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FINISH Around the Track with Granville Allison Jr. ROCKINGHAM It seems almost unbelievable, but Richard Petty is the favorite today to win the fourth annual American 500. At least hard-luck Richard was picked as the winner by 22 of the 84 writers and broadcasters who band together at every superspeedway race to try to prognosticate a victor. Twenty-two of 84 votes isn't exactly a mandate, but it was more than any other driver received. The voting was pretty well split between Petty, Cale Yarborough, David Pearson, Lee Roy Yarbrough, Donnie and Bobby Allison, Buddy Baker and Charlie Glotzbach.

But Petty as the favorite? That's like Czchoslovakia being odds-on against the Bear. Superspeedway Wins Denied Richard, despite his brilliant driving expertise and a pit crew that is second to none, has yet to win a big-track race this season. He's won a gang of the smaller-track events (15) and $71,328 in the process, so the season hadn't exactly been disastrous for the Randleman rambler. But on the big ovals Petty has been suffering from the malady known as engine exhaustion. Something always seems to happen to the innards of his power plant.

Blown engines for Richard are as common as politicians' promises this year. Nobody seems to know (or will tell) what the trouble is. There are whispers about some bad valves. His engine died at Darlington while he was in splendid postion. He was a little farther back in the pack at Charlotte last week when the same thing happened.

The moan from the crowd was apparent when he coasted into the pits. No Repeat Winners What does he have to look forward to here today? Well, no American winner has ever repeated. Petty won the race in 1966. Last year he blew his early, climbed in Darel Dieringer's car and blew its engine, too. But Richard knows how to drive here.

He still holds the 500-mile race record the track: 104.682 miles hours. So don't consign him to the also-rans too soon. The fine, cool weather that has prevailed here the past week could 1 help see a new record set today. The known factor of course, the number of times caution flag will be out. Many drivers say this race seems longer than 500 miles.

Perhaps it is because they times, which would tax fatigue is a prime factor in As Baker put it, grinning "Driving at Rockingham You start after dinner and Another factor in the drivers tend to hot-dog it last chance of the season to Sponsors tend to remember contract time rolls around. many leaders in the American week, nine. 500 16 Richard Petty Richard Petty have to go around the track 500 a galley slave's stamina. Driver many accidents. like a giant leprechaun: is like a country baseball game.

don't quit until dark." caution-flag frequency is that some in the American, because it's their make a showing on a longer track. a good performance here when It's our guess that there will be as as there were at Charlotte last Driver Switches Frequent TWISTS AND TURNS Speaking of Charlotte, Baker hit the wall of the main straight in the early running because a piece of metal came off the car in front of him and cut his tire. Baker said he saw it fly off. 'It bounced right under the car. Next thing I knew, boom I was in the fence." He was leading at the time Paul (Little Bud) Moore, A.

J. Foyt, Lee Roy and Donnie played a stirring game of musical chairs during the race. First, Bud parked his Ford when it developed handling difficulties. A few minutes later, Foyt came into the pits in his Ford, complaining of a severe backache. Apparently the car's seat, set up for another driver, didn't fit Foyt.

Bud drove Foyt's car for eight laps and surrendered it to Lee Roy, whose Ford had burned a wheel cylinder. Lee Roy got hold of the Foyt car and whirled up to 10th place. Meanwhile, Donnie had gotten out of his Ford with a crick in his neck. Foyt took over and drove it for more than half the race, retiring in favor of Donnie again about 70 laps from home. Donnie finished sixth.

That kind of complexity is enough to tax a computer. Auburn Surprises Miami by 31 to 6 First downs Miami 13 Auburn 17 Rushing yardage -85 93 Passing yardage 280 294 Return yardage 99 Passes 20-40-1 16-29-3 Punts 14-39 5-37 Fumbles lost 2 Yards penalized 40 45 AUBURN, Ala. (AP)-Auburn stunned ninth ranked Miami with 24 points in the first half Saturday then held off a Hurricane passing combination for a 31-6 football upset. Senior quarterback Loran Carter enjoyed his best day of the season in directing the Tigers. He connected on 15 of 28 pass attempts, including three which went for touchdowns.

