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Show _ Becoming a Pro ls A Tuesday, October 26,1971 THE HERALD, Provo, Utch—Page 7 Sun Devil Soph Decemberofta Great Career Whoie New Ball Game Baylor "7| Going at 3 7 Wins Top Honor By MURRAY OLDERMAN aumost got bounced to oblivion LOS ANGELES — (NEA) — for his rejection of the lofty The confessional is a new, creed of the pros — that transcendental experience in the ceorrend is being a part of a 22-year-old titeof Isiah 7hhad the wrong outlook on wee of the Los Angeles professional football,” he says cg original prophet Isaiah NoW as Coniritelyas it is possible for an inherently cocky young was celebrated for his belief ir the potency of high ideas and man to be. Bluntly, Isiah, who wears a ideals over brute force and drooping mustache which makes power. This Isiah (someho;;the first him look like a Turkish “a” was lost in the transition) is executioner, came to che Rams avery physical linebackeroutof with the idea that his was the Southern University in finite word in linebacking, with a Louisiana who was first draft wisdom acquired from playing choice of the Rams this year and against such teams as Wiley, Alcorn A&M, Morris Brown and Prairie View. “I was the No. 1 draft choice,” says isiah, “something special I By IRABERKOW NEW YORK — (°.£A)—The peseer of an cld sports hero, figured. The first day J wasin the fungus growing betcamp, Prothro cussed me out.” Coach Tommy Prothro rebuts, a his toes is moss instead of “I don't cuss. I might have athlete's foot, is at once sad and repugnantto the fan. chewed on him little.” Sad to see the onetime Anyhow,Isiah said to himself right then, “Hey, what's this?” penultimate performer urging Thecriticism concerned the fact his body ou, aad having it thatIsiah wasn’t standing right. respondlike a balky donkey. Repugnant for the shattering Marlin McKeever, the veteran linebacker who plays the middle of an image, the willful illusion created in the fan’s mind of an slot for the Rams, explains “Isiah went to a small school eternal constant. The fan like Southern where he believes himself flim-flammed. dominated everybodyandall he He had hitched his own inhad to do was ‘play theball.’ So securities and frustration and he stood straight up and looked dreams to the wagonof the higharound. Do thatin the pros ana flying athlete. And the athlete, you'll get killed. Here you got to like Icarus, has finally flown too playyour keys first, be part of a close to the sun. Would he disappear rather coordinated defensive unit. One guy breaks down, , the whole than slowly disintegrate before our eyes, So we watch downcest thing down. as Ernie Banks is relegated to playing like an individual, the bullpen wherehestands with lowing assignments to chase ready glove to protect the *he football, and the Rams’ warmuppitcher from foul balls. coaching staff soured on him, And we watch a pain-stricken, despite his tremendous ability. second-string Johnny Unitas no “There's nothing he can’t doon a longer able to thread a needle. And we watch with hope, but football field,” says Deacon Jones. Isiah is 63, weighs 225 Prepared resignation,at the last pounds,relishes contact and can gasp of Elgin Baylor, embarking on what he says is his final run with anyplayer on the squd. With Jones and Merlin Olsen, season as a profession basketperennial all-pro linemen, the ball player. Baylor is 37 years old, one of arm havea coir tradition the oldest players in the NBA. that puts down malingerers. “The veterans froze him out,” He played but two games last *says Tom Catlin, the assistant season before suffering a rip of coach in charge of the Ram the right Achilles’ tendon. Before performing surgery, defenses. Through most ofthe exhibition the doctors told him that they schedule and late into the could repair either the imregular season, Isiah went mediate heel area orcutall the through the chastening ex- way up his leg to do the job Ferience ofsitting on the bench Then John , the regular linebacker, was in- Did Oklahoma Run Up Score? By MILTON RICHMAN When he was getting bis Sooners ready this past week he did mention the fact K-State had humiliated them,5921, two years ago but that was it. He didn’t dwell on that beating. He didn’t try to build his team up ‘o any great pitch of violence or vengeance. It didn’t matter. The secondtanked Sooners ran for 711 yeards against the bewildered Wildcats Saturday and broke the old NCAA mark of 