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Show What's Ahead in 1971? By BILL MADDEN UPISports Writer THE HERALD,Provo, Utsh—Page 9 Friday, January 1, 1971 NEW YORK (UPI)—Will Cassius Clay-Muhammad Ali again :2ign supreme as undisputed heavyweight champion of the world? Who will become king of pro foutball in the fifth Super Bowl? Will Arnold Palmer break his slump and again crack golf's winner's circle? These are just some of the questions that the worlc of sport will answer in 1971. Here are some more: Three straight NCAA football titles for Texas? A fifth straight NCAA basketball title for UCLA? Continued baseball dominance for the Baltimore Orioles? A Stanley Cup for the New York Rangers or maybe ‘More of Orr” in hockey? Here’s a look into our crystal ball and a little insight as to what’s ahead for 1971: Among thefirst questions te be answered—probably in February or March—will be the Olsen, Wilson, Lane Make All Pro Team By IRA BERKOW NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK A(NEA) The National Football Conference plac 116 men on the NE. A All-Pro first team as selected by the team captains on all NFL squads. Charley Sanders of De- esting in that Dick Gordon on the squad. Besides Washtroit, at tight end, was the won it, and Paul Warfield ington and Brodie, the 49ers top vote-getter almost did. Gordon wasn’t are represented with Jim The NFC even sure of a job with the Johnson at defensive halfwas honored Bears when the season be- back and Dave Wilcox at with eight gan. Bear officials thought cornerlinebacker. men on the he should catch more passes St. Louis placed two men first-team of- and dress more conservaunit—safety j fensive unit tively. He improved on the on the defensive Wilson and halfback former. Warfield had been : and eigit on r Wehrii thedefensive. traded from Cleveland to Miami, and set out immediThe NEA All-Players All‘reflected the ately to prove to the Browns Pro team, selected with the ¥the balance that they had let go of a cooperation of the NFL » in contests prize. Although he missed Players Assceiation, will be played be- several games with a shoul- honored at the annual prestween the two leagues dur- der injury, Warfield was the entation ceremonies in ing the season. The NFC long bomb threat in the CBS’ Television City, Hollystartling rise of the Dolphins wood, on Thursday, Jan. 21 held a 27-12-1 edge. John Brodie of San Fran- to a play-off berth. cisco was substantially Wide receiver Gene WashTheplay rs will receive ahead of Bob Griese of Mi- ington of San Francisco and individual jtuettes, sculpami for the quarterback tackles Bob Brown of Los ted by N editorial carAngeles and Gale Gilling- toonist Bill Crawford, to Merlin Olsen and MacAr- ham of Green Bay round honor their selection to the thur Lane played college ball out the first team on offense all-pro team andwil! also be at Utah State and Larry Two of Minnesota’s Pur- presented with engraved Wilson played at Utah. ple Gang lead the all-pro Bulova watches defensive team. End Carl spot. The voting was closer, Eller and tackle Alan Page however, for the running back positions. Larry Brown of Washington and MacArthur Lane of St. Louis were followed closely by Ron Johnson of the Giants and Mel Farrof Detroit For several years, Jim Otto of Oakland and Mick Tingelhoff of Minnesota have dominated the all-star voting at center for their respective leagues. Now, in the first combined NBAallpro team, Otto comes out on top. Guard Walt Sweeney of San Diego and tackle Jim Tyrer of Kansas City are the other two American Conference players on the offensive first team Wide receiver was inter- line up with Rich Jackson, end, of Denver and Merlin Olsen, tackle, of Los Angeles to provide a fearsome front four. A surprise on the second teamat tackle is a relative unknown, Manny Merlin Olsen To Undergo Knee Surgery Fernandez of the Miami LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Merlin Olsen, defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams, will undergo surgery on his right selected by maietortabie