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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday october 7, 1985 bears rally to trip bucs a Bolo Chicago s Waller pay Ion. Loolah career to Tampa Al i. A Waller Paylon scored on runs of 4 and 9 Yards sunday and became the sixth Man in National football league history to score 100 career touch Downs As the unbeaten Chicago hairs rallied from a nine Point half Lime deficit sunday to beat the Tampa Bay buccaneers 27-19. Jim Mcmahon threw a 21-Yard to pass to Dennis Mckinnon and Kevin Butler also kicked Field goals of 30 and 31 Yards for Chi Cago which hiked its record 10 5-0 inc club s Best Start since 1963, when the bears won their last nil championship. The bears defense meanwhile held bucs running Back James Wilder the league s leading rusher to Only 29 Yards on 18 carries. Wilder was gunning for a record tying seventh cons Clive 100-Yard game. Tampa Bay dropped to 0-5 after its second loss to the bears in five weeks. The bucs also led at halftime of the first meeting on sept. 8, but faltered after intermission. Mcmahon s i oth touchdown pass of the season and Mckinnon s sixth scoring reception Cut Tampa Bay s 12-3 half time Lead to 12-10. Butler s 31-Yard Field goal gave Chicago a 13-12 advantage As time expired in the third Quarter and Payton s 100th career to covered the final four Yards of 10-play, 77-Yard drive that made it 20-12 with 7 51 left in inc panic. Tampa Bay quarterback Steve Daft org brought his team right Back though throwing a 25-Yard to pass of Gerald car Ter that sliced the hues deficit one Point with 5 21 logo. Mcmahon put the game away in inc closing minutes throwing 49 Yards to Wil lie Gaul to set up Payton s second touch Down w Atli 52 seconds left. The bears appeared Fiat in the first two quarters when Tampa Bay capitalized on two Chicago turnovers and built a 12-0 Lead on the strength of do Borg s 21-Vard touch Down pass to Kevin House and of fold goals of 19 and 36 Yards by Donald Igic Buick. Mcmahon the nil s top rated passer took charge in the final two minutes of the opening half. He directed scoring drives on four of Chicago s next five possessions to fashion the 20-12 Lead. Sunday s script was much like that of sept. 8 when the bucs built a 28-17 Lead and went on to lose 38-28. Igwe Buick s 19-Yard Field goal gave Tampa Bay a 3-0 Lead seven plays after bucs linebacker Chris Washington forced a Ken Marcrum Fumble and recovered at Llic bears 29 Early in the second Quarter. Tampa Bay safely David Greenwood intercepted a Mcmahon pass and returned it 5 Yards to his own 41 to set up the bucs first touchdown. Do Borg launched the 4-play, 59-Yard drive w Ith an 18-Yard completion to Giles. After Ron Springs lost 2 on a run the Tampa Bay quarterback found Giles for 22 Yards at the Chicago 21. House then beat bears cornerback Leslie Frazier to the left rear Corner of the end Rone for his to reception. A bad snap from Center prevented Igic Buick from attempt ing the Point after kick and the bucs led 9 0 with 8 38 remaining in the first half. Five minutes later Igwe Buick s 36-Yard Field goal made it 12-0 and lit a fuse in the bears who drove 47 Yards in nine plays to get on the scoreboard with Butler s 30-Yard Field goal with one second left in the half. The bears who started the Day averaging 34 Points a game scored on four of six offensive possessions in the second half. The Triumph was the bears sixth straight Over Tampa Bay and was Chicago 12th in its last 13 games against a pfc Central division opponent. Dolphins nip Steeles with late to Miami a Dan Marino shackled most of the Day by a two deep St Clurs zone Blanket engineered a Brilliant last Quarter drive capped by Lorenzo Hampton s 2-Yard touchdown run with 47 seconds left to give the Miami dolphins a 24-20 Victory Over Pittsburgh for their fourth win in a Row. The Victory erased what had been a Brilliant Effort by a Pittsburgh defense that had intercepted Marino three limes just the second time in his three year career that Marino has surrendered three kickoffs. One of those by Robin Cole had set up a 33 Yard Field goal by Gary Anderson with 8 25 left that gave the St Clurs a 20-17 Lead. But with the dolphins at their own 25 and 4 10 left Marino who finished with 27 completions in 45 attempts for 277 Yards marched Miami to Victory. He found Mark Claylon for 27 Yards Over the Middle then fired the Ball 21 Yards to tight end Bruce Hardy on a Lhird-and-9 from the St Clurs 37. On a second and goal from the 2, he pitched out to Hampton who waltzed around left end for the winning score. For the St Clurs 2-3, it was the fifth loss against the dolphins without a win at the Orange bowl dating Back to 1971. The dolphins Are 4-j. The Steeles took a 17-14 Lead at half time on a 1-Yard touchdown toss from Malone that the 6-foot-6 we Gie Thompson plucked out of the air with 12 seconds left in the half. That came after Miami had taken a 14-10 Lead with just under two min utes left. Then the dolphins used the first six min utes of the second half to drive 62 Yards to the Pittsburgh 18, from where Fuad Reveiz kicked a 35-Yard Field goal to tic it 17-17. But both defences asserted themselves after that and it was a defensive play that led to the next score an interception by Cole that gave the St Clurs the Ball at the Miami 17. Three plays netted just to o Yards and Pittsburgh was forced to Settle for Anderson s 33-Yard Field goal. The dolphins jumped to a 7-0 Lead on their first Possession going 