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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Nov. 26, 1971 f.J) TT T1 M. aiiiBdM Bead. 5 IS JLOMM ece -to. 'J; 1 i A I) rev fesfiBigp jjs 5 'If iBiiir' JpfPttpV i- ,7 4s Bx mickey McCarthy Stunned by an early Georgia Tech lead and trailing much of the game, Georgia's Bulldogs battled back to defeat Georgia Tech, 28-24, on a cold Thanksgiving Day night at Grant Field.

The winning drive covered 65 yards in a minute and 15 seconds. The Bulldogs won the annual battle for state football supremecy with just 14 seconds left when Jimmy Poulos dived over from two feet out for the winning touch-down. The game was nationally televised and attended by a capacity crowd of 60,000. Tech, winner of its last four games in a row, came out storming against the favored Bulldogs. Hitting straight ahead against the touted Bulldog defense, McAshan wheeled his Jackets 65 yards in five snappy plays.

The payoff was artistic, McAshan rifling a perfect 31-yard strike to a wide open Jim Owings in the right corner of the end zone. Bobby Thigpen converted and it was a quick 7-0. The Jacket defense blunted a Bulldog drive two series later and initiated their own scoring thrust. The hard-running Healy clipped off the tough yardage, and little Cunningham sprinted 20 yards on a big play. This swung the Jackets out to their 48 and five plays later Healy swept end from 11 yards out.

Two McAshan passes to Mike Oven provided the momentum. Thigpen made the point after, and, with 14:26 left in the half, Tech led 14-0. The Jackets, inspired in the early going, jumped the startling Bulldogs for two quick touchdowns and enjoyed the luxury of a 14-0 lead two plays into the second quarter. Johnson put the comfortable margin into immediate jeopardy on the ensuing play when he lofted a perfect pass to split end Lynn Hurmicutt. But the Rome junior, wide open, let the ball slip through his fingers.

Tech took over, but the Jackets, for the first time in the game, went in reverse. McAshan slipped while, dropping back and lost See GEORGIA, Page 8-D Staff PhotoMarion Johmon GEORGIA TECH'S ROB HEALY (42) LOOKS FOR RUNNING ROOM AGAINST GEORGIA IN FIRST HALF Yellow Jacket Picked Up Short Yardage Behind Blocking of Tackle Tommy Jones (71 in Grudge Match Bazemore to Retire at Mercer and is a member of the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. Upon graduation, he started his coaching career at Waycross where he stayed two years. He came to Valdosta in 1940. His achievements are numerous during his career that 'has spanned three decades and made him the winningest coach in Georgia prep history.

He has won 14 state champi- See BAZEMORE, Page 4-D Basemore's amaziog record is 287-43-7. His 1971 Wildcats are still involved in the State AAA title chase. They meet Warner Robins in Valdosta Friday night for the South Georgia championship. A native of Fitzgerald, Bazemore was an outstanding prep athlete there, scoring 10 touchdowns in a game twice in his senior year which earned him a spot in Ripley's Believe It or Not. He went on to college honors By RICHARD HYATT Wright Bazemore, whose 31 -years at Valdosta High School have made him a national prep football legend, will retire at the end of the current season, The Constitution learned Thursday.

Winners of championships and honors at the local, state and national level, Bazemore will be replaced by either Joe Wilson or Charlie Greene, both long-time aides. Staff Photo Noel Davis GEORGIA'S CHUCK HEARD (91) WRAPS UP GEORGIA TECH'S ROB HEALY Jacket Runner Stopped for No Gain in First-Half Action at Grant Field BULLPUPS BOW Tech. Frost OUTLA Sports Editor Surge, 17-1, MARINARO SECOND Sullivan Wins Heisman Trophy NEW YORK (AP) Pat Sullivan, Auburn's strong-armed quarterback, was named Thursday night the 1971 winner of the Heisman Trophy, emblematic of college football's premiere player. The award, presented by the Downtown Athletic Club of New York the player selected by a poll of sports writ-of New York to the player selected by a poll of sports writ-tionally televised Georgia-Georgia Tech game in Atlanta. Sullivan received a point total of 1,597 to outdistance Ed Marinaro, Cornell's record-smashing runner whocol-lared 1,445.

