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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 13,1975
Page 16
Bears resume practice
Line key to success
The Griffin Bears, who will
play Newnan on Nov. 21 for the
Region 6-AAA championship,
returned to the practice field
yesterday after taking a couple
of days off.
The Bears are getting ready
to play the same Cougars, who
beat them 21-20 in regular
season. The loss was one of two
Griffin suffered while posting
an 8-2 record, the best in 6-AAA.
While Griffin is having a week
off, Newnan will be in action in
Thomaston.
Win or lose in Thomaston,
Coach Max Dowis thinks
Tigers prepare
for ‘trick’ plays
AUBURN, Ala. (UPI) -
Auburn Coach Shug Jordan
says the Tigers are preparing
for some ‘‘trick plays” Geor
gia’s Bulldogs could throw into
the game Saturday.
Jordan had the Tigers work
90 minutes in pads Wednesday
with the defense concentrating
on Georgia’s powerful running
attack.
Georgia has been “successful
with some ‘trick plays’ this
year, but they don’t need or
rely on them,” Jordan said.
“However, they do make you
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Newnan will be ready to play a
good, tough game on Nov. 21.
“They beat us before and they
should have confidence with the
championship on the line,” he
said.
Griffin was the victim of poor
field position in the first half of
the Newnan game. That per
mitted the Cougars to build a 21-
0 lead.
Griffin came out in the second
half and almost blew Newnan
off the field, scoring three
touchdowns and barely missing
on a two point conversion that
probably would have won.
spend some time working
against them and you never
know if or when they might hit
you with a bomb.”
Jordan praised the prefor
mances of Bulldog running
backs Glynn Harrison and
Kevin McLee. Jordan said
Georgia also has “a fine
passing attack when they care
to use it.
“Matt Robinson is an out
standing passer and they have
probably the fastest wide
receiver in the SEC in Gene
Washington,” the Tiger coach
said.
The Bears’ offensive and
defensive line sparked the
charge that nearly overtook the
Cougars.
While the defense stalled
Newnan’s attack, the offensive
line took care of the Cougars’
defense.
“Our line has a lot of poten
tial,” Coach Dowis said.
“Our runners couldn’t get out
of the backfield without them.”
The line is largely responsible
for Griffin’s 8-2 record.
The offense made up of Jeff
Hunt and Robin Callahan at
tackle, Tom Hobbs and Tom
Fetzer at guard, Watson
McDonald at center and Kenny
Ellison at tightend helped
Griffin rush and pass for over
3,000 yards and score 29 touch
downs.
Griffin outscored its op
ponents 198-80.
Coach Dowis believes Grif
fin’s down linemen and line
backers were the key to the
Bears’ defense.
Griffin’s opponents averaged
less than 125 yards rushing and
60 passing against the stingy
defense paced by tackles Lee
Lipscomb and Danny Coker,
ends Carl Imes and Greg Foster
and linebackers Ronnie Bass,
Tony Scott and Kenny Ellison.
“We play a team-type
defense,” Coach Dowis said.
“We don’t have many super
stars. We get the job done as a
team. Those down linemen and
linebackers helped keep some
of the pressure off our deep
folks,” he said.
Skaters
advance
ATLANTA (UPI) — Fifteen
women, including four each
from Wilmington, Del., and
Philadelpha, advanced Wednes
day during opening day elimi
nation rounds in the South
Atlantic Regional Figure Skat
ing Championships.
Opening day qualifiers includ
ed Robyn Rock, Leigh Byrne,
Leelee Copeland and Michele
Szimkunan of Wilmington, and
Tricia Fleming, Anita Brooke,
Hollis Archinal and Dorothy
Jamison of Philadelphia.
Two qualifiers, Sandy McGee
and Julie Kubit, were from
Elkins Park, Pa., a suburb of
Philadelphia.
Other qualifiers included
Karen Melzer, Simone Seay and
Valerie Wender of the Atlanta
area; Amy Butterfield of
Charleston, W.Va.; and Stepha
nie Doring of Washington, D.C.
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Brooks Woodruff (1), Reginald Touchstone (c) and Coach
Greg Barrow talk things over as the Griffin Bears get
Girls’ goal
Improve 1 9-1 record
The Griffin High girls open
the 1975-76 basketball season
Talk basketball
here Saturday against Macon
Central. Their goal is to im
prove on a 19-1 record.
“We know it’ll be mighty hard
to accomplish,” Coach Harvey-
Oglesby said this morning “but
we’re going after it”
Griffin’s goal last year was to
have an unbeaten season.
