Vikes anchor NFL All-Stars
NEW YORK (UPI)—Carl Eller and Alan Page, the charging Minnesota defensive linemen who have led the Vikings to 12 straight victories, were selected Wednesday to the United Press International 1969 National Football League All-Star team.
Eller, the 6-foot-6, 250-pound end chosen for the second straight year, was a near unanimous selection. He received 47 votes from a panel of 48 NFL experts around the nation—three from each league city.
Page, a 6-foot-4, 250-pound tackle, was named to the select unit for the first time. He ousted Dallas veteran Bob Lilly. Lilly ran third in the balloting behind Merlin Olsen of Los Angeles and Page had to settle for a secondteam berth.
Minnesota center Mike Tingelhoff and Lilly both had been named for five straight years and Tingelhoff extended his streak to six straight.
Los Angeles led with six players on the team, three each on offense and defense, while Dallas had four players on the first
team.
Quarterback Roman Gabriel, winning All-NFL recognition for the first time, led the Ram delegation. Gale Sayers won a running back spot for the fifth straight season while Dallas rookie Calvin Hill, the only rookie, won the other spot.
Gene Hickerson of Cleveland was named to a guard spot for the third straight year. Los Angeles' Tom Mack was selected to the other guard spot for the first time. The tackles are Dallas' Ralph Neeley, for the third straight year, and Los Angeles' Bob Brown, back on the team after a two-year absence.
Gary Collins of Cleveland and Roy Jefferson of Pittsburgh were named the wide receivers. It was the first time in the career of both that they've won the honor. Jerry Smith of Washington was also named tight end for the first
Deacon Jones, selected for the fifth straight year although he was second to Eller in the voting, is the other end. Page, and Olsen, named for the fourth straight year, are the tackles.
Tight end—Jerry Smith, Washington.
OFFENSE
Wide receivers—Gary Collins, Cleveland and Roy Jefferson, Pittsburgh.
Tackles--Ralph Neeley, Dallas and Bob Brown, Los Angeles.
Guards — Gene Hickerson, Cleveland and Tom Mack, Los Angeles.
Center-Mick Tingelhoff, Minnesota.
Quarterback—Roman Gabriel,
Los Angeles.
DEFENSE
Running backs—Gale Sayers, Chicago and Calvin Hill, Dallas. DEFENSE
Ends—Carl Eller, Minnesota and Deacon Jones, Los Angeles.
and Deacon Jones, Los Angeles. Tackles—Alan Page, Minnesota and Merlin Olsen, Los Angeles.
'Hawk statistics
Linebackers — Dick Butkus, Chicago (middle); Dave Robinson, Green Bay and Chuck Howley, Dallas (corners).
Cornerbacks — Lem Barney, Detroit and Cornell Green, Dallas.
Safeties Larry Wilson, St. Louis and Ed Meador, Los Angeles.
| | G | FG | FGA | Pct. | FT | FTA | Pct. | RB | Ave. | PF | Dq. | TP | Ave. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Robish | 5 | 51 | 102 | 500 | 43 | 12 | 827 | 827 | 19.3 | 18 | 6 | 145 | 29.0 |
| Stallworth | 5 | 24 | 69 | 43 | 12 | 827 | 827 | 19.3 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 145 | 29.0 |
| Russell | 5 | 24 | 39 | 615 | 8 | 12 | 667 | 40 | 8.0 | 15 | 12 | 56 | 11.2 |
| Nash | 5 | 14 | 29 | 683 | 18 | 16 | 667 | 40 | 8.0 | 15 | 12 | 56 | 11.2 |
| Rivistow | 5 | 5 | 16 | 690 | 18 | 16 | 667 | 40 | 8.0 | 15 | 12 | 56 | 11.2 |
| Brown | 5 | 15 | 16 | 690 | 18 | 15 | 667 | 40 | 8.0 | 15 | 12 | 56 | 11.2 |
| Lawrence | 5 | 4 | 7,571 | 5 | 5 | 8,625 | 19 | 8.8 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 4.0 | 13.6 |
| *Natsues | 3 | 2 | 9 | 522 | 2 | 8 | 250 | 2 | 0.7 | 1 | 6 | 2.0 | 13.6 |
| Holesvac | 3 | 2 | 9 | 522 | 2 | 8 | 250 | 2 | 0.7 | 1 | 6 | 2.0 | 13.6 |
| Maske | 2 | 0 | 2,000 | 3 | 4 | 7,500 | 15 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1.5 | 13.6 |
| Mathews | 2 | 0 | 1,000 | 3 | 0 | 0,000 | 20 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1.5 | 13.6 |
| Onogonots | 1 | 145 | 304 | 111 | 113 | 605 | 204 | 40.5 | 9 | 5 | 404 | 80.8 |
| Congoopts | 1 | 165 | 397 | 113 | 613 | 105 | 204 | 44.0 | 12 | 35 | 122 | 78.8 |
Team Rebounds: Kansas 34, Opponents 32 (not included in above).
