Legendary Steelers broadcaster Myron Cope was taken to Presbyterian Hospital yesterday at halftime of the game with the Philadelphia Eagles for treatment of a head injury. Cope, in his 35th season as color analyst on the Steelers' radio network, was admitted and is expected to have a magnetic resonance imaging test today.

Cope was walking, but with assistance, as he left Heinz Field.

The extent of his injury, which occurred Saturday in a fall at his home, is not fully known.

Late in the first half of the game, Tunch Ilkin, part of the broadcasting crew that also includes play-by-play announcer Bill Hillgrove and sideline reporter Craig Wolfley, asked Cope if he was OK.

Cope, according to reports, was having trouble communicating during the broadcast.

One Steelers official, who was listening to the game on the radio, called Heinz Field to inquire about Cope's health.

According to people who saw him, Cope had a cut on the back of his head that was bleeding.

The injury had been tended to when Cope left Heinz Field.

Ilkin and Wolfley handled Cope's postgame locker room show.

Cope, 75, missed the team's first three exhibition games while recovering from throat surgery and pneumonia.

Before yesterday, Cope had missed only five quarters of Steelers football in his 34 years on the job.

He missed one quarter of a game early in his career to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law. He missed a game in 1994, when his wife, Mildred, died.