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llllll Fancy Turns To JC Football look into the football issue in his campaign bag and won the student government presidency. Football on the junior college level in Florida has been a dead issue ever since the state Board of Education issued a regulation in 1957 stating: "No program of intercollegiate football shall be conducted by any junior college." A football plan was submitted to the state Junior College Board 18 months By AL LEVINE Miami Newt Sport Writer The question of football has come up so often at Miami-Dade Junior College over the last eight years that Demie Mainieri, the North Campus athletic director, has had a prepared statement on the subject mimeographed. A copy is available for any inquiring student The question has become such a fall tradition at Dade North and lately at Dade South, too that a student politician last April included a promise to ago by Fred B. Hartnett, a Coral Gables insurance agent and vice-chairman of the seven-man panel. A motion was made to alter the Board's policy but died because of lack of support.

Every fall, however, a new group of students questions the omission of football on campus. Always, the movement fails. Regulations, you know. And now comes Dennis Apple, sort of a Danny the Red among junior college football aspirants. He's leading a student Continued on Page 2C, Col.

3 INSIDE STORY RSH1NO FORiCAST The Miami News Mangrove snapper are biting around Elliot Key. Live shrimp and cut mullet are the best baits. Bruce Fleischer? Just call him Sweet Lips. Jeff Klin-kenberg has the story on Page 5C. Section Wednesday, September 25, 1968 ITT jgft JOHN CRITTENDEN Sports Editor "i Eldridge Dickey: Quarterback'To-Be "A pro football team is not a democracy, it' a dictatorship." Al Davis Oakland's defending American Football League champions opened their regular season on national television at Buffalo.

The score was 34-6 in the fourth quarter when John Rauch, the Raider coach, finally tucked Daryle Lamonica away for the day. On came a sub quarterback. It was surprise! George Blanda. Blanda's first pass was to another surprise! Eldridge Dickey. Right about then, I could picture Negroes all over America turning off their television sets.

Every Negro football fan in the country should know who Dickey is. So should anybody else who really follows i' .1 11 Tr lt.are nnnr lurincv hie lact turn 4r' Milton Plays Concentration KnaKHwsawsssjs luuiudil. rui twu yviuo is college seasons, Dickey has been hailed as the Sl man who was coins to break the color line at it quarterback in pro football. 11 A41 0 if 1 There have been other Negro pro quarterbacks, but their experiences have been brief. There was a guy named Willie Thrower and others Sandy Stephens, Hank Washington, Charlie Brackens.

Many Negro college quarterbacks have been shifted to other positions in the nros Willie Wood, a Southern Cal quarter- (Ocala) fans want to see me at running back but I'm too small. I'm sure I can do a good job at flanker, though." Early in the fourth quarter against Oakland, head coach George Wilson looked back to his bench and motioned to Milton. "I was really surprised," he said. "I thought 'well, I've finally got a chance to and I was happy." He went in at flanker, caught one pass for 11 yards from Bob Griese in He series which Larry Csonka capped by scoring from the two. In the next series, Griese overthrew him once, underthrew him the second time.

The latter was intercepted and turned into a touchdown. In the game-ending series, with Kim Hammond at quarterback, Milton caught one pass for 21 yards, 1 And the overall performance, not bad for a raw free agent, has turned him into up," he said. "I dropped a bunch of passes and couldn't do anything right. I knew I wasn't playing the kind of ball I could play. "Finally I just sat myself down and said 'look, either start concentrating on football or pack up' and that's what 1 did.

I was really scared every cut day, thought. I just kr.eyr it was going to be me." Milton's specialty experience, returning punts and kickoffs, was limited to just a few games at his freshman and sophomore seasons. When the Dolphins asked him to haul in a few punts, he called again on concentration. "When I first started returning, all I could think about were those hundreds of heavy feet clonYping at me as I watched the football come down. Then, once I told myself to start concentrating on catching the ball.

Now, 1 don't even think about the men coming at me." But Milton thinks about playing other positions, flanker principally. "I really feel I can play flanker for the Dolphins," he said. "A lot of my home-town should be good if I feel as good as I did last Saturday night." Against Oakland last weekend, the Florida free agent returned six for 204 yards. His longest was for 74 yards and he knows he could have gone all the way with that one. "I relaxed too soon," he explained.

"I didn't see anyone coming up on me so 1 sort of relaxed. Those fakes took a lot out of me. Then this guy hit me blindside. If I had gone all the way full speed, I'm sure I would have made it." Milton is not cocky. Quiet, almost to a point of being bashful, he has turned concentration into confidence.

