Hanratty
,gets axe
PITTSBURGH (AP) The
Pittsburgh Steelers waived
veteran quarterback Terry
Hanratty yesterday to meet
the 43-player. roster limit
Ftablished by the National
ootball League. •
Four' other rookies were
waived, three players were
placed on the injured reserve
list, and two rookies were
traded for undisclosed draft
choices.
4 Hanratty, a Butler,Pa.,
native, was drafted second
aom Notre Dame in 1969;
coach` Chuck Noll's first year
with the Steelers. Hanratty
(Old reporters he was op
timistic he would be picked up
! 1 , 1 )5 , another club within the 24-
hour waiver period.
The shaggy-haired, affable
quarterback spent most of his
time charting plays on the
It's another wild scramble in NFC East
DALLAS (AP) There's
new intrigue this year in the
National Conference Eastern
Division which saw the Dallas
Cowboys play a wild card into
MSuper Bowl X in 1975.
Washington's George Allen
dug deep into the Redskin
treasury to purchase a
million-dollar backfield in .
John Higgins, formerly of the
New York Jets, and World
Football League refugee
Calvin Hill, formerly of the
Cowboys.
- For added spice, Allen
wooed Cowboy tight end Jean
Fugett plus a dozen other
assorted free agents. He also
acquired discontented Miami
safety Jake Scott and con
troversial defensive end John
Matusak from Kansas_City.
"We've made more
progress in the off-season
than any team in football,"
Allen proclaimed after the
off-season wheeling and
dealing.
The New York Giants
signed three-tirim 1,000-yard
rusher Larry Czonka, for
merly Miami Dolphins and
the Memphis Southmen of the
WFL.
Coach Bill Arnsparger,
calling his club a growing
contender, will unleash his
„rebuilding team in the new
Mti,soo-seat Giants Stadium in
111 Oast Rutherford, N.j., just
The Sub Shack, State College's late night
snack place, today announced that they have
added a popular Mexican-Style delicacy, the
taco, to their menu. The Sub Shack will sell
tacos for the modest price of 60'. The Sub
Shack is located on the E. end of College Ave.
across from S. Halls. The Sub Shack also sells-
Hoagies & Chili-Dogs. Hours 11:30 AM -
2:00 AM.
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sidelines, only playing one
game in 1975 and only playing
briefly in three preseason
games this year.
The seven-year veteran
played in 42 regular season
games, starting 17 of them.
He completed 159 of 417
passes for 24 touchdowns and
34 interceptions.
The Steelers are left with
two quarterbacks, two-time
Super Bowl winner Terry
BradshaW and rookie Mike
Kruczek from Boston College,
who hag shown surprising
ability during the preseason.
Also waived were wide
receiver Freddie Douglas
from Arkansas, linebackers
Charles Hunt from Florida
State and Jim Rosecrans
from Penn State, and
defensive end Edward
McAleney from Massachu
setts. z '
Wide receiver Bob Gaddis
from Mississippi Valley and
defensive tackle Ron Coder
from Penn State were traded
to Buffalo and Seattle,
respectively, for undisclosed
draft choices.
across the Hudson River from
Manhattan.
The downtrodden
Philadelphia eagles em
ployed a new coach, Dick
Vermeil, who directed UCLA
to a shocking Rose Bowl upset
of Ohio State.
Vermeil, only 39, showed he
had a sense of humor when he
announced, "I wouldn't be
here if it was going to be
easy; all the good jobs are
taken."
Dallas involved itself in the
intrigue by taking a long look
at 'once-moody Duane
Thomas, who left the team in
anger five years ago. But
Thomas' comeback attempt
ended in failure when he was
among . the Cowboys' final
cuts.
Dallas had a stormy
training camp with quar
terback Roger Staubach and
backup Clint Longley going
"Two rounds." Longley has
since' been traded. Danny
White, formerly with
Memphis in the World foot
ball League, has moved in as
a strong backup performer.
The St. Louis Cardinals,
who will be trying for their
third consecutive NFC title, -
would like to repeat and to
win a playoff game for a
change.
The Cardinals moved to
shore up a porous defense
Colts may boycott for head coach
Marchibroda situation still up in air
BALTIMORE ( AP) The Baltimore
Colts, clearly demoralized by the sudden
resignation of Head Coach Ted Marchibroda,
discussed a possible boycott at a players'
meeting yesterday as assistant coaches
reportedly considered resigning and one city
official warned of a possible "rebellion of the
fans." ,
"Ted's done a hell of a thing. He's a man of
principle, a man of reason, and it's a sad
thing that he has to sit out a year because he
has one of the greatest coaching abilities and
one of the greatest rapports that any man can
have with people," said quarterback Bert
Jones after a closed players' meeting
yesterday morning.
Jones; who acted as spokesman for his
teammates after the meeting, refused to say
whether the players had taken any vote or
made any decision on a boycott., He said the
team would meet again later yesterday with
General Manager Joe Thomas.
Marchibroda, a native of Franklin, Pa.,
wasa berated by Colt owner Robert Irsay and
with the selection of Arizona
tackle Mike Dawson in the
first round and obtained
tackle Walt Patulski from
Buffalo. _
Coach Don Coryell alscr
shipped cornerback Tim Grey
to Kansas City for defensive
tackle Marvin Upshaw and
safety Mike Sensibaugh.
Dallas was professional
football's surprise team of
1975 with a 10-4 regular
season ledger; a last-second
upset of , Minesota on
Staubach's desperation pass
to Drew Pearson; a 37-7 NFC
title rout of Los Angeles; and
a 21-17 loss to* the strong
Pittsburgh Steelers in the
Super Bowl.
"We are still a rebuilding
team and we may have
trouble surprising people the
way we did last year,"
Landry said.
