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...Angeles' Jerry West became the first player in National Basketball Association play-off history to score 4000 career points as the Lakers held off a fourth-quarter New York comeback and defeated the Knicks 107-96 Wednesday night, gaining a 2-1 advantage in their championship series...
...Play-Off. L.A. Lakers vs. Bulls in third game of western conference play-off. 2, April 2. Chan...
...A.F.C. play-off victory over the World Champion Baltimore Colts. In Dallas, no less a booster than Lyndon Baines Johnson moseyed into town, cheered the Cowboys' N.F.C. play-off win over the San Francisco 49ers, roamed the locker room shaking hands, and drawled: "They wouldn't let us back on the range if you didn...
...play-off battle with the Colts, Griese was expected to trade largely on the running attack of his battering backs, Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick. It would be futile, so the smart money figured, to pass against a zone defense that was reputedly an impenetrable wall. Although Griese used his aerial attack with restraint, the bombs that he threw picked the zone apart in short order...
Freely and Feebly. The other play-off clash, between the hard-nosed defenses of Dallas and San Francisco, was, as 49er Defensive Tackle Earl Edwards had predicted, "an alley fight." Another 49er, noting Staubach's penchant for running with the ball when his receivers are covered, warned that "a quarterback who plays that way can get his neck broken." As it happened, nothing was broken except the 49ers' spirit. Staubach romped freely while veteran San Francisco Quarterback John Brodie passed feebly. Brodie had three passes intercepted, Staubach none; he was the Cowboys' leading ground gainer to boot...