European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday november 20, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 21 Browns Miami tops Bills takes title topple raiders Oakland a Cleveland quarterback Mike Phipps threw a seven Yard touchdown pass to fair Hooker to Cap an 80-Yard first half touchdown drive and the Browns defense shut out Oakland until the final minutes sunday for a 7-3 National foot Ball league Victory. The Browns 6-3-1, gained ground on american football conference Central Leader Pitts Burgh 8-2, and play the Steeles next sunday in Cleveland. Oakland 5-4-1, fell from first to third in the acc West behind Kansas City and Denver. Phipps threw two first Down passes to Frank Pitts in the Sec Ond Quarter touchdown drive. Buffalo . A the Miami dolphins overpowered the Buffalo Bills 17-0 in a National football league game sunday and won their third consecutive East division title in the Ameri can conference. Larry Csonka and Paul War Field each scored a touchdown and Garo Yepremian booted a 39 Yard Field goal As the dolphins won their ninth game against on loss. Buffalo s Only Consolation was the powerful running of Jim Braxton who gained 119 Yards and . Simpson whose four carries for 57 Yards late in the game gave him 120 and a 10 game total of 1,323. It was the first time in 46 first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards dolphins Bills 17 is 42-154 39-242 123 71 49 32 11-204 6-22-1 4-39 6-35 3-0 2-1 3-14 7-65 games that the dolphins had allowed two 100-Yard-plus out bursts by an opponent. The dolphins with Mercury Morris carrying 12 Yards on his first Effort marched 80 Yards in 18 plays for their first touch Down with Csonka plunging in from the one. Twice during the drive the dolphins were confronted with fourth Down and one Yard situations and each time they made it. Jim Kiick got the necessary yardage on both occasions two Yards the first time and five the second. The dolphins upped their Lead to 10-0 on Yepremian s Field goal 10 seconds into the second period. They scored again at 13 44 of the period As Bob Griese connected with Warfield on a 17-Yard pass. Prior to that score the Bills drove from their own 20 to the Miami four but the dolphins stopped them at the one on four plays. Morris wound up with 79 Yards in 13 carries and Csonka collected 56 in 15 rushes. Miami 7 10 0 017 Buffalo 0 0000 Mia Csonka 1 run Yepremian kick Mia Fig Yepremian 39 Mia Warfield 17 pass from Griese Yepremian kick a77,138 rams plaster the 49ers, 31-13 had i Jackson combo Clicks on 3 to passes first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards Browns raiders 14 13 43-158 26-97 68 75 58 4 9-17-0 17-33-0 10-43 11-15 5-3 1-0 5-40 8-77 but Pitts was temporarily sidelined after a hard tackle by the raiders Jack Tatum and Phipps aimed for Hooker in the. End zone three plays later. The receiver got behind All pro cornerback Willie Brown and took a perfect pass from the quarterback in the left Corner of the end zone. The Cleveland defense aided by the Long punts of Don Cockroft prevented the raiders from moving the Ball any further than the Cleveland 37-Yard line until the last Quarter. Tatum recovered a Phipps Fumble at the Cleveland 47 with about six minutes left in the game and when the Browns held at the 16, George Blanda kicked a 23-Yard Field goal with 4 46 remaining. The raiders who suffered a second straight defeat ended the game on Cleveland s 40. But they had used up All their time outs and were unable to Stop the clock after a pass completion from Ken Stabler to Cliff Branch. Cleveland 070 07 Oakland 000 33 Cle Hooker 7 pass from Phipps cock Roft kick Oak Fig Blanda 23 a47,398 Harold Jackson. Little or. Big los Angeles a John Hadl hit the Fleet Little Harold Jackson with three touchdown passes covering 25, 22 and 57 Yards sunday propelling the los Angeles rams to a 31-13 Victory Over the san Francisco 49ers. The Hadl Jackson Aerial show augmented by defensive half Back Charlie Stukes s two pass interceptions kept the rams at the top of the National football conference West division with an 8-2 record. San Francisco now 3-7, grabbed a 3-0 Lead on the last play of the first Quarter before the sellout crowd of 78,358 on a 24 Yard Field goal by sex ram Bruce Gossett. With the second Quarter 5 49 old Hadl found Jackson behind defender Bruce Taylor and hit him with a 25-Yard touchdown pass that with David Ray s con version put los Angeles ahead to stay. Gossett added a 17-Yard Field goal cutting the count to 7-6, be fore Ray hit from 37 Yards out and the Hadl Jackson flying circus performed again on their 22-Yard scoring play to make the score 17-6. Both the Ray Field goal and the second touchdown followed interceptions with less than two min Turner s three Fps help Broncos Surprise feelers Pittsburgh a Jim Turner kicked three Field goals including a 46-Yard go ahead Boot that hit the crossbar and tumbled Over with 5 31 to play to help the Denver Broncos to a 23 13 upset win Over the Pittsburgh Steeles sunday in a National football league game. The Steeles whose Streak of regular season Home wins was halted at 13, fell behind 16-13 on the tie breaking kick by Turner. Pittsburgh s Steve Davis