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Gators risking
bid in Bayou
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
The unpredictable Florida
Gators go into the Louisiana
bayou Saturday night at the
risk of their bid for their first
ever Southeastern Conference
football title.
The Gators rate as favorites
to share this season’s SEC
crown with Alabama because
(1) they don’t play Alabama or
Tennessee and (2) because, at
times, they have shown them
selves to be a good football
team.
But Florida has a long
history of losing when least
expected — like two weeks ago
when they were nipped (8-7) at
North Carolina State. And
although their host this week
end, Louisiana State, has been
playing below par, visitors
usually have their hands full on
Saturday nights in Baton
Rouge.
If the Gators, 27-10 winners
over Mississipi State last week
in Jackson, get by LSU, their
SEC stock should be at an all
time high. Their remaining
conference schedule includes
home games against Vanderbilt
and Kentucky, a meeting with
Georgia in Jacksonville, and a
visit to so-far-winless Auburn.
One thing seems sure. Flori
da can not afford to lose a
conference game. The 9th
ranked Alabama Crimson Tide,
which plays Ole Miss Saturday
in Birmingham, appears to be
getting stronger week-by-week
and is a solid favorite to go 6-0
in the SEC and win its fifth
straight league championship.
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You can forget that opening
season loss to Missouri which
probably cost the Crimson Tide
a shot at the national cham
pionship. Since then, Alabama
beat Clemson, 56-0, and Vander
bilt, 40-7, and Coach Bear
Bryant still isn’t satisfied.
Florida at LSU and Alabama-
Ole Miss are the only intra-SEC
games on this week’s schedule.
Other games involving SEC
teams are Virginia Tech at
Auburn, Clemson at Georgia,
Kentucky at lOth-ranked Penn
State, Southern Miss at Missis
sippi State, and Vanderbilt at
Tulane.
In other action, the Miami
(Fla.) Hurricanes, which lost
by only three points to then top
ranked (now No. 2) Oklahoma,
visits 4th-ranked Nebraska,
Georgia Tech hosts Florida
State, South Carolina hosts
15th-ranked Baylor, and Mem
phis State hosts North Texas
State.
Tennessee is idle this week
end.
Florida beat LSU, 24-14, last
year in Gainesville while off to
a 7-1 start that put the Gators
in the Sugar Bowl. But the
Gators had losses to Vanderbilt,
Georgia and Kentucky which
left them down in fifth place in
the SEC race.
Louisiana State got off to an
0-2 start this season with
Nebraska and 6th-ranked Texas
A & M its first two foes, then
barely got past Rice (16-13).
Alabama is a solid favorite
over Ole Miss which lost three
straight before beating South
ern Miss (24-8) last week. But,
you would never know that by
listening to Bear Bryant.
“Anyone who can hold Texas
A & M to only seven points
must have a terrific defense,”
said Bryant. “And, I know their
offense is improving each week.
Ole Miss played us a real tough
game last year in Jackson
(Alabama won 35-21) and will
really be fired up for us.”
Alabama, which has won 45
of its last 47 regular-season
games, hasn’t been beaten by
another SEC team since 1972.
Auburn, which had hoped to
make Shug Jordan’s final
season a rousing success,
should turn up its first victory
against Virginia Tech, but
Jordan assistant Mike Neel
warns the Tigers not to take
the Gobblers lightly.
“Tech is a team that will
have nothing to lose,” said
Neel. “A rebuilding program
can get a shot in the arm with
a big upset and that’s what we
have to be on guard against.”
Georgia, 2-1, is favored over
Clemson, 0-3, but the Bulldogs
could have trouble with the
Tigers freshman quarterback
Willie Jordan who contributed
300 yards and three touchdowns
in a triple-threat effort against
Georgia Tech.
Underdog Kentucky will send
the SEC’s all-time leading
runner against Penn State.
Sonny Collins gained 161 yards
last week in a tie with
Maryland and now has a career
total of 3,099 yards. That, with
eight games yet to play, is four
more than the previous record
set by Eddie Price of Tulane in
1946-49.
Pat Gore
rolls 219
Pat Gore bowled a 219 game
yesterday in the Koffee Klub
League. The first year bowlerk
excellent game was 101 pins
over her average and entitles
her to a century award.
Other leading bowlers were:
Jimmy Norris 215 and a 515
series, Mary Harrison 513, Kay
Pursley 190, Agnes
Deßenedittis 180, Bonnie
Rounds 183, Norma Head 179,
Mary Harrison 178, Kaye
Maddox 173, Edie Barry 171,
Fab Manning 170, Peggy Whited
167, Mary Johnson 164, Laura
Doster 164, Martha Robinson
161.
