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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 78

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1Q-D CSe Atlanta Journal and CONSTITUTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1972 Individual Statistics Mnn MISSISSIPPI Rasbtng Alia. NeU'ds. For TO tO 2 Alld. Kict Yds. FerTD LG 39 21 15 57 50 3 4 6 5 Wsse Kramer Allen Porter Hoifer Asnswnrtb Totals 16 13 7 5 6 1 48 Johnsoa Hay King Totals 8 45 37 21! 26 4 15S II I 10 4 17 4a us 1 Dick Conn: Summer of '72 Brought Heroic Dividends Ait Carnal.

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38.3 48 38.3 48 LG 45 45 254 36.3 Golden Totals 4 155 4 155 7 7 Weese Total "You know, if anything, I made a mistake on him. He stayed in Athens all summer and really worked hard. But I wasn't sure Dick Conn was good enough to play." Number Dooley among the people whom Conn made believers of Saturday. "It took a long time," said Conn, "too long. I just hope I can hang on to my job.

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.4 i to Southerners notched their third victory of the season and continued their mastery over the Spiders, whom they now have beaten 10 times in 11 games. RICHMOND (AP)-Oppor-tunistic Southern Mississippi turned two interceptions and fumble into early touchdowns Saturday and then dazzled Richmond with the running of Doyle Orange and the passing of Buddy Palazzo for a 34-9 football victory. Palazzo passed for 16 3 yards and two touchdowns, and Orange rushed for 143 yards and two scores as the By WAYNE MINSHEW JACKSON, Miss. The summer of '72 was a long, tough one for Georgia's Dick Conn. Ee remained in Athens and worked at football while his buddies swam away the hot vacation months, or had dates and stuffed themselves.

Then, fall. And heartbreak for Conn. When the Bulldogs opened the season against Baylor, he was not a starter. "Starter?" he asked, incredulously. "I was barely on the traveling team." Conn stayed with it.

He began to see playing time, looking better with each game. Then, Saturday, in a 14-13 win over Ole Miss, Dick Conn had his day in the sun. Name something a defensive back is supposed to do, the Atlantan from Lakeside did it. IIE INTERCEPTED a pass at a clutch time. He ran back punts.

He made tackles, all over the field. And, perhaps of the most importance, the way things turned out, he partially blocked an extra-point attempt by the Rebels' Steve Lavinghouze, and all that did was make the ultimate difference in the ball game. At game's end, Conn was met on the sideline by defensive chief Erskine Russeil, who said, "mere, Dick, and lemmee kiss you." And he did. Dick Conn even looked as if he liked it. The 180-pound junior's play did not, of course, escape the eye of head coach Vince Dooley, who was quick to admit he may have made a mistake where Conn was con-cered.

"Dick Conn!" Dooley fairly shouted. "What a game he had." THEN, SHAKING his head, Dooley said, Ronthern Mtubitonl 7 7 1434 ittchroend 0 30 SM Drags 11 Pass from Palazzo (Guy REGISTER MOW! For A Total Gymnastics Program. Alt Ages, Pro-school through Adult. Tumbling, Trampolins And Gymnastics. Beginner, Intermediate And Advanced Classes.

NISSEN SPORTS CENTER MMHtlimileOm, litiuli, geirili PHONE 243-1SOS KICK L'R FG Clark 45 KM Orange 4 run (Got kick) I'Rr Harri pas from Burckhalter ikick laueaj SM Bird 30 pass Interception (kick SM Oranee 60 ran (Got kick) SM McGee I pass irom Palazzo (Guy aic 4 Staff Photo Billy Downs Conn on Target: From Non-Starter to Saturday's Hero but there's a lot of competition here. We have a lot of good defensive backs, a lot of 'em." Conn said he got an arm on Laving-houze's point-after attempt, which gave Ole Miss a 13-0 lead at the time. But the Bulldogs struck back for a touchdown just before halftime, and the play loomed big. "I JUST TRY to get all of them," he said, grinning. "If I can well, you know, i'll it'll help, sooner or later." So, Conn went from non-starter to hero.

From a more-than-slightly demoralized second-stringer to the man of the hour. "I felt down when I wasn't in there at the start," he said. "But I talked to my father and he told me to hang in there." I didn't quit, because this is Georgia and I love it. I'd never do that." Meanwhile, all was rosy in the Bulldog dressing room. Just outside, Dooley met the press and said, "This is not a great team, but it's a fighting team.

