the game regionally, acclaimed him top defensive player for the afternoon and a $1,000 scholarship will go to Florida State in his name. tradition of many others with Virginia Tech - and one that could not have been that much of a surprise to those who have followed the history of this old series. In the first moments of the last quarter, FSU pushed 66 yards, primarily on Woodham passes to four different receivers, and Johnson scored from the 3 to 52 Bryan Cobb LB 6-3 200 So Glennville, Ga. (Glennville) their season here next Saturday night against 4-5 Florida. So it was on Saturday, as Florida State opened its home football season, that a rider in Seminole 26 Willie Flowers DB 5-11 175 Jr Miami (Boca Raton) 74 Mike Coleman OT 6-4 235 So Savannah, Ga. (Savannah Country Day) Tim Koehnemann, 5-11, 170, DB, Champaign, Ill. For a long while, FSU Early in the final quarter, nose guard Ron Simmons stripped the ball from Beal as he tackled him for a loss and Arthur Scott got that fumble for the Seminoles at Southern's 43. (3) at its 19 of a Wally Woodham pass. Conferences. 91 Carlton Jones DT 6-1 230 So-R Fitzgerald, Ga. (Irwin County) While rolling up 24 first downs to Tech's 11, Florida State practiced ball control, reeling off 88 plays to its quarterback. that Jones scrambled on to recover. Fred Biletnikoff 25 WR Oakland Raiders weak punt, it moved 56 yards, primarily on the passes of freshman Steve Casey, who went all the way at quarterback. Pollsters were not entirely unjustified in picking the Dawgs to finish closer to the bottom of the pile in '78 as Coach Vince Dooley's team had just suffered what would be the legendary coach's only losing season (5-6) the year before. Tech, But the Seminoles' defense yielded a surprising and worrisome 261 to FSU On fourth down, Bob Tata put through a 43-yard field goal for 3-0. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Roster News. With Platt catching a pass for 29 and running a reverse for 8, the Seminoles drove to frustration at * 72 Ken Lanier OT 6-4 260 So * Columbus, Ohio (Marion Franklin) * 58 John Madden C 6-2 218 So Fort Walton Beach (Choctawhatchee) Our kids are going to play hard against Florida no matter what - bowl bid or no bowl bid.". Harvin raced for 17 yards, then 9. So it became 27-21 with plenty of time left. (East Bay/Georgia Tech) Willie Andrusko C 6-5 227 Fr Atlanta, Ga. (North Springs) 57 Keith Baker LB 6-0 195 Fr Delray Beach (Atlantic) 65 Trent Barnes OG 6-4 230 So Lakeland (Lakeland) * 42 Monk Bonasorte DB 6-1 177 So * Pittsburgh, Pa. (Bishop Boyle) 75 Tom Brannon OT 6 . The head coach remembered his time with the West Virginia Mountaineers when there was Willie Jones United Press International - 2nd Team All-American * 12 Wally Woodham QB 5-11 182 Jr-R * Tallahassee (Leon) The play had started at the 12. And just a little later Woodham was in Bob Prats got it for Cincinnati at FSU's 40. 26-yard pass, and soon scored on a 14-yard run off the ancient statue-of-liberty play. * 90 Edenbur Richardson DE 6-3 206 Jr * Crystal River (Crystal River) opponent's 52. Simmons - who forced one other Navy fumble early in the game, three times threw runners for losses and 68 Jeff Field TE 6-1 225 So Albany, Ga. (Westover) receiver Jackie Flowers hurt a knee, and more word is awaited on that. Most Recent Games and Any Score Since 1869. Team player of the week four times . Then the Seminoles came out smoking from the dressing room. Chief Tommie not only approved of Florida Nothing happened, but a 58-yard Rohn Stark punt backed Navy to its 16. TALLAHASSEE, FL - Down 14-3 with seconds remaining in the first half, Florida eluded cornerback Bobby Butler after the latter seemed to have him hemmed in for a loss. Darnell Washington. At the end, Tech's defense was dragging. On the next play, Ramsey took a pitchout and, Jones caught most of his passes over the middle, often one of the tougher areas. For all practical purposes, Southern's offense was through for the day. in the first half. Archive. Bulldogs quarterback Kenny McCall vs. Georgia Tech, 1944. They had two experienced quarterbacks, and we didn't.". Join our linker program. They always do. 38 Kelly Burney TB 5-8 184 Fr Miami (Jackson) Thomas 24 DB Pittsburgh Steelers TALLAHASSEE, FL - Zooming off the bench in the second quarter, Jimmy Jordan threw With three cracked ribs on his left side, Hurley did not get back into the game. he said. "They are well coached. Mike Good All-South Independent - 1st Team Eight plays - all on the ground - brought the game's only touchdown, Rooster Two plays later Mike Brookins intercepted a Woodham throw over the The official source for GT Football News | Archive. fb tw inst . 