Cream and Sugar is in first
place with 15Ms wins and 4%
losses.
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FRA's Holcombe
announces lineup
Coach Al Holcombe of Flint
River Academy today an
nounced his starting lineup for
Friday’s big game against
Barnesville Academy.
It will be FRA’s first home
game and will begin at 8 p.m.
Barnesville has a 4-0 record
and FRA is 3-2 going into the
first game ever between the two
private schools.
Although Barnesville is un
beaten in four starts and FRA is
Pearson
are adding up for him
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (UPI) -
David Pearson is just a little
superstitious about numbers but
he figures things are adding up
right for his run at the National
500 stock car race first prize.
The defending National 500
champion Wednesday won the
pole position for Sunday’s race
with a run of 161.701 mph in his
Woods Brothers’ Mercury at
the Charlotte Motor Speedway
and feels that the number 13
may have helped.
“I always hope that I get
credentials that add up to 13,”
he said. “I’ve won races with
that combination before.”
For the 500, he both his
credentials card and a garage
pass had numbers that, added
together, equal 13. One was
numbered 247 and the other 166.
“I might win the pole and the
race both now,” he said.
Dave Marcis, who won his
first NASCAR victory in the
Old Dominion 500 at Martinsvil
le, Va., Sunday, was second
fastest of 12 qualifiers Wednes
day at 159.607 in a Dodge.
Positions 13 through 24 are up
for grabs in qualifying this
afternoon.
“The car was handling real
good,” Pearson said. “The
reason we didn’t practice too
much was simple. Leonard
(Wood) didn’t want me to use
up the engine. We weren’t sure
how long it would last so we
didn’t run it too much.”
Pearson, Marcis and Darrell
Waltrip, the fourth fastest
qualifier, all used special
qualifying engines, which offer
greater speed but are built to
last only a few laps.
Pearson said this was the
first time the Wood Brothers
had ever used a special engine,
but decided it was worth the
extra cost because of the
record purse of $10,400 that
went to the top qualifier.
A.J. Foyt, former Indianapo
lis 500 champion, was third
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in its first year of football, the
game is expected to be very
close. FRA is off to a very good
start for a first year team,
winning three of five games on
the road.
Coach Holcombe will go with
Bill Wilkinson at quarterback,
Sammy Bullock at halfback,
Mike Wesley at fullback and C.
L. Douthard at tailback.
The offensive line has Jim
Keith and Bud Davis at end;
thinks things
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Rick Chambers and Tim Olson
at tackle; Ray Twitty and
Robert Maddox at guard and
Clements Barnes at center.
The defensive team has Keith
and Davis at end; Olson and
Steve Jones at tackle; Bullock
and Wesley at linebacker;
Robert Smith at middle
linebacker; Twitty at nose
guard and Jimmy Rexrode,
Douthard and Cooper Tisdale in
the secondary.
laps, was the best qualifying
run since Cale Yarborough ran
the track at 162.162 in 1969. But
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carburetor restrictor plates.
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Dr. W. L. Giles
State’s probation
triggered resignation
STARKVILLE, Miss. (UPI)
— Dr. William L. Giles
confirmed Wednesday that a
two-year probation levied
against Mssissippi State Uni
versity by the NCAA was a
major factor in his decision to
step down as president of the
Southeastern Conference.
The SEC commissioner’s of
fice in Birmingham, Ala.,
announced earlier in the day
that the MSU president had
resigned as head of the
conference, citing personal con
victions as his reason.
Giles made his request in a
letter to the conference execu
tive committee dated Sept. 18
and the resignation was accept
ed at the regular SEC executive
committee meeting.
“In view of the fact that the
institution (Mississippi State)
was placed on probation by the
NCAA, I had the feeling there
might be some possibility that
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some might think we did not
take seriously the regulations
under which we operate in both
the SEC and the NCAA,” Giles
said later in a prepared
statement.
“I do regard these as being
serious regulations,” he added,
“and regard them to be the
regulations under which we
should operate. I further felt it
might be a reflection on the
SEC if I continued to serve as
president when Mississippi
State University was on proba
tion.”
The university was placed on
a two-year probation by the
NCAA Sept. 17 for football
recruiting violations.
Dr. Fred C. Davison, presi
dent of the University of
Georgia and SEC vice presi
dent, will succeed Giles in the
conference post. Giles was
elected in March of 1974 and
was to have served until the
next regular election in March
of 1976.