Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 21

Ira s-iklnl Ifti WHAT THE PEOPLE KNOW WILL HURT THEM oporis V- 'I By PAT SMYTH bled a handoff and Matthew Assistant Sports Editor "recovered for the 'v'' fill iliL" gave the Racers their- first TD of- the game and after they trussed a passing attempt for the extra two points cut the lead to two points Buc quarterback Alan Chadwick lived up to his rating as the top passer and offense leader in the OVC by com- pleting 13 of 23 piasses for 131 yards and rushing for another 61 Chadwick was sidelined at a crucial point late in the game with an ankle injury but came back in for the final (See BUCS Pg 22) sides forthe finalperiod Scve'rarshort runs by Daf-r fron brought the Bucs to the Murray one and with 13:45 left in the game Daffron went over left tackle for the TD kick was good for a 14-6 ETSJ4 lead Fuprhteitis struck the Bucs however as Pierre Harshaw fumbled a Murray punt on the 25-yard' line and it was recovered by Don DeickenThe Racers followed that with a 15-vard pass play from Pan-dolfi to Engle The next Pan-dolfi-Engle pass for 10 yards Racers Nine plays later Clayton who rushed for 140 yards in 28 carries zipped in for the deciding TD The early going however belonged to the Bucs who took the opening kickoff and methodically marched 85 yards dowhfield in 14 plays in a touchdown drive culminated by Steve one-yard run Off right tackle John PAT gave the Big Blue a 7-0 lead with 10:06 showing on theclock A series of Murray field goal attempts followed and twp were successful to leave the Bucs with a 7-6 halftime edge first field goal was -a 39-yarder with 4:51 left in the first quarter and his second for 46 yards came early in the second quarter East Tennessee began its second touchdown drive late in the third quarter and penetrated to the Murray seven before the teams changed Score by Quarters: Murray 11 I East Tennessee 7 0 1 Daffron 1 rub -Rauch kick Wright 30 field goal Wright 46 field goal Daffron run- Rauch kick Farrell 10 pass from Pandolfi Pass fails Clayton 13 run Engel pass from Pandolfi MMlMHli East Tennessee staked an early claim on the lead but playing to protect it found itself on the wrong end of a 20-14 score at the final gun as Murray slipped ahead of the Big Blue in the final three minutes of play to post a big Ohio Valley Conference victory yesterday at Memorial Stadium win coupled with Western 35-0 trouncing of Eastern Kentucky served to break up the close-knit OVC standings leaving the Hilltoppers in control with a 4-0 slate and Murray and Morehead following in second with 3-L marks The Bucs fell into a three-way tie for third place along with Eastern Ken- tucky and Middle Tennessee with a 2-2 worksheet A homecoming crowd of 7831 was on hand as the Bucs fatally injured by three fumbles saw a 14-12 lead evaporate when powerful running back Don Clayton slipped through the line and scored on a 13-yard run left in the game i Quarterback Tom Pandolfi passed to-Jim Engel for the two-point conversion and Murray held the Bucs on fourth and six with a little over a minute and a half left to play to insure the six-point victory game-winning touchdown was set up by the final and most costly fymble when Nat Cherrv bob- 4- j7Hv Clayton on the move Dejection There was no joy in for this fan who stand to watch anymore as toe Big Blue fell to Murray 20-14 in yesterday Homecoming at Memorial Stadium (Staff photo by Durham) powerful running back Don Clayton (21) pur- Stadium Clayton rushed for 140 yards on 28 carries to sued by Gary Harrell (64) picks up yardage spark Murray to an important 20-14 OVC victory over for the Racers' during' game at Memorial the Big Blue (Staff photo by Durham) even rum great job for us on punt and kickoff said Frazier Frazier said it one of the defensive play but we lacked something on Chadwick the total offensive leader in the Ohio Valley conference netted 192 yards He carried eight times for 61 yards and completed 13 or 23 aerials for 131 yards This put him over the 1000 mark In total offense with 1105 yards 7 Ciayton-the leading rusher added 127 yards on 28 parries to run his output to 825 yards Murray quarterback Tom Pandolfi who ranks second in league total offense piled up 129 yards to run his total to 975 yards Racer assistant coach Carl Oakley who was the telephone man for his club in the press box said ETSU was the best team they had played -this season with the exception of Western Carolina are far ahead of he said was one of our best defensive games but played better offensive said Oakley 'OVC Murray 20 East Tennessee 14 Middle Tennessee 23 Austin Peay 20 Kentucky 35 Kentucky Morehead 23 Tennessee Tech 10 -SEC Alabama 42 Tennessee 21 Auburn 24 Georgia Tech 10 Mississippi Florida 10 Vanderbilt 18 Georgia 14 Mississippi State 18 Louisville 7 LSU 28 'Kentucky 21 OTHERS Carson-Newman 10 Gardner-Webb 0 Virginia Tech 27 Virginia 15 Appalachian 28 Wofford 21 Emory 53 Randolph-Macon 21 Lenoir-Rhyne 23 Mars Hill 20 By HENRY JENKINS Assistant Sports Editor The fate of fumbles happen in football and "when it does the resultis happiness and disappointment This was the case at Memorial Stadium yesterday as two late miscues turned what appeared a homecoming victory for East Tennessee State University into a heart-breaking 20-14 defeat by Murray State before 7831 fans 7 The Bucs led