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HOUSTON — Quarterback Dan
Pastorini threw touchdown passes of
55 and 35 yards to Ken Burrough and
passed for 208 yards Sunday to carry
the Houston Oilers to a 31-17 victory
over the Oakland Raiders.
Safety Mike Reinfeldt’s intercep
tion of a tipped pass — the first of two
he had in the game — started the
Oilers to a 14-point third quarter
which allowed them to improve their
record to 8-3.
Oakland, now 6-5, used Lester
Hayes’ punt block to get into posi
tion to tie the score at 14-14 before
halftime on Ken Stabler’s second
scoring pass of the day, a three-yard
throw to Dave Casper.
But the Raiders added only Jim
Breech’s 32-yard field goal in the
second half as the Oilers sacked
Stabler three times and came up
with Reinfeldt’s critical intercep
tion.
Reinfeldt, the NFL’s leading in-
tercepter with 11, returned the pick-
off 33 yards to the Raiders’ 18. On
third-and-goal from the seven-yard
line, fullback Tim Wilson scored be
hind the block of Ed Fisher to put
the Oilers in front for good.
Seven minutes later, Burrough
split Oakland’s zone defense to catch
a 35-yard pass and score untouched.
Houston took the lead in the first
half on Earl Campbell s one-yard
touchdown run and Pastorini’s 55-
yard scoring throw to Burrough.
Stabler passed 23 yards to
Raymond Chester for his team’s first
touchdown, briefly tying the score at
7-7 late in the first quarter, but with
time running out in the first half
Chester, Oakland’s leading pass re
ceiver, suffered a leg injury. He did
not return to the game.
Houston kicker Toni Fritsch
finished the Houston scoring by
booting a 51-yard field goal with 3:43
to play. It was his 16th field goal in 18
tries this year. Reinfeldt ended Oak
land s final posession of the day with
another interception at the Oilers’
23.
Last Monday night Pastorini had
passed for only 25 yards as he com
pleted six of 10 passes in Houston’s
9-6 win over Miami. Sunday’s effort
was the second best of the season for
Pastorini, whose top yardage per
formance of the year was 212 yards
against the New York Jets.
Burrough caught three passes for
109 yards and split end Mike Renfro,
who started his first game of the sea
son due to an injury to Mike Barber,
caught two throws for 83 yards.
A 47-yard pass from Pastorini to
Renfro fueled the Oilers first touch
down drive on their opening posses
sion of the game. Campbell scored
from a yard out on third down after
being hit and knocked back by Raid
ers cornerback Jack Tatum.
Burrough beat Raidersj
back Monte Jackson deepoi
his touchdown passes.
Campbell picked up lOnfl
32 carries and went overtlitB 73 |\|0
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All those people who like to fill up
the bowl games will be zipping
around the country Saturday, grab
bing off the best clubs they can.
There are quite a few teams in the
Southwest Conference worthy of
playing in bowls, but there is one
little problem for the selection com
mittees. All three of the conference’s
top clubs still have a shot at the Cot
ton Bowl.
So unless some sort of deals are
struck, either Houston or Texas or
Arkansas may not pick up as presti
gious a bid offer as they might other
wise receive.
All three are in the running for the
Jan. 1 game in Dallas, of course, be
cause of the events in the chill at
Fayetteville and the heat of the
Astrodome last Saturday.
Texas dramatic 21-13 victory over
previously defeated Houston, com
bined with Arkansas whirlwind com
eback 29-20 decision over Baylor,
left the Cougars, Razorbacks and
Longhorns all with one conference
loss.
And if they continue to be tied
through the end of the regular sea
son, Arkansas would go to the Cotton
Bowl because it has been longer
since the Razorbacks were there
than it has Houston or Texas.
But there is still a lot of football to
be played.
Arkansas, for instance, has to go to
Texas A&M next Saturday to meet
the improving Aggies, who can at
least partially offset their early sea
son disappointments by being the
spoilers in the race.
Texas hosts TCU this week, which
is turning out to be no easy chore as
evidenced by the Horned Frogs 3-3
tie with Texas Tech last Saturday.
But, in addition, the Longhorns
must also finish out their schedule at
home with Baylor and on the road at
A&M.
Houston appears to have the
easiest schedule of the three, follow
ing an open date this week with
games against Texas Tech and Rice.
But for Houston to have a chance at
the Cotton Bowl, Texas must lose
somewhere along the line. And for
Texas to have a chance, Arkansas
must lose.
Only Arkansas controls its own
destiny.
Whatever happens, the last few
weeks of the conference race won’t
be dull. A Houston win in the Astro
dome last Saturday night would have
almost clinched a Cotton Bowl trip
for the Cougars.
“A loss hurts any time, but unless
I’m mistaken we are still tied for first
place,” said Houston coach Bill Yeo
man. “Arkansas still has A&M to
play. Texas still has Baylor and A&M
and TCU.
“So now maybe the fans will buy
up all the tickets to the remaining
games. Let’s go ahead and play the
rest of the season. There is some
excitement left. That’s why we did
all this, so there would be excite
ment left.”
Other than the TCU-Texas and
Arkansas-A&M games next Satur
day, Texas Tech will travel to SMU
(which broke a five-game losing
streak with a 34-0 decision over
Wichita State last Saturday) and the
Rice Owls will visit Baylor.
Baylor saw its championship
hopes go down the drain when it let a
17-point lead slip away in Fayettevil
le. But if the Bears defeat Rice next
Saturday they will have at least
seven wins and, with its talented de
fense and heavyweight running back
Walter Abercrombie, should be an
attractive bowl team.
In addition, if one of of the so-
called minor bowls takes Baylor, it
would have a chance to gain extra
prestige if the Bears should upset
Texas on Nov. 24.
United Press International
IRVING — For the past three
years the Philadelphia Eagles, under
coach Dick Vermeil, have nibbled
away at the Dallas Cowboys.
The results have not shown up on
the scoreboard because Dallas has
built a nine-game winning streak
over the Eagles. But the gap has
slowly closed.
And the Eagles hope to show just
how much the deficit has been made
up tonight at Texas Stadium.
Philadelphia, which broke quickly
from the gate this year but which has
lost its last three games, take on the
Cowboys in what has become a cri
tical game for the Eagles. A Dallas
win tonight and the Cowboys will
have opened a three-game lead over
Philadelphia in the NFC East.
Vermeil, known for his spartan
work habits, said during the week
leading up to the game that the Cow
boys “are still the class of the divi
sion.”
But how much closer to the Cow
boys are the Eagles this year?
“We are closer by one draft,” Ver
meil said. “This last draft was the
first time we had any high draft picks
in I don’t know how long.
“We have a young linebacker
(first-round pick Jerry Robinson
from UCLA) who is as good as any
other young linebacker. We got a
good offensive guard (second-round
pick Petey Perot of Northwest
Louisiana) and we got a kicker (Texas
A&M’s Tony Franklin, a third-round
pick).
“We also have a punter from the
draft (eighth pick Max Runager of
South Carolina).
“Working through the draft is the
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gap on those guys. You are never
going to out-coach Dallas. I don’t
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“You just have to catch up with
physical ability and try to get out of a
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Since Dallas already has a division
lead and since Philadelphia is facing
a must situation, Dallas coach Tom
Landry feels justified in worrying ab
out the mental aspect of tonight’s
game.
“Anytime you have a little pad
ding, you don t work quite as hard as
when you don’t have any padding,
Landry said. “That is just human na
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game losing streak, the Eagles play
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ceiver) Harold Carmichael, Landry
said. “Somebody else might star in
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had better have controlled Mont
gomery a little bit and Carmichael to
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