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SPECTRA "Mark Twain on~Stage" • John Chappell

Auburn University Union
Programming

Vince Vance and the Valiants

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THE AUBURN UNION ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE

PRESENTS

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Auburn University Marching Band

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Faces

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Debbie Meadows • Miss GLOMERATA

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Peggy Kniskern • GLOM Beauty

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Libby Lively • GLOM Beauty

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Rhonda Haley • GLOM Beauty

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Ann Whitten • GLOM Beauty

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Elaine Barnhill • Miss Homecoming

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Reesa Lumpkin • Miss Auburn

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Homecoming Court

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Bunny Buist • Jan Jackson • Gail Robertson • Deanna Tindle

Mrs. Auburn • Sue Calleja

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Freita Fuller
Miss Alabama 1972

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Glom Finalists

Lucy Jacobs Jan Jackson

Melanie
Lynch

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Tricia Terry Libby Rinehart

Celeste Warner J)

Becky Washington

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Jan Taylor Bunny Buist

Elaine
Henson

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Barbara Mitchell Susan Brown

Susan Croninger Renee Morin

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Calendar Girls

February Susan Hill

January Nancy Cammack

March Karen Knapp

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Libby Lively

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June Gina Phillips

May Cindy Mahery

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July Martha Ray August

September Giny Smelley

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November Anne Stephenson

October Charlotte Smith December Vickie
Wheeler

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........... Pf\ -/• 'I..:1,1t<."''-,. .. .. ., Fraternity Sweethearts

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Front row: Patti Parker, Anita Bearden, Vickie Posey, Reesa Lumpkin, Lee Ritchie, Glenda Peacock. Second row: Debbie Griffin, Bobbie Coo-
per, Beth Todd, Diane Chasen, Ellen Brock, Beth Patton. Back row: Donna Wilmoth, Deanna Tindle, Pam Pilling, Karen Payne, Nell Tramwell.

Miss Fall Rush Barbara French

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Derby Darling Susan Conner

Delta Chi Miss Hotpants Mollie Hall

Miss A Day Ellen Brock

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Tennis 0
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9 Huntingdon 9
0 Samford 0
0 Ga. Tech 9
9 Huntingdon 5
0 Samford 2
4 Alabama 3
7 Abram. Baldwin 4
6 So. Alabama 5
5 So. Alabama 3
4 Alabama 7
6 Ole. Miss. 9
2 Vandy
0 Kentucky 2nd
9th
So. Miss. Invitational
SEC Tournament

Football

14 Miss. State 3
14 UT-Chattanooga 7
10 Tennessee 6
19 Mississippi 13

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24 Georgia Tech 14
27 FSU 14
26 Florida 20
27 Georgia
17 Alabama 10
24 Colorado (Gator Bowl) 16

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Golf 394 Cross Country 16
372 37
388 Chipola 380 40 Alabama
364 Columbus 380 19 Georgia 3rd
360 Chatt. 298 5th
360 Chatt. 383 Fla. State Invitational 2nd
303 Chipola 377 Callaway Gardens Invitational 5th
383 Ga. Four-Way Meet
360 Tech. 386 SEC Meet
360 Ala.
391 Columbus 400
392 Tenn. 374

W. Fla. Invitational 3rd
Miss. St. Invitational 6th
Major College Invitational 3rd
Jr.-Sr. Invitational 4th.
SEC Tournament 7th

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Wrestling 5
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38 Florida Tech.
38 Chattanooga 6
38 LSU 12
30 Tennessee
43 Connecticut 0
33 Appalachian State 9
33 N. C. State 6
30 Georgia Tech. 9
22 Florida 15
22 Alabama 16
41 Georgia 0
36 USL 6
25 LSU 9
37 Tennessee 12
29 Florida 5
29 Alabama 5
Sunshine Open Tournament Champions
SEIWA Champions
SEC Championship Champions

Swimming

Basketball 90 68 Geornia Tech 42
68 54 Clemson 24
83 Georgia Tech 71 Georgi:i Southern 42
64 South Ala. 75 66 Georgia Southern 47
82 Eastern Ill. 73 47 Alabama 66
66 So. Cal. 87 67 Western Kentucky
77 W . Kentucky 106 64 LSU 46
63 Dayton 67 70 Tulane 49
60 Xavier 58 Tulane Relays 43
66 Ole Miss. 65 Knoxville Relays Fifth Place
55 Florida 84 Fifth Place
72 Georgia 79
60 LSU 77
82 Miss. State 76
64 Alabama 68
64 Georgia 77
81 Vanderbilt 82
74 Tennessee 88
57 Kentucky 76
74 Florida 76
74 LSU 87
75 Alabama 94
87 Miss. State 93
70 Vanderbilt 69
79 Georgia Tech.

