Yepremian Cut for O.U. Rookie NEW YORK UPI) Another' Only One Point After Touchdown in 141 Christensen and Announced That Seven Veteran Kicker Got the Boot Monday
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Yepremian cut for O.U. rookie NEW YORK UPI) Another' only one point after touchdown in 141 Christensen and announced that seven veteran kicker got the boot Monday. attempts and compiled a field goal rookies have made the roster of the Garo Yepremian, the second most accuracy mark of 62.5 percent in a defending NFC champions. accurate kicker in National Football three-ye- ar career. Green Bay waived defensive tackle league history, was waived by the Yepremian will be remembered for Dave Roller, a two-ye- ar starter from Miami Dolphins Monday, only a week his accomplishments and his flubs the World Football League. after Pittsburgh's veteran kicker. Roy underpressure. I --os Angeles placed veteran Gerela. was dropped in favor of rookie His 37-ya-rd field goal won pro foot- defensive tackle Cody Jones on the MattBahr. ball's longest game when Miami beat injured reserve list. The Dolphins also traded "their No. 1 Kansas City in the 1971 playoffs after 82 The New York Jets placed veteran fullback last year. Leroy Harris was minutes of play and many fans will linebacker Mike Hennigan on injured sent to Philadelphia and three other remember Yepremian trying his first reserve. only in players were cut as Miami reached the and " pass of a misdirected snap Washington waived return NFL's 45-pla- yer limit. Also waived 1973's Super Bowl VII, when specialist Tony Green, who made the were rookie wide receivers Jeff Groth. Washington intercepted the fluttering J Pro Bowl as a rookie last season. an eighth-roun- d draft choice from ball and returned it for the Redskins' "Tony was a disappointment during Bowling Green, Lloyd Henry, a 1978 only touchdown. preseason," said Coach Jack Pardee. draft choice from Northeast Missouri Yepremian finished 1978 with 16 "He hadn't shown enough to keep him State University who spent the entire consecutive field goals to tie an NFL on the roster and we don't have any season on injud reserve, and free record jointly held by Kansas City's more time." agent linebacker Joel Williams of Jan Stenerid and Cockroft. His 11-ye- ar Houston cut linebacker Steve Wisconsin-I.aCross- e. point total is 908. ranking him 11th on Kiner, who had not missed a practice or The decision to cut Yepremian, the all-ti- me list. a game in five seasons. runner-u- p to Cleveland's Don Cockroft Other highlights on a busy day of mfh a ftfi 7 raiwr rvrwnt arrurarv mark on field goals, was an agonizing The Cincinnati Bengals traded one one for Miami Coach Don Shula. veteran running back. I,envil Elliott, to "It was one of the toughest decisons San Francisco for future considerations of my coaching career to tell a guy who and waived another. Boobie Clark. has done so much for the Dolphins," Baltimore waived quarterback Shula said. "Garo took it like a man." Mike Kirkland and will go with Bert Shula said he made the decision "to Jones and Greg Iandry for its seasop go with a younger man with a stronger opener next Sunday. leg." That player is rookie Uwe von Cleveland waived five-ye- ar Schamann, drafted in the seventh defensive end Mack Mitchell, a former round. Shula cited von Schamann's first-roun- d draft choice out of the college record at Oklahoma, where the University of Houston. ' right-foote- d, soccer-styl-e kicker missed Dallas waived running back Todd.