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8--11 The News and Observer, Sunday, September 28, 1969 Suffridge, Parker Used Cont Contrasting App Approaches EDITOR'S NOTE: The Football Writers Association of America has chosen the all-time modern (1920 the present) All-America football team as part of college football's Centinnial here is the fourth in a series of sketches on the players selected. They are written by members of the FWAA with years of experlence covering football. Today the careers of guards Bob Suffridge of nessee Parker of Ohio State are discussed. By Tom Siler Sports Editor, Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1957-69 FWAA President, 1954 Tennessee's Bob Suffridge and Ohio State's Jim Parker, two guards of rugged, refined talent, achieved football immortality with contrasting styles. was huge, muscular, overpowering.

Suffridge was Parkers unrelenting. Both played offense and defense. Both provided matchless leadership for championship teams. Suffridge, a native Tennessean, played at 185 pounds, but his charge was like the thrust of a jet engine. His coach, the late Robert Neyland, said, "Suff had the quickest and most powerful defensive charge of any man I have ever seen.

On offense, he was highly adept at pulling from his guard position to lead the ball carrier downfield." Rival coaches constantly complained about Suff being offsides when he wasn't. He once blocked the same point-aftertouchdown three times, being penalized for offside the first two times. The lightning charge enabled him to block many punts and harass rival quarterbacks. He was durable, too, despite special steps taken by the opposition to contain him. Opposing teams paid him the highest compliment by trying to run away from his position.

Suffridge was the star of stars on a Tennessee team that had a 31-2-0 record for 1938-40. He won All-America honors in 1938, 1939 and 1940, won the Rockne Memorial Trophy as the nation's best lineman in 1940, and was elected to the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1961. Parker, a native of Macon, Georgia, who became a prep star in Toledo, enrolled at Ohio State in 1953. Coach Woody Hayes employed his awesome talents at linebacking on defense, at guard on offense. Hayes, thinking of Parker's physique (6-2, 251), said, "Jim could block anybody he was great on blocking, pulling or trapping.

And he gave us great protection for our passer. He would lead the sweeps when Howard (Hopalong) Cassady was carrying the ball." On defense, Parker sometimes played in the line, sometimes behind the line. "They couldn't block Parker," added Hayes. "I'm happy to know that Parker is on the all-time team. The honor is well deserved." Parker's most spectacular defensive play occurred against Northwestern when he grabbed a fumble at his linebacking position and ran 42 yards for a touchdown.

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"You could take our receivers, and they could start for any team in the ACC, I believe," said Arrington, shifpraise to his associates. "The scouts are looking at Richard McGeorge every day. He's the best pass receiver I've seen in a long time. Jim Waller, a former Clemson player, has real good moves, and our flanker Joe Rinaca is from Virginia. He has good speed, 9.9 or 9.8 in the hundred." So with Arrington's arm and the trio of competent catchers, Elon is expected to throw incessantly, if not excessively.

But it's the popular supposition that, run or pass, Jimmy will steer the Christians on the straight and narrow path. Speed Is Difference "The big difference between the Carolinas Conference and ACC players," he offered, "is the speed. The linemen are faster in the ACC, but the backs are about equal in size and speed, I believe." But regardless of the league, it's beginning to seem like old times for the 5-10, 183-pound Arrington. Old times like at Rocky Mount, where he was the hero. You could almost count on Arrington starring there weekly, just like you can count on John Wayne starring in a John Wayne movie.

His team was 5- 0 and averaging more than 40 points a game when he got hurt that senior year, but the team still went 10-0. Since then, it's been mostly uphill, but now it looks as if Jim is a big man on campus again, a very big man. Soccer Favorites NEW YORK (AP) Michigan State and Maryland, cochamps in college soccer last year, were 1-2 in preseason ratings released Tuesday by the nation's coaches. Michigan State received 14 of 18 possible first place votes for 319 points from the Intercollegiate National Soccer Coaches' rating board. Maryland, which tied with Michigan State 2-2 in last year's title game, received four first place votes for 291 points.

San Jose State was rated third. at Ohio State, the Buckeyes 2 Jimmy Arrington PCU Wins Called Game WINFALL The game between Perquimans Union and J. T. Barber High of New Bern was called with two minutes left in the first halt and Perquimans leading 30-0, when Barber's coach pulled his team from the field after a dispute with an official. Perquimans Union scored on touchdown passes of 45 and 30 yards from quarterback Percy Davis to Leamus Etheridge, and on runs of 34 and 22 yards by Chester Jordan.

