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sports_ Eight Chargers named to AP All-Pro team NEW YORK (AP) - Explo siveness is the word to describe the San Diego Chargers — and they burst onto the Associated Press’ All-Pro team in 1980 with eight players, five of them as starters. Defensive end Fred Dean, defensive tackle Gary “Big Hands" Johnson, tight end Kel len Winslow and wide receivers John Jefferson and Charlie Joiner are the first-team Chargers named Wednesday to the AP's team of National Foot ball League all-stars. Quarter^ back Dan Fouts, place-kicker Rolf Benirschke and defensive tackle Louie Kelcher are San Diego’s second-team represen tatives. Of the 50 first- and second team players picked by a na tionwide panel of 84 sports writers and sports broadcast ers, three from each NFL city, 27 players came from the Amer ican Conference and 23 from the National Conference. But on the first team, the AFC is far more dominant with 16 players to nine from the NFC. It reflects the AFC’s domination during the season, when it won 33 of 54 games from the NFC. Fouts, who passed for an NFL-record 4,715 yards this year and made the Chargers the first team in NFL history to have three 1,000-yard receivers in a season, finished second in the All-Pro balloting to Cleveland’s Brian Sipe, the top-rated passer according to the league’s for mula. Winslow caught a league-high 89 passes for 1,290 yards, Jefferson had an NFL high 1,340 yards on 82 recep tions and Joiner added 1,132 yards on 71 catches. In the first-team backfield are Houston’s Earl Campbell, who gained 1,934 yards in 1980 to lock up his third rushing title in three pro seasons, and Chicago’s Walter Payton, who earned his fifth consecutive NFC rushing crown. The Pittsburgh Steelers put three players on the All-Pro team, all of them starters — middle linebacker Jack Lam bert, center Mike Webster and strong safety Donnie Shell. Cleveland, Houston, Oakland and Los Angeles have two first team players apiece — Sipe and defensive end Lyle Alzado of the Browns, Campbell and tackle Leon Gray of the Oilers, outside linebacker Ted Hendricks and cornerback Lester Hayes of the Raiders, and cornerback Pat Thomas and free safety Nolan Cornwell of the Rams. Guards John Hannah of New England and Herbert Scott of Dallas, tackle Mike Kenn of At lanta, defensive tackle Charlie Johnson of Philadelphia, out side linebacker Matt Blair of Minnesota, punter Dave Jen nings of the New York Giants, place-kicker Ed Murray of De troit and kick-returner J.T. Smith of Kansas City round out the first team. 200 FREE MILES! $29.95 Takes You There And Back! For just $29.95 and 14c per mile you can rent a car from Kendall Ford and enjoy a weekend at any site within a one hundred mile radius of Eugene. 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"The Oilers can renegotiate Earl's contract, trade him, or Earl Campbell can’t play pro football for the next five years.” Oilers General Manager Ladd Herzeg already has said the team would not, “under any cir cumstances,” renegotiate Campbell’s contract. Campbell, who has five years remaining on the contract that pays him an estimated $500,000 annually, did not attend a news conference called by Stewart and has refused to talk about his contract problems. "It's not really a matter of money,” Stewart said. “It gets down to what is fair to one man. Earl came out of college and someone negotiated what they thought was a good contract. But it was a bad deal and the Oilers have tried to hang that over Earl’s head.” North Carolina beats Maryland CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Behind Al Wood’s second-half shooting and some clutch free throws down the stretch, 16th-ranked North Carolina whipped eighth-ranked Mary land 75-66 Wednesday night.
