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spuit that carried San Diego
lead his team to a 111-105 Na-
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mushroomeg to 23-0 on Dor-
sett's run after DuPree had
caught and fumbled White's 21-
yard pass at the Cowboy 46
are tremendous and I'm learn-
ing all the time. I do feel on
many teams I'd be the regular
passes of 21 yards to rookie
Robert Woods and three yards
to Ronnie Coleman and Tom
Fritsch's 43-yard field goal
But the Oilers weren’t able
to keep pace in the second
half They netted only 71 yards
i% total offense and mustered
only one more touchdown, a
two yard pass from Pastarn
The Jets’ 8-8 record was
their best since they went 7-7
in 1974 "I have to say we
fooled a lot of people," said
Coach Walt Michaels "We
had some doubters in the
beginning, but it's a tribute to
the players for the way they
worked Fm not fooled when
good people do a good job "
done As far as the team goes,
the word is pride "
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ON ONE FOR MOM & THE /s
"I have never seen a playing
field with as bad conditions as
far as passing is concerned,"
said Landry, "and I think Dan-
ny showed us something in the
way he handled it.”
While most of Dallas’ stars
got a chance to rest for at least
part of the season-ending
game, Dorsett played all the
way "because I think he needed
By BERT ROSENTHAL
AP Sports Writer
The Philadelphia Eagles and
Coch Dick Vermeil have made
believers of their skeptics
and gained a National Football
League playoff berth for the
first time since 1966
“Our goal when we came to
training camp last July was to
win nine games," Vermeil said
Stephenville 7th and 8th
grade boys vs. Eastland in
East land at 5 30 p m
Stephenville 9th grade
girls and boys vs Mineral
Wells in Stephenville at
5:30 p m
Hico 7th and 8th grade
girls and boys vs. Glen Rose
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Bryant rushed for 121 yards
andtwoTDs.
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points the rest of the way
( lippers 11C, Suns 110
lloyd Free scored 30 points
and Randy Smith added 28 and
haracter
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for three touchdowns and
scored twice, his first TDs in
three years, as the Cardinals
wound up 6-10 after an (F8 start
Rams 31. Packers 14
The play of Los Angeles
quarterback Pat Haden and
running back Cullen Bryant
did in the Packers The often
ken ribs
We were hoping to win the
war without losing the game
By BRUCE LOWITT
AP Sports Writer
: NEW YORK (AP) - Coach
Tom Landry and the Dallas
Cowboys were looking ahead —
but not nearly as far ahead as
young quarterback Danny
White.
The Cowboys, defending Su-
per Bowl champions, wrapped
up a 12-4 season Sunday with a
30-7 romp over the New York
Jets that propelled Dallas into
the National Football League
playoffs with a six-game win-
ning streak.
Tony Dorsett was the most
visible of the Cowboys. He
rushed for 121 to complete the
season with 1,325 He caught
five of White’s passes for an-
other 27 yards. And he scored
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lanta was assured a playoff
spot Saturday when Chicago
defeated Washington 14-10
Other NFL weekend scores
Goes from bruised toe to 41 points
The Hulls got no closer than 16
They say you can get Bob
McAdoo out of bed and he ll hit
a jump shot for you
Get him out of sick bay, and
he might hit several
Which is what happened Sun-
day
On the missing list from for
12 games because of a bruised
toe, the New York Knicks’
sharpshooter came back with a
vengeance, scoring 41 points to
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By HAI BOCK
AP Sports Writer
The computer is alive and
well and humming in Dallas
There w as a time during this
Natonal Football league sea
son when the Dallas Cowboy
hardware looked like so much
software and it seemed as if
Landry said. And Dorsett wel-
comedit. “I’m a running back
I want to carry the ball as often
as possible.”
He scored Dallas first TD
and Rafael Septien mad it 10-0
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A perfect game is one in
which you make no mental er
rors, make all Die right deci-
siors on your cuts, are perfect
' The Eagles will open the play- the second-round games are
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accounted for the Jets’ only
TD before larry Brinson ran
in from the eight for Dallas.
"We ar not as good a foot-
ball team as the one that won
the Super Bowl last vear."
