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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Sunday, November 1 1 1 979 Section WIBS Gives Bow! Seoul 77 JMless age Yy Ha 1 i 3r 1 I I I How AFs Top 20 Fared 1 Alabama (9-0-0) def. Louisiana Stale, 3-0. See Page 4D. 2 Nebraska (9 0-0) def. Kansas State, 2112.

See Page 7D. 3 Ohio State (10 0 0) def. Iowa, 34-7. See Page 7D. 4 Southern California (9-0-1) def.

Washington, 24-17. See Page 4D. 5 Houston (8 0 0) played Texas Saturday night. 6 Oklahoma (8-1-0) def. Kansas, 38-0.

See Page 4D. 7 Florida State (9-0-0) def. South Carolina, 27-7. See Page ID. 8 Texas (6-1-0) played Houston Saturday night 9 Arkansas (8-1-0) def.

Baylor, 29-20. See Page4D. 10 Michigan (8-2-0) lost to Purdue, 24-21. See Page6D. 11 Brigham Young (8-0 0) played Long Beach Saturday night.

12 Pittsburgh (810) def. West Virginia, 24-17. See Page 4D. 13 Notre Dame (6-3 0) lost to Tennessee, 40-18. See Page 4D.

14 Purdue (8-2-0) def. Michigan, 24-21. See Page 6D. 15 Washington (7-3-0) lost to Southern California, 21-17. See Page 4D.

16 Auburn (7-2-0) def. Mississippi State, 1 4-3. See Page 4D. 17 Baylor (6-3-0) lost to Arkansas, 29-20. See Page 4D.

18 Clemson (7-2-0) def. North Carolina, 1910. See Page 4D. 19 South Carolina (6-3-0) lost to Florida State, 27-7. See Page ID.

20 Wake Forest (8-2-0) def. By TOM McEWEN Tribune Sports Editor What plenty of the Florida State University affiliation thought might be a pill too bitter for their Seminoles to swalloW was instead little more than a piece of cake. Put simply, the University of South Carolina was no match Saturday night for these ambitious 1979 football Seminoles Coach Bobby Bowden roused to sufficient effectiveness and fury to put away the Gamecocks 27-7. It just may have been the best overall FSU production, this ninth straight win that rushes the Seminoles ever-closer to the rapture of an undefeated season and a bid to either the Orange, Cotton or Sugar Bowls, preferably, the Orange or Cotton. They are heavy in the running for all.

They are very much in the running for the national championship. Only Memphis State and Florida stand in the way now of the perfect season and neither has the credentials of the Carolina team FSU handled with such polish Saturday night i before a record Tallahassee homecoming crowd of 49,490. The word is the Orange Bowl's preferences, in order, are (1) Alabama, (2) FSU and (3) Arkansas. All, of course, depends on whether Alabama must return to the Sugar Bowl as Southeastern Conference champion. The FSU match Saturday was unfair, for it pitted an entire team against one Carolina runner George Rogers.

He was virtually everything offensively for the Gamecocks and in defeat this mighty player broke clear for an 80-yard touchdown run to close the early FSU lead of 13-0 to 13-7 and gained 186 yards in all on 21 carries. But against him Bowden used a Wally Woodham-directed team in the first half and it produced 16 points for a 16-7 halftime spread, and a Jimmy Jor-dan-quarterbacked team in the second for the putaway 11. Yet, foremost hero on the field of- fensively probably wasn't Jordan or Woodham or running backs Mark Lyles and Mike Whiting, who had marvelous nights, but tiny (5-foot-9, 140 pounds) FSU placekicker Davey Cappelen. He hit on field goals of 19, 27, 29 and 50-plus, but not in that order, for his 50-yarder came just before the half to give the Seminoles a less uneasy 16-7. He also kicked an extra point for a 13-point contribution in the 27-point Seminole total.

Lyles dove a yard for the first touchdown and Jordan hit tight end Sam Childers for a 7-yard fourth quarter score that made it 24-7 and in the FSU ice box. The gala was spoiled somewhat at the game's end when an unidentified man even his school preference was unknown black-eyed Carolina Coach Jim Carlen and also struck the Gamecock team doctor. He was cuffed and led away by police. But, Carlen made no reference to it after the incident, instead saying, "I am a voter for the United Press in the ratings. I have been voting FSU sixth.

