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’Dogs hope to beat
Florida secondary
F.T. MACFEELY
Associated Press Writer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)
Georgia Coach Vince Dooley is
aware of Florida’s crippled sec
ondary defense but doesn’t
know if his team’s offense is
good enough to exploit it when
the two Southeastern Confer
ence football rivals meet in the
Gator Bowl Saturday.
As always, the game is a 70,-
000 sellout. It also is the first
half of a nationally televised
doubleheader with the kickoff at
12:50 p.m. EST.
“It’s no secret they’re having
trouble in the defensive secon
dary,” Dooley said, “but we’re
last in the Southeastern Confer
ence in passing so I don’t know
if we can take advantage of it.”
Georgia has upset Florida two
straight years with the SEC title
at stake. Neither is a contender
this year, coming here with 2-2
league records. Georgia is 5-3
on the season and Florida is 3-2-
1 after being upset by Auburn
last week.
The game, rated a tossup,
probably hinges on Florida’s
hot-and-cold speedy offense and
Georgia’s iron-tough
’’Junkyard Dogs” defense led
by seniior linebacker Ben
Zambiasi.
N. Clayton
protest
denied
THOMASTON, Ga. (AP) -
The case of alleged illegal uni
forms worn by Newnan High
School in its 14-10 football victo
ry over North Clayton Oct. 21
has been resolved.
Bill Fordham, executive sec
retary of the Georgia High
School Association, said
Wednesday that the protest by
North Clayton has been denied.
He said he also received a
supporting opinion from the Na
tional Federation of State High
School Associations in Chicago.
North Clayton Coach Bill
Clepper had filed the protest,
calling the Newnan jerseys
“ball-colored” and without con
trasting stripes, which would
have made them illegal.
“I asked them (the national
federation) for a second opinion
and they gave it," said Ford
ham. “I wanted another view
point and they disallowed the
protest.”
If the protest had been up
held, Newnan would have for
feited a chance for a region
6AAA playoff berth to North
Clayton. Newnan can now
clinch a playoff berth by win
ning one of its two remaining
games.
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Florida Coach Doug Dickey,
dissatisfied with fullback play
by Willie Wilder and Joe Por
tale, may inject sophomore
Tony Robinson, who was slated
for a redshirt year.
Georgia’s Kevin McLee and
Florida’s Tony Green, both al
ready career record-setting
runners for their schools, will be
the principal ball carriers from
the Bulldogs’ veer offense and
the Gators’ combined wishbone
and I formations.
Senior Terry LeCount will
quarterback Florida and soph
omore Jeff Pybum is expected
to lead Georgia offense. Neither
has been consistent and both
teams have been plagued by
fumbles.
Florida receiver Wes Chan
dler, who doubles as running
back, is due for a big game if
LeCount gets enough time to
throw and is on target.
Barfield
ignores
controversy
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Au
burn Coach Doug Barfield, the
center of an off-the-field con
troversy, leads his Tigers into a
homecoming battle Saturday
against Southeastern Confer
ence foe Mississippi State.
The Tigers, while 4-4 overall
for the season, boast an un
blemished 3-0 conference
record. The Bulldogs, mean
while, are 3-5 for the season, a
record Barfield says is de
captive.
“Mississippi State has the
same problems we’ve had—in
juries and turnovers,” says the
second-year Tiger coach. “But
they have plenty of speed and
are physically stronger than
last year.”
Auburn is coming off an
impressive 29-14 upset of
Florida last weekend, a win that
silenced a number of Barfield
critics who had been disap
pointed with the Tigers per
formance this season.
The rumblings of discontent
prompted other calls for sup
port of Barfield, who with last
weekend’s win matched the
number of victories recorded
jingle legendary Shug Jordan in
his first two years at the Auburn
helm.
Barfield has ignored the con
troversy as much as possible,
preferring to concentrate on
Mississippi State.
“My job is to coach the foot
ball team and prepare them to
play Mississippi State,” Bar
field said this week. “I hope our
players and coaches will turn
their minds to Mississippi State
and forget everything else.”
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Waiting for rain to end
Dixie 500 drivers, mechanics
discuss rule changes for 1978
By JERRY GARRETT
AP Motorsports Writer
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) -
Waiting around for the rain to
end Thursday — it didn’t —
gave drivers and mechanics
here for Sunday’s Dixie 500
stock car race much time to
express their opinions about the
recently announced rule
changes for 1978.
Almost everyone had some
opinion, and something to say.
Chevrolet owners appeared to
be united against the new rules,
and the Ford and Chrysler
product users were strongly
supportive. That was not sur
prising.
The rules outlaw the aerody
namic slope noses on Chevrolet
Lagunas, and mandate reloca
tion of the engine in Chevrolet
Monte Carlos, which come from
the factory with the engine one
inch farther back than most
cars. It makes a big difference
in weight distribution and han
dling in a race car. They also
put on a carburetor restrictor
plate.
