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Show Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Page 7 SPORTS REPORT By Brown Football After six months of exhibition games, regular season games, and playoff games, the 1977-78 NFL season came to a close last Sunday with the most built up and sloppiest finales of them all; Super Bowl XII. In a game matching Denver's Orange Crush against Dallas' Dooms Day II, it was the "cold, unemotional, professionals" of Dallas causing more mistakes than their counterparts. Along with this defensive edge, Dallas quarterback quarter-back Roger Stauback was more adept at putting passes in his receivers' hands and points on the board than Craig Morton of Denver, who had more success in completing passes to Dallas defenders than his own receivers. Any way you look at it, the Dallas Cowboys are the 1978 Super Bowl champs winning 27-10 over the Cinderella team of the year, the Denver Broncos. This score is deceptive in that Dallas blew three other scoring opportunities, as kicker Efren Herrera missed three out of five field goal attempts. Tony Dorsett, forced out of the game in the thrid quarter with a sprained knee, put Dallas on the scoreboard first with a 3-yard run in the first quarter due to the first of four interceptions inter-ceptions by Craig Morton. Herrera contributed field goals of 35 and 43 yeards to round out the scoring in the first half; Dallas 13, Denver 0. In the third quarter, Staubach completed a 45 TD pass to Butch Johnson to make it 20-3 and then adding insult to injury, fullback Robert Newhouse completed a 29-yard pass to Golden Richards, making it 27-10. Only after Dallas' fearsome front four, of whom Randy White and Harvey Martin were chosen co-MVPs, chased Craig Morton out of the game, did Denver generate enough offense behind the more active Norris Wise to score a touchdown, a 1-yard plunge by Rob Lytle. So, in a game where 24 Super Bowl records were broken many of them dubious, such as 4 interceptions by one quarterback, 10 fumbles between two teams and 20 penalties by both teams one wonders which Super Bowl in the years to come will finally live up to all that pre- game hype that everyone gets so sick of hearing year after year. Golf Miller Barber sank a 30-foot putt, one he said he could have 3 putted just as easily, to win the rain delayed Phoenix Open Golf Tournament by a single stroke. The 46-year-old Texan finished the 6,726-yard Phenix Country Club course with a 72 hole total of 272, 12 strokes under par, one stroke ahead of Lee Trevino and Jerry Pate. Trevino and Pate each played the par 5 18th after Barber had finished. Each needed a birdie to force a playoff and each failed in his bid. Barber collected $40,000 from the $200,000 purse and, with his late season victory at Napa, Ca., gained entry to the World Series of Golf this fall. Finishing fifth with a 275 total was Arnold Palmer, his best outing since he finished fourth in the 1975 Canadian Open. Basketball After a week of upsets in the collegiate top 10, one finds the AP poll shuffled with only No. 1 Kentucky and No. 9 Louisville holding their rankings. Defending national champs, Marquette, Marquet-te, moved from No. 4 to No. 2 due to three wins this past week, while UCLA jumped from No. 7 to No. 3. Indiana St., the only team other than Kentucky Ken-tucky who remains undefeated, moved into the No. 4 position. North Carolina was upset by Duke and fell to No. 5, with Arkansas losing to Texas and dropping to No. 6. Notre Dame fell from fifth to No. 7; Kansas moved up two notches to No. 8 and following Louisville, 5, Michigan St. in No. 10. Looking briefly at the NBA standings, there are no changes among the leaders, with Philadelphia seven games ahead of New York in the Atlantic Division; Washington 1V2 games ahead of San Antonio in the Central Division; Denver 5 games ahead of Chicago in the Midwest Division; and Portland 7 games ahead of Phoenix in the Pacific Division. Hockey Likewise in NHL action, the standings this week are relatively unchanged from last week. In the Norris Division, Montreal has a comfortable comfor-table 20 point lead over the L.A. Kings, while in the Adams Division things are much closer, with Boston holding a 2 point advantage over Buffalo. Moving to the Campbell Conference, its Philadelphia holding a slim 3 point lead over the Islanders in the Patrick Division, and in the Smythe Division, Chicago holds a 6 point lead over Vancouver, n-n ait WTM "basketball fans BlRD WAS 3rd IN THE NATION IN SCORING LAST SEASON WITH A 32.8 AVG. HE MAX OVER. 40 PTS. IN 8 GAMES A INDIANA HAIL Lnnnv giro AS "WE NEW RICK BARRY". HE'S THE b FT. 