knee Tuesday, the team anmargin over Kansas City’s nounced today. Willie Lanier. Olsen tore ligaments in the Besides Rich Jackson, the knee during the Nov. 8 game AFC wasrepresented on de- with Atlanta, and reinjured it in fense by two players from the Dec. 14 match with Detroit. Kansas City. They Olsen had played in eight Bobby Bell, corner line- straight Pro Bowl games and backer, and Johnny Robin- had beenslated to take part in son, halfback. the 1971 game on Jan. 17, which San Francisco led all he will miss because of the teams by placing four men surgery. Dolphins Nasty Dick Butkus is te middle line er. He The All Pro Team OFFENSE FIRST TEAM Charlie Sanders, Detroit Gene Washington, San Francisco Dick Gordon, Chicago Jim Tyrer, Kansas City Robert Brown, Los Angeles Gale Gillingham, Green Bay Walt Sweeney, San Diego Jim Otto, Oakland John Brodie, San Francisco Larry Brown, Washington MacArthur Lane, St. Louis SECOND TEAM Tight End Wide Receiver Wide Receiver Tackle Tackle Guard Guard Center Quarterback Running Back Running Back Bob Trumpy, Cincinnati Warren Wells, Oakland Paul Warfield Ernie MeMillan, St. Louis Winston Hill, New York Jets Tom Mack, Los Angeles Irv Goode, Mick Tingelhoff, Boh Grie: Ron Johnson, } Mel Farr, Detroit DEFENSE FIRST TEAM Carl Eller, Minnesota Rich Jackson, Denver Alan Page, Minnesota Merlin Olsen, Los Angeles Dick Butkus, Chicago Bobby Bell, Kax:as City DaveWilcox, Sax: Francisco Jim Johnson, Sai ¥rancisco Roger Wehrli, St. Louis Johnny Robinson, Kansas City Larry Wilson, St. Louis SECOND TEAM End End Aa sia Linebacker Corner Linebacker Corner Linebacker Halfback Halfback Safety Safety Deacon Jones, Los Angcies Atlanta Dallas Manny Fernandez, Miami Willie Lanier, Kansas City Chuek Howley, Dallas Andy Russell, Pittsburgh Willie Brown, Oakland LemBarney, Detroit Willie Wood, Green Bay Ken Houston, Houston BobLilly, seventh-round knockout victim of Frazier, ciaims Frazier is a harder puncher and will “destroy Clay.” Oscar Bonavena, who went the distance twice with Frazier and was TKOed by Clay in the 15th round, on the other hand says Clay is the “real champion” and will prove it when he meets Frazier. Regardless of the outcome, the gross receipts from this fight should prove conclusively that boxing is far from dead. A partial preview of the 1972 Olympics is in store for sports fans in early August when the Pan American Games get underway in Cali, Colombia. South America. Already, a few records have been shattered since the last Olympics, including Christos Papinilakou’s astonishing. A partial preview of the 1972 Olympicsis in store for sports fans in early August when the Pan American Games get underway in Cali, Colombia. South America, Already, a few records have been shatterec since the last Olympics, including Christos Papinilakou’s astonihing 18-foot aa vault and the Pan-Am Games are likely to produce more new marks. Pro football, which has added qeee playoff system to its post-season dramatics, will ca its ne champion in Miami Ja., Last eae champs, the Kansas Uity Chiefs, failed to qualify for season’s-end playoffs. In the latter part of January, the National Football League will conduct its annual draft of college players with the Boston Patriots getting the No. 1 pick. Expected to go high in the draft are Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett, Ohio State defensive back Jack Tatum, Notre Dame guard Larry DiNardo,Mississippi quarterback Archie Manning and Gcranbling running back Frank 5 oe Detroit’s Charlie Sanders: Top vote-getter. outcomeof the most ballyhooed heavyweighttitle fight in recent years. After an enforced three-year layoff, the unflappable Mr. Clay-Ali is back. But Joe Frazier has proven to be a formidable title-holder in the ex-champ’s absence. Two common opponents have mixed emotions of the Frazier- more, can expect to command skyrocketing bonuses. Tennis enthusiasts will witness the sport's first million dollar event in 1971, A 21tournament schedule sponsored by Texas milionaire Lamar Hunt has under contract 32 of it added prestige. It's the