Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 100, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1979 Page: 5 of 10
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When the Texas Aggies lost
to tiny Iona and cross-state
rival Lamar in a basketball
tournament in Alaska, people
were beginning to wonder
what was wrong with the Ag-
gies, the pre-season favorite to
win the Southwest Conference
basketball crown.
Vernon Smith, who was
suspended for three games
because of participating in an
unauthorized summer league
and was not in the lineup for
the two tournament losses, is
back and no one’s wondering
about the Aggies. Just ask
Sam Houston State’s basket-
ball team.
Smith and teammate Rynn
Wright combined for 31 points
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gently remind them that' the
season went for 10 weeks, and
then I didn't care what they
did,” Lynch says “I only
remember one disciplinary
meeting. It had to do with
drinking and breaking train-
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the science building was at-
tended by many of the seniors
on the squad. Two years
before, as sophomores on Ara
Parseghian’s first Notre
Dame team, they had watched
the Irish lose the national
championship. In the final
game of the ’64 season, the
undefeated Irish built a 17-0
lead over Southern California,
but lost 20-17 when the Trojans
scored with 1:33 remaining.
“We agreed we had the
horses and it was going to be
the seniors’ last chance at a
Worth and helped Illinois beat
Texas Christian, 79-64.
Griffin, a 6-foot-10 former
Fort Worth Dunbar player, hit
9 of 11 shots from the field.
Jon Mansbury had ’6 Tor
TSU and Darrell Broder add-
ed"12 for the Homed Frogs. —-
He may only stand 6-foot-4,
but in his last few outings op-
posing coaches have called
timeouts to give their centers
a step ladder. They seem to
have a good deal of difficulty
keeping Dwayne Johnson off
the boards. 4
Johnson, a junior forward
for Tarleton State University,
has gone jump happy in his
last three games and earned
himself Texas Intercollegiate
Athletic Association Player of
the Week honors.
The rebounding ace from
Jefferson-Moore High School
in Waco was named to the
honor after scoring 16 points
and gaining 14 rbounds in
Carleton’s 81-80 victory over
Jarvis Christian College and
But the '66 team is best
remembered for the one that
almost got away — the 10-10
tie against Michigan State.
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national title,” says itevin
Rassas, an end on that team
who now is a top aide for a
pharmaceutical company in
the Chicago area. “From that
point on, we worked out six
days a week running and con-
ditioning.”
Lynch, square-jawed and all
business, called his captaincy
“the singular most important
honor I’ve gotten in athletics. ”
After that season he played for
more than 10 years with the
Kansas City Chiefs with whom
he won a Super Bowl ring in
Tampa Bay
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AP Sports Writer
Frank McGuire spent 16
years building up the South
Carolina basketball pro-
gram...and Joe Hall’s Ken-
tucky team tried jo shoot it
down in one night.
“That’s the highest score
ever made against one of my
teams and the worst defeat
I’ve ever experienced,” said
McGuire, a bit stunned after
Monday night's 126-81 rout by
fifth-ranked Kentucky.
“We tried everything, but
you can’t use a zone against
Kentucky,” McGuire added.
' “Kyle Macy (who scored 24
points for Kentucky) is just
too good a shooter. He couldn't
miss. Joe used everybody, and
those guys coming off the
bench are good.”
to lead the Aggies to an easy
71-47 non-conference victory
over the Bearkats Monday
night. It was the first loss for
the Lone Star Conference
team after six victories and
boosted the Aggies, who were
once 0-2, to 5-2.
Overall, the conference
wound up the night Monday
with a 3-3 record against non-
conference foes.
Texas Tech beat Air Force,
58-54, and Arkansas beat
Athletes in Action, 6B-67, in
overtime for the other vic-
tories.
Texas dropped a 66-60 deci-
sion to DePaul, Tulane edged
Rice, 56-53, and Illinois beat
Texas Christian, 79-64, to ac-
count for the three losses.
Two games are to be played
tonight. McMurry takes on
with a fumble recovery. The
other was one of only two the
first-team defense gave up all
season.
‘After Purdue, Notre Dame
beat Northwestern 35-7, with
the second team surrendering
the TD. Then the Irish blanked
Army, North Carolina and
Oklahoma on successive
Saturdays. The 38-0 drubbing
of the then-unbeaten Sooners
in Norman,- Okla., was the
most satisfying.
