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1 i I 1 TOW By JIMMY DAVY Twimiin Sport Writer ORLEANS A young 1VEW 1 Irish ishman named Jamie losing streak, Vandy rushed ior 302 yards and racked up 23 first downs. Vanderbilt's defensive unit, stung bv criticism for shortcomings this fall, held Tulane to a mere six ftrst downs and 145 yards total people here tonight," he add- Vanderbilt gave Tiilane its first look at a wishbone offense and, if it was no mystery to Alabama, Georgia and Ole Miss, it certainly bewildered the Greenjes. SNAPPING A four-game Only Tulane's success in breaking down Vanderbilt's kicking game forced the Commodores to come from behind with the winning touchdown in the third period. "WE HAD good field position all during the first half during the early part of the third period," Tulane coach Bennie Ellender said, "but give credit to a fine defensive performance for Vanderbilt. They just shut us down." The Tulane team was saddened by the new3 of the death of last year's Green Wave coach, Jim Pittman, but Ellender said to "ray knowledge none of the team knew of it until the game wa3 over." Vanderbilt had completed (Turn to Page 7) upset in the Sugar Bowl stadium.

O'ROURKE rushed 35 times to set a Vanderbilt record for devotion to duty and disdain for the defense. And, when it was all over, he Fort Walton BeReh, sophomore had smashed O'Rourke turned the Tulane homecoming crowd green with envy here last night as he established a school record in carrying Vanderbilt to a 13-9 through and ran around the Tulane defenders for 187 yards and a touchdown. But, as great as the Commodore halfback played, he had to share one of the bright moments of the season with the Vanderbilt defensive unit. "O'ROURKE was simply tremendous and he had his best night as- a Commodore," Vanderbilt coach Bill Pace said in the happy dressing quarters. "But, give credit to our defensive unit.

"It was our hpst defensive performance in a long, long time and believe me those young men went after some On the Inside I fin TEWEJSEAS ovc Touchin Page Page Page 'Em All SEC Tennessee State Wins Notre Dame Rebounds i mm rvi 5 6 7 8 9 9 Section Sunday, Oct. 31, 1971 Sahara Coif Page Outdoors Page Tom Squires Page The Scoreboard Page WITH JOHN BIBB South, Big 10, Midwest Page Arkansas Upset! The Maxwell Story Page LJ oFORTo EDITOR Statistics Vandy 78-307 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yardaga Return yard9 Passes Punts Fumbles lost Tulane 33-70 IS 104 -21-2 9-35 0 25 .7. Now Is the Hour VANIWRBILT beat Tulane last night, setting the 19 5-7-0 t-n 3 5 Yards penalized LJ stage for this week's possihle disclosure of plans vanderbitf i- i. Tulane 0 6 7 013 7 0 2 09 Tu Bullard 71 punt return (Gibson kick) Van O'Rourke run (kick failed) Tu Saley Nettles forced out of bounds In end zone Van-Burjer 1 run (Stokes kick) A-l 7,941 Top Tulsa 38-3; Maxwell Hot nesignea insure a oiigmer looioau At the moment, there is a long-suffering segment of out community which is waiting desperately to learn the contents of a mysterious portfolio of "Van-derbilt Tapers." These faithful stalwarts now cling to the promise for the umpteenth time that the university "may be" on the threshold of re-joining big-time football. What better moment, in this hour of victory, to pursue this goal? Pethaps never in history of intercollegiate athletics has a school dawdled its opportunities as has Vanderbilt, a dedicated, proud Southern football pioneer which refused to keep step when the frontier became crowded.

But, despite losing games and face year after year, the university allows the guessing game to continue: "What's Vanderbilt going to do? Why don't they play or quit?" Well, ihey aren't very likely to quit. That would cost too much money. They aren't going to get out of the Southeastern Conference. That, too, would be economically disastrous. SO, HKRFJ WE ARK again.

Another Fall homecoming upon us, and another meeting of the University's Board of Trust. For yeirs now, this autumnal gathering of the Trustees has furnished more hope and interest among By F. M. WILLIAMS Tenneisean Sports Writer KNOXVILLE Happiness is a low-scoring football team with 38 points. It made no difference at all to Tennessee that the defense had accounted for all but one of five touchdowns in a 38 to 3 victory over Tulsa here yesterday afternoon.

