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DUEL IN TtfE DOME Pitt Def ense With Dorsett ajors Jin Constitution Sports Editor NEW ORLEANS Vince Dooley and Johnny Majors are happy that it is time for the New Year's duel between Georgia and Pittsburgh. After a week of practice sessions and interviews they've run out of things to say about the 43rd Sugar Bowl game. Repeating a Knute Rockne phrase, Majors told the media Friday morning that the hay is in the barn. He wished good friend Dooley an unhappy New Year and went to the movies to take a final look at the Junkyard Dogs. Dooley sent his Bulldogs through a light drill at Tulane and then watched to give the defense a big lift.

We've got to control the football. You can't let Tony Dorsett run 30 times and beat Pitt. Possesion is all-important to us." While Dooley was discussing offense, Majors was talking about defense. "Dorsett is the greatest college back that I've seen, as I've said so many times," Majors remarked, "and we've averaged more than 30 points a game. But people underrate our defensive unit.

We have a balanced team.But so does Georgia. Balance is" what impresses me about Georgia. They can move the ball, and those Junkyard Dogs really make the big plays. They'll blitz the passer, force a fumble or make an interception and turn a game around." For once, no one can needle Dooley about overrating an opponent The nation's No.l team deserves all the accolades. "We haven't played a team like Pitt," said Dooley.

"They can do it all. Dorsett really is a Superman. There has never been a back like him in college football. As Johnny says, you can't compare Kevin McLee or anyone else to Dorsett. However, I will say that McLee is the best all-round back we've had at Georgia." Despite dissenting opinions on the West Coast, Dooley and Majors vow that the winner in the Sugar Bowl deserves the national championship.

"We're the No.l team and we'll be the national champions if we beat Georgia," said Majors. "Never mind all the propaganda from the West Coast. If Georgia beats us, they'll have a claim to the title." See BULLDOGS, Page 4-C Brother Bill's North Carolina team play Kentucky in the Peach Bowl on T.V. The Panthers didn't practice. In their final appearance in the Sugar Bowl press room, Dooley and Majors reiterated that they anticipate a high scoring game.

"I go along with what Johnny has said all week," said Dooley. "I think it will take at least three touchdowns to win. As you know, however, coaches are usually bad predictors. Both of us are probably wrong. "For us to win, our offense has got i 1 -u llili 1 I -YT1" in 111 1ST fl llll I 1 1 ill I ITMnI Ti II ITIilimiim HiHH'l THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION SATURDAY, JAN.

1, 1977 1-C WILDCATS, 21-0 Airman Kentucky Rips Voight-Less Heels Journal Sports Editor 1 ft-' in Sad 1- 1 VV i 7 4 1 t. 1 By AL SMITH The North Carolina Tar Heels proved Friday afternoon in the Ninth Annual Peach Bowl what a one-man football team can do without that one man. aero. That's exactly what the Tar Heels scored with Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, tailback Mike Voight on the sidelines with a sprained ankle. North Carolina's ground game sputtered, its air attack was worse and the Tar Heels were soundly defeated by the Kentucky Wildcats 21-0 at cold, windy Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

The temperature at game time was 32 degrees and by the end of game game dipped to 28 with a chill factor of three above zero. With a Peach Bowl record in-house crowd of 54,132 (over 3,000 no shows) looking on, Kentucky's Rod Stewart ran for 104 yards, scored three touchdowns and tied two Peach Bowl records in the process. Stewart's three touchdowns and 18 points both tie records held jointly by four players. The 197-pound sophomore fullback was also voted the most valuable offensive player of the game. Kentucky's relentless defense, led by linebacker Mike Martin, held the Tar Heels to 84 yards on the ground and 108 yards total offense.

Martin was named the out standing defensive player in the game. Kentucky Head Coach Fran Curci said he felt the cold weather helped his team as they have been practicing in cold weather. "They (North Carolina) would have been a better team with Voight, but I think we would have still won; we were ready for him," said Curci. "Certainly, we missed Voight," said North Carolina Coach Bill Dooley. "He's a great back, and AU-American back.

But I don't want to use that as an excuse. We've faced adversity before, but today Kentucky was just a better team." It was the first shutout suffered by the Tar Heels since 1973 when they were blanked by Tulane, 16-0. Dooley also mentioned offensive mistakes as being the Tar Heels' downfalL Early in the first quarter the Tar Heels' first offensive mistake cost them a touchdown. Freshman quarterback Matt Kupec hit split end Walker Lee with what may have been a touchdown pass but it was called back. Dooley said the officials told him at halftime both his offensive guards had lined up off sides.

The 50-yard bomb was the only time either team threatened in a scoreless first quarter. Kentucky provided the only scoring threat in the second period when the Wildcats started on their 34-yard line and drove to the North Carolina two in 15 plays. After trying to draw North Carolina off sides on a fourth-and-goal at the two, the Wildcats took a delay of game penalty and went for a field goal. John Pierce's 24-yard attempt was wide to the left, and neither team was able to get on the scoreboard in the first half. But once again an offensive mistake cost the Tar Heels at the start of the second half.

Kupec dropped back to pass from his 28-yard line, was hit and fumbled. James Ramey recovered for the Wildcats and eight plays later Stewart dove over from the one for the Initial score of the game. Pierce added the extra point and Kentucky led 7-0 with left in the third quearter. Kentucky's defense came to the front late in the quarter when Larry Tedder recovered a Mike Siganos' fumble of a punt pn the Kentucky 26-yard line. Four plays netted the Tar Heels only six yards and this was as close as North Carolina came to the Kentucky goal line in the second half.

