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Show Pro Football 'Loser' As Sayers Retires United Press International One of the most illustrious names in the history of the game will be among the missing next Sunday when the National Football Leagues 1,040 players start playing for real. The tedious seven weeks of exhibition games ended Sunday with five games and the 26 coaches will slice their rosters from 41 to 40 players' Monday for the start of the 1972 regular season next Sunday. But the results Sunday were overshadowed the anby nouncement that Gale Sayers, labeled by George Halas who1 has seen them all as the greatest running back in the history of the game, has retired. made Sayers his fi-- st ap- an exhibition game this season Saturday night and fumbled U'ice while carrying only three times in the Chicago Bears loss to the St. Louis Cardinals Both fumbles were turned into Cardinal touchdowns. in pearance 33-1- 4 Sayers, whod played only two games in each of the last two seasons while trying to come back from his second knee injury, decided after the sorry showing to call it a career at age 29. The leg felt fine, but just hitting the astroturf and getting on the leg made it very sore and I felt Id better give it up, Sayers said. I hate to leave football, but I know Im finished and I know I cannot go on this year," he said. In the final five practice games Sunday, Miami surprised Minnesota m a national televised game, Baltimore topped Denver New England upset Detroit the New York Giants and edged Cleveland Houston tied New Oi leans 9 20-1- 28-2- 1 Exhibition records are mis) ended leading but Dallas up with the best record and three other teams Washington, San Diego and Pittsburgh ended with identical marks. (6-1- The disappointing team of the exhibition season had to be Minnesota, which wound up at even though the Vikings are generally considered to be the team to beat this year. Mercury Morris, playing in 2 f England to the surprising victory over Detroit. The Patriots deficit Came back from a to upset the Liens It was only Detroits second loss and the Patriots second win of the exhibition season. ' jk 17-- 7 -- St t Aggies Win Big; Face By GARY R. BLODGETT Deseret News Sports Writer ( Joimny Umtas, ready for an39. directed first Baltimore to a hall ak the Colts downed Denver. Denver, which scored 56 points ii its last two games, was held to one touchdown on an punt return by Floyd Little. Running back Charlie Evans ran for four touchdowns to give the Giants the victory over Cleveland. The loss left Cleveland witji an exhibition record. In the final' five practice games Sunday,, Miami surin a naprised Minnesota tionally televised game, Baltimore topped Denver New England upset Detroit the New York Giants and edged Cleveland . Houston tied New Orleans other year at age x ' . j. - v1 mum d 6 Gayle Sayers . . . 'greatest ever' 9 place of ailing Jim Kuck, ran includfor two touchdowns in final minute the one ing to lead Miami past the Vikings. Jim Plunkett fired three touchdown passes to lead New 34-3- 1 14-1- LAS CRUCES, N.M. State Aggies played a Utah fine New football game against Mexico State here last weekend but they will have to be more consistant to upset the Oklahoma nationally-rankenext Saturday in Sooners Norman. USU took charge early in the first quarter, scoring the first two senes of plays, and then scored almost at will throughout the game. The Aggies won, But like Coach Chuck Mills said postgame: Im disappointed with our performance. We should have scored at least three more TDs We hade far too many mistakes bad mistakes and the breaks and penalties certainly went against us. Maybe this was Mills way his of keeping players for the big Oklahopsyched ma game next weekend. He cant give the impression that winning by 34 points against New Mexico State is going to make it easy against the ers. hes And Soon- right. The Utags did make a lot of mistakes, as to be expected in the season opener. The likeable USU mentor was very disturbed by the officiating. and well he should bt. Not that the penalty-callinwas just far too much whistletooting to satisfy anyone. g one-side- There were 31 penalties called and the two teams were marched off 292 yards. The large number of penalties, along with the 77 passes thrown bv the two teams, for the accounted largely game time being 3 