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The Odessa American from Odessa, Texas • 17

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The Odessa! American SECTION OUTDOORS 6B BOWLING RESULTS 7B FINE ARTS 9B Sunday, October 28, 1973 137 ip.I?08 am mm www www Kaiaers win, ji-m Ponies Losing Snap Skein li vvau mtw LiiVJ isitffflles MMStfsnnisis LUBBOCK, Tex. (AP) -Senior Texas Tech quarterback Joe Barnes baffled Southern Methodist with his whirlwind runs and deadeye passing Saturday to give the 18th-ranked Red Raiders a 31-14 Southwest Conference victory. The 5-11, 200-pound Barnes picked the Mustangs clean with his handling of the option play and gained 173 yards in 23 carries. Barnes scored one touchdown on a one-yard run and passed five yards, to tight end Andre Tillman for another. Freshman Tech tailback LarryIsaac scored on runs of six, and three yards as the homecoming crowd of 45,098 roared approval in Jones Stadium.

Tech is now 6-1 for the year and 2-1 in SWC play. SMU is 4-2 and 1-1 in SWC action. After trailing 21-0 at halftime, SMU's Alvin Maxson scored twice on runs of three yards each as the Mustang offense belatedly cranked up. Barnes rushed for 151 yards in the first half. SMU had allowed an average of only 148 yards per game going into the contest.

i-jf Saturday night. Wayne Thompson (33) provides the blocking. Andrews defeated Ector, 14-7. (Staff Photo by Eugene Porter) RIGHT SWEEP COMING UP Ector quarterback Joe Carl McQueen (12) hands off to Charles Walker (21) who heads around right side against Andrews E3H3S Big Lmie BY JOHN LAIRD American Sports Writer Andrews' Steve Duffy, who had gained only 36 yards in two games prior to Saturday night, rushed for 109 yards in the first half and Ector's offense stumbled lover itself with four turnovers in the second half as the Mustangs pulled out a 14-7 victory at W.T. Barrett Stadium.

Duffy finished with 155 yards on 32 carries, leading the Ponies infantry that stacked up 199 yards against 2-3A's second best defensive crew. The triumph snapped Andrews' four-game losing streak. Coach Tommy Watkins' squad now stands 1-3 in 2-3A piay and 3-5 for the season. Ector was all but mathematically eliminated from the district championship race by its second loss in three league outings. The Odessans stand 5-2 for the season.

The Eagles coughed up the football three times on fumbles and twice on interceptions. Four of those five turnovers came in the second half when the Eagles lost a 7-6 lead and could not mount any momentum in their comeback effort. In all. Andrews outclassed Ector 270-206 in total offense as Mustang quarterback Jimmy Christian passed for 51 yards and reserve pilot Jamie Mosley tossed once for 20 steps. Duffy was appearing in only his third game after suffering a shoulder separation in the Lamesa scrimmage.

Wayne Thompson had his best game of the year for Ector, rushing for 66 yards in only nine carries. "They wanted the game worse than we did," said Ector coach Ralph Johnson, who was critical of the officiating. "They beat the devil out of us and I have nothing more to Andrews unleashed Duffy in the first half and it was obvious that the newest addition to the Mustang stable was to spearhead the offense until an injury forced him out of the game with 5:27 left in the fourth period. The visitors drove to the Ector 10-yard line on their first possession, but Charles Walker's interception killed that drive. Later in the opening period, Andrews drove 52 yards in only four plays for the first score of the game.

Duffy carried on all four plays, including a 39-yard sweep of right end and an eight-yard blast over right tackle for the touchdown. The conversion kick was wide right. Ector put together its only impressive drive of the night in the second quarter, moving 79 yards in 14 plays. Charles Walker picked up 14 yards on one play. On the best play of the series, quarterback Joe Carl Vy ViJ Tech struck for three touchdowns in the second quarter as Sun Bowl and Liberty Bowl scouts looked on.

