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but still joking
f PITTSBURGH (AP) Quarterback Terry Hanratty may
have lost his job with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but he hasn't
lost his sense of humor.
"Maybe they'll wear black arm bands now that I'm gone,"
quipped the - shaggy-haired mustachioed veteran from Notre
Dame.
Hanratty was waived by the Steelers, who had to pare their
roster down to the league limit of 43 players. Nine others were
'either waived, traded or placed on the injured list.
' If Hanratty is not picked up by another team, he becomes a
free agent.
The Butler, Pa., native has played in just four league games
in the past two years, but he becamea fixture on the sidelines,
easily identified by his baseball cap and clipboard. He was
also the team's comedian.
"I don't know if there is a capable replacement for me,"
Hanratty joked. "I've been grooming Jack Lambert over the
years, but sometimes he has a tendency to take things too
seriously."
The club returns to Three Rivers Stadium to begin workouts
for Sunday's season opener in Oakland and Hanratty's not so
sure he'll even be missed.
"I could see it coming," he said after Steeler President Dan
Rooney called him with the news. "It wasn't only that I wasn't
playing, but I wasn't even practicing with the offense."
Hanratty has not really played since 1973 when he steered
the team in nine games. After starting quarterback Terry
Bradshaw had a poor playoff game against Oakland that year,
Noll told Hanratty he would have an equal chance to win the
job in 1974.
0 1 , But the players went on strike and Hanratty stayed out. He
played three games that year, one the next and only briefly in
two games this pre-season.
The backup job now falls to rookie Mike Kruczek, the
Steelers' second-round pick from Boston College who has
completed 18 of 33 preseason passes for 117 yards, including
three touchdoivns and only one interception.
"It was one of the biggest surprises I've ever had," Kruczek
said after hearing of Hanratty's dismissal. "I'm glad they
have the confidence in me, but the thing Terry Hanratty of
fered was seven years experience."
Coach Chuck Noll had little to say about his quest for the
team's third straight Super Bowl with only two quarterbacks.
"I don't think it is a problem," he said. "We're just going
with the people we feel are best. It's as simple as that."
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top WVU tight end
MORGANTOWN, W. Va.
( AP) West Virginia
University Football Coach
Frank Cignetti said yesterday
that he has indefinitely
suspended senior tight end
sandy . Swinson for
isciplinary reasons.
WVU Sports Information
Director Ron Steiner told The
Associated Press that he was
told by the WVU coaching
staff that Swinson's
suspension will be for the
remainder of the season.
"We don't think Randy will
be back on the team this
year," Steiner said.
WVU, which compiled a 9-3
record last season and
defeated North Carolina State
in the Peach Bowl, opens its
‘4976 season here Saturday
against Villanova.
A native of Washington,
D.C., Swinson started all but
one of the Mountaineers'
games last season. He was
suspended , by then-WVU
Coach Bobby Bowden for the
,Mountaineers' final regular
season game against
Syracuse for a discipline
related incident at a practice
session, • but was reinstated
prior to the Peach Bowl.
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on discipline," Cignetti said
following the Mountaineers'
practice yesterday. "No one
individual is exempt from
these rules. We have ex
cellent morale and team
unity, and I am not going to
let one individual disrupt this
unity."
Cignetti said it is a team
rule that "our players must
respect all on-the-field
coaching decisions. Our
coaches will not compromise
on this."
,Cignetti , would
elaborate on the incident.
A former All-Metropolitan
Washington selection at
Springarn ' High School,
Swinson caught 19 passes for
282 yards last season. His
most important reception was
a 26-yard catch with just 10
seconds remaining that set up
place kicker Bill McKenzie's
game-winning field goal in
WVU's 17-14 upset of Pitt.
Cignetti said that junior
Ben McDay of Johnstown,
Pa., and sophomore Pete
McConnell of Smoke Rise,
N.J., now will divide playing
time at split end. •
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Buttle high on sputtering Jets
PITTSBURGH During those mo
ments Saturday night when Joe Na
math's derierre wasn't pinned to the
Tartan Turf by the Steelers, a New
York Jet rookie from Penn State was
getting worked over by the Pitts
burgh offense.
But Greg Buttle, a 1975 starting
middle linebacker for Joe Paterno r
refused to plunge into the pool of
pessimism, even if his new football
playmates from New York City had
lost their fifth of six exhibition games.
"The Steelers were no better than
anyone else," said the Jet's third round
draft pick. "We haven't played well.
We have too many mental mistakes."
