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fSTATE STATE LOCAL NATIONAL SECTION THE TAMPA TRIBUNE AND 1., TAMPA, Sunday, Oct. 12, 1969 INTERNATIONAL i SPORTS WriWr b3? "IW a mJ; Tr- fa LAW -0: Super Day Superlatives Florida won the first game of a doubleheader, in a heart-stopping closey, 18-17, but one ffr The 43-102 people for Flonda-Tulane was com-3 pletely satisfactory, producing a quarter-of-a-million The weather was radiant, luminous, lovely, but hot as blazes Tampa Stadium glistened, and the turf drew raves The "Futbol Fiesta" sold out its food, to 100 who bought advance tickets, and another 400 were turned away The Tampa-sponsored Anita Bryant Super Supper drew nearly 2000 And then there was the Tampa-Tulsa nightcap and the fine crowd there. CA 1 Af'i. "'si ww tt-1 ir; Trr Tl We Are The Girls Uappiess Is ixomg tor I wo Ana winning winning ny une Carlos Alvarez carries two-point conversion pass into end zone from old Florida as Gator pretties cheer their team on to victory against Tulane yesterday at Tampa Stadium. rr rt a AS Gators 1 AAYl to't Tulane Challenge 1847 if If "ATS I lnairiMMHiiilillt wr-w fcniitr'ljf Laal i Gators Go For Tivo, Win 4th down inside the five stopped previous touchdown drives on successive fourth-quarter series.

But 2:14 after that final Gator frustration of this Super Saturday, flanker Andy Cheney caught two Reaves passes totaling 39 yards and tailback Tommy Durrance dove into the end zone from a Tulane Florida By JIM SELMAN Assistant Sports Editor Florida's Gators, undaunted by fourth-quarter frustration, turned to the Ray Graves history book and added a gloriously new chapter with a 2-point John Reaves pass to the swift and sure-handed Cisco Alvarez in the final 2:10 of play yesterday to beat inspired Tulane 18-17 at Tampa Stadium. THE GATORS had to come from behind twice against this Greenie team that surely must be one of the best 0-4 teams in the country. They did it the second time after a fumble and failure to gain a first A Gator Fan I First downs 17 24 Rushing yds. 211 65 Passing yds. 90 297 Return yds.

57 125 Passes 8-18-1 28-53-2 Punts 9-45 6-36 Fumbles lost 0 1 Yds. penalized 84 20 Staff Photos Saturday's Hero Again Carlos Alvarez talks to press cheers her Florida team on as the Gators squeezed out an 18-17 i yesterday over Tulane. 'Did. varez Mo i Much, Ai Orioles Give Gttihc After Bad i ira Mets The yard out for a touchdown that made it 17-16 Tulane. Most of the sweltering 102 fans screamed the go sign and expected it to be flashed from the Gator bench.

The play was right out of the Graves history book. Only the cast of characters and the setting were different. Reaves, the super soph from Tampa Robinson, passed the ball through the grasping hands of Tulane defensive back Jimmy Yar-t into the awaiting clutches of his dandy receiv- Continued on Page 7, CoL 1) Tulane 6 0 11 0 17 Florida 0 10 0 8 18 Tul Lachaussee 2 run (kick failed) Fla Alvarez 19 pass from Reaves (Franco kick) Fla FG Franco 37 Tul Laborde 12 run (Barrios pass from Laachaussee) Tul FG Bookatz 26 Fla Durrance 1 run (Alvarez pass from Reaves) Attendance 43,102. (Cor AluarPT 'said he was disappointed in himself for playing a bad game. Bad game Pancoast, who thought Alvarez was through for the day, turned around and saw Carlo with that "I-want-to-go-in-coach" look on his face.