645. Halfback Greg Pruitt carried 19 times for 204 yards, wiping out the previous Big Eight record of 283 set by Kansas’ Apale Sayers nine years ago, Pruitt scored three touchdowns. The Sooners had the ball 12 times Saturday and scored 11 times. Vince Gibson, the Kansas State coach, understandably wasn't (oo happy about the score. He felt Fairbanks ha rubbed it in, “Tf he wants to do that, it's his prerogative,” Gibson said, “If you remember, two years age though, Lynn Dickey didn’t play the last 12 minutes.” ‘The reference was to Kansas State's stickout passer of two years back .zho was the hottest fine in the Big Bight a! the e. It’s difficult for Gibson tu feel any differently than he does about Fairbanks but I think he might have if he had been in the room and heard what Fairbanks said to his pla;ers Sunday morning after theyy Chuck Fairbanks talked about the game in general, touching on how he wasn't at all happy aboutthe showing the defensive unit made against K-State and then he got to the heart of the matter. He had to be delicate aboutit because he didn’t wish to put a damper on their oa tory. “You know,”he said, talking about the points run up against Kansas State, “a couple of years ago we were on the other side of the fence. You all remember how you felt. I really didn’t care at all for the score we hadthis past week. I don’t feelit’s good for anyone to win by that margin. I know it’s not good to lose like that. I want you to be appreciative of ee feelings of other people, , play twice, Tommy Nobis twice, Ray Nitschke once. I wanted to see what them great pros were like. I don’t know.I didn’t see them do . They missed tackles, I said to myself,‘Hey,is that what they mean by the great pros?” For a young visitor to the Rams’ dressing room, Isiah ~ out an autographedpicture of himself. “Here,” he says, “you take this and some day you'll be able to tell your children you met the ... ” He catches himself. He likes the idea of being modest. Temporarily. AFA Happy Le things that happened in Saturday’s final quarter, a quarter in which Oklahoma scored 21 pcints, rubbed Vince Gibson the wrong way. One was that aiter pulling Pruitt, Fairbanks sent him back in, The other was that the Sooners called time out in the waning AIR FORCE ACADEMY, seconds of the game so asool to lose another opportunity to Colo, (UPI) — The Air Force Academy wasn't expected to score. Fairbanks explains poini No. haveany trouble handling Colorado State University, but head “T received a call from the coach Ben Martin was happy press box in the final quarter just to get homealive. The Falcons, who had been informing me Greg Pruitt needed 30 more yards to break favored by as much as 30 pots Gale Sayers’ record. He said, over the winless Rams, scored a 17-12 wa to stave off a poten‘coach, I'd like to.’ So I sent him in, As for the second point, tial upset cad State was knocking the boys on the field, the reserves, called time out on the door for a victory in the because they were trying to closing moments of play when score, I’d just as soon the clock linebacker Darryl Haas of Air would’ve run out and the game Force slammed into CSU halfback Lawrence McCutcheon and nded. John Keith. the Sooners’ forced a fumble. Air Force resports information director, covered on its own 11 and then used to have the same job at ran out the clock for its fifth Kansas State. He says nobody victory in six games. “We played give-away and has any more class than you have to give CSU credit for Fairbanks, “He emptied the bench near its effort and execution,” Marthe end of the quarter tin said. “They were muchhighgame sending in all the second and er emotionally for third-stringers,” Keith says, than we were and all the in“Youtry telling kids iike that gredients for an upset were not to score anymore. They're there.” Ram coach Jerry Wampfler, human, They want to do well although unhappy over theloss, Maybe Pruitt provided a indicated he saw a lot to entipoff on how all the Soonere courage him about his team’s feel when Steve Owens visited performance, “The effort was our bestthis! the school a week ago. Owens, nowwith the Detroit Lions, was year in a game,” Wampfler an All-America fullback at said. “It was the first time all year our backs were really Oklahoma two seasons ago. Pruitt shook hands with him, blowingin there,” looked him over a moment and Air Force will be at Arizona said: State this Saturday. Colorado “Shoot, man, on this team pore