Baseball 5 2 Jacksonville U . 6
13 2 Jacksonville U . 5
16 Austin-Peay 1 6 Florida 5
4 Austin-Peay 6
0 South Alabama 2 7 Florida 4
4 8 Alabama 9
10 West Georgia 0 1 Alabama 2
0 Jacksonville State 3 11 Atlanta Baptist 5
9 West Georgia 16 1 Vanderbuilt 3
9 FSU 16 7 Vanderbilt 6
9 FSU 11 2 Vanderbilt 2
0 0 Georgia 1
13 Florida 8 2 Georgia 3
3 Florida 2 6 Mercer 3
3 Alabama 5 9 FSU 7
6 Alabama 2 4 FSU 6
5 Kentucky 4 1 South Alabama 5
4 Kentucky 7 1 South Alabama
5 Mercer
8 Atlanta Baptist
6 Georgia

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Auburn Finishes An Incredible Fifth In
The Nation

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Eddie Welch, Left End
Benny Sivley, Left Tackle
Bob Newton, Right Tackle
Danny Sanspree, Right End
Mike Neel, Strong Lineback

Bill! Luka, Rover Lineback
Ken Bernich, Left Lineback
B·ill Newton, Right Lineback
Dave Beck, Left Sideback
Johnny Simmons, Safety

David Langner, Right Sideback
Gardner Jett, PAT-FG Kicker
David Beverly, Punter
Sandy Cannon, Split End
Mac Lorendo, Left Tackle

Jay Casey, Left Guard
Steve Taylor, Center
Bob Farrior, Right Guard
Andy Steele, Right Tackle
Rob Spivey, Tight End

Randy Walls, Quarterback

"i Terry Henley, Tailback
James Owens, Fullback
Rusty Fuller, Fullback
Thomas Gossom, Wingback

1973 Starting Defense and Offense

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Ralph "Shug" Jordan, Head Football Coach Shug Jordan: SEC

Coach Of rre Year

After leading the 1972 Auburn Tigers to an unbelievable
9-1 seasonal record in what was rated one of the toughest
schedules in the nation, Coach Sh~g_Jordan was named the

.0!Southeastern Conference Coach ,The Year.

Shug Jordan ranks fourth nationally in total victories
among active coaches. He has been coaching football for
40 years and is the dean of Southeastern Conference head
coaches after his 22nd year at Auburn. Jordan's teams have
won 154 games, gone to nine bowl games, won a national
championship, and produced 20 all-Americans and a Heis-
man Trophy winner-Pat Sullivan.

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Auburn 14 ABOVE, Owens around the end. BELOW, Henley over for first.

Miss. State 3

Prophets could forsee nothing but gloom for Coach Shug
Jordan's 22nd season and to top all the pessimism, Auburn
was picked to come out on the short end of its opening
game against Mississippi State, the earliest SEC football
game ever played.

With a hint of things to come, however, the War Eagles
controlled the contest with a grinding, "old-fashioned"
game plan calling for ball control, consistent punting, and
iron-willed defense. The Plainsmen shoved the ball right at
State with Henley scoring from the Bulldog three-yard line
for the first Auburn TD of the season. The Tigers repeated
the performance later in the third quarter as Owens tallied
on a 16-yard run and Jett added his second extra point of
the nig~t. Meanwhile, the Tiger defense stifled all State of-
fensive threats as Sanspree, Langner, and Bernich held the
Bulldogs outside the Auburn 20-yard line all night. The Ti-
gers returned to Auburn with one win and nine chances left
to prove they were more than mediocre.

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BELOW, Langner takes the punt. ABOVE, Simmons before and after the tackle.

Auburn 14

Chattanooga 7

Everybody in the south had predicted Auburn's first
home game of 1972 to be their only sure win of the year-
everybody except the Moccasins of the University of Ten-
nessee in Chattanooga. The Tigers ho-hummed their way to
a 14-point lead with Henley scoring in the second and third
quarters, and Jett making good on both PATs, but then had
to scrap the remainder of the game to beat back a stubborn
Chattanooga team.

