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Tech-Clemson Clash Saturday;
Vandy Turned Back By 42-0
ATLANTA (Special) — Coach
Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech is
not given to throwing superlat
ives around unless they are de
served, and this past week he
pitched a big one. Talking to
reporters at football practice
he declared:
“Jim Breland is the best of
fensive center we’ve ever had
at Georgia Tech. Our All-Ameri
ca centers of years past like
Maxie Baughan, Larry Morris,
Don Stephenson and Paul Duke
earned their rating largely by
their defensive play. Offensively
Breland is better than any of
them were.
“Anything an All-America
center can do, Jim cando,” Dodd
continued, warming up to the sub
ject. “And, for the most part,
he can do it better. He graded
high in every game last year—
didn’t have a single bad one.
He’s been even more effective
this season.’’
Dodd said that Breland should
make everyone’s All-America
team this year and declared “I’ll
be happy to send films of any
Tech game last year or this to
back up what I have said about
Breland. He is truly a great
one.”
Saturday Breland and his Geor
gia Tech Yellow Jacket mates
continued to impress all who saw
them by soundly trouncing what
Coach Jack Green had called
“by far my best Vanderbilt team”
42-0. Lenny Snow ran for two
more touchdowns, QB Kim King
scored once and played what
Coach Dodd said his best game
as a Yellow Jacket, Jimmy Brown
returned a punt 60 yards for
a touchdown and the surprisingly
tough defensive unit just intimi
dated Vandy’s offense, holding the
Commodores to 17 yards rushing
and 139 passing. Bunky Henry
kicked his 27th consecutive extra
point without a miss to break
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his own record of 22 straight.
He now has hit 52 of 54 in two
plus years.
Tech’s next opponent will be
Frank Howard’s high scoring
Clemson Tigers who outlasted
Virginia 40-35 in a wild one Sat
urday. The game will be at
Tech’s Grant Field 2:00 PM EST
and should draw a capacity crowd.
NFL-Leading
Cowboys Meet
Falcons Sun.
Certainly the Atlanta Falcons
don’t have much to shout about in
their coming-out season, but a
fellow who scampered around
Tiger Stadium in Detroit last
Sunday as if he had places to go
and things to do could be salve
for the wounds.
While the Falcons were ab
sorbing their third loss in as
many starts, 28-10 to the Lions,
halfback Junior Coffey was pil
ing up 82 yards rushing in 16
carries and another 58 in pass
receptions. Last year, in his
rookie season in the National
Football League, Coffey found
himself as a fullback on the
Green Bay Packers, a poor place
to be when there’s a guy named
Jimmy Taylor running ahead of
you.
In the Atlanta camp this sum
mer Head Coach Norb Hecker
had difficulty choosing between
Coffey and another big, talented
fullback, Ernie Wheelwright, so
Junior moved over to half. He
has a deceptive speed and an
affinity for sliding off his
blockers into daylight.
Although Atlanta came out on
the short end of most of the sta
tistics in the Detroit game, the
Falcons won in yards rushing
Covington Tennis Player At Pro Meet
PANCHO GONZALES (center), the victor in the First Annual Carling
Professional tennis tournament at East Lake Country Club, Atlanta,
is flanked by three Covington tennis players after the finals Sunday.
Jim Gainer, Gil Gainer and Billy Dobbs (left to right), were ball
boys during the three-day meet. Gonzales disposed of Barry McKay
in the finals 6-2 and 6-2.
Covington Tennis Stars
See Gonzales Win Title
The First Annual $5,000 Carl
ing Professional Tennis Tourna
ment was held at East Lake
Country Club, Atlanta, Sept. 23-
24-25.
H. Hall Powell, tournament
chairman, invited Billy Dobbs,
Georgia 12-year-old champion,
and Gil Gainer, Georgia 10-year
old champion, and Jim Gainer
to be ball boys for the tourna
ment. Other ball boys were the
State’s number one and number
two 14 - year -old champions,
Mark Smith and Larry Powell,
(155 to 136) largely on the per
formance of Coffey.
Hecker is hoping he can com
bine this with a little more of
everything else next Sunday at
home (1:30 p. m. EST) against
the explosive Dallas Cowboys,
unbeaten from the pre-season
right on through this week. The
Falcons will be facing one of the
fastest, if not the fastest, teams
in football.
