Page 8 THE HERALD, Provo Utah, Monday. December 1972 25 earn By United Steelers a Press International National Football Conference title game and the fifth in the past seven seasons Saturday bv combining a bit of luck with under stellar performances by and Dallas Cowboys found themselves one step away from the Super Bowl Saturday, but lying in the wings are two of 1972 s NFL powerhouses, the undefeated Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins. pressure. Stabler had apparently given the Raiders a dramatic touchvictory with a The mechanics of the comeback, which featured two Roger Staubach touchdown passes in the last seconds to defeat San were many. Francisco. There was Calvin Hill's run to set up Toni field goal; the Fritsch's roughing-thpenalty passer which tacktJ on 15 yards to a Staubach completion; the rif e shot to Billv Parks 6 d down sprint Pittsburgh s triumph earned the Steelers the right to host 20-1- with five Bradshaw only seconds left Saturday and raced into the end zone from the line to give the Oakland d Dolphins To Win Over Browns, I Come-from-Behi- nd By FRANK EIDCE The unbeatMIAMI (LTD held Miami Dolphins, en e their together by victory over defense, turned wide receiver ome Paul Warfield loose in the the Cleveland Browns in the closing minutes of the final American Conference playoffs. It was Warfield, the man the quarter Sunday to earn a froin-behin- - "No-Nam- 20-1- 4 16-- 3 S aI v Dolphins obtained from the Browns in a 1970 trade, who made the difference in an march to an eight-varscoring plunge by Jim Kiick. Warfield caught a pass from Karl Morrall then was knocked down by Cleveland linebacker Bill Andrews to gain a pass interference penalty which put the ball in scoring position. But Mike Phipps, the No. 1 quarterback draft choice the Browns gained in the Warfield trade, nearly pulled off the upset of the year, running for a third period touchdown and passing for a final period score 3 which pjt Cleveland ahead with 8:11 left in the game. V of strength Warf.eld pass minutes of the in closing play the fourth quarter. "No celebrated Miami's Name'' defense saved the day for the Dolphins, who per- formed listlessly on offense until the final period drive to the winning score. Miami's defenders intercepted five of Mike Browns quarterback final theft The passes. Phipps' came in the last 48 seconds of the game with Bob Matheson grabbing the ball at the Miami 20 to shut off Cleveland's desperation drive for an upset. H S Earl a Morrall-Pau- l 20-1- kNisUwM s 20-1- 4 cornerback. and Chris Hanbur-ger- , the middle linebacker, were outstanding as Green Bay rushed for only 78 yards. Kilmer, almost booed off the field earier in the season and shaken up early in the game, TD pass to Roy fired a Jefferson in the second period and brought the Redskins close enough three other times for Curt Knight to boot three field goals. Washington will play host next Sunday to Dallas for the NFC championship. Miami finished up the weekend's football action by finishon the ing off Cleveland. hard-runnin- 100 d victors Sunday Miami. over the Cleveland Browns, next Sunday in the American Football Conference championship game. last year's Super Dallas, Bowl champion, gained en- - Franco Harris found the handle on a deflected desperation pass from Terry e huh brought "You can be in that situation times and probably win one an emotionally of them " drained Landry, coach of thr Cowboys, after the game. "You just never know what's going to happen. Pittsburgh that. It's the best proved 30-2- for NFL Title comeback by a Dallas team. It s a great tribute to our players. We had to just put in everything we had together two minutes and we did " Sunday afternoon the Washington Redskins defense put together everything it had to Green stop the Bay Packers cold. Billy Kilmer quarterbacked the Redskins with confidence to lead Washington to a triumph over the Packers, but it was Washington's defense which did the job. The "Over the Hill Gang" shut down the Green Bay offense in the second half. Pat Fischer, the the deficit to only five points with 1 20 left. Then that frantic scramble on the onside kick, the Staubach run of 21 yards; the pass to Parks, which got the ball down to the 10 and finally the pass to Ron Sellers (the secondary receiver on the play) which gave Dallas the win. -- trance into its third straight triumph over the Harr.s caught a ball deflected Raider Jack Tatum and scored the TD only one minute and eight seconds after Kenny weekend minor Christmas miracles the Pittsburgh Steel-er- s Super-rooki- Remain Raiders a couple of With the help of 13 7 5 J i v uph v(7 m d d - I i. I If r '3. Miami to Meet Pitt The victory by the Dolphins, who were favored by two touchdowns, puts Miami into Conference American the Championship game against the in Pittsburgh next Steelers Sunday for a Super Bowl berth. Miami is the AFC's defending champion. defense Only the saved the day for the Dolphins, who performed listlessly on offenre until the final period drive to the winning score. Miami's defenders intercepted five of Phipps' passes. The final theft came in the last 48 seconds of the game with Bob Matheson grabbing the ball at the Miami 20 to shut off Cleveland's desperation drive for an upset. also defense The Miami scored first the Dolphins' touchdown when Charlie Babb broke through to block Don Cockroft's punt at the Cleveland 17. Babb scooped up the line and ball at the dashed across the goal with in the first 9:32 remaining period. Offense Stalls Miami's offense, rated the best in pro football at the end of a perfect regular season, could get nothing going in the first half except a drive that led to Garo field goal Yeprominn's with 2.30 left' in the first quarter. He kicked a to open the fourth quarter. Cleveland s defense, led by tackle Jerry Sherk, thwarted the running game in e football, which set an rushing record of 2,960 yards for a season. But the Dolphins made no mistakes. Phipps threw three interceptions grabbed by Doug Swift, Curtis Johnson and Dick Anderson, and turned the ball over on two punt attempts in the first half. Browns March 90 Yards A runback of a Miami punt by Tom Darden in the opening minutes of the third quarter led to Cleveland's first touchdown. Phipps opened a drive with a pass to Milt Morin. An eight-yartoss to Fair Hooker and two runs by Bo Scott carried to the Miami five from where Phipps rolled out and ran over the goal in the right corner. The final Cleveland touchmarch down came on a which was kept alive when Anderson intercepted a Phipps pass then fumbled it into the arms of Hooker for a Cleveland first down at the Miami 30. On second down. Phipps found Hooker all alone in the end zone for the score with 8:11 left in the game. Miami came right back with its winning touchdown march of 80 yards in six plays and the interference penalty. w, fir iF . if fV' ' tJ fit v'rjtw4.1fV rf. WHfcTtt vj i v;- a,V -- r i - 1 Vs.' w "No-Nam- iff If 1 - MACARTHUR LANE, running back for the Green Bay Packers, is tackled by Jack Pardee of the Washington Redskins during NFC playoff game. The Washington game. Babb also picked up the blocked punt and raced into the end zone for a touchdown. Miami went on to win, BLOCKING A PUNT attempt by Cleveland's Don Crockroft is Miami's Charles Babb during the first quarter of AFC playoff 20-1- Hoop Teams Eye Holiday Tournaments Top-Rank- ed Press International Ten victims remain in UCLA's path to a college basketball winning streak record and the first of those should fall Dec. 29 when the Bruins journey to New Orleans to participate in the Sugar Bowl By United Milwaukee Classic Dec. Tom McMillawhile n-led Maryland will be in action on the same days in its own invitational tournament. Minnesota will be in Portland, Ore., to plav in the Far West Classic Dec. Classic. Long Beach State, John easy winner in the International with coach UCLA, Wooden recovered from a mild City Classic Saturday night and heart condition and back on the the Nassau Classic last week, bench, ran their streak to 50 will venture to Oklahoma City win Dec. straight with a tough for the over a game University of Tournament. Seventh-rankePittsburgh team Friday night Missouri goes and then extended the skein to to Kansas City, Mo., for the Big 51 by dumping Notre Dame, Eight tournament, Dec. Saturday. Florida State, Seven other top which will not be teams will be playing in holiday when this week's ratings are tournaments this week, with 29-3- 0 third-ranke- d Fifth-ranke- d 27-3- sixth-ranke- d 89-7- 3 27-3- 0 d 82-5- 27-3- ninth-ranke- d ninth-ranke- only fourth-ranke- Tournament, while Indiana will participate in the Sun Carnival at El ' Paso. Tex., on Dec. Ijong Beach St. won its fourth straight International City Clasrout of Loyola sic with a (Calif.) Saturday, while Florida from its St. rebounded 3 loss to Alabama with a romp over Northwestern in the Dayton Invitational. North Carolina St. was the only other member of the top 10 to see action Saturday night, and the Wildcats stretched their with a record to triumph over Georgia. d 28-2- 105-7- 7 74-6- 8 91-7- 0 97-8- 3 North d d Carolina St. and Southwestern I ouisiana bypassing the festivities. Second-ranke- d Marquette will stay at home to play in the Collegiate Hoopscores eighth-ranke- By United Press