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my children
When I’m older and have children of my own I’ll be able to hold
them on my knee and tell them about the time I saw him carry the
pall in his first college game.
And then we’ll be able to look back at the game and laugh at his
falling down on his first two carries and how he was stopped for a loss
pn his third try. It will be funny then, after he’s established himself as
pne of the all-time great running backs to ever play the game. But it
vasn’t too funny last Saturday night, the game that marked the pre-
neir of Milton Collins into the ranks of collegiate football. Collins, the
righly sought running back out of Blooming Grove High School last
[season, was held out of Saturday’s starting line-up by North Texas
State University’s head coach Hayden Fry in favor of sophomore
Bernard Jackson. Cols made his first appearance five minutes into
contest and on his initial carry slipped and lost yardage. And to
I to his problems the 6-2, 225-pound freshman had a total of
ninus eight yards rushing after his first three carries.
But oh, what a difference a halftime can make. After settling down
nd concentrating in the second half Collins ended the game with 86
ards on 11 carries (94 yards on his last eight carries) and scored
TSU’s final touchdown of the evening.
So Milton Collins has laid the groundwork for a successful career
,vith the Mean Green. And no one should be more aware of his
otential than the Texas Aggies, the team Collins signed a Southwest
onference letter of intent with only to sign a national letter of intent
d play for Fry at North Texas.
"Milton just kept his wOrd and came with us,” said Fry after Satur-
lay’s victory. “Because we’re an independent team we can sign
ilayers before the conference dates come up. We signed Milton long
icfore Texas A&M did. He just kept his word and came here.
"It was very interesting recruiting Milton. Education was his main
bjective so we showed him what we had. We did have some pluses
hat some of the other schools couldn’t offer, like a good Black social
ifeand a pretty good radio-TV-film department. We didn’t offer him
mything that he couldn’t see. And that might have been how we got
him.
"Many of the schools he visited offered him a lot of incentives to
me. We backed off and didn’t push him too much and he really
ecruited us. One school (Texas) even offered to let him wear number
|20 and said he’d be another Earl Campbell. But Milton is a smart
man. He chose to go where he would do the best as an individual, both
on the field and in his life. And luckily he chose North Texas.”
Let me echo Fry’s statement on Collins and his intelligence. When
[went in to interview him following the game Saturday I expected to
alk to a nervous, quiet freshman who wouldn’t have much to say. Yet
[ sat down and had a talk with a man who chose his words with care
[and said just what he wanted to say with straightforward honest
swers. I was impressed.
“Texas A&M had just as good a chance at getting me as North
[Texas,” said Collins. T sat down and evaluated everything and found
it wasn’t getting me anywhere. It finally boiled down to choosing
[between the basic offenses the two schools ran. I feel that the
wislbone is a dying offense. So I went with the I-formation and the
split hack attack because that's what we ran in high school. I felt it was
the best for me.
'The coaches at A&M told me I d play halfback. After looking at
die people returning like (David) Brothers and (Curtis) Dickey I
figured I d see little action.
“With education as my main objective it made my decision that
much easier,” Collins added. “A&M doesn’t have the (radio-TV-film)
field that North Texas has. I just felt North Texas was the place for me
to go to school and be most comfortable. I came, and I am.”
Much to the pleasure of the NTSL T fans, who have the opportunity
to watch Collins progress through his college career. And anyone who
has the opportunity to watch Collins run ought to. He just might
leave you with some stories you’ll want to pass along.
Richards traded
United Press International
DALLAS — Wide receiver Gol
den Richards, who caught the
touchdown pass that clinched the
Dallas Cowboy victory in Super
Bowd XII, Tuesday was traded to the
Chicago Bears for two undisclosed
draft picks.
The Cowboys indicated Richards,
27, in his sixth year with the Cow
boys, had not requested the trade.
Richards and Butch Johnson, also
a wide receiver, were used last year
to shuttle in plays from Coach Tom
Landry to quarterback Roger
Staubach.
This year, however, Tony Hill
won the starting wide receiver slot
with an excellent spring training and
impressive performances in the
pre-season games.
With Drew Pearson as Staubach’s
primary receiver. Hill second and
Johnson third, Richards was the
fourth receiver on the team and
considered expendable.
Richards said he felt he could
have made it back into the starting
lineup but indicated he was not bit
ter with the decision.
“I wanted to help the team, and if
it meant being a backup, I would
have done that,” he said. T didn’t
want to cause any problems. I’ve
been a company man and I didn’t
want to rock the boat.
“I take nothing from Tony Hill.
He had a tremendous preseason.
He was a great receiver and all those
sort of things. But I felt that on the
last night I’d be out on the field and
it didn’t work out that way.
“Landry called me and said it was
a difficult decision. (He said) to help
me in my career the best thing
would be to go somewhere I could
play. Chicago wanted me as a
starter.
“Landry is one of the finest men
I’ve ever been associated with. He
shoots straight. He never lied to me
before, so I believe it when he says
its the best for one.”
