The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 12

12 Oct. 6, 1971 Delta Democrat-Times Greenville, Once again--Georgia Pholo by Gary Karlson General halfback Sam Young turns corner against Confederates Washington looks for 3rd loop win The Washington School Generals will be seeking North Central Division victory No. 3 when they host undefeated Central Holmes Academy (4-0) of Lexington at 8 p.m. Friday at'General Field. "We don't know much about them (Central Holmes)," said General Head Coach Dom Bevalaque.

"We were unable to get a film or scouting report. All we know is they run out of a pro formation with two wide receivers. They have a good quarterback who can't throw the ball and rely a lot on their passing game. The Generals are 2-0 in divisional (AA) 3-2 overall. Washington School won its Friday night 34-7 over Sharkey-Issaquena, last season's North AA winner.

Bevalaque had praise for the overall play of his boys in the contest against Sharkey. "I think it was their best offensive game of the season," said the Washington School mentor. "It's really hard to pick anybody out. Our blocking was sharp, out backfield ran well and our linemen blocked real well. Defensively, I thought that Barry Smith Garrett (tackle) and Butch Worbington (tackle) all looked good." Star players last week were Chuck Pen- hington for blocking a punt, Smith for par- tially blocking a punt and Smith for the most individual tackles.

Monday, the Generals viewed the film of their victory over Sharkey and went out for about an hour and 15 minutes. "We worked on all phases of our kicking game and went over the pass defense we are getting ready to use Friday night. "Today (yesterday), we had about 45 minutes of defensive scrimmage, mostly against the passing game and 25 minutes of offensive scrimmage. Then we ended up with agility drills and wind sprints. The General defense held Sharkey to only 96 yards rushing and 25 yards passing for a total of 121 yards.

"We didn't allow them any real long gains whatsoever," said Bevalaque. In addition, the Generals played their second team most of the second half. The Generals held a 26-0 half time lead. They rushed for 221 yards and picked up an additional 16 on two pass completions in 10 attempts. Most of the yardage came in the first half.

"We are still not unified, but getting close," said Bevalaque. "There was a lot more spirit and unity against Sharkey than in our previous games." Poly-turf slippery at Orange Bowl I A I I --The firm which manufactures the Orange Bowl's poly-turf said it would dispatch representatives to Miami today to find out why the football field played more like the surface for a National Hockey League game Sunday. The slipping and sliding over the poly-turf was visible in films of the Dolphias loss to the New York Jels Sunday.andthe Dolphins, the city of. Miami, Notre Dame, and the manufacturers --Biltrite I a to know what happened. The analogy to ice might not be precise, since the artificial turf reached a temperature of 112 degrees during the game, but itwas slippery enough to be a factor in the 1410 Jet win.

The films of the game reviewed Tuesday showed players slipped and slid 59 times on the big rug --33 slips for the Dolphins and 26 for the Jets. But football games are still won by points, notslides, and Dolphins Coach Don Simla put it bluntly Tuesday: "Something's got to be done about it.We've got six more games on it." Tryandstopme wasn't stopped Hy United Press International They'll have to wait until next time to try and stop Tryandstopme. Tryandstopme, ridden by jockey Mike Hole, couldn't be stopped in the feature at Atlantic City as he registered his first victory in nearly two months Tuesday with a three- quartcr-of-a-lenglh triumph over Double Gee. Tryandstopme paid $0.20, $3.00 and $2.60 while running the mile distance at 1:40. Double Gee paid $3.20 and $2.40 and Full Swing $2.80 for third.

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mid Xnrial Agent $5.20. oilier li'iilwra, Times (iiild UNIVERSITY (Speclal)-Once again, for Mississippi's Rebels, it comes up Georgia in Jackson as a means to an end--a desperately needed football overturn. Four years ago--and the season was Rebs had been upset by Memphis State In their opener. Kentucky was beaten but Alabama romped in a fumble-marred decision, 21-7. The following weekend in Jackson, with Georgia unbeaten and nationally-ranked, Ole Miss smeared the Bulldog worksheet, 29-20.

And two years ago, with a junior-senior outfit, favored to win the Southeastern Conference crown, the Rebs had dropped successive one-point games to Kentucky (910) and Bama (32-33). Georgia was unbeaten and nationally ranked. Again, the Bulldogs were felled, this time by 25-17. From that vantage point, the situations-1971 with 1969-67--are virtually identical. Georgia, dumping Oregon State, Tulano, Clemsoii and Mississippi State, moves into Jnckson with another perfect And Olo Miss, beaten last in Birmingham by Bama, needs a big win to brighten Its record.

