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Wilkinson, Gabriel are
Schenley Award finalists

MONTREAL (CP) —
Quarterback Tom Wilkinson
of Edmonton Eskimos and
tight end Tony Gabriel of
Ottawa Rough Riders are the
finalists for most oul-
standing player in the
Canadian Football League in
Schenley Award second-

round nominations an-
nounced Tuesday.
Wilkinson, a 12-year

veteran who won the most
outstanding player title in
1974, has the Eskimos in first
place in the Western Con-
ference and is the only man
with a CFL career passing
completion percentage
above 60 per cent.

Gabriel, wha last week be-
came the first player to gain
1,-000 yards on receptions in
four consecutive seasons, is
also a candidate for an un-
precedented third
secutive Canadian player-cf-
the-year award.

Gabriel's opposition in the
final round of the Canadian
category is wide receiver
Joe Poplawski of Winnipeg
Blue Bombers of the Western
Conference,

Like Gabriel, Poplawski is
a finalist for two awards,
also being in the running for
rookieof-the-year honors
where he goes against

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linebacker Ben Zambiasi of
Hamilton TigerCats.

Five-year tackle Jim
Coode of Ottawa and Al
Wilson of British Columbia
Lions, the winner last year,
are the finalists in balloting
for offensive lineman of the
year, while safety Randy
Rhino of Montreal Alouettes
and tackle Dave Fennell of
Edmonton are the finalists
as defensive player of the
year.

The first round of nomi-
nations, announced two
weeks ago, produced one
nominee from each team in
each category. They now
have been reduced in voting

by writers and broadcasters
throughout the league to one
candidate from each con-
ference in each category.

The winners will be named
during Grey Cup week in To-
ronto, on Thursday, Nov. 23.

The most outstanding
player winner receives a
savings bond for $3,000,
while the runner-up receives
$1,000. The best Canadian
player and offensive linemen
and defensive player win-
ners receive §2,000 each and
the top rookie gets $1,500.
Runnersup apart from the
most outstanding player
category receive $500 each.

Bergey worth 3 picks?

- PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Bill Bergey, a man with an
indomitable spirit, superior
ability, and a heart as big as
his 245-pound frame, lives
with the thought he really
never can pay the price he
wrought.

“There is no way I'd have
grabbed a Bill Bergey for
two number ones and a
number two draft choice,”
says Bergey. ‘I think that's
absurd.

“1 don't think (here is any-
body who is worth that
much, That's really mor-
tgaging your future. This
isn’t an individual sport it's a
team sport.”’

Philadelphia Eagles
acquired the linebacker in
1974 from Cincimati Bengals
for one of the highest prices
in the history of the National
Football League.

Although Eagles head.
coach Dick Vermeil and his -
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assistants probably wouldn't
deal the 33-year-old Bergey
for any linebacker in the
NFL, it is obvious to Bergey
they would nol have paid the
price that the club did to
acquire him. Neither Ver-
mei] nor his staff were
around when the deal was
consumated,

“Last winter | walked into
a room where our coaches
were sitting waiting for their
turn to draft (the Eagles’
first pick was a third-round
choice), Their first and
second were part of the
payment for me." Bergey
recalled.

"Tl walked in with a big
smile on my face and said,
‘Hi guys, here's your number
one and two draft choices.’
You know something. It
didn't even get a snicker
from any one of them. They
didn’t go for that.”

Yel, as a player, Bergey

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OCT. 30,78

WON LOST TIED GF GA POINTS

EAST DIVISION

TEAM

Vanderhoof . 7 2
Burns Lake 5 2
Smithers 4 3
Houston 1 5)
Fraser Lake 1 6

WEST DIVISION

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Fraser Lake 4 Houston 3
Burns Lake 6 Smithers 3

Vanderhoof 7 Prince Rupert
3

Burns Lake 17 Fraser Lake 2
Houston 4 Smithers 4

Burns Lake 7 Prince Rupert
3

Vanderhoof 12 Fraser Lake 6
Houston 6 Smithers 4

Minor Hockey

SCORES FOR WEEKEND OF OCT. 27-88

Terrace Pups 5 Prince.
Rupert Pups 5 ;
Prince Rupert Pups 7
Terrace Pups 4

Prince Rupert Bantams 6
Terrace Bantams 3
Terrrace Bantams 9 Prince
Rupert Bantams 5

Prince Rupert Peewees 10
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Terrace '‘B' Peewees &
Prince Rupert Peewees 5
Prince RPrince Rupert

Midgets 8 Terrace Midgets 6 -

Terrace Midgets 7 Prince
Rupert Midgets 4

Smithers Peewees 7 Kitimat
Peewees 5

Kitimat Peewees 5 Smithers
Peewees 3 Kitimat Midgets 3
Smithers Midgets 4
Kitimat.