“It was a wild place to go for
northern Catholics," says
halfback Dan Harshman.
’ “Their fans were awfully hard
onus." ...
After the Oklahoma game,
Hanratty and Seymour made
the cover of Time magazine.
“It didn’t go to their heads
because we wouldn’t let it hap-
pen,” says linebacker John
Pergine.
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minutes, refused to take a bad
shot or lose their poise.
“What bothers me is that we
are such a terrible free-throw
shooting team, the worst in the
last six years here. I was
scared to death that if we got
into the one-and-one at the end
of the game, we would wind up
blowing it all.”
Elsewhere, Kansas trounc-
ed California State-
Bakersfield 93-53 as Darnell
Valentine scored 24 points and
Chester Giles collected 13 re-
bounds. Tom Sienkiewicz
scored 14 points, including two
free throws with two seconds
left, to lead Villanova to a 57-
55 triumph over Princeton.
'BfiiW ColllhS scored “20
the previous year. All eyes
were on Hanratty and
Seymour, starting their first
game in the South Bend
pressure cooker.
Notre Dame won the coin
flip, but Parseghian elected to
kick to give Hanratty and
Seymour a chance to get ac-
customed to the awesome
noise of the crowd.
With Hanratty directing the
attack, Seymour set a single-
game Notre Dame record for
receptions (13 and three
touchdowns) and yards (276).
The records for receptions and
yardage still stand 13 seasons
later. Nqtre Dame won 26-14,
one of Purdue’s touchdowns
coming on Leroy Keyes’ run
tion,68-67, in overtime.
It was Zahn's heroics in the
last 10 seconds of overtime
• that boosted the Razorbacks
to the victory. With AIA
leading, 67-66, he clocked a
shot by former Razorback Jim
Counce, rebounded the ball
and was fouled. Zahn then
made two free throws to ice
1970. He now is a vice presi-
dent of a food brokerage com-
pany in Kansas Qty.
He says the ghost of ’64
haunted the '66 Irish and he
constantly reminded the team
about devotion to duty.
“If guys weren’t working
together, it was up to me to /“had to.
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the victory.
Texas managed to keep
close to DePaul in the first
half, going to the dressing
room trailing by a single
point, 37-36. But DePaul’s
Mark Aguirre went on a scor-
ing tear early in the second
half, winding up the night with
20 pointy for the Blue Demons.
Ron Baxter led all scorers
with 21 points and freshman
George Turner had 12 for the
TIAA player of week
12 points and 16 caroms in a
102-88 loss to St. Edward’s
University, Saturday night in
Austin. ’
In his last three games,
Johnson has totaled 41 points
and 50 rebounds and leads the
team in rebounding with 10.8
per contest.
In addition to his scoring
and rebounding, Johnson, an
all-district and all-regional
high school performer, proved 4
to be a good man in the clutch.
His 15 foot jump shot provided
the game winner against Jar-
vis Christian; the first time in
four years that Tarleton has
won a game in December.
The Tarleton Texans carry
a 1-7 record on the season as
they break for the holidays
The second-string defense
gave up the touchdown in a 31-
7 victory over Navy, then the
top-ranked Irish strung
together three more shutouts,
including a 644) rout of Duke
the week before the historic
showdown against No.2
Michigan State that ended in
the 10-10 tie. that bruising
game knocked out Hanratty,
Goeddeke and halfbacks
Rocky Bleier and Bob
Gladieux.
Still unbeaten and certainly
unbowed, the M-l Irish _
traveled to Los Angeles to
play Rose Bowl-bound
Southern Cal. Harshman,
regularly a defensive
halfback, filled in for Bleier
and caught a TD pass.
“We were so physically
beaten, we were holding each
other up in the huddle,” says
Eddy. But the Irish raised
their record to 9-0-1 clinched,
the national championship by
smashing the Trojans 514). ‘
South Carolina stunned
by explosive Kentucky
points and Richaril Smith 17 to
lead Weber State over Rhode
Island 82-60. Missouri
defeated Southern Cal 78-75
behind a 23-point, 11-rebound
performance by Curtis Berry.
Michael Burns’ two free
throws with 2:01 left helped
Nevada-Las Vegas edge Tulsa
73-70. Kevin McKenna led a
late Creighton rally as the
Blue Jays whipped Seattle 69-
59.