The Rebs are 3-1 on the year after starting with conquests of Cal Stale, Memphis Stale and Kentucky. But the Tide flattened the Rebels 40-0. And the Georgia potential, on offense and defense, is every bit as powerful as the Tide's. The Ole Miss assignment this weekend can be figured as a bigger hurdle when measured against the 1967-69 outlook. However, four years ago Georgia had scored over Mississippi State 30-0, Clemson 24-17 and South Carolina 21-0, was a 15-point favorite.

And two years ago, the Bulldogs had dumped Tulane 35-0, Clemson 30-0 and Soulh Carolina 41-16 ahead of their showdown with the Rebs. They were favored in that meeting by a touchdown. Both years, Georgia was fifth-ranked nationally. Both years, too, the llebs were faced With "must win" battles if they were to salvage anything for the seasons involved. And they're just about at that pace into Saturday's collision.

This has been an oddball series. Through the first four games, neither team could win at home. The Rebs notched a 28-14 victory in l'J40 in Athens, tied there at 14-14 a year later, were beaten 48-13 in 1942 in Memphis. And they scored at 20-13 in 1955 in Atlanta. Then, Georgia won a 9-3 game at home in 1966, a 21-7 decision in Athens in 1968.

But the cycle went haywire last year "between the hedges" when Archie Manning fired 66, 52 and 0-yard scoring passes and scored one afoot enroule to a 31-21 aboulface. Maybe Vince Dooley is counting on that same measure Saturday in Jackson in Mississippi Memorial Stadium. Junior High grid menu THURSDAY'S GAMES Greenville Christian School at Pillow Academy (Greenwood), 7 p.m. St. Joseph at Riverside, 4 p.m.

Colcmun at E. E. Bass, Charles S. Kcrg Field, 5 p.m. GHS prepares for 'Cats It will be a battle of two undefeated Big Eight Conference giants Friday night when the No.

4 ranked Greenville Hornets travel to meet the Meridian Wildcats, the No. 3 ranked team in the state, Friday night at 7:30 at Ray Stadium. "This game, even though it is not a divisional game, is our most important game to this point," said Hornet Head Coach Gary Dempsey. Meridian, a co-leader with Laurel and Biloxi in the south division, was rated No. 1 in last week's UPI poll, but dropped to third this week.

The Hornets retained the No. 4 position. "Meridian lets its tailback, James Reed, run the football about 80 per cent of the time," said Dempsey, Reed, who is reported to be a powerful as well as very fast, is the Big Eight's leading scorer. The Wildcats also have a top passing attack with quarterback Mike Newell throwing to split end Willie Wade, according to Dempsey. Meridian runs basically out of an offense with a- wingback and sometimes with a slotback.

On defense they line up in a four-man front with their secondary primarily man-to-man. Dempsey said, after viewing a film of the Meridian-Hattiesburg game, "They (the Wildcats) stunt quite a bit. "Our varsity stayed in the film room until 6:20 Monday," continued Dempsey. "We watched the complete Cleveland game at Sportsmans Park, Hi Green paid $5.20 at Calder, Amber Hawk paid $8.80 at Laurel and Capacitator Valenzuela paid $5.00 at Bay Meadows. Sullivan leads SEC in offense BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

(UPD-Pat Sullivan, the Auburn quarterback, moved into the Southeastern Conference total offense lead this week, SEC statistics released Tuesday showed. Sullivan has gained 539 yards passing and eight rushing for a three-game total of 547 yards and an average of 182.3 yards per game, while Florida's John Reaves has averaged 161.8 yards in four games. Reaves has gained 704 yards passing and lost 57 yards rushing for a total of 647 yards. Both have four touchdowns. Heaves holds the conference passing lead with 138 attempts, OG completions and an average of 16.5 completions per game.

Alabama's Johnny Musso, the United Press International Southeastern Offensive Player of the Week, holds the conference rushing lead with 440 yards on 71 carries for a four-game average of 11 yards. His nine touchdowns this season bring his career total to 31, even with the mark set by Georgia's Charlie Trippi in Accompanying the move of Sullivan into the SEC total offense lead this week arc the moves of two Auburn receivers into the league pass receiving lead. Terry Bcasley, Sullivan's favorite target, holds the conference lead with in passes caught for a 5.3 per game average and 25!) yards. Teammate Dick Schmaly. trails in second place i 15 receptions, an average of five receptions per game and 101 yards.

Carlos Alvarez, No. 1 target of Heaves, dropped from first to third in the SEC receiving race. He has caught 1(1 for an average of four per game and 1811 yards. Lassie Stakes to be restored CHICAGO I -ChicagoThoroughbred Enterprises has announced Arlington Park will restore thu Arlington-Washington Lassie Slakes for 2-year-old fillies in ils 1972 schedule. John F.

Loomc, pro.sidentof Ihoenlorpriscs, announced the race will gross an estimated $100,000 ncxl year wit added money. In (he past slakes have had a guaranteed purse of $150,000. The record for Ihc slakes WHS in Illfiii. pointing out mistakes to our players and things that need to be corrected. We then watched the Meridian-Hattiesburg game film, taking notes'on Meridian players both offensively and defensively with each boy looking at the player he's likely to line up against.