The Moccasins carried the fight to the Plainsmen all day
and finally cashed in on an interception late in the fourth
quarter. Auburn managed to control the remaining time and
left the field with an unimpressive 14-7 victory, the closest
Chattanooga score in the sixteen game series, and doubt in
the minds of the fans.

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Auburn 10 I

Tennessee 6 ABOVE, Jett makes the winning field goal.

An aggressive Auburn defense combined with a ground
eating offense to completely flabbergast the nationally
ranked #4 Tennessee team that was supposed to have cap-
tured its first gridiron victory from Auburn in three years.

Auburn's scoring drive spanned the length of the field,
paced by Henley's 10 straight carries and clutch passing by
Walls. With the Tigers ahead 7-0 in the second quarter, the
defense completely shut down the Tennessee offense and
pushed the Vols deeper into their own half of the field.

Jett added three more for the Tigers in the third quarter
but Tennessee went to the air and put up six points of their
own. Tennessee's fourth quarter threats ended in inter-
ceptions as the War Eagles sent the Vols back to Knoxville
with a 10-6 defeat and another year to wonder what went
wrong.

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Shug's 150th • For the 2nd consecutive week Auburn faced the team
with the longest winning streak in the nation as the War
Win Eagles traveled to Jackson, Mississippi to face Ole Miss.

Walls through the line. Auburn drew first blood with a 42-yard Jett field goal in
the first quarter but then fell behind for the first time of the
year as the Rebels moved down the field and scored on a
38-yard pass in the 2nd quarter. The Tigers quickly turned
the tables, though, with Walls hitting Gossom on a 39-yard
TD pass and the defense adding two more points with a
safety. Walls scored again on a 5-yard run to finish the third
quarter but the momentum deserted the Tigers and stayed
with Ole Miss the entire final period. The Rebels blocked an
Auburn punt and carried the ball in to make the score 19-
13, then died on the Tiger 9 as time ran out following game
saving defensive plays by Neel, Sanspree, Luka, and Beck.
The win marked the 150th victory for coach Shug Jordan
and started to make believers out of Auburn fans.

Auburn 19

Ole Miss 13

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The largest crowd in LSU history turned out to watch Au- Plainsman defense tightens up . . . momentarily.
burn's hopes of an un-beaten season vanish as the Linderman' evades pursuing Bengals.
Tigers were thoroughly trounced by the Louisiana State
Bengals in Baton Rouge. The Auburn defense, who were
number one in the SEC and who had not been scored
against on the ground, could do nothing to slow down the
LSU offensive machine as the Bengals managed 14 points in
the first quarter. The Tigers bounced back in the 2nd quarter
with a Langner interception followed by the passing of
Walls and the running of Henley, but LSU added a back-
breaking score at the end of the half which took the fight
out of the Plainsmen. The Bengals scored twice more in the
second half and stopped Auburn drives on the LSU 10 and
1 yard lines, leaving Auburn to regroup and decide what the
remainder of the season would hold in store.

LSU 35

Auburn 7

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Auburn 24

Georgia Tech 14

The annual Tiger-Yellow-jacket game was a crucial one
coming at the critical point of the season for both teams.
The contest became a study in momentum as the Jackets
scored fourteen points in the first half and totally shut the
Auburn offense. Things began to change, though, when
Walls and Henley began moving th e Tigers late in the sec-
ond quarter and the Tigers scored with 56 seconds remain-
ing in the half. From that point on it was all Auburn as the
Tigers came storming back in the ~econd half with Jett hit-
ting a 37-yard field goal and Walls .scoring from the Tech
one-yard line for the go-ahead score in the third quarter.
The final Tiger TD came on an 8 yard Walls to Gossom pass
with 2:04 left in the game and Jett added his third extra
point of the game. The game marked the debut of Auburn
tailback Chris Linderman who proved a valuable replace-
ment for the injured Terry Henley as the sophomore gained
99 yards rushing.

Tough Tech defense brings Langner down. Henley gathers a first.

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HoJ!lecoming 1972

Queen Elaine Barnhill and court reign over halftime festivities.