Rynn Wright and Vernon
Smith combined for 31 points
to lead Texas A&M past Sam
Houston State 71-47. Smith,
suspended in three early-
season games for unauthoriz-
ed participation in a summer
league, scored 14 points while
Wright had 17.
Rolando Blackman’s 14
points led Kansas State over
South Dakota 91-59; Tulane
stopped Rice 56-53 as Joe
Holston hit three free throws ,
in the final 45 seconds.
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- EDITOR’S NOTE:, This
story, the second part of a five
■ part series on life after col-
lege, chrotucles the national
championship season of the
1966 Notre Dame football
team.
By FRED ROTHENBERG
AP Sports Writer
On Feb. 8, nearly eight mon-
ths before the opening game of
the 1966 football season, Notre
Dame captain Jim Lynch call-
ed a team meeting that set the
tone for the rest of the year.
The informal gathering in
Baylor at Waco and Houston
hosts Texas Lutheran.
Ben Hill had 15 points, in-
cluding a go-ahead slam dunk
with five seconds remaining at
Texas Tech beat the Air
Force, 58-54. Kent Williams
had 12 points each to help the
Red Raiders. Rick Harris had
15 for Air Force.
U.S. Reed had 19 points,
Scott Hastings pitched in 14
and Alan Zahn had 10 as
Arkansas beat Athletes in Ac- ‘ Longhorns.
Sophomore guard Joe
Holston scored 12 points, in-
cluding three on free throws in
the last 45 seconds as Tulane
edged Rice, 56-53.
Freshman Kenny Austin
had 20 points for Rice, in-
cluding 15 in the first half.
Sophomore center James
Griffin scored 19 points to
don’t think I was very popular
on campus then. I didn’t like
having to do it, but somebody
Nedrly every team member
interviewed recently by The
Associated Press said he look-
ed up to Lynch and considered
him the hard-rock player foun-
dation to this hard-driven
team.
George Goeddeke, the team
center and the center of team
hijinks, was a leader in his
own way. “I was just a hell-
raiser. I was known to have a
few pops,” he says. “Lynch
had to say a few things a
number of times. I realized
there was some merit to what
he was saying. I always
respected Jim Lynch.”
Goeddeke, now an invest-
ment appraiser in Detroit, and
defensive tackle Pete
Duranko, who works for a
Pennsylvania company that
makes railroad products,
were the major cut-ups on the
team. Parseghian let them
have a free reign because they
kept the team loose, were an
important counter-balance to
Parseghian’s intensity and ex-
celled on the field.
End Jim Seymour and
quarterback, Terry Hanratty,
both sophomores, were called
the “Baby Bombers.” This
passing duo gave the Irish an
offensive dimension the team
had lacked the previous year.
Hanratty had beaten fellow
sophmore Coley O’Brien, but
both quarterbacks made im-
celebrate his return to Fort portant contributions to the
championship campaign. * <
“The keys were Hanratty,
O’Brien and Seymour,” says
Lynch.
The opening game of the
season was against Purdue
and quarterback Bob Griese,
who had beaten the Irish 25-21
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us, we would bury them.' So
consequently, they slowed the
game down to a walk and even
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The 126 points is the most
ever scored by Kentucky in a
home game and is exceeded
only by the 143 rung up by the
Wildcats in a 1956 romp over
Georgia. Included among
Kentucky's fancy figures
Monday night was a brilliant
28-of-34 shooting from the free-
throw line.
Third-ranked Ohio State and
No. 11 DePaul were the only
other ranked teams in action
Monday night, and both were
successful, as the Buckeyes
beat West Virginia 72-55 and
the Blue Demons defeated
Texas 66-60. ■
Forward Jim Smith scored
17 points as Ohio State whip-
ped West Virginia in a rough
game marked by 49 fouls. The
Buckeyes jumped out to an
early lead and were never
threatened.
■ The Buckeyes led 33-23 at
halftime, but it would have
been closer had the Moun-
taineers shot better than their
pathetic 17.6 percent.
“We just couldn’t get a good ,
shot,” said Mountaineer
Coach Gale Catlett. “Our shot
selection was bad. We also
missed too many foul shots
and easy layups. We lost the
game in the first half.”
Mark Aguirre scored 15 of
his 20 points in the second half
and Teddy Grubbs added two
clutch baskets down the
stretch as DePaul held off
Texas for Ray Meyer’s 599th
career coaching victory. The 1
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