International East Brooklyn College 70 Yeshiva 39 Pont Leaves CCNY 71 Queens 62 Seton Hall 68 Scranton 54 Penn 59 Temple 44 Providence 107 DePaul 80 Lehman 57 Cathedral 49 Canisius 92 Wake Forest 71 South Jacksonville 86 Furman 66 NC St. 97 Georgia 83 Kentucky 77 Kansas 71 Vanderbilt 78 Boston College Indiana for Northwestern EVANSTON, 111. (UPI) -Jis leaving Indiana Jniversity's football coaching ob to take a similar position at ohn Pont Northwestern University, it was announced Saturday. Pont succeeds Alex Agase, Dec. 15 he was rho said the leaving Northwestern only private school in the Big to become Ten Conference head coach at Purdue. Northwestern's athletic director, Tippy Dye, announced from Evanston that Pont decided to make the switch from Indiana, where his five-yecontract expires next ar February. d tabulated after the Seminoles weis upset by unranked Alabama Friday, will also be in the 62 Midwest Toledo 88 St. Joseph's (Ind) 70 Marquette 69 Iowa 61 SF State 80 Youngstown St. 62 Toledo 80 St. Joseph's 70 Kansas St. 85 Arizona 69 Southwest Tulsa 92 Cincinnati 86 (ot) Oklahoma City 79 Texas 77 Memphis St. 87 Arkansas 86 West Louisville 84 Utah 67 UCLA 82 Notre Dame 56 BYU 105 US Navy Subpac 68 New Mexico 92 Colorado 71 Fordham 83 California 70 Stanford 74 St. Mary's 65 Oregon St. 79 Montana 62 Washington 93 Gonzaga 61 Santa Clara 84 Pacific 68 Pcpperdine 80 Pittsburgh 73 I Conn Classic at Storrs, Conn. Harvard 79 Yale 72 Syracuse 104 Connecticut 73 Dayton Invitational at Dayton, Ohio Alabama 77 Diyton 76 (championship) Florida St. 91 Northwestern 73 (consol) Roadrunner Invitational Classic 72 S1U New (Carbondale) Mexico St. 71 (ot) (championship VMI 60 Xavier 59 (consolation International City Classic Long Beach St. 105 Loyola (Calif.) 77(championship) 67 65 LIU UC Irvine (consolation! top-rate- d d d - NEW YORK, N.Y. Many people figured that the four-fodifference between 12 and 16 feet would be too much for Artis Gilmore, but Kentucky's dominating pivot man has been taking a few extra steps to correct that situation. The result has been a steady stride toward the leading scorers in the American Basketball Association. The Colonels king-size- d center, following in the of every other giant footsteps pro basketball center who-hahad to adjust to the widening of the free throw lane by four feet, has climbed to No. 8 in scoring with a 22.03 point average that has been rising steadily since the beginning of the season. "He surprised me," says Kentucky Coach Joe Mullaney. "Everyone thought the wider lane would present a problem for him, making him shoot farther away from the basket. But it has not happened." "I just had to prove to myself that I could make the adjustment," Gilmore says. "In a way it actually has helped me because I like to manuever for a shot. The wider lane has given me more room to move because it is not as crowded now. I also found myself standing around too much last year. I've tried to be more active this season." Given more room, Gilmore has moved from No. 22 in scoring the first week of the season with a average to his current mark. The wider lane also has had no affect on his rebounding as he has led the league in that department since the second week of the season a now stands at 19.1 per contest. "People been have season slowly, but the Colonels have been winning big since he started averaging more than his 23.9 figure of last season. In successive weeks his average has climbed from 16 to 17, 18, 18.1, 19, 20.2, 21.5, 21.7 and now 22.0 points a game. Gilmore also had the league lead in two point field goal percentage at 58.3 per cent, just below his record breaking 59.8 per cent a year ago. And he in blocked leads again with 124. shots Cleveland Browns-Miam- - game: i Statistics of the LMpnins playofl Clev Mia First downs Hushes yards 15 17 Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts 118 74 46 68 6 7 s 38 points 325 a I even scored 75 one game but we weren't winning. night I think I could probably score points a game now, but we wouldn't win." Gilmore's increased scoring 40-5- 0 Fumhles-los- t Penalties-yard- averaged about e vfctory RemainUnbeaten Hall was a hero of sorts earlier as the 49ers came up The Wyoming journeys to the Far DENVER (UPI) in Portland; University of Utah's basketball West Classic team is a lot like a David that Arizona is at the Holiday Meet its in Las Vegas, Arizona State is forgot to bring along at the Kodak Classic in slingshots. Paso The Redskins play one of the Rochester; and Texas-E- l schedules hosts its own Sun Carnival. toughest in the nation, and thus far it has proven nearly disastrous for the squad that features five freshmen