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seconds left in the third.
The Indians gained some
power in rebounding in the
third and the Peaster shooters
gave them more balls to snag
by missing more of their
shots. Peaster’s Donnie Ray
hit from the corner just as the
third quarter boner sounded
to bring the margin back to
seven 48 to 41.
Huckabay missed a number
of key shot opportunities in the
fourth and the Greyhounds
used the muffs to their ad-
offensive stars, intercepted
four Dan Fouts passes and
blocked a field goal attempt
and the Oilers, riding Gifford
By NORM CLARKE
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP)- Safety
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Their next scheduled
game call for the
Jackets to play host to
Gatesville on Thursday,
January 3rd. The Honey
Bees will again play on
Friday, January 4th in
Crowley for their first
district game.
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augural season just four years
ago, into the NFC title game
Jan. 6 against the winner of
Sunday's Los Angeles-Dallas
game. If the Cowboys win, the
Bucs will visit the Cowboys. If
the Rams win, Tampa Bay'
will be the host.
Williams, often criticized
for his low-percentage passing
figures, was brilliant against
the Eagles, completing seven
of 15 passes for 132 yards. He
also rushed for ’ four first
downs.
Ron Jaworski, the Eagles'
harried quarterback, com-
pleted just 15 of 38 passes for
IM yards. And the Eagles'
ground game was almost
totally shut down with Wilbert
Montgomery gaining only 35
yards on 12 carries.
Diego 17-14 in the American
Football Conference piayoffs
Saturday. .
Nielsen, making only his
second career start in the
National' Football League,
teamed with Renfro on a 47-
yard scoring play with 2:05
left to play in the third quarter
for the touchdown that vaulted
Houston into the AFC
championship game Jan. 6
against the winner of Sunday’s
contest between Miami and
the defending Super Bowl
champion Pittsburgh Steelers.
By Mary Amae Yarbrough
E-T Sports Editor
SANTO-The Huckabay
Indians had already played
the Peaster Greyhounds three
times going into Friday’s
semi-finals match in the Santo
tournament. The Indians had
won all three games but the
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by blocking a field-goal at-
tempt of 26 yards by Mike
Wood, scooping up the ball and
racing 57 yards to the
Chargers’ 15-yard line. The
Oilers couldn’t get into the end
zone but they got on the
scoreboard six plays later' on
Toni Fritsch’s 26-yard field
goal.
In the closing minute of the
first half, Perry intercepted
his second pass of the game at
the San Diego 45-yard line and
lateraied the ball to safety
Mike Reinfeldt, who carried it
seven yards to the 38.
Four plays later, Nielsen
found his receivers covered,
sprinted to his left and raced
18 yards to the 4-yard line.
Two running plays put the ball
on the 1, Nielsen threw an
incomplete pass to stop the
clock with 25 seconds to go
before halftime and Fritsch
kicked an apparent 18-yard
field goal to cut the Chargers'
lead to 7-6.
But on the play, the
Chargers were penalized for
having-12 men on the field,
giving Houston a fourth-and-
inches option rather than the
fourth-and-1 which had
preceded Fritsch’s kick.
Houston chose to pull back
the three points and go for a
touchdown — and the Oilers
got it when Bobbie Clark found
a hole around left end, scoring
his first TD of the year.
Fritsch now kicked again —
Yeoman figures his
Southwest Conference
Cougars have a point to prove
after blowing a 34-12 lead and
losing 35-34 to Notre Dame last
New Year'I Dey.
Osborne
the best in the Big Eight
Conference this year and
wants a victory to propel his
club perhaps into the top three
of the final Associated Press
poll.
“What happened to us
against Notre Dame last year
has been in the back of our
minds since it happened,”
said Yeoman. “This season
was a result of it. We lost only
one game, a close one to
Texas.
“When something like the
Notre Dame comeback
happens to you, well, you
really don’t need to be
reminded of tt.”
The Comhuskers are rated
No. 7 and the Cougars No. 8
before the kickoff of the 1 p.m.
New Year’s Day game which
was expected to draw a sellout
crowd of 72,000 although there
were still some tickets
remaining.
“We want to win this game
bad,” said Osborne. “People
take their football seriously in
Nebraska. We might not be
able to win the national
championship but we might
get it up to No. 3 or No. 4.
That’s better than Ne. 12 or
No. 13.”
Houston and Nebraska, both
10-1 for the season, are
meeting for the first time.
Houston-features a nigged
ground game headed by 1,000
yard gainer Terald Clark
while Nebraska has a high-
powered I attack spotlighting
its own 1,000-yard gainer,
Jarvis Redwine.
