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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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6 Cub opponents lose opening games Even though the Tiger Cubs opening 6-0 victory over Edgewood Friday night wasn’t the most impressive win, coach Jim McCam men’s team did fair bettei than six of its scheduled op ponents. This Friday’s foe, Linton (there), was one of three winners of the Cubs schedule to mark up a win. The miners defeated non-league North Central of Sullivan County 14-12 at Linton. Danville, who will visit the Cubs a week from Friday lost its first outing to Mid-State conference Greenwood 6-0 and Plainfield was also a Mid-State victim of Center Grove 9 to 6. Teams five and six on Greencastle’s schedule met in a lopsided contest when Shulte of Terre Haute trounced West Vigo 40 to 7. Sullivan, expected to be one of the W.LC. powers this season, had little trouble disposing of Duggar 34-0. Brazil was handed a shutout from Evansville Memorial 13 to 0 and Clinton was defeated in s Thursday WIC league tilt by Garfield 7 to 6. Honey Creek also was on the short end of a score as Gerstmeyer defeated the Bees 25 to 7. Indians close losing

THAT LOOK OF SHOCK--is worn by Greencastle assistant coach Wally Bennett in the final minutes of the Tiger Cub football opener here Friday night against Edgewood.

An intercepted pass on the Greencastle 16 yard line by the Mustangs caused alarm on the Tiger Cub bench. However the Cub defensive unit stopped the rally .

season INDIANAPOLIS (DPI) - The Indianapolis Indians closed out their fourth and final season in the Pacific Coast League with an 8-1 loss to Denver, leaving them in fifth place in the eastern division and without a man-

ager.

The Bears took three of the four games of the final series from the Tribe, winning Saturday night’s game, 3-0, and splitting even in Friday night’s doubleheader. That left Indianapolis with a 66-78 record, 27 games behind division winner Tulsa. The Bears clustered three runs in the second inning and five more in the sixth as Jerry Crider hurled his 18th victory, his best ever. Meanwhile, Tribe president Ownie Bush announced Don Zimmer has been released as field manager of the Indians, who were expected to join another league next season, possibly the International or a new Midwest circuit. A statement by Bush said Zimmer recently requested permission to negotiate with other clubs in view of major league expansion and “permission was granted and the Indians are now in the process of screening candidates to replace Zimmer.” The former major leaguer served his first stint as man. ager last year, at Knoxville and Buffalo. Both are in the Cincinnati Reds organization, with whom Indianapolis had a working agreement this year.

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Since the majority of high school football teams kicked off their 1968 seasons last night, some of the football jargon may have been a little strange to the female spectators, Women attend football games year after year and never really understand the rules and regulations that make up the game. So in an effort to make things clearer and more understanding here is a short explanation of

the game.

Football is played on the high school, college and professional level with different rules and regulations pertaining to each. To keep things more simple we will speak only of high school rules and regulations. The object of football is to out-score the opponent by using various plays and methods on a field 100 yards from goal to goal and 53 yards wide. Each team defends the goal to its back and scores past the goal to its opponents back. The most likely way a team scores is the 6-point touchdown, accomplished when a back or end carries the ball over the opponents goal line. Backs run with the ball, and ends catch the ball thrown from the quarterback or halfback. As a rule the quarterback does the passing. Eleven members make up a football team both on offense and defense. Offense is when a team has control of the football and tries to score. Defense tries to prevent the offense from

scoring.

After touchdowns are scored the offense tries for an: extra point. This play is started at the opponent’s 3-yard line. The offense may either run, pass or kick the ball for the point. In order to score by kicking, the offensive player must kick the ball from the ground, held by another player, through the up-rights, 10-yards deep in the end zone. The up-rights are

