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The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 10

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Page 2 a The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarktville, Tenn. November 3, iwv For N. Y. Boners maw k-asM i I 1) tS i fir NEW YORK (APJ Eye injuries are the reason that thumbless boxing gloves will become mandatory in all non-championship fights in New York by mid-January, the State Athletic Commission chairman says. Jack Prenderville, the chairman, said Monday that he hoped the glove would be adopted for use by other U.S.

commissions and the two world governing bodies, the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association. "I think it's important to get boxing on an even keel and to have standard rules," Prenderville said. The mandatory edict will not a feet title bouts immediately because of the problem of lack of uniformity among various boxing commissions and world governing bodies. But, Prenderville, added, after a certain amount dot time, even championships will be mandatory." The thumbless glove has been used in preliminary fights in New York on an optional basis for the past three months and also in preliminaries in New Jersey. "Most people think brain damage is the most serious injury in box ing," said Floyd Patterson, former world heavyweight champion and a commission member.

"But the major injury to fighters is the de tached retina." "This thing is going to do good things for a fighter," said Pete Pa-dilla, a New York lightweight who will fight in Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum Friday night. "It will avoid eye injuries." Thumbing the eye is a long-practiced boxing' foul, one that usually is not penalized, but ruled accidental. glove displayed Monday was manufactured "by Everlast, and that firm's president, Dan Golomb, said another benefit is that without the thumb there is more padding is the area of the glove where contact is made. Some fighters who have used the? thumbless gloves reportedly have complained that the wrist can be hurt when a blow is struck. But Prenderville felt the complaints were a result of unfamili-arity with the glove.

He also said that thumbless 16-ounce training gloves fighting gloves in the state, as in most places, are eight ounces are now available in 20 to 25 gyms in the state. Bj The As tocitted Press Undefeated Goodpasture lias re1 claimed its No. 1 spot among Tennessee Class A high school foot-T. ball teams in the latest Associated Press poll of the 1981 season. After a month-long absence, defending champion Brentwood Acad- emy returns as the top-ranked team in Class AA play while Germantown repeats for the second-straight week as the squad to beat among Class AAA schools.

Goodpasture, 9-0, replaces Sweetwater, which lost its first game of the season last Friday night to Loudon, a Class AA school. The Cougars received nine first-place votes and 166 poll points in balloting by a panel of Tennessee sportswriters and sportscasters. A first-place vote is worth 10 points; a lOth-place vote one, Goodpasture Coach Jim Wilson said this year's team Is the most balanced in the school's history. "In previous seasons, we've built our team around four or five key players," Wilson said. "This year we're solid just about everywhere.

That's the big key this year balance." The Cougars have rolled up 254 points in nine games while allopi ing just 50, Wilson said. "We've got a lot of speed thi year," the coach said. "We have or 18 boys who can run the 40 under' five (seconds) flat." Finishing second in the balloting was Hohenwald, 9-0 and a 76-0 whv ner over Columbia Academy last week. Rounding out the Class A top 10! are, in order, Alcoa, Memphis' Prep, Sweetwater, McEwen, Jack? son Old Hickory Academy, Memphis Catholic, Gleason and Spring" Hill. Brentwood Academy, 8-1, ref gained the top spot among Class' AA teams following Maryville's 12-; 7 loss to Kingston last week.

Kingston, 8-1, finished second in this week's poll while Memphis University School moves up a notch to No. 3. 7 Completing the Class AA top 10 are Collierville, Chattanooga City, Maryville, Milan, Cleveland and Chattanooga McCallie. Seymour and Loudon wound up knotted for 10th. Germantown, 8-0, which beat a strong West Helena, team last week, returns as the top-ranked team in Class AAA play with seven first-place nominations and 150 points, outdistancing No.

2 Franklin County, 9-0; which drew four first-place ballots and 140 points. New Thumbless Boxing Glove Lightweight boxer Pete Padilla of New York displays one of Everlast's new "Eyesaver" boxing gloves on his left hand, while wearing a conventional boxing glove on the right hand in New York Monday. Eastern Players Nab Br en wood Star Picked? TCA's Davis Nominated NASHVILLE (AP) Eastern Kentucky quarterback Chris Isaac has been selected Ohio Valley ference-of fensiver-playef- of -the-week for the second time this sea-. son. George Floyd, an All-America defensive back for Eastern Kentucky, and Paul Gray, a Western Kentucky linebacker, have been singled out for OVC defensive player of the week honors, while freshman quarterback Mike-Han lin, of Morehead State, has nabbed the rookie of the week designation for a second time.

Isaac, a senior from New Smyrna Beach, engineered the Colo "By The Associated Press -Robbie Scott of Meigs County, Jimmy Hockaday of Brentwood Academy and John Miller of Clinton are the latest selections for Associated Press Tennessee high school football players of the week. ClarksvilleAcademy's Freeman Davis received a nomination for the Class-A player of the week but was beaten out by Scott. Davis scored all four touchdowns for the Cougars last week against Fairview. The Cougars defeated Fairview 24-8 to stay alive in the District 12-A race. Scott, a fullback and linebacker, had 19 carries for 128 yards and two touchdowns in his team'sl-19 win last Friday night over Class A rival South Pittsburg.

