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THE R.VAL TIMES, SINDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1975 5 Jovda words for lacks famous esperation pullout By TEV LAI DEMAN Courier-Journal I Times Staff Writer LEXINGTON', Ky "I wish I could sound like John McGraw or Knute Rock-ne," Auburn University football coach Shug Jordan said, "but we were just throwing the football at that time. There was no strategy involved." Jordan didn't use the word "desperation," but from his tone it was clear that a 72-yard touchdown pass play from substitute quarterback Clyde Baumgart-ner to Jeff Gilligan wasn't much more than that, plus some luck and fine individual execution by Baumgartner and Gilligan. The pass came with Auburn trailing 9-0 and only 6:15 to play last night in Commonwealth Stadium. The play turned what seemed to be a certain University of Kentucky victory completely around. Auburn recovered a UK fumble by Sonny-Collins on the next kickoff and quickly scored again to win 15-9.

IfcVVvti in v'V It- We both had our hands on the ball, and I think I kind of took it away from him. The pass was right there. It just had to be a hell of a throw." The most surprising aspect of the play was that a UK line which had been tremendously quick at charging throughout the game didn't get to Baumgartner. "The play isn't supposed to take that long," Gilligan said. "The line did a terrific job." The touchdown which won the game came shortly after the following kick-off.

Collins' fumble was recovered by place kicker Neil O'Donoghue on the UK 23. "Rodney Bellamy, one of our freshman tackles, put on a fine tackle on whoever had the ball to knock the runner loose from the football," Jordan said. Three plays later senior fullback Kenny Burke burst through the line from 17 yards out to score Auburn's second touchdown. "No one touched me," Burke said. "Our line had 'em (UK linemen) on the ground.

It was just a straight-ahead dive and I cut back a little toward my left. Well, we finally got a break. We hadn't had one all year." The turning point of the game, of course, was when Jordan sent Baumgartner into action. "It was obvious why I did it," Jordan said. "We didn't have anything to lose.

I put him in against Virginia Tech and he sparked a drive which nearly got us a touchdown. "He has been coming along. He's a lot more than just a punter and extra point holder." Baumgartner had a 44-yard completion against Virginia Tech, but it. didn't result in a touchdown. His long pass last night was the first Auburn touchdown pass of the season.

Baumgartner, a junior from Birmingham, coughed time and again during post-game interviews. "1 think the reason I didn't get in sooner was that I've had this cold all week," he said. So Auburn has its first victory against three losses and a tie. And UK still hasn't gotten untracked since winning its opener against Virginia Tech. "Fran Curci (UK's coach) said he doesn't know what it takes to win.

I know just how he feels," Jordan said. Seivers, Vols take LSU's 'best shot' Associated Press Sonny Collins (No. 40), Kentucky's star running back, fenders and is suddenly finds himself surrounded by Auburn' de- led at the time Baumgartner hadn't been in the game until his scoring pass. "When I set up to pass, I sidestepped one man coming in on me and I saw Gilligan coming across the field," Baumgartner described the scoring strike later. "It looked to me like he might be open so I just threw it where I thought he would be.

Give him the credit. He made a great catch." Baumgartner said the play was to some extent a probing effort. "We wanted to see if the Kentucky safety came up." Gilligan was covered by UK halfback Ray Carr, and it seemed that either player could have caught the ball. Rut it was Gilligan, who has been injured most of the season, who came down with it on the UK 31. "All I saw was the end zone after that," the Auburn receiver said.

He said he and Baumgartner talked about the play just before it was called. "I said I'd either cut across or go deep." Gilligan said. "I cut across and the Kentucky player cut in front of me. LSU entertains the University of Kentucky next Saturday at 8:30 p.m. EDT.

of the things we wanted to do," Battle said. With a record Neyland Stadium crowd of 75,276 lookong on, Tennessee jumped off to a 10-0 lead on a 22-yard first quarter field goal by Jim Gaylor and a three-yard touchdown pass from Wallace to Tommy West in the second period. Tailback Terry Robiskie put LSU back in the game with a two-yard touchdown plunge after Robert Dow returned a Tennessee kickoff 79 yards to the Vol 21. LSU had two other scoring opportunities after recovering fumbles deep in Tennessee's territory but field goal attempts by Steve Jackson from the 36 and by Bobby Moreau from the 40 both missed the uprights. With less than 30 seconds left on the clock, Tennessee's Gayles scored again from the one after Ernie Ward intercepted an LSU pass and ran it back to the LSU 11.