Kitimat Midgets 8 Smithers
Midgets 1

Kitlmat Pups 7 Smithers

Pups 2
Kitimat Pups 8 Smithers
Pups 5

Kitimat Bantams 9 Smithers

Bantams 4
Kitimat Bantams 6 Smithers

Bantams 5

MINOR HOCKEY REP TEAM LEAGUE STANDINGS

TEAM WON LOST TIED G.F, G.A. PTS.
PUPS .

Kitimat 6 0 0 re oe
Smithers ) 3 1 9 «OS
Terrace i 3 2 3 8 4
Prince Rupert 1 4 1 a 69 3
PEEWEES .

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Kitimat 3 3 0 24 24 6
Smithers 2 4 tH] 21 32 4
Prince Rupert 2 4 0 2 3 4
BANTAMS

Terrace 3 a 41 4% 3 7
Kitlmat 3 2 1 46
Prince Rupert 3 3 0 2 ‘
Smithers 2 4 o 4 4

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Ninna 6 0 0 3 6 2
Terrace 4 2 0 “4 28
Prince Rupert 2 4 60 2 4 5
Smithers 0 6 0 i

has no need for an apology.
In three of his four years
with the Eagles, he was a
Pro Baw] selection. He made

the switch from middle *to

linebacker [to inside
linebacker in a 3-4 defence,
and slill reached the Pro
Bowl. Three times he has
been named the Most
Valuable Player on the team
by his team-males.

Last season, he led the
team With 123 initial hits, and
60 assists, four sacks, caused
two fumbles and recovered
two more. He has missed
playing in just Wwo of the 162
games in 10 years of pro
football, and has started 64
consecutive games for the
Eagles.

Bergey played college
football! at Arkansas State,
where he is regarded the
outstanding player in the
school's history and was
drafted in the second round
by the Bengals in 1969.

Eagles general manager
Jim Murray, who was in-
volved in unravelling con-
tracts Bergey had signed
with the old Worid Football
League as well as the NFL so
Philadelphia could complete
the trade with the Bengals,
tried to explain the club's
thinking at that time.

“First, let me say thal
knowing what 1 know now,
we'd never do it again.”
Murray admitted. “There
isn't anybody in football who
will give away that many
draft choices. It (the Bergey
trade) was a learning ex-
perience for us. We've
learned the exceptional
value of a No. 1 draft pick.

“But Bill Bergey has a
superior value to this team
otf and an the field,” Murray
added, ‘‘He’s the most
valuable acquisition by any

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sports franchise in
Philadelphia on and off the
field.”

Murray said people have
understand the pesition of
the Eagles in 1974.

“We were in a crisis
state,” he said. “We needed
players with status.

“We had lots of needs, Qur
coach (Mike McCormack)
said he needed # quar-
terback. the best we could
get. And we needed a middle
linebacker, the quarterback
of the defence, the best we
could get, We got Roman
Gabriel and Bergey.”’

Bergey said the price the
Eagles paid for Gabriel was
just as wrong as the one they
paid for him. Gabriel cost
top draft choices and
players. The whole problem
was that the Eagles didn't
turn the losing situation
around, which made the
that much more
painful.

Murray insisted that you
can'L measure the value of a
Bill Bergey to.a team in draft
choices or cash.

“He gives more than 100
per cent on and off the field,”
he said. “He has helped raise
thousands of dollars to fight
leukemia. He visits
hospitals, gives of himself.
He's not selfish, He gives
something back to the game
he loves.”

