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THE CGUUER.JOIR.WL, .0 E.MHLR 10, 1975 Learning the hard way as a UK tackle Colls' Jones tops Simpson as Bills fall Ramey a different sort of 'country boy 5 4 i -J J' i sumvan C-J Times Sports Writer 5 there was nothing but city everywhere I looked. At least there's some natural ground in Lexington. "I got two phone calls and a lot of literature from Arkansas, too. But I wouldn't have cared if Arkansas sent a bunch of cheerleaders to see me or if Ohio State gave me a gold Cadillac. My mind was set on it." It's impossible to stereotype the tobacco-chewing, stoical Ramey.

He denies being homesick, but he doesn't pretend to be thrilled with the college life. Nor does he accept the too-easy notion that football offers an escape from the coal mines. "What I'm doing now is about as hard as working in a mine," Ramey said. "It might even be harder. I look upon this as work.

There are times in your life when you do something, whether you like it or not. You learn to like it." Ramey has a little brother, Kelly, who plays football lor Runyon Grade School in Belfry. Another brother, Joe, lives with their mother in Louisville and plays end for Iroquois High. Jim probably will return to settle down in Belfry, but not until he graduates in 1979. "Belfry isn't really what you think of as a town," he said.

"Really, there's a bunch of 'towns' that you wouldn't even know you had been through if you didn't slow down and look for the sign by the road. The nearest fair-sized town, Jim Ramey is a country boy. He speaks with barely the hint of a drawl, and his grammar is what, you would expect from a college freshman, not from Snuffy Smith. But he is a country boy just the same, and not shy about it. live in the hills right down IN the hills," Ramey says.

"If we look out the front door we see a mountain. If we look out the back door we see another mountain. If we look out a window on either side, we see more mountains." The mountains, or hills, are in extreme Eastern Kentucky around Ramey's hometown of Belfry. Ramey played football at Belfry High as his father, Ed, did before him. He also has spent summers working in the coal mines, where Ed Ramey makes his living.

Now Jim is at the University of Kentucky on a football scholarship, trying to make it as a defensive tackle. "That's right, Ramey, you better get quick, or you're gonna get your neck shoved into your backside." The words belong to Clarence (Buckshot) Underwood, a veteran assistant coach from Bcckley, V. Va. His salty commentary during one-on-one defensive drills is the highlight of any UK practice. "What these young ones need is 40 minutes of that work, not five," Underwood says after the linemen have jogged two of speed that is the most telling difference among linemen.

He played some as a fullback under Paul Dotson at Belfry. Twice this year he has hauled down enemy speed-burners from behind. He is of the breed that head coach Fran Curci likes to call "the new Kentucky player." For now, of course, the latest new-Kentuckv concept is in shambles. Saturday's 13-3 loss to Vandcrbilt has raised the spectre of a final 2-8-1 record worst since 1970 in Curci's third year. But the likelihood is that Ramey would have shown up in Lexington even if UK had gone 0-11 last season instead of 6-5.

"They like to say I was their hardest recruit," Ramey said. "They came to the door and me and my father said, 'Give it here and we'll sign I don't care for city life, and when I visited Ohio State, off to another drill. "That's why spring practice is so important to them." Ramey is usually down in a four-point stance when the white-haired Underwood stings him with tongue-in-cheek sarcasm. The 6foot-3, 230-pound freshman doesn't smile or frown or talk back. He just listens.

"He keeps you conscious of all the techniques," Ramey says. "It's a way to learn by trial and error. I'm almost to the point now where I don't have to think before I react. "I used to be a defensive end. When I started out here, I'd revert to that subconsciously and get blown right off the ball.

I still have to think sometimes when I'm blocked in situations that are unfamiliar to me. That one millisecond is the whole difference." Potentially, Ramey has the second or Photo by Terry Rush Kentucky freshman Jim Ramey, a defensive end and sometime fullback when he played at Belfry High, uses his quickness to advantage now as a tackle on coach Fran Curci's squad. if you want to go shopping and stuff, is Williamson. That's in West Virginia. "There's been people back home who went off to play ball in college and quit.

I never did like 'em. There's no way I'll ever quit. I got into if, and I wanna finish it. It doesn't matter if I play tackle or something else. I'll give it hell, Associated Press BUFFALO O.J.

Simpson is like money in the bank. He creates a lot of interest. Yesterday produced a typical Simpson game as the Buffalo Bills running back scored three touchdowns and gained 123 yards. However, when the smoke cleared, Simpson had taken a back seat to Baltimore Colts quarterback Bert Jones. Down 21-0 on Simpson's three TDs Jones riddled the home team's defense for two touchdowns and scored one on.

a run, rallying the Colts to a 42-35 National Football League upset. Jones completed 14 of 22 passes for 306 yards, including an 89-yard pass-run touchdown play to Roger Carr. Jones also carried nine times for 59 yards. "I've never been that far behind," said Jones, who propelled the Colts to their third straight victory and evened their record at 4-4. Buffalo is now 5-3.

