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Wolfpack, Bruins, Hoosiers maintain A.P. supremacy
By ALEX SACHARE AP Sports Writer North Carolina State and UCLA, the two kingpins of the college basketball world last year, made successful season debuts last week and retained the top spots in this week’s Associated Press college basketball poll. The Wolfpack, who ended
UCLA’s string of seven consecutive NCAA titles last year, whipped East Carolina 99-81 Saturday night in its season opener, with All-American David Thompson pouring in 33 points. On the strength of that showing, N.C. State retained the top spot in this week’s poll with 876 points and 37 firstplace votes from the panel of sports writer and broadcasters
around the country. UCLA, which lost four of last year’s five starters to graduation, posted easy victories over Wichita State and DePaul and held onto the second spot in the poll with 796 points, including seven first-place ballots. Bobby Knight’s Indiana
squad, which opened its campaign with a 113-60 romp over Tennessee Tech Saturday night, held third place with 796 points and one first-place vote. Maryland crushed Richmond 105-81 in its opener and was rated No. 4 with 441 points, while South Carolina, which opened its season with an 88-74 triumph over Bucknell Monday
night, was ranked fifth with 423 points, including the only other first-place vote. Louisville was ranked sixth and Kansas seventh. Both opened their seasons Monday night, Louisville nipping Houston 91-87 and Kansas trouncing Augustana, S.D. 85-50. Marquette, North Carolina and Southern California completed
the Top Ten. Alabama headed the Second Ten, followed by Purdue, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Memphis State, Providence, Arizona, Michigan and Houston. Minnesota, despite whipping North Dakota State 80-47 in its only game last week, dropped out of the Top 20. The Gophers
Dave Anderson Cowboys’ ‘Cool Clint’ lives up to his name
Sports of the Times Just Winging It With Cool Clint By DAVE ANDERSON (c) 1974 New York Times News Service New York, Nov. 29 -When rookies join the Dallas Cowboys, they are provided with a questionnaire before they are provided with shoulder pads. Next to the query about nicknames on his sheet at training camp, Howard Clinton Longley, Jr. wrote: “Cool Clint.” For nearly five months the 22-year-old quarterback didn’t have an opportunity to live up to that nickname, or to live it down for that matter. For nearly five months that segment of society that genuflects when the National Football League shield is flashed on television was not aware that Clint Longley was cool, or lukewarm, or even that he existed. But they know now. They know that on Thanksgiving Day he was a better dessert than mince pie. They know that, with Roger Staubach not quite sure is he was in Dallas or back in the Navy, Clint Longley materialized in the third quarter and completed 11 or 20 passes for 203 yards. He generated three touchdowns as the Cowboys shocked the
Washington Redskins, 24-23, on his second touchdown pass with only 28 seconds remaining. That play covered 50 yards as Drew Pearson ran halfway to Abilene for the pass that travelled about 65 yards in the air, counting the angle across the field. And so Cool Clint proved that indeed he was. He also proved that in the N.F.L., a quarterback doesn’t have to be computerized lor several seasons before being permittted to hum. He showed that maybe a quarterback should just wing it more often, as he did. The danger now is that Tom Landry, the Cowboys’ intellectual coach, will attempt to teach the kid too much. Program the kid, really. Landry was sending in the plays Thursday but Clint Longley was making them work. He was making them work because of his natural flair, a weapon that the Redskins’ sophisticated defensive unit had been unable to chart. George Allen, the Redskins’ guru, acknowledged that “we didn’t have a scouting report on the kid.” All the Redskins had instead was seven defensive backs and they still couldn’t stop him. So much for defensive strategy when a rookie quarterback is just winging it. But eventually Clint Longley probably will know so much from Landry’s in-put that hell out-think himself more often than not.
Staub swapped?
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Although all sides are denying it, Rusty Staub apparently now is a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. Staub, a New York Mets’ outfielder for the past three seasons, is part of a three-way deal which also includes the Detroit Tigers, according to sources at baseball’s annual winter meetings. The Phillies, in turn, have sent catcher Bob Boone to the Detroit Tigers. The Mets obtained center fielder Mickey Stanley and pitcher Bill Slayback. Staub, obtained from the Montreal Expos before the 1972 season, batted .258 with 19
home runs and 78 RBI in 1974 With the acquisition of Stanley, the Mets hope they have ended their search for a center fielder. Stanley played in only 99 games for Detroit this past year because of a broken hand and batted .221 with eight homers and 24 RBI. Stanley, an outstanding fielder, had lost his center field job to Ron LeFlore last season. At the same time, the Tigers solved their catching problems with the acquistion of Boone, a veteran of two years in the majors. After hitting .261 with 10 home runs and 61 runs batted in as a rookie, he slipped to .242 with only three homers last season.
