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College picks
Oklahoma’s back, but Texas’ Royal isn’t
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - This was
a year ago in Dallas, just after
the annual Oklahoma Texas Red
River rowdyism. After winning
five consecutive games in the
series, Oklahoma had to settle
for a 6-6 tie, prompting one of
the Sooners’ coaches to form a
“T” with his hands and say:
“Tell Darrell we’re just calling
time out. We’ll be back next
year.”
Well, next year is here, but
Darrell Royal isn’t. At least he
isn’t on the sidelines, having
turned the Texas coaching
chores over to Fred Akers and
retired from the hot seat to a
somewhat cooler chair in the
athletic director’s office.
An Old South tradition
Deer hunting with dogs on way out
By BILL BAAB
The Augusta Chronicle
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) - Hunt
ing deer with a pack of hounds is
an Old South tradition that
dates back to the glorious plan
tation days when cotton was
king.
The tradition is being carried
out today, and there is nothing
quite so stirring as a pack of
hounds in full cry.
But deer hunting with dog
may be on the way out in Geor
gia because some hunters are
abusing the sport via Citizens
Band radio.
Jefferson County, for ex
ample, has outlawed the use of
dogs on deer hunts because of
several confrontations between
landowners and hunters.
More than 300 landowners
sent a petition to the Board of
Natural Resources earlier this
year urging that the agency
support their move to outlaw
dog drives for deer. It did.
C. H. Cofer of Louisville, one
of the landowners and a leader
in the fight to stop dog hunting
for deer, said the main reason
was that “out-of-county hunters
from the Augusta and Atlanta
areas have no respect for any
thing or anyone.”
Last deer season, Cofer was
driving down a public road ad
jacent to his property and saw a
pack of hounds cross his land.
Presently, another vehicle
pulled up with three persons in
side.
Bass fishing will never be same
as last year at West Point Lake
By CHARLES SALTER
The Atlanta Journal
WEST POINT, Ga. (AP) — A bass fisherman phoned a
biologist at Auburn University to ask about fishing at West
Point Lake. \
“When will it be real good? When will I start catching a
lot of bass?*’ he asked.
“Last year,” replied the biologist. “It’ll never again be
as good as it was last year.”
It’s sad but true. The bass population in the 26,000-acre
reservoir that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers im
pounded early in 1975 certainly is in trouble.
Fishermen had believed the accepted theory that this
new lake on the Chattahoochee River on the Georgia-
Alabama line would be hotter than a pistol for perhaps
seven years, then fishing would level off and the reservoir
would begin a sort of decline after 10 years.
But the very productive bass fishing didn’t make it to
the third year.
What happened will shock fishermen and maybe even
the biologists.
The fishermen have caught far more bass than an
ticipated — and die lake is short on bass today.
Bill Davies and Bill Shelton, both of Auburn, are among
biologists participating in a joint Georgia, Alabama and
federal study of the lake.
They tagged bass of various ages and have done studies
all over the reservoir.
Few predators were in the lake to gobble up the bass
that hatched in the spring and early summer of 1975, the
spawn was excellent and a high percentage of the fish
survived —for a while.
The spawn was not quite as good in 1976 and was
described as normal this year.
The 1975 class made fine meals of threadfin shad and,
by the spring of 1976, many measured 12 inches and
weighed up to one and three-quarters pounds.
Then the intense fishing pressure began to take its toll.
“We understand what is happening,” said Davies. “The
bass are being caught at a rate that we feel is extremely
high.”
The two biologists have concluded that fishermen have
Akers has made some
changes, and it’s no longer the
War of the Wishbones.
“What they’re doing now is
lining up in multiple offensive
formations and trying to make
the big play by throwing the
football a lot more,” says Okla
homa’s Barry Switzer. “They
line up in a lot of different
things.”
Oklahoma doesn’t. The Soon
ers stick to the Wishbone and
they usually stick it to the op
position. Quarterback Thomas
Lott, who makes them go, got
his first starting assignment in
last year’s Texas game. A
scared sophomore, he now is a
juiced-up junior.
And for that reason, even
though Texas has beaten three
“I asked them not to hunt
deer on my property whereupon
they invited me to get out of my
truck so that they could whip
me,” said the 72-year-old man.
“Some of these hunters, using
CB radios to signal to each other
when the dogs are closing in on
the deer, have retaliated
The outdoorsman
against some of us landowners
who have threatened to put a
stop to such hunting,” Cofer
said.
“A cow was shot and killed in
my pasture. It was about to give
birth to a calf. They partly
butchered the cow and flung the
calf’s fetus out into the pas
ture,” Cofer said. “One of my
neighbors had two of his cows
killed — shot by high-powered
rifle — and another had the
same problem.”
Finally, Cofer and other land
owners decided enough was
enough. “This has been going on
for the last four or five years,”
he said. Last year, the Jefferson
landowners petitioned the
Board of Natural Resources to
stop such hunting, “but the
Atlanta-Marietta crowd got
wind of it and had it put down,
politically speaking,” Cofer
said.
nobodies by a combined total
score of 184-15, the pick here is
... Oklahoma 34-24.
week’s score, the poorest
of the season, was 51 right, 24
wrong and one tie for a .680
percentage, making the season
count 211-75-5—.738.
