Packers

Cling To Crown;

Defeat NY. Giants 16-7

NEW YORK (AP) — Green

tional Football League cham-l pionsliip in bitter l7-degree tem- perature Sunday as Jerry Kra- mer kicked three field goals and Jim Taylor scored the lone touchdown in a 16-7 vicbory over the fired-up New York Giants before 64,892 half-frozen fans at Yankee Stadium. The ackers. who humiliated the Giants 37-0 last New Year‘s Eve in Green Bay. had to fight fiercely for their points in this rematch although two costly Gi- ant fumbles, both rec0vered by Green Bay linebacker Ray Nit- schke. set up the Taylor touch- down and one of Kramer's field goals.

Rookie Jim Collier of Arkan- sas put the Giants on the score-

pressure applied against Tittle. ‘stirring up periodic dust storms. Nitschke, vot the In fact it was a fine da to

outstanding player, pounced on huddle around the fireside and the ball when King lost control a TV set located somewhere

on the Giants' 28 in the second outside the 75 mile blackout. In

quarter. th last quarter. the tempera- It took Green Bay just two ture dipped to 13 degrees.

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plays to score its touchdown.

After the Giants finally had scored on the blocked punt in the third quarter. Horner, try- ing for a shoestring catch. fum- bled a Packer punt. Once again it was Nitschke. a six-foot-three, 235-pounder from Illinois. on the ball on the Glants' 42. Kramer's second field goal followed nine plays later when the Green Bay drive stalled.

The game threatened to get out of control for a few min utes in the third quarter with the Packers leading 13—7 and

Both the total gate receipts of $1,243,110. in cl u din g $615- from the radio-TV rights, and the players' shares were rec- ords.

In the final quarter with the Packers leading 13-7. and 6:28 to go. the Giants elected to punt from their own 4 on a fourt and three situation. The Pack-- ers moved the ball back within .field goal range and Kramer ‘made good from the 30 to end ,the scoring at 13:10.

i The Giants came back and reached the 10 on Tittle‘s passes

board when he fen Oh the hair .the Giants throwing passes in as time ran out and Green

in the end zone after Erich‘ Barnes had blocked Max Mc- ; Gee's oulit in the third quarter. 1

But the Giants’ famcd pass-l ing attack. led by the old bald Eagle. . A. Tittle. failed to‘ click when it counted against: the alert Packer defenders.) wasting a fine performance by Andy Robustell’s proud Giant defensive unit. ‘

Pamer' Who £00k 0"" the ‘But two successive holding pen-‘

place-kicking chores in mid-sea-i son after Paul Hornung suffered ‘ a knee injury. booted field goals 3 of 26. 29. and 30 yards—the lat- ter with only one minute and 50 seconds left. . BORNUNG RUNS WELL 1

Hornung, a doubtful starter. made a major contribution with ‘ his steady running and by com-. pleting a 21-yard pass to flankerl Boyd Dowler on the halfback! ration that set up Taylor's? seven-yard bolt into the end zone in the second quarter. Tay- . lor. voted the NFL‘s player of the year. ground gainer.

But this bitterly-fought in which Willie Woo Packers was expelled for strik-j1 ing judge Tom Kelleher in the third quarter. was dominated

game.

by the defence. . Nitsch, the ball - hawking ) middle linebacker, recovered .1

fumbles by Phil King and Sam Homer that led to 10 points and was also a major factor in the.

mid-field. EJEI‘TED FROM GAME When Wood was called for in- terference on a Tittle pass to Del Shofner. he protested vio- lently and was ejected. It was announced in the press box that he struck Kelleher. The interference and a per- sonal foul call put the Giants on the Packers 18 with a first down.

alties hurled the Giants back to their 40 and they finally had to punt.

In the dressing room. Kel- leher said “in my opinion Wood committed an overt act in strik-

ing me that called for disquaiio ‘

fication."

The Packers earned a record winning share of $5,888.57 each by their second straight title. beating their high of last year. The Giants‘ losing share of $4.- 166.85 also was a new high.

t was the Glants' 10 defeat in 13 playoffs and the Packers'

also was a steady fifth victory in seven since the

. l playoff system began in 1933. Ba won three.” - d of the championships earlier and with!

ran its total:

Green y had

Sunday‘s triumph to eight. tops among all NFL teams. This was close-to-the vest football with no fancy frills. weather 1 conditions. It was clear but bit- ‘ terly cold and a 20-mile-an-hour)

played under brutal wind swept across the field,l

Saturday Minor

Hockey

Following are the results

tests at the Sports Arena: 1 PEE WEES. i

Wolves 1 vs. Bears 1; Wolves' goal by David Hume: Bears goal by Vince Poulton.