Milton, who runs the 100 in 9.3, came into camp with his eye on a job at flanker. He had started three years with the Rattlers' at that position and had been one cf the big reasons why suddenly turned from a running attack to passing. It was during his first season there that the Rattlers gained more yardage through the air than on the ground, setting a "But I got down here and got shook By JIM HUBER Miami News Sports Writer Speedy Duncan, Noland Smith, George Atkinson, Dickie Post, Warren McVea. The American Football League's finest at the subtle art of returning kickoffs, right? Not this season. Try Bobby Neff and Gene Milton on for size.

The zippy Dolphin twosome lead the AFL in that catagory, Neff with two returns for 121 yards and Milton with a six for 204 yards. A match which should be something to behold will take place Saturday night when the Dolphins take on Kansas City and "Super Gnat" Noland Smith. Gene Milton is looking forward to it with an air of quiet confidence. Look in his eyes and you get that feeling he knows who will win the race. "It should be some kind of meeting between Noland and me, huh?" said Milton after yesterday's practice.

"That is, it Continued on Page 2C, Col. 6 DICKEY back, now Green Bay's free safety, is the prime example. But Dickey was going to be the first to get a real chance. He was Oakland's first pick in the 1968 draft. He had 74 touchdown passes and completed 60 per cent of his throws at Tennessee State.

Swift, 6-2, 200 pounds, all the physical qualifications. "Dickey's purpose in life," said his college coach, "is to prove that a Negro can be a successful pro quarterback." RAIDERS FEEL TEAM COMES FIRST And Blanda that's the part that really rubs. George is in his 18th year of pro ball, he doesn't even want to play quarterback and yet there he was out in front of Dickey. "Daryle Lamonica and I have the perfect relationship for first and second team quarterbacks," Blanda has said. "Daryle wants to play and I don't." All right, then, what's Eldridge Dickey doing out there catching passes? "Not getting into Robespierre and all those guys," said Al Davis, Oakland's managing general partner and policymaker, "but a pro football team is not a democracy it's a dictatorship.

The organization reserves the right to play a man where he will make the greatest contribution. "Dickey will play quarterback," said Davis, promise in his voice. "He has great potential as a quarterback. I'm even more convinced of that now than I was before our training camp began. But we're dedicated to winning the championship and that's more important right now.

If Dickey doesn't play quarterback in two or three "years, then it will be an issue." So Eldridge Dickey is a receiver this year. Before the season this was before Warren Wells established himself as such an outstanding long-ball catcher the Raiders needed outside receivers with speed. Dickey fit. So that's where the Raiders are using him, and that's where they plan to continue to use him for the rest of the season. The only practice he gets at quarterback is throwing around a few passes after practice.

I have to admire the Raiders for their nervy stand. And it takes some nerve. Oakland, home of the Black Panthers, has a large Negro population and there were lots of pre-season rumbles about what was going to happen if Dickey didn't get his chance immediately as a quarterback. There were people in the AFL who thought Davis had led with his chin by making Dickey his No. 1 draft.

I was jarred when Oakland didn't use him at quarterback in that opening runaway what better opportunity? But after listening to Davis' arguments, I am convinced that the Raiders are doing what they think is best for the club. And Dickey is part of it. "We never lied to him," said Davis. "He knew all along what we had in mind for this year. We have a complex offense, a complete offense, and it is going to take time for anybody to learn it Dickey will get more exposure as a receiver this year than he would have as a quarterback.

And learning the pass routes will help him." Oakland has another quarterback, Alabama rookie Ken Stabler, on the injured reserve list, and still another veteran Cotton Davidson, on the inactive list. If Lamonica gets hurt, and then Blanda, Oakland would go with Davidson not Dickey because the Raiders feel they need a veteran quarterback to contend for the championship. Oakland hasn't tried to evade the issue. Dickey was given jersey number 10. That's a quarterback's number.

It sticks out like a sore thumb on the bench or among the receivers. Before it's all over, Davis and the Raiders expect Dickey to be just as much of a stickout among the quarterbacks. Miami News Photo by Richard Gardn Flanker Jack Clancy, Out For The Season, Watches Wistfully As Teammates Work Out AL LEVINE Abbott Gives U-M Defense Something To Talk About By STEVE HARVEY Special To Tha Miami Nttwt Lcuir iana Tech, which plr.ys i the Siatcs Conference, defeated a team from the Southeastern Conference Saturday. No one is quite sure the last time this happened. However, football scientists report that their records only extend back as far es 1SC4 when Tom Jefferson went shopping and bought Louisiana and a few thousand other acres.

