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ATLANTA (UPI) — Kentucky
must think it’s in a replay of
the 1972-73 season.
The Wildcats, in Joe Hall’s
first year as successor to
Adolph Rupp, started last
season on a losing note but
rallied at the end for their
customary South eastern Confer
ence title.
This year, Kentucky, ranked
No. 11 in pre-season national
ratings and favored to repeat
as the SEC titleholder, has
dropped two of its first three
games and faces fourth-ranked
North Carolina tonight at
Greensboro, N.C.
In other Southeast games
tonight, Virginia Tech will be at
Alabama, Arkansas at Missis
sippi, South Florida at Tennes
see and Florida State at
Eastern Kentucky.
The Wildcats have been
playing top competition, howe
ver, losing last week to Kansas
(71-63) and third-ranked In
diana (77-68).
Tennessee, picked as the
SEC’s No. 2 team, took seventh
ranked Marquette into overtime
before losing 67-65 in its only
action last week. The Vols are
1-1.
Vanderbilt, with a veteran
lineup returning, has jumped
off to the league’s best start
with a 4-0 mar, including the
championship in its own two
day tournament over the
weekend.
The Commodores, led by
Terry Compton’s 20 points,
defeated Tennessee State 67-66
Saturday night for the Vander
bilt Invitational title. It was the
first ever meeting between
Vanderbilt and Tennessee
State, a crosstown black
Pros say Leroy |
in best Selmon |
The tipoff
Despite all the publicity for the three Selmons of
Soonerland, the pros don’t buy big brother Lucious, the
middle man of the Oklahoma defense. Too squat and
small at 5-11 and 236 for a lineman. “He’ll go to Canada or
the World Football League,” says one NFL scout who
thinks baby Leßoy Selmon will ultimately be the best.
Q. Who do you think will be the Heisman Trophy winner
in college football this year? — Mike Grady, Trenton, N.J.
The Eastern establishment of the sporting press will pro
bably swing it for John Cappelletti, the rugged Penn State
running back, even if he might not make some All-America
teams. Football people tell me the guy who should really get
it is Danny White of Arizona State, best quarterback in the
country.
Q. How important is height in basketball? I recall read
ing that John Wooden of UCLA said he won his first na
tional championship with a team that didn’t have a player
over 6-5. —Paul Minch. Hagerstown, Md.
Obviously, it doesn't hurt to have a 6-11 center like Bill
Walton. But coach Lefty Driesell of Maryland says, “I’m not
interested in height any more. 1 measure players by their
reach, and that's how we list them in our game programs.”
Jerry West of the Lakers, who’s 6-3, has the reach of a man
four inches taller.
Q.What is Curt Flood doing and is he still in financial
trouble? Is his anti-trust suit still in court? Who is paying
for the lawyers? And lastly did the baseball owners squelch
any possibility the suit had of winning? — Dean Sellman,
Oakland, Calif.
Curt has slipped into tranquility running a bar in Major
ca, Spain and not worrying about his next meal. His anti
trust suit against baseball went through federal court and
the U.S. Court of Appeals and finally the Supreme Court,
which ruled against it. Arthur Goldberg, his lawyer, proba
bly worked on a contingency fee. The owners didn’t squelch
it — they simply fought it.
Q. Why are there suddenly so many holding penalties in
professional football this year? — Tim Wilson, Idaho Falls,
Ohio.
Because holding is almost a “must" ploy to handle the
great pass rushers who are pervading the game. Actually,
there is holding on every play if the officials wanted to call
it. It has become a judgment ruling. “It’s like guys stopping
at a stop sign," says Len Rohde, the veteran San Francisco
offensive tackle. “How many guys actually stop?”
Q. In 1972, Oklahoma had to forfeit eight of 11 wins.
Which three did they not forfeit? Also, in 1961, how many
games did Kansas forfeit and against what teams? — Henry
Chernovetz. West Haven, Conn.
Because the Sooners played young quarterback Kerry
Jackson, who was later declared ineligible for an altered
high school transcript, Oklahoma retained wins only over
Nebraska, lowa State and Kansas State, whom Jackson
didn't play against. They even relinquished their 14-0
triumph over Penn State in the Sugar Bowl. Also, because of
an ineligible player (Bert Coan), Kansas in 1960 forfeited Big
Eight conference games to Colorado and Missouri.
