with this type of i a we had maybe only two or three in all my years," he said; THE TREND to artificial turf in several stadia hopefully signaled a slowdown in injur i particularly to knees since the player wears no long cleats to dig in. "I think, over-all, artificial turf will prevent a lot of injuries, but it hasn't been around long enough to tell," Dr. Thompson said.

"There may be fewer knees, but other kinds of injuries might develop. "We haven't had too many shoulder separations, but Owens Is a good example. Falling on it (artificial turf) is like falling on a piece of cement it causes trauma, it doesn't give and something else has to give. As more people install it, we're going to come up with different types of injuries." The jury remains out on artificial turf. Michigan State played its entire schedule on mod sod this fall and the Spartans did not enjoy a good year, injury wise or otherwise.

Players are divided. Owens isn't wild about it, quite naturally since the only two times he's been hurt it happened on artificial turf. SONNY JURGENSEN had perhaps the best line. "If God had intended man to play on Astro-Turf," he said, "he would have given him wings." Regardless, injuries appear here to stay and a medical program will continue to take a large whack out of a pro team's The Lions' bill for physical exams, hospitalization, medical care, doctors, trainers, innoculations and the like will run more than This doesn't include sundries like tape (an approximate $8,000 item), either. Pro football being what it is, teams will continue to stress off-season training programsand keep their fingers crossed.

Pro a 1 1 has created a monster, rather a lot of monsters 40 of them per team, to be exact. In recent years, it has been the policy of most NFL teams to encourage their players to participate in off-season weight programs. Many, including the Lions, even supply the site and equipment. The result is bigger, stronger players and more and more injuries. Dr.

Richard A. Thompson sees a direct correlation between the two. DR DICK is in his 20th year as the Lions' team physician so the silver-thatched doc is as qualified as anyone to comment on the high rate of injuries this season. "Players are bigger and stronger now than they were 10 years ago, by far," he says. "The fourth quarter used to be a slowdown thing, but today, players are hitting just as hard with five minutes to go as they were at the start.

"With year-round training and I programs, we're developing bigger and stronger men. They're not only developing bulk muscle, but strength muscle there's a difference." GaJe Sayers, one of the NFL stars sidelined by injury this season, figures the career expectancy in the NFL has dropped from 5l2 years to four during his six-year tenure in the NFL. "Something has to be done," he said. He offered no theories. "Any study we've made indicates the playing rules are not responsible," says Pete Rozelle's office.

"The inevitable conclusion has been that players are just bigger and faster and hitting at a higher velocity. Football being a contact sport, injuries are just going to happen." SAYERS IS only one of a long list of standout performers to be sidetracked this season. Joe Namath and Matt Snell were lost to the Jets, Dave Robinson, Rich Moore and Dave Hampton of the Packers, Tom Matte of the Colts, Leroy Keyes of the Eagles, George Webster of the Oilers the list goes on and on. The Lions have been relatively lucky (and that loud noise you hear is Joe Schmidt pounding on wood), but not completely injury-free. Johnny Wright was lost in the exhibition season, Steve Owens just made it back It May Be 'Year of Soph' For Basketball in First Offense ENDS: Paul Staroba, Michigan, 4-3, 209, senior, Flint, Larry Mialik, Wisconsin, 4-2, 212, lunior, Clifton, N.J.

TACKLES: Don Dierdorf, Michigan, 4-4, 250, I Canton, Ohio; John Rodman, Northwestern, 4-3, 250, senior. Bay Village, Ohio. GUARDS: Mike Siklch, Northwestern, 4-2, 235, senior, McCook, Phil Strickland, Ohio State, 4-1, 212, senior, Cincinnati. CENTER: Tom DeLeone, Ohio State, 4-2, 214, junior, Kent Ohio. QUARTERBACK: Don Moorhead, Michigan, 4-2, 109, senior.

South Haven, Michiqan, 4-2, 10, senior, South Haven, RUNNING BACKS: Mike Adamle, Northwestern, 5-9, 190, Kent, Ohio; John Brockington, Ohio State, 4-1, 214, Brooklyn, N.Y. FLANKER: Barry Pearson, Northwestern, 5-11, 181, lunior, Geneseo, III, Second Offense ENDS: Gordon Bowdell, Michigan State; Doug Dieken, Illinois. TACKLES: Jack Harprlng, Mlehl-an; John Muller, Iowa. GUARDS: Reqgie McKentie, Michl- Joe DeLamielleure, Michigan late. CENTER: Tom Beard, Michigan.

