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Show Nebraska Keeps Top Spot, but Vote Gets Closer Vikings Edge Colts. In Tough 10-3 Test Taras got 26 first place nods from the coaches while Oklahoma had eight. The BLOOMINGTON, Minn. inside the Baltimore 30, which with a 10-3 win, coach Bud (UPI)—Two teams with mutual happened twice, they scored 10 Grant grinned and said, “I admiration, the Minnesota Vik- points, And the Colts, who fared think they could play in our ings and the Baltimore Colts, a bit better in field position, division.” Judging by the relaxed t the better part of Monday were stymied bythree first half t's foothall game trading pass interceptions and two goal- atmosphere in the locker room uf the defending Super Bowl possession between the 30 line stands. After the Vikings had champion Colts, they had yard lines. But when the Vikings did get emerged from a tense finish surmised the Vikingscan play with anybody now, “Tt was a well ‘oe. good football g.me,” Baltimore coach Don McCaff said. “Just a battle of two fine defenses. We're proud of our defense, and they have every right to be proud of theirs.” Someone asked McCafferty if the Colts eae like to meetthe WSU Has Hopesfor Rose Bowl Celtics Breeze Past Atlanta Richie Guerin, who has to be ranked as a veteran observer, says the Boston Celtics aren't ee overpower anyone in National Basketball Association this season, But they did a had good job on Guerin’s Hawks. ‘The Celtics breeted to & 138Monday and did of the joo without higher scorer, Jo Jo White, ‘The Hawks, of course, working without Pistol Pele Maravich who is down with a case of mononeucleosis and not expected back in the near future. e But the Celtics, “who were bistee their fourth straight moving to within one-half em een idle Pie atop aes aisle = didn’t der Fe % i point pont average. With second aecenter Dave Cowens and veteran John Havlicek showing the way, Boston overpowered the Hawks in the midde periods following a slow start. Cowens celebrated his 23rd birthday with a seasonalhigh of 27 points and hauled down 19 rebounds, Havlicek chipped in 2% points and added 11 assists. “The Celtics ran and shot well,” Guerin said, “ didn’t nave enough shots and too many turnovers. Our offense was to pick up and the defense was getting worn out.” Guerin employed 7-foot-2 ‘tom Payne at center in place of Walt Bellamy for nearly half the game but would say only that “we needed board strength” about the move. “The Celtics are not going to overpower anybody on the boards,” Guerin added. “They've got to beat us with their running game andtheir key is when they move Havlicek to the backcot The veteran Boston captain wasn’t having much of a day the corners but linked vith Cowens to convert deficits of up to 14 points into an easy victory once he was shifted. The victory left Celtics coach ‘fom Heinsohn citing nearly everybody on the squad for 3 Boston (UPI)—Atlanta coach “I can'tink about that,” he replied. ‘‘We’ve got to look forward to next week.” If the teams did meet again, it would be in the Super Bowl— with Baltimore representing the American Conference, and Minnesota the champion of the National Conference. And that's not out of the question, because the two teams lead the NFL in defense and are fighting for their division titles. NFL_ Standing: By United Press International anean se Confers W. L, T,Pet. Mi 41 New York New England Buffalo 240 333 240 333 0 6 0 .000 Baltimore Central Cleveland Pittsburgh Oakland 800 W. L. T. Pet. 42 0 266) 3.3.0 .500 Cincinnati Houston 1 4 2 0 .667 1 5 0 West 0 5 1 «167 .000 W.L. T. Pet. 5.1 0 833 Kansas City Denver 5 1 0 .833 23 1 .40¢ Washington 5 1 0 .833 San Diego 24 0 333 National Conference Ecst W. L. T, Pet. Dallas ae Coulis N.Y. jants 42 0 667 240 33 24 0 .333 phiiadetphia 15 0 .167 Central rere,i singling out the W. L. T. Pet. lers, Cowens, Minnesota 5 1 0 .833 420 .667 Havlicek, Steve Kuberski, Don Detroit 42 0 667 Chaney and Art Williams for Chicago é een Bay 240 333 special honors. West W.L. T. Pet. Los Angeles 47 1.800 San Francisco 420 667 Atlanta 23 1 .400 New Orleans 2 3 1.40 © Monday’s Result Minnesota 10 Baltimore 3 (Only gare scheduled inday’s Games Atlanta atCleveland Cincinnati at Houston Wantedto Play NEW YORK (UPI)—.. He Bob Wallace, a wide receiver just wanted to play... with the Bears who caught one England at Most people oancen Chuck of the touchdown passes which New New Orleans at Washington ne oe t phrase. helped them to a 28-23 upset New York Jets at San Diego ‘They say same thing. victory over the Lions, went to Pittsburgh at Baltimore Louis aT One of uefriends says: school with Hughes at Texas El St.