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Griffin Daily News Monday, December 17,1973
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Wallace Butts is dead
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI)-Wallace
“Wally” Butts, the “little round
man” who took Georgia football
to the heights and then saw his
22-year coaching career end in
controversy, died today. He was
68.
Butts, who had been running
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an insurance agency here, had
returned to his home from a
morning walk and was in the
bathroom when he suffered an
apparent heart attack. He was
dead on arrival at Athens Hos
pital.
The rotund Butts, whose
teams won four Southeastern
Conference championships and
appeared in eight post-season
bowl games, coached the Bull
dogs from 1939 to 1960, gaining
national fame for his offensive
genius.
He was athletic director for
the following three years when
his association with Georgia
ended in the scandal stirred up
by a Saturday Evening Post
article which alleged he and
Alabama Coach Paul “Bear”
Bryant conspired to fix a foot
ball game.
Butts won a libel judgment
against the magazine but the
case ended his association with
football at Georgia.
A popular figure on the post
season speaking circuit during
his career, Butts was noted for
his quips delivered in a South-
ern drawl. He was born Feb. 7,
1905, at Milledgeville, Ga., and
graduated from Mercer Univer
sity at Macon.
He served as president of the
American Football Coaches As
sociation in 1960 and was a
member of the National Foot-
ball Rules Committee for two
terms.
He was famed for the devel
opment of complex passing pat
terns which carried the
Bulldogs to a record of 140 wins,
86 losses and nine ties during his
coaching career.
He was named Southeastern
Conference coach of the year
three times and developed
many All-America stars,
including Frankie Sinkwich,
Charlie Trippi, John Rauch,
Pat Dye, Zeke Bratkowski
and Francis Tarkenton.
Butts said his greatest thrill
in a lifetime given to football
came in his last season as a
coach, 1959, when the Bulldogs
defeated Auburn 14-13 in the last
30 seconds of the game to win
Mears unhappy
with 11-6 win
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
Temple coach Don Casey
placed part of the blame for
Saturday’s snail-paced 11-6
Volunteer Classic basketball
tournament loss to Tennessee
on the Vols and added the
slowdown was his team’s only
shot at a win.
“They (Tennessee) are awe
some when it comes to
scoring,” the first year coach
said. “They got 117 points the
other night and almost a
hundred against Depaul, and
we don’t have that kind of
scoring power. We wouldn’t
have had a chance playing any
other way.”
Tennessee coach Ray Mears
wasn’t at all happy about the
tactic and renewed his call for
a 30-second limit on ball
possession in college games. He
said the lowest scoring game in
Vol history also jeopardized the
future of the eight-year-old
Christmas tournament.
“What this game does is
stress once again the need of a
30-second clock in college
basketball,” Mears said.
“There was nothing we could
do about it except what they
wanted us to do, and that was
to come out of our zone and
play man-to-man defense and
we weren’t going to do that.”
Casey partially endorsed
Mears’ proposal, but added he
believed it was the responsibili
ty of the host team to force the
action.
The consolation round saw
Utah State whip Depaul 102-93
for third place honors.
The Vols-Owls tilt is the
Twiggs
defeats
Academy
Twiggs Academy defeated
the Griffin Academy boys and
girls last Friday.
The Griffin girls were beaten
30-29 and the boys fell 49-27.
Dale Martin scored 12 points
for Griffin Academy. Deborah
Smith made six, Kay Landrum
seven and Donna Slade and
Beth Gaston two.
Jimmy Fain and Bob Landham
scored six points for the Griffin
Academy boys. Matt Crossfield
made five, John Stovall four
and Danny Ray, Bobby Willis
and Don Gossett two.
Griffin Academy will play
Gordon Ivey Academy
tomorrow beginning at 7 p.m. at
Gordon.
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Coach Butts
the SEC championship the
eaarliest date in conference
history.
He is survived by his wife,
Winnie, and three daughters,
including Mrs. George N.
Murray Jr. of Griffin.
lowest game on record for
Tennessee, and one of the
lowest in the nation. It eclipses
a 17-4 Tennessee win over
Clemson in the 1926-27 season.
Tennessee president Edward
Boling urged Mears to stage a
brief intrasquad game to quiet
the 11,700 fans who ended up
paying about S2OO collectively
for watching each of the 21
shots.
Tennessee fans, who are
prone to be rowdy, booed,
stomped their feet and pitched
cups of ice onto the court in
protest to the game which the
Vols led 7-5 at halftime.
Seven-foot center Len Kos
malski led the scoring with five
points, all picked up in the
opening minutes of action prior
to Temple’s 11:38 second first
half stall.
Koch &
Rockwell
SNOWMASS, Colo. (UPI) -
U.S. ski team racers Bill Koch
and Martha Rockwell made it a
perfect weekend of cross
country ski racing Sunday by
winning the final western
competition of the Samsonite
Nordic series at Snowmass.
Koch, of Guilford, Vt, who
also won Saturday’s race, led
an identical U.S. ski team
sweep of the top three places in
the annual Aspen Silver Boom
Race with a time of 28.9. Larry
Martin of Durango, Colo., was
second at 28:27, followed by
John Morton of Anchorage,
Alaska, at 28:42.
Miss Rockwell, of Putney,
Vt., led women racers at 32:55.
Jana Hlavaty of Chicago was
second over the eight-kilometer
course in 33:17 and teammate
Twila Hinkle of Frisco, Colo.,
finished third in 33:49.
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