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Griffin Daily News
For Colleges
11th Game Solves
Some Football
Money Problems
By DAVID MOFMT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) — Bobby
Dodd, long-time advocate of 11-
game seasons for college foot
ball teams, says the extra game
won’t solve the problem of ris
ing athletic costs — “but it
sure will help.”
Georgia Tech’s athletic direc
tor sees the 11th game, legal
ized by the NCAA at its annual
meeting last week, as only a
partial answer to the “keeping
up with the Jones” struggle.
“Although our operating costs
have jumped tremendously over
the past decade, tickets, our
basic form of revenue, have
had only a token increase in
price,” Dodd said.
Tech got $5 for a ticket in
the late ‘sos and now, with a
couple of 50-cent boosts along
the way, gets $6 —a 20 per
cent climb in a decade that
saw expenses doubled.
Dodd, who had an 11 - game
schedule (1960-53) until the NC
AA clamped on a 10-game lim
it, didn’t waste any time find
ing an 11th opponent for Geor
gia Tech.
Will Play Earlier
A few days after the NCAA
relented, he signed a four-year
contract with South Carolina.
Tech, which had been scheduled
to open its 1970 season on Sept.
19 against Florida State, will
play the Gamecocks here Sept.
12.
“Our biggest single expense,
as at all such schools, is the
cost of sending our athletes
through college,” Dodd continu
ed. “The cost of a college edu
cation has gone up in leaps and
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bounds.”
Dodd noted that barely half
of Tech’s athletes who are on
grants-in-aid are from this state
and that it costs a lot more to
send an out-of-state student to
school.
“This is true at all state
supported schools,” Dodd said.
“We’ve long recognized that we
could trim our costs apprecia
bly if most of our athletes were
from within the state. But the
practicalities of recruiting for
bid this.”
Dodd lists recruiting as the
second largest expense item in
a school’s athletic budget and
he applauded the NCAA’s ef
forts to cut this expense by
placing limits on recruiting.
Must Have Best
“But this will be difficult to
control,” he said. “It’s a simple
fact that teams must get the
best players, wherever they are
available, if they wish to com
pete against other teams which
are doing the same thing.”
Cardinals, Oilers
Trade Quarterbacks
HOUSTON (UPI) - Houston
Oiler Coach Wally Lemm says
his new quarterback, Charley
Johnson, acquired Wednesday
in the first major trade
between the American and
National Football conferences,
is no superman but he might
come to the rescue of a wobbly
Houston team.
The Oilers traded starting
quarterback Pete Beathard and
cornerback Miller Farr to the
St. Louis Cardinals for Johnson
and defensive back Robert
Atkins.
The Oilers’ quarterback prob
lem —they used three different
men during the 1969 season —
culminated with the 56-7 loss to
Oakland in the AFL playoffs.
The four-man trade was the
first major manipulation since
the American and National
Football leagues merged earlier
this month.
The first trading period
between the divisions began
Monday and was expected to
banish forever the signing wars
of the early 19605.
The former leagues begin
championship play for the 1970
season as the American and
National conferences of the
National Football League.
Dodd pointed out that the pop
ularity of professional football
forces colleges to maintain top
level teams in order to compete
for the fans’ dollars.
“We’re going to have to go
to $7 within the next couple of
years and I understand that
several of the Southeastern Con
ference schools may go to $7
next year,” Dodd said. “It’s dif
ficult to cut corners and still
provide the sort of teams that
will attract these prices.”
Dodd said that not only have
coaching salaries risen “consid
erably” but most of the major
colleges have added people to
their staffs.
“It all adds up,” he went on.
“The costs of education, recruit
ing, coaching, travel and equip
ment have all increased far
more rapidly than income. Sol
utions must be found if college
football is to survive as we now
know it.
“Adding an 11th game was a
step in the right direction.”
Bob Didier,
Sonny Jackson
Sign Contracts
ATLANTA (UPI)-Catcher
Bob Didier and shortstop Sonny
Jackson have become the first
to sign their 1970 contracts, the
Atlanta Braves announced to
day.
Didier, the major leagues’ top
rookie catcher of the year, will
celebrate his 21st birthday Feb.
16, one day before he reports
with other Atlanta batterymen
to spring training at West Palm
Beach, Fla.
Jackson, 25, has spent parts
of seven season in the major
leagues. In the two years he
has been with Atlanta, he has
been out of the lineup much of
the time because of injuries.