They almost pulled it off. The
girls were 19-0 going into the
final game. Forest Park spoiled
their chances for a perfect
season.
The Griffin girls are building
a fine basketball tradition.
The 1973-74 team won the 6-
AAA championship and reached
the second round of the state
playoffs.
Last year’s team was run
ners-up in 6-AAA and also
participated in the state play
offs.
Coach Oglesby has three
starters and five reserves off
that team.
“I think we’ll have another
good team,” he said. “Our play
should be just as exciting as it
Falcons sign Pitts
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Atlanta Falcons filled a vacant
wide receiver position Wednes
day, signing veteran Frank
Pitts, who has been out of
football this season.
The 6-3, 199-pound Pitts will
Bench
to have
surgery
CINCINNATI (UPI) - Dr.
Donald O’Donoghue, who will
operate on Johnny Bench’s
shoulder Monday says the
Cincinnati catcher will fully
recover and “should have no
problem in being ready for the
start of spring training” in late
February.
The world champion Reds
disclosed late Wednesday that
their 27-year-old slugging star
would undergo surgery on his
left shoulder to repair damage
from an early season collision
at home plate.
“The operation is not consid
ered dangerous,” said a club
official, “especially since it
■does not involve his throwing
arm. It’s to be a technical
operation, but not a serious
one.”
Bench played with pain
through much of the 1975 •
season after colliding with San
Francisco’s Gary Matthews
April 22. That collision jammed
Bench’s shoulder and damaged
the cartilage.
The operation will remove
some cartilage from the
acromio-clavicular joint on the
top of the shoulder and remove
a small section of bone from
the collar bone.
It will be the second
operation in less than three
years for Bench. In December,
1972, Bench underwent lung
surgery for removal of a benign
lesion.
He said just before the World
Series he didn’t intend to play
next season with the same sort
of pain.
ready to open the 1975-71 basketball season here Saturday
night against Macon Central.
was last year.”
Coach Oglesby believes the
new rule change will add excite
ment to girls’ basketball.
Under new rules, girls play
five-on-five, the same as boys.
“I think it’s to our advantage.
We are quick and agile. We will
use our speed in a running
game,” the coach said.
Although Griffin lacks height,
it has the talent and experience
for a running game with five-on
five.
Retha Daniels (forward),
Claire Ann Mankin (guard) and
Laßita Foster (center) were all
starters on last year’s team that
posted the 19-1 record.
In addition, Griffin has five
reserves off that team. They are
Karen Fennell (forward),
Jodye Newbern (guard),
Channel Parks (guard), Lisa
Green (center) and Regina
Mays (guard).
Those five played a lot and
lettered.
Newcomers to the team are
play Sunday against the Los
Angeles Rams.
The Falcons Tuesday had
waived second year wide
receiver Gerald Tinker to make
room for the 11-year veteran
who caught 175 passes and
scored 27 touchdowns while
playing for Kansas City (1965-
70), Cleveland (1971-73), and
Oakland (1974) before being
waived and previously un
claimed this season.
“We’re happy to have
Frank,” said Falcons Coach
Marion Campbell. “He’s been
across the goal line and knows
where it is.”
The Falcons, 2-6, have been
plagued by interceptions and
incomplete passes this season.
Pitts, an Atlanta native, said
he was “happy to be back in
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Tammie Smith (forward),
Tommy Blalock (forward),
Dale Martin (guard), Pam
Daniels (forward), Cindy
Maddox (guard), Lucinda
Crouch (center) and Diane
Dunaway (guard).
Coach Oglesby will carry 15
girls on the team, three deep at
every position.
The coach plans to alternate
players as much as possible.
He hasn’t chosen a starting
lineup for the Macon Central
game. He listed seven players
as possible starters.
The group includes Retha
Daniels, Claire Ann Mankin,
Laßita Foster, Karen Fennell,
Jodye Newbern, Dale Martin
and Tammie Smith.
“We will start five of those
seven,” he said.
The girls game begins at 7
p.m.
Coach Oglesby’s girls will
return to action on Tuesday
when he carries his team to
Zebulon to play Pike County.
pro football and welcomed the
challenge.”
“Coach Campbell put it to me
as a challenge,” Pitts said. “He
said it was up to me to make
the team and that’s the way it
should be. I am going to have
to work hard to do the job.
That’s fine with me.”
Nov. 21st
is
THE DAY!!!