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libs VahdyKiddihg'' About Lineup, for iV.V.V.ViViVAV.VVAVAV.ViVtVrtVW 'w'i He TENNESSEAN Page 61 of the best quarterbacks in the conference in Van Heflin. I know that they'll play us four hard quarters of football." By the way, Sloan and his team were greeted Monday on the Oxford, practice field by an impromtu pep rally, numbering an estimated 1,500 students. Someone had hung an effigy of a Vanderbilt player from Sloan's coaching tower and it stunned him when he first spotted it from a long way off. "After our experiences of the pastfew games, I thought that might be me," Sloan said. THURSDAY October 26, 1978 Thornton Resigns Position 'By JIMMY DAVY If Vanderbilt loses to Ole Miss in Saturday's Commodore homecoming game at Dudley Field, it could be interpreted as child abuse.

Commodore head coach Fred Pancoast yesterday named his starters for the Southeastern Conference collision and laid claim to college football's youngest starting "We are starting 12 freshmen and 13 sophomores Saturday," Pancoast said, brandishing a depth chart on which he had circled the names of. the young Vandy players. A devastating number of injuries to key players, plus disciplinary banishments, have left the Commodore coaching staff playing Chinese Checkers on the personnel board in McGugin Center. THE DEPTH CHART Pancoast was holding for reference also included another interesting bit of information. Eight of the starters against Mississippi Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

will be playing positions different than those which they played at the start of the season, just six weeks ago. They are, with their old positions in parenthesis, tailback Frank Mordica (fullback), safety Eddie Hood (tailback), offensive guard Greg Eveland (tight end), defensive end Norwood Ervin (linebacker), tackle Mike Gothard (defensive end), nose guard Andrew Coleman (linebacker), defensive tackle Tim Moore (offensive guard) and defensive end Joe Ca-sella (linebacker). One of the most surprising deve-lopements, other than Moore, a freshman, moving from the offense to a starting tackle slot, is the sudden emergence of Casella. Casella, because of injuries to veteran hitter Mike Giltner, has moved up to the starting team at end. The sophomore is a 6-2, 220-pounder working on his first letter after being a heralded recruit out of Plant High in Tampa, Fla.

A crowd of 26,000 is expected for Saturday's game and David (Bucky) Wagner, the Vanderbilt assistant athletic director for business, said yesterday that athletic-the ticket office at McGugin Center will remain open daily until 6 p.m. all this week. A release from Ole Miss' sports publicity department yesterday quoted former Vandy head coach Steve Sloan on his thoughts about the current Commodores his Rebels will play Saturday. It said: "The players at Vanderbilt always play hard and with a lot of character. It's a special place to me because I had my first head coaching job there.

They have one "Casella gets the call at end, not only because he has improved and deserves a chance, but because Giltner has just almost buckled under injuries," Pancoast said. "Giltner is so slowed by these various bumps and bruises that we needed more speed out there on the ends." Ervin, the other sophomore defensive end, is playing his third position of the season when he starts against Ole Miss. He started pre-season practice as a running back, later shifting to linebacker. THE COMMODORES, listed as early 13-point underdogs to Ole Miss (2-4), went through a brisk workout yesterday which Pan-coast later described as "good." MEMPHIS (AP) Former professional football player Dick Thornton who helped moid Southwestern at Memphis into a small college football powerhouse, announced yesterday he is leaving the school. Thornton, 39, said he is resigning as football coach and athletic director at the end of this season so he can pursue a coaching job at a major college.

"I believe I have taken Southwestern as far as it can go in football," Thornton would like to coach a major college team. I think I'm ready for that challenge. "Resigning my position at Southwestern is my way of letting the major schools know that I'm available and ready to talk." Southwestern, defending College Athletic Conference champs, is 4-2. Thornton's resignation will take effect after Southwestern's last game, Nov. 11 at Rose-Hulman College.