I like that. "WE PLAYED everybody we I think, and that made a difference, because it was so hot out there. We used linemen who have never been in a game. I think we grew up, matured a lot today. It's a big win to come down to Jackson and beat Ole Miss." Dooley talked aout the running of Hal Bissell and Jimmy Poulos, the rejuvenated play of the Bulldogs' much-maligned defensive line and of his gamble to go for broke on Georgia's winning touchdown.

It was the fourth period, fourth-and-five for a first down, with the ball on the Ole Miss six. "There was no doubt what to do," said Dooley. "A field goal wouldn't have done us much good. We had to go for it." Johnson made the play, running right end for the first down. He just made it.

"I DID, THOUGH by about this much," said Johnson, holding his thumb and forefinger about an inch apart. "Coach Dooley tells us before every game that football is a game of inches. Now, I believe it." Another big play by Georgia occurred late in the fourth period, when Ole Miss was driving to within range of a field goal. Then, David McKnight recovered a Norris Weese fumble, embracing the ball lovingly at the Rebel 46. The play had started at the Georgia 36.

"My only thought was just to get the ball," said McKnight. "We needed a big play then, and I knew I had a chance to make it. You don't get many chances, and you have to do it when one comes along." Just down the way, Ole Miss players undressed slowly, sadly. It was a tough-to-take defeat, and Coach Billy Kinard's voice was low, like his feelings. "We just can't seem to get on the scoreboard," he said.

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bu'rea long time old. I VEGA TRAILERS i The most exciting hole for the gallery came on No. 4 of the morning 18 at thepar-74 layout nestled in Britain's plush stockbroker belt. Weiskopf rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the 497-yarder and Trevino sank a 10-foot putt to match the three and halve the hole. Weiskopf shot 34 for the first nine and led by one hole.

The margin remained the some when the 6-foot-4 clouter finished 18 with a three-under 71 to Trevino's 72. Weiskopf birdied the 19th and 21st holes to bolt to a 3-up edge and Trevino never sliced, his deficit to less and one during a futile stretch run. Weiskopf's bulge went to five holes with five to play. Trevino held him off with a birdie at the 32nd and then it ended when the Americans both parred the par-five 33rd. "rD i -1 down, seldom wisecracking with the audience and showing little of the golfing drive that produced a 67-67 show in Friday's semifinal victory over British hero Tony Jackhn.

A friend said Trevino's entire family back in El Paso, was ill. "His daughter has the mumps," said Lee's pal. "His son has a chest virus and his wife had bronchial pneumonia." Lee collected $11,025 as run-nerup and left immediately for the United States. Lee himself had been bothered by a sore, rasping throat all week. For Weiskopf, It was his first international triumph and the resident of Columbus, Ohio, said, "I was mentally up for the final and I wanted to win.

Frankly, Lee didn't drive well and didn't putt well." Weiskopf made two eagles and six birdies in tfae 33 holes it took to wipe out Trevino, the winner of consecutive British Opens who was favored in the Picadilly. VIRGINIA WATERS, Eng-' land (AP) Powerhouse golfer Tom Weiskopf destroyed an uncharacteristically quiet, worried Lee Trevino 4 and 3 Saturday in the finals of the Picadilly World Match Play Weiskopf's booming drives turned the Wen-tworth course into a toy and buried Trevino under an avalanche of birdies and eagles to win the $20,225 top prize. The 36-hole, ail-American finals were played in rare autumn sunshine in this suburb of London with an enthusiasti-gallery of 4,000 following the foreign hotshots. "Trevino isafantastic player, but frankly, he didn't scare me," said the rangy Weiskopf, a 29-yeaMId Ohio State University product. "I've never seen Lee more subdued.

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Medical Commission, revealed Saturday that a majority vote of the commission had recommended that De Mont be allowed to keep his Gold Medal from the 4Q0-freestyIe. DR. IIANLEY'S disclosure contradicts the official verbal report issued to the I.O.C. executive committee by Prince Alexandre De Merode of Belgium, chairman of. the Medical Commission.

By NEIL AMDUR (o) 171 New York Ttmcs News Serriee NEW YORK Rick De Mont, the asthmatic American swimmer who was denied one Olympic victory and was disqualified from the finals of a second race in Munich last month, may still win permanent possession of his Gold Medal. Hope for.De Mont's case comes from a recommendation for leniency that was reportedly made during a meeting of the Medical Commission of the International Olympic (Committee. In response to jVNew York 3 A 1 GEI'S-1 1 A SOUTHERN INSTITUTION SINCE 18(7 Ur, (W HENRY GOLTZ HARVEY PtRMISON St. Laurent (Montreal 383) Canada.

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