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United Press International
LAWRENCEBURG, Term. — Mem
phis State football coach and former
Texas Tech head coach Rex Dockery and
three other persons flying through rain
and fog to a football banquet were killed
Monday night in the crash of a twin-
engine airplane in rural Lawrence
County.
“Coach Dockery was on the airplane
and there were four fatalities,” said Fed
eral Aviation Agency supervisor Alex
McCleod at Memphis.
McCleod said he did not know the
names of the other victims.
The Dockery plane slammed into a
isture shortly before Dockery was to
ive been the featured speaker at the
Lawrenceburg Quarterback Club’s
annual awards banquet. Believed to be
the plane with Dockery were a mem-
berof his staff, one of his players, and the
pilot.
Jim Thacker, spokesman for the Ten
nessee Emergency Management Agency, '
aid the twin-engine Piper Seneca car
rying the Dockery party crashed about
5:30 p.m. 13 miles north of Lawrence-
burg near the Maury County border.
“It was already dark, and it was foggy
with a misty rain falling — pretty poor
weather for flying,” said Lawrenceburg
police officer Jackie Miles. “It was a mess
(the crash site).
“It was at the edge of a field and a tree
line. It looked like they came straight
down into the field. The plane was de
molished. The parts and pieces were all
there in one area. It was broken up real
bad.”
Miles said four bodies were pulled
from the wreckage.
Dockery had been head coach at
Memphis State since Dec. 17, 1980. He
previously served as head coach at Texas
Tech and held assistant coaching posi
tions at Tennessee, Georgia Tech, and
Vanderbilt.
John Majors, head football coach at
the University of Tennessee, called
Dockery a warm, fine person and a fine
football coach.
“I’m very saddened by this because I
liked him very much,” Majors said. “All
coaches and Volunteers are saddened by
this.”
The crash cast a pall over the Quarter
back Club’s banquet to honor recipients
of its Coach of the Year and Player of the
Year awards.
The club continued its banquet, which
had started by the time word got back to
the school that a plane had gone down
and it was believed to be the one carrying
Dockery.
“We were halfway through the ban
quet before anything was suspected,”
said Jim Thompson, football coach at
Lawrence County High.
“We had someone waiting at the air
port for them (the Dockery party) and
the people we had waiting called back to
say that Dockery had not shown and
there was a plane down,” Thompson
said.
Dockery started his coaching career at
as head coach at Harriman, Tenn. High
School in 1966. He later coached at Mor
ristown East High School before starting
his college coaching career in 1970 as a
wide receiver coach under Bill Battle at
Tennessee.
Dockery moved to Georgia Tech in
1972 as offensive line coach under offen
sive coordinator Steve Sloan and fol
lowed Sloan to Vanderbilt and Texas
Tech. Dockery served as offensive coor
dinator at both schools. He got his first
head coaching job at Tech in 1978 when
Sloan left Tech to go to Ole Miss.
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DALLAS — The Dallas Cow-
ys performance against the
ashington Redskins is one
:y would just as soon forget,
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ndry probably will not let
m forget.
Landry seemed honestly per-
xed during the first post-
me moments last Sunday,
ing to figure out why a team
thought was so good could
y so ineffectively in a game
at meant so much.
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s quick to admit, had to do
:h the fact the Redskins were
ebetter football team. But that
not change the feeling, at
it in Landry’s mind, that his
arges were not emotionally set
play in a big contest.
“This was probably the worst
me we’ve had in a long time,”
ndry said following his team’s
•10 loss to the Washington
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ready to play for this game,
well.”
Landry let that tought trail off
without a finish, but there were
plenty of players to pick up the
thought.
“They just beat the stink out
of us, really,” said cornerback
Ron Fellows, who was beaten by
Washington flanker Art Monk
for the 43-yard touchdown pass
that broke the game open in the
third quarter.
“They came out playing
tough and we just weren’t ready
for them. You can tell by the
score we weren’t ready for them.
I think our guys were relaxed
before the game. They were just
looking at it as another game to
play — not as a championship.”
Wide receiver Butch Johnson
summed his feelings up in a
hurry.
“I’m disgusted,” he said.
“That’s the only way I can put it.
They whipped us all over the
field. It’s a credit to them. They
are an excellent club and playing
very well.
