Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • Page 14

6S) 7 From The Sidelines Bill McGrotha Many Bowl Bids To Be Decided? eTbmjnT' Miiaswf democrat No Kitty 14 Friday, November 14, 1969 A couple of weeks ago Florida State played South Carolina and quite prior to the game somebody sent Coach Bill Peterson a little old bantam rooster as a halfway reasonable approximation of a Gamecock. ILast week Virginia Tech was the opponent and during "the days preceding, lo, there was a turkey tied to a goalpost at one end of the practice field to remind of the Gobblers as though any reminder were needed. Tomorrow the Seminoles face some Tigers, and the funny business has ceased. Memphis State looks tigerish, plays tigerish, has some tigerish followers, among I whom, one hears, are a few who are proposing that Florida State join their school in the Missouri Valley Conference. Perchance they'd better check with their players on this.

They may not get their second to such a motion. Last year here FSU beat Memphis 20-10. In doing so they inadvertently, or however, apparently made some Tigers mad. with 14th ranked Michigan at 4-1 and will need to win to stay in the running, especially since Michigan plays Iowa, a less formidable opponent than Ohio State. The show was on the other foot last year.

Purdue was No. 1 and favored to wliip Ohio State but it didn't turn out that way. The score was Ohio State 13, Purdue 0. "We could have been ud more mentally," Purdue Coach Jack Mollenkopf said referring to last year. "But I'm sure we'll be up for this one." 1 A Rather Similar Reaves Nearing Two SEC Marks Leading Memphis State Receiver This Year With 23 Catches split end Frank Blackwell from Nashville, Tenn.

Quick Runners Big In Memphis Attack By TIM Associated Press Boilermakers or Spoilermak-ers? The Purdue football team likes to refer to itself as the latter, and although they are a 17-point underdog in Saturday's game with Ohio State, they think they can knock off the nation's No. 1 team in the college football game of the year. The game at Columbus, Ohio, highlights a big November weekend in which many bowl bids likely will be decided. Quarterback Mike PIudds. Purdue's master passer, is one reason and their record another.

Purdue is 7-1 and 10th ranked nationally but it has beaten ranking teams such as Notre Dame and Stanford while not one of Ohio State's seven victims has a winning record. Phipps has written such predecessors as Dale Samuels, Len Dawson and Bob Griese right out of Purdue's record books. Lou McCullough, defense coordinator of Ohio State's coaching staff, thinks Phipps is so good, "if he's not the No. 1 pick of the pros those guys have a hole in their head." Phipps and Rex Kern, the Buckeyes' quarterback who has rewritten some records himself, also are prime candidates for the Heisman Trophy which goes to the year's outstanding college performer. Kern sat out last week's 62-7 rout against Wisconsin to rest his bruised passing arm for Saturday's game which is being billed as college football's game of the year.

It will be televised nationally at 1:25 p.m. EST by ABC. The Buckeyes want to win it for prestige since they're ineligible for a return trip to the Rose Bowl. They have a 21-game winning streak going and a chance to become the first team to win two successive national championships since Okalhoma did it in 1955-56. "With no Rose Bowl to go to, staying No.

1 is the only incentive we have," said Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes. Purdue's incentive is to represent the Big Ten Conference in the Rose Bowl. Purdue is tied out of the student body in the spring to seeK a scholarship and quickly won one. He's quite fast, has picked up 311 yards in 56 runs for a 5.6 average, is dangerous on pass receptions. McCoy, 5-11 and 198, was a prep AU-American at Miami's Southwest High, sought by dozens of schools.

He's a power type, shows 377 yards in 79 runs for a 4.8 average, leads the team in scoring with seven touchdowns. In the option series, quarterbacks are dangerous runners, too. Thurow and Pierce are quite better than average, the former averaging 3.5 per run, the latter 3.1. Pierce, thus far, has played much more than Thurow, has completed 51 of 126 passes for 832 yards. Memphis State confronts Florida State with more backfield speed than any team on the Seminoles' schedule.

The Tigers' utilization of speed in the exercise of the tricky triple-option offense figures to present FSU with one of its more severe defenses challenges here tomorrow night. Kickoff for the Campbell Stadium game is 7:30. Primary backfield names to remember are Skeeter Gowen and Stan Davis both sophomores plus junior Jay McCoy, seniors Dick Thurow and Dan Pierce. Thurow, 5-10 and 175, alternates with Pierce, 6-3 and 216, at quarterback. "They're both good, ones," says Bobby Jackson, who coaches FSU linebackers, "Thurow has done good work against us in the past, including a long scoring run.

