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In what game did Tech have two 100+ yard rushers who each averaged over 12 yards per carry. Extra credit - name the players.
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ELI and Ray Friday vs. the Air Force Academy,1978
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Re: ELI and Ray Friday vs. the Air Force Academy,1978
ELI - 356 yds on about 26 or 28 carries
Ray Friday - 115 yds on 7 or 8 carries.
Strange thing was that Ray was not the starter but the starter decided that it was too cold to play. Meanwhile, ELI had to miss a good portion of the 3rd quarter throwing up. It was strange that on the day that ELI set the record, his yards/carry was actually lower than Ray's.
The return trip for that game was kinda funny. We had chartered a Delta stretch 8 for the trip and although the pilot promised us the storm would stay up at Denver, we awoke Saturday to nothing but white.
After the game when we got to the airport, we found out that the airport was closed but since we were a charter flight, they would let us leave. We sat on the ground a strangely long time and then the pilot got on the intercom and called John O'Neal (Business Manager) to the cockpit to "check something on the manifest." Well that didn't fool anyone so they told us that one of the four engines would not run up to takeoff performance. They told us about this plan they had to start the takeoff roll and if the engine got up to the required performance, we would go.
We started the roll and everyone was joking and laughing and some people were hollering "yeehah" as we went rumbling down the runway. When they deployed the thrust reversers and hit the brakes, it got real quiet. When they got it slowed down enough to turn off the runway, the people on the right side of the plane (me included) saw that our right wing turned over the end of the runway lights.
Everybody started breathing again but then the pilot announced that the engine was so close that they were going to try it again. There were no jokes and no yeehahs this time, just 20,000 pounds of human terror. When the exact same thing happened, we taxied back to the ramp and after a short discussion, they decided to feed us the meal sitting on the ramp.
What was really going on (the reason they tried what they did) was that Delta didn't normally fly to Colorado Springs so there was no ground crew. Normally, they would just fly a mechanic in from Denver but - oops - the airport was closed because of the storm so they had to drive a mechanic down through the mountains in the storm to work on the plane.
After the meal, Pepper (who always sat at the back of the plane) walked all the way forward and exited the plane. Asst coaches and support staff followed and finally the players. Nobody knew where he was going so we just followed down the long concourse and he turned left into the first bar. We all followed him in and he announced that the first round was on him. The pilot came in and talked to Pepper for a minute and then Pepper announced that all the drinks were on Delta.
Back then, Delta would give out decks of cards and some of those appeared. We sat there for several hours drinking beer and playing poker and barricuda.
Needless to say, the flight back was very quiet except for some snoring. We arrived back in Atlanta around 5:00 am and believe it or not ther were between 100 to 200 Jacket supporters there.
By the way, nobody ever told the pilot about the cases and cases of Coors that we had in our bags because you could only buy it west of the Mississippi back then.
ELI - 356 yds on about 26 or 28 carries
Ray Friday - 115 yds on 7 or 8 carries.
Strange thing was that Ray was not the starter but the starter decided that it was too cold to play. Meanwhile, ELI had to miss a good portion of the 3rd quarter throwing up. It was strange that on the day that ELI set the record, his yards/carry was actually lower than Ray's.
The return trip for that game was kinda funny. We had chartered a Delta stretch 8 for the trip and although the pilot promised us the storm would stay up at Denver, we awoke Saturday to nothing but white.
After the game when we got to the airport, we found out that the airport was closed but since we were a charter flight, they would let us leave. We sat on the ground a strangely long time and then the pilot got on the intercom and called John O'Neal (Business Manager) to the cockpit to "check something on the manifest." Well that didn't fool anyone so they told us that one of the four engines would not run up to takeoff performance. They told us about this plan they had to start the takeoff roll and if the engine got up to the required performance, we would go.
We started the roll and everyone was joking and laughing and some people were hollering "yeehah" as we went rumbling down the runway. When they deployed the thrust reversers and hit the brakes, it got real quiet. When they got it slowed down enough to turn off the runway, the people on the right side of the plane (me included) saw that our right wing turned over the end of the runway lights.
Everybody started breathing again but then the pilot announced that the engine was so close that they were going to try it again. There were no jokes and no yeehahs this time, just 20,000 pounds of human terror. When the exact same thing happened, we taxied back to the ramp and after a short discussion, they decided to feed us the meal sitting on the ramp.
What was really going on (the reason they tried what they did) was that Delta didn't normally fly to Colorado Springs so there was no ground crew. Normally, they would just fly a mechanic in from Denver but - oops - the airport was closed because of the storm so they had to drive a mechanic down through the mountains in the storm to work on the plane.
After the meal, Pepper (who always sat at the back of the plane) walked all the way forward and exited the plane. Asst coaches and support staff followed and finally the players. Nobody knew where he was going so we just followed down the long concourse and he turned left into the first bar. We all followed him in and he announced that the first round was on him. The pilot came in and talked to Pepper for a minute and then Pepper announced that all the drinks were on Delta.
Back then, Delta would give out decks of cards and some of those appeared. We sat there for several hours drinking beer and playing poker and barricuda.
Needless to say, the flight back was very quiet except for some snoring. We arrived back in Atlanta around 5:00 am and believe it or not ther were between 100 to 200 Jacket supporters there.
By the way, nobody ever told the pilot about the cases and cases of Coors that we had in our bags because you could only buy it west of the Mississippi back then.
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Re: ELI and Ray Friday vs. the Air Force Academy,1978
great story golftango, makes my guess look stupid. bet it was fun.
great story golftango, makes my guess look stupid. bet it was fun.