"We went on the field about 6:15 and stayed until 7:05, working primarily on offense and closed this sessionout with wind sprints. "Today (Tuesday), we had a meeting from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. with part of the team and the complete team met from 3:50 until 4:40 going over assignments. We practiced outside from 4:45 until 6:40. We took 10 minutes of calisthenics and agility; 20 minutes of dummy defense, and 15 minutes of dummy offense, followed by 10 minutes of live offense against the B-leam.

We then had 10 minutes of live defense against the B-team after which we closed our practice session with 15 minutes of wind sprints. "1 think we have had pretty good practices," continued Dempsey. "The boys are working real hard for this one. They are dedicated to winning and I feel that when we come back Friday night, we will still feel that we are the best team in the state." Fred Washington, defensive coordinator said: "We have been satisfied. The boys have shown quite a bit of hustle and a great desire to win." "We will use a five man front with three linebackers some in the game because the Wildcats run well off tackle and around ends.

We will still use our five-two defense a lot in the game." Washington singled out several defensive players for their play in the Cleveland game won by the Hornets, 38-7. He named linebackers Ricky Franklin and Terry Robinson, tackles J. W. Williams and Charles Brady, middle guard Mike Ferguson and defensive backs Larry Kennedy and Cleotha Montgomery as all having come up with good performances. Offensive coordinator Albert Paul said his boys have been "working hard all week." He said he plans nothing new, just the same old stuff.

"We hope we will be able to throw against them. Quarterback David McCraney has been looking good passing the ball. He came up with an exceptionally good game against Cleveland. He also singled out the play of tailback Elliott Williams, fullback Hugh Christian, splitend Larry Kennedy and wingback Cleotha Montgomery. He also commended the entire defensive line: guards Franklin and Robinson, tackles James Redd and Williams, center Ralph Holloway and tight end Jimmy Giles.

The only injury of note was suffered by Robinson in the Cleveland game. He sustained a sprained ankle but is expected to see some action Friday even though not at full speed. N.Dakota St. still No. 1 small college NEW YORK (UPD--North Dakota State's lead as the No.

1 small college team in the United Press International Board of Coaches ratings poll is increasing again, but the Delaware Blue Hens are making the most wave among the nation's elite 20 teams. The top-ranked Bison picked up 21 first- place votes from the 31 of 35 coaches participating to widen their lead of just one point last week to 26 this week over idle Arkansas State. The Indians had eight first place votes while the remaining two No. 1 nods went to Weber State and Western Kentucky. Grambling retained its No.

3 ranking after defeating Prairie View, 30-7, for victory No. 4, but Delaware moved into fourth place after knocking off major college Villanova, 23-15, for its third straight win. Eastern Michigan, which barely squeaked by Idaho State, 23-22, improved a notch to fifth place and Western Kentucky jumped from ninth to sixth after whipping East Tennessee State, 26-7. Eastern Kentucky retained its No. 7 slot, but Drake, anolhr giant-killer, moved up from eleventh to The Bulldogs surprised Louisville, a major college, 10-7, two weeks ago and then rolled over Northern Arizona, 38-13, last week.

Completing the top 10 were Weber State, a 20-7 victor over Boise State, and Tampa, which improved from 13th to 10th after crushing Youngstown, 49-0. St. Joe looks for first win The St. Joseph Fighting Irish are still looking for their first win of the season as they go against Shaw High School Friday in the Irish's second home game of the year. Irish Head Football Coach Tony Cintgran said that his team should have won the last two games, and feels that his team was playing out of its class in the first game.

"The boys played a lousy game Friday," said Cintgran. "Our defense was terrible and the offense wasn't much better. Our only bright spot of the whole night was our passing game." "When we watched thertilm of the game it was just embarrassing," Cintgran said. "The last two losses have hurt everyone. The team has embarrassed themselves, the school and me.If we didn't have the material to win it would be another thing, but that's not the case here.

We have the material, but not the desire. Some of these boys are going to have to make up their mind if they want to play. I've been here three years and I've yet to see a St. Joe team that didn't hit and hit GCS Saints shoot for second victory hard in a ball game, but when I saw the game films, our boys were actually backing away from the contact." Shaw is a team that Cintgran says is stronger than a lot of people think. "Shaw played Rolling Fork a real good game and Rolling Fork is one of the tougher teams in the Delta Valley Conference.

The only way that we'll win this one is for the players to really be up for the game and I think that they will be. A win here could make a lot of difference in the attitude of the team and start turning things around. I think we'll be ready for Shaw." UPI top 20 NEW (UPD--The United Press International top 20 small college a teams with first place votes and won- lost records in parentheses: (Fourth Week) Team Points 1. No. Dak.

