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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Vince Dooley, head coach University of Georgia (right) is greeted by
Gator Bowl president W. W. (Bill) Gay as the Bulldogs arrived here for the Dec. 31 encounter with
theTarheels of North Carolina in the annual Gator Bowl. (UPI)
Illinois, Florida
in Gator finals
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
• JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI)
—lt’s the Big Ten versus the
Southeastern Conference to-
« night when Illinois meets
Florida in the finals of the
Gator Bowl Basketball Tour
nament.
• The Illini, now 7-1 and
considered a threat to Ohio
State in the Big Ten race,
reached the finals Tuesday
• night with a hard-earned 74-72
victory over North Carolina
State and Florida, the only
« unbeaten team in the SEC, got
there with an easy 87-47
triumph over outmanned Co
lumbia University.
• Illinois Coach Harve Schmidt,
obviously pleased about his
team’s early start this season
but insisting that no one should
put them on the spot yet as far
as the Big Ten race goes
because “we’re very young,”
• said he is concerned about
Florida’s press.
“It’s got to be problems
defensing them too,” said
• Schmidt. “They run good stuff
and are well organized.”
Actually, Florida, now 6-0,
. didn’t look like an SEC
contender Tuesday night de
spite jumping into a 40-point
lead midway through the
• second half. Rather, the Gators’
New York foe, now 1-7, played
miserably.
“It just rained a little bit
more tonight,” moaned Colum
bia Coach Jack Rohan, who has
been plagued by more than his
• diare of trouble.
Columbia only brought eight
players to Jacksonville because
two quit in the past month and
• two others refused to make the
trip. Then, leading scorer Foley
Jones scratched his eye with
, his contact lens in the first half
Tuesday night and can’t play in
tonight’s consolation game
against N.C. State.
“Oh well,” said Rohan. “If
we have five left, we’ll be
here.”
’ Schmidt credited .Illinois’
victory to the way his team
handled Tommy Burleson,
. state’s 7-foot-4 sophomore, both
offensively and defensively.
“I thought we did a pretty
• good job on him,” Schmidt
said. “We kept him pretty well
fronted. But I was impressed
with his agility and shooting
f
j Crumbley
bowls 181
Sylvia Crumbley bowled a 181
, game and a 501 series last night
in the Dundee League.
Other top bowlers were:
Pauline Harrison 150, Linda
r Scott 157, Carolyn Garmany 176,
Betty Parkerson 173, Lillian
Parrish 160, Mary Blanton 158,
Hazel Hilton 166, Joann Finley
171, Annette Taylor 166,
Frances Parrish 170, Betty
Love 159, Martha Bray 155,
Peggy Scott 160, Grace Lloyd
164 and Sue Jester 154.
Team One beat Team Five 3-
1, Team Three beat Team Two
• 3-1, Team Four beat Team
I Eight 4-0 and Team Seven beat
Team Six 4-0.
ability for a guy his size.”
Burleson led the four teams
in scoring with 24 points while
Illinois star Nick Weatherspoon
had 22 and Florida’s Tony
Miller 20.
Illinois and N.C. State were
tied 38-all at halftime but State
appeared en route to victory
when Burleson moved the
Carolina team to a nine-point
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lead 48-39 in the opening
minutes of the second half.
“I felt we were pretty flat at
the beginning,” said Schmidt.
“It took us a long time to
really get started playing.”
When Illinois did get going,
the Big Ten team outscored its
opponent by 17 points z in a 10-
minute span and then held on
at the end to win it.
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Coach Edgar
Gordon
resumes
basketball
Coach Jerry Edgar will head
Gordon’s College Basketball
program this season. Gordon
will open the 1972 season on Jan.
7 when it hosts Middle Georgia
College of Cochran.
In addition to coaching
Gordon’s boys and girls high
school teams for the past two
seasons, Coach Edgar’s
coaching experience includes
five years in the Muscogee
County School System in
Columbus, Ga., and two years
in Cleburne County High School,
Heflin, Ala.