Barnes nailed Tillman with a touchdown pass at 11:21 and less than three minutes later Isaac zipped six yards for another touchdown. Tech reached into its bag of tricks to set up its third touchdown. Barnes rifled a lateral to Lawrence Williams who whipped a 50-yard strike to Tillman, who was tackled on the Mustang five. Barnes squeezed across for the touchdown on fourth down. Barnes was superb on each and every one of Tech's touchdown drives, providing key plays in each instance.

The Barnes-led offense rolled up 452 yards against the Mustangs while SMU -the second leading rushing team in the nation -managed only 339 yards total. Barnes completed six of 13 passes for 56 yards. With his effort, Barnes passed the career offensive total held by former Tech quarterback Tom Wilson, who is now the offensive coordinator rushing through the first seven minutes of the contest. Ironically enough the man whose record was broken by was watching intently from the pressbox. And rooting for the youngster.

Really the record-holder coudn't lose. Tech assistant coach Tom Wilson held the record for his work in the mid-1960's. But he is now the receivers and quarterbacks mentor, which means the teacher must fall into the "practice what I preach" category. When Barnes was first approached in the dressing room, he grinned at a question about the record and noted, "Yeah, I was just kidding coach Wilson about it." His day's work brought him to a total of 3,048 yards of offense in the Tech career. Raider head man Jim Carlen was not overly expansive in his assessment of the offensive show.

"Joe Barnes had another fine football game," was his understatement. In the same vein, the coach also noted, "In the first half we should have scored more points, I thought." In a manner that could explain why Barnes did not carry more in the second half to reach the 200-yard rushing plateau, Carlen said, "You've got to be real careful with Joe. He gets tired and then gets hurt." There were a few anxious moments with the homecoming crowd of 45,098 in the first quarter when Barnes went to Srae hom Mi Rice player boycott after receiver Edwin Collins was kicked, off the squad Monday, but inly Collins was missing at ame time. It was the second consecutive stellar rushing performance by Leaks, a 218-pound junior who now has 402 yards rushing in two games. Leaks ran for 209 yards and three touchdowns last Saturday against Arkansas following a squad meeting at which Leaks said he rededi-cated himself to do better.

His yardage against Rice came on 29 carries, all pow-erful rushes between tackles. The blocked punt, fumble recoveries by Texas Doug English and Greg Dahlberg and a pass interception by linebacker Glen Gaspard set up four Long-horn scores. Alabama Hits Virginia Tech TUSCALOOSA, (AP) -Second-ranked Alabama's awesome wishbone attack set a total offense record Saturday night by rolling up 828 yards while overwhelming Virginia -Tech 77-6. The Crimson Tide eclipsed the previous record of 798 yards set by Vanderbilt against Davidson in 1969. Alabama's rushing yardage of 743 surpassed the National Collegiate Athletic Association record of 711 by Oklahoma against Kansas State two years ago.

Akins rushed for by yards and completed five of six passes for 55 yards. Kramer connected in nine of 19 for 103 yards for Rice. Texas scored in quick bursts once it cranked up its offense. It moved 41 yards in 1:14, 28 yards in 39 seconds, 60 yards in i 08 and 51 yards in 3:53. The Longhorns' most impressive drive was for 80 yards after the second half kickoff.

Texas controlled the ball for over 11 minutes in the third period as it pulled away from the Owls. Rice's last chance to close on Texas came just before the half when it drove to the Longhorn 17. But Alan Pringle's 33-yard field goal attempt was wide to the left. The Owls' final touchdown came on a short pass to freshman Ardie Segars, who bounced off a Texas defender and ran into the end zone to complete a 25-yard TD play. Rice Texas Rice (Pring 7 0 0 6-13 7 13 14 21-55 from Kramer Lofton 13 pass Tex-Tex-Tex- kick) kick) failed) Tex- Bennett 5 run (Schott kick) Leaks 25 run (kick failed) -Alford 5 pass from Akins (Schott -Leaks 6 run (Schott kick) Alford 3 pass from Akins (Schott Presley 12 run (Schott kick) -Segars 25 pass from Reed (run Drat I C-hntt I.J.-I 1 Tcx-A-62 Presley 1 run (Schott kick) Rlct 16 35142 144 0 13-30-1 6-30 4-4 Tu 28 75-385 103 41 7-8-0 2-39 5-2 9-99 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards McQueen hit James Guyton with a pass.