Alabama at Southern Califor
nia: This game was scheduled
about a decade ago, probably
when Bear Bryant and John
McKay were on a golf course
somewhere. Alabama probably
could beat McKay’s Tampa Bay
Bucs, but it will be a different
story against ... Southern
California 30-17.
Pitt at Florida: The Panthers
expect to have quarterback
Matt Cavanaugh ready. Cav
anaugh broke a bone in his arm
“But we sent back the same
petition this year and it was ap
proved,” he added.
A Department of Natural Re
sources spokesman said that
landowners in counties adjacent
to Jefferson and in other parts
of the state also have filed
complaints.
“Mostly, it’s been a case of
pickup trucks traveling at high
rates of speed along public
roads, endangering pedestrians
and livestock,” the spokesman
said.
“We receive scores of com
plaints about cut fences, hunt
ers driving their trucks through
standing grain crops, hunting in
some areas going for five or six
days in a row, deer being shot
from public roads, doe deer
being shot illegally, hunters
being profane and threatening
bodily harm to objecting land
owners — the list goes on and
on,” he added.
Jefferson County Con
servation Ranger Bernard Ar
thur said he would make cases
against anyone hunting deer be
hind packs of dogs, even if
packs cross into Jefferson from
an adjacent county where dog
drives are still legal.
taken at least 30 per cent, and maybe 60 per cent, of the
bass.
The class of 1975 has virtually vanished.
“We can’t account for those fish not being present,”
said Davies. “It’s unreasonable to assume that high a rate
of natural mortality. We know from farm pond studies
that natural mortality does not exceed 30 per cent a year.”
He speculated that the same percentage would apply in
a big impoundment.
That means fishermen caught 50 to 70 per cent of the
bass in less than two years.
“This could not have happened 10 years ago,” said
Davies, recalling that only a small percentage of bass
fishermen could find the fish and then outwit them with
artificial lures or natural bait on a hook.
He observed that bass fishermen today are equipped
with the latest scientific gadgets to locate good fish
habitat and the fish themselves. They also are far more
knowledgeable about bass habits and behavior, and are
stimulated by local and national bass tournaments.
In addition, the fishermen seeking crappie with min
nows have taken a large number of young bass from West
Point Lake.
“A bass is not hard to catch if you know where they
are,” said Davies, adding that patient fishermen sit for
hours in suitable habitat waiting for the bass to begin
feeding or to return home.
“The 1976 year class of bass is now supporting the bass
fishery in West Point,” he said. “The bass that are being
caught now hatched in the spring of 1976.”
The biologists believe West Point Lake offers “a real
good opportunity” to manage the fishery in a major
reservoir that is under very high fishing pressure.
They declined to discuss in any detail any possible
proposals for changes in fishing regulations, but admitted
that a new minimum size limit might be worth con
sidering.
Georgia has a 12-inch minimum limit for largemouth
bass. There is no minimum limit in Alabama.
“There are going to have to be some regulations to
restrict the harvest of bass,” Davies said.
during an opening-game loss to
Notre Dame and resumed
workouts last week. It’s Flori
da’s home opener and the Ga
tors will be snapping after being
embarrassed by LSU last week.
Besides, Florida Field can be a
snake ... Pitt 28-17.
Michigan at Michigan State:
Bo Schembechler wasn’t pass
ing out any I-told-you-so’s after
Michigan routed Texas A&M 41-
3 last week because what he told
everyone about how good the
Aggies were didn’t jibe with the
outcome. The only peep out of
Bo this week concerns his
secondary. “It hasn’t been test
ed like it’ll be tested Saturday,"
he says. Sure, 80, but you have
a credibility gap in this comer
... Michigan 35-7.
Some of the counties where
dog hunting is still allowed in
clude Burke, Emanuel, Jenkins,
Screven and Washington, where
the season runs from Oct. 15
through Jan. 2.
Meanwhile, the Department
of Natural Resources is seeking
to combat such “slob hunting”
through hunter education clin
ics being held throughout the
state.
Robert S. “Bob” Baker, chief
of the DNR’s education section,
said that mandatory hunter
education may be a part of
Georgia’s near future.
“Some Georgia legislators
are showing an interest and
some have gone so far as to
draw up bills requiring such
education before one can buy a
hunting license,” Baker said.
“The bills would affect only
those 16 years of age or under,”
he added.
But Baker’s agency would be
ill-equipped to handle such a
requirement should it become
law because, according to Bak
er, “some 75,000 Georgia
youngsters fall into the affected
category.”
So the state is conducting
hunter education instructor’s
clinics to try to build a force of
individuals — both men and
women — qualified to pass on
their knowledge to those who
need it.
While the main theme of the
course is hunter safety (60 per
cent of the hunting mishaps in
Purdue at Ohio State: A long
Ohio Stadium day for Mark
Herrmann, Purdue’s sensation
al freshman passer ... Ohio
State 35-7.
Oklahoma State at Colorado:
No more non-league patsies for
the Buffs. It’s Big Eight play the
rest of the way ... Colorado 28-
14.
