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Sports Outlook Saturday 1187 THE VW FOX Sorting out the NFL season of the strike Whos really who In the den NFL Can you measure how much a teams record for has been distorted by those replace ment games Regular NFL players walked out after the second week of the season The third week games were can and the replacement teams played weeks four five and six The result is that club will finish this season with percent of its games 3 of 15 having been played by substitutes How do you figure out what s going on in the standings One way would simply be to count the replacement games late the won lost marks that remain and examine the results RECREATION I PARKS DEPARTMENT Leisure Lines special lordlier Stirling this then will be free skating thi Hills Arenas for families enjoy out and advantage of this op portunity This is sixth year thai the Ac Ion Rotary Club Optimist Club of Georgetown have sponsored this program Their ginLrosily has the iunllt f lift living in Haiti nil lis Sharpen til il j in Tht in I 1 ment lluinkt you fir help to IJS7 a very successful year We look forward to in Ml the best and this Hoi lit ly Season Saturday Dec Sunday Dec Monday Dec Tuesday Dec Wednesday Dec Sunday Dec Monday Dec Tuesday Dec Wednesday Dec Thursday Dec Saturday Jan Sunday Jan 3 303 SO Another method has to do with the point differential recorded by each team the difference in the com blncd number of points a club has scored and the combined of points it has surrendered In ranking the teams this way the top five after 10 games or twothirds of the full schedule were Cleveland plus HO points Chicago plus 106 Orleans and Seattle plus and Washington plus If the same computations art done with the three replacement eliminated the top become Cleveland plus 101 points Se4Uk plusG5 New plus Gil Chi plus and Denver plus The Redskins drop down to ninth place in regular game rankings A discrepancy between a learn point differential totals for regular games and combined games could in dlcalc the distortion by replacements On this basis NFL teams with the most positive rating a higher point differential ranking in the regular games were the Philadelphia New York Giants Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings Look for these squads to better their overall records the rest of the Teams with the most negative rat a higher point differential ranking in total games were Dal las Houston and Indianapolis These NFL clubs might be the ones destined to drop from their current positions in the standings A though strikes arc no longer common In pro sports never before have replacement teams plaj a fleam portion of a team s schedule with the results being lumped to with those of the regular The only big league parallel to be found was the one game baseball walk out staged in 1912 by the Detroit Tigers It was staged lo protest the suspension of Cobb for chasing ter a heckler In the stands during a previous game When threatened with forfeit quickly asscm hltd and former to tike the field against Philadelphia the replacement nine was trounced by Athletics the results did not have much of an feet on the American League stand The Tigers lost of their other 152 games to finish in sixth place 36W games behind Boston the pennant winner One of the latest in stats In foot ball is average yards gained per pass attempt as opposed to average yards gained per pass completion After 10 games the leading NFL teams in average yards per pass at tempt were Cleveland 1st in the AFC Central Washington 1st in the NFC East Seattle 2nd in the AFC West and San Francisco 1st in the NFC West They were the only clubs with an average gain of better than yards per pass attempt 7 17 17 10 and 7 respectively A Look Back QUESTION Thr Junior played on Infamous against Whitby during which minutes of pen a I tin to period fiur DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC A W TRENTON 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY IS AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 KATBY RAJAS 98 KJI telftm OBESFTY IS A DISEASE Q- difference between my 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