modicum of pride. "Too bad Moore's touchdown was called back," he added soberly. "That was a picture run." The officiating (turning points are not always easy to find when a team wins by five touchdowns) had been something less than professional, a veteran Milwaukee writer opined. "They looked a little jittery," Vince conceded, "but I have no comment." What about that incomplete pass to Ron Bull that was ruled a fumble? "I have no comment on that either," Lombardi twinkled. "But I will say it was obvious to everybody." "How do you get the Bears to make so many mistakes?" a facetious Chicago writer queried. "We made quite a few ourselves," the Packer strategist rejoined. "We didn't throw the ball up but we had a lot of penalties today." The conversation turned to the Packers' invalids, Boyd Dowler and Paul Hornung. "Dowler will be all right next week," Vince revealed. "He has pain in his left leg (Lombardi tapped an area on his own just below the knee). It was one of those freak accidents in practice. I hadn't planned to use Hornung. I wanted to give him another week," he explained. "If the weather had been good, I might have given him a couple of shots. He should be ready next week." In this connection, Lombardi declared, "Carpenter (filling in at right half for Dowler) did a real fine job. He's a fine athlete - he could play quarterback if he had to." Blockbusting rookie Earl Gros, the Pack's most recent addition, "is a tough kid," Vince also noted. "He has good size and good speed - pretty fair combination." Tom Moore, a writer ventured, appears to be running harder, a little more like Taylor. "Moore always was a hard runner," the Packer chieftain informed the scribe. Did he feel the Packers might have been in something of a slump in recent weeks? "No, I don't think so," was the considered reply. "I think the teams are pretty aroused against us - they give maximum effort. Remember, this one today was anybody's ball game until the middle of the third quarter." Had it been hard to "get the Packers up" for the Bears after that 49-0 rout at Green Bay early in the season? "You don't have to worry about getting the Packers up when you're playing the Bears," Vince grinned. Any surprises from the Bruins? "Yes," Vince replied. "They used a new defense we hadn't seen, an odd-man line with the linebacker shifted one way. But they have so many," he chuckled, "that it was just one more." Had it given much trouble? "Not too much," he said. "It did for one or two series." Had he called any plays? "Yes, three," Lombardi said throwing back his head to release his hearty chuckle. "Two of 'em were called back (including Moore's touchdown run) and one was unsuccessful."...Resilient George Stanley Halas, although accepting what had befallen his Bears with good grace, was not convinced it had been inevitable. "We were doing pretty good until that freak play (the third quarter punt that bounced off Roosevelt Taylor and was recovered by Jim Ringo, a development that triggered the Packers' surge to a 17-7 lead)," he confided while en route to Wrigley Field's "Pink Poodle," where he held forth at some length. "That was the most freakish play in the books," George insisted. "A player gets hit in the back with the ball," Halas lamented. "He was facing north and the punt was coming from the south." Taylor apparently felt the ball was going to bounce over his head, it was suggested. "Yes, sure he did," Halas replied. "He came down short in the middle of his stride." That was the beginning of the end, the 68-year-old Bruin major-domo added, "With the avalanche of mistakes we made, and the great play of the Packers, it was too much for us." He had figured, despite the Packers' awesome record and that earlier 49-0 dismantling on Green Bay soil, on winning this one? "I figure on winning every game we go into," was the unhesitating reply. Obviously, then, he did not consider the Packers a super-team, as they have been described in some NFL quarters. "They weren't one," Halas said dryly, "until that particular play in the third quarter. We were in it until then. In fact, we were in great position - it was a short punt." George, who now had been studying the statistics at a heavily populated Pink Poodle table for some time, looked up and volunteered with a puckish grin, "I don't see anything interesting in the figures, either." His Bears had played defensive titans Detroit and Green Bay back to back, it was noted. "A delightful chore," Halas commented with a wintry smile. "It proves Detroit's defense is three times better than the Packers - the Lions gave us 75 yards and the Packers 212." He was "only kidding," George was quick to add. Did he think the Packers could go through unbeaten? Halas refused to make a prediction, asserting, "That's up to them."...VIEWPOINT: Halas may not consider the Packers a super-team but one of his employees, bruising Mike Ditka, is highly impressed with Lombardi's legions. "I haven't been around too long," says sophomore Ditka, "but the Packers are beyond a doubt the best team I've ever seen - and I'm sure they have to be the best team in pro history." "They have superb confidence," Ditka declared. "We came into this game fully intending to win - and we felt we were going to do so. We feel we are the second best team in the league, next to the Packers, but the distance between us is tremendous. They call the right play, the right red dog," Ditka marveled. "They're the right blend of poise and confidence."...PENALTY OF PROSPERITY?: When the Packers performed here without conspicuous success in the 50's, they were greeted by the Bear faithful with something akin to affection - but not so anymore. The world champions, who had beaten the Bruins six straight going into action, were roundly booed when they emerged from the dugout to deploy for the second half...COOL CAT: When the outcome became apparent, fans in the lower boxes were diverted by the antics of an unidentified male fan, who showed contempt for the near-freezing temperatures by surveying the action throughout while naked to the waist, except for a hat and tie.

