The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 301, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1968 Page: 3 of 6
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Sports Comments Etc.
By CUURE HOWERTON
Baylor University is still with-
out a coach. Jerry Claiborne
de-’ided Wednesday night to
remain at Virginia Tech so the
search will continue for a
mentor for the Bears. I still
maintain they should have
stuck with Bridgers but they
did not consult me.
The Houston Sports Associa-
tion is slipping — in tha morn-
ing mail was the usual enve-
lop marked on the outside
Press, Redio and TV release.
Insida was a blank sheet of pa-
per. It couldn’t possibly bo that
the Judge had nothing to say
so there must be an absent min-
ded secretary In the organiza-
tion The piece of paper is not
one whet blanker than my so-
called mind this morning. Me-
thinki I must have celebrated
my hlrthday too wen.
One thing the Judge has for
sure is a sell out for the Blue-
bonnet Bowl game coming up
in the Astrodome at 6:30 p m.
December 31. The exciting SMU
Mustangs tout with Oklahoma
promises to be a diUy and the
first "Astroball” which follow*
in that edifice also shapes up to
be *H»mctbing or other. Some-
where this morning I read how
much champagne ha* been or-
dered for the party but try as
I might. I can't find the Item, I
do remember that it was a tre-
mendous amount so the Astro-
ball might well be a sell out
too.
The Cobbler basketball teams
are not scheduled to see action
until a couple erf day* after
Christmas. December 21-28 the
Gobblers are slated to take pert
in the Yoakum Bulldog Touma-
ment The Yoakum Tourna-
ment will be the final non-dis-
trict games for Coach Ttomp-
on’s charges. District play Is
scheduled to begin January 7
at Refugio. All ('istrict games
are set for six o’clock and 7:30
First home game is scheduled
for January 10 with the A and
B teams of the Gonzales Apa-
ches.
Up in Cleveland grounds-
keepers are trying to thaw out
the frozen turf in time for the
Saturday football game between
the Brown* of that city and
the Dallas Cowboys. Special
heaters are being used to blow
warm air onto tne field to try
and dry H a* well as thaw it.
The field was badly torn up
during games Thanksgiving
Day and December 1 and since
that time the weather has not
been warm enough to let the
field dry out. Aside from the
battle for the Eastern Confer-
ence title and a chance at the
NET- championship and the
Super Bowl, toe Browns will
be out to avenge the 52-14 whip-
ping the Cowtoy* gave them
last year In the playoff.
LEADING fielders
NEW YORK <UPI> - Ron San-
to of tto Chicago Cubs and Joe
Torre of the Atlanta Braves
topped the National League in
fielding percentages for third
basemen and catchers, respec-
tively.
Other fielding winners were
Wes Parker of the Dodgers for
first base. Philadelphia’s Coo-
kie Rojas at second. Hal Lan-
ier of the Giants led shortstops
end Johnny CalHson's perfect
fielding percentage led all out-
fielders.
Claiborne
Says ‘No’
To Baylor
WACO (UP® — Jerry Clai-
borne has given Baylor Univer-
sity the thumbs down signal
and Baylor officials must now
decide where their hunt for a
new fotball coach goes from
here.
Claiborne, head coach at Vir-
ginia Tech, told the Baylor ath-
letic council that he did not
want to forgo “a fine football
program over the last eight
years.”
“I haven’t slept for two nights
while trying to reach a deci-
sion,” Claiborne said at his of-
fice in Blacksburg, Va.
His withdrawal came as a
disappointment to many Baylor
alumni who had lobbied for his
hiring. Unconfirmed reports In-
dicated Baylor offered Clai-
borne a seven-year contract at
$30,000 a year.
Claiborne was the third pros-
pective coach to withdraw his
name from consideration as a
replacement at Baykw for John
Bridgers. Texas assistant Mike
Campbell and Arkansas assist-
ant Cecil Ingram had earlier
stepped out of the Baylor
coaching derby.
Among the three other coach-
es mentioned are Bill Beall of
Southern Methodist and Marvin
Johnson of Arkansas, all assist-
ants at their schools.