ALL THAT counted was that 33 points were on that biard, jUJHUi'Hiiii'uiJUiniiiwin iwi nwifciiiirtJiwg imiMHwm wmim nn 11 i i ii i ii ii i niinniiwii mm mil i iirniini vr.i.. i 'c i Jf "r- -i? if 1 i wZj 0r IV1- w'' Statistics ana L-oacn Bin Battle's crew cheered and yelled, laughed and made jokes, and for the first time in a long and weary string of close calls, enjoyed thpmselves. The Vols felt as though they had found a quarterback in Jim Maxwell, who guided F'rst Downs Rushes-yards Passing yardage Return yardage Passes Pun's TUlM IS 37-64 1S3 3 50-37-3 7-31 30 Tenrt. 14 32-211 41 Ml MM 3 7 Fumbles lost them all but a few plays while Yas perafeed ulsa 3 ni He was recovering from a blow on the three-yard line that deprived the team of a score on best drive of the season late in the third-quarter. Maxwell hit five of lo passes and, in a surprise, ran for 45 of the 211 yards the Vols gained along the ground.

But, again, it was not material things that mattered the fast-dwindling corps of Commodore faithful than any game the Vanderbilt football team tries to play. Now, this year we have a new wrinkle. In remarks before the approximately 100 members of the Nashville Quarterback Club assembled on campus Thursday night, the university's senior vice chancellor, Dr. Rob Roy Purdy, dangled this bit of hope: "There may be an announcement that will make this club feel better." GOOD lo have fun said veteran tackle "IT'S again," AP Wlrtnht Joe Ballhrop after Tennessee had made its season's mark 5-2 with a win over a team that earlier in the year had shocked Arkansas, 21-20. "This Is the first time this year we've looked like a team," said offensive guart Fill Emendorfer.

"Jimbo Burger Changes His Mind l)K. rilRDY had reference to the bungled football siuation which the school has attempted Dr. Rob Roy Furdy Dwighr Blair but decides to keep instead after Tulane's defensive end Joe Young (87) moves into the picture. NEW ORLEANS Yanderbilr quarterback Steve Burger (10) appears to be handing off to fullback 14 7 3 I4ag Term MsxweM 3 run (Hunt kick) Tnn Chsncey 2 run (Hunt kick) Tulsa FG Henry Tsnn Watson 2 run (Hunt kick) Tenn PG Hunt 25 Tenn Wason 1 run 'Hunt k'ekl TenpTgrnjg, 71 Bii, ntrciPtlon (Hunt kick) A 62 313 (Maxwell) can throw that football and that's what we've been needing. A win like this Is something this ball club has been wanting for a long time." "I didn't do much," said Fullback Curt Watson, "but Maxwell has given us confidence is borne of five years the day we turned things around." COACH BATTLE thought the intangibles were far more important to the development of his team than material things, but he found time to praise Maxwell, whose confidence is born of five years of hard labor on the reserve team, and is infectious.

"Jimbo hit a few passes that I won't say gave us easy yardage, but It certainly was easier than having old Curt (Watson) sticking his head In there for two or three at a time. "We still had some errors, but we eliminated some too, and I think the whole team has rallied around Maxwell." THE ERRORS were really plentiful, but Tulsa wasn't able to take full advantage, as better teams in ths past have done. Then, too, the Hur- (Turn to Pag 4) to patch hy lairing over some of the frayed edges while leaving the obviously gaping hole still open to swallow any athlete, coach or fan who becomes involved. Missis sipp ft reauy notning mysterious anoui me situation. By oh ocKin No.

11 team, 24-22 in a Southeastern Conference football game. WKKSE, A 195-poundpr from the New Orleans suburb of Chalmette, scored one touchdown on a 14-yard run JACKSON, Miss. (AD -Sophomore Norris Wepse, a Louisiana native, engineered Mississippi's ball control offense to perfection yesterday as the revenge-bent upset heavily-favored Louisiana State, the nation's Bengals recovered a fumble by Weese, but on the following play LSU's Allen Shorey fumbled and Ole Miss reclaimed it at the five. Two plays later Greg Ainsworth scored from the one. Bobby Knight's 62-yant punt (Turn to Page 2) ing its SEC championship.

The Rebels built a 21-0 lead before LSU's vaunted offense finally put the Tigers on the scoreboard in the final 30 seconds of the first half. OLE MISS DROVE 66 yards to the Tiger five in the opening period where the Bayou and kept two other drives moving with his running and passing. The victory, Ole Miss' sixth in eight games, avenged an embarrassing 61-17 loss to I.SU lasl year before a national television audience. The defeat virtually killed LSU's hopes of successfully defend 'Chancellor Alexander Heard and his Board of Trust simply must agree that the university rcog- nizes the tremendous impact that athletics now have on this country. If these men are interested, and will assume their responsibility to educate the youth of this country, they will find that the stigma of teaching men to occupy themselves in this worthwhile facet of American life is no longer, if -ever, considered out of line.

