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wmBKBrafflMinuMUiffl iiiiiiiiiimiimiiiimmmmiimimiiii iiimiiinmimminiiiimnHiiminnminn 0 ins era Lawrence Johnson had six solo tackles and five assists the Ole Miss defensive line against the Vols. 'A year ago Lawrence was an inexperienced freshman, now he is one of the 'jest sophomores we have," the Rebel coach said. "I'm not surprised at anything this team does. They have had plenty of chances to quit," Coach Cooper said proudly. "These boys have had to play for three head coaches and people underrated us before the season." The Rebel coach said two factors may have contributed to Ole Miss' turnabout.

"We finally came home after three road games and then the new athletic dormitory opened. The boys had a nicer place to live and they were playing before home fans." Tennessee Coach Bill Battle was in the back corner of a steamy Vol dressing room praising Ole Miss. "Sure I expected them to run on us, but Storey, Hofer, Reed, and Sweet are powerful running backs. They wear you down," he said. "If we could have gotten a touchdown and field goal out of the first quarter, we would have been in a better position," Coach Battle explained.

"I thought we were still in the ballgame until Stanley Morgan fumbled the pitchout in the fourth quarter," the Tennessee coach added. That fumble came with 7:41 remaining quarter and was 38-yards long. The second was for 17 yards with 1:19 left. The Rebels had a fourth and one on the half-inch line before the second field goal but instead of going for the touchdown Ole Miss elected to get a safe 10-point lead. With 13:13 left in the game Ole Miss went 80 yards in just seven plays to ice the game.

Sweet broke for a 40-yard touchdown to give Ole Miss their final 17-point lead. For all practical purposes, that was the game. Ole Miss Coach Ken Cooper could hardly be heard in the dressing room as Rebel players kept yelling "Hoddy Toddy" and cheers about the approaching Mississippi State game. "Except for those long passes Seivers caught, we played a good football game all day," Coach Cooper said. "We have become a more mature football team.

We had five or six players on offense in the opener who had never played college football. "We played good offensive football while facing a good Tennessee team," the Ole Miss Coach explained. "We didn't plan to run as much but we dominated the line of scrimmage. We played as good today as we did against Georgia in the second half," he reported. Coach Cooper went for the field goal instead of the touchdown in the third quarter with a 10-6 lead he explained, "The third down play when Ellis was stopped on the goal line was meant to By DUDLEY MARBLE Sports Editor MEMPHIS Ole Miss used ball control tactics Saturday afternoon to smother ennessee 23-6 after spotting the Vols a six-point lead in the first quarter.

The Rebels ran 75 plays to just 51 for Tennessee in posting their fourth Southeastern Conference win of the season. Ole Miss is tied for second in conference standings and 5-5 overall. Tennessee dropped to 5-4 overall and 3-2 in the conference. The loss was Tennessee's first in Memphis since 1965. Ole Miss ends the season Nov.

22 in Jackson against Mississippi State while Tennessee travels to Lexington next week to play Kentucky. Ole Miss offensive linemen, Dick Lawrence, Robert Henry, John Mac- Neill, Chuck Kota, James Hickman, Robert Fabris, opened gaping holes in the Tennessee defense enabling Rebel njnning backs to amass 417 yards rushing. Paul Hofer had 119 yards, James Redd 115, and Michael Sweet 103." James Storey contributed 83 yards to the Rebel rushing totals. Ole Miss was so successful on the ground that they threw only seven passes. Tennessee appeared to have the momentum in the first quarter when All-American candidate Larry Seivers caught two passes for 96 yards.

On the first pass, Seivers was double covered by Rebel defensive backs Brad Pittman and Charlie Moss on the left sideline. He was running a fly pattern and then cut across the middle without losing stride. Randy Wallace put the ball on the money and Pittman dragged Seivers down on the Ole Miss 36-yard line after a 56-yard pass. But Ole Miss stiffened and Tennessee kicked a 22-yard field goal with 11:35 remaining in the first quarter for a 3-0 lead. iH I) yCf rvi 1 I 1 1 4 ft Vl-" 1 score "I figured Tennessee would need two touchdowns to beat us if we had a 16-6 lead.

Our offensive line and running backs had determination all day. "When Seivers caught those passes, I just told our defensive backs to take a deep breath and battle him for ball," Coach Cooper said. Middle guard Robert W. "Gentle Ben" Williams, touted by Ole Miss as an Ail-American, had eight solo tackles and three assists. UPI Teiephoto UT QUARTERBACK RANDY WALLACE TRIES TO SHAKE TACKLE Flying tackier is UM's Gary Turner throwing Wallace for loss HiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMim rimson I lde Valley State oils over heats Indians jmiiHnrti ir in the game with Tennessee on the Ole Miss 18-yard Statistics of the Tennessee-Mississippi football game: Tenn 10 39-66 178 69 4-12-0 8-2 3-44 Miss 21 68-417 33 100 3-7-0 3-3 10-65 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards nn ningback Duffy Boles who scored from the five.

