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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1966 Wn 0mttgamrrg Aftttttttarr PAGE 35 MeyerBcmm Offensive Boss i Claridge Surprise Choice As Falcons Stock Team it msis Mike Fuller of Newport, R.I., captains Army's rifle team. Is Placed a flavor to suit every taste On Youth TUSCALOOSA (AP) Bama football coach Paul Bryant said he is moving Ken Meyer to the head offensive coach position to replace Howard Schnellenberger who resigned to join the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football -League. "I'm not going to hire anyone right now," Bryant said after Schnellenberger's resignation was announced. The head coach said Jimmy Sharpe and Richard Williamson will continue to work with the offense as they have in the past. Meyer had been offensive backfield coach but will be in charge of the overall offense in his new position.

Schnellenberger is leaving Alabama March 1 to become offensive end coach on the new staff being collected by Rams Coach George Allen. PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) Atlanta Falcons came up chart on a blackboard in the witn sucn surprising choices as press room to show how his 23 offensive men and 19 defensive Dennis Claridge, Alex Hawkins, Larry Benz, Bobby Franklin players would shape up. On the offensive side his chart showed Red Mack of Pittsburgh and Hawkins of Baltimore at split end and Bill Martin of Chi cago and Bob Jencks of Wash and Maury Youmans Wednesday as they stocked their new franchise with 42 experienced men from National Football League rosters. Placing the emphasis on youth, Coach Norb Hecker and the Atlanta brass wound up with a team that averages 26.2 years ington at tight end.

Jencks also is a placekicker. JACK The list showed centers Bob Whitlow of Detroit, Frank Mar- HA ATVTR1 LV and had about 8 years' NFL Many were surprised that Lombardi placed Claridge, a 24-vear-old quarterback from Nebraska on the expansion list. Claridge had been drafted No. 3 by the Packers as a future choice In 1963 but had seen little action in regular season games because he played behind Bart Starr and Zeke Bratkowski. "Claridge is my quarterback as of now," said Hecker.

"I have no idea why Lombardi put him on the list. I consider him a great prospect." Lombardi said he took a chance on losing the youngster because he didn't think the Falcons would take a quarterback. The list of players compared favorably with the recent player stocking of the new Miami team by the American Leape. Miami landed 19 men who had been starters. Atlanta got 22 who have held starting jobs in the NFL.

Hecker threw up a depth chlewski of Los Angeles, Dave (See FALCONS, Page 36) playing expenence per man. JlJ JrJLlLl. 1 JLi HecKer saia ne was very much pleased and happy about the selections, three from each HALT EXTRACT HJRE MALT SYRUP H0P FLAVORED OLD BOSS GIVES NORB HECKER BEST WISHES Vince Lombardi (L) Greets New Atlanta Coach SPORTS EDITOR the 14 clubs that operated in 1965. "They made available a fine group of defensive backs and Kar Kare Is Our Business SPECIALIZED Brake Service RUSH STALLINGS 39 Madison Av. defensive linemen," said Heck ler, who was the defensive backfield coach for Coach Vince Lombardi with Green Bay's 1965 champions.

easy to ask your dealer Hot Georgia Jabs Auburn ATHENS, Ga: (AP) Georgia, missing only four field goal shots in the second half, set a new school scoring record Wednesday night enroute to an 83-74 basketball upset over Auburn. Annual Trade -Dim SAL The Bulldogs, placing five The Falcons' Flock Our Atlanta informant wasn't giving any bum steer when he said the Falcons weren't going to get anybody from the other clubs in the NFL. They didn't. However, such a statement has to be made with qualifications. What they didn't get was any big name stars of above-average ability.

It's almost certain the Falcons had some highly publicized veterans of fading talents made available to them who they did not choose. It seems Norb Hecker selected wisely when the Atlanta club chose 42 players from the other 14 NFL members in Palm Beach Wednesday. There are a lot of players on the list who've just been out of college a couple of years and have put in their NFL time on benches, but who are still good prospects with youth on their side. The wire story elsewhere on this page claims 22 of the 42 selected had held starting jobs in the NFL. If so, they must have been the 22 most obscure starters in 'the whole league.

