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Oe IattonLcDffCt Jackson daily news i Sunday, November 23, 1975 Section 1 Ole Miss Rises Again By LEE BAKER 4-Daily News Sports Editor Lazarus made it back and so too have the Ole Miss Rebels Given up as dead before the season ever began rated by many as the likely last-place finisher in the Southeastern Conference, and lowered into the grave by three straight losses at the campaign's outset, the Johnny Rebs came clawing out 1 And finally made it with a season-ending 13-7 thumping of Mississippi State before a full-house here Saturday afternoon in Mississippi Memorial Stadium. The difference was a pair of Steve Lavinghouze field goals a 24 yarder closing the first half and a soaring wind-blown 47 yarder with a shade under 10 minutes left to play that lifted the 5-9, 173 pounder from Jackson above the immortal Archie Manning as the all-time leading scorer for Ole Miss with 158 career points. But defense ah, that fan-deadening defense appreciated only by coaches, yet the decisive factor in a match-up of equals as this showdown for Mississippi supremacy most certainly was. State came in with the better record, 6-3-1 as compared to 5-5 for Ole Miss, but the statistics as well as the final score hardly would reflect Bulldog superiority. Ole Miss outgained State, 228 yards to 149, defensive potency frustrating the 'Dogs with only 122 yards on the ground 96 by the See GAME Pg.

6 UP AND OVER Mississippi State fullback Dennis Johnson Bulldogs a 7-0 lead. But it was all Ole -Miss after that as the scores the only touchdown produced on offense Saturday at Rebels won 13-7. C-L photo by Bill Tiefenbrun. Memorial Stadium, plunging over from the one to give the Advance In Playoffs 28 ajors sup ny i igers Lavinghouze Sets Scoring Record By JOHN STAMM Clarion-Ledger Sports Writer The wind was brisk and chilling as it swirled inside Mississippi Memorial Stadium. The shadows covered the drab turf midway through the first quarter and 45,179 people sat huddled with teeth chattering.

Steve Lavinghouze, the first kicking specialist signed to a scholarship by Ole Miss, was one of the first on the field this late autumn Saturday. He kept warm kicking football after football into a wind that was hardly conducive to accuracy. He soon found he had a problem. With every kick, the ball would go in a different direction. One time, it would knuckle to the left.

The next time flutter to the right. But the senior from Jackson finally mastered the gale. Occasionally throwing grass in the air to check the wind, he walked the sidelines while Ole Miss and Mississippi State did little more than trade punts. "The wind was coming right across," he finally realized. "It was really puzzling for a while and I couldn't figure it out.

You couldn't tell by looking at the flags, but the wind was actually blowing from State's side across to ours. "I had to aim the ball at the left pole and let it go back to the right side in order for it to go through." He came on the field twice to test his calculations. Accurate as navigator in the high seas, he chipped in six points with two field goals that proved the difference in the Rebels' 13-7 victory over the Bulldogs. Lavinghouze hurried on to the field as the clock ticked off its last seconds of the first half. His first try from the 31-yard line was nullified by a Mississippi State offsides.

Five yards closer, he booted it through again and the Rebels headed for the drsssing room with a lead it never lost. Lavinghouze left the field the Rebels' all-time scorer, surpassing Archie Manning's total of 154. Lavinghouze, who has changed his approach to the ball three times this season before finally sticking with his two-step-and-kick style, also provided icing on the Ole Miss victory cake with a 47-yarder with 9:49 left. Offensively, the 72nd meeting between the intrastate Southeastern Conference rivals, was hardly something to be filmed and displayed at alumni banquets during the winter. Defensively, it was a hard-hitting exchange between two schools anxious deal a lick on anything that moved.

Neither could pass with the swirling wind grabbing at every pass, so it became a battle of runs. And Ole Miss won the battle. "Our defense was just tremendous. What else can I say about it," said the Rebels' head coach Ken Cooper of his unit that held MSU to just 149 yards. "Undoubtedly, we played our best defensive game of the season and the defense dominated the second half.

"Fortunately, we were able to muster a touchdown and two field goals," he said. "Luckily, that was enough." The only Ole Miss touchdown wasn't scored by the Rebels offense more productive lately but throttled to just 228 yards Saturday by Mississippi State. Fittingly was the defense that produced the Rebs' only six-pointer. It came at an opportune time. Mississippi State led 7-0 and had just recovered an Ole Miss fumble at the Bulldogs' six.

The momentum at the time was decidedly maroon and white and the cowbells clanged it out. But Bruce Threadgill, beleagured, bruised and battered all afternoon by Rebel defenders, made a costly mistake. He pitched behind Walter Packer, his main man on offense, and into the end zone the ball went to be recovered by Gary Turner. Lavinghouze's extra point tied the game four seconds intothe second quarter. "It was just a bad pitch.

pitched behind him," said Threadgill, who had only 32 yards in total offense. "The end was coming down pretty hard." That was Turner and he couldn't wait to get to the ball midway in the Bulldogs' end zone. "All I wanted to do was get on it," said the husky junior. "Threadgill threw behind him (Packer) and he had to reach for it. Packer had his eye on me and I think took his eye off the ball.