Q. Why don’t you tell those folks out in Oakland that Ken
ny Stabler, the pride of Alabama, was even a better thrower
as a baseball pitcher? — Tommy Pritchard, Birmingham,
Ala.
Told. When he came out of high school in Foley, Ala., Ken
ny turned down a big baseball bonus. When he deserted the
Oakland Raiders in 1969 and went back to school in
Tuscaloosa, the second day there Kenny found a scout for the
Houston Astros, John Jameson, calling on him to renew his
baseball career. He opted for a return to football.
Q. In high school football, the goal posts are located 10
vards behind the goal line. A pass receiver catches the ball
while he is touching this line that the goal post is on. Is it a
touchdown or not? — Ed Elizer, McKees Rocks, Pa.
It’s simply an incomplete pass because touching that line
means the receiver has stepped out of bounds.
Q. I would like to know how many yards Jim Brown
gained in his career. Also, how' many rushing titlesand how
many MVP awards he won. — Andv Kowalick, Allentown,
Pa. ’
In his nine-year career (1957-65) with Cleveland, the great
fullback gained 12,312 yards on the ground, or just eight shy
of seven miles. He was the leading ground-gainer every year
but 1962, when Green Bay’s Jim Taylor won the title. Brown
was voted the Jim Thorpe Trophy as the NFL’s best in an
NEA poll of players three times — 1958, ’63, ’65.
Got o tough question about sports and the people who play them?
All you got to do is ask Murray Oldermon. Write him at (name
and address of this newspaper). The most interesting questions will
be answered in this column. Olderman regrets that he cannot write
personal answers to all questions
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university ranked No. 3 in the
small college ratings.
The Commodores are one of
five unbeaten SEC teams with
Mississippi State, 3-0, Alabama
and Ole Miss 2-0 and Georgia 1-
0.
Memphis State (4-0) and
South Carolina (3-0) lead the
southern independents with
Florida State, Jacksonville and
Tulane all at 3-1.
Florida State bowed to
Pittsburgh in the Steel Bowl
final Saturday 82-60 after
beating Clemson 65-58 in the
opening round. Jacksonville
defeated Georgia Southern 82-
69, Memphis State routed
Southern Mississippi 100-79,
South Carolina beat Michigan
State 74-63 and Tulane thumped
Georgia State 81-63.
In other weekend action,
Auburn edged Virginia Tech 76-
74, Houston routed Florida 97-73
and Louisiana State, sparked
30-points by Eddie Palubinskas,
beat Pacific 91-77.
Other games this week:
Tuesday—Vanderbilt at Mem
phis State.
Wednesday—Southern Missis
sippi at Mississippi and De-
Paul at South Carolina.
Thursday—Auburn at Georgia
Tech, Samford at Vanderbilt
and Memphis State at Texas.
Friday—Kentucky at lowa
and DePaul vs. Tennessee and
Temple vs. Utah State in
Volunteer Classic at Knoxville,
Tenn.
Saturday — Second round
Volunteer Classic, Louisiana
College at Georgia, East Texas
State at Memphis State, Florida
State at Louisville and Georgia
Tech at Clemson.
*s PORTS*
★★★★★★★★★★★★★
UCLA has fan |
X
in Walt Alston!
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) — Walter Alston has extraordinary
control over his emotions.
Nobody can remember ever seeing him jump up and
down or in any way display outward excitement whether
it was right after he guided the Dodgers to the first world
championship in their history, heard of the first human
ever to land on the moon or received his 20th consecutive
contract to manage the same club.
A bit of awe showed in Walter Alston’s voice the other
evening, however.
He was standing in the lobby of the Houston hotel which
served as headquarters for the winter baseball meetings
and he wasn’t talking baseball, he was talking basketball.
“When you stop and think they’re going for their 78th
consecutive victory, it sounds absolutely incredible,” he
said. “I don’t care what kind of teams you’re playing, or
even if they’re only exhibition games, 78 straight games
without a defeat is something you just don’t see happen in
an ordinary lifetime. That coach of theirs has to be the
best I’ve ever seen.”
“Maybe the best anybody has ever seen,” one of
Alston’s listeners put in.
“I wouldn’t argue that at all,” said the Dodgers’ mana
ger, referring of course to UCLA’s John Wooden, whom
Alston remembers playing high school basketball against
more than 40 years ago.
UCLA didn’t have too much trouble making it 78 in a
row Saturday night, big, red-haired Bill Walton popping in
25 points and latching on to 25 rebounds in a 77-60 breeze
over Southern Methodist.