I will move them up." He said his pass defense let him down (FSU passed for 214 yards and one touchdown) and that "Ron Simmons (FSU noseguard) seemed to know which way we were going. The pitch is our best play and it was not effective." FSU Coach Bobby Bowden was a bit cautious despite the lopsided and it was lopsided victory. He agreed that the fourth quarter 75-yard touchdown drive Jordan led, one capped by the pass to Childers, put the game away. It made the score 24-7. "That did it for us," said Bowden.

"That gave us nine wins. I thought at the beginning of the season we had a chance go 9-0, but was sure worried about this one. I guess I don't have any guts. I'll be worried next week too," against Memphis State, here. See FSU, Page 9D for extra yardage as he's hit by South pass.

Tribune Photo by Jim Caiella I I l. I Jt '1 -3 I 1 -s Florida State's Jackie Flowers battles Scott after catching a Wally Woodham fij "3 Hi 1 1- i '4 it 1 v. Iff; I 4'' i 1 I 11 ill I 4 Duke, 17-14. See Page4D. Rattler Regain Winning Touch Page 8D Gators Grave interceptions and I don't know why we fumbled.

I keep telling you, 'you can't win if you don't have an SEC-caliber Junior Larry Ochab shouldered the quarterbacking responsibilities and while he did account for most of Florida's offensive output 16-of-29 for 160 yards and a 13-yard TD pass to Chris Faulkner he did suffer four interceptions. He and the Gators also suffered from fumbles by running backs Terry Williams and John Whittaker!" Pell, who saw his team fall to 0-7-1, said the Gators' game plan was to throw the football and as it turned out that was an understatement. While Ochab accounted for 160 yards passing, the rushing attack accounted for only a net 26 yards on 36 carries. Freshman Derald, Williams was the Gators' leading rusher with just 27 yards on eight carries. Meanwhile, Georgia, now 5-0 in the SEC, produced 264 total yards offense, running for 194 and getting another 70 in the air.

The Bulldogs, who scored six of the first seven times they had the ball, got two field goals, 48 and 28 yards, by Rex Robinson, a 7-yard touchdown run by Carnie Norris and three TD passes from sophomore quarterback Buck Delue. Belue (5-of-9, 70 yards) threw scoring passes of 6 yards to tight end Car-mon Prince, 40 yards to wideout Lindsay Scott and 3 yards to flanker Norris Brown. Other than the Ochab-to-Faulkner TD pass, Florida's only score came on a 47 -yard field goal by Brian Clark at the end of the first half. See GATORS, Page 8D gia Wins Carolina's Wade As Geor By MICK ELLIOTT Tribune Sports Writer JACKSONVILLE The University of Georgia may have supplied the shovel, but the Florida Gators dug their own grave Saturday. And they dug it deep, right smack in the middle of Jacksonville's Gator Bowl in front of 68,148 witnesses.

It was death for the Gators, by their own hemlock, victims of their own hand, ft was a fumbling, stumbling effort that served up a 33-10 victory for Georgia and left the Bulldogs only a victory over Auburn next week away from at least a Southeastern Conference co-championship and a Sugar Bowl bid. But if the Sugar Bowl is even the slightest bit concerned about the lack of glitter in Georgia's 5-4 record, they can take heart after Saturday, for Florida made the Bulldogs look like world-beaters. Serving up six turnovers two fumbles and four pass interceptions the Gators were the best thing that could have happened to the Bulldog offense. Georgia enjoyed its finest offensive performance pointwise of the year by getting possession at the Florida 38, 31, 36, its own 48 and 24 and finally at the Florida 20 in the first half when UG scored all 33 points, then coasted home, never looking back. "I was convinced we were prepared for the game," said Florida Coach Charley Pell after his team kept him winless as a Gator.

"I'm still convinced we were prepared for the game. We just weren't prepared to fumble or throw interceptions. It's pretty nice when you only have to go 35 yards for a touchdown. "But, no, I don't know why we threw Bumbling Dig Own Bucs Hope To Escape Tlie Spoiler Radio: WDAE (1250), 12:45 13), lp.m. ByJIMSELMAN Assistant Sports Editor PONTIAC, Mich.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will not be living in the lap of luxury today despite the Detroit Lions' 1-9 record. The Bucs lost their position of luxury when they were beaten 17-14 at Atlanta last week and the Chicago Bears pulled to within two games of them in the NFC Central Division. A combination Tampa Bay defeat and Chicago win over Los Angeles the Rams will have rookie Jeff Rutledge at quarterback will move the Bears to within one game of the Bucs. "All we have to do is beat Detroit, Minnesota and Chicago and nobody else can win the division," Coach John McKay points out. "But we've got to beat Detroit.