Thornton, who was a star quarterback at Northwestern, played for 13 years in the Canadian Football League as a defensive back. T1 'Forced Out' Bellard Claims J- -M Til WW oooooooooooooooo by F.M.Williams kv Two Who Got Away FOR YEARS now, it has been privately con- tended that the state of Tennessee does not produce enough football players to make one school competitive in the Southeastern Confer- ence. There is always an added observance that because it is surrounded by other states with universities trying to have good football players, Tennessee is overly recruited for the few fine players coming out of high school each year. Two who got away from the Tennessee Vols during Bill Battle's regime in Knoxville may rise to haunt Johnny Majors and his 1978 crew in Memphis when they clash with Mississippi State ment denying he had pressured Bellard to resign. "There is no truth whatsoever to the insinuation that Coach Bellard was forced out as athletic director and head football coach," Miller said.

"There was no discussion between myself and the board of regents about possible changes." Miller characterized his Tuesday meeting with Bellard differently than Bellard did. "At the onset of the discussion he tendered his resignation," Miller said. "I was astounded and urged him to reconsider. When it was obvious that he would not do so I suggested that as an alternative he remain as athletic director. He refused." Tom Wilson, coordinator of the Aggie offense which hasn't scored a touchdown in its last two games, was named interim head coach Tuesday afternoon.

Bellard, 51, who had been unavailable to reporters until yesterday's news conference, said he had retired from coaching. "Nope, I haven't changed my mind. I made a decision a long time ago that Texas A Mwas (his last coaching job)," Bellard said. Bellard said he did not know if he would attend future A games and at that point began crying. By GARY.

L. TAYLOR COLLEGE STATION, Texas (UPI) A tearful Emory Bellard yesterday said he learned he would be replaced as head coach at Texas A at he end of the season and decided to resign instead. Bellard handed reporters a prepared statement before holding a short and emotional news conference in the Aggies' athletic complex less than 24 hours after resigning. "Tuesday morning after I arrived at the office I was given some information from a very reliable source that the intentions of the president of the university and the board of regents were to ask me to relinquish my coaching duties at the end of this season," the statement said. Bellard immediately went to the office of A President Jarvis Miller.

"I suggested that it might be best for all concerned that I resign. He suggested that a better alternative would be to announce that I would relinquish my coaching At that point I knew that the information that I received was factual and at that point I knew that I no longer belonged at Texas A Shortly after Bellard's news on Saturday. Matt Edwards is an offensive guard who will start the game for the 8 Bulldogs, and Rob Fes- jS mire is a reserve safety man who once aspired to be a quarterback. Ed- wards is from Bearden high in Knoxville, where his best friend was UT defensive end Steve Davis, and the quarter- back was a guy named David Rudder, who will start at that all-impor- tant post this week for the Vols. Minnesota, Dallas Meet In Prime Time From Wire Reports DALLAS Not only will the Dallas Cowboys have chastened running back Tony Dorsett in the starting lineup tonight in a National Football League joust with Minnesota but they may also have injured defensive end Harvey Martin back sporting a Joe Namath-type knee brace.

Dorsett, who was sacked out while coach Tom Landry held practice last Saturday, thereby earning himself a demotion to second-string the next day against Philadelphia, apologized to his teammates and Landry Tuesday. Landry Immediately promoted his star runner ahead of veteran Preston Pearson for the nationally televised matchup against the Vikings in Texas Stadium. The televised Cowboy-Viking clash will wipe out such crowd favorites as "What's Happening," "Barney Miller," "Soap" and "Family" from the ADC-TV lineup. It is an experiment by the television moguls to see what kind of ratings might be generated and they have chosen two clubsthat are used to odd starting times. The Cowboys (6-2) having made up a two-game de icit and tied the Washington Redskins for first place in the NFC East, will be facing Viking quarterback Fran Tarkenton who was at his best in the team's win over Green Bay last weekend.

