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Steve Freeman (35) closes in on Ainsworth Ken Phares (36) comes up fast Staff Photos by Wayne Cottlngtm Frank Dowsing (40) plays insuranceman Ole Miss rolls over State 51-14 By WALLV WILSON DU-T Sports Writer UNIVERSITY-For the first time this season, the Ole Miss Rebels showed why they were picked to be one of the nation's strongest teams at the season's start. On a rain drenched lurf at Hemingway Stadium here Saturday, the Rebs took advantage of eight turnovers to completely dominate arch-rival Mississippi State, 51-14. Ole Miss tailback Greg Ainsworth rushed for 101 yards, including four touchdowns, and quarterback Norris Weese added another 178 on the ground to lead the Johnny Rebs to their largest point total against the Bulldogs since 1951. Showboat Boykin was the star that day, scoring 42 of his team's points in a 49-7 victory. Fullback Gene Allen scored twice for Ole Miss and his 11-yard scoring reception from Weese was the game's initial score with 8:47 left in the first quarter.

Following the score, Freshman Steve Lavinghouze booted the first of six PATs. Lavinghouze missed once. Allen's other touchdown came in the second period on a one-yard run that was set up by a Stump Russell recovery of a Steve Jones fumble. Ainsworth got his touchdowns on three one-yard bursts and one two-yarder. Quarterback Bill Malouf wrapped up the Rebel scoring in the fourth period with a 15-yard scamper around right end with 9:21 left in the game.

The six pointer was Malouf's first rushing score this season. He had previously grabbed scoring strikes of 12 (against South Carolina) and 47 (Georgia) from Weese operating from split end. State wingback Bill Buckley showed why he is the SEC's leading receiver with six catches in the game for 103 yards. Buckley scored both of the Bulldog touchdowns. Buckley's first score came in the opening moments of the second period on a 27-yard pass from Melvin Barkum and cut the Rebel lead to 17-6.

Buckley's other scorinc catch was in the fourth quarter when the Rebs had taken a commanding 45-6 advantage. Buckley set up the 15-yard scoring play with a 36-yard reception. Rocky Felkner was on the delivering, end of the throw. State head coach Charley Shira, who has alternated Barkum and Felker at the signal-calling slot all year, went with Barkum at the start of the game but each shared almost equal playing time. on the end of an off-key season that saw the Rebels post their worst mark since 1950.

Ole Miss ended the 1972 season 5-5 and will not play in a bowl game for the first time after 16 consecutive years of post-season play. The Bulldogs finished their season with a 4-7 mark, a slight improvement over Ma SPORTS Sunday, Nov. 26,1972 15 Ole Miss, on the strength of three Ainsworth touchdowns along with two scores by Allen and a 42-yard field goal by Lavinghouze, built a 38-6 halftime lead. The win by the Rebels puts a sweet note Arkansas beats TT LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) Arkansas, fighting to remain out of the Southwest Conference cellar, defeated the Sun Bowlbound Texas Tech, 24-14, Saturday.

The win left the Razorbacks with a 3-4 SWC mark a full game ahead of Texas AM. Arkansas finished the season with a 6-5 record, while Texas Tech finished tied for runner-up honors in the league with a 4-3 mark and an 8-3 season record. The Razorbacks scored twice in the first four minutes of the final quarter to break open a 7-7 deadlock, then had to play tough defense in the closing minutes to shut off a Raider rally. Quarterback Scott Bull, playing the whole game in place of regular Joe Ferguson, carried the final yard for Arkansas' third touchdown. His tally capped a 5-play, 26-yard Razorback drive after Arkansas had recovered a Texas Tech fumble.

Fullback Marsh White blasted the final yard of an 81-yard, 16-play go-ahead drive with 13:55 left in the game. Tailback Jon Richardson scored the opening Arkansas touchdown in the first period on a 3-yard run. Mike Kirland, who added all three extra points, kicked a 37-yard field goal with 80 seconds left. Rice 25; TCU 21 HOUSTON (UPD--Quarterback Bruce Gadd passed nine yards to flanker Ron Arceneaux with 2:36 remaining in the two points and the Iowa defense held on to preserve the win. College football I Miami 28, Maryland 8 fourth quarter Saturday to give the Rice Owls a 25-21 victory over Texas Christian, the third straight Southwest Conference win for the Owls.

Gadd's pass, pulling Rice from an apparent 21-18 defeat, climaxed a 40-yard march after the Owls' Jody Medford had blocked a TCU field goal slapping the ball back to the TCU 40. It took Gadd only seven plays to score. Iowa 15; Illinois 14 IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) Freshman quarterback Butch Caldwell ran for a gutsy twopoint conversion with 4:10 left in the game Saturday to pull underdog Iowa to a 15-14 Big Ten upset over Illinois. The Hawkeyes' hopes seemed flattened late in the fourth quarter when Illinois marched 80 yards in 13 plays to take a 14 -7 lead on Lonnie Perrin's twoyard run and Mike Wells' twopoint conversion pass to Garvin Roberson. But the Hawks came back, going 67 yards in 16 plays.

