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18 THETENNESSEAN, Tuttqy, Auguit 26, 1980 Whit til mm DALLAS The Dallas Cowboys cut punter Jeff Gossett yesterday, meaning No: 1 quarterback Danny White will do the chores for the time being. Gossett was one of five players released; others were linebacker Larry Savage of Michigan State, receiver Jackie Flowers of Florida State, linebacker Gary Padgen of Utah. The Cowboys still have to trim five more players by today's 4 a.m. deadline. Team officials confirmed that safety Randy Hughes underwent corrective surgery on a dislocated shoulder yesterday and will be out for at least eight weeks.

PITTSBURGH The Pittsburgh Steelers have placed seven players on waivers, reducing their squad to 53. The cuts included Fred Anderson, a de- cluding second-year quarterback Dave Rader, were waived by the New York Giants, clipping the roster to 55. Rader was signed as a free agent last season, but did not play. Phil Simms, former Morehead State standout, won and kept the starting job. MIAMI The Miami Dolphins unloaded half of last year's starting defensive backfield, cutting veteran safety Neal Colzie and trading cornerback Norris Thomas to Tampa Bay.

The Dolphins also waived six other players and still have two more to go to get down to limits today. Colzie's release came as a surprise; he started every game for the Dolphins last season and led the team in interceptions, with five. But Coach Don Shula had reportedly been uphappy with Colzie's performance in last year's 34-14 playoff loss to Pittsburgh. Pro Football Notes fensive end from Prairie View A who played for the Steelers in 1978 and was on the injured reserve list last season, and wide receiver Larry Douglas, from Southern University, who signed a as a free agent last season but also spent the entire year on injured reserve. TAMPA, Fla.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released six players and completed a deal with Miami, sending the Dolphins fullback Jimmy DuBoss and a high future-draft choice in exchange for running back Gary Davis and Norris Thomas, the starting left cornerback the last three seasons. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Five players, in WASHINGTON Halfback Benny Malone, a starter last season, and free agent runningback Don Testerman were cut by the Washington Redskins, who still must cut eight more players. Malone rushed form 472 yards and caught 13 passes for 137 yards lastyear in his first full season with the Redskins. The six-year veteran played sparingly in the first two Redskins' exhibition games and did not see action in Saturday night's 34-17 victory over the Oakland Raiders.

KANSAS CITY The Kansas City Chiefs cut six players and placed two others on injured the top player released was No. 11 draft choice Dale Markham, a defensive end from North Dakota. Hmdle hres, Best Franklin County Rates As 8-AAA Midstate By LARRY TAFT: only four returnees to aide the cause. The offense is described by Adams as "a very slow, multiple" with a five-front on defense. Running back Pat Remke is the ground threat with quarterback-ing duties being shared by senior Tim McAnally and sophomore Marty Cone.

MANCHESTER: With almost the entire offensive and defensive backfields wiped out, the Red Raiders apparently will be hard-pressed to improve on last year's 4-6 campaign. Seventeen letter-" men return.including tight defensive end Jerry Langford, a 6-2, 195-pound junior rated the "best all-around Dlayer oh the Hillwood's Stiles Shares PGA Lead Hillwood's Trey Stiles is among McNeese. Size is not a forte with Jamie Collins (6-0, 190 pounds) to heaviest starter. COLUMBIA: The Lions will miss all-star performer Manuel Young, but return both ends (Richard Boshears, Mike Ayers), tackle Chris Garner, guard Thomas Whitley and center-turned-tackle Robin Langley. Fullback-linebacker Thomas Armstrong and wing-back Johnny Markham also return, solidifying the backfield.

SHELBYVILLE: Five offensive and defensive starters return, giving the Golden Eagles something to build on. Fullback Melvin McDonald is a hard runner with tight end Carvelle Massengale the best receiver. LAWRENCE COUNTY: The Wildcats face the unenviable task of trying to improve a club that posted a 1-9 mark a year ago with backer Gilmore Ford, cornerback Craig Carmichael and safety Quinton Bailey will make the Falcons difficult beat. TULLAHOMA: A state semifi-nalist last year, those 10-2 the Wildcats have three top-notch starters returning in running backs Johny Baer and Tyrone Hardin and linebacker Mike Jer-nigan. Other part-time starters counted on heavily are Jimmy Boatman (safety and split end) and defensive end Donnie Well, Steve Posey and Eddie Spears to form the nucleus of a sound defensive unit.

LINCOLN COUNTY: With 16 departed seniors, the Falcons will have a new look. Billy Heath is a tough tight end who does a better than adequate job in handling the kicking chores. Running backs Ranal Ramsey and Alex Dixon have good blocking from a line headed by center Jerry Wright and guard Tim Shelton. Seven defensive starters, paced by line- If the men who are paid to coach the teams know what they're talking about, the District 8-AAA football championship will be determined the first night of the season Sept. 5.