It's that simple and if our players don't understand that, they're foolish. "We could have beaten Atlanta. But our Detroit game would still be more important because it is a division game." The Lions will play Minnesota and Chicago in their following games and could play a spoiler's role in the division. More importantly, says Coach" Monte Clark said, the Lions are. "looking for a win." That's the setting for today's 1 o'clock game at the Silverdome.

The 7-3 Buccaneers are four-point favorites. They opened the season with a 31-16 win over the Lions at Tampa Stadium, Sept. 1. But the Buccaneers have played poorly in their two Silver-dome appearances. In fact, their 34-23 loss to the Lions here last year was probably the Bucs' worst performance since the expansion days until the 42-14 New Orleans debacle this year.

The point is the Bucs are capable of playing miserably enough to lose today. They also have the capacity to blow the Lions out. McKay wonders if he inadvertently gave the Lions a little more motivation a couple of weeks ago when he commented about the division race and didn't include the Lions among those with a chance to win. He said people in Detroit were angry with him. "Somebody asked me about the division race," he said.

"At the time, Detroit was 1-7. The way I figured it they could win the rest of their games and finish 9-7 and I don't think 9-7 can win it (the division). I don't mean to be disrespectful. Detroit can beat anybody in the league." McKay believes 10-6 will win the division and that's the minimum of the Bucs would be if they win their remaining three division games. They are 5-0 in the division.

For the first time since early in the season, Tampa Bay will have a change ia its offensive lineup. McKay has be- 1 Georgia's Lindsay Scott (24), with the help of a strong block, takes off on the way to a 40-yard Bulldog touchdown. Tribune Photo by Britt Laughlin A Perfect Setting For A Perfect Game, Almost The Morning After Tom McEwen Sports Editor I "We'll get a policy going on this so we can be ready for of thing. It is absolutely wonderful. High school football needed this." It did and it didn't need to have so many of those who patronized the event miss much of the first half because of the traffic jam and long ticket lines.

"We didn't have' enough people working," said Pierce. "We know that now. I figured there'd be 12,000," and Pierce has a remarkable record at predicting Tampa Stadium crowds. Most involved felt 14,000 would be tops. Hindsight explains the matchup was perfect for the huge crowd because all of East Hillsborough County came to support the gritty Plant City Raiders while about that many showed to support Acosta's disciplined Panthers.

A matchup of two in-Tampa high schools, records notwithstanding, fikely would not have drawn such a crowd. See THE MORNING AFTER, Page 2D There were only two negatives to the marvelous evening of high school football at Tampa Stadium Friday night. The first was that both Plant City and Plant could not have emerged triumphant. They both did indeed emerge winners, for each played with the spirit and gamesmanship of winners, though Plant was the long end of the score, 13-6, when time ran out. The second negative was the game was not moved to Tampa Stadium by administrative decision four days before the school board was called on to order the shift from Plant's home field.

Since the decision was not made until Tuesday night, regular meeting time of the board, there was insufficient time for preparation, for large pre-game ticket sales and the distribution of parking information, for the Tampa Stadium people to have an idea how many would show up so the Bob Pierce team could be better prepared. kids a chance to plav in the facility. This did more to rejuvenate nigh school football than anything that has happened in a long time." "I agree," said Plant City Coach Hank Syt-sma, who was for the move from the start, "just so all our people could get in. The only thing wrong with the night was we didn't win. We gave it a good shot.

We made some mistakes and I guess if I had it to do over, I'd come out throwing more." School Supt. Raymond Shelton said he wanted to move the game to Tampa Stadium as soon as the matchup of these two fine 8-0 Hillsborough County teams developed, but he got early resistance from a key school board member and that meant the full board would have to decide. "I don't think you'll see this happen again," said Shelton, looking down on the biggest crowd, by far, ever to see a high school game in Tampa. Previous high was about 15,000. "We weren't ready for 23,620 people," admitted Pierce.

A Policy Will Be Made "And, I was wrong," said Plant Coach Roland Acosta, who fought the move from his home field. "Plant City said they'd bring the people and they did. I'll bite the nail and admit I was wrong. Moving it was right, to accommodate all the people and for more comfort and to give the ii i i jSee BUCS, Page 9D.