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Anderson Independent-Mail Sunday November 13 1938 iST it Sweet dreams turn sour for Bulldogs cils earned at least a share of the title Satur- day with a 20-3 victory over Mississippi State at Starkville Miss Despite LSU's 7-6 victory ov er Auburn earlier this season the Sugar Bowl committee most likely will take the highest-rated team The loss dropped Georgia to 7-3 5-2- Where the 'Dogs are headed for the holidays is anybody's guess but the best bet is Jacksonville's Gator Bow against Colorado on Jan 1 How Georgia stayed in with Auburn as long as it did is a mystery Please see Auburn Page 4D agonizing and painfuL The ninth-ranked Auburn University Tigers used a balanced offense and a suffocating defense to choke the No 17 Bulldogs 20-10 in front of a crowd of 85214 fens at Jordan-Hare Stadium the laigest crowd ever to see a game in the state of Alabama was a great team win for said Auburn Coach Pat Dye lot has been said about our defense' but our offense had as much to do with the win as anything mighty happy and thankful that we won You could feel the electricity coming from the stands to the field fend from the field to the stands" Georgia Coach Vince Dooley saw what he expected to see proud iff our team" said Dooley ho was denied in his fust attempt at career victory No 200 did think we fought hard We fought hard against what 1 thought was true ana was confirmed this is the best Auburn team that I've The victory improves Auburn's record to 9-1 overall and 5-1 in the SEC The Tigers are now one game a Nov 25 meeting with Alabama in Birmingham away from a tie for the SEC title with LSU The Bayou Ben- Georgia's bid for SEC title Sugar Bowl berth end in 20-10 defeat at Auburn By Cobb Oxford tadepcnlmilbS AUBURN Ala The University of Georgia's dreams of a 1988 Southeastern Conference title and a trip to the Sugar Bowl died on the plains of east Alabama Saturday afternoon But it wasn't a quick death It was slow Rice on top of world quarterbacking Irish Given the choke between cefebiqt-ing the new year in Miami l-1a or Tempe Ariz Zdda Rice didn't hesitate should be nice Mow good of a team is West Virginia supposed to have?" kmg of ACC finished No 2 on the top-ranked Irish's wish list And the University of Miami was no where to be found on the same list although the Irish and the Hurricanes would nave been even the Fiesta preferred matchup But the folks in Tempe aren't complaining They'll settle for the Fighting Irish against the undefeated Mountaineers of West Virginia in a Fiesta Bowl game that will still nave national championship implications The Hurricanes meanwhile have no choice but to stay home for the holidays playing in the Orange Bowl against the NebraskaOklahoma winner And fuming that the only way they can repeat as national champions now is to have someone else beat Notre Dame Hallellujah! Hallellujah! Hallellujah! the emotions of the mother of Notre quarterback speaking my no I think I could take another one like the last one" she said referring to the Fighting Irish's 31-30 victory over Miami on Oct 15 was so happy when they beat Miami because Miami just took it to Tony and them last year (24-0) that last game that was a wild one When Miami was going for the two-point conversion at the end of the game I ran out of the room and held my breath I had to peek around the comer to ask what And when she learned that the Irish had held on? was so exciting a Now those are the kind of games I Especially when team wins Yes team mom the only one who has come to believe that the chances at winning the national championship depend on how well Rice performs these final weeks of the college football season against Penn State this Saturday then Southern California and finally West Virginia in riie Fiesta Bowl Clemson blows open a tight contest in second half to rout Maryland 49-25 By A1 Muskewitz Independent-Mail COLLEGE PARK Md There was no sea of microphones following Clemson quarterback Rodney Williams off the field Saturday the way they did a Washington quarterback named Williams at the end of last year's Super Bowl but both might have shared similar thoughts You have blamed the Williams for thinking going to Disney Clemson won its 12th Atlantic Coast Conference football championship and third in a row beating Maryland 49-25 in front of the first Byrd Stadium sellout since 1986 and accepted the accompanying Florida Citrus Bowl bid that goes with it Although bowl invitations officially cant be extended until next week the No 16 Tigers 8-2 overall and 6-1 in the ACC likely will play the loser of the Nov 19 Nebraska-Oklahoma game in the Jan 2 Orlando Fla bowl game a great honor no other Clemson team has won the ACC three years in a said Williams who completed 9-of-14 passes for 139 yards and rushed for 64 more way it turned out a tribute to the maturity of this football probably as proud of this football team as ever Clemson Coach Danny Ford said been a real tough year for our football team because it was picked to be a very fine football team then we got brat early twice and they had to keep fighting and scratching and I think they've deserved everything Clemson which was a half-game out of the ACC lead three weeks ago certainly given its vic-toiy over the Terrapins although things fell apart for Maryland late in the game The Tigers had trouble putting the finishing touches with their offense in the first half and struggled to trail 14-13 at halftime But they came out of the break and scored 36 second-half points to put the Terps 5-5 and 4-2 away They scored four touchdowns in the fourth quar-Please see Tigers Page 7D demon's Levon Kirkland (44) returns an interception at son's Gene Beasley (27) Jumps over O'Donnell and tried to the start of the fourth quarter as Maryland quarterback help Kirkland who returned the ball to the Terps' 5-yard Neil O'Donnell watches helplessly from the ground Clem- line setting up a Tiger TD Navy 19-8 cocks Although South Carolina play like a bowl-bound team it performed well enough and eased some of the aches from the 59-0 bearing it suffered