QUARTERBACK: Rex Kern, Ohio State. RUNNING BACKS: Billy Taylor, Michigan; Levi Mitchell, Iowa. FLANKER: Stan Brown, Purdue. tans aren't on anyone's Top Ten or Twenty list. JOINING MSU in opening Tuesday night are the University of Michigan and the University of Detroit.

Wolverine coach John Orr does have one of the Big Ten's outstanding sophomores Ken Brady, the 6-foot-9 center from Flint Central. He's U-M's biggest pivot since Bill Buntin. Artis Gilmore back, should have little trouble against Biscayne College. Other leading opening night games include Long Beach State at a a Princeton vs. Duke at Greensboro, N.C., Louisville at Vanderbilt; Philadelphia Textile, the NCAA college-division champs, at Villanova; Florida State at Texas; Ohio State at Utah State; Nebraska at Wyoming; Arizona at Seattle, and New Mexico at Colorado.

If it was the Year of the Quarterback in football, it's shaping up as the Year of the Sophomore in Big Ten basketball. That's because the old conference has hardly a senior or junior worthy of high mention. Michigan State, which lost Ralph Simpson to the Denver Rockets, opens Tuesday night against Northern Illinois at East Lansing and the Spar S3 Moorhead Team Defense ENDS: Bill Gregory, Wisconsin, 4-4, 243, senior, LaMaroue, Phil Seymour, Michigan, 4-4, 215, senior, Berkley, Mich. TACKLES: Pete Newell, Michigan, 4-4, 224, senior Park Ridge, Henry Hill, Michigan, 5-11, 220, senior, Detroit. LINEBACKERS: Jim StiHwaqon, Ohio State, 4-0, 220, senior, Mt.

Vernon, Bill Light, Minnesota, 4-2, 225, junior, Hopkins, Chuck Winfrey, Wisconsin, 4-1, 214, senior, Chicago. DEFENSIVE BACKS: Jack Tatum, Ohio State, 4-0, 208, a i a N.J.S Jeff Wriqht, Minnesota, 4-0, 190, senior, I Eric Hutchinson, Northwestern, 4-2, 190, lunior, Tal-madqe, Ohio. SAFETY: Mike Sensibaugh, Ohio State, 4-0, 190, senior, Cincinnati. Team Defense ENDS: Mark Debevc, Ohio Stats; Ed MaGuire, Indiana. TACKLES: Jim DeLlsie, Wisconsin; Jim Anderson, Northwestern.

LINEBACKERS: Doug Adams, Ohio State; Mary Ruif, Michigan; Jim Teal, Purdue. DEFENSIVE BACKS: Tim Anderson, Ohio State; Rick Telander, Northwestern; Randy Cooper, Purdue. SAFETY: Walt Bowser, Minnesota. 1312? ien And recalling Buntin and the Michigan glory days, Orr says he has the best makings since the Buntin-Cazzie Russell years. The Wolverines aren't tackling the usual opening-game pushover, though.

They're taking on Notre Dame and the Irish are highly regarded. U-D, despite its usual batch of on and off-court problems, should dispatch Hillsdale in its 8 p.m. game at the Memorial Building. The Titans are in the same shoe as the Big Ten clubs unranked. Not one Big Ten team made the Associated Press Top Ten list.

Indiana has the highest rating 16th. And the Hoosiers were dead last in the conference last season. But coach Lou Watson is excited about 6-foot-7, 235-pound sophomore George McGinnis, who he describes as "flashy" but with a tendency to be "loose." z. MINNESOTA HAS a new-coach in George Hanson, who-has inherited the nucleus of a possible champion in veterans Eric Hill, Ollie Shannon and Tom Masterson. Illinois has five returning lettermen.

Zip Mt. Holly your tickets may be mailed to you. DO NOT send money, that is payable at the area. defense. Dierdorf missed by Sensibaugh.

