Evening star., 1960-12-05
Oilers and La
Need One Win
To Take Titles
By the Associated Press


By the Associated Press
The Houston Oilers and Los
Angeles Chargers Of the Amer
lean Football League are with
in one game Of clinching the
Eastern and Western Division
titles. Houston missed q chance
to wrap up the Eastern cham
pionship. when the Dallas
Texans pulled q $40 upset.
With two games remaining,
Houston and Los Angeles have
won eight games and lost four,
and can get no worse than a
tie for the championship. Los
Angeles came from behind with
four touchdowns yesterday to
subdue the Oakland Raiders,
41-17.
New York, holding second
place in the Eastern Division,
boasts q 6-6 record after edging
the Denver Broncos, 30-27.
Dallas has q similar 6.6 won
and lost record.
Work ON PlayoR Plans
Playoff plans win be COM
pleted during the AFL meeting
opening today in Dallas. The
playoff will be during Christ
mas week.
In q fourth game yesterday,
the Buffalo Bills broke a 14-l4
halftime deadlock and went
on to trim the Boston Patriots.
1874. N-
Dallas Coach Hank STRAIN
had threatened $500 fines for
poor play, and the Texans
poured it on Houston for the
Oilers worst defeat Of the
season.
Second-stringeer Hunter
EMS, subbing for Quarterback
Cotton Davidson, scored the
first two touchdowns on 1-yard
bursts, and Abner Haynes ran
Is yards for the other Dallas
touchdown. Jack Spikes kicked
a 22-yard field goal.
Oakland was leading Los
Angeles, 17-14, after three
quarters. but the Chargers
rushed across four touchdowns
in the fourth period. Jack
Kemp passed for three touch
downs and scored two more
on short runs.
/ Dorow on Target
AL Dorow. New York quarter
back, threw three touchdown
passes to Art Powell, but Bill
Shockley's 15-yard field goal
in the fourth period spelled
the difference. New York led
2l-O before Gene Mingo scored
for Denver.
With 1874 minutes to go, New
York led. 30-14, but Denver's
Frank Tripucka wasn't through.
The Broncos Travelled 81 yards
with Mingo taking an ll-yard
pass from Tripucka. Then Skip
Doyle intercepted q Dorow
pass, and Tripucka passed 7
yards to Lionel Taylor for the
final I'd.
Two fumbles and an inter-
cepted pass ruined Boston's
chances. Richie Lucas, former
Penn State star, scored a
touchdown and passed 80 yards
to Dan Chamberlain for
another during Buffalo's Sec
ond-half squirt.
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