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Winners and Losers

Our eighth hour bonus comes from the realm of Sports, and it's an appropriate time of night for a bonus on Gamewinners and losers. We want you to name the player who accomplished the following deeds that either won or lost the game for his team:

First, the winners......

  1. Whose corner jumper beat UCLA to end its 88-game winning streak?
    Dwight Clay, Notre Dame

  2. Whose 9th-inning homer beat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series?
    Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh Pirates

  3. Whose field goal beat the Cowboys in the famed "Super Blooper Bowl"?
    Jim O'Brien, Baltimore Colts

  4. Whose touchdown in overtime defeated the New York Giants in what some say was the NFL's Greatest Game Ever?
    Alan Ameche, Baltimore Colts

  5. Whose fluke jumper in the 1968-69 NBA finals won the 4th game at the buzzer to beat the Lakers, to even the series at 2 apiece?
    Sam Jones, Boston Celtics

  6. Whose goal ended a triple-overtime game in the 1972 NHL playoff semi-finals, and beat the Blackhawks?
    Pete Stemkowski, New York Rangers

  7. Who scored the gamewinner in the last three games of the Canada-USSR hockey series in 1972, to pull out victory for Team Canada in the series?
    Paul Henderson, Toronto Maple Leafs

  8. Whose 15th-inning homer won the 1967 All-Star Game for the National League?
    Tony Perez, Cincinnati Reds

  9. In the finals of the 1972 basketball finals in the Olympics, whose two free throws put the USA ahead with 3 seconds to go, and who made the heartbreaking gamewinner for the Soviets seconds later?
    Doug Collins, USA; Alexander Belov, USSR

And the losers.....

  1. Who was the Michigan placekicker whose failure to kick last-minute field goals two straight years allowed Ohio State to go to the Rose Bowl instead of Michigan?
    Mike Lantry

  2. Who was the Amhesrt fullback that fumbled in this year's Williams-Amherst game on the Williams' 3-yard line with less than a minute to go?
    Bob Steer

  3. Who was the losing pitcher for the National League in the only All-Star Game the NL has lost in the last 15 years or so?
    Claude Osteen

  4. Who signed an incorrect scorecard and blew the masters in 1968?
    Roberto DiVincenzo

  5. Who was the U.S. hopeful in the 1500 meters in Munich who fell down during the trial heat, and failed to qualify?
    Jim Ryan