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The Daiily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
Friday, November 15, 1968
DePauw, Wabash in grid
clash, annual ‘Monon Bell’
The oldest continuous college Sugar Creek Saturday when De- newal of the 78-year-old rivalry 7 ties.
football series west of the Alleghenies will be renewed north of the Big Walnut and south of
Pauw’s 5-3 Tigers invade 3-4 Wabash. Kickoff time for the 76th re-
is set for 1:30 p.m. in Wabash’s campus stadium. Statistically, the warfare couldn’t be less decisive. It’s knotted up 34-34 with
It started with a peach basket Oscar eyes his goal
By United Press International When Dr. Naismith first put up those peach baskets, he probably never dreamed anyone would ever play his game as well as Oscar Robertson. Robertson is generally conceded to be the best all-around basketball player ever, and for the last decade he’s starred for the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Royals of the National Basketball Association. But there’s one frustrating aspect to Robertson’s career. He’s never played on a championship team. The Cincinnati Bearcats never won the NCAA title with him and the Royals have never won the NBA crown. Things may be changing this season, though. Robertson, who usually has been hampered by the lack of a good supporting cast, is suddenly directing a team that has the best record in the NBA. The Royals, playing their third game in as many nights and in as many cities, made it 10-3 Thursday night by downing the slumping New York Knicks, 110-101.
The Royals got 29 points from Robertson—who played 37 minutes despite a leg injury. In the only other NBA game, Detroit turned back Phoenix, 111-109. Robertson was on the bench when the Knicks whittled a 9882 deficit to 98-91, but came back into the game and scored five straight points for the Royals including a three-point play with 2:09 left to keep
Cincinnati in command. Cazzie Russell led the losers with 28. Dave Bing and Happy Hairston scored 23 points each and Dave DeBusschere added 22 as Detroit turned back Phoenix. Phoenix, which trailed by 16 at halftime, tied the game eight times in the final period before Detroit pulled ahead 111-106 with 27 seconds left. Phoenix got within two but a desperate shot by Bob Warlick fell off the rim as the gun sounded.
Division title worries Dallas
By VITO STELLINO UPI Sports Writer Even Tom Landry’s wife knows something is wrong now. The Dallas Cowboys, who started to think it was going to be so easy to make the NFL title game, are now starting to worry about merely winning the Capitol Division crown. The Cowboys, winners of their first six games, have lost two of
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their last three games and Landry is the first to admit the Cowboys’ suffered a letdown. “We were going so great we thought it was going to be a breeze,” Landry said, “even in the meetings it was noticeable. I even heard my wife ask if we were going to go undefeated. That’s a sure sign of death.” The Cowboys, who meet the Washington Redskins Sunday, lead the Capitol Division with a 7-2 record. New York is just a game behind at 6-3. The Cowboys are still heavily favored to win the division crown and advance to the Eastern Conference title game — but now they realize it isn’t going to be so easy. Cowboys Favored The Cowboys are 13 point favorites to beat the Redskins this week but they were 17 point favorites to beat New York last week—and they were beaten by the Giants, 27-21. The Cowboys have lost the NFL title game the last two seasons on the final series of downs to the Packers. Last week the Cowboys looked bad as the underdog New York team outhustled and outhit them all the way. The old questions about Don Meredith’s quarterbacking ability in the clutch situations were also revived. Bothered by injuries, Meredith has been unable to come up with the key play in the two losses—and had three interceptions against the Giants. The Redskins are hampered with a 4-5 record since Sonny Jurgensen is playing with broken ribs. But the Cowboys and Redskins have played five straight games decided in the final minutes and this one could be close if the Cowboys don’t regain their old form. In the other seven games Sunday, New York is a 14-point choice over Philadelphia, Cleveland is a nine-point pick over Pittsburgh, Minnesota is figured by two over Detroit, Los Angeles favoi ed by six over San Francisco, Green Bay is listed by 14 over New Orleans, Baltimore is a 12-point choice over St. Louis and Chicago is favored over Atlanta. Giants over Phillies New York, worried about a letdown itself after the important win over Dallas, is still expected to have little trouble downing winless Philadelphia to remain a game behind the
Cowboys.
Baltimore and Los Angeles are figured to remain tied in the Coastal Division at 9-1 with victories. But Los Angeles, whose offense has been shaky and bothered with injuries, should have more trouble with San Francisco than Baltimore will have with St. Louis. Cleveland, the hottest team in the NFL with four straight victories, should remain in first place in the Century Division by knocking off Pittsburgh. Cleveland is now a serious contender for the NFL crown.
