Peach Bowl

1971

 

Ole Miss 41

Georgia Tech 18

 

 

Ole Miss Fight Song

 

Atlanta (UPI)- Sophomore quarterbacks Norris Weese and Kenny Lyons piloted Mississippi to a 41-18 frolic over Georgia Tech Thursday night in the rain and mud of the Peach Bowl.

 

Mississippi rolled to five touchdowns and a field goal in the first half before Georgia Tech could get its offense untracked. Tailback Rob 'Healy scored three touchdowns for the Yellow Jackets, one in each of the final three quarters, but the game was out of control by that time.

 

Georgia Tech was behind 10-0 before its offensive team ever had the ball and was unable to make a first down in the first quarter, played in a steady rain.

 

The bad weather that has plagued the Peach Bowl during its four year history continued. A pounding rain began two hours before the start of the game and the field was a slimy mess of puddles and mud holes before kickoff.

 

Weese scored the first touchdown on a one-yard run, ending a 56-yard drive. Tech then fumbled the kickoff and Weese directed the Rebels 33 yards to the seven before Cloyce Hinton kicked a 25-yard field goal.

 

Jimmy Porter then scored touchdowns on runs of 10 and two yards, Kenny Lyons fired a 15-yard scoring pass to Leon Felts, and Weese passed 11 yards to Riley Myers to run the score to 38-0. In the fourth quarter Hinton hit a 30-yard field goal.

 

Tailback Greg Amsworth was the workhorse for Mississippi, carrying the ball 27 times for 118 yards, most of it coming in the second half when Mississippi was trying to run out the clock.

 

Before the game Mississippi coach Billy Kinnard had said he did not intend to use Lyons, who had missed the last half of the season after suffering a shoulder separation. But with the Rebels leading 17-0 early in the second quarter, Lyons came in and guided Mississippi to two more fast touchdowns.

 

Weese was named the game's outstanding offensive player and linebacker Crowell Armstrong was named the outstanding defensive player.

 
The weather was a nemesis of the early Peach Bowls

 
In what was a rebuilding year, Norris Weese made Mississippi fans forget about Archie Manning

 

Ole Miss Media Guide

 

Attendance- 38,599

 

Scoring Summary

 

First Quarter

OM- Weese 1 run (Hinton kick)

OM- FG Hinton 25

 

Second Quarter

OM- Porter 2 run (Hinton kick)

OM- Porter 10 run (Hinton kick)

OM- Felts 15 pass from Lyons (Hinton kick)

OM- Myers 11 pass from Weese (Hinton kick)

GT- Healy 2 run (Run failed)

 

Third Quarter

GT- Healy 1 run (Pass failed)

 

Fourth Quarter

OM- FG Hinton 30

GT- Healy 1 run (Run failed)

 

Individual Statistics

 

Rushing

OM-  Ainsworth 28-119, Weese 11-32, Porter 8-26

GT- Hennessey 6-56, Cunningham 5-30

 

Passing

OM- Weese 7-14-116

GT- McAshan 13-26-151

 

Receiving

OM- Barry 3-39, Myers 2-49, Felts 2-23

GT- Owings 5-87, Oven 3-26, McNamara 2-22

 

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