In he went. tic 1 BALTIMORE Mike Cuellar paid another juicy dividend to the Baltimore Orioles yesterday on the big trade with Houston last December. The crafty Cuban with the puzzling screwball pitch added an opening 4-1 World Series victory to his 23 during the regular season with a six-hitter against the New York Mets. "We had our eye on Cuellar and then caught a hand in the face and the ball on the five-yard line that was ruled out. 1 "I THOUGHT I had it in bounds, I really did," Carlos said after the game was won.

"I did my best to keep both feet inbounds and I thought I had." Carlos sustained a severe leg cramp on the play and had to be helped off the field. Moments later, when the Gators were marching to their winning touchdown, Gator backfield coach Fred for years," said Harry Dalton, the Orioles' director of player personnel who traded Curt Blefary to the Astros for Cuellar. "We decided there was no way Blefary could beat out Don Buford in left, Boog Powell at first or Ellie Hendricks as the catcher." CUELLAR'S PITCHING and some solid hitting by the Oriole "little guys" did the job on the Mets who rode into the Series on a high pink cloud after winning their first National League pennant. "It was the little guys today," said Frank Robinson, who is supposed to team up with Brooks Robinson and Powell as the big guns of the Oriole attack. Don Buford shocked Tom (Continued on Page 3, Col.

5) John (Reaves) made about the most perfect throw I've ever seen. Nobody could have thrown it any better." THE END result was two points and an 18-17 victory and as the Gators embraced each other in the end zone and on the sidelines, the man who looked the most embarrased about the whole thing was Alvarez. was a perfect pass," he repeated. "A' perfect pass. I didn't do anything." Much.

Tom McEwen ALL ALVAREZ did was catch 11 passes for 146 yards and a touchdown, and most important of all, a key catch of the two-point conversion that nailed down Florida's 18-17 victory. And there were his side TOMMY DURRANCE went over for the touchdown and then Reaves called a 30-6 split, The target was Alvarez. "We use the play on short yardage because it's designed to get a man open quick," Carlos said. "I made my quick cut and line catches of John Reaves' passes that kept dying drives alive. Carlos did a toe-dance to catch one in-bounds on the west sideline Ai A yA 1 I :4 on It For Ronald ord 5 THE MORNING AFTER I Fa 1' fir i V' -1 'VS A I I' 3k 1 i Tlonald Gene.

Ford says he'll forgive John Reaves. He said it's okay that Reaves didn't throw the three touchdown passes against Tulane he'd promised to throw just for him. Ronald Gene said in fact the nervey two point conversion pass Chico Alvarez somehow caught would be plenty because all he really was interested in was Florida beating Tulane by hook or crook, which is about how it happened in the Super Scary 18-17 Gator get-by yesterday afternoon. Tom, T0POTIBTOH "John Reaves John Reaves John Reaves that's all he talks aljout," said Grady Ford, Ronald Gene's dad when Reaves, Bums, Ely and West Coast bowl officials Tom MacDo-nald and Leonard Levy walked into the Ford home after the' Friday workout at Tampa Stadium. "HE WORSHIPS the ground you walk on, boy.

Don't let him down." Reaves shuffled his feet a bit, deeply impressed, as were the others, almost speechless. But, Reaves managed: "I won't," and Burns said "we'll win it for you," and when Ronald Gene looked up at his idol and said," throw a touchdown pass for me against Tulane tomorrow," Reaves said, "I'll throw three. Ai 5. REAVES made the promise to Ronald Gene Ford late Friday afternoon, out at the Grady Ford home on Ballast Point Boulevard here, not far from the Reaves' home in fact. Reaves hadn't met Ronald Gene until then, when he, and defensive backs Jack Burns and Mark Ely, took a football autographed by all the Florida Gators out to the young man, who, incidentally, is only six months younger than John Reaves.

They hadn't met even though both John and Ronald Gene were born in Anniston, in the same hospital there, in the same year of 1950. Tampans Mark Ely, Jack Burns the home of Ronald Gene Ford, a poKo and John Reaves (left to right) visit victim who idolizes Reaves,.