53 Yards in nine plays As Manno mixed Short Range and medium Range passes with the running of Woody Bennett. Tony Nathan Dove Over from the 1 for the score the first touchdown allowed in the first Quarter by the Steeles in their last 18 regular season games. But that was it for the Miami of fuse As the Steeles secondary dropped deep and forced Marino to throw Short underneath to his backs and tight ends. Finally Early in the second Quarter. Pittsburgh got its first break when Cole stripped Nathan of the bail and Shell recovered for inc Steeles at the dolphins 18. Five plays later Walter Abr Crombie who finished Wilh 91 Yards in 14 carries vaulted Over from the 1 to lie it 7-7. Then Pittsburgh took a 10-7 Lead on its next pos session on Anderson s 48-Yard Field goal. That seemed o energize he Miami of sense which went 80 Yards in nine plays without Ever facing a third Down situation to take a 14-10 Lead. Marino was 5-for-5 for 56 Yards on the drive including the 2-Yard touchdown pass Wilh 1 56 left in he half to Light end Dan Johnson who was activated saturday Afler having an appendectomy. But Pittsburgh came right Back driving 75 Yards in nine plays for the go ahead score helped by a 30-Yard pass interference Call on Miami s John swam who ran into Louis Lipps in the end zone. Two plays later Malone tossed the Ball High into the air to Thompson who leaped Over William Judson for he score hat put the St Clurs ahead again. Colts Humble wingless Bills Indianapolis a full Back Randy Mcmillan returning after a two week absence with an ankle injury rushed for 112 Yards and two touchdowns sunday leading the Indianapolis Colts to a 49-17 rout of the wingless Buffalo Bills. The Colls now 2-3, also got pass interceptions by Veteran Barry Krauss and Rookie Duane Bickett that set up two second Quarter touchdown runs by George Wonsley and Rookie Anthony Young scored in the third period on a 28-Yard return of a Buffalo Fumble. The 49 Points was the most by the Colts since dec. 12, 1976, in a 58-20 Victory Over Buffalo. It was the 1 Lih consecutive loss on the Road for the Bills 0-5 this season and it spoiled the nil head coach ing debut for Buffalo s Hank Bui Lough. Krauss started the Indianapolis rout with his interception at the Bills 43 late in the opening period setting up Wonsley s 7-Yard to run six plays later on the opening play of the second period. Montana lifts 49ers Over Falcons Atlanta a Joe Montana operating a Short passing attack to perfection fired five touchdown passes As the san Francisco 49ers downed the Allan la fal cons 38-17 Here sunday. Montana generally throwing passes of 10 Yards or less to a variety of receivers broke the club record for attempts completions and yardage As he hit on 37 of 57 passes for 429 Yards. The five scoring passes equated the 49er record. Montana s touchdown passes covered 46 Yards to Roger Craig 14 to Wendell Tyler 25 to Jerry Rice 5 to John Frank and 32 to Dwight Clark. Craig had a club record 12 receptions for 167 Yards As the miners bounced Back from last week s upset loss to new Orleans to lift their record to 3-2. The iwo Leams combined for two nil records by completing 68 of 102 attempts. The old Alt pts record was 100 Sci in fast year s Tampa Bay Kansas City game anti the previous completion Mark was 66, Sci in a game Between Cincinnati and san Diego in 1982. The Falcons dropped their fifth in a Row this season and their i3th in 14 games Dat ing Back to last year. The 49crs never trailed and put the game out of reach with two scores within a 20-Secpnd Span of the fourth Quarter that came just Afler Reserve quarterback David Archer s 29-Yard touchdown run for Allan Vacut the Lead to 17-10. Montana immediately engineered a 67 Yard drive in seven plays Hilling on Ihrck of four passes for 46 Yards including his Long esl pass of inc Day inc 25-yarder to Rice in the end zone. On Atlanta s first play Afler the Kickoff Dwaine Board sacked Archer for an 11 Yard loss and forced a Fumble Hal Todd Shell recovered on the Falcons 5. Montana passed to Frank for inc score on the next play and the liners had a 31-10 Lead with i 26 remaining. Atlanta s other touchdown came on a 20 Yard run by Bob Holly the Leam s third quarterback in Llic game in inc final four minutes. Mick Luckhurst kicked a 45-Yard Field goal in the second Quarter. Saints sputter to 23-21 win Over eagles new Orleans a Johnnie Poe raced 40 Yards to score with an inner Coplon and Morten Andersen kicked Ihrck Field goals As the new Orleans saints overcame a sputtering offence to defeat the Phila Delphia eagles 23-21 Here sunday. Cornerback Dave Waymer picked off three interceptions in the game the final one com ing Wilh 1 24 icel As Philadelphia made it last desperate attempt to Salvage a Victory. It was almost exclusively a defensive Victory for the saints. The offence had to Sellic for Field goals after being Given excellent Field position on three occasions by the defense the Only offensive touchdown for the saints came on a 31-Yard pass from Dave Wilson Loeu Gene Goodlow in the first Quarter. Andersen s Field goals were from 40 Yards in the first Quarter to gel the saints off to a 3-0 Lead from 33 Yards in the second Quarter and 43 Yards Wilh 6 54 icel in the game. Poe s scoring interception return came with 6 34 left in the second Quarter and gave new Orleans a 20-0 Lead. At Hal Point Veteran Ron Jaworski relieved starter Randall Cunningham at quarterback for the eagles  
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