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Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 14

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rlge 14 JOHNSON CITY PRESS CHRONICLE Tuesday Evening November 9 1975 Roy Frazier says Bucs flat in 17-7 defeatby Morehead were Those three little words spoken by East Tennessee State Coach Roy Frazier pretty much told the story of Saturday afternoon when his Buccaneers fell victim to a rugged Morehead 7 State club 17-? the stage for scoring A fumble set up a 22-yard field goal by the Eagles Don Rardin in the third penod and the Eagles italized on the bad punt in the fourth period getting possession on their own 47 and taking the ball in for a touchdown in 10 plays The Buccaneers after two straight weeks at home will travel to Middle Tennessee Saturday for a 1:30 pm CST contest What sort of problems do the Blue Raiders pose? "One of the top offensive teams in the noted Frazier have the leading ball carrier in Mike Moore who was the Player of the Year in the OVC in Middle Tennessee has been beset by a large number of injuries this year but a lot of the people who have been sidelined are beginning i come back don't want to take anything away from Morehead because they played with aggressiveness and a lot of spirit" he said passing of their quarterback Phil Simms and the running of Tony Hams hurt us quite a Frazier continued play of nose guard Ron Henke kept us off balance crowded us on defense and took away our running he said Frazier found the Buccaneer punting game was one of the bright spots with the exception of one boot The punting game did go from the sublime to the ridiculous as the first punt of the contest was a thing of beauty which traveled 74 yards and rolled dead on the Morehead one yard line The final Buccaneer punt went for a minus five yards A high center snap caused problems on this last boot Morehead took the opening kick-off and marched 81 yards for the first score of the game The big play was a 72 yard run by Tony Harris which put the ball on the Buccaneer five However the Buccaneers came back and staged an 80-yard drive of their own for a tying touchdown QB Gary Jennings hit wide rreceiver Dennis Law for 37 yards and then threw a 34-yard scoring strike to Gret Wilson In the second half a couple of mistakes set Running the ball Ronda Hodge (left) of the East All-Stars runs the football in last Junior Pro All-Star game won by the West 12-6 (Staff Photo by Vest) Junior Pro All-Star tilt West club winner The Raiders lost their top quarterback Mike Robinson for the season a couple of weeks ago but Moore is still a potent weapon The Buccaneers did not escape injury problems this past weekend as nose guard Tony Jackson a 6-0 215-pound junior went out with a knee injury Jackson underwent surgery Sunday and will be lost for the season Defensive tackle Rick Begley also suffered an injury but his is not believed to be too serious His status for the Middle Tennessee State contest is questionable After this foray to Middle Tennessee the Buccaneers will return to close out the regular season campaign at home against the Austin Peay Governors The final game of the 76 season will Nov 27 at UT-Chattanooga with an 80-yard dash but the West had it all their way in the final two penods in the final Junior Pro League game of the year In a fag football game prior to the Junior Pro contest the East took a 19-14 win over the West Ray Goff Kevin McLee capture co -Back of Week honors in SEC For Memphis without pro baseball seeks Texas League franchise Goff scored on runs of 9 5 and 1 yards and hurled touchdown passes of one and six yards to Ulysses Norris He earned 17 times for 124 yards and hit on all five of his passes for another 37 ATLANTA (AP) Quarterback Ray Goff and tailback Ke-vin McLee of Georgia which defeated Florida 41-27 last weekend were named cowinners Monday of The ciated Press Southeastern Back of the Week award Goff accounted for five touchdowns and McLee rushed 198 yards on 30 carries breaking the school single game record The defeat crushed Jeff Broyles tallied a pair of touchdowns to lead the West All-Stars to a 12-6 victory over the East in the Club Junior Pro All-Star contest last night at Memorial Stadium Broyles got the West even at 6-6 with a 15-yard scoring run in the third period and then went over from the one with 1 07 left in the game for the winning touchdown Rhonda Hodge put the East on top in the second penod Former SHHS players to meet All former basketball players at Science Hill High School are requested to attend a meeting at 7 pm Wednesday at the school so