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Griffin Daily News
’Barna faithfuls no more
disturbed than Bear Bryant
By DAVID MOFFIT
ATLANTA (DPI)—It is easy
to understand the growing un
rest among the once-fanatical
followers of the Crimson Tide
of Alabama.
For a decade, the Crimson
Tide was virtually unbeatable.
There were perfect seasons, na
tional championships and glori
ous bowl triumphs. In the 10-
year span from 1959 through
1968, Alabama lost a total of
only nine regular season
games.
But the last couple of years
have been dark ones for Ala
bama and Coach Paul “Bear”
Bryant. Tide faithful find it
hard to accept that their team
was 6-4 in ’69 and 6-5 last year
and—oh, the shame of it all—
winless in its last four bowl ap
pearances.
But none are more disturbed
about this than Bear Bryant
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himself—and he sounds like he
figures to do something about
it.
“We have to start trying to
keep from losing,” growled
Bryant who will be attempting
to become the only active col
lege coach with 200 victories
when the Crimson Tide plays
Southern California in Los An
geles Sept. 11.
“We have to shore up our
defense and our kicking game,”
Bryant continued. “We have a
tot of defensive people back but
we have a lot of improving to
do. We had all sorts of records
set against us last year.”
Bryant’s point is well taken.
Time was any time Alabama
scored a couple of touchdowns
the game was in the bag. Last
year, the Tide scored 21 points
against Southern Cal, 23 against
Ole Miss and 28 against Auburn
—but lost to all three.
Alabama has 28 lettermen, in
cluding 13 returning starters;
had an unbeaten freshman
team; and has picked a few
plums from the junior college
ranks.
But Bryant is still uncertain
what this will add up to.
“We’ve got to find out how
many hard-nosed players we
have who still think winning
means a lot.”
Now that quarterback Scott
Hunter is gone, Alabama will
be placing more emphasis on
its running game this fall and
that should mean a banner year
for senior tailback Johnny Mus
so who rushed for 1,137 yards
last year.
“With the exception of Johnny
Musso, we have no experience
in our offensive backfield,” said
Bryant. “We have ability there
—but it is unproven.”
Terry Davis, a junior from
Bogalusa, La., who was used
sparingly behind Hunter last
fall, and red-shirted sophomore
Billy Sexton of Tallahassee,
Fla., are the leading candidates
for the quarterback post. Paul
Spivey, a sophomore from Mont
gomery, could be the other run
ning back.
Alabama lost the interior por
tion of its offensive line “and,”
said Bryant, “here is where the
new men must come through.”
But the Tide has 274-pound ju
nior John Hannah, an impres
sive blocker, an offensive tac
kle and split end David Bailey,
a senior from Bailey, Miss., is
expected to set Southeastern
Conference career records for
receptions and reception yard
age.
Bailey caught 111 passes for
1,571 yards the past two sea
sons.
“I thought we established our
inside running attack and our
passing game pretty well last
year,” said Bryant, noting that
Alabama averaged 400 yards
per game. “We need to continue
that offensive pattern while
we’re improving our defense.”
Eight of Alabama’s returning
starters are on the defensive
unit and the addition of 215-
pound sophomore linebacker
Chuck Strickland of Chatta
nooga and 230-pound defensive
end John Mitchell, a junior col
lege grad from Mobile, could
make a real difference.
Bryant is high on four other
defensive performers — end
Robin Parkhouse, linebacker
Jeff Ruozie, back Steve Higgin
botham and tackle Terry Row
ell — and he expects definite
improvement over the defensive
units of the past two years
which gave up an average of 22
points per game.
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SPORTS
Blue
wins
21st
By NEIL HERSHBERG
UPI Sports Writer
Vide Blue claims that the
Boston Red Sox are no different
than any other team in the
American League and on
Wednesday night he proved it
Reggie Jackson doubled in
the tie-breaking run and scored
an insurance run on a wild
pitch in the 10th inning as the
Oakland Athletics defeated the
Red Sox 5-3 and gave Blue his
21st victory of the season.
Blue, who needed relief help
from Darold Knowles in the
10th, completed a sweep of the
11 American League teams by
beating Boston for the first
time. He lost to the Red Sox in
his only previous start against
them.