Football buffs argue the validity of the “oldest continuous series” claim, but no college or university has proven otherwise. From 1911 forward the two colleges have clashed annually in an uninterrupted skein of 57 years. Other duos have played longer (the first game was in 1890), but none west of the Allies have done it so persistently! DePauw enters the battle with a good deal of revenge to administer. Last year the Cavemen entered underdogs by several TD’s. Tiger coach Tom Mont admitted this week his Tigers have been thinking about Wabash since the Nov. 2 Butler game. “While we were preparing for Indiana State we kept in the back of our minds that we were really preparing for two games,” Mont said. “Naturally, we hoped to beat Indiana State (which we didn’t 17-41), but we wanted to find an emotional level that would be consistent for two weeks. We didn’t want to get way up for State then suffer a letdown for Wabash.” DePauw practiced Monday, which it usually doesn’t, shaping up for the 37th Monon Bell clash. Mont said the Tigers’ open field tackling has to be improved for the Cavemen and the defensive team has got to nail down some adjustments to try to stop Caveman tailback Wayne Monroe. Mont’s Monroe Doctrine is to contain the 5-7, 165-pound pestyto keep him out of the Tiger sphere of influence. Last year Monroe lashed Tiger policy planners unmercifully. He carried 44 times for most of Putnam County. DePauw never threw him for a loss. Then there’s Little Giant quarterback Dave Knott who completed 19 of 39 passes for 218 yards against Butler. One of his favorite targets is probably the nation’s smallest split end, elusive 5-6, 150-pound Steve Mihalko. “Wabash has a good offense,” Mont points out. “It controlled the ball on Butler even in a 269 loss. It out-total offensed Butler 326 to 312 and out firstdowned the Bulldogs 23-17.” Mont plans no lineup changes for the Bell battle which is his 10th. “We may expand on our mystery series, but generally we’ll just try to stick with our usual stuff,” he promised. The mystery series at ISU was a double quarterback-pitch backscreen pass that worked twice, but was called back once for a Tiger infraction. At least three Tigers are hopeful they may set new records in the game. Offensive end Scott Ralston needs four receptions to tie Tom Cooper’s one-season mark of 39. Ralston already has eclipsed Cooper’s total yardage figure of 550 by 60 yards. Sophomore quarterback Roy Pottenger is two TD passes short of tying Morrie Goodnight’s season mark of 11, set in 1957. Pottenger already has tied the single game TD pass mark of three. Wabash has defeated Valparaiso (DePauw lost 3-7), St. Joseph’s (DePauw won also), and Washington of St. Louis. The Cavemen have lost to Wheaton (DePauw won), Ferris State, Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, and Butler (DePauw won). In addition to these decisions, DePauw has whipped Evansville (22-21) and Centre (17-10). It has lost to Ball State (17-12) and Indiana State (41-17). Mont’s Bell Record
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6-6
1960
- DPU
14-13
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20-7
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13-10
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22-21
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- Wabash
16-6
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- DPU
9-7
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- Wabash
7-0
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Hoosiers take on Gophers in grudge match
MORE ACTION AWAITS PUCKETT-Dan Puckett (No. 34) of Fillmore, rates as one of the area's leading guards and Tuesday night, scoring 12-points, did a commendable job against Cloverdale despite the Cardinals 91-64 loss. Tonight, Puckett and his Fillmore teammates travel to meet undefeated Bainbridge. Other games involving County teams tonight are, Reelsville at Van Buren and Pittsboro at Roachdale. Games tomorrow night find Russellville playing at Waynetown and Reelsville in another match at North Salem. BANNER Photo • Mike Chron
BLOOMINGTON - Indiana’s incredible Hoosiers, utilizing their long-shot bid for at least the Big Ten title, face another do-or-die situation here tomorrow against suddenly-potent Minnesota. A sell-out crowd of around 50,000 is expected to watch the Hoosiers, lodged in third place on a 4-1 record and needing a parlay of a loss to both Ohio State and Michigan in the last two weekends, tackle the Gophers, who gained instant stature last Saturday with their 27-13 mauling of Purdue. The Hoosiers remain the lone Conference team with a mathematical possibility of catching either the Buckeyes or Wolverines and to stay alive they must best both Minnesota and Purdue on the last two weekends. Even that won’t do the trick if either of the two co-leaders go unbeaten down the stretch. But nothing appears to be impossible for the hard-to-believe Hoosiers, who have fashioned a 6-2 season mark by winning five in the last quarter—cutting it to 18 seconds in one --and standing off a furious closing threat to win the sixth. Last week’s 24-22 victory over Michigan State probably was the most amazing of all, not because the Hoosiers reeled off an ! 82 -yard drive in 1:45 to score with :52 left, but that they did It without quarter back Harry Gonso, tailback John Isenbarger and his replacement, Bob Pernell, from midway in the second quarter. They did it with five sophomres in the lineup, three of them in the backfield with clutch-per-forming quarterback Greg Brown coming off the bench with only three plays over two games for experience.
