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8 • The Red and B\ack/Between The Hedges • Friday, October 19, 1990
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' By ERIC GARBER
Associate BTH Editor
Though in the past Vander
bilt football coach Watson
Brown shunned at the thought
of playing Georgia in Athens,
this season the trip to Sanford
Stadium might be just what the
doctor ordered.
The Commodore defense,
after allowing a total of 166
points against Alabama, Syra
cuse, and Auburn in its last
three games, will probably wel
come the opportunity to face the
Dogs, who own the South
eastern Conference’s worst
rated offense.
On the other hand, Georgia
(3-3, 1-2), which averages only
267 dffensive yards a game, has
reason to be optimistic as the
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“I don’t remember ever
having to do this in my career,”
Brown said. ‘These guys have
just been mentally walking
through the motions in shorts.
We won’t get better like that be
cause we are so young. We need
the contact.”
Fifteen of the 22 first and
second-string Commodore de
fensive players are either sopho
mores or freshmen. Among the
defensive players questionable
for Saturday’s game are line
backers Gary Rogers and
Shelton Quarles.
However, the offensive side of
the line of scrimmage has per
haps suffered the biggest blow.
Sophomore Mike Healey, rated
the SEC’s most efficient quar-
_ r terback with a 59-percent corn-
team will do battle with the con- pletion percentage and 149.83
ference’s worst-ranked defense, total ratings points (assigned
Vand/s defense has allowed an through a weighted average of
average of 482 yards a game quarterbacking statistics), is
and 44 or more points in four considered day-to-day with a leg
out of five games this season. injury and is listed second be-
“We’ve just been plain beat hind sophomore Marcus Wilson
up," Brown said. “We’ve had a on Saturday’s depth chart.
Though potentially large in
scope, Healey’s injury won’t
cause the Commodores to
abandon its wishbone running
attack, which has earned the
team an SEC fourth-best 3.72
yards a play. Wilson leads the
team with 207 rushing yards.
“It’8 been a while since we’ve
played a wishbone team,”
Georgia coach Ray Goff said.
Still, the key match up in Sat
urday’s game looks to be be
tween Georgia’s ailing offense
and the Commodores’ lackluster
defense.
tough road the last few weeks.
We talked about our difficult
schedule in the off-season, but
discussing it and going through
it are two different things."
Saying his team is “going
through it" understates the
matter.
Because of an overwhelming
number of injuries on the team
—thirteen players are listed as
day-to-day — Brown was forced
to hold the entire week of prac
tice without pads. The week be
fore the Commodores (1-4, 1-2)
only worked out in shoulder
Vandy’s Watson Brown
The one that plays better, or
perhaps in this case, ‘less
worse” than the other, will prob
ably make the difference. Brown
feels that the focal Doint within
that battle will be now his de
fense handles the Georgia run.
The Dogs average 3.3 yards a
rush while the Commodore de
fense gives up 6 yards per run
ning play.
Vanderbilt may be aided by
the fact that Georgia’s leading
rusher, Garrison Hearst (430
total yards), is nursing a
sprained ankle and though he’s
listed as probable for Saturday,
he may still slightly favor the
ankle while making cuts.
“If we can stop their
(Georgia’s) running game, not
saying that it is going to be easy,
we can win this football game.”
Brown said.
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By DAVID PACE
BTH Editor
For the first time in the his
tory of SEC basketball, the
Georgia men’s basketball team
will discover what it’s like to de
fend a conference title.
Although the experience of
winning the school’s first SEC
title lingers, the team elects to
dwell not on the past but the fu
ture.
“I feel like everything we did
last year is in the past," senior
forward Marshall Wilson said.
"We are going to concentrate on
this season. We want to be Na
tional Champions.”
On a team that many feel will
he the deepest and most tal
ented to ever play at Georgia,
Wilson and his fellow seniors
will be counted on for leadership
to unite the team.
“I think it’s our job," senior
guard Jody Patton said. “We’ve
got to set an example. We have
to carry ourselves respectfully
on the court and around the
school.”
One of the biggest tasks off
the court this season for the se
niors will be taking care of
Georgia’s talented crop of
freshmen. Coach Hugh Durham
feels that his freshmen will
have to step forward and make
an immediate contribution for
his team to be successful this
season.
This includes 7-1 freshman I
center Charles Claxton and 6-10
freshman forward Marcel Kon. |
Both hail from Florida.
“For us to be competitive,
we're going to have to get some |
help from the young guys,”
Durham said.
Another big plus for the Dogs |
is the transfer of forwards An
tonio Harvey and Reggie Tinch.
Harvey, a sophomore, trans- |
ferred from Southern Illinois-
Carbondale. He was named I
Missouri Valley Conference
Freshman-of-the-Year at SIU.
Tinch, a junior, arrives at
Georgia after playing two years
at Conners State (Okla.) Col- |
lege. He averaged 14 points and
six rebounds last season to help
Conners win the National Ju- Soph Antonio Harvey
nior College Championship.
After sitting out all of last number three returning scorer
season with a broken right in the SEC. Rounding out the
wrist, 6-10 center-forward Ar- backcourt will be three-point
and Black
lando Bennett returns to give
Georgia added depth in the
front-court.
“It’s real exciting,” senior
guard Rod Cole said. "We’ve got
14 quality players on this team.”
Cole, an All-SEC guard last
season will anchor one of the
deepest backcourts in the con
ference. Running the court
alongside Cole will be another
All-SEC performer in junior Lit-
terial Green. Green is the
threat Patton, defensive star
Shaun Golden and newcomer
Bernard Davis. Freshman
Davis combines lightning-quick
speed with a scoring punch.
Georgia has reason to feel
confident under the bosket this
season also with the return of
senior center Neville Austin.
Georgia ti ps-off the 1990-91
season November 9th with an
exhibition game against New
castle, Australia.