It's hard to recognize many more than 22 names on the list, and many of them only because of their college reputations. So Atlanta now has 94 players from which to select a team that will play to capacity houses in Atlanta Stadium scorers in double figures, hit 17 of 21 field goal tries in the second half. The efforts pushed their shooting percentage to 61.8 on 34 of 55 attempts to better the school record of 60 per cent set against Jacksonville earlier this season. FOR THE BENEFIT OF fords and Jim Youngblood, both with 12, and Jerry Waller and Lee Martin, both with 14. Lee DeFore, leading the SEC in scoring with an average of more than 24 points a game, led the Tigers with 27." i Auburn now is 13-9 over all and 6-7 in the conference; Georgia is 9-10 over-all and 5-7 in the SEC.

Georgia threw up a more ag gressive defense than usual and stole numerous Auburn passes while holding the Tigers to only AUBURN GEORGIA STARTS THURSDAY, FEB. 17 to FEB. 28th 12 12 14 5-5 27 Jeffords 5 21 2-3 10 YoungVd 5 2 3 0-1 4 Waller 5 4-1 1-1 3 Mcintosh 4-4 4-4 14 Martin 4 2-5 14 0-0 2Harscher 0-0 4 04 4Wix 1 1-1 3 DeFore MTgry Quick Howell Buissos Green Millsap Walker Miller Fail-cloth Total! six points during a span of eight minutes, 43 seconds in the first half. During the same time, the Bulldogs tossed in 24 points to emerge with a 17-point lead. Dick Mcintosh led Georgia scoring with 22 points, boosting 4-4 10 Etter 0 04 0 0-0 0 Henry 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 DtiBgim 0 0-0 0 Powell 0 0-0 0 2 14-11 74 Totals 14 15-21 II Auburn 12 4174 Georaia 41 his Southeastern Conference lead in scoring percentage to 58.1 per cent.

Fouled out -Auburn. Quick. Howell. Georgia, none. Total fouls-Auburn 21, Georgia.

17 Attendance 5.176, He was followed by Ray Jef I GIBSON WANTS MORE IF HE'S AMONG BEST St. Louis General Manager Bob Howsam said a few days ago there was no better pitcher in the league last season than Gibson, except perhaps Los Angeles left-hander Sandy Koufax. Gibson said he and the Cardinals were "far off quite a ways" in salary discussions. He said he wouldn't be around when spring training opens Feb. 26 unless the Cardinals loosen their purse strings.

He declined to mention the salary he-wants, but said, "I'm not going to push for anything foolish. Last year, I settled for a raise I deserved, nothing ST. LOUIS (AP) Pitch Bob Gibson says if the St. Louis Cardinals are going to compare him with the best pitchers in the National League he wants to get paid comparable salaries. The hard throwing right-hander, who had a 20-12 record last season, has returned his contract to the Cardinals unsigned twice.

He said Wednesday the contract contained "a nice raise but not the one I wanted under the circumstances. "If Mr. Howsam is going to compare me with the better pitchers, like Koufax, I should be paid accordingly." State Cracks Ole Miss, 90-74 and elsewhere and will get drubbed with monotonous regularity. Pity poor Hecker having to trim that list down to the 40 limit the NFL allows, even though the league has granted some concessions to allow the club more time in selecting its personnel. The Game's Best Taxi Squad Here Atlanta sits with 42 players taken from other league teams.

The other 52 are rookies and free agents they have signed. Already you know that all the 42 won't make the club. Atlanta must have signed at least 10 rookies to no-cut contracts. Randy Johnson, Tommy Nobis and Steve Sloan, for instance, can't be cut. We presume Tommy Tolleson and Charles Casey and Notre Dame's Nick Rassas, to name a few more, have such a clause in their contracts.

The way it winds up is that Atlanta may have the strongest taxi squad ever assembled. A taxi squad, for any who may not know, is the term given to players who are retained by an NFL team but not on the active roster, such as redshirts in college football. It's a shame all those taxi squad members will have to Idle away their time. Maybe the Falcons could enter their taxi team in the AFL. You can't help but wonder if Falcon owner Rankin Smith knew what he was gietting into when he bought an NFL franchise.

