The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 23

Saturdays College Football Scores- Selma (Times-Journal SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1964 Sports Auburn overcomes mistakes to bury Tennessee AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Kyle Collins scored three touchdowns and 20th-ranked Auburn overcame five turnovers to down Tennessee 29-10 in a Southeastern Conference football game Saturday. Collins, who had 77 yards on 10 carries, scored on runs of 2, 19 and 8 yards as the defending SEC champions evened their overall record at 2-2 in the league opener for both teams. Two of Auburn's turnovers set up Tennessee scores and another stopped a 64-yard Tiger drive at the Vols three.

Robinson caused Tennessee's Robinson to fumble out of the end zone for a 13-yard loss. Fuad Reveiz kicked a 40-yard field goal for the Vols in the second quarter and Robinson hurled a 14-yard touchdown pass to Joey Clinkscales in the third, cutting the Tiger lead to 16-10. Brent Fullwood hammered out 134 yards on 20 carries, but lost two fumbles, for Auburn and Johnnie Jones, the nation's No. 2 rusher, was held under 100 yards for the first time in seven games. Jones had 67 yards on 14 carries before leaving in the third quarter after aggravating a shoulder injury.

Tennessee was in trouble from the start, carving out only 19 yards of total offense on its first four possessions with poor field position the 20, 3, 20 and 8. Collins had a 23-yard run and Fullwood a 20-yard gallop on consecutive plays the first time Auburn had the ball, but on a third down play at the 1 Fullwood fumbled and Terry Brown recovered for Tennessee. The poor field position gave Auburn the ball at the Vols 39 after the punt, and it took the Tigers 13 plays to go the distance for the 7-0 lead in the final minute of the opening quarter. Auburn was sitting on a 16-3 lead in the final two minutes of the half when McKenzie picked off Washingtons short pass on the right side. After running two draws, hit Jeff Smith on a 16-yard pass to the one and the Vols took a time out five seconds before halftime.

Robinson then kept and was nailed for the three-yard loss as the half ended. The Tigers converted a third-and-21 situation in their 39-yard second quarter scoring drive when Washington fired a 23-yard pass to Freddie Weygand. Fullwood broke loose on a 41-yard run in the third, but fumbled and Joe Cofer recovered for the Vols on the Tennessee 40, setting in motion the Vols' only touchdown drive of the day, one that featured Robinson 37-yard pass to Tim McGee, carrying to the Auburn 15. When Collins tallied for the second time, Auburn had a 12-point cushion going into the final quarter and Tennessee never threatened again. Tennessee 0 3 7 010 Auburn 7 9 6 729 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING Tennessee, Jones 14-67, Howard 6-16.

Auburn, Fullwood 20-134, Collins 10-77, Ware 9-54. PASSING Tennessee, Robinson 7-17-2-119. Auburn, Washington 8-18-2-82. RECEIVING Tennessee, McGee 4-63, Smith 3-66. Auburn, Weygand 3-48, Gainous 2-18.

Photo by John Brown Tigers' Gerald Williams (98) and John Dailey (96) pressure Vols' Robinson Tennessee, 2-1-1, had a chance to cut into a 16-3 halftime deficit on Reggie McKenzies pass interception at the Auburn 30, but Tony Robinson was thrown for a three-yard loss at the Tiger four on the final play of the half. Collins' two-yard run capped a 39-yard drive in the first quarter and his 19-yarder came at the end of a 56-yard drive with 1:51 left in the third. He got his third score of the day with 6 59 remaining after Alvin Briggs had intercepted a pass at the Tennessee 23. Auburns other touchdown came in the second quarter on Reggie Wares one-yard run and the Tigers got a safety in the same quarter when end Gerald Crimson Tide's cookie crumbles again, 1 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) Kurt Page tossed two touchdown passes Saturday to rally Vanderbilt to a 30-21 Southeastern Conference football victory over Alabama, the Crimson Tides first homecoming loss since 1957.

The decision gave Vandy a 4-0 record and was its first victory over Alabama since 1969. The Crimson Tide now is 1-3. Don't the kids have rights too? By Jesse Tullos Sports Editor The other Commodore points came on three field goals by Ricky Anderson and a 30-yard run late in the game by Carl Woods, the games leading runner with 115 yard on 25 carries. Andersons 12 points on the field goals and three conversion gives him a Vandy record of 160 points. Runner Dean Davidson scored 156 in 1947-50.

