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Seaboard on Sports in Brief Bosox' Johnson Receives AL Managerial Honor From News Dispatches Darrell Johnson, who set his sights on a division title last spring and then saw his Red Sox give Boston its first American League pennant since 1967, Friday was named the UPI's American League manager of the year. The 48-year old Johnson, who took over as manager of the Red Sox following the 1973. season, was selected by 14 of the 20 baseball correspondents who made up UPI's 1975 panel of experts. LAVER WINS: Rod Laver captured the $40,000 first prize Friday in the World Invitational Classic tennis tournament at Hilton Head Island, S.C. as he and partner Evonne Goolagong scored an easy 6-3, 6-3 victory over Ilie Nastase and Rosemary Casals in the mixed doubles.

Chris Evert defeated Goolagong 6-1, 6-1 for the women's singles title and second place in the five-day $135,000 event. FOOTBALL: A federal judge in Greenville, agreed Friday to temporarily set aside an NCAA ruling which prohibited sophomore Larry Gillard from playing with Mississippi State University. The order permits Gillard to join the Bulldogs for today's game against Louisville at Louisville is the latest development in the legal battle which followed an NCAA investigation into recruiting violations at the Starkville school. Gillard, a defensive tackle, was ruled ineligible by the NCAA last month for an unspecified period for allegedly receiving clothing discounts from a Mississippi State The Texas-Texas game scheduled for Thanksgiving Day was rescheduled Friday to be played and nationally televised Friday, Nov. 28, officials announced.

ELSEWHERE: The Phoenix Suns placed former Duke player Gary Melchionni on waivers Friday to make room for John Wetzel, who was acquired on waivers from the Atlanta Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said Friday he has received written notice from the clubs owners that they are terminating the Basic Agreement as of Dec. 31, 1975, and the Pension Plan Agreement as of midnight March 31, 1976. Friends Recall Stas great football coach and a mighty fine gentlemen." Dick Herbert, former sports editor of The News and Observer and a close Stasavich friend for nearly 40 years, felt the ECU athletic director's reputation as a tight-fisted administrator was unjustified. "He was always fully aware of the limitations under which his programs had to be conducted," said Herbert. "I think the fact that East Carolina is playing Carolina tomorrow is a reflection on what he did.

Gained Everyone's Respect And, if you look it up, you'll find that four of the seven largest crowds in the history of N.C.State's Carter Stadium came against East Carolina. Throughout the United States, despite operating out of relatively unknown places, he gained the respect of everyone in Bill Murray, the former Duke coach who serves as executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, agreed. "He was one of the really outstanding leaders in athletics in this state, in the south, and in the country," said Murray. "To all of us in college athletics, he was -known because of his interest and activity in programs and projects. He was always involved.

Pat Dye, the current East Carolina football coach, felt that Stasavich's last day of life indicated just how deeply his involvement ran." "He was sick when he got up this morning, but he went to work to teach his 10 to 11 o'clock physical education class," said Dye. "He had to take a nitroglycerin pill before his last class. You know he had to be in pain, but that didn't stop him. "Being associated with athletics as long as I have, you meet many people you think a great deal of. And you meet a few who are just "big people who stand out.

He was such a man-a great individual, as strong as I've ever been around." a Duke Coach Mike McGee, who was ECU's coach for one season, said that Stasavich simply could not be stopped from performing his duties, despite two earlier severe heart attacks. "Against the advice of his doctors, he continued to do what he loved best- -working with young people. Football and the athletic world have lost a great man. We all mourn him." Stasavich, the coach, is best remembered as one of the last exponents of the single-wing formation, a fact that sometimes overshadowed his amazing record of 170 victories, 64 losses, and eight ties. Three 9-1 Seasons Included among those victories was a national championship at Lenoir Rhyne, three straight 9-1 seasons at East Carolina, and three straight bowl victories.

Stasavich's teams always played the game enthusiastically. "His teams played some of the most exciting football played anywhere," Herbert recalled. "I just loved to seem his teams play. He was a big-play coach. The single wing the way he played it was more exciting than any formation I've ever seen." Dye added that Stasavich's "greatness" as a coach isn't entirely reflected in his superb won-lost record.

"'He was great because he is remembered for what he did for the young men in his program," said Dye. "When former players come back to East Carolina, they talk about what they learned from him, not just how to play a game. He was in it to help people. In his own simple way, he was a strong man who never varied in his beliefs." Stasavich began to make his mark in athletics following his escape from the coal mines of Georgetown, Ill. He came to Lenoir Rhyne as a player, earning all-Carolinas Conference honors in football and basketball in 1934 and 1935.