Seivers, playing with a bruished heel, had been used sparingly mostly as a decoy until Wallace uncorked the 43-yard toss to him in the fourth quarter. LSU had been using two men on Seivers, the SEC's leading pass receiver, and the slender split end had not been able to get open. "Seivers continues to be unbelievable," Battle said following the game. LSU Tennessee First downs lis 21 Rushes-yards 55-183 44-87 Passing yards 97 loo Return yards 8 69 Passes 10-51 -3 6-13-0 Punts 5-34 8-39 Fumbles lost 3-0 1-t Penalties-yards 6-50 3-25 LOUISIANA STATS 7 (I IB TENNESSEE 1 7 0 14-24 Tenn. FG, Gaylor, 22; Tenn.

West, -3, pass from Wallace (Gaylor LSU Robiskie. 2. run (Moreau kick); LSU FG, Moreau. 44; Tenn. Gavles, it, run (Gaylor kick); Tenn.

Gayles, 1, run (Gaylor kick). Attendance 75,276. Florida, 4-1, scored on three 80-yard drives in the opening half as the Gators captured their third straight SEC victory and moved into a one-game edge over Alabama. Vanderbilt, operating with freshman quarterback Mike Wright, had trouble throughout the game. The Commodores got within field goal range twice in the first half, but Mark Adams had a 48-yard attempt partially blocked by Scott Hutchinson and missed a 42-yard attempt.

"Florida controls the line of scrimmage and they were out for vengeance. I felt like telling them I wasn't here last year," said Vandy coach Fred Pan-coast, noting Vandy's 24-10 win last season. held for no gain at Lexington. UK 3-0 but eventually lost out by 15-9. this time rolls 52-0.

Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Louisiana State gave favored Tennessee what coach Charlie McClendon called "our best shot" yesterday, but it still left LSU wilh a 24-10 loss. "Larry Seivers made the difference in the game." McClendon said. "I am on the All-America board and he gets my vote." The fired-up LSU team, which had gone into the game with a 1-3 record, fought back to tie the score at 10-10 early in the fourth quarter and was outplaying the Vols. Then the passing combination of quarterback Randy Wallace and Seivers went to work.

With the ball on the Tennessee 15, Wallace nailed Seivers for 43 yards to the LSU 42. It was a sensational catch with two LSU pass defenders clawing at him. Steve Cassidy, who played brilliant defense for LSU at left tackle, sacked Wallace for a seven yard loss. Then the Vol passer threw again to Seivers, who made another sensational grab of a wobbly 28-vard toss, putting Tennessee on the LSU 17. Three plays later Mike Gayles dashed from the 11 for what proved to he the winning touchdown.

The Vols had covered 85 yards in seven plays. "LSU played a great game," Tennessee coach Bill Battle said. "They have as good a defensive front four as any team we've played and they beat us good." Battle singled out Cassidy, as did McClendon, for an outstanding peformance. "He is a fine football player," Battle said. Stanley Morgan, Tennessee's leading runner with better than 100 yards a game, suffered a sprained ankle early in the first quarter and did not return.

"With Stanley out, we had to move Gayles to tailback and it took away some mil iinnmymai Well-read Florida gives Vandy a lesson broke it open in a three-minute spree that went this way: Quarterback Richard Todd eight yards untouched for the touchdown; ht. Following a Washington punti Willie Shelby rambled 84 yards with return for another score; After Alabama got the ball on the i Washington 31 on its next fullback Johnny Davis went 31 yards off left guard for the third TD. Davis got two other from six 51 yards and finished with' 155 yards in 13 carries. "He ran well. I didn't need my specs to see that," said Alabama coach Paul (Bear) Bryant.

Bryant thought 'Bama had a big ad-vantage in being able to dress 60 players to the visitors' 48 "on a day like today (30-degree heat)." But Washington's Don James didn't think it made much difference. "The 48-man traveling rule didn't have thing to do with what happened out "11 there," he said after watching his team "-fail to get close enough for even a field-goal try. "The heat didn't matter, either, "If Iwe had been beaten in the fourth quarter, I might be able to use that for a reason. But they beat us early in the game. Not take anything away from Alabama, which is a superior team but you just can't help them with fumbles 'j and ineptness." Washington lost four of nine fumbles and had twu passes intercepted in going down to its third defeat in five games.

