European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse 70 the staks and stripes 1964 football fun to vet Oiler of Blanda Houston up Veteran quarterback George Blunda has been described As the person who has More fun playing foot Ball than anyone else in the an extremely competitive ire son with a Good knowledge of the game and Fine leadership Quali Blanda is now in his 15lh season As a the Long bomb artist started out with the Chicago bears of the National football league in he stayed out of football in representing the Spector freight system in when the american Fon Ball league formed in he joined the Houston the who leads the Sig Nal calling for is still the teams most dependable not great runner Couch Sammy Baugh suld re i would always prefer for George to throw the Hes not going to be a great run Ner lets face you dont really need running plays for Blands Long bomb How has been considerably Nulli fied during the last few seasons by defensive improvements of learns in the Blanda probably had his great est year in the league in when he threw for a and completed 36 touchdown also a he was Al league that and named player of the in recent years Blanda has Hud considerable interception Trou ifs Peak along that line was 4j interceptions in Pat string one of the greatest placement kickers the game has Ever Blanda is now working on a string of 59 successive conver he has hit 22 straight so far this since joining the Blanda has kicked six Field goals of m Yards or his longest being a Blanda set a nil record for successive extra Points with 1m straight while playing for the Chicago the kicking rec Ord was broken Only recently in the he is also the highest player in Bear Blanda hat attempted 142 passes this completed 112 and had u he has thrown for a total of including 1ft touchdown Wheeling Ernie new York fullback Ernie Wheelwright 30 goes for Short yardage during the giants 3417 upset of the Louis cardinals in a nil the cards Larry Wilson g was knocked out of the play by guard Bookie photo county supervisor untied pro team assails Board for braves treatment Milwaukee county supervisor said the county Board has not been Lily White in its dealings with the braves and should examine its own con Lawrence Timmerman told the Board it was guilty of Penny pinching and did less than it might in some transactions with the National league baseball he said the Board had failed to enact an ordinance prohibiting ticket sales outside the stadium and had failed to Slop carrying of bottled and canned Board chairman Eugene Grob Schmidt said Timmerman was misstating the Grob Schmidt said a Resolution to pre vent the ticket sales had been but was not submitted because braves president John Sci Sale had requested it be held up until this the Board also adopted a Resolution commending the six wis Consin directors who had voted against the proposed they were called six valiant men who tried to Stem the Bills Rule Al in major stats new Yorik a the Buffalo whose idea of How to play football is grind it out but dont give anything Are the Only undefeated and untied team in pro the Amer ican football leagues statistics show in the team offence and de sense figures released the Bills arc 1 in All but i one of the major categories and a very Good second in that with big cookie Gilchrist showing the Buffalo has the Best Al running averaging Yards per game and Yards per add 5 Yar to the Yards the Bills have gained by Rushing a total of Yards on 102 completed pusses and you get Yards and an impressive average of Yards per the Oakland raiders arc first in passing offence with Yards on 151 aver aging Yards a that gives them second in total of sense with an average of Yards per on defense Buffalo has yielded Only Yards in eight games 032 by Rushing and 902 by passing for an Overall average of Yards per there first All the they have fumbled is times and lost seven of their pass completion percentage is no Otto lowest and their percentage of interceptions is the team defence nil Rookie dissatisfied at Success Louis up title he Story of Louis Cardinal Rookie fullback Willis Crenshaw Tacal boy makes Good but not Good enough to suit a went to High school in Louis before i going to Kansas Hes a pc Rcd twice before the Home folks and them both i limes with powerful running and u second Effort unusual even for i a i nut arc Nsheiw will be the first one to Tell you Hes not As Good us he lip knows he the mistakes of a the Murk no a pro is that he never rets Crenshaw in that game against Dai i ins when we were deep in our own i got excited and i didst concentrate on a screen pass i went Richl instead of left and the play the husky Ball Carrier was the teams leading round gainer with 71 Yards from scrum Mug in that he also gained 39 Yards on pass receptions mostly on plays requiring him to take a Short pass and bust away from Crenshaw electrified the crowd hut Ixia is lost 3113 and he was not its Good to do Well ill Home hut in never satisfied unless we Crenshaw commented after the head Couch Watty and we Hud a perfect screen set up on nne Side and he Cren Shuw went to the other ills Fumble hurl these Are the kind of mistakes you expect from a of mistakes he runs with a lot of a umm added he makes a lol of mistakes but Hes going to be u Good pro foot Bull Crenshaw was recommended As a he was there Wlton the Al stars and he looked fairly decent so we decided to try him at Kansas they used him at line Backer and Crenshaw said he feels better it running Back and i thought that was my Best position As far us making the team was con explaining his second Effort and powerful Crenshaw i try to run balanced m Good things in 4s Minneapolis s Paul run Turk enl own of the Mono soon Vikings has tossed four touchdown pusses in a game five times during you have to his Brief career in the Nallo Naf football in ready when in of youve got to turn strength to stand the farce of the run and lean not to get hit Crenshaw far enough Philadelphia Eagle halfback Tim Brown 22 it for redskins Atkins after a Kickoff return foil Owlet a Redskin touchdown la second Quarter action of their Nauphal football league clash i Wash Ugto capitalized of us Lough defense to beat the press International photo dont sit on Tokyo told los Angeles up one of the nations top athletic officials pointedly warned the against sitting Buck on its olym Pic laurels and suld the russians will have a pedal reason for trying to hog the Gold medals in Mexico the russians were completely shocked by the fact we won 30 out of 36 Gold medals in truck and fleli1 and the two major events during the Tokyo suld col Donald executive director of tie Amateur athletic Union we can never Hope to win thai Many again because the russians Are going to Muku sure have much better teams it mexi co City four years from Hull they wanted the next olym Pic games to be held in Mexico City for u special the j know the people Down there Are and poor people generally Are fur More susceptible in communism than the russians figure if they can Pake a Gre showing in the Mexico City it would be u tremendous feul Hor in their in nol talking from i know for a fact the russians already have offered to Send some of their couches to help the Hull i Gabriel said he might go Down to Mexico just to help out despite the fact he previously Hud said he planned to retire of tar this in any Amateur or pro there is u Normal ten Dency to relax a bit after a win Ning performance and after our olympians certainly would seem entitled to do Lucr can Mere u common tendency to coast in or country for two years and in work feverishly for the next Hull claims that would be i grave after each there if our then two years simply to get he pointed we cant afford to do that this sure we did Well in track and maybe a lot Tat tier than we Ever but How about our performances to the lesser known sports in talking about events such As fencing and free style and Greco roman we didst exactly bowl Over All the other countries in those our country has a Fine pro Gram mapped oui in truck and Field and swimming for the next four he but were going to have to step up the Pace in those other
