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mm vim 1 7 Football In ury Fatal To Ex-Miamian TEH never left the hospital. "His condition just got gradually worse," said a hospital spokesman. He said the couple has two 14 months and four years of age. Doctors at the hospital said Hepburn suffered a brief heart stoppage after the pileup and also a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. Hepburn had been a counselor at Boys Town since his graduation and was employed as a security guard at the school.

The 6-foot-4, 195-pound Hepburn played college football at Nebraska, Kansas and Omaha. He had a tryout with the AFL Denver Broncos, but was cut. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. "He was inspired by the Movie 'Boys Town and he wrote to see if he could get in," his sister, Mrs. Vernette Hepburn Brown said from Chicago.

"He said he 'wanted to make something of myself." Hepburn was knocked unconscious in a second-quarter pileup during his team's 20-17 overtime victory over the Michigan Arrows. He was taken to Martin Place East Hospital in suburban Madison Heights where he fell into a coma that night. Ironically Hepburn, who organized the Mustangs five years ago, said he would never quit playing football until he was carried off the field. His wife Carol Ann, who attended Saturday's game, Compiled Miami Newi Press Services DETROIT Glen Hepburn, a 30-year-old former Miamian, died early this morning of injuries sustained in a Continental Professional Football League game Saturday. Hepburn, one of 11 parent-less children, attended Dunbar Elementary School and Booker T.

Washington Jr. High School in Miami until 1951, when he went to Boys Town. 14 GLEN HEPBURN By STEVE HARVEY Maryland, which went winless for the first time in 75 years last season and nade it look easy, has been ranked No. 1 among the nation's most inept football teams in the 1968 pre-season Bottom 10. The Terps scored a total of 46 points last season, the fewest of any major team.

Football scientists, noting that the school has some promising sophomore runners, predict with some assurance, however, that the Terps will make a touchdown before October. Last year's champion, New Mexico, which may be nearly mediocre this season, was rated only No. 3 by fearful selectors. As always in the early fall, there are question marks. Can Maryland withstand the pressure of a team heading for two straight winless seasons? Can New Mexico descend to last year's depths? What is the chief export of Uruguay? These are the questions that may be answered in the next 13 weeks.

This year's picks, with the finishes of 1967 and 1966: INSIDE STORY The Miami News The line on the University of Miami's offensive line? Al Le-vine has the story on Page 4D. Section Thursday, September 12, 1968 '67 Finish '66 Finish 71 Host To Rich est LPGA Tourney mmi 2 8 14 1 5 3 1 4 7 9 2 11 '68 Picks 1. Maryland 2. Columbia 3. New Mexico 5.

Kansas State 6. Mississippi State 7. Brown 8. Baylor 9. Colorado State 10.

Wake Forest 15 of the Jackie Gleason Show. The tournament will be played on the Country Club of Miami's East course, a par-72 layout. The $200,000 National Airlines Open, a new men's tournament, is scheduled on the By JIM HUBER Miami News Sports Writer The richest tournament on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour will be held at Country Club of Miami next Jan. 16-19. The purse for the 54-hole Burdine's Invitational Tour Country Club of Miami's West course on Mar.

26-29. A major effort is being made, through Sports Network, to-make this the first nationally televised LPGA tournament, said Gene Le-Beuf, of the Country Club of Miami public relations staff. ceeds, it was announced. Advance season tickets are $8 until after Dec. 25, when the price will be raised to $10.

Single day tickets are $3. A celebrity pro-am, with men and women players, will be held before the tournament, hosted by June Taylor, start a trend toward higher prize money for the LPGA tour," said Lenny Wertz, tour director. "I can foresee a $50,000 tournament here in the near future." The Heart Association of Greater Miami will receive a portion of the ticket pro nament, expected to have a field of 36 lady pros and 36 amateurs, will be $35,000, it was announced today. The largest purse on the 1968 women's tour was a $28,000 payoff at the Concord (N.Y.) Invitational. "I definitely think this will Crummy Game of Week: Colorado State at New Mexico (No.

3). Rout of the Week: Tulane (No. 20) at Houston. lilllllllllllli IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM 4 i 11 1 1 he Red Shoes I are we JOHN CRITTENDEN Sports Editor cat iu 1 fM rr4Wfy Rundown on Georgia-Tennessee Game Page 31). The shoes were red-and-white, low cuts, soft, kangeroo leather, size 9A.