University will host Utah you'd have to play defense.” e UPISports Writer NEW YORK (UPI)—The guy on TV was rattling off the scores and when he came to this one he held up a moment trying to make sure he was seeing right. “Getthis,” he said. “Oklahoma 75, Kansas State 28.” For a minute there I wasn’t sure whether he was about the confrontation ou ue Big Horn or Manhattan,Kan. turned out he was talking au the one at Manhattan, Kan. There’s something about onesided contests that fascinates people. The same ones who can tell you a horse named “Comanche” was the only survivor among thr losers at Little Big Horn 95 years ago can also tell you that the 73-0 beating the Chicago Bears inflicted upon the Washington Redskins 31 years ago could have been worse had it not been for a particular pair of penalties in the contest. for Saturday’s piece of demolition work by Oklahoma, thefirst thing some people who didn’t know him said about Chuck Fairbanks, the Sooners’ coach, was that he certainly must have a mighty mean streak in him. Chuck Fairbanks doesn’t have a mean streak in him. He has a temper, which he shows on occasion, but otherwise ne’s a fine,thoroughly decent man. jured. Into the breach stepped Isiah with a subdued psyche but undiminished vigor. And he was something to see. He intercepted vital passes in each ofhis first three games. The Rams, with a stuttering attack, relied heavily on the defense to bail them out. In a game with the San Francisco 49ersfor thedivision lead, Isiah picked off a John Brodie pass to “ie a field goal which got the set Rams on the scorel and stimulated an upset anh Butch, as the Rams call was the focal point of ue congratulations, “He still makes a rookie’s mistakes,” says Catlin, “but he’s got that tremendous speed which helps him recover. And he’s got that feeling for making eee He’s always around the the ‘Thatnatural vanity of Isiah is To Return HomeAlive war’ we NEW YORK (UPI)—Last State, 75-28, while, piling up an Saturday was quite an explo- = record 711 yards rushcoach Bill Sharman said that sive one for many of the nation's major college football eri’ tushing total broke Baylor will be the regularagain, as he has for the openingsof the teams, and leading the offen- the previous confereace record sive fireworks were of 283 yards by Kansas’ Gale previous 12 Laker seasons. ck Dan White of ovenagainst Oklahoma State In a preseason game, Rick sounder, younger limb. But new Barry, the former NBA standout now with the New York Nets ot the ABA, sat at courtside end ahs36 returning to the lineup Aktheir cutanctng Sealer ments in Saturday's gamex three games with both White and Pruitt were “He's still good,” said Barry, ;ree. Separation, set a named to the United Press “But once he wasthe greatest.” Western Athletic Conference International's Backfield of the record byfiring six touchdown Week where they join Goinginto this season. Baylor to lead Arizona State to backs Ed Marinaro of ranked second to Wilt Cham- passes & 60-28 rout of New Mexico. and George Amundson of Iowa berlain as the ali-time greatest White connected on 10 of 12 State. It marks the fourth NBAscorer, having scored 8,651 passes and threw five TD selection to the Backfield of the regular-season points, His perpasses in the first helf as Week for both Marinaro and game scoring average, 27.5, is fourth behind Chamberlain, Arizona State built 3 410 Pruitt. Marinare, dueling Pruitt lead. His TD passes for the national rushing title, Oscar Robertson and teammate halftime wentto four different receivers gained 230 yards and score* Jerry West and covered distances of 26, 14, three touchdowns in pacing His quick jump-shot from the 14, 14, 30 and four yards. corner is still accurate and _ Pruitt, turning in an outstand- Yale,ll to a 31-10 victory over lovely to see. His odd, ing game for the fourth ale. distinguishing tic is still a successive week, rushed for 294 natural, useful offensive fake. yards in only 19 carries and But the surgery on the Achilles’ scored three touchdowns as set by Oklahoma’s Steve Owens tendon, and the surgery to voth Oklahoma crushed Kansas in 1967-69. Marinaro needs only eight more yards to better the his knees in the last five years mark. (the left knee has only half a Amundson rushed for 199 kneecap) has slowed him. yards and scored three Dave DeBusschere of the downs in leading Iowa State to Knicks, for example, knowsthat a 40-24 victory over Kansas. near game’s end, he can