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The Barrie Examiner Monday Degemher 13 1976 NFL ROUNDUP Wildcard berth goes to Redskins By THE ASSOCLVIEI PRESS Washington Redskins gained the National Football Leagues last undecided playoff spot Sutt day with 27l4 victory over Dallas Cowboys in mustwin situation We were written off pro nounced dead and buried but weve got some gutsy guys who just kept coming back said Washington coach George Allen whose Redskins came back one last time with two touchdowns in the fourth quar ter to defeat Dallas The victory which gave Washington the National fon ference wildcard berth iii the playoffs was especially sweet for Allen who came under heavy criticism when the team failed to make the playoffs last year Former Cowboy Calvin IIill scored the goahead touchdown with 434 to play circling the right side from 15 yards out After Washington regained the ball on the Dallas three on Dennis Johnson interception IIill helped clinch the victory and the playoff spot with crushing block that cleared the way for John Rigginss scoring run SECOND SEASON BEGINS And so the leagues second season begins next weekend with four playoff games On Saturday Washington with 104 record meets the Vikings 1121i at Bloomington Minn while Oakland Raiders 131 en tertain New England Patriots 113 Sunday games have Pitts burgh Steelers 104 in Balti more against the Colts 113 and Dallas 113 playing host to Los Angeles Rams 1031 Washingtons upset knocked St Louis Cardinals out of playoff spot The Cards had edged New York Giants 1714 earlier Sunday and would have gotten the NFC wild card bid had Dallas defeated Washing ton Baltimore clinched the horne field advantage against Pitts burgh by routing Buffalo Bills 5820 That gave them the spot as AFC East winner anti tnade New England 3114 winner over Tampa Bay Buccaneers the AFC wild card club In other games Sunday Cin cinnati Bengals whipped New York Jets 423 Philadelphia Eagles beat Seattle Seahawks 2710 Green Bay Packers trim med Atlanta Falcons 2420 Denver Broncos beat Chicago Bears 2814 Kansas City Chiefs topped Cleveland Browns 3914 San Francisco 49ers defeated New Orleans Saints 277 and Oakland blanked San Diego Chargers 244 BLANK OILERS On Saturday Pittsburgh clin ched playoff berth with its ninth consecutive win 210 shutout of Houston Oilers In other Saturday games Min nesota whipped Miami Dolphins 297 and the Rams slipped past Detroit Lions 2017 The Washington defence throttled Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach sacking him five times and limiting him to five completions in 22 attempts for91 yards Billy Kilmer completed 14 of 30 passes for 199 yards in cluding sixyard scoring strike to tight end Jean Fugett also former Cowboy Simpson claims fourth rushing title The Turtls did what the tail to do heating lllx iiunts lill was not enough to lulit the playtith llu ruining of Jun tilts and SR lottcs iijtl the Victor lifts row for itt yank illlt lttllt ttlttl lt tliltl don it including the gain Will lltl in the fourth tittttimt ltE uulcs passed for lllltt touchdowns to lead Halt llllitlt offensixeshuw The loss was the luth st ught for the Billx tin ilittt was one liltgltl stint It Sillllltnrnlll filed for 171 éltll on SR carries to capture his fourth rushinu lllltllllltl1l Slurpw ho started thw urtmc litlt tf lttllllitl Vatwt luyton of the Beat finished SIMPSON won his fourth II rushing title in five seasons by gaining 171 yards on 21 tairits igaitit llll 13m including H7 in his lust three games Payton gurud only ltt against Denver Lonny in the tlnrd period be cause of injury anti finished at lgitiu RII STARTS Oakland closed out its im pltgtl season with its first shutout Reserve quarterback Mike Rae who previously lllttl Ith loronto Argonauts of the anadtan Football league thrt three touchdown passes for the Raiders and Mark Jun IIeghen rushed for 95 yards to finish with 1012 for the tiifitll Ilt latcancers the first ll team ever to go winless in Baltimore Sunday finishing the season with 1303 yards lAllhotot Simpson ground work bright spot for Bills BALTIMORE AP Simpson of Buffalo Bills won the National Football League rushing title Sunday personal accomplishment in season of negatives for his team Simpson gained 171 yards in v3 uut llrttu nit lIIll rttv it lrtr 71 lititllrtttlsl lI Cull Why Spend Another Evening Alone Phone