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Griffin Eagles, Lee
Clash T onight At 8
The Griffin High Eagles will
unveil what they learned be- 1
hind closed gates tonight when
they face a tough R. E. Lee I
outfit in Thomaston.
Coach Max Dowis closed the i
gates to Griffin High practice j
this week as the Eagles prepar- i
ed for the big game against
arch-rival Lee. I
Coach Dowis said the secret i
sessions were held so players <
could concentrate better on as
signments. I
The Griffin-Lec game Is one
of the oldest and fiercest rival- <
ries in the state. 1
Past records seldom count
when the two teams meet. They I
are known for spoiling each oth- 1
ers parties. 1
Spalding Bounces
Lakeshore, 12-6
The Spalding Junior High
eighth grade Red Skins, win
nlngness football team in the
school system, closed out the
1967 season Thursday by com
ing from behind to beat Lake
shore of College Park. 12-6.
The victory was Spalding’s
fourth in five games.
Coach Tommy Ison, who guid
ed the young Red Skins through
the fine season, today said:
“This eighth grade has more
football potential than any I've
seen. The boys work hard and
they have a lot of ability. The
team has tremendous speed.”
Coach Ison said he could see
good tilings ahead for the Grif
fin Eagles.
Two spectacular plays spelled
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Last year’s battle ended in a
14-14 deadlock.
Lee has the best record of the
two this year. i
Coach Jim Cavan’s Rebels <
are strong contenders in the 3-
AAA race. Griffin is out of the ,
running. <
Lee suffered its only region
blemish last week when Therrcll .
plaved the Rebels to a 7-7 stand
off.
However, the score doesn’t tell
the full story of that game. '
Lee held Therrell to one first
down and a minus 22 yards rush
ing.
Coach Cavan’s team moved 1
the ball well. Three field goal
kicks were off the mark and Lee :
settled for the tie. 1
defeat for Lakeshore.
The first thriller came late in
the second quarter after Lake
shore had gone ahead, 6-0.
Following Lakeshore’s TD,
Steve Corley, a real speedster,
returned the kickoff 20 yards to
the Lakeshore 40. He caught a
pass from Mark Griffin that
covered 30 yards to the Lake
shore 10.
With three seconds left in the
half, the Red Skins ran the "Sp
alding Special.” That’s a play
where the center and quarter
back lineup away from the rest
of Hie team.
Griffin took the snap and toss
ed a 10 yard pass touc.. down
pass to Corley.
The score was 6-6 at halftime.
Griffin carries a 2-5 chart to
Thomaston. The Eagles have
only victories over Jonesboro
and Forest Park to show for the
efforts.
The Eagles’ latest defeat came
a week ago when Grady eked
out a 7-6 decision.
R. E. Lee needs a victory to
stay in the 3-AAA race.
Griffin needs a victory to sal
vage what it can to keep 1967
from being a complete disas
ter.
Coach Dowis isn't revaling
any surprises, if any, that he has
planned for the Rebels.
He did say that practice ses
sions went well this week and
morale was very good.
Near the end of the third, Grif
fin rolled out to his left. He was
hit a couple of times behind the
line of scrimmage but shook
loose and raced 35 yards for the
go ahead touchdown.
Ronald Wyatt threw a key blo
ck to allow Griffin to escape in
to the Lakeshore end zone.
Spalding drove to the Lake
shore 10 late in the fourth but
a fumble killed the threat.
Lakeshore took over and dr
ove to the Spalding four. Lake
shore had a first down and 10
to go there but had no times
outs with less than a minute
left.
Terry Brown stopped one play
at the line of Scrimmage.
David Odom broke through to
stop a play for a loss.
The Lakeshore quarterback
dropped back to pass but. Odom
knocked him down for about a
15 yard loss as the game ended.
Coach Ison said the entire of
fensive and defensive teams
played great, ball. "Lakeshore
had the finest eighth grade team
we faced,” he said.
Coach Harvey Oglesby, who
has worked with Spalding foot
ball teams for four years, also
called this year's team the
best he’s seen.
"Things really looked bad
when they had first down at our
four with about, a minute to go,”
Coach Oglesby said. "But the
boys made a great goal line
stand.”
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THE BUNIONS of Emer- |
son Boozer don’t prevent
him from running nimbly
through enemy lines as he
piles up yards for the New
York Jets in his second pro
season.