Scoring Pace quarters without yielding a touchdown until the Eagles finally dented them Sunday. "THIS definitely is the best team the Cardinals have put together in a long, long time," coach Joe i said as he went back to work Monday after a relaxing weekend. Schmidt and his aides prepared for the players' return Tuesday for a normal practice week for the Sunday invasion of the Cards. Their playoff situation went basically unchanged and Schmidt declined to worry about the a 1 1 a New Yorks, etc. "We've got enough to worry about right here," he said.

"We just have to do the job ourselves and let the rest take care of itself. "We have to win them all to stay in there, and right now Sunday's the game we have to worry about." The Cardinals will be the fourth straight division leader the Lions have met. LIONOTES: Larry Walton is still limping on a badly sprained ankle, but hopefully time will permit it to heal sufficiently for him to play Sunday. Alex Karras, who also sprained an ankle Thursday, 1 i i is expected to be ready. Mel Farr "lost" 17 yards Monday as a recheck found him credited with a gain which was actually Altie Taylor's.

Mel still wound up with 104 yards in 20 carries against Oakland. Greg a 's 77 yards a a i the Raiders is the second best total by a quarterback in the Lions' T-forma-tion era. Bobby Layne's 108 for 15 carries against the Steelers in 1950 is tops. Layne's Lion season record is 411 yards in 1952, and Gal-loping Gregory has totaled 261 although he has started only three games and missed two of them completely. Lion Statistics Lions Opponents Yards lained 3300 2797 Yards rushinq 1497 1071 First downs 194 1S1 Offensive plays 441 597 Averaqe gain 4.t 4.7 Passes attempted 731 274 Passes completed 133 142 Averaqe gain 5.9 4.1 Fumbles fumbles lost lt-11 JMl Penalties 40 70 Yards penalized 543 427 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Att.

Yds. Avg, 4.3 3.3 10 3.5 2.4 3.4 4.4 10.0 LO 34 34 74 11 11 12 14 7 LC 34 54 58 42 It 15 42 23 TD Farr 143 Taylor 143 Landry 24 Triplet! 42 Eddy It Munson Owens Walton 1 415 544 261 148 47 31 22 20 7 McCulloucn i 7.0 RECEIVING No. Yds. Av, Sanders 30 403 482 182 235 151 52 114 22 13.4 .2 7.3 t.l 13.7 8.4 22.8 5.5 19.0 Walton 25 Farr 25 Taylor 24 McCulloucn 11 Triplet! 4 Hushes 5 Eddy 4 Brown 2 Frftitas 1 28 PASSING Yds. LG TD Inte.

Munson 158 84 53.2 1049 Att. comp. Avq, 10 7 Landry 73 4 47.1 422 I INTERCEPTIONS No. Yds. Avq.

I 7 LG 43 2 40 7 42 4 0 2 TD 0 I 1 0 1 0 0 Leseau 7 81 Weqer 52 Barney 4 104 Rasmussen 2 21 Hand 1 42 Lucci 1 4 Williams 1 0 Vaushn 1 11.4 10.4 24.4 10.5 42.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 PUNT RETURNS Fair No. Yds. Avs. LG Catch TD Barney 14 132 (.3 41 Eddy 4 25 4.3 10 Vaughn 1 14 14.0 14 Walton 2 O.o KICKOFF RETURNS No. Yds.

AV9. Williams 20 478 Eddy 7 148 Vaughn 44 Walton 1 21 Maxwell 1 20 Mooney 1 12 Naumoff 1 4 SCORING TD Pts. Mann 0 7 Farr 10 40 Walton 30 Sanders 30 McCull'ch 3 18 Taylor 3 18 Barnatf 9 It Mann: IS or 22 field qoal attempts; 34 of 34 extra point attempts. I 3 I 0 3 1 0 LG TD 23. 15 1 24.0 It 22.0 25 0 21.0 21 0 20.0 20 0 12.0 12 0 4.0 4 0 TO Pts.

Triplet! 1 6 Eddy 1 Landry 1 Weqer 1 4 Hand 1 i Williams 14 Newell by Rose choices defensive back were offensive center Tom jRupp, 'Cats Open New Cage Season Lions Continued from First Sports they have 34 touchdowns to date a a i 1 26 throughout 1969. The offensive resurgence couldn't have come at a better time with the St Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams, both defensively potent, next on the agenda. The Cardinals pitched three straight shutouts and went 17 Dolphins Cut Down Falcons ATLANTA (UPI The Miami Dolphins blended the power of Larry Csonka, the speed of Mercury Morris and the timely passing of Bob Griese to beat the A 1 1 a a Falcons, 20-7, in Monday Nat ional Falcons, 20-7, in Monday i 's nationally-televised National Football League game. Csonka, gaining more than 100 yards on power plays through the Falcon line, the clinching touchdown from a yard out with 2:27 left in the game. It had appeared tht Atlanta might be staging a comeback when the home team finally scored its first touchdown, on a five-yard pass from Bob Berry to Paul Gipson with nearly 11 minutes left to play.