for 53 minutes and 55 secbnds counting the time they made their first touch-down early in first period until Don 13-yard touchdown run with 2:11 remaining in the game that took their lead away made too many mistakes against a real good football said a disappointed Roy Frazier fumbles late in the game killed us but we felt we could hold on and win after the first said Frazier The turnover that-led to game-winning TD came on a fumble by Nat Cherry on 45-yard line and Mathew Schappert covered it for the Racers From there the fired-up Kentuckians moved on downfield and Clayton went end in a 13-yard sweep around right end for the winning score had a bunch of minor injuries and people who had been sick going into the game and this cut down on our said Fraizerr ou have tohavealotof people ona hot afternoon like this and against a good football team as Murray They are the best team we've faced all said the Buc coach who takes his club to Greeneville SC Saturday to play furman University Quarterback Alan Chadwick came up with a sprained ankle late in the gairie 4o add t6 woeshutwas pressed with it taped up on the last series following winning score He took the Bucs from their own 27 to the Racer 44 where a crucial fourth down and six situation fell short by a yard and the Racers took over with 136 left on the clock was hit when I pitched said Chadwick who had his ankle packed in ice in the Buc dressing room He thought it might not be top serious Safety man Pierre Hartsaw miscued the first fatal fumble in the fourth period when he let the ball get through his arms after signaling a free catch with the Bucs ahead 14-6 and nine minutes to play just a freshman and has been doing a Reggie Jackson smashed a pair of run-producing doubles and Jim Hunter held the New York Mets bats at bay yesterday to lead the Oakland to a 8-1 triumph evening the World Series at three games apiece and setting the stage for seventh and deciding game Story on the game is on page 22 Charles Finley controversial owner of the Oakland held an exclusive interview with the Associated Press defending his position in the recent See page 25 for the story wm the first of six extra points for 7-0 lead Alabama drove 64 yards for its next TD with Jackson scoring from the seven with 6:57 left in the first period -Twelve plays were required to make it a 14-0 game Tennessee rallied -quickly formance of his teams and but he was no match for the perhaps his reflective mood Alabama depth in running after beating Tennessee had backs led by Wilbur Jackson something to do with the fact who punished Vol defenders that he had just beaten his for 145 yards including two former pupil Battle forthe touchdowns third straight year Big playsrtwo of them in 1970 team beat Alabama 24- the final period provided 0 Alabama its chance to bid with Tennessee keeping the momentum after intermission launched a drive from its 20 picking up a first down at the (See Page 22) Tmnmsm 1 11 -41 Al(bam 14 7 Wheeler 89 past from Rutledge (B Davis kick) Jackson 7 run (B Davis kick) Yarbrough 20 pass from way (Townsend Kick) Shelby 11 pass from Todd (B Davis kick) Holloway 6 run (Townsend kick) Gravitt 64 pass from Holloway (Townsend kick) Cary 63 punt return (B Davis kick)- Jackson 80 run (B Davis kick) Spivey 3 run (B Davis kick) 72226 As for quarterback Condredge Holloway Battle was correct in observing: is an All-America football player He does everything conceivably Bryant nervously fingering a cigarette he seemed reluctant to light said emphatically: never been in a game with a bunch that I would swap for this one" Bryant won national championships at Alabama in 1961 1964 and 1965 The Ti(Je was a Vol fumble to begin its next march goalward Mike Raines a senior defensive tackle fell on a Bill Rudder fumble at the 40 The 60-yard drive in seven plays was climaxed with sophomore quarterback Richard Todd throwing Shelby on an 41-yard play to make it 21-7 with 11:33 to go in the half Tennessee jumped on a scoring opportunity after Eddie Brown intercepted a Todd pass and returned it to 38 with 6:21 left in the half! Holloway scored from the six Townsend kicked the point and the Vols were back in the game And the way the first half ended" nation Both Tennessee coach Bill: Battle and Alabama coach Bryant were in somber and reflective moods after the hard-fought contest which saw the Vols fall behind 21-7 catch up at 21-all and then be swept out of contention by three Alabama touchdowns in the spam of five minutes and seven sec- onds in the final quarter Battle seemed a little stun- -ned by the late turn of events -in the game' He called Ala- bama very good football team which can get a lot: of people in the And the Tide did too 63 players in all including 11 that amass- ed 363 yards rushing to only-90 for Tennessee By JIMMY SMYTH Sports Editor BIRMINGHAM Ala been eight 'years since Paul Bryant has coached a national championship football team at Alabama but The Bear may just have his mind another one after yes- rousing 42-21 Southeastern Conference victory over Tennessee before 92226 fans here on a sunny after- noon at Legion Field i The No 2 ranked Crimson Tide how 6-0 on the seasons "and 5-0 in the SEC broke Tennessee's 11-game winning streak and the five-game string this season The Vols had the longest winning streak -of any major team in the About Holloway