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Crush Dynamos, 32-75 S lt;5The best offensive gain by Dobyns-Bcnnett Friday night against Chattanooga City came when sub quarterback Randy Helton (11) faked a handoff on a halfback dive, then fired a short play-action pass to sophomore sensation Tommy Henry (5) who charged through the secondary, picked up a key block at midfield and sped to the end zone on a play covering 85 yards.pin was the longest losing streak for a big school in the state, got back on the win trail as quart erback Plt;? te Ca n t we 11 scored three touchdowns and passed far another in a 26-6 Hurricane defeat of Erwin.Tennessee High made it 26 wins in a row with a 21*6 triumph over Sullivan East before 7,000 spectators, a smaller crowd than had been expected. Mark Wed el was man of the hour for the • Vikings, running two TDs, passing for a • two point conversion and completing five ; of five passes in the closing half. THS has won 32 regular-season games irt sueces- -sion and rides a 21-game skein inside the iconference.Virginia power Koanoke Patrick -Henry smashed Elizabethton. 41.-0, hold- ; ing .the young Cyclones to a mere 98 ■ yards in total offense. 'Both Greertcvillc and Johnson City, . weaving darkhorse tags in the Big Nine * this year, were idle on opening night. 'By MU, LANE Timcs-Ncws Sports EditorFred Walton made a deal with his Dobyns-Beiinelt Indian football team Friday night — if they held Chattanooga City scoreless, defensive co-ordinator Wallace Kctron would get pitched into the school swimming pool; if the Rcdmeu scored as many as four touchdowns, then offensive line coach Bill Lloyd would take a swim.As it turned out. Lloyd got a dunking, and Kctron almost had to join him. Walton. according to the players, locked himself in his office to keep from getting wet.ft was a post-game victory celebration after D-B walloped Chattanooga City. 32-7. to hatch el a nine-game win streak the Dynamos had started the third week of Iasi season.Moreover, the Indians obviously regained some of the D*B football pride of yesteryear.Fanf are galore was bestowed upon the team after they had stunned the ex-poiosive ‘-N'ooga team before a disbelieving crowd that numbered about 7,000. Hundreds of supporters greeted the learn and roaches on their walk from J. Fred Stadium back lo the dressing room in the Dome.' There was more football enthusiasm in this town Friday night,” said Walton yesterday, ‘'than there has beer, since the i960 season when D-B won the wire service stale championship.BIG NINE CONFERENCECiiy came here highly regarded, and left that way. There was nothing false about the Dynamos' credentials. Fast-stepping backs Mike Hayes, 163-pound senior who's rated one of the top college prosper!s in the Southeast, Billy Church, Vic Williams, and Henry Wise put nerves on edge every lime they bad the hall.Kandy Pearson, workhorse of the 1972 season. Iiacl his name on the D-B marquee again Friday hut his supporting east played such a big part, a producer, in all fairness, would have tolist Hu* names alphabetically.There were Tommy Henry. James Jones, Tames Hensley. Danny Rosenbaum and Kirk Weber, among others.Henry, a fleet flankerbaek who wears jersey number o and is now belnr- called “Super 5 by lhe coaching staff, accounted for 156 yards on three pass recepiions, including an 85-yard toss from reserv e quarterback Randy Helton.Starting quarterback Gary Smith hit on eight of Vi passes fur 149 yards and Helton chipped in with three of eight for 126. Pearson. mi 15 carries, rushed for 73 yards and Hensley, who dazzled City with one broken field run. added 53 yards on 13 rushes.Pearson scored two touchdowns on short runs. Jones caught a 13-vurd scoring pass from Smilh in tho first quarterthat gave the Indian* the lead for keeps ami Henry gut on the board when Helton popped a short throw to him and the sophomore flush lt;utraced the Citv secondary 85 yards for a TD. with Rodney Burton's rolling block at midficid finally springing him.Walton rated City about the same caliber of team as the 1972 Elizabethton Cyclones and said, “I was well pleased with the defense in the second half.They ran our ends effectively until we made .some adjustments. We gave up some yardage (237 total - 101 rushing and 76 passing) but you've got to consider how •strong of an offense City had before judging our defense. We were flexible and all-in-all. I can't say I'm disappointed.Monday at 7::0 p.m.. the Indian Athletic Boosters Club will gather inside the l)-B Little Theatre lo view a game film of the Tribe-City tussle. Walton will comment on the play by play. All Indian funs, members or non-members, are in-. sited.9Sullivan Central shocked Morristown West. 20 13. as Terry Cox. just off (he injury list, relieved starting quarterback Mike Lawson and inarched the Cougars nn a 50 yard scoring drive in the fourth quarter.The Cougars, riddled by injuries, opened a 13-0 spread on the favored Trojans but saw them bounce back.The victory was sealed by 5*7, 140-pound speedster Matt Plt;«d who made two timely interceptions to block off Morristown scoring threats.Dickie Bunn carried the mail for Central on (he ground. He picked up 99 yards on !f runs to edge out Trojan star Adrian Rucker who raced for 98 on 20 tries.Scott Lucas scl up on Central TD. He scooped up y fumble at the Cougar 12 and returned it to the Morristown eight, from where Lawson hit tight end Jerry Crowe with a scoring pass. Dickie Dunn scored the second TD on a 43-yard romp on the second play of the second quarter, flitting through a hole then breaking to the outside. Bunn also scored the final TD. on a short run.The Cougars go to Johnson City next briday for what is expected lo be a Cox-Sainmy Simpson quarter backing show.While one .streak ended, another continued for Big Nine Conference teams.Morristown Fast, whose 21-game tails.Siirgoinsville Area's First Overtime VictimI^ SURGOlNSVILLE — The new TSSAA rule designed to do away with lie football games was put (o test here Friday night.SuvgoinsvilJe and West Greene Were tied, 14-14, at the end of regulation, and it took two overtimes’ for West Greene to slat away a 26-20 win. the first tic-breaker ir. the area.Dennis Ricker, who gained 113 yards for’ the night tn lead thu Greene County team, scored the game’s first touchdown on a 37-yard run. The 8-0 lead stood until Surgoinsville’s Jerry Henderson hauled in a 21-yard scoring pass from Mark Skelton,New head coach Jim Sizemore’s Eagles then forged ahead, 14-8. in the fourth quarter when 250-pound fullback Jerry Price, the game’s leading ground gainer with 131 yards on 21 carries, broke open for a 54-yard TD run.Ricker caught West Greene up, 14-14, with a 12-yard blast later in the fourth quarter to force the sudden-death playoff.Surgnmsville. given the ball at the West Greene 10. drew first blood in the opening overtime period with a one-yard TD plunge by Price. West Greene, on its turnfrom the 10, tied the game, 20-20,on Roger Jones' one-yard run.In the second overtime, Sur-KOinsville won the coin Loss and got tho ball but failed to score when West Greene intercepted in its own end zone. On the second play, the winners clinched the win as Ricker went m from two yards out.^ ----
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Sun, Sep 09, 1973
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