Kicker Danny Ridgeway was good on the extra point and seven minutes later added a 23-yard field goal to give Alabama a 17-0 halftime lead, Junior Bucky Berrey kicked a 39-yard field goal with less than two minutes to go in the third period for Alabama's first points after the intermission. Alabama collected 252 yards total offense in the first half with Todd completing four of five passes for 100 yards. Eagles quarterback Jeff Bower completed four of four in the first half for 30 yards but the Eagles managed only 66 yards offensively in the first two periods. Southern Mississippi 0 0 0 66 Alabama 7 10 3 7-27 Statistics of the Southern Mississippi-Alabama football game: SMIS Ala First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 11 50-135 107 12 11-23-2 3-1 5-32 22 53-258 165 27 8-134 4-4 4-51 Greenwood Commonwealth November 16, 1975 Page 11 Pittman got burned again by Seivers in the first quarter for a 40-yard gain to the Ole Miss 17-yard line with 8:30 remaining. Jim Gaylor kicked a 27-yard field goal-with 6:17 left in the first quarter and the Vols lead 6-0.

Tennessee might have had a 14-0 lead, but the Rebel defense held after both of Seivers catches and the Vols came away with only six points. Seivers caught only one more pass the rest of the dayv Hofer gave Ole Miss a 74 lead, a lead the Rebels never relinguished, with 6 02 left in the first quarter. Hofer took a handoff on the Rebel 37-yard line off left tackle, broke quickly to" the left sideline when he saw daylight, and raced 63 yards untouched. The Capacity Memphis Memorial Stadium crowd of 51,389 couldn't believe Hofer's run since it appeared that Tennessee had all the momentum. In the second quarter, Ole Miss had a 15-play 73-yard scoring drive in progress when Tim Ellis' pass to Bill Small in the end zone was tipped on third down.

Steve Lavinghouze kicked a 25-yard field goal with 4:22 left in the second quarter to give Ole Miss a 10-6 halftime lead. At the half, Ole Miss had an astonishing 213 yards rushing and only 27 yards passing. Tennessee had only 17 yards rushing and Seivers' two catches for 96 yards at the half. In the third quarter, Ole Miss' 13-play and 11-play scoring drives resulted in two more Lavinghouze field goals for a 16-6 lead. The first came with 8 09 left in the third 0T -v -v 3k I -v' UPI Teiephoto Packer's long run came on the first play of the Bulldogs' second possession.

Packer took a pitchout from quarterback Bruce Threadgill, found a hole in the Tigers' left flank and easily outdistanced several pursuers. Jordan's 27-yard field goal with six minutes left in the first half was set up by a fumble by LSU's Charles Alexander on his own 40 yard line. The Bulldogs then moved 45 yards in six plays to put Jordan in position for the field goal, which gave State a 104 lead. The Bulldogs were aided late in the second quarter by a fumble by Terry Robiskie on the LSU 22. Jordan then pushed them to a 134 lead with a 28-yard field goal 2:16 before the end of the half.

Jordan's last field goal was the 33-yarder set up by a third quarter interception by State's Henry Davidson on a pass by LSU slotback Carl Otis Trimble. MissSL 7 6 3 0-16 LSU 0 0 6 0- 6 MS Packer 85 run (Jordan kick) MS FG Jordan 27 MS FG Jordan 28 LSU Lyons 2 run (kick failed) MS FG Jordan 33 V. L3P 3 rv "-3 ft-sJf J- MM- fit- 3 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (UPI) Quarterback Richard Todd hit split end Ozzie Newsome with two touchdown passes to lead 5th-ranked Alabama to a 27-6 nonconference win over Southern Mississippi Saturday. Todd, a 6-2, 209-pounder, marched the Crimson Tide 83 yards in nine plays on its first possession, connecting with Newsome no a 32-yard scoring pass Newsome grabbed another pass from tM this one a 35-varder.

midway through the fourth period for Alabama's third touchdown. The 192-pound sophomore had four catches for 112 yards and the two scores. Southern's only score was set up by an Alabama fumble, recovered on the Tide 15 by Golden Eagle linebacker Clemon Ector in the fourth period. Runningback Ben Garry scored four plays later from the five but the Eagles' two-point conversion attempt failed. Tide fumbles set up two other scoring chances for the Eagles but Southern Mississippi was unable to capitalize, losing the ball on downs both times.

Todd directed Alabama's second touchdown drive, midway through the second period, giving the ball to run- in i ig By PAMELA TIMS Stan Writer 1 Mississippi Valley State University Delta Devils rolled to a 20-17 football victory over the University of Wisconsin- LaCrosse Saturday. Quarterback Parnell Dickinson directed the attack before a homecoming crowd of over 9,000 on the Itta Bena campus. 1' Dickinson, who was named "Black College Football Player of the Year" by the National Black Sports Foundation Monday, passed for 303 yards. Mississippi Valley opened the afternoon's scoring when they marched 80 yards in seven plays. Donald Doaty caught a Dickinson pass for 10 yards and a touchdown.