He's supposed to have paid $9 million for it. Now he's paying $8 million for the 42 players drafted Wednesday, although it was said that part of that original $9 would go toward paying the other clubs for their players when the new entry was stocked. There's no way to tell how much Smith forked out to sign the college draft choices. He couldn't have been stingy, for the Falcons signed almost every player they drafted. Nobis alone got somehwere in the neighborhood of a half million.

Casey, Sloan and Johnson all got $100,000 or better. One thing is certain. Smith's insurance company must be healthy to have made him that much money. It certainly will, take years to start reaping a reward out of football, even with packed houses every Sunday and TV kicking in about one million per year to each club. -New Club Is Daring You've got to give the new club credit for one thing.

It has been daring from the start. They took a kid quarterback from Texas Ail College no one had heard of outside the Lone Star Conference and made him a first-round draft choice. He is Randy Johnson, of course, who looked like a sure-fire star of the future in the Blue-Gray and Senior Bowl games. Now the Falcons have picked a lot of guys from the ether clubs who are equally unknown. Have you ever heard of Ron Smith, Jim Simon, Bob Whitlow, Tim Powell, Lee Calland, Errol Linden or Roger Anderson? Those were a few that became Atlanta residents Wednesday.

They even took a guy named Bobby Richards who played at LSU. Darned if we can recall a Richards at LSU. We'll not shed tears for the Falcons, though. It was to be expected. They'll build for the future and in years to come will be as good as any, and a football-crazed South will tear down the doors to get to see them play.

The ones we feel sorry for are all the long suffering TV Sunday afternoon football fans. Presumably the Atlanta team's games will be beamed to Southern cities, it being the only Southern team. Previously, the Redskins were the southernmost club, so for years we had to watch them get mauled week after week. You think that was bad. Think how it'll be watching the Falcons every Sunday next fall knowing they have little or no chance to win and most of the time getting trounced.

We may even miss the Redskins a little, particularly that announcer whose most repeated phrase every year was "deep Redskin territory Sliinbaum's Annual Trade-in SALE STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) Troy Postpones T-Day Contest TROY Troy State football coach Billy Atkins announced Wednesday the T-Day game scheduled this Friday for the Red Wave football squad has been postponed Indefinitely. The team has suspended spring training and will resume in April with the T-Day game to be rescheduled at that time. Mississippi State, with six play- ers hitting in double figures, scored a 90-74 Southeastern Con ference basketball victory over Mississippi Wednesday night. FOR THE BENEFIT OF The Salvation Army You save $5.00 to $10.00 on a Suit You help a needy person (and you get a tax deduction, too!) John Sapen, a 6-foot-4 junior forward, paced the Maroons with 25 points and pulled down 15 rebounds.

$5.00 to $10.00 Trade-in Allowance The Maroons shot 52.1 per cent from the field, connecting 00 8500 to 10 Allowance BTW Completes Carver Sweep In 59-54 Win The Booker Washington Yellow Jackets completed a four-game sweep over the Carver Wolverines by taking a 59-54 win Wednesday night in the Wolverine gym before a capacity crowd. The victory gave the Jackets a perfect conference record of 6-0 and dropped Carver's conference mark to 3-3. Carver has completed its reg on 38 of 73 shots, as they scored their eighth victory in 12 conference starts. Over-all Mississippi State is now 12-9. Maroon guard Paul Smith had 15 points, Gary Washington and Herb Biggs each 13, while Dave Williams, the team's leading scorer, popped in 10.

Mississippi now has a 1-11 On any man's wearable suit traded in on any summer or winter suit in stock. OFFERING GREATER THAN PRICE for any wearable men's suit traded in on any winter or summer suit. $7.00 Trade-in Allowance for any wearable sport-coat traded in on any winter or summer Sportcoat in stock. This does not included price Sale Coats. S5.00 to $10.00 Trade-in Allowance: for any wearable topcoat traded in on a new topcoat.

$3.00 Allowance: for any wearable shoes traded in on any winter or summer shoes (except casual shoes) in stock. SEC record and over-all is 4-14. MISSISSIPPI MISS. STATE OFT Wlmn 13-4 7 D. Wlms 5 10 Sale Price $35.00 $40.00 $45.00 $50.00 $55.00 Reg.

