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lldhfi) ww fl elh MaMsfflrf mm 7 Tin in IF i-i 1 1 -J I Jr 1 I 1 By GEORGE SMITH Star Sports Editor BIRMINGHAM From out of the past Saturday came footbeats of another time, another place, another era in this boys' game of football played by men. By Auburn men. Auburn men, young men, who came believing they would win, Auburn men who did win when a whole world, football world said "no way." TENNESSEE, HEAVILY-FAVORED Tennessee, this morning knows differently, 10-6 it knows differently. And 69,483 know differently, too now. The beginning of the knowing, here at Legion Field, came under lead-grey skies with a chilly North-Northwest wind blowing down through a concrete canyon in a city that was magic this day for Auburn.

just simple old-fashioned football that could have been a single-wing or a flying wedge or a Notre Dame box for all the frills it had Give it a name? What about Terry Henley's offense. And it clawed and chewed and slugged its way 81 yards in 16 plays. SOPH QUARTERBACK Randy Walls ran a quarterback draw for six yards and a big first down, a left-end skirt for three vital yards and pitched 10 yards to Dan Nugent for 10 more. Fullback James Owens got one. The rest of it was Henley, a senior tailback out of Oxford, who carried if 12 plays, the last 10 in a row for the touchdown.

Sanspree and Company would make stand. Forty-six of the 81 yards was Henley, who went to Saturday's batUe leading the SEC in running. And all of it was between Tennessee's tackles, right straight at some Volunteers who were getting knocked out by Owens and Mac Lorendo to name a couple. NOT ONCE WAS HENLEY forced to the outside and one eight-yard burst to the one was typical. The traffic there was (See Auburn on Page 7B) 4 -''7 It finished under sunny skies with that wind still blowing and blowing, but with Auburn happy and happy and happy.

AND IT WAS FOOTBALL from another era this brutal, head-busting, chest-hurting, spirit-crushing thing that Danny Sanspree and Bill Luka and Bennie Sivley and Mike Neel and some close, close defensive buddies did to a Tenn essee team that has yet to beat Auburn with Bill Battle coaching. SMITH as. am.l -4, ay Sanspree, literally, ate highly-touted Condredge Holloway for lunch. And when Sanspree wasn't chewing on Holloway or knocking down passes or recovering fumbles, Sivley and Luka and Neel were putting white and blue helmets in the guts of a Tennessee running game that couldn't, most of the day, get back to the line of scrimmage. NOTHING FANCY, this one.

No razzle-dazzle, no trickery, not sleight-of-the-hand magic, but 60 minutes of lining up and just looking Battle's Volunteers in the eye and saying: "Here we are. Let's play. Whip us if you can. If you dare." Tennessee, number four in all the land and playing a team that everybody said belonged in the lower reaches of the Southeastern Conference, couldn't. Sure, Auburn's offense got just 10 points.

But, for the defense, it was enough. AND THE MANNER in which Auburn got seven of those 10 points matched what the defense was doing. And that was THE YARDSTICK Auburn 10) Ttnntitatd) Flnt Dewnt 10 133 10 143 4 1 3 1 7-34 40 Yirdi Ruthlng Yardt Pilling Total OffwiM PaiMi Attempted Pastas Completed Passat Int. By Fumbltt Lost Punting Avg. Yardi Panalliad 10 lot llf 1 10 0 1 t-34 IB AtttrUlfcm Sunday, October 1,1972 A- Star Phatabv Kan kmhn VOLS' JAMIE ROTELLA (57) SIGNALS THE VERDICT Terry Henley up and 'over -TD A if x'.

I Cm Vv A 'Mil 7 I i i Hf. 1 Si Typicai nigh in Denny Stadium By WAYNE HESTER Assistant Sports Editor TUSCALOOSA The campus bell -was striking 10, Bear Bryant was shaking the wejiry hand of Bill Pace at the mkifield stripe. Bowl-shaped Denny Stadium shook from a salute by Alabama's Million Dollar Band. Several youngsters ran zig-zag patterns on the streaked artificial carpet. A group of "We're No.

1" campaigners carried on convincingly as what few were left of the 56,179 in attendance filed out the gates. less-than-formidable due to mixing of personnel in mercy for the Commodores. But Bama did not wear a sympathy face until Vandv was looking out of a pretty deep hole a 27-7 hole. That was with four minutes to play in the first half and that was when the back-up troops crashed down the gate on the sideline, pouring in to jomjhjg smite Bama was issuing the Music City visitors. IN THE OFFENSIVE backfield alone, 11 Alabama players checked in.

Most impressive of the 11 were fullback Ellis Beck and quarterbacks Davis and Rutledge. Beck because he took 16 strokes at the Commodore line and gained 89 yards and two TDs; Davis because of the way the offense moved under his command confidence oozes from this See Alabama on Page 7 B) The scoreboard said it was a 48-21 Bama story. It was a typical night in Denny Stadium. a chance. They watched, nursing injuries.