Jackson and Gill Garrido are
expected to battle for the regu
lar shortstop job.
Mary Turner
Bowls 193
Mary Turner bowled a 193
game and a 542 series yesterday
in the Koffee Dlub League.
Other top bowlers were:
Martha Yates 196, Betty
Bouchell 192, Ruby Trammell
190, Martha Shearer 186, Carol
Mann 181, Carolyn Duke 162,
Billy Crumbley 161, Shirley
Kinard 161, Mary Johnson 159,
Peggy Whitted 158, Margaret
Stephens 158, Brenda Farmer
158, Evelyn Downing 158,
Marilyn Norton 155, Ruth Holt
153, Jane Moore 153, and Betty
Imes 151.
Peggy Scott
Rolls 505
r
Peggy Scott bowled a 178
game and a 505 series this week
in the Dundee League.
Other top bowlers were:
Barbara Smilley 192 and a 493
series, Terry Butler 166 and a
558 series, Pat Pharr 175 and a
451 series, Verlie Donehoo 157
and a 444 series, Sylvia
Crumbley 165, Joyce Pritchett
160, Jerry Vaughn 153 and
Sandra Brown 151.
Garrett a Sucker
For Change-Up
NEW YORK—(NEA)—In the locker room after the Kan
sas City Chiefs had beaten the New York Jets in the inter
division semifinals of the American Football League play
offs, halfback Mike Garrett stood before his cubicle with
one muddy cleated foot on a stool, and unlaced the shoe.
Toward the center of the room was all the madness of a
asi w
Garrett
Seaver
the biondish, full-length mountain lion-skin coat was really
who he thought it was. Then Garrett’s face burst into
radiance.
“Tom Seaver!” Tooooooooooommmm Seeeeeeaaaavv
veeeer!!! Whattya you doin’ here? Baaaaa—beeeeeeee!!!”
And Garrett lunged forward in his dirt-caked uniform and
gave Seaver the sweatiest, dirtiest, lovingest bear hug that
that now manicured ex-mountain lion had ever had. Then
the three of them hopped up and down together.
Seaver and Garrett howled like coyotes.
“Helluva game, Mike.”
“What about you? You own this town, Tommy. But you
never could throw a change of pace.”
“Yeah? Well, you never could hit one.”
And thereby hangs a tale involving these two old friends
and former teammates. Yes, teammates. And now the
scene shifts to a baseball field on the University of Southern
California campus. It is the spring of 1965. An intrasquad
game. Sophomore Tom Seaver is the pitcher and Junior
Mike Garrett is an outfielder on the other squad. Before
the game they joked about their prowess and what could
be expected in the game coming up.
“You’re nothing but a dead fast ball hitter,” said Seaver.
(Garrett, today, admits that is true.) “And that’s all I’m
going to throw you. Fast balls. And I’ll strike you out on
three pitches.”
“You couldn’t blow one by me if you stood 10 feet away.
You couldn’t blow one by me if you had a bazooka.”
The time for action was now at hand.
“Remember,” said Seaver, on the mound, “only fast
balls.”
Garrett, keeping this tete-a-tete on a sophisticated level,
replied with a Bronx cheer.
Seaver’s first pitch, true to his word, was a fast ball, up
and away. Garrett swung and missed. Strike one.
Seaver’s second pitch, true to his word, was a fast ball,
up and in. Garrett swung and missed. Strike two.
Seaver pumped for the third pitch and kicked as even
now Garrett, deadly determined, began to stride. The ball
left Seaver’s hand as if waking from a nap. It was a
change-up. By the time it arrived at the plate, Garrett had
fallen to one knee. He was so off-balance he couldn’t get up,
let alone swing. Strike three.
Garrett furiously pounded the bat on the ground and
yelled very uncomplimentary things at Seaver. Seaver was
doubled up with laughter on the mound.
Back in the Chiefs’ locker room, after the two old friends
had come together again, and danced and hugged and
thought of that story and laughed. Someone nearby was
not so happy, however. It was a newspaper photographer
who happened upon this candid scene.
“My God!” he cried, his words strangling in his throat,
“my God! What a time to run out of film . . .”
Sports Briefs |
NEW INSTRUCTOR
KANSAS CITY (UPI)-John
ny Neun, 69-year-old former
manager of the New York
Yankees and Cincinnati Reds,
was hired Wednesday as an
instructor and staff adviser for
the Kansas City Royals’ new
spring training camp in Saraso
ta, Fla.
