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By PAT RICH

The dark clouds
gathered over Empire

Stadium, -Tuesday

night, and the happy
cries of innocent youth
in the nearby PNE
grounds were muted by
the stiffling atmosphere
of despair.

Scavengers hover
ominously, and high above
the battlefield the obituaries
were already being written
by. cager sports writers,

although the clock still had
. seconds left to run.

‘The Calgary curse had
struck once more, and the

Som
. only team to beat the B.C. ‘Harry Holt from the Lions

how) do it again

Lions this season had done it
for the second time and
crushed any hopes of further
grandeur,

Surely this 17-12 loss at
home, in which the same old
faults showed up in the Lions
game, wowld mean
depression would set in-and
the team would slide to its
usual place near the bottom
of the Western Division.

Ah, and to think they were
doing so well.

But it was not to be.

’

With thirty three seconds
left to go, quarterback Joe
Paopao passes 54-yards to

_too Joyal

29-yard line.

- Those of the fans who are
to realize the
game is already over, cheer
loudly and tell each other
that ‘all is not done for yet’.

Fourteen seconds left in
the game and Paopao passes
19-yards, again to Harry
Holt, bringing the Lions
down to the Stampeders
twelve yard line.

‘Drunks become hysterical
and all cyes turn to the

scoreboard and see that
there is one second left.
Sports writers who are

already phoning in stories
that begin ‘An early fourth

‘Hufnagel...’ stop, and turn to
watch the game, as do those.

quarter touchdown pass by
Igary .quarterback John

spéctators who are already.
filing out of the stadium. —

The final play of the game,
the ball is snapped back to
Paopao - who throws it -
complete - to Jim Young
who is -standing, totally
unmarked, just inside the
end zone in the very corner,

Lions 18 Calgary 17.

Crowd goes ‘hysterical,
thereby ending the game.

The universe turns in a
different direction, as the

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