Pierce is a big old boy who's looked quite impressive this year. They list him at 216, but a pro scout told us the other day he must go 230." Gowen, 5-7 and 172, is quick and quite strong for his size. He's the team's leading runner, 594 yards in 94 runs for a 6.3 average. Davis, 5-10 and 175, stepped Selective Service Talks to Dietzel COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)-Paul Dietzel, University of South Carolina football coach and athletic director, says the White House has approached him about the pending opening as National Selective Service director, but did not specifically offer him the job.

In any case, he said Thursday, "I have no intention of accepting any other job. Ex-Seminole Burt Reynolds To Wafch Tribe Saturday Billy Cox, on the last play of the game, almost broke for a touchdown on an end-around play that featured some offensive blocking that nettled the Tigers. There followed, as the game ended, one of those altercations. Webster defines the word as a "noisy or angry dispute," and that was what it was, perhaps more. Anyhow, one suspects that the Tigers have not 'forgotten.

Well, there's an axiom that you don't make team mad, particularly one you have beaten. On the other hand, the Greeks used to say that whom the gods would destroy they first make angry. It does not figure as such a much, really, but the game should, under any conditions, be an energetic one. Memphis State plays tough, and sometimes the Seminoles do, too. It is quite doubtful that Florida State is or would be interested in joining the MVC, either as it stands or a revised league that would include other schools.

Georgraphy alone is a significant factor. The Memphis State story is a growing and ambitious one. Its listed enrollment is 17,000 about identical with Florida State's. The school has come a long way in a relatively short time, and means determined business in bigtime sports. Dr.

C. C. Humphreys, the president, was athletic director at school for a dozen years, which is interesting and possibly relevant to the point. i A state school, Memphis State now has Tennessee on its football schedule after going the same tedious and frustrating route that Florida State did in scheduling Florida for the first time best two out of three falls with Bob Woodruff, who served the Gators as a.d. when the Seminoles were pushing, who (or a few years now has served Tennessee very well In the same capacity.

Woodruff is a rock who gives an inch only if there's a stick of dynamite under him. I haven't asked but I'm sure Woodruff got his pound of flesh before putting his signature on a Memphis contract, just as he did when he got the perhaps overly eager Seminoles to play in Gainesville the first six years for the princely sum of $20,000 the first three years or so. I'll say this, after all these years: when it gets down to the nitty-gritty, Woodruff is a good man to have on your side. Anyhow, Tennessee is not at all anxious to get a real rivalry going with Memphis State, and will surely continue to play it down as well as it can. Which reminds me of the latest words from one William G.

Carver, the Lakeland attorney who after the Florida game wrote a letter to the sports editor belittling the Seminoles and sundry kindred targets. The Shuddering Thought In a letter to a man in our town Mr. Carver says: "I just really don't want an U. of or Tech situation developing here in Florida." Precisely. I've said it for years.

The really violent "antis" among UF followers shudder at the thought of Florida State and Florida having a rivalry on a par with those in other states, the "bad" aspects along with the good. They fear real equality of these two state universities, and all that it means. There's high presentment over what they consider Florida State encroachment on a domain they consider willed to them by the Good Lord rather than all the taxpayers and witnessed by Chester Ferguson and D. Burke Kibler III. The Boilermakers have revamped their defense because, as Mollenkopf puts it, "our defense has to hold Ohio State within reason and nobody's held them yet this year.

We tried the pro-type front four but found it isn't effective against roll out quarterbacks." Kern is a rollout specialist. Saturday also could throw some light on the Cotton Bowl. Cotton Bowl officials plan to fan out to five, possibly six games in their final courting of prospective visiting teams. The (Continued on Page 15) More Marks to Fall? John Reaves 199 yards. Ray also named Steve Parrish as starting split end after he caught a school-tying 10 passes against Vandy.

"With our pass defense what it is," Ray said, "We know they're going to bomb us." Two key players will miss the game for the Gators. Split end Paul Maliska is out for the season with a severe concussion suffered in a 38-12 loss to Auburn and defensive tackle Robbie Rebol suffered a leg injury against Georgia. PM SPORTS CENTER ARENA 3402 APALACHEE PKWY. STEEL CAGE MATCH! LOUIE TILLET EL MONGOL VS- CHRIS MARKOFF DANNY MILLER BRONKO LUBICH BOB ROOP $1,000 CHALLENGE MATCH CYCLON NEGRO LEWIS DORY DIXON PEREZ ADVANCE TICKETS SALE AT BODIFORD AMERICAN OIL 1308 E.TENNESSEE ST. RINGSIDE $2.50 GEN.