Dr. Ed Hoemer, a member
of the Baylor athletic council,
said the council would meet to-
day to determine what step*
toe school will make neat.
Pro Football
Standings
By United Press International
Eastern Conference
Centary
Division
W L T
Pet.
Cleveland
10 4 0
.714
St. Lulls
9 4 1
.692
New Orleans
4 9 1
.308
Pittsburgh
2 11 1
.154
Capitol
Division
l
1
ff L f
Pet.
Dallas
12 2 0
.857
New York
7 7 0
.500
Washington
5 9 0
.357
Philadelphia
2 12 0
.143
Western Conference
Central
Division
W L T
Pet.
Minnesota
8 6 0
.571
Chicago
7 7 0
.500
Green Bay
6 7 1
.462
Detroit
4 8 2
.333
Coastal Division
W L T
Pet.
Baltimore
13 1 0
.929
1st* Angeles
10 3 1
.769
Sun Francisco
7 6 1
.538
Atlanta
2 12 0
.143
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Results
SECURITY CHIEF
NEW’ YORK (UP® — John J.
Danahy has succeeded William
. Hundley as director of se-
curity for the Professional
Football Leagues.
Danahy was formerly an ag-
ent with toe FBI for 26 years.
SPARE TIME INCOME
Nattefial Nut
to collect
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ALWORTH TOPS RECEIVER*
SAN DIEGO (UFD - Lance
Alworth of the San Diego Char-
ger* won the American Foot-
ball League pass receiving ti-
tle despite playing the last
| month of the season with a
damaged hack.
Alworth had suffered a brok-
en muscle attachment to hte
vertebrae in ties Nov. 24 game
j against the New York Jets.
Dallas 28. New York 10
Washington 14, Detroit 3
Minnesota 24, Philadelphia 17
New Orleans 2i. Pittsburgh
4
Green Bay 28. Chicago 27
San Francisco 14. Atlanta 12
Baltimore 28, Los Angeles 24
Only game* scheduled
Saturday’s Game*
Dallas at Cleveland
Eastern Conference Champ-
ionship
Sunday'* Games
Minnesota at Baltimore
Western Conference Champ-
ionship
AFL
Standings
East
W L
T
Pet.
New York
11 3
0
.786
Houston
7 7
0
.500
Miami
5 8
1
.385
Boston
4 10
0
.286
Buffalo
1 12
Wed
1
.077
W h
T
Pet.
x-Kansas City
12 2
0
.857
x-Oakland
12 2
0
.857
Jtan Diego
9 5
0
.643
Denver
5 9
0
.357
Cincinnati
3 11
0
.214
, *-Playoff f
sion title.
or Western
DJvi-
g—day’s Result#
New York », Miami 7
Oakland 34. San Diego 27
Houston 43, Boston 17
Only games scheduled
Sunday’s Game*
Kansas City at Oakland
Western Division playoff
COLT AGAIN
Morrall Tops
NFL’s Stars
By VITO STELUNO
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPD — For the
fourth time in the past five
seasons, the Baltimore Colts’
quarterback was selected to
United Press International’s
National Fotball League All-
Star team.
But this time, of course, It’s
not the same quarterback.
John Unitas, who was select-
ed in 1964, 1965 and 1967, Bart
Star won the honor In 1966, sat
on the bench with an ailing el-
bow this season and watched
Earl Morrall direct the club to
a 13-1 mark - the beat In the
NFL since Green Bay posted
an identical mark in 1962.
That enabled Morrall to win
the quarterback slot on the
1968 NFL team selected by a
panel of 48 NFL experts around
the nation — three from each
league city.
Morrall. who played for four
teams before finally making
the All-Stars at Baltimore, is
joined in the backfield by Le-
roy Kelly of Cleveland — the
top vote-getter with 47 of a
possible 48 votes — and Gale
Sayers of Chicago. Sayers
made the club even though he
missed toe last third of the sea-
son with an injury.
The wide receivers are Paul
Warfield of Cleveland and Clif-
ton McNeil of San Francisco
with John Mackey of Baltimore
at toe tight end spot.