That's when Lincoln County's Falcons travel to Winchester to do battle with the Franklin County Rebels. And according to a Ten-nessean survey of coaches, Franklin County rates as a slight favorite to take that opening contest and the league title. USING A 10-8-6-4-2-1 point system, Coach Harold (Red) Roberts' club is slightly better than the Falcons; Under the system, both teams received three first-place votes, but Franklin County amassed 54 points to 52 for the Coach John Meadows' outfit from Fayetteville. No head coach rated his own team. Defending champion Tullaho- Mixed Doubles Finals At Had ley Park Today James Dale and Martha Hendricks will meet Oliver Smith and Tanya.

Allen this afternoon at 5:30 in thCmixed doubles finals in the weekly Hadley Park Tennis Tournament. Dale and Smith defeated David Rachelle and Louise Harris 6-2, 6-4 in a semifinal yesterday. Smith and Allen topped Victor Abdullah and Dorothy Baker 6-2, 6-2 in their semifinal matchup. ma, which was awarded the other first-place pick, was next with 40 points, followed by Columbia (28), Shelbyville (23), Lawrence County (1 2) and Manchester (8). "I don't want to dispute what the others are saying about us," said Roberts, "but our first four games are in the district and they'll all be tough.

"WE'VE GOT some good players, but we're not as big as we were a year ago. That could hurt us. I really think we're overrated." Meadows confesses his team will be better too. "We'll be improved everywhere," he stated. "We're a little bigger and a little stronger and have a little more depth.

We can do more things, but we aren't overpowering nor do we have burning speed." The district boasts two new coaches. Greg Gregory replaces Dan Bland at Tullahoma. Bland moved to Knoxville Farragut. Jerry Adams is the new man at Lawrence County, replacing Gary Wright, who remained a member of the staff. Here's a thumbnail sketch of Gdcli tc3m FRANKLIN COUNTY: Twenty lettermen return, but only six offensive starters and five on defense.

Mike Kimerly (9.7 in the 100) and Mike Hill are the wishbone blazers. Split end Glenn Robinson is the top receiver with Dale Coulson and Scott Pogue the top linemen. Ends Wilson and Harry Walker team with Kenneth i Heisman olcs Eying a group of three who shot two-un-der par 70 yesterday to tie for the first-round lead in the annual Ten- nessee PGA Apprentice Pro golf, tournament at Temple Hills. Stiles is deadlocked with Mack Houser and Buzz Fly and the threesome are bracketed one stroke ahead of Temple Hills' assistant Chip Harris and Chattay nooga's Mike Nelms as. the tour- ney heads into its final found this -morning.

Belle Meade's Will Brewer shot 72 and was the only other player to shoot par in a field of 27 bat- tling for the $750 first-place prize money. Pro Herman Rowland headed 1 the winning team in yesterday's pro-am which also included amateurs Bill Kemper, Larry Denton." and Don Polk. The teamed for a net 56, 16 under par. Four other teams shot 57 and tied for second. Yesterday's results: pro scores 70 Trey Stiles, Mack Houser, Buh Fly: 71 Mike Nelms, Chip Harris; 72 Will Brewer; 73 Warren Huddleston; 74 Mike Green, George Liner, Scotty Felker, Kyle Howard; 76 Hunt Gilliland, Tony Mitch- ell, Sam Hill, Herman Rowland; 77 Geoff Young, Da- vid, Smith; 79 Jim Casteel, Lee Miller, Mike Parrott; 80 L.

Wilson, R. Rook; 81 Duke Ellington, Darryl Speegle, Steve Nelson; 82 Tony Rowe; 83 Mickey Averitt. PRO-AM SCORES 56 Pro Herman Rowland, Don Polk, Bill Kemper; Larry Denton; 57 Pro Mack Houser, Ron Coleman, Jack Griffin, Russ Wlngo; Pro George Liner, Tom Squires, Dick Horton, Jimmy Davy; Pro Chip Harris, Bob Lindsay, Jeff Mohn, Bill Spear; Pro Tony Mitchell. Rock Faber, Bob White, Phil Kinnie. 58 Pro Buzz Fly, Kent Heitholt, Bobby Greene, Bob Lindsay.

couple of receptions and an occasional kick return in every game. BROOKS' EMERGENCE as the main man in Auburn's attack is largely the result of the graduation of talented Joe Cribbs, who teamed with Brooks to gain more than 2,300 yards last year. "Teams will be able to key on James a little more this year, but he'll also be carrying the ball more. He'll be both hurt and helped by the graduation of Cribbs," Barfield said. AUBURN NOTES: Auburn joined the bandwagon of adding to stadiums by constructing an upper deck on the west side of Jordan-Hare Stadium, raising capacity some 10,700.