Camp Lejeune Defeats Jones TRENTON A 30-yard halfback pass from Bill Crites to Mike Hollinsworth in the third period highlighted a Camp Lejeune 20-12 victory over Jones Senior here Friday night. Joe Hacker ran it three yards for Lejeunes score in the first. Bill Crites added another in the second on a 14-yard run. Jones' scores came on a romp of 34 and 70 yards by halfbback Kenneth Strayhorn. Camp Lejeune 6 8 6 0-20 Jones Senior 0 6 6 0-12 Greene Central Nips Hobbton by 7 to 0 NEWTON GROVE Halfback Sammy Gay took the ball in from the one-yard-line on the last play of the first half for the game's only score as Greene Central beat Hobbton, 7-0, Friday nght.

Greene Central recoverd a fumble on the Hobbton with about a minute and half left to set up the score. Greene Central 0 7 0 0-7 Hobbton 0-0 0 Races Slated At VIR Today DANVILLE, Va. The biggest entry to date is expected at Sunday's National Championship races at Virginia International Raceway here. At least 10 former national champions in the field of road racing will be competing in the various classes for points toward the American Road Race of Champions in Daytona this November. Among these will be Bob Nagel, who set the course record at VIR at 2:08.4 in a McKee Mk.

7. Expected to give Nagel the roughest competition is Johnny Gunn, whose Formula A car has the potential to break the overall record. Other important entrants include Bruce Jennings, Jerry Truitt, Harry Ingle, Jim Fitzgerald, and Hugh Kleinpeter, who returned triumphant from the recent race in Florida, setting six new records and winning in the Formula Vee class. Over 200 entries, the most yet at VIR, are expected to compete in this event, sponsored by the Central Carolinas Region of the Sports Car Club of America. The first race, for Formula Suffridge of Tennessee, the all-time guards won two Big Ten titles, a national title, and had a 23-5-0- Ex-Hunter Evans Now Top Shooter He had broken a leg in the sixth game of his senior season at Rocky Mount High, ripped a cartilage at Wake Forest, and never really got a "fair chance" to show the Deacons that he could be a college quarterback.

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Nights Til 9 Corner Hargett Wilmington St. play in the ACC," confessed this former prep -America. "Going into my sophomore year at Wake my knee hadn't healed like it should, but finally I got a chance to start against Auburn. "I wasn't in very good shape, though, and I don't think I got a real fair shot But I'm trying to make the very best of it all now." There was no trace of bitterness in his voice, He sounded like a contented married man, a quarterback who has found solace, satisfaction and success at a smaller school. In his first game at Elon, Arrington connected on 12 of 16 passes for 247 yards and added 47 rushing.

He wasn't exactly destroying the most formidable foe the Christians will face, but he scrambles guttily and passes unflinchingly and that style suits Coach Red Wilson to a which he employs now instead of the single wing. "It hasn't been a real big adjustment for me," explained Jimmy, "because we are running a lot of what I was used to in high school and at Wake Forest. I practiced with the team last spring and I think I'm in the best shape I've been in in a long time." After leaving Wake at the end of his sophomore season, Jim faded further into obscurity, working for Burlington industries in Rocky Mount one year, then redshirting at Elon the next. It's been a long wait, and this is his last chance to make up for all those frustrations. Almost anything grows in fertile Florida.

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Columbia Boys To Lafayette By DICK BROWN Staff Writer NEW YORK (AP) Tom Triolo's three touchdown smashes, including the tie-breaker early in the fourth quarter, helped Lafayette come from behind and defeat Columbia 36-22 Saturday in a ragged football game. Triolo's third touchdown, into on the a four-yard run 3:10 fourth quarters, capped a 69- yard drive that broke a 22-22 tie. His second touchdown, midway through the third quarter, and the two-point conversion on Ed Baker's pass to Bob Zimmers, had tied the score. UConns Clip Yale by 19-15 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Connecticut, favored for the Conference football title, defeated Yale 19-15 day for its second victory 21-game series.

It was Yale's first loss since the opening game of the 1967 season. Connecticut held off a finalperiod thrust by the 1968 Ivy League co -champions and stopped a final Yale drive on the 11-yard line as time ran out. Connecticut 13 0 6 0-19 Yale 7 2 0 6-15 Yale Martin 84 kickoff return (Klebanoff kick) Conn -Zito 4 run '(kick failed) Conn-Zito 4 run (Clements kick) through end zone) Yale (blocked punt rolled Conn- Clements 68 pass from Robustel(kick failed) Yale- -Milligan 93 pass from Massey (kick failed) South Lenoir Raps Richlands DEEP RUN Quarterback Frankie Vause and split end Frank Grubbs teamed up for a pair of touchdown passes as South Lenoir rolled to a 35-0 East Central 2-A victory, over Richlands here Friday The Vause to Grubbs touchdowns covered 20 and 16 yards, and both came in the first quarter. Richlands 0 0 0- 0 South Lenoir 15 14 0 6-35 Farmville Rips Aycock by 30-0 FARMVILLE Halfback Rudolph Davis and fullback Dickie Newton both scored a pair of touchdowns, sparking Farmville to a 30-0 romp over Charles B. Aycock here Friday night.