Third place in the voting went to Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma's crackerjack runner who would up with 586 points. Johnny Musso, Alabama's top runner, finished fourth with 365 points while Penn State's jackhammer-running half-See HEISMAN, Pake S-D pi lit 1 r' life ji Bill ii mmm By RICHARD HYATT Football games run for 60 minutes and take place in 100 yards of territory but Georgia Tech's Dick Bestwick was tak-ingto account an event 24 hours before and three miles away from his Baby Jackets' 17-12 victory over Thanksgiv A Strange Game During a gorgeous Thanksgiving afternoon Tech and Georgia freshmen had demonstrated why the Peach State can expect winning teams again next season in Athens and Atlanta. When varsity -squads took over the Grant Field stage, a man in the press box remarked that Vince Dooley and Bud Carson should have enjoyed the frosh game. There were several youngsters who could have helped ing Day at Grant Field. The scene was the pre-game party Wednesday evening and That's what was the difference here today It sounds corny and trite to say it was a team effort, but I can't describe it any other way," he said.

The Bullpups found out why Harris was so respected by his See BABY, Page 3-D the event was Bestwick's introduction of his co-captain, linebacker Joe Harris, the gathering, "things have the gathering, 'things have come a long way when a black Joe Harris of Fayetteville, Pat Sullivan, the Winner YARDSTICK Tech and Georgia in the big game. You watched Dooley and Carson as their teams unlimbered for the state championship showdown before a national TV audience. You reflected that they have much in common. First, they followed great football coaches. Bobby Dodd at Tech and Wallace Butts at Georgia sent mote teams bowling than any two coaches in one state during their regimes.

Of course Dooley got off to a flying start at Georgia, and he has never had a losing team in eight seasons. It was an uphill trip for Carson, but the man overcame many obstacles and opposition and last season Tech logged a 9-3 chart. Ga. Tech Georgia ill bo oners Kinney's Late TD A J- 43 J3 17 Pint downs Rushing yardam Passing yardage Return yardage Pasfies Punt FumMes lost Yards penalized J-7-0 4-1M 3 30 YARDSTICK Outlar Nebraska Okla. 04-279 188 V11-S J-34 First downs Rushes-yards Passina yardan Return yardage Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized i 5-27 65 SO 0-13-0 S-3 i game-winning plunge with just 1:38 to play.

The Cornhuskers trailed 28-31, at the time, and an Owen Field record crowd of 63,385 fans was screaming itself blue in the face. Kinney and quarterback Jerry Tagge, whose calm direction of the Cornhusker offense was ultra important, led the 'Huskers back in the last 7:05. driving 74 yards from kickoff after Oklahoma had scored on a pass from quarterback Jack Mildren to split end Jon Harrison to take the lead by three points. Of such stuff are national Sooners twice enjoyed leads over the Cornhuskers, 17-14 at half time and 31-28 with a little over seven minutes left in the game, but they couldn't stop Kinney. Nor could they cope with cool, calm Jerry Tagge, the Nebraska quarterback who led his club with poise and precision.

And there was that rugged Nebraska defense, spearheaded by tackle Larry Jacob-son, guard Rich Glover anl linebacker Bob Terrio who started to explain Nebraska's See KINNEY, Page 3-D passing combination Mildren and Harrison, which clicked twice for touchdowns that gave the Sooners leads. But rally Nebraska did to defeat the Sooners, who were No. 2 but definitely not trying any harder in the game watched by the record turnout here and a world-wide television audience. Bob Devaney whose teams do nothing but win was serious when he said, "It was the greatest victory of my career. This was a great Oklahoma team we beat today." That it was.