Dallas' Dorsett yesterday said he is ready for the challenge following a speech in front of the team. VThe thing I was concerned about more than anything else was the players," he said. "I didn't want to start any dissension within the team. I made an apology to the coach and to the players because I felt it was necessary. I made it perfectly clear it was unintentional and that I would do my best never to let it happen again." Some of Dorsett's teammates applauded after his speech to the team.

With the Dorsett affair settled Landry had the immediate worry of whether the NFL Defensive Player of the Year would be ready. Martin was flown to New York City to be fitted for a special knee brace at Lenox Hill Martin, a questionable starter who played only one series of downs against the Eagles before he took himself out of the game, has a nyperextend-ed knee and a severely bruised thigh. "The doctors are encouraged about Harvey but we still may have to go with Larry Bethea," said Landry. Bethea, the Cowboys' No. 1 draft choice from Michigan State, played well against the Eagles.

Landry said Martin has loose ligaments in his knee. "He can move easily with the brace on the ligaments are just stretched," said Landry. "The knee isn't anywhere near as bad as Namath's. In fact, Bob Lilly (former Cowboy star tackle) played his whole career with loose ligaments. He Kind of liked it because loose ligaments never tear." The Cowboys were installed seven-point favorites in the game which will draw a sellout crowd of 65,000.

COLLEGE STATION, Tex. A teorfil Emory Bellard said ht learned he would be replaced as head coach at Texas A at the end of the season and decided to resign instead. Bellard held a short and emotional news conference in the Aggies' athletic complex less than 24 hours after his boo ijrier Fesmire. racked ud over conference Miller issued a state- (Turn to Page 64) 4,000 yards during his career at Battle Ground Vv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v a it i i Lemon Reversal Complete LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) The New York Yankees' dramatic drive to the World Championship was one of baseball's most spectacular comebacks, but even that pales in comparison to manager Bob Lemon's personal reversal of fortunes this year.

ntducui in i' i auium. nc uau 111a iiiiik ts a college signal caller, then shifted, to defense where he plays behind an All-SEC candidate, Gerald Jackson. Their greatest contributions to Mississippi State this week may be the intensity with which both are approaching the game. Make no bones about it, they are saying there is nothing on the schedule, before or after, that ranks tn their minds with Tennessee. Edwards, early this week, recalled Coach Battle sitting down and telling him that he was not good enough as a linebacker to help the Vols win in the SEC.

But Battle wanted Davis badly. The two young men were so close they almost decided to go to Florida together, but changed their minds as the pressure of recruiting increased. Davis says he still doesn't understand how Edwards kept from crying when he got the news that UT didn't want him. And Steve adds, he tried to convince Vol coaches- that they were passing up a man who could help the team in the future. ONLY A FEW months ago, Lemon was managing the Chicago White Sox, a team that seemed destined to go nowhere.

Things grew even more bleak for him when he was fired on June 30. That was when his luck bottomed out. Three weeks later, the Yankees hired Lemon to replace Billy Martin. -1 was let go by Chicago and really down in the dumps. Then all of a sudden I find myself managing in the World Series," said Lemon, named American League Manager ot tne Year 1TDWARDS, TALKING to Mississippi State's Wednedsay by The Associated Press from the lowest irrepressiDie sports miormation director, "i feei like a man who's com come desert to the highest mountaintop.

I just can't Bo Carter, says he recalls the autumn Saturdays in Neyland Stadium, the huge crowds, the orange AP Laxrptioto LONG BEACH, Calif. New York Yankees manager Bob Lemon relaxes with his wife Jane after being named the American League Manager of the Year by the Associated Press. imagine all this happening to me. LEMON SAID following the Yankees' six-game victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series that it would take a while for him to fully realize what's happened. He still hasn't.

"I'm trying to get some rest, but nothing's really hit me," he said. "I'm not down to earth yet When Lemon took over the Yankees, they trailed Boston by 10' games in the American League East. Under his guidance, they caught the Red Sox, then finally won the harrowing one-game showdown when the two clubs finished the season tied. The Yankees went on to beat Kansas City in the AL playoffs. Then, achieving a feat unprecedented in the 75-year history of the World Series, they 'Lite' The and white pom-poms, and all the other pageantry that went with SEC football in Knoxville.

