The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 85, No. 198, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1977 Page: 12 of 16
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THE CHICKASHA DAILY EXPRESS. Friday, October 28, 1977
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had wandered out of the dressing room and
were watching. only mildly curious
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keeping next year very much
in their minds
Now Thru Thur*.—All Seats 2.50
Shows Tonite And Set. At 7:00.0:30
ternoon It was obvious after
the last half of the Lawton
Mac game and the first half of
the Duncan game that we just
weren't getting what we
needed in the way of team
effort from the people we had
out there
What McClain and his staff
have done is go to the younger
players thinking of course,
about winning the last two
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sidelines watching their young players
cavort under the slate grey sky .An errant
pass hibblety hopped in their direction One of
the coaches bent down and scooped up the
ball and started to toss it back to the trio out
on the field He hesitated only briefly, then
tucked the ball under his arm and trotted out
to join the players
The second coach followed suit as did two
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College injuries. Led by Bruce Threadgill. a three-year veteran and one
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Alabama holds a commanding 48-10-3 edge over Mississippi
Sate in the overall series which dates back to IM The
The Tide as usual will be sparked by quartertack Jeff
Rutlegde and split end Ozzie Newsome, who now has 1.736
yards in pass receiving, 119 yards short of David Bailey's
Alabama record of 1,857 Rutlegde has 37 completions in 65
attempts for a 569 percentage and 692 yards
(Air team is coming along, but we still have a long way to go
to be the kind of team were capable of being, "said Bryant If
we go down there and play the kind of game we're capable of
playing, then we 've got a good chance to win if we don't, then
we won’t win It's as simple as that "
By Rocky Scott
Express Sports Editor
It began by accident, really
There were two or three players their
shirts and shorts damp from their light
Thursday afternoon workout, just tossing a
football around among themselves
The rest of the squad had gone in, hurrying
through their showers so they could enjoy the
extra couple of hours granted by the short
day-before the-game workout
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Another coach joined then another More
players came. and the group chose up sides,
bowing to that most basic football theorem
if you have ten sets of hands, you need to
divide by two so all can share the fun
Finally there were six on a side, and it
became "U»" against Them" or roughly
translated. the players against the coaches
and two hands below the waist no rushing the
quarterback and give him time to pass
please
Eleven minus five makes for a few im
provised rules not to mention formations
Knute Rockne would never have dreamed of.
but the kinks were soon worked out and play
began
importantly that s what it was play "
For those who watched it soon became
"Kids, Come On Out To PAPA G‘S Early
Saturday Night For Dinner In Your Cos-
tumes. We Have Surprises In Store For
You.”
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them napping
The Millers have some
humankind al play No marching bands no
cheerleaders, no screaming fans and best
yet no scoreboard only the exuberance of
youth and the determination of age in
termingled and cemented by affection
producing mutual respect, a quality that will
carry far into the future far beyond wins and
losses
Tonight the air will be choked with parking
lot dust and cigarette smoke Them "will be
wearing white jerseys and the echoed fun of
Thursday afternoon will be muffled by shouts
of popcorn and program"
A blinking white dock will regulate tune,
stripe shirted men will enforce rules spec
tators will cheer and boo Someone will win-
and someone will lose
But maybe, when it's all over with, when
the stadium lights are turned off when the
last car has pulled away and the last player
has climbed onto the team bus maybe then a
lone figure will walk out onto the field,
carrying a sc ruffed-up football and maybe
the joy of Thursday afternoon will begin
again
Maybe once again the men-boys and boy-
men will frolic on the dying autumn grass,
with only a warm south wind for company
