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The resignation of Hayden Fry as head football coach and athletic
director at North Texas State University this weekend was met with
both regret and sadness.
Also with joy for Coach Hayden Fry.
People close to the NTSU say they’re sorry to see a man like Fry
leave the school. They agree that that Fry is a good coach, one who
will be missed. At least they know quality.
But I can not feel any sorrow for the people who let Fry hop the
fence and run to a greener pasture. In his six-year stay at NTSU, Fry
rebuilt a crumbling athletic program into a reputable one, a class
outfit. Yet he did it almost single-handedly.
The officials at North Texas promised Fry the world, yet gave him
[Cleveland. They continuously promised to help Fry upgrade the
program but lended little support to the cause. So he ended the
marriage and eloped to Iowa.
IN A BRIEF TRIP to its campus this past weekend, Fry took a look
at the facilities that the University of Iowa had to offer, listened to the
proposal presented to him by the school’s officials and accepted the
job as head football coach at the school.
Fry has opted for a school where he’ll be able to satisfy a dream he’s
■ held since his coaching days at SMU. He’s going to a school with a
I strong alumni backing, an unlimited football budget and a member-
* ship in one of the nation’s most prestigious conferences, the Big 10.
But the school also has the reputation for being a loser. Iowa has
had two winning football seasons since 1961. Yet Fry looks forward to
the challenge of turning their program around, as he did with the
SMU and NTSU programs.
WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS that Fry had taken the job at Iowa
Imade some phone calls to a few North Texas people I know, past
and present students close to the athletic program of the Mean
Green, to get their reactions to Fry’s acceptance of the Iowa job.
"I think it’s a good move for him,” a former NTSU football manager
told me. “North Texas won’t give him the program he deserves to
work with. Iowa will give him the program he wanted North Texas to
have.
“Fry has been trying to get into the Southwest Conference to give
his players a shot at a major championship. Now he’ll have the chance
to go for one of the most prestigious titles in the country, that of the
Big 10.”
I put in another call to a pretty North Texas coed who has known
the Fry family for years, having gone through junior high and high
school with the coach’s sons, to get her reaction to Fry’s move to
Iowa.
“OF COURSE I’M UPSET he’s moving, she told me. "He made
pur team. He turned our football program around.
“But I can’t blame him for wanting to better himself. Since he s
come here it’s been nothing but frustration for him. Everyone has
rejected us. We haven’t gotten a howl bid, we haven t been on TV. I
can’t blame him for leaving.
“But I’ll miss him. He’s a great coach and a great man.
Fry will be missed by the people who have followed his career from
his assistant coaching days at Arkansas through his SMU stint and on
to North Texas.
But he’ll have a lot of people in this state supporting his venture at
Iowa. Every Sunday people across Texas will open the sports pages to
see if Hayden and Iowa won their game Saturday.
And who can blame them. Everyone loves to support a winner.
Oilers edge Saints, clinch playoff spot
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — For Hous
ton quarterback Dan Pastorini eight
shots of Novecain and the Oilers’
first playoff berth since 1969 eased
the pain of three cracked ribs.
Now that we re in the playoffs I
don t feel any pain,’ Pastorini said
after the Oilers defeated the New
Orleans Saints 17-12 Sunday to ad
vance to the AFC playoffs with a
wildcard spot.
Pastorini, who completed 12
passes for 137 yards and one
touchdown, abandoned any idea of
testing his pass protection with long
throws. Instead, he tossed short
flips to his backs and wide receivers
in the flat.
Unfortunately for the Saints one
of Pastorini’s 8-yard specials to
rookie wide-receiver Robert Woods
turned into an 80-yard touchdown
that wilted a 12-point New Orleans
second-half rally.
“On our passing game we ran
mostly quick screens and quick
cuts,” Pastorini said. “The play to
Woods was a quick out to pick up 8
yards. But he’s a world class sprinter
and once he got behind the corner-
back I said ‘He’s gone. ”’
Woods, who joined the Giles only
two weeks ago after working at a Lit
tle Rock, Ark. children’s center was
just as surprised as Pastorini.
“The coaches told me it was about
time for me to score a touchdown,”
he said, “but I thought it would be a
punt return. I do good in domes.”
Woods scored just one minute
after Saints’ kicker Steve Mike-
Mayer blew a 23-yard field goal that
would have tied the score at 10-10
with eight minutes remaining.
The Oilers clinched an AFC wild
card playoff berth on the strength of
the win because Oakland, the New
York Jets and Seattle all lost. Hous
ton is 10-5 with San Diego as its final
opponent next week.
The Oilers steamroller running
game dominated the first half,
grinding out 16- and 12-play drives
for a touchdown and a field goal.
Playing with three cracked ribs,
Pastorini kept the ball on the
ground with running backs Tim
Wilson and Earl Campbell. He
threw sparingly mostly on safe tos
ses into the flat.
Campbell, also playing with
bruised ribs, capped a 76-yard
Cowboys clip Eagles 31-13
first-quarter drive with a 2-yard
scoring sweep around right end.