among its top six. G F P The Utes saw their record American Fork (57) 6 18 Varney when last week fall to they Holmstead 17 6 shellack- Strasburg 2 6 opened with an Dean 2 5 ing of Seattle and then fell to Durrant o 0 San Francisco Williamson 2 11 Totals Friday and tough Louisville 18 21 28 57 Saturday. Pleasant Grove (51) G F P In other games Saturday Hamman 2 7 ConAllred 10 21 involving Western Athletic 5 10 0 ference teams Colorado State Bean Adamso.1 3 3.3 9 dropped Fresno State 2 Evre 4 Schoell Brigham Young beat Navy 0 0 in a game that Adams 0 0 Totals 22 51 doesn't count in official reScon? by quarters Paso squashed American Fork cords; Texas-E- l 5 23 40 57 and Pleasant Grove Oklahoma Christian 12 25 36 51 Arizona fell to Kansas State n 7 86-6- 6 78-6- 3 d 84-6- 7 70-6- 1 Sub-PA- 0 105-6- 8 with a lead. He forced a Craig Morton fumble which the 49ers converted into a 28-1- 6 touchdown 85-6- I.EHI Lind Penrod Walker yG 1 (who else) and Colorado State takes on host Carolina .j 24 8 Fowler forces this week and head to Peterson Walch Hawaii where they compete in Beck Utah the Rainbow Classic. North with devastating opens ft 10 I (M u i P 9 4 16 22 3 0 2 1 Christofferson. Christofferson. Dorton Totals MILLARD Monroe Brinkerhoff Condie K 2 J 2 11 .2 5 04 2 30 FG 5 69 FT P 0 4 2 4 1 2 Turner 3 8 Stephenson Carling. F. Christensen Harmon 2 6 2 7 3 6 T. 0 Carhng, Totals 0 0 2 recovered But he was the player Roger Staubach zeroed in on when the Cowboys needed a touchdown to win the game in the final minute. Riley helped set up the Cowboys at midfield on the winning drive when he was unable to o handle an onside kick and Mel Renf ro fell on it to give Dallas its chance. All-Pr- But the 49ers had one more chance. They took the next kickoff and were moving the ball on the Cowboys' defense, as they had game long, when Banaszek committed the unpardonable sin. On first and 10 at the SF 45, John Brodie seemingly completed a pass to Riley at the Dallas 32. But on the play, Banaszek was called for holding and the final chance of the 49ers went down the drain. "We moved the ball well enough to win," said dejected 49er Coach Dick Nolan. "But the key situation did us in. You saw the kickoff fumble and the holding penalty. "It was just a situation that happens. Like that last play when the holding penalty took us out of field goal range. 39 13 Quarters Millard t."hi and another fumble for still another TD. 75-3- Hawaii. New Undefeated Mexico, record, since the beginning of the which has logged a the VVAC action, season, while not in the 40s or highlights 50s, has been enough to send the however, with the host role in Colonels on a winning binge that the Lobo Invitational. Also in has boosted them into second the meet are Tulsa, Seattle and place in the Eastern Division Dartmouth. In other games this week and running hard at is at the BYU Carolina. He and Kentucky opened the Tourney in Oklahoma Citv; first-plac- comeback 8 NewAiexcoLofoos 0 Cleveland 007 -14 Miami 1INHI10 20 Mia - Babb 6 run with blocked punt Yepremian kick it Yempremian 40 CI' 5 run Cockroft kick Mia- - KG Yepremian 46 27 pass from Phipps iCwknift kick! Mia-K- nck 8 run iTepremian kick Bill Melchionni of New York, SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -out three weeks with an injured When a team loses a big game the remained assist ankle, leader in this week's statistics in the final minute, it's hard to through Sunday's games with 10 blame any one man, but if a game; Roland Taylor of someone has to wear the goat's Virginia retained his lead in horns, you can take your pick of steals with 108, and Freddie rookie defensive back Windlan Lewis of Indiana held his lead in Hall, wide receiver Preston three point field goal shooting Riley or offensive tackle Cas with 43 per cent. Ron Boone of Banaszek. Utah grabbed the free throw Hall, filling in at safety for shooting lead from San Diego's veteran Mel Phillips, was the 86.1 Chambers with Jerry per man Ron Sellers beat for the cent. touchdown that gave Dallas a Saturday over the San Francisco 49ers and sent them to the NFC title game for the third year in a row. Wyoming, which beat underestimating me as a scorer in its only throughout my career," Fresno Slate Gilmore says. "I just never outing on Thursday, was idle. Utah and Colorado State join really concentrated on scoring, even in college. In high school I Goat Horns For 49ers? 30-2- 80-5- 9 filAMI il'i'I) Who Wears Artis Gilmore Adjusts To Wider Lane in ABA six-yar- d 14-- 0 defense stopped the vaunted running game of the Packers and won, 16-- 8 19 29 39 13 27 47 69 "And if we had held onto that kickoff, we would have had them."