Nebraska at Kansas State: “I
think this is the best Kansas
State team I’ve seen in several
years,” says Nebraska’s Tom
Osborne. “They seem to play
better in Manhattan and we’re
gonna prepare just like we were
playing Oklahoma or anyone
else.” That’s bad news for
Kansas State and good news for
... Nebraska 27-13.
Brigham Young at Oregon
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the state each year are caused
by hunters in the 10-to-19 age
group), “we’re also getting into
the ethics of hunting and trying
to discredit the actions of those
we call ‘slob hunters’,” Baker
said. “Hunter responsibility
and wildlife management also
are included.”
Baker sees the school system
as the vehicle carrying ultimate
solution to reaching youngsters.
“If every school in the state
would offer one class a year to
every sixth or seventh grade
student, we'd soon have them
all trained,” he said.
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State: After Gifford Nielsen
threw six touchdown passes
against Utah State, people won
dered what he would do for an
encore. What he did was throw
five against New Mexico. Ob
viously, that means only four
this week... Brigham Young 38-
17.
California at Washington
State: It’s about time for Jack
Thompson, Washington State’s
“Throwin’ Samoan,” to start
throwin’ again. Upset Special of
the Week ... Washington State
24-19.
Mississippi State at Ken
tucky: Would you believe Ken
tucky in the Sugar Bowl? The
Wildcats begin Southeastern
Conference play this week fresh
from a 24-20 upset of Penn State
and the SEC champ goes to New
Orleans. But a hunch here says
... Mississippi State 21-14.
Louisiana State at Van
derbilt: The Bayou Bengals
haven’t won outside Louisiana
in 12 games dating back to 1973
and a 51-14 rout of Ole Miss in
Jackson. Up-and-down Vandy
gave Oklahoma a hard time,
then barely squeaked past
Wake Forest, played Alabama
tough, then was clobbered by
Tulane. Go figure it... LSU 27-
20. .
Illinois at Wisconsin: “I never
thought we would ever be 1-3,
but we are,” Illinois’ Gary
Moeller said following last
week’s loss to Syracuse. How
about 14, Gary? Except that
Wisconsin may be looking
ahead to Michigan, so let’s try
this as the second Upset Special
... Illinois 26-22.
Dartmouth at Yale: Where
there’s a second Upset Special,
can a third be far behind ...
Dartmouth 13-10.
East — Penn State 42, Utah
State 0; Army 30, Villanova 17;
Boston College 34, Tulane 20;
Rutgers 44, Connecticut 6; Har
vard 28, Cornell 21; Delaware
17, The Citadel 13; Colgate 30,
—Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 6, 1977
Holy Cross 10; Navy 24, Air
Force 16; Brown 21, Penn 7;
Princeton 16, Columbia 12;
West Virginia 34, Temple 14.
South — Auburn 20, North
Carolina State 15; Clemson 37,
Virginia 14; East Carolina 33,
Southern Illinois 6; Appala
chian State 34, East Tennessee
State 22; Florida State 27, Cin
cinnati 17; Georgia 20, Mis
sissippi 12; Louisiana Tech 24,
Southwestern Louisiana 17;
Louisville 23, Tulsa 13; Mary
land 28, Syracuse 14; Miami,
Fla. 24, Kansas 21; North
western Louisiana 27, Nicholls
State 20; North Carolina 24,
Wake Forest 10; Northeast
Louisiana 21, Fullerton State
20; South Carolina 20, Duke 14;
North Texas State 28, Southern
Mississippi 14; Southern U. 27,
Bishop 7; Tennessee 28, Georgia
Tech 14; Grambling State 35,
Tennessee State 28; VMI 22,
Richmond 20; Tennessee-Chat
tanooga 24, Western Carolina
21; William & Mary 21, Virginia
Tech 18; Furman 27, Wofford 7.
RACES
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Sat. 9 Oct. 8
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• Limited Sportsman
• A & B Cadet
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3 miles west of Senoia on Hwy. 16.
Midwest — Ball State 30, Il
linois State 15; Bowling Green
33, Toledo 21; Dr’e 17, Indiana
State 16; Eastern Michigan 21,
Ohio U. 14; Minnesota 28, lowa
14; Missouri 24, lowa State 20;
Miami, O. 31, Marshall 14; Cen
tral Michigan 38, Northern Il
linois 14; Indiana 25, North
western 13; Western Michigan
22, Kent State 21.
Southwest — Jackson State
25, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 14;
Baylor 27, Southern Methodist
17; Arkansas State 20, Lamar 8;
Texas Christian 3, Rice 2;
McNeese State 17, Texas-Ar
lington 14; Texas Southern 20,
Alcorn State 13.
Far West — Texas Tech 24,
Arizona 14; Idaho 28, Idaho
State 26; Arizona State 32, New
Mexico 20; New Mexico State
26, West Texas State 17; Wash
ington 30, Oregon 20; Hawaii 23,
Pacific 13; San Jose State 14,
Santa Clara 12; UCLA 28,
Stanford 24; Colorado State 27,
Texas-El Paso 17; Wyoming 34,
Utah 21.