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i 3 Zy SOUTH'S BEST SECTION Section THE ATLINIUONSTITUTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1974 JACKETS TAME TULANE, 27-7 Tech Backbone ft- 4 4, 4 'WV i By JESSE OUTLAR Atlant Censtltntloa 8port Editor Georgia Tech blended a new backbone defense with its wishbone offense and jarred Tulane out of the unbeaten ranks, 27-7, Saturday afternoon at Grant Field. Proud Coach Pepper Rodgers the defensive performance the finest of the season and allowed that the total offense of 433 yards seemed adequate. Linebacker Joe Harris, who had nine solo tackles and two assists, and tackle Rick Gibney led a defensive revival. For the first time this year, the Jacket defenders, who had allowed 182 points in seven previous games, kept pace with their touchdown playmates. The favored Greenies, who assumed a 7-3 lead in the flrst quarter, were stopped cold the rest of the way and the crowd of .48,623 roared its approval.

Tulane was limited to a mere 88 yards rushing while Pepper's vanilla wishbone spiced up things with 303 rushing yards. The Jackets startled the Greenies and the regional TV audience by throwing the football for 130 yards, including a 41-yard TO strike from Danny Myers to Steve Raible. 1 Starting quarterback Rudy Allen, a diabetic, had to sit out the second half due to illness, and Myers came on to win the Tech TV-MVP award However, Rodgers didn't concur. He cast his ballot for Allen and in- quired, "Who did they vote for coach of the game?" Attacking a defense that had not al-lowed a touchdown in ten previous quarters, the Jackets achieved their most lopsided triumph of the season. The game wasn't as close as the score indicated, for the most exciting run of the day; a 75-yard touchdown by Dave Sims, was nullified by a motion penalty.

The kicking game, so costly to Tech at Auburn last Saturday, was a booming asset in this one. Both Rodgers and Tulane's Bennie Ellender were impressed by E. 0. Whealler, the kickoff specialist. Assuming the punting chore Whealler averaged 45.7 yards on six boots, including a 57-yardier.

Tulane's Howard McNeill was almost equally effective, averaging 42.5 on eight boots. He also had a 57-yarder. Ther Greenies, who haven't won at Grant Field since 1933, wheeled into Atlanta with a perfect 5-0 chart. The undefeated season ended in the second quarter when Allen sneaked in from the two to put Tech ahead for keeps, 13-7. Tech got on the board the first time it had the ball via a 29-yard, field goal by Danny Smith, who added a 43-yanter in the second period.

Randy Rhino provided excellent field position with a 20-yard punt return to the Tulane 46. Sims, who slashed for 73 yards in 12 snaps, and Adrian Rucker moved it into field-goal range. Martin Mitchell returned the ensuing kickoff 54 yards to the Tech 46, and quarterback Steve Foley, with the aid of a costly penalty, engineered Tulane's lone score in 12 plays. The Jackets had stymied the drive at their 39, but someone jumped offsides when McNeill went back to punt, providing a first down. Miles Clements and Steve Trueting did the legwork, and Foley fired to Tom Fortner for nine at the 13.

On a key third-down pass, Foley hit Clements at the two, See NOW, Page 12-D I Staff Photo Bud Skinner WflYe Rushes In: Tech's Danny Myers Pulled Under by Tulane eorgia Nightmare College Scores Furman Bisher Engineering, Science Are Okay, But Tech Needs B.S. in Jewelry Ends Just in sime SOUTH By FURMAN BISIFER Atlanta Journal Sporli Editor Georgia Tech's Athletic Department had a few friends drop in for a little television party Saturday afternoon. About 48,000 Tulane 7 Kentucky 20 Duke 13 FSU 6 TCU 3 NCSt. 10 OleMiss 14 N. Carolina 23 20 W.Va.

12 Sav.St. 13. Ga. Tech 27 Georgia 24 Florida 30 Auburn 38 Alabama 41 Maryland 20 Vandy24 S. Carolina 31 VJ331 PennSt.21 Clark 27 or so.

The host was stunning in gold and white The guest was a socially prominent member of an old New Orleans line of educators, Tulane University, elegant in olive green and sky blue. It was the kind of happy, carefree little Idyll in which time is forgotten. Georgia Tech raises a goodly crop of engineers anrf htit darned EAST B.C. 55 Villanova 7 Harvard 14 D'mouth 7 Pitt 13 Navy 11 MIDWEST Furnum Buher OSU55 N'western 7 Mich. 49 Minn.