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BY MARK STEELE SPORTS EDITOR 24 feet apart and the ball must pass between them. Teams may also score by kicking the football through the uprights from any distance farther out, but this is termed a FIELD GOAL and counts 3-points if good. Field goals are uncommon in high school play due to the lack of boys capable of kicking the football accurately from a longer distance. Safety’s are another way a team may score. This score is done by the defense, tackling an of fensive ball carrier in the offensive end zone. A team scores by passing, when the quarterback throws complete to a back or end, who catches the ball in the end zone or runs to Final trials By JOE SARGIS UPI Sports Writer SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (UPI)—World record holders Jim Ryun, Randy Matson, Charlie Greene and Jim Hines launch the final U.S. Olympic track and field trials today at 7,377foot high Echo Summit as the countdown begins for 175 Olympic hopefuls. Ryun, the world’s fastest at 800 and 1,500 meters, tackles Wade Bell, the former Oregon star, and Wisconsin freshman Mark Winzenried among others in the 800, one of four qualifying events on the opening day show. Matson, the shot put world record holder who suffered his first loss in more than a year three weeks ago at a sea level meet in Houston, Texas, faces his conqueror, George Woods, Dave Maggard and Carl Wallin, while Greene and Hines, who have done the century in 9.9, take on Mel Pender an old foe, who has a 10 flat clocking to his credit. Only one final is on today’s program, and that is the 10,000 meter run in which little Gerry Lindgren will hook up with Marine Lt. Billy Mills, hero of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and Tracy Smith. A total of 10 men will compete in the gruelling race with the top three winning Olympics berths and the fourth man an alternate berth. On the eve of the final trials, head coach Peyton Jordan said he expected some world records to fall in the next eight days. “I’m very optimistic about this crew and I’m sure the one we wind up taking to Mexico City next month will win a fair share of gold medals.” A total of 69 athletes from the field of 175 will make it to Mexico City for the Olympic Games, which begin Oct. 12. Three already have won berths — Bill Toomey, Rick Sloan and Tom Waddell, who finished in that order in the decathlon during the weekend.

the end zone without being downed by the defense. Should a defensive player intercept the ball without interfering with the offensive player, he may run to his goal line and score defensively for his team. However only one score is kept for both teams. FOOTBALL JARGON SCORE: Touchdown 6-points; field goal 3-points; extra point 1-point; safety 2-points. END ZONE; 10 yards deep from the goal line to the goal post. GOAL LINE: Front line of the 10 yard end zone where touchdowns are scored. MID FIELD; 50 yard line marks the middle of the field with yard markers every 10 yards from both goal lines (40 yards) meeting at the 50 yard line. GOAL POST; Poles forming an H at the back of the end zone where extra points and field goals must pass between the cross bar connecting the two outer posts. LINEMAN: Those players in line with the football on offense and the first row of players on defense. BACKFIELD; The quarterback, halfbacks and fullback on the offense, the pass defenders on the defense, (also called safeties) PIGSKIN; The football is made from pig skin, although some are made of rubber. FIRST DOWN: Every 10 yards gained from initial takeover by the offense is considered a first down. PUNT: When a player drops the ball from his arms and makes contact with the top of his foot, sending the ball to the opposition. KICK: When a player makes contact with the ball by toe of shoe and sends it to the opposition or for the purpose of scoring by extra point or field goal. BLEACHERS—That’s where the women sit and watch the football game and wonder what is going on. Fishing report INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The Indiana Department of Natural Resources painted a bright picture for anglers in its weekly fishing report. “Fishing is starting to pick up considerably with the cooler weather,” the report said. “As the water cools, fish come closer to the surface and begin feeding more actively.” West Central: Monroe Reservoir continues to provide good fishing for bluegills on worms and crickets. Some nice crappies are also starting to take minnows. Bass are being taken from deep water. At Cataract Lake, a few nice bass and bluegills are hitting worms and crickets. Setlines are taking plenty of catfish of all kinds. Bass are being taken from deep water at Raccoon Lake.

Hoosiers must show proof

By KURT FREUDENTHAL BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPI) — Indiana’s “cardiac kids” of 1967, the college football surprise package of the year,” are back, perhaps stronger than ever—and that could help make the Big Ten season just as wild and woolly as the last. Only this time coach Johnny Font’s Hoosiers will set out to prove their 9-1 season, high national ranking, tie for the conference title and first Rose Bowl bid were no fluke. But Pont, “coach of the year” for yanking the Hoosiers out of the football doldrums, sounded a somber warning: “We have more good players this fall, but since everyone in the Big Ten will be improved, it’s questionable if we can match last year’s record.” His players, the charge led by last year’s three sophomore Musketeers of Harry Gonso, John Isenbarger and Jade Butcher, know they got their work cut out to make believers out of the doubting Thomases, and they seem determined to succeed. Still Have Incentive “Everybody still keeps doubting us,” said tailback John Isenbarger of “Punt John, punt!” fame. “There are those who say we’ve lost our incentive because we can’t go back to the Rose Bowl, but that’s not true. We still have our incentive because we keep hearing the word 'fluke’ when people refer to 1967. We believe in what we did.” “The only thing we got to worry about is w i n n i n g,” chimed in Butcher, who grabbed 35 passes for 611 yards —10 of them for touchdowns. And Gonso, the gambling, scrambling signal • caller who worked with a weighted football during the summer to improve his passing game and strength, said his three goals this fall were team improvement, perBettenhausen 50-lap champ TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI) — Gary Bettenhausen captured Sunday’s 50-lap USAC sprint race feature, taking the lead on the 12th lap to earn nearly $1,200 from a purse of $6,945. Bruce Walkup was second and George Snider third, followed by Carl Williams and Greg Weld, in that order. Old Series DURHAM. N. C. <UPI> — The Duke-North Carolina football series dates back to 1888 when the Blue Devils gained a 16-0 victory.