Alabama, ranked seventh nationally, plays No. 19 Tennessee at Birmingham, next Saturday. Statistics Alabama First downs '0 23 Rushes-yards 38-i'B 45-404 Passing yards 199 95 Return yards 9 120 Passes 11-25-2 6-15-1 Punts 9 40 3-39 Fumbles-lost 9-4 3-2 Penalties-yards 3-48 2-10 WASHINGTON 0 0 0 0-0 ALABAMA 24 14 14 0-5? Ala. Todd, 8, run (Ridgewav kick). Ala.

Shelby, 84, punt return (Ridgeway kick). Ala. Davis, 31, run (Ridseway kick). Ala. FG, Ridgeway, 23.

Ala. Newsomc, 28, pass from Fraley kick). Ala. Nathan, 2, run (Ridoeway kick). Ala.

Davis, si, run (Ridgeway kick). Ala, Davis, run (Ridgewav kick). Attendance 58,000. No upset as 'Bam a Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Before yesterday, Alabama and Washington had met only once in football.

That was in the 1926 Rose Bowl, and Alabama scored a 20-19 upset. When the colleges squared off again yesterday, there was no upset. Alabama was a four-touchdown favorite and played like one, swamping the visitors from the Pacific-8 Conference 52-0. 'Bama put Washington away in the first quarter, spurting for 24 points and rolling on to its fourth victory against a season-opening loss to Missouri. The Southeastern Conference power Errors cosily as Ole Miss raps Georgia Associated Press OXFORD, Miss.

Georgia coach Vince Dooley said his team's mistakes figured heavily in Mississippi's surprising 28-13 victory yesterday. The Rebels recovered four Georgia fumbles and intercepted Iwo passes before a homecoming crowd of 31,200 watching the first meeting between the two on Mississippi's home ground. "We have been fortunate in the last three weeks to have played very clean football games with minimum mistakes," Dooley said. "Our mistakes today encouraged Ole Miss to play exceptionally well. They seemed to get better as the game went along." Mississippi fullback James Story raced 39 yards for a touchdown and tailback James Reed scored twice on short blasts in an explosive second half.

Reed scored on one-yard dives set up after Georgia mistakes in the third quarter. Story escaped for his touchdown early in the fourth period to help assure the Rebs' first Southeastern Conference victory since 1973. Georgia wasted a couple of serious first half threats and fell to 3-2 after winning its three previous games. Ole Miss, trying to salvage a season after a sputtering start, is now 2-4. Both teams are 1-1 in the SEC.

Ole Miss coach Ken Cooper said the triumph was "a big upset over a quality opponent. "It was a very big win at this time of year. We had worked so hard for success but had come away almost empty handed thus far. We got good field position in the third quarter and then converted. That's the secret converting when you get the opportunities." Statistics Georgia Nlsslssipnl Firs downs 23 20 Rushes-yards 56-333 Passing vards 10 69 Return yards 116 24 Passes 1-17-2 6-17-2 Punts 6-43 5-46 Fumbles-lost 7-4 4-2 Penalties-yards 5-33 4-36 GEORGIA 7 0 0 413 MISSISSIPPI 0 7 14 728 17, run (Leavllt kick); Miss, Sweet, 19, run (Lavlnnhoute kick); Mlsi.

Reed, 1, run (Lav-Inghouze kick); Miss. Reed. 1, run (Levinghouie kick); Miss. Storey, 39, run (Lavinghouja kick)) Ga. Davis, 9, pass trom Robinson (run failed).

Attendance 31,200. Auburn's Secdrick Mclntyre looks for running room against the Kentucky defense in last night's game at Lexington. Mclntyre was stopped after a short gain in the first quarter of Aubur.i's 15-9 win. UK's 9-0 lead goes swiftly Associated press GAINESVILLE, Fla. The Florida Gators overpowered Vanderbilt because they've mastered their reading lessons-reading opponents' defenses, said quarterback Don Gaffney after trimming Vandy 35-0 yesterday.