Newton scored on runs of 69 and six yards while Davis slipped in from two and three yards Quarterback Fred Sauls passed to Simon Cox for one twopoint conversion and to Connie Tripp for another. Cloyce Wilson kicked a pair of extra points. Farmville 8 15 0 7-30 C. B. Aycock 0 0 00000 0- 0 Carroll Wins Carroll fullback Mike Schuch ran four yards up the middle to score Carroll's only TD as they went on to beat Aycock 8-0.

Schuch went back up the middie again for the extra two points, culminating a 12 play, 65 yard drive. Aycock never threatened. Carroll 0 8 0-8 Aycock 08 8 8 0 0-0 8 His skill on the skeet range with all gauge shotguns has already won him the National 3-A Overall Championship, a first leg on at least three North Carolina challenge trophies, and a room full of awards from other parts of the country. In addition he has an excellent chance of being included in the "Top 20" listing of skeet shooters, which will be released in the next few weeks. Evans' rise to fame in skeet circles is little short of phenomenal.

He began serious shooting just three and onehalf years ago and brought home a first place trophy on his first trip to the Nationals in Rochester, N. Y. in August? The 3-A Overall cham? pionship at Rochester was wonby breaking 543 out of a possible 550 targets with .410, .20, and guns. Out of 250 rounds with a 12-gauge He missed two targets. Four misses came out.

of 100 rounds with a .410, one target was missed with the 28 and he' fired a perfect 100 with the .20 gauge. Evans, who has operated the Chrysler-Plymouth agency at Myrtle Beach the past 13 years, was also runnerup in" the 2-A team and placed 10th in 12-gauge 3-A competition at the Rochester, event. "Some of the time we were shooting," he remarked; "there was a 30-mile wind and I broke some birds that weren't much above ground level." 10 Evans, a native of Dark, ington, is generally credited with sparking interest in skeet shooting along the Grand Strand. His efforts have produced a well kept, ef? ficiently operated range with five fields that is open each Wednesday and every weekend for shooters. "Local interest has really grown," he said, "in the past couple of years.

We have about 40 shooters in this areal and hundreds of visitors. On a national basis skeet shooting is one of the fastest growing hobbies and there are now over 70,000 shooters in the country." To obtain national ranking, skeet experts like Evans keep a careful ful record of their performances in sponsored tournaments and will fire several thousand rounds per year. Over the past 12 months. Evans has broken 99.2 per cent of 1,800 targets with a.12- gauge gun and is maintaining a 97.56 per cent average for. 6,000 registered targets with all gauge shotguns.

For the uninitiated, a skeet range consists of eight shooting stations or pads strategically placed around high and low target release houses at either end of the range. A shooter fires at a high and low target from each pad and shoots four sets of doubles (simultaneous release of targets from both houses) in each round of 25. "Natural shooting ability i is probably the most important thing in becoming proficient at the sport," Evans, who can a break the spinning clay target discs from the hip better than most shooters from the shoulder, explained. "Practice is very important because the targets are released at a 60-mile an hour speed and follow a set course. A series of stakes serve as guides and a shooter knows a target will cross the center stake at a height.

Weather conditions can change this ana this is why shooting is more 0 difficult on windy days." "Choice of guns and ammunition also important," he added, "Naturally there's a better chance to break targets with a.12-gauge gun, but it's just as much fun with the smaller gauges. "Most shooters use re-load ammunition for practice and new ammunition in meets. As a hobby, it probably compares in expense with golf and is cheaper than hunting; and don't forget you've always got something to shoot at even if 8 you can't eat it." Vees at 15 laps, is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Following it will be a 15-lap race for Formula SCCA, with a break for lunch after that event. Races for the remaining groups start up at 1:30 p.m., lasting until 6 p.m.

The cars will include production models, sedans, sports racing cars, and formula cars under which fall the Formula SCCA, the Formula Vee, and the Formula Ford. Spectators for the event will be able to see about threefourths of the track from one vantage point. Camping facilities, to the tune of 200 acres in the infield, are available for those who like to keep close at hand. Altogether, VIR comprises 1,200 acres of grassy fields and woods. The track itself, a highly demanding 3.2 mile curvesome course, is considered one of the best in the Southeast, if not the nation, by the men who drive on it.

Many have returned time after time for as many as 13 years, lured by the challenge offered by VIR. The track is located 11 miles east of Danville, off US 58 at Milton, N.C..