Landry will again polish off
his "shotgun" or "spread"
formation on obvious passing
downs.
"I believe we can be more
effective with it this year
because we will have a good
idea of what the defense plans
to do against us," Landry
said.
Allen, the old Redskin fox,
has been tampering with the
shotgun formation himself
with Billy Kilmer and Joe .
Theismann at the controls.
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stymied in his efforts to make personnel
judgements. He resigned his post Sunday
after failing to extract a promise there would
be no more "Front-office interference."
, The move by the National Football
League's 1975 Coach of the Year, just one
week before the start of a new season,
shocked local fans and destroyed the har
mony of a team that rebounded from a 2-12
season last year to win the Eastern Division
championship.
At least two assistant coaches, defensive
coordinator Maxie Baughn and offensive line
coach Whitey Dovell, were reported to be
considering their own resignations yester
day.
Questioned by reporters as he emerged
from one series of meetings Thomas held
yesterday afternoon with members of the
Colts organization, Dovell would only say
that he would be back at the training camp
today.
•He said Thomas was discussing a major
question but that reporters' questions about
\ "We have a chance to have
the best balanced squad in the
five years I've been here if
the new talent comes
through," said Allen, who
needs only three victories to
become the NFL's - 11th coach
in the 100-victory club.
Only the aging Washington
defense is suspect, surren
dering 20, 26, 30, 27, 31 and 26
points down the stretch last
year as the Redskins lost four
of their last six games. •
The Washington offense has
been less than devastating in
the preseason but Riggins
said, "We have a big engine
here. It's just a matter of
getting it tuned up."
St Louis' wide open offense
gobbled up 2,507 yards of real
estate last year as quar
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terback Jim Hart threw 19
touchdown passes. But the
defense yielded 32 touch
downs at an average of
almost 20. points per game.
The Eagles have quar
terback problems with
Roman Gabriel's bad knee
putting the load on Mike
Boryla. They have a top
corps of receivers in tight end
Charles Young and Harold
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it were off the mark
Asked if he would be at practice today,
Baughn said he wouldn't be there and added,
"But I don't expect any of the coaches will be
there. Man, it's very frustrating,"
He said he was optimistic that Mar
chibroda will return to the Colts. "I know
that's what the players want. I know that's
what the coaches want," Baughn said. "I
hope that's what Joe Thomas wants."
Jones suggested that the best solution to
the matter would be an intervention by NFL
Commissioner Pete Rozelle. Jones said a
club owner shouldn't be able to use a team as
a plaything
City Coniptroller Hyman Pressman agreed.
He fired off a telegram to Rozelle urging him
"to use your good office to prevent a catas
trophe. Head Coach Marchchibroda is held in
extremely high esteem and there is danger of
rebellion by the fans as well as the players."
About 30 players met at the team's
suburban training camp Sunday night after
Marchibroda arrived back from a six-hour
meeting with Irsay and Thomas aboard
Irsay's yacht in Milwaukee.
The players, who rallied around Mar
chibroda when Irsay lashed into the coach
following a fourth straight exhibition lost in
Detroit last Thursday, declined comment
then on what they might do and only Jones
spoke with reporters after yesterday morn
ing's meeting.
The quarterback said the main fecling
expressed during the meeting was one of
hope there was some way Marchibroda could
return. Jones conceded, however, that the
chance of that appeared slim "because I
doubt the management is smart enough or
courageous enough."
Jones said the players no longer respect
the owner and the management of the Colts,
but added a boycott would be a particularly
difficult decision because many players can't
afford such a move financially.
"I could do that," Jones explained. "But I
can't tell a Ken Mendenhall who has a brand
new baby girl, a new house that he has just
built, 'go home and don't play football.'
People like this can't afford to do this."
Jones, however, who has been particularly
close to the 45-year old Marchibroda, made it
clear he might act on his own. •
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"I know I can play in this league; I know I
can play in other places," he said. "I'd hate
to let down 42 other men that are on this ball
club. But I'll have to go home and talk to my
daddy and brother and lawyer and figure out
what is the right thing to do."
The quarterback, the son of W.A. "Dub"
Jones, a former wide receiver and coach with
Cleveland, added the only reason the. Colts
won the division championship last year was
"solid coaching." Without that, he con
tinued, the Colts wouldn't have done what
they did and won't be able to repeat the feat.
"And if I were a fan, I wouldn't go out there
now and pay $lO to see this bunch of
renegades. I wouldn't do it. Matter of fact, I
would like to ask them not to do it," Jones
said. "I think something has to be done. I
think the arbitrary action that has taken
place here ... there's a finite point; there's a
breaking point. I'm not so sure this is it, but
by golly, what is?"
In a prepared statement released Sunday
night in Baltimore, Marchibroda said his
players "don't deserve the internal bickering
that has existed here between the coach and
management."
"Any coach, in order to lead his men, must
have the authority to call the shots. I couldn't
tolerate the interference I was getting. The
situation started at the end of last season."
As a rookie head coach last year, Mar
chibroda took over a team which had posted
consecutive 5-9, 4-10 and 2-12 records, and
directed it to the division 'championship with
a 10-4 mark.
He immediately earned the respect not
only of his players but local fans, may of
whom strongly sided with Marchibroda in
discussing the resignation with Baltimore
reporters. One picket turned up outside the
Colts training camp early yesterday mor
ning, carrying a sign that read: "Put Joe
Thomas and `Jirksay' on waivers."
The resignation also surprised other NFL
coaches, including Washington's George
Allen, under whom Marchibroda worked nine
years.
"It's too bad because he's a good coach and
a fine person," Allen said. "Ted is a close
friend. He's a good coach and I think the
Baltimore Colts are the real losers in this.
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