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area ai i aatiH-mziernear uix^iuMJiewiiere trieyiympl e I a ci 1 i ties a re n ear ly eo nip I e t eel• , * . # # • • • * ♦ ^ '« «r-vlmfm'1Belliiio, were announced Tues-(lay.• • .* • . • • ' C' * ' * * ' * * * / •“The draft went about as weexpected,” said Brown, who is returning to pro football after a five year lapse as head coach and..owner of the new Cincinnati club. “As we said in the beginning, we’ll have to build our team from the college draft.” It will be held in New York Jan.but Bun corn was not surprised that San Diego exposed him.“I expected to be with another team,” he said, “I played out my option and Cincinnati will be a welcome change.”Buueom said he thought the Bengals had selected the nucleus of a good football team intlie draft.Included in that nucleus is placekieker Dick Van Baa phoi-st, who booted !o t’idd goals(Continued on Page 19, Col. 2)By HAL BOCKJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Paul Brown’s Cincinnati.Ben-. • . . ‘ . * * ■ * •* 4 'gals have fortified themselves with 40 veteran players in the American Football League’s second expansion draft, among them an all-star linebacker, the league’s No, 4 all-time rusher and its No. 5 all-time pass catcher.The linebacker is Frank Bunco rn of San Diego, who is here to play in Sunday’s AFL All-Star game. The rusher is Denver’s Cookie Gilchrist, who Isasgained '4.293 yards in six AFL* *seasons but only 283 in the ias t two.The puss catcher Is Chris Bur-, ford of Kansas City, who had three touchdowns among his “A catches this season. He liasIt is unusual ro find an all-stai available to an expansion teamKANSAS CITY (AP) — EwingKauffman named a board of di-rector.s for Kansas City's 1969American League expansionto gel the job of executive vice presided, Kauffman has sehed uh-d a news conference foiVvetiaesdu v.caught 391 tosses in eight years. All three were among the 20Western Division players selected by Brown and announced Wednesday. His 20 Eastern picks, which included Buffalo'sBobby Burnett and Bunion's Jo*I*dub Tuesday ami predicted his upcoming executive vice president will “lead us to a first division finish in five years.” Cedric Tallis, vice presidentin charge of operations for the Culiiernia Angels, seems CertainKauffman, Kansas City’s first home-based baseball owner in 81 years, made i! deal the executive vice president will run tut] dub ami make all the baseball decisions.“The executive vice president
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Fri, Jan 19, 1968
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