The on-campus facility now seats 72,000. Barfield is still in the dark as far as his team is concerned, since he had seen the complete unit for only one day of practice. "I saw enough to know that we've got a lot of question marks," he said. One of Barfield's biggest concerns is at linebacker, where he says all of his players are "about 5-10, 190 pounds and slow. It won't be easy.

People in this football-mad state are already divided on who is the better running back, Auburn's Brooks or Alabama's Major Ogilvie. Moreover, the lack of national exposure due to the television blackout will mean that virtually all of Brooks support will be on a regional level, where word of mouth carries as much weight as Brooks' awesome statistics. IF MERE numbers can be translated into bronze statues, Brooks has a real shot. He led the nation in yardage per carry (7.4) last season and was second to Heisman winner Charles White in all-purpose running. The subject of.

White stirs the competitive juices of the confident Brooks. "If I had played at Southern Cal, with that great offensive line, I might've gained more yardage than he did," Brooks said. He also recognizes that the Auburn offense is geared toward utilizing his many talents. Head coach Doug Barf ield says the team will "try to get the ball to him every way known to man." That translates into perhaps 25 rushes, a By DAVID CLIMER Tennessean Sports Writer AUBURN, Ala. James Brooks swears he would rather win football games than take the Heisman Trophy home.

There's a catch. Brooks knows he must play on a winning team if he's going to have a snowball's chance in Alabama of earning enough Heisman votes. "I'M TRYING to think about the team first; you know, working towards getting better as a unit," the gifted Auburn runner told the Southeastern Conference Skywriters last night. "But I know they (the voters) aren't gonna look at me unless we're winning a lot of games." In a sense, Brooks' dash towards the coveted Heisman is the ultimate challenge for Auburn this" year. Still operating under the sanctions of NCAA probation, the War Eagles cannot go to a bowl game and are still ineligible to appear on television.

About the only way anybody is going to know about Auburn is for Brooks to run his way into hearts of Heisman voters. 1 ''V'' I'M' Ted Turner Out I In America's Cup Yacht Defense NEWPORT, R.I. (UPI) Ted Turner was politely eliminated i from; America's Cup contention i yesterday, ending his doomed campaign for a second defense at the helm of the ailing yacht Courageous. With traditional formality, the New York Yacht Club's Selection 7 Committee, dressed in ceremonial I black blazers, red trousers and i straw: hats for their "deeply un-j happy task," motored across New-' port Harbor to inform Turner he was eliminated. i Chairman Robert McCullough left the Selection Committee's I power yacht, shook Turner's hand and said, "Thank you very much." TURNER, AN Atlanta million-i aire who was dubbed the "Mouth I I of the South" for his flamboyant Cup campaign three years ago, 1 knew what McCullough meant.

"We gave it our best shot and we enjoyed every minute of it," Turner said. "We're quite happy to have been asosciated withh this 1 all these years." All six committee members shook hands with the 11-man Cou- rageous crew, as a crowd on the dock began a round of "Hip, Hip Hoorays." His elimination leaves Dennis Conner, 37, of San Diego, and Russell Long, 24 of New York, in contention for the defender's BUT WITH 37 wins out of 39 i)iiiiiiiiiMiiiiiW-jif'iiTrtrnitlllr1 AP Laserphoto "Multiple Offense" Leads Winning Ways Madison Upholds Grid Tradition Scarred By CINDY SMITH There is more to Madison High School football than last year's record or this year's prospects. Head football coach Bobby Leech believes that Madison football is a part of the very best football tradition in Nashville. "MADISON IS an off -shoot of Issac Litton and part of that great tradition." Leech said. vorite McGavock for a quarter of action.

Ac- tion begins at 7:30 p.m. The other Metro jamboree is this Saturday at. Overton at 7:30 p.m. Leech and his team will be on hand although the head coach does have bad memories about last year. The rumors about the head girls' basketball coaching positions are expected to come to an' end tonight at the regular meeting of the Board of Education.

Speculation continues to center around four names: former Bellevue coach Charlie Ander- Crttl fftritlOU TskltMl AnnVl TJ V. DAlinain 1 Leech stated. "With 32 football players we knew we couldn't compete with AAA schools. In baseball or some of the other sports, a small school can go up against McGavock and Maple-wood, but not in football where so many people get hurt. "We had 728 kids register this year," he continued.

"And, I think that is important to note since the cut off for a AA school is 800." Despite recent success and long-standing tradition, Coach Leech is guarded about the upcoming season. "I know we have some talent," he said. "But, we are lacking in other areas that it takes to win. We don't seem to have the leadership, the pride or the willingness to work hard that it takes to win." LEECH CITES several problems that the Rams must work out. "Right now, we're not faking in the backfield, not using the proper excecution in our blocking techniques, missing assignments and accumulating penalties," said the coach with a shake of his head.