Redwine is coming off an
ankle injury in which he was
I sidelined in the late season
loss to Oklahoma.
Houston will be playing in
its third Cotton Bowl game in
four years. The Cougars beat
Maryland 30-21 in 1977 then
lost to Notre Dame last year.
- Nebraska beat Texas 19-3 in
the 1974 Cotton Bowl but lost
10-7 to Arkansas in 1965.
Osborne said he wasn't
worried about his team
dwelling on the Oklahoma
- loss.
“I’ve discovered that 18 and
19 year olds can reboound
pretty quickly,” said Osborne.
“They have a lot of respect for
Houston. We figure we're
playing the top team in the
Southwest Conference.”
Yeoman said the Cor-
nhuskers are “big, thick,
strong and don’t make many
mistakes."
Yeoman said he wants to be
able to see the Cotton Bowl
film this year after the game.
“I still haven’t seen tlfe
Notre Dame film,” he said. “I
may get around to it in
another three or four years."
Nebraska was a field goal
favorite.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Tam-
pa Bay’s Ricky Bell ran for
two touchdowns and set up
Doug Williams' clinching
scoring pass to lead the Buc-
caneers to a 24-17 upset vic-
tory over the Philadelphia
Eagles Saturday in the Na-
tional Football League
playoffs.
Bell, who gained 142 yards
on a playoff-record 38 carries,
scored on runs of 4 and 1 yards
in the first half, then
scampered 26 yards in a
fourth-period drive capped by
Williams’ 9-yard TD strike to
tight end Jimmie Giles with
7:08 to play.
The victory in the National
’ Conference semifinal playoff
sends the upstart Bucs, a
winless team in their in-
NEW YORK (AP) - Dan
Ripley, world indoor record
holder fer the pole vault at 18
feet 54 inches, has entered
the Olympic Invitational track
and field meet at! Madison
Square Garden Jan. 19.
Ripley also is the meet’s
record holder, 18-3*4.
The meet will bb taped for
presentation' the-next day by >
NBC-TV. The meet is spon-
sored by Vitalis.
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what followed was a long line
of seesaw shots, one which put
Peaster ahead followed by an
Indian bucket that would tie it
up. Berry and Carey traded
single free shots late in the
half to knot it at 31 with just
over a minute left. Albert Hale
gave Huckabay the halftime
lead S3 to 81 when he made
good on Ms two tree shots late
in the half.
The Indians and Coach
Royce Wright must have
made some adjustments at the
half because they forced the
tempo to go their way in the
third and the Greyhounds
slowly started falling behind.
Mdnroe gave the Indians
their first four point lead mid
way through the third and a
bucket by Hale and a three
point play by Dowell boosted
trip down court they put up
and rebounded the ball five
thnee but atm came away
without a point. Peaster’s Ray
Mt from the middle of the key
to bring the Greyhounds
wttMn four 54 to M with three
minutes left.
Albert Hale moved the
margin back to rix and thou
the Indians settled late a
stalling offense. With time
forced to foul to get a chance
at the baH
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you get to the free ehot Mae.
The Indiane made good on
their tripe to the line and a
shot by Dowel! with 1:38 left in
the game gave Huckabay a II
point margin. Dowell, Carey
and Hale finished up the
scoring and set the final
margin at 87 to 58.
Wayne Dowell collected
game Mgh honors with 22
points while teammates
Albert Hale had 19, Mark
Carey had 15 and Mark
Mdnroe had 11
Dion Berry led Peaster with
19. Donnie Ray had N and
Bobby Brown had 18.
Dowell 94-1-22; Hah 844
18; Carey 54-4-15; Mdnroe 9-
0-1-12; Fuller 1444; totals 27-
13-1447.
The Monday night
games between
Stephenville
School basketball teams
and the teams from
Comanche have been
cancelled. The schedule
originally called for the
varsity and junior var-
sityteams for the boys
and girls all to play in
Comanche on New
Year’s Eve.
when linebacker Robert
Brazile was flagged for
roughing the passer. The
Chargers went back on top 14-
10 when Lydell Mitchell,
starting in place of flu-striken
Mike Thomas, fought his way
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INDIAN SHOT-Hackabay’s Larry Fuller goes up high over this
Peaster defender to make this bucket la Friday’s semi-finals
game b the Santo tournament. The Indians had played the
Greyhounds three times prior to the tournament and this time
they found the race a little tough. They trailed early and didn’t
establish a solid lead till late ta the third. (E-T staff photo by
Mary Aaae Yarbrough)
Inspired Oiler defense
guides Houston to win
The Oilers, the surviving
AFC wild-card team, spotted
the Chargers, the AFC West
Division champions, a first-
aroused Houston defense that - period touchdown on Clarence
High took up the slack for missing
Indians bus past Greyhounds
vantage. Ray and Richard
Bundy got back to back shots
to bring the Hounds back
within throe 41 to 45 before
Dowell nudged the Indiana
lead back out to five.