St. (21) (4-0) 291 2. A a a St. (8) (2-0) 265 3. Grambling (4-0) 218 4.

Delaware 3 0 5. Eastern Mich. (3-0) 6. Western Ky. (1) (3-0) 7.

Eastern Ky. (4.0) 8. Drake (3-1) 9. Weber St. (1) (3-0) 10.

Tampa (2-1) 11. Montana (3-1) 12. Cent. Okja. St.

(3-0) 13. (Tie) Akron (3-0) (Tie) McNeese St. (4-0) 15. St. John's (Minn.) (4-0) 16.

(Tie) Ab. Chris. (3-1) (Tie) H. Payne (4-0) 18. (Tie) Texas A (2-1) (Tie) S.W.

Tex. St. (3-0) 20. Boise St. (3-1) 192 151 122 92 81 58 56 39 20 14 12 10 10 9 9 USM's Orange Falcons set aside ticket The Greenville Christian School Saints picked up their first win Friday defeating Bayou Academy, 35-6, and now they have set their sights on Canton Academy, their opponent for Friday night's game at Saints' Field.

The Saints could pick up their second victory, but it will require a little more effort to win this one. Canton Academy defeated Bayou Academy, 15-7, and its record is 2-2 on the year. Saint Coach Bobby Wade said that Canton's team is pretty big and young and that he expects a real good game out of them. The Saints have been able to generate some offense since the opening game, but the defense hasn't been able to hold until last week, when it stopped Bayou cold. Wade had remarked before last week's game that he fell the defensive unit was starting to jell and it appears that it has.

Friday night will be more of a test than Bayou was, but Wade feels that the unit has gained confidence and now knows that they can stop their opponents. The Saints rushing attack suffered a little when they lost tailback Mark Freeman in the Leland Academy game, but James Willmer has stepped in and is giving the Saints a lot of punch in the back field. The Saints can also go to the air if needed as quarterback Frank Fyke has a good arm and has receivers that can find their way into the open field. The Saints like to stay with the running game as long as it moves the ball and so far has used a very basic attack, utilizing quick hitters to beat their way down the field. Coach Wade says that he will stick to last week's line up and that they have been working on a little of everything this week, but that if there is anything that is being worked on more than the others, it is line blocking.

Wade says that the blocking has gotten better each week and hopes that it will continue to do so. Alex Karras turns tables on Detroit DETROIT I --When Alex Karras was dropped by the Detroit Lions, he made it clear the team hadn't heard the last from him. Now the tables have been turned. The Lions arc trying to determine whether the outspoken former defensive tackle is violating his lingering contract through his outside writing activities. Since Karras was released on waivers by the National Football League club two weeks ago, he has started writing a column for the Detroit Free Press in addition to hosting a television show in Chicago.

a i Lions i a i director, brought out the possible contract violation when asked why Karras had been denied use of the press box Sunday in connection with his work for the Free Press. "Under terms of his contract," Smith said, "we arc to pay him this year and next in a a If anyone under contract wants his own television show or writes a press column they must ask our permission. I've never been asked by Karras or by the paper for a permission. "If Ihc contract's good for i Is It good for us?" said Smith. "I don't know.

That's Ihc question our oltorncys arc looking at now." Smith said KIHTIIS hud not. asked for i press pass to Sunday's game. However, Smith said George Puscas, executive sports editor of the newspaper, had informed him lhat Karras planned lo use one of the paper's passes. "As far as I'm concerned, Karris is no longer playing for the Lions," he said. "He is being paid money due lo i I don't i he's an employe for the Lions, lie's riot any services.

"The only principle we would have involved here is if they're going to try to tell us who we can use lo cover the games," Puscas added. "It hasn't conic lo llml." Karras has i two columns for Ihc Free Press so far. He also docs a show for a Chicago television station prior Ihc telecasts of AliC's Monday night football games as well as a radio show for a Detroit siation. Karras has been i i a of Ihc Lions' management both before and after his release. may miss game HATTIESBURG (UPD-University of Southern Mississippi Coach P.W.

Underwood said Tuesday he was not yet sure whether star running back Doyle Orange would be ready for action for Saturday's clash with unbeaten and nationally-ranked Auburn. Underwood said Orange, who missed the Southerners' 10-0 win over San Diego State two weeks ago because of an injury, worked out with the team although his status for the weekend game remained questionable. "We're glad to have him back in pads but it is still a wait and see situation," said Underwood. The coach said sophomore Dennis Malone had moved up to the number one center slot to replace the injured Jimmy Haynes. Underwood said the Southerners, a heavy underdog against Auburn, would have to get ready to face a balanced attack despite the Tigers' a a i passing combination of Pat Sullivan to Terry Beasley.

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