Alabama Journal from Montgomery, Alabama • 13

Thursday, January 15, 1970 ALABAMA JOUKffAL 13 Phy Auburn, Alabama Not Likely To Add 11th Game In 70 -T-Si )F3a C-AWjgs this HAT) Lee Lanier fort lesson opened. Its closely-contested games and fanatical crowd By RAY HOUJMAN Journal Sports Editor Montgomery, which made its enthusiasm have made it one of the better-known high school Lee-Lanier series famous throughout the Southeast, will have a new Class 4-A football rivalry starting in 1970. The anxiously-awaited con hope that we keep just our 10 games." Bryant has issued no formal statement, but members of. the Alabama publicity department have expressed doubts that the Tide will add a game, although Bryant backed the proposal. "We discussed it last week," said publicity director Charlie Thornton, "and he didn't say anything about adding any games this I would say that it would have to be a mighty desirable game for us to do anything this year with the schedule we've got coming up." Thornton stressed that he could not speak for Bryant.

Schedules for 1970 at both Auburn and Alabama rank with the toughest in the (See NCAA story, Page 14) It doesn't appear likely that Auburn's Ralph Jordan and Alabama's Paul Bryant will join the rush of college coaches to add an 11th game for the 1970 season. The National Collegiate Athletic Association voted Wednesday to up the regular season game limit to 11 in order to help schools finance, costly athletic programs. Auburn's Jordan, who has gone on record several times in the past as opposing the rule, said he hoped his school would not jump into the plan. "I don't think we'll get an 11th game," he said. "I have a feeling Auburn will go slow on it and study it.

Certainly, I frontation between new Jeff Davis and established Lanier and Robert E. Lee now is definite. Jeff Davis football coach and rivalries in the nation. Jeff Davis' football success has come quickly and impressively. After a 6-4 first-year season, the Vols went unbeaten last season, having a perfect record spoiled in the final game of the season in a tie with Lee of Huntsville.

The Vols remained in playoff contention until the final week but failed to make one of the necessary top four berths in the Alabama High School Athletic Association rating system. Jeff Davis' schedule for the 1970 season has not been completed. Livings said thus far only six contracts have been signed. athletic director Billy Livings said Wednesday he had signed contracts with both Montgomery 4-A schools for next year. "It's much to my chagrin, laughed Livings, noting that Lee and Lanier are regular con tenders for the state cham pionship and have combined to bring the title to Montgomery Bama Adds Coach for the last four seasons.

1 Lee, which went 12-0 and won Hloiriruefts the state crown last season, will be first on the Vol intra-city slate. The two will meet in Cramton Bowl on Sept. 18. i Lanier, state champions -in 1966, 67 and 68 before dropping CeoDoong Wmy If ILcrcy to a 7-2 record last year, will play the Vols at the Bowl Oct. 16.

WASHINGTON (AP) Alabama football Coach Paul Bryant announced today that former Crimson Tide player and assistant coach Richard Williamson is rejoining the Bama coaching staff. Bryant said the 28-year-old Fort Deposit, native accepted his offer Wednesday night. Both are attending a coaching clinic here. Williamson is a 1964 graduate of Alabama. He lettered in football in 1961 and 1962 and was a Bama coach from 1964 through 1967.

He has been an assistant on the Arkansas staff for the past two years. Bryant "Richard is capable of becoming a head coach but I think in all fairness that I should make it clear that I'm not hand picking him for the job. "I think we have a lot of head coaching material on our staff and when the time comes for Alabama to pick another coach, I'm sure Richard will be given the same consideration as our other coaches." This fulfills the promise made College Scores By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS East Villanova 102, Niagara 91 Seton Hall 64, America! IT. 43 Dartmouth S3, Harvard 80 Syracuse 100, Lafayette 89 W. Va.

67, Pittsburgh 66 Georgetown, D.C. 89, St. Joseph's, 80 Cheyney St. 91. Shippensburg 74 Phil.

Textile 68, Susquehanna 51 Smith So. Caro. 59, Furman Si Maryland 73, Navy 57 Ky. Wesleyan 91. SE Mo.

(1 Midwest Detroit 86, New Orleans Loyola 46 Bowling Gr. 73, Kent St. 67 Louisville 77, Dayton 69 Notre Dame 96, DePaoJ 73 Drake 65, Bradley 55 Ohio U. 71, Miami, Ohio 41 Gannon 80, Akron 79, OT Ashland 56, Cleveland St. 37 68 5 0 imrnrnmrmrmTii rvivn a 5 a smrvrrs by Livings and Jeff Davis I principal Jack Rutland when the school opened in 1968.

