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Can Florida St. Hold Damn Houston Po in Mach ine: vr i Bill Yeoman has a reputation as the kind of mar-h i who lets you know exactly where he stands. Where, then, does he stand after crunching Tulsa, 100-6, last Saturday? "I'll discuss anything you Yeoman says, "except that. I'll talk about Florida State or I'll talk about the weather or I'll talk about our team. But I don't feel like talking about that." 4- Completely understandable.

Instead of basking in the glory of putting together a 100-point offense, Yeoman has been fending off attackers right and left. He's a regular musketeer in sweat socks, this Yeoman, out sword-fighting his critics. The Houston Chronicle ran an editorial giving Yeoman the rap. It talked of poor sportsmanship, and what a cross it will be for Houston to bear through the ages. Well, that's much bull.

If 100-6 is a cross for Houston, i Tulsa coach, he should contact Sam Bailey, who was Tampa's coach last year. Tulsa whipped Tampa, 77-0. This might not be as bad as 100-6, but 77-0 is not exactly calling off the dogs. Maybe coach Dobbs got something of what has been coming to him. Besides, a healthy Tulsa is nothing to trifle with.

Before Saturday's disaster in the Astrodome, Tulsa had whipped Houston four out of five. "Bill," said an acquaintance, "was about fed up after he lost last year. He left promising he'd get back at Tulsa when Houston caught them in the Astrodome this year." A man who keeps promises in such spectacular fashion, certainly is a man to study carefully at arm's length, of "Look," said Yeoman, capitulating completely, "I did not enjoy the game at all. Let's put it that way. Beating Tulsa the way we did was not an enjoyable experience for me.

The game was not pleasant." He sounds like he lost. He should check with Tulsa. In honesty, Yeoman did his best to hold down the score. He vfor Lauderdale jsews ui Nov. 28, 1968 ID NEWS SPORTS EDITOR played all 53 men on his squad, and he played all of them a lot.

"Hell," he says, "the gruesome part about it is that my second and third teams far outscored my first team." Perhaps this was because Houston ran up 43 points in the final quarter? "That had something to do with it," Yeoman said. Still, the anti-100 clubbers weren't satisfied. Several editorialists, the majority probably from Oklahoma, suggested Yeoman could have played men out of position to hold down (Continued on Page 2D, Col. 1) imagine what it is for Tulsa's Hurricanes. They got the six.

"Anyway," said Yeoman, violating his self-imposed silence, "I understand the person who wrote that editorial is a secondstring society writer. No kidding. He must have been. It doesn't make any difference. I don't have time to worry about that.

It's all in the past." Before anybody sheds crocodile tears for Glenn Dobbs, the 1 ON THE SIDELINES, OR ON THE FIELD, GRIESE IS MASTER OF SITUATION I I fs rUr lr r. Hr. i 4 ft' -Wj 1 A vHf I A 3 (Staff photos by Lou Toman) Griese Concentrates, Rolls Out Behind Miami Line, And Receives Congratulations For Job Well Done ins Profit From Griese's Work- Dolph 1 i I I I I I I i 4 I I I By ANS DILLEY (Sports Staff Writer) When Robert Allen Griese saunters aboard one of the Miami Dolphin charter aircraft for road games, he is simply another young American going to work. It is the same scene repeated in millions of homes throughout America. A quick cup of coffee, a too-hurried farewell with wife, Judy, a last-second peek at brand new son, Robert (age two months), and off to the airport.

This is where the similarity with most American businessmen stops. Rather than heading for the hustle of Wall Street to be engulfed in the endless struggle between the Bulls and the Bears, Bob Griese takes his struggle to the football field. Rather than engage in the profit-and-loss struggle of a manufacturing concern, Bob Griese engages in the fashioning of forward passes and his most important product is the deft delivery of a football to a teammate downfield. Rather than dabbling in the profit-and-loss of real estate, Bob Griese measures his profit in yards on a football field yards which are sometimes paid for with toil, and sweat, and pain and sometimes with injuries. Bob Griese's office is a tiny cubicle carpeted with grass and enclosed by the hulking walls of his own offensive linemen.

