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f- 4 1 i yjsV flto 6 lA JOHNSON CITY PRE5S-CHR6NlCLg Sundoy Novombor 10 If TSU pockets 1643 4 OS I A ttk fit victory over II V- ft LL i 1 3 7" -I i ft jf- mmm -m I 1 fr ry4 A M- itr 5 i 44 4Wff-- i 54 i i 'rr ir i 4 a VnS' ibv 'r i i n' i f' 'y'( "i Ml Tv S' 7 -y f' -7A '4 jf AW r-T a i 4v'w-t i' iiiii (Stiff Phot! by Durham) on the Bun 16 and returned it to'the 38 to set up the second score Ron 40-yard field goal in the fourth period gave the Bucs a 16-13 victory over the Eagles 'UMBRELLA CROWD AND BUC EAGLE ACTION What few fans who witnessed the East Tennessee State Marehead Ohio Valley Conference game yesterday used umbrel- las (left) to protect themselves from a slow drizzle Center More- Lewis Rogan (34) tries to run around Ronnie Overbay (15) as he picked up 20 yards during the third period At right Overbay runs back up the field after intercepting a Morehead pass in the second period Overbay caught the ball Auburn upsets U-T 28-14 Bench Views Auburn shut off a rallying Tennessee with a fourth quarter touchdown pass from quarter- Harrold gets 40-yard FG By HENRY JENKINS Assistant Sports Editor Ron 40-yard field goal midway the final period at University Field yesterday enabled the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers to record a 16-13 Ohio Valley Conference football victory over Morehead State on a wet and slippery gridiron played before a small crowd winning kick rubbed a 13-13 tie after the rallying Jimmy Smyth Sports Editor By JIMMY SMYTH Sports Editor BIRMINGHAM Ala It just night The Volunteers fell behind 21-0 and were never able to catch up in a 28-14 Southeastern Conference football loss to fired up Auburn before 68821 fans here Saturday night undefeated status and took over the top spot in the SEX) The victory set the stage for next meeting between Auburn and Georgia a game which could decide the SEC crown -Bowl scouts from all over the post-season classics were on hand here at Legion Field The loss may have cost the Vols a bid to Sugar Bowl The loss left Tennessee with a 5-1-1 record with consecutive SEC battles coming up against Christian covering 49 yards with 14:52 left in the game Hie twice-beaten Auburn Tigers thus ended yard to the two and Pat Hauser cracked over for the TD with 4:50 on the dock but his try for the point was off to the left and the Bucs led 6-0 defense halted aa early Morehead drive on Buc 24-yard line after the Pirates had lost a fumble on their own 29 yard line on their first play from scrimmage It was the only threat made by Mississippi and Kentucky in Knoxville and Vanderbilt in Nashville The Auburn Tennessee game rounded out a day-night double-header which attracted 136113 fans to the Birmingham football arena Carter in leading Auburn to its sixth victory in eight games threw three TD passes two to Mike Currier mid the final one to Christian Tennessee meanwhile had to rely chiefly on its passing game with Bubba Wyche completing 25 of 45 for 337 yards The Vols cot only (me net yard rushing losing 34 of the 35 yards gained in the first half Wyche threw for two touchdowns and had two passes intercepted The number of passes and the number of receptions broke the record set last week against the UCLA Bruins It was the first Auburn victory at Legion Field since 1965 when the Tigers defeated Mississippi State Six straight losses had resulted since then Auburn went 58 yards in eight plays for its first TD with Carter passing to Currier for 11 yards for the touchdown with 9:50 left in the first quarter Auburn launched a 46-yard drive for another touchdown reaching the Tennessee 10 as Longhorns Warriors Rhododendron Bowl scheduled Thursday Eagles had come from behind a 13-0 deficU at halftime It was fifth loss in OVC play against one triumph and left the Eagles at 2-5-1 in overall games good to said Coach John Bell in the ETSU dressing room after the players had celebrated by giving Hie Buc mentor a warm shower good to be associatec with a fine bunch of boys like we have who refused to give up although had some mighty tough breaks this said the Pirate mentor The win was