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Show Eagles Head Toward 3rd Playoff , But Rival Eleven Still Undecided tie tn the first half. At tha and of th session, the 'tBers held slim 21-17 margin. Frankis Albert flipped three touchdown passes for the winners, and started another an-other scoring march. In the National league the Rama came mighty close to being upset, and ware thankful for tha tie. Fred Oherke smashed over from th on with St seconds to go In the game for th tying touchdown. Steeler halfback Jo Oerl notched touchdown is the second period, and from that point until Gherke bulled over. It waa all the Steelers. Yankees hut week, and held the asm Browns to a tie earlier In th aeasoay didn't look as though they were going to hold their own at the start. Early In the game. Tony Adamle intercepted a George Rattermaa pas on th S4, and four plays later Otto Graham scored on a quarterback sneak from one inch out. But from that point on the Bills held better than their own, and tallied in the second stanza when Rattermaa. after trying two passes from the four, gave the ball, to Chet Mutryn, who went around right and for the stand-off marker. San Francisco waa pushed by th Dona, who twice pulled to a Washington "Redskins, 44-21; the Chicago. Cardinals 'whipped the Bulldogs. 65-20; th New ' York Giants trounced Green Bay, 30-10, and the Chicago Bears turned back to Detroit Lions, 27-24. ;- gams OM Story- ' ' Th three game in tha A A C produced the aame story. The Cleveland-Buffalo tie waa the only surprise. The Ysnks hsd to go sll-out to beat the Hornets, in clinching s plsy-off berth, while Ssn Frnncisco hurdled Los Angeles, An-geles, 41-24. The Yanks stsrted fast and scored both their touchdowns in tha first period before the chuk-ker chuk-ker waa five minute old. in fact. Buddy Young took the opening kickof f 91 yard for the first score, after which Sherman Howard hit th line threw times, starting from the 25. for the second. Then the Yanks' troubles began. be-gan. They fumbled five times all told, and all the Chicago scoring came aa a result of the bobbles. Jim McCarty mad a field goal from the 25. Then John Clement tossed a pass to Ray Ramsey in the end zone from th 28. The Bills, who polished off th , . .. .. ; i 'NEW YORK, Nov. 14 m The defending champion Philadelphia Eaglea Monday wer heading gaily toward their third straight playoff play-off for th National Football league title but they weren't quite sure who the opposition would be. Until Bunday, It looked almost certain that the Ifegle would play' the Loa Angrle Rams, who stUl are leading the western division. But the 7-7 tie the Rama played with Pittsburgh cast s shadow on their chances. The Rama of course, still are in the top position to get in the plav-of f. They show a 6-1-1 record and have a relatively easy schedule ahead two games with th Chicago Chi-cago Cardinals and one each with the hapless New York Bulldogs and Washington Redskins. The Chicago Bears could do it, though. Browns oa Top ' Tn the ATI-America conference, ft still is the Cievelsnd Browns on top and tha New York Yankees trailing along in second place with an outside chance of catching the leaden. Both had off days Sunday, Sun-day, the Browne being tied by Buffalo. T-T. and the Yanks Just squeezing past the Chicago Hornets, Hor-nets, 14-10. The two winners will meet next Sunday, and that probably will determine de-termine th eventual victor, unless thsra to an upaet inthe flnal take on the Hornets and the Yanka engage both Loa Angelas and San , Francisco. ' Sunday' action tn the National league went completely according 1 to expectations, if you overlook the Los Angeles-Pittsburgh tie. I The Eagles romped over the |