New England tonight to beat
out Campbell for the honor
. Campbell would be the first
rookie to lead the league in
rushing since Jim Brown's 944
yard performance in 1957
1 think Uns game may be
good for us because this team
comes back from adversity
really well," Oder safety Mike
Reinfeldt said "People were
writing us off in the beginning,
but we came back and I hope
we 11 be able to do it again "
Houston's chances may de-
pend on the status of Pastorini,
who left the game late in the
fourth quarter with a knee in-
jury Pastorini, who had played
every down until that point,
also has a sore elbow and bro-
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someone had folded, spindled the towbys didr '
secondary for Fouts, who was
joined in the passing circus by
rookie John Jefferson.
Jefferson caught two touch-
down passes to tie a 26-year
NFL rookie touchdown recep-
tion record. Green Bay's Bill
Hawton set the record of 13 in
1952.
After a scoreless first quar-
ter, Fouts whipped the Charg-
ers to a 21-17 halftime lead on
touchdown passes of 33 yards
to Jefferson and 37 yards to
Dwight McDonald and Don
Woods' three yard run
Houston responded to the
second quarter challenge on
Dan Pastorini touchdown
one TD and S rambled 24
2 quarterback, started in plae
of banged up Roger Staubach
and displayed the confidence
that he could do whatever he
wanted to do despite the wind
that swirled around Shea Sta-
dium at better than 40 miles per
hour. He completed 15 of 24
passes for 156 yards while his
counterpart, the Jets' Matt
Robinson, hit just eight of 28 for
102 yards, ■ was intercepted
three times and sacked five
times.
"I don’t expect to get in the
playoffs except as the punter,
but I do expect to eventually be
Dallas' regular quarterback,”
said White, a seldom-used vet-
eran of three NFL seasons. “I •
would leave now if I didn't feel
this way. Both Roger and Tom
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*By MICHAEL A. LUTZ
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON (AP) - While
the Houston Oilers groused
about what might have been,
the San Diego Chargers were
rejoicing about what ought be
next season following quar-
terback Dan Fouts’ 45-24
torpedoing of the Oilers
Sunday.
The Oilers, in the National
Football League playoffs for
the first time in nine years,
needed only a victory over the
Chargers to clinch, the home
field advantage for their first
round playoff game against
Miami Sunday
Instead, the Chargers com-
pleted an amazing second
halfseason behind Fouts, who
completed 21 of 40 passes for
369 yards and four touchdowns
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is in theory but in practice it s
almost impossible
tally for the game. "
But Phillips' folksiest
tensioneasing one liner or
strongest pep talk might not
have prepared the Oiler
The area basketball
teams will be wrapping up
1978 this week Tonight’s
games include
Stephenville 7th grade A
girls vs. Mineral Wells' in
Mineral Wells at 5 p.m
Stephenville 8th grade
A&B girls vs. Mineral Wells
in Mineral Wells at 6 p m
included Pittsburgh 21, maligned Haden passed for
Denver 7; Dallas 30, New
Tampa Bay 10; Detroit 33, San
Francisco 14, Buffalo 21,
Baltimore 14, Seattle 23.
Kansas City 19
In tonight’s nationally tele-
vised contest, Miami, 10-5, en-
tertains New England, 11-4
Raiders 27, \ ikings 20
Oakland, 9-7. built a 21-0 ad-
vantage with the help of touch-
downs 17 seconds apart by
Charles Phillips and Fred Bi-
letnikoff, then withstood Fran
Tarkenton's passing barrage
which produced three touch-
downs
Cards 42. Falcons 21
St Louis quarterback Jim
a collective case of the blahs
All this was complicated by
some intramural squabbling
involving running back Tony
Dorsett, who slept through a
practice, causing some con-
sternation at Computer
Monday, December 18, 1978 ,
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Shurks, folks t was nothin*
more than a momentary null
functiot < ording to Coach
Tom landry who remembers
the 6-4 record and the funny
looks his (lub was getting
When you re thu cham-
pion you feel like you (Might to ‘
two touchdowns, one on a stut-
ter-stepping, seven-yard burst
up the middle in the first peri-
od, the other on a 54-yard sprint
with teammate Billy Joe
DuPree’s fumble in the third
period. •
"We have momentum, six in
a row," Landry said. "This is
the time of the season to get
momentum I do not look down
on momentum like many
coaches do. De you know what
momentum is? It’s confidence,
the feeling you can step on the
field and do whatever you have
to do.