"But we played a good football team out there today. I can't say enough good things about them." It was Turner and Bill Farris, not to mention the See Ole Miss Pg. 6 Ole Miss Miss State 12 10 57-189 45-122 39 27 80 26 4- 13-1 2-15-1 9-35 9-32 4-2 5-1 5- 45 2-10 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards quarter), Rumeke hit up the middle, spun out of a tackle, and raced 80 yards for the go-ahead TD. "I though bumped into somebody and got loose," said Rumeke, who wound up with a game-high 128 yards on 17 carries. See MILLSAPS Pg.

7 MILLSAPS 0 1477-28 COLO. COLLEGE 7 0 0 14-21 CC Dye 49 pass from Bucnanan (Swann kick) M- Kirby 1 run (kick tailed) M-Rumeke 80 run (Benton pass from Haygood) AA-Hlnton 81 pass from Hayoood (Brindley kick) CC Dye 5 run (Swann kick) M-Rumeke 49 pass from Haygood (Brindley kick) CC Fox 8 run (Swann kick) TEAM STATISTICS First Downs; Millsaps 18, CC 13. Rusning yards; Millsaps 138, CC 171. Passing yards; Millsaps 221, CC 140. Passes; Millsaps 12-24-0, CC 14-26-2.

Punts; Millsaps CC Fumbles-lost; Millsaps 3-2, CC 1-0. Penalties; Millsaps 10-69, CC 8-49. INDIVIDUAL LEADERS RUSHING Rumeke 17-128, Lamb 8-17, Haygood 12-6, KlrBy 2 for ml. us 13. CC Dye 15-55, M.

Buchanan 24-55, Fox 8-50, Hall 1-11. PASSING Haygood 12-26-0 for 221. CC M. Buchanan 13-24-2 for 128, Hall 1-2 for 12 yards. RECEIVING Rumeko 4-90, Hinton 4-104, Aidy 1-13.

Kirby 1-17, Benton 1-5, Lamb 1 tor minus 8. CC-Fox 5-25, 5-35, Dye 3-74, Hall 3-27 3-28, M. Buchanan 1-8. Blalk 1-5, Saiazar 1 for minus 10. Ole Miss 0 10 0 3-13 Mississippi State 7 0 0 0-7 MSU Johnson one run (Jordan kick) Miss Turner fumble recovery In end zone (Lavinghouze kick) Miss FG Lavinghouze 24 Miss FG Lavlnghoue 47 A 46,500 est.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing: Ole Miss: Storey 10-27, Sweet 11-17, Reed 14-54, Ellis 7-28, Hofer 15-63. State; Threadgill 14-5, Hamon 5-18, Packer 18-94, Johnson 4-1, Vltrano 1-0, Moiden 1-4, Passing: Ole Miss; Ellis 4-13-1, 39. State; Threadgill 2-15-1, 27. Receiving: Ole Miss; Fabrls 1-4, Griffin 1-0, Small 1-23. sweet 1-10.

State; White 1-14, Chapman 1-13. Punting: Ole Miss; Fans 9-35. State; Vaught BY BERNARD FERNANDEZ Daily News Sports Writer COLORADO SPRINGS, The Big Freeze as feared by Millsaps College and Colorado College never developed Saturday afternoon. The temperature, which had dipped to zero Friday night, climbed into the upper 40s by kickoff and the Majors and went on to score a 28-21 victory over the ho-mestanding Tigers in the opening game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division Illfootball playoffs. Millsaps, 9-1, advances to the semifinals next week against one of the other three first-round winners.

Exactly who the Majors will face or where has not be determinded and won't be until late Sunday afternoon. In other playoff games, Widener (Pa.) beat Albright 14-6, Wittenberg (0.) nipped Indiana Central, 17-13, and Ithaca (N. walloped Fort Valley (Ga.) State, 41-12. All of the winners were playing at home, so Millsaps will probably be the home team. Should the Majors win again, they'd play for the Division III championship in Phenix City, Ala.

Millsaps deplaned Friday morning and the Majors found Washburn Field covered with three inches of snow when they arrived for an afternoon workout. Colder and colder it got and Coach Harper Davis' spirits dropped with the mercury reading. "I don't mind telling you, it worried me," said Davis. "If it would have stayed as cold as it was, I think we would have been in real trouble. That is not our type of weather." But Davis' fears were unfounded.

"W'hen we got up this morning, the sun was shining and the snow was melting," said quarterback Ricky Haygood. "The weather was perfect like we had ordered it." Thus benefitting from nearly ideal conditions, Haygood put on his usual prolific passing display after a slow start. The red-haired junior from Pascagoula, the national total-offense leader in Division III, hit on 12-of-26 passes for 221 yards and two touchdowns. Both were bombs a 61-yarder to Dees Hinton and a 48-yarder to Ted Rumeke, who also added an 80-yard scoring run. John Kirby got the other TD on a one-yard plunge.