It is no violation of academic excellence to offer a boy the best possible education for a career in all areas of sports. Don't take my word for it. Check the millions of homes in this country which this very afternoon will be watching professional football. We're hooked. There are 1,040 men playing the pro games, and who on earth knows how many more thousands are involved in putting those teams on field? The players' salaries average from $1.8,600 (Cincinnati) to $31,300 (Baltimore), and front office jobs, personnel opportunities and a jillion other assignments pay well, too.

Why not let Vandy alumni get in on some of this? Who knows, they might even see fit to give some of 'it back to the school. 4 if -L Aflv.W www Community Deserves a Slice of the Pie COLLAPSES ON SIDELINE Piftman Dies During Game Texas Christian University football WMCO, Tex. (UPD Jim Pittman collapsed on the sidelines last night TT cnac coach AY PILLOW told me that in some areas of our country, engineers now are driving milk trucks. Nothing wrong with that, except it does seem a shame a would spend all that time and money getting his engineering degree and not be able to use it. during the TCU-Baylor game and died minutes later.

He was 46. PITTMAN, WHO HAD a history of heart trouble, apparently died of a heart attack. He had come to TCU this year as rrr But, again, don't ask me. Ask the President of the United Stales who worries that America is getting flabby and seeks well-informed men, virtually every to dedicate their lives to rebuilding the physical stamina of our youngsters. Closer to home, right here in Nashville, Vander bilt owes this community a shot at some of the economic bonanza which sports now furnishes.

Again, don ask me. Ask, instead, that restaurant head coach from Tulane after building the Green Wave from an also ran in the Southeastern Conference to a bowl team last season. He to the ground on the sidelines just four minutes into the game. He was pronounced dead at Providence Hospital less than an hour later. Only moments before Pittman was rushed to the hospital, TCU's Assistant Athletic Director and former basketball coach, Buster Brannon, was also taken to a Waco hospital complaining of dizziness.

operator out on West End Avenue. What would a good footbay team at Vandy mean to his business? South "l-jl tell you wnat ii wouia mean," me man loia 1 1 4 4 i. I' 1 tt i V' i At ii rf' i i i 1" i -3 ijJ'i t- me. "I'll have more people stopping off to eat on the way to Memphis to see Tennessee play Mississippi State than came in here to eat the night Vanderbilt Alabama 41, Mwlssipnl SI 10 Alabama Slat 12, Alabama 4 Alcorn 49. Rishoo College 21 Auburn 40, Florida 7 Citadel n.

Illinois. St Unlv 0 Clemvw 10,. Wake Forest 9 Delaware Sta'e Ma-vland State 8 East Carolma 2. Furrnen Univ 13 Elizabeth City 21. Favettevlle Elon Coiled' 43, West Carolina Fisk Unlvenitv 34, KnowiM cm Frostburj State 19.

C-latboro Stat 17 Georgia 24. South Carolina 0 Georgia Tech 21. Duke Gleov.M State 21. WeM Ve Stata played Georgia. Nobody cares about seeing the hometown team get slaughtered game after game." University Seems To Avoid the Subjects PITTMAN HAD guided TCU Grambimg Col 21, Tevas Souhern 7 4 niai.i mini WlfDht OUR TOWN went slightly agog this month when it to a 2-3-1 record thus far this 7 was estimated that 6.000 visitors came to nartici- -vear- wVVr.j ,0 was estimated that 6.000 visitors came to partici Too Close for Comfort pate in a disc jockey convention and to see a golf tournament.

Motels as far away as Lebanon. Mur- Pittman served as chief assistant to Tesas rnarh Darren" Koya! from 1357 to 13H5, (Turn to Page 2) Kentucky 33, Virginis Th Kentucky SMte 33, VaUev 13 Uvnos'on Ste 31, Flo'enr 5t 0 LiV'ngMon Col St Psul'i Col Lnuisin Ter 7t. sf Louislunt LouisviiH Jl, Time, (9 (Turn (o Page 6) freesboro and Columbia were taking reservations KNOXVILLI A real I'ruggle takes place in the end sone for the football between Tulsa flanker Don Ellis (88) and Tennessee defensive back David Allen. Ellis won the personal but it didn't count as the ball hit him and he dropped it. Tennessee won th game 38 to 3.

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