secom in three league games and gave the Bucs two wins and five defeats in all games They will journey to Murfreesboro ior another league bout Saturday with up-and-down Middle Tennessee State University Looking toward that game Bell said: an up and down club and I just hope we catch them when they are ELIZABETHTON The setting here Thursday night at Childress Stadium will be the third annual Rhododendron Bowl high school football game First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Passes attempted Passes completed Passes Intercepted by Punti (avg) Fumbles (lost) Penalties Total yards TED MAXWELL Warrior Coach Hunter paces Alabama over Louisiana State BIRMINGHAM- Ala-(UPI)-Alabama quarterback Scott Hunter passed for two touchdowns and set up a field goal to lead the 18th-ranked Crimson Tide to a 16-7 victory over Louisiana State Saturday With a capacity crowd of 67292 watching Hunter passed found a gaping hole in the Vol line to reach die two and then ran the final two yards for the score with 14:25 left in the half John Riley kicked the second of four extra points to give Auburn a 14-0 lead Slightly less than a minute later Currier figured in another Tiger tally after Auburn had (See AUBURN Page 22) S-S- TT- the Eagles during the opening quarter The Bucs' went 62 yards in seven plays for a second period tuchdown and a 134) lead Safety man Ronnie Overbay of Greeneville picked off a Mar-ston pass on the Buc 16-yard line and ran back to the ETSU 38 to open the touchdown drive A running" play by -Hauser netted six yards and another went for no gain then Graham passed to Mike Young on the Morehead 45 and he raced to the Eagle 11 before being hauled down An eight yard pass interference penalty on Morehead advanced the Bucs to the three and two plays later A1 Guy raced wide to his left for the score wifi) 1:53 before halftime Harrold converted for a 13-0 margin Morehead went 62 yards ia five plays to chalk up its first score in the third period The key play in the move was a 46 yard run by Lewis Rogan who ed the Eagles in rushing for the day with 110 yards His (See HARROLD Page 22) Sutton and hit on passes on 18 and 24 yards to set up Mike 29-yard field goal lone score came in the third period when a 15-yard run by fullback Kenny Newfield briefly gave the Bengals a 7-6 lead with six minutes-gone in the second half But the Alabama defense took hold stopping one drive after the Bengals got a first down on the seven and containing LSU the rest of the game LSU I 7 7 Alebeme 4 Jilleba 11 pass tram Hunter (Kick failed) Newfield 15 run (Lumpkin kick) FG Dean Sutton 14 ptss from Hunter (Dean kick) A 47292 Kickoff is set for 7 pm The opponents will be a pair of hard-hitting Watauga Conference opponents champion Happy Valley and the late perennial power Johnson County High of Mountain City The TSSAA-sanctioned game is sponsored by the Carter County Club Happy Valley coached fey Ted Maxwell beat the Longhorns fey 21-6 early in the season (the second game of the season forLboth clubs) before the Longhorn club of Coach Mike Basham jelled into a top contender in the league The Warriors however went on to knock over all Watauga opponents and win the conference title hands down while Mountain City tied Jonesboro and beat the remaining loop foes to finish second in the organization with a 4-1-1 worksheet Maxwell although on the Warrior staff for several seasons before going to Unaka and Elizabethton then return-ingsemdJn his first season in the capacity of head football coach Basham is in his sophomore season at Mountain City and has built the Longhorns into well-balanced hard-hitting football team Mountain City is making its second appearance in the postseason game Last season the Longhorns were beat by a strong Blountville team The inauguration of the bowl two years ago saw Hie Hampton Bulldogs score a victory over Greenback High BIRMINGHAM Ala Statistics of the LSU football game LSU All the first quarter ended Currier The game will start at 1:30 The Buccaneers got on the scoreboard with four minutes and 50 second left in the first period after a 41-yard drive to five plays accounted for