Sports Scene
Spring Means Promise text by Jim Schultz ot long after Georgia Tech concluded spring football practice with its annual T-Night game, athletic director Bobby Dodd announced the Yellow Jackets and Alabama were going to resume athletic relations. The two schools had broken off competition after halfback Chick Granning was injured by a Tide linebacker in the 1961 Birmingham game. Although Tech and Alabama may meet in some sports as early as next season, they won't face each other in football until possibly 1978, or even 1980, because of long-range scheduling commitments. Of more immediate concern to Dodd and coach Bud Carson is this fall's 11-game program, which includes seven Grant Field appearances and trips to Auburn, Duke, Notre Dame and Georgia. It's premature to forecast exactly
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what kind of team will line up opposite South Carolina on September 12, but spring practice and the TNight scrimmage won by the Golds, 27-7, did indicate a few trends. The Jacket defense, spearheaded by allAmerica tackle candidate Rock Perdoni and two men rich at nearly every position, will be outstanding and could be as good as any in the country. The offense, where Carson and his aides did most of their experimenting this spring, will feature a lot of new faces. One of them will be Eddie McAshan (pronounced McShan), a sophomore quarterback from Gainesville, Florida, who's cool, calm and capable. Very capable. If some offensive line problems caused by inexperience can be solved, Tech's 11game card might seem all too brief. McAshan and classmate Rob
Fullback Steve Harkey (41) put in an impressive performance.
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Healy, the running back son of 1948 Tech all-America guard Bill Healy, were instrumental in the Gold T-Night victory before a crowd of 14,124. Rob scored three touchdowns in his long evening's work and finished as the spring's top rusher. McAshan completed 11 of 23 passes (three of his misses were dropped) for 97 yards and had one interception. Healy had his 18 points before the Whites managed one. The Golds showed they meant business when Jack Moore kicked off onsides and Gary Faulkner recovered on the White 47-yard line. Nine plays later, six of them Healy runs, the Golds had their first touchdown. The big play of the drive was a 15-yard pass from McAshan to tight end Steve Foster, and a few minutes later Healy went across the goal line from four yards out. Shifty Little Brent Cunningham stirred the crowd on the following kickoff when he took the ball on the five, scooted through one hole, sprawled three defenders with one fake and sprinted down the east; sidelines until Bubba Hoats cut over and knocked him out of bounds at the Gold 15. The Gold defense stiffened, however, and Bobby Thigpen missed a field goal from the 28. McAshan's three passes for first downs kept the Gold's second march going, and Healy capped the 80yard move by lunging over from the one. Backup safety Gary Wingo recovered a White fumble on the 19-yard line and Healy soon had his third touchdown, this time from the seven. McAshan hit Chip Pallman for two extra points and the Golds led, 20-0, late in the third quarter. Junior quarterback Jack O'Neill passed eight yards to end Ron Enzweiler, his fourth completion in four attempts during the White's lone scoring drive, and Thigpen's PAT whittled the Gold advantage to 20-7 early in the fourth period. Sophomore running back Kevin McNamara's four-yard run and Moore's conversion ended the scoring at 27-7.
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The Georgia Tech Alumnus