Coach" Lonnie Lowe can determine his starting lmeups for Friday night's doubleheader with the current SHHS squad The first game Friday will pit alumni from the 1961 through 1970 classes with the SHHS Junior Varsity and will get under way at 630 pm In the nightcap graduates of the 1971-75 classes will play the Science Hill varsity of Coach Elvin Little in an 8 pm game PHOTO REPRINTS I print of any Mimm City PrM Chreeuda a ff photograph con bn ebeamod from 1 MIS RUTH CAffCY City Pre-Oiretdo bui-nm office nr $3oo oo io $3J0 (Enquire about other tiitt) Now Cantor boon 5t at Main Market PO ion 1717 Johnson City TN 37401 Southeastern Lineman of Week tag goes to Charles Hannah cation was turned down and Kraus said he was able to obtain only about $30000 in $8000 in actual from investors did my best it just good said Kraus who estimated he has lost about $220000 in his five-year involvement in minor league baseball did well enough financially from 1971 to 1974 But after 1974 The Memphis Chicks provided the city with its first minor league baseball club The club operated under various names from 1901 to 1960 as part of the old Southern League The Blues arrived in Memphis in 1968 as part of the Texas League and from 1968 to 1973 they were affiliated with the New York Mets They won the TL playoffs in 1973 In 1974 the Blues moved to the IL and for the next two years served as' the Montreal Triple-A farm club They finished first in their division in 1974 The Blues began 1975 as the Houston affiliate ending the season In third place in their division gelman Management Corp because of what happened in Syracuse it kind of opens the door for him to do The league took over the Memphis franchise after the Blues were unable to meet Oct 31 deadline but there was no action on moving the team to another city However a Memphis newspaper The Commercial Appeal said the franchise in effect was moved to Charleston Va after Robert Levine paid the $22000 in baseball debts Charleston became available when the Pittsburgh Pirates moved their Triple-A affiliation to Columbus Ohio Levine had operated the club as the Charleston Charlies last season Kraus resumed controlof the financially faltering Blues from Jerry Bllton and Denny McLain the former Detroit Tiger pitcher in September The Blues drew only 75000 in 1975 en route to running up a deficit of about $195000 Kraus attempted to raise capital through new investors and a bank loan but the loan appli ATLANTA (AP) Hannah just had another All-American said Coach Paul Bryant of the Alabama Crimson Tide Hannah turned in his second straight exceptional performance Saturday as the Tide defeated explosive Louisiana State 28-17 and was named The Associated Press Southeastern Lineman of the Week The 6-foot-6 232-pound senior MEMPHIS (AP) For the first time since 1968 Memphis is without a minor league baseball team but efforts are reportedly under way to secure a Texas League franchise for the city The International League di- rectors meeting in Syracuse NY Monday voted to revoke the Memphis franchise when owner Dr Bernard Kraus was unable to pay approximately $22000 in league related debts such as dues and motel and transportation bills in league cities The baseball debts were only a small portion of the total indebtedness Kraus said He said a recent audit of club records showed the debt to be about $340000 Meanwhile a spokesman for Avron Fogelman a Memphis businessman who has made previous investments in local professional sports undertakings Fogelman js working on bringing professional baseball back to the Bluff City desires to have a professional baseball team back in Memphis next said Dean Jemigan vice president of Fv Lady Bucs cop volleyball win The Milligan College Lady Buffs behind the scoring of Sue Whittmer and Diane Vernon topped Virginia Intermont at Lacey Fieldhouse last night 14-16 15-11 15-5 in a volleyball contest Milligan now standing at 1(M on the season will host Emory Henry tonight at 7:30 hopes of winning the Southeastern Conference football title Coach Vince Dooley of Georgia said Goffs performance one of the great performances by a quarterback that seen and certainly maybe the best of his He said yardage probably is because of his because he doesn't have the speed of the Florida backs from Albertville Ala made nine solo tackles assisted on four others and broke up one pass He turned in one of the big plays early in the second period when he nailed Terry Robiskie for a two-yard loss and forced the Bengals to settle for a field goal rather than a possible touchdown A week earlier against Mississippi State Hannah had played what