The big gainers in Vandys go-ahead drive were a 26-yard pass to Louie Stephenson and a 25-yard run by Everett Crawford. Thanh Anderson, with his second interception of the day, picked off a Mike Shula pass and returned it 23 yards to the Alabama 16 to set up Vandys clinching touchdown. Paul Ott Carruth scored both Alabama touchdowns on a 1-yard dive and an 18-yard pass from Vince Sutton with 11 seconds left in the game. Van Tiffin hit two field goals for the Tide. Page, who now has seven scoring passes this season, hit on 19 of 32 for 218 yards against Alabama, with no interceptions.

For Alabama, freshman Sutton was 14 of 37 for 148 yards, with one interception. Sophmore Mike Shula took only three snaps with Thanh Anderson picking off his only pass. Anderson's first interception at the Vandy 20 touched off a late second quarter drive that ended in Ricky Andersons third field goal to make it Alabama 10-9 at the half. Tiffin raised it 13-9 after Jon Hand knocked the ball lose from Page and I-arry Roberts recovered it at the Vandy 21. Vanderbilt 3 6 7 1430 Alabama 7 3 3 8 21 RUSHING Vanderbilt, Woods 25-115, Crawford Alabama, Carruth 18-80, Moore 15-65.

PASSING Vanderbilt, Page 19-32-0-218. Alabama, Sutton 14-37-1-148, Shula 0-1-1-0. RECEIVING Vanderbilt, Woods 5-68, Edwards 5-44, Stephenson 3-33, Scott 2-48. Alabama, Carruth 6-67, Whitehurst 5-62, Moore 3-19. With Alabama leading 13-9, Page hit Chuck Scott in the end zone from the 18 in the third period and, in the final quarter, connected with Joe Kelly on a 1-yarder.

By JESSE TULLOS Sports Editor MARION They celebrated homecoming at Francis Marion High School here on Friday night. But this normal festive occasion was dampened by the actions of a few parents who saw fit to pull their children from the football team as a protest measure against grievances filed last week against the Marion Board of Education. This latest development in the Marion school controversy is remarkable for the virtual disregarding of the rights of the high school football players who were told to leave the Francis Marion dressing room and go home. The wisdom of the protest movement certainly should be debated. Grievances presented to the Marion School Board centered mainly around hiring practices at Marion Elementary School where 71 percent of the school is black and only six of the schools 27 teachers are black.

Other grievances included complaints of discrimination in the classroom and objection to the selection of two homecoming queens one black and one white at Francis Marion, where this practice has been observed for the past five years. One spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said Friday nights removal of three of the high school football players prior to the game was linked to the current selection process of the homecoming queens. Since we are a predominately black 68 percent of the Francis Marion student body is black) school, I guess they felt a single choice of the homecoming queen would be for a black student, the source said. Caught in the middle of this stretching of the civil rights boundaries are the high school football team. The parents may feel just in their arguments with the city school board, yet, their handling of their footballplaying children doesnt appear to be the righfcyagon for delivering the goods.

The kids are caught in the middle of the parents, who are holding up a well-polished mirror as an affront to their civil rights cause, and their own budding responsibilities as young adults. like most mirrors, the one being flashed by the protesting parents hati one-way reflection, with neither depth nor feelings. Francis Marion football coach Danny Cox said his team had just finished a pre-game meal and had returned to the atheltic locker room to begin preparations for the football game on Friday night against Sunshine. Around 3:45 p.m., two parents and one other person arrived at the school and told their kids they had to come home. Shortly, thereafter, another parent arrived and had his son leave the school.

Three of the players abided by their parents' wishes. Another called his father who told him to do what he felt was right. He ended up playing. "The kids were under a lot of pressure all week, Cox said. "For a while there, we didnt know if we were going to have enough players to dress out for the game.

We just had some kids who had enough courage to say they were going to play. We just hate it for the other kids but we tell our players to honor their mothers and their fathers. We try to teach them the right things. The kids had to make a decision and that was what they did, he said. "I don't know what the future of those kids pulled off the team will be," he added.

"I hope they (the parents) let them come back. The kids left crying. They wanted to play badly, but they had to do what their parents said to do." All three of the football players who were told to go home were senior starters and this was to be their final homecoming event as high school football players. Call it rising to the occasion if you will, but the Rams went out and beat Sunshine 32-0. Cox said the victory showed a lot of character and he will get no argument here.

"We are going to survive and we are going to have school and we are going to have an athletic program, no matter if they want to boycott or not," Cox said. Marion is a typical small Black Belt town, mostly quiet, conservative and normally staid in its ways. Like many other Southern communities, Manon is still battling the ghosts of the past in the race relations between the black and the white communities. This latest protest may appear, on the surface, to be a throwback to the 1960s. But the difference is, twenty years ago the battle was for civil rights while Friday's action was a blatant disruption of those rights for the youngsters Don't the kids have rights, too0 Pholo by Ray Tinsle Vandy's Carl Woods (27) goes airborne.