* No longer on squad.
Harrier awards to seven
Seven members of Kansas' Big Eight championship cross country team have been awarded varsity letters by coach Bob Timmons.
The Jayhawk harriers were undefeated in dual and triangular competition and won the Kansas Federation and Central Collegiate championships in addition to bagging their second straight Big Eight title.
The letter winners: Glenn Cunningham, Augusta senior; Dennis Patterson, Wichita junior; Jay Mason, Hobbs, N.M., junior; Rich Elliot, Oak Park, Ill., sophomore; Doug Smith,
What can be said of 1969 and sports? Writers have already belabored Webster's adjectives describing fantastic achievements. Never has there been a remarkable sense of perspective in their judgment. The greatest, most dramatic, most palpitating sporting events invariably occurred in the year just passed.
Jets, Mets spice memorable year
Alas, 1969 was that and more.
Alas, 1969 was that and more. The circumstances, though, were unchanged. The fellow with the beer belly stretching his tattered T-shirt still clutched his Schlitz, belching and bellowing at the umpires in baseball parks throughout the country. Football fans, owing either to a Sunday afternoon sophistication or else to the warmth and comfort of their favorite liquor, fondled instead their bottles and blankets and hee-hawed through another football season.
But the event itself differed in one important respect. No year in sports could ever capture the imagination of a nation as 1969. Maybe no other could be quite so preposterous.
Started with the night
To say the year began with a bang would be an understatement, remembering the already legendary "twelfth man" climax to the Orange Bowl on New Year's night. The events that followed, however, made that bang look like a penny firecracker.
A brash, unflappable quarterback sporting a Fu Manchu moustache worth $10,000 to shave boasted to the world, "I guarantee it." And Joe Namath—Broadway Joe . . . Willie Whitehouses—engineered the New York Jets to a stunning 16-7 upset of the Baltimore Colts in football's third Super Bowl. Yes, Joe had guaranteed it; the kings of the diminutive American Football League would kick the Colts in their prestigious pants. On that cloud-covered day in Miami, his talent was as big as his mouth.
Here was a band of football players that had only too recently played before just relatives and friends in the old Polo Grounds—the infant days of the AFL and
the New York Titans. Namath's feet had challenged all that was sane and predictable.
But it was only a drop in the implausible bucket of happenings that followed. The downtrodden New York Mets, 100-to-1 shots to find their way from home plate to first base (never mind winning the World Series), may have taken a cue from the moon landing. Neil Armstrong's first step on the lunar surface, not to be pooh-pahed for its historical impact, had to share the national limelight with the October madness called the World Series.
More than a miracle
The setting being New York was natural enough, since the now dead dynasty of the Yankees had always sold more tickets in early October but the Long Island railroad. But the Mets?
A band of brilliant young pitchers—the Jerry Koosmans, the Tom Seavers—and some spectacular fielding stole the thunder from the omnipotent Baltimore Orioles. It went the full seven games before jubilant Mets fans ripped apart the infield at Shea Stadium for souvenirs and New Yorkers hugged everyone in sight in the celebration.
Those were the two colossal events that captured the imagination of sports fans in 1969. Other goings-on merely complemented these upsets that had Baltimore suffering from a New York syndrome.
Now a syndrome
The Boston Celtics captured their 11th National Basketball Association title in 13 years, this time with Bill Russell and Sam Jones on the edge of retirement. The seventh game was a squeaker
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like the previous six, but Boston edged Los Angeles, 108-106. Except for the fact that the Celtics have always been around to collect in the "must" games, this final chapter in the Boston NBA era that will surely die in 1970 had to be an exceptional achievement.
Among the highlights of the year were:
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TEXAS, roared from a 14-0 deficit in the final quarter to nip Arkansas, 15-14, for college football's climax to its 100th year. Both teams were 9-0 going into that one.
Souix City, Iowa, sophomore;
Dave Anderson, Overland Park
freshman and Jon Callen, Wichita
freshman.
MAJESTIC PRINCE, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and a threat to win the Triple Crown before Arts and Letters dashed that dream in the Belmont Stakes.
MARIO ANDRETTI, who Hawk-Ford wheeled easily to the coveted Indianapolis 500 winner's circle. You had to have a heart of mozzarella not to appreciate Andretti's victory, whose Lotus crashed three days before qualifying day.
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