Guyton cut to he inside, then lateraled to Thompson who roared down the sideline for 24 yards to the 15. On a third-and-goal at the 10-yard line, McQueen lofted a pass to James Taylor, who made a fine grab over the shoulder two yards deep in the end zone. Ralph Ramos' conversion kick gave Ector a 7-6 lead with 3:45 left in the first half. Andrews came driving back with a series that went from its own 39 to the Ector nine. On third down, Ector defender Andy Bustos shared an aerial with two Mustangs and the trio fell to the ground at the goal line.

It was ruled an interception and Ector took aver at its own one-yard line with 19 seconds left in the second period. Johnny Lee Green, Ector senior, highlighted Ector's third-period defensive play by sacking Christian three times. But, Green later suffered a shoulder separation and was taken to Medical Center Hospital. The severity of the injury was not known Saturday night. Christian and Duffy engineered a 77-yard drive in 10 plays in the third quarter for the winning touchdown.

The key play was turned in by Jamie Mosley, reserve punter filling in for injured David McCaskill. On a fourth-and-10 situation near midfield, Mosley stood in punt formation, but lofted a 20-yard pass to Mark Armstrong. On the next play, Brian Arnold broke up the middle and got loose in the left side of the Ector secondary, dashing into paydirt with 44 seconds left in the third period. Mosley then faked as the holder for the PAT and tossed a two-point pass to Charles Fritz. Jwice in the second half, poor exchanges from the quarterbacks to the running backs resulted in fumbles lost, and Mosley punted down to the Ector 12-yard line twice in the fourth period.

Gerald Galloway recovered a fumble and interceptions were turned in by Mitchell Sawyer and Morris Roberts in the final quarter. In next week's schedule, Ector will travel to Monahans while Andrews will be at home against league-leading Pecos. THE STATISTICS Ector Andrews FIRSTDOWNS 14 NET YDS RUSHING 93 NET YDS. PASSING 113 PASSES ATTEMTPED 29 PASSES COMPLETED 10 PASSES INTERC. BY 2 FUMBLES LOST 3 PUNTS-AVG.

4-36-2 14 199 71 11 5 2 2 7-343 4-48 PENALTIES-YDS. 5-47 SCORE BY QUARTERS Ector 0 7 0 0-7 Andrews 6 0 8 014 SCORING SUMMARY A Ouffy, 8 run (Kirk failed) Taylor 10 pass from McQueen (Ramos kick) A Greggs, 24 run (Friti pass from Mosley) State in a Lone Star Conference football game. The victory keeps ACC in a first-place tie with Howard Payne, both teams with 6-0 conference marks. Montgomery opened the scoring in the first quarter on a five-yard run. He later scored on jaunts of one and six yards.

Clint Longley, the leading passer and offense leader in the NAIA, passed 20 yards to Richard Williams for ACC's other touchdown. Longley completed 12 of 29 passes for 205 yards as ACC managed 456 total yards. Tarleton Stops Texas 34-33 STEPHENVILLE, Tex. (AP) Watson Wright scored on a 44-yard pass play and Johnny Weaver kicked the extra point here Saturday to give the Tarleton State University Texans a 34-33 come-from-behind victory over Texas in a Lone Star Conference game. The victory broke a 14-game losing streak by the Texans.

The Texans were trailing with eight minutes left in the game when quarterback Mike Perry hit Wright for the winning touchdown. Weaver scored two touchdowns and Clarence Alberts had three touchdowns for Both teams now have identical 1-6 records for the season and are 1-5 in conference. for the Red Raiders. Maxson's second touchdown brought the Mustangs to within 28-14 but the Red Raiders salted the game away with a long fourth quarter drive, climaxed by Don Grimes' 24-yard field goal. Isaac, a 5-11, 185-pounder from Lubbock Estacado who isn't even listed on Tech's two-deep chart, rushed 11 times for 98 yards.