He was named to the Charlotte Observer's "Flaming Five," a group annually recognized as the top five athletes in the two Carolinas in 1935. After graduating in 1935, he went to Campbell College as football line coach, head basketball coach and assistant baseball coach. Three years later, he returned to Lenoir Rhyne as football line coach, assistant basketball coach and head tennis coach. His tennis team won two conference championships before World War II interruped his coaching and he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served in the European and Pacific theaters as an LST commander.

He obtained a masters degree at the University of North Carolina after his discharge and went back to Lenoir Rhyne as head football coach and athletic director in 1946. Nine CC Titles During his 16 years at the college in Hickory, Stasavich's teams posted nine Carolinas Conference titles and in 1960 earned the NAIA national championship, an achievement he always called his "greatest coaching thrill." He had an overall coaching record of 120 wins, 37 losses and seven ties at Lenoir Rhyne. His Carolinas Conference titles were earned in 1951 and 1952 and from 1955 through 1961, when he left for East Carolina as head football coach. In 1963, he was named athletic director, but retained his coaching duties. He was instrumental in leading ECU to membership in the Southern Conference.

Beginning in 1963, three of his East Carolina teams posted 9-1 records in succession and participated in three consecutive postseason bowl games. The Pirates were victorious in all three bowl outings, winning the Eastern Bowl in 1963 and the Tangerine Bowl in 1964 and 1965. The American Football Writers Association named him small college coach of the year in 1964. He coached for eight years before giving up the position after the 1969 season to work full time as athletic director. His tenure was the most successful era in East Carolina's football history.

At the time of his retirement, Stasavich's total of 170 career victories was matched by only two other active coaches in the nation Bear Bryant of Alabama and Johnny Vaught of Ole Miss. Stasavich i is a member of both the Helms Foundation Football Football Hall of Fame and the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital in Durham and served on the Greenville Human Relations Council. He was and elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville. Stasavich is survived by his widow, the former Helen Warlick of Hickory, a son, Walter L.

Stasavich of Greenville, two daughters, Rebecca Ann Stasavich of Hickory and Mary Helen Stasavich of Heidelberg, Germany, two sisters, one stepsister, and one grandchild. Apps Face Crucial Test The Associated Press Two extremely crucial games are on tap this afternoon for the four teams still in the running for the Southern Conference football championship, and the four coaches are well aware of the fact. "This is a must game for us if we expect to have any hope at all of staying in the conference race," says Coach Jim Brauefield of Appalachian State's Mountaineers, who play host to Richmond's front-running Spiders. "I still feel it will be very difficult to be undefeated in the conference, but I think we'll be ready to play if we can get all TIME OUT! "Most 275-pound defensive ends I've coached don't worry about their uniform being soiled, Dumbroski!" Today's Sports Football ACC East Carolina at UNC, 1:30 p.m. N.C.

State at Clemson, 1 p.m. Duke at Florida, 2 p.m. Wake Forest at Virginia, 1:30 p.m. Southern Conference East Carolina at UNC, 1:30 p.m. Richmond at Appalachian State, 1:30 p.m.

Davidson at Sydney, 2 p.m. The Citadel at VMI, 2 p.m. Furman at William Mary, 1:30 p.m. CIAA-MEAC J.C. Smith at Shaw, 2 p.m.

N.C. Central at Shore, 1:30 p.m. Howard at N.C.A&T, 1 p.m. Fayetteville St. at Livingstone, 1:30 p.m.

Elizabeth City St. at Winston- 7:30 p.m. SAC-8 Catawba at Elon, 2 p.m. Carson-Newman at p.m. Lenoir Rhyne at Mars Hill, 7:30 p.m.

Other Games WCU at UT -Chattanooga, 2 p.m. Randolph Macon at Guilford, 2 p.m. Chowan at Lynchburg Baptist, 7:30 p.m. Raleigh Super Bowl At Enioe High School Little League championship, 10 a.m. Junior League championship, 11:30 a.m.

Senior League championship, 1 p.m. Cross Country State Collegiate Meet, N.C. State, 11 a.m. Methodist Campbell, 2 p.m.; UNCGreensboro at N.C. Wesleyan, 2 p.m.

Tennis N.C. Juniors Closed Circuit, Lions Park, 9 a.m. Women's Tennis North Carolina at Florida, 10 a.m.; Peace at College of Boco Raton; Duke vs. Florida State at Greenville, S.C. Women's Volleyball State and High Point at UNCGreensboro, 2 p.m.