Fairmont Faces
Toughest Foe
There comes a time when a I
team must win or start plan
ning for next year. I
Fairmont High faces that sit- ]
uation here Saturday night when !
they tangle with Central High
of Newnan. I
"We must win this game to 1
stay in the race,” Coach Hiram ,
Whitaker said today.
Coach Whitaker said Fairmont i
had played a lot of big games i;
but called the clash with Cen-1 ’
Southern Hopes To
Spoil Rebs’ Party
By JAMES M. EVANS
OXFORD, Miss. (UPD —
Southern Mississippi, bringing a
4-1 season mark here from Hat
tiesburg, would like nothing bet
ter than to spoil homecoming
for the ever-powerful Ole Miss
Rebels Saturday.
Southerner Coach Pie Vann
called his club’s 21-14 win over
Mississippi State "one of the
finest team efforts” in the
school’s history, but warned, in
facing the Rebels, it must find
away to "penetrate the tough
est defense we have faced...”
Southern, in addition to beat
ing the Bulldogs from Missis
sippi State, has beaten The Cit-
I adel, Southeastern Louisiana
' and Tampa while losing a sin-
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tral the “biggest of the year.”
Central will bring a 3-0 con
ference record to Griffin. Fair
mont is 2-1 and must have a vic
tory to tie up the subregion race.
"If we beat Central there’s a
good chance we will win the sub
region,” Coach Whitaker said.
“If we lose Its just about over
for us,” he added.
"Our boys are healthy and rea
dy both offensively and defen
sively. They believe they can
win,” the coach said.
gle game to Alabama 25-3.
Coach Johnny Vaught was
also pleased — and that may be
an understatement — with his
team’s performance in the 29-20
win over a strong Georgia
team last Saturday.
Vaught said the win over
Georgia was “the most import
ant victory we’ve scored since
I’ve been here.” That covers a
lot of territory for the coach
who is now in his 21st season
with the same club and has won
159 of 215 gajnes.
But the feeling is that Vaught
meant the victory was a turning
point for his club which now
sports a 2-2 record as it comes
to its first campus appearance
of the year.
The Rebs fell to Memphis
State in their "home” opener
at Memphis and beat Georgia
in another “home” game at
Jackson. They defeated Ken
tucky at Lexington, Ky., and
were pushed aside, 21-7, by
Alabama at Birmingham.
Though Ole Miss holds a 7-0-0
series advantage over the South
erners, Vaught points out that
Southern Mississippi compares
favorably with Georgia and
points to last year’s squeaker
which was pulled out in the final
period.
Yaz Reaps
Reward For
Great Season
BOSON (UPD—Carl Yas
trzemski, the “bread and butter
man” of the astonishing 1967
American League pennant drive
by the Boston Red Sox, gets his
caviar and champagne money
today in the form of a fat new
contract.
The Red Sox, who in the past
announced Yastrzemski con
tracts in terse, one-paragraph
mimeographed handouts, called
a special Fenway Park news
conference for this morning to
reveal that the Triple Crown
winner and probably Most
Valuable Player had signed for
1968.
As usual, however, the club
said it would not disclose
Yastrzemski’s salary in confor
mance with its standing policy.
This ignited speculation that the
brilliant outfielder might be
come Boston’s first SIOO,OOO
player since the retirement of
his left field predecessor, Hall
of Famer Ted Williams.
More reasonable estimates of
Yastrzemski’s new pact, howev
er, placed his 1967 pay scale at
about $45,000 and a 1968 ceiling
of SBO,OOO with a home run
clause that could boost it even
higher.
The Red Sox were rated 100
to 1 bets for the American
League pennant and Yastrzem
ski was regarded as a good,
consistent hitter with fair power
when the season opened.
When it had closed, Yaz had
more than doubled his best
previous home run production,
20 in 1965, by whacking 44 to tie
Minnesota’s Harmon Killebrew
for the homer title. His .326
batting average and 121 runs
batted in both were high in the
American League by substantial
margins to give him Boston’s
first triple Crown since Wil
liams did it in 1942 and 1947.
