T' THE MICHIGAN DAILY MTTh3TAv- fU"W'ITrm 10 on _ _____ ___ .___.___ . Rll1V v1 tiZ, Vl 1V/3r,1L l f, 195:f rnbeaten Packers Host Rams in To NFL Game ears To Host World Champion Colts, Finless Detroit Battles San Francisco PRO BASKETBALL NOTES: Celtics Nip Royals in Opener, 129-125 " By HAL APPLEBAUM Despite talk of expansion, rival leagues and the death of the com- missioner, the warriors of the NFL will take the field today in their weekly warfare. Highlighting the schedule will be two Western Conference battles, one pitting the defending cham- pion Baltimore Colts against the erratic Chicago Bears, and the hNU CoachG C Oh Com-1ments On Game By FRED KATZ Associate Sports Editor "I don't care whether we win by one or 50 - just as long as we win," said Northwestern coach Ara Parseghian, minutes after his club continued their unbeaten ways by whipping Michigan, 20-7, yesterday. Parseghian was still unnerved by a relatively closer call than the score would indicate. "If Michigan had scored when they were on our two-yd. line in the fourth quarter, it would have been a lot different game," he analyzed. "It's getting so that we have to fight, for our lives in every game." Hard To Relax Judging from the difficulty he was having in trying to relax, the tight battles seem to be having their effect on the 35-year-old coach. "I haven't been so concerned about a game in a long time," he revealed. "We knew Michigan would be up for this one because of last year's game (Michigan lost 55-24), and we knew our boys would be down." Parseghian said Michigan played a spirited, hard-fought battle and that his 'Cats "had to do it the hard way." He was especially dismayed about the number of Northwest- ern fumbles (five out of six were recovered by Michigan). Too Many Fumbled "You just can't fumble the way we did, particularly when and where we did, and expect to win very often," he said. Parseghian, who is having trou- ble keeping together a healthy squad, was glad that Michigan's line was more the size of North- western's. "Wait until Michigan plays Minnesota next week and runs into those 240-pound linemen; they're real monsters," he relat- ed from experience. Northwestern. barely skipped past the Gophers last week, 6-0. Comparing both Minnesota and Michigan, Parseghian calls the ,Wolverines much more versatile offensively, but thinks that Min- nesota's line could make the dif- ference. A visitor greeted Parseghian with the question: "Just how- did you ,win today's game?" The coach raised his arms and eyes toward the ceifing, sighing, "I think the Good Man Upstairs bad a lot to do with it." other matching the undefeated Green Bay Packers with the Los Angeles Rams. Rounding out the action in the Western Cdnference the Detroit Lions are host to the San Fran- cisco '49ers. , The New York Giants and Phil- adelphia Eagles tied with the Washington Redskins for first place battle in Yankee Stadium in the top game in the Eastern Divi- sion today. At Washington To complete the slate the Pitts- burgh Steelers travel to Washing-- ton and the Chicago Cardinals are at Cleveland to do battle with the Browns. The Packers, this year's surprise. team, moves to Milwaukee County Stadium to meet the Rams. Doomed to the cellar by pre-, season pollsters the Packers have nevertheless gone u n d e f e a te d' through their first three games, a feat not accomplished by any oth- er NFL team. Relying on the passing of Lamar McHan and the running of Paul Hornung, as well as' a defense made up of veteransand- castoffs the Packers have defeated the Bears, Lions and '49ers on suc-- cessive weekends. Lose First Two The Rams, on. the other hand, picked as co-favorites in the West then proceeded to lose their ,first two games before exploding be- hind the impetus supplied by the running of Ollie Matson to upset the Bears last weekend. In Chicago the Bears will be seeking to make it two in a row over the Colts. Two weeks ago the Bears stunned the Colts with a 26-21 victory. However, the Bears have shown little in their other games losing to both Los Angeles and Green Bay. The Colts meanwhile, have two victories over the Lions to their credit. After last Sunday's encounter with the Lions, Colt Coach Weeb Ewbank said, "We were really lucky today. We were able to win without using any new plays. Now we can save them for the Bears. We have a lesson to teach them." San Francisco, beaten only by. Green Bay, 21-20, will be in De- troit to challenge the winless- Lions. Depend on Tittle The '49ers, still depending on the arm of aged Y. A. Tittle are favored to defeat the Lions, the only winless team in the NIL. The Lions were ahead through- out most of the second half of their battle with the Colts last week, but were unable to hang on against the persistent pressure applied by Baltimore, losing 31-24. In the Eastern Division, the surprising Philadelphia Eagles will see If they can make it two in a row over the Giants. Two weeks ago the Eagles, a. six-point under- dog, rolled past the Giants, with ease, 49-21, in Philadelphia. After opening the season with a defeat at the hands of the '49ers last week; they edged the Pittsburgh, Steelers, 24-21. One Defeat: The, Giants, with their loss to Philadelphia the- only black spot on their record, go into today's battle a slight favorite. However, with Charley Conerly pitching against Norm, Van Brocklin this game appears to be a near even battle directed by two of the game's old pros. In Washington, the Redskins will be aiming to retain their po, sition at the top of the Eastern standings as they seek, a victory over the Steelers. Two weeks ago in Pittsburgh as seven-point underdogs, the Redskins rose; and upset the Steel- ers 23-17 and then followed with a victory over the Chicago Card- inals last week. The Skins have the league's two top passers, Ed- die LeBaron and Ralph Guglielmi alternating at the throttle. Upsets Browns The Steelers, after