"In a scrimmage the other night we had 185 yards in penalties." The silver lining in the midst of all of this gloom is some talented football players that Leech is counting on. Sal Shields is a 6-2, 190 vii, ivi uuciiuii LuaLU uuuu ituuu assistant Lemore McGill and newcomer Barbara Dunn. The openings are at Hillsboro, An-tioch, Cohn and Madison. Which coach will be assigned to which school is still a matter of speculation, but there promises to be some form of protest if Dunn is assigned a position ahead of coaches with seniority At this late hour it looks as if Roberts is headed to Madison and McGill to Cohn with Anderson or Dunn going to either Hillsboro or Antioch. NEWPORT, R.I.

Ted Turner came away from Sunday's America Cup trials with a bloody scar on his cheek, thanks to an encounter with a loose piece of equipment aboard his boat, Courageous. Worse, Turner's crew lost twice to Russell Long and the Clipper. head of a broadcasting empire, insisted when he's at the helm of Courageous, "Nothing else is on my mind." Equipment breakdowns a cracked boom, jammed halyard, and snapped mast plagued the six-year-old two-time Cup defender Courageous through July elimination trials. The troubles showed in Turner's record he lost 20 out of 26 rac-es. At one point, he referred to his campaign as a yacht-racing olition derby." THEN, THE Selection Committee dismissed him from the final two days of the July trials for bringing an Australian crewman aboard Courageous for advice on sails.

The committee, which values decorum as much as winning races in a defender called Turner's actions "a serious indiscretion." Turner was optimistic about his performance for the final trials. Then, only days before finals got underway, Courageous' spare mast was damaged and Turner was forced to borrow one from a competitor. That left him with precious hours to recut sails and rearrange rigging to fit the new mast. "And, there was no better football tradition in the country than the tradition of Issac Litton." Leech is proud to continue the Litton tradition which he says includes the coaching wisdom of Bob Cummings, now at Beech High, Herschel Moore, long-time Glencliff coach now an assistant at Beech, and Goodlettsville coach Ernest Smallen. "We run the multiple offense that Coach Cummings introduced to the Nashville area and that has worked so well for Coach Moore and Coach Smallen," he said.

The multiple offense has also worked for Leech and the Rams, who are defending Tobacco Bowl champions after posting a 9-2 record last year. Success at Madison has also come because of a decision made four years ago by Leech and his staff. "WE DECIDED four years ago that we would not compete for the District 12-AAA title," Waterfield, Howard Winners In McDougall Regatta Field Chris Waterfield captured first place in Division A of the annual McDougall Regatta on Old Hickory Lake last weekend. Ross Bryan finished second to Waterfield, with Davis McConnico third. In Division Phillip Howard was first, followed by Dan Lindstrom and Neil Cunningham.

A field of 45 boats competed in the two-day regatta. races' at the helm of the year-old Freedom, Conner has made the summer-long contest one of the most lopsided ever. It's just a matter of time before he is named to defend the Cup. Turner, 41, suffered a string of setbacks in his bid to repeat the defender's role. Despite a paltry sail inventory, he entered the summer-long elimination series with characteristic swagger the reigning Cup champion back with the same 10 crewmen Courageous when it defended the world's oldest sporting trophy against the Australians in 1977.

CREWMEN SAID Turner's concentration was strained during the June trials by worries over his brand-new television Cable News Network. But Turner, owner of the Atlanta Braves baseball team and Atlanta Hawks basketball team and Overton High School's original football team of 1960-61 is getting together for a reunion Sept. 12 before the Overton-Glencliff game. Any member of that squad interested should call Bill Harris at 646-0744. Davidson County MTSU Club Meets With "Boots" Tonight The Davidson County Blue Raider Club will meet tomorrow night at 6:30 in the Oaks Office Building behind Smugglers' Inn.

Head football coach James "Boots" Donnelly will be in attendance to discuss the upcoming Blue Raider football season. Athletic director -Charles "Bubber" Murphy and other athletic department figures will also be in attendance. All MTSU athletic fans are encouraged to pound tight endlinebacker who Leech says is "an excellent football player who fools you with his speed." Billy Kirby is another player high on Leech's list. Kirby is a 5-9, 180 pound guard-defensive tackle who returned to school with a much-needed extra 20 pounds on his frame. At quarterback is Davy Glover, a 6-1, 150 pounder who also plays safety on defense.

"DAVY HAS never started a high school football game at quarterback," Leech said. "But, he has done a good job for us in practice. He showed his ability last year when he filled in for Alfred Wilson who broke his leg in a jamboree." Madison will be in a jamboree this Friday night at Stratford meeting District 12-AAA fa.