Karate Atlantic Coast Karatedo pionships, Meredith College gymn, 10:30 a.m. Bears Host J.C. Smith Shaw's Bears, still looking for their first Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association victory, entertain league foe Johnson C. Smith here this afternoon at Devereux Meadow. Game time is 2 p.m.

The Bears are 0-3 in the CIAA and 1-4 overall. J.C. Smith has a 2-1 conference mark and 3-3 overall record. In other games involving CIAA teams, Fayetteville State plays at Livingstone (2-1, 4-1) at 1:30 and Elizabeth City State (2-3, 2-4) travels to Winston-Salem State (0-5, 0-6) for a 7:30 clash. In Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference action, North Carolina Central (1-0-1, 3-1-1) is at Maryland-Eastern Shore (0-4, 0-6) and North Carolina (1-1, 4-2) is host to Howard (2-1, 5-1) in afternoon games.

Elon (2-0, 4-2) seeks to improve its South Atlantic Conference record against league opponent Catawba (1-2, 3-2) at 2 p.m.. Meanwhile, CarsonNewman (2-0, 5-1), the SAC-8 co-leader, visits -Webb (0-4, 1-4) and Lenoir Rhyne (2- 0-1, 3-2-1) travels to Mars Hill (2-2, 5-2). In other games, Western Carolina is at Tennessee-Chattanooga, Guilford hosts Randolph Macon at 2 p.m. and Chowan plays at Lynchburg Baptist at night. Perkins, Duke Eye CC Titles A year ago Robbie Perkins finished second in the state collegiate cross country meet.

Today, the Duke runner is favored to capture the No. 1 spot when the 27th annual meet is held at N.C. State. Perkins and his Blue Devil teammates also are odds-on favorites to take the team crown in the 11 a.m. event.

Duke teams have won the last seven state meets and the Blue Devils are unbeaten this season. Perkins, the Blue Devils' Peter Quance and North Carolina's Ralph King rate as the top individuals in the five-mile race. The three finished in that order in last week's dual meet between the two teams, which Duke won 18-37. Quance placed tenth in the state meet last fall while teammate Bynum Merritt was third. North Carolina should be the Blue Devils' biggest challenge.

The Tar Heels' Tommy Ward was sixth in '74 with King eight and Bill Souther land ninth. Other returnees from last year's top ten include N.C. State's Tony Bateman (7th) and Western Carolina's Dennis Kasprzyk (5th). The meet features teams from throughout the state. The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.

C. Saturday, October 25, 1975 11 New Football Season Opens: It's Notre Dame vs. Trojans United Press International To hear some Notre Dame fanatics, you'd think the Irish open their football season today. Never mind the first six games which included that lone loss to Michigan State. The season opener is today at South Bend against Southern California.

The Irish have long memories, especially bitter ones, and they all stem from a year ago, when Notre Dame was ripped to pieces by USC, 55-24, after leading 24-0. That horror show was on national TV, and the survivors of the debacle are determined that the telecast today will not be a rerun. The Villain Gone The prime villain of 1974, Anthony Davis, is no longer with the Trojans, but what he did still rankles ND followers. What did he do? He took a TD pass from Pat Haden for USC's first score just before halftime. He opened the second half by returning the kickoff 100 yards for another touchdown, and later went over the goal line from the six, and again from the four.

His four straight touchdowns gave the Trojans a 26-24 lead, and the avalanche continued. USC scored 35 points in the third period, added 14 in the fourth. It was the final regular season game for the Trojans, who went on from there to an 18-17 victory over Ohio State in the Rose Bowl and the national championship. USC is rated third in the nation by the UPI Board of Coaches, while ND is far down at No. 14.

The loss to Michigan State, and two narrow escapes from Air Force and I North Carolina indicate the Irish haven't got it all together yet, but this is the day Dan Devine hopes they do. The bookies are cautious, pegging USC as a mere two-point pick. For Devine, this is his first coaching encounter with USC. He has no Davis to worry about, but the newest in the long line of Trojan hotshots is Ricky Bell, who is capable of duplicating some of Davis' work. Other Games The nation's top team, Ohio State, has a Big Ten date with Purdue and no trouble is anticipated, while second-ranked Oklahoma will flex its muscles at Iowa State.

There's an intriguing match up pairing fourth-rated Nebraska and 10th-rated Colorado. Colorado has lost but once, by one point to Oklahoma, when an extra point try was missed in the closing moments. The Buffaloes had declined to try for a two-point conversion, seeking a tie instead of a win and getting neither. Other games involving top 10 teams see Alabama facing TCU, Texas gunning for Baylor, Michigan going against Indiana, Texas opposing Rice and Penn State picking on Army. Duke Tests Gators Continued from Page 9 excellent runner and he ranks second in the ACC in total offense, although he hasn't played full-time.