Foxes 4 vs. Hornets 0; Foxes' goals by David Clay. Gordie Lawson, Gus Kennedy, John Murphy.

Lions 7 vs. Parker: 1: Lions’ goals by Geo Curley (3), Louis Butler, Ian Waye, David Murn- aghan. John White: P a r k ers' goal by Allie MacDonald.

Jays 6 vs Orioles; Jays' goals by Paul Carmichael (3). Carl Murray. John Thistle, David Maclnnis.

Cranes 3 vs. Swallows: Crane goals by Clifford MacDonald, Eddie Power. Ronnie 'Hanley; Swallows’ goals by Billy Mac- Donald.

Robins 5 vs. Spitfires 0; Rob- in goals by Doug Molyneaux,

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iguarded against the long ball ‘and let New York complete a series of short tosses.

“We were superb on defence." said Vince Lombardi. Packer coach. after the game. He said he didn't even know what the score was except that the Pack- ers had won.

Coach Allie Sherman of the Giants. former Winnipeg Blue Bomber mentor. was bitterly disappointed but he said he felt that his team had vindicatedit- self for last year’s humiliating defeat. He said the Giants punted in the fourth because

there were almost seven min-g

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pressure on the Packers to move the ball.

Hawks lop

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Rangers Salvage 4-4 Ties In Battle With Canadiens

NEW YORK (Aw-New York final period. delighted a sellout Rangers. sparked by Rod 60- crowd of, 15.925. what was described by the Ran. bert‘s two goals. Sunday night off the Canadiens but Jacques After Balon's opening goal. ger physician as a tempera rallied from a three-goal deficit Plante. the masked Montreal the Canadiens jumped to a 4-1 paralysis of the right arm. But to salvage a 4-4 tie with Mont- netminder. was spectacular in lead early in the second period after a 20-minute delay he re- on two scores by Henri Richard turned to the ice and came up