drive Amundson scored twice on onearound the tiring half-hobbling soreas ene ae ee Baylor. yard jaunt in helping Yet Baylor can still jump. He ahese remains a formidable rebounder, though, of course, less so DENVER (UPI) — Athletes than in years past(fifth on the from the two Arizona members all-time list). And he still of the Western Athletic Conferpossesses the notorious hanging ence were cited today for their drive shot, but where once he play in a pair of victories last could hover for a day over the weekend, basket he now floats for a few Arizona State quarterback scored seconds before the air is let out. Danny White was picked as 21 triumph over North Texes Baylor now wants to see if he WACOffensive Player of the State; Eric Allen of i can have one more good season, Week.Defensive honors went to State, who gained 177 yards and one more for the road. Arizona cornerback Jackie Wal- scored three touchdowns in a lace. 34-3 victory over Iowa; and White, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound Morris Bradshaw of Ohio State; sophomore from Mesa, Ariz., who brokeloose for two 8&yard set a conference record Satur- runs ina 31-6 rout of Wisconsin. day by throwing six touchdown Stickout performances by passes in the Sun Devils’ 60-28 romp over New Mexico. .-hite completed 12-of-15 passes for an 80 per cent accuracy touchdi record, another WAC mark, South Carolina; and guided the team to Florida, who passed for a Amid the ‘Hawaiian Love touchdowns six of the first yards and four touchdowns in Song” pieas of Skyline rooters seven times it got the ball. 27-23 Sem over Maryland and the chants of the Boise White attends Arizona State -n Don Strock of Virginia Tech, who tossed for 376 yards and Brave fans to really snafu the a baseball sel Wallace, playing what ArizoSIC standings could be heard a collective groan from the 12 na Coach Bob Weber called “the best game I've ever SIC school principals. Those poor fellows. They met seen,” was instrumental in the in Rupert last week—to try and Wildcats’ 143 victory over set up playoff rules in case the Utah. He tied an NCAA record by SIC ends up in a tie. A Skyline loss could leave returning a punt 74 yards for a three teams tied. Taking pains touchdown in ran back an to empiiasize that they might interception for another score. Other players nominated for not be so foolish to meet again next year for the same purpose, honors on offense were BrigBy BOBBY ALLEN the principals came up with ham Young guard Gordon playoff rules that just might re- ite Marty Shuford, Arizofullback-kicker; Texas-El quire an opinion from the attorPaso halfack David Atkins; ney general’s office before they and Wyoming flanker Scott are decipherable. But unless Skyline loses, the Freeman. rules won't have to be decoded. After finally getting by Boise, observed Baylor. WACPicks White and Elgin Baylor, thoroughly. But the latter would 1. :vea scar about twofeetlong. “The hell with the scar,” Baylor told them. Baylor is again the startin, starting left Desatd for the Los Angeles Lakers. Perhaps two other reserve forwards, Kieth Erickson and Jim McMillan, can do the job better now, being of Wallace Idaho TeamsBattle For Thanksgiving in Hawaii BOISE (UPI)— Skyline saved Jain in a 25-13 kamikaze attack. So now it's Skyline, the only face tor the Hawaiian tourist industry last Friday night—but remaining undefeated SIC team just barely. (5-0), who now has the best The way leaders in the Southern Idaho Prep Conference have been playing, the exotic call to the islands sounds morelike a sae summons to Devil's Is- chance to savor the delights of Hawaii, and also play a football gamethere. They haven’t made a football mistake since showing up for the Borah game (which didn’t You see, a SIC representative count in the league standings.) The trouble with this season gets the post-season treat of meeting the Honolulu city is that nobody is reading the ane in a Thanksgiving game other team’s press clippings. First Borah, then Capital, and —there. Whenthe gamewasfirst an- es Friday night, almost Skynounced before the start of the oe three quarters Skyline season, prep football watchers thought it was about time Bor- must have been dreaming of "Aloha Nui Loao”or "Hanging ah had its reward. The game would display the Ten”, or maybe Devil’s Island, Lions’ goods in a bigger show- because the Grizzlies were only case. There were rumors the leading Boise by 6-0. Boise, you Lions were practicing