Henley around the end.
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Auburn 27

FSU 14

Homecoming 1972 arrived at Auburn with all the extrava-
gence the day has inherited from years of tradition. Along
with all the fanfare was a top caliber match-up between the
Florida State Seminoles and Auburn. For the fourth time of
the season the Tigers were meeting a nationally-ranked
team and this one was led by Heisman candidate Gary
Huff, the "Magic Dragon." However, Huff went puff as the
game turned into a nightmare for the Seminoles in packed
Cliff Hare stadium and in front of a national television au-
dience. The Tigers buried Florida State with three Henley
touchdowns in the first half and Gossom added one in the
second-Jett making good on 3 PAT's. The awesome Au-
burn defense also had a field day as the Plainsmen defend-
ers intercepted Huff four times, two of which were stolen
by Beck, and held the nation's total offense contender to
only 28 yards passing for the day. The Seminoles managed
two fourth quarter TD's but still came out on the short end
at the final gun.

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Coach Saia reviews running plays.

With Georgia and Alabama looming in the near future,
Auburn assured itself of a bowl bid by stopping an upset-
minded Florida team in Gainesville. The Tigers blew the Ga-
tors off the field in the first half with Henley tallying on a 47-
yard run for the initial score. Jett added the extra point and
then chipped in two field goals from 32.and 28 yards. Walls
found Henley next on an 11-yard TD pass and then scored
on a 4-yard run to end the half. The lead was not to remain
that large, however, as Florida came ro~ring back in the sec-
ond half and pulled within six points with ten minutes left in
the game. That was the end of the Florida offense, though,
as Sanspree, Bernich, Beck, Langner, and Neel combined
with the rest of the Auburn Defense in halting the Florida
threat. Beverly sealed the tomb with punts of 60, 49, and 52
yards.

Auburn 26

Florida 20

ABOVE, defense in action. BELOW, Linderman up the middle.

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Fuller sprints free. Auburn 27

Georgia 10

61,348 people, the largest crowd ever to see a football
game in Auburn watched the Tigers gain a Gator Bowl bid
at the expense of the Bulldogs of Georgia. The game, cho-
sen to honor Jeff Beard, retired athletic director, was also
the second television spot for the Plainsmen. Auburn took
the kickoff and two plays later was standing in the Bulldog
end zone following Linderman runs of 26 and 47 yards. The
Tigers added three more in the first quarter after Bill New-
ton recovered a Georgia fumble c{nd Jett kicked the day's
first field goal from the Bulldog 34-yard line. Georgia was
not ready to roll over yet, storming back on a 75-yard pass
and a 3-yard scoring run, but they were matched by an Au-
burn drive that covered 75 yards ~ith Walls hitting Owens
on a 12-yard TD pass. Georgia replied with a 33-yard field
goal to close the half, but lost a third quarter fumble, this
time to Bob Newton, which set up a Jett field goal. A Ber-
nich interception paved the way for the last score of the af-
ternoon as Walls crossed the goal line from the 4-yard line.
Sophomore Chris Linderman was named AP back of the
week.

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Auburn 17 Alabama dominated the first three quarters.

Alabama 16

No one from Tuscaloosa was worried when Alabama did
not make a first down on the first series of plays against Au-
burn and no one from Tuscaloosa was worried when Au-
burn failed to score with a first down on the Tide 4-yard line
following a Langner interception. Alabama, ranked No. 2
nationally, mechanically marched 71 yards for their first
touchdown; so no one from Tuscaloosa was worried when
Auburn's Roger Mitchell blocked the extra point-what's
one point to the nation's best wishbone offense? Worries
seemed needless as the Tide controlled three quarters of
play, scoring on a 13-yard field goal at the end of the half
and a 78-yard touchdown drive in the third quarter.

The fourth quarter was a different story. Jett broke the ice
for the Tigers with a 42-yard field goal and the Tiger defense
forced Barna into one of two punting situations the Tide will
never forget. Bill Newton blasted through the Barna line and
blocked the punt, the ball bounced down the field and was
picked up by David Langner who quickly ran it into the
end-zone for a touchdown. Jett kicked the extra point, leav-
ing Auburn trailing by six. Now everyone from Tuscaloosa
began to worry as Barna again was forced to punt and,
while all present watched in disbelief, Newton again
blocked the punt which again bounced into Langner's
hands for an Auburn touchdown. Jett followed with the
most famous extra point in Auburn football history.

Newton burst through the line to block the kick as thousands stood in disbelief.
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