State, which started slowly offensively, has been rolling the past three games, aided by the running of freshman Ted Brown. Since entering the lineup, Brown has rushed for 307 yards. Johnny Evans, who was a running back for the first four games, has seen extensive duty as a backup quarterback to Dave Buckey since then. He directed two of the three touchdown marches in last week's 21-20 win over Carolina. Wake Forest and Virginia both will be trying to half fourgame losing streaks in Charlottesville.

It's been a hard-luck season for both, with one tight defeat after another. The Deacons expect to have leading rusher Clark Gaines back for this game. He ranks second to Voight among ACC runners. The Cavaliers have offensive weapons also. Scott Gardner leads the conference in total offense and David Sloan ranks third in rushing.

Tough Job for Duke Duke, buoyed by successive wins over Army and Clemson, will be facing the nation's fourth leading offense when it takes on 12th-ranked Florida. Fullback Jimmy DuBose and left-half Tony Green rank as two of the finest runners in the country. The Gators will be without quarterback Don Gaffney, but backup Jimmy Fisher is a junior who has played quite a bit the past two years. Florida Coach Doug Dickey calls the Duke offense "the best we will have faced this season." It is keyed by freshman quarterback Mike Dunn, tailback Mike Barney and fullback Tony Benjamin. The Blue Devils also have the third leading receiver in the ACC in split end Troy Slade.

Maryland, which has won 13 straight conference games, returns to action next week against Penn State. beanal ack ned of ced alknei- me day Jets a red the le a into sn't me I've like I be Ill's pro out ons reaid HA rs. uch any ck- uch I in ns. SWin full ive ave tho pe tes edere pro Baool In TOr's the is, rle, ard .00 the a's her le: ke, an 25: at ka, ms see itall me he at dy al. on 4 16 10-4 20 189 has Continued from Page 9 Rookies Continue to Dazzle Foes In National Team Golf Tourney LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.

(UPI) The Cinderella rookie team of Jimmy Wittenberg and Bryan Abbott worked their magic again at Walt Disney World Friday to post a 64 and hold onto a share of the lead halfway through the $200,000 National Team Championship. The two obscure players from the Deep South, working Cross Country Eastern Sectional At N.C. State 3.1-Mile Course 1. Billy Lynch, Sanderson, 2. Jimmy Abbott, Cary, 3.

Mark Warren, Sanderson, 4. Steve Holland, Douglas Byrd, 5. Billy Anderson, Cary, 6. Charles Powell, Whiteville, 7. Doug Myers, Terry Sanford.

8. Jay Wilson, South View, 9. Bobby Rozier, South View, 10. Brian Bent, Broughton, 17:00. 11.

Charles King, Wilson Fike, 12. David Schwimmer, Broughton, 13. Charles Mann, Wilmington Hoggard, 14. David Stepp, Douglas Byrd, 15. David Parker, Roanoke Rapids, 16.

Mark Dangerfield, Cary, 17. Karl Hoist, Millbrook, 18. Tim Davis, Wilmington Hoggard, 19. Mike Revis, Douglas Byrd, 20. Dru Sanders, Broughton, 17:23.

TEAM STANDINGS 1. Cary 68; 2. Douglas Byrd 76; 3. Sanderson 118; 4. South View 126; 5.

Hoggard 132; 6. Broughton 138; 7. Terry Sanford 201; 8. Wilson Fike 259; 9. Millbrook 261; 10.

Reid Ross 274; 11. Seventy- First 275; 12. Northern Nash 318; 13. Ahoskie 329; 14. E.E.

Smith 338; 15. Rocky Mount 365; 16. Enloe 371; 17. South Lenoir 390; 18. Smithfield- Selma 396; 19.

Greenville Rose 438; 20. Vaiden Whitley 504; 21. Bertie 530. College Soccer NORTH CAROLINA 3, EMORY 0 Emory 0 0-0 Carolina 0 3-3 Scoring: Barroff, E. Cook 2.

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Surprise Defeat "Our loss to Richmond threw us a little off schedule. We expected to be 3-0 going into this week, but instead we're 2-1," says Coach Bob Thalman of Virginia Military's defending champion Keydets, who entertain The Citadel's Bulldogs, also 2-1 in the league. "We want to make them go 80 yards every time they have the football and I'm certain they don't want to give us anything cheap. We'll be ready for Test them and they'll be ready for us," says The Citadel Coach Bobby Ross, who played at VMI as an undergradute. Appalachian has the best overall record of the four at 5-1, but the Mountaineers play just five league games.

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