It was a night 10 touchdowns were scored, seven by Alabama. And it was a night for some unheralded Bama reserves. Bama's first-teamers knocked out the first 27 points, and the rest was left up to the Steve Deans, the Gary Rutledges, the Ralph Stokes, etc. BEAR BRYANT'S second wishbone machine cranked out 449 yards of offense, 369 of that overland. The wishbone, with quarterbacks Terry Davis and Gary Rutledge controlling the snap, hit Vanderbilt up the middle, on the flanks, through the tackles and, for 80 yards worth, through the air.

Alabama threw the football nine times, three less than its average for the season. Five were completed, two by Davis, three by Rutledge. But. all of Bama's TDs were bv the run. The defensive story was no great one for Alabama.

Chuck Strickland, Wayne Hall, John Croyle, Richard Bryan and mates bottled up the Commodores in streaks. When the streaks ran out. Vandy cashed in on several long gains. "I DONT KNOW about our defense," Bryant tried to answer in the dressing room. "I know it's got to get better.

"Especially on kickof fs and returns; we were terrible there." L. But to-give the proper credit, Bama's defense was likely THE YARDSTICK VANDERBILT (15) II ALABAMA (41) 22 3M Flnt Downs ALABAMA RAMMED A triple-option attack at the Vanderbilt Commodores, scored almost at will with the first, second and third team, and celebrated victory No. 3 on a still, clear night with the mercury registering an almost cold 60 degrees. Alabama entered 63 men into the rout. BiscegliaBuddy Brown and freshman Woodrow Lowe never got 1 4 StarPhatebyKtnElkfm SUGAR MAN SAYS IT ALL 127 100 227 12 3 0 4 6-21 44 Yirdi Ruthlng Yirdi Patting TdtelOftent Punt Attempted PatmCompltted Patiai Int.

By Fumbtet Lost Punting Avg. Yardt Panallitd 2 2 gallons of victory HESTER i if a a aw a 4 axineii handle i r-- Bii ill i -'4 TT ii EnernecKs 1. SOU. CAL whipped Mich. 51-6 2.

OKLAHOMA ripped Clemson, 52-3 3. COLORADO was upset by Oklahoma St. 31-6 4: TENNESSEE) was stunned by Auburn, 104 5. OHIO STATE dumped North Carolina, 29-14 6. ALABAMA crushed Vanderbilt, 48-21 7.

NEBRASKA blanked Minnesota, 42-0 8. MICHIGAN eased by Tulane, 41-7 9. LSU stopped Wisconsin, 27-7 10. NOTRE DAME beat Purdue, 35-14 11 ARIZONA ST. was upset by Wyoming 37-23 12.

TEXAS supped by Texas Tech, 25-20 13. PENN STATE nipped Iowa, 14-10 14. WASHINGTON slugged Illinois, 31-11 15. UCLA beat Oregon Friday, 65-20 16! FLORIDA ST. defeated Kansas, 44-22 17.

MISSISSIPPI edged Sou. Mississippi, 13-9 18. TULANE fell ttfMichigan, 41-7 19. STANFORD survived W. Virginia, 41-35 20.

WEST VIRGINIA lost to Stanford, 41-35 ByJIMFARRELL SUr Sports Writer JACKSONVILLE The Corner Pvles khaki tiniforrns. Montezuma's and Tripoli's. drarn and bugles'. -Jhave certainly had better days. Yt What Jacksonville State did to 'tne U.S.

Marines of Quanticq here Saturday made their; Parris Island look like a two week stay at Camp Zinn. The final score had the Camecocka winning Not much worse, but worse. WJN SATURDAY night earned Charley Pell's sixth ranked (nationally) Gamecocks the right to dethrone the nation's number one team, Livingston, next week, something the Tiger's did to these same Gamecocks just over a year ago. Cutting the insides out of the Leatherneck's this night and keeping a three-game slate clean were a couple of dudes who've won just about every 'Gamecock heart this side of the Mississippi. Tag them Ralph Brock and Boyce Callahan.

rr WAS CALLAHAN EARLY, with big. big helg from Brock late, that was the" difference here, Callahan had two touchdowns, both in first half, and 148 yards on 21 carries. Ninety one of these yards came before the Ballerina's diinced. at his best. The junior-transfer from Auburn hit on nine of 18 jor 89 yards, and a TD and ran the ball 13 times for 52 yards and a touchdown.

While his passing yardage wasn't his best, he made up for it with some mighty big real estate in third and fourth quarter. His touchdown late in the game iceditfor.theJaxmen. BUT THERE WERE OTHERS of fensively. Sm Johnson. Mike Chappell.

Bill Glover. Alan Paseur. Roy Shaddix ane Bobby Germany made gaps for Gamecock back to run for 294 yards. And defense, such names as George Porter. Ron Beaucham.

Bill Abston, Ralph Clayton. Henry Studvvant. Ben Peters, Buddy Mgay and 'Gene Preskitt stopped Quantico runners for a measleyf 71-vards rushing for the night. All these people, and more, played a (See Jaxmen on Page 7B) More on Auburn and Alabama on: page 4B tar1wtebviatuiKuina RALPH BROCK SCRAMBLING AROUND defenders moving in 'V, 1 ('.