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Dodd wants NCAA to outlaw games
scheduled more than 4 years in advance!
ATLANTA (UPI) - Bobby
Dodd wants the NCAA to
outlaw all college football
games scheduled more than
four years in advance.
“Scheduling has really gotten
out of hand,” said Georgia
Tech’s famed athletic director.
“If we wanted to add a new
opponent tomorrow, we couldn’t
start playing before 1985.
“I don’t know who started
this idea of scheduling so far in
advance,” Dodd continued. “It
began six or eight years ago
and has really snowballed
since. Schools, fearful they’ll be
left out at some future date,
Pat Sullivan thinks
his critics are wrong
NEW YORK (UPl)—Through
it all, through all the sincere
appreciation and excitement,
there was an undercurrent of
sadness and disappointment in
Pat Sullivan’s voice.
The Auburn quarterback was
in town Thursday to receive the
Heisman Trophy voted him by
the nation’s sportswriters and
sportscasters.
When asked if there were any
way he. would have liked to
improve on his award-winning
season, Sullivan replied:
“I would have liked it if we
won all our games. It was
disappointing to lose to Alaba
ma (31-7 last Saturday). And
they did it handily. It spoiled
our unbeaten season. I would
have loved to win that one.”
The Crimson Tide cracked
the Tigers’ nine game win
streak enroute to their 11th
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schedule farther and farther
ahead.”
Dodd admits he is as guilty
as the rest. After all, Georgia
Tech is already scheduled up
for the next 13 seasons.
“But, I’m ready to scrap all
schedules beyond 1975 and start
over. Four years is far
enough.”
Dodd says he believes the
NCAA would vote in favor of
voiding all long-term schedules.
“Many of us have the same
problem,” he said. “We have
gotten ourselves into schedules
that looked very attractive at
the time they were arranged
consecutive victory in a titanic
struggle of unbeatens at
Birmingham. Alabama will
face undefeated and top-ranked
Nebraska in the Orange Bowl
on New Year’s night while the
sixth-ranked Tigers tangle with
third-tabbed and once-beaten
Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl on
New Year’s Day.
“Nothing bigger has ever
happened to me than winning
the Heisman Trophy,” Sullivan
said at the Downtown Athletic
Club, at which the award
originated. “I know there’s
been some talk about other
players who may have de
served the award more than I,”
he said in an obvious reference
to Cornell's Ed Marinaro, who
became college football’s all
time rusher, only to wind up
second in the Heisman voting.
“That may be so, but no one
but which have failed to
weather the changes that have
taken place since.”
The long-time former Georgia
Tech coach pointed out that the
Yellow Jackets, “seeking a
representative schedule,” lined
up some future opponents
which no longer field teams as
strong as they had when the
contracts were signed.
“Wiping out the long-range
contracts could be beneficial to
both parties,” said Dodd.
“Those schools that wish to
continue playing one another
have only to resign within the
four-year limits while those
will ever appreciate it more
than I do.”
The 6-foot, 190-pound senior
from Birmingham definitely
has his sights set on playing
professional football, despite
the chorus of critics who insist
he’s too small.
“I think the pros definitely
think about height, but look at
all the guys in the pros who are
just about six feet and are
doing well. There’s (Bob)
Griese, (Fran) Tarkenton and
(John) Brodie for starters,”
observed Sullivan. “People
have said my size will hurt me
as a pro and I guess that’s part
of the reason about all the
Heisman Trophy controversy.
American Broadcasting Com
pany sportscaster Howard Co
sell entered the controversy by
labelling the Heisman Trophy a
“fraud” and a “bore” and by
also expressing admiration for
Marinaro, who admitted on
national television that he was
disappointed in not being
selected as the winner.
Surgery
BLOOMINGTON, Minn.
(UPl)—Wren Blair, general
manager of the Minnesota
North Stars, will undergo
surgery Monday to correct a
lung condition which he deve
loped in his youth because of an
attack of pneumonia.
Blair is expected to remain at
Methodist Hospital for about 10
days and then recuperate at
home for three or four weeks,
according to Dr. Frank Sidell,
one of the team’s physicians.
that have become mismatched
could seek more compatible
opponents.
“It’s no fun for either team
when one is obviously going to
win by 40 or so points,” added
Dodd. “Not even the winner
really enjoys a game like
that.”
The question came up the
other night when Dodd and Ole
Miss Athletic Director Bruiser
Kinard got together to sign the
contract for their Peach Bowl
meeting. Kinard noted that
Tech and Ole Miss had not
played since the 1953 Sugar
Bowl and that he’d like to see
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ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI)-
Golfer Terry Dill, a lumbering
Texan with a slow drawl, set
the record straight about the 65
he shot to lead the field at the
start of today’s second round of
the new $150,000 Walt Disney
World Open golf tournament.
“That is the course record,”
insisted the veteran pro who’s
been having a bad year. While
Bert Yancey fired an identical
65 during a pro-am round
Wednesday, Dill was quick to
point out that records aren’t
established until official tourna
ment play begins.