The Bear said: wish known that he (Holloway) going to sign that professional baseball contract: sure have tried harder to get Ohio State for No 1 ranking in the nation' An 80-yard play put Alabama on the scoreboard on the first play from scrimmage as Tide supporters roared going 67 yards in seven plays with 20-yard pass to sophomore receiver John Yarbrough putting Tennessee on the board Yarbrough got the pass on the six and scamp- ered across Ricky Townsend -who-had his extra-point streak-snapped against Georgia Tech kicked it and the Tide led 14-7 with still on -the first-quarter clock 7 Alabama took'advantage of- JM only was the Tennessee their approval oach back in home country Wayne Wheetef grabbed a bomb from quarterback Gary Rutledge on the Tennessee coach back in home country here but is a native Huntsville Ala ranked No 2 in the country heading i game while the Vols were' ranked No 10 i has never been very" demonstrative about the per- of The Tennesseq quarterback 42 and raced in for the TD had good daycompleting vith only 14 seconds gone in 11 of 18 passes for 205 yards the game Bill Davis kicked BEEN SO accustomed to thinking fellows in sports like Hank Aaron Willie Mays David Pearson Arnold Palmer or anybody in the fortyish area are over the hill or about to be that it was a little shocking the other day to hear that Adolph Rupp was seriously being considered for the head coaching post at Duke University At 72 Adolph still active? Well anybody who observed coaching in his final years at Kentucky knows that the Baron had things well under control right up to the time- Wirt wrote an interesting column in the Times 17 re- lating his experiences aboard the Julia Belle' and sent me the column obviously detecting that an old river-boater from a way back The Julia Belle is one of three such boats in the United States the others being Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen which makes runs from Cincinnati to NeW Orleans and back The Julia Belle maiden coriimercial trip from Chat- tanooga to Knoxville for the UT-Georgia Tech game was the first of a series Many Vol fans go the games by boat and Wirt says the Julia Belle idea for a football fan is a good one except that Knoxville hotel accommodations are scarce on weekends so best to go Mondays through Thursdays for just touring 7 Allen Thurman director of conferences for UT is opti- mistic-about tourism Wirt says "We are ou the verge of something Thurman said already had the waterways on which riding is smooth: 'hills on the side knock off the With-the helter-Skelter pattern of inter-state driving that 10 to 12 miles an hour on the Julia Belle should be quite -soothing JACK SHUPE the Johnson City Yankee first baseman who was ignore by five of seven Appalachian League qianagers voting for rookie of the year finally was recognized by some-body 7 1 The National Association of Baseball Writers" in a preliminary poll named Shupe as the Appalachian League repre- sentative and a finalist for the 1973 Player of the Yeafc award The Topps Player of the Year is the most prestigious award given to a player below major league level and Shupe joins another former Johnson City player Terry Whitfield of Kinston in the Carolina League in the final balloting which ends Oct 29 The winner receives a cash award and a trophy from Topps Shupe is among 16 finalists for the top award and is among five first basemen on the ballot for the Class A (two month) and rookie all-star selections Though not even being named on the Appalachian League all-star squad Shupe is the only Appalachian Leaguer in the writers' final balloting Joining Shupe in the two-month (Class A) all-star nominee list are Butler of Bristol second base: Urena of 'gluefield shortstop Ihlenburg of Kingsport third base Jones of Wytheville and LiBrandi of Kingsport outfielders Rosada of Marion catcher and Clark of Kingsport and Klenda of Marion pitchers 7 4 4- CALE YARBOROUGH is the Racing favorite at Rockingham NC today polling 21 votes followed by Rich- ard Petty's 13 David 12 and Bobby Allison with eight I almost didn't have a choice in the race after Allison withdrew but he got back in and should win it at 121111 miles per hour hopefully A BELATED Top 10 college football selection picked before Saturday's games: ill Ohio State (2) Alabama (3) Michigan (4) Penn State (5) Oklahoma (6) LSU (7) Southern Cal (8)-Nebraska (9) Tennessee (10) Notre Dame Missouri close he was forced out by the process of chronological aging that is becoming 70 Regardless of what some folks said unknowingly Rupp was calling the plays and getting the job done Casey Stengel is 11 years older than Rupp at 83 but he was right there with Yogi Berra at a World Series game looking chipper 95 Stengel was bom 10 years before the turn of the century and played 17 years of major league before embarking on' a fabulous managerial career Anytime you think you're over the hill take heart And remember Adolph Rupp and Casey Stengel THEY SAY AT TIMES get there from and I was just wondering about the possibilities of down to Knoxville sometime Not having sailed the seas since Navy days in 1945 I'm not sure just where to go to get on a boat! -But my friend Wirt Gammon of the Chattanooga Times knows because he commuted to football gam with Tech by way of the Julia Belie Hv Jimmy Smvlh Sports Editor 111 rr.