Miami cruises; Cowboys sack the Pack
From Associated Press reports
Miami shut down San Diego's
vaunted offense and buried the
Chargers 34-13 to advance to
the American Conference finals
and Dallas outlasted Green Bay
37-26 in a wide-open National
Conference game in the Na
tional Football League playoffs
Sunday.
With their victory, the Dol
phins advanced to next Sun
day's AFC championship game
against the New York Jets, who
beat the Los Angeles Raiders
17-14 Saturday. The Cowboys
will play in the NFC champion
ship game next Saturday
against the Washington Red
skins, 21-7 victors Saturday
over the Minnesota Vikings
Next week's winners will play
in Super Bowl XVII in Pasadena.
Calif., on Jan 30.
The Dolphins took advantage
of an early wave of San Diego
turnovers and rode David
Woodley's two touchdown
passes and a relentless ground
game to victory over the
Chargers.
Woodley completed 17 of 22
passes for 195 yards, while San
Diego quarterback Dan Fouts,
under pressure from start to
finish, hit on 15 of 34 attempts
for 191 yards He was intercep
ted five times and sacked three
times for 23 yards in losses in
his worst game of the season
The Dolphins grabbed a 24-0
lead, thanks to an interception
by cornerback Gerald Small of a
Fouts pass and consecutive
kickoff fumbles by Hank Bauer
and James Brooks, and never
allowed San Diego to seriously
threaten them
Dallas struck for 14 first-half
points in 14 seconds but needed
quarterback Danny White's
fourth-quarter touchdown pass
and Drew Pearson's surprise
bomb to Tony Hill to beat the
Packers.
Dallas built a 20-7 halftime
lead on two Rafael Septien field
goals and two touchdowns in
the final 78 seconds Timmy
Newsome scored on a 2-yard
run. and only 14 seconds later
Dennis Thurman picked off a
Injured Ducks drop to Beavers
CORVALLIS — Heavily beset by injuries, the
Oregon wrestling team ventured to Gill Coliseum
Sunday afternoon to take on arch-rival Oregon
State in a dual match With a youthful look dotting
its lineup card, the Ducks fell to the Beavers 35-9
Three major injuries did and will continue to
hurt the Ducks in their quest to repeat as Pac-10
Conference wrestling champions First,
heavyweight Dan Cook, who was 6-0-1. dislocat
ed an elbow a couple of weeks ago and will be lost
for another three weeks
Als, 158-pounder Rick O'Shea, who was one
of the Ducks leading grapplers with a 16-4-1
mark, sprained his left knee and will be sidelined
for up to five weeks
Finally, heavyweight Brett Hamilton, who had
been filling in for Cook, suffered an injury and will
be lost for three weeks
The Ducks are now down to a skeleton lineup
and there appears to be no help on the horizon
Against the Beavers, the Ducks did get off on
the right foot with 118-pounder Mike Erb beating
Mark Rodriquez 9-0 With the victory, Erb lifted his
season mark to 18-4, the best among the Duck
ranks
But after Erb's win, it was all downhill for
Oregon
Miles Hancock, Oregon's 126-pounder, fell to
Oregon State's Rodney Hawthorne At 134, the
Beavers' Walt Markee beat Tim Curtiss 16-3 and
at 142, Oregon State's Curt Berger whipped
Lorenzo West 10-1
Oregon got its second and final victory of the
match when 150-pounder Jim Hildebrand, a fifth
year senior who had not wrestled this year, beat
Dale Krzmarzick of Oregon State 12-10
The Ducks got their final points on the score
board at 177 pounds when Charles Nutter drew
with Tim Mondale 4-4 Nutter lifted his season
record to 10-9-2 with the draw
Lynn Dickey pass and returned
it 39 yards for a touchdown
The favored Cowboys still led
23-13 at the end of three
quarters, but the Packers threw
a scare into them in the fourth
period before succumbing
Wide receiver James Lofton,
who had caught a 6-yard
touchdown pass from Dickey in
the second period, dashed 71
yards on an end-around with
Dickey throwing a clearing
block just 16 seconds into the
final quarter
White drove Dallas 80 yards in
eight plays, capped by his
7-yard touchdown pass to tight
end Doug Cosbie as he rolled
out on third-and-one The
Packers again closed the gap to
four. 30-26 when cornerback
Mark Lee intercepted a pass
and returned it 22 yards for a
touchdown
But Dallas came right back to
put the game away when Pear
son. a former high school quar
terback. unleashed a 49-yard
pass to Hill and Robert Ne
whouse plunged the last yard
with 4:24 remaining
In Saturday s action, Wesley
Walker caught seven of Richard
Todd's passes for 169 yards,
including a 45-yarder that set up
the winning TD in the last four
minutes, as the Jets beat the
Raiders John Riggins thun
dered for 185 yards and one TD
to pace Washington over
Minnesota
Palmer falls short in comeback
as Morgan steals a tourney win
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Arnold
Palmer's gallant bid to turn back
the clock fell apart over the last
nine holes and Gil Morgan, with
a closing 68, scored his second
consecutive victory Sunday in
the Glen Campbell-Los Angeles
Open Golf Tournament
Morgan, playing in something
approaching solitude while a
massive gallery thrilled — then
agonized — over Palmer's shift
ing fortunes, posted a 270 total,
14 strokes under par, and added
this title to the Tucson Open
crown he won a week ago.