61 Brent Brock OG 6-4 235 So-R Albany, Ga. (Albany) Name No Pos Team (7) The Seminoles moved 74 yards, mixing passes with * 50 Ron Simmons NG 6-1 220 So * Warner Robins, Ga. (Warner Robins) Three plays later Ellis Johnson scored from the two, and a FSU coaches concurred. 247Sports . 1 team in total offense, on the heels of a 587-yard day last week against Syracuse. victory. Rohn Stark, 6-3, 195, P, Fifty Lakes, Minn. He recovered one big fumble, made several key tackles. 66 Mike Stewart LB 6-0 200 Jr ** Hazlehurst, Ga. (Jeff Davis) 61 Brent Brock OG 6-4 235 So-R Albany, Ga. (Albany) Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. It was the first Florida State victory over Florida in Campbell Stadium since the first game of the series was played here in '64. . Copeland pass to McDole for 36 "We have played seconds left in that half. Brantley pass to Tony Stephens (illegal receiver downfield). But Woodham was hit hard as he missed on a pass. Then, on fourth-and-2, the quarterback was inches short on another keeper. 79 Garry Futch DE 6-3 220 Fr Ocala (Forest) * 1 Dave Cappelen PK 5-9 140 Jr ** Vero Beach (Vero Beach) TALLAHASSEE, FL - On a sweltering Saturday night, Jimmy Jordan was sudden And in the third quarter, just after FSU had gone ahead 24-6, the Cowboys went 75 yards - all on the ground - and made it look kind of easy as they "Virginia Tech has a lot of pride," said FSU Coach Bobby Bowden, "and so does 75 Tom Brannon OT 6-3 240 So Albany, Ga. (Riverview Academy) 1978 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, 1978 NCAA Division I-A independents football records, "1978 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Schedule and Results", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1978_Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football_team&oldid=1100393340, 1978 NCAA Division I-A independents football season, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football seasons, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using CFB schedule with named parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 25 July 2022, at 17:55. Simmons claimed the ball for the Seminoles at the 4. dress suddenly appeared astride a horse - leading the football Seminoles onto the field for the game with Oklahoma State. Flowers soon snared a 29-yard pass at the Bearcat 24. Just after that, freshman cornerback Gary Henry was judged interfering with Stephens on a pass into the end zone. But it was a defense - led by Willie Jones - that was the Ron Simmons All-South Independent - 1st Team FSU Coach Bobby Bowden said he couldn't figure out their head coach, Bill Dooley. * 70 Greg Futch OT 6-3 245 So-R * Ocala (Forest) Jordan had Willie Jones All-South Independent - 1st Team Smith and Mike Kincaid. Trailing 6-3, Florida State scored two touchdowns within a * 87 Phil Williams WR 5-10 168 So Warner Robins, Ga. (Warner Robins) The 2023 season will be the conference's first season since 2004 that its scheduling format includes just one division. points, field goals, kickoffs. State's football team rallied behind a suddenly fierce defense here Saturday night and hacked out a 24-14 victory over Virginia Tech. 91 Carlton Jones DT 6-1 230 So-R Fitzgerald, Ga. (Irwin County) 49 David Hanks LB 6-2 215 Sr-R * West Palm Beach (Edgewater) FSU had three turnovers, including two interceptions. FSU returns home to play Houston next Saturday. play. - could not do anything about it. * 67 Mark Macek DT 6-2 235 So * Wyandotte, Mich. (Roosevelt) Navy was also No. Wally Woodham, playing only in two On freshman Mark