Bergey said of his off-field
activities: “I believe very
strongly that the fan is
giving to the player, his
salary, their support. Ln
return 1 feel a player should
give more tothe fan than just
a Sunday afternoon's ex-
citement, A pro . (athlete)
should get back with the

people.”

THE

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The Herald, Wednesday. Novernber J, 1978 Page 5

IN COMMERCIAL HOCKEY
Juveniles score Ist win

Only the second of the twa

Commercial Hookey League -

games scheduled Monday
night at the Terrace Arena
could be played, as the first
game had to be cancelled
due to a power failure. The
second game was well worth
the wait, however, as the
Terrace Chrysler Juveniles

. skated to their first win of

the season, 2 3-2 upset over
Totem Foard.

Juveniles’ netminder Ken
Donald held a hot hand
during the contest, as play
for the most part was in their
end of the ice,; Totem Ford
outshot the Juveniles squad
32-19.

The Juveniles wasted little
time getting on the
scoreboard, a8 just 2:24 into
the game, Don McColl

scored an uanssisted goal,
giving them an early 1-0
lead. Just 36 seconds later,
Rick Smoley scored from
Chris Reneerkins, and the
Juveniles held a 24) ad-
vantage. Totem Ford's main
two sharpshooters Reno
Michaud and Bob Peacock
combined at the 7:22 point of
the period, and came up with
a power play goal to close the
gap to 2-1, ending the first
period scoring.

The two teams played
through a scoreless second
period, andit wasn't until the
6:35 mark of the final frame
that another goal was
scored. It was the Juveniles
Myron Crown with an assist
from Jim Rigler who con-
nected for the goal that
eventually proved to be the

NHL refs work

different system

NEW YORK (AP) — For
the first lime, all National
Hockey League referees not
only are working an equal
number of regular-season
games but also the same
number of important games,
regardless of seniority.

Unlike previous seasons,
each of the 10 referees will
work 68 games in the NHL's
680-game schedule.
Therefore, with the added
work, the younger and less
experienced referees will
show up in Montreal, Boston
and New York as often as in

Denver, St.Louis and
Washington.
““Phey (the junior

referees) are going to get
their share this time,'’ says
Frank Udvari, supervisor of

NHL officials. “That's why —

they're there,”

The NHL hopes this new
practice will curb com-
plaints by general
managers, coaches and
players about the frequent
appearances by certain
referees in the same
buildings. In the past, one
team might see the same
referee twice a week or half
a dozen times in a month,
creating friction.

Conversely, some weaker
teams had not been getting
the more experienced
referees, who previously had
been working the more at-
tractive matchups almost
exclusively. And, Udvari
notes: *‘The suggestions that
the games be equally dis-
tributed came from the clubs
who were not getting the
more senior referees."

Udvari says he and
refereein-chief Scotty
Morrison, the man who
makes up the referees’
itinerary, aren't intimidated
by certain teams’ com-
plaints about certain refer-
ees,

“If any coach ... or anyone
else appeared to have a

vendetla against any par-
licular official, then the man
who is making out the
assignments would have to
guard against the possibility
of shoving the referee down
this particular coach's
throat," says Udvari. "To
keep doing that is not fair to
the referee, nor is it fair to
the coach. But you still have
to keep giving each referee
the same assignments he
would get under normal
circumstances.”

The referees’ schedule,
says Udvari, is co-ordinated
as the season progresses,
rather than al the start of the
¢ampaign, giving — it
Reaibility.

winner for the Juneniles, and
gave them a 3-1 margin at
the time.

Totem Ford wasn't
through yet, though. Al 9:11
of the final period, Sean
James scored, once again
restoring the one goal
margin, making it3-2. Totem
Ford kept pressing the rest
of the way, but couldn’t come
up with the equalizer, and
the fina] buzzer sounded with
the Juveniles still on the top
end of a 3-2 score.

The game was relatively

penalty free, with only 36
minutes being called, all
minors. The Juveniles
picked up 26 penalty
minutes, while Totem Ford
had but 10, for a hard fought
but clean contest. The next
scheduled action in the
Terrace Commercial
Hockey League is tomorrow
night at 3:30 P.M., when
Totem Ford will take on
McEwan GM. All Com-
mercial Hockey League
games are played at the
Terrace Arena.

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