And isn't it a shame the fans can't see it
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obvious that there was a feeling a very
special feeling between "Us" and Them
it sprung from young, hard bodies reaching
out for manhood and older, softer muscles
stretching back for a brief, care-free moment
of youth
It sprang from the mutually shared
disappointment of a long, frustrating season
from shared aches and common goals it
came. men-boys and boy men together
relaxing, without pressure
Like water seeking its own level the two
forces met enmeshed and became one
obliterating age lines and formalities
dispensing with sirs and screams, forming a
bond of equal friendship
A difficult year was transmuted into a brief
hour of good-natured horseplay, cheerfully
exchanged obscenities and unbridled frolic
Mock insults ricocheted oft empty stadium
walls "I've got McClain- with his stomach
he's too fat to move- somebody give Patton
some gum that'll keep him from walking
Stone, you re not a quarterback, you can't
throw up, much less throw the ball Werhley
you've got good moves for a fat man. "
They became, coaches and players. a single
damp, puffing monument to the sheer joy of
Were at the point where
we have to think about these
kids we ve got coming back
next year he said They
need the game experience
and they play with en-
thusiasm- that's the im
portant thing
I m still dumb enough to
think we can beat Yukon and
our club agrees with me if
they are looking ahead to next
STILLWATER. Okla
UPI > — Football is a team
sport, but the Oklahoma
State-Nebraska clash
Saturday figures to be an
individual battle called Miller
vs Hipp
it will pit Terry Miller of
OSU whose 149 yards per
game average place* him No
1 in Big Eight Conference
rushing and .No 3 nationwide
against Nebraska's 1M
Hipp whose average of 136.9
yards puts him No 2 in the
league and No 4 nationally
Miller has 15 consecutive
games with more than 100
yards rushing and last week
became the most prolific
runner in the conference with
a career mark of 4,117 yards
The senior from Colorado
Springs also became the first
in the league to compile three
seasons of 1,000-yards plus
Hipp a sophomore sat out
the Cornhusker’s first game,
picked up 38 yards on six
carries against Alabama and
has averaged 184 yards in
each of the five games since
Each of the two premier
running hacks have eight
touchdowns this season but
Hipp is two points ahead of
Miller in scoring because he
has one conversion to his
credit
The game, which is ex-
pected to reach 70 per cent of
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Now Thru Thur*.—Adm. 7S’-2.M
Shows Tonite And Set. 7:30-9:
Marshall But now Alabama has a shot at being the top team
5 Tulsa Washington at Tulsa Top-ranked Texas takes on 13th-ranked Texas Tech Satur-
Edison day which means the Longhorns are the only team in the top
6 Putnam City West hosts ten with a really tough opponent The Red Raiders have not
Lawton done as well as might be expected this season, but nevertheless
7 Tulsa McLain hosts Tulsa have built a 5-1 record and are eager for the chance to dump
Rogers Texas from its No 1 perch
8 Del City hosts Edmond Alabama, on the other hand, that night faces Southern
9 Tulsa Memorial hosts Mississippi, which has had a disappointing season Mi at best
4 Midwest City Albert at of the tip quarterbacks in the conference, Mississippi State alar
Guthrie has two excellent halfbacks in James Jones and Len Copeland
5 Shawnee hosts Ardmore Mississippi State has a lot of outstanding athletes and before
6 OC Southeast at OC Grant the season I would have picked them to be right in the thick of
7 Claremore hosts Jenks the race," said Bryant "I don't know why they haven't been
8 Bartlesville College at winning, but I know that every time we play them, they roll up
Owasso their sleeves and come at us with fire in their eyes I expect it to
9 Western Heights at Dun he that way in Jackson "
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10 Yukon at Chickasha
Class 2A
1 Bixby at Tulsa fascia Hall
2 Lindsay at Pauls Valley
3 Seminole at Bristow
4 Collinsville at Pawhuska
5 Atoka at Sulphur
6 Wewoka at ufaula
7 Poteau at Stilwell
8 Clinton hosts Frederick
9 Hennessey at Blackwell
10 Broken Bow hosts Hugo
Barna Pursuing
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Here’s where the top 11 11111 UPT 1 tjDOt
ranked Oklahoma high school I
football teams play this By JENNY KEIINER
weekend UPI Sports Writer
Class 4A Through the first part of the season, while Southern Cal.