In the Super Bowl last season
Cowboys watching
their helmet sizes
dangers rained out
United Press International
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The
lifornia Angels’ game with the
tas Rangers was postponed be-
ise of rain Tuesday night, only
second American League rain-
t in the 13-year history of
aheim Stadium.
Tonight’s single game was re-
eduled as a doubleheader to
ike up the rainout.
The only other American League
rainout in the history of Anaheim
Stadium occurred on April 8, 1975,
against Kansas City.
An exhibition game against the
Chicago Cubs April 4, 1967, was
rained out and a power blackout
caused postponement of an Ameri
can League game at Anaheim April
21, 1977, against the Chicago White
Sox.
United Press International
DALLAS — Having run up the
biggest offensive total in the opening
weekend and having recorded the
only shutout thus far in the season,
what do you do for an encore?
Try not to let it go to your head
says the man charged with the re
sponsibility of seeing that does not
happen.
“You have to be realistic and
understand Monday night’s game
was not a true measurement of the
Colts and Cowboys, said Dallas
coach Tom Landry Tuesday. “Balti
more can still be a contending team.
And we hope we don’t think that
we are really that good.
“If we do we are in for a surprise
and that surprise will probably come
against the New York Giants next
Sunday.”
Dallas 38-0 win over Baltimore,
however, gave the Cowboys a wad
of confidence as the long 16-game
schedule began.
“It is the kind of game you hope to
have once or twice a year,” Landry
said. “You have to be sympathetic
with the Colts. That’s a situation you
just never want to be iii.”
But no matter how tainted the
margin of Dallas’ victory might have
been, the Cowboys still displayed a
well-timed offensive machine and
did nothing to lessen their role as
favorites to return to the Super
Bowl this season.
“I kind of like being the favorite, ”
Landry said. “If people are saying
we should be in the Super Bowl
that’s all right with me. We are try
ing to get to the Super Bowl no mat
ter what people say.”
Landry had praise for the obvious
people — wide receiver Tony Hill,
whose 49-yard catch led to Dallas
first touchdown, and Tony Dorsett,
who put together his best overall
performance as a Cowboy.
But he also lauded the perform
ance of offensive tackle Pat Dono
van.
“Pat probably played the best
game a tackle has ever played for
us,” Landry said. “And that is saying
a lot because he was going up
against John Dutton.
“And we have a chance to be even
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more explosive on offense than we
have in the past. Hill and Dorsett
can be explosive. They can turn a
short play into a big play in a hurry. ”
Dallas avoided the upset that hit
several NFL clubs on opening week
and Landry said the surprises
should not have been all that sur
prising.
“The loss of quarterbacks around
the league had a big effect on open
ing day,” he said. “And I think the
four-game preseason instead of six
games had an effect. No team is as
sharp as it usually is.
“There were big plays being
made on the kicking game and im
portant turnovers which decided
games and when that happens it just
shows that teams are not smoothed
out.”
Astros win
United Press International
HOUSTON — Jose Cruz doubled
in one run, then scored the game-
winner on pinch hitter Bob Wat
son’s sacrifice fly in a two-run ninth
inning rally Tuesday iMgbt that lifted
the Houston Astros and J.R.
Richard to a 3-2 win over the Cin
cinnati Reds.
The Astros’ winning rally off loser
Tom Seaver, 12-14, came when
Terry Puhl led off the ninth with a
single and Jose Cruz followed with
an RBI double into the leftfield
corner to tie the score 2-2. An in
field out moved Cruz went to third
and he scored when Watson, batting
for Luis Pujols, lofted his sacrifice
fly to center field.
Richard, 15-11, allowed only
three hits in pitching his 14th com
plete game.
THE ADVENTURES
of
RICKY & SUE
Richards was on the receiving end of
a pass from Robert Newhouse and
raced into the endzone to put the
Cowboys ahead to stay against the
Denver Broncos. The Cowboys fi
nally won the Super Bowl 27-10.
Last year Richards scored three
touchdowns on 17 receptions, pick
ing up a total of 225 yards. His best
year in a Cowboy uniform was in
1974 when he scored five
touchdowns on 26 receptions for a
total of 467 yards.
Cowboy General Manager Tex
Schramm indicated the two draft
choices the Cowboys received from
Chicago were in the “top five. ’
Schramm said he thought
Richards “was hurting” after the de
cision, but said “that’s part of the
game. ”
The Bears, which have had an
empty slot on the team roster since
defensive back Allan Ellis injured
his knee last week and was put on
the injured reserve list for the year,
indicated they were pleased with
the trade.
“We are very happy to have a
player the caliber of Golden
Richards with the Bears,” Bears
Coach Neill Armstrong said. “He’s
been a big playmaker for the Cow
boys for the past five years.”
Prior to joining tbe Cowboys,
Richards was a premier punt re
turner as a junior at Brigham Young
University in 1971, leading the
NCAA that year in that category.
Richards was drafted out of the
University of Hawaii, where he had
transferred to after his junior year at
BYU. At Hawaii he saw limited ac
tion because of a knee injury.
With Richards’ departure from
the Cowboys the squad was at 44,
one below the NFL limit. Officials
indicated the team is currently talk
ing with an unnamed player who is
to be signed and was expected to
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