But the selectors couldn't let Mississippi State's 20-13 loss go unnoticed and so yesterday they elevated the perennial Southeastern doormat to No. 1 among the poorest major college football teams in the A stunned Maryland, which had been no. 1 for two weeks, was dropped to second, although losing to Florida State, 24-14. Pittsburgh, which finished No. 7 in the bottom ten last year and No.

4 in 1966, was neglected for the first two weeks of the season. Saturday, Pitt lost to UCLA, 63-7. And yesterday, selectors voted it into the Bottom Ten at No. 5. There wasn't a dry eye in the place.

The bottom of the barrel: Miss. State (0-1) Maryland (0-1) New Mexico (0-2) Columbia (0-0) Pittsburgh (0-1) Brown (0-0) Pennsylvania (0-0) Wisconsin (0-1) LAST LOSS Louisiana Tech, 13-20 FSU, 14-24 UTEP, 15-44 Idle UCLA, 7-63 Idle Idle Arizona State, 7-55 Nebraska, 0-31 Idle NEXT LOSS Auburn Syracuse Arizona Lafayette W. Virginia Rhode Island Bucknell Washington Oregon State Texas ture. This year they should have more of an attack." Abbott is the non-board surfing Califor-nian who transferred into a first-string job last spring from Fullerton Junior College and who opened his senior year with an interception against Nrorthwestern last week. "I had my hands on the ball three other times," he said, "and one should have been a sure interception.

But Dick Sorensen knocked a man into me and he knocked my right elbow down." Bob may not be seeing too many passes this season because he's switched from the right side of the backfield to the left, behind 6-9 Ted Henricks. "Not very many are going to take the chance throwing over Ted when they can throw over Tony Cline, who is 6-3." But he feels better on the left. "Because I'm a stronger blocker with my right arm," Abbott said. Bob is playing alongside some new people this fall but he says this defense could be better than last year's superb model. "We have a chance to be the best defense in the country," he said.

"With the material we have, certainly." 4- Some talker, this Abbott 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Hodges Hospitalized With Chest Pains Bob Abbott doesn't whistle while he works. He talks. Constantly. At University of Miami football practices, Bob's a regular motor-mouth in the defensive backfield. Dave Olivo will complete a pass and Abbott will stand there, acting like an official, yelling "interference." Ray Bellamy will show Abbott a fine move and Bob will compliment him in the course of going after the ball.

"And also when Ray makes a mistake," Abbott said. "Ill tell him something he can do to beat the defensive man. All the talk, it's just a game the offense plays with the defense. It's fun and games out here. We're not out to kill each other." "He has a gift of gab," said Ottis Moo-ney, who coaches Miami's defensive secondary.

"He has poise. He's a leader." Abbott is sharpening his dangling conversation for a Saturday confrontation with Georgia Tech's John Sias, the best pass receiver the Yellow Jackets have ever had. Bob remembers Sias from last year's U-M 49-7 runaway, but vaguely. "I think he only caught about three passes," Abbott said, "but that could be misleading. Last vear we had them on the run.

We were playing the pass mostly and gfving them the middle. Like I say, it wasn't a true pic I L. jp Utah (0-1) 10 Tulane (0-1) least four days for examination. After rays and a cardiogram had been performed the cause of the pain had not been determined. "There was no evidence of a coronary nor of a blood clot, but some kind of changes were taking place," said the radiologist who ex-a i the' 44-year-old Hodges, The Aiiociited Prea ATLANTA Manager Gil Hodges of the New York Mets was listed in satisfactory condition today at a hospital where he was taken after complaining of chest pains during last nights game between the Mets and Atlanta Bravef He will remain Crawford W.

Long Hospital at The other guys: 11. North Carolina (01); 12. Colorado State (1-1); 13. Kansas State (1-0) (Well they beat Colorado State); 14. Iowa State (1-1); 15.

Virginia (0-1); 16. Oregon (0-1); 17. Oklahoma State (0-1); 18. Illinois (0-1); 19. Northwestern (0-1); 20.

Washington State (1-0) (look up who they beat). Crummy Game of the Week: None in particular, just a lot of mediocre on. Rout of the Week: Maryland (No. 2) at Syracuse. BOB ABBOTT.