And when Frank Holmes scored from a yard out, Illinois led by just one point and it was up to the Hawkeyes to go for the tie or a victory. After a short sideline conference, Caldwell calmly carried the ball in for Bulldogs to try a new offense STARKVILLE (UPD--Mississippi State Coach Kermit Davis is counting on a new offense and improved shooting to lift his Bulldogs into the first division of the Southeastern Conference basketball race. Davis, beginning his third year as head coach, has four returning regulars for this year's team, which he believes will be able to improve on last season's 13-13 overall and 6-12 SEC record. "We arc trying to change both our offense and defense and this takes a lot of practice time," he said after a series of intense drills. "We are making real good progress." He said State will abandon the shuffle offense, which It has used the past two seasons, "but we will still have a continuity offense.

"Boiling it down, we are trying to go with a more simpler offensive set," he said. "I believe our shooting is better this year than It has been in the past couple of seasons." Mnlcolm Wesson, a 0-5 senior forward from Baldwyn who averaged 8.4 points and six rebounds a game last year, has been named captain of the 1972-73 Bulldog squad. "We are expecting a lot of leadership from Wesson," Davis said. "He is a real consistent performer that does everything well." Others returning include 6-5 senior forward Jeff Watkins; junior guard Terry Koroneos; Terry Kusnierz, a 6-5 junior forward; and 6-6 junior center- forward Bill Singletary. Guard Jack Bouldin, who led the Bulldogs in scoring the past two seasons, was the only starter among four lettermen lost via graduation.

Watkins was the No. 2 scorer on last year's team with 12.5 points per game. Kusnierz was third with 11.4 and led the Bulldogs in rebounding with 12 per game. The Bulldogs open the season at home Dec, 1 against Samford University of Birmingham, Ala. They play Texas at home, South Alabama in Mobile and at home and participate In the Northeast Louisiana and Senior Bowl tournaments before opening an 18-game SEC slate.

last season's 2-9 record. Statistically, Weese and Ainsworth led all rushers in the game, while Barkum was State's leading ground gainer with 66 yards on only six attempts. Fullback Jones had 38 yards on 13 carries and. tailback Lewis Grubbs 32 on seven tries. Barkum hit on two of seven pass attempts but had three intercepted and Felker completed 7 of 15 for 92 yards and had two intercepted.

Ole Miss safetyman Terry Harrison, the SEC's leading interceptor, picked off two in the game to raise his final season steal record to nine. Bob Bailess, Henry Walsh and Leland's Mickey Fratesi each had one interception in the game. For Bailess it was his first steal of the year, Fratesi, his second and Walsh, his fourth. The victory stretched the Rebels' lead in the 71-year-old rivalry to 37-26-6, and was the first Ole Miss win in Hemingway Stadium in six years. Mississippi State 0 6 0 8--14 Mississippi 21 7 6--51 Miss Allen 11 pass from Weese (Lazinghouse kick) Miss Ainsworth run (Lazinghouse kick) Miss FG Lazinghouse 42 MST Buckley 27 pass from Barkum (Pass failed) Miss Ainsworth 2 run (Lazinghouse kick) Miss Winsworth 1 run (Lazinghouse kick) Miss Allen 1 run (Lazinghouse kick) Miss Ainsworth 1 run-(Lazinghouse kick) MST Buckley 15 pass from Felker (Grubbs run) Miss Malouf 15 run (kick failed) Rebel-Bulldog stats OXFORD.Miss.

(UPD--Statisticsofthe Mississippi State Mississippi football game: Miss 26 First downs Rushes-yrads Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yars MSt 13 32-130 74-409 157 48 12 42 9-22-5 4-3 5-39 4-11-1 1-1 5-81 MIAMI (UPD Wide receiver Chuck Foreman, permanently converted from running back just two weeks ago, caught two scoring passes Saturday night and Miami (Fla.) overpowered Maryland 288. Quarterback Ed Carney hit Foreman for touchdowns of 20 and 19 yards and laid another scoring pass into receiver Witt Beckman from six yards out. Freshman Donnie Martin punched over from the one for another touchdown. Minnesota 14; Wisconsin 6 MADISON, Wise. (UPD-Quarterback Bob Morgan scored two touchdowns and guided Minnesota's option offense with mastery Saturday in a 14-6 victory over Wisconsin.

Morgan rushed for 143 yards and scored on a 12-yard run in the first quarter and a one yard plunge with 16 seconds gone in the fourth period. It was the final game of the season for both teams. The Badgers, who finished their ninth losing season in a row, scored twice i the second quarter on 31 and 28 yard field goals by Rich Barrios. The victory was Minnesota's fourth of the year against seven losses. The Gophers were 4-4 in the Big Ten and Wisconsin ended with a 4-7 overall mark and a 2-6 record in the conference.

Rufus "Roadrunner" Ferguson, Wisconsin's 5-foot-6, 190 senior running back, scooted for 112 yards and gained 1,004 for the season despite missing two complete games and much of two others. Oklahoma St. 45; Iowa St. 14 STILLWATER, Okla. (UPD-- Fullback George Palmer scored a pair of touchdowns on one-yard runs Saturday to pace Oklahoma State 45-14 upset shellacking of Liberty Bowl bound Iowa State.