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Dave Anderson Boozer basks in embarrassment
Sports of the Times Boozer By Dave Anderson (c) 1974 New York Times News Service New York, Nov. 30-Another running back might have basked in the glory of surpassing 5,000 yards for his National Football League career but Emerson Boozer of the New York Jets basked in embarrassment. “When they announced it over the public-address system last week,” he recalls, “they said I was the 22nd man to do it. That was embarrassing. Being the 22nd with 5,000 yards is no big deal.” Another running back might have thought only of himself at that moment but Emerson Boozer thought of a former teammate. “I thought about Matt Snell,” he says. “I know Matt wanted to get 5,000, but he didn’t get the chance. Injuries stopped him.” Emerson Boozer is like that. He has an elegant majesty about him, on and off the field. Entering; Sunday’s game with the San Diego Chargers at Shea Stadium, he has run for 5,032 yards in his nine seasons. But except for the tacklers who have missed him, he is the only one embarrassed by that total. He is the epitome of the professional running back-quick and powerful, a dependable blocker, a reliable pass catcher, a durable performer. He’s also somewhat unappreciated. On another team, he might have run for 7,500 yards by now. He might rank fourth behind Jim Brown’s record 12,312, Joe Perry’s 9,723, Jim Taylor’s 8,597. But on the Jets he has had to yield his talent. On the Jets with Joe Namath at quarterback, the offense has been sculptured to the pass. Boozer doesn’t resent it and he doesn’t complain about it. But he’s aware of it. “If you took my total of per-game attempts, it’d be about 10,” he says. “Figuring that, my 5,000 yards have been tough.” He’s 31 years old now, elderly for a running back. But if he can accumulate 6,500 yards, he probably would rank in the top ten when he retires. He might not be embarrassed by that. His total is remarkable because he has averaged less than 12 carries a game, not much compared to O.J. Simpson’s average of nearly 18. “Every running back likes to get 5,000 yards,” Boozer says, smiling, “even though O.J. went over 5,000 his first five years.” O.j. has 6,118 yards now, seventh on the career list, including 937 this season. He had 2,003,1,251 and 742 the last three years. “Up in Buffalo,” says Boozer, laughing, “A guy yelled, ‘Hey, Boozer, you got 4,000 yards. O.J. got that in three years. You stink.” Boozer certainly would have more yardage if he hadn’t required knee surgery during the 1967 season. At the time had scored 13 touchdowns in only eight games. But he suffered what Dr. Jaoes Nicholas describes as “the worst” knee injury the Jets’ orthopedist has seen. “He told me,” Boozer says, “that there was a high possibility I’d never play again. But by March, he told me I had a 50-50 chance and by May, he told me I’d play again but he wasn’t sure how well.” Boozer played well enough the next season to help the Jets win Super Bowl HI, although most of his contribution in that game involved his blocking assignments as Snell ran for 121 yards. When the damaged knee subtracted some of his speed, he learned to be a more complete player. Before the knee injury, he had been a spectacular runner who bounched off tacklers as if he were a billiard ball. Perhaps significantly his two favorite runs occurred before the 1967 surgery. “I could make the ceep cut then, the cut where I spin and go the other way,” He says. “I went 47 yards on a draw in the last minute to tie the Raiders, 28-28, in Oakland in 1966 and the next year I went 25 yards in Miami but I got knocked out of bounds when I shoudn’t have. Otherwise I would’ve gone about 70 for a touchdown. I allowed some guy to give me a shot but I didn’t meet force with force. I didn’t give him the lean like I had in Oakland the year before. I got penned up against the sideline on that run but I met pressure with pressure.” He was running instinctively then. Now he is more studious. During the off season he studied game films in his Huntington Station, N.Y., Home for about 30 hours just to improve one move. “My initial step in running from the I formation,” he says. “I watched films of the Philadelphia Eagles backs and Larry Brown of the Redskins. I felt I didn’t run from the I as well as I should in getting to the outside quickly. I checked their steps, their speed of approach. On the films, I realized my initial step was wider, almost lateral, while theirs was parallel. That gave them more immediate acceleration. Using the parallel step, it gets me to the outside quicker now, if there’s a hole there.” When the Jets lost seven of their first eight games this season, he was more concerned than many of his teammates. “As an older player on a losing team, there’s more presssure on you than there is on the young players,” he says. “When you’re an older player, you’re the first to go if they clean house. I don’t want to go. 1 want to finish up here. I won’tgo to one of the 1976 expansion teams, not unless the contract is extremely lucrative.” He hopes eventually to be a TV announcer. He has the voice and diction. He also has radio experience. “But when I retire,” he says, "I don’t really want to be remembered by my yardage or for how I played football. I just want to be remembered as Boozer-The man himself, the quality of the man.” He will be.
College Basketball Results By The Associated Press MIDWEST Michigan St. 82, C. Michigan
Indiana St. 77, La. Tech 72 Michigan S. 82, C. Michigan 8 Ohio St. 96, Butler 69 Alabama 74 Ofcla. St. 67 Kentucky 80, Miami, O. 73 Wichita St. 88, S. Dakota 64 Kansas 85, Augustana, S.D., 0 Oklahoma 89, NE Missouri 71
Oral Roberts 85 Wis.-Mil-vuankpp 70 Okla. City 95 Tex. Christian 91 Loyola 94, Loras 77 S. Illinois 70, St. Mary’s, Tex. 67 Missouri 92, Rice 67
Four National Leaguers played in every game for their teams in 1974. They were Mike Schmidt, Dave Cadi and Larry Bowa of the Phillies and Pete Rose of the Reds. Nolan Ryan of the California Angels recorded 367 strikeouts during 1974. 4