Dowell had a tremendous
fourth quarter sinking 14
points and playing a powerful
inside game. Teammate Mark
Carey played the fourth with
four fouls but still managed to
come up with some important
defensive plays.
Despite the fine work of
Dowell, the Indians were
***
Houston has special
sentiment for cotton
DALLAS (AP) — The critics
are calling this one the
“Apathy Bowl" but don’t
demean the 44th annual Cotton
Bowl in front of Houston
Coach Bill Yeoman and
Nebraska Coach Tom
Osborne.
this time an extra point that
put the Oilers’ halftime lead at
10-7.
The Chargers came
charging back at the start of
the second half. Fouts com-
pleted passes 20 yards to
Charlie Joiner and 16 to tight
end Bob Klein and Houston
the game, at the Houston 27- helped the San Diego drive
Nielsen's clutch touchdown , yard line with two seconds
pass to Mike Renfro, beat San ~ remaining to seal the
remarkable upset.
On San Diego’s second
possession, he picked off a
pass at midfield to kill a
potential scoring threat.
He really started his heroics “ eight yards into the end zone.
But the lead didn’t last
through the third period.
Cornerback J.C. Wilson
picked off yet another'Fouts
pass — the five interceptions
tied an AFC playoff record set
by Miami against Cleveland in
1972 — to give the Oilers
possession at the San Diego 46.
On a third-and-11, Nielsen, a
second-year pro from
Brigham Young, found Renfro
over the middle. The wide
receiver cut back to his right
and swept down the sideline,
piling into the end zone just
ahead of a desperation tackle.
Fritsch again kicked the extra
point, the final point of the
game.
The Chargers had other
opportunities to re-establish
, their supremacy, but twice
more it was Perry to the
Oilers’ rescue.
With 3:18 to go and Fouts
driving the Chargers toward a
.potential tying field goal or go-
ahead TD, Perry stepped in
front of Klein at the Oilers’ 32
— within Wood’s field goal
range — and picked off yet
another pass by Fouts.
And in the final minutes,
San Diego rode Fouts’
desperation passes from its
own 5-yard line to its 40 before
the t final, crushing in-
terception by Perry, who
Upped the ball up, juggled it
and came down with it.
The four interceptions
surpassed the previously
league playoff record of three
by Dallas’ Charlie Waters
against Chicago in 1977.
Fouts, who had established
an NFL single-season passing
record of 4,082 yards this year,
finished the game by com-
pleting 25 of 47 passes for 333
yards — his seventh 300-yard
game of 1979. The con-
servative Nielsen, relying on
the Oilers’ still-potent ground
game, hit 10 of 19 passes for
111 yards and was intercepted
once.
Rob Carpenter, filling in for
Campbell, led all rushers with
67 yards on 18 carries and
fullback Tim Wilson added 39
yards on 11 carries. The
Chargers’ leading rusher was
Mitchell with just 33 yards on
eight carries.
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Peaster’s Donate Ray, Dm
Oneist/Mt, and Barry had an
ever m slight height ad-
vantage over the Indians and
their aggreasive style under
the nets gave the Hounds
ample rebounding and inside
shot opportunities.
Dowell tied it again at 30
margin went from over 10 in" moments into the second and
the first game to one in that
last meeting. For a while it
looked like the Greyhounds
would finally get that win.
After trading buckets and
the lead through the first two
periods, the Indians settled
into their naturally spunky
form in the second half and
defeated the Hounds 87 to 58.
TM win sent them into the
ftpala of the Santo tournament
Saturday night against the
Wildcats and gave them a
chance to claim their third
tournament championship
this season.
The slightly taller
Greyhounds, led by the out-
standing ball handling of Dion
Berry, gave the Indians quite
a battle in the early portions of
the game. Berry and Bobby
Brown gave the Greyhounds
an early lead and a number of
steals would keep the Indians
from catching up until the
closing minutes of the first.
It was Mark Carey, Albert
Hale and Mark Mclnroe who
finally combined to bring the
Indians back from as much as
a seven point deficit. Carey
and Hale sank six straight
points to bring the Indians "
within one and Wayne Dowell
made good on the front end of
a one and one to tie it at 18 with
one minute left in the first.
Peaster got the final shot of
the quarter however and •
Berry’s rebounded .jumper
gave the Greyhounds a 20 to 18 j )
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