Doug Brindley added two placement conversion kicks and Haygood passed to tight end Paul Benton for a two-point PAT. Colorado College, which closed its season at 7-2-1, scored on a 49-yard pass from Mark Buchanan to Steve Dye and runs of five and eight yards by Dye and Quinn Fox, respectively. The Tigers opened with a bang after opening kickoff, quickly moving 81 yards in five plays to score first. The payoff came when Buchanan, the tailback in CC's single-wing attack, spotted fullback Dye, who had gotten way behind safety Jeb Dominick. Dye took the.

pass and had clear sailing the rest of the way. Ted Swann, a sidewinder, kicked the PAT. Millsaps began slowly, loosing a total of 11 yards in its first two possessions. Haygood had not yet found the touch, slipping down and losing 17 yards on one play and overthrowing two wide-open receivers. "I don't know, I was a little tight," said Ricky.

"After a while, though, the butterflies left." Late in the quarter, the Majors cranked up a 72-yard, 11-play scroing drive scoring drive highlighted by Hay-good's passing. He hit five-of-five in the march for 65 yards, although the final yard came on Kirby's smash up the middle. Defensive tackle Frank Buchanan no relation to Mark broke through to block Brindley 's kick and with 12:57 left in the half, the Tigers still lead by 7-6. The deficit was only temporairly. With about eight minutes remaining (the scoreboard clock blew a fuse and didn't function throughout most of the second lpt I Cal South ere And so it went through the initial 30 minutes of the contest; the Eagles marching down the field at will and while Cal State struggled to gain anything against the stout Southern defense, led by Ron Cheatham and Bobby Smithart.

The Titans found little holes in the Eagles rushing defense. In the first half, the Titans See EAGLES pg. 7 USM Cal St 6 30 78-468 20- -11 81 65 6-8-0 78 1 7-15-1 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards USM Cal St 1-37 8-36 2-0 7-57 5-2 4-30 and Garry got 111 along with four touchdowns as the Eagles completely overpowered their California guests. The Golden Eagles had little trouble in dominating the opening half. They scored each time they gained control of the football, which was five times.

Southern's first score came about after the Eags defense, ranked 15th in the nation in total defense, stopped Cal State with no difficulty. The Eagles, who in their five victories prior to Saturday night's contest had specialized in long and sustained offensive drives, continued that style. In the 63 yard, seven play march, Southern stayed exclusively on the ground. Garry and Montgomery handled the running, chores. Garry notched 36 yards and Montgomery 27, plus the touchdown.

And not too long after that, the Jeff Bower led offense was back on the field. Only this time, the second shift of running backs Charles Clancy and Curtis Dickey were the Eagles' transportation. Bower, also got into the act this time as he ran the option to perfection and after USM covered 42 yards in 12 plays, Bower skirted the left end for the By KENT HEITHOLT Clarion-Ledger Sports Writer BILOXI For the first time in his coaching career, Southern Mississippi head coach Bobby Collins was worried that his team might have scored too many points. Collins' Golden Eagles (now 6-4) delighted a Homecoming crowd of 9,300 at Municipal Stadium by breaking the office pool and exploding for 70 points as they trounced California State at Fullerton 70-0. "It's a strange feeling," Collins said.

"I don't think he (Cal-State coach Jim Collette) was too upset about it. We didn't really try to do it, but everything we did worked." And that just about summed up the entire Saturday evening here. The Eagles' scored every time they controlled the ball, except on two occasions. On those series, the Eagles punted once and the time clock ran out on them on the other. "We're real proud of the way our team played," Collins said.

"We had extremely sound execution." And sound performances in every other category. Ben Garry and Chuck Clancy led the rushers; Clancy gained 115 fqr the night 14 21 21 1470 0 0 0 0-0 USM Montgomery 1 run Palmer kick USM Bower 2 run Palmer kick USM Garry 1 run Palmer kick USM Bower 6 run Palmer kick USM Garry 13 pass from Alderman Palmer kick USM Garry 12 run Palmer kick USM Dickey 1 run Palmer kick USM Garry 8 run Palmer kick USM Nyers 15 run Palmer kick USM Nyers 6 run Palmer kick INDIVIDUALS RUSHING; USM Clancy 15-118, Garry 13-111, Montgomery 8-55. Cal Mcciendon 7-24, Walter 5-7, Embree 2-7. PASSING; Bower 3-5, 42 yards, Alderman 2-2, 22 yards. Cal St.

Martindale 4-7, 45 yards. Wood 3-8-1, 33 yards. DECEIVING; USM Tate 2-28, Garry 1-13, Ballard 2-23, Cal. waiter 2-13, Fabian l-is, Abraham 1-17. GOT IT Ole Miss split end Bill Small leaps high to snare a pass from Rebels' quarterback Tim Ellis during first half of Saturday's battle for the UOiaen Eigg.

ine 40-yaru piay was uie longest pass yiay ui uic uay aim jusi one of six completed in a defensive battle. The Rebels won 13-7. C-L photo by Bill Tiefenbrun. 7.