“But I don’t think you should
take this for a playoff game.”
The fact that Dallas had a spot
in the playoffs despite the drub
bing from Washington was ab
out the only consolation the
team had.
“We’ve got next week and the
week after that,” said linebacker
Anthony Dickerson. “I wanted
to win, of course. ButT am not
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Emory Bellard hires
ex-A&M colleague
United Press International
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mis
sissippi State football Coach Em
ory Bellard announced Monday
the hiring of former Texas
A&M defensive coordinator
Melvin Robertson as an assistant
coach for the 1984 season.
Robertson, a resident of
Bryan, was enroute to Starkville
Monday night and could not be
reached for comment.
Also joining the Bulldog staff
is Tom Goode, Bellard said. The
appointments were approved in
a telephone poll of the state Col
lege Board, which is expected to
formalize the hirings at its next
regular meeting.
“Two outstanding men will
be joining the football coaching
staff,” Bellard also a former
Texas A&M coach said. “Coach
Melvin Robertson will begin em
ployment immediately as defen
sive coordinator. Coach Tom
Goode will become offensive
coordinator on Jan. 2, 1984.
Coach Goode will begin his
duties just as soon as possible fol
lowing Alabama’s participation
in the Sun Bowl.
“I feel that both of these men
will have a very positive effect on
the future of Mississippi State
football.”
Robertson, 53, was an assis
tant coach and defensive coordi
nator at Texas A&M from 1972-
78, serving as assistant head-
coach from 1975-78. He returns
to coaching after being in pri
vate business since 1978.
Goode, 45, is an MSU gradu
ate and former All-
Southeastern Conference cen
ter on the 1960 team. He was an
assistant head coach from 1978-
82 at Missisippi, before joining
Coach Ray Perkins for the 1983
season at Alabama.
Goode and Robertson have
been hired after the resignation
earlier this month of three assis
tant coaches — offensive line
Coach Barry Wilson, defensive
coordinator Marc Dove and
offensive backfield Coach Gary
Mullins.
DePaul, UH gain in poll;
Kentucky holds to first
going to cry about it, because we
are still in the playoffs. That’s
where you make your money, in
the playoffs.
“They just beat us this time.
Our record is 12-3 and that’s the
best it’s been since I have been
here. I am not ashamed of that
and I am not ashamed of this
team. They just outmanned us
in the game and that’s it.”
“This wasn’t a playoff game,”
echoed defensive tackle Randy
White. “We still have that ahead
of us. It would have been nice
for us to have that week off and
have the home-field advantage
during the playoffs. But now,
we’ll just have to take the other
route.”
The Cowboys will host a wild
card game December 26 unless
the New York Giants can pull off
a huge upset next Saturday and
beat the .Redskins. Even then
Dallas would have to regroup
and defeat the San Francisco
49ers in Candlestick Park next
Sunday night to claim the NFC
East title.
United Press International
NEW YORK — The begin
ning of the end has gone quite
well for DePaul Coach Ray
Meyer.
Meyer, who will retire after
the season, has seen his team win
its first five games and go from
unranked in pre-season to No. 4
in the UPI Coaches’ ratings.
Meyer will end a 42-year career
at DePaul, but he has never won
an NCAA championship.
Ahead of DePaul are No. 1
Kentucky, No. 2 North Carolina
and No. 3 Houston. Kentucky
held the top spot, although the
Tar Heels are gaining ground.
The Wildcats received 24 of a
possible 40 first-place votes and
583 overall points in the latest
balloting by the UPI Board of
Coaches while North Carolina
received the other 16 first-place
votes and 571 overall points.
Houston jumped three places
into the third spot and received
458 overall points.
DePaul vaulted 10 spots after
Saturday’s 63-61 victory over
Georgetown, which knocked the
Hoyas from the unbeaten list
ana from third in the rankings
to fifth.
Rounding out the Top 20 are
No. 6 North Carolina State, No.
7 Purdue, No. 8 Memphis State,
No. 9 Boston College, No. 10
Georgia, No. 11 Maryland, No.
12 St.John’s, No. 13 Louisiana
State, No. 14 Oregon State, No.
15 Texas-El Paso, No. 16 Louis
ville, No. 17 Michigan, No. 18
UCLA, No. 19 Michigan State
and No. 20 Iowa.
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