"I think we were too concerned with stopping O. J. Simpson in the first half," said Baltimore coach Ted Marchibroda. "The best thing you can do is just go out and play football. We kept our poise and our line started coming off the ball." Simpson, who raised his eight-game season total to 1,128 yards, was limited to 18 yards in five carries in the second half.

Lydell Mitchell, who scored three TDs for the Colts, gave Baltimore a 28-28 tie early in the fourth period with an 11-yard scoring run. Jones then raced 19 yards for a score after Stan White intercepted a Joe Ferguson pass to put Baltimore on top 35-28. In the closing minutes, Baltimore's Lloyd Mumphord intercepted Gary Ma-rangi, filling in for Ferguson, and two plays later, Mitchell went 12 yards to score. Ferguson had left the game at 9:32 in the fourth period when he was knocked out while being sacked. He was reported to have suffered a mild-to-moderate concussion and was hospitalized for observation.

"Right at this state we're too crippled to play pass defense," said Buffalo Coach Lou Saban, whose Bills seem in danger of missing the NFL playoffs with their 5-3 record. Buffalo's defensive secondary, badly weakened by injuries, has given up 1,741 yards this season. "The ball club across the way (in the visitors' dressing room) is a young club that's coming," Saban said of the Colts, who now have won three straight games and boosted their season record to 4-4. ft if lit xr 4 Associated Press Leapfro I 1 4 i fit 'Montreal zips 35-12, gains Canadian final MONTREAL (AP) Jimmy Jones threw three touchdowns to lead the Montreal Alouettes. defending Grey Cup champions, to a victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Canadian Football League playoff action yesterday.

The victory in the Eastern Conference semifinal moves Montreal into the final against the Ottawa Rough Riders in Ottawa next Saturday. Jones connected on scoring passes of six and two yards to Joe Petty to help the Alouettes to a 24-0 halftime lead. He also had a scoring toss of nine yards to Johnny Rodgers in the third period. Steve Ferrughclli, who carried 21 times for 109 yards, scored Montreal's other touchdown on a two-yard run. Former Alouctte Terry Evansheti, who gained 133 yards with eight receptions, got both Hamilton touchdowns on passes of 15 and 33 yards from Jerry Keeling.

'Quarterback Jim Hart of St. Louis leaps over teammate Terry while Philadelphia's Bill Bradley (28) moves in, putting the ball in position for the late goal that gave the Cardinals a 24-23 victory over the Eagles yesterday in NFL action at minium lMllllliliilWillliliiiliilitiliillMiiiii 1 1 1 pro sports calendar I 3 American Basketball Association Eastern Division Western Division Team W. L. Pet. Team KENTUCKY New York St.

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Jonight No games scheduled. National Hockey League CAMPBELL CONFERENCE Patrick Division Smvthe Division 49ers upset Rams 24-23 on rookie's field coal LOS 'ANGELES (AP) San Francisco today. San Francisco linebacker Ralph 49cr rookie placekicker Steve Mike-Mayer McGill suffered a concussion when he was said he knew his last minute 54-yard kicked in the head and is satisfactory, boot against the Los Angeles Rams was Coach Dick Nolan of the 4f)ers, with going in the right direction, but that's his cub at 3 5, said he felt it still had a chance to overtake Los Angeles in their "I knew it was going to be real close division, when I hit the ball, but I didn't know if The Rams appeared to have won the it was going to go over or not. Then I saw' game with just 90 seconds left when Jim it go over. Bertelsen scored from the one-yard line "It was hard to tell how close it was.

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James Harris' pass to ton again for 68. Rn Jessie was complete with 14 seconds left to the 49ers' 23, but a holding penalty iftCr TlP row y3o1o nullifiei what would have been a 21-yard in the first half, he hit on 13 of 21 for 230 ain in the second. "When you're 2-5, you have nothing Statistics to lose, go out and play 60 minutes of ball and still have some fun," Spurrier First downs said. He added he was "relaxed and M'm enjovillg the game." Return yards 28 to Passes 19-38-0 21-35-2 Mike-Mayer kicked a 54-yard field goal punts 5-35 s- as a junior in college, but his longest as KlSiKyardi" nil e-io a pro was just 29 yards and his game- san francisco 14 i-m winning boot was his seventh field goal los angeles rams 14 0 0 9-23 in 13 tries in pi'O ball. la Cappeltetti, 25, run (Demorey kick); LA In arlrlitln lr lncincf 11m mmn nnrl Bertelsen, 1, run (Dempsey kick) SF G.

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