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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Novembers, 1973
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Hoople picks Bears
in ’73 finale
By MAJOR AMOS B. HOOPLE
Football Expert
Egads, football followers.
Those mighty Griffin Bears
did it again last Friday.
They upset the so-called foot
ball experts. That is, they upset
them all except yours truly, who
demonstrated his courage by
predicting a victory for Griffin,
hummph.
Some people called it an
upset. It wasn’t. The only ones
upset were those who picked
Newnan.
I figured Griffin would win,
20-17. They won, 28-21.
That’s not too big a dif
ference, considering all the
calculating that goes into a
prediction, hummph.
Most of my fellow
prognosticators favored
Newnan and were willing to
concede to the speedy Cougars
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before the kickoff, hummph.
However, the Griffin Bears
would have none of that. They
felt they could win.
Coach Max Dowis and his
staff mapped out a plan of at
tack and the Bears executed it
to perfection, hummph.
The victory assured Griffin a
winning season.
Tomorrow night the Bears
will try to nail down their fifth
straight victory. If they do, then
Griffin will finish 7-3 which isn’t
bad in any league.
Griffin’s final contest is
against Newton County in
Covington.
My slide rule and homemade
computer show Griffin will win.
The final score will be Griffin 34
and Newton 7.
Casals signed
DETROIT (UPI) - The
Detroit Loves, one of 16
professional tennis teams in the
World Team Tennis League,
announced Wednesday they
have signed first-round draft
choice Rosemary Casals. Miss
Casals, 25, joins Kerry Harris
of Australia, who signed ear
lier.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Three members of the
Georgia College soccer team take a break from practice
to pose for the photographer. The GC Colonials, with a 2-6
record halfway through the season, compete in the
Georgia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and in
District 25 play of the National Intercollegiate Athletic
Association. From left are Keith Jones of Griffin,
Getachew Gizaw of Ethiopia, and John Chandler of
Milledgeville.
Jackets
expected
to win
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) - Well, at
last, it looks like Georgia Tech
has a football game coining up
in which the Yellow Jackets
won’t be scrapping for their
lives.
Tech has won only three of
eight games so far this season,
and all three of those were cliff
hangers — 29-21 over Clemson,
14-10 over Army and 12-10 over
Duke.
But Saturday's foe is Virginia
Military Institute (VMI), a
school that has won only six of
its last 41 football games, and
you have got to figure that the
Yellow Jackets will win handily
this week.
True, VMI knocked off David
son, 24 -17, last Saturday. But,
that’s not saying much since
Davidson has won only one
game all season and since the
Keydets only other victory was
over The Citadel.
There was a time when Vir
ginia Military might have given
Georgia Tech more of a fight,
like back during the 13 years
that John McKenna, now Geor
gia Tech’s associate director of
athletics, was coaching the Key
dets. But, what chance does a
team, playing in the weak
Southern Conference, which has
been no better than 2-9 the past
five seasons, have against the
likes of the Yellow Jackets?
VMl’s three previous trips
outside the Southern Conference
this fall resulted in losses to Vir
ginia (16-0), Navy (37-8) and
Tulane (42-0). Georgia Tech lost
to Tulane by nine points, 23-14,
after taking a third-period lead,
and plays Navy next week.
You’re not going to hear Geor
gia Tech Coach Bill Fulcher
complain about a schedule that
has VMI and Navy next up.
After all, the Yellow Jackets
must beat those two to go into
their finale with Georgia with a
5-5 record and a shot at a win
ning season.
“We have started November
off right,” Fulcher said after
Tech beat Duke last week. “Our
players want to keep it going
and finish this season on a win
ning note.”
Game time is 2 p.m. EST and
a crowd of 40-45,000 is expected
at60,000-seat Grant Field.
With leading rusher Cleo
Johnson, who missed the Duke
game, doubtful for VMI, Tech
will use Rick Hill, Greg Home
and freshman Pat Moriarty as
its main runners Saturday. The
passing remains in the hands of
Jim Stevens who is 22nd na
tionally with 89 completions in
164 attempts for 1,149 yards.
