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’ns Constat thenumlf; !ththe]j;j Cowboys picked to finish third a decisit itartingof pair per. vel, l that tie comes ali irnsarej of a qnar. ; hip. He arly 1% the snaps ie craft) the anfo ■vest Cot- er in th leader it Associated Press When last we wrote of pre- ieason picks, we wrote off the Dallas Cowboys. So much for genius. The National Football ague’s three National Confer ence divisions shape up as one down-to-the-wire scramble, one race that’ll be decided when the front-runners hit the home stretch, and one Secretariat runaway. t team, secoi aise fork i to In rm; line. It the quid to the Be! e Sept, t poweri it Confer ■ould rstandif but tliei cts if In the East, the Cowboys, as conference champions, are the earn to beat. The St. Louis Car dinals, as division champions, are mother team to beat. And the Washington Redskins, their running game back in high ;ear, are the team to beat hem . . . and the team which ill do just that. The Central Division still be- longs to the Minnesota Vikings, asithas in seven of the past eight seasons. With a defense that diews up intruders like dogs at a market, the Vikes can turn aside anything the perennial runner-up Detroit Lions have to offer. And in the West, the Los Angeles Rams, so used to running away from three other teams the few years, will get a chance to run away from four this time as the Seattle Seahawks join the also-ran list. Fourteen games from now, as three division winners and one wild-card team like the Cowboys year line up to run the to Super Bowl XI, here’s low the NFC’s 14 teams will line up: EAST DIVISION Washington Redskins St. Louis Cardinals Dallas Cowboys New York Giants Philadelphia Eagles CENTRAL DIVISION Minnesota Vikings Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Chicago Bears WEST DIVISION Los Angeles Rams San Francisco 49ers Atlanta Falcons New Orleans Saints Seattle Seahawks With the arrival of John Rig gins and Calvin Hill and the re juvenation of Larry Brown, Washington Coach George Allen may have more running backs than he knows what to do with. All coaches should have such problems, right? It was the lack of a really de pendable running game that kil led the ’skins a few times last year. The running is more than back. And when you add in Rig gins’ and Brown’s capabilities as pass receivers, the offense be comes even more potent. And that doesn’t include the passing game generated by the guys whose primary jobs are to catch the ball, mainly Frank Grant, Jerry Smith & Co. The deliveries will come from Billy Kilmer ... or Joe Theismann if injuries and age take their toll. The defense is made up of a lot of the same old faces — Allen loves old faces — and with the increased offense, the defense will get more rest and do a better job. The Cardinals will be hard pressed to duplicate a couple of last year’s numbers — an 11-3 re cord and running back Terry Metcalfs 2,462 yards total of fense. The defense, despite being shored up by a few acquisitions, is still vulnerable. The squeakers which St. Louis won last year will be lost this year. The Cowboys are an old team in a few key spots, and they’ve appeared downright shoddy at times in exhibitions. They won’t collapse, but they will fade a bit. In other words, we’re writing them off again. The New York Giants have Larry Csonka, but he can’t do it all. A break-even season would be a successful one. And for the Philadelphia Eagles and new head Coach Dick Vermeil, a break-even season would be a miracle. The Vikings happen to be one of the best defensive teams in the league. Last year they were the best, against both the pass and the run. That doesn’t leave much else, except for a lot of punting. And with a pass-run offense built so strongly around elusive Fran Tarkenton, versatile Chuck Foreman and a steady if not spec tacular supporting cast, they’ll be hard to beat. The Lions, second for a depre ssing seven straight times, can expect more of the same. If they can beat Minnesota twice . . . but why bother talking about it. They won’t. Green Bay took a big gamble in trading for Lynn Dickey. It won’t pay off. The Pack will pack it in early. A .500 season is doubtful. The same goes for the Chicago Bears, only more so. Los Angeles’ big problem starts with the 15th game, namely the playoffs. Getting there will be a breeze with the stampede of running backs like Lawrence McCutcheon, Jim Bertelsen, John Cappelletti, Cullen Bryant and friends who needs O.J., any way? And receivers like Harold Jackson and Ron Jessie round out the attack. Getting them the ball will be James Harris, a workmanlike if not charismatic quarterback, and gunner Ron Jaworski. And get ting them the ball will be a de fense, anchored by Jack Youngblood and Fred Dryer, which allowed the fewest points in the league last year. San Francisco has a new head coach in Monte Clark and a new quarterback in Jim Plunkett, the one-time hero