Passing Name Os
N. Y. Jets’ Game
By SANDY PRISANT | ’
CPI Sports Writer i 1
Question: What is about as j i
deceptive as a Sherman tank I
and backfires more often than a
souped up hot-rods? ■ ’
Answer: The New York Jets’ : i
offense. i 1
It’s true that Coach Weeb':
Ewbank has put together an Ii
often spectacular machine that 11
leads the American Footballj i
League in total offense with a j ]
stunning average of nearly 383 i
yards per game. And its true i
that the Jets have jumped off to I
a 3-1-1 record for a one-game
lead in the Eastern Division. i
Passing makes up a whopping
73 per cent of the New Yorkers’ i
offense and the overabundance ;
of aerials has stopped the Jets
from being 5-0. Interceptions
cost them a 28-28 tie with '
Houston last week and could
cause more trouble Sunday
Revenge Minded Vols
Head For Tide Country
By GENE STEPHEiNS
BIRMINGHAM (UPD—Fifth-i
lanked Alabama will be trying
to extend its unbeaten streak to j
a record-tying 26 games and
7th-ranked Tennessee will be
seeking revenge for the "onei
that got away” when the two
college football giants clash at
1:15 p.m. Saturday at Legion
Field here.
Alabama has not been beaten
since the opening game with
Georgia in 1965 when the Crim
son Tide lost 18-17 on a contro
versial play. But most Alabama
fans remember with horror the
close call Tennessee gave them
before tailing back to an 11-10
defeat in Knoxville last year.
A wide-open offensive battle
appears m store for the more
than 71,000 tans here as both
'Barna and Tennessee are noted
for their passing games this
season.
The Kenny Stabler-Dennis Ho
man combination of the Crim
son Tide, which has combined
for eight touchdowns so far this
season, is one of the best in col-
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when they travel to Miami for a
Nationally televised game
against the Dolphins.
Ewbank’s philosophy is blunt:
"Who ever heard of a pro team
winning by running?” He made
the remark last Sunday after
the Jets had outsmarted them
selves by continuing to pass
after building up a big early
lead. The Oilers wound up
intercepting six Joe Namath
passes, racking up twice as
many yards on pickoffs as on
total offense and came close to
beating New York.
Miami, last in the East,
comes into Sunday’s game as a
17-point underdog, but Coach
George Wilson is hoping for
another backfire. "We’ve spent
most of the week working on
our pass rush and pass defense.
Those are the keys to beating
the Jets,” Wilson says.
The Dolphins (1-4) don’t tip
lege football and has estab
lished Alabama as a one
touchdown favorite over the
Vols.
But Tennessee has a great
pass receiver in Richmond
Flowers, an Alabama native
and son of the former Alabama
Turkey Tourney
Set For Nov. 5
The Griffin Ladies Golf Asso- i
ciation announced today that it
would hold its annual Turkey (
Tournament on Sunday, Nov. j
5 at the Municipal Golf Course, i
Proceeds from the event will ;
go to the Babe Zaharis Cancer
Fund.
The Scotch Foursome Tourna- 1
ment will be played over 18 hol
es. The first nine will be qualify
ing and the last nine in flights.
Turkeys, donated by Big Ap
ple Super Market, will be aw-
their hand the way the Jets do,
but it hasn’t made much
difference to Miami’s last four
opponents, who have outscored
the Dolphins 135-17 after they
had opened the campaign with a
35-21 triumph over Denver.
Elsewhere in the AFL Sun
day, San Diego is a nine-point
favorite to strengthen its hold
on first place in the West when
the Chargers (4-0-1) meet
Denver (1-5) in the "Mile High
city.”
The revived Boston Patriots
(2-3-1) are slim two point
favorites to gain revenge
against Oakland (4-1) for the 35-
7 thrashing the Raiders handed
the Pats earlier this season.
Quarterback Pete Beathard
faces his former mates for the
first time when the Oilers (2-2-
1) visit the Kansas City Chiefs
(3-2). The Buffalo Bills are idle.
• attorney general.
One reason for the underdog
position for the Vols is the ab
sence of starting and second
' string quarterbacks Dewey War
, ren and Charlie Fulton, who
, are both on the injured lists.
arded as prizes.
Members of the GLGA today
asked Griffin golfers to lineup
for foursomes and register for
the tournament as soon as pos
sible.
Golfers may register at the
clubhouse or by phoning Mr s.
Laverne Beatty, 227-6178.
Entrance fee is $4 per couple.
Golfers will tee off between
9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Nov.
5.