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FOR NO LONGER 'COUSIN' SEMMOLES, ITS DELIRIOUS, IT'S BJCKFORD 1 for A Wife ill ii 1 The Beginning Of Bickford's Bonanza By EDWIN POPE Times-Miami Herald Service GAINESVILLE Two ties were played here yesterday on the blood-and-emot ion-swept heart of Florida Field, and Florida State University won them both. The Seminolcs stole the football and the play from Florida's 13Vi-point-favored Gators for a 3-3 tie that maintained a two-year touchdown drought in this brief but bitter series. Then they carted off giant pieces of the goalposts in a late-afternoon delirium that erupted into half-a-hundred fist-fights. The teeth left there more than made up for the lack of touchdowns. No one swinger came out of the post-game pugilism as a clean knockout victor, but there was precious lit- tie doubt as to the individual champion of the football game.

That was Roy Bickford, the Miami Archbishop Curley offensive washout who turned to defense in desperation and killed off the Gators yesterday with three of the biggest plays the sellout crowd of 41,200 will ever see. It was simple enough on the scoreboard. Florida State took a 3-0 lead after 5:48 on John Harlee's 29-yard field goal. Florida came back for 3-3 with 3:23 remaining in the first half on Billy Cash's 28-yard boot. Just as Cash was the man who whipped the Seminolcs, 3-0, on a 35-yard fielder a year ago, Bickford was the big daddy yesterday.

He used a brand-new align mid AP Wirephoto JUBILANT OVER MORAL VICTORY FSU students tear up goal posts SPORTS SECTION Sunday, October 1961 iHpetfrabunj Stones ment to block Don Ringgold first-quarter punt and set up Mar-ley's field goal. Bickford next intercepted a Larry Libertore pass at the State 14 early in the second quarter to brake a 36-yard Florida thrust. And he picked off a fourth-quarter Bobby Dodd pitch when the Gators were stuffing their muzzle for a dying offensive shot. BICKFORD was an easy choice as the Most Valuable Player. However, he was not the whole show for FSU.

Altogether the fire-eyed Seminoles forced three Florida fumbles and, while failing to generate any great of- AS TECH SHOCKS RICE 24-0 5 v54 I BICKFORD (FSU) omum yyims Statistics wis 17 on Florida Stat Florida First Downs IS Rushing Yardage 10 19i Passing Yardage 26 95 Passes 415 (-15 Passes Intercepted By 2 Punts 5 32 5 Fumbles Lost 3 0 Yards Penalized 15 4 ATLANTA (P) Stubby Stan Gann passed, ran and faked Rice into a state of utter futility yesterday as he directed Georgia Tech to a shocking 24-0 football rout of the nationally ranked Owls. The Tech quarterback, having his finest day in two seasons Statistics hurled passes good tor 54 yards in the first scoring drive and tal lied the touchdown on a five-yard burst through befuddled Rice de Rica Ga. Tech. First Downs 11 II Rushing Yardaqa 110 139 Passing Yardage 711 Passes $-17 13-23 Passes Intercepted By 1 1 Punts Fumbles Lost 0 1 Yards Penalized 35 fenders. He shrugged off a crippling penalty in the second quar ter and guided the Yellow Jackets to another score, and he ran and Times Photos by Jack Ramsdtll and Johnnie Evans FSU'S KOY BICKFORD BEGINS HIS HERCULEAN HOUR OF HEROICS IN FIRST PERIOD passed for most of the yardage as Tech poured it on for a third touchdown and a 21-0 halftime fensive specialist regains possession on Florida 17.

Then, after Gators hold (see photo bottom of page) lead. as he blocks punt attempt by Florida's Don Ringgold on Gator 48 yard line and (sequence below) picks up loose ball. Ringgold's tackle loosens ball but the irrepressible Seminole de Football Scores FULLBACK MIKE McNAMES, a punishing runner and blocker, scored the second touchdown, and halfback Chick Graning the third. Sophomore Billy Lothridge kicked a 35-yard field goal in the fourth quarter, his third of the season. Rice, ranked No.

7 nationally in fensive themselves, at least kept Florida from its copyrighted ball-control tactic. That the Seminoles were outgained 291 yards to 108 was the afternoon's most insignificant statistic unless you consider Florida's 15 first downs to FSU's five. First downs aren't touchdowns, the Gators learned in gloom. This was the fourth game between the two schools and the first time State has emerged with so much as a tie. It was achieved on second effort, but the Seminoles defense was first all the way.

FSU linebackers and halfbacks took Florida's young and indecisive forwards apart about like Clemson had. Living by the sword of opponents' errors for two seasons now, Florida died by it yesterday. Besides their more obvious errors, the Gators blew two touchdowns when Russ Brown and Bob Hoover misjudged in-the-clear passes from Libertore. The heralded duel between Libertore and his lilliputian counterpart, Eddie Feely, was mostly academic. Libertore got 31 yards in 11 runs, Feely 23 in nine.