Sometimes the containment is poor and a wall caves in. When it does Bob Griese heads out the back door or the side door or even out a "window" if today with an amazing display of cool not generally found in a man only 24. Unfortunately, Griese's performance against the Irish came at a point in the season when the Gator drums out of the University of Florida had already designated one Steve Spurrier as the recipient of the Heisman Trophy. Griese came in second but there has been no comparison with their professional careers. Griese rises to weekly stardom while Spurrier languishes on the 49er bench where no one may ever really know if he is or isn't a pro quarterback.

Last weekend was a case in point to prove that Bob Giriese is a pro quarterback with capital P-R-O. He continued doing what he has done all season and, for that matter, most of last season. He erased the ten-point deficit staring at him from the Boston scoreboard and moved his team back into closer contention a tie a lead, and eventually to victory, 34-10. He did it by completing 19 of 33 passes for 264 yards and three touchdowns. In his business, touchdowns are the margin of profit.

To this profit he added some real estate holdings amounting to 128 yards (including 30 yards he bought himself when his walls crumbled in). Altogether he bought 391 yards of Boston real estate short and sold it long, for his "company's" fourth major gain in 11 "investments" this season. Once, against a concern from Buffalo, he broke even. Griese's philosophy for his future and that of his team is really quite simple. "I simply want to make a living, save some money and raise a family," he says.

As far as the Dolphins are concerned he says, "We're a young team and are bound to do some things wrong. I hold no bitterness against our defense as long as I know that they are trying. The same goes for our offense. If they are not trying I'd be disappointed in them and in my position as quarterback would sure let them know about it and I have on occasion. "No, I do not favor the pass over the run, or vice versa.

My feeling is to seek balance in an attack. I'd prefer to run 20 times and throw 20 times. "Yes, I'll take help from any source the spotters, the bench, the players on the field, but I want the privilege of overruling the advice in deference to something I may have detected on the field that they may not know." This weekend Bob Griese will go on a business trip into the heart of the Bull and Bear country, New York City, and will face an adversary named Joe Namath. The Jet quarterback has the best profit and loss record in the AFL's Eastern Division. Namath also has two other things going for him, an arsenal of unbelievable weapons and an advertising department which he himself heads up.

It'll be Bob Griese, the beardless boy from Miami versus Joe Namath, the Svengali of the Jet set, and the denizens of Wall Street will be out 60,000 strong to watch. Anything to keep from being trapped. This is one of the measures of Bob Griese's greatness: His ability to evacuate a crumbling "office" and set up shop farther down-field. He has other measures of greatness which have become firmly established in just 29 regular-season professional football games. His ability to launch 624 passes in two years and have 319 (51 per cent) of them find the mark.

The 4,070 yards which those passes have covered have helped Bob Griese become one of the prime movers of a football team in the professional ranks and he has done it surrounded by an arsenal of dulled weapons. Injury and age have dulled the tools with which Bob Griese must fashion his weekly successes and this, more than any other thing, has enabled him to produce only eight wins as opposed to 12 losses. His stockholders, the fans, have been remarkably patient with these failures, at least insofar -as Griese is concerned. They have chosen instead to heap their verbal blame for overall failure on others. Older men, who by their nomenclature as coaches, are supposed to be impregnable to abuse and susceptible to blame.

It's the old "we gotta hang somebody," game. Griese's rapid rise to fame was not totally unexpected. He blasted into the headlines of America by leading his Purdue Boilermakers, theoretically mismatched, in a win over mighty Notre Dame. He did it then just as he does it 'a. necessary 1 Gaisford Gets Last Shot1 At Hurricanes Saturday! we went to one." i Come December 1969 UNITED FEDERAL WILL BE HOLDING THE BAG FOR YOU! Now's the time to start your 1969 Christmas Savings Plan.

One-two-five or ten dollars weekly will make Christmas '69 a Happy Time. "Belter start now, remember tlwl' your bitC If JV Barry Buries Miami Floridians Try Muscle! Won't Work By JOHN MADDREY (Sports Staff Writer) MIAMI BEACH It had to" happen, like rain eventually follows thunder. For 47 minutes and 33 seconds of Thanksgiving Eve, the Miami Floridians tried to muscle their way past the Oakland Oaks. Then it happened: With 33 seconds left, Rick Barry picked up a loose ball and headed down court. Close behind trailed Dan Sparks, who is beginning to acquire the reputation of the Floridians' hatchetman.