ADM $2.00 CHILDREN $1.00 RESV. CALL 7-9290 TV WRESTLING IN COLOR SATURDAY I 1 Pierce has averaged about four more yards per pass completion than FSU's Bill Cappleman, by way of contrast "They're not what you would call a passing team," says Jackson, "but with their option stuff always threatening, they get a lot of mileage out the passes they do hit." Top receiver is senior Frank Blackwell, 6-4 and 220, a split end who's caught 23. The offensive line is big and strong. John Bomer, center, and Martin Orcutt, left guard, are outstanding. Gowen and Davis are superb breakaway threats.

"Real tough," says Jackson, "If this team can run the option on you, they won't throw a whole lot. This is a very explosive outfit." Television and movie star Burt Reynolds, known to veteran Seminole football fans as Buddy Reynolds in 1954, is returning to Florida State tomorrow for a weekend visit. Acting and football will be topics for the West Palm Beach native's weekend appearances on the campus. Reynolds, at Theater Department Chairman Richard Fallon's invitation, is speaking to drama students and faculty Saturday at 3 p.m. in Conradi Theater.

Saturday night he'll attend the Florida State-Memphis competed. They need only two more victories to break their own Big Ten streak of 17 straight triumphs set in 1954-56. They say Hayes is building another college football dynasty. His freshman team this fall is said to compare favorably with the great first year squad of 1967 which forms the nucleus of the present powerhouse. Rumors around the Ohio State campus are that Hayes, now 56 and 26 years in the profession, will see the 1969 freshman class through and then resign himself to a quieter life.

To those who know him, it's unimaginable. Without a chance periodically to blow his stack, The Man certainly would die of complete boredom. No practice session or game is complete without a Hayes eruption. He rips off his wrist watch. Off comes his old baseball cap.

He rips it to shreds and stomps it into the ground, yelling epithets that scorch tender ears. Route "External heart massage finally got him going again, however, and then it was a long, two-hour siege in the operating room while doctors cut and repaired ligaments, threw away cartilage and finally sewed him up." Mitchell suffered torn ligaments in his left knee from a block while covering a kickoff. GAINESVILLE (UPI) Quarterback John Reaves figures to crack three more Southeastern Conference passing records Saturday and lead Florida into a post-season bowl game. The Gators (6-1-1) take on Kentucky (2-6) and are two-touchdown favorites to win their seventh game against one of the worst pass defenses in the SEC. "I don't like the spread," said Florida's Coach Ray Graves, looking back to Kentucky's 10-9 shocker over Ole Miss early in the season.

"If that team can stop making crucial mistakes at the wrong time, they'll burn someone." Take it easy Ray. If your sophomore quarterback follows the script he will toss a couple of touchdown passes at least (he's thrown 22 this year) and break the season SEC record of 23 set by Kentucky's Babe Parilli way back in 1950. The Tampa, youth needs only to throw eight passes to equal the record of 319 thrown last year by Tommy Pharr of Mississippi State and 13 completions to beat Steve Spurrier's 179 in 1966. Don't get Graves wrong. He's not crying, just saying it will be hard to get his boys up for the 2 p.m., EST, game after last week's 13-13 tie with Georgia.

As for the overall season, Graves is happy as a lark. "We were supposed to be rebuilding," he said. "But here we are with only one loss to date. Our sophomores (four of them in the backfield) have come through beyond our wildest dreams." Several bowls will have scouts at the game, including the Gator Bowl at nearby Jacksonville. "I hear the Sun Bowl trip is nice," Graves quipped recently.

"They say the teams get a side-trip to Mexico." if Florida beats Kentucky badly, you can bet Graves will be aiming for one of the bigger bowls (probably Gator or Sugar) for his explosive youngsters come invitation time next Monday. Reaves has a good chance to take the national total offense lead (he already leads the nation in passing). He has 2,240 yards to date and is runnerup by 84 yards to Purdue's Mike Phipps who will be playing top-ranked Ohio State Saturday afternoon. In the Kentucky camp, always-optimistic Coach John Ray has named sophomore Steve Tingle starting quarterback for the game after his performance in the Wildcats' "embarrassing" 42-6 loss to Vanderbilt last weekend. It was the first full game that Tingle, who Ray had hoped to redshirt this ear, played for Kentucky.

He completed 17 of 33 passes for A New Pact ATLANTA (UPI) Georgia Tech gave head football coach Bud Carson a vote of confidence Thursday, on the eve of the Jackets' meeting with heavily favored Notre Dame, by announcing he would be retained for another year. while cornerback Melvin Blount has taken four. Florida puts a 4-1 mark and a chance to grasp Coach Jake Gaither's 200th victory on the line. Southern, has a 5-1-1 record. The loss was to unbeaten Alcorn while the Jags tied Texas Southern.