Sprinter Bob Hayes is a threat
to haul in quarterback Don Mere
dith’s long bombs, and Pete Gent
and yound Dan Reeves, a former
University 'of South Carolina star
from Americus, Ga., are nearly
as dangerous. Don Perkins and
Mel Renfro mean trouble in the
offensive backfield, while defen
sive standouts such as Bob Lilly
and Lee Roy Jordan are expected
to be a stiff challenge to the in
experienced Falcon offense.
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Rams Defeat Franklin County 21-7;
Meet Hart County At Hartwell Fri.
BY 808 GREER
(News and Sports Editor)
Newton’s Rams scored two quick touchdowns in the fourth quarter
Friday night on Sharp Field to down the Franklin County Lions
21-7. This brought the NCHS season record to two wins and three
defeats. Friday night the team will travel to Hartwell to meet the
respectively.
Richard “Pancho” Gonzales
won over Barry McKay 6-2, 6-2.
Mr. Gonzales is generally con
sidered the “greatest tennis
player of all time.” A Wimbled
on champion and David Cup star
and presently among the top three
money winners. He is from Mali
bu, Calif.
Barry McKay is a former Davis
Cup star and has been among the
top professional money winners
over the past five years.
Attending from Covington
were: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gainer,
Dr. and Mrs. Bill Dobbs, Miss
Kathy Partee, Mrs. Kenneth
Johnson and Allan, Ken Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wiley, Ronnie
Wiley, Tony Harris, Jimmy Ivey,
Douglas Ivey and Jimmy
Hutchins.
Cracker ‘2so’
Set Nov. 6
At Atlanta
HAMPTON, GA.—Almost
everybody who is anybody in Stock
Car Racing will muster in Atlanta
Nov. 6. The $30,000 Cracker
250 is scheduled for that Sabbath
afternoon at Atlanta International
Raceway.
The list of drivers fairly bris
tles with bright names from the
ranks of NASCAR’s Grand Nat
ional Division. But the Cracker
250, it must be remembered is
a National Championship Late
Model Modified Race.
Curtis Turner, the old pro
from North Carolina, leads the
way. But would you believe that
it was none other than big Tiny
Lund, one of the most versatile
drivers in the nation, who last
won a modified race in Atlanta?
That would be the $25,000 Mod
ified 500 in September of 1963
when the 283 pound fishing camp
operator from Cross, S. C., via
the cornlands of lowa, pushed his
1961 Holman-Moody Ford to vic
tory.
That 500-mile drive was the
longest journey known to modi
fied man. In fact, it was a bit
too long. Lund drove a factory
backed machine, and many inde
nendent chauffeurs could not make
their mounts live over such a long
haul.
“That is the reason in our
thinking,” declared A.I.R. Pres
ident and Board Chairman Nel
son Weaver. “A 250-mller will
serve the same purpose, and will
be more in the line of a fast
dash or trophy run--pure speed.
It will also give the independent
a chance of winning, or at least
finishing in the money.
A.I.R. General Superintendent
Alf Knight Is in strong support:
“We first asked for a 300-mile
sanction from NASCAR, but after
thinking it over, we thought 250
miles would be a little bit more
democratic. After all, the pur
pose of NASCAR National Mod
ified Division is to give every
body a chance of winning.”
Game And Fish
Exhibit SE Fair
Live animals, snakes and fish
again will highlight the Georgia
Game and Fish Commission’s
exhibit at the Southeastern Fair
in Atlanta, Sept. 29 through Oct.
8.
Also on exhibit will be several
exhibit cases of mounted game
species in their natural habitats.
Mounting was done by the taxi
dermist for the state museum,
Joe Hurt.
Information on hunting and
fishing -a wide selection of bro
chures and pamphlets - will be
available to the public at the ex
hibit, which will be In the
Agricultrual Building.
Live species on exhibit will
include poisonous snakes, an al
ligator, bear, raccoon, opossum,
squirrel, deer, bass, bream and
catfish.
There are an estimated 24 mil
lion 4-H’ers in the U. S.
Hart County eleven.
Quarterback George Bailey
scored two TDs and End Wesley
Hunt picked off a pitchout and
raced 65 yards for the local
scoring in the encounter. Lee
Piper made all three extra points
from placement and now has
seven straight for the season.
On defense the Newton coach
es singled out Steve Lott and
Wesley Hunt for their work in
holding the visitors without a
TD through the line. The Frank
lin County eleven scored on a
50 yard pass play from QB Ted
Wilson to Donald Farrow. Jimmy
Mauldin made the PAT via a
placekick.
Lee Durden, defensive end who
has a knack at recovering enemy
fumbles, did it again Friday even
ing. He pounced on a Lion mis
cue at the enemy 41 and thereby
set the stage for the Ram’s
go-ahead touchdown. George
Bailey scored the TD after 9
plays covered the distance to the
one.
