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’6B Bulldogs Dooley’s
Best At U. Os Georgia
By DAVID MOFFIT
ATHENS, Ga. (UPD—Despite
coach Vince Dooley’s continued
caution, there’s little doubt that
this Bulldog football team is the
best he's had in his five years
at Georgia.
“Im not ready to say that
this year’s team is the greatest
I’ve coached,” Dooley insisted
after the 4th-ranked Bulldogs
crushed Georgia Tech 47-8 Sat
urday to post their first un
beaten season in 22 years.
‘‘After we play Arkansas in
the Sugar Bowl, I might say it
—if we win,” continued Dooley,
ignoring the fact that the 1968
Bulldogs put together the best
record since Charlie Trippi led
the 1946 team to a perfect sea
son.
But then, Dooley always ap
pears to be a bit too cautious.
He even professed to be wor
ried about Georgia Tech, de
spite being a 20-point favorite
—then saw his team run up the
biggest margin the Bulldogs
have posted over the Yellow
Jackets in their 75-year-old
series.
The only other Dooley-coached
team, that can be compared to
this one is his 1966 edition.
That team, also ranked No. 4
nationally, had a 9-1 record
(losing only to Miami, 7-6) and
beating Southern Methodist 24-9
in the Cotton Bowl.
But this Georgia team, which
topped the Southeastern Confer,
ence offensively and defensively
both in scoring and yardage,
gained over 100 yards per game
more than the ’66 team and
outscored it by a touchdown per
game.
‘‘This is a great team, there’s
no doubt about that,” Dooley
admitted about the Bulldogs
who were 8-0-2 with the ties
against 7th-ranked Tennessee
and llth-ranked Houston. “What
I’m saying is let’s wait until af
ter the Sugar Bowl before call
ing it THE greatest.”
Georgia Tech coach Bud Car
son, who wound up 4-6 for the
second time in his two years
as head coach, sees no reason
to wait.
"Georgia IS great,” said Car-
Asking Price Is High
Mets Want Torre 8ut....
By JOHN G. GRIFFIN
UPI Executive Sports Editor
SAN FRANCISCO (UPD—
Talk may be cheap but
ballplayers were so expensive
today that trading was stalled
at baseball’s official winter
meetings.
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Monday, Dec. 2, 1968
son. “The Bulldogs simply over
powered us. We knew how good
they were and they proved it.”
Carson said Georgia is better
than 9th-ranked Notre Dame
which beat the Yellow Jackets
34-6 and Saturday tied top
ranked Southern Cal 21-21.
Georgia scored 17' points in
the opening quarter Saturday
and after that it was only a
question of how high the score
would go.
Sophomore quarterback Mike
Cavan, sitting out most of the
Cappieman, Sellers Deserve
Special Peach Bowl Award
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
The new Peach Bowl should
come up with a pre - game
award for Ron Sellers and Bill
Cappieman to show its appreci
ation for the box office boost
the two Florida State players
have provided the past couple
of weeks.
After teaming up the previous
week on five touchdown passes,
quarterback Cappieman and
flanker Sellers blitzed the llth
ranked Houston Cougars this
past Friday night—the Semi
noles staging a 40-20 upset after
jumping off to a shocking 25-0
halftime lead.
That was just one of several
surprises on the final weekend
of the regular college season
here in the Southeast.
Winless Mississippi State
helped erase a season of frus
tration by tying Ole Miss 17-17;
Larry Smith brought Florida
from behind in the closing min
utes to upset Miami 14-10; 7th
ranked Tennessee had it a lot
tougher than expected before
edging Improved Vanderbilt
10-7; and Alabama linebacker
Mike Hall, trying his hand at
offense, threw the block that
scored one touchdown and
caught a pass for another as the
Crimson Tide beat Auburn 24-16.
Also, 4th-ranked Georgia com-
"Everybody is cautious,”
explained general manager Bob
Howsam of the Cincinnati Reds
as the top executives of
baseball began their weeklong
conclave. “It’s because every
body lost so many players in
the recent expansion to 24
second half, passed and ran for
208 yards. He wound up second
in the SEC in passing yardage
with 1,619 and third in total of
fense with 1,710.
Georgia Tech quarterback
Larry Good, who had been out
for a month, reinjured his knee
in the first period Saturday.
But he passed for 71 yards be
fore being hurt again and that
gave him 1,337 yards in 5%
games — six more than the
previous Tech passing record
set by Kim King in 1965.
pleted its first unbeaten season
in 22 years by routing Georgia
Tech 47-8; Memphis State won
the Missouri Valley crown in its
first season of conference play
by beating Louisville 40-20; and,
on Thanksgiving Day, Virginia
Tech which plays Ole Miss in
the Liberty Bowl, crushed Vir
ginia Military 55-6.
