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Dallas lack of debate costly
j§| IRVING (AP) — The Dallas Cow
boys’ were kicking themselves Mon-
I for not knowing one of the most
M elementary NFL rules on kickoff re-
I j turns.
V Referee Pat Haggerty’s safety call
or the game’s opening kickoff went
without debate from the stunned
Cowboys’ coaches.
■ The New York Giants went on to
win the game 12-10 Sunday, with the
margin of victory coming on Mark
ri1 ® Collins’ tackle of Darryl Clack, who
had muffed the kickoff into his own
end and tried to run it out.
® ■Clack said he wasn’t certain of the
hobbled kickoff rule.
|ll|^B“The thought ran through my
head that since the ball hit me when
I was out of the end zone, that it was
a live ball,” Clack said. “I tried to
take it out of the end zone. From
what I hear, it wasn’t really nec
essary.”
Replay official Armen Terzian
later admitted “the play should have
gone as a touchback with the Cow
boys taking the ball on the 20. The
rule states that if the return man
muffs the ball and it goes into the
end zone, he must recover the ball
but he has no responsibility to take it
out.
“I was remiss in not reviewing the
play at the time but I felt there was
an interpretation on the field which
I was unaware of and would have al
lowed the safety.”
Dallas coach Tom Landry said he
didn’t raise a ruckus and admitted
“we should have argued about it.
But I don’t know why the officials
didn’t replay it. It was really a bad
call.
“We talk about those plays all the
time. I thought it was a muff.”
Club President Tex Schramm,
chairman of the NFL competition
committee, said he thought there
must be something he was missing
when the Giants were awarded a
safety.
: Penalties lead to Oiler loss
I HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston
| Oilers don’t need to change their ag
gressive style of football despite re-
^ penalties in their last two
'^Rmes, Coach Jerry Glanville said
Monday.
■ The Oilers received 10 penalties
for 95 yards in Sunday’s 45-3 loss to
|!^He New York Jets.
IA week earlier, the Oilers were
gL^ngged 15 times for 184 yards in a
38-35 victory over the Los Angeles
Raiders.
“I don’t think we have to change
I gnything about the way we play the
®me,” Glanville said.
I “If somebody does something to
you after the play is over that’s not
challenging your manhood or maim
ing you, you have to just go back to
the huddle.”
The Oilers, with a reputation for
playing aggressive football, and the
Jets were in numerous scuffles from
the opening play in the game.
“The only thing that upset me was
if we hit somebody after the play was
over,” Glanville said. “If somebody
shoves us or pushes us, we’ve got to
ignore that and go on back to the
huddle.”
Officials called 21 penalties in the
game and several Oiler players felt
they were penalty-happy.
“I think the refs are biased against
us,” linebacker Robert Lyles said.
“When you’ve got defensive linemen
called for holding, I mean that’s a
bunch of bleep.”
tight end Jamie Williams said the
Jets beat the Houston team at its own
game.
“They used our aggressiveness
against us,” Williams said. “They got
us into a pushing and shoving
match.”
The Oilers had more than penal
ties to worry about against the Jets.
Williams and rookie starting cor-
nerback Gris Dishman suffered inju
ries that likely will keep them out of
Sunday’s game in the Astrodome
against the New England Patriots.
Ill
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From the Bleachers
Precise, not dull
SPORTS EDITOR:
Did Cray Pixley and I watch the same tennis
match? Referring to the men’s finals of the U.S.
Open she wrote (Sept. 13), “The sheer length
and monotony of the match was part of its
downfall.” Does this mean that the shorter the
match, the better? If so, then perhaps we
should shorten tennis matches to one set, one
game or one point.
And isn’t monotony built into the game of
l tennis? A monotonous thing is a thing that
l lacks variety or variation. Since tennis involves
hitting a ball from one end of the court to the
other, over and over again, it is necessarily
monotonous. What does Pixley want, an
occasional explosion? A lunch break? A
spontaneous gymnastics exhibition? I don’t
understand the complaint.
I was also surprised to see Ivan Lendl
described as “iron-faced” and Mats Wilander as
“stony-faced.” This implies that they are
emothionless, when everyone knows that they
experience mopre intense emotions on the
tennis court than most of us will ever know. Do
not confuse experiencing an emothion with
conveying it to others. I, for one, appreciate the
emotional intensity of these players. They are
the best in the world at what they do. I do not,
in addition, need looks of joy, distress, anger
and disappointment.
Now the diagnosis of Pixley’s discontent. We
live in an age of instant gratification and
limited attention. We cannot understand those,
like Lendl and Wilander, who go about their
business in a workman-like way; nor can we
tolerate events of more than a moment’s
duration. Pixley watches the match and sees
machine-like repetition. I watch the match and
see discipline, exquisite athletic ability and
emotional intensityu. That’s why I say we must
have watched different matches.
Keith Burgess-Jackson
Visiting assistant professor
Department of Philosophy
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