"Of course,” he added,
"there is a difference in the
playoffs, when both teams want
desperately to win."
White, a No. 1 punter and No.
Control landry socked him
in your blocking and drop no with a sizable fine for that
passes, Payton said I think little indiscretion and sat him
caliber team and the Oilers
were just as determined to
prove they deserve to be play -
ingagajnst the Dolphins?
Both convictions may be
correct
"What you saw today was
nothing, we’ve' been doing this
for the whole second half of the
year," Jefferson said, who fin-
ished with six catches for 149
yards We have noone to
blame but ourselves, but I think
we should definitely be in the
playoffs."
The most positive note for the
Oilers was that rookie Earl
Campbell virtually clinched the
NFL rushing title with 77 yards
on 14 carries Campbell fin-
ished the* regular season with
1,450 yards on 302 carries
Miams Delvih Williams
would need 199 yards against
quarterback Norris Wees
( vwboys 30, Jets 7
This is the tie (4 the sra
son to get momentum. said
Dallas running back Tony
Dorsett after the < owboy s, 12
4, tuned up for the playoffs by
trouncing the Jets. M for
their sixth straight v ictory
( hargers 45. Oilers 24
The Oilers obvious!
weren’t prepared for Dan .
Fouls' passing F ouls hit 21 of
40 passes for %69 yards and
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four TDs as San Diego f inshed -
9 7, including 8-4 under Don
Coryell Houston was 10-6
Bengals 48, Browns 16
The Bengals 4 12. won their
Hurd straight game—as Ken
Anderson passed for two
tout hdowns and ran for
another Pete Johnson set a
Bengals'record with 160 yards
rushing
Saints 17, Hue s 10
New Orleans quarterback
Archie Manning enjoyed
himself against injury riddled
Tampa Bay >11. completing
25 of 3 passes for 250 cants
’ and the game winning TD. a 1
c ard flip to Henry ( hilds
l ions 33. 49ers 14
Ttrroit CoachMonte (lark
savored the ame tall after,
the Lions , 9 .riddled < nppled
San Francisco the NF I s
worst team with a 2-14 record
This is the ball I really
wanted," said Clark who was
fired as Sah Franc Isro’se oat h
after Hie 1976 season
Dexter Bussey ran for tuo
touchdowns and Benny
Ki ardo ki ked four field
goals for I etroit
Hart completed 20 of 40 passes rallied behind riserve
offs Dec. 24 against the NFC’s not locked in is because of an
other wild card team, the At- NFL rule that no division
lants Falcons, also 9-7, at At- champion may play a wild card
lanta team from its division in the
The Miami Dolphins and the second round of playoffs
Houston Oilers, the wild card The conference
teams from the American championship games will be
Football Conference, also will played Jan. 7 and Super Bowl
meet Dec. 24 s' XIII Jan. 21 at Miami.
the playoffs continue Dec Minnesota and Atlanta back-
30. with Miami or Denver, the ed into their playoff berths over
Sunday. "People said, ’Hey, AFC West champion, at the weekend The Vikings be-
nine games9 You’re just not Pittsburgh, the AFC Central came the NFC Central cham-
going to get it done."’ winner, and Atlanta or pions for the sixth year in a row
The Eagles finished the 1978 Minnesota, the NFC Central despite a 27-20 loss to Oakland,
season with exactly nine vic- champion, at Dallas, the NFC while the Falcons reached the
tones । and seven losses) Sun- East winner The second round playoffs for the first time
day, beating the New York Gi- will be completed Dec. 31, with despite a 42-21 loss to St Louis,
ants 20-3 Houston or Denver at New Minnesota and Green Bay, a
Their record was good England,’ the AFC ’East 31-14 loser to Los Angeles, both
enough to qualify for one of two champion, and Philadelphia or finished with 8-7-1 records, but
wild card playoff berths in the Minnesota, at Los Angeles, the the Vikings were division
National Football Conference, NFC West winner. The reason - champions because they were
w in said I andr
in ther tournament action.
