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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1979
Page
16
Teams from Toronto to Milwaukee shuffle picks and trades in rounds two to six. Notable names include Goltz, Stennett, Kison, Curtis, Ryan, May, Hood, and Stanhouse with numerous team assignments across Orioles Mets White Sox Dodgers and other clubs.
The item lists players and teams with round numbers and status, noting passes and selections. Notable names include Wohlford Chalk Stanhouse Mor gan Mor gan Hamilton Lockwood Hrobosky Perez Wise Hood Horton and teams such as Oakland Cleveland Atlanta San Francisco Chicago White Sox New York Yankees Montreal Boston Pittsburgh Milwaukee Baltimore Seattle San Diego Texas Philadelphia St. Louis Detroit Houston Cincinnati Kansas City.
A garbled crawl shows basketball results with teams such as 20th Century James 84 Shamrock 64 Alburnett A&M 62 Fairchilds Fine Foods 43 Papa Juans 84 and Shake Your Bootie Lounge 7. The readable items indicate scores and participant names but lack complete context or dates.
Major league baseball made multi player trades including Ruppert Jones and Jim Lewis moving to New York for Juan Beniquez and others. Pittsburgh signed Grant Jackson to a multi year deal. Toronto added Rick Cerone and Al Widmar joined as pitching coach. Basketball and football teams announced waivers and signings. Chicago hockey named Keith Magnuson as assistant coach and Colorado moved Merlin Malinowski to Fort Worth. St Louis assigned players to Salt Lake City and Washington called up Mark Lofthouse and Claude Noel.
Yale seeks its 700th win as it hosts Cornell in a clash that could mark a milestone in Yale football history. The Elis, unbeaten in six, boast top defensive rankings while Cornell averages 383.3 yards per game and has four 400-yard efforts this season.
Clark hails another explosive performance with a key target just shy of the school mark. Dillon and Remes pace Midwest Conference leaders in passing and receiving as the Rams top the league in passing yardage and sit second in total offense while Coe’s offense falters recently. Coach Schlegel reshuffles Kohawks including Wagner at QB and Wing to fullback to fix protection and consistency amid few injuries.
7-foot rookie Bill Cartwright scored 31 points for the Knicks in Salt Lake City as New York trailed early but rallied behind Toby Knight 31 points 21 from Ray Williams and Michael Richardson 37 combined in the final two quarters. Cavaliers edge Pistons 127-125 on Randy Smith 25-foot buzzer beater to win.
The University of Richmond faculty voted 117 to 64 to eliminate the Division I football program amid an 0 8 season. The ballot response exceeded 90 percent of the 200 full time faculty. Richmond is a private NCAA I A school with about 4000 students and a struggling season.
In May City competition, bowler Bob Skver led men with 258 661 while Renee Siders topped women with 583. John Sires fired 266 and E S Electric posted 1038. Multiple scorers set personal or event marks across categories.
Dick Pepmeyer reports Gol ner Ted Wilson and Clarence Burrows high averages and scores across multiple leagues. Notable marks include Burrows 251-625 in first bowling year and May City lanes top games like John Sires 266 and Bob Skvor 661. Other standings list Shirley Northway, Joan McCord, Sylvia Gandy, and numerous league leaders with a range of 170s to 600+ series.
Elizabeth New Jersey Meyers the first woman to sign an NBA contract agrees to a multi year deal with the New Jersey Gems of the WBL. The UCLA star joined agent James Griffin in New York for a four hour meeting with owner Robert Milo and will be formally announced after a Friday media session. She is set to broadcast Indiana Pacers at New Jersey Nets in Piscataway and may play in the Gems opener November 17 against the Washington Metros at Dunn Sports Complex. Uwe Von Schumann of Oklahoma made 125 straight extra points in 1976 77 78 seasons.
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