Banner Graphic, Volume 20, Number 77, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 December 1989 — Page 7

Patriots overcome Colts, Dickerson’s record

FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) Marc Wilson isn’t used to playing in the cold. Matter of fact, he’s not used to playing at all. New England’s quarterback shook off the chill and the cobwebs and sealed Indianapolis’ frighteningly familiar fate: its sixth straight loss at Sullivan Stadium. “IT’S ALWAYS gratifying to win,” Wilson said. “I miss the feeling.” It seemed he would miss it again Sunday until he spearheaded a 63yard drive capped by John Stephens’ 10-yard touchdown run with 25 seconds left. It gave the Pafriots a 22-16 victory as they fled the minus 30 wind-chill conditions for the warmth of their locker room. The Colts (6-7) will have to get awfully hot in their last three games to have any playoff shot. Eight AFC teams have better records. “THERE IS STILL hope,” Colts running back Albert Bentley said. “We’ve got to pull together

Giants turn game over to Eagles

By The Associated Press There’s no room at the top of the NFC’s East and Central Divisions but the race in the NFC West is all but over. The Philadelphia Eagles, buoyed by quarterback Randall Cunningham’s 91-yard punt and five New York turnovers, took control of the NFC East with a 24-17 victory over the Giants on Sunday. Each is 9-4 but the Eagles won both head-to-head meetings, the first playoff tiebreaker should New York and Philadelphia end the season with identical records. IN THE CENTRAL Division, Green Bay and Minnesota remained tied with 8-5 records but the Vikings hold a tie-breaker edge based on a better division record. Chris Jacke’s 47-yard field goal with no time remaining gave the Packers a 17-16 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Wade Wilson threw two scoring passes as Minnesota beat Chicago 27-16, severely damaging the Bears’ hopes for a sixth straight division crown. And tine San Francisco 49ers moved to the brink of their seventh NFC West title in nine years with a 23-10 victory over the Atlanta Falcons. Steve Young took over for injured Joe Montana and threw for one second-half touchdown and ran for another. The 49ers can clinch the title with a victory over the Los Angeles Rams next week. TONIGHT, BUFFALO, which leads Miami by IVi games in the AFC East, visits Seattle. All of Philadelphia’s points came as the result of New York turnovers. The last one was Phil Simms’ fumble at his 6-yard line after Cunningham’s punt, aided by 40 mph wind gusts, became the longest in Eagles history. It got Philadelphia out a hole at its own 1. Cunningham had punted only twice this season. Two plays later, Simms was sacked by Bob Golic and Mike

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and not lose another game and hope that a lot of people lose.” Stephens gained 124 yards on 27 carries, while Indianapolis’ Eric Dickerson became the first player in NFL history gain at least 1,000 yards in each of his first seven seasons. His 80 vards on 24 attempts gave him 1,013 yards for the year. Because the Patriots (5-8) are out of playoff contention, coach Raymond Berry, with an eye toward next year, switched from Steve Grogan to Wilson, his fourth starting quarterback of the season. IT WAS WILSON’S first start since being out of football all last season, signing with New England in the off-season and playing just two quarters before Sunday. He wasn’t very comfortable. “It’s the coldest I’ve ever been,” said Wilson, who spent his other eight NFL seasons with the Raiders in Oakland and Los Angeles. “The wind was really tough.” IT TURNED SPIRALS into