Many Bowl invitations will go down the drain
By MARTIN LADER UPt Sports Writer The sound of shattered crockery will hit an agonizing pitch on Saturday when several more college football teams see their bowl hopes go to pieces. With the season in its danger zone, a loss can be all but fatal to those ambitious teams carrying post-season aspirations. Typical of the deadly situation is the case of Southern California, rated the best collegiate team in the country with a 7-0 record and boasting the probable Heisman Trophy winner in O.J. Simpson. Yet all the glory of an exciting season will be wiped out if the Trojans lose to Oregon State on Saturday. And the Trojans are favored by a mere 6V2 points against the only team to beat them last year. Run For Roses Both teams go into the contest at Los Angeles with Paciic Eight Conference records of 4-0, although the Beavers lost two of their four outside games. The winner of this showdown clash will represent the Pacific Eight in the Rose Bowl, and if Southern Cal loses, despite its fine record, all it can look forward to is watching the New Year’s Day classic on televi. sion. The bowl pressure also will be felt in other sections of the country, with one of the more important games being contest, ed at Aurburn, Ala. between fifth-ranked Georgia and ninthranked Auburn. The winner of this 72nd meeting between the two schools gets both the Southeastern Conference title and a bid to the Orange Bowl.
Unbeaten Georgia, fresh from a 51-0 trouncing of Florida, is a slim 2V2 -point favorite. Third-ranked Penn State could provide the opposition in the Orange Bowl, provided it retains its perfect record against weak Maryland. The Nittany Lions are whopping 20point choices. Tennessee F avored Georgia also is being wooed by the Sugar Bowl, but in contention as well are Tennessee and Mississippi, who meet at Knoxville on Saturday. Tennessee, which is rated No. 10, is picked by seven points. The other half of the Sugar Bowl probably will come from the Big Eight Conference, where a big scramble is going on. Sixth-ranked Missouri and seventh-ranked Kansas are the main contenders, but the Jayhawks lost to Oklahoma last week and Missouri rates as a point underdog to the Sooners on Saturday. Kansas has much easier pickings this week, rated 15 points better than Kansas State. The Big Ten champion, which will go to the Rose Bowl, won’t be decided until next week when second-ranked Ohio State collides with fourth-ranked MichiWalter Alston, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers since 1954, is the dean of current major league mentors. * * * California has more than 550 golf courses. * * * The first American fighter to become world middleweight champion was Tom Chandler when he defeated Dooney Harris with bare knuckles in 23 rounds April 13, 1867.
gan. Both teams should win this Saturday as the Buckeyes are picked by eight points over Iowa and Michigan goes against winless Wisconsin.
But the odds remain fearsomely long for the battered Hoosiers. Tailback John Isenbarger, the Hoosiers’ leading ground-gainer, punter and ace-in-the-hole passer, is gone for the season after knee surgery, the fifth starter to be lost over course of the season, all signal -callei Harry Gonso is out for this game. Fullback Hank Pogue is extremely doubtful for any play against the Gophers. Five other starters are among the walking wounded but all are expected to be ready to go. Sheer size of the Gophers presents all sorts of problems. They average 232 across their offensive line and the Hoosiers haven’t an individual to match that. Indiana musters a 202pound offensive line average and not much more than that on defense. Question is whether the Hoosier defense can stand up to the crunching Minnesota attack, exemplified by fullback Jim Carter’s 101 and halfback Barry Mayer’s 98 against the Boilermakers. For motivation Indiana has the memory of last year’s 33-7 shocker at Minneapolis, a loss that cost the Hoosiers a clearcut Conference title. Coach John Pont will be striving for his first coaching triumph over Minnesota, which along with Ohio State is the only Big Ten rival he hasn’t bested in his four-year career at Indiana. The Gophers won, 42-18, at Minneapolis in 1965, and the 1966 game here wound up in a 7-7 tie. Indiana winds up its home season almost assured of a new home attendance record. Thus far, the Hoosiers have played to 192,216 in Bloomington and Saturday’s crowd is a 1 m 0 s certain to push it well beyond the record 218,205 of last season.
Jim Brown ran for 106 touchdowns, an NFT. record, during his nine years with the Cleveland Browns. * * * * Earle Sande, the great jockey, rode his first winner in New' Orleans, says the Louisiana Tourist Commission.
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