(Only games “scneduled) “Kids never ran after him for Paso. They were close friends M y's Gam his 2 He wasn’t the and they had talked on thefield Detroit vs cree Bay at Mil (Only game scheduled) star type and that was okay before Sunday’s contest. with him. He knew ue wasn’t “Whenhe collapsed I went up big enough to overwhelm to him and saw his anybody on the football field. That didn’t matter to him so turning blue and I just shook,” long as he could play. He had Wallace says. ‘I felt like no axe to grind. He was just a fainting. In the dressing room nice soft-spoken kid, the kind after the game I wanted to who'd always say hello first.” cry.” PHOENIX — Two Utah Chuck Hughes, the Detroit _ Chuck Hughes gave no lions’ 28-year-old wide receiver indication anything was bother- County junior swimmers won who collapsed and died in the ing him Sunday, He had been in honors at weekend swimming waning seconds of Sunday's th game for about 10 plays competition here which included NFL game with the Chicago earlier and when Larry Walton, some 1,300 youth from Bears, looked like any one of one of the Lions’ other wide California, Arizona, Utah and those neat, well-groomed young receivers, pulled a muscle, New Mexico. men you find working in some John North, an assistant coach Calvin Lowell of Provo wasthe se days. As a matter said to him; outstanding swimmer in the 10 and underdivision. He won the of fact he worked in one “You go in and replace himself when he'd go home to 400-yard individual medley in a time of 6:30 and also won the 100Sheridan, Texas in the off- Larry.” Okay,” Hughes said, snapping yard freestyle in a time of 1:12. season. on his helmet. Ricky Black of Orem was But come July, the quietHe jumped upoff the bench, seventh in the 100-yard frvestyle mannered 180-pound Hughes would tell them all goodbye at he always did that because he for the 11-12 age group. Healso the bank and enter a complete- was so eager, and went back placed seventl in the 400-yard ly different world, a violent into the ba’. game. individual medley. Shortly thereafter he caught The two swimmers world in which one word—hit, hit, hit—is drilled into the a 32-yard pass. It was his first represented the Dolphin Swim competitors over and over pass reception of the season, club at the comnetition held at Local Swimmers Capture Honors In Phoenix Test and By the nature of his position, Chuck wasn’t a. exposed to that violence as much as someof the others. He was a wide receiver whose principal job was running patterns and catching passes, The violence would take place after he caught one. Much of professional football’s appeal is tied in closely with violence. The public eats it up and keeps paying money hoping to see more and more ‘Then when a tragedy such as this one occurs, who is shocked the most? one paying public, What ie Chuck Hughes emombiytal ly feel most oaaes about what happened are his fellow past They don't necessarily ve toPe his teammates either, three plays later he collapsed on Chicago's 15-yard ‘ine, The game had 62 more seconds to gc and it ground to have to do if they wantto play football in the Rose Bow! next New Year's Day is beat Oregon, Vikings aga Hughes Just again, PULLMAN,Wash. (UPI)—Ail the Washington State Cougars Glendale Community College. Fall Fishing its conclusion after Chuck Hughes was wheeled off the field ona stretcher. Fall fishing is rounding out “Forget the game, let’s all deer hunting trips for Utah say a prayer for Chuck,” Joe outdoorsmen who take fishing Schmidt, the Lions’ head coach tackle along on the hunt. Fall fishing on Utah watersis instructed his players in the Detroit dressing room. gocd. Crowds are scarce andfish The Lions prayed. So did the are hungry as natural foods Bears over in their quariers, diminish, Brown and brook are butall the prayers in the world especially susceptible to lures couldn't help and today Chuck andflies this time of year. Fughes’ body is being shipped Many deer hunters throw in somefishing tackle as they load back to San Antonio. “T wantviolent action,” a cab up for deer hunting. Freshly driver in Baltimore told me two caught trout r"ke a welcome weeks ago, “and that’s what I addition to camp menus. get at pro football games. Hunters going to areas with That's why I keep going.” fishing waters nearby should Shuck Hughes didn’t really takefishing gear along. A lunker trout or two will add to the enany - YFijustated to play... ” joymentof any huntingtrip. Termed Good Southern California, Oregon State and Washington in the next four Saturdays, That feat would give the Cougars a Pacific-8 Conference record of 5-1, and the only other league team with an opportunity to post a 51 mark in the JOHN MONAHAN, an offensive lineman for BYU,is one reason the BYU offense has been clicking of lat=. The entire BYU offensiveline camein for high praise for the performances _in the past