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I ImUim vitodiii juiu mtm sports obituaries- classified Abilene Reporter-News ABILENE TEXAS TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 14 1976 Mark McDonald College football V' 9 I Mi victory lessons £os enjoys big boost from Boston College win To the untrained eye hard to tell how rot-nes feels High last 'enough says things like Just igr to old Austin High last weekend He smiles often thins circle the people who are concerned with what college football's all about" Hayes on Paterno: of the great coaches of the game He does an awful lot of coaching A very intelligent man His record speaks for itself I hope I haven't said anything to offend him" And strange as it seems Hayes didn't offend Michigan State's Darryl Rogers in Saturday's 49-21 victory even though he called three timeouts with a 35-0 lead late in the first half and sent his first team back into the game in the fourth period Hayes you see is bitter over a series of articles in wagons and to my know! not bitten any goal posts in half Maybe Jones takes a certain amount of solace from fellow upset victims Darrell Royal Tom Osborne and Bear Bryant were after all supposed to win last weekend but didn't Misery loves company you know Still veneer of composure has to be thin as this page and not so far beneath the surface there is a man kicking and screaming with frustration Abilene High really should have beaten Austin and Jones knows it By now Jones has studied the game films analysed why the Eagles lost and decided what he is going to do about it Jones made it clear at luncheon with the news media that some definite ideas are taking shape Michigan State's campus newspaper articles mat accused him of recruiting viola against Kansas on Saturdaybut the Cougars lost 3516 Seems there's a slight differ ence in personnel between Pitt and Washington State started only one senior on defense" Sherrill said we were using a couple of You're a real fan if you know that Rutgers and Ball State now share the longest major college winning streak at eight in a row The guy to really feel sorry for is Florida quarterback Jimmy Fisher who killed any chance for a possible last-second victory by throwing a pass out of bounds to stop the clock on fourth downGiant-killer Missouri which has knocked off Alabama and Southern Cal in its last two openers merely has Notre Dame Alabama Ole Miss and Oklahoma as its first four 1978 op-ponentsClive Rush former head coach of the Boston Patriots is back in the college ranks at the US Merchant Marine Academy and his club defeated the Coast Guard Academy 9-7 in its opener our Army-Navy game" Rush said same impact but at a much different level" Quote of the Week: Columbia Coach Bill Campbell a June bridegroom was asked recently how he liked married life Campbell replied "How's your football team?" life is better" my four years here" says Majors who came to Pitt from Iowa State of the Big Eight I came here to build our program up not to tear other people down" BC's victory over Texas has veteran New Englanders calling it the greatest triumph since the 1942 Sugar Bowl against Tennessee "It was a very important win for us" Yukica said took almost a letter-perfect game on defense It's hard to measure the significance of the win because the significance is immeasurable The key word is 'timing' because there are a lot of people who don't really believe that Boston College can play major college football" However linebacker Pete Cronan said that Texas isn't just good for BC Now the rest of the country knows that we can play good football in this area I'm sure we proved that It was a great win and this is just the Two of the winningest coaches in the country hook up Saturday when Ohio State visits Penn State How does Paterno feel about Woody Hayes? like him He's got to be one of the greatest coaches who ever lived I don't think he's really as tough as his image or as tough as he sounds Sometimes though I wish be a little bit careful before he does things that cause some concern among NEW YORK (AP) Hanging out the College Football Waih: For a long time it aeemed ai though Penn State vas the only team the East had to boast about The times they are a-changin' Penn State still has a high national ranking No 7 this week but the Nittany Lions also have company with Pitt way up there in the rarefied atmosphere of third place and Boston College in the No 15 position In Saturday's openers Pitt thumped Notre Dame 3110 Penn State downed Stanford 15-12 and previously unranked BC stunned highly rated Texas 14-11 was never any good just for Penn State to be good in the East says Joe Pa-temo who refers to this year's crop of teams as the often felt that if Boston College could just beat a quality team realise how good they are Pitt is a truly outstanding team We're a young team and we'll be pretty good before the season is over If you want to include Maryland in the East and the Washington area is certainly part of the East there are three or four teams that can play with anybody any place" Johnny Majors and BC 'a Joe Yuk-ica agree with Paterno seen Eastern football improve in tions "Coach Hayes did substitute" said Rogers don't feel he tried to run up the score We just got a plain old shellacking I think our kids were a little awed coming into Ohio massive stadium "That's the way I'd rather have it He plays his best we play our best They simply blew us out in the first half It really made no difference what happened in the second half when you're that far behind" Jackie Sherrill was Pitt's defensive coordinator when the Panthers beat