Evening star., 1948-11-26
Eagles, Browns, Bills
Go for CIinchers
In Games Sunday
by the Asseciatsd Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-The Cleve-
land Browns, Buffalo Bills and
Philadelphia Eagles all have an op-
portunity Sunday to win q ls4s pro
football championship.
Cleveland, kingpin Of the ALL
America Conference the last two
years, can clinch the circuits West
ern half flag and the Bills can grab
the Eastern Division title.
The Browns, who downed the Los
Angeles Dons, 3l-14, in q Thanks
giving Day game yesterday. take on
the runner-up 49ers in San Fran
cisco boasting q one-game lead with
two games to go. A 4ser triumph
will tie up the race.
Buffalo. 1895 victor over the Chi
cago Rockets in the leagues other
holiday game, tackles the runner-up
Yankees in New York. The Yanks
are tied with the Baltimore Colts
for second place, game of the
Bills pace. A Buffalo triumph and
a Baltimore defeat will move the
Bills into the playoffs.
Cards Down Lions.
Philadelphia, idle yesterday, can
sew up its second straight National
League Eastern Division crown by
tanning the invading Pittsburgh
Steelers while the Chicago Bears
turn back the runner-up Washing
ton Redskins. The Eagles, winners
of seven straight games, lead the
Skins by game and a half with
three to 60.
The Bears, in the running for the
Nationals Western sector honors,
dropped a half game of the pace
yesterday as the defending cham
pion Chicago Cardinals topped the
Detroit Lions, 2s-14, to break their
tie with the Bears for the lead.
The Cards are idle Sunday and q
Bear victory over Washington will
tie the race again.
Otto Graham was the big noise
in Cleveland's triumph over the
Dons before 60,031 fans at Los An
geles. The great quarterback threw
two touchdown passes in the first
half and then sneaked over from
the l in third period to break a
14-14 tie. Lou Groza followed with
a 36-yard field goal and Cliff Lewis
intercepted a Glenn Dobbs pass to
set up Cleveland's final touchdown
in the 17-point period.
Dobbs was the Don star. The
triple-threat back passed the Dons
to their first six points in the open
ing frame and spearheaded an 30
yard scoring drive in the second
period.
Bills Score End With Rush.
The Bills averted disaster by scor-
ing twice in the last four minutes
of play to hand the Rockets their
18th setback in 13 starts before
6.305 fans in Chicago's spacious
Soldier Field.
Trailing by two points as the pc
riod opened, Chet Mutryn took
punt on his 10 and handed the ball
to Rex Bumgardner. who raced 80
yards for a touchdown.
Vic Kulbitski then recovered a
Chuck Fenenbock tumble on his 80
and dashed 81 yards to sew up the
verdict. The Rockets scored in the
closing minutes with Lafayette King
going across with his second six
pointer of the day.
The Cards reached pay dirt in
every period in their morning game
before 22957 fans in Detroit
Jerry Davis returned a punt SO
yards for the Cards first score in
the opening period. A pass inter-
ception led to the Red Birds second
touchdown in the next period. Ray
Mallouf passed to Nal Kutner for
the Cards final two counters.
Pat Harder converted after each
Card touchdown to run his extra
point output for the campaign to
A, tying the league record set last
year by Ray Mclean of the Bears.
The four points also boosted Harder's
pace-setting scoring mark to sc.