THE BATTALION
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 12, Ijj
Bob Hayes charges discrimination in Pro Bowl selections
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS (A 5 ) _ Bob
Hayes isn’t sore at all the atten
tion being focused on his Super
Bowl rival, Paul Warfield, but
that doesn’t mean he isn’t seeth
ing.
He claims he is being discrimi
nated against — for personal or
political reasons—in being left off
the squad for the National Foot
ball League Pro Bowl game in
Los Angeles Jan. 23.
“I’ve been out of favor since
I refused to run a 100-yard dash
at half time in 1968,” the former
Olympic sprint champion, wide
receiver of the Dallas Cowboys,
complained Tuesday.
“I have the best record in the
National Football Conference. But
Ali to fight more
before rematch
BEIRUT, Lebanon (A*) — Mu
hammad Ali said Tuesday he
needed four or five more tuneup
fights before the rematch with
heavyweight champion Joe
Frazier. He said he expected to
fight Frazier again in six or sev
en months.
In Beirut for a rest on his two-
week tour of the Middle East, Ali
told a news conference there were
no definite arrangements for his
next bout and rejected a sugges
tion he was choosing easy oppon
ents on his way to the Frazier
fight.
“I fight them as serious as
they can be,” he said. “I came
back after exile to fight Jerry
Quarry and Oscar Bonavena and
didn’t have to. Since the Frazier
fight, which seems like just yes
terday, I’ve had three fights.”
Ali said he was confident that
he will win the rematch with
Frazier.
About the last fight on March
8, he said, “I played with him
for three rounds, gave them
away. I stood in the corner and
didn’t move just to show him and
his fans—which I phpuldn’t have
done, it was silly—to show him
his body punches couldn’t hurt a
great fighter like me.
“Talk before the fight was that
he would hurt me with body
blows. There was none of that
after the fight and which one of
us had to go to the hospital for
a month?” he asked.
Recruits here
for SMU game
Fans at Saturday night’s bas
ketball game with the Southern
Methodist Mustangs will be treat
ed to the halftime introduction of
this year’s football recruits.
Coach Emory Bellard’s staff
will bring to A&M for the first
time the high school seniors they
are trying to sign to scholarships
for next year’s Aggie team.
The visit will mark the first
time the group has been together
here. The prospects have been re
cruited since Bellard and his staff
started talking to the athletes
after all the assistants were
named New Year’s Day.
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do I get any recognition? No,
sir, they passed over me again—
just as they have for the last
four years.”
The 29-year-old seven-year vet
eran from Florida A&M is
Dallas’ long-ball, game-breaking
threat in the Super Bowl next
Sunday against Miami. But he
has been virtually overshadowed
by the Dolphins’ fleet Warfield.”
“That doesn’t bug me at all,”
Hayes said Tuesday in a pre
practice interview. “Warfield and
I have been rivals ever since he
played for Cleveland. One year
he may have the best record, the
next year I might have it.
“Warfield runs great routes.
He hustles all the time. He is a
fine player. I’m honored to have
the chance to compete against him
in the Super Bowl.
“What really bothers me is that
I haven’t been given recognition
for the season I’ve had, especially
in the selection for the Pro Bowl.”
The Pro Bowl is a contest be
tween all-stars of the American
Football Conference and National
Football Conference, with squads
chosen by vote of the coaches.
There have been charges that the
squads are sometimes chosen with
political considerations.
“I think I’ve been given the
zinger by Glenn Davis,” Hayes
said, referring to the former
Army backfield star who directs
the Los Angeles attraction. It
dates back to 1968.
“That year Davis asked me
to run a 100-yard dash against
Homer Jones at halftime. I re
fused. Since then, I haven’t been
on a Pro Bowl squad.
“Look at the guys picked over
me—Gordon, Grim, Jefferson and
Washington. Not a one had as
good an average as I did.”
Statistics back Hayes.
The Cowboy wide receiver
caught 35 passes for 840 yards
and a 24-yard average, the best
in the NFC. Dick Gordon of Chi
cago had a 14.2 average and five
touchdowns; Bob Grim of Minne
sota, 15.4 and seven; Roy Jeffer
son of Washington, 14.9 and four,
and Gene Washington of San
Francisco, 19.2 and four.
Hayes’ percentage even tops
that of Warfield, who led the AFC
with a 23.2 average. Warfield
caught 43 passes for 996 yards
and 11 touchdowns, exceeding
Hayes in these categories.
Warfield’s longest pass play
was 86 yards. Hayes had one of
85.
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