0 Notre Dame 38 Miami, Fla. 1 By DON BOYKIN Atlanta Jmirnnl Exitrullve Sports Editor LEXINGTON, Ky. Vince Dooley and the Georgia Bulldogs finally killed the snake Saturday night. And it was just in time. Nothing much had gone right for the snake-bit Bulldogs in their quest with the Kentucky Their plane was late on Friday.

Then, while in flight, defensive coach Erk Russell discovered a message on the restroom mirror that "There is a bomb on this plane." That delayed the team over an hour at the Lexington airport, as the FBI checked the plane. The delay, plus a heavy rain, prevented Georgia from working out. And it took an hour or the team to get to the motel. But that's where the nightmare ended, how- ever, for Dooley and his team as Georgia came irom behind for 24-20 Southeastern Conference victory over Kentucky before a crowd of 55,000 at i Commonwealth Stadium. i As predicted.

Georgia and Kentucky moved the ball with success in the first half, The Bulldogs were the first to establish their offensive effectiveness. They took the opening kickoff and moved from their own 27-yard line to the Kentucky 23 before settling for a 40-yard field goal by Allan Leavitt with less than five minutes gone in the opening period. Robinson keyed the drive with pass completions of 13 and 13 yards to Horace King and a 17-yarder to Gene Washington, which gave Georgia a first down at the Wildcat 25. The Bulldogs could get only two more yards, however, and Leavitt came on to get Georgia out front. Kentucky got its offense going late in the See GEORGIA, Page 11-D Basically, the Georgia Tech Football not to be confused with the "Pepper Rodgers was divided into equal segments starring its pepper-and-salt quarterbacks, Rudy Allen, the sophomore, and Danny Myers, the junior.

Tulane also had two quarterbacks, both Irish, Steve Foley, who goes first, and Terry Looney, whose name suggests a producer of movie cartoons. Allen went first. His legacy to his team was 13 points. Myers went next. The audit for his half of the game showed a bottom line of 14 points, and so you can see that it was, for all effects, a virtual standoff.

It was oulte noticeable that the vociferous Georgia Tech student body, in the process of Myers' tenure, changed its tune of 'tfbth "We want Rudy," meaning' Allen," to "Good night, Tulane, good night. Tulane." And so one was privileged to watch the ebb and flow of contemporary student spirit, quite willing to accept a three-touchdown victory in heu of the quarterback of it's choice. A Blunder of Eagerness As football decisions go, it was not one as clear cut as a score of 27-7 would indicate. It is even possible to write that Georgia Tech came from behind. But it was placed in this position only through a blunder of eagerness.

The Jackets had taken the ball into field goal position on its first possession and skinny Danny Smith had the score at 3-0 See THE JACKET, Page 13-D Purdue 7 31 Mich. St. i 'r- Si Ind. 25 Colo. 24 Kan.

6 111. 12 Wise. 35 Missouri 30 Iowa St 22 Iowa 14 SOUTHWEST Texas Tech 20 Texas 27 Texas 20 7 Okla.63 SMU 17 Rice 6 Baylor 0 Okla. St 3 Kan. St 0 few jewelers who can make-a clock Everything was on schetjule slow and oblivious to the customary kickoff hour of 2 P.M.

The show.began with a 20-minute band concert. It was a considerate concession of regard for those of artistic betit, not to men- tion the ABC-Television Network, which had 20 minutes of business to peddle before indulging its public in the little southern foot-ballsociaL Finally, Pepper. Rodgers, seasoned veteran of television if only on a local basis straightened his ruffled hair and smoothed his traditional blue windbreaker (a tradition of seven games) and readied for the camera introductions. At last, at 2:30 the kickoff occurred. Then everybody lost track of time.