the tally Intercepts Pass Bill Casey 175-pound defensive back from Altoona Pa intercepted a Bill Marson pass near the midstripe and raced it to the Morehead 41 with less than seven minutes remaining in the opening period Three plays later on third down 12 yards to go quarterback Larry Graham hit Ron Causey on the Eagle 34 and the 200-pound end raced down the sideline to three-yard line before being brought down John Thomas ran for a Eagles defeat Happy Valley The Washington Coll ge Eagles took an opening cage victory over the Happy Valley Warriors behind Jon 15 points Junior Hambrick and Cecil 17 505 91 107 235 113 42 1-20 1J-22-1 5-332 401 1 0 0 33 First downs Rushing yardsee Passing yardage Return yardag Passes Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized THE JOHNSON CITY baseball club is in the' black for 1968' an unusually fine report revealed at a recent meeting of the club Treasurer Ken Hyder gave the report For 1968 there wer receipts of $960500 plus a $55986 holdover from 1967 $1016486 and the disbursements amounted to $978150 leaving a balance of $38336 Not only was the required $5000 sent to League President Chauncey office but $1000 due from the 1967 season was paid the report reveals THE BASEBALL CLUB will participate in the Centennial celebration in 1969 with a Centennial Game scheduled Strouse executive director of the Johnson City Chamber of Commerce attended the meeting and said the Chamber would work with the baseball club on the Centennial Game A1 Ferguson Jr club secretary said another meeting of the club would be held in late January or early February so that an early start can be made on selling the 1969 tickets' THE CLUB OFFICIALS also discussed the possibility of Kingsport or Bristol entering the league for the 1969 season President DeVault is a patient at Bristol Memorial Hospital where he underwent surgery Friday The league president usually makes contacts at the minor league convention which determine what teams will operate' in the leape and which major league outfits will offer backing AH of friends win be pulling for him to recuperate in time to attend the convention which will be held In San Francisco about the first of December AS HOMECOMING CAME and went at the University of Tennessee Maddux had some memories of other days in Volunteer football Here are some of his thoughts on the subject: go back to 1914 when UT had an undefeated season I remember the backfield but the line is a question except that Nathan Daugherty who became Dean of the of Engineering and was All-Southern that year- The backfield was composed of Bill May Dean Tomlinson and Goat Carroll Chink Lowe came in there as he was captain in World War I and big Charlie Lindsey and Charles Robertson center All-Southern Blair the elder Hal Blair brother came later also Evans he came back after the War I and Buck Dietzen I can see them sweeping the ends Lowe was a substitute in 1916 If the opposing team did not get out of the way they simply ran over them In 1914 the freshman team was to play TMI at Sweetwater but they sent the headed by Clark and Company also Prof Gabbard who came to teach at the State College here (now ETSU) Clark (had a speech im-pediment) and could not play on the varsity at UT yet he was their best quarterback They got beat by TMI 14-9 TMI had Capt Zimaski as coach The players headed by Peckinpaugb fullback who became a big league baseball player Bancroft was at tackle Later he was a big 1 league baseball player Alsop was at center He went to the University of Texas and played In the Texas League There were two rod-headed halfbacks one of whom went to Michigan where Hurry-Up Yoast was coach I was offered a scholarship at TMI and my dad took me to see a sham battle and he no 1916 Tennessee had another undefeated season Jim Luck was the fullback later coached here at Colleger Charlie Robertson center Andy Lowe halfback Big Josh Cody was at Yanderbilt with Robert Curry Dan McGuggin Rabbit Curry was killed in World War I 4 had a good team back then Mississippi i A and had the fastest backfield that played against' i UT Coach Cleavinger was the coach at UT then -1 1914-15-16 1 Lovell later a coach at Cleveland Tenn was on the 1916-1917 teams r7' 1 best football team at UT is hard to pick The best i football players are hard to pick but I think Beattie Feath- ers at fullback Hickman and McEver at halfback Dodd at and linemen McCord Atkins son (now with Cincinnati) Beard and ends Hugg and Fritz Brandt were all good on defense Hugg and Fritz Brandt could get down fastest ot any under a punt or kickoff and play sixty minutes i'i had my picture taken two years on the baseball 1 squad but I was not big enough to get a uniform at UT I I was invited back for breakfast nothing v' I i 1 i i DAVID PEARSON andrTiny Lund have wrapped up the coveted point titles in the National Association for Stock' i- Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR) with Pearson nailing down the title on the Grand Touring circuit Pearson closed out with 3494 points to whip Bobby Isaac who had 3359 Following the leaders were Richard Petty Clyde Lynn and John Sears who all got better than I 3000 points and Elmo Langley James Hylton Wendell Scott Jabe Thomas and Roy Tyner Lund chalked up 1047 points In the Grand Touring dr- i I cult on nine wins in 18 starts He was in the top five 13 times (See BENCH VIEWS Page 22) for touchdowns of 11 yards to Pete Jilleba and 16 to Donnie Mississippi State bows to Florida Seminoles Reece led the HV scoring with 11 points each Happy Valley won the B-game 58-15 Washington Colteee I 11 19 S7 Happy Valley 1 11-42 Washington Callage Hensley 10 Dikes I Shine 10 Jhblonskl 15 Childress 10 Morgen 4 Happy Vellgy Hambrick II Jerrett 4 McKinney Reece 11 Lyon 7 Sullivan Cloudland get bids sored by the Kingsport Shrine Patrol KINGSPORT Sullivan and Cloudland have been named STARKVILLE Miss (UPI)-Quarterback Bill Cappleman mrled three touchdown passes Saturday to lead the Florida State Seminoles to a 27-14 victory over Mississippi State Both teams took to the to play in the first Shrine Bowl here Saturday night in Fred Johnson Stadium The post-season game spon- Sullivan has an 8-1 record and Cloudland finished at STARKVILLE Miss UP I Statistic of the Florid State-Misslsslppl Slate Cappleman a 207-pound junior connected on scoring passes of 6 14 and 32 yards in guiding the independent Seminoles to their fifth victory against two defeats Specialist Grant Guthrie kicked two field of 36 and 27 along with three extra points for the winners Florida Slat J-JJ Mississippi SUfo 4 11 S-14 FSU-FG Guthrlg 14 Tyson 4 post from Copplomon (Guthrlo kick) Bailey 14 pan from Cepp lemon (Guthrie kick) Gossett 5 pan from Phorr (Pom tolled) Milner 4 pass from Phorr (Pom felled) FSU-FG Oufhrle Cox 32 pom from Copplomon (Guthrlo kick) MSr-Sofoty Copplomon tackled In end zone 17000 football game: First Downs Rushing Yerdsgt Passing Yardage -Return Yardage Passes Punts Fumbles Lost Yards Penalized FIU MSU 21 20 99 47 215 277 40 75 20-30-1 29-39-5 447 0 1 40 40 airlanes in a contest which developed into a passing duel between Cappleman and Mississippi State quarterback Tommy Pharr-' Richardson scores four of five for SMU victory Southwest Conference title scrap with Texas Arkansas and Texas Tech all with 4-1 records Tel ASM SMU 14 14 Lent 1 pete tram Hargett (Rleai kick) Rlebardten it run (Latter kick) tp Rloai 34 Rlctierdten 1 run (Latter DALLAS (UPI) Southern Methodist its No 1 passing game blunted by its own mistakes and a Texas defense' sent Mike Richardson slashing' for 244 yards and four of the five touchdowns Saturday in a wild 36-23 triumph over the Aggies Richardson a 187-pound senior from Fort Worth Tex scored on runs of 19 1 and 2 yards and pulled in a 12-yard Strom Chuck Hixson to keep in the thick -of the kick) SMU-M ASM-tena 11 paw from Hargett (patt tilled) Rlchardeon 11 put tram Hlxten (Holden pen StegeM 17 I (Rlggt kick Rlcntrdien) from Hargett Steggnt it kick) Fleming 11 pats 1 tram Hlxon 500 as the time trials and the washed out Track officials have set as the rain date barring snow of cours 'NO RACING For ducks it was a nice day But steady drizzle and cold winds pre-' vailed over stock entries in the ARCA Tennessee (Letter kick) A-04M I I I 4.