In fact, the Kentucky defense so dominated the Tar Heels that they never got beyond their 35-yard line the rest of the game. From here Kentucky's offense took over and turned the game into a rout with the Tar Heels trying desperation passes the rest of the game. "We used some veer plays in the second half that were good for us," said Curci. "We tried some different things to loosen them up and then we went back to what we had been doing." The fourth quarter was all Kentucky. The Wildcats scored with only two minutes gone in the period after taking over on the North Carolina 33.

They kept the ball on the ground with the biggest play in the drive a seven-yard run by Randy Brooks, outside of Stewart's 13-yard touchdown burst Kentucky's last score came on a 47-yard, 10-play drive. Look, showing up to play a football game in the kind of color you buy for your baby boy is suspect enough. The other guys think you're cute. Or at least wonder if you aren't. They want to know if you're still taking piano lessons, or if you still mail your laundry borne to mama.

North Carolina has always called its kind of blue "Columbia but every doting parent whoever stood outside a maternity ward and admired some freshly scrubbed new-born boy calls it "baby It's as 'much a part of the fiberf Chapel HilL N.C, as the Morhead Tower and the old well. You may taunt the Tar Heels about their delicate color, but don't get gay with them about it (I think that's what I mean.) That's handicap enough, anyway you look at it But then you open the show with your headliner in wraps, and it's like playing Caeser's Palace with your back to the audience. That's the "way tt went: "with thV" North Carolina Tar Heels in the Peach Bowl call it the Ice Bowl and you won't offend me New Year's Eve afternoon. It seems to be sort of an old North Carolina tradition keep 'em guessing. It dates back to an era so long ago that Mike Voight wasn't even born.

Bill Dooley, his coach, hadn't even gone to college yet The North Carolina team showed up to play Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl with Charlie Justice's stomach full of oysters he hadn't been able to digest Nobody was certain he'd be able to play, including Justice, but he did play, and with elan, but North Carolina still lost and, that brings up Dec. 31, 1976. The biggest thing in the state of North Carolina this year outside of tobacco, as a matter of fact the biggest thing the Atlantic Coast Conference ever saw in football, was a big, unabashable, one man rumble named Mike Voight. He'd carried footballs for the Tar Heels 315 times. Twice he took his leg out of a cast and beat I iami of Ohio, and then the University of Florida.

It seemed he was as indestructible as Fanne Fox. Reaching Atlanta to combat Kentucky in the Peach Bowl, he was the one player the area zeroed in on, sought out, examined and quoted as if he'd just been elected mayor of Plains. All it took to bring him down was a small defect in the turf at Rose Bowl field, the Georgia Tech location at which the North Carolina team exercised its muscles. Running a simple pass caught only four passes during the season-he turned an ankle, and thereby sentenced himself to the sidelines for the last eligible game as a collegian. While it may, or may not have been the old ball game, the result will remain as suspect as the Carolina color.

It was like Foreman fighting Ali with one hand tied behind his back. All the world will ever know is, that with its offense blindfolded, and the main attraction wrapped in a hood of protective "baby blue," Kentucky was 21 points better than North Carolina in Peach Bowl, 1976. One, incidentally that will be long remembered as the bomb that never sent off. As it turned out. North Carolina ran a barkfield of unknown soldiers at a Kentucky defense that included in its such feats as a shutout over ennessee, a six-point performance against Penn State, an eastern notable, and a nine-point performance against Florida, as widely known for offense as alligators.

The Tar Heels' leading gainer, Doug Paschal, had carried the ball nine times before the Peach Bowl. Its third leading gainer, Mel Collins, had carried 14 times. Another, Billy Mabry, had been to bat just twice and had a career total of five yards. Larry Tedder, a junior who was called upon See COLOR, Page 4-C Kentucky Punter Pete Gammill Barely Gets This One Away from North Carolina Rush GEORGIA'S 'OTHER SIDE9 Collins, Collier Work in Shadows Of Stars Wilson and Parrish oui, V. i 1.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) On one side of Georgia's offensive line are "Cowboy" and "Moonpie." The other side is manned by "Whozis" and "Whatsisname," the overshadowed practioncrs of the most obscure art in football. It's axiomatic In football that an offensive lineman is never mentioned unless he makes a mistake. Otherwise, he does the work, and running backs and quarterbacks get the praise. Occasionally as in the case of Georgia's Joel "Cowboy" Parrish and Mike "Moonpie" Wilsona lineman or two will achieve some recognition. What does that do to George Collins and Steve Collier, the "other side" of Georgia's offensive line? "We get some publicity from the fact that we don't get any publicity," said Collins.

"We both have another year. Maybe we're the heirs to the right side of the line," said Collier. "Anyway, It's not like our own mothers don't recognize us. I have a small following of friends back home. I got asked to speak to a group of Midget League football players at home, and I wound up signing autographs at McDonald's.

"It's not like signing autographs at the Waldorf, but it's something." Fifth-ranked Georgia meets top-ranked Pittsburgh in the Sugar Bowl Saturday. If that game goes the way things have gone during Georgia's 10-1 regular season, a third-down, short-yardage play will arise. And the running back who gets the call will ride behind Wilson and Parrish for the first down. "I don't blame the coaches for running to that side. It's almost a cinch firstsdown," said Collins.

"Those behemoths on the right can move anyone. I feel that we could, too, but if I were 1 'I Georgia's Mike Wilson (L), Joel Parrish at Home Outside Dome the coach, I'd do the same thing." "I play oh our goal line defense, and it's Although defensive linemen get more per- nice for a change of pace, but I wouldn't want to sonal recognition, neither Collins nor Collier do it all the time. I like playing offense. It's would like to swap jobs. enough for me to know I've done a good job.".