At that time, the two said the Volun- iiteers would give themselves two ijyears to get their program RAY established before taking on the two powerhouses in 1970. The Lee-Lanier series began in 1957, two years after Lee HOLLIMAN np I IB Sports Editor Schwobilt has just made Ipiuuuuuu II 0 30 for its greaiest-yet January I'M- i -11 a1 til-. GREG NORTHINGTON LAWRENCE, LILLY is looking forward next year, when Davis is gone, to having a seven-footer to help fill the gap. "I hope to be in the starting lineup my last three years," 'the soft-spoken Lilly said. "I think I'm weakest on offense, especially shooting.

I'm working and trying to improve. "I think Alabama State is a well-put-together team," he went on' "The freshmen and the other newcomers have been very valuable." Freshman Lilly, 7-0, and newcomer Northington, 7-0V, have been most valuable, and theytertainly have created the city's biggest conversation piece. i Hornet Arena shall henceforth be known as "Land of the Giants. The door leading to the Journal sports department measures exactly six feet, 11 and one-quarter inches high. Now I'm not saying Greggory Northington and Lawrence Lilly are tall, but they did have to stoop slightly to get through that door.

And they did feel the heat from the fluorescent light fixtures. And they did draw stares when they came strolling through the newsroom as if it were an everyday thing for giants to be parading through a newspaper office. Both Northington and Lilly hint that they may. be a fraction of an inch short of seven feet tall MIGHT be seven feet," said Northington; "I don't really know how tall I am," said Lilly) and that the small extra margin has been made up by the Alabama State University publicity department for added punch. But judging from our doorway, Tom Knight can be absolved from guilt of stretching the truth.

They're close enough. At Alabama State, basketball coach Bernard Boozer doesn't quibble about a quarter of an inch, or even a whole inch. His figures deal in points, rebounds and won-lost records, and Northington and Lilly help give him pleasant figuring. Even more pleasant is the fact that Northington, listed on the program at 7-OVi and sometimes rounded out to an even 7-1, is a sophomore and Lilly, listed at a mere seven flat, is a freshman. This makes the Hornets the only college in Alabama and one of the few teams anywhere, even including the pros, who can boast of two seven footers.

Coach Brought Own Giant Boozer helped start the Paul Bunyan act when he brought Northington with him from Paul Quinn Collge in Waco, Texas when that school dropped intercollegiate athletics last yean Northington was a three-year all-stater and a two-year prep All-America at Harry E. Wood High School in Indianapolis, Ind. After his senior season he played on the state all-star team which beat the Kentucky all-stars in an annual game matching two of the nation's most basketball-conscious" states. On that same team was John Mengelt of Elwood, now a star backcourtman at Auburn University. "I had several offers, some of them from major colleges," said the towering Northington.

"BuM didn't feel I was ready for major college then." How about now? "Now I know I'm Northington answered. In fact, ne's already talking about a 'future in pro basketball "If I can get a chance, if somebody will come down and look at me," he said, "I would love to play pro ball." In fact, he might be interested even before graduation, from Bama State. "If I got an offer now, I'd probably look into it and then make up my mind between pro basketball -and an education." Boozer hopes Northington will decide on education if he's faced with such a The big man, nicknamed. "Poncho" by his mother when he was just a growing tot, is averaging 32' points per game and teams with 6-0 John Davis to give the Hornets one of the best one-two rebounding punches imaginable. State Best In Alabama? "I think Alabama State is the best college team in Alabama," he said, "and that includes the big schools, I know, man for man, nobody can compare with us.

1 "Danny Crenshaw (battling Northington for team scoring honors) is a great man to play with, and when Davis is right there isn't anybody who can beat him on the boards. We have a great set of guards (Crenshaw and Leroy Alexander) who know how to work the ball under, and I get most of my points on easy layups." Northington, who took up basketball at the age of nine but doesn't think he blossomed until his final two years in high school, finds a difference in basketball in Alabama and Indiana. "Down here they just run and shoot," he said. "They run and shoot in Indiana, too, but they also play control basketball. Up there, they stress defense more, although I'll admit I don't play the best defense in the world.

"I think the difference is that in Indiana a boy grows up playing basketball. Everybody has a basketball goal in their backyard." Lilly Late Discovery Lilly is a living, breathing, high-altitude example of Northington's reasoning. When he was in loth grade at i High in Montevallo, Lilly had not even picked up a basketball with the intention of dribbling it or shooting it But coach Arthur Greenleaf saw the kid towering above everybody else in the school and convinced him that he should give the sport a whirl Lilly immediately made the starting lineup. "I liked the game very much," he said, "and during my senior year in high school I began thinking about getting a college scholarship." Several colleges were interested, but Lilly thought he would like Alabama State best of all and he does. Lilly has not been the instant success that Northington has at Alabama State, probably because he has not.

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