SMU was plauged with errors by freshman quarterback Ricky Wesson, starting his first game in place of injured senior signal-caller Keith Bobo who suffered separated ribs against Rice last week. Southern Mithod'tt TK3 Tch Tech Tillman 5 pass 0 0 7 7-14 0 21 0 10-31 from Barnes (Grimes kick) Tech-Isaac 6 run (Grimes kick) Tech-Barnes 1 run (Grimes kick) SMU-Maxson 3 run (Hackney kick) Tech Isaac 3 run (Grimes kick) SMU-Maxson 3 run (Hackney kick) Tech FG Grimes 24 A 45,098 SMU 16 54-233 106 0 6-11-0 8-3? 6-1 Ttxas T. 20 60-356 106 11 7-15-0 5-39 4-3 5-64 First downs Rushes-yards Fassing yards Return yards Passes Pun is Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards the bench. This hardened iust after the mark was broken. Carlen said Barnes had just had the breath knocked out of him.

The quarterback was out for only two plays. While the Tech Barnes basks in the spotlight of his performance, his younger brother, Monte, a split end for the Reagan County Owls and the leading receiver in District 7-2A, wandered around the dressing room greeting the Red Raiders and awaiting the chance to get a word in with his relative. SMU coach Dave Smith was impressed. "We didn't expecl Barnes to run quite as much as he did. He really gave us a lot of trouble! in the first half.

You've really got to give him a great deal of credit," There was a lot of speculation about Tech going to the Liberty Bowl or the Sun Bowl because representatives from both spectaculars were on hand. Carlen wasn't commenting. Meanwhile Barnes answered a similar query with, "I think we'll be in the Cotton Bowl." And a guy who isn't an average "ol' Joe" is entitled to his opinion. UCLA Slugs Bears LOS ANGELES (AP) -UCLA turned California mistakes into quick touchdowns, including a 100-yard run with an intercepted pass by Jimmy Allen, and the 13th-ranked Bruins romped over the Bears 61-21 Saturday. touchdown and the first of Bob Thomas' three field goals came after short punts by Southern Cal's James Lucas.

The first was partially blocked by Tim Rudnick and traveled only 15 yards, going out of bounds at the Trojans' 28. Five plays later, Thomas booted a 32-yarder and Notre Dame led 3-0 with 7:52 gone. Thomas' second three-pointer, a 33-yarder, narrowed thorn PqI'g lpaH tn 7-6 at 9:34 of the second period. It was the soccer-style kicker's trit. cphnnl record, and came after the Irish had controlled the ball for more than six minutes in marching from their 41 to the Southern Cal 16.

By KEN BRODNAX American Sports Writer LUBBOCK The Texas Tech quarterback is not what you call your average "good ol' Joe." The moniker is correct, but, after Saturday afternoon, the Southern Methodist Mustangs will not concur that Joe Barnes, who just happened to nuture his various gridiron talents at a Permian Basin oil town called Big Lake, was old or simply good. All JoJo, as he was affectionately known in his high school days, did was to rush for 1 TO r- CC citnnc. nnA ydiua, fjdaa iui jt oicpo auu surpass the Tech school record for total offense. Barnes, a sandy-haired West Texan, might as well have been wearing a jersey with a big red on it and dress in a phone booth as far as the Ponies were concerned as he led his Red Raiders to a 31-14 triumph. It didn't take Barnes long to break the school record once he got started Saturday.

He needed 103 yards of total offense going into the tilt to top the old mark of 2,902 yards. The quarterback destroyed the SMU forward wall with his keeper on the option in the first quarter and. with 5:16 left in the initial period, he ran what he called the QB counter for 32 yards to break the record. Was the Reagan County High School product thinking of the mark? Hardly. "Statistics really don't count unless you win games," he pointed out in dressing room after the tilt.

7 He explained the game plan. "We had to get the ball outside. The defensive end was taking the pitch and leaving the opening for me." Barnes utilized the opportunities to good advantage and had garnered 112 yards AUSTIN, Tex. "API-Fullback Roosevelt Leaks burst through Rice's defense for 193 yards and quarterback Marty Akins lofted two short touchdown passes as Texas whipped the Owls 55 to 13 tonight to leave the Longhorns undefeated in Southwest Conference play. Rice led 7-0 and had a chance to pin Texas deep in its own territory, but Jay Arnold blocked an Owl punt to trigger the Longhorns touchdown avalanche.