On defense, the 6-foot-2-inch, 245-pound senior blocked two extra point attempts, logged two quarterback sacks for a minus 21 yards, solo tackles and seven assists. Hockaday, a 6-4, 195-pound senior receiver, caught six Miami Barred From Bowl Top Honors bertsville, was instrumental in Western Kentucky's rally to defeat Morehead State, 19-15. He was credited with 12 solo stops, 11 assists and added four tackles-for-loss. Hanlin, from St. Mary's, is a repeat selection for OVC rookie honors.

Against Western Kentucky last weekend, Hanlin's first collegiate start, he completed 14 of 29 passes for 186 yards and rah 10 yards for a touchdown. The OVC players of the week are selected by league officials in Nashville. Appearance declined comment, saying, "It would be inappropriate now." The squad's playerst informed of the NCAA decision on Monday, declined comment. Foote acknowledged receipt of the sanctions, but said the school's football program wouldn't suffer. UM officials and coaches appeared in Chicago last month to answer reports of 107 recruiting violations.

The university chose not to appeal the decision. Had it done so, it would have been eligible to play. Computer Balance Sale Price Ea. 2.99 MIAMI AP) The University of Miami has been barred from making a post-season bowl game appearance because of sanctions levied by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to The Miami Herald. The newspaper said the university has been penalized by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions following purported recruiting violations during 1976-80.

University President Edward T. Foote scheduled a news conference fqr EST, today. A A AP Laserphoto nels' 24-20 come-from-behind win over Murray State last weekend. He ran for one touchdown and hit 15 of 30 passes for 318 yards and another score a 61-yard bomb to Steve Bird. Floyd, a senior from Brooksville, had his best game of the year against Murray.

He logged 14 solo tackles, four assists, forced a fumble and intercepted two passes. Floyd's first theft set up an Eastern Kentucky field goal and his second came at the EKU five-yard line on the next-to-last play of the game to help preserve the win. Gray, a sophomore from Gil- The NCAA sanctions will prohibit the 13th-ranked Hurricanes from playing a bowl game this season and will limit the school from signing more than 20 football recruits. The maximum normally" allowed is 30. The sanctions will not affect television The Hurricanes will still collect revenues rotm-scheduled TVgameshis Saturday with the Florida State Seminoles and from a later game with Notre Dame.

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Ill i passes for 151. yards and a touchdown in Brentwood Academy's 35-7 win over White County in Class AA play. He punted four times for a 37-yard average, logged five tackles from his defensive safety spot and returned an interception 32 yards setting up another score for the No. 1 Eagles. Also nominated: CLASS A Bryan Graves, Westmoreland; Eddie Wyatt, Tennessee School for the Deaf; Freeman Davis, Academy; Wade Perry, Hohen-wald, Ken Turner, Oakhaven Baptist Academy; Marty Mosby, Memphis Prep; Wendell Verdell, Gleason, and Robert Sharp, Bledsoe County.

CLASS AA Tim Sebring, Portland; Brian Haun, Knoxville Powell; Gary Litton, Seymour; Shawn Anderson, Wavecly and Dexter Harris, Chattanooga Riverside. CLASS AAA Clint Cassetty, Hendersonville; Carl Hill, Knoxville Central; Marcus Jones, Columbia Central; Steve Jefferson, Memphis Carve'; Andy Moon, Greeneville; Toby -Pearson, Morristown East; Jeff Price, Red Bank; Paul Wiggins, Elizabethton, and Ray Varner, Knoxville Halls. Alatorre and Olszewski shared signal-calling duties last year, -but Alatorre began this season as No. 1. However, he soon lost the job to Alan Cockrell after the freshman engineered the Volunteers' only touchdown in Tennessee's 43-7 loss to Southern California on Sept.

12. Alatorre regained the job when Cockrell's season was ended by a knee Injury. Volunteers' Johnny Majors Encourages Competition Prep Poll Here are ttie top 10 Associated Press Tennessee high school football teams In each of three classifications by record, number of first-place votes and poll points. CLASS AAA 1. Germantown 8-0 7 150 2.

Franklin Co. 9-0 4 140 3. Nash Overton 9-0 4 124 4. Sullivan Sputh 2 111 8-1 1 7 6. Bolivar 9-0 93 7.

Knox Carter 9-0 02 8. Rhea Co. 8-1 6 9. Morristown West 8-1 24 10. Memphis Northslde 7-1 21 Also receiving votes: Memphis Hamilton, Red Bank and Gallatin.

CLASS AA 1. Brentwood Acad 8-1 13 1M 2. Kingston 8-11 131 3. MUS 7-1 119 4. Collierville 9-0 3 109 5.

Chat City 8-1 I 97 6. Maryville 7-1 95 7. Milan 8-1 77 8. Cleveland 7-2 73 9. Chat McCallie -2 31 10.

(tie) Seymour 8-1 17 10. (tie) Loudon 7-2 17 Also receiving votes: Giles County and Trenton. CLASS A 1. Goodpasture 2. Hohenwald 3.

Alcoa 4. Memphis Prep 5. Sweetwater 7. Old Hickory Acad 8. Memph Catholic 9.

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