Gump Worsley, the Ranger in the first period. He suffered

goalie. needed 47 saves to hold

£RO0K§ nil/0 real Canadiens as George (Red) ithe final period as the Rangers. . "a, Icky” Sullivan made his debut as the ,apparenuy pepped up by the and one each by Ralph Back- lWith 35 saves in the two last Aggyffigp Ranger coach. lfie Sullivan pressed through strom and Bernie Geoffrion. periods, Mm!” Andy Bathgate. scoring in his; W t 'Then Gilbert and Bathgatel summer Magoo/Cl!" sixth straight game. and Davefim- clicked to set the stage for Gil» First period: 1. New York. muggy/M Balon added the other Ranger The Ranger rally. capped by bert 5 second score. Balon 7 (Ratelle) 2:42; 2, Mom. , ,9 Alan/1 goals. .Gilbert‘s goal at 17:16 of the Worsley was shaken up late lreal. Backstrom 8 (Provost. l [555 TAM/V . - Moore) 9:31: 3. Montreal. Geof. w It’ll/Ii)?! frion 17 (Beliveau. G. Tr m. FROM 77/! blay) 12:24; . Montreal. m- \ 4000 chard 12 (Marshall. J. C. Trem- ',,,M¢ e biay) 19:33. Penalties —- Har- , . . . vey 5:44. Fontinato 14:47. .. W RSecond Period: 5. Montreal, 1. ‘ o O ichard 13 (Hicke, Talbot) 1:48; . y _ 5"”‘3R0.Ks [6. New York. Gilbert 5 (Ra- " . . " /§/V’7’EXACTLV WEAR/1V6 e y 0 m I n tel-le. Balon) 2:05: 7. New York, , 353' 1. A, W 7:! EgktgilngZI-‘rgp Baihgate 16 (Prentice) d655, & ‘.i g g mmgflflafli J‘édcfirgéém“ o;;4,41g- SUMMMERSIDE —-The RCAF Buffet opened the scoring ris, R. MacArthur) 15.06; 4. Sgalgfik “1:3: NHL 31.. ‘ W " Eagles. ahead of the Prince after 34 seconds 0 f' t RCAF— L. Boone (Mayne) l7.- Third periodq New Y R AgiMVfll— County Combines 65 with period, getting a pass- from El- 29. Penalties— R. MacArthur, Gilbert 6 (Balon ‘Caham 179:6' Z7"? ( about 9 minutes to play in the lis as he was parked at the left R. MacArthur. PenaltiEFNone ’ ’ ' F ",4; (.13; third period at RCAF Station corner of the crease and flip- Second period: 5. RCAF — Saves, ' . imafl/Yé rink yesterday. were awarded ping it into the far side. Tucker (Phillips. Lovelace) 11.- wors‘ey' 12 20 15_47 . 0V5? the game by referees Bob Rear- V. Harris evened it up at half 24; 6. Combines— U. Gallant Flame ‘0 9 8_27 _: 76/5 ’ don and Gord Kelly when the time when his short snap found (V. Harris, B. Grady) 12.35: 7. ii 0,,55 Combines éeft the ice and “gent the net zlifterl the [Sick hac} dlanc- lCombiAneg— (8U. CGai- 74 to their ressing room. ater ed craziy aong e goa ine. an, n rews . ; . om- ? , l/ :90, disputing the final goal scored Garth Harris took a pass from bines— B. Grady (U. Gallant. New Year’s [Htféflof \ We. “57. by the Eagles. claiming that brother Vance as he was con- V. Harris) 16.34. Penalties — i772 7'1/37/5. . IMHO/“m! HM, Reardon blew his whistle be- verging on the net and put the Braisbois, U. Gallant. D. Ciow AT THE w d ' fore the goal was scored. Combines ahead 2-1. but the (minor and misconduct). S W‘ W‘”’“‘"""“ The sound of a whistle was Eagles tied it up again late in Third period: 9. RCAF— . plainly heard, but the referee the period. Boone scoring with Phillips 2.22; 10. RCAF— Tuck- claimed it must have come Mayne’s help after some close er (Phillips. L. Boone) 8.19: 11. from the a u d ience. Reardon manoeuvring just outside the RCAF -— Tucker ( Lo velace. MONDAY

SPORT ECHOES

By Norman

Summerside Bureau of The Guardian

Macdonald

CHICAGO (CP) Chicago Black Hawks defeated Boston Bruins 4-2 in a National Hoc- key League game at Chicago Sunday night. '

The Hawks. paced by title two-goal effort of Eric Nestor- enko, counted all four goals in the final ten minutes of play. The other Chicago goals were scored by Murray Balfour and Billy Hay.

Scoring for Bruins wer Williams.

the last pl a c e McKenney and

Results

oflgoals by Donnie Murnaghan.l Saturday’s Minor Hockey con-iPhilip Claybourne: Terrier goal!

by Barry MacKinnon.

Falcons 1 vs. Sparrows 0: Fal- cons’ goal by Alan Larter.

igers 3 vs. Otters 2: Tiger

goals by Bobby MacMillan (2). Gordie Beck; Otter goals Eugene Power. Bobby Judson. BANTAMS

Tigers 7 vs. Bombers 0: Tiger goals by Joey Hennessey (2) Jimmy MacDougall (3). Ronnie Carmichael, Bobby Wliitlock.

Hawks 2 vs. Owls 0: Hawk goals by Allie Bradley and Mike uffy. Gulls 4 vs. Eagles 1: Gull goals by W a y n e Beaton (2), Doug Doiron, George Whitlock: Eagle goal by David Dennis.

Wrens 12 vs. Crows 0: Wren goals by Doug Mahar (3). Paul Gauthier, Danny Dunsford (2). Mike Flanagan. David LeClair (2). Aubrey Murray. T e r r y Steele. Jimmy McQuaid.

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Jimmy Mooley. Gordon Dar- rach. Gary Cooper, Donald Brown

Blackbirds 3 vs. Ducks I; Blackbird goals by Paul Turner

(2). Merrill Weale; Ducks‘ goal)

by Joey Fichaud.

Rams vs. Cubs 0; Rams‘ goal by Ronnie Doucette. PAPERWEIGHTS

Elks 0 vs Bulldogs 0; Elk

goals by Bill Docherty (3), Glen McDearmid (3), Gary S t e a d , Jimmy O'Connor.