two games. BYU Offensive Line Comesin for Praise By MIKE TWITTY Herald Sports Writer BYU attempts to strengthen its hold on second place in the Western Athletic Conference this Saturday night at the Sun Bowlin El Paso and again oneof the keys to victory will be the little-praised but very effective offensive line. Anchored by All-America candidate Gordon Gravelle, the offensive linemen are the ones who receive little credit but who open the holes for backs Pete VanWalkenburg, Steve Stratton, Dave Coon and Wayne Bower. The offensive linemen are the ones who provide pass protection for Dave Terry and Bill August While the offensive backs and receivers get most of the credit for scoring,one of the real keys to the two consecutive road victories has been the inspired play of theline. The Cougars flip-flop their offensive line according to where the running play goes. That is, the tight guard, tight tackle and tight end may be on theleft side of the centerfor one play and on the right of the centerfor the next. Of course, on the opposite side are the split guard andsplit tackle, so named because they are on the same py of the center as the split Causa Positions sophomore David Brooks.The 62, 222-pounder from Corvallis, Oregon, was considered the top lineman on the freshman team last year by the BYU coaches. Brooks has started four ganies and is coming along very well. He has good speed andability and should be even better next season after a concentrated weight training program to make him bigger and stronger. Strong Comeback Lookingat the otherside of the line, the tight tackle is junior John Monahan from West Covina,Calif. Monahaa,6-3, 230, has made a remarkable comeback in only three games. He broke his right hand in August before the Cougars had started their contact work. That meant that when he gotthe cast off a month agoit was like the beginning of fall practice for him. nit he wasa starter last year and his experience haspaidoff. Blessed with a goud attitude and willingness to work, Monahan has kept mental errors to a minimum. Physicially, he is just now approaching full strergth and should be a big boost to the Cougars for the final four games. Best Player ‘Thetight guardis,of course, 65, 245, Gordon Gravelle from Walnut Creek, Calif. The senior tri-captain is labeled by Kragthorpe ‘the best player I’ve ever coached.” He has great size, speed and Under the Veer offense, there isn’t much difference between the duties of the guard and the tackle. As offensive coordinator Dave Kragthorpe puts it, “our quickness in addition to offense is fairly simple. We don't providinga lot ofleadership for trap a lot and we don’t pull the the team. Perhaps his biggest guards ortackles so we are able asset is the ability to stay with to utilize our linemen at both his man ona block. Against Tulsa last Saturday he positions.” An example of the switching recorded an 84 per cent on the rating chart. off is senior Steve Facer who Cougars’ Kragthorpe explains that each played ondefense two years ago. Last year he was an offensive player is rated by the game guard but was switchedto tackle films on how well he did what he this year. But when Rich was supposed to. Anything over Valgardson reinjured his knee, 70 per cent is considered very Facer was moved to guard good. “The 84 per centis the highest again. So nowit's Facer, 5-11, 230, at a lineman I've coached has ever split guard. Steve, like most of received,’ Kragthorpe said, the Cougars, was an all-around “What's even more amazing is athlete in high school, At Malad, that there were only twoplays in Idaho, he was a fullback but is the secondhalf when hedidn’t do such a good worker that he has exactly what he was supposed to adjusted well to his assignments do. That’s a near perfect performance.” as a lineman. Kragthorpe says Facer Nextto Gravelle is a man who “always knows what to do. He not only has to block along with can pick up changes easily and the rest but also has to handle the ball on every play. Yet he gets the job done.”” Anotherfellow who has been goes unnoticed unless he makes getting the job done is a bad snap to the punter. But This year’s center is Mik= Bailey from Orem who is labeled by Kragthorpe as “the hardest worker I've coached.” ‘The 6-3, 245-pounder played freshmanball at Utah and then went on an LDS Mission before coming to BYU. Because he transferred within the conference he not only had to redshirt last year but also lost a year ofeligibility. That makes him a junior this year but ai least he'll be back for another year. Bailey has been outstandingin makingthe starting lineupafter such arag layoff and he is one ofthe big surprises in what has becomea surprising year. Thetight ends also provide a lot of blocking for the Cougars. That duty has