1 Putnam City at OC Nor Michigan. Nebraska and Texas were playing musical chairs
thwest with the top three spots in the football ratings. Alabama was
2 Muskogee hosts Tulsa East quietly working its way towards its No 2 spot, winning five
Central straight for its 6-1 record
3 Lawton Eisenhower hosts lake the others. Bear Bryant* Crimson Tide could have been
Altus No 1 for at least a week, had it not been for the 31-2 upset lorn
4 Midwest City hosts OC to Nebraska in its second game of the season
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the nation via televison, is
crucial for both teams The
Cowboys. Cornhuskers and
Iowa State all have 2-1 con
ference records which puts
them in a tie for second place
behind Oklahoma
Oklahoma is heavily
favored to defeat Kansas
State and that means
Oklahoma State and
Nebraska will be battling for
at least a share of the No 2
K-State Sei
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MANHATTAN Kan UPI
- Kansas State coach Ellis
Rainsberger said Thursday
regular defensive tackle Mike
Osborn, who has been ham
pered by injuries, has recov-
ered and will play in Satur
day's game against
Oklahoma
Osborn had been slowed by
neck and shoulder injuries
this week
Tyrone Crews, who had
been scheduled to replace
Osborn has been moved to
the other defensive tackle
position vacated by injured
Keith Nelms, who has
strained knee ligaments
Rainsberger praised fresh
man Don Birdsey s punting
as "excellent this week "
potent offensive weapons but "We can trap the middle of Carman has drawn the nod as Defensively, \ an Craig and Im sure were going to he
their strength lies in their that particular defense said tailback Greg George are al guards making mistakes said
defense What they do, said McClain and we can run Senior Jimmy Davis has with Patton and Davis at the Me Iain but I think they'll be
McClain, is shut you down outside on it But if we don't replaced Stone at center tackle spots Gary Jensen and mistakes based on inex
completely with their block then it‘s going to be Banked by Scott Coulter and Barry Hess are at tight end perience rather than mental
defense another king night for us " Van Craig at guard* Mack joined by Willie Joe Brown letdowns
Their offense isn't that For the Chicks offensively Alexander holds down one and Stone at the linebacking Tonight is Parents Night
overpowering but they get the there will be a lot of new tackle spot and Kevin Kime spots Creekmore i the at Memorial Stadium, with
ball in such good field faces Sophomore Doug the other while Chris Patton safety and Carman and the parents nf the CHS
position they can score and Rinker has been tabbed a* the remains at tight end Jimmy McCarthur are the defensive players designated as special
beat you" starting quarterback. Treadway is the wide backs guests of honor
replacing senior Bob Creek receiver and sophomore
Yukon operates offensively more classmate Ronnie McCarthur
out of the slot or power I" David Stone, another has been put into the starting
and uses the 4 4 prostyle sophomore, has moved to the slotback position replacing
defense fullback spot and Rodger an injured Mike Harber
By Reeky Scott
Express Sports Editor
It w ill be a vastly revamped
( HS football team that take*
the field at 6 tonight in
Memorial Stadium against
the number ten-ranked
Yukon Miller*. and
Chickasha head coach Fred
McClain hopes the change*
will give his ball club the
added spark it has needed all
season long
We had to do something."
McClain said Thursday af
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spot in the league and keeping
their chances of a conference
title and Orange Bowl berth
alive
Rushing defense is bound to
be a key facet in Saturday s
encounter In seven games
Nebraska has been the
stingier of the two teams
allowing 187 6 yards on the
ground per outing while
Oklahoma State has given up
230 1 yards per game
But OSU coach Jim Stanley
believes his defense came of
age late in the Kansas State
game two weeks ago and it
definitely made an im
pressive showing in last
weeks 21-0 shutout of Kan
sas
One more look at statistics
Nebraska has won 14 of its
last 15 games against
Oklahoma State But even
that needs a closer look Last
year the Cornhuskers had to
come from behind to claim a
14-10 victory There was a
single touchdown difference.
28-20 in 1975 the final was a
meager 7-3 in 1974. and in
1973 the year the Nebraska
Oklahoma game was billed as
the game of the century
Oklahoma State played the
Huskers to a 17-17 tie
A capacity crowd of more
than 50,000 persons is ex-
pected in Lewis Stadium for
the 12 50 p m kickoff
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