Next Saturday could be a little rougher for the Bruins.
They go up against North Carolina State in St. Louis, a
neutral site, and there are some who think the Wolfpack,
who were 27-0 last year and have won their only two
contests so far this year, have a good chance to snap the
longest winning streak in college basketball history.
Those who like the Pack to knock off the Bruins base
their belief on two prime reasons— super-swingman
David Thompson and the fact UCA gave evidence of being
merely mortal last week when it barely squeaked by
Maryland, 65-64, on the Bruins’ home court.
I have to take another ticket on John Wooden though.
His ball clubs taper off now and then and certainly aren’t
invincible, but if there is any way humanly possible to
win, trust John Wooden to find it. More to the point, trust
him to communicate that way to his players. Nobody
around today, in any sport, does it better.
Key figures in the ball game coming up Saturday
naturally are Walton and Thompson, whom North
Carolina State got into hot water over while recruiting
him.
Walton and Thompson are considered the two top
college players in the nation. How good is Thompson? This
good:
Tom Heinsohn, the Boston Celtics’ coach, says of him—
“ln our rating system, the highest number is 5. Thompson
gets 10 on his shooting alone.”
Norm Sloan, his coach, says “he’s the greatest athlete
I’ve ever known.”
And one pro scout puts it this way:
“Thompson is among the 10 best basketball players in
the country, and when I say that, I include both the NBA
and ABA.”
Still I have to go with UCLA and with John Wooden, the
man who has led his team to the NCAA title nine times in
the last 10 years. He isn’t much for superlatives, but
Wooden calls last year’s UCLA team the best he has ever
seen, Who knows, this one may turn out even better.
Anytime Walter Alston gets worked up, that should tell
you something.
Yellow Jackets
sign 15 players
ATLANTA (UPI) - Fifteen
high school students were
signed by Georgia Tech for foot
ball scholarships this weekend.
They were Dave Carter of
Fort Valley, running back; Lar
ry Reese of Sandersville, tackle
and end; Charles Bloodworth of
Decatur, defensive tackle;
James Marble of Lithonia, run
ningback; Richard Odom of
Millen, guard and tackle; Tom
my Bowen of Atlanta, lineback
er; Freeman Colbert of Warner
Scores
South
Fisk 92 Belmont 70
G. Washington 94 St. Peter’s 73
Jcksnvle 82 Ga. Southern 69
Kentucky St. 99 Bellarmine 77
Louisville 91 Butler 81
N. Carolina 103 Vermont 48
The Citadel 88 Wm. & Mary 65
Tulane 81 Georgia St. 63
Virginia 104 Duke 82
Western Kentucky 97 Baylor 81
Wittenberg 80 Ashland 75
Wright St. 73 Heidelberg 54
Midwest
Akron 69 Roanoke 65
American U. 85 Buffalo 76
Arizona St 71 Kansas St 66
Arkansas 83 Wabash 77
Ark. St. 91 South Fla. 89
Robins, running back and line
backer; Steve Sheppard of Villa
Rica, running back and line
backer; Adrian Rucker of Mor
ristown, Tenn., runningback;
Clay Matthews Jr. of Kennil
worth, 111., linebacker; Mark
Rowlett of Bristol, Tenn., tack
le; Mike Cutting of Decatur, de
fensive tackle; Conner Litton of
Norton, Va., running back and
linebacker; Jeff Hiller of Web
ster Grover, Mo., running back;
and Chuck Floyd, of St Marys,
quarterback and defensive end.
BaU St. 78 Western Mich. 72
Bwlng Green 89 Eastern 111. 71
Denison 81 Walsh 66
Detroit 70 Michigan 59
Drake 80 Texas 72
Illinois St. 72 Wash. St. 63
Indiana T1 Kentucky 68
Kansas 94 Northern lowa 60
Marquette 86 lowa 70
Miami (Ohio) 86 Purdue 85
Notre Dame 94 St. Louis 65
Northwestern 76 DePaul 65
Ohio Northern 66 Ohio Wslyn 52
Ohio U 73 Eastern Mich. 54
Ohio St. 72 Penn St 65
Okla. St. 90 Neb.-Omaha 65
S.C. 74 Mich. St. 63
Southern Calif. 71 Illinois 60
Southern Hl. 102 Mo.-Rolla 64