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The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 47

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Ray Goff spurs second-half Bulldog comeback Georgia overtures I l-l Mill. I ILIIIIIlLlllLyUJUII I .1 aL. -fcjni iiniiniMTiiiiAiAfl Goff completed the only pass in the game for Georgia, a 27-yard strike to Mark Wilson at the Kentucky 28. Kentucky then mounted a drive from its goal line, moving out to the 30 before Thompson stepped in to intercept a pass by freshman Bill Tolston and return it seven yards to the 30, setting up Georgia's final score. "This poor team needs a break," said a dejected Fran carries for 105 yards.

Goff added 66 for the Bulldogs and Harrison 63 on only eight carries. After cashing in the fumble recovery starting a 55-yard drive for the go-ahead touchdown, Georgia had the opportunity to extend its lead early in the fourth quarter but Goff fumbled on the Wildcat eight-yard line with Kentucky's Mike Emanuel recovering. It was during that drive that Curci. "We just have a super knack for doing something wrong that hurts us." "I'm glad we played the tight half in this game the second," commented Goergia Coach Vince Dooley. "We felt we could win the ball game if we did two things, hold Sonny Collins to 100 yards and score three touchdowns," Dooley added.

SEC. Kentucky feU to 1-5-1 and (W. Georgia held Kentucky's two time all conference running sensation, Sonny Collins, to only 89 yards on 24 carries in Collins' attempt to become the SEC's first runner to reach the mark in seven games. He now has 944 yards this year. Kevin McLee, Georgia's outstanding sophomore, was the game's leading rusher with 21 quarter after Mike Siganos returned a punt 61 yards to the Bulldog 15.

When that threat ended, Pierce kicked a 27-yard field goal. Kentucky threatened In the closing minutes, getting a 25-yard run by Campassi to the Georgia 46 and later having a 12-yard pass to the 16 nullified by an ineligible receiver down-field, moving the ball back to the Georgia 43. Georgia is now 5-2 for the year and 3-1 in the 0 Championship races Tilghman 18 Mayfield 62 Heath 21 Madisonville 7 Reidland 20 Ft. Campbell 14 Cody boosts Eastern over Western. 13-7 No compassion for Campassi Kentucky running back Steve Campassi (41) grapples through the grasp of Georgia defenders Jim Griffith (47) linebacker, safety Chip Miller and end Dicky Clark (87) to score from the six-yard line in first quarter at Athens, Saturday.

(APWirephoto) Buccaneers and MSU tie ern Kentucky a 13-7 victory over previously unbeaten Western Kentucky Saturday in an Ohio Valley Conference game between two of college division Long gain by Anderson the third quarter and ended in the fourth, took 20 plays to finish. The Bucs moved to the Murray State two-yard line and the Racer defense held East Tennessee for three plays before George Fugate hit off left tackle for the TD at 13:41. Eddie Huff then added the extra point See BUCS, Page 2D Paducah, Ky. Pet. 26, 1975 Paducah Tilghman runner Kenny Anderson breaks loose for a long gain in Friday night's 18-7 football victory over: Madisonville.

The win sewed np the Class 4A district championship for the Bluemen. Running beside Anderson teammate Robert Young (80). (Staff photo by Bill Matlock) FOR COMPLETE GAME DETAILS SEE PAGE 3D. North Texas State tumbles Tennessee football's fiercest rivals. Cody snapped a 7-7 tie with a 25-yard field goal 4:41 into the second quarter, the first of his two second period three-pointers.

Less than six minutes later, he connected on a 27-yard boot and Eastern Kentucky, 6-0-1 and the fourth-rated college division team, held second-ranked Western Kentucky, 6-1, in check from then on. Western Kentucky grabbed a 7-0 lead on its first series, marching in 14 plays to score at 6:55 of the first quarter on a razzle-dazzle play. Western Kentucky quarterback Billy Smith passed six yards to Billy Lindsey, who lateraled to Lawrence Jefferson, who raced 12 yards untouched into the end. zone. Charlie Johnson's extra point made it 7-0.

But Eastern Kentucky, which registered its first victory in seven years in this heated Kentucky series, came right back to score on its first offensive series with an eight-play touchdown drive. McCallister ran the ball the last five times in the drive, racing for 5, 14, 13, 4 and finally a 5-yard touchdown bolt off right tackle. Cody's extra point knotted the score at 7-7. Trojans squeeze by Irish; ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Ray Goff scored one touchdown and set up another following second half turnovers Saturday as Georgia rolled to a 21-13 Southeastern Conference comeback victory over the Kentucky Wildcats.