only John Roche, must first srap a one of goii’s four major events three-year post-season ACC Palmer has never won. tournamentjinx which has kept Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus, them out of the NCAA playoffs. Lee Trevino and Tony Jacklin— Flashy JC transfer Harold Fox golf's big champions of i970— has replaced Rer Morgan as can be expected to post the Jacksonville fioor leader victories in 1971, but the influx and another transfer, Ernie the world’s top tennis pros and of young swingers bursting onto Fleming, aids Gilmore with will be played all over the the PGA tour each year assures scoring punch up front. world. Nine of the 32 contract get from deing duminated by College football 1971 will pros wil! also compete in a 15 one man again. match tourney for $210,000. UCLA is favored for an feature some familiar indiviIn women's tennis, Margaret unprecedented fifth straight dual faces but not necessarily Court, winner of the Grand NCAA basketball crown, with the same teams as its Siam in 1970, is a good bet to only guard Join Vallely gone headliners. Texas, seeking a repeat that feat in 1971. She from last year's championship third straight NCAA championcan expect challenges however club. But South Carclina, with ship, wili be hard-hit by the from Americans Billie Jean four sterters returning, and graduationlosses of fullback King, now fully recovered from Jacksonville, with a pair of Steve Worster, tackle Bobby knee surgery, Rosemary Casals junior college transfers added Wuensch, running back Jim to its Artis Gilmore-dominated Bertelson and defensive end and possibly Nancy Richey. Arnold Palmerfailed to win a siarting cast, should provide Bill Atessis. Likewise, Ohio golf tournamentin 1970 and the the Bruins with more than State and Notre Dame lose the heart of their nationally-ranked fast time that happened was adequate competition. 1955. But if Palmer could The S.C. Gamecocks, who 1970 squads. choose a tournament in which have added sophomore Kevin Auburn’s Pat Sullivan and to snap his slump in 1971, it Joyce as a backcourt comple- Washington's Sonny Sixkiller, a would probably be the PGA, mentto two-time Atlantic Coast pair of talented quarterbacks, moved up to Feb, 25-28 to give Conferencer player-of-the-year return in '71 and should pose JOHNNY MUSSOof Alabama lungesfor extra yardagein the Bluebonnet Bowl against Oklahoma. Musso gained 21 yards HOUSTON (UPI) — One of man’s worst predicaments is to be forced to celebrate when he’s not in the movud for it— especially if he’s going to a New Year’s Eve party with a pow he feels he has just let down. Richard Ciemny of Anthony, Kan., felt that way early today. That’s the reason he was the last Alabama player to dress and leave the clubhouse after his team had tied Oklahoma 2424 in the 12th annual Astro Bluebonnet Bowl. Ciemny, a senior kicker playing his final geme for the Crimson Tide, missed a 34-yard field goal with five seconds to goalie Gilles Villemure to spe!l the overworked Ed Giacomin and hard-hitting forward Pete Stemkowski, Butstill blocking the path for the New Yorkers, are last year’s champs, the Boston Bruins,led bythe incomparable Bobby Orr, who amassed a record 120 points in 1970. Orr has an excellent supporting cast including center Phil Esposito— off to a sizzling scoring pace year. A NewYork-Boston Stanley Cup showdown appears likely and, if so, should prove to be a free-swinging affair on this play which set up an unsuccessfulfield goal attempt with five seconds remaining. go that would have won the game.Atfirst ic was reported blocked by Oklahoma’s John Shelley, but he said after the game he did not touch it. “T made him change his angle and hurry the kick,” Shelley said, nee how he rushed Ciemn i was nobody‘3 fault but my ,” Ciemny said. 