Pitts recovered the fumble, setting up a 2-yard touchdown run by Keith Byars with 10:50 left in the game. Vikings 27, Bears 16 Minnesota had its first long touchdown drives in three weeks while Chicago (6-7) fell below .500 for the first time since 1983, the last season it missed the playoffs. On their second possession, the Vikings went 66 yards in seven plays, including passes of 13 and 33 yards from Wilson to Hassan Jones, setting up Herschel Walker’s 1-yard run for a 7-3 lead. In the second quarter, Wilson’s scrambles of 17 and 13 yards preceded his 46-yard touchdown pass to Jones for a 14-3 lead. After Mike Tomczak’s 3-yard scoring pass to Cap Boso made it 17-10 early in the third quarter, the Vikings went 73 yards in three plays, including Wilson’s 24-yard scoring pass to Anthony Carter. Packers 17, Buccaneers 16 Jacke’s game-winning kick came on the 12th play of a 52-yard drive that was kept alive at the Packers’ 40 by a Tampa Bay penalty, a hands-to-the-face call against Shawn Lee that nullified a fourthdown incompletion. Don Majkowski, who threw touchdown passes of 21 and 55 yards to Sterling Sharpe, set up the score with a 17yard completion to Carl Bland at the Bucs’ 30. 49ers 23, Falcons 10 Young came on after Montana aggravated a rib injury in the final two minutes of the first half and sat out the rest of the game. Young completed his first 10 passes for 168 yards in the third quarter, connecting with John Taylor on a 38yard scoring pass over rookie Deion Sanders to erase a 10-6 halftime deficit midway through the period. Oilers 23, Steelers 16 Lorenzo White rushed for 115 yards and the game-winning 1-yard

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knuckleballs, punts into adventures and the stands into a haven for the hardy. The weather limited attendance to 32,234, the lowest in the last 36 games at Sullivan Stadium, excluding two during the 1987 players strike. Although Indianapolis plays home games inside the Hoosierdome, Colts wide receiver Clarence Verdin said the wind “wasn’t really a factor because ... they had to deal with it just like we had to.” But the Patriots had it at their backs in the first quarter, when Jason Staurovsky kicked field goals of 44 and 37 yards, and in the fourth, when he added boots of 50 and 23 yards and when Wilson led the Patriots to their only touchdown after five field goals. JACK TRUDEAU and Dickerson had just combined on an 8yard pass play that gav Indianapolis a 16-15 lead with 1:59 left. The Patriots started at their own 37-yard line and got pushed back to their 21

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with 1:34 to go on a 16-yard sack by Jon Hand. Wilson threw an incompletion on third-and-26, but an offside penalty gave him another chance. On third-and-21 from the 26, he kept the drive going with a 30-yard completion to Eric Sievers to the Colts 44. “He turned the game around for us,” Wilson said of Sievers. “When I lined up, I really didn’t think he was going to come to me,” Sievers said. “It was just another play in the game. He put the ball where it had to be.” AFTER AN incompletion, Wilson hit Irving Fryar for 17 yards, then Stephens ran 17 yards. Stephens powered around left end to score on the next play. “We had just scored and everybody was celebrating,” Colts linebacker Fredd Young said. “We had to keep our mind on what’s going on. We still had a minutesomething left.” “The last drive was a masterpiece,” Berry said. Wilson “ran the

with Brooks taking a pitchout and tossing it back to Esiason for the pass. Esiason threw a 9-yard touchdown to Rodney Holman in the third quarter. Raiders 16, Broncos 13 Jeff Jaeger kicked a 26-yard field goal at 7:02 of overtime as the Raiders kept their wild-card playoff hopes alive. The Raiders moved from their 29 to the Denver 9 and Jaeger kicked his third field goal of the game after a 16-yard run by Steve Smith. The Raiders tied the score 13-13 on a 67-yard touchdown pass from Steve Beuerlein to Mike Dyal with 7:05 left in regulation.

whole thing himself. We gave him a little help from the sidelines. “The weather conditions were atrocious for playing football. The field was beginning to freeze in the second half. It wasn’t the greatest place to get back into the swing of playing quarterback. I can’t say enough about what he did.” WILSON COMPLETED 17 of 31 passes for 255 yards. Trudeau was 12 of 30 for 207. The Colts got the ball back, but Trudeau’s desperation heave into the wind on the last play was intercepted by Maurice Hurst at the

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New England 8. “The key to the game was that we just didn’t play well going into the wind,” Trudeau said. “It is tougher to throw the ball (into the wind) so they play you differently.” Dean Biasucci’s 18-yard field goal with the wind cut New England’s lead to 6-3 at halftime. Although the Patriots reached the Colts 26 on each of their first four possessions, they managed just two field goals as Wilson had trouble recognizing defenses.

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