But Fulcher also plans to use
sophomore Rudy Allen at quar
terback because “Rudy needs
some playing experience.”
VMl’s chief offensive hope is
freshman William Johnson who
ran for 166 yards last week in
his varsity debut
Amos B. picks
Tech, Georgia
By MAJOR AMOS B. HOPPLE
Pigskin Prophet
Egad, friends, would you
believe that after this Satur
day there will be only 37
shopping days left till
Christmas. Jove! I must
remember to order Martha’s
gift early from the jolly
fellow — heh-heh — lest he
miss Hoople Manse while
making his rounds.
But enough of that chit
chat and back to the business
at hand. From now till the
end of the season, league
crowns will be up for grabs
and this week could see two
titles grabbed off. The Rich
mond-East Carolina clash
at Greenville, N.C., should
decide the Southern Con
ference race and the winner
of the Kent State—Miami,
(0.) meeting at Kent will
claim the Mid-American
Conference title.
These four clubs are so
evenly matched it was almost
impossible for the Hoople
Computers to separate the
winners from the losers but
true to the Hoople motto:
“The difficult we do im
mediately, the impossible
takes a little longer,” we
have — kaff — kaff —
labored long and arduously
to give you the winners! (Ed.
Note: That probably means
he tossed a coin!)
Our selections: East
Carolina 17, Richmond 15;
Miami 28, Kent State 21 —
um-kumph!
With the eyes of Texas (and
a goodly number of others) on
them, six home-grown South
west Conference Clubs will
tangle in the Lone Star state.
Texas A&M will entertain
Southern Methodist Univer
sity at College Station in their
66th renewal; Texas Chris
tian University will host
Texas Tech at Fort Worth,
and Baylor will invade
Austin to meet the Texas
University Longhorns. Oh,
what a beautiful Saturday in
Texas!
We look for the Aggies to
take the measure of SMU,
27-22, Texas Tech's Red
Raiders to outscore TCU,
37-21 and Darrell Royal’s
Longhorns to whip the Baylor
Bears. 25-8!
LaGrange falls
from prep elite
ATLANTA (UPI) - Thomas
ville, with a big 48-0 win over
Albany Monroe last weekend,
maintained its stranglehold on
first place in the United Press
International Board of Coaches
top ten high school football
teams released Wednesday.
About the only suspence in
Thomasville’sclout was whether
William Ancfrews would go over
the 1,000-yard rushing mark for
the second straight year.
Andrews eclipsed the mark,
gaining 146 yards and scoring
two touchdowns.
Thomasville was a unanimous
choice for number one, and
Macon Central received all the
second place votes, following its
easy 51-3 victory over Northeast
Macon.
Warner Robins, on the
strength of a tough 14-0 win
over Hardaway, moved up one
notch to third. Wheeler also
moved up one spot to fourth,
outscoring Smyrna Campbell
38-21 last weekend.
Lakeside eased into the num
ber five spot after beating Cross
Keys 39-20.
Southwest DeKalb held on to
the number six ranking with a
convincing 53-0 shutout of
Ridgeview.
Waycross, a 43-14 victor over
Jenkins moved up to seventh.
Southwest Atlanta, beating Ful
ton 34-8, took over the number
eight spot
North Springs downed arch
rival Riverwood 21-0 for the
Johnson
HOUSTON (UPI) - The
Houston Rockets Wednesday
activated center George John
son and placed guard Stan
McKenzie on waivers. Johnson,
6-11, missed the Rockets’ first
13 games with a fractured jaw
injured in practice last month.
Vance
LOUISVILLE, KY. (UPI) —
The Kentucky Colonels an
nounced Wednesday the promo
tion of David Vance to assistant
general manager of the Ameri
can Basketball Association
Club. Colonels’ General Manag
er Gene Rhodes said Vance will
continue to work in the areas of
publcity and public relations,
while taking on added respon
sibilities in the administrative
end of the business.