'e was unsmiling, head bowed and talking: barely enough to be polite. Teammates came by to encourage him, telling him it wasn’: his fault, but he wasn’t buying that. Heactually believed he'd cost Alabama victory and nothing anybody could say © changed his mind. Not even Sam Bailey, Alabama’s assistant athletic director, who slapped him on the shoulder and_ said: “Don't worry aboutit, Dick. I missed one myself once.” Ciemny, who once kicked a 56-yard field goal in junior college at Butler, County, Kan. stayed around until everyone was gone, partially under the guise of looking for a missing pair of pants and partly because ne did not wantto face the Alabamarootersoutside the dressing room door. All his teammatesleft except Ken Emerson, a second-string Shrine GameIs Saturday Kuhn, was acquired by Wash- Ski Cenditions Are Excellent selves on the ground, Jim Braxton of West Virginia, Mike Adamle of Northwestern and Don Martin of Yale are the Eas* runners scheduled for heavy duty. Leo Hart of Duke and Don Moorhead of Michigan are the east quarterbacks. The game is a complete sellout at 54,000. Kickoff is set for 1:30 p.m, EST and the ae will be televised nationally. Warriors Gain Win The San Francisco Warriors ceached the new year only ne and a helf games behind the Los Angeles Lakers and still very much in the National Baskebal! Association’s Pacific Division race. The Warriors picked up a half game on the Lakers Thursday when they whipped the Boston Celtics, 144-106, in Boston with the help of 32 points each by Nate Thurmond and Jeff Mullins The loss was the sixth in eight games for the Celtics, playing their first home game after seven on the road, and dropped them into third place in the NBA’s Atlantic Division. The Atlanta Hawks snapped their five-game losing streak when they beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 119-85, in the NBA’s only other game Thursday. The loss was the 39th in 44 games for the Cavaliers. The Virginia Squires are beginning to look unbeatable in. the race for the American Basketball Association's Easiern Divisiontitle The best-balanced team in the league, the Squires defeated the Carolina Cougars, 127-1:7, Thursday night and opened up a 3%game lead over the Kentucky Colonels in the race for first place. Charlie Scott scored 24 points By United Press International Excellent skiing conditions Detroit, and Dick Williams at ® Oakland becomes the tenth were reported today on pack pliot to be employed by Charlie and powder slopes as Utah ski resorts revel in copious amounts Finley in 10 years. Pro basketball experts point of snow dropped on the moun% to the Milwaukee Bucks as the tains in recent weeks. Lifts and tows were operatbest bet to challenge the New York Knicks for the Nationa! ig, facilities were open and Basketball Association title. highways open and clear. Snow : Should a matchup of these tires or chains are suggested : clubs occur in the NBA playoff for parking lots, however, There is to be night skiing at finals, it would pit the Bucks’ : super star duo of LEW Alcindor Park City, Gorgoza, Nordic Valand Osca,’ Robertson against ley, Solitude and Sundance. the Knicks’ overall depth. Total snow depth: Alta 99, Meanwhile,if a mergeris not Brighton 97, Park City and reached between the N.B.A. Park City West, 79, Solitude 95, and the American Basketball Beaver Mountain 73, Brian Association, this year’s current Head 67, Snow Basin 82, Sungroup of college seniors, dance #5, Nordic Valley 60, rhe UCLA's Sidney Wicks Blue Mountain 41, end Gorgoza, to lead the Squires. Larry Miller led the Cougars with 24. nille’s Artis Gil- good base. Martin replaces Mayo Smith at last year by adding backup Bluebonnet Ba ttle Ends in Tie Baseball's Baltimore Orioles OAKLAND,Calif. (UPI) —It appear to have strengthened will be the West’s passing themselves in off-season trades the East's running and and, barring any unforeseer against slumps andinjuries, will be defensive skills Saturday in the 46th annual Shrine East-West pre-season favorites to capture another World Series champion- game at the Oakland Coliseum. The Westis favored by seven ship. Pitchers Pat Dobson and Grant Jackson have been added points, mostly because of the to the Orioles’ staff, which presence of three quarterbacks already includes a trio of 20- with pro futures —Dennis game winners in 1970—Mike