Price 69.9S 79.95 89.95 $100.00 $110.00 Trade-In Price $30.00 $35.00 $40.00 $45.00 $50.00 4 1-1 Sapen 11 1-4 25 Wall ular season slate while BTW 4 3-5 15 Crews 0-0 I) has Carver of Columbus, Burhor Dunn Poland Mrtndle Mor an left. 1 4-4 12 Smith 4 2-5 15 1 0-0 2 Wash 4 -4 13 7 4-1 20 Biggs 5 3-4 13 4 1-3 IWaldea 0 2-2 I Payne 5 2-4 :2 17 lt-27 74 Taula 31 14-25 Herbert Carter led BTW with Tela Is Mississippi 17 37 74 Miss. State 4-7 Fouled out Mississippi. Burbora Total fouls-Miss. 20.

Miss. SUM 17 Attendance 4,700 20 points; followed by Willie James with 11. The game was a see-saw affair with the lead changing hands several times. BTW led at the end of all periods, the halftime score being 24-20. BTW 1 5t -Carter 20.

James 11. Vin Auburn Frosli Wrestlers Win TROY The Auburn Freshman wrestling team continued its hex on Troy State's mat- time the Auburn yearlings have beaten Troy, which has yet to lose to anybody else. With the score tied 14-all, Auburn's Ter Bucs, Alex Gty Cop JV Victories Bellinzrath defeated Goodwvn. son Martin 4, Williams 4. Calloway 5, Colvin 2.

CARVER (54-Hunter 13, Gamble 13, Belser 10. Parker 10. Alexander 4 Mc- Dullie 2. Just Say "Charge It!" Pay in March pay in April Team Score: BTW Carver 3. men Wednesday night, winning the final two matches for a 22-14 victory.

was the fourth straight ry Brennan decisioned Troy's Trade-in of $10.00 also applies to balance Sale Suits now priced 10 to 30 off. SALE SUITS NOW PRICED $53.50 to $121.00 $10.00 Trade-in. Imagine getting a GGG Suit for only $111.00. Here's what you do just deposit your old clothing in the special container at Shinbaum's store; the Salvation Army officer or our representative at Shinbaum's during this event will give you a trade-in allowance card to be used any time through February 28. Of course you may donate any old clothes you wish, ties, shirts, women's and children's apparel, etc.

THESE ITEMS ARE CONSIDERED DONATIONS ONLY, AND ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR TRADE-IN ALLOWANCES. They are tax deductible. Valuation of gifts of clothing are the privilege and responsibility of the donor. Linley Hatfield, 3-1, in tne 191- pay in May 56-30, Wednesday afternoon in the junior varsity basketball tournament sponsored by the City Recreation Department at Bellinsrath Communitv Centpr. College Scores pound class for a 17-14 lead and Tiger heavyweight Tim Women Golfers Hold We pinned the Red Wave's bod cusn tor live more pomis.

In the second game, Alex City eliminated Capitol Heights, 41- 123-poond: Learnman A def. lt-4; 130-pound: Tatcbu (A) del. Reese. 38. Thursday's eames: 3:15 44; 137-potind: Hayes (A) def.

Warren. Weekly Play Friday TJiV City Women's Golf Association will, hold weekly play Frida? at the Mont- 2: 145-pound: Rogers def. Bell, Rnntincdon 71, Sewanee 70 Georgia 83. Auburn 74 Florida AIM 127. Alabama State 95 Virginia Tech 47, The Citailel 41 Xavier.

Ohio 12, Marquette ri PjII State 75, Butler 45 Chicago Loyola 77. Dayton 71 taryiand 7'. Virginia 44 Air Force 94. Valparaiso 49 Temple 91, Fordham 74 Villanova 93, St. Bonaventure Toldeo 71.

Bowling Green 44 Indiana State 97, DePauw 90, (nert'me Tampa 79, Georgia State 71 Mississippi Stat 90. Mississippi 74 Floyd vs." Bellingrath; 4:30 1-4; 152-pound: Startles (At pinned Mose-ley; 160-pound: Tomaini (T) def. Bishop, 39 uoverdale vs. Alex City. Consolation game will be played at 6 n.m.

Fridav. followed bv 167-pound: Nichoui (T) def. Tate, 2-0; 177-pound: Waters (T pinned Civ. ins: ltl-pound: Brennan A) def. Hat S.

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