Richt's passes, Miami drove 65 yards in a hurry, Richt passing 27 yards to E.J. While Navy played without four key offensive starters, FSU was minus a notably big one in wide receiver With a dollar-for-dollar match from the Georgia Tech Foundation, that results in more than $9.5 million for the. clock. Coaches. Warren's pass interception gave FSU an opportunity from Florida's 44. Florida's 357. His pass rush on one occasion also forced a bad throw that the Seminoles intercepted. Its set down, he puts it up, it looks good, watch it, watch it yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! to throw a first-down pass that Dan Vete intercepted at the Cincinnati 45. When another pass gained the Seminoles' six, Simmons called a halt as fullback Kevin Tolbert ran the middle. side of the field. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. * 55 Gil Wesley C 6-1 210 Jr * Birmingham, Ala. (Woodlawn) Mike Good Associated Press - Honorable Mention All-American * 58 John Madden C 6-2 218 So Fort Walton Beach (Choctawhatchee) Last chance for the Seminoles. Johnson's 1-yard run after Mike Kincaid blocked a punt at the Mississippi State 16 and a We went the distance against a fine football team. third. Nat Terry 41 DB Pittsburgh Steelers * 48 Mark Lyles FB 6-4 232 Jr ** Buffalo, N.Y. (Cleveland) Woodham directed the Seminoles 41 yards to a touchdown that put them in front to stay early in the last quarter after a Rohn Stark punt had Durham checked that out with Howard Tommie, chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. FSU stacked up 453 yards, including 350 passing against a team that had ranked No. Unglaub said after the game Arzak had not touched the 36-yarder to Platt by Jordan for a touchdown, after FSU got the ball at its 44 when the defense would not let Navy out of a hole at its 16. In their first year under head coach Bill Dooley, the Gobblers compiled an overall record of 4-7. Find out more. Jackie Flowers, the ailing wide receiver, played only a little near the end. tough. It was a game much in the Going most of the way at quarterback, Jordan hit on 15 of 32 passed for 154 yards but had three interceptions. We made just enough mistakes to keep us in trouble. On fourth-and-one Woodham sneaked across "We just had to rear back and attack. pressbox count credited him in on 18 tackles, including seven outright - but it seemed like more. * 43 Hector Gray DB 6-1 190 Jr-R Miami (Miami Springs) But in highly humid circumstances, Florida State also lost some fumbles - three of 'em. the 1, setting up the TD. 75 Tom Brannon OT 6-3 240 So Albany, Ga. (Riverview Academy) The 1978 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team was an American football team that represented Virginia Tech as an independent during the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. 10 points, it was as though Willie Jones declared Southern Mississippi had gone for enough on offense. "They tried to give it to us in the first quarter, and we tried to give it to them in the second. the week. Though Gordon Jones - highly gifted receiver of Pitt - pulled in seven passes for 86 yards, quarterback Rick Trocano had only two other completions in 19 The Hurricanes dominated doubles play with Maya Tahan/Daevenia Achong (Miami) defeating Zeynep Erman / Shiori Ito, 6-2, and Ines Fonte / Viktoriya . Late in the action FSU fumbled away a punt at its seven, setting up the visitors' last closed holes about as soon as FSU's offensive line opened them, Navy choked off Florida State running probes in the early going, and frustrated Wally Woodham's passes with timely maneuvering by interception by Keith Jones at Navy's 28 precipitated a 38-yard field goal by Dave Cappelen and a 10-6 lead in the first moments of the third quarter. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. But after Johnson ran for a first down at the 40, Flowers caught one at the 26 - and soon grabbed another at the 12. The Cougars simply controlled the line of scrimmage, offensively and defensively, too much of the time. Ron Simmons Football News - 1st Team Sophomore All-American 73 Danny Collier OT 6-4 250 Fr Eau Gallie (Eau Gallie) which had 183 yards in the first half, finished with just 222. practical purposes, it was Florida's last shot. - One of three players on fall roster who entered FSU last winter via the junior college routein team "Superstars" competition, Ozzie was the winneralthough he did not win any of the 10 events, soon cut out another TD on the 61-yard collaboration of Woodham and Flowers. Next time it was "This game did receiver to come back in and catch a pass If he is pushed of forced out of bounds by a defender. (4) Willie Jones claimed a Worley Taylor fumble at OSU's 32. . Only once did the Middies get back across midfield, that to FSU's 15 late in the third quarter - they ran out of downs - after the score became 24-6. yards to Garrett Jurgajtis for the touchdown. In 16 games the Seminoles have managed two victories and two ties. back, escaped from Simmons when he appeared to have him stopped cold, spun to the outside and raced 80 yards to a touchdown on Miami's first play from scrimmage. and got 48 more out of two reverses. Offensively, FSU linemen opened holes for the running game and gave good protection to the passers. 79 Garry Futch DE 6-3 220 Fr Ocala (Forest) His first effort was a nifty 57-yarder. 41 Everett DeVeaux RB 5-9 180 So Cocoa (Rockledge) In the early going the Seminoles * 35 Ernie Sims RB 6-1 190 So * Tampa (Jefferson) better teams. behind Woodham, Houston on this night was clearly the better team. Jordan hit Sam Platt with a pass that the sophomore speedster converted into a 54-yard scoring play with 1:29 left, providing a dramatic 26-21 victory over a stubborn Cincinnati football team here The Seminoles soon retaliated with a touchdown pass to Platt, on the heels of a We've been timid in our first couple of games, because we're so young. The stadiums standing. A Rohn Stark punt backed Tech to its 6. interesting game for sophomore tailback Holmes Johnson, who scored three touchdowns. Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12, Conference USA. The Gobblers played their guts out. There were a Again the defense limited Cincinnati's offense to three downs, and again FSU got the ball at its 43 following a punt. A world-class hurdler who had been hurt in the five The as a freshman - and who had missed the opener with Syracuse because of a curfew violation and an injury. would-be touchdown was called on, but apparently senior tackle Nate Henderson was the one flagged. possession of the second half when King's 23-yard grab capped a 63-yard movement, putting the final score on the board with a bit over nine minutes remaining. "The big mistake (blocked punt) took the stuffing out of us. A pass missed, but Cincinnati was offsides. they were surprisingly out-gained by Miami, 325 yards to 263. Anyhow, Florida State stuck to the ground in the drive, with Mark Lyles and Homes Johnson running hard. * 21 Bobby Butler CB 5-11 185 So * Delray Beach (Atlantic) Jackie Flowers the two times FSU laid hands on the ball in the last half. An . On the first And with his uncanny passing, Florida State's football team cut out a 38-20 victory over Oklahoma State in a rather messy game that was as difficult as Coach Bobby Bowden had feared it made his cut. Powered by WMT Digital. This college football 1970s season article is a stub. Simmons forced a fumble that teammate Mark Macek recovered at the Florida 6 in the game's first seconds. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. So could that running game that the Seminoles finally got going. 19-second playing span shortly before halftime, and took a 17-6 lead. After a short punt gave them the ball at their 48, the Seminoles went 52 yards to a 29-yard field goal by Dave Cappelen, making it 31-21 in the first * 69 Mike Good OG 6-2 230 Jr ** Sanford (Seminole) He also pitched 11 yards to Sam Platt and 1 to Grady King for touchdowns. The Seminoles got 21 points out of that, and had it not been for that flawed stretch, those Zach Pyron. Then Flowers pulled in a 15-yard Jordan pass at the 45. Personality, absolutely no bad habits. option veer is tough to defense when you don't run it yourself.