Kansas 33-19 in the Sun Bowl last season Now he's the head coach at Washington State and he used the same defense in his opener there Next project: Temple Friday against Temple Jones will have his Eagles throwing the football a great deal per- i AH! haps more than they did against Austin AHS probably stand in there like it did against Austin and simply trade forearms with the bi Temple visitors I think we can look for more big-play oriented Eagle defense few pass routes and new stunts These things Jones can teach the Eagles in three days of practice What he can not show them is how to win at least not between now and the time they come down Shotwell ramp Friday tney Royal lists 7 UT sins Wolverines top poll on offense night inning is something the Eagles might take weeks maybe even a season or two to learn The kind of winning talking about is the what the old New York Yankees enjoyed The Boston Celtics The Oakland A's The Green Bay Packers Ohio State Those are not the kind of teams that beat somebody comparable to Wichita Falls Rider one week then lose to a virtual nobody the next Closer to home take Odessa Permian for ex ample Two weeks ago the Panthers beat a good El Paso Coronado team and played rather well doing so Then last week they had what Permian coach Johif'Wilkins called a and beat a decent Amarillo High team by three touchdowns anyway Point is the traditional powers win half the time because better then the other half because a habit They think that's the way it is supposed to be This is what Jones hopes to put into the game plan not just a new sideline pattern or a new stunt for the tackle and linebacker Long-time Eagle fans like to think the school has winning tradition It The last time AHS was dominant in football was back in the mid-Fifties The current Eagles even born then so how can they enjoy any carry-over from that? Bill Shipman may have poured a new founda- Eagles to a 5-5 record when he coached the tion last autumn Now Jones is in charge of curing that foundation ANN ARBOR Mich (AP) do you think you should be ranked this Michigan Coach Bo Schem-bechler was asked should be 10th" he Mid Monday at his regular news conference "But don't drop us out of the Top Ten" Michigan isn't 10th It's No despite an uncharacteristically poor defensive showing Saturday when the Wolverines ranked No 2 in the preseason poll beat Big Ten rival Wisconsin 40-27 They gave up 426 yards to the Badgers the most ever against a Michigan team in eight years at the school Nebraska the top team in The Associated Press preseason listing was tied 6-6 by Louisiana State and fell to eighth in this initial regular poll of the college season Who's second? Why none other than Michigan's archrival Ohio Stale by a mere point The Wolverines who collected 28 of the 61 first-place votes totalled 1077 points in the vote of sports writers and broadcasters The Buckeyes had 18 firsts and 1076 points of the maximum of 1220 "I don't care one way or another" Schembechler said when pressed about his feelings on the poll "What differ ence does it make after one game? At the end of the season a different story" The Wolverines have finished in the Top Ten in each of Schembechler's seven seasons since he moved over from Miami of Ohio No other team in the nation has finished in the top 10 in each of the past seven years Who did Schembechler figure might be No 1 in this week's poll? "Probably Ohio State" he said The Buckeyes trounced Michigan State 4921 Looking ahead AUSTIN Tex (AP) -Texas blew seven opportunities on the field to beat Boston College says Coach Darrell Royal but he urea it was eight chances you count fullback Earl Campbell who was pn the bench Royal said Monday that Campbell the 231-pound junior who crashed fin1 2046 yards in his first two seasons might miss the season with what Royal called a buttocks injury Doctors checked Campbell however and a team spokesman said they had given him the light to play" "They took x-rays for possible calcium deposits" the spokesman said x-rays were normal He has a full range of motion He has a slight soreness In the doctors' opinion there is no (muscle) pull He has the green light to play" The absence of Campbell was an obvious factor in 1413 loss to Boston College Saturday had seven opportunities to win the game which we didn't take advantage Royal told his weekly news conference missed four field goals We missed a two-point conversion We had 12 men on the field when we hit a pass deep in their territory which would allow us to kick a lot closer in and we fumbled inside the five "So don't accentuate the two-point conversion It was just one of the things And you can add No 20 (Campbell) as number eight on those Campbell left the game after carrying only five times for 23 yards His substitute was 188-pound freshman Jimmy Johnson who not only is 43 pounds lighter but is slower "We may not have him (Campbell) for the rest of the season" said Royal He said Campbell could stretch his leg and there is no knot such as in a pulled muscle but "he is sore and can't run" He said the injury appeared to be in the buttocks miss that guy (Campbell) like I can't tell you" Royal said Royal volunteered that Texas ranked No 7 prior to the Boston College game had starting backfield with looking Jones says we get our mind on it we can gin got to learn to do that each game one at a time We need mental Loosely translated that means the Eagles must realize that if it takes an error-free performance that looks like it came right out of the playbook then fine Get it done If they are not quite clicking some night then the Eagles need to be able to