In fact, the By WAYNE MINSHEW Conitltatloa Sports Writer NORMAN, Okla. Jeff Kinney, 210 pounds of man and muscle and a heart impossible to weigh, personally lifted his Nebraska teammates off the deck here Thursday as he ran Oklahoma into 35-31 submission and left no doubts who should wear the crown of the nation's 1 college football team. Kinney, who ran 31 times for 174 yards In the contest, scored four touchdowns in "The Game of the Decade," the last one a brutish two-yard N.C. receives all but one vote his own as co-captain of the Georgia Tech football team." His words had hardly registered when the Tech team, almost as one, rose to give Harris a rousing ovation. "I have never been so moved," said Bestwick Thursday after directing Tech's 19th victory in the 37th annual charity classic.

"It was spontaneous, and it told me something about this team. "They have togetherness. They think like one person. champions made, and Nebraska deserves the right to its second straight title unless Alabama proves differently in the Jan. 1 Orange Bowl game at Miami.

The Huskers had to rally from deficits on two occasions because of the Oklahoma CLARK-M. BROWN CLASSIC Kayo owermes No one was more optimistic than Carson when the 1971 teams mustered in the spring. He was convinced that he had his finest football team at Tech. A football takes funny bounces, however, and when a Tech center twice snapped the ball out of the end zone, the Jackets were upset in the first game by South Carolina. They then lost four of six games, and the anti-Carson faction started shouting for his scalp in mid-season.

Carson then proved that he is a much better football coach than many Tech people think. When you turn a 2-4 record into 6-4, you are coaching. It is evident that Carson is a much finer football coach than salesman. He was as startled as some of his critics recently when a reporter pointed out that Tech and Georgia rec-ords are almost identical the past two seasons. Dooley, Carson Marks Similar Before the Thanksgiving night bout, Carson had 15-7 credentials and Dooley read 14-6 in two years.

And, as Dooley has frequently mentioned, Carson beat Georgia the past two games. So, as the teams came on the field, you wondered about the bizarre reactions of alumni. Dooley has done a tremendous job at Georgia and is as secure there as any coach this side of Bsar Bryant. In stark contrast there have organized and disorganized campaigns to make Carson the first coach ever fired at Tech. I doubt if there is a coach in football who works harder than Carson.

He is a demanding coach, but football is a demanding game. If you don't think that he is a tainted coach, ask the head coach of any opponent on his schedule. Carson is indeed weary of critics saying that he can't coach. He is puzzled by the rumors that everyone from Frank Broyles to Ray Graves may succeed him. It is ironic that the only major college which has never fired a head coach should have so many "fans" attacking a man who is completing his second straight winning season.

Tech, of course, is a prestige college with a great football tradition and Carson would like to remain on the job. But the man is tired of being the target of so many West Stand quarterbacks. Rest assured that he can get a job tomorrow with a pro team paying him more money than he receives at Tech. A critic remarked before the kickoff that this probably See JESSE, Page 10-D Panthers, 30-19 ured to win. Some said they would win big and they won comfortably thanks to some sturdy goal-line defensive play and four intercepitons by defensive back Buddy Davenport.

Still, the Panthers could have made it even closer if they had scored in four downs from the Morris Brown on late in the game. As mentioned, this wasona of those old-fashioned Thank giving games in which boQs See 10 MINUTE, Page 3-D prevailed over Clark College, 30-19, in a wild and wooly game that had a little bit of everything, including a 10-minute free for all in the fourth quarter. This annual classic between the local schools was played at Atlanta Stadium for the first time, but it did not deviate much from tradition. Morris Brown has now won 29 of the 42 games played in this long and heated cross-town rivalry, The Wolverines were fig By AL THOMY Remember when grandma, with an unsteady hand, served green peas, turkey and pumpkin pie and then everyone went out to the ballyard to watch Our Brave Lads play the Visitors in a no-holds barred football, game on Thanksgiving afternoon? Well, those days are not exactly gone forever. On Thursday afternoon, before a crowd 16,393 at Atlanta Stadium, Morris Brown ta Photo BUI Mahan CLARK COACH JESSE McCLARDY CONFERS WITII.BACX He And Fullback Darryi Farley Watch Morris Brown Go Ahead.