been shared by senior Dan Bowers, 64, 210, from Mesa, Atiz., and sophomore Mike Pistorius, 6-1, 195, from Salt Lake conference is Stanford. WSUalready has taken care of Stanford, and if both wind up with 5-1 marks, the Cougars will go to the Rose Bowl. Mere mention of such a prospect would have drawn only loud guffaws last Friday when even the staunchest WSU fan figured the Cougars would return from Palo Alto minus another scalp. City (Granite). An alternate tackle is Max Page,6-2,221, from Payson, who has started twice and done well both times. The backup are Valgardson, 6-4, 245, from Provo (B.Y. High) and 6-2, 225pound Craig Denney, a sophomore from Murray. Kragthorpe praises the entire group as being responsible for the tremendous success in the last couple of games. “We have stayed with our blocks well and have welcomed the challenge of playing against some big lines. When it rained Saturday the spirits of our linemen really lifted. They knew Tulsa’s passing game was out so the Dattle vad be decided on the line of scrimmage. They thought they would win it and they did.” Tough Week Ahead This week the Cougars will face another big defensive front four, probably as big as Kansas State. The veteran group at UTEPfrustrated Wyominglast weekandwill be a big challenge for the Cougars. But there is a special challengefor the BYU offensive line. The Miners also run from the Veer which means the Cougarswill be out to prove that they can open bigger and better holes for the BYU backs than UTEP’sline can for the Miners, It doesn’t rain much in El Paso but even without the mud,don't bet against the Cougars’ oifensive line. And the next time there’s a long run or a score, don’t fore togive them someof the credi coach Jim Sweeney's stout-hearted men putit all together Saturday, as he has kept sayingall season that they would, and came through with the Pac-8 upset of the season. Although the victory ranks as a major upset, the 24-23 decision over Stanford was 10 fluke. It wasn’t decided by a crazy bounce ofthe ball, but by a gut performance on both offense and defense. Even the always optimistic Cougars a:en’t plucking Rose petals yet, but if they can play four more games the way they pee at Stanford, WSU could the Rose Bowl for the fsttimesince 1931. And if it seems premature to mention Pullman and Roses in the same breath, what about Stanford and Washington and Oregon and Oregon State? Weren’t they all counting blooms before the blossoms? Of course, Stanford, already with a 31 conference record, needs only to win at Oregon State next Saturday and against UCLA at Palo Alto Nov. 6 to get its 51 mark. If that happens, and if the Cougars lose to either Oregon or USC, then the race for the Roses will be all over two weeks before the end of the season. The best mark Oregon can post in the conference is 41 by beating WSU at Spokane and Oregon State at Eugene. Likewise, OSU can do no better than 4-1, The Beavers have games remaining with Stanford, WSU and Oregon. UCLA, showing signs of coming on strong for the last half of the season, also can do no better than 4-1 and would have to beat Washington, Stanford and USC to accomplish that. The Washington Huskies have a chance for a 42 Pac-8 record and will have to count on further losses by other conference members if Washington wants to be in Pasadena by Jan, 1, The Huskies have games left with UCLA, USC and WSU Games with California don't figure in the picture because the Bears have been ruled ineligitle for the conference crown, Cornhuskers could easily regain some No. 1 votes this weekend when they face their first really strong opponent of the season—Colorado, Michigan and Alabama, like the Sooners and Cornhuskers, continued to win this week and retained the No. 3 and No. 4 spots, respectively. Michigan routed Minnesota in the “Little Brown Jug’ game 35-7 and Alabama, which got the final first place vote, drubbed Houston 34-20. Auburn also kept winning, sweeping past Clemson 35-13 for its sixth victory without a loss, and retained the No. 5 spot in the ratings. But as No.6, Notre Dame was upset by Southern Cal 28-14°andfell all the way to 1th as Georgia and Penn State each movedup a notchto sixth and seventh, respectively. Arkansas, Colorado and Ohio State, all with one loss blemishing their records, com- pleted the tsp 10. Again, with voting concentrated among the top seven unbeaten teams,only 18 schcols received votes from the coaches. Two teams, Toledo and Air Force, cracked the ratings for the first time this week while Florida State and Texas returned after a week's absence. Louisiana State, which meets Notre Dame Nov. 20 in Baton Rouge, was right behind the llth ranked Irish in 12th place. Toledo, which owns the nation’s longest winning streak (30 games) finally