"Scatback shoes is what they were," said Karl Kremser. Two days after the 1968 Orange Bowl, Karl took the shoes back to the Tennessee equipment manager. "I never want to see them again," Kremser said. The shoes were a symbol of something to Karl Kremser, 21, soccer-style place-kicker who won two football games for Tennessee with regular season field goals, then missed a 43-yarder with 14 seconds left in the game as the Volunteers lost the Orange Bowl to Oklahoma, 26-24. "Maybe I was impressed with myself, wearing shoes like that," Karl said today on the telephone from Knoxville, where Tennessee opens against Georgia in Saturday's nationally televised college football opener.

"Wearing those shoes was the wrong thing to do," said Kremser. "It was the first flashy thing I've ever done. It wasn't like me, you understand. Maybe I was getting swell-headed. Maybe if I had made that field goal you would have a hard time talking to me." Kremser's Orange Bowl misfire produced a most emotional locker room scene.

When Karl sat down in front of his locker, a line of people, including Coach Doug Dickey and Dr. Andrew Holt, Tennessee president, waited to console him. Kremser thinks his red-and-white shoes other day," he said. "I'll have a chance to kick before all those people who saw me miss the last one. I'm lucky.

When a lineman makes a mistake gets a chance to strike right back. But when a kicker misses one, he usually has to bide his time. I'm getting a chance to snap right back." The 43-yarder amountec. to a close-in shot for Kremser, who had made a 47-yarder during the regular season and two 42's. He" kicked 10 of 15 field goals during the 1967 schedule most of the ones I missed were over and made 27 consecutive extra-point conversions at the end of the year.

"Everybody thought I was automatic from 43 yards," said Karl, "but that's not exactly true. Up to 35, I could hit it reguiarily, but in the 40 to 50-yard area, there's some luck involved." Karl didn't rush back to Knoxville and hurry out to the practice field, to assure himself that he could hit from 43 yards. "I didn't kick again until spring practice," he said. "In fact, I went right out on the road with the track team as soon as I got back to school. It took my mind off football." In late January and early February, Tennessee's track team went to New York, Louisville and Kansas City.

Kremser welcomed the chance to travel, and talk about something else besides football. Karl came to Tennessee as a high-jumper, not a football player. This spring he won the Southeastern Conference Continued On Page 4D, Col. 4 which he wore for the first and last time in the Orange Bowl were a violation of the one-for-all, all-for-one Tennessee ethic. "We had come so far since losing to UCLA in the first game of the season," he said today.

"The team had so much unity. It was so bad to lose what we had done in the last few seconds." "You're going to be the nest kicker in the country next year," Dickey told Kremser in the Orange Bowl dressing room. "We wouldn't take $1,000,000 for you, son," said Dr. Holt, patting Karl's shoulder. Tears were flowing a'l over.

Late that night, a Tennessee newspaperman, returning to the team's Miami Beach hotel, found Kremser sitting in the lobby, his chin on his chest. It was 4 a.m. "I couldn't sleep much," said Karl. Kremser has a rare opportunity. The Orange Bowl was last season's final college game, and his muffed kick it went wide was virtually the last play.

Now he comes in on national TV the first college game of 1968. "I thought of that for the first time just the ONE OF HIS BRIGHTER M03IENTS UKremser Kicks 1967 Goal Against Vandy Get Pi nstripes i jsT New Respectability mm mm hitting. As a team, the Yanks are batting a miserable .214. "We did have a .211," says Bob Fishel, the team's public relations agent. "But we've really been banging the ball lately.

We're up to .214 now." If the Yankees finish the season at that level, it will be the lowest team average in New York history. Last year's was .225 and holds the distinction. "What's with the Yankees?" Fishel answered. "I'll tell you. It's Ralph Houk.

That guy's just done one helluva job. Take some of these maneuvers. He moved Tom Tresh to shortstop and put Roy White in left. With Tresh in the infield, we're much, much tighter than before. And White's doing a great job in the outfield.

"White's been remarkable. We used to call him 'Cement Hands' but now Houk says White is the best left-fielder he's ever had anywhere. "Jake Gibbs Is doing a steady job as our catcher. Not flashy but very dependable. And Frank Fernandez, Jake's backup man, has had only 18 hits but 14 of them were RBIs and 12 were for extra bases.

"And Bill Robinson has suddenly come to life. He's got his average up to .244, the highest he's ever had." And, although the total average is extremely low, the Yankees have hit 99 home runs. One more and they'll have their 23rd consecutive 100-home-run season. "There's really not much difference between winning and losing," said Houk. "I think a lot of clubs have found that out this season.