And making mistakes against the
Steelers is comparable to sticking your
arm in a lion's cage. You get mauled
both ways. Like New York did 41-6.
"All right, this score," • Buttle began
to counter, "anytime you make a lot of
mental mistakes you're gonna get
killed.
"And that's what we're doing.
Because, we're a young team. We gotta
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bat during Monday night's from San Diego Padres hurler
baseball game and underwent Randy Jones.
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figure a lot of things out."
Buttle is no exception. Back in his
Nittany Lion days, Buttle was one of
two middle linebackers. The Jets use
only one. The'difference, says Buttle, is
that "when I play middle, I'm reading
the whole thing (defense) instead of
just part of it."
To add more confusion into the
rookie's brain, the Jets are also trying
Buttle out at the left linebacker
position. "When I'm playing outside,
it's some place I've never played
before. Give me another week or so of
playing it and I'll be all right."
The game with Pittsburgh was a sort
of Penn State reunion for the 22-year
old Long Island resident. John
Ebersole, Class of '69, was at
linebacker for the Jets, and Steelers'
Jack Ham, '7O, Franco Harris, '7l, Jim
Rosecrans, '76, and Ron Coder, '76
were there to rehash old times.
"Jim Rosecrans and I are best
friends, and I see him." said Buttle. "I
talk to Jam (Ham) out on the field, and
Franco, you know. Everybody that I
played with. You always talk after or
during the game."
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Unlike Rosectans who was cut by the
Steelers this week, and Coder, traded i
to Seattle, Buttle figures to be a giant
part in his team's future. The Jet's new iii
coach, Lou Holtz, has started him in
most of the exhibitions.: . :
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Being drafted by a non-contender
didn't bother him at all: "It didn't
matter to me where I went, it just so
happens I went to New York.
"And I like New York I like the
competition here. There's a lot of
competition wherever you go."
"The city? Well, that's kind of
crowded," he said, trying to separate
his feelings for the team from its
surrounding environment. "I don't get
in there too much right now.
"But once the season starts I might
get in a couple times."
That is another big adjustment Greg
Buttle must make: moving from State
College to the Big Apple. "It's funny,"
he sighed, " because I feel that I have to
go back (to Penn State). But I'm not
going back.
"You know, every September you go
to school. But I'm not going to school.
I'll miss Penn State."
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Phillies frolic at
batting practice
PITTSBURGH (AP) The Philadelphia Phillies, under a
fourth-quarter blitz by the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a football
around in the outfield during off-day batting practice
yesterday.
Third baseman Mike Schmidt played a loose man-to-man
defense on first baseman Dick Allen as both, clad in shorts and
t-shirts, caught passes with a handful of teammates.
Of course, the entire Phillie team also took some serious
batting practice in an effort to end the batting woes that have
been a key factor in their slide.
"There are 15 guys here who weren't asked to show up, but
they're here anyway," said second baseman Dave Cash. •
Two weeks ago, the Phillies had a 15% game lead over the
Pittsburgh Pirates in baseball's National League East.
The Pirates' doubleheader sweep here Labor Day trimmed
that to just 5 1 / 2 games in advance of another matchup between
the two teams here tonight.
The Pirates have won 12 of their last 13; the Phillies have
dropped 10 of 11.
"It's been a combination of two things," said Cash. "We
haven't had our hitting together and we've seen some real
good pitching." • .
On Monday, the Phils had six hits in their 6-2 loss in the
opening game against Pirate pitchers Bruce Kison and Kent
Tekulve. They had four hits in their 5-1 second-game loss to
Larry Demery.
Phillie shortstop Larry Bowa, who batted 0-8 Monday, found
solace in the standings:
"Look at it this way," he said. "If somebody came up to you
in April and said, we'll give you a six-game lead over the
Pirates in September, would you take it?"
Of course, the question remains about the Phils' present
mental attitude. Are they in a psychological rut? Might the
Pirates have that elusive edge in momentum?
• Cash, who once played with the Pirates, sidestepped that
question.
"These are 25 completely different individuals," he said.
"You know it doesn't matter what your attitude is, our
main objective here is to "win. The attitude is a secondary
thing."
Allen, who played on the '64 Philadelphia club that made an
epic collapse, declined to give interviews yesterday afternoon.
Pirate outfielder Al Oliver, seeing pinchhitting duty only in
recent games because of an inner ear infection, was among a
half dozen Pirates who worked out yesterday.
"The way we're going right now, I'd think you could take
nine guys off the street, put a Pirate uniform on them, and
they'd win," Oliver said.
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