Auburn beat Nay y 63-57 for the
Big Sun Tournament title in
St Petersburg Fla Florida
trmmned Providence 7961 to
win Uh Industrial National
Classic in Prov itence. Hl
and I tal: w on the l tah (lassie
in Salt _lakcat itx with a 64-57
decisior over ldarho State
at the half with a 22-yard field said Cowboys safety Cliff *
goal. Fullback Robert New- Harris. "But we have won six
house, who missed three games in a row and we are coming.”
wth a hairline fracture in his Robinson, who passed for 2,- •
right leg, made it A7-0 with a 002 yards and 13 touchdowns
one-yard run late/in the third in place of injured Richard
period (“I neejjsG to play be-’ Todd, said "I guess I'm
cause I needed the timing and pretty satisfied with what I've
State was upset 70-69 by No 13
North Carolina
In other games. No 4 Louis-
ville routed West Virginia 106-
60, fifth-ranked UCl.Aaham-
mered San Diego State 97-73.
No 7 North Carolina State
breezed past North Carolina-
Wilmington 75-51; No 8
Kansas whupped SMC 71-64
No 9 Michigan routed
Western Michigan 104-73 and
No 10 Syracuse defeated Penn
State 67-50
Also, No 12 Southern Cal de-
feated Niagara 75-63 in a con-
solation game of the Volunteer
Classic in Knoxville, Tenn .
No 14 Marquette turned back
Minnesota 5. Nevada las
Vegas defeated Pacific 95-85
in the consolation game of Die
Golden Gate Invitational, No
16 Georgetown tnmmed St
Mar s Md. %-58. No 17
Texas beat Hardin-Smunons
68-58. No 18 Illinois turned
bac k Kent State 82 44 and No
20 Indiana State walloped
Butler 109-71
Xavier of ( ho whuch upset
Southern (al n the openng
round of the V olunteer Classc
Friday night went on to win
the championship wiUi a 51-50
victory over host Tennessee
Saturday night
to give hope of a future
greater than their 9-7 finish
this season.
The Chargers won seven of
their final eight games and
were 8-1 underCoach Don.Cor-
yell, who replaced Tommy
Prothro after the regular sea-
son started.
The Oilers still could host
the first round American
Football Conference game if
New England defeats Miami
tonight. A Miami victory
would -sent the game to
Miami’s Orange Bowl
"Sure we were looking
ahead to Miami," said Oiler
Coach Bum Phillips, always
affable, even in defeat We
said we wanted the home site
advantage but we didn't play
like it. I did a poor job of
preparing our players men-
the weason 1516 reks long
in the last six games. I allas
has reomerr Th (owboys
strung a half-dozen ion
set utive victories, outu oring
their opponents by an
awesome margin ot 184-1
Sunday s in demolitio of h
over Phoenix Smith sank a landry bei ause rf • ou don t
pair of free throws to tie the x ou < an lie out of it in a hurry
game at 92 with 11 03 left in the And we like f, finish fast .te
game, then hit three jumpers cause this is the Tim? / year
as San Diego took the lead for when you want mnomentum
good at 100-9 / working for xuu in between
Warriors 1M, Jagz N m between, we were not to
Sonny Parker-Jed a balanced vood
attack with 19 points to pace That's a fair assessment
Golden State over New Consecutive midseason losses ”
Orleans I he Warriors held a to Minnesota and Miami
2orpoint lead with 9 41 left following a 6-2 start had the
before New Orleans rallied computer in a quandary
"Other teams were py IK
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than we were, said All-Pro
PFRFE I PRO lol GH cornerback Cliff Harris
CHICAGO AP) Is there T ,.
