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— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 28, 1975
Page 10
State quarter-finals
Griffin vs. Lakeside tonight
The Griffin Bears play the
Lakeside Vikings tonight at 7:30
at Memorial Stadium in DeKalb
County in the quarter-finals of
the State Triple-A playoffs.
It is the third meeting in four
years for the two football
powers.
Lakeside won in 1972 and
again in 1974.
The Vikings nipped the Bears
14-3 in the first battle and edged
Griffin 36-35 in a tremendous
game here last year.
Griffin’s 6-AAA championship
and Lakeside’s Region 8-AAA
title set up the third meeting
Hoople picks
Griffin, 22-21
By MAJOR AMOS B. HOOPLE
Football Expert
Egads, friendly football
followers.
We had a sneaking feeling
Griffin would play Lakeside in
the quarter-finals of the State
Triple-A football tournament.
Why not?
The Bears and Vikings are
dominating forces in their
respective regions. They have
played each other two of the last
three years.
It’s tradition for coaches Max
Dowis and Waymon Creel to
send their teams into state
championship competition.
Knowing Griffin would play
Lakeside, my spies started
gathering data on the Vikings at
mid-season.
We studied volumes of in
formation before making a
prediction for the Griffin-
Lakeside classic.
First, we agree with coaches
Dowis and Creel that the game
should be a barn-burner. That’s
the kind Griffin and Lakeside
play.
Fans recall the 14-8 and 36-35
games of 1972 and 1974.
Second, Lakeside is playing
on its home field. Despite that,
the odds favor Griffin. Lakeside
won the first two games. Now
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between the two squads.
Coaches Max Dowis of Griffin
and Waymon Creel of Lakeside
are predicting another classic
battle.
Griffin and Lakeside are
similar in several ways.
Griffin is primarily a running
team that can pass. Lakeside
also depends heavily on its
running game. However, the
Vikings are a good passing
team and depend on the air
game for big plays.
Both teams feature solid,
aggressive defensive units.
Griffin has allowed only one
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its Griffin’s time. The odds are
against the Vikings winning
three in a row.
Third, while both teams have
good defensive teams, fans can
expect a fair amount of scoring
— more than 14-8 but less than
36-35.
Griffin’s offensive line peaked
last Friday at Newnan,
dominating the Cougars in the
Bears’ 21-0 victory.
Squires
NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) - Bill
Musselman, new coach of the
ABA Virginia Squires, is
wondering whether anyone on
his basketball team can play
defense.
“If I can find somebody who
wahts to play defense, I’ll play
him the whole 48 minutes,”
Musselman said. “Right now
nobody’s playing defense.”
The Squires take their 3-14
record against the Nets in New
York tonight.
Musselman, who was named
head coach last week after the
Squires received sufficient
funds to complete the season,
promptly won two games. Since
then however, Virginia has lost
two in a row, the latest, 141-122
to San Antonio Wednesday
night.
touchdown in its last four
games.
That stingy defense features
ends Carl Imes and Greg
Foster, tackles Lee Lipscomb
and Danny Coker, noseman
Randolph Vaughn, linebackers
Ronnie Bass, Tony Scott and
Kenny Ellison and backs Ken
Reid, George Flynt, Charles
Williams and Gary Hall.
Griffin’s offensive line has
paved the way to 219 points in 11
games. It reached a new peaked
last Friday when it dominated
Newnan in Griffin’s 21-0 victory
in the 6-AAA championship
My crystal ball shows Grif
fin’s offensive and defensive
linemen picking tonight right
where they left off last Friday.
If it happens, then Griffin will
advance to the state semi
finals.
There is one other factor.
Griffin didn’t reveal its
passing attack last Friday.
After building a comfortable
lead, Coach Dowis played it
cozy. He didn’t use the air
game. The Bears will use it to
surprise the Vikings.
My spies inform me that
Lakeside has a good passing
game and rely on it for the big
play. The Bears had better
beware of it.
After taking everything into
consideration, I predict a
victory for Grilffin.
The Bears will win the hard
fought game, 22-1.
