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Offeinivelv and AUBURN, Auburn re-hitchedlta wagon to a sen was at ms worst. but the Gators defense star Saturday nighy as tailback Bo Jackson shredded (Mississppi for 240 has rarely played better, yaras, leaaing we nungry Tigers to 41-0 SEC victor. Jackson aJSo contributed to the win with hli advice. Early in the than it did in a 20-0 vio-Itory over LSU before a subdued 78,598 at Tiger aia. uor oueiuive mm capaoie ui piaymg ociier than we played.

I still haxe confidence in them.11 8 Wickersham completed 18Nof 32 passes, but gained only 131 yards and was intercepted twice. Nor did the tigers fare any better on the ground Florida held them to minus-10 net yards rushing; Dalton Hilliard, the Tigers' senior halfback, was limited to 15 yards on 14 carries. His longest gain ''was six r- "Anytime yon can hold a fine team like LSU to no points," said Florida coach Galen Hall, "that's a i The home crowd of 67,500 was delighte And national television audience (ESPN) had to be 1m- firessed. Jackson rumbled through the Rebel defenses 1 or his 240 yards on a school record-breaking SI car- ries. The attempts broke, toe old mark of 36 held by I Joe Crlbbs.

:t.i- Mi i Tho 222'pound senior whom Auburn people believe is a done to Georgia's Rerschel Walker, now has 815 yards rushing in but four games. He gained only 475 in an abbreviated 1984 because 4( an inju- AlfflURN adium here Saturday nigh i. LSU quarterback Jeff Wickersham, under coni fstant harrwsfflent; was sacked six times for losses totaling 54 yards (three times for 29 yards by re- serve linebacker Clifford Charlton) and two of his week he appealed to his coach, pat Dye, to settle Auburn's quarterback situation once and for all. Jackson said he spoke for the entire team, Dye did what was asked of him. Senior Pat Washington was reinstated as No.

1, and the formula worked so well that the Tigers putgainetl the Rebels in total yards, 606Wnlne.a'" Stung frbin i the humiliating 38-20 defeat to passes were deflected at the line of scrimmageVi.ri. "We Just stunk up the joint on pawproteetton' See OAMRS said LSU Bill Ambarger. was embarrass-i p. 23C 4 JESSE OUTLAR COLUMN 6C COMPLETE COVERAGE 10-19C By ThomM 8tbwon vn Stiff lWHt 1 11 7. 'hi A surly burst of wind whipped over the north stands and across Grant Field an instant before ktekoff Saturday, blowing the ball off the tee before Georgia" Tech, could kick it.

This was portentous, because Tech pro-ceeded to do the same to a startled Carolina team. Scoring in every quarter while dismantling the ACC's most productive offense, Tech registered the first i shutout in the six years of Bill Curry's regime. This 'RM (UlJ'iOaiVCIJ UIVIVHfjll wa-w, VIVWVHt UUtlSJK L. Al. A ASHU Mm Ul- WU1UU AI9UI IUIBIU9KD BL L11UI3 UI WDJBi LUC 111 XICCU itrtiht out the south gates onto North Avenue And it Mght weU have been worse.

Ivst rushinc for 123 vards and throwinc a touchdown r-ih LI 1 TH3YCI LOW JACXBTSSARrJ: North Carolina FB BradLopp (27) is surrounded by Tech's Mark White (35), Glenn Spencer (94) and ted Roof (93). f' Toronto reuses to fold pass. Quarterback John Dewberry also excelled, scoring one touchdown and throwing well on a blustery day for two more scores. But the outcome really belonged to the Yellow Jackets' defense, which ran its streak with out allowing a touchdown to 10 quarters and held a UNC attack that had been averaging mora than 418 n't a game to 129. Not only was the shutout Tech's since a 21-0 victory over Air Force in 1979 but )t represented the time a Dick Cram Carolina team had been blanked, 'Breaking a five-game losing streak to Carolina, Tech improved its record to 3-1 while UNC went to 24.