The interior linemen are cen-
ter Mick Tingelhoff of Minne-
sota, guards Gene Hiekerson
of Cleveland and Howard Mudd
of San Francisco and tackles!
Ralph Neely of Dallas and Bob!
Vogel of Baltimore.
The defensive team has
three rather familiar names In
the front line — Merlin Olsen
of Los Angeles and Bob Lilly
of Dallas at the tackles and
Deacon Jones of Los Angeles
at an end. But Carl Eller of
Minnesota won the other end
spot that was tong occupied by
Willie Davis of Green Bay.
Dick Butkus of Chicago is the
middle ’ linebacker and Dave
Robinson of Green Bay and
Mike Curtia of Baltimore at toe
linebackers.
Bobby Boyd of Baltimore and i
Lem Barney of Detroit are the
cornerbacks with Larry Wilson
of St. Louis and Willie Wood of
Green Bay at the safeties.
There were only four repeat-
ers on the offensive team this
season - Neely, Tingiehoff.
Kelly, and Sayers.
There were six repeaters on
the defensive unit — Jones, Ol-
sen, Lilly, Robinson, Butkus
and Wood.
Baltimore had five players
named to the first squad while
Cleveland and Minnesota had
three each.
Listed mong the honorable
mentions on the NFL squad
were Dallas Cowboys’ Lance
Rentzel at end, John Nil and at
guard, Don Meredith at quar-
terback and Don Perkins at
running hack on offense; Jeth-
ro Pugh at tackle and Lee Roy
Jordan at middle linebacker on
defense.
Thun., Dec. 19, 1988 THE CUERO RECORD Ptg# 31
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DALLAS gff® — The twe
moat potent teams in the Na-
tional Football League-Dallas
ami Oeveland-coUide Saturday
fog the Eastern Conference ti-
ll* and Cowboy ooach Tom
Landry believes It it clear the
key factor will to defense.
••Our defensive effort is the
big thing la this ball game.”
undry said Wednesday. ”We
have to stop people like Leroy
Kelly and Paul Warfield. But
their defense has got to stop
ue.”
The defense* will heve a lot
of work.
Dallas tod the NFL in total
yardage, rushing and passing
for 5.117 yards Cleveland was
runner-up in that category,
picking up 4.889 yards.
“They are - a great running
dub,” said Undry. “We have
to control that running gem*
first and if we don’t it’s going
to to a tough game.’
The Cowboys have controlled
Cleveland well the last two
times they have met - in last
• years Eastern Conference
championship contest end due-
ihlg. the regular MNMM this
year.
Dallas controlled Cleveland
to the tune of 5244 last year |n
the title affair, but Landry does
not took for any «f dial again.
"W* were not that much bet-
cr than Cleveland,” he said.
"If you reach a point where
jyrtt toink you can’t win. then
the game can get out of hand.
It's all a mental game.”
Undry seemed optimistic
that his defense, bast to the
league against the rush, cgn
handle Clavdand and that op-
timism was bolstered Wednes-
day by word that defensive
tackle Jethro Pugh was show-
lug signs «f Improvement from
a knee ligament Injury that put
him out *f last weekend's New
York Giant gam*.
On the offensive side, Landry
said his quarterback — Den
Meredith - had been throwing
well *0 week and showed no
signs of continuing his poor
performance in the early part
of the New York game.
The Cowboy coach also seem-
ed sure his offensive second-
ary can get the job done If
Cleveland quarterback Bill Nel-
sen decides to take to the air
more than usual.
He said to was not concerned
about the long touchdown
throws that the Cowboys have
given up the past few weeks.
“We are just getting beat in-
dividually." to said. “We will
be all right. For Instance I
think Mel Renfro will be able
to hold Us men against War-
field."
Landry was pressed on the
possibility that the Cowboys
might not b* to the right mood
for the OevntoBd game since
they have downed the Browns
so easily their tost tiro times
fUt,
You don’t took at tham sn
film and not respee* them,"
said Landry. "Cleveland is a
lot totter football team than
when w* played them and woo
28-7 earlier in «M year.
“They are better because
their young players—Warfield,
Jack Gregory, and their Une-
backers Bob Mattoson and Dale
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