upsetting the Browns in their opener, have lost to both the Eagles and Redskins. and will be depepding on the arm of Bobby Layne to return them to the win column. Closing out the docket, the Chi- cago Cards battle the Browns in Cleveland. With Jinr Brown, the league's leading ground gainer leading the way, the Browns are a solid choice to repeat their vic- tory of two weeks ago against the Cards. By The Aswociated Prese BOSTON - The Boston Celtics, world champions of basketball, opened defense of their title yes- terday with a 129-125 victory over a spirited gang of Cincinnati Roy- als, the team that was the Na- tional Basketball Assn. doormat a year ago. The Celtics were paced by their big four of a year ago-Bill Rus- sell, the perennial all star Bob Cousy, Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Sharman. This quartet accounted for 107. of the winners' points., The Royals, led by Jack Twy- man, one of their four veterans, also had a good scoring quartet.. Twyman led all the. scorers with 38 points, six more, than Russell hooped with his hooks and dunks. Heinsohn scored Boston's first field goal, making the score 6-5 at 2:45. Only twice after that did. Cincinnati go ahead--8- a couple minutes later and 50-45 midway of the third quarter.- Not only was Russell high man for Boston but he-led all by' snar- ing 23 rebounds, three more than Heinsohn grabbed off the boards. PHILADELPHIA - Eddie Gott- lieb, owner, of the Philadelphia Warriorg, said yesterday that Na- tional Basketball Association Pres- ident Maurice Podoloff acted: "hastily"' in announcing big men' would- be, penalized for "filoating" on defense. The NBA offite In New York had announced that league own- ers voted 5-3 for permanent adop- tion of the following rule': "After the offensive team has advanced the ball to its front court area, a defensive team player is not permitted to place himself in the key area (foul lane) longer than three seconds with no ap-' parent attempt to play :his op- ponent. The penalty is a technical foul, and the offensive team retains possession of the ball." The rule is aimed at the War- riors' 7-foot plus Wilt (the' stilt) Chamberlain, and Boston's 6-10 Bill Russe . According to Podo- loff's office, league referees have been instructed to tnforce the new rule and will do so "until another change, if any, is made." DETROIT-The Detroit Pistons, gave up on holdout Walter Dukes, their star. center, yesterday and will open their National Basket- bal, Assn. season at Minneapolis 'today without him. General Manager Nick Kerbawy, indicating disgust, flew alone to Mlnneapolis last night after a flOp in his further: contract talks with Dukes. "T'he young 'man hasn't budged one cent in more ,than six weeks," Kerbawy said. Dukes, 29, seven-foot ace scorer and chief rebound man of the Pis- tons, has been holding out for more pay. The former Seton Hall star, a veteran of the NBA, and the Pis- tons were said to be about $2,500 apart. Dukes, one of the higher- paid of the pro basket shooters, draws down in the neighborhood of $15,000 a season. He has played three years for Detroit. Before that he played a year each with New York and Minneapolis. In hopes of taking Dukes with him to Minneapolis, Kerbawy said he had two plane tickets but then had to sell back the other one. Kerbawy said Dukes "definitely" would not play today even if he- should agree to terms between now and game time. He said he and DIkes negotiated four times on the telephone yesterday without re- suit. The general manager said that even without Dukes the Pistons would have their full complement of 11 men for the opener. WASHINGTON LEADER--Eddie LeBaron will lead the Washing- ton Redskins into action against the -Pittsburgh Steelers this afternoon. The Redskins are tied with the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles for first place In the Eastern Conference of the NFL. LeBaron Is the league's second,'ranked passer this season. Oddly enough the man in front of him is his understudy, Ralph Guglielmi; formerly of Notre Dame. Imoo urn or it I 0 BERNARD GEOFFRION ...scores twice New York Whips Montreal; Toronto Shuts Out Boston Pg By The Associated Press MONTREAL - The New York Rangers snapped a four-game los- iug streak by defeating the Mon- treal Canadiens 4-2 last night for their first National Hockey League victory of the season. Andy Bathgate and Bill Gadsby scored for the Rangers in the first period and New York never was headed. Goalie Gump Worsley ex- celled for the New Yorkers turn- ing back 38 shots. Essentially it was the fast skat- ing and consistent checking by the Rangers that counted most. New York met the Canadiens at their own game of wide open play and beat them to the punch. Dean Prentice and Andy He- benton scored the other New York goals. Bernie (Boom Boom) Geof- frion counted both Montreal goals. * * * TORONTO - Goalie Johnny Bower posted his first shutout of the young National League sea- son as the Toronto Maple Leafs blanked the Boston Bruins 3-0 last night. Boston's defeat left the Detroit Red Wings, idle last night, in first place. The Dick Duff-Ted Hampson- George Armstrong line accounted for all the Maple Leaf Coals. Each scored once with Duff and Arm- strong also getting two assists. Duff, in his four seasons with Tor- onto, collected his 100th goal. I The victory boosted the Leafs into a second-place tie with Bos- ton. Each team has six points and trails the Red Wings by one point. The 33-year-old Bower played a steady game in the Leafs' nets to earn the shutout, only the sec- ond in the league so far. NHL Standings t~lTo, _} W Detroit ....3 Toronto ....3 Boston .....3 Montreal ...2 Chicago .... New York ..1 L 0 1 2 2 4 4_ T Pts.GF+ 1 7 9 0 6 14 0 6 19 1 5 15, 0 2 10 o 2 15 GA 4 8 18 16 15 21 Remember to book your holiday Reservations .. Buy Your Sub sc ri Witr-t Na $ X50 for the remainder of the year I - - - a - - 0