His favorite receiver was Tim Christian, who pulled in 7 passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns, the second of which set a new Auburn receiving record of 35 in a season. The old record of 34 was set last year by Freddie Hyatt. Christian's scoring plays COVered 62 and 24 yards. Carter also connected with Racing's Best Poised for Ro Rockingham Seminoles Top Gamecocks In 35 to 28 Cliffhanger Florida State So. Carolina First downs 28 25 Rushing yardage 131 160 Passing yardage 437 q324 Return yardage 100 12 Passes 25-43-1 24-37-3 Punts 3-37 6-38 Fumbles lost Yards penalized 69 44 COLUMBIA, S.C.

(AP) A roughing the punter penalty gave Florida State's football team new life in the final quarter and the Seminoles went on to South Carolina 35-28 Saturday night in a that produced six touchdown passes. South Carolina rushed in an attempt to block a punt at the FSU 15. The penalty for roughing the kicker enabled the visitors to keep the ball and move to their 30. From there, Bill Cappleman passed to Billy Cox for 20 yards and then to Ron Sellers for 28. Two plays later, Cappleman passed for 16 and the winning touchdown, the fourth Cappleman-Sellers scoring pass of the contest.

South Carolina went ahead after the intermission when Benny Galloway plunged over from two yards out. Steve Gildea intercepted a South carolina pass and re- Penn Tops Princeton By 19 to 14 -tricky turns that demand the best of drivers and race cars. The winner will get about fra-000 of the purse, but for at least two of the drivers a victory in this one goes far beyond Sunday's payday. Ford's David Pearson and Dodge's Bobby Isaac are locked in a tight struggle for the circuit's lucrative driving title, which carrebout seas payoff $30,000, plus guarantees for next year. PHILADELPHIA (AP) Touchdowns by hard running Gerry Santini and tight end Dave Graham and a pair of field goals by Eliot Berry carried unbeaten Penn to a 19-14 Ivy League football victory over Princeton Saturday.

A crowd of 30,886, the largest to see the Quakers play here since 1955, watched Penn brunt a late Princeton rally to win its fifth straight for the first time in 20 years. It was Penn's first win over Princeton since 1959 and the second in the last 13 meetings with a rival of 60 years. Princeton .0 0 0 14-14 Penn 3 9 0-19 Penn-Santini 1 run (Berry kick) Penn-FG Berry 25 Penn-FG Berry 39 Penn-Graham 18 pass from Zbrzezni (kick failed) Prin-Coleman 57 pass from McCullough (Holtberg kick) Prin-McCullough 11 run (Holtberg kick) Michigan Tops Gophers 33-20 Minnesota Michigan: First downs 19 28 Rushing yardage 143 252 Passing yardage 200 201 Return 23 105 Passes 12-34-5 14-30-1 Punts 5-31 4-38 Fumbles lost 2 0 Yards penalized 41 49 ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Michigan, thriving on early Minnesota mistakes, raced to a huge first half lead and defeated Minnesota 33-20 Saturday, capturing the Little Brown Jug in the process. Michigan ran up a 30-0 halftime lead as the alert defense intercepted two Minnesota passes and recovered one fumble in the first half and scored touchdowns in each The Gophers couldn't click until the final period when they scored three Minnesota touchdowns.

In the first half was held to three first downs while Michigan had 17. Halfback Ron Johnson scored two of Michigan's touchdowns before the second team came in to play most of the second half. Minnesota 0 0 0 20-20 Michigan 12 18 3 0--33 Mich-Staroba 8 pass from Brown (kick failed) Mich- -Johnson 1 run (pass falled) Mich- Johnson run (run failed) Mich-Harris 22 pass from Brown (pass failed) -FG Killian 24 Mich-FG Killian 31 Minn -Litten 88 pass from Stephens (pass failed) Minn--Mayer 5 run (pass failed) Minn-Trawick 12 pass from Stephens (Stephens pass to Carter): I Wth only 81 points separating them, Pearson starts No. 2 and Isaac. No.

3 behind, Yarborough, Mercury's whose $134,666 leads all drivers in purse winnings. First place Sunday carries 160 points toward the title, with each succeeding finisher dropping two points. Isaac must win or place much higher than Pearson if he is to keep the championship battle going. There are two minor events on the 1968 calendar. turned it 47 yards to the South Carolina 33 to enable Florida State to overcome that deficit.