..in , . I he problem wasn t an
sui h a thing as a perfect game ci
by a pro football player Wal- ofkensive or defensive
ter Payton, the great Clin ago dilemma alone Rather: the
Ber running back, says there-( owboys looked like they had
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Chicago Bulls 117-161, the San geles Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's
Diego Clippers took a 116-110 hook shot with 2 13 remainn,
decision over the Phoenix Suns ted the game at 94 before the
and the (.olden-State Warriors 76ers outscored the Lakers 9-2
stopped the New Orleans Jazz in the final two minutes with
104-96 Bibby leading the, way
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Stete Schubert’s 73-yard TD
run with a punt return and
Walter Payton's 44 x ard yard
scaring samper win it for
( hicago, 7-9
Steelers 21, Broncos 17
Pittsburgh escaped with a
victory by stopping the
Broncos on the 1-yard low on
the final play of the game
The Steelers, who finished
14-2 for the leagues test
record, built a 21-0 halftime
lead as ‘ Terry Bradshaw
passed for two TDs and wet up
a third score with his aerials
before the Broncos, H-.
Ive been about 70 percent in out for most of one game The
some of my good games but defeats to Minne eta and
what Id like is to reach 90 or /Miami followed, and then ,
95 percent____________________came the recovery___________L
Trail Blazers 123, Nuggets 110 Bucks H7 Bulls 1014 .
Tom Owens scored a career- Reserve Junior Bridgeman
high 35 points, including 15 of 15 scored 22 points to lead Mil-
from the foul line, to pact Waukee past Chicago Led by
Portland over Denver T R ,vtus Gilmore, the Bulls stored
Dunn s field goal with 8 13 re- the first 12 points of the game
mainingput the I rail Blazers and led 28-27 at the end of the
ahead 35-37 and they -never first quarter
trailed after that But Milwaukee's Marques
, 76ers 103, lakers 96 Johnson scored nine of his 19
Henry Bibby scored six points in the second period to
points in the last 74 seconds to boost the Bucks into a 59-48 lead
lead Philadelphia past Los An- with 1 08 to go before halftime
played'alter than usual in this
’ Tourney- a fact symbolized
by Dave Britton's aggressive
ness >
In the Finals, the Moot 4
Aggie guard led a set ond-half
rally with 12 points and made
a key block of a shot by San
Francisco s 7-1 Hill Cart
wright Said the high-flying
Bntton of his spectacular
bloc k
l grew up in Harlem, so I
just have bionic legs "
Nevada las Vegas and San
Francisco weren t the only
ranked teams to go down over
the weekend Sixth-rank.it
Kentuc ky lost a 68-67 overtime
shocker to dscipline-depleted
Indiana and No 3 Mi higan
to Tim Wilson
, vouts continued to bombard
the shocked Oiler secondary
hitting tight end Bob Klein
with a 10-y ard touchdown pass
and going to Jefferson for his
second TD of the day, a 3%5-
yarder late in the game
Woods scored his second
touchdown on an 18 yard run
and Rolf Benirschke booted a
19-yardfield goal
The Chargers left the field
convinced they were a playoff
By KEN RAPPOPORT
A P Sports W riter
Neither Nevada-las Vegas
nor San Francisco was able to
pull rank on Texas A&M in the
Golden Gate Invitational bas-
ketball tournament
The 15th-ranked Rebels
supposedly too quick for the
Southwest Conference team
were outgunned 101-99 by the
Aggies in the tourneys
opening round Friday night
Then the 19th-ranked Dons
theoretically too bg for
them were outrebounded
and lost a 68-65 decison in
Saturday night's cham
pionship game
Heck, we couldn't match
up with las Vegas' speed and
we couldn't match up with San
Francisco's size," said Texas
A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf,
but somehow we managed to
beat them both "
Apparently Texas A&M
victory over the Atlanta
Hawks
in other NBA action, the
Portland Trail Blazers
defeated the Denver Nuggets
123-110; the Philadelphia 76ers,
stopped the Los Angeles lakers
103-96, the Cleveland Cavaliers
trimmed the Seattle
SuperSonics 101-91; . the
Milwaukee Bucks defeated the .
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or mutilated one of the cards frequently as might h.ve been
expet ted in the first u weeks .
people started writing them
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