9 INCH STAR OF INDIANA STATE WHO HAS THE STAMINA, THE HEART AND THE ABILITY TO GO FAR IN THE GAME FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. HE'S A JUNIOR WHO GREW UP IN THE LITTLE TOWN OF FRENCH LICK, IND. About 2So COLLEGES WANTED HIM AFTER HE ENDED HIS HIGH SCHOOL CAREER HE ENROLLED AT INDIANA U., BUT QUIT AND WENT TO INDIANA STATE U. if : X ft it f , I Middle School Organizes Team Park City's newest basketball team, the Winters Middle School Eagles, opened play in the Utah National Guard Bantam Basketball League Thursday, Thur-sday, January 12, 1978. The team is made up of seventh and eighth grade students and will be competing against Salt Lake City Junior High school teams over the next nine weeks. Team members selected to the squad after several tryouts include seventh graders Les Larsen, Steve Lindskov, Jamie Puckett. Bill Simmons, Paul Mawhinney. Chris Cooper, and Greg Bair; eighth grade players are Chad Hughes, Roger Burns, Jeff Scott, Steve Toly and Shawn Packard. Park City High School Basketball Coach Bruce Reid coaches the team, assisted by Steve Leatham. The Winter's basketball team was formed as a result of Superintendent GoodworthV positive response to the need of an organized skill building basketball program at the middle school level. Goals of the program center around the idea of providing a high level coaching experience ex-perience to teach and improve im-prove the fundamental basketball skills of our younger athletes. The Bantam Ban-tam Basketball League also provides an excellent opportunity oppor-tunity for competition with students of similar abilities from the Salt Lake City area. The team practices every morning before school and plays on Thursday evenings at 8:00 p.m. in the Sunnyside Avenue National Guard Armory Ar-mory in Salt Lake. Although defeated in their first outing of the season by a lack of experience ex-perience and an extremely cold first half, the Eagles vowed a strong comeback in their next contest. Steve Toly led all scorers in the opening encounter with 14 points, with Greg Bair, Paul Mawhinney and Jeff Scott adding two points each to the Eagle title. Many of the players' parents, including Middle School Principal Dr. Mark Simmons, provide transportation transpor-tation to practice and ballgames on a completely volunteer basis and deserve a big thank you from the players and coaching staff, interested parents, a willing administration and coaching staff plus ' enthusiastic (and dedicated players signal a continuing success for Park City's basketball future. POORLY ADJUSTED BINDINGS ARE i itfc cwnw TIRES. THEY 'both GIVE YOU TRACTION ABC Suit Resolved Several issues in the U.S. Ski Team lawsuit against ABC involving 1977-78 telecasts of ski events have been settled out of court. The U.S. Ski Team instituted in-stituted an action against ABC on November 25 for an injunction against the telecast of certain international inter-national ski races in the United Slates without the prior approval of the Ski Team. A preliminary injunction injun-ction against ABC was granted gran-ted on December 9 and affirmed af-firmed on appeal December 15 on condition that the Ski Team agree to trial beginning begin-ning December 19. 1977. which it did. That trial did not go forward as a result of an agreement reached between bet-ween USST and ABC wherein ABC agreed not to telecast any events this season in which USST appeared other than World Ski Championships, without the explicit approval of the Ski Team. A spokesman for the Ski Team said today, "We are very pleased that ABC has acknowledged that under the present rules of the International Inter-national Ski Federation, international in-ternational skiing events sanctioned by that organization may not be telecast into the United States without our explicit approval and that the Ski Team can charge for this approval. This settlement assures us an avenue of funding fun-ding for the training of skiers to represent this country now and in the future, including in-cluding the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. ABC has been helpful to the Team in the past and we expect ex-pect that its cooperation will continue." Cameras Stolen Close to $3,000 in camera equipment and other items were stolen from Cliff Bergman Photography at the resort center on Friday, Jan. 13. The items taken included: a Nikon motor-drive camera ($1,600); a 200mm lens ($400); a 50mm lens ($150); a 28mm lens ($100); a JVC stereo receiver ($250); a Vivitar flash attachment ($180); a backpack ($40); Kerma ski poles ($40); and miscellaneous items valued at $100. 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