Tech, Ga.
stats
ATLANTA (UPI) — Statistic* of the
Georgia Georgia Tech tootball game:
Oa Tech
First downs 29 11
Rushes yards 78-431 39 231
Passing yards 80 75
Return yards 17 39
Passes 510-1 251
Punts 2 28 4 31.5
Fumbleslost 3-2 4-3
Penaltlesyards 6-42 2-20
Georgia 721 14 8—42
Georgia Tech 8 0 0 24—24
Geo—Goff 1 run (Leavitt kick)
Geo—Harrison 78 run (Leavitt kick)
Geo—Craft 20 fumble return (Levitt
kick)
Geo—Pollard 1 run (Leavitt kick)
Geo—Wilson 13 pass from Goff (Leavitt
kick)
Geo—Pollard 3 run (Leavitt kick)
Tech—Allen 1 run (pass failed)
Tech—lvery 11 run (pass failed)
Tech—Allen 2 run (HUI run)
Tech—Allen 13 run (run failed)
A—55,135.
game.
The offensive linemen are
tightend Kenny Ellison, split
end Kenneth Harps or Gary
Hall, tackles Robin Callahan
and Jeff Hunt, guards Tom
Fetzer, Tom Hobbs and Wynn
Harris and center Watson
McDonald.
The exploits of Griffin’s back
field are well-known.
The Bears operate from a
Southern Cal-type offense that
features the running of tail
backs Keith “Frunie” Mathis,
who gained over 1,000 in regular
season, and his sub, Joe Bogan,
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Griffin’s Tony Head (48), fullback in Georgia Tech’s wishbone, is knocked down by the
Georgia defense after a short gain. Georgia defeated Tech 42-26 in the annual classic.
Bulldogs rip
Tech, 42-26
ByDAVIDMOFFIT
Georgia’s “Junkyard Dogs”
defense will be taking a vastly
improved image to the Cotton
Bowl.
Maligned at times this season
when it had trouble containing
opponents, the Georgia defense
was outstanding for nearly
three quarters Thursday night
while spearheading the 14th
ranked Bulldogs to a nationally
televised 42-26 victory over
Georgia Tech.
Tech’s 26 points came in the
final period after Georgia had
built a 42-point lead and when
Coach Vince Dooley was letting
his reserves mop up.
The regular Georgia defense
recovered three fumbles, inter
cepted a pass and blocked a
punt in the first half while
sparking the Bulldogs to a 28-0
lead.
“Everything went our way
and we took advantage of it,”
said Dooley. “I don’t know how
you can play much better.”
Georgia’s victory highlighted
a light Thanksgiving college
schedule that included Temple’s
41-3 rout of Villanova and C.W.
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Second-ranked Texas A&M
meets fifth-ranked Texas today
and 16th-ranked UCLA meets
Southern Cal tonight.
If Texas wins, the Longhorns
would get the Southwest Confer
ence championship and the
Cotton Bowl berth opposite
Georgia. If the Aggies win, they
still must beat 17th-ranked
Arkansas next week to win the
title and the bowl bid.
If UCLA wins tonight, it will
represent the Pac-8 in the Rose
Bowl opposite top-ranked Ohio
State. If Southern Cal wins, the
league title and Rose Bowl
berth go to California.
Saturday’s top game pairs
eighth-ranked Arizona State
against lltb-ranked Arizona for
the Western Athletic Confer
ence crown and a Fiesta Bowl
date with Nebraska. Also on
Saturday’s schedule there’s
traditional rivalries Army-
Navy, Alabama-Auburn,
Tennessee-Vanderbilt, Florida-
Miami and Rutgers-Syracuse.
Georgia, 9-2, scored in the
opening minutes Thursday
night after intercepting a pass
on the opening play of the
game. But the Bulldogs actual
ly broke the game open in the
second period when they scored
21 points.
In that period, Glynn Har
rison, who ran for 139 yards
although playing less than 20
minutes, had a 78-yard touch
down run; Lawrence Craft
scored on a 20-yard fumble
return; and the Bulldogs
punched in a third touchdown
after blocking a Tech punt.