Once again that jewel-less field clock at Grant Field refused to tell time, as-sumedly on the grounds that it might incriminate itself 1 FAR WEST UCLA 28 California 3 Arizona 13 Oregon St. 10 Oregon 0 Wash. St 18 BYU37 SouCal 31 Wash. 66 Stanford 20 Associated Presi Photo UNTOUCHED: HORACE KING ROMPS Georgia Back Key in Bulldog Victory ace' Like Home Mo Zaire For a Fight All .1 i Bingo Bango Bongo, No One Wants, to See the Congo By GERALD ESKENAZI New York Tim. NfW Service NEW YORK Somewhere over the Atlantic Sunday morning a plane will be carrying the final stragglers from the United States who want to see the George Foreman-Muham- mad Ali fight in person.

Optimistic promoters, who believed people wouTd pay a $1,000 premium over the normal tour price, originally estimated that 5,000 New Yorkers would attend the bout Wednesday morning in Zaire (Tuesday night, Atlanta time). The actual number: About 35. But if a fiasco has been made out of the Zairian government's grand plans to promote tourism, it hasn't hurt the extraordinary response to the closed-circuit promotion, the promoters claim. Of course, the promoters also originally said a billion people would watch this latest bout of the century. Although they are more conservative now, talking in terms of a mere half-billion, they say the fight promises to approach a worldwide gross of $40 million.

However, although latest sales figures are unavailable, it is believed that fewer than a quarter of the seats in North America have been sold. As a rule, half the closed-circuit tickets are sold the day of a bout. Video Techniques was given the exclusive rights to promote a flight-fight package by a Zaire government that believed logistics would be smoother if only one company ran tours to ihe bout. Video Techniques' tours were overpriced by as much as $1,000. Virtually nobody signed on.

Then, two weeks ago, the government went to great pains to announce that the tour package was taken from Video and given to three experienced travel agencies, including Liberty Travel one of the largest. "We never, were involved with Zaire," said a Liberty official. "The government wanted us to buy the rooms up front and guarantee them the money and then we were supposed to try to sell them. That was ridiculous. So we backed out.

But Zaire continued to use our names in the newspaper advertisements." "That country," said a Liberty official, "is going to be a big, empty barn." Backers May Pull 40 Million On Ali-Foreman Title Match By SHIRLEY POVICH I KINSHASA, Zaire George Foreman and Muhammad Ali will touch gloves and then come out fighting for the world heavyweight title Tuesday, but why in the bizarre trapping of a boxing ring set up in the former Belgian Congo? And why at the uncivilized hour of 4 a.m.? Those are proper questions, and there are good answers. Zaire is where most of the money came from, to guarantee each gladiator the $5 million already in deposit in two Ameri- can banks, and Zaire is the emerging country its eager president, Joseph Mobutu, is determined to put on the map, one way or another, or at least in the headlines. The American promoters, a New York outfit named Video Techniques Hank Schwartz, president, chose the starting hour of 4 a.m., Wednesday, Zaire time, because at that moment it will be 10 p.m. Tuesday in the populous east- ern United States. They look for a minimum $20 million from closed curcuit theater TV, with fancy visions of as much as $40 million worldwide.

The first million of the $10 million guarantee to the two fighters was put up by a British group, Hemdale Leisure as a calculated risk venture with the promise of a rich return. It was a pump-priming million to assure Foreman and Ali a quick and hefty advance payment before they went into training. Hemdale Leisure Corp. is England's version of Motown Record the prosperous Detroit recording talent conglomerate. i The cast of characters in the promotion, 'beginning with Mobutu, who is running a one-man country, is the more incredible because it also includes the name of Don King.

Don King is the interesting fellow who is president of Don King Productions, a party to the whole deal in Zaire. He is also out of an Ohio prison where he served four years of a longer sentence as a convicted killer. King did not like the behavior of an employe in his numbers racket in Cleveland and a manslaughter charge resulted. King haunted the prison libraries, became self-educated, took up managing black fighters after his release, and pi-r- suasively talked Ali and Foreman into breaking with white promoters and striking a blow for a fellow black. It was King See MOBUTU, Page 16-D I 32 AGE 24 WEIGHT 212 lbs.

220 lbs. HEIGHT 6ft. 3in. 6ft. 3in.

REACH 80 in. 7BVim. BICEPS 15 in. 16 in. CHEST (Normal) 43 in.

43 in. CHEST (Expanded) 45 in. 45 in. FOREARM 13 Vi in. 14 in.

THIGH 26 in. 25 in. FIST tj 13in. 12 in. CALF 17 in.

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