Goff, who scampered 26 yards shortly after the Bulldogs recovered a fumble, fumbled himself into the end zone with tackle Mike Wilson recovering in the end zone for one touchdown to give Georgia a 14-13 advantage. The Bulldogs then scored their clinching touchdown with less than five minutes remaining when Goff scored on a one-yard keeper following a pass interception by Bobby Thomp-s6n at the Wildcat 30. Georgia's other score came in the opening quarter on a 34-yard burst by Glynn Harrison. Kentucky took advantage of a short punt and a fumble recovery to jump to an early 3-0 lead on a 46-yard field goal by John Pierce and a six-yard run by Steve Campassi. The Wildcats had to settle for only a field goal in the second Kentucky Georgia 10 3 7 0 0-13 7 2i Ky-FG Pierce 46 Ky Campassi 6 run (Pierce kick) Ga Harrison 34 run (Long kick) Ky-FG Pierce 27 Ga M.

Wilson 1 fumble recovery (Long kick) Ga Goff 1 run (Long kick) Kentucky 18 69-257 4- 38 3-1 5- 43 Georgia 13 51-257 27 28 1- 4-0 5-34 6-2 2- 19 First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Bell, the country's top rusher, carried 40 times for 165 yards and Tatupu barreled up the middle for an additional 79 College football roundup yards on just six carries as the Trojans raised their record to 7-0. USC outgained the Irish 260- upon in four Big Ten games this season: With the shutout lost in the first half, Hayes turned his attention to letting All-American Archie Griffin break the all-time college football career rushing record. Griffin, held to 36 yards in the first half, complied. He finished the game with 130 yards on 20 carries to push his career total to 4,730 yards. The old record of 4,715 by Ed Marinaro at Cornell in the third period.

The nationally ranked Alabama defense, led by Leroy Cook and Bob Baumhower, held TCU to 78 yards of total offense, only 11 on the ground. The Tide used half the second period on an 18-play drive to score and, two plays later, linebacker Gus White intercepted a Lee Cook pass and returned it 22 yards to the TCU 29 to set up the first two scores by Todd. Buckeyes, Sooners romp JOHNSTON CITY, quarter touchdown and extra point brought host East Tennessee from behind and the "Buccaneers battled Murray State's Racers to a 10-10 deadlock here Saturday af-: ternoon. All of Murray State's scoring in the first half and all of the Buccaneers occurred in the second half. Coach Bill Furgerson's "Bacers now stand 1-2-1 in Ohio Valley Conference play and 2-3-1 overall.

East Tennessee 'sports an 0-2-1 record in the DVC and 1-5-1 overall. Murray's Emodi Amagwula got his team on the scoreboard in the first quarter when he footed a 26-yard field goal at 7:04. With 6 Vz minutes gone in the second quarter, signalcaller Mike Hobbie, the OVC's total offensive leader, hooked up Tvith receiver Willie DeLoach for a 63-yard score. Amagwula kicked the extra point and the Racer defense handled the Bucs the rest of the first half. In the third quarter, placekicker Bobby Neff set an East Tennessee school record by kicking a 42-yard field goal at 9:50.

East Tennessee started its scoring drive on its 23-yard line. The drive, which began in Murray State. East Tennessee. .3 7 0 .0 0 3 O-lu 7-10 MSU Emodi Amagwula, 26-field goal. MSU-Willie DeLoach, 63-pass from Mike Hobbie Amagwula kick ETSU-Bobby Neff, 42-field goal.

ETSU-George Fugate, 2-run (Eddie Huff kick). STATISTICS MSU ETSU 23 232 135 33 13-19-2 0 2-24 30 First downs Rushing yards Passing yards Return yardage Passes Fumbles lost Punts Yards penalized 11 96 134 0 8-134 0 644.8 35 By HOWARD SMITH AP Sports Writer The running of highly-touted tailback Ricky Bell and unheralded fullback Mosi Tatupu and a staunch Southern California defense led the third-ranked Trojans past Notre Dame 24-17 Saturday in the 47th renewal of their intersectional rivalry. Navy upsets Pitt RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) -Earl Cody kicked two field goals and Scott McCallister slammed over for one touch down to give undefeated East Section 14 Pages 143 yards on the ground and held ND quarterback Joe Montana to just three completions in 11 attempts for 25 yards. Notre Dame, ranked 14th, built a 14-7 lead at halftime of the nationally televised contest on Al Hunter's 52-yard run and Tom Lopienski's 13-yard scamper with a blocked punt.

South- fell midway in the fourth quarter when Griffin took a handoff from quarterback Cornelius Greene and burst 23 yards up the middle his longest and last run of the day. It also extended to 28 his record streak of regular-season games with 100 yards or more. "We let Archie get the record just to get it over with," Hayes said. "Besides, something might happen in practice. We're just glad to get it over with.

"In that first half we only had 25 plays. But we got almost a point per play," Hayes added. "That's pretty good." Griffin's running mate, bruising fullback Pete Johnson, scored on runs of 60 and three yards to give him 18 touchdowns this season just two shy of the Big Ten record set in 1972 by another Ohio State fullback, Champ Hensori. Purdue workhorse Mike Pruitt piled up 127 yards on 24 carries but the Boilermakers, despite two drives to the Ohio State 10-yard line, had to settle for a pair of first-half field goals by Steve Schmidt. Ohio State loses shutout, but Griffin cracks record overs, took the kickoff on the two, sped up the middle behind a wall of blockers and side; stepped safety Billy Arbo In midfield.

