Georgia Tech Seeks Orange Bowl Win After Nine Bowl Victories
Georgia Tech, 9-1 and ranked No. 8, prepares for the Orange Bowl clash with Florida on Jan. 2. Coach Bobby Dodd defends his bowl approach, stressing player conditioning and season performance. Florida features Heisman winner Steve Spurrier and star Larry Smith, while Tech relies on Lenny Snow and quarterbacks Kim King and Larry Good.
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Cowboys Tough Says Starr on Dallas Title Game
Bart Starr, Packers QB, praised the Dallas Cowboys for their power and growth. He noted their well balanced, well coached team with explosive offense and strong defense as Green Bay prepares for Sundays NFL championship in Cotton Bowl context. Starr, 32, was 1966 UP I player of the year and has helped Green Bay win five Western titles and three world championships.
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Mustang Squad Works Indoors
SMU football coach Hayden Fry held a pair of workouts for the Southwest Conference champions. Morning session lasted about an hour in the campus coliseum followed by a more strenuous Cotton Bowl drill in the Livestock Coliseum. An 11 p.m. curfew was set for players to recover from exam-related sleep loss.
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Gridiron Bowls Stir Fans Ahead of Holiday Week
The piece notes Georgia’s arrival in Dallas for a Saturday SMU clash as the SWC champion and a Cowboys Packers sellout on the same field. It mentions NFL aims, Namath and Bradley knee surgeries, and Royal coaching the South All Stars in the Hula Bowl with lineups from SMU, Arkansas, Texas, TCU and Stanford supplying coaches and rosters.
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Warren McVea Day Honored in San Antonio
San Antonio will honor University of Houston football star Warren McVea with Warren McVea Day the first tribute to a Black individual there. The city will name him honorary ambassador to HemisFair 1968 and host a dinner at Brackenridge High School.
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Promoter Morris Sigel Dies in Houston at 69
Funeral services were held for Morris Sigel a longtime Houston wrestling promoter whose career spanned 50 years. He died after suffering a heart attack and being hospitalized Monday. Sigel was 69.
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Baylor Star Setting SW Conference Pace
Baylor star Steve Bartels leads in field goal accuracy for the season with 32 of 49 at 65.3 percent while Baylor teammate Jimmy Turner tops scoring with 134 points and a 21.3 average. The report lists top shooters from Rice Texas SMU and Tech, plus rebound leader James Cash and Baylor rebounder Darrell Hardy among others.
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Gobblers Travel to Yoakum and Refugio Tournaments
The Cuero Gobblers head to Yoakum for a two day tournament December 29 and 30 then resume District 14-AAA play January 3 in Beeville against the Trojans. B teams meet first with A teams to follow. Friday January 6 takes Cuero to Refugio to face the Bobcats in both A and B games.
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Coach Goes On Offense In Oklahoma Sooners Move
Norman Okla UPI Assistant Oklahoma football coach Chuck Fairbanks has turned down Missouri and will succeed Homer Rice as the Sooners offense coach. Head coach Jim Mackenzie said Rice resigned to Cincinnati. The hire keeps Chuck from outside the staff, easing staff organization.
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Youth denounce Liu Shao-chi at Peking rally
In Peking 100000 Red Guard denounced Liu Shao-chi and Communist Party Secretary General Ten Hsiao-ping as pursuing a bourgeois line. NHK reports speakers warned that without removing them revisionism and capitalism would overtake China amid infighting and power struggles linked to Lin Piao.
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All 109 Survive In Mexico Airline Crash
Investigators probe the Aeronaves de Mexico C8 crash near Mexico City after a Christmas flight from New York pancaked into a dry lakebed. All 109 aboard survived. 12 hospitalized with minor injuries. Many survivors call it a miracle, including Stanley Winter, a New York City resident. The flight carried many members of the Council of Jewish Women of New York.
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Mazzinghi to Fight Nigeria’s Phonse in Sweden Bout
Mazzinghi will meet L Phonse of Nigeria in a non title 10 round bout on January 6 in Malmoe Sweden. The fight serves as a warm up before Mazzinghi defends his title against France’s Jean Baptiste Rolland on February 3.
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Bout Stated Florence European Champion Fight
Florence Italy reports Sandra Mazzinghi European super welterweight champion status update. The piece notes Mazzinghi as the reigning title holder with ongoing defenses and future match plans.
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Toilets sign sparks attention in Saxilby village
In Saxilby England a Ministry of Transport erected three foot high sign with luminous letters reading Toilets outside the village bringing visitors but no particular joy.
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Live Life And Fight For It At Santa Fe Conference
About 700 youths grew to 1500 attendees including parents at the moral rearmament Up With People conference in Santa Fe New Mexico UPI arrivals included a Bonn Germany group led by Sigmund Ernst who said Germany faces wary neighbors amid a rise of National Socialism and more than 30 local singing groups. Delegates flew in from Cape Cod Washington DC and the Midwest Monday and a German industrialist group is being sent to Brazil next month.
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Youth drive aims to mobilize 50,000 youths globally
Delegates held an afternoon session announcing a plan to raise 50,000 youths to promote the sing out idea and moral rearmament worldwide. William Storey of India California keynoted the conference, saying sing out is more than a musical explosion and requires living the idea and sacrifice.
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