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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 11, 1968
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Ex-pro star soaking sun; Kelly gathering yardage
NEW YORK (UPI)—Jim Brown is well and soaking up plenty of sun in Acapulco.
At least he was only a few days ago. Jim Brown is a big movie star now and he was in Acapulco for the annual International Film Festival they hold down there.
It seems like only yesterday that Brown was burning up the NFL with the Cleveland Browns. Actually it was three years back that Brown was dominating all pro football. He was easily the best around.
Collier was right. He couldn't reasonably expect to find another ball player as good as Brown. Not in a hundred years.
When he quit, Blanton Collier,
the Cleveland coach, didn't kid
himself or anybody else. "I
don't expect to replace him," he
said about Brown. "Runners like
him come along once in a lifetime."
Kelly Another Brown
Well, all it took was one year and maybe 26-year-old Leroy Kelly isn't as good as Jim Brown was right now, but you'd be surprised how many sound judges of football talent think he has a chance some day to be even better.
"At least this guy blocks,' cracked one of those judges.
Kelly does any number of other things also.
He hits. Not just once or twice, but three and four times on the same play. He has a different style of running than Brown had although he gets essentially the same results.
Once you see Kelly in action, you never forget him. He is somewhat reminiscent of hammering Henry Armstrong, the galvanized little fellow who punched and punched and punched his way to three different titles in the ring. They used to call him "Perpetual Motion." That's the way it is with Kelly. He never quits coming at you.
If you went around and canvassed the players in the NFL asking them who they considered the No.1 player in the league, Kelly probably would be the one they would mention most often. Especially since Gale Sayers is on the sidelines.
Kelly went into Sunday's game with Washington as the league's leading scorer and leading ground-gainer and added to those distinctions in a 24-21 victory by picking up 99 more yards plus another touchdown.
He now has a total of 1,172 yards and 19 touchdowns for the season and is a cinch to eclipse his 1,205 yard total of
last year with which he also led the league.
With a runner like Kelly, the Brown's discover he also helps their passing attack. Bill Nelsen, Cleveland's fine quarterback, knows the opposition keeps watching Kelly like a hawk.
So Nelsen plays it foxy. He purposely holds the Browns in the huddle longer than is customary and certainly long enough to give the enemy the idea a pass play is coming up. Nelsen then runs Kelly with the ball and you'd be amazed how often that worked out successfully for Cleveland this year.
Kelly is a native Philadelphiaian who earned four letters at Morgan State and was recommended to the Browns by Buddy Young. The Brownss drafted him eighth in 1964 and last winter they did something with him they never did with Jim Brown. They signed him to a four-year contract, longest in their history.
Leroy's younger brother Pat was a promising outfitier in the Minnesota Twins' organization, but they neglected to protect him in October's expansion draft and sure enough they lost him.
The Brown's aim to make sure they'll never lose Leroy. They can't afford to. On some Sundays he's darn near the whole team.
'Wilt', Hays, Baylor lead scoring
NEW YORK (UPI)- Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain are beginning to move up on rookie Elvin Hayes in the National Basketball Association scoring race.
811 points and a 30.0 average for San Diego.
Baylor, Los Angeles Lakers veteran forward, deadlocked Seattle's Bob Rule for second place at 739 points.
Hayes, the All-America from Houston, leads the league with
The Los Angeles center continues to lead in two categories, topping the loop in field goal percentages with a .615 mark, and rebounds with 580 retrieves.
Adrian Smith of Cincinnati is the leading free throw shooter with an .857 percentage and Len Wilkens of Seattle is first in assists with 273.
Rose Bowl game should be closest
NEW YORK (UPI)—The old Rose Bowl is the "most bowl" this season with a wide edge over all the rest of college football's year-end classics.
Chamberlain, once the perennial NBA scoring champion, is far back of the crowd, but has jumped from 20th place to 14th with 560 points as he begins his move toward loftier brackets.
It's mathematically impossible to produce a better match than No. 1 Ohio State 9-0 vs. No. 2 Southern California 9-0-1 and that's what Granddaddy Bowl is offering on New Year's Day.
The Cotton Bowl's 12 rating, matching No. 5 Texas 8-1-1 and No. 7 Tennessee 8-1-1, just shades the Sugar Bowl with No. 4 Georgia 8-0-2 and No. 9 Arkansas 9-1.
No. 3 Penn State 10-0 and No. 6 Kansas 9-1 make the Orange Bowl the closest though still distant rival of the Rose Bowl.
The Orange Bowl is second on the same basis with a rating of 9, followed by the Cotton Bowl with 12, Sugar Bowl 13 Bluebonnet Bowl 26 and Gator Bowl 29.
By the simple procedure of adding the national rankings of the contending teams, the Rose Bowl gets a rock-bottom rating of 3.
With the notable and customary exception of Notre Dame, No. 8, all high level teams move en masse into the post-season games and there are attractions galore.
Further, the Cotton classic brings together opponents only two pegs apart in the final United Press International rankings. That indicates but does not guarantee a contest almost as close as the 1-2 Rose Bowl feature.
Both teams stress power. Both expect to be perfectly conditioned. Both are better in the second half than in the first. "We were No. 1 for so long we sort of got used to it," says Heisman Trophy winner O. J. Simpson of Southern California, which dropped to No. 2 after a 21-21 tie against Notre Dame. "Now we have a chance to beat No. 1."
No matter where your loyalies lie in the other bowls, the drama at Pasadena is the only one of national scope as Ohio State's rip-roaring Buckeyes attempt to prove they're really No. 1.
Oklahoma No. 10 and Southern Methodist No. 16 go in the bluebonnet Bowl while Alabama 12 gets Missouri 17 in the Gator Bowl. Florida State's unranked opponent in the Peach is Louisiana State, a respectable 7-3 for the year.
"They know what we'll do and we have a pretty fair idea what they'll do," says Trojan coach John McKay. "And each of us has 16 practice sessions to get ready."
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Penn State to drill
FLAMINGO, Fla. (UPI) Two of the birds that are flourishing under protection afforded in Everglades National Park are the colorful roseate spoonbill with its flattened beak, and great white heron, a giant bird with a seven-foot wingspread.
Bv United Press International
Two decades ago there were only 175 spoonbills in the Park; today there are about 2,200. After a hurricane in 1935, the entire great white heron population was estimated at about 150; now there are 1,500 of them in the Park alone. Both these species can be seen by vacationers around Flamingo, the preserve's major recreational center on Florida Bay.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Penn State's Nittany Lions, who won the Lambert Trophy as the East's best major college football team, will open drills for their Orange Bowl clash with Kansas on Dec. 21 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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