Gary (Yogi) Wilkerson and An
dre Bruyere continued their pace
of total tackles through the five
games played. Against the Lions
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YARDSTICK
Newton 21 Franklin Co. 7
14 First Downs 10
206 Yards Rushing 101
3 Yards Passing 71
5 Passes Attemp. 9
1 Passes Comp. 3
70 Penalized 0
Local Football:
NEWTON COUNTY RAMS
Newton Rams vs Hart County
at Hartwell, Friday, Sept. 30.
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GEORGIA TECH
Georgia Tech vs Clemson at At
lanta, Saturday, October 1,2 p.m.
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UNIV. OF GEORGIA
Georgia Bulldogs vs South Car
olina at Columbia, Saturday, Oct.
1 at 8 p.m.
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Atlanta Falcons vs Dallas Cow
boys at Atlanta Stadium, Sunday,
October 2, 1:30 p.m.
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the season reads: Wilkerson 56,
Bruyere 55.
Score by Quarters:
Franklin Co. 0 7 0 0 —7
Newton Co. 07 0 14— 21
Newton High "B” Team Squad For 1966
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NEWTON HIGH “B” team and coach Tom Wortman are pictured above. Front row, left to right:
Tommy Frlx, Johnny Moon, Walker Ellis, Ronnie Daniel, Nip& Harcrow, Bobby Lunsford, Billy Childers
and Phil Johnson. Middle Row: Ray Hewell, Raymond George, Paul Hackett, Craig Hertwig, Freddy Mit
chell, George Lazenby, Dilmus Fuller, Terry Savage and Bill Entrekin. Back Row: Walter Sammons,
Gerald Fuller (manager), Coach Tom Wortman and Donnie Moore. The team will meet Morgan County
at Sharp Field this afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Jackson's Tommy Carmichael
Had Sights On Georgia Tech
ATLANTA—When No. 29 Pep
per Rodgers was kicking 36 extra
points into the stands in 1952,
an 11-year-old boy used to catch
many of them and tell his dad
that someday he was going to
kick the ball for Bobby Dodd and
Georgia Tech.
Today, that same boy is doing
just that—he’s wearing No. 29
and his name is Tommy Car
michael. Against Texas A&M
in the 1966 Tech opener, he kick
ed a 33-ya rd field goal and sent
kickoffs booming into the end
zone on numerous occasions. In
1965, he kicked two field goals,
one of 46 yards, and handled
kickoff chores.
“I’m kicking stronger now than
ever before. But after 14 years
of kicking, I should be getting
Scoring: Franklin County—
Donald Farrow pass from Ted
Wilson (50 yards). Mauldin PAT
(kick).
Newton—Bailey 2 TDs (1 and
11 yard runs), Wesley Hunt (65
yards on intercepted pitchout).
PATs: Lee Piper 3 (kicks).
better,” Tommy said after a rec
ent workout. “I started kicking
when I was seven, using the forked
branches of a cedar tree In the
front yard for the goal posts.”
“When I was 13, I went out
for the Jr. High team. They
needed someone to kick-off and
I volunteered. The first time I
tried, I kicked over everybody
to the five yard line. I’ve been
kicking ever since.”
Carmichael wasn’t so lucky
when he tried to earn a job kick
ing extra points for the Jackson
(Ga.) High School team. His
coach centered the ball, the hold
er put it down and Tommy pro
ceeded to send the ball on a line
directly into the lower regions
of the coaches’ back.
“He said I’d never kick for
Newton "B” Team
Meets Morgan
Here Today 4 PM
The Newton County “B” team
will meet the Morgan County “B”
team on Sharp Field, Thursday
(today) at 4 p.m.
Coach Tom Wortman of the
local “B” eleven is hopeful of
downing the visitors today. The
Morgan County boys trimmed the
NCHS boys last week by a 12-0
score at Madison.
him—and he meant it. But he
stayed there only one year and
when I was a sophomore I got
the kicking job.”
That season on the bench cost
Tommy a shot at the state record
of 110 extra points, but he did
kick 105 of 120 in three seasons.
Tommy says he never kicked
a field goal in high school. “We
scored touchdowns, we didn’t
need field goals,’’ he explains.
But the 1966 Georgia Tech foot
ball team will depend on Tommy
and his place-kicking partner,
reliable Bunky Henry, to provide
three-pointers whenever Kim
King, Lenny Snow, Jimmy Brown
and their offensive counterparts
may slow down.
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