Dill, who’s played in only
four tournaments in the past
four months because of a pulled
back muscle, hit the pin on the
last hole Thursday to leave
himself a two-foot birdie putt.
He tapped it in to finish one
stroke ahead of 28-year-old
Dave Eichelberger, this year’s
Milwaukee Open champ who
bogeyed his first hole but
recovered with seven birdies to
card a 66.
Jack Nicklaus, hoping to
close a $16,000 money-won gap
between him and Lee Trevino,
was in a third place group at
67, along with former Masters
champion Bob Goalby, Gary
Groh and Jim Wiechers.
Nicklaus bogeyed two holes,
hit seven birdies, and com
plained of his iron shots.
Finishing the first round
knotted in fourth place with 68s
were Dow Finsterwald, Yancey,
Grier Jones, Hugh Royer, Chris
Blocker, Dewitt Weaver, Dale
Douglass and Bob Lunn.
Trevino wasn’t happy with
the 70 he fired on Disney’s 6,924
-yard Magnolia Course, under a
cloudy sky and sometimes
drizzling rain.
He admits he is feeling the
pressure from Nicklaus’ drive
to top his winnings. He wants to
keep the title of the winningest
golfer ever in a single season.
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the two schools start a series.
“There’s no sense kidding
ourselves,” said Dodd. “The
soonest we could work Ole Miss
into our schedule would be 1985
—l4 years from now. By then,
it’s likely that none of the
people who scheduled such a
game would even still be
involved.”
Dodd pointed out that the’
seniors in such a game would
be boys who now are only seven
or eight years old. “There’s no
way this for ahead to make
even the wildest guess as to
what sort of football teams we
will have by then.
The Spalding Junior High
eighth grade girls ripped Henry
County 49-7 yesterday in Mc-
Donough.
Spalding lead 35-0 at halftime
and Henry County didn’t score
until Spalding sent in some third
stringers.
Paula Westmoreland scored
14 points for Spalding. Retha
Daniel made 13, Beth Grant
four, Claire Ann Mankin four,
NBA
standings
By United Press International
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W. L. Pct. GB
Boston 14 10 .583 ...
New York 13 10 .565 %
Philadelphia 12 12 .500 2
Buffalo 9 14 .391 4%
Central Division
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 10 14 .417 ...
Cleveland 9 14 .391 %
Cincinnati 8 13 .381 Vz
Atlanta 6 17 .261 3%
Western Conference
Midwest Division
W. O. Pct. GB
Milwaukee 21 4 .840 ...
Chicago 16 6 .727 3%
Phoenix 12 11 .522 8
Detroit 9 14 .39111
Pacific Division
W. L. Pct. GB
Los Angeles 21 3 .875 ...
Golden State 16 9 .640 5%
Seattle 15 10 .600 6%
Houston 6 19 .240 15%
Portland 3 20 .13017%
Thursday’s Results
Buffalo 109 Baltimore 105
(Only game scheduled)
Friday’s Games
Seattle at Baltimore
Houston at Detroit
Cincinnati at Milwaukee
Los Angeles at Philadelphia
New York at Chicago
Cleveland at Buffalo
Golden State at Portland
(Only games scheduled)
Deborah Roberts six, Kathy
McKoon six, Lillie Combs one
and Patty Searcy one.
Guards were Kathy Dillard,
Karen Fennell, Beth McGee,
Carmel Parks, Kathy Fitts.
Spalding’s record is now 2-9.
Miss Sara Bragg’s team will
play R. L. Coussins here
Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.
ABA
standings
By United Press International
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Kentucky 15 6 .714 ...
Virginia 14 9 .609 2
Floridians 11 15 .423 6%
Pittsburgh 11 15 .423 6%
New York 9 13 .409 6%
Carolina 9 13 .409 6%
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Utah 18 7 .720 ...
Indiana 13 9 .591 3%
Dallas 10 14 .417 7%
Denver 9 13 .409 7%
Memphis 9 14 .391 8
Thursday’s Results
Utah 98 Floridians 93
(Only game scheduled)
Friday’s Games
Viringia at Indiana
Carolina at New York
Kentucky at Dallas
Utah vs. Memphis
at Jackson, Tenn.
(Only games scheduled)
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— Griffin Daily News Friday, Dec. 3,1971
“One of the two schools could
have a very powerful team in
1985 while he other might be
very weak,” said Dodd. “With
our ever-increasing emphasis
on academics here at Georgia
Tech, I won’t be surprised if we
are much weaker in football in
the mid 80s than we are now.”
Dodd did not say whether he
would propose a schedule-limit
rule at the next NCAA meeting
in January (at Hollywood, Fla.)
but he did feel that such a
proposal could gain enough
support to be adopted. “An
athletic director tries to put
together the most attractive
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schedule possible,” said Dodd.
“This means he has to
schedule games against teams
that will fill his stadium,games
that will bring in the money
needed to finance his program.
“Many of us scheduled
opponents who looked very
attractive at the time but who
now, for any of numerous
reasons, are no longer the
drawing cards we would like
them to be.
“I think the NCAA is the
organization which can help us
get out of this situation and
back to more realistic schedul
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