The Cyclones became the third bowl- bound team to get picked off by the Cowboys, who ironically are the only bowleligible squad in the Big Eight Conference that failed to get a postseason bid. Earlier, the Pokes upset Gator Bowl bound Colorado 31-6 and edged past Fiesta Bowl participant Missouri 17-16. Mich. St. 24; N'Western 14 (UPD--Michigan State scored touchdowns the first three times it had the ball Saturday and held on to defeat Northwestern 24-14 in Duffy Daughterty's final game after 19 years as head football coach of Uie Big Ten school.

In losing, however, Northwestern players set three individual records. Daughterly was carried from the field by players and fans after his final game. The three touchdowns came on a 64- yard pass from quarterback Mark Nicscn to wide receiver Mark Grua; a 48- yarder from Niesen to wide receiver Mike Jones; and a five -yard naked reverse by Nicscn, all In the first quarter. Staff photo by Wayne Cottlngirr Ainsworth gets his second of four touchdowns the hard way Face-saver It was a big one By MITCH ARIFF DD-T Sports Editor If one didn'tknow better he would have probably thought Ole Miss had just won the Southeastern Conference championship and accepted a major bowl invitation if he happened by the entrance of the jubilant and crowded Rebel dressing room late Saturday afternoon. It was none of that by any means, but Rebel followers had many reasons to be thankful two days after Thanksgiving.

1: The lopsided victory over traditional rival, Mississippi State, averted a losing season for the once- potent Rebels who finished 5-5. No. 2: The win was the first over the Bulldogs at Hemingway Stadium since 1966. Ole Miss dropped the last outing to State at home 19-14 in 1970 and was tied by the Bulldogs 17-17 at Hemingway in 1968. The Rebs won the I960 battle, 24-0, The inside of the Rebel dressing room was just as jubilant as alumni and possible Rebels of the future were allowed to enter.

Whether or not the victory will help recruiting or not was one of the first questions put forth to the smiling Rebel boss, Billy Kinard. "One doesn't ever know if winning the game helps recruiting," Kinard simply said. It's no doubt that Kinard had recruiting in the back of his mind, but at the moment he wanted to talk about the big win. Holding the final stal sheet in hand, Kinard told reporters that "Our boys did a pretty good job rushing. Four hundred and nine yards rushing is a good day's work.

(Greg) Ainsworth could be Offensive Player of the Week." After Inking another look at the stats he looked up and spoke again. "(Norris) Weese could be Offensive Player of the Week, too, couldn't he?" Ainsworth gained 101 yards rushing in the contest on 26 carries, but Weese, one of the leaders in the SEC in total offense, rushed for 178 yards on 19. carries and passed for 53 more as he completed three of eight tosses. "Our offensive line must have blocked pretty good and our fullback (Gene Allen most of the time), Kinard. Kinard said he thinks State's turnovers were caused by a combination of ballhandling and grabbing and butting (by the Rebels)." When asked if it was Ole Miss' best effort of the season, the second-year head coach replied: "We've had other efforts just as good, but we didn't have the field position and get the turnovers.

Kinard said, "I would like to pay special tribute to all my seniors. Four of our seniors are five-year men." He named center Pete Boone, tackle John Gregory, Don Leathers and tight end Larry Northam. "We got criticized a lot, but maybe we deserved it." A passerby shouted his congratulations to coach Kinard and Kinard shouted back: "Any doubt in your mind now." Weese, who was flocked by men with their pencils and pads, said: "I believe we were more determined than psyched up. We got the breaks going our way and then we really got fired up. "I think we huvq a good team," continued Weese.

"One pass completion could have given us a victory over Auburn and we lost by only one point to both Georgia and LSU. Florida was the only team that just bent us. If we had won the other two we may have been ready for Florida. We played Tennessee pretty good most of the way and were still in the game late until a fumble caused us to give up the ball on their 10 yard line. Weese, in answer to a question, said he was running a "new type option.

It was a wishbone type with the fullback blocking. It leaves their defensive end helpless. It's Alabama's play. We got it watching them against LSU." Weese praised his offensive line. "When you run as well as we did, they have to be doing a good job," said Weese.

They really cut off the pursuit on the inside linebacker. Tennessee couldn't be cut off. played deeper." Weese, in answer to the query: "How much does it mean to you to beat State maybe something like 80-0?" answered: "Well I'm not from Mississipp but since I've been living here, it means a lot." Leland's Mickey Fratesi, a junior Rebel rover, picked off one aerial and dumped the Bulldog quarterback for a big loss in the contest. "We were lucky getting all the breaks," said Fratesi. "We tackled hard and our defensive line put alot of pressure on their quarterback and forced several interceptions (five)." Fratesi allowed one TD pass to be caught over him.

"I was supposed to be looking in his face, but I had my back to him," saidFratesi. "He (wingback Bill Buckley) made a good cntch, but I think 1 was close enough to break it up." A bowl is out for the Rebels this season, but Fratesi is optimistic and looking to next year. "We are disappointed, but looking forward to a good one next year," he said..