Texas grabbed a 20-7 half-time lead and the subs played the fourth quarter as the Longhorns pushed their SWC-leading record to 3-0. After freshman" quarterback Tommy Kramer of Rice pitched a 13-yard scoring pass to Ed Lofton in the first quarter, Texas tied it on Lonnie Bennett's five-yard dash. The score was set up by Arnold, who blocked Mike Landrum's punt, and Doug English recovered for the Longhorns on the Rice 41. Leaks bolted 25 yards after a Rice fumble at its 28 for Texas' second score and Akins tossed a five-yard pass to tight end Parker Alford for the third touchdown. It was Texas' first TD pass of the season, and Akins repeated in the third quarter by flipping a three-yarder to Alford.

Leaks also scored from the six and sub quarterback Mike Presley speeded 12, five and one yards for late Longhorn touchdowns. There had been rumors of a www IT" L. l1'' Abilene Christian Rips Angelo State INSIDE SPORTS TODAY High School Fooiball, Page 2B More SWC Football, Page 3B Professional Football, Page 4B nrn-irii" mmm ySCTrojsins SAN ANGELO, Tex. (AP) -Freshman Wilbert Montgomery raced for 165 yards and three touchdowns Saturday night to lead Abilene Christian College to a 27-0 victory over Angelo How The AP's Top 20 Fared Every member of the Associated FVess top 20 was in action Saturday. Here are the results: 1.

Ohio State breezed by Northwestern, 60-0 i 2. Alabama outmanned VPl, 77-6 3 Ok'ahoma blasted Kansas State, 56-U 4. Michigan mauled Minnesota, 34-7 Pern State devoured West Virginia, 62-14 6 USC lost to Notre Dame, 14-23 7. Missouri went under Colorado, 13-17 8 Notre Dame bested USC, 23-14 9. LSU outlasted South Carolina, 33-29' 10 Nebraska tied Oklahoma State, 17-17 11.

Arizona State met Oregon State in a late West Coast aame 12. Houston fell to Auburn, 0-7 u. ULLA slapped California, 61-21 14. Tennessee topped TCU, 39-7 15. Tulane wrecked Georgia Tech, 23-14 16.

Miami, Ohio took Toldeo, 16-0 17. Kansas edged Iowa State, 22-20 18. Texas Tech tortured SMU, 31-14 19. Texas picked Rice's Owls, 55-13 20. Richmond was upset 8-14 by N.E.

Louisiana Kentucky Upsets Georgia By 12-7 ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Sonny Collins, leading rusher in the Southeastern Conference, exploded ior 155 yards Saturday as Kentucky posted a 12-7 upset victory over the Georgia Bulldogs. It was the second straight defeat for Georgia at the hands of teams picked to finish near the cellar of the SEC. nullified a one-yard sweep late in the first quarter by boutnem Cal's Anthony Davis, who destroyed Notre Dame last year with a six-touchdown outburst. It was the first defeat for sixth-ranked USC after five victories and a tie this season and snapped the nation's longest unbeaten string at 23 games-21 triumphs and two ties.

In defeating their traditional rival for the first time since their national championship year of 1966 after four setbacks and two draws, Notre Dame staked its own claim for a No. 1 ranking before its 47th straight sellout crowd of 59,075 and a regional television audience which included most of the country. Notre Dame's go-ahead SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)' -Unbeaten Notre Dame avenged six years of football frustration by Southern California with a 3V4-minute touchdown march in the second quarter and Eric Penick's sudden 85-yard scoring burst in the third period en route to a 23-14 victory over the Trojans Saturday. The setback virtually ended Southern California's dream of a second straight national college football title.

The touchdown that put Notre Dame ahead to stay came with just 30 seconds left in the half on a fourth down sneak of less than a yard by Tom Clements. It gave the eighth-ranked Fighting Irish a 13-7 lead and TEXAS RUNNER CAINS YARDAGE Leaks (46) Runs By Owls.

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