Bill Gunter got 12 and Cappleman passed to sellers for 20 and a touchdown, the 6-foot-4 end snaking his way down the sidelines for the score. Gildea intercepted another South Carolina pass in the final minute and it 37 yards as South Carolina, was driving inside Florida State's 30. Cappleman to Sellers passing combination was the weapon for the victors, while South Carolina countered with scrambling quarterback Tommy Suggs, who threw two TD passes and scored once. The teams swapped touchdowns through the first three quarters, with the score tied four times, Florida State leading twice and South Carolina twice. Cappleman passed for 19 and 42 yards to sellers and Tom Bailey plunged across from two yards out for the first half Florida State touchdowns.

Suggs ran four yards for a touchdown, then passed 50 yards to Ed Bolton for another and John Gregory for seven For Yarborough, would give him five superspeedway wins this year-more than any driver in NASCAR's 20-year history. He has never won at Rockingham. Some of the other pre-race favorites include: -Richard Petty, No. starting order in' a Plymouth, He has won 15 of 47 starts, has accumulated $71,025 in prize money, but hasn't won on a big track since last year. yards and a third before the halftime.

All the drives were better than 60 yards and passing was the only effective weapon for either team. Cappleman gained 437 yards passing to 24 for Suggs. Sellers caught 16 for 259 yards, and Galloway grabbed 11 for 106 yards. Suggs hit 24 of 37 and had three intercepted, while Cappleman completed 25 of 43 with only one theft. Florida State 7 14 7 7-35 South Carolina 14 0--28 SC Suggs 4 run (Dupre kick) FSU Sellers 19 pass from Capple.

man, (Guthrie, Bailey kick) 2 (Guthrie run kick) SC Bolton 50 pass from Suggs (Dupre kick) FSU Sellers 42 pass from Cappleman SC (Guthrie Gregory kick), pass from Suggs (Dupre kick) SC Galloway 2 run (Dupre kick) FSU Sellers 20 pass from Cappleman (Guthrie kick) FSU -Sellers 16 pass from Cappleman (Guthrie kick) A 42,038. Carnage Romps Charles Muldrow scored twice and Kenneth Peebles threw two touchdown passes last night as Carnage Junior High routed Leroy Martin, 38-6, at Devereux Meadow. Virginia Tech Clips West Virginia, 27-12 WVA West Virginia First downs 21 25 Virginia Tech Rushing yardage 97 254 Tech-Widger 74 Passing yardage 243 116 (Simcsak kick) Runback yardage 0 74 WVU -Braxton 8 Passes 20-43-2 10-20-0 (kick failed) -FG Simcsak Yards Fumbles lost 32 41 Tech-FG Simcsak Penalized WVU -Smith 3 BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) Linebacker Mike Widger's 74- yard touchdown run with an intercepted pass in the opening quarter ignited Virginia Tech's 27-12 football victory over West Virginia Saturday. After Widger's run, Tech's offense took charge of the game on the play of quarterback Al Kincaid and the running of Terry Smoot and Ken Edwards.

West Virginia's two touchdowns came on passes by the Mountaineers' sophomore quarterback, Mike Sherwood. for most the afternoon, the Tech defense held Sherwood in check, another interception setting up a field goal. The Mountaineers trailed only 13-12 until Tech with put the out of reach two scoring drives in the final quarter, the first of which ended with Edwards' four-yard touchdown run and the second on a three-yard scoring thrust by Smoot. Livingstone Tops Fayetteville St. FAYETTEVILLE Livingstone College fought from an 8-6 deficit to a third-quarter touchdown Saturday and beat CIAA rival Fayetteville State 13-8 in a grueling defensive battle.

The winners parlayed halfback Ronald Dean's quickness into a first-period tally when Dean grabbed a punt on his own 45 and rambled all the way. But Fayetteville went ahead in the second period on a weird play. A Livingstone fumble popped into the air, end Calvin Haynes picked it off and raced 60 yards to tally. Then quarterback Danny McMillan passed to end Mike Pearson for the two-point conversion. In the third period, Livingstone capped a 37-yard drive with the winning TD when halfback David Hendricks ran three yards to score.