Hal Davis' PAT was good. Very late in the second quarter, Indian I auarterback David Braxler threw a 5- yard pass to his end Dave DeMerit for a Wisconsin-LaCrosse touchdown. Kicker David Beecherer added the PAT, sending both teams to the locker room in a deadlock. The second Indian score came with 8:50 remaining in the third quarter when Beecherer kicked a field goal to cap a 10-play 65-yard drive. Indian halfback Ron Myhara added another Wisconsin touchdown on a one-yard run with 13:35 left in the game.

The drive covered 36 yards in 12 plays and made the score 17-7. The Delta Devils came back to score when Dickinson hit MVU halfback Henry Blackwell coming out of the back-field with an 18-yard touchdown pass. Davis' PAT was good. MVSU went ahead to win with 5:41 remaining on a Dickinson to tight end USM'S BEN GARRY (29) FINDS ROUGH GOING AGAINSTTIDE He is hauled down by Alabama's Paul Harris (85) Clarence Flowers 13-yard touchdown pass. The big defensive play of the game was a pass interception by MVSU senior linebacker Charles Jackson on the MVSU 25-yard line.

The interception broke up a Wisconsin scoring drive with 47 seconds left. Dickinson completed 18 out of 31 passes for 303 yards. Indian quarterback Braxler hit on nine of 20 for 109 yards. MVSU rolled up 402 yards in total offense to 224 for Wisconsin. Delta Devil punter Davis had a good afternoon, averaging 50 yards per boot.

"This was a big win for us," Charles Prophet, MVSU sports information director, said. "We are now 5-3 and have one more game against Bishop College." Charles Jackson's interception was really the key of the game," he said. Jackson was credited with 12 tackles and six assists. Last week he was named "Southwestern Athletic Player of the Week" for his effort against Alcorn State University. Prophet named Dickinson as the outstanding offensive player.

"Dickinson has over 1,600 yards this season. If he gets a few more next week he could be over 2,000," Prophet said. Lester Hayes was also cited as an outstanding offensive player by Prophet. Hayes had eight catches for the day. The homecoming football game was just one part of the activities held on the Itta Bena campus in celebration of the school's 23rd homecoming.

Dr. E. A. Boykins, MVSU president, crowned Miss Mississippi Valley State University Mary Corbitt during halftime ceremonies. Southern California, which had won three straight Pacific Eight Conferences and played in three consecutive Rose Bowls, was eliminated from the Pac Eight race when it lost to Washington, 8-7.

North Carolina State, which upset Penn State a week ago, had to scramble for a 21-21 tie with Duke Saturday, but the Wolfpack still managed to gain a berth in the Peach Bowl, which will be played in Atlanta on Dec. 31. The Pacific Eight Conference's representative this year in the Rose Bowl will be either Stanford, California or UCLA. Stanford, California meet next Saturday, but UCLA, which has already beaten both schools, can win the title outright if it defeats USC on Nov. 28.

Florida, which a couple of weeks ago had its sights on an Orange Bowl bid, settled for the host spot in the Gator Bowl after routing Kentucky, 48-7. ertown tate romps Pitt, Florida, ISC State accept post-season bids 1) r-fW' Iff BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI)-Mississippi State tailback Walter Packer ran 85 yards for a touchdown early in the game and Kinney Jordan kicked a conference record three field goals to spark a 16-6 upset over Southeastern Conference rival Louisiana State Saturday. The run by Packer made the swift junior runner the first Mississippi State player to rush more than 2,000 career yards. Jordan's three field goals, from 27, 28- and 33 yards, all set up by LSU turnovers, gave him 13 for the season to tie a conference record held by several players.

LSU scored its only touchdown three minutes into the third quarter on a two-yard rush by quarterback Pat Lyons. The scoring play was set up by fullback Thad Minaldi who rushed 33 yards to the Bulldog two-yard line. "Freshman Mike Conway missed the extra point attempt. Mississippi State now has a 6-3-1 season record, while the loss left LSU with a 3-7 mark, the most losses in a season for the Tigers since 1956 when they completed the year 3-7. LSU caps off its season next week against Tulane in New Orleans.

Mississippi State will close out the season next Saturday in Jackson against intrastate and SEC rival Ole Miss. By United Press International Notre Dame and Southern California, two of college football's most glamorous names, were eliminated from the major bowl picture for the first time in four year3 Saturday but Florida, North Carolina State and Pittsburgh all landed berths in post-season comprtition. The Irish, who had expected to get a bid to the Cotton Bowl, were upset by Pittsburgh, 34-20, as Tony Dorsett almost single-handedly annihilated them with 303 yards rushing-the most individual yardage ever gained on the ground against Notre Dame. The loss left the Irish with a 7-3 record and out of consideration for one of the four major post-season bowl games for the first time since 1971. By virtue of its victory, Pittsburgh, which boosted its record to 7-3, was invited to play in the Sun Bowl at El Paso, on Dec.

26, and immediately accepted. UPI Teiephoto LSU'STERRY ROBISKIE RUNS INTO STATE DEFENDER MSU's Will Coltharp made the stop for LSU 2-yard loss.