Fullback Jimmy DuBose and coach Doug Dickey agreed. "The way our quarterbacks are reading their "defenses and executing the wishbone has made a big difference this year," Dickey said, "And when you break the opening play for a touchdown the way we did, that's a big help." DuBose, a 215-pound senior having his biggest year, said Gaffney carried out the fake so well on the opening play that the Vandy defense spread wide and gave him a hole so big nobody could miss it. He rambled 80 yards for the first touchdowr and the beginning of 180-yard day. "The reason I'm breaking more of the long ones is the way we have mastered the wishbone option," DuBose said. "It was my biggest day and I feel great, especially since the team we beat was the one that outplayed us last year." Larry Brinson added three scores on runs of one and five yards and on a 10-yard pass from Gaffney.

Don Garlits becomes first dragster to hit 230 mark ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) Drag racer Don Garlits became the first driver to reach the 250 miles-per-hour mark for the quarter-mile when he roared to a run of 250.69 in qualifying yesterday for the $200,000 National Hot Rod Association World Finals. Garlits also set an elapsed time mark of 5.637 seconds to lead the quickest field of fuel dragsters ever assembled into tomorrow's finals at Ontario Motor Speedway. His run gives him the top berth ahead of defending champion Gary Beck, who had set a record of 5.698 seconds Friday. Beck has a 148-point lead over Garlits going into the finals to determine the 1975 NHRA overall points title.

Don Prudhomme led funny car qualifying at a 6.155 second effort at 241.53 m.p.h. and Bob Glidden of Greenwood, Ind. topped the pro stock class at 155.17 m.p.h. with an elapsed time of 8.802. SIU settles for tie NORMAL, 111.

(AP) Illinois University quarterback Leonard Hopkins led his team to a 10-point barrage in the final four minutes, including a 22-yard field goal by Ken Seaman with three seconds to play, to tie Illinois State 17-17 yesterday. Associated Press down drain However, Burks needing four yards for a first down burst through tackle and cut sharply to his left, threading his way 17 yards and crossing the goal line standing up. "I know it looked like a counter or a misdirection play, but it was a straight dive through right tackle," Burks said. "I just cut it back against the grain real sharply. Kentucky was flowing to the ball real quickly and I ran away from em." Understandably enough, the results left Jordan looking ahead eagerly and Curci deeply concerned.

"It was a long time coming, but winning this first one should really help us the rest of the way," said Jordan, who will retire afler this, his 25th season. "From the sideline, Gilligan's catch looked like an interception for Kentucky, but Jeff took it away and that seemed to ignite the whole team. Thai's what we've lacked all year the big play, the great play that gives the whole team a spark." Said Curci: "We're going to get into a syndrome if we don't watch it. Every week, we play to keep from losing instead of playing to win. I've never seen a team have so much disaster." Neither, in all likelihood, has anybody else in these parts.

UK Auburn First downs IB 8 Rushes-yards 62-202 45-14(1 Passing yards 66 127 Return yards -1 14 Passes 6-16-0 4-7-1 Punts-averaoe Fumbles-lost 4-2 2J Penalties-yards 3-31 3 25 AUBURN 9 15-15 KENTUCKY .3 0 3 39 UK FG: Pierce, 4. UK-FG: Pierre, 32. UK FG: Pierce. 31. Aub GiWun.

11- Pss from Baumgai-tner (O'Donoghue kick). Aub. Burks, 17, run Butler pass from nnrii). Attendance 56,696. Continued from Page 1 of adversity really, five weeks is more like it and raised its record to a sickly 1-3-1.

Kentucky, which had seemed destined for relief from its own string of troubles, now has the same 1-3-1 mark. "Would the person who has that little doll with 'Kentucky' on it please throw it away?" Curci said. "Every time we get going, somebody pinches that. doll. Somebody has got a hex on us.

We are a 30-second disaster team, and we can't do anything inside the 20-yard line. If I knew what to do. I'd do it." Auburn, meanwhile, owed a huge debt of thanks to its much-maligned defense, a unit that had yielded 315 yards a game before last night. Kentucky gained 268 yards 109 of those by Collins but UK's 202-yard rushing total was its lowest of the year. "Our defense really grew up out there tonight," said Jordan, who opened the season with nine new defensive starters.