Woody Hayes Is Hard to Figure State game in Campbell Stadium where he'll sit with the team. Reynolds played halfback for the 1954 Seminoles, who went 8-3 and played in the Sun Bowl. He was unable to attend that team's reunion at homecoming this year because he was on location in California making a movie with Charlton Heston. His season total in 1954 included 140 yards gained in rushing and two touchdowns. A car accident ended his football efforts here, though he attended Florida State intermittently from 1954 to 1957, majoring in education.

Reynolds started his television acting career in Squad;" was featured in "Riverboat" and "Gunsmoke," and had his own series, "Hawk." He has appeared recently in the movies "100 Rifles," and "Sam Whiskey." Another, "Skullduggery," will be released this spring. Gator Bowl To See Six JACKSONVILLE (UPI) The Gator Bowl selection committee will be on the road this weekend, visiting six college football games involving Big Eight, Southwest and Southeast Conference teams as well as two independents. This is the last weekend of college football activity before post-season bowls are allowed to select and announce participants starting at noon, EST, Nov. 17. Gator Bowl scouts will see Nebraska at Kansas State, Arkansas at Southern Methodist, Auburn at Georgia, Mississippi State at Louisana State, independent Memphis State at independent Florida State and Kentucky at Florida.

The Gator Bowl's Silver Anniversary Classic will be played on Dec. 27. while Southern's defenders have stolen 15 in seven outings. Cornerback Leroy Charlton heads up the Rattlers' corp of thieves with six interceptions while safety Charles Sasser has four and linebacker Raymond Wilcox three. Middle linebacker Isiah Robertson has snagged five foes' passes for the Jaguars Returning to FSU Burt Reynolds 2 Jt It A Moody Fellow Woody Hayes In his 18 years at Ohio State, Hayes' teams have won 124 games, lost 41 and tied seven.

They have won three national championships, five Big Ten titles, and the only three Rose Bowl games in which they have Florida put the finishing touches on its game plan for invading Southern U. Thursday with stress on the passing game and all-phases of the kicking game. The Rattlers have worked harder still for Southern's sophomore quarterback Howard Hall. Although Hall is This, if not the whole bit, is paramount with those skilled and well-heeled ones among the "antis," and Mr. Carver is telling it exactly like it is.

Auburn and Alabama? Georgia and Tech? That's the way it ought to be among two state institutions with comparable well, we continue to hope facilities and objectives. So what's a bit of physical altercation now and So what if FSU wives banish Florida husbands the living-room couch for a night or two? Shucks, you're going to have those little 'altercations if you play the game of football! Right, Memphis State? Oh, we were talking about the game. It figures as nothing but tough, just possibly the Roughest assignment of the season for the Seminoles. hope the home field will be the difference. Colt Has a Close Call By WILL GRIMSLEY COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) "How do you figure him out?" one of Woody Hayes' longtime associates repeated the question.

"How do you figure out a storm? "One minute all is calm and serene and then suddenly all hell breaks loose. It takes more than a meteorologist to figure out The Man." They refer to him simply as "The Man" partly in reverence, partly in awe, largely in fear. He is a man of moods, a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, hated and loved this graying, bespectacled, pot-bellied man who cracks the whip for Ohio State, the nation's No.

1 college football team. Ohio State puts its 21-game winning streak on the line here Saturday against powerful Purdue. Wayne Woodrow( Woody Hayes has a lot of Vince Lombardi in him the tough-minded ex-Green Bay and now Washington Redskins coach he admires so much. "He's the sort of guy," said one player, "who when he tells you to sit down you don't look around for a chair." He's a roly-poly Bear Bryant a strict disciplinarian, hard, a fanatic on conditioning and detail. "A tie is like kissing your sister.

Concentrate on trying not to lose the game before trying to win it." Winning is the name of the game. The price is spartan-work, denial, concentration. Errors are unforgiveable. Set for Southern BALTIMORE (AP) Exter--nal heart massage was used on ITom Mitchell, Baltimore Colts tight end after he was hurt in Sunday's game with Green Bay. Larry Harris of the Baltimore Evening Sun wrote that when Mitchell left the dressing room, heading for a hospital, he collapsed, "actually turned blue and medics couldn't find a pulse for long, anxious moments.

in his first season he has a crew of veteran receivers. One of his big targets is 6-6, 220 Hal Carmichael, a Jacksonville product who's caught 14 for 213 yards. Secondary play figures big in this one in Saturday night's encounter in Bragg Stadium. The Rattlers have swiped 18 enemy aerials in five games 1..