lost a Fumble at the Pittsburgh 27-Yard line on the ensuing Kickoff and Denver s Charlie Johnson hit Riley odoms with a two Yard pass for an insurance touchdown first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards Broncos Steeles 20 49-184 73 126 13-20-0 4-43 3-0 4-37 12 24-83 217 119 10-19-0 3-43 3-3 3-45 Namath led drive fails bengals outlast jets 20-14 Cincinnati up Joe Namath made his first appear Ance in eight games sunday and nearly rallied the new York jets to Victory Over the Cincinnati bengals but the clock ran out after his Brilliant passing had brought the jets to within six inches of the Cincinnati goal and the bengals escaped with a 20-14 Victory. Trailing 20-14 and starting a drive on their own 22-Yard line with 1 37 remaining the jets moved to the Cincinnati one Yard line on five passes by Namath. A penalty moved the Ball to within a half Yard of the Cincinnati goal with 19 seconds to. Play. Cliff  tried to run for the touchdown but was Stop Ped six inches from the goal. Out of timeouts the clock ran out on the jets before Namath could get off another play. Namath s passing accounted for All 78 Yards in the jets Des first Downs rushes Yard passing Yards return Yard passes punt fumbles lost penalties Yards jets bengals 21 11 29-93 33-132 264 76 84 94 44-26-2 19-104 7-36 9-36 4-2 2-1 4-50 8-78 operation drive. He fired passes of 21 and 16 Yards to Rich Caster then connected with Eddie Bell on a 31-yarder and finally hit Caster again on a 10-yarder to bring the Ball to the one. Namath out since the second game of the season with a Sepa rated shoulder entered the game with 4 40 left in the contest. He completed his first pass a 12 yarder to Bell but that drive ended when Bell fumbled. The jets got Possession again after Cincinnati punted and Namath went to work again. Namath finished with six completions in 13 attempts while starter Al Woodall was 20-for-31 with two interceptions. Cincinnati had jumped to a 17-0 Lead in the second Quarter on a 24-Yard touchdown pass from Ken Anderson to Rookie Isaac Curtis a one Yard to run by Rookie Bobbie Clark and a 26- continued on Page 23 six plays later. The Broncos who scored More Points than any other team this season against Pittsburgh climbed to 5-3-2 and second place in the american conference West Pittsburgh fell to 8-2, but maintained its Lead in the acc Central division. Denver snapped a 6-6 halftime tie with a 67-Yard touchdown March on the opening series of the third Quarter. Floyd Little who led All rushers with 87 Yards capped the nine play drive with a 10-Yard touchdown run that gave Denver a 13-6 Edge. However Steeler quarterback Terry Hanratty hit Ron Shanklin with a 42-Yard touchdown pass to pull Pittsburgh even with 1 46 gone in the final period. The Steeles drove 80 Yards in four plays for the tying score Denver 337 1023 Pittsburgh 330 713 Den Fig Turner 32 pit Fig Gerelow 15 pit Fig Gerela 13 Den Fig Turner 11 Den Little 10 run Turner kick pit Shanklin 42 pass from Hanratty Gerela kick Den Fig Turner 46 Den odoms 2 pass from Johnson Turner kick a-48,580 wha Call up defens Eman St. Paul Minn. A the Minnesota fighting saints of the world hockey association have called up defens Eman Elaine Rydman from their Southern league Junco suns Teeft at St. Petersburg Fla. Utes to play in the half by Stukes the 29-year-old Dean of the rams secondary. He first picked off a Joe Reed pass at the rams 36 and re turned to the 39. Next he grabbed one at the 49ers 42 and promptly first Downs rushes Yards passing Yards return Yards passes punts fumbles lost penalties Yards 49ers. Rams 12 21-66 129 26 12-31-2 6-41 2-0 1-5 21 48-185 229 20 13-24-0 5-41 2-1 7-80 ran out of Bounds. Los Angeles opened the second half leading 17-6 and went to Ball control. After taking the Kickoff the rams used up 9 33 with a 16 play drive All on the ground with Jim Bertelsen scoring from the five around right end. But the Hadl Jackson show was t Over. The 5-10, 170-Pound wide receiver got behind the 49er secondary grabbed a pass at the 30 and raced to the goal unmolested on the 57-Yard play. San Francisco scored a touch Down late in the fourth period aided by a pass interference Call against Stukes who was guard ing Dan Abramowicz in the end zone. Vic Washington then scored from one Yard out. San Francisco 330 713 los Angeles 0 17 7 731 of Fig Gossett 24 la Jackson 25 pass from Hadl Ray kick of Fig Gossett 17 la Fig Ray 37 la Jackson 22 pass from Hadl Ray kick la Bertelsen 5 run Ray kick la Jackson 57 pass from Hadl Ray kick of a. Washington 1 run Gossett kick a78,358 Yankee stadium funds approved new York a after a Stormy session the new York City Board of estimate voted 14 to 8 to approve an additional $15.9 million to renovate yankee1 stadium bringing the latest Price tag to $49.9 million. The 50-year-old stadium Origi Nally Cost $2.5 million to build. When City funding of the refurbishing project was first proposed the Purchase and remodelling Cost was put at $24 million. After the Board acted How Ever councilman Matthew j. Troy chairman of the City coun cil s finance committee renewed his threat to Cut off the added funds until mayor John Lind say s administration provides final Cost figures