“As far as I am concerned,
the turning point came when
we fumbled right after (Bucky)
Shamburger had put us in good
position with a 68-yard run,”
said Tech Coach Pepper Rod
gers. “We had taken the
momentum and gave it back.
We gave them the ball four
times in the first half.”
Georgia Tech, 7-4, had only
who has rushed for over 500
yards in a reserve role.
Mathis and Bogan took some
hard licks against Newnan last
Friday and were hobbled some
in practice this week. Coach
Dowis hopes they’ll be 100
percent ready tonight.
Griffin also surprised
Newnan last week by
unleashing fullbacks Kenny
Barrow and Ronnie Bass. Bass,
who is used very sparingly
except as a blocker, scored
Griffin’s first TD in the
championship game. Barrow
rushed for 65 yards on six
three first downs the first three
periods but the Yellow Jackets
put on a belated offensive show
in the final period when they
scored four touchdowns, three
by reserve quarterback Rudy
Allen.
Temple’s Don Bitterlich
kicked two field goals and five
extra points Thursday and, in
the process, set six NCAA
kicking records.
The senior set national
records for most field goals in
a season (21), most points in a
season by kicking (95), most
consecutive extra points (87),
most points per game by a
kicker (7.1), most field goals
per game in a season (1.9), and
most career points by kicking
(220).
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sophomore was extremely
tough.
The Bears kept their passing
game under wraps against
Newnan.
Quarterback Craig Nelms
passed only once. He flipped a
short one to split end Gary Hall,
who turned it into a 31 yard
gain.
Nelms’ favorite target is
tightend Kenny Ellison. That
passing combination has
produced some big plays for
Griffin.
Nelms’ other targets are
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Tech tonight
Southeast Basketball Roundup
By United Press International
Georgia, a darkhorse in the
Southeastern Conference bas
ketball race despite a starting
lineup of two freshmen and
three sophomores, meets
Georgia Tech tonight in one
half of the Southeast’s curtain
raiser for the new season.
The other opener has Louisia
na State meeting CCNY in the
Louisiana Classic at Baton
Rouge, La. California faces
Chicago Loyola in the second
game of the LSU tournament.
Center Lucius Foster, a 6-10
freshman who was scholastical
ly ineligible last year, is the big
reason Georgia is expected to
turn around last season’s 7-18
record.
And Foster has solid help at
forward from 6-7 Jackie Dor
sey, who was second in the SEC
in scoring with a 25.8 average
and third in rebounding with
11.8 per game last year, and 6-5
Charlie Dorsey, also a strong
rebounder. Both are
sophomores. Flashy Tony
Flanagan, a sophomore, and
freshman Walter Daniels are at
the guards.
Georgia lech’s five starters
from last year’s 11-15 team
return, headed by 6-8 center
Jim Wood.
“We’re definitely improved,”
says coach Dwane Morrison of
his Yellow Jackets. “We are
playing with more intelligen
ce.”
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The Griffin quarterback also
ran well against Newnan. He
scored from 32 yards out on an
option play.
Lakeside is a typical Waymon
Creel team. The Vikings are
solid in every phase of the
game.
Quarterback Doug Henderson
is the key to the Vikings’ of
fense.
He is an excellent passer and
will put heavy pressure on
Griffin’s secondary.
Morrison says, however, that
Georgia Tech will be out
manned against Georgia, which
beat the Jackets in both
meetings last year.
Georgia’s Jack Guthrie isn’t
buying that line.
“Don’t let him fool you,”
Guthrie says of Morrison. “He’s
got more talent and a better
club than he leads you to
believe.”
Tennessee, favored by SEC
coaches to win the title, heads
a list of six Southeast teams in
action Saturday night. The Vols
meet little Biscayne College at
Knoxville. Other games have
Florida against Furman, Van
derbilt at lowa State, Mississip
pi meeting Missouri Western,
LSU in the second round of its
tourney, and Memphis State
versus Louisville in a new
Metro Six encounter.
Seven games are on tap for
Monday night, featuring last
year’s SEC co-champs Ken
tucky and Alabama.
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