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The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 37

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$00 rt (She (States Bulldogs Dismantle Demons in Annual Fair Tilt, 42-14 By GERRY ROBICHAUX Times Sports Writer Louisiana Tech's Bulldogs forgot the frustrations' of a slow start in the 1965 football season among the bright lights and midway excitement of the State Fair Saturday night, blasting JSIorthwestern State College by a 42-14 score in the annual fair contest. Section Pufje 1 Sunday, October 24, 1965 Tigers Roar by Gamecocks As Stokley Sparkles, 21-7 The Techsters showed a crack-1 In GSC Tilt Poole that was short. The Tigers looked their best on this lightening, nine-play scoring march. Labruzzo running and catching Stokley's short passes moved the BATON ROUGE (LTD Ninth-ranked Louisiana State came to life in the second half last night night behind scrambling Nelson Stokley to finally swat down a stubborn South Carolina that refused to play the underdog role, 21-7. LSU, usually an explosive ligers downtield and Stokley ran the ball in from the two-yard line.

Much of the first half both teams spent their time exchang Northeast Tumbles to SLC Club Times Sports Service MONROE Southeastern stopped Northeast on the one- ling offense that produced 21 points each half and owned a 35-0 margin before the Demons, winners of four straight, managed to make it tohe scoring column. The Tech attack showed good balance against their Gulf States Conference foe, running for three scores and taking to the airways for the other markers. The margin of victory 28 points was the largest for either school since the grude game became a State Fair attraction in 1937. The Caijines, who now lead the over-all series 32-14-4, had lost all three of their contests prior to Saturday night's confrontation. But the balance with which they took apart the Demons belied that earthy a mark.

ing kicks with neither able to get much going. The Gamewcls had one scoring opportunity in the first half, driving to the LSU 22, but LSU end Ernest play 54-yard drive, set up by Scott Townsend's 11-yard punt for South Carolina Stokley hit little Joe Labruzzo with a 16-vard scoring pass and a 7-0 LSU lead. South Carolina, which also found the going rough against the LSU defense, picked up its only touchdown when Roy Don Reeves blocked Gerald Brown's punt deep in LSU territory and Doug Senter picked up the ball and raced 15 yards to the end zone. Stokley the brought the Tigers roaring back with a 76-yard scoring drive after the kickoff. Slokley's 45-yard toss to Doug Moreau picked up most of the yardage and Danny Leblanc scored from the one.

LSU opened an 80-yard drive following a 51-yard field goal attempt by South Carolina's Jim YARDSTICK SC. LSU First downs 13 18 Rushlns yardage 89 223 Passing yardage 124 121 Passes 12-23 8-14 Passes Intercepted by 1 0 Punts 8-35 7-32 Fumbles lost 0 Maggiore dropped Benny GallO' lay for a six-yard loss and a yard line with 11 seconds left in five-yard penalty stalled the ef fort. the game to preserve a 14-6 victory here Saturday night. Quarterback Steve Mansur's Poole's 50-yard field goal attempt at this stage of the game quarterback sneak qn fourth down team, looked listless throughout the first half and found 'the going rought against South Carolina's monstrous interior linemen and moved across midfield but once in the first half. At that, LSU managed the only score of the first half on a nine- was short and wide.

(Times Photo by Terry Vaughan) Northwestern's Hubert Adams (85) Halts Robert Brunet (22) Al Dodd of the Demons come in to lend a hand Memphis State Rips McNeese stopped at the one as aouthe-eastern spoiled the Indians home The heavy interior South line, manned by the likes coming game. of Bill Dickens and Steve Cox, LAKE CHARLES Wl Mem- show and fullback Herb Coving- ton ran almost at will against Coach Joe Aillet's charges had 386 yards total offense, using Billy Laird's trusty arm for most of their 159 yards in the air and adding 227 rushing with. Robert Brunet, Tommy Linder and Richie Golmon doing most of the fancy footwork. Golmon scored twice, Brunet added one, halfback Jimmy Jones adding another on a pass and Wayne Davis and Maurice Greer handling two other scoring passes. touchdown, while Covington rambled 145 yards in 21 carries.

The McNeese drive from third string quarterback Baron Thomas whoo came off the bench ymo vjicilc uau an vaay uine whipping McNeese State 28-0 here Saturday Memphis State quarterback Billy Fletcher put on an aerial the game but outmanned Cowboy defenses. Fletcher connected on 13 of 24 passes for 144 yards and one held LSU to 223 yards rushing, slightly below their 229 yards per game average in five previous outings. It was the fifth victory for LSU against one loss. South Carolina fell to 3-3. LSU I 1 1 721 South Carolina 0 0 7 07 Scoring: LSU Labruzzo, 16 pass (rom Stokley (Moreau kick).

S. CAR-Reeves. 15 run with blocked punt (Poole kick). LSU Leblanc, 1 run (Moreau kick). LSU-5toklev, 2 run (Moreau kick).

