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Classic City athletes
shine in UGA sports
DANNY BIRCHMORE
Tennis standout
part of their collegiate athletic
careers ahead of them. And
what careers they promise to
be.
The six athletes represent
different sports and different
graudating classes, but they
have the common bond of
being Athens natives.
BIRCHMORE grew up in the
Classic City under the watchful
eye and tutelage of Georgia
tennis coach Dan Magill. The
JIMMY CARTER
Baseball star
little battler won everything in
sight while at Athens High
School, and he refused to slow
up in college competition. He
was recently named to the
All-Southeastern Conference
tennis team for the fourth
straight season, becoming the
first person ever to be so
honored.
At the SEC tournament at
Knoxville earlier this month he
narrowly missed his second
consecutive number one singles
title by losing to Tennessee’s
Paul Van Min whom he had
whipped in straight sets earlier
in the season. Last year, as a
junior, Birchmore was named
MAXIE FOSTER
Hot runner
Georgia’s baseball team
though, Athens’ own Jimmy
Carter does have a hand in
running things. In fact, he has
been one of the few bright
spots on this year’s 11-21
squad, the last place finishers
in the league’s eastern division.
He batted a hefty .346 and
edged out Auburn’s league
leading hitter Andy Merchant
for the triples lead. Carter had
six, which is a pretty good
trick for any hitter but
especially for catchers, who arc
seldom gazelles on the
base paths.
CARTER HAS been a regular
all four years, and, according
to assistant baseball coach
John Guthrie, “Jimmy has just
done better every year. He’s an
excellent competitor and has
had just an excellent career.”
Runner Maxie Foster would
have been remembered at
Georgia if for no other reason
that he was the first black
athlete signed to a scholarship
here. He wouldn’t have had to
be particularly good to be
remembered. But he was good.
And that fact will probably be
remembered as much as his
blackness. Until a faster group
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It was a very good year for
hometown boys at the
University of Georgia. For
Danny Birchmore, Jimmy
Carter and Maxie Foster it was
the last year they will compete
for Georgia. And they made it
a year to remember. But Andy
Johnson, Horace King and
Clarence Pope have the greater
to the collegiate AU-American
tennis team after leading
Georgia to a finish among the
top ten college teams in the
nation. He was also the
recipient of the Raphael Osuna
Trophy, a prize that has been
compared to football’s
Heisman Trophy, which was
named after the Southern
California tennis player who
died in a plane crash several
years ago.
If you’re not from Athens
and you do not follow Georgia
baseball, you might not realize
that every Jimmy Carter who
comes along is not a governor.
As catcher and co-captain of
comes along Foster’s name will
be on the Georgia track record
books as part of the team that
ran the quickest 440 yd. relay
and mile relay in school
history.
Foster is a slender 5-10, 145
pounder, and was captain of
the track nd basketball teams
during his senior year at
predominantly white Athens
High School. So he was not
exactly a “rookie” leader when
he was named this year’s
captain of the Georgia track
team, the highest measure of
respect athletes can give a
teammate.
After a fabulous high school
career, Andy Johnson never
really considered going to
school anywhere other than
Georgia, and Georgia football
fans are glad he didn’t. He
irreverantly erased the
freshman offensive records set
by another Athens
ANDY JOHNSON
’Dog quarterback
quarterback, Paul Gilbert, and
this year he easily broke Kirby
Moore’s varsity quarterback
rushing record.
NAMED THE SEC
sophomore of the year,
“ Dandy Andy” led the
Bulldogs to an 11-1 record,
including a 7-3 Gator Bowl win
over North Carolina and a
pulsating 28-24 comeback
victory over arch-rival Georgia
Tech in the final game of the
regular season. He was a
Sophomore All-American
choice, and has already been
included on several national
all-star team checklists. And
one of the best things about
Johnson is that he’s got two
more years of eligibility.
Add Horace King to an
offensive lineup that already
includes such runners as
Johnson, Jimmy Poulos and
Robert Honeycutt and it’s
what you might call explosive.
As a running back for the
freshman team all King did was
more than the double the old
frosh rushing record set the
year before by Johnson, with
397 total yards and a 73 yard
per game average.
King’s figures were 829 total
yards and a 165.8 average. He
was the leading scorer, punt
and kick returner, the second
leading receiver and never
rushed for less than a hundred
yards in any of the five games
This spring King was
switched to flanker, said
assistant coach Frank Inman,
HORACE KING
Running back
‘‘to take advantage of his
speed, hands and moves,” and
to help shore up the vacancy
left by graduated Jimmy
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New cheerleaders
The University ot Georgia Cheerleaders have begun practice for
next tall s football games. They are putting more emphasis on
generating more spirit and difficulty * into their chants and
lifts, according to Elizabeth Presley, captain of the squad. The
new cheerleaders are (L-R sitting) Bonnie Bodcn, Elizabeth
Presley. Janet Ross. Sheron Adams. Emily Kemp and Barbara
Small. (Kneeling) Bill Hayn, Craig Presley and Gene Watson. Not
pictured are Dan Thaxton, Larry Griffeth, Gary Lewis and Dan
Runnion.
Shirei. He actually ended up he could play one of the down
on the depth charts behind positions of the line.
Tampa, Florida’s Bobby Burns, Birchmore, Carter, Foster,
but switched back and forth Johnson, king and Pope. HonM
with his old running back grown, ill ol I hem. Must he
position and, analyzed Inman, something about that home
“made a whole lot of progress, cooking.
He’s a player.” The thinking
behind King's position switch.
Inman said, is to be able to
work him into the same lineup
with Poulos and Johnson, and
thus create a few problems for
opposing defenses.
CLARENCE POPE made his
mark as a starting linebacker
for the freshman team, hut the
varsity jury is still out on the
b-1, 210 pounder. Pope has a
lot going for him, according to
varsity assistant Barry Wilson.
‘‘He did a good job as a
freshman,” Wilson said. “He’s
got a great attitude and doesn’t
mind working, plus he’s very
coachable. He’s got as good a
tackling punch as any of our
linebackers.*.
And he has a few things
working against him, too. Like
the strained ligaments that
caused him to miss a large part
of spring drills and a broken
thumb that made him miss
even more. Then guys like
Ricky Lake and Georgia
Pilcher are already of him and
have more experience than
Pope, but that’s hardly his
fault. ‘‘He’s got a future,”
Wilson thinks. “He’s big
enough and strong enough that
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