Just add one or two good players to any team and they can come out a winner." Houk's got the clippings to prove it. mmmtiSmSmtmitm iir flrtrirfatniiaiiitiiiiiff atslngi in-v--iiihiriini--Ttimi1iMitTsMniiriiiniMiiiiiir minur minimi iJ Unique Yaz Out Al Home inning, it would have been a different story. But he didn't. A's Pitcher Jim Nash tags him out after Carl had been caught in a rundown between third and home on a grounder hit by Jerry Adair. -Associated Press Wirephoto Carl Yastrzemski had four hits against Oakland last night to become the only man in the American League batting .300 but it didn't keep the Red Sox from losing a 3-2 decision in 12 innings.

If Carl had been able to score on this play in the ninth By JIM HUBER Miami News Sports Writer A crowd of reporters huddled around the Stick's locker. It certainly wasn't because of his .194 batting average. The Stick New York Yankee utility infielder Gene Michael had just pitched his first game since 1962. "Now I can say I pitched in Yankee Stadium," he. laughed.

"They hit some real good pitches pitcher's pitches." He stopped, looked from side to side and smiled widely- "I once heard Don Drysdale say that." Michael joined outfielder Rocky Colavito that day as members of the Fun City's most well-rounded bullpen. It is a bullpen which has helped take the Yankees, last year's ninth-place team, into the first division with eyes on third place. They've won 25 of their last 35 games, including one 8-3 road-trip, and today are only two games behind the third place Red Sox. The emergence of the pin stripe as a solid team again, after three years of deathly famine, cannot be blamed solely on Gene Michael. After all, his three-inning stint against the Angels last week only proved one thing that he's a better infielder.

He gave up five runs in the 10-2 loss. But the bullpen, of which Michael and Colavito are honorary guests, can take most of the credit. "My relievers have turned things around this year where earlier they cost us games," says Ralph Houk, the soft-spoken manager of the Yankees. "Lindy McDaniel has been a real lift for us. He won two games on that road trip and saved three more.

"Then there's Dooley Womack, who's come back from a bad start. It's kind of gone unnoticed with McDaniel, but in his last 10 or 12 outings, Dooley's only had one bad one. "Course, when you get good stuff from guys like Colavito and Michael, you know you're living right." McDaniel is a good case in point. Since the Yankees picked him up from San Francisco in a straight trade for Bill Monbouquette in mid-July, Lindy has won three, lost one, saved eight in 19 games. He is now three-for-four, with a 1.40 earned-run average.

He's given up 26 hits in 45 innings and has struck out 39 in that space. Since McDaniel's arrival, the rest of the relievers have perked up. Steve Hamilton, who had been suffering through a miserable season, suddenly gained form and has now saved 10 games, picking up a 2-1 record. On August 11, the New York Yankees were nine games below .500, their lowest all season. They beat the Twins that day and since then, they've won 25 of 35 and are now six games over .500.

For the first time all season, they are over .500 at home (38-37) and have a 38-33 road record. They've won six doubleheaders, split 13, lost only two and won one-half of one, tied the other in a 19-inning, lights-out affair. The sudden sur, toward prominence must be charged to the pitching staff. Certainly, it can't be the Yankees' EAST KENTUCKY ECCENTRIC Overall, Frecl Is A Legend -SiSjp 5 cept on game days. It's the home of the defending NCAA Mideast small-college champs and Troike, who's had an all-Ohio Valley Conference time the last two years protecting his former Southwest teammate, quarterback Jim Guice.

"It's not really a country school," Fred says. "But when my friends heard I was coming here they began calling me hillbilly. I was riding around South Miami one day and I saw a western wear shop and decided that I ought to report in overalls and a cowboy hat. Felt I'd fit in better. "The overalls have since disappeared but everyone keeps a close watch on the hat." The hat has become the Colonels' good luck charm.

"I wear it to the game and Mrs. Bill Shannon, the wife of our line coach, wears it during the game," Troike says. "This will be our third season with this ritual and it hasn't failed too often." The hat's record is 15-4-2. People kid Troike about his sleeping habits but nothing Continued on Page 2D, Col. By AL LEVTNE Miami News Sports Writer When Fred Troike graduates, the folks at Eastern Kentucky University are going to honor him in their own little way.

"We're going to retire," says Coach Roy Kidd, "Fred's cowboy hat." "I guess it's become something of a tradition at the school," says Troike, the senior guard from Southwest High whose bib overalls, sleeping habits and asbtract paintings already are legend at little Eastern. A 220-pound lineman who shows up for practice shirtless, wearing bib overalls and a ridiculous hat would be a dropout anyplace but Eastern, where the bluegrass meets the Cumberlands and the post-game song couldn't be anything but Cabin On the Hill. It's located in Madison County, largest beef cattle-raising county east of the Mississippi, whf re sometimes it's hard to tell the football players from thu farmers, ex Fred Troike He Fits In Fine.