A 65,500. Southeastern scored late in the first quarter on a 78-yard pass from Lester Smith to Tommy Arbour and picked up the other touchdown with 18 seconds left in the half when Harry Nunez ran 10 yards. Fred Gary converted after both scores. Northeast dominated the second half and scored early in the fourth period when Mansur sneaked over from one yard out to end a 74-yard drive. A Mansur pass for the conversion was Grumbling Is 51-20 Victor THE YARDSTICK MS McN First downs 25 5 Rushing yardage 232 48 Passing yardage 166 181 Passes 17-30 14-34 Passes Intercepted by 3 1 Punts 2-33 6-35 Fumbles lost 1 0 Yards penalized 10 10 JACKSON, Tigers allowed the rampaging Tigers of Jackson State to.

move out to a 14-0 first period lead before striking back with a vicious attack that rattled the defenses of the home team like wheat before Hurricane Betsy. The Grambling eleven went on to gain a resounding 51-20 victory in the Southwest Athletic Conference tussle Saturday and run its record to 4-0 in the conference and to 4-1 over-all for the year. Clevis James, Jackson's quarterback, riddled the Grambling Quarterback Don i scored first for the Demons in the fourth period. He ran over from the one. Dick Reding, the Bossier product, got the other NSC score on a 15-yard pass from Guidry.

Brunet was judged the game's outstanding rusher by a vote in the pressbox. Linebacker Bob McKinnon of Junction City, was the outstanding lineman in the voting. Tech jumped off to the lead in the first quarter and looked as if they were intent to shut out the host Demons in the 26th contest played as part of the Fair. Tech halted Northwestern's in aerial defense with a 60-yard shot to Harold Jackson with the game just minutes old then scored another touchdown himself with a six-yard splurge before the enraged Louisiana Tiger shook itself and struck back. Eddie Robinson heaved a 28-stripe pass to Robert Adknis and Essex Johnson raced 11 yards through the Jackson line to knot the score with Wesley Beane's two conversion kicks by the end of the first period.

Henry Dyer then went to work, slicing through the Jackson line for two second stanza markers on runs of six-yards for both tallies. These gave the Lou-isianians a lead which they never relinquished. to hit on 11 of 26 passees for 138 yards. McNeese end Frank Miller caught ten passes for 133 yards. Memphis State held the Cowboys ground game to 48 yards.

Memphis State scored the first time it got its hands on the ball. The Tigers went 8 yards in seven plays. Fletcher tossed the final 30 yards to Bob Sherlag for the score. The Tigers scored again in the first period on a 42-yard drive in eight plays. Fletcher skirted eleven yards far the score.

no good. The Indians got a chance to tie it late in the fourth period when Mansur recovered Lynn Day's fumble on the Southeastern 18. Five plays later the Lions stopped Mansur on the one. Mansur had a field day, gaining 181 yards passing and 19 rushing to break six Northeast individual records. Southeastern remained unbeaten in Gulf States Conference play with 2-0 record and is 4-1 overall.

Northeast is 1-5 and 0-3 in the conference. Score by quarters: Southeastern 7 7 0 014 Northeast 0 0 0 6 Tommy Arbour, 78 pass from Lester Smith (Fred Gary kick). Harry Nunez, 10 run (Gary kick). Steve Mansur, 1 run (pass failed). THE YARDSTICK S'eastern N'east First Downs 11 13 Rushing Yardage 125 52 Passing Yardage 133 181 Passes (A-C) 7-4 29-15 Passes Intercepted by 1 1 Punts Fumbles Lost 2 3 Yards Penalized 25 38 Slater Shines As VMI Wins DAVIDSON.

N.C.dJPD Fullback Tom Slater ran for two touchdowns yesterday to give Viriginia Military (VMI) a 16-10 comeback victory over Davidson. Slater bulled over from the one in the third period and again from the five in the fourth. Ted Mervosh booted a 27-yard field goal for VMI in the second period. The victory snapped the Key-dets nine game losing streak which began last year after their 35-0 victory over Davidson. Davidson 0 It 0 10 VMI 0 6 716 Scoring: DAV Taylor, one run (Terry kick).

DAV Terry. FG 32. VMI Mervosh, FG 27. VMI Slater, one run (run failed). VMI Slater, five run (Mervosh kick).

A 9,000. Aggies Bounce By West Texas CANYON. Tex. (AP A field goal and a pass interception on runback for a touchdown gave New Mexico State a 10-2 victory Saturday knocking West Texas State from the ranks of the undefeated. New Mexico Stat 9 0 3 710 West Texas State 2 0 0 02 WT Safety, center pass out of end zone NMS-Gonzales FG 23 surgency immediately after the half and moved to its fourth touchdown when Speedy Campbell and Dan Irby combined to produce defensive gems.

Irby's recovery al the canine 29 halted the NSC march. He then tackled the Demon safety on a punt minutes later, causing a fumble Campbell fell on at the Demon eight. A penalty only surved to delay the surge with Laird firing 15 yards to Davis for the touchdown (Continued on Page Four-D) Memphis State scored again on its first play from scrimmage in the second half when Covington raced 7 yards for the third Tiger marker. The final Memphis score came in the last period when halfback Terry Paggerr raced 19 yards. Memphis State 14 0 7 728 McNeese 0 0 0 00 MEM Sherlag 30 pass from Fletcher (Fletcher kick) MEM Fletcher 11 run (Fletcher kick) MEM Covington 7 run (Fletcher kick) MEM Paggett 10 run (Fletcher kick) ATT 12,000 (estimated) Grambling 14 13 24 051 Jackson 14 i 0 0 20 Scoring summary: Harold Jackson, 60, cass from Clevis James (Hartfield kick).

Clevis James, 6, run (Hartfield kick). Robert Adkins, 28, pass from Eddie Robinson Jr. (Wesley Beane, kick). Essex Johnson, 11, run (Beane kick). Henry Dyer, 6, run (Beane kick).

Dver, 6, run (run failed). Jackson, 2, pass from James (run failed). Goldie Sellers, 6, run (Leroy Carter run). Carter, 7, run (Johnson Tun). Johnson, 6, run (Carter run).

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