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...still be faking a pass after running five yards over the line of scrimmage. Crone gets hot occasionally (fortunately, he's hit his groove in the first half against Yale for the last two years), and he never really looks bad enough to permanently find a seat on the bench. But he rarely has the consistency to "put it all together" for four quarters, much less the whole season...
...bunt. Pinch hitter Dave Duncan drilled a single down the left field line, and Odom streaked to third. On a low pitch shortstop Bert Campaneris popped up behind first base. Joe Morgan called off first baseman Tony Ferez, pulled in the ball, and threw a sizzler to catcher Johnny Bench, who tagged out the sliding Odom...
...Year. He threw a lot of interceptions (24) in 1971, though, and was taken out of the 49ers game with Buffalo this year with an injured wrist. With two touchdown tosses last week against New Orleans, he is still in better shape than Jurgensen, 38, who glowers on the bench (at $125,000 a year) while that determined disciplinarian, George Allen, sticks with disciplined Billy Kilmer at the Redskin helm. Unitas joined Namath on that stratospheric day in Baltimore to set an N.F.L. record for most passing yardage gained by two teams in one game...
...Johnny Bench, the National League home run champion, drilled the second pitch by Dave Giusti into the rightfield seats to tie the Pirates 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth...
...minute interference penalty to Minnesota's Jean-Paul Parise during the final game, the Canadian player charged toward him threateningly with his stick. Though he did not touch the official, Parise was expelled from the game. In the ensuing uproar, a chair from the Canadian bench area clattered onto...