NITSCHKE'S 'WINNING' THEFT 'POOR THROW...RIGHT TO ME'

NOV 5 (Chicago-Green Bay Press-Gazette) - Rotund Jackie Gleason fancies himself a conductor. George Burns has unfulfilled vocal aspirations - and bruising, beefy Raymond Carl Nitschke is a frustrated halfback. "I like to run with the ball - and I don't get a chance very often playing defense," the bone-bending linebacker imparted with an unabashed smile in a remote corner of the Packers' commodious Wrigley Field dressing room not long after he and his colleagues had massaged the Bears 37-7 Sunday afternoon. "Anytime I get my hands on it," Nitschke asserted, "I'm going for the goal." Which is just what he did after waylaying a Bill Wade pass late in the second quarter - with dazzling effect. Lunging about with abandon, the 235-pound Illinois alumnus who once sported a six-yard-per-carry average as an Illini fullback rumbled 26 yards to the Bear 18 before being spectacularly upended and hurtling nose-first to the turf. His highly opportune "theft" led directly to Jerry Kramer's 17-yard field goal in the final minute of the first half, an item which lifted the Packers into a 10-7 lead and actually produced their margin of victory, although they were subsequently to augment that tenuous three-point bulge with four touchdowns. Nitschke, who has become a serious citizen with a highly developed "one-for-all" outlook, deprecated his contribution. "I just played the ball," he said. "It was right to me - it was a poor throw." Be that as it may, his was one of three grand larcenies that contributed mightily to the Packer cause this incredibly gray afternoon, the others being engineered by the far-ranging Herb Adderley and by radar expert Willie Wood, the NFL's leading interceptor. Adderley, rapidly gaining respect for his ballhawking, frisked the Bears at a very critical point, pilfering a pass from the straining hands of Johnny Morris on the Packer six-yard line with the score tied at 7-7 in the second quarter. Morris, Herb confided, "ran a zig-out pattern and I had to turn around (he maneuvered through an arc). When I got back, I was behind him." And, he might have added, in a perfect position. His coup came as no surprise, Adderley noted. "I felt real good before the game. I'm usually real nervous, but I wasn't today. It's my second time around the league and I've got an idea what these guys are going do. I felt real loose out there." Wood, who by picking off luckless Rudy Bukich's only pass of the day, padded his league-leading interception total to seven, grinned and observed, "You've got to get the big play." On his "steal," which shortly catapulted the Pack into a 24-7 third quarter lead, "the weak side halfback ran a zig-out and Bukich rolled out to pass," Willie recalled. "The pressure was so great on him, he threw it up there." "It happened so fast it almost surprised me," Wood confessed. "I didn't think he was going to throw. I just didn't think he was going to get the chance." Jolting Jim Taylor, who had just completed his seventh 100-plus-yards day in eight attempts, explained the latest success secret, "We went for the quick opening stuff today, as we planned, to catch their defense while they were stunting." "The less time you use to make your handoff or to get the ball in play," he pointed out with undeniable logic, "the less time they have to stunt." Lew Carpenter, limping Boyd Dowler's highly competent stand-in on this occasion, had taken the assignment in stride. "I've played both of 'em (both flanker positions) at one time or another," he pointed out. "And almost the only difference is you get a little bit different perspective - the ball is coming in at a different angle. But the patterns are about the same on both sides." "I was getting free pretty decent," the one-time Arkansas Razorback admitted, "but I may have been running my patterns a little deep. That comes with game experience, of course." Wood's interception, it may be remembered, came on the play following Bill Quinlan's recovery (his second of the day) of a Bukich fumble, nullified by an offside ruling on the Pack. "As long as he intercepted right after it," Bill sad with a smile and a nonchalant wave of the hand, "it doesn't make any difference. Win any way you can." With that magnanimous gesture, he moved mirror-ward, calling out, "Anybody got any of that greasy kid stuff?"