25 Touchdown Passes
Cappieman, a junior who was
a second stringer at the start
of the season, passed for 351
yards and four touchdowns Fri
day night—giving him a pass
ing mark of 2,410 yards and 25
touchdowns for the year.
Sellers, who already had
gained more yardage than any
other receiver, caught 14 of
those passes—l 2 of them in the
first half.
Charlie McClendon, coach 01
Louisiana State which meets
Florida State in the Peach Bowl
Dec. 30 in Atlanta, was im
pressed. “Guess we’ll have to
try to let the air out of the
ball, said McClendon who
watched the game from the
pressbox. “That’s about the only
way I know to stop the Semi
noles.”
Mississippi State quarterback
Tommy Pharr, only the third
player in Southeastern Confer
ence history to gain more than
2,000 yards in a season, threw
major league teams.”
Howsam, who admitted he’d
like to land ‘‘Just a little more
help” for his team for a 1969
pennant push, said most of the
clubs who want to trade realize
they can’t afford to make a
mistake.
‘‘Because of the players lost
in the expansion draft,” How
sam said, ‘‘Nobody has any
‘backup’ players anymore. By
that, I mean nobody is too deep
at any position; they can’t
afford to trade off a first
stringer and count on a reserve
to fill the position. Now they
have to get back someone for
the same position.”
The result: Asking prices so
high that would-be buyers are
balking.
Prime examples: outfielder
Richie Allen, the Philadelphia
Phillies’ slugging child, and
Atlanta catcher Joe Torre, a
home run belter plagued by
injuries the last two seasons.
If you were the New York
Mets, would you give Atlanta
All-Star catcher Jerry Grote
plus either 19-game winner
Jerry Koosman or 16-game
winner Tom Seaver for Torre?
If you said ‘‘No,” you’re
thinking like the Mets.
“We’d like to have Torre,
but...” is the way a Mets’
official put it.
With a week of gab to go, the
guessing here is that both Allen
and Torre will be traded. But it
depends on whether the Phils
and Braves are so anxious to do
business that they’ll scale down
the prices.
These meetings are the first
since the major leagues expand
ed to 24 teams and split into
two divisions each—a setup
which will require playoffs
between division champions in
each league in 1969 before the
World Series. Among the
problems expected to be settled
this week is a demand by the
Pacific Coast League for a sl.l
million indemnity for loss of
Seattle and San Diego to the
majors.
The annual major league
player draft was a prime order
of business Monday. But the
annual grab-bag which has been
declining in importance anyway
in recent years, was dealt
another blow by the expansion
draft.
“There aren’t any minor
leaguers left worth $25,000,”
said one national leaguer.
In that first period, Georgia
drove 98 yards for its first
touchdown, had to go only 16
for the second after Happy
Dicks intercepted a Good pass,
then marched 89 yards before
kicking a field goal.
The Bulldogs were stopped
twice inside the Tech 10 in the
second period so led only 17-0
at halftime, but began pouring
it on after intermission. It could
have been worse. Georgia’s No.
3 offensive unit made it to the
Tech 2 just /before the game
ended.
two touchdown passes m the
tie with Ole Miss. The Rebels
refused to gamble for a two
point play that could have won
the game after a come-from
behind touchdown with four
minutes left to play.
Hall played his usual defen
sive game — intercepting two
passes and getting in on 16
tackles—in addition to his new
role as an offensive hero. "That
touchdown was the first time I
had scored since I played full
back in high school,” the mus
cular senior said.
Now, it’s on to the bowls for
nine Southern teams, including
six from the SEC. Their sched
ule:
Dec. 14—Mississippi (6-3-1) vs.
Virginia Tech (7-3), Liberty
Bowl, Memphis;
Dec 27—Richmond (7-3) vs.
Ohio Univerhity (10-0), Tanger
ine Bowl, Orlando, Fla;
Dec. 28—Alabama (8-2) vs.
Missouri (7-3), Gator Bowl,
Jacksonville, Fla., and Auburn
(6-4) vs. Arizona (8-2), Sun
Bowl, El Paso, Tex;
Dec. 30—Florida State (8-2)
vs. Louisiana State (7-3), Peach
Bowl, Atlanta;
Jan. I—Georgia (8-0-2) vs. Ar
kansas (9-1), Sugar Bowl, New
Orleans, and Tennessee (8-1-1)
vs. Texas (8-1-1), Cotton Bowl,
Dallas.
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CLASSIC TO APG
AKRON, Ohio (UPD—The
president of the American Golf
Classic said Friday that the
1969 tournament will be played
under the sponsorship of the
new American Professional
Golfers Inc., instead of the
Professional Golfers Association
“to assure another outstanding
field of players in next year’s
event.” Thomas Laßose said he
expected “well over 175 out
standing pros to participate in
the tournament.”
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