The amazing Missouri
Tigers who have figured in
two of the season’s biggest
upsets — beating Nebraska
and losing to Colorado — will
figure in another big one
Saturday. Yas, dear readers,
I have sad news for the
followers of the Oklahoma
Sooners. Hannibal Wot
taburp, our Missouri stringer,
assures us Al Onofrio’s men
are planning to ambush the
visiting Sooners. In a real
barn-burner, to coin a term,
the Tigers will prevail 24-20
— har-rumph.
The Hoople System, dear
friends, is purring along in
its customary grand style
and I report to you, some
what modestly — kaff-kaff
— we have clicked at a
.745 clip for the first eight
weeks of the season. Here’s
the record:
Right Wrong Ties Pct.
298 102 7 .745
Now go on with the
forecast.
Air Force 28, Rutgers 20
Arizona St. 42, Wyoming 18
Miami, (Fla.) 30, Army 10
Auburn 17, Miss. St. 7
Bowling Green 21, E. Mich. 8
Brigham Young 16, Arizona
8
California 37, San Jose St. 12
Furman 27, Citadel 12
Houston 20, Colorado St. 14
Dartmouth 26, Columbia 12
Cornell 13, Brown 7
Spartans’ seventh shutout of the
season and earned the ninth po
sition. Riverwood was held to
only 16 yards offense in the first
half.
Swainsboro took over the num
ber ten spot with a 34-0 blank
ing of Screven County.
The top 10 Georgia high
school football teams this week
according to the UPI Board of
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E. Carolina 17, Richmond 15
Georgia 20, Florida 16
Georgia Tech 29, VMI 6
Harvard 32, Princeton 21
Holy Cross 14, Syracuse 7
Northwestern 18, Indiana 14
Kansas 22, Colorado 15
Miami, (O.) 28, Kent State 21
Louisville 31, Dayton 7
Toledo 20, Marshall 6
Virginia 14, Maryland 10
Memphis St. 13, So. Miss. 8
(N)
Michigan 32, Illinois 7
Purdue 28, Minnesota 18
Missouri 24, Oklahoma 20
Nebraska 37, lowa St. 14
Utah St. 33, New Mex. St. 14
(N)
Utah 47, New Mex. 12
N. Carolina 21, Clemson 8
N. Tex. St. 15, Wichita St. 7
Ohio St. 35, Mich. St. 7
Ohio U. 30, Cincinnati 21
Okla. St. 28, Kansas St. 26
Wash. St. 23, Oregon St. 14
UCLA 39, Oregon 18
Pacific 14, Fresno St. 7
Penn. St. 23, N.C. State 14
Notre Dame 35, Pitt. 14
Rice 21, Arkansas 20
San Diego St. 13, Long. Bch.
St. 7
Predictions are for games
of Nov. 1Q
S. Carolina 43, Appalachian
St. 10 (N)
So. Cal. 27, Stanford 15
Temple 21, Rhode Island 8
Texas A&M 27, SMU 22
Texas Tech 37, TCU 21
Texas 25, Baylor 8
Tulane 26, Navy 14 (N)
Vanderbilt 32, Kentucky 22
Florida St. 33, Va. Tech 10
Duke 19, Wake Forest 7
Washington 49, Idaho 21
Tampa 37, W. Texas St. 16 (N)
Boston Col. 31, W. Virginia
21
Wm & Mary 33, Colgate 23
Wisconsin 19, lowa 18
Penn. 38, Yale 21
No. 111. 39, Xavier 16
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Coaches:
1. Thomasville 9-0 180
2. Macon Central 9-0 162
3. Warner Robins 9-0 114
4. Wheeler 9-0 107
5. Lakeside 8-1 88
6. Southwest DeKalb 9-0 64
7. Waycross 8-2 41
8. Southwest Atlanta 9-0 30
9. North Springs 9-0 27
10. Swainsboro 9-0 19