now for your FREE Brochure SINGLESSOCIAL CLUB PATS 7373610 pm pm Mon Fri 5820 loss to playoffbound Baltimore Colts for season total of that easily beating Chicagos Walter Payton who finished with 1390 He had trailed Iayton by nine yards going into the game Born of our more popular oc uro doncmg with people 10 70 yrs young din iqu tltlt IllJltllUl outings rlub tluncr parties popularity lnd generally breaking the trend of being alone twitin irirml iUiSIUHJ 14 starts faded as New Eng land scored 17 fourthquarter points The game was tied 1414 after three quarters but Patri ots linebacker Sam Hunt picked off Steve Spurrier pass and raced 68 yards for the goahead score John Smith added 30 yard field goal and Steve Gro gan capped the scoring with his 12th rushing score of the sea son oneyard plunge with four seconds left That set record for quarterbacks The Bengals shut out of the playoffs when Pittsburgh won Saturday took out their frustration on the Jets They broke the game open with three touchdowns in the second quar ter including an 85yard bomb from Ken Anderson to Isaac urtis Cincinnatis defence picked off six New York passes four off Joe Namath SETS RIIORI Ed lodolak scored three touchdowns and surpassed Ab ner Haynes to become Kansas titys alltime leading rusher lhe llltlh guided by reserve quarterback lony Adams clin ched it with 17 points in the third period Tom Sullivan rushed for Ill yards and two touchdowns anti Mike Hogan ran for 104 yards as the Eagles fivegame Ios mg streak Jim Zorn of the Sea tiuu ks completed 24 of passes for 23 yards and set single season passing record for rookie with 2571 yards Randy Johnson engineered two fourthquarter touchdown drives with Eric Iorkelson get ting the winning score for the Packers on oneyard run with 21 left Denver scored four touch downs in the second half to beat the Bears with Otis Arni strongs 11yard scoring rtin with 317 left snapping 1414 tie Armstrong gained 112 yards in 25 carries and finished with 1006 yards on the season Rookie quarterback Scott lull passed 20 yards to Gene Washington and ran 15 yards for another score to lead the killers BEATRICE FOODS CO ANNOUNCEMENT SMITH The appointment of George Smith to the position of Assistant Group Manager On tario Group was announced by Binnington President Canadian Dairy Operations of Beatrice Foods Smith will con tinue as manager of the Lokeview Dairy Division in Barrie Ontario and as Ontario Dairy sales representative He will continue to reside in Barrie Ontario and will maintain his headquarters at the tokeview plant native of Brockville Ontario where he attended school Smith is graduate of the University oi Toronto He joined Beatrice Foods in 1970 when the family firm of Smiths Dairy Ltd in Brockville became member of Beatrice Foods He continued on rnonrigur of Smiths until l972 when lit moved to Kingston to become manager of the Brookside Dairy Division He became manager of Lukeview in I975 YARDAGE GAINEI Chuck Foreman 44 of tho Minnesota Vikings goes llj and over the tniddle of tilt litre for yardage against tht Miami Dolphins Saturdav in FOOTBALL STANDINGS By TIIIi CANADIAN NIl American Conference Eastern Iiisinn Baltimore 11 0417 pANew Eng 11 It 17623 Miami ti 2632631 NY Jets Llll Uinolltlzl Buffalo 212 ti24ltl rntral Duisiun Xrlllts It 2th Cine It 311321 Cleveland 0267 2N7 Houston 0222 573 Western Division Oakland l3o21l7 Denver llfizttfi San Diego ti it our 3H1 Kansa 11 ll H181 Tampa Hay 1114 olzfiil National lunferrnrt Eastern lllttll Dallas ll hit Ill pWash 104 T141217 SI Lous lit twin Ihtla 41H to Jtlti NY iiunts lll utToZm entral Illlnll Minnesota ll lilos l7li httugn gtILTIJII Itlfltll tr ntu tirtcr li tll lrslern Illusion lni Ant In it 251 IV San Fran it trtir lrll New lIlIJIIl to it ill Atlanta 110 til ll Scull It 314 xDnnmn llllll plliltt tarll train Sandi 1llll St Lotus 17 NY Giants ll Cincinnati 42 NY Jets New England Ill Tampa Philadelphia 27 Seattle in ircen May 14 Atlanta PM Denver 2H hitngu ll Baltimore 3H llulluin in San Francisco 27 New II II SS lcl Tilt Thti lt le Ill 7H 7ll ill lift 39 till 115 lb lttlll it ll leans Kansas ttl tItiwlunl Oakland Sun llltHM It Illllllrtl 17 llalli sulutduv lltsllll ltltstlnul lit lit lllltlltti lttint ll nIl It lttltttll lttpul tltr uni ziturlla tinnitw It llllOiIIl llIoIl twnton II one ll Dunnind IlIuII New England 11 Mainland Sunday Lauris