Dummit of UCLA, Chuck Hixon of Southern Methodist and Dan Cuellar, Dave McNally and Jim Pastorini of Santa Clara Paimer. The return of a pair of Coach Eddie Crowder said he prodigal sons to the baseball plans to give his three scene in Washington will also quarterbacks equal time but he highiight the 1971 season. makes no bonesofthe fact that Outfielder Curt Flood, his West will depend in large part reserve clause suit still being onits passing game. Johnny Pont, the head East appealed, has signed a $100,000 contract with the Washington coach, said his team will concentrate on stopping the Senators and Denny McLain West’s passing game while who was suspended twice in 1970 by Commissioner Bowie trying to grind it out themington from Detroit in an offseason trade. Only two new managers will debt in 1971 in baseball’s annual managerial sweepstakes. Billy strong threats for Lie Heisman Trophy in addition to projecting their schools into vontention for the NCAA title In Hockey, the New York Rangers ,gain will make a strong bi’ for the Stanley Cup whick hes eluded them since 889-40. The Rangers have ngthened themselves over defensive back,and finally they left with a couple of friends, the last people outside the dressing room door, to go to a New Year’s Eve party which had already been planned for him. Ciemny’s counterpart, Bruce Derr of Oklahoma,had tied the game at 24-24 with a 42-yard field goal with 1:04 remzining in the game, but he wasn’t happy either. He blamed himself because an attempted onside kick on the ensuing kickoff went awry and Alabama gained possession on the Oklahoma 40. Derr’s field goal was the only Oklahoma points the final half. Alabama almost won the game on a 25-yard touchdown pass to Scott Hunter, who normally throws touchdown passes, Hunter caught a surprise toss from halfback Johnny Musso along the left sidelines and went in untouched Hunter had passed for the other two touchdowns, one of four yards to Randy Moore in the first quarter and another of five yards to David Bailey in the second quarter. Oklahoma scored in the first quarter on a two-yard plunge by Joe Wylie and in the second quarter on end runs of 58 and NBAStandings Atlantic Division . L, Pet. GB 2% yards by Greg Pruitt New York 3111 738. Philadelphia 2418 571 7 Boston 22.11. 564 7) Buffalo 1131 .262 20 Central Division W. L. Pet. GB Baltimore 2 16.568 Cincinnat 16 21.432 5 Atlanta 13.27 325 94 Cleveland 29 «WA 9 Midwest Division Pet. GB By United Press International Only a few colleges were in Milwaukee 29 7 hoe Detroit 26 14 650 5 action ‘Thursday night to ring Chicago 2316 590 7 7 out the old year on the Phoenix B19 .548 9 basketballcourt. Pacific Division ct. GB Notre Dame, fresh from an Los Angeles 2215 595 San“: ancisco 23.19 .548 I'a upset of Kentucky, gut 43 points San wiego 2120 1512 3 from Austin Carr, including the Seattle 822.450 5¥a clincher on two overtime free Portland 12 28 300.17 “throws, to beat Santa Clara 85hursday’s Results San Francisco 144 Boston 106 83. Atlanta 119 Cleveland 85 The victory was the fifth (Only games scheduled) against two losses for Notre Friday's Games San Diego at Los Angeles Dame while Santa Clara, led by Portland at Scattie Mike Stewart's 28 points has Baltimore at Cleveland won once in nine outings. Sophomore Ron King scored ABAStandings 26 points to lead Florida State Ea to a 95-85 victory over Arizona Pct. GB and Kentucky State, the NaVirginia 21 00 Kentucky 24.15 .615 3! 2 tion’s No. 1 small college team, NewYork 16 20 .444 10 rallied to beat Oshkosh State Floridians 16 22 4211) Pittsburgh 16 25.390 12% 88-75 and boostits record to 8-0. Carolina 15 24 .385 12¥2 Elmore Smith had 27 points West W. L. Pet. GB and Travis Grant 24 for Utah 24:12 667 Kentucky State. Indiana id .595 2a Memphis state beat NevadaMemphis 2118 538 4! ; Las Vegas 83-76 and a Denver 14 23.379 10a exas M4 24 368 11 scheduled game between Jackursday’s Results sonville and the Virgin Islands Virginia 127 Carolina 117 was postponed until Saturday (Only game scheduled) (No Games Today night. Irish Top Santa Clara |