received the coaches’ notice by landing at No. 13 this week. Tennessee, whichcontinues to just squeak by its opponents, moved up from 16th to 14th after edging Mississippi State 10-7 and Arizona State rebounded from its first loss of the season with a 60-28 rout of New Mexico but slipped in the ratings from 14th to 15th, Florida State, another team rebounding from its first loss, regained a spot in the ratings at No.16 after swamping South Carolina 49-18, Texas and Air Force completed the top teams. Seventh Week : Team { Nebraska (26) (7-0) 2. Oklahoma (8) (6-0) 3. Michigan (7-0) 4, Alabama (1) (7-0) 5. Auburn (6-0) 6. Georgia (7-0) 7. Penn State (6-0) 169 8. Arkansas (6-1) 9. Colorado (6-1) mronmana Ss SES NEW YORF (UPI)—Nebraska’slosing its "The Cornhuskers retained the top spot in the United Press International Board of Coaches football ratings for the seventh straight week, but secondranked Oklahoma grabbed off three more first place votes than last week and parrowed honey point lead from 33 Ke Tuesday, October 28,1971 ovo,Utah Page mEHERALD, Provo, 10. Ohio State (5-1) 11. Notre Dame (5-1) 12. Louisiana State (5-1) 13, Toledo (7-0) 14. Tennessee (4-2) 15. Arizona State (5-i) 16. Florida State (6-1) 17. Texas (4-2) 18, Air Force (5-1) Stan Smith Falls In First Round WEMBLEY, England (UPI) —The $48,000 Embassy Open Tennis tournament moves into second round play today after an opening day marked by stunning upsets. Among the top-ranked pros falling in opening round action were Stan Smith, the U.S. Open titie holder; Ken Rosewall of Australia; aid Marty Riessen of Evanston,Ill. Australian Ray Ruffles knocked out Smith, of Pasadena, Calif., 9-3, 6-4 while South Africa's Fred McMillan ousted Rosewall, the Forest Hills winner a year ago, 6-4, 6-2, Bob Hewitt of South Africa eliminated Riessen 98, 64 while John Newcombe,top-seed from Australia, played true to form in beating countryman Owen Davidson 9-8, 9-8. In otherfirst round matches, Tlie Nastase of Romania beat USC, despite its 28-14 upset Roy Barth of San Diego,Calif., appears to be the least likely Rose Bowl contender, because the best Southern Cal can do in the Pac-8 is 32. But the way those crazy Cougars turned the conference into a game of merry-mixup, 86, 6-4; Czechoslovakia’s Jan Kodes defeated Australian Fred Stolle 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; John Alexander, also of Australia, ousted U.S. Davis Cupper Frank Froehling 7-5, 6-2; and Jeff Borowiak of Berkeley, Calif., downed South Africa's almost anything can happen. RayMoore 9-8, 6-3. victory over Notre Dame, Death Is Dissociated from Football Game By RICHA D L. SHOOK left coronary artery felled Hughes on the Chicago Bears’ DETROIT (UPI) —The iami- 15-yeardline with 62 conde to ly of Chuck Hughes had a play in Sunday’s National history of heart trouble, the Football League game. He was Lions’ team physician has pronounced officially dead 50 disclosed, and the Detroit wide minutes after the end of the receiver hac the heart of a man game but both Lions’ doctors in his 40s. felt he was, in effect, dead An autopsy Mondaydisclosed when he hit the turf. Hughes, 28, had an undetected “The Chuck Hughes family— heart disease known niedically both mother and father—died of as “arteriosclerosis,” an abnor- what appears to be a heart mal thickening and hardening disease,” said Dr. Edwin R. of the arterial walls. Guise, who along with Dr. A massive stoppage of the Richard A. Thompson comprise 1 were emphatic in dissociating that stressful situations can the football game from the induce a terminal event in patients with hearttrouble.” heart attack, “Tt could have happened at A Tuesday mass was scheany time,” Dr. Thompsonsaid. duled at St. Alysius Catholic “It was something that was Church in Detroit, after which bound to happen. It could have the body was to be flown to San happened yesterday, the day Antonio, Tex. for funeral before or tomorrow.” services and burial. “Arteriosclerosis heart A $10,000 trust fund was set disease has been coming on up by an insurance company with no visible signs for some for the education of Hughes’ 23time,” Dr. Guise said. ‘Playing month-old son, Brandon Shane, requested The two doctors jointly football contributed in that it and the family released the Wayne County was a stressful situation, There contributions be madeto it in Medical Examiner’s * sport and is some evidence to indicate lieu of flowers. the Detroit team of physicians. “Possibly two different kinds,” Dr. Guise said. ‘And there’s a question about one brother.” Hughes was one of 13 children. “His heart was not consistent with his age,” Dr. Guise said. “His heart was an older heart. I prefer to say he was a man with a heart of the 40s—and I use tnat age because that is my age.” |