Barry, smooth as silk, laid in one of his 16 field goals of the evening, hit the floor and received a slap on the head from Sparks. Barry, the American Basketball Association's scoring leader, took a swing at Sparks. The punch didn't land. Players interceded. Tempers backed up.

Barry, who also got a foul for his display of temper, stepped to the line and hit his 17th free throw in 17 attempts and Oakland had successfully warded off the Miami chal- (Continued on Page 3D, Col. 5) By JOHN MADDREY (Sports Staff Writer) When Bill Gaisford tore some ligaments in his left knee against Florida State, the doctor told the Florida cornerback from Ft. Lauderdale he might be ready for the Miami game, which is Saturday. "He said he wasn't sure but if I worked hard and everything came along, I could probably play against Miami," said Gaisford. "Or if we went to a bowl, I could definitely play in it." Florida is not going to a bowl, so Gaisford's last chance is against Miami Saturday.

The senior deep back's knee was damaged on the second-half kickoff against FSU in Tallahassee: The doctor operated on it that same night in Gainesville. It was a long plane ride from Tallahassee to, Gainesville for Billy Gaisford. "It was not a very cheerful trip for me," said Gaisford. "But I was glad we beat FSU." The 9-3 victory over Florida State is about all Florida players and coaches like to remember about 1968. Injury after injury has crippled coach Ray Graves' troops.

Instead of a predicted 10-0 or 9-1 season, the Gators are 5-3-1 and sorely in need of a valiant effort against Miami. Gaisford, who has' spent seven weeks in the stands with a big cast on his leg watching the demise of the Gator, considers his knee injury an "occupational hazard." "It's just one of those things that happen," said Gaisford. "You think about it, but you keep saying that it won't hap- Graves, who has heard the lynching mob this season, has reminded his seniors more than once this week that Miami has won three straight against Florida. Billy Gaisford wants to make sure it's not four. "I practiced Saturday and then this week," said Gaisford.

"But I feel like I can play." Gaisford realizes he is taking a chance. But there are no more games for Gaisford after Saturday. "Yes, I know about the chance," he said. "But I can't wait any longer because there is no more time. Coach Graves said I would probably play.

It all depends on the game." Steve Tannen, the All-Southeastern Conference cornerback, has a pulled groin muscle. Gaisford is playing behind Tannen in practice this week, but is capable of filling in anywhere in the secondary. "Steve will start, I'm sure," said Gaisford. "But I'm coming along. I feel like coach is going to play me." Florida has many injuries.

Quarterback Larry Rentz and running back Tom Christian are doubtful. Guard Mac Steen is out definitely, as is substitute quarterback Harold Peacock. Tight end Jim Yar-brough is limping along with guard Guy Dennis, center Kim Helton and split end Guy AIcTheny. "We've got some injuries, but I think we'll be ready to play," said Gaisford. "We're looking forward to it.

I don't think we've given up. "I know we'd like to have a 6-3-1 season. It sure beats 5-4-1, you know." Staff pnoto by Lea Toman) BILLY GAISFORD, BILL SR. WATCH GAME junior wrapped up in Florida comeback MIAMI OFT 16 17 49 Murrell OFT 51 1 17 Hunter 0 12 1 26 1 OAKLAND Barry Moe Harge Armstrong Brown Bradd Eaking Logan Clawson Total 0 7 6 16 2 0 2 10 2 5 0 Hours 9 to 4 9 to 7 Fri. UNITED FEDERAL 1 3 Thoren 3 23 Perry 1 Freeman 5 IS Tohrnton 3 3 Keller 7Sidie 0 (Sparks juries to a senior can cause some soul-searching.

"It really hurt at said "Because I thought we were going to have a great year and I really wanted to be a part of it. I just hoped I could play against Miami and then in a bowl if Walk-Up Teller 8-9 A.M. 4-6 P.M. pen to you. But I just got my feet knocked out from under me on the second-half kickoff, then somebody fell on my knee." Gaisford walked off the field after the game, but 30 minutes later he could not take a step.

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