North Texas State went ahead 14-7 in the second period after defensive end Jimmy Burkholder grabbed a pitchout intended for tailback Mike Gayles on the Tennessee 11, Gayles stopped Burkholder on the eight, but two plays later; Wood, a senior from Amarillo, plunged from the three; for the touchdown. On the following kickoff, Ten-" nessee's Jeff Moore fumbled the ball after being tackled bv Burkholder and the Bruce Bell recovered on thi Vols 21. Three plays Woods sprinted in from the sev-; en for the score. i Sports index College Football 2D, ID College scores 2D; Pan-Am games 2D' Prep football 3D.6D; Pro football 4D racing 4D Moynahan's Monologue Outdoors 5D' PITTSBURGH (AP) Ro-verback Chet Moeller pounced on a Tony Dorsett fumble early in the game and intercepted a pass in the final minutes to key an outstanding defensive effort that helped Navy to a 17-0 upset of 17th-ranked Pittsburgh Saturday in college football. Stubby tailback Gerry Goodwin rushed for 109 yards and led touchdown drives in the first and third quarters by the previously inconsistent Navy offense.

Midshipman quarterback John Kurowski threw just two passes all afternoon, both incomplete, but Navy still ern Cal tied it on Bell's two-yard run in the third period before Dave Reeve booted a 27-yard field goal to put the Irish, now 5-2, back on top in the fourth. But Southern Cal, with Bell and Tatupu ripping off yardage, drove to the Notre Dame two-yard line and quarterback Vince Evans carried the ball in for the winning touchdown. Glen Walker's 35-yard field goal closed out the scoring for USC. Elsewhere, top-ranked Ohio State, No. 2 Oklahoma, No.

4 Nebraska and No. 5 Texas continued to roll. The top-ranked Buckeyes knocked off Purdue 35-6; the Sooners dumped Iowa State 39-7; the" Cornhuskers buried No. 10 Colorado 63-21 and the Aggies got by Baylor 19-10. No.

6 Alabama routed Texas Christian 45-0; No. 7 Michigan blasted Indiana 55-7; No. 9 Penn State blanked Army 31-fl; No. 12 Florida beat Duke 24-16; No. 13 Arizona was beaten by New Mexico 44-34; No.

15 Mis-See DUBOSETPage 2D SEC-OVC OVC Austin Peay 17, Middle Tennessee 13 Murray 10, East Tennessee 10 Tennessee Tech 28, Morehead 13 Eastern Kentucky 13, Western Kentucky 7 SEC Alabama 45, Texas Christian 0 Auburn 17, Florida State 14 Florida 24, Duke 16 Georgia 21, Kentucky 13 Mississippi 17, Vanderbilt 7 Mississippi State 28, Louisville 14 Texas State 21, Tennessee 14 LSU 24, South Carolina 6 Alabama opens flood gates and swamns Texas Christian By ESCAR THOMPSON Associated Press Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Sears Woods returned a fourth-quarter kickoff for 98 yards and a touchdown Saturday as underdog North Texas State shocked Tennessee 21-14 In col-lege football. Tennessee had just tied the score at 14-14 with 4:25 left when Woods, who had scored twice earlier after Vol turn- raised its record to 5-2 with the upset. Pitt, which had averaged 42 points in its last four games, fell to 5-2 with its first shutout in three seasons under Coach Johnny Majors. Dorsett picked up 122 yards rushing to become the seventh leading ground gainer in college football history.

But he lost two of Pitt's three fumbles. He lost the ball at the Navy 15 early in the first quarter after a 58-yard punt return by freshman Gordon Jones. Moeller, playing with a broken thumb in a cast, recovered for Navy. 130 minutr rrrre rapacity 500 cold (ranking Krr amprrrs aiofdeiop terminal! rar-) -1 Sears OpenSundayltil6 P.Mj Save The DieHard WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) An all-time college football rushing record for his favorite runner and the seventh straight victory weren't quite enough to satisfy Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes.

"I wish we could have had a shutout," Hayes said, fretting over a pair of field goals after his top-ranked Buckeyes steamrolled Purdue 35-6 Saturday. It was the first time Ohio State had been scored ries before retiring as sixth- ranked Alabama ran its mark to 6-J and handed the Horned Frogs their 17th loss in a row. Alabama added two second period scores on a dive by Robert Fraley and a four-yard run by Richard Todd and then made it ludicrous with 24 points Starts THURSDAY Bruce Lk Return of The Dragon XVI BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Fullback Johnny Davis ran 66 yards off tackle to open the flood gates and the Alabama Crimson Tide poured through for a 450 football victory over outmanned Texas Christian Saturday. Davis got 102 yards on 10 car- Over the past 8 years this battery hat earned a reputation for fast starts and dependability Regular U.93 I OHMIOMWAY 0 2T (together).

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