BUCK'S POTENT POETS PASTE BROWN, 20-6

Welch Gets Two for Lanier; Allen, Tedder Pace Rebels

By Thad Horton

Master-mechanic Selby Buck upheld a long-standing reputation Friday night at Grady Stadium, where his finely tooled Lanier High football machine ground out a 20-6 precision win over Brown.

For more than 20 years, Buck has annually built his new model in the Macon football factory, usually unveiling it to Atlanta fans early in each season. For the 1952 model, yearling coach Jack Peek's Rebels provided the test run in a handsome demonstration before 4,000 wet fans.

Lanier mounted the first serious offensive drive with time running out in the first period. After Richard Allen's punt died at the 45, the Poets drove in six plays to the five, where Ronnie Welch took it over.

The Rebels fired right back, surging from their own 33 to paydirt on the leg-work of Boogie Kuykendall and Richard Allen. With the drive apparently stalled at fourth down on the Poet 12, Allen faded deep, lobbed a screen pass to Don Martin, who drove home with six points.

Joy in the Rebel camp was not to last. On the second play after Allen's kickoff, Welch churned around left end from his own 45. Hit at the 45, he dropped the ball off to Sam Vickers, who legged it 53 yards to send Lanier out at halftime, 13-6.

The game's final tally was set up in the third, when stick-out guard William Sanders teamed with W. D. Watson to block an Allen punt at the Brown 20. Four plays netted the score, with Welch again counting the money from eight yards out. Harry Hudson booted two EP's for Lanier.

Flashing all-star form in every chore, Richard Allen dominated the Brown picture as he quarterbacked, passed, punted, kicked-off and ran the team. He was joined in the honors parade by Don Tedder anad Kuykendall on offense and by Crawford Kennedy and Freddie Trainer in the defensive line.

Coach Buck was high in his post mortem praise of halfback Welch, spoke fine words for Sanders, Gerald Smith and Kenneth Daughtry up front, and opined that quaarterback Sam Vickers would do for the distance. When the Fox of the Okmulgee is satisfied with his grid machine, it bodes no good for the customers ahead. And Buck was pleased with his Poets Friday night.