Joe Henderson kicked the extra point. Livingstone is now 3-2 overall and 3-1 in CIAA play. Fayetteville is 2-2 in both categories. Livingstone 6 0 7 0-13 I Fayetteville 0 8 0 0- 8 William Mary Raps VMI 20-10 VM! yards to paydirt and a 6-0 first First downs 16 Rushing yardage 203 quarter lead. Passing yardage 64 104 Return yardage 25 93 Behind 6-3 in the third quarPasses 4-10-1 10-28-1 Punts ter, the winless Keydets took a Fumbles lost 47 43 brief lead on Kerr Kump's 84- Yards penalized yard punt return.

LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) But William Mary came William Mary scored twice in right back in the final period to the fourth quarter to defeat VMI wrap it up with touchdowns by Mark Pakenham and Rick Mor20-10 in a Southern Conference ton. football game Saturday. The who William Mary 0 0 13--20 Indians, snapped a VMI 0--10 four-game losing streak, scored 4 84 run punt (kick return failed) (Marks their first touchdown since the kick) opening upset of East Carolina 1 run 27 run (Daniel (Daniel kick) kick) when Wes Meeteer swept four The News and Observer, Sunday, October 27, 1968 11-7 ROCKINGHAM (AP) With NASCAR's Grand National driving title at stake, the South's big money stock car ternity go at it again Sunday in American 500-miler, last superspeedway race of the season. The 44-car field, competing for $85,400 in prize and accessory money, will take the green flag at noon over the one mile North Carolina Motor Speedway, a tri-oval with shallow, Catawba Outscores Elon, 32-26 CATAWBA ELON First Downs 17 19 Passes 13-20-4 17-33-1 Rushing 155 167 Passing Yards 178 238 Punts Penlaties 12 32 BURLINGTON (UPI) Ray Hardison, reserve quarterback for Catawba Indians, came off the bench after starter Harry Monokian was injured in the first quarter, to lead the Indians to a 32-26 win over the Elon Christians here Saturday.

Hardison passed for two touchdowns and ran for three to account for all of Catawba's five scores. Burgin Beal, Elon tailback, who is the top passer and the total offense leader in the Carolinas Conference, completed 16 of 32 passes for 238 and two touchdowns. Catawba 0 14 6 12 Elon 0 12 7 26 Elon Moore 1 run (Kick missed) Catawba Reynolds 10 pass from Hardison (Streic kick) Elon McGeorge 32 pass from Beale (pass failed) Catawba Singleton 31 pass from dison (Streic kick) Elon Moore 1 run (Helsley kick) Catawba Hardison 1 run (pass failed) failed) Catawba 1 run (kick Catawba Hardison 3 run (Kkick failed) Elon Rickinac 55 pass from Geale (Helsley Colorado Outscores Oklahoma BOULDER, Colo. (AP) Quarterback Bob Anderson, a dangerous passer, outfoxed late-rallying Oklahoma with rollout runs-three for touchdowns -to steer Colorado to a 41-27 upset over the Big Eight defending football champions behind Oklahoma, ated a tardy comeback with three fourth-quarter touchdowns on Bob Warmack's passing and Steve Owens' wide runs with pitchouts. Colorado, controlling the ball with a time consuming drive in the last five minutes, erased the threat with a touchdown by fullback Tom Nigbur.

Oklahoma 6 21-27 Colorado 0 20 14 7-41 Colo -Anderson 7 run (kick blocked) Colo--Anderson 5 run (Haney kick) Colo-Anderson 5run (Haney kick) Colo- 1 run (Haney kick) Okla-Owens 1 run (kick failed) Colo- -Nigbur 1 run (Haney kick) Okla-Owens 11 run (kick failed) Okla-Thompson 8 run (Der kick) Okla-Hinton 20 pass from Warmack (Barr pass from Warmack) Colo 3 run (Haney kick) Purdue Rips Iowa 44-14 Iowa Purdue First downs 18 32 Rushing yardage 155 493 Passing yardage 177 0 Return yardage Passes 10-22-3 0-3-1 Punts 4-36 2-45 Fumbles lost 2 Yards penalized 20 14 LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Purdue, without completing a single pass, overwhelmed the Iowa Hawkeyes 44-14 Saturday and cracked two Big Ten football rushing records. Purdue passing ace Mike Phipps sat out the game with an ankle injury. Don Kiepert, No. 2 Purdue quarterback, brilliantly directed Boilermakers through 92 ground plays that produced 483 yards, seven touchdowns and 32 first downs.