Canaries 3 vs. Redwings 1: Canaries‘ goals by John Dalziel (2): Alan MacDonald: R ed- wings goal by Kenny Martin.

Colts 3 vs. Bluebirds 0; Colt goals by Ken MacD o u g a l l. Jamey MacLeod. Robert Cook.

Snipes 1 vs. Larks 1; Snipe goal by Glen Constable: Larks' goal by Mike Conway.

udgies 4 vs. Ravens 0: Bud- gies' goals all by Mike MacDon-

al . LSetters 2 vs. Terriers l: Setter

MIDGETS Rangers 6 vs. Bruins l: Rang- er goals by Billy Poulto (4). [Alan Flood (2): Bruin goal by iJimmy (Wilbert) Gallant. ‘ Canucks 5 vs. Leafs 4: Ca- Jnuck goals by Wayne MacDoug- :a

ll (2). Billy Weatherbie (2). ‘Junior MacDougall: L e a f s' oals by C v r i l MacDonald.

Lloyd Blanchard. Jack McEach- ern (2).

Ramblers 1 vs. Darts 0: Ram- blers‘ goal by Mee Murray.

goals by Ralph Kelly. Ian Mac- Donald (2); D a v e Monaghan (2); Vics' goals by Ernie Corri- gan. Dave . cG e.

OFFICIALS — Doug M a 0- Lean. Ron Carmichael. Dave Monagllan. Joe Monaghan. Bill Boyles. Howard Murchi s o n. Knobby Walsh. Reg Profitt, Les Barnes. Paul .Iay. Ian Mac- Donald. Harvey Cormier, Dave Campbell. Jake Kennedy. Gary Clow

Royals 5 vs. Vics 2: Royal)

lHOCKEY scores By THE CANADIAN PRESS TURDAY National League Chicago 1 Toronto 1 Detroit 1 Montreal 5 ‘ merican League lQuebec 3 Hershey 3 l mvertime) Baltimore 1 Cleveland 5 lBuffalo 2 Pittsburgh 4 :Rochester 2 Springfield 9 ‘ astern Professional lSyracuso 4 Kingston 7 1 Western League 1Vancouver 2 Seattle 7 :Spokane 2 Calgary 1 International League ‘Fort Wayne 3 St. Paul 4 l Minneapolis 5 Muskegon S j astern League iJohnstown 2 Clinton 2 Philadelphia 5 Nashville 2 : Nova Scotia Senior Windsor 8 Halifax 6 iMoncton 9 New Glasgow 3 1 Cape Breton Senior .Glace Bay 7 North Sydney 2

{Hampshire lis Winner

l Hampshire Bulldogs crushed gPownial Royals 12-4 at North {River rink Saturday night ltheir first game of the season lfor the W. R. Show trophy.

r B. Johnson paced the winners .‘with a four-goal performance. |.Dunrn scored 'rree. W. |Watts and H. Hughes a brace teach and L. Doiron a single- lton.

: Goals for the losers were (scored by Gillis. MacMillan, H. Smallwood and B ‘ppey. 1 Hampshire and Nine Mile lCreek tangle for the first time this season at North River inink Wednesday night starting at .3).

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Eight Coll Collide New Year's Day

By MURRAY ROSE Sports

Associated Press rife In an almost perfect set of pairings. eight of the top 10

United States college football teams will collide head-on in bowl games on New Year's Day Tuesday.

The ideal match pits South- ern California (100). the No. 1 team of the country in The As- sociated Press‘ poll, and Wis- consin (8-1). the No. 2 team. in the granddaddy of the New Year's Day extravagansas. the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Calif.

you ave sslssbpl

(9-0), the third-ranking team.

facing Arkansas (9-1). sixth

ranked. in the Sugar Bowl at

New Orleans. ,

Texas (9-0-1). the No. 4 aggre- Loni

(9-1), the No. 5 team. and Okla- 1.

Ohio University (8-2). get the

r week‘s games off to a start in

the Sun Bowl at El Paso. Tex.. on Monday. 100,000 AT ROSE BOWL

The biggest live crowd of the lday—100.000—wlll be in the Rose {Bowl to see Southern Cal‘s first national champions since 1 risk prestige against a fired-up Wisconsin team seeking revenge for the 4441 shellacking handed it by Washington in the 1960 arm. The Badgers of the Big Ten are favored by about a field goal in a game that matches teams powerful on both offence and de-

ce.