Bryant called one of the best games one of his defensive tackles had turned in years closest competition for the weekly award came from Mississippi State middle guard Harvey Hull and a tackle combo at Georgia Tech-David Tedder and Mike Blanton Hull made 11 tackles had three assists caused one fumble and sacked the quarterback for a seven-yard loss as State downed Auburn Tedder and Blanton were the keys to a tough Tech defense that blanked No 11 Notre Dame in the second half allowing the Jackets to register their first victory over the Irish since 1959 They combined for 15 tackles three assists three stops behind the line of scrimmage and a blocked pass All-American Larry Seivers of Tennessee approach one of his finer days but he did have three catches for 42 yards lifting his career total to 102 receptions breaking the school record of 101 held by Georgia coaches said McLee got about 80 per cent of his tital up the middle The 198 yards broke the previous mark of 172 set by Glynn Harrison against Vanderbilt in 1974 Richmond Flowers Other outstanding performances by linemen came from Ulysses Norris Mike Wilson and Joel Parrish on offense and Jeff Sanders Jeff Lewis and Dicky Clark on defense Jim Woofter and Andy Spiva Georgia Mackel Harris Rick Neal and Gus White Florida's Wes and Ed Smith and Martin Cox ETSU riflemen capture win East Tennessee State University got back into the win column this week in a four-way shoulder-to- shoulder match at Ky ETSU won over Eastern Kentucky University of Kentucky and Vanderbilt University in a match fired on the UK campus The Bucs scored 2282 2400 to 2221 2400 Van-dy was third with 2152 and the University of Kentucky followed with 2142 Gloria Parmentier freshman coed for the Bucs was high shooter for the match with 579 600 Another freshman John Winstead of Columbus Ga fired on the Varsity with a respectable 561 Linda Baily and John Akemon the Bucs two All-Americas both fired 571 PHOTOCOPIES ANY SIZE TO 8-12 BY 14 INCHES On to IT COplAS of the same original 15 ea NCAA points Yarborough nears championship DAYTONA BEACH Fla-(AP) After several years as a top competitor on the National Association for Stock Car Auto Grand National -circuit Cale Yarborough is on the verge of winning his first driving championship Yarborough usually participated in only selected superspeedway events when driving for the Wood Brothers Mercury team But in Junior Chevrolet Yarborough has entered all 29 races so far this year All he needs to win the title is start the final one the Los Angeles Times 500 at Ontario Calif Nov 21 Even a last-place finish would give him 37 points and put him beyond the reach of runner-up Richard Petty Yarborough has 4545 points for the season and Petty has 4362 If Petty gets the maximum 185 points Jor winning and leading more than 10 laps at Ontario he still would not capture his seventh national title unless Yarborough failed to make the race Benny Parsons is in third place in the standings with 4-139 points followed by Bobby Allison at 4033 Dave Marcis 3784 Lenme Pond 3760 Buddy Baker 3699 Darrell Waltnp 3-462 Richard Ouldress 3373 and David Pearson 3298 winnings of $5430 Sunday put him over the $300-000 mark for the third year He leads in money this year with $301909 Yarborough has $299806 Pearson $255484 Parsons $206089 Baker $198424 Allison $187729 Marcis $179-110 Waltrip $175925 Pond $113689 and Richard Brooks $88070 George Sisler Jr resigns as head of International SYRACUSE NY (AP) George Sisler Jr has resigned as president of the International Baseball League and accepted a job as general manager of the new Columbus Ohio franchise Sisler 59 told league owners he was quitting at an emergency league meeting Monday After the session Sisler said he was leaving the head office because he the com-petative aspects of He had been president of the Triple A league for 11 years Prior to taking over the presidency Sisler had been general manager at Rochester and Columbus The new Columbus club formed in a franchise shift that sent the Pittsburgh farm team from Charleston Va to Columbus next year-was scheduled to announce appointment later today The franchise shift approved Monday also gives Charleston owner Robert Levine a franchise for another team To make way for the new team at Charleston the league took over the financially troubled Memphis franchise but there was no action Monday on moving the Blues to West Virginia i Tom Seaver of the Mets won his first major league game a 6-1 decision over the Chicago Cubs on April 20 1967 He went seven and one-third innings 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