grub it out struggle and maybe even look a little sloppy A dirty jersey is only uncomfortable when you lose Jones said his team needs to have its heart beating its adrenalin pumping and He mean afraid of the opponent but rather frightened to death of that knot in a high school gut when he gets up Saturday morning after a loss The first-year AHS coach excused himself from the luncheon early and as he left the room he said over his shoulder got to figure out a way to win had all the Saturday morning tummy aches he can stand Watching waiting Peering from a batch of sunflowers that if things don't get better ma A kilnMnla wmaII hoping is Abilene's Darrell Today marks two weeks of mourning dove hunting in the area and reports indicate this first portion of split season (this one ijhs lasting through Oct 14)has been somewhere hum and they don't get worse Crawford hunting southwest of here (Staff Photo by Jerry in the ranges of average mediocre and ho- Season ends quickly for Braxton a 58-yard pair teamed for touchdown Meyer predicts Ponies will whip Tide Saturday sigso ROACHES! that with Braxton gone just have to get ready Miami scored first with Benny Malone going over from the five in the first period Buffalo deadlocked the game early in the second period as Joe Ferguson found John Holland with a 53-yard pass Later in the game the FIVE S00H HSWSI the Bug Mon Coll Termite Humphrey tester Humphrey PEST BUFFALO (AP) The night belonged to Miami's Norm Bulaich and Bob Griese Part of it belonged to Buffalo's OJ Simpson It was Bulaich and Griese and the rest of the Miami gang who carried the Dolphins to a 30-21 victory over the Buffalo Bills Monday night in a Natonal Football League season-opening game And it was Simpson their great running back playing only a bit more than 24 hours after rejoining the Bills who electrified the crowd of 77683 CONTROL SERVICE Mttnu DALLAS (AP) Southern Saturday in a Southwest Cun-Methodist Coach Ron Meyer ference opener which was says the Mustangs are going debut He had an unto beat Alabama Saturday and beaten season at Nevada-Las he doesn't care if Vegas in 1975 before he was Coach Paul Bear Bryant uses hired to replace Dave Smith the prediction for lockerroom SMU psychology Meyer said "We buried TCU "Alabama is 55-4 In regular the grave at 7:30 pm Sun-season over the last five years 4y- You can only enjoy a vie and be 55-5 after Satur- ory a sweet 24 hours We get Campbell out that had played a total of lOVfc minutes and all of that time was by one player halfback Johnny "Ham" Jones inconceivable to me You and your business partner may agree the survivor will buy the other's share But can either of you raise the cash? day" said Meyer Monday "I imagine that quote will go up on the lockerroom wall'' "What a hell of a job he did for just suiting up yesterday Saban waited all the way until the second play to send him in" Buffalo Coach Lou Saban sent Simpson in as Braxton left the field Simpson's first carry was wiped out by a penalty He carried on the next play and went for seven yards In all Simpson carried five times for 28 yards Bulaich meanwhile ripped apart the Buffalo defense with 107 yards on 19 carries was just great blocking by our offensive line" he explained was just reading them and keying off their blocks that worked" Griese who completed 13 of 21 passes for 199 yards and one touchdown was asked what the Dolphins were going to do for outside speed wiitn Mercury Morris gone "Where's Bulaich?" he asked He's deceptive in how much speed he has He's a lot quicker than he looks he might be the fastest back we've got" Simpson who asked three months ago to be traded to a West Coast team for family and business reasons said talk instant-cash Professionally with that experience to think back to our old hard knocking of high national rankings" he with his twisting and speed af-wsys with pads on right now? id ter catching a fourth-quarter SMU had a brief scrimmage He said Texas has with the ability to make big plays flashy" but the fans see the broken patterns and the times they are totally in the wrong position" Royal blamed himself however for a penalty for having pass for a 43-yard gain The game was costly for Buffalo Fullback 'Jim Braxton whose blocks helped Simpson gain much of his yardage the last five seasons is finished for the year Braxton was cut down on "We are going all out to win he said "If we just wanted to go down there to look good we can just forfeit 1 0" Meyer said he has told his n1wta players that he doesn't want vmr anyone on th team pUM who SSS pl K5 believes it's 12 players on the field that the second play of the game -cost Texas a 50-yard pass one nullified by a Miami of- liniim- Jimi-v lll 1" Fim Njlmiial KIn Kill completion in the closing minutes He said workouts would be closed to the public Before he could be asked why Royal added "There are certain people I'd just as soon not see us work out namely our a hopeless cause against the Crimson Tide "I told the players just take the week off if they think we beat Alabama don't board the said Meyer The hustling Mustangs shocked Texas Christian 34-14 fsides and suffered torn ligaments in his right knee He was scheduled for surgery today Miami Coach Don Shula who said Sunday that he felt Simpson would return to Buffalo described Simpson's brief appearance thusly: going to beat Alabama This is going to be just another football game with another good opponent" Meyer said he is far from pleased with his team "We've just scratched the surface offensively we have a long way to go" he saio SoutliwtsKlcrn Lilts S2 futefA -pawn to mm Mi mmn hM fS- SVq iff--.