Neun managed the Yankees
during the final month of the
1946 season and piloted the
Reds in 1947 and 1948.
EAST-WEST GAME
ST. LOUIS (UPl)—The Na
tional Hockey League will play
its 1972 annual East-West All-
Star Game in the home rink of
the Minnesota North Stars and
the 1973 game in Madison
Square Garden, it was an
nounced Wednesday.
The league’s board of gover
nors had previously announced
that the 1971 game will be
played in the Boston Gardens.
SPECK RECALLED
DETROIT (UPI) — Fred
Speck, a 22-year-old center, was
recalled by the Detroit Red
Wings Wednesday from their
Fort Worth club in the Central
Hockey league and will join
the team in time for tonight’s
game with the Chicago Black
Hawks.
ROSS SUSPENDED
MISSOULA, Mont. (UPI)—
Guard Harold Ross was sus
pended from the University of
Montana basketball team Wed
nesday for failing to show up
for a Monday night game with
Weber State. Coach Bob Cope
said Ross will not be reinstated
because “no player is that
valuable.”
Learned fast
KANSAS CITY (UPI)-Jan
Stenerud, kicking specialist of
the Kansas City Chiefs and a
native of Norway, never saw
a football game until he went to
Montana State on a skiing
scholarship.
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Ashe’s win
NEW YORK (UPI)— Arthur
Ashe, an American amateur, won
the first United States Open
tennis tournament in 1968,
beating Holland’s Tom Okker in
the final.
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typical victory celebration
before television cameras.
“Mike,” said a quiet, al
most shy voice.
Garrett, tired from a
tough day of running
against the Jets’ defensive
line, grimy from having
been pounded like a brown
nut into the dirt-pie field,
slowly looked up.
He blinked to make sure
that the man before him in
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NCAA May Eliminate
Below Waist Block
SARASOTA, Fla. (UPI)—
Imagine trying to block
someone like Penn State’s
outland trophy tackle Mike
Reid from the waist up. Those
who tried last season usually
saw their ball carrier thrown
for a loss.
High blocking on running
plays still will draw the wrath
of offensive coaches next
season —but it may be the only
legal way after that.
The National Collegiate Athle
tic Association (NCAA) Foot
ball Rules Committee, at the
conclusion of a three-day
meeting Wednesday, recom
mended eliminating below-the
waist blocking as away to halt
the growing number of knee
and ankle injuries to college
players.
Rules committee Chairman
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COLLISION COURSE for two hockey players in Hel
sinki, where a Finnish team mixed it up with Russian
skaters. The game ended in a victory for the Finns and
aches and pains for all.
John Waldorf said 36 per cent
of the injuries to college
players last season were to the
knees and ankles, and the first
consideration of this committee
is for the safety of the players.
The 15-man rules committee
said it would try some
experimental games with fresh
man teams next season in
which below-the-waist blocking
would be illegal.
The committee also recom
mended the NCAA finance a
research group to study the
blocking proposal and other
ways of eliminating ankle and
knee injuries.
The committee made 21 rules
changes for the coming season,
but only one of them was
considered major and will be
noticed by football fans.
The new rule would give the
offensive team an automatic
first down at the point of a pass
interference infraction, whether '
the ball had been thrown or
not.
The old rule called for a 15-
yard penalty for pass interfer
ence if the ball was not thrown,
and an automatic first down at
the point of infraction if the
ball was in the air.
Eagles
Play Friday,
Saturday
The Griffin Eagles, who have
won three of their last four
games, have two big regional
matches coming up Friday and
Saturday. Both games will be
played on the road.
Griffin will be at Avondale
Friday night for a game with
the Blue Devils. They will re
turn to DeKalb County Saturday
night for a rematch with
Walker. Griffin opened the 1959-
70 season by beating Walker.
ID Club
To Honor
Eagles Tonight
The Griffin Touchdown Club,
will honor the Griffin Eagles, -
coaches and cheerleaders to
night at the club’s annual ban
quet.
It will be held at the Griffin
High cafeteria beginning at 7
o’clock.
Wallace Butts, former head,
coach and athletic director at
the University of Georgia, will
be the featured speaker.
“ARE YOU A
RESTLESS ONE?”