Libertore passed for only 24 yards, hitting three out of eight, while Feely was four for 10, for 28 yards. But Libertore committed three expensive fumbles. And, while Feely was unspectacular, he played a large part in FSU's possession game. The first heart -stopping episode of what Florida Coach Ray Graves later likened to "a death in the family" came with Ring-gold back to punt from his 43. (See FSU, Page S-C) the Associated Press poll and a 16-3 conqueror of LSU in the sea son opener, took a bad beating from Tech's massive line, and the Owls were never a threat.

They moved to the Tech 23 in the third quarter but stalled when Tech broke up two passes. RICE, WITH No. 2 quarterback Randall Kerbow at the throttle, marched deep into Tech territory against Yellow Jacket third stringers in the fourth quarter. When the Owls got to the 15, however, Coach Bobby Dodd sent his regulars in and they stopped the drive at the three. Kerbow's running and his passes to halfback Butch Blum sparked the drive.

Rice SOUTH Florida Florida State 3 (tie) Duke 43, Virginia 0 Georgie Tech 24, Rice 0 Vanderbilt 21, Georgia 0 Maryland 24, Clemson 21 North Carolina 27, North Carolina State 22 Auburn 24, Tennessee 21 Johnson Smith U. Virginia Union 0 Randolph-Macon Guilford 4 Morris Brown 21, Tennessee State I Kentucky State 40, Knoxville 0 Louisville 32, Marshall 7 Hampden-Sydney 51, Bridge-water (Va) 7 Delaware State 22, Hampton Institute I Virginia Stale 49, Howard (D.C.) 12 Dillard 22, Alabama State 0 North Carolina A I 32, Shaw University 0 Howard (Ala) 44, Georgetown (Ky) i Claflln 14, Bluefield (W.Va) 14 (tie) EAST Syracuse 29, West Virginia 14 Pennsylvania 14, Lalayette 7 Army 31, Boston U. 7 Baylor 16, Pittsburgh 11 Yale 18, Connecticut 0 Navy 44, William a Mary Dartmouth 2B, New Hampshire 3 Columbia 50, Brown 0 Villanova 20, Holy Cross i Cornell 34, Colgate 0 Lehigh 22, Harvard 17 Rutgers 16, Princeton 13 Massachusetts 21, American International 12 Coast Guard 28, Vermont 8 Maine 22, Rhode Island 20 Juniata 13, Gettysburg 0 Hofstra 20, Lycoming 7 Trinity (Conn) 8, Williams 6 Westminster (Pa) 19, Indiana (Pi) State 7 Wagner 34, Haverford 6 St. Lawrence 26, RPI 0 Penn Military in, Western Maryland I Colby 13, Bridgeport Maine Maritime Academy 26, Quonset NAS 6 Swarthmore 26, Dickinson 18 Lebanon Valley 17, Drexel Susquehanna 28, Urslnus 6 Northeastern (Mass) 24, Norwich 1 Rochester 24, Hamilton 14 Ithaca 19, Hobart Bates 20, Union Alfred 20, Brookport 0 Slippery Rock (Pa) Stale 34, Edinboro (Pa) State 6 Trenton Central Conn. Glenvilla (W, Va) 20, Concord (W.

Va) 14 Norfolk (Va) State 22, West Vlriftia State 7 Kutztown 7, Millersvllle 0 (See SCORES, Page 2-C) 0 0 0 7 14 0 0 3-24 Ga. Tech Tech Gann 5 run (Lothridge kick) Tech McNames 2 run (Lothridge kick) Tech Graning 1 run (Lothridge kick) Tech FG Lothridge 35. Attendance 43,502. End Of Gator Hopes Graves: 'Like A Death In Family GAINESVILLE Florida's football dressing room yesterday was not like a funeral parlor because the low, growling words the players exchanged 1 would not be used in the presence of the dead. Still "It's like a death in the family," said Coach Ray Graves, crestfallen as he has never been since he moved here from Georgia Tech to start last season.

"I think we may be two touchdowns better than Florida State. But I think we were lucky to get a tie today. You don't give the ball away seven times and not get beat," he said softly. Presumably he meant four fumbles lost, two pass interceptions and a blocked punt. "I guess Florida State was playing way over its head," ventured a reporter.

Graves bridled. "Do you mean they were playing better than they can play?" He challenged. "You know they can play that well. You saw them, didn't you?" The Seminoles had given their ends one assignment: "Get Larry Libertore." They turned the outside responsibility over to the linebackers. Seemingly, they managed to prevent the long pass, the short pass, the wide play and the straight-ahead play.

"Yes," agreed Graves, "we were not expecting that type of defense and they did it very well. We had not seen them rush the kicker the way they rushed to block that punt." (Florida State Coach Bill Peterson had already revealed that these defenses were specifically for Florida. Will the shock of this tie make or break the Gators? "I said it was like a death in the family," said the coach. "I mean, we'll be 'way down for a couple of days. About Tuesday, somebody will start thinking about Tulane and this will all be forgotten.

That's the wonderful thing about these youngsters." You did not find a Gator coach who would say his play- (See GRAVES, Page 2-C) I Sim wmf ft W. STAR JOHN HARLLEE BOOTS FSU FIELD GOAL to earn moral victory. (For more on Bickford's day, see Tage 5-C.) i.