hulas af- will recall, wontheir first two ter those dull days of scrim- games and then had to start planning for "next year” almaging. When Borah opened with a ready when it dropped four 34-0 number on Skyline, it was straight. only nine more games to go before Honolulu hullabaloo, crystal beaches, swaying palm trees and dancing girls — all those good Hawaiian tourist things. But then Oct. 1, 1971 turned Geese are nowfair gamein all into a replay of Dec. 7, 1941 and the "Day of infamy” for areas of Utah except Daggett Borah.Only instead of Japanese County, which remains closed to fighters filling the air, it was oe shooting until November: the Eagles — Capital species— and the result, 36-15, was as ally baglimit for geese is six shocking and devastating as the birds with no more than two Schofield Barracks - Japanese Canada Geese allowed per day. Air Force encounter of nearly When Daggett County opens, daily bag limit there will be one thirty years ago. So enter Capital, the king of Canada goose. the SIC hill, the last team to Canada geese mustbe tagged beat Borah (in 1967, 34 games attime and place of kill with the ago.) But as the man said special goose tags provided with about Pippin the Fourth,it was each huntinglicense. The season a short reign. So shori that limit for Canadians is eight Capitai’s all-state premier back, birds. Ron Emry, didn’t even have Holders of swan permits are time to place his order for still waiting for whistling swan — islander outfits for the to move onto Utah marshes. The large birds congregate heavily en 8 became Capital's Pearl on the Bear River and Ogden Harbor and Skyline was the vil- Bay areas during migration. Geese Are Fair Game Stock Brokers Win Predicting Contest ‘Thestock brokers defeated the Stan Collins, Stan Walker, and bankers in last week's football William Lunt predicting contest, but the Harmon Steed, Stan Collins, games proved to be as tough to and Duaine Hunter were the oniy pick as the stock market. ones to pick BYU's victory over ‘Thestock ee got 19 out of a possible 36 bankers This week the contest will be had only 14 ee 36. between the men’s Physical Washington State's upset over Education staff at BYU and the women’s Physical Education Stanford and Southern Cal’s upset over Notre Dame threw staff, practically every predictor for a tumble. Bowman Barlow, a banker, picked the USCvictory, but all other forecasters were blanked on those two games. Getthe best, with Photography Colorado Eyes 21-0, on two last quarterscores, GameAgainst Skyline has Twin Falls, Pocatello, and Idaho Falls remaining on its schedule — so the principal’s prayers might be anBOULDER, Colo. (UPI)— swered, Playoff chaos might be Colorado Coach Eddie Crowder avoided after all. But in case of tie (s)—here’s doesn’t have much to say about a suggestion — since the prin- Nebraska—except that his Bufcipals obviously want to avoid faloes are having no getting fired up about Saturextended post-season playoffs. Instead of the playoff games, day’s game. The Buffaloes head into the invite the coaches of the teams involved to a neutral field, say Big Eight conference contest at the Idaho State Minidome in Lincoln ranked ninth place while the undefeated Nebraska Pocatello. Give the coaches each a hula Cornhuskers are No. 1. Colorado's only loss has been to No. 2 oop. Oklahoma. The team whose coach keeps nr Crowder said he felt Nebrasit circulating the longest would ka was not “‘as explosive” as go to the Hawaii, It would be a natural. Can the Sooners, but he said the you feature "Swivel Hips” Swin- Cornhuskers relied on a more dell (Capital), "'Pelvic’ Pan- basic attack thatfond demorakratz (Borah), and "Perpetual lize an opposing team. The Colorado coach said he Motion” Rasmussen (Skyline) all doing their thing for the was still trying to savor the Buffs’ 27-7 conference victory schoolcolors? It might even convince the over Missouri last week. Hawaiian tourist industry that « es weplayed withe, defensively there is one Idaho team out a (and coach) thatreally wants to —due neour many injuries—we get over there—and thatit's not turned in a fine game,” Crowder said. Devil's Island, really, Cornhuskers SEIBERLING & CAMPER TIRES e PICKUP DISTRIBUTOR SAVINGS — YOUR CHOICE pk TRACTION or Colorado State utmost pulled Wu. The best that any one individualcould do was to get five outof nine. Tiree stock brokers were able to do that. 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