of nearby Stan ford. The 49ers won’t finish a dis tant seven games behind the Rams as they did last year. It’ll probably be more like four or five back. With one year of battle under his belt, Atlanta’s Steve Bartkowski will show marked im provement. The Falcons’ poten tial for success is there ... in a few years. In New Orleans, Hank Stram’s return to coaching is the good news. The rest will be bad. The Saints may double their vic tory output — to four. Jack Patera’s Seattle Seahawks will probably win three games. That’s been the story of the NFL’s last five expansion teams. Minnesota, Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans and Cincinnati each posted a 3-11 record in its first fhillies still in dismal slump Associated Press The Philadelphia Phillies, i a eful slump that has cut 10 games im their lead in the National ague East in the past two weeks, ntappear overly concerned, yet. n practice Tuesday, a handful of “Phillies took batting practice in effort to end hitting problems that febeen a key factor in their slide. But they intermingled a little im promptu football scrimmage with the more serious side of their prac tice. Third baseman Mike Schmidt played a loose man-to-man defense on first baseman Dick Allen as both, clad in shorts and T-shirts, caught passes with a handful of teammates. Only a few of the Phils were asked to participate in Tuesday’s off-day practice, but second baseman Dave Cash said, “There are 15 guys here who weren’t asked to show up, but they’re here anyway.’’ Two weeks ago, the Phillies had a 1514-game lead over the Pittsburgh Pirates in baseball’s National League East. The Pirates’ doubleheader sweep here Labor Day trimmed that to just 5V2 games in advance of another matchup between the two teams nd Tem engthfoi s, thinii Royal! tell mi!' aightdai Phillie shortstop Larry Bowa, 0-8 Monday, found solace in the stand ings. “Look at it this way,’ he said. “If somebody came up to you in April and said, well give you a six game lead over the Pirates in September, would you take it?” Of course, the question remains about the Phils’ present mental at titude. Are they in a psychological en, on: amp.:. but it ii as tean NEED EXTRA CASH? 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JOB TRAINING FOR QUALITY MEN & WOMEN WHO WANT RESPONSIBILITY ARMY R0TC 845-2814 once played with the Pirates, side stepped that question. “These are 25 completely diffe rent individuals,” he said. “You know it doesn’t matter what your attitude is, our main objective here is to win. The attitude is a sec ondary thing.” Phils Manager Danny Ozark commented, “I don’t think there’s such a word as tenseness on this ballclub.” Dairij Queen fc,. WED. & THURS. SPECIAL CHILI DOGS 2 for 89C 2323 S. Texas 693-4299 (Between K-Mart & Gibsons) TAMU FLYING CLUB CLUB MEETING: i PRIVATE PILOT GROUND SCHOOL: NSTRUMENT GROUND SCHOOL: Wed., Sept. 8 7:30 p.m. Room 401 Rudder Tower — MEMBER ATTENDANCE MANDATORY! Prospective Members Welcome Thursday, Sept. 9 8:00 p.m. Room 121, C.E. Bldg. Tuesday, Sept. 14 8:00 P.M. Room 121, C.E. Bldg. FARKLEBERRY’S POOL & GAME PARLOR Hot Roasted Peanuts - Shuffleboard HAPPY HOURS MON.-FRI. 3-6 p.m. Open 12-12 Mon.-Fri., 5-1 Sat., 2-12 Sun. 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In a brief statement to reporters at the team’s St. Marys Seminary train- ■ ing camp, Marchibroda said he had been given “full control of football matters” on the Colts and that his contract, due to expire at the end of the 1977 season, had been extended another year. “But the prime thing is not that Ted Marchibroda is back,” the coach said. “It’s that the team is united and ready to play football.” He refused to answer questions or elaborate on what he meant by full control. General Manager Joe Thomas also declined to elaborate on the matter, Marchibroda, chosen NFL Coach of the Year last season after directing the Colts to a 10-4 record and the American Conference Eastern Divi sion title, had announced his resig nation Sunday because of what he said was interference in running the ball club on the field from Thomas and Robert Irsay, the team owner. The action came after Irsay, who purchased the club in 1972 and suf fered through three miserable sea sons before the 1975 turnaround, stormed into the Colt’s lockerroom after a preseason loss to Detroit and berated both the players and Mar chibroda. When Marchibroda announced he was quitting, the players, led by quarterback Bert Jones and running back Lydell Mitchell, joined in sup port of their coach and called on Thomas and Irsay to bring him back. At least two assistant coaches, de fensive coordinator Maxie Baughan and offensive line coach Whitey Dovell, hinted they would quit if Marchibroda was not rehired. A statement issued by the Colts said Marchibroda’s rehiring was a “mutual agreement of all parties in volved” — the coach, Thomas and Irsay. 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