llllltlllill llxuo ltltshurizh it lllllllltiti This CHRIS MAS Gives Peace of Mind for special Christmas Membership Pockdge call 7261803 or ViSll our office at l53 Dunlop Barrie the Orange Bowl Fortmat was stopped by defensive tackle Randy towdtr tAI lhotot Jets erase 40 deficit to slip by Czechs 65 WINNIPEG CP Win nipeg Jets showed cham pionship mettle Sunday when they scored six goals in the final period to erase 40 deficit and defeat Czechoslovakia 65 in an exhibition hockey game The reigning World Hockey Association champions refused to be demoralized by ourgoal secondperiod blitz by the touring Czech club that scored three of the goals in the span of one minute and 53 seconds My main worry was that the guys would not be able to prove what good club they are after the way things went in the first two periods said Winnipeg coach Bobby Kromm never thought for one minute that they were better than The Jets began their come back at 401 of the final period and by the 1346 mark had grabbed 54 lead Czech oslovakia its lineup dotted with eight members of its national team that lost to Canada in the final of the Canada Cup tourna ment this fall regained tie but it lasted only 21 seconds be fore Peter Sullivan seored the winning goal from scramble beside goaltender Vladmir Dzu rilla SCORE FOR WINNIIEG Anders Hedberg leading scorer in the WIIA with 30 goals in 31 games Dan Labraaten Thommie Bergman Ruhnke and Mats Lindh scored the other Winnipeg goals Lybo mir Bauer Eduard Novak Ja roslav Pouzar Vlacav Sykora and Antonin Melc scored for Czechoslovakia The game was wideopen affair from the opening whistle with numerous scoring chances at both ends Ottawaarea clubs win gold medals WHIIBY Ont TP Ot tawaarea clubs captured eight gold medals at the Eastern Ori tario figure skating champion ship which ended Sunday OshawaWhitby clubs took six gold medals and the Kingston club had two Isabelle and Paul Ducesnay of the OttawaGloucester club won the prenovice dance com petition In the novice division Susan Wilson of the OttawaNepean club was first in the womens MORE SPORTS MPAGEI Special rates for ntttltt ltlf it nttly lit 12 at tr wry lltllJli SENIOR CITIZENS makes it easy for everyone to enjoy Colour TV iti lutu lll front the tlllltllttlll litiittng feature of 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Dzurilla and his munterpart Joe Daley were stady and at times spectacular in keeping the clubs scoreless through the first 25 minutes Peter Stastney who failed score on three breakaway at tempts in the first 22 minutes set up three goals to sp Czechoslovakia to the 44 lea Bauer slid rebound beh Daley at 521 during dela penalty call against Winni and the visitors then pou on Jet mistakes to run the to 40 The line of Hedberg Ulf sson and Bobby Hull bega the long uphill climbfor theJ Despite local televising the game 10023 fans were on and to roar their approval as ed berg put the Jets on the ore board at 01 of the final iod LABRAATEN SCORES Labraaten then score on brilliant individual effor cut the margin to 42 When Lyle Moffat sent off for interference at the Jets scored shorthand goal Bergmans shorthan goal was followed by nkes marker at 1147 to tict game 44 Strong forecheckirg reated Winnipegs final two IS with both coming after Czech defenders were knoclgl off the puck in their own end Melc tied the gam with screened shot that ected off Barry Longs skate hind Da ley But the Jets wastd no time regaining the lead Sullivan needed three tries beore he got the puck into the 9p corner over the fallen Dzuria Czechoslovakia otshot the Jets 3120 overall an the clubs split four minor penaties Czechoslovakia cottnues its sixgame tour of tie WHA tonight in Edmonton FOR IMMEDIATE INSTALlATION CALL 7373104 Were open am to pm GRANADA RJNTAL More than one million subscribers Saturday till CanadaWorks is new job creation program that will be launched in January his new year round program is designed to get needed worK done by people not employed in the private sector anadaWorks will arc ept delKattOltS from groups and organzattons llt luding private businesses who wish to develop sponsor and aimin istet worthwhile ommuntty projects Funds will mainly be allocated to areas of high unemployment and projects will be tailored to special employment needs of your local community Canada 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