Wisconsin features a terrific passing combination in quarter- back non VanderKelen and All- Amerlca end Pat Richter and

the the-all-arocnd stunts of halfback

Lou Holland. Southern Cal has a rounded attack built around quaflerbacks Pete Beathard and

Nelson. Ba] Bedsole. runner receiver Willie

home (8-! lo. I. as!

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d Teams

Mississippi. fielding its first all-winning combination, is rated a touchdown better than Arkan- sas in a pairing of high-scoring teams for the Sugar Bowl. The crowd of 82.910 will see two out- standing quarterbacks in Missis- sippi's Glynn Griffing. a pin- point pas er. and Arkansas’ Billy Moore. a rollout artist.

LOUISIANA FAVORED

Although beaten by Mississippi and tied by Rice. Louisiana State is favored by a field goal over the unbeaten. tough Tex- ans. The difference between these perennial bowl powe could be Jerry Stovall. LSU's do- everything halfback.

Both feature tight defences and are touch to score on. LSU has yielded only 34 points and Texas has given up only 59. All America guard Johnny Tread- well is the heart of the Texas m _

ence. This Cotton Bowl club will be witnsced b1 75.604.

’Echoes’ Edition Not Ready

We’ve been on the mainland and didn't manage to get our “New Year's" edition of "Sport Echoes" ready‘ but it will be in this paper on Thurs- day, January 3. Don't forget “Echoes” have a legitimate right to trail some of the other sports columns. While on the mainland. specifically the Wentworth Valley. where two tow trucks took us out of two ditches. and a group of friend- ly fellows got us out of anoth- er we might have had time to

We were glad to see Coke. Grady’s picture in the Halifax Herald, with the information that he had scored four goals for North Sydney in their latest game. We have a feeling

this winter. It would appear he is a greatly under-rated player here in P.E.l.

The decision of the Combines to leave the ice in the RCAF— Combine game yesterday was. to say the least, an ill-consider- ed one. The rule book says the manager. or coach. or official

The Eagles look good enough now to give Combines and Pen- guins a real tussle at any time. So it will seem there will be no doormats in the ISHL this year. Only thing to worry about now —is there going to be a team

Coke Under-Rated Player

write our New Year’s column. but _we like to feel reasonany sure of getting out of the old year in one piece before dis- cussing the new.

On the second occasion the next five cars coming over that never- to- be- forgotten hill also ended up in the ditch except the one which crashed into our car. We and some other athletes were busy wildly scrambling up the other side of the ditch to get out of range of those weav- ing four-wheeled missiles car- eening down the hill.

of the club responsible shall be automatically suspended to e year. he only chance Com-

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gave the boys two minutes to get back on the ice. as announc- ed through the loud speaker. The boys were back. but not under the two minute limit and the game was forfeited. Ron MacArthur was given a game misconduct for too directly questioning referee Reardon's veracity.

The teams fought to a 2 - all stalemate in the first period, Combines outscored E a gl e s 3-1 in the middle session. and Eagles scored three unanswer- ed tallies in the third period.

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case. Tucker scored his first goal after the half way mark in the second period. then it was all Combines for the rest of th e frame. The Eagles did organize some nice passing plays ut they ended with Thane Mann's making some spectacular saves.

Vance Harris's pass sen ric Gallant breaking from red-line to go in on Walsh un- molested and find the twines. Two especially smooth combin- ation plays accounted for the other two Combine goals. Ev

F9 3C: (97‘

Phillips) 10.55. Penalties . Harris, G. Deighan. MacArthur (game misconduct).

STOPS'

Walsh 3 9.3.20: Mann 3. 14.7 29.

Minor Hockey Program Wed.

Following are the games sch~ eduled for Charlottetown minor hockeyists at Sports Arena for this Wednesday. -Midgets— Darts

Children's Skate 2:30 to 4 Special Teen-age Skate 7 to 11:00

NEW YEAR'S DAY Children’s Skate 2:30 to 4 Adult Skate 8 to 10

WEDNESDAY _ lChildren's Skate 2:30 to 4 Adult Skate 8 to 10

THURSDAY I.S.H.L HOCKEY

R.C.A.P. vs. Penguins