sonal improvement “and before that, winning.” • Pont, whose first two Hoosier teams won only three games, indicated the pressure will be on the Hoosiers, but “they know what is expected.” “If Gonso and Butcher do what they did a year ago, I’ll be satisfied,” Pont said. And Isenbarger, he added, should be better because he learned how to run the off-tackle play last spring. Some Major Headaches Plugging holes at guard, center and linebackers were Indiana’s major headaches in preparing for the new season. Center Steve Applegate saw 59 minutes’ action as a sophomore while junior guards Don

DeSalle and E. G. White got in only about 15 minutes' worth. Defensively, tough Jim Sniadeck! will again hold down one linebacker assignment, as will Bob Moynihan, a regular until he was hurt in the second game last year. Filling the other spots probably will be Karl Pankratz, who saw 86 minutes’ action last year, and Dave Hoehn, bot juniors. Tackle Bob Kirk and defensive ends Cal Snowden and Tom Bilunas are other key linemen while sophomore Hank Pogue is the likely successor to the departed Terry Cole at fullback. For additional speed, Pont is counting on backs Larry Highbaugh and Gary Brown, both

handling kickoffs and fielding punts. Last year Indiana won seven of its nine regular season games by an average margin of less than four points — and some in the final minutes or seconds. With virtually the same personnel directing the offense, Pont warned that IU's opponents will be point for the Hoosiers. “We’ve lost the element of surprise we had going for us last year,” he said, “but these boys know they can’t live on last year’s record.” And Rose Bowl or no Rose Bowl, Pont and his proteges feel they’ll be one of the top contenders again for the conference crown.

A. J. Foyt takes fifth “Hoosier Hundred”

Super Tex, Foyt breezed to his 39th Championship victory.

Bowling results

First Citizens Bank Classic League Standings Central National Bank, 17-4; Team 8, 15-6; Team 3, 13-8; Brackney Feeds, 13-8; Picketts Citgo, 12-9. Top Series, C. Alex 630 and D. Priest 620. Home Laundry League Standings McCullough, 12-4; McMillan Carpets, 12-4; Allee’s, 10-6; Bob’s Body Shop, 10-6; Headley Hardware, 10-6. Top Series, S. Harris, 532, B. Nelson, 478, F. Schroer, 472, M. Shaw 460.

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The thrill of finishing in front of the pack never leaves A. J. Foyt. The hard - charging Texan roared to his 39th big-car triumph on USAC’s championship trail Saturday, winning the rich “Hoosier Hundred” dirt track race for a record fifth time. It was only his second major league victory of the season, but it was worth $23,425 from a total purse of $63,000. Foyt, three-time Indianapolis “500” winner and four-time national driving king, took the lead on the 18th lap and at the end had a 13-second margin over runner-up Mario Andretti, at an average speed of 93.296 miles per hour. At that, the finish was almost a carbon copy of two years ago when Foyt, within easy react) of victory, was shunted to the sidelines by mechanical failure. With a lap to go, his pistor failed and Foyt coasted home on three cylinders. George Snider was tliird, Gary Bettenhausen fourth, and Billy Vukovich fifth. Rounding out the first 10, in order, were Arnie Knepper, Larry Dickson, George Benson, Scratch Daniels and Art Pollard. Andretti won the pole position at a record clip of 107.111 mph but A1 Unser led the first 17 laps. He only lasted 23, however, and brother Bobby, the point leader, went only 8 laps. Bobby leads the big-car standings with 3,250 while Andretti, in second place, has 2,618 and third place A1 Unser has 2,335.

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