But he adds he is not living in a world of fond memories. He is highly attuned to the present, and that his No. 1 priority is to whip his old hometown favorite team. "I can't wait to play this game," he says. "Steve Davis played linebacker next to me for six years in high school and junior high.

He's a close family friend. "David Rudder started for us at Bearden as a quarterback for two years and he's a great athlete. Several of the UT players and I worked out together at some high schools in Knoxville this summer. There wasn't a word said about the game but you could sense that everybody was thinking about it in the back of his mind. "It's like a lifelong dream-come-true.

To be U.S. See Olympi cms By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORK (AP) -The U.S. men's and women's track and field teams, preparing for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, will be subsidized by a beer company, the Amateur Athletic Union announced yesterday. Officials said they anticipated only starting against Tennessee after having some bounced back to win four straight games after injuries my iresnman year is tne culmination oi a me ursi iwo. ffA.l ft)iwi ittnif JOEL FERRELL of Tullaho'ma, president of the AAU, said corporate involvement was not new, although this marks' the first time there has been outside subsidy for the track and: field teams.

"Sears-Roebuck sponsored the Junior Olympics, Phillips 66 the swimming; program and Mack Trucks the weight-lifters 'he added. "It is the American way of utilizing free enterprise and corporate sponsor-shipv" said Jimmy Carnes of Gainesville; recently named head U.S. track and field coach for the 1980 Games. Thomas B. Shropshire, Miller's vice cedures, sponsor events and pay travel expenses of athletes.

Shropshire said no provision had been made to offer a stipend for the athletes or compensate them for loss of time away from their jobs, a practice followed by the Soviet Union and other satellite Iron Curtain countries but frowned upon as "sham-amateurism" or Vsemi-profes-sionalism" among Western nations. "We haven't worked out the details," Shropshire said. The beer executive said the company would sponsor television of the 1980 Games and, as part of its new program starting next year, would promote the selection of an AAU Lite "Athlete of the UUIll Wdjr He says he's "seeing orange" everywhere he LEMON, A QUIET, soft-spoken man in marked minimal, if any, reaction from religious contrast to the fiery Martin, seemed just the balm and social groups who might object to the needed by the frequently bickering and troubled association of amateur athletes with an Yankees. alcoholic beverage. "The only things that concerns me is what the AAU a r.BreMnUUvei of Miller plavers do between the white lines," said Lemon, disdosed lans at a York ifnii Pomo nitMior whn mnn 9n cramoc covon LKe eer aisciosea pians ai a New IO goes this week.

FESMIRE SAYS "there is truth to the idea that we play better in Memphis" and adds that he is looking forward to facing people like Jay Williams, the former Lipscomb star who now is a starting offensive tackle for the Vols. "I have a lot of respect for Jay, Reggie Harper, i "T'" nu; onnrnnnra fnr Wr pnmnanv (n news cor nrr: win 9 1 1 unnr oaraarunth tha 'Imrolinii limes um nit! a ij-vedi Ldicci wiui uic Vsicvcmuu ii president for market planning, said his rv proviae "suDSianiiai iunas: ior ine Month" Indians. 4ii ..1.4.. tv. j.

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Act passed by Congress aimed at keeping "It seems that players today in general express No amount of monev was disclosed but A NATIONAL track and field coach U.S. international teams competitive quartemacK to satety. uur own secondary, a group of veterans, has encouraged me." Ppcmirp hac maHp hie nlavc rnnnt thic spnenn themselves more, talk more freely to the media, the figure is exDected to run into the will be appointed by the AAU.The beer with those ot state-suDsiaizea wmmu- company will underwrite training pro- nist powers. He stopped a drive by North Texas State at the and especially on this Yankee club. Different hundreds of thousands of dollars (Turn to Page 68) (Turn to Page 63).