UP TO that point, the Dolphins had pretty well controlled the game, even though the Falcons held the ball all but six plays in the third period. The victory gave Miami a 7-4 record in the American Football Conference's Eastern Division, a game and a half behind pace-setting Baltimore, and left the Dolphins in contention for the conference's at-large berth in the post-season playoffs. MIAMI 14 14 43 1-11-1 1-47 I 41 10 a ATLANTA IS 111 10 IS H-M-i 0 43 7-J 7- First downs Rustling yerdiq Passing yirdaee Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized Miami Atlanta MIA-FS Yeuremlan MIA lick 1 run (Yenremian kick). MIA FG Yepremlan 43. AT LA Gipson i pass trom Berry (Vin- yard kick).

MIA Csonka 1 run (Yepremlan kick). Vikes'QB Uncertain BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota Vikings will not know for several days if quarterback Gary Cuozzo will be able to play Saturday against the Chicago Bears. Cuozzo, who suffered a sprained ankle in Sunday's 20-10 loss to the New York Jets, was undergoing treat-ment Monday for the injury. "We'll have to wait the week out to see how he re-s Viking coach Bud Grant said Monday at the weekly press luncheon. "We're not going to send him in unless he's nearly 100 percent well." If Cuozzo is not able to play Saturday, Grant said, the Vikings will bring up Bill Cap-pieman from their taxi squad.

Cappleman, a graduate of Florida State, was the Vi-kings' second-round draft choice in 1970. Ml At Best Changes Are Coming Among NFL Coaches ti tht Associated Frtw The way the underground hears it, there are likely to be several coaching changes in pro football at the end of the season with such names as George Allen, Tom Landry and Hank Stram leading the list of those most prominently mentioned. Strangely all three are coaching teams which are prime contenders for postseason playoff berths leading to the Super Bowl and could wind up in Miami Jan. 17. That may not change the situations revolv- ing around Allen and Stram, although a successful season-ending run almost certainly could influence the Dallas Cowboys' thinking about whether to retain Landry.

ALLEN, WHOSE Los Angeles Rams are tied for first place in the National Conference's Western Division, reportedly will be fired by owner Dan Reeves no matter what the outcome of the season. But in Los Angeles Monday, Allen said: I intend to becoaching the Rams in 197L It's a terrible thing for anyone to Ski School Time! Free Press Ltsiru-to-Ski School Name Mt. Brighton Address Mt. Grampian By the Associated Press The college basketball season opens Tuesday night with Adolph Rupp, the winningest coach in the sport, leading his University of Kentucky Wildcats against Northwestern at Evanston, III. The University of Jacksonville, which upset Kentucky in the NCAA championship tourney last March, also is prominent in Tuesday night's competition.

The Dolphins, with 7-foot-2 It's FP Continued from First Sports tant, have the latest in snow-making and grooming machinery. They don't need natural snow matter of fact, all they care for is a light dusting of natural sjiow in the city. Just drop the thermometer to freezing and they pump snow on the hill like a mountain blizzard. The three areas are an hour's drive or less from the Detroit city limits. Mt.

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48231. George Allen try to sabotage our football team. If we were in last place, it would be something else. We are driving for the championship and every week a different rumor comes up." The Saints are supposed to be looking for a "name" coach, and both Allen and Stram fit the bill. Stram, despite 11 years at Kansas City, might be lured away if Allen goes elsewhere, by an offer of part ownership in the New Orleans club.

THE FATE of Landry also is somewhat in question. The Cowboys, who have a 74 record which leaves then V2 games behind front-running St. Louis in NFC East, have been an in-and-out club and, after 11 years without a championship, may be ready to make a change. Two coaches already haVe been fired this season, Tom Fears at New Orleans and Clive Rush at Boston. Both clubs named interim coaches, J.

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