“Now they tell us to do some
thing that isn’t standard on the
car. Doesn’t make much sense,
does it?,’’ complained Buddy
Parrott, crew chief of Darrell
Waltrip’s Chevrolet. “You
know, you start moving drive
shafts back and forth it’s going
to cost those independent
Chevrolet drivers a bunch of
money.
“We have an operation that
can stand the cost, but it sure is
going to be hard on the little
guy-”
Waltrip and many of the
frontrunning Chevrolet drivers
have had to field both Lagunas
LSU may use
flying wedge
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -
Will Louisiana State use the fly
ing wedge or the old Statue of
Liberty play? Surely there’s a
way to beat Alabama.
Coach Charlie McClendon has
been working on something all
week practicing his Tigers in
secret for the nationally tele
vised home game with the No 2
team in the nation.
Has he found the secret?
Sure, says McClendon. Just
don’t let Alabama have the
football.
McClendon won’t say what
new wrinkles he’s tried in an
effort to upset the heavily fa
vored Tide but acknowledges
the Tigers will have to gamble.
“You don’t have to gamble
when you're ranked No. 2,” he
sighed.
The Tiger defense, also
known as the “kiddie corps,”
has too many freshmen for
McClendon’s liking and he’s de
pending on the offense for ball
and Monte Carlos to be com
petitive everywhere on the cir
cuit. This rule change hopefully
is going to eliminate the need
for the extra $30,000 car.
“I don’t really know what the
change will do, but I like it. Any
help we can get we’ll take,” said
Bud Moore, who turns the
wrenches on Buddy Baker’s
Ford. “We’ll have to do a little
testing and see what happens.”
Richard Petty, who races a
Dodge, had a similar view.
“Any way we can get some re
lief, we’ll take it,” he said.
The six-time Grand National
champion added, “They
couldn’t give Ford and Chrysler
anything to step them up, so
they just slowed the Chevys
down.”
Petty, if he sticks with Dodge
as expected, has a choice of the
“international size” Diplomat
or the slant-front Magnum.
“I can see them taking away
the slope nose for the Chevro
lets, but I can’t see them doing
it and then letting Petty run the
Magnum. It has a slope nose,”
said Jake Elder, chief mechanic
for Benny Parsons’ Chevrolet
operation. “We’ve been running
the slope nose and all of a sud
den we have to give it up.
“But no need raising a ruckus
about it. If you’re going to run
NASCAR you have to run
NASCAR rules. It’s that sim
ple.’ ’
NASCAR inspector Bill Gaza
way agreed. “Any time we
change a rule or add a new one,
someone isn’t going to like it.
We did what we feel like was in
the best interest of racing,” he
said.
“You don’t think we would
make a rule change that would
control.
Quarterback Steve Ensmin
ger, a sophomore, apparently
will have to go to the air again,
fearful that the Tide will key on
running back Charlie Alexan
der, the Southeastern Confer
ence’s leading rusher and No. 3
rusher in the nation.
Mississippi stopped Alexan
der last week and the Tigers
pulled out a narrow victory be
cause of Ensminger’s passing
game.
LSU traditionally has liked to
keep the ball on the ground.
“Charlie Mac always has
something new,” drawled Ala
bama’s Coach Bear Bryant,
who coached McClendon at
Kentucky and then tutored him
as an assistant. “But we have
some offenses and defenses we
haven’t shown yet, too.”
Not that he’s needed to show
anything new.
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Raceway. Time trials which were supposed to have run
Thursday were postponed until today due to the rain. (AP)
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It’s party weekend
in Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)
— Fans opened one of Jackson
ville’s biggest social weekends
with hundreds of parties today
— the usual preliminary to Sat
urday’s Georgia-Florida foot
ball game.
The game used to be known as
the world’s largest outdoor
cocktail party, but liquor and
coolers are banned from the
stadium now. Guards at the
Gator Bowl gates take away
coolers and alcoholic beverages
from any of the 70,000 specta
tors who attempt to bring them
into the stadium. They are re
turned them after the game.
But that only accelerates the
parties before and after the
Saturday event that is a high
light of the Jacksonville social
season every year.
Restaurants generally have
ordered double the usual week
end provisions and squeezed in
a few extra tables, if possible.
Hotels and motels in the im
mediate Jacksonville area have
been booked full for months.
Some have the same people
year after year, making their
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reservations a year ahead
each time they attend.
A good many Georgians are
partying for the weekend at the
sea islands off Brunswick, 75
miles north of here. They will
either drive down or have a
chartered bus bring a group
down Saturday morning for the
game and return in the after
noon.
Festivities in Jacksonville’s
downtown Hemming Park have
been under way since Tuesday.
Tumblers, bands and other en
tertainers from high schools
and junior highs perform from
11 a.m. daily through Friday.
The Greater Jacksonville
Chamber of Commerce esti
mates the game has an annual
economic impact of $1.6 million.
That doesn’t include the $700,000
ticket receipts, split between
the two competing universities.
Even with the earlier kickoff
this year, 12:50 p.m. EST be
cause it is the first half of a
nationally televised double
header, tailgate brunches are
sure to abound in the Gator
Bowl complex parking lots.