While the victory belonged to
Morgan, the gallery belonged to
Palmer, the 53-year-old golfer
who ranks as the most popular
figures the game has produced
They came by the thousands
to see the man who last won on
the PGA Tour 10 years back
They lined the fairways in a solid
mob, six deep, gasping and
cheering in delighted disbelief
as Palmer took the lead early in
the round, then drifted back into
the pack with a string of three
consecutive bogeys beginning
on the 10th hole He wasn't in
title contention again
Palmer, seeking to become
the oldest man ever to win on
the PGA Tour, played his back
nine in 4-over-par 39 and fin
ished with a 72
Rabid about the new game in town
By Mark Evans
Of th« Emerald
The man is a soccer fanatic
When Henry Dewey Wilson III needed
a way to pass his time this winter, he
didn't go look for something to do. he
created something
A soccer fanatic, it seemed only na
tural that Wilson should be getting his
kicks with the game he loves year
round To fill the void, Wilson formed
Eugene's first indoor soccer league
The new league, which Wilson sin
gle-handedly organized and promoted,
boasts 37 teams in five divisions
—in '”''1
Participants range in age from six to
48-years-old, and Wilson conducts
classes for children not old enough to
play in the league
Last weekend the five divisions —
masters, women's and men's A, and a
19-and-under division for both sexes —
kicked off the six-week season at Fox
Hollow Elementary School
Originally the league was targeted for
youngsters. “With AYSO (American
Youth Soccer Organization) in the fall
and spring I thought a winter league
would be viable," Wilson says "But of
the 800 fliers I mailed I got less than one
Photo by Kevin Clark
Dewey Wilson (foreground) has been the force behind a surge of interest in soccer
in Eugene with the new indoor soccer leagues which he promoted.
percent response "
Ironically, Wilson got about 90 per
cent response on the few fliers he sent
to adults
Most of the adults have played
soccer before, some have kids that play
and others simply aren't good at golf or
tennis,” Wilson says.
As a wrestler back in high school at
Medford, Wilson had played soccer
strictly for conditioning Now soccer is
the focal point of his life. Besides the
indoor league, he coaches the Sheldon
High School team in the fall, and in the
summer he runs the Northwest Soccer
School.
When he's not coaching he’s blowing
his whistle as a state referee. And as if
that is not enough, he is currently co
authoring a book on coaching soccer.
While soccer keeps Wilson busy, it
doesn’t keep him fed very well. "I’ve
had to use my carpentry skills to make
due,” he says.
"Last year I couldn’t afford rent so I
lived out of my truck. I also went down
to Phoenix and San Diego, staying at
rest stops and state parks," Wilson
reflected.
”1 view the indoor soccer league as a
big job wanted’ ad — as a promoter,
administrator and manager," he states.
The indoor game is like regular
soccer except only five players play on
each team and the addition of the walls.
"At the top level you get very high
scores. The players use the walls a lot
more and the ball behaves like a pin
ball,” Wilson says.
“It’s a lot more strenuous and intense
indoors," says David Bull, masters
player and coach of three women's
teams. "There is a tendency of outdoor
players not to use the walls. They tend
to want to dribble a lot but with the
indoor game you must pass off quick. It
is a one or two touch game," he adds.
The balls look like large tennis balls
with their orange-green felt skin. "A
normal soccer ball would bounce too
much, these balls have a limited
bounce effect and are soft so they
won't hurt you," Wilson explained.
Other aspects making the indoor play
different from the outdoor game are the
wood boards in the corners so the ball
doesn't get trapped, an eight foot high
out-of-bounds line on the walls to pro
tect the lights, and the scaled down
goal and penalty area
Patti DeVito, captain of the Oregon
women’s soccer team, arranged for the
club to enter two teams into the
women’s A division of the indoor
league. "It’s a good change from the
outdoor game since it’s faster paced
and you don’t have to worry about the
weather,” she says.
"The caliber of play at the top is
extremely good,” says Wilson of the
10-team men’s A Division, which in
cludes Wilson’s own NW Storm squad.
"The Ramblers, in fact, won the state
outdoor title two years ago."
The most attractive aspect of soccer
for Wilson is the variety it offers. "You
don’t need 11 to play. It can be co-ed,
adults and kids can play and size isn’t a
factor as it is in basketball and football
"It’s also a true world sport, unlike
other sports. In the World Cup it's your
country's best against my country’s, be
they amateurs or professionals,” he
explained.
The closest Wilson got to the profes
sional ranks is when he made the Port
land Timbers during the one game 1979
North American Soccer League player
strike. “If the bus (bringing the other
players) had crashed between the coli
seum and the hotel I would have gotten
to play.”
He’s playing now for the NW Storm in
the new indoor soccer league, and he is
providing the same opportunity to fel
low fanatics in the community.