Prefacing his comments by noting bis play much better than that," Curry said he almost ap-ticipated such a game, if not his team's overall polish. The Jackets might have been a five-point favorite here, but no one could have imagined Carolina would commit four turnovers and finish with a pitiful 1.7-yards-peV-play average. Said Curry, had a suspicion from the week' of Kctice that we might play a great game. 1 didn't if it'd be great enough against that team. North Carolina is a great program and they've played better games than; that and they will play better.

We, Just caught" them on a day when things went our way and wenlavedextremelv welL" Furman Journal Sporh Editor 25C Dointess Totally CARDS WIN EASTvvi iBy Bud tun Wrttar; VAAftteill kaam'i KspAasilif nn latiivltAfM a ifAAMt TORONTO The Toronto Blue Jays were ready. Not long after the champagne became a geyser, a sign fi UNC quarterback Kevin Anthony of Decatut held was unfurled from their locker room lithe key. Tech had to limit his 273-yard passing aver- It read: This team was counted out several times ase and Dress for turnovers as WelL The pattern was by many people. But we did not hear the belL' u. itruck on UNCs second possession when Anthony, under Good grammar followed even better baseball Satur bliti pressure from linebacker Ted Roof, threw an in- "dav.1 as the Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees S-l tech in the computerized age in which Georgia Tech wasn't the laughee.

Bill Curry bad never known the Eleasure of shutting out another team. Georgia Tech adn't shut out anybody since 1979, when the Air Force Academy was low on firepower. i There had been no real evidence of what Saturday would bring at Grant Field North Carolina arrived leading the Atlantic Coast Conference in offense, next to last having lived up to neither. The Tar Heels could easily have qualified as the worst on defense; surely they suffered from a palsied offense, and Georgia Tech tossed them about like a i-' terceptlon to Tech rover Mark Hogan. The Jackets quickly went 38 yards.

Dewberry scoring from a yard See TECH 24Ca nuswiwymgwiiniiraEaou, a deceivinelv inflated bv a weekend encasement with an unskilled VMI team. Georgia Tech cut them down to i I to clinch the first division title in the team's nine-year 'history. It was Toronto's 99th win of the season and it increased the Jays' lead over New York to three games ientering Sunday's season finale. Toronto did it with Doyle Alexander, a former Yankee, Brave, Dodger, Giant, Oriole and throwing I a five-hitter for his 17th win of the season. The Jays did it by chasing another former Atlanta pitcher, Joe.

Cowley, on solo home rune by Ernie Whitt, Lloyd Mo seby and Willio Upshaw- -4 i i "You get a little itchy when you have a chance to clinch and you Just cant do it," said Blue Jays manager Bobby Cox. "To be honest, I thought 97 wins would be enough in this division, but that didnt quite cut It This is Just a great feeling." 3 "Second place is for the birds, paL" said Yankees manager Billy Martin. "Toronto hung in there. A lot of teams might not have done From a psychological standpoint, Toronto couldn't afford another loss. The Blue Jays had dropped four i straight games, their longest losing streak since the All-Star With a chance to clinch Friday night, Toronto saw a 3-2 lead evaporate in the ninth inning.

A twHut homer by Butch Wynegar off reliever Tom Henke tied it The Yankees went ahead when Moseby inexplicably dropped a Den Mattlngly fly ball. can't tell you what this means to me," Moseby said Saturday. "After Friday night, I felt all alone, like- there was nobody to talk to. I felt like a ghost was go- 129 yards. Kept them at a respectful distance from the end zone, and in the end caused the team from Chapel Hill to suffer its first shutout since another visit to Atlanta to lose to Kentucky, 21-0.

That was 93 games ago. The final yardstick by which team performance is registered read as if Ohio State had been playing Catawba. fc? Here was a team of Yellow Jackets, cautiously favored by those who do the favoring by a meager five -points, pawing North Carolina as if it were another date with The Citadel or Wake Forest (Not Furman just don't bring that one 1 There was a revival of the old Dodd City days br -the West Stands, the polite opera house applause for a defensive exploit. Across in the more raucous student section, they sang out that old lyric from a beer commercial into the afternoon, and spent most of the second half casually admiring their team, which isn't always the case. fj RlCHAOOtCKSStaff EDDIE ROBINSON: His magic number is 324.

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