Kicker Toni Fritsch’s 22-yard
field goal midway through the sec
ond quarter ended a 62-yard drive
aided by a 25-yard interference call
on Saints’ cornerback Maurice
Spencer.
At that point the Oilers had run
31 offensive plays to the Saints’ six.
New Orleans quarterback Archie
Manning finally brought the team to
life late in the third period complet
ing four of five pass attempts for 61
yards in an 80-yard touchdown
drive. Manning hit Tinker Owens
on a 6-yard slant pass narrowing
Houston’s lead to 10-7.
The Oilers punted and Manning
again drove the Saints from their
own 20 to the Houston six with
passes of 20, 19 and 12 yards. But on
fourth and two from the six the
Saints attempted a field goal to tie
the score.
Mike-Mayer, perhaps hurried on
his kick, pulled it to his left. It was
the second time he missed a field
goal of such short yardage in two
games.
The Saints later picked up a safety
when Pastorini fumbled a snap and
the ball rolled out of the end zone.
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PHILADELPHIA — The
Philadelphia Eagles discovered
Sunday what a lot of NFL teams al
ready know — you can’t spot the
Dallas Cowboys two touchdowns
and expect to win.
With running backs Tony Dorsett
and Scott Laidlaw each scoring
touchdowns on a run and a Roger
Staubach pass, the NFC East cham
pion Cowboys continued to warm
up for the playoffs with a 31-13
trouncing of the Eagles.
The Cowboys, who clinched the
home field advantage for the
playoffs’ first round with the victory,
jumped out to a 14-0 lead only 6.01
into the game with the help of two
turnovers, and that pretty much was
the end of the road for Philadelphia.
“I can say Dallas is a better team
and they proved it,” Eagles coach
Dick Vermeil said. “We had to
come back from 14-0 and you can’t
do that. If you get behind Dallas
you’re in trouble.”
“We got some early breaks,” Dal
las coach Tom Landry said.
“Philadelphia really wanted to win
badly but two touchdowns are hard
to overcome. The breaks are very
important. We didn’t get too many
early in the season but we re getting
them now.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Earl Weaver
laughing. He couldn’t help it
cause of the subject under discus-
job security for a major league
mager.
Over the past two years 21 mana-
rs have either been fired or quit
their own (14 in the American
|ague and seven in the National)
a with the way they keep being
e pt out, job secruity for them
netimes works out to less than 48
urs.
By July 15 four or five more of
• including myself, may hit the
ft, said Weaver, still smiling. “So
Sparky Anderson has to do is just
back, wait a little while and pick
t the job he wants. ”
Each year at the winter baseball
•etings, Sy Berger and the Topps
ewing gum people host a special
ivate party for all the managers,
a Earl Weaver, who never
ls ses, was on hand for this year’s
['together.
We even had three undefeated
ln agers this time, pointed out
eav y, calling off the names of
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lrr ales, all getting ready to start
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tin weren’t there and those two usu
ally are the life of the party,” added
Weaver, who has had his run-ins
with Martin but wants to see him
come back.
“Billy Martin adds something to
baseball,” said the Orioles’ man
ager. “Wherever he’s gone he has
gotten the team up and created
pennant fever. He has added ex
citement even if he didn t win every
year.”
Since taking over the Orioles in
July of 1968, Weaver has strung to
gether a record of 999 victories
against 686 losses.
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Laidlaw scord on a 1-yard run and
a 44-yard pass from Staubach. Dor-
sett caught a 16-yard pass from
Staubach and raced 23 yards for his
touchdowns while breaking Calvin
Hill’s single season rushing record
set in 1973.
The Eagles (8-7), who lost to the
Cowboys for the ninth straight time
dating back to 1974, were plagued
by five turnovers and eight sacks
while seeing their hopes for their
first playoff berth in 18 years di
minished.
The first Dallas score was set up
when Harold Carmichael fumbled
on the Eagles first play from
scrimmage and Cowboys’ free safety
Cliff Harris recovered and ran to the
Philadelphia 5. Laidlaw scored from
the 1 three plays later.
On Philadelphia’s third play of its
next series Ron Jaworski’s pass was
intercepted by Benny Barnes and
returned to the Eagles’ 16. Staubach
tossed a screen pass to Dorsett on
the first lay and Dorsett followed a
fine block by guard Herbert Scott
into the end zone.
The Eagles mustered a 73-yard,
seven-play drive for their first
touchdown late in the quarter.
Jaworski scrambled for 16 yards on
a fouled up flea flicker and then
hooked up with Carmichael on a
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Mike Hogan scored on a 1-yard run
to make it 14-7.
But after a scoreless second quar
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opening second half possession for
its third touchdown. Staubach set it
up with a 54-yard pass to Tony Hill
to the Eagles’ 23 and Dorsett ended
the march with a 23-yard dash
around his left end.
Rafael Septien kicked an 18-yard
field goal later in the third quarter
and Laidlaw finished the Dallas
scoring on the first play of the fourth
quarter when he caught a screen
pass from Staubach and ran for a
touchdown to complete a 44-yard
pass play.
A 42-yard pass from Jaworski to
Carmichael set up the Eagles’ final
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