The following players are on
Gordon’s roster:
Milton Raines, Thomaston,
Ga.; Andy Hudson, Jackson,
Ga.; Melvin Rainey, Lithonia,
Ga.; Elgin Kendall, Senoia, Ga.;
Kevin Bartlett, New York,
N.Y.; Kent Kingsley,
Jacksonville, Fla., Charles
Dorsey, Jacksonville, Fla.;
James Pruitt, Live Oak, Fla.
Additional players will be
selected to complete the roster
following the winter recess.
Piland rolls
224 game
Emmett Piland bowled a 224
game last night in the Doc
Craddock League. Other top
bowlers were:
R. 0. Burnett 216, Perry
English 231, Ed Thompson 212,
Randy Bannister 210, Lance
Brabham 208, Steve Meagley
208, Julian Folds 207, Edwin
Morris 203, Joe Dimatteo 203,
Robert Moore 201, Ken Gaddy
201, Owen Harris 201, Roy
Phillips 200 and Bill Callahan
200.
WGRI defeated Spalding
Motors 4-0, Buckalew Electric
beat Fisher Hardware 3-1,
Buddy’s Trailer Sales beat
Kimbell’s Union 76 3-1, Selby
Electric beat Highland 3-1,
Fields Construction beat
Mortell 3-1, Spruce Barbecue
beat Bonanza Sirloin Pit 3-1,
Forrer Apartments beat
Hideaway Taxidermy 3-1, and
Rhodes Furniture beat Harris
Service Station 3-1.
Clay court tourney
ATLANTA (UPI) - The National Clay Court Amateur
Tennis championships will be held July 10-16 at the Bitsy
Grant Tennis Center here.
Atlanta won over bids by Chattanooga, Tenn., and Bir
mingham, Ala., according to Lewis King, president of the
Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association. “Atlanta was
recommended by the Southern Association and we have
it,” King said.
The event is expected to draw 64 of the world’s leading
amateurs.
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Tagge says Nebraska
must be mentally ‘up’
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
MIAMI (UPl)—Being “up” is
what Nebraska quarterback
Jerry Tagge thinks will be the
decisive factor in Saturday
night’s Orange Bowl game
against Alabama. That and
beating the Crimson Tide
defense.
“Both teams are going to be
physically prepared. It’s the
team that’s better mentally
prepared that’s going to win the
ballgame,” said Tagge.
“Playing a team with Ala
bama’s statistics, I definitely
think that if we don’t get at
least as mentally high as we
were for Oklahoma, we’re in
trouble,” the quarterback said.
Oklahoma was the big one of
the season for the Cornhuskers
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, Dec. 29,1971
—the game that built up in the
players’ minds through all the
other games, the game that
challenged Nebraska’s No. 1
ranking.
The Buskers’ won and stayed
on top, and now second-ranked
Alabama will try to take away
the national crown in Saturday
night’s Orange Bowl game.
“It’s something you can feel
starting to build up in the team.
I can feel some of the guys
getting fired up in practice. I
think we’ll be ready,” said
Tagge.
His coach, Bob Devaney,
rates another criteria high in
figuring the outcome of the
Saturday night battle — mi
stakes.
“We feel that to beat
Alabama, we’ve got to do at
least as well as we did against
Oklahoma—probably a little
better, due to their superior
defense,” Devaney said Tues
day night.
“This game could be decided
by the team that makes the
least number of mistakes.”
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The Alabama defense has
Tagge concerned, too. He said
it is “probably the best defense
we’ve been up against. They
are quick, and they don’t make
mistakes.”
But Tagge thinks Nebraska
has the answer in its balanced
offense.
“If teams stopped our run
ning game, we have gone to the
air and been successful. Okla
homa stopped our game in the
air, and we came out in the
second half and ran right at
’em.”
Alabama backfield coach
John David Crow said Southern
California and Louisiana State
have defenses similar to
Nebraska—“and we only scored
17 points against Southern Cal
and 14 against LSU. I hope we
score a little bit more against
Nebraska.
“People talk about Alabama
holding the football,” Crow
said. “Well, if our defense can’t
stop their offense, then we
won’t get a chance to hold the
football.”