Ohio State had held the conference record for rushes, 86 against Illinois in 1943. Purdue held the old record of 25 first downs by rushing set against Indiana in 1948. Purdue's All-American Leroy Keyes and Jim Kirkpatrick scored two touchdowns apiece. Kiepert, Perry Williams and Stan Brown made one apiece. Keyes dashed 51 yards for one of his.

Iowa 0 7 0 7-14 Purdue 6 14 12 12-44 -Williams 1 run (kick failed) Iowa Sullivan 22 pass from Lawrence (Melandez kick) -Keyes 51 run (run failed) Pur-Kiepert 1 run (Griffin pass from Keyes) -Keyes 2 run (run failed) Pur -Kirkpatrick 2. run (pass failed) Pur -Kirkpatrick 6 run (pass failed) Pur-Brown 5 run (kick failed) lowa-Reardon 42 pass from Cilex (Melandez kick) A- 61,927. Ohio State Rally Nips Illinois Ohio 25 State First Downs Rushing 290 200 Return yardage 26 Passing yardage 163 ,302 Passes 14-23-2 9-23-3 Punts 4-32 6-43 Fumbles lost 0 0 Yards penalized 45 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Undefeated and ed Ohio State, on the threshhold of a season wrecking tie, rallied in the final minutes Saturday to hand underdog Illinois a 31-24 defeat. -Paul Goldsmith, Dodge veta previous winner at Rockinvham, always a contender but hampered by mechanical troubles this year.

He starts fifth. -Lee Roy Yarbrough, the No. 2 Ford driver behind Pearson. Has won $81,154, compared with Pearson's $108,317. Yarbrough starts sixth.

-Charlie Glotzbach, a late comer in a Dodge. Won last Sunday's National 500 at Char- SMU Gets 29-18 Upset SMU Tech First downs 18 20 Rushing yardage 32 110 Passing yardage 296 189 yardage 123 Passes 29-51-0 12-34-3 Punts 6-37 Fumbles lost Yards penalized 107 9 LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI)Southern Methodist University's passing quarterback, Chuck Hixson, connected with 29 of throws Saturday to lead his team to a 39-18 upset victory over Texas Tech in a Southwest Conference game. The victory pushed the SMU Mustangs into the Southwest Conference lead with a 3-0 record, and dropped Texas Tech to a 2-1 conference mark. For the year SMU is now 5-1, and Tech stands 3-1-2.

Nixon, the nation's leading passer, with his throws accounted for' 296 yards, including 15-yard touchdown to Fleming and a 23-yard scorer to Levias. SMU .0 22 7 10- 39 Tech 10 0 0 8-18 Tech-Matulich 36 run (Vinyard kick) Tech-FG Vinyard 39 SMU-Fleming 15 pass from Hixson (Lesser kick) SMU-Levias 23 pass from Hixson (Lesser kick) SMU-FG Lesser SMU-Safety, Vinyard tackled in end zone SMU-FG Lesser 53 SMU 1 run (Lesser kick) SMU-FG Lesser 41 SMU-Nekuza 26 pass interception (Lesser kick) Tech-Freeman 3 run (Sawyer run) lotte-his first NASCAR victory has been a contender everevery big event July. He's in seventh position. -Buddy Baker, Dodge, hasn't scored since the World 600 in May, but is among the circuit's top money winners with $53,290. Has placed among the top 10 finishers 18 distance races this season.

-The Allison brothers- -Bobby and Donnie both of whom have won races on this course. Bobby, who switched to a Plymouth a month ago, starts eighth. Donnie, in a factory, Ford, encountered mechanical troubles and could do no better than 13th in the starting order. Bobby has won $48,541, Donnie $49,895 this season. With good weather predictions a crowd of 45,000 is expected.

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