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After warming the bench for the Los Angeles Rams, Joe Namath is ready for action. And he gets it on a train speeding through the Alps in the movie Avalanche Express. Broadway Joe and Lee Marvin have guns, will travel as U.S. agents delivering a KGB defector (Robert Shaw) to the West. Along the way they are pursued hotly by Maximilian Schell and a band of Russians, who ambush their train and cause, yes, an avalanche to come down on their heads. "I'm about sixth or seventh place in the cast," says Namath. But soon he will...
Later, Ken Freedberg came off the bench to stop two of the three shots Williams got on net over the final 24 minutes. This time, Benedict did the honors himself, notching his team's only tally of the second half...
...learned to play the game. The Dallas Tornado and the Colorado Caribous have five American starters. Says Dallas Coach Al Miller, one of two U.S. head coaches in the N.A.S.L.: "I have faith in the Americans. I think you can win with them. We have Americans sitting on the bench who could play on most clubs...
...addition to their high falutin averages, both sluggers spend the winters as playmaking guards on their basketball quintets. Stenhouse was delighted just to earn a berth on Frank McLaughlin's squad, but by the season's end he was a vital cog in the team. Wilhite came off the bench to galvanize the Lions' offense the past two years and scored a career high 27 points against Brown this season...
Sparked by the scoring of crack artillery unit Mike Faught (six goals), Steve Martin (three goals, three assists) and Peter Predun (two and three), the entrenched defense of goalie Ken First (20 saves) and a dramatic charge off the bench by Chris "The Beast" Doherty, Harvard controlled the first half before exploding in an 11-goal third quarter to put the game away...