“There’s no difference, none
at all," said the Athletics’
sensational young southpaw in
describing the Boston bell club.
“The Red Sox are a ball team,
they swing the bats, they are
all tough hitters and they hit
me good."
In other American League
action, Baltimore dubbed Min
msota 94, Detroit edged
Milwaukee 2-1, Cleveland
nipped Chicago 3-2 in 12
innings, Kansas City blanked
Washington 1-0 in a 5% inning
rain-abbreviated game. The
second game of the doublehead
er was rained out, as was the
California at New York game.
In the National League,
Pittsburgh edged Chicago 3-2,
Los Angeles tripped Philadel
phia 4-1, Montreal shut out San
Francisco 5-0, San Diego
blanked New York 1-0 in 12
innings, Atlanta routed St.
Louis 9-3 and Cincinnati downed
Houston 5-1.
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Standings
By United Press International
American League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 69 42 .622 ...
Boston 64 52 .552 IVz
Detroit 63 52 .548 8
New York 58 58 .500 13%
Cleveland 47 69 .405 24%
Washington 46 68 .404 24%
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Oakland 74 42 .638 ...
Kansas City 59 54 .522 13%
Chicago 55 61 .474 19
California 55 62 .470 19%
Minnesota 51 63 .447 22
Milwaukee 48 66 .421 25
Wednesday’s Games
Calif at New York, ppd, rain
KC 1 Wash 0, Ist, 5% inn, rain
KC at Wash, 2nd, ppd., rain
Balt 9 Minnesota 6, night
Detroit 2 Milwaukee 1, night
Cleve 3 Chi 2,12 inn., night
Oaklnd 5 Boston 3,10 inn., rain
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(AU Times EDT)
Detroit (Lolich 18-8) at
Milwaukee (Pattin 10-12), 2:30
p.m.
Cleveland (Paul 1-3) at
Chicago (Wood 14-8), 2:15 p.m.
Oakland (Dobson 11-2) at
Boston(BrettO-l), 1:30p.m.
Baltimore (Palmer 13-6) at
Minnesota (Kaat 9-8), 9 p.m.
Kansas City (Wright 2-4 and
Clemons 0-0) at Washington
(Shellenback 3-8 and BRoberg
3-3), twinight, 5 p.m.
California (May 7-7 and
Murphy 6-13 or Clark 2-1) at
New York (Kekich 6-6 and
Peterson 12-7) 2, twinight, 5
p.m.
Friday’s Games
Detroit at Minnesota, night
Cleveland at Milwaukee, night
Baltimore at Chicago, night
Calif at Washington, night
Oakland at New York, night
Kan City at Boston, night
National League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Pittsburgh 71 46 .607 ...
Chicago 63 52 .548 7
St Louis 63 54 .538 8
New York 58 56 .509 10%
Philadelphia 51 65 .440 19%
Montreal 46 70 .397 24%
West
W. L. Pct. GB San Fran
ncisco 69 51 .575
Los Angeles 64 53 .547 3%
Atlanta 62 58 .517 7
Houston 58 58 .500 9
Cincinnati 55 64 .462 13%
San Diego 43 76 .361 25%
Wednesday’s Results
Montreal 5 San Francisco 0
Pittsburgh 3 Chicago 2 night
Cincinnati 5 Houston 1, night
Atlanta 9 St. Louis 3, night
Los Angeles 4 Phila. 1, night
S.D. 1 N.Y. 0 12 inn. night
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(AU Times EDT)
St Louis (Carlton 15-6) at
Pittsburgh (Walker 5-7), 8 p.m.
Houston (Blasingame 8-8) at
Atlanta (Reed 11-8), 8 p.m.
Philadelphia (Wise 11-9) at
Los Angeles (Osteen 11-7), 11
p.m.
New York (Ryan 9-9) at San
Diego (Arlin 6-14), 10:30 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Friday’s Games
St Louis at Pittsburgh, night
Houston at Atlanta, night
Chicago at Cincinnati, night
Montreal at Los Angeles, night
Phila. at San Diego, night
New York at San Francisco,
night
STIFF GOLF COMPETISH
WILMINGTON, Del. (UPI)—
A record total of 2,396 players
will compete for the 142
available places in the 71st
United States Amateur Golf
Championship here on Aug. 16
or Aug. 17.