"Kentucky might have had us 9-0, but we never did give up a touchdown." Although the nightmares that followed make it academic, UK seemed headed for a touchdown midway in the final period. With Collins breaking loose for 11 Statistic Vanderbilt Florida Firsi downs 12 26 Rushes-yards 34-69 69-454 Passing yards 98 59 Return yards 34 11 Passes 1-23-2 5-14-1 Punts 7-35 4-45 Fumbles-lost 1-0 4-2 Penalties-yards 8-90 3 55 VANOER8ILT a 0 a FLORIDA 14 I 7 7-35 Fla. DuBose, W. run (Posey kick); Fla Brinson. 5, run, (Posey kickl; Fla.

Brinson. 10, pass trom Gaffney (Posey kick); Fla. Brinson, 1, run (Posey kick); Fla. Fisher, 6, run (Posey run). Attendance 58,631.

yards and Campassi reeling off gains of 15 and seven yards, Kentucky drove to a first down on Auburn's 23. Pretty soon it was fourth-and-one at the Auburn 14, and the crowd roared when UK lined up to go for it. But it was only a ploy a slow count designed to cause Auburn to jump offsides and when that failed, UK called timeout and Pierce kickpd his last, field goal. Even to wide-open offense fanatics, that strategy was impeccable. Needing nine points to tie, Auburn now would have to score twice.

Which, of course, Auburn did. starting with Baumgartner's pass to Gilligan. "I just ran a straignt post pattern." Gilligan said, "and Clyde laid it right in my arms. The Kentucky guy sort of came together with me and he almost grabbed the ball, but then I was gone. Our offensive line did an incredible job on that play.

Clyde had all night to throw it." The Kentucky man Gilligan referred to was cornerback Ray Carr, whose end-zone interception had killed Auburn's only threat before halftime. But Carr was not the man burned on the play. "Ray did a super job just to get as close as he did," said UK secondary coach John Cooper. "His zone was on the other side of the field. That area was (safety) Tony Gray's responsibility and Tony wasn't there." Gilligan, who caught three passes in his first action of the year a week earlier, is somewhat of a medical miracle.

He had surgery for a separated shoulder in late August and wasn't supposed to be ready until a month from now. Auburn's other touchdown came on a third-down play when most spectators were thinking ahead to a fourth-down field goal and a 10-9 Auburn lead. Packer, Vi trail key Miss. St. past Rice Associated Press HOUSTON, Tex.

Walter Packer and Terry Vitrano scored touchdowns on one yard plunges in the first 3:52 of the game to ignite Mississippi State to a 28-14 col-' lege football victory over luckless Rice University last night. Mississippi State, recently placed on probation by the NCAA, pounced on a fumble and interception by Rice and turned them into a quick 14-0 lead as the; game started, Mississippi State moved to' a 21-0 lead in the second quarter on a 46-" yard pass from freshman quarterback James Harris to Galvin Rees. Rice finally got on the scoreboard with a five-yard run by quarterback Tommy Kramer for a 21-7 halftime score. The losers pulled within a touchdown1 of State on James Sykes' three-yard run in the third quarter but Packer came back with his second touchdown of the game a zigzagging 44-yard run with 2:46 left in the third period to give MSUJ its winning bulge. Mississippi State, which had lost 10 of 14 fumbles in its first four games had to survive four first half turnovers en route to its 21-7 halftime lead.

Vitrano, Facker and Harris each lost fumbles and starting quarterback Nor-'; man Joseph threw an interception. The victory gave MSU a 3-2 record and Rice dropped to 13. Miss. Statt Rica First downs 14 14 Rushes-yards 59-144 Passing yards 112 161 Return yards 18 0 Passes 4-9-1 12-21-2 Punts 5-2R 6-37 Fumb'es-lost 6-4 4-2 Penalties yards 7 53 9-108 MISSISSIPPI STATE 14 7 7 0 28 RICE 0 7 1 0-14 MSU Packer, 1, run (Jordan kick); MSU VII-rano, 1, run (Jorrisn kirk); MSU Rees. 46, pass trom Harris (Jordan kick); Rice Kramer, 5.

run (Arenas kick); Rlet Svkes. 3, run (Arenas kick); MSU Packer, 44. run (Jordan kick). Attendance 18,004..