hours 10 minutes. But the fans knew the matchUtah State's up between Tony Adams and New Mexico Pisarck would result in an aerial circus. It did, and Tony came out on the long end of the statistics. Joe States Adams threw es than Salano fewer passJoe, but the 1 Baker threw nine two. to completing for 47 passes by Doug passes, account NMSU quarterbacks Adams is also a much better runner. He scampered for 30 yards (and had a 40 yard run nullified) in six fames, one for a touchdown. Pisarnk, whose coach Jim Wood, says, "He couldn't run out of his shadow on a cloudy day was dropped three tiries for a but minus-yard- - rushing he did score a TD on a QB sneak from the one. Linebacker a TD with ond half. accounted 1 ( Utah State for mark career 3. yardage, now totaling s Pappas John compared to m record of 3,811 yards 1966-6Adams also estabfor lished a new school mark sec- com- touchdown passes, 32 30 for Pappas. to pared ' mjasgasajwm pass and a - a Adams broke Not to be outdone, defensive intercepted for three seconds. for the USUs 48 points tied ag scored most points Teen NMSU ot home. Texas 1965. in 48 back tallied end Valley Coleman, playing for the injured Alan McMur-ray- . Utah Slates offense proved its newer by scoring on sustained drives of 70, 67, and 80 yards. But the Utag defense was also superb. the scoie. yards for dow us in 36 Nelson left in the 13.03 7 V 1972 These two TDs. coupled 1 Kell with an Adams to 3 and pass for 26 yards stopped a New Mexico drive with an interception. Short safety Mike Childers stole a pass and rambled 17 yards for 2 At one time. NMSU had Ken 37 romped It was the Aggie secondary that broxe the game open. Phil Shelley, free safety intercepted a pass on about the 35 and rambled to the sir from where speedy Jerry Hughes eventually scored on a after the pass reception Aggies had been penabzed for clipping. nominee connected on 17 of 27 for 245 yards and two touchdowns. USU 1 NEWS, Monday, September DESERET mmrnxz Sack Lots SAND GRAVEL first Lime, Cement, Plaster and 10 on the Aggie three. A penalty moved the ball to the but the defense stiffened and after Fred Gray dumped Pisarcik for a big loss, NMSU kicked, but missed a field goal. as small as 5, 10, 100 lb. lets - 'j 1 , flJ&V VJM (ETCHUMS mzm1 OGDEN SALT LAKE Weaver Nabs Southern Title COLUMBUS, GA. (AP) -Atlantan DeWitt Weaver combined luck and imagination Sunday to capture the $100,000 TournaSouthern Open ment, edging Chuck Courtney on the first hole of a sudden' death playoff. lf Both finished regulation play with totals of 276. four-roun- d Faced with a sudden-deatpossibility of defeat. Weaver said he put his imagination to work before teeing off on the hole. rugged, par-4- , Courtney charged to within one stroke of Weaver at the 17th green, coming away with a birdie after the leader settled for a bogey. But while Courtney played it safe' thinking he was fighting for second place at the 18th Weaver green, playing was experiencbehind him ing near disaster on the tee of No. 18. final tee shot hooked sharply out of play. Already facing one penalty stroke, he teed off again and the drive hooked in the same direction. The shot struck a tree limb, however, and fell into fair play. The former Southern Methodist University football quarterback took a double bogey seven on the finishing hole, following Courtney, who had chipped past the flag and then three-puttefor a bogey, i Weavers h 401-yar- d I imagined that I was going to hit my drive on top of the hill and I did, Weaver said. Then ! imagined the second shot was going to land on the green, and it did. He won the hole with a par four and the $20,000 first prize and described the victo- ry as a bigger thrill than winning the U.S. Match Play championship last year. Weaver, who led after each of the first three rounds at the S,?6-yarpar 70 Green Island Comtry Club course, closed 72. with a Cotrfney, a Californian, had a closing 70, with Chi Chi Rodripjez nailing down third with a 1 and a 277 total. 83 to CHEWS wwaw OD3IIEm233maGllS9a!B0 mmmmmummssmsmmm Georg Johnson of Atlanta and Fratk Beard of Louisville, Ky., who started the day dead-or'i- h GYM OUTFITS of front nine funday. Courtney picketed $11,400 in e prize money, and Rodriguez todt home $7,100. Great New ALL-STA- R Block Shoes Come in and browse. 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