last week to Florida State proud of the said South Carolina Coach Joe Morrison thought we bounced back and rebounded after last week's loss We're 8-2 and have one ballgame left (next Saturday at Clemson) and as all of you know that's a big one told our ballclub after the game that we were proud of our defense and of our special trams They contributed a lot to us winning (he football Good thing they did The offense it appears has settled down for a long nap The Gamecocks' offense was held out of the end zone by a Navy defense that had been allowing 261 points and 3651 total yards per game Through the last 18 quarters of play South Carolina's offensive unit has scored only one touchdown a 20-yard pass from Todd Ellis to Eddie Miller during Please see Gamecocks Page 7D USC torpedoes Gamecocks' best offense is their swarming defense and a razor-sharp kicking game By Jim Gilstrap Independent-Mail COLUMBIA Where would the University of South Carolina football team be without Collin Mack-ie and a defense that is its best offense? Probably not in the position the Gamecocks are in now choosing between the Liberty and Peach bowls The USC offense again failed to score a touchdown Saturday but Mackie kicked four field goals and red-shirt freshman Antonio Walker blocked a punt and returned the ball for a touchdown to lead South Carolina to a 19-8 vicloiy over Navy The victory witnessed by 66000 spectators at Wil-liams-Brice Stadium gives South Carolina 8-2 a clear path to the Liberty Bowl if it chooses to make such a decision Peach Bowl officials said Saturday however they also would probably make an offer to the Game- South C-araHna wide receiver Eddie Miller slips while running a pass route as Navy's Steve Tazza (17) moves in to defend on the play nervous beginning For what worth it has been more an a year since Rice started the second ilf against Pittsburgh and found himself ling up behind the right tackle Even en he made the necessary adjustment here the hall was snapped and he oked back since The former Woodruff High quarterback aw laughs about how nervous he was that rst play knowing he had inherited the arting quarterback job because of an in-iry to Teny Andiysiak year I was a little unprepared for it because I really didn't expect to play as luch as I did It was kind of scary You ream about playing in front of large rowds and against certain teams and sud-enly there doing Rice says it has helped to know that lotre Dame Coach Lou Holtz never lost lith in him even when the statistics 5-ir-21 passing in the first three games this jason suggested that he was a below verage passer Smart man Lou Holtz He even picked ice to star on his Bookstore Basketball 'oumamenl team last spring They made it 3 the semifinals in what is billed as the ngest three-on-three outdoor basketball xtravaganza Holtz once again demonstrated his street marts when he suggested Rice take up the port of darts earlier this season I Ioltz was ounting on the hobby to improve Rice uncentration and help relieve any tension iis quarterback might be carrying around eye! Ic's now on target "I do have fun throwing the darts aid Rice guess it has hefped hut I vally think it's all in my The stats suggest something has hap-jened For now he's throwing bullets After he poor start he has now completed 55-jf-l 1 1 for 894 yards and seven touch-iowns while rushing for 530 yards on 93 arries for another seven touchdowns Each week the 6-foot 2 198-pound unior from Woodruff has become a little more threatening to opposing defenses Iiach week he has become a little more jomfortable with his rising stardom and the pressures of pluyinu for a school with lie tradition of Notre Take a look at the polls The Irish are And now there is talk that Rice has'sud-dcnly emerged as one of the 10 leading candidates for the Heisman Trophy Tm still the same suid Rice en-ioving Notre Dame's weekend off 1 don worry ubout that other stuff I just want to keep winning because my dream is to win the national Sometimes dreams do come true When USC called King Dixon was ready 11 This is probably one of the greatest challenges I will have ever faced except for leading young marines in combat 11 Xing Dixon vice president for alumni affairs since July 15 was named interim athletic director Oct 3 when Dick Bestwick suddenly became ill Dixon then began meeting people and into a few in the athletic department just wanted to come in and take a look at situations as they existed or exist and dispell a few things within the athletic said Dixon a 1959 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of South Carolina was Kina of my philosophy to check into things the first two or three days after 1 began that things escalated We' were drug all over the field by Georgia Tech and then we had some individuals who had an unfortunate situation (three football pluycrs were arrested) that presented itself Then we had (he Oct 24 issue of Sports Illustrated (complete with Tommy Chaikin's allegations of drug use by former South Cumlinu football players) Please seo Dixon Page 3D Odyssey from bank exec to the athletic director's hot seat a dream come true By Jim Gilstrap Iptapandmt'MaU COLUMBIA King Dixon calls himself a realist Not in his wildest dreams however did Dixon expect during the past four months to go from the Palmetto City Bank in Laurens to the University of South Carolina athletic department in Columbia From the bank vice president's chair in Laurens to the hotseat at South Carolina the athletic director's chair that fete has smiled upon Dixon said think a fortuitous time for me and the university because 1 feel very strongly as an alumnus of the university to use evciything I have in my body in my lifetime to do what I cun in service to this university as far as my visualizing I would be here this' is something when I jay a dream I thought of it maybe way back in the mid But this is somcthinglilcrally that has come true unreal absolutely That South Carolina has stepped intp a real mess also is somewhat unreal Imperially since Dixon 51 landed right in the middle of it Dixon who had been serving us associate I.